 that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services.  Annual Register - Page 274edited by - 1768Full view - About this book
 | Railroads - 1890 - 400 pages
...king is universal lord and proprietor of all land in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived from him as a gift to be held on feudal service. The intention of the above law when first passed was... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom ; and that no man doth, or can, possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feodal services. 1. How was the feodal system affected by the charter of £"ing Henry the first ? —... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 956 pages
...universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services' (Blackstone, vol. ii. p. 51, KBIT'S edition). This maxim, though, as Blackstone remarks,... | |
 | United States - 1897 - 928 pages
...lord and original proprietor of all the land in his kingdom ; and that no man doth, or can, possess any part of it but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him to be held on feudal tenure. — Blackstone's " Commentaries,'" II, 51. The teaching of this is that the king,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 1018 pages
...universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services" (Blackstone, vol. ii. p. 51, Kerr's edition). This maxim, though, as Blackstone remarks,... | |
 | John Gabriel Woerner - Executors and administrators - 1899 - 904 pages
...lord and original proprietor of all the lands in the kingdom ; and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services."2 Gratuitous as were these feuds at their first introduction, so they were precarious,... | |
 | John Rankin Rogers - Land tenure - 1900 - 46 pages
...universal lord and original proprietor of all the land in his kingdom; and that no man doth or can possess any part of it but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him to be held on feudal tenure."— BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES, II, 51. " All the land in the kingdom is supposed... | |
 | 1901
...proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, bat what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services' (Blackstone, vol. ii. p. 51, Kerr's edition). See FEUDALISM. This chiuige was accomplished... | |
 | Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association - Deerfield (Mass.) - 1901 - 580 pages
...universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has, mediately or immediately, been derived from him. ..." As in England, all the land is held from the crown, so, in the colonies, the title of... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...from the crown, or colonial governments existing prior to the Revolution, i Barb. Pers. and Prop. 303. but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon féodal services." For this being the real case in pure, original, proper feuds, other nations who adopted... | |
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