 | John Coke Fowler - Coal mines and mining - 1884 - 472 pages
...services to hold their lands in spite of any determination of the lord's will. For though they were said to hold their estates at the will of the lord, yet that is such a will as is agreeable to the custom of the manor, of which the rolls of the manor courts... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...performance of the same services, to hold their lands, in spite of the lord's will. Though nominally holding at the will of the lord, yet it is such a will, as is agreeable to the customs of the manor, which customs are preserved in the rolls of the several courts-baron. And as... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1906 - 494 pages
...sixteenth-century lawyers, framed mainly in the interest of the lord, although villeins were in general said to hold their estates at the will of the lord, yet it was such a will as was agreeable to the custom of the manor, preserved and evidenced by the rolls of... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Law - 1991 - 1266 pages
...any parcel of land, or tenement belonging to the manor. It is an estate at the will of the lord, yet such a will as is agreeable to the custom of the manor, which customs are preserved and evidenced by the roll* of the several courts baron, in which they are entered. 2 Bl. Comm. 95. In a larger sense, copyhold... | |
 | Henry James Holthouse - Law - 1999 - 504 pages
...their lords, and on performance of the same services, to hold their lands in spite of any determination of the lord's will. For though in general they are still said to hold their estates at the will duly authenticated by the proper officer are allowed to be given in evidence.] COPARCENERS. See tit.... | |
| |
... gave them title to prescribe against their lords; and, on performance of the same services, to hold their lands, in spite of any determination of the lord's will; for though in general they are still said to hold their estates at the will of the lord... 
