The Law of Copyholds: In Reference to the Enfranchisement and Commutation of Manorial Rights, and the Copyhold Acts; with Notes and the Forms and Directions of the Copyhold CommissionersW. Maxwell, 1853 - 523 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
16 Vict admission admitted aforesaid agreement ancient tenement appointed apportion assistant commissioner award Bank of England charge chisement church estates commissioners commis commissioners or assistant common law commutation or enfranchisement consent consideration conveyance copy of court Copyhold Act copyhold commissioners copyhold estate copyhold lands copyhold or customary corporation Court of Chancery court rolls curtesy custom deed demise descent devise ecclesiastical effect Eliz enfran entry escheat evidence execution expenses fee simple feme covert forfeiture freebench freehold gavelkind Gilb grant hands and seal heir heriots hold holden husband Ibid inclosure act lands enfranchised lease lessee licence Litt lord and tenant lord or tenant lunatic manor manorial rights ment mortgage paid parcel parties payable payment possession purchase rent rent-charge respect schedule of apportionment sect seised sioners steward surrender tenements tenure therein thereof thereto tion tithe trustees valuation valuers Watk
Popular passages
Page 136 - And by s. 2, it is enacted, that no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 55 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter mentioned ; (that is to say), it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Page 433 - An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled 'An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits, and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Page 363 - ... as aforesaid, or if the plaintiff in such action or suit shall become nonsuit, or suffer a discontinuance of such action, or if upon any demurrer in such action or suit...
Page 403 - ... be paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-general of...
Page 42 - ... shall have been actually enjoyed by any person claiming right thereto without interruption for the full period of twenty years...
Page 42 - time immemorial, or time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," is now by the law of England in many cases considered to include and denote the whole period of time from the reign of King Richard the First, whereby the title to matters that have been long enjoyed is sometimes defeated by showing the commencement of such enjoyment, which is in many cases productive of inconvenience and injustice ; for remedy thereof...
Page 353 - England, in the name and with the privity of the said accountant-general of the high court of chancery, and be placed to his account as aforesaid, in order to be applied in manner hereinbefore directed; or otherwise the same shall be paid, at the like option, to two trustees, to be nominated by the person or persons making such option, and approved of by the...
Page 65 - ... it shall go to the executor or administrator of the party that had the estate thereof by virtue of the grant ; and if the same shall come to the executor or administrator either by reason of a special occupancy or by virtue of this act, it shall be assets in his hands, and shall go and be applied and distributed in the same manner as the personal estate of the testator or intestate.
Page 59 - ... for the custom of the manor has in both cases so far superseded the will of the lord, that, provided the services be performed or stipulated for by fealty, he cannot, in the first instance, refuse to admit the heir of his tenant upon his death ; aor, in the second, can he remove his present tenant so long as he lives, though he holds nominally by the precarious tenure.