 | English poetry - 1774 - 428 pages
...transferrable by deed from one owner to another. They could not leave their lord without his permiffion ; but, but, if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like bealts or other chattels. They held indeed fmall portions of land by way of fuftaining themfelves and... | |
 | Francis Grose - Great Britain - 1784 - 350 pages
...inde|>endently from one owner to another. Villeins could not leave thc'ir lord without his permission; and if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might...be claimed and recovered by action, like beasts or any other chattels. They held, indeed, small portions of hind for their support ; but it was at the... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 566 pages
...transferrable by deed from one owner to another 0 . They could not leave their lord without his permiilion ; but, if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like beafis or other chattels. They held indeed fmall portions of land by way of fuflaining themfelves and... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...116, 1 IntroJ. Hift. Engl. 59, • Litt § lit, »i Wright. 117. lord, lord without his permiffion ; but if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like beafts or other chattels. They held indeed fmall portions of land by way of fuftaining themfelves and... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...transfcrrable by deed from one owner to another°. They could k WriBiu,215. m Wright, 117. o Litt. a?c. 181. not leave their lord without his permission ; but...They held indeed small portions of land by way of sustaining themselves and families ; but it was at the mere will of the lord, who might dispossess... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 pages
...that of villeinage, or vassalage, of which Blackstone gives the following description: — "Villains could not leave their lord without his permission...away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recoTHE RISING 81T5. 175 vered by action, like beasts, or other chattels. They held, indeed, small... | |
 | David Peter Davies - Derbyshire (England) - 1811 - 758 pages
...carucate of land, and two Lord of the Manor, and were transfeiable by deed from one Lord to inother. They could not leave their Lord without his permission...away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and removed by action, like rents or other chattels. A villane could acquire no property, either inlands... | |
 | Arthur Hodge, A. M. Belisario - Enslaved persons - 1812 - 202 pages
...that they could not leave their service without permission, but if they ran away, or were purloined, might be claimed and recovered by action, like beasts or other chattels. Even villeinage which gave the Lord, not only a pioperty in the villein, but in every thing he could... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...large, that is, annexed to the person of the lord, and transferable by deej from one owner to another. They could not leave their lord without his permission;...They held, indeed, small portions of land by way of sustaining themselves and families : but it was at the mere will of the lord, who might dispossess... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...large, that is, annexed to the person of the lord, and tramferrable by deed from one owner to another. They could not leave their lord without his permission...him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like brasto or other chattels. They held, inligrd, small portions of land by way of sustaining themselves... | |
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They could not leave their lord without his permission ; but if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like beasts, or other chattels. 
