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The British Magazine, Or, Monthly Repository for Gentlemen & Ladies

English literature - 730 pages
...ancient houfe; for, from O/r the Origin aaJ Katun bf CepjMd Ttauret. Britifl: wt...r has been premifed it appears, that copyholders are in truth no other but villeins, who, by a long fcries of immernori.il encroachments on the lord, have at lad eftabliflied a cuflomary right to thofe...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 2

William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 566 pages
...f , although very meanly defcended, yet come of an ancient houfe; for, from what has been prcmifed, it appears, that copyholders are in truth no other but villeins, who, by a long feries of immemorial encroachments on the lord, have at lafl eftablifhed a cuftomary right to thofe...
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An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal, of the ..., Volume 1

Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield - Administrative and political divisions - 1792 - 572 pages
...prejudice, the arguments he adduces fhould be conndered with the greateft circumfpe&ion. To fay, " that copyholders are in truth " no other but "villeins, who, by a longjcries of im«c memorial incroachments on the lord, have, at laft, " eftablifhed a cuftomary right...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England,: In Four Books, Volume 2

William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...obfervesf, although very meanly defcended, yet come of an ancient houfe ; for, from what has been premifed, it appears, that copyholders are in truth no other but villeins, who, by a long feries of immemorial encroachments on the lord, have at laft cftabliflied a cuftomary right to thofe...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 2

William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...copyhold tenures, as sir Edward Coke observes f, although very meanly descended, yet come of an ancient house; for, from what has been premised, it appears,...customary right to those estates, which before were held absoe FNB 12. f Cop. i«. 34. lutely at the lord's will (4). Which affords a very substantial reason...
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The History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York ...

John Graves - Cleveland (England : District) - 1808 - 556 pages
...fuch poffeffions into die legal intereft or eftate, now called copyholds. Judge Blackftone fays, " copyholders are in truth no other " but villeins; who, by a long feries of immemorial encroachments" on " their Lords,have at length eftablifhed a cuftomary right to...
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The Ancient Customs of the Manor of Taunton Deane;: Collected from the ...

H. B. Shillibeer - Copyhold - 1821 - 180 pages
...ancient house ; for it appears that copyholders are in tiuth no other but villiens, (bondmen or slaves) who by a long series of immemorial encroachments on...established a customary right to those estates, which were before held absolutely at the lord's will; which affords a very substantial reason for the variety...
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Elements of Conveyancing: With Cursory Remarks Upon the Study of ..., Volume 3

Charles Barton - Conveyancing - 1821 - 696 pages
...tenures, as Sir Edward Coke observes *, although very meanly descended, yet come of an ancienthouse; for, from what has been premised, it appears, that copyholders are in truth no other but villains, who, by a long series of immemorial encroachments on the lord, have at last established a...
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A Treatise on Copyholds: Customary Freeholds, Ancient Demesne, and ..., Volume 1

John Scriven (serjeant at law.) - Copyhold - 1821 - 684 pages
...Fleta, and others, cited by that much distinguished judge, and from which he draws the conclusion, " that " copyholders are in truth no other but villeins, " who, by a long series of immemorial encroach" ments on the lord, have at last established a (1) Lord Coke, in the case (2) See more particularly...
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Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another], Volume 2

sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...court-roll, and their tenure itself a copyhold c. (15) THUS copyhold tenures, as sir Edward Coke observes f, although very meanly descended, yet come of an antient...established a customary right to those estates, which before [ 96 ] were held absolutely at the lord's will. Which affords a very substantial reason for the great...
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