The Complete Court-keeper, Or, Land-steward's Assistant: Containing, First, the Nature of Courts Leet and Courts Baron ... Secondly, the Manner of Holding Courts Leet, Courts Baron, and Courts of Survey ... Thirdly, the Manner of Keeping the Court Baron for Trying of Actions ... Fourthly, Precedents of Contracts, Conditions, Covenants ... Fifthly, the Power and Authority of the Lord, and of the Steward |
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... Lives , which are most commonly used at this Day , ( although there are Copies of Inheritance in Scroggs ) nor any Account of a Court of Survey , and very little Notice taken of Pro- cefs in the Practice of the Court Baron rela- ting to ...
... Lives , which are most commonly used at this Day , ( although there are Copies of Inheritance in Scroggs ) nor any Account of a Court of Survey , and very little Notice taken of Pro- cefs in the Practice of the Court Baron rela- ting to ...
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... Lives in his Copy , viz . the Man , his Wife , and two others ; and if the Hufband departs this Life , the Wife named in the Copy for Term of her Life may marry again , and hold the Tenement during her Life ; but if it happen the Wife ...
... Lives in his Copy , viz . the Man , his Wife , and two others ; and if the Hufband departs this Life , the Wife named in the Copy for Term of her Life may marry again , and hold the Tenement during her Life ; but if it happen the Wife ...
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... Lives , may at any Time at his Pleafure , the Lord of the Manor there- unto confenting , exchange any one of the faid Lives , or all of them , fo that none of the Reverfions of the faid principal Taker at firft have been chargeable with ...
... Lives , may at any Time at his Pleafure , the Lord of the Manor there- unto confenting , exchange any one of the faid Lives , or all of them , fo that none of the Reverfions of the faid principal Taker at firft have been chargeable with ...
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... Lives , and the Life of the longest Liver of them fucceffively , at the Will of the Lord , according to the Cuftom of this Manor , by the yearly Rent therefore of fix Shillings . and eight Pence , and by all other Rents , Charges ...
... Lives , and the Life of the longest Liver of them fucceffively , at the Will of the Lord , according to the Cuftom of this Manor , by the yearly Rent therefore of fix Shillings . and eight Pence , and by all other Rents , Charges ...
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... Lives in Being , and their Ages , in his Minute Book , from which he enters it in the Roll . Thefe Courts of Sur- vey are generally held immediately upon the Defcend- ing of a Manor to a new Lord , or upon a Purchase of a Manor , a ...
... Lives in Being , and their Ages , in his Minute Book , from which he enters it in the Roll . Thefe Courts of Sur- vey are generally held immediately upon the Defcend- ing of a Manor to a new Lord , or upon a Purchase of a Manor , a ...
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according Adminiftrators and Affigns admitted Tenant againſt Alfo they prefent alſo amerce Appurtenances Bailiff becauſe Cafe caufe Confideration Copy of Court-Roll Copyhold Cotage Court Baron Court Leet covenant Cuftom cuftomary Tenants Deceaſe Default demifed diftrain doth Eftate enfuing Eſtate Executors faid A. B. faid Clofe faid Court faid E. C. faid G. H. faid Manor faid Mefuage faid Premiffes faid Steward faid Tenements faid Term hereby fays Fealty feifed Feme Covert fhall fhould firft fome Forfeiture fuch fuffer fufficient Hands hath Heirs and Affigns Heriot himſelf hold the faid Homage Houfe Houſe Iffue Intereft John Jurifdiction laft Court lawful Money Leafe Licence Lord Lord's Manor aforefaid Mefuage or Tenement otherwife Pafture paid Parcel thereof Perfon Plaintiff Poffeffion proper Perfon reaſonable Reverfion ſaid Seifin Services therefore due ſhall thefe Prefents thereupon theſe Preſents Trefpafs Ufe and Behoof unto the faid Uſe Wafte whatſoever Wife yearly Rent
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Page 44 - States, do hereby constitute and appoint . my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name...
Page 325 - ... claiming or to claim, by, from, or under him or them or any of them.
Page 334 - Dexter and his successors, from the day of the date hereof, for and during, and unto the full end and term of eight calendar months from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended.
Page 341 - ... it shall be lawful for the said lessor at any time thereafter into and upon the said demised premises or any part thereof in the name of the whole to re-enter and the same to have again re-possess and enjoy as of his or their former estate anything hereinafter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 407 - TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of land and all and singular other the premises hereby granted and released and every part and parcel thereof with their and every of their appurtenances...
Page 326 - ... at law or in equity, of, in, to, or out of, the said...
Page 411 - ... all and singular the said tract of land and premises ; with their, and every of their appurtenances, and every part...
Page 315 - ... was seised of the tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenances, in his demesne as of fee and right, in the time of peace, in the time of the said Lord GEORGE the First, late King of Great Britain, by taking the esplees thereof to the value, &c.
Page 99 - ... at the will of the lord, according to the cuftom of the faid manor; by virtue of which faid grant thereof, he the faid GS became, and at the faid time when, &c.
Page 415 - AB, to serve him as such from the day of the date hereof, for and during and until the full end and term of three years from hence next ensuing, and fully to be completed and ended.