A Treatise on Copyholds: Customary Freeholds, Ancient Demesne, and the Jurisdiction of Courts Baron and Courts Leet, Volume 1 |
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Common terms and phrases
admission admitted afterwards alien appointment assigns Barn Brownl Calth cited common law conveyance copyhold estate copyhold lands court baron Court of B. R. Court of Chancery court of equity court roll customary heir death deed descent devise East ejectment Eliz entitled entry equity escheat estate tail favour fee simple feme covert feoffment forfeiture freebench gavelkind Gilb Godb grant held heriot hold husband infant intail interest issue Kitch lease legal estate limitation Lord Eldon Lord Raym lord's manor mortgage opinion person plaintiff possession Post purchaser quia emptores remainder render rent rule Salk seised seisin special custom statute steward surrender of copyholds surrenderee tenant tenements tenure trust ubi sup Vern vested Vide void Watk wife words writ writ of right
Popular passages
Page 363 - directs that all powers vested in the bankrupt, which he might legally execute for his own benefit, (except the right of nomination to any vacant ecclesiastical benefice,) may be executed by the assignees for the benefit of the creditors, in such manner as the bankrupt might have executed the same; and by the
Page 239 - inrollcd in the High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next after the execution thereof;" and such settlement must be made to take effect in possession for the charitable use intended, and be without any power of revocation, trust, or condition, for the benefit of the donor, or any person claiming under him
Page 16 - which was an action of trespass for breaking and entering the plaintiff's close, and cutting down and prostrating the pales and fences standing therein, and there was a justification under an alleged right of common of pasture over the locus in quo, various instances were proved, from 1632, of grants by the lord of the manor of
Page 146 - but this case is by no means to be relied on as an authority in favour of Mr. Watkins's proposition. Chief Baron Gilbert, in noticing the case, thus expresses himself: " Copyholder in fee comes into court, and there accepts a copy to himself for life, remainder to his wife for life, remainder to his son for
Page 227 - and Sir RP or either of them, shall be minded to sell and dispose of the said premises in S. aforesaid, or any part thereof, that then and in such case it shall and may be lawful to
Page 72 - by his marriage settlement, conveyed a freehold estate to the use of himself for life, with remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail, with remainder to his sons by any future marriage, in like manner, with a limitation over to collateral relations.
Page 433 - observes, that if a person seised in fee of freehold lands, (by which must be meant freehold lands subject to heriot service by ancient tenure,) grant to A. for life, with remainder to B. for life, with remainder to C. for life, with remainder to D. in fee;
Page 75 - be good against the said bankrupt, and the issue of his body, and against all persons claiming under him, after he became bankrupt, and against all persons whom the said bankrupt, by fine, common recovery, or any other means, might cut off or debar from any remainder, reversion, or other interest, in or out of any of the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments
Page 308 - It has been decided by the House of Lords, that a power of revocation reserved to A. by any writing under his hand and seal attested by two or more credible witnesses, and of appointing new uses by the same or any other deed, may be exercised by the