 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 566 pages
...is, two tenants at the leaft, the manor itfelf is loft. IN the early times of our legal conftitution, the king's greater barons, who had a large extent...territory held under the crown, granted out frequently fmaller manors to inferior perfons to be holden of themfelves; which do therefore now continue to be... | |
 | Richard Barnard Fisher - Copyhold - 1794 - 420 pages
...among the tenants. See Blackft.. Com. " v. 2. p. 90. " In the early time of our ' " legal conftitution, the king's greater barons, " who had a large extent of territory held under " the crown, granted-ftequently fmaller Manors " to inferior perfons to be held of themfelves, " which do therefore... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...is, two tenants at the leaft, the manor itfclf is loft. IN the early times of our legal conftitution, the king's greater barons, who had a large extent of territory held un»Cp. Cop. §». fcio. ti Co. Cop. §3. der the crown, granted out frequently fmaller manors to inferior... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1804 - 604 pages
...This extenfive power of alienation produced a grievance which was much complained of in thofe days; the king's greater barons who had a large extent of territory, held under the crown, had frequently granted out fmaller manors, to inferior perfons, to be held of themfelves. In imitation... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...leave sufficient to make a jury or homage, that is, two tenants at the least, the manor itself is lost. IN the early times of our legal constitution, the..."the crown, granted out frequently smaller manors to infcriorpersons to be holden of themselves; which do therefore now continue to be held under a superior... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...crown, frequently granted out smaller manors to inferior persons to be holden of themselves ; which therefore now continue to be held under a superior lord, who is called in such cases the lord paramount over all these manors ; and bis seigniory is frequently termed an honour,... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - Architecture - 1818 - 734 pages
...noticed and explained in the following passage of Blackstone (Comment. Vol. II. p. 90—91, 8vo. edit.) "In the early times of our legal constitution, the...of themselves; which do, therefore, now continue to he held under a superior lord, who is called, in su«h cases, the lord In (peaking concerning baronies,... | |
 | Charles Barton - Conveyancing - 1821 - 696 pages
...sufficient to make a jury or homage, that is, two tenants at the letvst, the manor itself is losf. In the early times of our legal constitution, the...a large extent of territory held under the crown, frequently granted out smaller manors to inferior persons, to be holden of themselves ; which therefore... | |
 | Sir John Comyns - Digests, etc - 1822 - 1042 pages
...Nottingham, Newelhn, Oakhampton, and Oxford. The honour of Wigmore, Wallingford, Windsor, Wormgay (a) In the early times of our legal constitution, the...the crown, granted out frequently smaller manors to interior persons to be held of themselves ; which do therefore now continue to be held under a superior... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 622 pages
...THINGS. 91 cient to make a jury or homage, that is, two tenants at least, the manor itself is lost.' (12) IN the early times of our legal constitution, the...held under a superior lord, who is called in such cases the lord paramount over all these manors; and his seignory is frequently termed ai honour, not... | |
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In the early times of our legal constitution, the king's greater barons, who had a large extent of territory held under the crown, granted out frequently smaller manors to inferior persons to be holden of themselves ; which do therefore now continue to... 
