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Ancient demesne
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Tenure
according to the mere will of the lord. It subsisted until 1926 under the name of tenure in ancient demesne, which consisted of those lands or manors that appeared in Domesday Book to have been actually in the … et ideo dicuntur liberi. This tenure was not abolished by the 1 Car. 2, c. 24. Tenures in ancient demesne were, it has been said, of three kinds: (1) Tenures in ancient demesne (properly so called), which was
Right close, Writ of
Right close, Writ of, a writ which is directed unto the lord of ancient demesne, which lieth for those tenants within ancient demesne who hold their lands by charter in fee-simple, or in … of, a writ which is directed unto the lord of ancient demesne, which lieth for those tenants within ancient demesne who hold their lands by charter in fee-simple, or in fee tail, or for life, or in dower,
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Auncient Demesn
Auncient Demesn. See ANCIENT DEMESNE.
Domesday, or domesday-book
is a fourth book called Domesday, which is only abridgement of the others. The question whether lands are ancient demesne or not is to be decided by the Domesday of William I., whence there is no appeal. The
Expensis militum non levandis, etc.,
prohibit the sheriff from levying any allowance for knights of the shire upon those who held lands in ancient demesne, Reg. brev. 261.
Frank fee
A species of tenure in fee simple being the opposite of ancient demesne or copyhold
Monstraverunt
Monstraverunt, a writ which lay for tenants in ancient demesne who held lands by free charter, when they were distrained to do unto their lords other services and
Recto, Breve de
recto; (2) writ of right close, which was brought where one held lands and tenements by charter in ancient demesne in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for term of life, or in dower, and was disseised, Co. Litt. 158 b;
Sokemanries
but by simple services; being, as it were, lands enfranchised by the king or his predecessors from their ancient demesne. Their tenants were sokemans.
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