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Copyhold
Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been...
Chattels or catals
Chattels or catals [fr. Catalla, Lat.; chatel, Fr.; chaptel, Old Fr.]. The word 'catalla' among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry or, as they are still called, cattle, but in a secondary sense the...
Catalla
Catalla, chattels. The word among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry, or, as they are still called, 'cattle'; but in a secondary sense the term was applied to all movables in general, and not...
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Cattle-gate
Cattle-gate, common for one beast. Gated or stinted pastures are types of commonable lands which prevail largely in the north of England and the rights over them are known by a number of different names, such...
Cattle
Cattle [derived by Skinner, Menage, and Spelman fr. Capitalia, quac aspr copr ad caput pertinent, personal goods; in which sense Chttels is yet used. Mandeville uses Catele for price], beasts of pasture, either wild or domestic....
Forest
Forest [fr. foresta, Ital.], an incorporeal hereditament, being the right or franchise of keeping, for the purpose of venery and hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park, and warren (which means all animals...
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B....
Averium
Averium, the best live beast due to the lord as a heriot on his tenant's death, 2 Bl. Com. 424
Appendant
Appendant, a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is more worthy; as an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in a church...
Agistment
Agistment, is derived from the French word gyser, to lie, because the beasts are there Levant and Couchant, 4 Co. Inst. 293.
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