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Tenure

of Saxon liberty, which were left untouched by the oppressive hand of the Norman. Included among free socage tenures were petit

the distress in his own right; where, on the other hand, it was against the bailiff or servant, he made cognizance--that

the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases. Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it

surrender, according to general custom, followed by admittance at the hands of the lord or his steward, and they are devisable.

a rent, principally in freedom of enjoyment on the one hand, and in freedom from obligation on the other; which the

particularized by counsel, and where, in some instances counsel might hand the motion-paper to one of the masters, without making the

Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as...

previously belonged to the pr'tor urbanus fell gradually into his hands, Ibid., s. 2395.

or transfer into court of money or funds in the hands of an executor or trustee who is unable to obtain

gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor. A mortgage is the creation of an