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Chief-rents
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Rent
and ancient copyholders of a manor, which cannot be departed from. Those of the freeholders are frequently called chief-rents, and both sorts are indifferently denominated quit-rents, because thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all services. … land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no
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Magna Carta
tenants of full age:-'If any of our earls or barons, or any other, which holdeth of us in chief by knight's service, die, and at the time of his death his heir be of full age, and
Distress
121, 134, 153 and 193, and RENT REDUCTION ACTS. In addition to the above provisions in favour of tenants generally, agricultural tenants enjoy three special privileges under the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (see that title). These … (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all material distinction between them. Distress may also be made at Common Law
Tenure
holder. There is then no allodial land in England. Those who held immediately from the king were called tenants in capite (in chief), which was the most honourable tenure. This was of two kinds, either ut de honore,
Surrender of copyholds
lawful appointed attorney, either in or out of Court, to the lord of the manor in person, his chief steward, or under-steward; or, by special custom, to the bailiff, beadle, or reeve, or to certain tenants of
Super statuto
Super statuto (1 Edw. 3, c. 12), a writ that lay against the king's tenant holding in chief, who aliened the king's land without his licence. … Super statuto (1 Edw. 3, c. 12), a writ that lay against the king's tenant holding in chief, who aliened the king's land without his licence.
Servitium intrinsecum
Servitium intrinsecum, that service which was due to the chief lord alone from his tenants within his manor, Fleta, 1. 3.
King's widow
King's widow, a widow of the King's tenant-in-chief, who was obliged to take oath in Chancery that she would not marry without the King's leave.
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