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Censumethidus

Censumethidus, a dead rent, like that which is called mortmain, Blount.

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for the same, he is to come to the tenement, and there take a stone, or some other dead thing of the said tenement, and bring it before the mayor and bailiffs; and this he must do … The ancient custom of the city of Exeter is, when the lord of the fee cannot be answered rent due to him out of his tenement, and no distress can be levied for the same, he is

Mortgage

Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor. A mortgage is … to foreclose in equity. When property is conveyed to a mortgagee and his heirs until out of its rents the loan and interest shall have been received, this is in the nature of a Welsh mortgage, and

Forfeiture

(3) Alienation in mortmain, or to any kind of corporation (which was supposed to hold property in a dead hand locked up from all change or transfer), was prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord. The … by express declaration, or by any act inconsistent with it, or admitting a continuing tenancy, as by receiving rent accrued due since the breach, or distraining for the same, or by subsequently encouraging the tenant to make

Fer' natur', animals

liberty his qualified property in them ceases, 2 Bl. Com. 391. See GAME. Of animals fer' natur' when dead, reclaimed, or confined, if they are fit for food, larceny may be committed at Common Law; at Common … absolute property, so that they cannot be the subject of larceny, nor are they liable to distress for rent. But a man may acquire a qualified property in them, either (1) Per industriam, by his reclaiming and

Magna Carta

do die, and our sheriff or bailiff do show our letters-patents of our summons for debt, which the dead man did owe to us, it shall be lawful to our sheriff or bailiff to attach and inroll … See DOWER. The 8th chapter relates to Crown debts:-'We or our bailiffs shall not seize any land or rent for any debt, as long as the present goods and chattels of the debtor do suffice to pay

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