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Intestates Estates Act, 1884 (English)
heir, his estate, legal or equitable, in any incorporeal hereditament, and any equitable estate in any corporeal hereditament, escheated to the Crown. Provision was also made for the waiver of the rights of the Crown in certain
Possessio fratris
were not brethren of the whole-blood, and therefore could never inherit to each other, but the estate rather escheated to the lord. Nay, even if the father died, and his lands descended to his eldest son, A.,
Uses
deprived of their Common Law rights since uses were devisable. 'Thirdly. Lords lost their wardships, reliefs, marriages, and escheats, the trustees letting the cestui que use continue the possession, whereby the real tenants that held the lands
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Traverse of an office
Traverse of an office, proof that an inquisition made of lands or goods by the escheator is defective and untruly made.
Testa de nevil
lands; (4) of churches in the gift of the king, and in whose hands they were; (5) of escheats, as well of the lands of Normans as others, in whose hands the same were, and by what
Terra extendenda
Terra extendenda, a writ addressed to an escheator, etc., that he inquire and find out the true yearly value of any land, etc., by the oath
Qude jus
Qude jus, means 'what kind of right'. A writ ordering an escheator to inquire into the extent of a religious person's right to a judgment, before its execution, to make
Quale jus
religion had judgment to recover land, before execution was made of the judgment; it went forth to the escheator between judgment and execution, to inquire what right the religious person had to recover, or whether the judgment
An, Jour, et waste
of the lands to the Crown incurred by the felony of the tenant, after which time the land escheats to the ord, Termes de la Ley.
Parcel makers
Parcel makers, two officers in the Exchequer who formerly made the parcels of the escheators' accounts, wherein they charged them with everything they had levied for the sovereign's use within the time of
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