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Home Dictionary Name: escheat Page: 6 Page 6 of about 58 results (0.002 seconds)Feodary, or feudary
Feodary, or feudary, an officer of the Court of Wards, appointed by the master of that Court, under 32 Hen. 8, s. 26, whose business it was to be present with the escheator in every county at the finding of offices of lands, and to give evidence for the king as well concerning the value as the tenure; and his office was also to survey the land of the ward, after the office found, and to rate it. He also assigned the kings; widows their dower, and received all the rents, etc. Abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24....
Diem clausit extremum
Diem clausit extremum, a writ issued in the event of the death of a tenant in capite. By this writ the escheator of the county was commanded to inquire by a jury of what lands the tenant died seised, and of what value, and who was the next heir to him. It was one of the five writs issued by the Crown for taking inquisitions post mortem. See Hubback on Succn., ch. vii, P. 584....
Custos temporalium
Custos temporalium, the person to whom a vacant seeor abbey was given by the king, as supreme lord. His office was, as steward of the goods and profits, to give an account to the escheator, who did the like to the Exchequer, Encyc. Londin....
Corruption of blood
Corruption of blood (now abolished), one of the immediate consequences of attainder for treason or felony. The blood of the attainted person was said to be corrupted or attainted both upwards and down wards, so that he could neither in her it lands nor hereditaments, retain the possession of those in his possession, nor transmit them by descent to any heir, but the same escheated to the lord of the fee, subject to the king's superior right of forfeiture, 4 Bl. Com. 388. See ATTAINDER....
An, Jour, et waste
An, Jour, et waste, year, day, and waste. A forfeiture 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....
Excheator
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Donatory
A donee of the crown one the whom upon certain condition escheated property is made over...
Westminster the First, Statute of
Westminster the First, Statute of (3 Edw. 1, AD 1275). This statute, which deserves the name of a Code rather than an Act, is divided into fifty-one chapters. Without extending the exemption of churchmen from civil jurisdiction, it protects the property of the Church from the violence and spoliation of the king and the nobles, and provides for freedom of popular elections, because sheriffs, coroners, and conservators of the peace were still chosen by the freeholders in the county Court, and attempts had been made to influence the election of knights of the shire, from the time when they were instituted. It contains a declaration to enforce the enactment of Magna Charta against excessive fines, which might operate as perpetual imprisonment; enumerates and corrects the abuses of tenures, particularly as to marriage of wards; regulates the levying of tolls, which were imposed arbitrarily by the barons, and by cities and boroughs; corrects and retrains the power of the king's escheator and...
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