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Hereditary revenues
Hereditary revenues. Crown Lands, escheats (see that title), and certain small branches, such as Post Office Profits, enumerated in 1 Anne, c. 1.
Feodary, or feudary
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
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
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Custos temporalium
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
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.
Admittance
formerly it was of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant by the lord, where the land has escheated or reverted to him. (2) Upon surrender by the former tenant. (3) Upon descent, where the heir became
Donatory
A donee of the crown one the whom upon certain condition escheated property is made over
Westminster the First, Statute of
imposed arbitrarily by the barons, and by cities and boroughs; corrects and retrains the power of the king's escheator and other officers; amends the criminal law, putting the crime of rape on the footing to which it
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