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Operarii

Operarii, such tenants under feudal tenures as held some little portions of land by the duty of performing bodily labour and servile works

Permissive use

before the Statute of Uses, in order to avoid a harsh law, as that of mortmain or a feudal forfeiture; it was a mere invention in order to evade the law by secrecy, as a conveyance to

strengthened, by lapse of time, into a title complete and indefeasible. This assumption is based on the well-known feudal maxim that seisin must be the basis or standpoint in the deduction of every title except in the

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Primer seisin

Primer seisin, a feudal burthen, only incident to the King's tenants in capite, and not to those who held of inferior or

Quit rent

s. 191. Also to the remedies for non-payment, see s. 121 and ibid. Means a payment to a feudal lord by a freeholder or copyholder, so called because upon payment the tenant goes 'quit and free' (discharged)

Seisin, Livery of

Seisin, Livery of, formal delivery of possession, called by the Feudists investiture of a fee or feudal estate. Applicable to corporeal hereditaments while incorporeal hereditaments such as a remainder or easement were conveyed by writing

Serjeant

Serjeant [fr. serviens, Lat.], used in several senses:- A feudal tenure by knight service due only to king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. (1) Serjeants-at-law, or of the

Sert

Sert, means a person in a condition of feudal servitude, bound to labour at the will of a lord, a villain, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

Servage

Crown of England in servage to these of Rome: 2 Inst. 174; 1 Rich. 2, c. 6. A feudal service consisting of (in addition to paying rent) furnishing one or more workers for the lord, Black's Law

Shelley's case, Rule in

in. intimately connected with the quantity of estate which a tenant may hold in realty, is the antique feudal doctrine generally known as the rule in Shelley's Case, which is reported by Lord Coke in 1 Rep.

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