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Alien
the United Kingdom; or (2) Qualify an alien for any office or for any municipal, parliamentary, or other franchise; or (3) Qualify an alien to be the owner of a British ship; or (4) Entitle an alien
Age
are at their own disposal, may alien their lands, goods and chattels and possess the parliamentary and municipal franchise. Full age in male or female is 21 years, which age is completed on the day preceding the
Citizen
a city a freeman of a city as distinguished from a foreigner or one not entitled to its franchises
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Approvers
Approvers, bailiffs of lords in their franchises. Sheriffs were called the king's approvers in 1 Edw. 3, st. 1, c. 1, Termes de la Ley.
Claim of liberty
of liberty, a suit or petition to the king in the Court of Exchequer, to have liberties and franchises confirmed there by the attorney-general.
Copyhold
the lord's right (if any) to mines, minerals, limestone, clay, stone and gravel pits or quarries; also rights, franchises, royalties, or privileges of the lord in respect of fairs, markets, chase, warren, fishery or other rights of
Law of Property Act, 1922
the extinguish-ment of manorial incidents (but not, apart from the lord's consent of his rights to mines, minerals, franchises, fairs and sporting rights), and the conversion of perpetually renewable leaseholds into long terms. The other provisions of
Manorial documents
Manorial documents, Court Rolls, surveys, maps, terriers, all documents and books relating to the boundaries, franchises, wastes, customs or courts of a manor but not deeds or evidence of title to the manor, are
Tenement
freehold, is applicable not only to lands and other solid objects, but also to offices, rents, commons, advowsons, franchises, peerages, etc, 2 Bl. Com. 16. 'Tenement' may denote the estate is as well as the land. Halsb.
Tenure
of copyholds, excepting and reserving to the lord his property and rights, if any, to mines and minerals, franchises and privileges, etc., set out in the 12th Sch., s. 5, of the Law of Property Act, 1925.
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