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Half timbered
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Doty
Half rotten as doty timber … Half rotten as doty timber
Timber
enfranchised tenure. The right was the whole value if the lord could enter and remove the timber, otherwise half the value. Co. Litt. 53 a; 1 Rol. Abr. 649. See Dashwood v. Magniac, (1891) 3 Ch 306; … Timber, has an enlarged or restricted sense, according to the connection in which it is employed, and may refer
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Copyhold
particular custom, is entitled to a certain portion of her husband's lands, which varies in quantity, as a half, a third, a fifth, or the whole. It is called her free-bench. It is generally an estate for … wayward caprice of the lord. The minerals in copyhold land belong to the lord, and so does the timber, whence the maxim, 'The oak scorns to grow save on free land.' There are four circumstances necessary to
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