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Dote assignanda

Dote assignanda, a writ for a widow, where it was found by office that the king's tenant was seised of lands in fee or fee-tail at his death, and that he held of the

Super pr'rogativa regis

Super pr'rogativa regis, a writ which formerly lay against the king's tenant's widow for marrying without the royal licence, Fitz. N.B. 174.

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of the king, distinguishing such as were rented or alienated, with the values of the same; (3) of widows, and heiresses of tenants in capite, whose marriages were in the gift of the king, with the values … Testa de nevil, an ancient document in two volumes, in the custody of the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer, more properly called Liber Feodorum. These books contain principally accounts (1) of fees holden

Alien

of the Act deals with the national status of married women (s. 10) (see below), the status of widows (s. 11), the status of children (s. 12), the loss of British nationality by foreign naturalization (s. 13), … therefore include both persons having the nationality or citizenship of some other sovereign State recognized by the United Kingdom. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 66, p. 76. The (English) Naturalization Act, 1870 (33

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally … compelled to contract an improper or unequal marriage. The 7th chapter concerns widows, and enacts that:-'A widow, after the death of her husband, incontinent, and … (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963. This Great Charter is based substantially

Copyhold

Wm. 4, c. 104, and the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110). (9) The widow of a copyholder, according to a particular custom, is entitled to a certain portion of her husband's lands, … take copies of to use as he may think proper; and the Court of Queen's Bench (now the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice) will order the lord to allow such inspection, and if

Tenure

at the time of the Norman Conquest. Out of feudalism arose the maxim, that all lands in this kingdom were originally granted by our kings, and held mediately or immediately of the king, as lord paramount, in … Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab … of Property Act, 1925. See COPYHOLD; ESCHEAT. Terce, thirds; Scots term. See WIDOW'S TERCE. Tenure means the period for which an incumbent of office holds

Marriage

3 Sm 3 Gif 481, aff. In (1861) 9 HLC 193. The law prohibiting marriage with a brother's widow or a deceased wife's sister remained long in force in England, inspite of many attempts to follow the … see 22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 31. As to marriages between British subjects resident in the United Kingdom and British subjects resident in other parts of the King's dominions or in British Protectorates, see Marriage of

Feodary, or feudary

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 … 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 … 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.

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