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Knight's fee [feodum militare, Lat.], twelve plough-lands, the value of which was 20l. per annum (2 Inst. 596). By the grant of a knight's fee, land, meadow, and pasture may pass as parcel of it, and even a manor if it is usually called so. Consult Shep. Touch. 92, 93. Selden contends that it was as much as the king was pleased to grant upon condition of having the service of a knight, Tit. Of Hon., p. ii., c. v., ss. 17, 26. See TENURE....
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 regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (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 upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Tenure
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 University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
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 mesne lords. It was a right which the King had, when any of his tenants in capite died seised of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir (provided he were of full age) one whole year's profits of the lands, if they were in immediate possession; and half a year's profits, if they were in reversion, expectant on an estate for life. It was incident to socage-tenants in capite, as well as those who held by knight-service. It was abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24....
Scutage
Scutage, a tax or contribution raised by those that held lands by knight's service in commutation of such service towards furnishing the king's army, at the rate of one, two, or three marks for every knight's fee (obsolete long before 12 Car. 2, c. 24, which abolished the military tenure, Steph. Com., ii., Ch. on 'Tenures.' See ESCUAGE.Means a monetary payment levied by the king or barons as a substitute for some or all of the knights to be supplied to the king by each baron, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1349...
Feodum militis
Feodum militis, a knight's fee....
Herischild
Herischild, military service or knight's fee...
Sontge
Sontge, a tax of 40s. heretofore laid upon every knight's fee....
Gavelkind
Gavelkind. A mode or rule of descent by custom abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 45(1)(a), in the case of all deaths after 1925 except in regard to entailed estates, and descent from a person of unsound mind, as provided by s. 51 (ibid.), and see (English) L.P. Act, 1922, 12th Sched. (1)(d), and Re Price, 1928 Ch 579. The word is derived from the Saxon word 'gafol,' or, as it is otherwise written, 'gavel,' which signifies 'rent' or a 'customary performance of husbandry works'; accordingly the land which yielded this kind of service, in contradistinction to knight-service land, was called 'GAVELKIND' that is 'land of the kind that yields rent.' Lambarde (Perambulations of Kent, Edn. 1656, p. 585) first advanced and promulgated this supposition, which does not seem to be sufficiently comprehensive since 'gavelkind' does not necessarily denote land subject to rent, in opposition to the opinion of Lord Coke, who traced the word to 'gave all kinde' 'for the custom giv...
Solicitor-General
Solicitor-General, the second law officer of the Crown, appointed by patent, and holding office during the continuance of the Ministry of which he is a subordinate member. He is usually knighted. He ranks after the Attorney-General, and receives an annual salary and fees; he may not now carry on a private practice. As to the Solicitor-General for Scotland, see LORD ADVOCATE. Attached to the household of a queen-consort there is an officer with this title. Consult Norton-Kyshe's Attorney-General and Solicitor-General of England.The second highest-ranking legal officer in a government (after attorney general) esp., the chief courtroom lawyer for executive branch, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1399....
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