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Coke, Sir Edward
died in 1634. Author of the Institutes and The Reports (see those titles), and of an edition of Littleton's Treatise on Tenures. A famous text-writer and reporter among English lawyers, one of whose great characteristics, however, has
Old tenures
Old tenures, a treatise, so called to distinguish it from Littleton's book on the same subject, which gives an account of the various tenures by which land was holden,
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Fee-simple
annuity or dignity, and also in an upper chamber, though the lower buildings and soil belong to another. Littleton, in his Tenures (1. i., c. 1, s. 1), gives a description of this estate, which appears to
Institutes of Lord Coke
1628, and very frequently edited. The first is an extensive comment upon a treatise on tenures compiled by Littleton, a judge of the Common Pleas, temp. Edward IV. This comment is a rich mine of valuable Common
Per my et per tout
of transferring in equal shares, are said to be seised per my et per tout. 'And this,' says Littleton, 'is as much as to say, as he is seised by every parcell and by the whole, etc.';
Town
a church, and celebration of divine service, sacraments, and burials' (Co. Litt. 115 b). 'And it appeareth by Littleton, that a towne is the genus, and a borough is the species; for hee saith that every borough
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