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of an infant heir of an earl, baron, or knight; chapter four prohibited the guardian from wasting the lands of his ward, and from destroying his tenants, a plain indication of the wretched condition of the serfs

Waste lands

Waste lands, the expression 'waste lands' has a well-defined legal connotation. It means lands which are desolate, abandoned, and not

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Recovery

or real recovery of anything, or the value thereof, by judgment; as if a man sue for any land or other thing movable or immovable, and gain a verdict or judgment. A feigned recovery. An abolished common

Donis conditionalibus, Statute de

gift to a man and the heirs of his body, provided that if he had no heirs the lands should revert, was construed to give the donee a conditional fee, which enabled him, after issue begotten, to

Gain

51 hen. 3, c. 4, by which no man 'shall be distrained by his beasts that gain his land,' nor by his sheep, so long as other distress can be found. An increase in amount, degree or

Petition of Right

to make answer so to do; that freemen be imprisoned or detained only by the law of the land, or by due process of law, and not by the king's special command, without any charge; that persons

Park

Car 59; Pease v. Courtney, (1904) 2 Ch 509. The word 'park,' as used in the (English) Settled Land Acts, is not confined to an ancient legal park but includes an ordinary private park (Pease v. Courtney).

Wrong

Litt. 181 a; Williams on Seisin, p. 7. But a squatter is bound by restrictive covenants affecting the land, Re Nisbet, (1906) 1 Ch 386. In order to be a 'wrong' within the meaning of s. 23(1)(a)

Notice

this case was decided has become statutory under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, and the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925. See s. 199 of the Law of Property Act, 1925, sub tit. CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE, and

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