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Tenure
(now abolished, see infra). The other great class of tenements was villenage, which was subdivided into pure and privileged villenage. Pure villenage was the origin of the present copyhold tenures, or tenure by copy of Court roll, … pleasure, or transmit as an inheritance to his children. The land was also attachable to answer the owner's debts, and could also be made available for commercial enterprise. Such tenure was acquired by the distribution of lands
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
upon recognizance is twenty years after the cause of action has accrued, except in the case of mortgage debts which are now barred after twelve years, whether by covenant or collateral bond, by the R.P. Act, 1874, … Pl.), and there is no period of limitation for proceedings to claim a peerage before the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords. Treason (see that title) must be prosecuted within three years. As to the
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