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Single escheat

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Bastard

Provision is made by the (English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (c. 36), s. 2, to enable a single woman whose marriage is void for non-age under that Act to obtain a summons notwithstanding that the father … have always had and have full disposing power. See Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 178. As to escheat to the Crown of a bastard's property, see ESCHEAT. Sub-ss. (1) and (2) of s. 9 of the

Copyhold

Tenants in common pay this fine apportionably, each according to his share. Joint tenants and coparceners pay a single fine for all. The practice as to the payment of the fine on the admittance of joint tenants … the lord's right of way and sporting and to minerals, an also the lord's right in case of escheat for want of heirs. By the Act of 1887 a notice o the tenant's right to enfranchise 'upon

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Magna Carta

of less at the church door. No widow shall be distrained to marry while she chooses to live single; nevertheless, she shall find surety that she shall not marry without our license and assent if she hold … of river-banks, a subject which now forms part of local law. The 17th chapter enacts that:-'No sheriff constable, escheator, coroner, nor any other our bailiffs, shall hold pleas of our Crown.' Pleas of the Crown comprehend the

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