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Escheat

which the Crown is entitled to take advantage by virtue of its prerogative; while an escheat results from tenure only, and arises from an obstruction in the course of descent; it originates in feudalism, and respects the

Customary freeholds

Customary freeholds have been converted into 'socage tenure' by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 189, see COPYHOLD. Owing to its historical intrest the

Magna Carta

of the fees.' The Great Charter only aimed at modifying the grievances of feudalism, which created the military tenure of knight's service. It was reserved for the vigorous administration of Cornwell to abolish this military tenure, which

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Wardship

Wardship, pupilage, guardianship; an incident to tenure in socage. See TENURE.

Uses

was no process at Common Law but against legal estates. (9) A use, not being an object of tenure, was therefore exempt from the oppressive burdens of the feudal system. It was not forfeitable for treason or

Udal

Udal, a form of tenure in Scotland contrary to the normal 'feudal' tenure and peculiar to the Ockneys and Shetland. There is no

Tenendum

Tenendum, means a clause in a deed designating the kind of tenure by which the things granted are to be held, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1480. Tenendum, that

Service

rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE. The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other

Rustici

by the services of ploughing, and other labours of agriculture, for the lord. The land of such ignoble tenure was called by the Saxons gafalland, as afterwards socage tenure, and was sometimes distinguished by the name of

Pryk

Pryk, a kind of tenure. Blount says it signifies an old-fashioned spur with one point only, which the tenant, holding land by this

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