| Sir Thomas Littleton - 1846 - 276 pages
...him. Hil. 21 Ed. 4. And so was the opinion of Danby, Chief Justice, in 7 Ed. 4. For he saith, that tenant by the custom is as well inheritor to have...custom, as he which hath a freehold at the common law. NOTE. — It is clear that the lord cannot oust the copyholder, so long as the latter observes the... | |
| Kenelm Edward Digby - 1876 - 486 pages
...trespass against him 3. And so was the opinion of Danby, chief justice, in 7 Ed. 4 3. For he saith, that tenant by the custom is as well inheritor to have...custom as he which hath a freehold at the common law. 1 The action of ejectment was as applicable to the recovery of the possession of copyholds as of freeholds,... | |
| Joshua Williams - 1878 - 252 pages
...Edward IV.) And so was the opinion of Danby, chief justice, in the 7 of Edward IV. For he saith that tenant by the custom is as well inheritor to have...custom, as he which hath a freehold at the common law." The opinion of Brian and Danby is now undoubted law, although it seems from the above extract that,... | |
| Charles Isaac Elton - 1882 - 134 pages
...custom of the manor. After that time it was said that " tenant by the custome is as well inheritour to have his land according to the custom, as he which hath a freehold at the common law." The modern representatives of these men are the copyholders of the kind with which we are most familiar,... | |
| Kenelm Edward Digby - 1884 - 432 pages
...trespass against 5 6him \ And so was the opinion of Danby, chief justice, in 7 Ed. 4 !. For he saith, that tenant by the custom is as well inheritor to have...custom as he which hath a freehold at the common law. 1 Year Book, 21 Edw. IV, 80. 1 Ibid., 7 Ed. IV, 18. APPENDIX TO PART I. § I. Place of the Law of Real... | |
| William James Ashley - 1888 - 252 pages
...unjustly to dispossess customary tenants, it was laid down by the chief justice (in 7 Ed. IV.) tliat "the tenant by the custom is as well inheritor to...according to the custom as he which hath a freehold." 12S The yardling and the cotter were thus tied to the soil, but the soil was also tied to them. No... | |
| American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1890 - 788 pages
...him, H. 2 1 Ed. IV. And so was the opinion of Danby, chief justice, in 7 Ed. IV. For he saith that tenant by the custom is as well inheritor to have...custom, as he which hath a freehold at the common law." But it is significant that this passage does not appear either in an edition of Littleton, printed... | |
| William James Ashley - 1892 - 250 pages
...there unjustly to dispossess customary tenants, it was laid down by the chief justice (in 7 Ed. IV.) that "the tenant by the custom is as well inheritor...according to the custom as he which hath a freehold." m The yardling and the cotter were thus tied to the soil, but the soil was also tied to them. No very... | |
| Kenelm Edward Digby - 1892 - 484 pages
...justice, in 7 Ed. 4 ". For he saith, that tenant by the custom is as well inheritor to have his laud according to the custom as he which hath a freehold at the common law. 1 Year Book, 21 Edw. IV. 80. 2 Ibid., 7 Ed. IV, 18. APPENDIX TO PART I. § i. Place of the Law of Heal... | |
| William James Ashley - 1893 - 524 pages
...against him, H. 21 Ed. IV. And so was the opinion of Danby, chief justice, in 7 Ed. IV. For he saith that tenant by the custom is as well inheritor to have...custom, as he which hath a freehold at the common law." But it is significant that this passage does not appear either in an edition of Littleton printed about... | |
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