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" ... if there be writing or witness that it was forbidden by those men who at first acquired it, and by those who gave it to him, that he should do so ; and then let that be declared in the presence of the king and of the bishop, before his kinsmen. "
The Life and Times of Alfred the Great: Drawn Up from the Most Authentic ... - Page 335
by John Allen Giles - 1854 - 417 pages
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The Moderate Monarchy, Or Principles of the British Constitution, Described ...

Albrecht von Baron HALLER - 1849 - 388 pages
...guild-brethren pay half, and for the other half let him flee." The law concerning 'boc-lands' seems to show that a species of entail existed as early as the days...and of the bishop, before his kinsmen." The laws of Ina, adopted by Alfred for his own, are of the same general character ; the following examples may...
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An Essay on the History and Effects of the Laws of Mortmain: And the Laws ...

William Francis Finlason - 1853 - 296 pages
...Cloveshoe. t " The man who has boc land, and which his kindred left him, must not give it from his kindred, if there be writing or witness that it was forbidden...by those who gave it to him, that he should do so." This appears to imply that lands might be left by will ; and also that lands which a party himself...
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The Act for the Better Regulation of Charitable Trusts: With Copious Notes ...

William Francis Finlason - 1853 - 218 pages
...cognizance. (4) " The man who has land, and which his kindred left him, must not give it from his family, if there be writing or witness that it was forbidden...who at first acquired it, and by those who gave it him, that he should do so; and then let that be declared in the presence of the king and of the bishop...
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The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ..., Volume 2

Alfred (King of England) - 1858 - 684 pages
...has book-land, and his kinsman left [it] him, then set we that he must not give it from his kindred, if there be writing or witness that it was forbidden by those men that at first gained it, and by those that gave it him that he so might not ; and that, then, let him...
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The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ..., Volume 2

Alfred (King of England) - 1858 - 768 pages
...has book-land, and his kinsman left [it] him, then set we that he must not gi^e it from his kindred, if there be writing or witness that it was forbidden by those men that at first gained it, and by those that gave it him that he so might not; and that, then, let him...
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Reeves' History of the English Law: From the time of the Romans to the end ...

John Reeves, William Francis Finlason - 1869 - 686 pages
...kindred left him, must not give it from his kindred, if there be writing or witneiseji that it waa forbidden by those men who at first acquired it, and by those who gave it to him, that he should not do so ; and then let it be declared in the presence of the king and the bishop before his kinsmen."...
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Reeves' History of the English Law: From the time of the Romans to the end ...

John Reeves, William Francis Finlason - 1869 - 686 pages
...kindred left him, must not give it from his kindred, if there be writing or wit. пеазез that it waa forbidden by those men who at first acquired it, and by those who gave it to him, that he should not do so ; and then let it be declared in the presence of the king and the bishop before his kinsmen."...
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Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History ...

William Stubbs - 1870 - 568 pages
...'boc-land,' and which his kindred left him, then ordain we that he must not give it from his ' mseg-burg,' if there be writing or witness that it was forbidden...of the king and of the bishop before his kinsmen. AD 879. ALFRED AND GUTHRTJM'S PEACE. This is the peace that King Alfred and King Guthrum, and the 'witan'...
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Alfred the great

Thomas Hughes - 1869 - 362 pages
...statement except the doom, that if a man have inherited book-land " he must not give it from his kin, if there be writing or witness that it was forbidden by those that first gained it ;" a somewhat slender ground for the theory. But the strangest glimpse which we...
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An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property: With Original ...

Kenelm Edward Digby - 1876 - 484 pages
...which his kindred left him, then ordain we that he must not give it from his "maegburg" [kindred], if there be writing or witness that it was forbidden...of the king and of the bishop before his kinsmen.' — Laws of Alfred, cap. 41 ; Stubbs, Select Charters, p. 62. 5 See Kemble's Saxons in England, ip...
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