 ... infants, idiots, and persons of non-sane memory) might by will and testament in writing devise to any other person, except to bodies corporate, two-thirds of their lands, tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held...  Testamenta Leodiensia: Wills of Leeds, Pontefract, Wakefield, Otley, and ... - Page viiby York (England). District Probate Registry, George Denison Lumb - 1913 - 378 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 pages
...tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage : which now, through the alteration of tenures by the statute of Charles the second, amounts to the whole oi their landed property, except their copyhold tenements. CORPORATIONS were exceptedin... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 626 pages
...lands, tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage; which now, through the alteration of tenures by the statute of Charles the second, amounts to the whole of their landed property, except their copyhold tenements. CORPORATIONS were excepted... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1837 - 342 pages
...tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage : which now, through the alteration of tenures by the statute of Charles the Second,* amounts to the whole of theirlanded property, except their copyhold tenements. And this exception was... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage ; which now, through the alteration of tenures by the statute of Charles the second, amounts to the whole of their landed property, except their copyhold tenements. Experience soon shewed,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - 1841 - 794 pages
...lands, tenements and hereditaments, held in chivalry. and the whole of those held in socage ; which now, through the alteration of tenures by the statute of Charles the Second, amounts to the whole of their landed property, except their copyhold tenements. [And these last by... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1844 - 684 pages
...tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage ; which now, through the alteration of tenures by the statute of Charles the Second,' amounts to the whole of their landed property, except their copyhold tenements. And this exception... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - 1846 - 276 pages
...their lands, tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage ; which, through the alteration of tenures by the statute...landed property, except their copyhold tenements. But the recent statute of 7 Will. 4 and 1 Viet. c. 26 (which, however, only applies to wills executed on... | |
 | How - 1849 - 96 pages
...required, the practice obtained, of estimating and exacting them in value,which socage :* which afterwards through the alteration of tenures by the statute of Charles the second, implied the whole of their landed property, except their copyhold tenements. 'Experience however soon... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 812 pages
...tenements and hereditaments held in chiv r alry, and the whole of those held in socage;] which afterwards, [through the alteration of tenures by the statute...of their landed property, except their copyhold.] A devise under these statutes took effect, not only upon legal, but upon equitable estate; which indeed... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1865 - 642 pages
...the whole of those held in socage: which, on the alteration of tenures by the statute of Charles II., amounted to the whole of their landed property, except their copyhold tenements. With regard to devises in general, experience soon showed how difficult and hazardous a thing it is,... | |
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