 | Characters and characteristics - 1805 - 596 pages
...certain services to be rendered to the lord by the tenant or possessor of this property. The tiling holden is therefore styled a tenement, the possessors...tenants, and the manner of their possession a tenure. Before tlie establishment of the feudal system, the possessions of the people were perfectly uthdial... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...lord, by and in consideration of certain services to be rendered to the lord by the tenant or possessor of this property. The thing holden is therefore styled a tenement, the possessors thereof tetiantt, and the manner of theic possession a tenure. Thus all the land in the kingdom is supposed... | |
 | William Cruise - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 612 pages
...certain services to be rendered by 'he tenant. The thing holden was therefore called a ! iQ»t- 65- «• tenement, the possessors thereof tenants, and the manner of their possession, a tenure. And Lord Coke says, wib " In the law of England we have not properly allodium, that is, any subject's... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...lord, by and in consideration of certain services to be rendered to the lord by the tenant or possessor of this property. The thing holden is therefore styled...tenants, and the manner of their possession a tenure. Socage. — The free lands of England are now held by socage, which in its most general and extensive... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...rendered to the lord by the tenant or possessor of this property. The thing holden is therefore stiled a tenement, the possessors thereof tenants, and the manner of their possession a tenurc. Thus all the land in the kingdom is supposed to be holden, mediately or immediately, of the... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...lord, by and in consideration of certain services to be rendered to the lord by the tenant or possessor of this property. The thing holden is therefore styled...manner of their possession a tenure. Thus all the land in the kingdom is supposed to be holden, mediately or immediately, of the king, who is styled the lord... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...by and in consideration of certain services to be rendered to the lord, by the tenant or possessor of this property. The thing holden is therefore styled...manner of their possession a tenure. Thus all the land in the kingdom is supposed to be holden, mediately or immediately, of the king, who is styled the lord... | |
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Almost all the real property of this kingdom is, by the policy of our laws, supposed to be granted by, dependent upon, and holden of, some superior lord, by and in consideration of certain services to be rendered to the lord by the tenant or possessor... 
