Lex maneriorum, or, The law and customs of England
Subtitle: relating to manors and lords of manors, their stewards, deputies, tenants, and others ... The whole being a methodical collection of the cases dispersed in the several volumes of the law relating to copyhold estates, and to every thing depending on that tenure. To which is added an appendix of all the modern entries of declarations, pleas, replications, rejoinders, demurrers, issues, special verdicts, writs of recordari, certiorari &c relating to the said cases, with proper tables to the whole
By: by William Nelson, of the Middle Temple, Esq
Contributors: E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling
Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (Assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for John Hooke at the Flower de Luce, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street
Published: 1726
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Copyhold; Manors; Courts baron and courts leet; Manorial courts; History
Other titles: Lex maneriorum; Law and customs of England
Notes: "Viz. Of the Lords right to deodands, felons, goods, waifs, estrays, wrecks, and goods of Felo de fe. Of the privileges of their tenants in ancient demesne, and of widows' free bench, &c Of copyhold estates, courts-leet, courts-baron, and by-laws there made, and of Amerciaments, fines and heriots, and how to be recovered. Of surrenders and admittances to copyholds, and of entailing them, and of barring and discontinuing such entails by fines and recoveries in the Lord's Court, and by other methods. Of leases made by copyholders with licence, and without, also of forfeitures and other determinations of their estates."

Appendix paginated separately.

Signatures: pi1 A-2B⁴ 2C² 2D²(-2D2), A-R⁴

ESTC T82606

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