Male heirs of land held by military service or sons of knights who were under the age of twenty-one were considered to be in custody of their lords.
This new manner of holding land: "fee tail", is in addition to the concepts of land held in fee simple andland held for life.
Admiralty issues (since no assize could be summoned on the high seas), and tenement issues of land held in frankalmoin where the tenant was a cleric were heard in the ecclesiastical courts.
Bracton habitually spoke of land held by frankalmoin, land held by knight's service, land held in socage, but he knew well enough that a single acre might be held at one and the same time by many different tenures.
Book-land island held by book, by a royal and ecclesiastical privilegium.
Casualties, which are a feature of land held in feu, are certain payments made to the superior, contingent on the happening of certain events.
The term is also applied to payments made to the lord of a manor on the alienation of land held according to the custom of the manor, to payments made by a lessee on a renewal of a lease, and to other similar payments.
The sounds of falling bodies, noises, and the barking of dogs at night, did not allow him to sleep.
When she died, he was so overcome by despair that he took refuge in the extremest practices of religion--and in this, perhaps, he was quite sincere.
His first wife, a very pious woman whom he seems to have loved much, encouraged him in this.
Life land (Law), land held by lease for the term of a life or lives.
Defn: A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years.
A tenure by lease; specifically, land held as personalty under a lease for years.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "land held" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
