When the knight's service, or militarytenures of England were converted into free soccage, in the reign of Charles II.
Feudal tenures were originally divided into two great classes; those which were called the military tenures, or knight's service, and soccage.
In either of the latter cases the injury done the community would be greater than if the present tenures were to exist a thousand years.
That this outcry against leasehold tenures in America is following the tendencies of our institutions, I am afraid is only too true; but that it is in any manner in compliance with their spirit, I utterly deny.
You will own, neighbour Hall, notwithstanding, it would be a great improvement in the condition of the tenants all over the State, could they change their tenures into freeholds.
Nor is it an apology for anti-rentism, in any of its aspects, to say that leasehold tenures are inexpedient.
It was this diversion from the perpendicular which had suggested the necessity of erecting a new edifice, and the building in which the "lecture" on feudal tenures and aristocracy was now to be delivered.
He has bought himself from all such tenures by his covenant of quarter sale; and it only remains to say whether, having agreed to such a bargain in order to obtain this advantage, he should pay the stipulated price or not.
There has been no growth of trade to bring mobile leasehold tenures in its train, or to accumulate the wealth which the peasants need to enfranchise their servile tenancies.
One may add--if English statesmen had studied the history of customary tenures in England, would they have deferred until 1870 legislation protecting tenant right in Ireland?
Again, the classification is one of tenures not of tenants.
Apparently the instructions were not carried out, as in 1642 the Long Parliament was discussing the subject of the border tenures (Rushworth Collections, Pt.
The feudal tenures of the crown, such as knights' service, were converted into free socage.
Feudal tenures were converted into freehold in 1646.
It had long been an object with the English government to extinguish the Irish tenures and laws.
Bouverie being its representatives, and the votes being vested in the persons having a freehold interest in burgage tenures and held of the Bishop of Winchester; the number of voters is not given--possibly J.
Unlike the land tenures said to prevail in Chingleput or Madras, the Mysore system fully permits the Holeyas and Madigs to hold land in their own right, and as sub-tenants they are to be found almost everywhere.
The rapid spread of the system thus originated, and the assimilation of all other tenures to it, may be regarded as the work of the tenth century; but as early as A.
As barons they had knight-service to perform; and this condition of their tenures naturally surrounded them with armed retainers.
The complicated and unintelligible irregularities of the Anglo-Saxon tenures were exchanged for the simple and uniform feudal theory.
When it is being said that if land in the borough escheats, it always escheats to the king, the mesne tenures are already being forgotten within the borough, just as in modern times we have forgotten them in the open country.
The provisions of this act for changing all seigneurial tenures into freehold are long and somewhat technical.
For nearly twenty years after Durham's investigation the question of abolishing the seigneurial tenures remained a football of Canadian politics.
One of Durham's secretaries, Charles Buller drafted a scheme for commuting the tenuresinto freehold, but his plan did not find acceptance.
The fable of the Sibylline books has been realised in this matter; and not a few of the efforts to improve Irish land tenures have been little better than sudden leaps in the dark.
On the whole, it is at least probable that English statesmen in the sixteenth century made as many mistakes about tenures in Ireland as their representatives in the eighteenth and part of the nineteenth made about tenures in India.
The whole system of ancient tenures is gradually passing away; and I wish to have the knowledge of it preserved adequate and complete.
Hereditary tenures are established in all civilised countries, and are accompanied in most with hereditary authority.
Among other things, as a whole, the population of these States do not relish the tenures by which our large estates are held.
The leasehold tenures make men commit arson,' it will now be said, 'and who desires to retain laws that induce men to commit arson?
Yet these tenures existed when the institutions were formed, and one of the provisions of the institutions themselves guarantees the observance of the covenants under which the tenures exist.
The leasehold tenures make men commit murder,' it is said, 'and they ought to be destroyed themselves.
When the knight's service, or military tenures of England, were converted into free soccage, in the reign of Charles II.
Those who desire a studied account of ancient land tenuresin Ireland--in preference to their own or other people's imaginings--should read the little book on Irish Land Tenures by Dr.
No doubt because of the proximity of the district to the Border, the tenures by which certain properties were held in Cumberland and Westmorland must be regarded as quite local in their character.
Tenures of cumin do not appear to have been common in the two counties.
All future tenures created by the king to be in free and common socage, reserving rents to the Crown and also fines on alienation.
As population increased new pastures in the foreign were leased out for a term of years at an annual rent, and while the increase of perpetual free tenures thus ceased the alienation of the whole domain was prevented (pp.
There are some very curious tenures of lands and manors connected with Christmas which must not be passed over.
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