 | H. B. Shillibeer - 1821 - 180 pages
...for a small quit rent." " In general, the estates are still said to be held at the will of the'lnrd, yet it is such a will as is agreeable to the custom of the manor; which customs are or ought to be preserved by the rolls of the several courts baron, in which they are entered, or kept... | |
 | Thomas Walter Williams - 1825 - 596 pages
...There is also an estate, as it is termed, AT THE WILL or THE LORD ; but though in general copyholders are still said to hold their estates at the will of...the lord, yet it is such a will as is agreeable to or controlled by the custom of the manor ; which customs are preserved and evidenced by the rolls of... | |
 | Stacey Grimaldi - 1828 - 372 pages
...performance of the same services, to hold their lands in spite of any determination of the lord's will. For though, in general, they are still said to hold...the will of the lord, yet it is such a will as is agree1 General Introduction to Domesday, p. Ixxii * Cruise on Dignities, Second Edition, p. 26, able... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...performance of the same service, to hold their lands, in spite of any determination of the lord's will. For though in general they are still said to hold...lord, yet it is such a will as is agreeable to the customs of the manor ; which customs are preserved and evidenced by the rolls of the several courts... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1841 - 626 pages
...hold their lands in spite of any determination of the lord's will. For, though in general they were still said to hold their estates at the will of the...agreeable to the custom of the manor ; which customs were preserved and evidenced by the rolls of the several manor courts in which they are entered, or... | |
 | Alfred Caswall - 1841 - 272 pages
...performance of the same services, to hold their lands, in spite of any determination of the lord's will; for though in general they are still said to hold...lord, yet it is such a will as is agreeable to the customs of the manor; which customs are preserved and evidenced by the rolls of the several courts... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1844 - 684 pages
...Coleridge's note. ' Hid, s. 204. ' Co. Litt. 126 b. ra Sec. 204, 5, 6. " Litt. B. 190. ° Sec. 208. will. For, though in general they are still said to hold...the lord, yet it is such a will as is agreeable to thecustom of the manor : which customs are preserved and evidenced by the rolls of the several courts... | |
 | 1850 - 400 pages
...determination of the lord's will. * State of Europe during the Middle Ages, vol. iii., pp. 453—455. For though in general they are still said to hold...the will of the lord, yet it is such a will as is ngreeable to the custom of the manor, which customs arc preserved and evidenced bv the rolls of the... | |
 | Joseph Stevenson - 1850 - 68 pages
...the possession of the land, even though the lord should wish to dispossess him. For, though they were said to hold their estates at the will of the lord, yet the law decreed that this will must be in accordance with the usage and custom of the manor : and the... | |
 | Richard Sims - 1856 - 584 pages
...performance of the same services, to hold their lands in spite of any determination of the lord's will. For though, in general, they are still said to hold...agreeable to the custom of the manor, which customs arc preserved and evidenced by the Rolls of the several Courts Baron in which they are entered, or... | |
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... gave them title to prescribe against their lords; and, on performance of the same services, to hold their lands, in spite of any determination of the lord's will; for though in general they are still said to hold their estates at the will of the lord... 
