The fee tail and the common recovery in medieval England, 1176-1502 / Joseph Biancalana.
2001
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The fee tail and the common recovery in medieval England, 1176-1502 / Joseph Biancalana.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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1 online resource (xix, 498 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Cambridge studies in English legal history.
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Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations and abbreviated citations
Introduction
Fee tails before De Donis
The growth of the "perpetual" entail
Living with entails
Barring the enforcement entails other than by common recovery
The origin and development of common recovery
The common recovery in operation
Appendix to Chapter 6.
List of abbreviations and abbreviated citations
Introduction
Fee tails before De Donis
The growth of the "perpetual" entail
Living with entails
Barring the enforcement entails other than by common recovery
The origin and development of common recovery
The common recovery in operation
Appendix to Chapter 6.
Summary
Fee tails were a basic building block for family landholding from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The classic entail was an interest in land which was inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to the lineal heirs of the original grantee. Biancalana's study considers the origins, development and use of the entail in later medieval England, and the origins and early use of a reliable legal mechanism for the destruction of individual entails, the common recovery. He untangles the complex history surrounding medieval landholding in this detailed study of the fee tail, the product of extensive research in original sources. This book includes an extensive index of over three hundred common recoveries with discussions of their transactional contexts. A major work which will interest lawyers and historians.
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Cambridge Core.
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English
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9780511495397 ebook
9780521806466 (hardback)
9780521032940 (paperback)
9780521806466 (hardback)
9780521032940 (paperback)
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