Joseph Biancalana

The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England

1176 1502
Herausgeber: Baker, John H.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major study of landholding in medieval England based on original sources with an extensive index.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 858g
• ISBN-13: 9780521806466
• ISBN-10: 0521806461
• Artikelnr.: 29337716

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations and abbreviated citations
Introduction
Part I. Fee Tails Before De Donis: 1. Grants in fee tail
2. The transformation of maritagium
3. Maritagium and fee tails in the King's court: the development of the formedon writs
Part II. The Growth of the 'Perpetual' Entail: 4. Reading De Donis
5. The statutory restraint on alienation and the descender writ
6. The duration of entails for reversions and remainders
Part III. Living with Entails: 7. The change from maritagium to jointure
8. The frequency and use of entails
Part IV. Barring the Enforcement Entails other than by Common Recovery: 9. The doctrine of assets by descent
10. The doctrine of collateral warranty
11. Barring entails by judgment
Part V. The Origin and Development of the Common Recovery: 12. The origin and growth of common recoveries
13. Development of procedure and doctrine
14. The double voucher recovery
Part VI. The Common Recovery in Operation: 15. The uses of recoveries
16. Social acceptance of the common recovery
Appendix to Part VI
Bibliography
Subject and selected persons index
Index to persons and places in appendix to Part VI.