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Littleton, and for Coke on Littleton, but it is tempered with some early experiences in a lawyer's office, and some later experiences of the legal profession; he may have written well upon "Tenures," but he had not enough of tenderness even for a teasel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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βIn the light of the Abolition of Feudal Tenures Act of 1662, how it can be claimed that feudal titles still exist today in Ireland as hereditaments to be bought and sold?β said Sean J Murphy, a leading genealogist.
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Drs. and am now about reading over again Gilberts section of feudal Tenures.
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Britain, is a brief but learned and philosophical treatise, which may be followed by Sullivan's Lectures on Feudal Law, a work copious in detail and exhibiting ably, among other topics, the influence of the feudal system upon the Modern Law of Tenures.
An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood
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Blount's "Ancient Tenures," a meritorious seventeenth-century work which has been edited by Mr.W. C. Hazlitt, contains a description of the military and civil functions performed, and the privileges enjoyed, by the house of Fitzwalter, in connexion with the C.ty of London.
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Tenures, the Landlord may, in any national Shock, raise a considerable
An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke
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He is best known by his commentary on Littleton's _Tenures_.
The Coverley Papers Various
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It would be advisable, I think, to read first in order the sections of Littleton's Tenures, the original treatise upon which The Institute was a commentary.
An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood
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The reason given by Blount, in his _Tenures_, is considered far from satisfactory.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832 Various
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Slaves are lazy; and seem as unwilling to improve their Estates, as if they thought their Tenures were as uncertain, and as subject to Change, as ever their Ancestors found them.
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