 | John Allen - 1830 - 262 pages
...English tenures, " that " the King is the universal lord and original proprietor " of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth " or can possess..." or immediately been derived as a gift from him." But injustice to modern lawyers it must be remarked, that in laying down this proposition, which supposes... | |
 | James Savage - 1830 - 724 pages
...original proprietor of ALL the lands in his kingdom ; and that no man doth or can possess any part of them but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon certain services."59 And this concession on the part of the subject was necessary at that time, as... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1831 - 608 pages
...the English tenures, that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all lands in the kingdom, and that no man doth, or can possess, any part of it, but what has mediately or imme•BUckstone, Book II. Chap. 4. diately been derived, as a gift, from him to be held upon feudal... | |
 | Robert Rickards - 1832 - 828 pages
...Blackstone informs us), that " the king is uni" versal lord and original proprietor of all the " lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth " or can possess...been derived as " a gift from him, to be held upon feodal "services" — a doctrine which the learned judge himself considers as out of the natural order... | |
 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...English tenures, " that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the laud in the kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part...derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal service." Those that held immediately under the crown were called the king's tenants in capite, or... | |
 | John Scriven (serjeant at law.) - 1834 - 852 pages
...that the king ' is the universal lord and original pro' prietor of all the lands in his king• dom : and that no man doth or can ' possess any part of it, but what has ' mediately or immediately been de' rived as a gift from him, to be held ' upon feodal services.' " The reader, however, is reminded,... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 806 pages
...of 'English tenures, " that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom ; and that no man doth or can possess...a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services." For, this being really the case in pure, original, proper feuds, other nations which adopted this system,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1836 - 274 pages
...principle of which was, " that the king is the universal lord, and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom ; and that no man doth or can possess...gift from him, to be held upon feudal services."* 44. This was the oath of fealty: "The freeholder laying his right hand on a book, shall say, ' Know... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 852 pages
...that the king is the uni" versal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his " kingdom (z): and that no man doth or can possess any " part of...been " derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feodal ser" vices" (13). For this being the real case in pure, original, proper feuds, other nations... | |
 | William Phelps - 1836 - 260 pages
...of Danegeldt. n Ingram's Saxon Chronicle, p. 170. that no man doth, or can possess any part of them, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held on certain services. ° 5. William the Conqueror having obtained by this survey, an account and accurate... | |
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that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services. 
