 | William Blackstone - 1890 - 850 pages
...our 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...immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feodal services."* For, this being the real case in pure, original, proper feuds, other nations who... | |
 | 1890 - 400 pages
...III. has never been repealed, which claimed That the king is universal lord and proprietor of all land in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess...but what has mediately or immediately been derived from him as a gift to be held on feudal service. The intention of the above law when first passed was... | |
 | John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 pages
...feodal polity ? — 51. 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...immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feodal services. 1. How was the feodal system affected by the charter of £"ing Henry the first ? —... | |
 | 1897 - 956 pages
...law of real property, 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...upon feudal services' (Blackstone, vol. ii. p. 51, Ken's edition). This maxim, though, as Blackstone remarks, it was even at first little more than a... | |
 | 1897 - 928 pages
...of our English tenures, that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the land in his kingdom ; and that no man doth, or can, possess...immediately been derived as a gift from him to be held on feudal tenure. — Blackstone's " Commentaries,'" II, 51. The teaching of this is that the king,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 1020 pages
...law of real property, 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...upon feudal services" (Blackstone, vol. ii. p. 51, Kerr's edition). This maxim, though, as Blackstone remarks, it was even at first little more than a... | |
 | John Gabriel Woerner - 1899 - 904 pages
...mere fiction) " that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in the kingdom ; and that no man doth or can possess any...derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services."2 Gratuitous as were these feuds at their first introduction, so they were precarious, depending... | |
 | John Rankin Rogers - 1900 - 46 pages
...of our English tenures that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the land in his kingdom; and that no man doth or can possess...immediately been derived as a gift from him to be held on feudal tenure."— BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES, II, 51. " All the land in the kingdom is supposed... | |
 | Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association - 1901 - 580 pages
...crown. " The King is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has, mediately or immediately, been derived from him. ..." As in England, all the land is held from the crown, so, in the colonies, the title of... | |
 | 1901
...law of real property, 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, bat what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services'... | |
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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. 
