 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 852 pages
...great survey in the exchequer called m mtuamthe domesday-book (m). The tenants of these lands, under the crown, were not all of the same order or degree. Some of them, as Britton testifies (?»), continued for a long time pure and absolute villeins, dependent... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1837 - 342 pages
...value of the estate.1 2. Ancient demesne, which had its origin from privileged villenage, consists of those lands or manors, which, though now perhaps granted out to private subjects, were actually [ 99 ] in the hands of the crown in the time of Edward the 2. Privileged Confessor, or William the... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 pages
...therefore given a name compounded out of both, and calls it vulanum socagium. Ancient demesne (27) consists of those lands or manors, which, though now perhaps...Conqueror ; and so appear to have been by the great survey in the exchequer called domesday-book (m). The tenants of these lands, under the crown, were not all... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - 1840 - 764 pages
...freedom of socage in their certainty. Ancient demesne consists of those lands or manors which, though now granted out to private subjects, were actually in the hands of the crown at the time of Edward the Confessor, or William the Conqueror. Some of the tenants of these lands Britton,... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1841 - 626 pages
...calls it villanum socagium. Ancient demesne^] is a tenure existing in certain [[manors, which, thoxigh now perhaps granted out to private subjects, were...Conqueror; and so appear to have been by the great survey in the Exchequer called Domesday Book (f). The tenants^] in these manors of the crown, Qwere not all... | |
 | Alfred Caswall - 1841 - 272 pages
...Copyhold of Inheritance—fourth, Copyhold for Life or Lives; and of these, firstly, Of Ancient Demesne. of the crown in the time of Edward the Confessor or...Conqueror, and so appear to have been by the great survey in the Exchequer, called Domesday-book. Tenants by this tenure, though it be absolutely copyhold, yet... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1844 - 684 pages
...a name compounded out of both, and calls it villanum socagium. mwDi"' d° Ancient demesne consists of those lands or manors which, though now perhaps...Conqueror; and so appear to have been by the Great Survey in the Exchequer, called Domesday Book* and the only mode of determining whether they be actually ancient... | |
 | George Crabb - 1846 - 842 pages
...manor which is ancient demesne, this shall be tried per pais(p}. 925. Tenants of these lands under the Crown were not all of the same order or degree. Some of them continued for a long time pure villeins dependent on the will of the lord, and those who succeeded... | |
 | William Hughes - 1847 - 448 pages
...— Ancient demesne consists of those lands or manors as were held in socage of manors belonging to the Crown in the time of Edward the Confessor or William the Conqueror, and so appear by Domesday Book. (FNB 14 ; 2 Black. Comm. 99 ; Kitch. 187, 190 ; Jentleman's case, 6 Co. 11, b.) There... | |
 | 1872 - 506 pages
...called " East Hall," from its position to the east of the church and village. The manor, which was in the hands of the Crown in the time of Edward the Confessor and till after the Norman conquest, was granted by the Conqueror to William de Albini, together with... | |
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Ancient demesne consists of those lands or manors, which, though now perhaps granted out to private subjects, were actually in the hands of the crown in the time of Edward the Confessor, or William the Conqueror; and so appear to have been by the great... 
