Lex custumaria, or, A treatise of copy-hold estates in respect of the lord, copy-holder wherein the nature of customs in general, and of particular customs, grants and surrenders, and their constructions and expositions in reference to the thing granted or surrendred, and the uses or limitations of estates are clearly illustrated : admittances, presentments, fines and forfeitures are fully handled, and many quaeries and difficulties by late resolution setled : leases, licences, extinquishments of copy-hold estates, and what statutes extend to copy-hold estates are explained : and also of actions by lord or tenant, and the manner of declaring and pleading, either generally or as to particular customs, with tryal and evidence holder may recieve relief in the Court of Chancery : to which are annexed presidents of conveyances respecting copy-holds, releases, surrenders, grants presentmets, and the like : as also presidents of court rolls, surrenders, admittances, presentments, &c. / by S.C., Barister at Law.

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Lex custumaria, or, A treatise of copy-hold estates in respect of the lord, copy-holder wherein the nature of customs in general, and of particular customs, grants and surrenders, and their constructions and expositions in reference to the thing granted or surrendred, and the uses or limitations of estates are clearly illustrated : admittances, presentments, fines and forfeitures are fully handled, and many quaeries and difficulties by late resolution setled : leases, licences, extinquishments of copy-hold estates, and what statutes extend to copy-hold estates are explained : and also of actions by lord or tenant, and the manner of declaring and pleading, either generally or as to particular customs, with tryal and evidence holder may recieve relief in the Court of Chancery : to which are annexed presidents of conveyances respecting copy-holds, releases, surrenders, grants presentmets, and the like : as also presidents of court rolls, surrenders, admittances, presentments, &c. / by S.C., Barister at Law.
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Carter, Samuel, barrister at law.
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London :: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for John Walthoe and are to be sold in his shop ...,
1696.
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Copyhold -- Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing -- Early works to 1800.
Landlord and tenant -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Landlord and tenant -- Early works to 1800.
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"Lex custumaria, or, A treatise of copy-hold estates in respect of the lord, copy-holder wherein the nature of customs in general, and of particular customs, grants and surrenders, and their constructions and expositions in reference to the thing granted or surrendred, and the uses or limitations of estates are clearly illustrated : admittances, presentments, fines and forfeitures are fully handled, and many quaeries and difficulties by late resolution setled : leases, licences, extinquishments of copy-hold estates, and what statutes extend to copy-hold estates are explained : and also of actions by lord or tenant, and the manner of declaring and pleading, either generally or as to particular customs, with tryal and evidence holder may recieve relief in the Court of Chancery : to which are annexed presidents of conveyances respecting copy-holds, releases, surrenders, grants presentmets, and the like : as also presidents of court rolls, surrenders, admittances, presentments, &c. / by S.C., Barister at Law." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34802.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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What Custom for Harriots shall be good or not.

Custom was, That if the best Beast be esloigned, then the Lord had used to seize and take the best Beast of any other being Levant and Couchant upon the Land; its a void and unreasonable Custom: So if it be the Goods of any Inhabitant or Dweller, Dye 199. b. Paxton's Case, Benl. p. 39. bis. Co. Ent. 666.

The Custom of having an Harriot, whe∣ther the man had Goods or not, is a void Custom, Carter's Rep. p. 86.

A Custom, That the Lord shall seize the Beasts of a Stranger for an Harriot, it is not good, because it alters the property; but a Custom, That he shall distrain the Goods in such Case, it is good, because it is as a Pledge, 2 Leon. p. 725. Parker's Case.

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