A parallele or conference of the ciuill law, the canon law, and the common law of this realme of England VVherein the agreement and disagreement of these three lawes, and the causes and reasons of the said agreement and disagreement, are opened and discussed. Digested in sundry dialogues by William Fulbecke. At the end of these dialogues is annexed a table of the sections ...

The diuisions and principall contents of the fourth Dialogue, of seignories, and seruices.

The first Diuision. 1. THe description of a seignorie by the ciuill lawe. 2. By the Canon law. 3. Likewise by the common law.

The 2. Diuision. 1. What homage is, and how it is to be performed by the com∣mon law. 2. That homage hath beene practised in ancient time.

The 3. Diuision. 1. What a Manor is, and whereof it consisteth. 2. The originall of a Manor.

The 4. Diuision. 1. Statutes made for the preseruation of seignories and Manors.

The 5. Diuision. 1. Fealtie is the most generall seruice in the common law. 2. In the ciuill law. 3. That by the ciuill law, the common law, and the Canon law, a religious man ought to do fealtie.

The 6. Diuision. 1. The diuerse kinds of seruices in the ciuill law, and their defi∣nitions. 2. The diuers kinds of seruices in the common lawe, and their definitions. 3. The originall of villenage, and the nature there∣of. 4. The tenure whereby a man holdeth of an honour or manor is described, and by examples illustrated. 5. Certaine honours which be not of the ancientnes of the Crowne. 6. Some honours, which be annexed to the Crowne.

The 7. Diuision. 1. Whether one within age be compellable by lawe to doe all manner of seruice either by himselfe, or some other. 2. A diuer∣sitie

in the Ciuill lawe whether the father of such an infant died in a iust warre, or at home in his bed. 3. That by the Common lawe the infant shall be in warde if his father died seised of lande held by Knights seruice, without anie such diuersitie. 4. A diuersitie in the Common lawe where the heire of the tenaunt by Knightes seruice is within age, and a Knight at the time of his fathers death, and where not.

The 8. Diuision. 1. What penalties lie vpon the tenaunt if he doe not his seruice. 2. Many causes of the tenaunts forfeiture in the Ciuill law. 3. Some causes of forfeiture by the Common lawe.

The 9. Diuision. 1. Whether when the tenaunt hath committed felonie or treason, and is attainted, he shall suffer any preiudice in his tenauncie. 2. A diuersitie in the Ciuill lawe, where the offence is committed against the person of the lord, and where against the person of a straunger, 3. That by the Common lawe by the attainder of felonie or treason, the bloud is corrupted, and in the one case the land shal eschet to the King, in the other to the immediate Lord. 4. The aforesaid deter∣minations and conclusions of Ciuill and Common lawe touching the forfeiture of the offendorare examined by the law of God.