Medieval English conveyances / J.M. Kaye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaye, J. M. (John Marsh), author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in English legal history

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Conveyancing--England--History--To 1500--Sources.

Conveyancing.

Conveyancing--England--History--To 1500.

History.

England.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlv, 382 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This study of the documents used in medieval England for the creation and transfer of interests in real property is the first book devoted exclusively to the subject since the publication of Thomas Madox's Formulare Anglicanum in 1702. The transactions covered include grants in fee and in perpetual alms, leases for life and for years, exchanges, surrenders and releases. Analysis of each kind of transaction is partly by way of commentary on the formulae of deeds, selected from the many thousands found in published cartularies and collections, and partly by relating the deeds to the relevant law of their periods, as found in early treatises, decided cases and the Year Books. The aim is to enable readers to identify and categorise deeds accurately, to appreciate their legal effects and to note instances where the practice of conveyancers and their clients differed from what is supposed to have been the law.

Contents:

Common clauses in deeds

Grants in fee : general

Grants in fee : special cases

Grants in marriage, limited fee and fee tail

Grants in alms

Women's realty

Confirmations

Grants for life and for lives

Grants for terms of years

Rents

Exchanges

Surrenders and releases

Villeins and their lands.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511642241

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.