The general laws of estates : or, freeholder's companion: containing the laws, statutes, and customs relating to freehold and other estates, whereby all Country Gentlemen and Freeholders may know their Rights thereto, and Qualifications to be Members of Parliament, Electors, Justices of Peace, and Jurymen; and to kill Game, erect Dovecotes, &c. In which is compriz'd the whole law of tenures of lands, and to whom they fall and descend, or otherwise belong, on any Alteration, from the Estate in Fee-Simple, down to Estates for Life, and Years, and also Copyholds; adapted to the Use of all Lords, Landlords and Tenants. With a full and compleat abstract of the new Act of Parliament concerning distresses for rent, Replevins and Ejectments, &c. and several other late popular Statutes. Likewise some very useful precedents of deeds and writings, applicable to this Work.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Estates (Law).

Land tenure--Great Britain.

Land tenure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,402,[30]p. )

Other Title:

General laws of estates

Place of Publication:

[London] : In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for Aaron Ward at the King's Arms in Little-Britain, MDCCXL. [1740]

Notes:

Dedication signed: Giles Jacob.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Law Library.

Cited in:

Goldsmiths', 7751

English Short Title Catalog, N2290.

OCLC:

642167668