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The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England, 1176-1502.

Fee tails were a heritable interest in land which was both inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to descendants of the original grantee. Biancalana's study considers the origins of the entail, and the development of a reliable legal mechanism for their destruction, the common...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Biancalana, Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Colección:Cambridge studies in English legal history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and abbreviated citations; Introduction; 1 Fee tails before De Donis; 2 The growth of the "perpetual" entail; 3 Living with entails; 4 Barring the enforcement entails other than by common recovery; 5 The origin and development of the common recovery; 6 The common recovery in operation; Appendix to Chapter 6; Bibliography; Subject and selected persons index; Index to persons and places in Appendix to Chapter 6.