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Author Biancalana, Joseph

Title The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England, 1176-1502
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (520 pages)
Series Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Cambridge studies in English legal history.
Contents 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
Summary 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 recovery
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Subject Entail -- England -- History
Restraints on alienation -- England -- History
Fines and recoveries -- England -- History
Entail
Fines and recoveries
Restraints on alienation
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511044205
0511044208