 | William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 850 pages
...Littleton,* to be but tenure in socage : and it is where the king or other person is lord of an antient borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain." It is indeed only a kind of town socage ; as common socage, by which other lands are holden, is usually of a rural nature. A borough,... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...hnrgage is described by (jlanvil, and is expressly said by Littleton, to be but tenure in socage : and it is where the king or other person is lord of an ancient...in which the tenements are held by a rent certain. OAVKLKIXD. It is universally known what struggles the Kentish men made to preserve their ancient liberties,... | |
 | Sidney Oldall Addy - Hallamshire (England) - 1893 - 362 pages
...Littleton to be but tenure in socage : and it is when the King or other person is lord of an antient borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain. It is indeed only a kind of town socage." (Stephen's Blackstone, 1863, p. 215.) We may thus learn that "Free Tenants" and "Burghers"... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 860 pages
...though with some differences. In England it is a species of free socage (qv) holding, and prevails where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough in which the tenements are held by a certain and determinate rent, and subject to a variety of customs, the principal and most remarkable... | |
 | William Penn - Constitutional history - 1897 - 274 pages
...conventional services that were not military. 37. Burgage tenure is defined to be where the King or any other person is lord of an ancient borough in which the tenements are held by a rent certain. 38. After " of any land" should be inserted (according to the Latin) " which he holdeth of another... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...king, in virtue of a tenure by petit serjeanty. Tenure in Burgage. This is where the king or a subject is lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain. A borough is distinguished from other towns, by the right of sending members to parliament. Burgage... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 958 pages
...regarded in these two countries. In England, it is a species of free soeage (qv) holding, and it prevails where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough in which "the tenements are held by a certain and determinate rent, and subject to a variety of customs, the principal and most remarkable... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...burgage is described by Glanvil, and is expressly said by Littleton, to be but tenure in socage : and it is where the king or other person is lord of an ancient...in which the tenements are held by a rent certain. Gavelkind. It is universally known what struggles the Kentish men made to preserve their ancient liberties,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...Littleton, (/) to be but tenure in socage: and it is where the king or other person is lord of an aucieut borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain. («) It is indeed only a kind of town socage; as common socage, by which other lands are holden, is usually of a rural nature. A borough,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 654 pages
...less, Byron's prophecy was fulfilled.] 2. [Burgage, or tenure in burgage, is where the king or some other person is lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements are held by a yearly rent certain.] 3. [" I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it)... | |
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Tenure in burgage is described by Glanvil (s), and is expressly said by Littleton (i), to be but tenure in socage : and it is where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain... 
