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

By Joseph Biancalana

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521806461, 9780521806466, 9780511016318
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1548667 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Pages
520\519
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

"Fee tails" were a building block for family landholding from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The classic entail was an interest in land which was inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to the lineal heirs of the original grantee. Biancalana's study considers the origins, development and use of the entail, and the origins of a reliable legal mechanism for the destruction of individual entails, the common recovery.

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