ON COPYHOLD, CUSTOMARY FREEHOLD, AND Ancient Demesne Tenure, WITH THE JURISDICTION OF COURTS BARON AND COURTS LEET; ALSO AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING RULES FOR HOLDING CUSTOMARY COURTS, COURTS BARON AND COURTS LEET, FORMS OF COURT ROLLS, DEPUTATIONS, AND COPYHOLD ASSURANCES, AND EXTRACTS FROM THE RELATIVE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. BY JOHN SCRIVEN, SERJEANT AT LAW. THE FOURTH EDITION, EMBRACING ALL THE AUTHORITIES TO THE PRESENT PERIOD, BY HENRY STALMAN, ESQ. OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY BUTTERWORTH, 7, FLEET STREET, Law Bookseller and Publisher. HODGES AND SMITH, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. Reference to the Act 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 27, abolishing the Writ of Adoption of the Feudal Constitution in England .. Possessions of Land previously were allodial Proper Knight Service [Escuage, Primer Seisin, &c.] (Honourable Knight Service, viz. |