This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... Ages, of their being disturbed in its occupancy. In the stationary condition of population, tenants were in demand, and lords with superior rights over the land were but little likely to exercise those rights in dispossessing the occupants who gave to the land its only value to them. Therefore custom, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... Ages, of their being disturbed in its occupancy. In the stationary condition of population, tenants were in demand, and lords with superior rights over the land were but little likely to exercise those rights in dispossessing the occupants who gave to the land its only value to them. Therefore custom, so much more present to the common people than Jaw, had made them used to secure possession and free bequest of their farms so long as they made the payments required in their leases or denned by immemorial usagej VII. The close grouping of the houses, the system of open fields and scattered holdings, the common pasture, the small size of the farms, the permanence of tenure, must have combined to make the mediaeval manor to a great extent a single united body, separate from other organizations, but closely knit within. This union was strengthened by its usual ecclesiastical organization as a parish, and in the past had been still further embodied in the gathering of all the occupants of the manor periodically in the meetings of the manor court. This in its various forms of court-leet, court baron, and customary court, meeting at different intervals according to local custom, usually every three weeks, or in its more important meetings every six months, had brought together from time to time all the inhabitants of the manor. In these gatherings punishment of petty offenses, settlement of local disputes, interpretation and application of the "custom of the manor," drew the body of villagers constantly together, and perpetuated the fixed, invariable character of personal status and personal relations. It is probably true that before the middle of the fifteenth century the manor courts were in a quite general decadence, that meetings were not...
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Add this copy of Social Changes in England in the Sixteenth Century as to cart. $54.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
Add this copy of Social Changes in England in the Sixteenth Century as to cart. $54.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Palala Press.
