The Heads of Religious Houses
The Heads of Religious Houses

Author: David M. Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-08-09

Total Pages: 802

ISBN-13: 1139428926

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This book is a continuation of The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales 940–1216, edited by Knowles, Brooke and London (1972), continuing the lists from 1216 to 1377, arranged by religious order. An introduction examines critically the sources on which they are based.

The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England
The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England

Author: Joseph Biancalana

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-09-27

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1139430823

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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.