The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England 1176}}}1502 [Hardcover]

A major study of landholding in medieval England based on original sources with an extensive index. 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. 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. 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.Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and abbreviated citations; Introduction; Part I. Fee Tails Before De Donis: 1. Grants in fee tail; 2. The transformation of maritagium; 3. Maritagium and fee tails in the King's court: the development of the formedon writs; Part II. The Growth of the 'Perpetual' Entail: 4. Reading De Donis; 5. The statutory restraint on alienation and the descender writ; 6. The duration of entails for reversions and remainders; Part III. Living with Entails: 7. lók