| William Blackstone - 1791 - 566 pages
...chivalry. This wardfhip confifted in having the cuftody of the body and lands of fuch heir, without any account of the profits, till the age of twenty-one in males, and fixtecn in females. For the law fuppofed the heir-male unable to perform knight-fervice till twenty-one... | |
| William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 pages
...chivalry. This wardship consisted in having the custody of the body and lands of such heir, without any account of the profits, till the age of twenty-one...males, and sixteen in females. For the law supposed the heir-male unable to perform knight-service till twenty-one : but as for the female, she was supposed... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...chivalry. This wardship consisted in having the custody of the body and lands of siich heir, without any account of the profits, till the age of twenty-one in males, and fourteen (which wasafterwards advanced tosixteen) in females. For the law supposed the heir male unable... | |
| Thomas Potts - 1815 - 836 pages
...snpposd the heir male unable to perform knight's service till twenty-one; bo! as for the female, she »as supposed capable at fourteen to marry, and then her husband might perform the office. 8 Black. 67. WARRANT, a prœcipe under hand and seal to some officer I« bring any eilender... | |
| Sir John Comyns - 1822 - 1042 pages
...lord shall have the marriage (q) also of such heir male or female. Lit. S. 103. If heir, without any account of the profits, till the age of twenty-one in males, and sixteen in females. 2 Com. 67. (n) For until that aye, the heir-male was supposed to be unable to perform knight sen-ice.... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 pages
...chivalry. This wardship consisted in having the custody of the body and lands of such heir, without any account of the profits, till the age of twenty-one in males, and sixteen in females. When the male heir arrived to the age of twentyone, or the heir female to that of sixteen, they might... | |
| sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 626 pages
...chivalry. This wardship consisted in having the custody of the body and lands of such heir, without any account of the profits, till the age of twenty-one...males, and sixteen in females. For the law supposed the heir-male unable to perform knightservice till twenty-one : but as for the female, she was supposed... | |
| William Blackstone - 1827 - 916 pages
...chivalry. This wardship consisted in having the custody of the body and lands of such heir, without any and the constitution, that where they are not merely declaratory of the ancient canon law, but gupposed the heir-male unable to perform knight-service till twenty-one : but as for the female, she... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...chivalry. This wardship consisted in having the custody of the body and lands of such heir, without any account of the profits, till the age of twenty-one...females. For the law supposed the heir male unable to perforai knight-service till twenty-one ; but as for the female, she was supposed capable at fourteen... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 620 pages
...chivalry. This wardship consisted in having the custody of the body and lands of such heir, without any account of the profits, till the age of twenty-one...supposed capable at fourteen to marry, and then her hushand might perform the service. The lord, therefore, had no wardship, if, at the death of the ancestor,... | |
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