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10 Nov 2011, 1:42 am by NL
It is there stated that a grant of land “until you have taken 40 pounds” would be a “free tenement” (which could not be created without certain strict formalities), rather than a term certain (which did not require such formalities), “because it cannot be known how long it may take for so many pounds to be raised from [the] land, because the term is uncertain and undetermined” – Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England (trans Professor E Thorne)… [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 1:42 am by NL
It is there stated that a grant of land “until you have taken 40 pounds” would be a “free tenement” (which could not be created without certain strict formalities), rather than a term certain (which did not require such formalities), “because it cannot be known how long it may take for so many pounds to be raised from [the] land, because the term is uncertain and undetermined” – Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England (trans Professor E Thorne)… [read post]