10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERGEANTY»
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Les Termes de la Ley: Or, Certain Difficult and Obscure ...
Grand sergeanty is, where a man holds of the king certain land by the service of
carrying his banner or lance, or to lead his host ... or the like; and that is the most
honourable service that a tenant may do, and for that it is called grand sergeanty.
John Rastell, William Rastell, 1812
Charles Isaac Elton. ♢ The manor of West Peckham is an example of the different
varieties of sergeanty. Before the Conquest it was " thane-land," or allodium, held
by Earl Leofwin, brother of Harold II. * ; it then became part of the barony of the ...
Charles Isaac Elton, 1867
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Cheshire and Burn's Modern Law of Real Property
... to be called grand sergeanty, while that of the lesser military tenants was
termed petit sergeanty. Grand sergeanty came to be similar to knight service,
while petit sergeanty, after the time of Littleton, was practically equivalent to
socage.31 ...
Edward Hector Burn, John Cartwright, 2011
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A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Ancient and Modern Law
Same as SERGEANTY and SERJEANTY. Sergeants' Inn. A society of sergeants
at law. Sergeanty. Service. Tenancy by grand or petit sergeanty. A tenure held
directly of the King, on condition of services direct to the King. Sergeanty, Grand.
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Gifford's English Lawyer; Or, Every Man His Own Lawyer: ...
Grand.sergeanty.—-By the 12 Car. II. grand sergeanty is not itself totally
abolished, but only the slavish appendages belonging to it; for the-honorary
services (such as carrying the king's sword or banner, oiliciating as his butler,
carver, &c. at ...
John Gifford (Esq., pseud. van Alexander Whellier.), 1825
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The Complete English Lawyer ... The Whole Carefully ...
Grand Sergeanty.-By the 12 Car. 1]. grand sergeanty is not itself totally abolished,
but only the slavish appendages belonging to it; for the honorary services (such
as carrying the king's sword or banner, oficiating as his butler, carver, &c., at the ...
Esq. John GIFFORD (pseud. [i.e. Alexander Whellier.]), Esq. Edward HARRISON, 1838
7
Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England: With a ...
In this kingdom one grand sergeanty remained till the year 1715, in the family of
Ormond, that of butlerage ; but it differed from those before- mentioned in this,
that it was not a service arising from a grant of lands, but of the prisage of wines, ...
Francis Stoughton Sullivan, Gilbert Stuart, 1805
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Gifford's English lawyer; or, Every man his own lawyer, by ...
Grand Sergeanty. — By the 12 Car. II. grand sergeanty is not itself totally
abolished, but only the slavish appendages belonging to it; for the honorary
services (such as carrying the king's sword or banner, officiating as his butler,
carver, &c. at ...
9
The Treasury of knowledge, and library of reference
Sergeanty. A species of service in England, that is due to the king only ; and is
called grand sergeanty, and petit sergeanty ; the former, where a person holds
his lands by personal servire, as to carry the king's banner, or his cane ; the latter,
...
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The Nature and Law of Real Property ...: Realty
Grand sergeanty signifies the holding of an estate by the performance of some
honourable but not burdensome duty, such as that of cup-bearer to the king, of
champion at his coronation, or other equally honourable office. Petit sergeanty ...
