The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I. Frederic William Maitland

Definition of serjeanty, Serjeanty and service, Types of serjeanty owed by the king’s tenants in chief, Serjeanties due to mesne lords, Military serjeanties due to mesne lords, Essence of serjeanty, The serjeants in the army, Serjeanty in Domesday Book, Serjeanty and other tenures

§ 5. Socage

Socage, Types of socage, Extension of socage, Fee farm, Meaning of “socage”, Socage in contrast to military tenure, Socage as the residuary tenure, Burgage, Burgage and borough customs, One man and many tenures

§ 6. Homage and Fealty

Homage and fealty, Legal and extra-legal effects of homage, The ceremony of homage, The oath of fealty, Liegeance, Vassalism in the Norman age, Bracton on homage, Homage and private war, Sanctity of homage, Homage and felony, Feudal felony, Homage, by whom done and received, The lord’s obligation

§ 7. Relief and Primer Seisin

The incidents of tenure, Heritable rights in land, Reliefs, Rights of the lord on the tenant’s death, Prerogative rights of the king, Earlier history of reliefs, Relief and heriot, Heritability of fees in the Norman age, Mesne lords and heritable fees, History of the heriot, Relief on the lord’s death

§ 8. Wardship and Marriage

Bracton’s rules, Wardship of female heirs, Priority among lords, What tenures give wardship, Prerogative wardship, The lord’s rights vendible, Wardship and the serjeanties, The law in Glanvill, Earlier law, Norman law, The Norman apology, Origin of wardship and marriage

§ 9. Restraints on Alienation

Historical theories, Modes of alienation, Preliminary distinctions, Glanvill, The Great Charter, Bracton, Legislation as to mortmain, Alienation of serjeanties, Special law for the king’s tenants in chief, Growth of the prerogative right, Quia emptores, Disputed origin of the prerogative right, Summary of law after the Charter, Older law, Anglo-Norman charters, Discussion of the charters, Conclusions as to law of the Norman age, Usual form of alienation, General summary, Gifts by the lord with his court’s consent, Alienation of seignories,