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The Impediments to Freehold Ownership of Land and the Character of the Irish Land War
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R. V. Comerford
Published: 23 June 2016
... 1923 Clark Samuel entail Salisbury Lord Settled Land Act 1882 Irish Land Commission Encumbered Estates Act entail land reform peasant proprietorship Irish Church Act (1869) Irish Land Act (1870) When Roy Foster entered Trinity College Dublin as an undergraduate in 1968, T. W. Moody’s special...
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Land, Family, and Marriage
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R. R. Davies
Published: 01 June 2009
... was the source of wealth and power, and was most usually acquired through royal patronage and/or marriage. New legal devices such as the entail (or its Scottish equivalent, tailzie), and the enfeoffment to use grew up to meet the desire to control inheritance and keep estates intact. Lords sought to provide...
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Majority (1767–70)
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Brian Bonnyman
Published: 01 August 2014
... and attempted reforms are examined in detail, as is the role of the Duke’s reforms in the passing of the general Entail Act of 1770. Finally, the Duke’s and Smith’s involvement in the aftermath of the failure of the Ayr Bank in 1772 is also scrutinised. Coke Lady Mary Dalkeith House London Montagu Lady...
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“A poor, imprisoned animal.” Persons, Property, and the Unnatural Nature of the Law in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Das Majorat”
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Alexander Schlutz
Published: 01 December 2018
... Gottfried Philoctetes Rousseau Jean Jacques circle music poison law inheritance Majorat entail family conflict ecology animals crime Mien, tien. “Ce chien est à moi,” disaient ces pauvres enfants. “C’est là ma place au soleil.” Voilà le commencement et l’image de l’usurpation de toute la terre...
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Real Property: Family Settlements
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John Baker
Published: 21 March 2019
... of their real property in the future. The fee tail seemed at first to allow land to be tied to a family so long as it lasted, but means were found of ‘barring the entail’ by common recovery or final concord. Much confusion was caused by the operation of the Statutes of Uses and Wills on future interests...
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Managing Risk through Property: The Fee Tail
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Claire Priest
Published: 02 February 2021
...This chapter investigates the fee tail, or entail, the principal private means by which individuals could shield wealth from creditors. In particular, it examines how the legal device of holding property in fee tail was used in some colonies as a means of designating some forms of property...
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The Transformation of American Family Property in The House of the Seven Gables
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Holly Jackson
Published: 06 November 2013
...This chapter begins with an overview of republican opposition to the generational transmission of property and status in early America, tracing the reform of inheritance in Revolutionary-era law, including Thomas Jefferson’s work to abolish entail and his theory of generational sovereignty...
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Constitutionalism, Inheritance, and Orders of Property: Land Laws in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Germany
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Monika Wienfort
Published: 25 September 2014
...During the nineteenth century, land still represented a major source of wealth, and the possession of land constituted an important part of the political order. This chapter concentrates on the history of entails in Britain and of Fideikommisse in Germany, which consisted of legal...
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The Control of Endowment
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Peter Birks
Published: 14 March 2002
... ‘to Jack until he dies or marries’. An example of a recent specific prohibition is that concerning a very ancient type of property interest, the entail. Dating from the thirteenth century, this was an endowment designed to keep capital and its income within the line of descent of a particular family, so...
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Published: 04 July 2019
...) and its outcome, the statutory fee tail. Later reports show the perplexity occasioned over the legal nature of the fee tail and its durability. There are also discussions of the common recovery as a method of barring the entail, of the concept of the remainder, and of doubts about the validity...
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Published: 07 April 1994
... began writing criticism of contemporary French fiction in the 1960s. I shall examine why this has been so, to what extent it is a relevant classification, and what an alternative approach might entail. surprising naturalization subsequent movements entail approach This content is only available...