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DROIT MEILLEUR CHEPTEL [1 record]

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Record 1 2003-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

The horses and arms of a tenant, or, if he were a villein, the best beast to which the lord was entitled by custom on the death of his tenant.

OBS

Heriots survived chiefly as an incident of copyhold tenure, but were abolished as a manorial incident subject to compensation by the Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 128.

OBS

heriots: Term no longer current in law.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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