Full Abstracts Of The Feet Of Fines Relating To The County Of Dorset Remaining In The Public Record Office London From Their Commencement In The Reign Of Richard I

Author : Edward Alex Fry
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260012814
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Full Abstracts of the Feet of Fines Relating to the County of Dorset, Remaining in the Public Record Office, London, Vol. 5 written by Edward Alex Fry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Full Abstracts of the Feet of Fines Relating to the County of Dorset, Remaining in the Public Record Office, London, Vol. 5: From Their Commencement in the Reign of Richard I The exceedingly useful and valuable series of documents preserved at the Public Record Office known as Feet of Fines (abstracts of which, as far as relate to Dorset, are printed in this volume), cover an unbroken period of over six centuries, that is to say, from the reign of Richard I. (a.d. 1196) to 4 William IV. In which year a Statute was passed for the abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and the substitution of more simple modes of assurance. As Fines, or, as they are also called, Final Concords, were one of the most usual methods for assuring the transfer of lands and tenements from one party to another, it is desirable to explain with some degree of detail their meaning and manner of working. Quoting largely from the well-known authority on legal matters, Blackstone, a Fine is described by him as being: An amiable composition or agreement of a suit either actual or fictitious by leave of the King or his Justices, whereby the lands in question become, or were acknowledged to be the right of one of the parties to the suit. Originally it was founded on an actual suit commenced at law for the recovery of the possession of lands or other hereditaments, and the possession thus gained by such composition was found to be so sure and effectual that fictitious actions were continued (until the system was abolished), for the sake of obtaining the same security. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.