A Practical Treatise on Copyhold Tenure; With the Methods of Holding Courts Leet, Court Baron, and Other Courts, and an Appendix Containing Forms of

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IX. Of Services. lO all Copyhold property, fervices are ne- ceflarily incident. A Copyholder ought to do his fervices to the Services.' lord, 42 Ed. 3. And a denial of them is, in fome cafes a forfeiture, as will be feen hereafter under the Chap. Forfeiture. Services were originally divided into free and bafe fervices. The former of them confifted, according to Sir Edward Coke, firft in render, as to pay yearly fuch rent; fecondly in ufer, as when the Lord referved common for his cattle; or laftly in prender, as when the lord referved three fhillings and four load of eftoves for fuel, to be taken yearly in his tenants grounds. The latter confifted in fcafance, fuch as to fcour the lord's ditches, tile his houfes, thatch his barns, or the like. Services were ftill farther divided, firft into corporal fervices, fecondly annual iervices, and thirdly into accidental fervices. F Corporal Corporal Corporal fervices were of two forts, namely: iervices of fubmiflion, and fervices of profit; the former of them confifted of homage and fealty, which were ceremonies ufed by tenants on their firft admiflion to their eftates, enforcing them to acknowledge themfelves to become the lord's men, and binding themfelves by their oaths to be faithful to the immediate lords for the lands they hold of them. The latter, or fervices of profit, fuch as were either tending to the public profit of the common weal, as repairing highways and bridges, or fuch as tended to the private profit of the lord, fuch as being the lord's carver, butler or brewer, or to pale the lord's parks, tile his houfes and fuch like. Co. Copyholder. Annual Annual fervices confifted principally, if not fervices. in paying rent, Acciden- But the accidental fervices differ from the taKervi-...