The fee tail and the common recovery in medieval England 1176-1502 / Joseph Biancalana.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Entail -- England -- History.

Restraints on alienation -- England -- History.

Fines and recoveries -- England -- History.

Fee tail -- History.

Land tenure -- History.

Court of Common Pleas -- History.

Restraints on alienation -- History.

1. Fee tails before De Donis

2. The Growth of the perpetual entail

3. Living with entails

4. Barring the enforcement entails other than by common recovery

5. The Origin and development of the common recovery

6. The Common recovery in operation

Appendix to chapter 6.

Includes bibliography and selected index.

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xix, 498 p.