Copyholds were not devisable before 1815, but were usually surrendered to the use of the will of the copyhold tenant; an act of 1815 made them devisable simply.
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Copyholds were not devisable before 1815, but were usually surrendered to the use of the will of the copyhold tenant; an act of 1815 made them devisable simply.
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On the passing of the Statute of Uses lands again became non-devisable, with a saving in the statute for the validity of wills made before 1 May 1536.
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An Act of 1660, by abolishing tenure by knight service, made all lands devisable, in the same vein the Statute of Frauds ( 1677 ) dealt with the formalities of execution.
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Uses having become legal estate by the Statute of Uses, and therefore no longer devisable, the Statute of Wills ( explained by the Wills Act of 1542 ) was passed to remedy this inconvenience.
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The effect of these Acts was to make lands held in fee simple devisable by will in writing, to the extent of two-thirds where the tenure was by knight service, and the whole where it was in socage.
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There is nothing difficult or complicated about'don't change the punctuation in quoted material'; it is the simplest possible quotation style devisable just copy and paste and certainly simpler than the various " British " ( not North American ) styles ( which often " fiddly " ).
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