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CHAPTER I.—Origin of Dignities, and names or titles thereof

§ 1. Feudal Dignities

7. Dignities in France..

18. Dignities in Normandy

23. Origin of English Nobility.
24. The Curia Regis..........

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id.

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8

CHAPTER II. - Dignities by Tenure.........................

§ 1. Dignities originally annexed to Lands......
5. Origin and nature of Manors......................
10. Superior and inferior Manors.....

14. The superior Manors became Baronies......
18. Had a Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction......
22. And a capital Mansion or Castle
27. Were held of the Crown

id.

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22

id.

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25

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27

28

29

CHAPTER III. - Dignities by Charter, Writ, Letters Patent,

88. On whom Dignities may be conferred...... 91

95. Whether a Dignity can be refused............

95

CHAPTER IV. - What Estate may be had in a Dignity, and

1. Dignities are real Property..................... id.

2. Need not be of any Place

.......

id.

7. What Estate may be had in a Dignity 99

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112

... 114

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51. Not extinguished by a new Title ..................................

55. An Earldom does not attract a Barony.... 115

61. Dignities forfeited by Attainder for Treason 118

66. But those in Remainder are not affected... 122

97. Are not within the Statutes of Limitation... 167

CHAPTER V.- Descent of Dignities

171

id.

177

1. Descent of Dignities by Tenure.............. id.

13. Descent of Dignities by Writ..................... 175

16. The Half Blood may inherit.......................

21. And also Female Heirs......

27. Abeyance of Dignities by Writ.................. 180

37. The Crown may terminate the Abeyance... 183

43. Modes of terminating an Abeyance........ 185

45. Effect of a Writ to one of the Heirs of a

50. Cases of Claims to a Coheirship in a Barony 187

56. Where only one Heir the Abeyance ter-

64. Cases of Claims by a surviving Heir......... 206

72. Attainder of one of two Heirs does not de-

termine the Abeyance..........

............. 214

81. Is the same as that of the ancient Barony... 234

85. Descent of Dignities created by Letters.

Patent

240

91. Cases of Claims to Dignities of this kind 242

CHAPTER VI.-Jurisdiction and Mode of Proceeding in

20. Reference to the Attorney General ......... 256

24. Reference to the House of Peers .....

28. Proceedings there..........

32. What Proofs necessary

35. Proofs of a Barony by Writ

38. Proofs of a Writ of Summons

id.

$43. Proofs of a Sitting....

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262

49. Proofs of a Dignity by Letters Patent...... 267

90. Resolutions of the House of Peers............ 296

95. Effect of such Resolutions......................................................................

101. Not generally conclusive in any Case...... 305

298