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A.D. 1460.
Anno tricesimo nono Henrici VI.
C. 2.
635
CAP. II.
A Women at Fourteen Years of Age at the Death of her Ancestor shall have Livery of her Land.
This chapter is not presented in modern English and the source document does not provide a translation.
ITEM de avisamento assensu & auctoritate predictis ordinatum est & stabilitum quod mulieres existentes etatis quatuordecim annorum tempore mortis antecessorum suorum absque questione seu difficultate habeant liberationem terrarum & tenementorum suorum sibi descensorum quia sic lex istius terre vult quod tunc ipse haberent.
Ex Rot. in Turr. Lond.
- ↑ 39 H. 6. f. 40.; Fitz. Gard. 7.; Bro. Livery 66.
Thus end the Statutes of King Henry the Sixth.
End of the FIRST VOLUME.