Littleton
historical figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Littleton J. · Sir Thomas Littleton · Thomas Littleton
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Medieval English legal writer, author of the Tenures, cited repeatedly as an authority on the classification of land tenures.
(7) Burgage, confined to lands within free boroughs, is mentioned as a separate tenure by Littleton, and his authority receives support from chapter 37 of Magna Carta.
(6) Petty serjeanty may be described in the words of Littleton as “where a man holds his lands of our lord the king to yield to him yearly a bow or sword, or a dagger or a knife .
The two last–mentioned may be rapidly dismissed, as they were of little importance in the eyes of Littleton, or of Coke:
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Early legal writer who explained Borough English by the youngest son's tender age.
‘Borough English,’ under which the youngest son and not the eldest succeeds to the burgage-tenements of his father, has from time immemorial being recognised as a widely diffused usage of which it is the duty of our Courts to take judicial notice, and many writers on our real property laws, from Littleton downwards, have attempted to account for it.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The legal authority Littleton, cited for his description of fee simple tenure as proof of subjects' property in their lands.
They have in their lands Feodum simplex, which by Littleton’s description is, haereditas legitima, vel pura.
The Genius of the Common Law
Medieval legal writer (Sir Thomas Littleton), cited as an expounder of the Common Law's forms, here on the doctrine of homage.
‘Homage is the most honourable service, and most humble service of reverence, that a frank tenant may do to his lord.
The Law of Torts
Medieval judge and legal author whose Year Book dicta are quoted as early authority on necessity and on justification for entering another's land.
Littleton J.
Littleton in 33 Hen.
, Littleton ubi sup.