Wardship
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wardship · prerogative wardship · wardships · custodia · custodiis terrarum · ordinary wardship · the wardship of them · wardship of lands
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The feudal incident by which a lord holds and profits from the lands of an underage heir during minority, extended to vacant bishoprics.
(c) Wardships are described in the Dialogus de Scaccario as “escheats along with the heir” (escaeta cum herede).
the lands must not be wasted or exhausted, but restored to the son when he came of age, in as good condition as when his father died.
Wardship affected bishoprics as well as lay baronies, extending over the temporalities of a See between the death of one prelate and the instalment of his successor.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
A feudal right of the Crown over the estates of minor heirs, the principal right proposed for sale under the Great Contract.
This compromise, however, was dependent on a larger bargain, known as the Great Contract, for the sale by the Crown in return of certain feudal rights, of which the principal was that of Wardship, for £200,000 a-year, and when the Great Contract failed, the compromise relating to the Impositions fell through as well.
All leases of above a hundred years made to draw on wardship contrary to law.
The estate of many families weakened, and some ruined by excessive fines, exacted from them for compositions of wardships.