Court of Wards and Liveries
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the Court of Wards and Liveries
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The royal court administering feudal wardships and liveries, ordered to be abolished along with the feudal incidents it enforced.
That the Court of Wards and Liveries, and all wardships, liveries, primer seisins and ouster les mains, and all other charges incident or arising for or by reason of wardships, livery, primer seisin or ouster les mains, be from this day taken away;
For the Court of Wards and Liveries, His Majesty very well knows the consequence of taking that away, by turning of all tenures into common socage, as well in point of revenue to the Crown, as in the protection of many of his subjects being infants;
That His Majesty be desired to give his assent to an Act or Acts of Parliament, for the taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries, and of all wardships, liveries, primer seisins and ouster les mains;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Tudor-era court established in 1549 to administer the Crown's wardship and livery rights, abolished by parliamentary order in 1646.
46, which instituted the Court of Wards and Liveries, the expensive and dilatory procedure of which caused increasing discontent, until an order of both Houses of Parliament, dated 24th February, 1646, abolished it along with “all wardships, liveries, primer seisins, and ouster les mains.