Thomas Littleton, Sir Thomas Littleton's Tenures in English (1528 - 1530)
Date
1528
1530
Lexicographer
Book title
Lyttelton tenures in Englysshe
Printer
John Rastell
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
law
Summary
Large entries, translated into English from Littleton's seminal Latin work.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 33
sample: ¶ Tenant by the curtesye.
¶ Tenant by the curtesye of Englande / is where a man taketh a wyfe seased in fee simple / or of fee tayle generall / or as heyre in the tayle speciall / and hath issue by the same wyfe male or female. The issue after beynge dede or a lyue if the wyfe decease / the husbande shall holde the lande durynge his lyfe by the lawe of Englande / for that it is nat vsed in none other realme but onely in Englande. And some say that it shall nat be sayd tenant by the curtesye / but if that chylde that he hathe by his wyfe be harde crye / for by the crye is the profe that the chylde that he had be his wyfe was borne.
number: 33
sample: ¶ Tenant by the curtesye.
¶ Tenant by the curtesye of Englande / is where a man taketh a wyfe seased in fee simple / or of fee tayle generall / or as heyre in the tayle speciall / and hath issue by the same wyfe male or female. The issue after beynge dede or a lyue if the wyfe decease / the husbande shall holde the lande durynge his lyfe by the lawe of Englande / for that it is nat vsed in none other realme but onely in Englande. And some say that it shall nat be sayd tenant by the curtesye / but if that chylde that he hathe by his wyfe be harde crye / for by the crye is the profe that the chylde that he had be his wyfe was borne.
STC
15760
