Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George IIIReilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
Reilly, S. A.
Law -- England -- History
In London, an ordinance prescribed for bakers for the first
offense of making false bread a forfeiture of that bread.
For the second offense was prescribed imprisonment, and for
the third offense placement in the pillory. A London
ordinance for millers who caused bread to be false
prescribed for them to be carried in a tumbrel cart through
certain streets, exposed to the derision of the people.
By statute, no one may make a gift or alienation of land to
the church. An attempt to do so will cause the land to
escheat to the lord, or in his default, to the King.
Religious houses may not alienate land given to them by the
king or other patrons because such gifts were for the sake
of someone's soul. An attempt to do so will cause the land
to revert to the donor or his heir. If the church did not
say the prayers or do the other actions for which land was
given to it, the land will revert to the donor or his heir.
Land may not be alienated to religious bodies in such a way
that it would cease to render its due service to the King.
(The church never died, never married, and never had
children.) The church shall send no money out of the nation.
(This statute of mortmain was neutralized by collusive
lawsuits in which the intended grantor would sue the
intended grantee claiming superior title and then would
default, surrendering the land to the intended grantee by
court judgment.)
"Concerning wrecks of the sea, where a man, a dog, or a cat
escape alive out of the ship, that such ship nor barge nor
anything within them shall be deemed wreck, but the goods
shall be saved and kept by view of the Sheriff, Coroner, or
the King's Bailiff". If anyone proves the goods were his
within a year and a day, they shall be restored to him
without delay. Otherwise, they shall be kept by the King.
"And where wreck belongs to one other than the King, he
shall have it in like manner". If he does otherwise, he
shall be imprisoned and pay damages and fine.
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