old tenures

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old tenures - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  OLD TENURES. The title of a small tract, which, as its title denotes, 
  contains an account of the various tenures by which land was holden in the 
  reign of Edward III. This tract was published in 1719, with notes and 
  additions, with the eleventh edition of the First Institutes, and reprinted 
  in 8 vols. in 1764, by Serjeant Hawkins, in a Selection of Coke's Law 
  Tracts.