THE

PRACTICE

OF

Courts-Leet,

AND

COURTS-BARON:

CONTAINING
Full and exact Directions for holding the faid Courts,
and making up the Rolls or Records thereof.

AND LIKEWISE,

The Manner of Drawing, Entring and Proceeding on all
Sorts of Prefentments, Indictments, Verdicts, Fines, Forfeitures,
Amerciaments, &c. Surrenders, Admiffions, Recoveries, in Nature
of Writs of Entry, en le poft, &c. Diftreffes, Avowries, Replevins,
Trefpaffes, Waftes, &c. with many curious Notes and Cafes in
Law relating thereto :

AS ALSO,

To Cuftoms, Prefcriptions, By-Laws, Waifs, Wrecks, Eftrays,
Heriots, Efcheats, &c. and ipecial Directions for giving Charges
to the Jury and Homage in those respective Courts.

Published from the Manufcripts of Sir Will. Scroggs, Knt.
Jometime Lord Chief Juftice of England.

To this fourth Edition are added very large Additions,
and the late Acts of Parliament concerning the Duty on Surren-
ders, Admittances, &c. the whole carefully corrected from the
Errors of the former Impreffion.

In the SAVO r:

Printed by E. and R. NUTT, and R. GOSLING,
(Affigns of Edw. Sayer, Efq;) for John

althoe,

3. Bettesworth, W. Bears, D. Browne, and
T.Dsbon. MDCCXXVIII.

JN .795 .544

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THE

PREFACE

T

TO THE

Judicions Reader.

HE Learning touching CopyholdEftates hath been always efteemed fuch an Effential Branch of the Law, That the judicious Mr. Kitchin first made it his Bufinefs to leave to the Students and Profeffors of the Common Law his Labours, in a methodical and well-digefted Collection upon that Subject, which Time bas in fome Measure rendred obfolete; the late Lord Coke bath long fince given the World his admirable Sentiments upon the fame Subject, in his Complete Copyholder. It was this that incouraged the Publifher, fince both the faid Pieces were long ago wrote, to add fome modern Notes in Law,

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