Definition of Heriots

1. Noun. (plural of heriot) ¹

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Definition of Heriots

1. heriot [n] - See also: heriot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heriots

heretrices
heretrix
heretrixes
hereunder
hereunto
hereuntofore
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
heried
heries
herile
heriot
heriotable
heriots (current term)
herisse
herisson
herissons
heritabilities
heritability
heritable
heritably
heritage
heritages
heritance
heritor
heritors
heritour
heritours

Literary usage of Heriots

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Seisin of the Freehold: Being Twelve Lectures Delivered in Gray's Inn by Joshua Williams (1878)
"15, speaks of heriots due from the tenants of lands holden in socage to the lord, ... heriots are divided into heriots service and heriots custom. ..."

2. The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence by William S. Hein & Company (1845)
"heriots. IT is not our intention in the present article to attempt to give a statement of the law as to heriots. "We are desirous only of calling attention ..."

3. The Law of Copyholds: In Reference to the Enfranchisement and Commutation of by Leonard Shelford (1858)
"Under the Copyhold Act, 1852, heriots are to he included in the valuation ... The lord or tenant of manors in which heriots are by custom payable by tenants ..."

4. The Law of Copyholds: In Reference to the Enfranchisement and Commutation of by Leonard Shelford (1853)
"Under the Copyhold Act, 1852, heriots are to be included in the valuation ... The lord or tenant of manors in which heriots are by custom payable by tenants ..."

5. The Law and Practice on Enfranchisements and Commutations as Well by the by Archibald Brown (1895)
"said act, of all claims to heriots in respect of the said lands and the enfranchisement of the ... Tenants Application for the Extinguishment of heriots. ..."

6. A Succinct Treatise on the Copyhold Acts: The Practical Working and Effect by James Cuddon (1865)
"The Copyhold Acts also provide for the extinction of heriots in respect of freehold or customary freehold land. The 6th section of the Copyhold Act 1858 ..."

7. A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient Demesne Tenure: With by John Scriven, Henry Stalman (1846)
"Pemberton (I), which was a bill to establish a custom entitling the lord to heriots from his freehold tenants upon every alienation or death, ..."

8. A Practical Treatise on the Statutes of Limitations in England and Ireland by Jonathan George Norton Darby, Frederick Albert Bosanquet, James Robert Vernam Marchant (1893)
"heriots. It was decided in Owen v. De Beauvoir (3), that under the provisions of ... It is obvious that, if this principle were applied to heriots and rents ..."

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