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- Title
THE AGRICULTURAL CHANGES OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
- Authors
Davenport, Frances Gardiner
- Abstract
The article presents information on the agrarian and agricultural changes that took place in England during the early sixteenth century, as quoted under various laws and literature of that period. Land transfers included documentation of final concords by the agreed parties in the Court of Commons Pleas. Written agreement that contained description of the alienated property was given to each party following the lawsuit and their chirographs which was known as feet of fines was kept in the royal treasury. Feet of fines distinguished, pasture, meadow, arable and waste land and was an important source in the agrarian history.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; AGRICULTURE; AGRICULTURAL history; LAND title registration &; transfer; LEGAL documents; FINES &; recoveries; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); CONCORD; SIXTEENTH century
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1897, Vol 11, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1882129