Keech v Sandford
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1726 |
| Date | 01 January 1726 |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
Hughes
and
Games
English Reports Citation: 25 E.R. 224
HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY
hughes v. games. By custom, with consent of the homage, new copies may be granted ; Q. whether good custom without. In this case it was admitted, that a lord by custom may make new grants of part of the manor to hold by copy ; and a case was cited to that purpose. Lord Chancellor. In the case cited such grants were made with consent of the homage; the question here is, whether there be a custom to do it without the homage, and that must go to law; and then it will be by them considered, how far a custom to make such grants, without the homage, be a good custom, It was said, Lord Chief Justice Pemberton had a copy in this manor.
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