Magna Carta - Baronies Escheated to the Crown Act 1297

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1297 c. 31
Year1297
MAGNA CHARTA.The GREAT CHARTER,Made in the Ninth Year of King Henry the Third, and confirmed by King Edward the First in the Five and twentieth Year of His Reign Tenure of a Barony coming into the King's Hands by Eschete.

(25 Edw. 1) C A P. XXXI.

'IF any man hold of any Eschete, as of the honour ofWalling ford, Nottingham, Boloin , *or of any other Escheteswhich be in our hands, and are Baronies, and die, his Heir shall give none other Relief, nor do none other Service to us, than he should to the Baron, if it were in the Baron's hand. (2) And we in the same wise shall hold it as the Baron held it; neither shall we have, by occasion of any ✗Barony or Eschete, any Eschete or keeping of any of our men, unless he that held the Barony or...

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