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Seipp Number:
Year
Court
Writ
Marginal Heading
1268.002ss 1268 Common Pleas (Dower)
Term
Regnal Year
King: Plea Number Folio Number
Mich. 52 Hen. 3 2 111 SS 1
Serjeants/ Justices Plaintiff Surname Plaintiff First Name v. Defendent Surname Defendent First Name
Littlebury, Martin of CJCP Littisbury N. (Fresel) G. of (Geoffrey)
Other Plaintiffs Other Names Places Other Defendents
N. (Fresel) J. (Joan), wife of G. of
Abridgements Cross-References Statutes
     
Incipit (First Line) Number of Lines
Et fait assavoir que femme ne doit estre dowe la ou devors est fait entre lui et soun baroun en lour vies 5
Process and Pleading
Language Notes (Law French)
Abstract Context
Commentary & Paraphrase
divorce
Brand: A widow had no claim to Dower if she had been divorced from her late husband. If the judges alleged to have decreed the divorce were dead and the whereabouts of their acta were unknown a jury might properly enquire as to whether a divorce had taken place.
(dower)
Manuscripts Mss Notes Editing Notes Errors
Huntington MS HM 19920, fol. 40r
Translations/Editions
Paul A. Brand, The Earliest English Law Reports, vol. 1, 111 SS 1 (London 1996) (1268.2)
Plea Roll Record Year Record Plaintiffs Record Defendants Last Update
0 2008-06-29
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