1268.002ss |
1268 |
Common Pleas |
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Mich. |
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Hen. 3 |
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111 SS 1 |
Littlebury, Martin of CJCP Littisbury |
N. (Fresel) |
G. of (Geoffrey) |
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N. (Fresel) J. (Joan), wife of G. of |
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Et fait assavoir que femme ne doit estre dowe la ou devors est fait entre lui et soun baroun en lour vies |
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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.
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Huntington MS HM 19920, fol. 40r |
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Paul A. Brand, The Earliest English Law Reports, vol. 1, 111 SS 1 (London 1996) (1268.2) |
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