Hudson, John
Land, Law, and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England, Oxford, 1994, 330pp.
ISBN: 0521430763

Land, Law and Lordship

Contents
   
List of Abbreviations viii
   
  1 Introduction 1
       
   
Part I: Security of Tenure
 
       
  2 Security of Tenure: Homage, Distraint, and Warranty 15
       
   
Part II: Heritability
 
       
  3 The Heritability of Land: I 65
  4 The Heritability of Land: II 107
       
   
Part III: Alienability
 
       
  5 The Securing of Grants 157
  6 Heirs and Grants: Participation and Challenges 173
  7 Lords and Grants 208
  8 Bishops, Abbots, and the Alienation of Church Lands 230
  9 Henry II's Legal Reforms and the Development of Land Law, 1066-1189 253
   
Select Bibliography 282
Index 305