A wife who
remarried or bore a child lost her dower land. A husband
lost his dower if he remarried. If a tenant withheld rent or
services, his lord could seek award of court to find
distress on his tenement and if he could find none, he could
take the tenement for a year and a day in his hands without
manuring it. It the tenant paid up in this time, he got the
tenement back. If he didn't within a year and a day,
however, the lord could manure the land. A felon forfeited
his life and his goods, but not his lands or tenements. A
wife of a felon had the dower of one half or her husband's
lands and tenements.
The common law recognized the tort of false imprisonment if
a man arrested as a felon, a person who was not a felon.
- Judicial Procedure -
The writ of Quo Warranto [by what right] is created, by which all
landholders exercising jurisdictions must bring their ancestors'
charters before a traveling justice for the Common Pleas for
examination and interpretation as to whether they were going
beyond their charters and infringing upon the jurisdiction of the
Royal Court. As a result, many manor courts were confined to
manorial matters and could no longer view frankpledge or hear
criminal cases, which were reserved for the royal courts. In the
manor courts which retained criminal jurisdiction, there was a
reassertion of the obligation to have present a royal coroner,
whose duty it was to see that royal rights were not infringed and
that the goods of felons were given to the Crown and not kept by
the lords.
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