Note 705 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 4)
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Pipe Roll, 13 Henry III., cited Madox, I. 347. In Kent, lands held in gavelkind were exempt alike from the lord’s escheat and the king’s waste, according to the maxim “The father to the bough, the son to the plough.” See, e.g. praerogativa regis, c. 16.