Note 735 — MAGNA CARTA. (continued 4)

Technical details are admirably given by Pollock and Maitland, II. 63-7. The whole family of writs were known as “writs of entry sur disseisin”; and these were applied to still wider uses after 1267 on the authority of the Statute of Marlborough, as “writs of entry sur disseisin on the post.” See also Maitland, Preface to Sel. Pleas in Manorial Courts, p. lv.