Note 380 — MAGNA CARTA.
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Coke, ibid., p. 12, makes a subtle, and apparently unwarranted, distinction to depend on whether the minor was made a knight before or after his ancestor’s death. The proviso, he argues, does not apply to the former case, because the word used is “remaneat,” and lands cannot “remain” in wardship if they were not in it before. Such reasoning is puerile.