Note 418 — MAGNA CARTA.

Liberum maritagium, considered as a tenure, has various peculiarities. The lady’s husband became the feudal tenant of her father. The issue of the marriage were heirs to the lands and would hold them as tenants of the heir of the donor. For three generations, however, neither service nor homage was due. After the third transmission, the land ceased to be specially “free”; the peculiar tenure came to an end; and the new owner was subject to all the usual burdens of an ordinary tenant.