Note 191 — PART III. MAGNA CARTA: ITS FORM AND CONTENTS.

See chapter 1. The grant which thus purports to be perpetually binding on John’s heirs, was in practice treated as purely personal to John, and requiring confirmation by his son. Yet this also was in strict accordance with feudal theory, which required the heir to complete his title to his deceased father’s real estate by obtaining a Charter of Confirmation from his lord, for which he had to pay “relief.” The liberties of the freemen were only a new species of real estate.