{"id":19328,"date":"2013-04-02T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org?p=9536"},"modified":"2013-04-02T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:22:02","slug":"heriot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/heriot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Heriot"},"content":{"rendered":"
The horses and arms of a tenant, or, if he were a villein, the best beast to which the lord was entitled by custom on the death of his tenant.
Heriot service consists of the right of heriot where the tenant dies seised of an estate of inheritance, and can only exist as incident to a freehold tenure created before the statute Quia Emptorts. Suit heriot is where the right is reserved on a grant or lease of freeholds made in modern times.
Heriots have survived chiefly ae an incident of copyhold tenure, but are abolished as a manorial incident subject to compensation by the Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 128<\/p>\n<\/h4>\n
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