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^[1]and ratifie these Gifts, &c. as in the end of the Great Charter specified, &c.

Amended by 7 R. 2. c. 3.

☞See 34 Ed. 1. stat. 5.  1 Ed. 3. stat. 2. c. 2.  22 Ed. 4 c. 7.  31 H. 8. c. 5.  32 H. 8. c. 35. which contain farther Provisions respecting the Forest Laws. And farther, 16 Car. 1. c. 16. sect. 6. what places shall be deemed Forest; 20 Car. 2. c. 3. for ascertaining the Bounds of the Forest of Dean; 9 & 10 W. 3. c. 36. for preserving Timber in New Forest; 5 G. 1. c. 15. § 5. inflicting Penalty on Officers of Forest, &c. confederating with Deer-Stealers; 9 G. 1. c. 22. making it Felony to appear armed and disguised in Forests, &c. And 28 Geo 2. c. 19. § 3. for the Penalty of setting fire to Goss in Forests, &c.

1. 4 Inst. 289 & 291, 315.

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Statutum Hiberniæ de coheredibus made at Westminster 9 Febr’ & 14 Hen. III. & Ann. Dom. 1229.^[1]

How Lands holden by Knights Service, descending to Coparceners within Age, shall be divided. Obs.

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REX dilecto & fideli suo Gerardi fil' Mauricii Justic' suo Hibernie, salutem. [Quia tales] Milites de partibus Hibernie [nuper] ad nos accedentes nobis oftenderunt, [quod] cum hereditas [aliquia] devolunta sit ad [inter] sorores in regno nostro Hibernie, Justic' nostri in iisdem partibus [itinerantes] incerti sunt, utrum postnate sorores tenere debeant de primogenita [sorore], & ei facere homagium de portionibus suis, vel de Capitali domino, & ei facere homagium. Et quia predicti Milites a nobis petierunt inde certiorari [certificari] qualiter in regno nostro Anglie, in casu consimili, hactenus usitatum sit: ad instantiam eorundem vobis significamus, quod in regno nostro Anglie semper talis suit lex & consuetudo & hoc in casu, quod si quis de nobis teneret in capite, & haberet filias ad heredes, ipso patre defuncto, antecessores nostri & nos [semper] habuimus homagium de omnibus filiabus, et singule earum tenent [de nobis] in capite in hoc casu. Et si infra etatem fuerint, nos habebimus custodiam & earum maritagium: si autem de alio quocumque tenuerint, quam de nobis, & ipse sorores infra etatem fuerint, dominus earum habeat custodiam & maritagium singularum, & primogenita tantum faciet homagium pro omnibus; & alie sorores, cum ad etatem pervenerint, faciant servitia dominis feodorum per manum primogenite; nec poterit primogenita ea occasione petere de postnatis sororibus homagium, vel custodiam, vel aliquam aliam subjectionem quia omnes sorores sunt quasi unus heres de una hereditate. Si primogenita posset habere homagium aliarum sororum, & custodiam petere, tunc esset eadem hereditas divisa, ita [quod] primogenita soror [sororum] simul & semel foret de hereditate unica domina & heres: [sua] heres autem sue partis, & domina sororum suarum; quod quidem in hod casu fieri non poterit [potest] cum ipsa primogenita nichil plus petere possit quam alie sorores, nisi capitale mesuagium, nomine einecie: & si primogenita sit heres omnium aliarum sororum [suarum] vel puerorum suorum; si obierint sine herede de seipsis, posset habere custodiam suarum sororum, vel puerorum suorum, set hoc esset quasi committere agnum lupo devorand'. Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod predictas consuetudines in hoc casu, quas in regno nostro Anglie habemus, ut [secundum quod] predictum est, in terra nostra Hibernie proclamari & firmiter teneri, fac. &c.

In the Old Abridgment, tit. Homage, this Statutum de Hibernia is said, not to be a statute. But the small collections, intituled Magna Charta, &c. and all the English editions, have it.

1. This Statute is "20 Hen. 3. Stat. Hib. de Coher.", with a date of 1235, in Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes (1835). (Wikisource contributor note)
2. 2 Inst. 349.; 17 Ed. 2. c. 5.; Regist. 117. 318.