To be an elector to
Parliament, a knight must reside in the county and have a freehold
of land or tenements there of the value of at least 40s. per year,
because participation in elections of too many people of little
substance or worth had led to homicides, assaults, and feuds.
(These "yeomen" were about one sixth of the population. Most
former electors and every leaseholder and every copyholder were
now excluded. Those elected for Parliament were still gentry
chosen by substantial freeholders.)

London ordinances forbade placing rubbish or dung in the Thames
River or any town ditch or casting water or anything else out of a
window. The roads were maintained with tolls on carts and horses
bringing victuals or grains into the city and on merchandise
unloaded from ships at the port. No carter shall drive his cart
more quickly when it is unloaded than when it is loaded. No pie
bakers shall sell beef pies as venison pies, or make any meat pie
with entrails. To assist the poor, bread and ale shall be sold by
the farthing.

Desertion by a soldier is penalized by forfeiture of all land and
property.

The common law held that a bailee is entitled to possession
against all persons except the owner of the bailed property.

Former justice Sir Thomas Littleton wrote a legal textbook
describing tenancies in dower; the tenures of socage, knight's
service, serjeanty, and burgage; estates in fee simple, fee tail,
and fee conditional; inheritance and alienation of land. For
instance, "Also, if feoffment be made upon such condition, that if
the feoffor pay to the feofee at a certain day, etc., 800s. forty
pounds of money, that then the feoffor may reenter, etc., in this
case the feoffee is called tenant in mortgage, ... and if he doth
not pay, then the land which he puts in pledge upon condition for
the payment of the money is gone from him for ever, and so dead as
to the tenant, etc."

Joint tenants are distinguished from tenants in common by
Littleton thus: "Joint-tenants are, as if a man be seised of
certain lands or tenements, etc., and thereof enfeoffeth two, or
three, or four, or more, to have and to hold to them (and to their
heirs, or letteth to them) for term of their lives, or for term of
another's life; by force of which feoffment or lease they are
seised, such are joint-tenants. ... And it is to be understood,
that the nature of joint-tenancy is, that he that surviveth shall
have solely the entire tenancy, according