Word: feloniesã
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Back then, the Church was a highly undesirable tenant, perhaps even more than Harvard is today. A religious corporation like an abbey or monastery never made the standard payments for inheritance, marriages or felonies??instead, it evaded its taxes in perpetuity, controlling properties from beyond the grave with a “dead hand” (“mortmain”). The landowners complained bitterly of losing “the services which are due of such fees,” which after all were provided “for the defense of the realm...
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