The system of reversion could also be used, as we have seen, to establish something near to de facto hereditary tenure.

A hereditary tenure is natural to them.

For the concession of hereditary tenure, though made piecemeal over a long period of time, was universal by the end of the century.

The latter gradually replaced the former and land gradually changed from conditional to hereditary tenure, a process completed only at the end of the 15th century.

The plot was normally in the hereditary tenure of the household, and not subject to repartition (unlike the peasants' holdings in the open fields).

In the early 12005 the vast majority of the villagers held their farms of the monastery in hereditary tenure upon payment of quit-rents and services.

However, when the conflict was finally resolved in 1637, the castle remained the property of Salzburg Archdiocese, while Moscons obtained the right of hereditary tenure.

The real governing power in the community was the Society of the Priests of the Snake, who held their office by hereditary tenure, outsiders being admitted to their body only under very exceptional circumtances.

At St Andrews about the year 1100 there were thirteen Culdees holding office by hereditary tenure and paying more regard to their own prosperity and aggrandizement than to the services of the church or the needs of the populace.

The town was managed by the church until 1894 when it was handed over to the municipality on agreement that a hereditary tenure of 33 pounds sterling must be paid by the municipality to the church on an annual basis.

So were the compositions demanded for grants and privileges, particularly by James IV and V. In the same period, royal rents were increased as the crown converted its grants of land to feuferme, hereditary tenure for which its tenants paid heavily.