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THE BRITISH IMPERIAL CRISIS TO 1926 - Page 127
In England, the landed class obtained control of the bar and the bench and were, thus, in a position to judge all disputes about real property in their favor. Control of the courts and of the Parliament made it possible for this ruling group to override the rights of peasants in land, to eject them from the land, to enclose the open fields of the medieval system, to deprive the cultivators of their manorial rights and thus reduce them to the condition of landless rural laborers or tenants.
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I got hold of a severely abridged version of Tragedy and Hope. "Manorial" only appears once and "feudal" not at all. So whoever was trimming the book had something other than this thread topic in mind...
Interesting paragraph, typical of the entire book.
Regards,
David Merrill.