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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	At Her Majesty's pleasure	737
2	Land tenure	535
3	Demurrage	507
4	Reasonable person	430
5	Tithing	335
6	Attainder	294
7	Estoppel in English law	268
8	Court of equity	241
9	Elephant test	221
10	Freehold (English law)	213
11	Mischief rule	205
12	Common scold	194
13	Seisin	170
14	Praemunire	156
15	Right to light	153
16	Bona vacantia	131
17	Hilary term	108
18	Agistment	103
19	Dilapidation	100
20	Droit	98
21	Nervous shock (English Law)	90
22	Advowson	86
23	Nisi prius	83
24	Charging order	80
25	Binding over	73
26	Copyhold	63
27	Fieri facias	60
28	Frankpledge	49
29	Cab-rank rule	48
30	Misprision	46
31	Gavelkind	42
32	Jactitation	42
33	Nightwalker Statute	36
34	Scot and lot	35
35	Regalian right	35
36	Soke (legal)	34
37	Englishry	33
38	Secret profit	31
39	Devilling	29
40	Narrative verdict	29
41	Implied repeal	27
42	Tourn	23
43	Estovers	22
44	Bill of Peace	19
45	Assarting	17
46	Reprimand (UK law)	16
47	Eyre (legal term)	16
48	Essoin	15
49	Feet of Fines	13
50	Monition	12
51	Elegit	12
52	Arrestando ipsum qui pecuniam recepit	11
53	Cocket	11
54	Free Bench	10
55	Flying freehold	8
56	Contentious jurisdiction	7
57	Writ of attaint	6
58	Chiefage	6
59	Childwite	6
60	Contenement	6
61	Customary freehold	less than 5 views
62	Arrentation	less than 5 views
63	Arrestandis bonis ne dissipentur	less than 5 views
64	Head borough	less than 5 views
65	Cessavit	less than 5 views
66	Continuando	less than 5 views
67	Contra formam collationis	less than 5 views
68	Contra formam feoffamenti	less than 5 views
69	Contramandatio placiti	less than 5 views
70	Contramandatum	less than 5 views
71	Contributione facienda	less than 5 views
72	Taxor	less than 5 views

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