Blake Gardner
The Shetar/property for debt
Most important, the encumbrance of real property permitted by the Jewish Law of shetar had been adopted by English law. Bonds contained the traditional Hebrew formula pledging "all my goods, movable and immovable." Creditors had the statutory right to execute against the debtor's land. No longer were personal obligations and rights in land rigidly separate. Even while Edward was divesting himself of his Jewish moneylenders, he made their legacy permanent. A small but significant principle of Jewish Law, wherein personal debt superseded rights in real property had become the law of the land.