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8. Conditional fees, at the common law, were such as were granted to the donee, and the heirs of his body, in exclusion of collateral heirs

9. These were held to be fees, granted on condition that the donee had issue of his body; which condition being once performed by the birth of issue, the donee might immediately aliene the land: but, the statute de donis being made to prevent such alienation, thereupon, from the division of the fee (by construction of this statute) into a particular estate and reversion, the conditional fees began to be called fees-tail

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2. An estate for years is where a man, seised of lands and tenements, letteth them to another for a certain period of time, which transfers the interest of the term; and the lessee enters thereon, which gives him possession of the term, but not legal seisin of the land 117 3. Incident to this estate are estovers; and also emblements, if it determines before the full end of the term

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1. Freeholds, not of inheritance, or for life only, are, I. Conventional, or created by the act of the parties. II. Legal, or created by operation of law Conventional estates for life are created by an express grant for term of one's own life, or pur auter vie; or by a general grant, without expressing any term at all

3. Incident to this, and all other estates for life, are estovers, and emblements; and to estates pur auter vie general occupancy was also incident; as special occupaney still is, if cestuy que vie survives the tenant

4. Legal estates for life are, I. Tenancy in tail, after possibility of issue extinct. II. Tenancy by the curtesy of England. III. Tenancy in dower

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$ Tenancy in tail, after possibility of issue extinct, is where an estate is given in special tail, and, before issue had, a person dies from whose body the issue was to spring; whereupon the tenant (if surviving) becomes tenant in tail, after possibility of issue extinct 124 . This estate partakes both of the incidents to an estate-tail, and those of an estate for life

7 Tenancy by the curtesy of England is where a man's wife is seised of an estate of inheritance; and he by her has issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate: in which case, he shall, upon her death, hold the tenements for his own life, as tenant by the curtesy

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4. An estate at will is where lands are let by one man to another, to hold at the will of both parties; and the lessee enters thereon

5. Copyholds are estates held at the will of the lord, (regulated) according to the custom of the manor

6. An estate at sufferance is where one comes into possession of land by law ful title, but keeps it afterwards without any title at all

CHAPTER X.

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OF ESTATES UPON CONDITION 1. Estates (whether freehold or otherwise) may also be held upon condition; in which case their existence depends on the happening, or not happening, of

some uncertain event

2. These estates are, 1. On condition implied. II. On condition expressed. III. Estates in gage. IV. Estates by statute, merchant or staple. V. Estates by elegit

3 Estates on condition implied, are where a grant of an estate has, from its essence and constitution, a condition inseparably annexed to it; though none be expressed in words

4. Estates on condition expressed, are where an express qualification or provision is annexed to the grant of an

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5. On the performance of these conditions either expressed or implied (if precedent), the estate may be vested or enlarged: or, on the breach of them (if subsequent), an estate already vested may be defeated

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6. Estates in gage, in vadio, or in pledge, are states granted as a security for money lent; being, I. In vivo vadio, or living gage; where the profits of land are granted till a debt be paid, upon which payment the grantor's estate will revive. II. In mortuo vadio, in dead, or mort gage; where an estate is granted, on condition to be void at a day certain, if the grantor then repays the money borrowed; on failure of which, the estate becomes absolutely dead to the grantor

7. Estates by statute merchant, or statute staple, are also estates conveyed to creditors, in pursuance of certain statutes, till their profits shall discharge the debt

8. Estates by elegit are where, in consequence of a judicial writ so called, lands are delivered by the sheriff to a plaintiff, till their profits shall satisfy a debt adjudged to be due by law

CHAPTER XI.

OF ESTATES IN POSSESSION, REMAIN-
DER, AND REVERSION

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1. Estates, with respect to the number
and connexions of their tenants, may
be held, I. In severalty. II. In joint-
tenancy. III. In coparcenary. IV.
In common

2. An estate in severalty, is where one
tenant holds it in his own sole right,
without any other person being joined
with him

3. An estate in joint-tenancy, is where
an estate is granted to two or more
persons; in which case the law con-
strues them to be joint-tenants, unless
the words of the grant expressly ex-
clude such construction

4. Joint-tenants have an unity of inter-
est, of title, of time, and of posses-
sion: they are seised per my et per tout:
and therefore, upon the decease of one
joint-tenant, the whole interest remains
to the survivor

163 to 177 5. Joint-tenancy may be dissolved, by
destroying one of its four constituent
unities

1. Estates, with respect to their time of
enjoyment, are either in immediate
possession, or in expectancy: which
estates in expectancy are created at
the same time, and are parcel of the
same estates, as those upon which
they are expectant. These are, I. Re
mainders. II. Reversions

2. A remainder is an estate limited to
take effect, and be enjoyed, after ano-
ther particular estate is determined
3. Therefore, I. There must be a prece-
dent particular estate, in order to sup-
port a remainder. II. The remainder
must pass out of the grantor, at the
creation of the particular estate. III.
The remainder must vest in the gran-
tee, during the continuance, or at the
determination, of the particular es-

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4. Remainders are, I. Vested-where the estate is fixed to remain to a certain person, after the particular estate is spent. il. Contingent-where the estate is limited to take effect, either to an uncertain person, or upon an uncertain event

5. An executory devise is such a disposition of lands, by will, that an estate shall not vest thereby at the death of the devisor, but only upon some future contingency; and without any precedent particular estate to support it

6. A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted; to which are incident-fealty, and rent . Where two estates, the one less, the other greater, the one in possession, the other in expectancy, meet together in one and the same person, and in one and the same right, the less is merged in the greater

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8. Incident to this estate is the law of
hotchpot

9. Coparcenary may also be dissolved,
by destroying any of its three consti-
tuent unities

10. An estate in common, is where two
or more persons hold lands, possibly
by distinct titles, and for distinct inter-
ests; but by unity of possession, be-
cause none knoweth his own several-
ty

11. Tenants in common have therefore
an unity of possession (without survi-
vorship; being seised per my, and not
per tout); but no necessary unity of
title, time, or interest

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1. The title to things real may be reciprocally acquired or lost, I. By descent. II. By purchase

2. Descent is the means whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires a title to his estate, in right of representation, as his heir-at-law

3. To understand the doctrine of descents, we must form a clear notion of consanguinity; which is the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor; and it is, I. Lineal, where one of the kinsmen is lineally descended from the other. II. Collaterul, where they are lineally descended, not one from the other, but both from the same

common ancestor

4. The rules of descent, or canons of inheritance, observed by the laws of England, are these: Inheritances shall lineally descend, to the issue of the person last actually seised, in infinitum; but shall never lineally ascend

The male issue shall be admitted before the female

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Where there are two or more males in equal degree, the eldest only shall inherit; but the females all together The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living On failure of lineal descendants, or issue, of the person last seised, the inheritance shall descend to the blood of the first purchasor; subject to the three preceding rules. To evidence which blood, the two following rules are established

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2. Escheat is where, upon deficiency of the tenant's inheritable blood, the estate falls to the lord of the fee

3. Inheritable blood is wanting to, 1. Such as are not related to the person last seised. II. His maternni relations in paternal inheritances, and vice verså. III. His kindred of the half blood. IV. Monsters. V. Bastards. VI. Aliens, and their issue. VII. Persons attainted of treason or felony. VIII. Papists, in respect of themselves only, by the statute law

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OF TITLE BY PRESCRIPTION 212 1. Prescription (as distinguished from custom) is a personal immemorial usage of enjoying a right in some incorporeal hereditament, by a man, and either his ancestors or those whose estate of inheritance he hath of which the first is called prescribing in his ancestors, the latter, in a que estate

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OF TITLE BY FORFEITURE
1. Forfeiture is a punishment annexed
by law to some illegal act, or negli-
gence, in the owner of things real;
whereby the estate is transferred to
another, who is usually the party in-
jured

224 2. Forfeitures ara occasioned, I. By crimes. II. By alienation, contrary to law. III. By lapse. IV. By simony. V. By non-performance of conditions. VI. By Waste. VII. By breach of copyhold customs. VIII. By bankruptcy

234 3. Forfeitures for crimes, or misdemesnors, are for, I. Treason. II. Felony. III. Misprision of treason. IV. Premunire. V. Assaults on a judge, and batteries, sitting the courts. VI. Po pish recusancy, &c.

The collateral heir of the person last seised must be his next collateral kinsman, of the whole blood

In collateral inheritances, the male stock shall be preferred to the female; that is, kindred derived from the blood of the male ancestors shall be admitted before those from the blood of the female: unless where the lands have, in fact descended from a female

CHAPTER XV.

OF TITLE BY PURCHASE; AND, FIRST,
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1. Purchase, or perquisition, is the possession of an estate which a man hath by his own act or agreement; and not

4. Alienations or conveyances, which induce a forfeiture, are, 1. Those in mortmain, made to corporations con

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parchment, duly stamped. (V. Legal and orderly parts (which are usually, 1st, the premises; 2ndly, the habendum; 3rdly, the tenendum; 4thly, the reddendum; 5thly, the conditions: 6thly, the warranty (which is either lineal or collateral); 7thly, the covenants; 8thly, the conclusion (which includes the date). V. Reading it, if desired. VI. Sealing, and, in many cases, signing it also. VII. Delivery. VIII. Attestation

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4. A deed may be avoided, I. By the want of any of the requisites before mentioned. II. By subsequent mat ter: as, Ist, rasure, or alteration; 2ndly, defacing its seal; 3rdly, cancelling it; 4thly, disagreement of those whose consent is necessary, 5thly, judgment of a court of justice

284 5. Of the several species of deeds, some serve to convey real property, some only to charge and discharge it

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6. Deeds which serve to convey real property, or conveyances, are either by common law, or by statute. And, of conveyances by common law, some are original or primary, others derivative or secondary

286 7. Original conveyances are, I. Feoffments. II. Gifts. IIL. Grants. IV. Leases. V. Exchanges. VI. Partitions.- Derivative are, VII. Releases. VIII. Confirmations. IX. Surrenders. X. Assignments. XI. Defeazances 8. A feoffinent is the transfer of any corporeal hereditament to another, perfected by livery of seisin, or delivery of bodily possession from the feoffor to the feoffee; without which no freehold estate therein can be created at common law

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10. A grant is the regular method, by common law, of conveying incorporeal hereditaments

11. A lease is the demise, granting, or letting to farm of any tenement, usually for a less term than the lessor hath herein; yet sometimes possibly for a greater; according to the regulations of the restraining and enabling

statutes

12. An exchange is the mutual conveyance of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other

13. A partition is the division of an estate held in joint-tenancy, in co-parcenary, or in common, between the respective tenants; so that each may hold his distinct part in severalty

14. A release is the discharge or conveyance of a man's right, in lands and tenements, to another that hath some former estate in possession therein 15. A confirmation is the conveyance of an estate or right in esse, whereby a voidable estate is made sure, or a particular estate is increased

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trary to the statute law. II. Those made to aliens. III. Those made by particular tenants, when larger than their estates will warrant

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5. Lapse is a forfeiture of the right of presentation to a vacant church, by neglect of the patron to present within six calendar months

6. Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice, whereby that turn becomes forfeited to the crown

7. For forfeiture by non-performance of conditions, see Ch. X.

8. Waste is a spoil, or destruction, in any corporeal hereditaments, to the prejudice of him that hath the inherit

ance

9. Copyhold estates may have also other peculiar causes of forfeiture, according to the custom of the manor

10. Bankruptcy is the act of becoming a bankrupt; that is, a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts, tending to defraud his creditors. (See Ch. XXII.)

11. By bankruptcy, all the estates of the bankrupt are transferred to the assig nees of his commissioners, to be sold for the benefit of his creditors

CHAPTER XIX.

OF TITLE BY ALIENATION

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1. Alienation, conveyance, or purchase, in its more limited sense, is a means of transferring real estates, wherein they are voluntarily resigned by one man, and accepted by another

2. This formerly could not be done by a tenant, without licence from his lord; nor by a lord, without attornment of his tenant

3. All persons are capable of purchasing; and all, that are in possession of any estates, are capable of conveying them; unless under peculiar disabilities by law: as being attainted, non compotes, infants, under duress, semecoverts, aliens, or papists

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4. Alienations are made by common assurances; which are, L. By deed, or matter in pais. IL. By matter of record. III. By special custom. IV.

By devise

CHAPTER XX.

OF ALIENATION BY DEED

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1. In assurances by deed may be considered, I. Its general nature. II. Its

several species

2. A deed, in general, is the solemn act of the parties: being, usually, a writing sealed and delivered; and it may be, I. deed indented, or indenture.

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3. The requisites of a deed are, I. Sufficient parties, and proper subject-matter. II. A good and sufficient consideration. III. Writing on paper, or

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estate for life, or years, to him that hath the immediate remainder or reversion; wherein the particular estate may merge

17. An assignment is the transfer, or making over to another, of the whole right one has in any estate; but usually in a lease, for life or years

18. A defeazance is a collateral deed, inade at the same time with the original conveyance; containing some condition upon which the estate may be defeated

19. Conveyances by statute depend much on the doctrine of uses and trusts: which are a confidence reposed in the terre-tenant, or tenant of the land, that he shall permit the profits to be enjoyed, according to the directions of cestuy que use, or cestuy que trust

20. The statute of uses, having trans ferred all uses into actual possession (or, rather, having drawn the possession to the use), has given birth to divers other species of conveyance: I. A covenant to stand seised to uses. II. A bargain and sale, enrolled. III. A lease and release. IV. A deed to lead or declare the use of other more direct conveyances. V. A revocation of uses; being the execution of a power, reserved at the creation of the use, of recalling at a future time the use or estate so creating. All which owe their present operation principally to the statute of uses

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1. Assurances by matter of record are, where the sanction of some court of record is called in, to substantiate and witness the transfer of real property. These are, I. Private acts of Parliament. II. The king's grants. III. Fines. IV. Common recoveries

• Priva e acts of Parliament are a species of assurances, calculated to give (by the transcendent authority of parliament) such reasonable powers or relief, as are beyond the reach of the ordinary course of law

& The king's grants, contained in charters or letters patent, are all entered on record, for the dignity of the royal person, and security of the royal re

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A fine (sometimes said to be a feoffmen: of record) is an amicable composition and agreement of an actual or fictitious, suit; whereby the estate in question i acknowledged to be the right of one of the parties 1. The parts of a fine are, I. The writ VOL. I.

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of covenant. II. The licence to agree. III. The concord. IV. The note. V. The foot. To which the statute hath added, VI. Proclamations

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6. Fines are of four kinds: 1. Sur cognizance de droit, come ceo que il ad de son done. II. Sur cognizance de droit tantum. III. Sur concessit. IV. Sur done, grant, et render; which is a double fine

7. The force and effect of fines (when levied by such as have themselves any interest in the estate) are to assure the lands in question to the cognizee, by barring the respective rights of parties, privies. and strangers

8. A common recovery is by an actual, or fictitious, suit or action for land, brought against the tenant of the freehold; who there apon vouches another, who undertakes to warrant the tenant's title: but upon such vouchee's making default, the land is recovered by judgment at law against the tenant; who, in return, obtains judgment against the vouchee to recover lands of equal value in recompense

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9. The force and effect of a recovery areto assure lands to the recoverór, by barring estates tail, and all remainders and reversions expectant thereon; provided the tenant in tail either suffers, or is vouched in, such recovery 10. The uses of a fine or recovery may be directed by, I. Deeds to lead such uses; which are made previous to the levying or suffering thein. II. Deeds to declare the uses; which are made subsequent

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