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CHAP. IV.

Of a Feoffment, Gift, and Grant.

1. Different kinds of Deeds

3. Of a Feoffment

7. Livery of Seisin

10. Livery in Deed

16. May be by Attorney

18. Livery sometimes presumed .

19. And supplied in Equity

21. A Feoffment cannot commence in futuro

24. Who may convey by Feoffment

30. What Kind of Property - -

32. Operation of a Feoffment -

33. Transfers the Freebold by Digseisin

35. Discontinues an Estate Tail

36. Creates a Forfeiture -

37. Of a Gift

38. Of a Grant

43. What may be created or conveyed by Grant

47. Operation of a Grant -

50. Does not create a Discontinuance

51. Or a Forfeiture

CHAP. V.

Of a Lease.

1. Description of .

9. Where only an Agreement for a Lease

13. Must have a certain Beginning and Ending

33. May determine by Proviso

24. What may be leased

27. Who may make Leases

30. Tenants in Tail -

33. Husbands seised Jure'Uxoris

35. Ecclesiastics seised Jure Ecclesie

37. Circumstances required in these Leases

56. Parsons and Vicars

57. Tenants for Life -

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59. Tenants in Dower and by the Curtesy · · 83

60. Tenants for Years .

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62. Guardians . . . . .

63. Executors and Administrators

64. Joint Tenants, Coparceners, and Tenants in Common .

65. Copyholders -

66. Who are incapable of making Leases

67. Infants -

69. Married Women -

70. Of void and voidable Leases

86. Who may be Lessees

CHAP. VI.

Of an Exchange, Partition, Releases and Confirmation.

1. Exchange

7. Must be in Writing, and executed

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10. Who may exchange - - - - -

13. Can only be between Two Persons

15. Partition

20. Release

23. Operative Words

25. How Releases enure

26. Mitter L' Estate

30. Mitter Le Droit

32. Enlargement

43. Extinguishment -

46. What may be released

49. Confirmation

CHAP. VII.

Of a Surrender, Assignment, and Defeazance...

1. Surrender

106

5. Must be by Deed or Note in Writing - • 197

8. Who may surrender

9. What Estate necessary

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20. Must be by Deed or Note in Writing

• 112

21. What may be assigned

- id.

25. Defeazance

• 113

108

CHAP. X.

Of a Covenant to stand seised.

1. Nature of .

- 133

9. Who may covenant to stand seised

- 135

10. What may be conveyed by . . . . . id.

13. What Consideration necessary .. - - 136

27. A Use only arises to the Persons within the Consider-

ation .

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.. 139

31. The Estate continues till a Use arises

...140

32. A Rent may be created by

. id.

34. No Estate is devested by this Conveyance, or by a Bar-

gain and Sale

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37. No Uses can be declared on these Conveyances 141

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" and Sale

149

CHAP. XII.

Of Declarations of Uses.

1. Origin and Nature of

2. Must be by Deed or Writing -

5. No technical Words necessary -

- 150

8. How the Lands should be described

151

9. No Consideration necessary

• id.

11. Deeds to lead Uses -

- 152

18. Deeds to declare Uses

27. Who may declare Uses

161

28. Infants -

32. Married Women

37. Idiots and Lunatics

- - 165

38. The Right to declare Uses is co-extensive with the Estate id.

42. Uses may be declared on a Lease and Release • 166

44. The Releasee cannot dissent - - ..

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14. In what Deeds inserted ...

• 171

15. By what Words . .

• id.

14. A Power to appoint implies a Power to revoke, not

e contra - -

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174

26. But includes a Right to reserve a new Power

28. Unless the Power be collateral

30. To whom Powers may be given

- id.

31. Infants

33. Married Women - - -

46. Who may be Appointees

48. A Power does not suspend the vesting of Remainders. 186

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CHAP. XV.

Of Powers to lease.

1. Origin and Nature of -

4. Restrictions annexed to

• 202

5. 1o. As to the Instrument' .

. id.

7. 2o. As to the Lands to be leased

- id

13. A Qualification destructive of a Power, dispensed with 204

21. 3o. As to the Time when a Lease is to commence - 210

22. A general Power only authorizes Leases in Possession 211

26. Unless the Estate is reversionary

- 212

31. Does not authorize a Lease to commence after a subsist-

ing Lease '.

36. But concurrent Leases are good

40. Of Powers to lease in Reversion

43. 4. As to the Duration of the Lease

48. 5o. As to the Rent to be reserved

49. What is the ancient Rent

56. How to be reserved

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61. What is the best Rent ..

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