14G MAXIMS OF THE LAW. 



5 H. 7. 25. So if I covenant with I. S. a stranger, in consideration of 



natural love to my son, to stand seised to the use of the 

 said I. S. to the intent he shall enfeoff my son ; by this no 

 use ariseth to I. S. because the law doth respect that there 

 is no immediate consideration between me and I. S. 

 12 H. 4. So if I be bound to enter into a statute before the mayor 



4 H. 8. O f the staple at such a day, for the security of one hundred 

 pounds, and the obligee, before the day, accept of me a 

 lease of a house in satisfaction ; this is no plea in debt upon 

 my obligation: and yet the end of that statute was but 

 security of money ; but because the entering into this sta 

 tute itself, which is the immediate act whereto I am bound, 

 is a corporal act which lieth not in satisfaction, therefore 

 the law taketh no consideration that the remote intent was 

 for money. 



M. 40 et 41. So if I make a feoffment in fee, upon condition that the 

 Win J nln U - feoffee sha11 enfeoff over, and the feoffee be disseised, and 

 ton s case, or a descent cast, and then the feoffee bind himself in a sta- 

 report per le tute, which statute is discharged before the recovery of 



Jud TeSto tne land : tllis is no breach of the condition, because the 

 Coke! lib. 2^ land was never liable to the statute, and the possibility 

 that it should be liable upon the recovery the law doth 

 not respect. 



So if I enfeoff two, upon condition to enfeoff, and one of 

 them take a wife, the condition is not broken ; and yet 

 there is a remote possibility that the joint-tenant may die, 

 and then the feme is intitled to dower. 



So if a man purchase land in fee-simple, and die without 

 issue ; in the first degree the law respecteth dignity of sex, 

 and not proximity ; and therefore the remote heir, on the 

 part of the father, shall have it before the near heir on 

 the part of the mother : but, in any degree paramount the 

 first the law respecteth not, and therefore the near heir 

 by the grandmother, on the part of the father, shall have it, 

 before the remote heir of the grandfather on the part of the 

 father. 



This rule faileth in covinous acts, which though they 

 be conveyed through many degrees and reaches, yet the 

 law taketh heed to the corrupt beginning, and counteth all 

 as one entire act. 



37 R&amp;lt; As if a feoffment be made of lands held by knight s ser- 



Dacre scase, vice to I. S. upon condition that he, within a certain time, 



obiter. s ] la u enfeoff I. D. which feoffment to I. D. shall be to the 



use of the wife of the first feoffer for her jointure, &c ; this 



