178 MAXIMS OF THE LAW. 



fice, though the land be purchased after; because there is 

 a new act to be done, viz. the fine. 



25 EHz. But if there were no new act, then otherwise it is ; as if 



I covenant with my son in consideration of natural love, 

 to stand seised unto his use of the lands which I shall 

 afterwards purchase, yet the use is void : and the reason 

 is, because there is no new act, nor transmutation of pos 

 session following to perfect this inception ; for the use must 

 be limited by the feoflfor, and not the feoffee, and he had 

 nothing at the time of the covenant. 



Com.piowd. So if I devise the manor of D. by special name, of 



Rigden s which at that time I am not seised, and after I purchase 

 it, except I make some new publication of my will, this 

 devise is void ; and the reason is, because that my death, 

 which is the consummation of my will, is the act of God, 

 and not my act, and therefore no such act as the law re- 

 quireth. 



But if I grant unto I. S. authority by my deed to demise 

 for years the land whereof I am now seised, or hereafter 

 shall be seised ; and after I purchase the lands, and I. S. my 

 attorney doth demise them : this is a good demise, because 

 the demise of my attorney is a new act, and all one with a 

 demise by myself. 



21 Eliz. But if I mortgage land, and after covenant with I. S. in 



consideration of money which I receive of him, that after I 

 have entered for the condition broken, I will stand seised 

 to the use of the same I. S. and I enter, and this deed is en 

 rolled, and all within the six months, yet nothing passeth 

 away, because this enrolment is no new act, but a perfective 

 ceremony of the first deed of bargain and sale ; and the law 

 is more strong in that case, because of the vehement relation 

 which the enrolment hath to the time of the bargain and 

 sale, at what time he had nothing but a naked condition. 



6 Ed. 6. Br. So if two joint tenants be, and one of them bargain and 

 sell the whole land, and before the enrolment his companion 

 dieth, nothing passeth of the moiety accrued unto him by 

 survivor. 



REGULA XV. 



In criminalibus sufficit generalis malitia intentionis cum facto 



parts gradus. 



ALL crimes have their conception in a corrupt intent, and 

 have their consummation and issuing in some particular 

 fact ; which though it be not the fact at which the inten- 



