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to have the lands secured to men s names and bloods by unthrifty pos- 

 perpetuities, with all the inconveniences abovementioned, or terit y- 

 to be in hazard of undoing his house by unthrifty posterity. 



The last and greatest estate of lands is fee-simple, and The last and 

 beyond this there is none of the former for lives, years, or greatest estate 

 entails; but beyond them is fee-simple. For it is I&6 SlapS?. &quot; 

 greatest, last, and uttermost degree of estates in land; there- A remainder 

 tore he that maketh a lease for life, or a gift in tail, may can nt be li- 

 appoint a remainder when he maketh another for life or in JJjJft &quot;P f ^ n 

 tail, or to a third in fee-simple ; but after a fee-simple he simple. 

 can limit no other estate. And if a man do not dispose of 

 the fee-simple by way of remainder, when he maketh the 

 gift in tail, or for lives, then the fee-simple resteth in him 

 self as a reversion. The difference between a reversion and The difference 

 a remainder is this : The remainder is always a succeeding between a re- 

 estate, appointed upon the gifts of a precedent estate, at v e ^o r n and a 

 the time when the precedent is appointed. But the rever- Aversion 

 feion is an estate left in the giver, after a particular estate cannot be grant- 

 made by him for years, life, or entail ; where the remainder ed by word * 

 is made with the particular estates, then it must be done 

 by deeds in writing, with livery and seisin, and cannot be 

 by words. And if the giver will dispose of the reversion Attumment 

 after it remaineth in himself, he is to do it by writing, and must be liad l 

 not by word, and the tenant is to have notice of it, and to f the 



atturn it, which is to give his assent by word, or paying 

 rent, or the like ; and except the tenant will thus atturn, 

 the party to whom the reversion is granted cannot have the 

 reversion, neither can he compel him by any law to atturn, The tenant not 

 except the grant of the reversion be by fine ; and then he compilable to 

 may by writ provided for that purpose: and if he do not ^e Sre 

 purchase that writ, yet by the fine the reversion shall pass; version is^iant- 

 and the tenant shall pay no rent, except he will himself, ed by fine&quot;. 

 nor be punished for any wastes in houses, woods, &c. un 

 less it be granted by bargain and sale by indenture enrolled. 

 These fee-simple estates lie open to all perils of forfeitures, 

 extents, incumb ranees, and sales. 



Lands are conveyed by these six means: first, by feoff- * Lands may be 

 ment,* which is, where by deed lands are given to one and conveyed six 

 his heirs, and livery and seisin made according to the form ma nt ; ro &amp;lt;L wa ys- 

 and effect of the deed ; if a lesser estate than fee-simple be 2. By finest 

 given, and livery of seisin made, it is not called a feoffment, By recovery. 4. 

 except the fee-simple be conveyed, but is otherwise called ( B ^ nt 5 g By 

 a lease for life or gift entail as abovementioned. By^M. 



A fine is a real agreement, beginning thus, Hac estfinaiis What a fine is, 



