280 THE CASE OF REVOCATION OF USES. 



for the case was, that in the manor of Portchester the cus 

 tom was, that a feoffment of land should not be good, ex 

 cept it were presented within a year in the court of the 

 manor, and there ruled that it was but actus inchoatus, till 

 it was presented ; now if it be not merely against reason 

 of law, that so solemn a conveyance as livery, which keeps 

 state, I tell you, and will not wait, should expect a farther 

 perfection, a fortiori, may a conveyance in use or declaration 

 of use receive a consummation by degrees, and several acts. 

 And thus much for the main point. 



Now for the objection of the word immediate, it is but 

 light and a kind of sophistry. They say that the words are, 

 that the uses shall rise immediately after the declaration, 

 and we would have an interposition of an act between, 

 namely, that there should be a declaration first, then a new 

 assurance within the six months; and lastly, the uses to 

 rise : whereunto the answer is easy ; for we have showed 

 before that the declaration and the new assurance are in 

 the intent of him that made the conveyance, and likewise 

 in eye of law, but as one compounded act. So as immedi 

 ately after the declaration must be understood of a perfect 

 and effectual declaration, with the adjuncts and accouple- 

 ments expressed. 



49. E. 3. f.n. So we see in 49 E. III. f. 11. if a man be attainted of 

 felony, that holds lands of a common person, the king shall 

 have his year, day, and waste ; but when ? Not before an 

 office found ; and yet the words of the statute of praroga- 

 tiva regis are, rex habebit catalla felonum, et si ipsi habent 

 liberum tenementum, statim capiatur in manus domini, et rex 

 habebit annum, diem et vastum : and here the word statim is 

 understood of the effectual and lawful time, that is, after 

 office found. 



2 H. 4. f. 17. So in 2 H. IV. f. 17. it appears that by the statute of 

 Acton Burnell, if the debt be acknowledged, and the day 

 past that the goods of the debtors shall be sold statim, in 

 French maintenant ; yet, nevertheless, this statim shall not 

 be understood before the process of law requisite passed, 

 that is, the day comprised in the extent. 



27 H. 8. f. 19. So it is said 27 H. VIII. f. 19. by Audley the Chancellor, 

 that the present tense shall be taken for the future ; a for 

 tiori, say I, the immediate future tense may be taken for a 

 distant future tense ; as if I be bound that my son, being of 

 the age of twenty-one years, shall marry your daughter, and 

 that he be now of twelve years ; yet this shall be under 

 stood, when he shall be of the age of twenty-one years. 



