READING ON THE STATUTE OF USES, 349 



The queen, not speaking of an imperial queen by mar 

 riage, cannot be seised to a use, though she be a body 

 enabled to grant and purchase without the king ; yet in re 

 gard of the government and interest the king hath in her 

 possession, she cannot be seised to a use. 



A corporation cannot be seised to a use, because their 

 capacity is to a use certain; again, because they cannot 

 execute an estate without doing wrong to their corporation 

 or founder ; but chiefly because of the letter of this statute, 

 which, in any clause when it speaketh of the feoffee, resteth 

 only upon the word person, but when it speaketh of cestuu 

 qite use, it addeth person or body politic. 



If a bishop bargain and sell lands whereof he is seised in 

 the right of his see, this is good during his life ; otherwise 

 it is where a bishop is infeoffed to him and his successors, 

 to the use of I. D. and his heirs, that is not good, no not for 

 the bishop s life, but the use is merely void. 



Contrary law of tenant in tail ; for if I give land in tail Vide contra. 

 by deed since the statute to A., to the use of B. and his Co P er v - 

 heirs ; B. hath a fee-simple determinable upon the death of Cro^S&quot; 401 

 A. without issue. And like law, though doubtful before 

 the statute, was; for the chief reason which bred the doubt 

 before the statute was because tenant in tail could not exe 

 cute an estate without wrong ; but that since the statute is 

 quite taken away, because the statute saveth no right of 

 intail, as the statute of 1 R. III. did ; and that reason like 

 wise might have been answered before the statute, in regard 

 of the common recovery. 



A feme covert and an infant, though under years of dis 

 cretion, may be seised to a use ; for as well as land might 

 descend to them from a feoffee to use, so may they origin 

 ally be infeoffed to a use ; yet if it be before the statute, 

 and they had, upon a subpana brought, executed their 

 estate during the coverture or infancy, they might have de 

 feated the same ; and then they should have been seised 

 again to the use, and not to their own use ; but since the 

 statute no right is saved unto them. 



^ If a feme covert or an infant be infeoffed to a use present 

 since the statute, the infant or baron come too late to dis 

 charge or root up the feoffment ; but if an infant be infeoffed 

 to the use of himself and his heirs, and I. D. pay such a sum 

 of money to the use of I. G. and his heirs, the infant may 

 disagree and overthrow the contingent use. 



Contrary law, if an infant be infeoffed to the use of him 

 self for life, the remainder to the use of I. S. and his heirs, 



