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peftant; in this cafe, the confirmation of the eftate-tail 
■will not extend to the reverfion. And if my diffeifor 
make a leafe for life, the remain®’ in fee, and I con¬ 
firm the eftate of the tenant for life; this (hall not con¬ 
firm the eftate of him in remainder : but if I confirm the 
remainder eftate, without any confirmation to tenant for 
life, it fhall enure to him alfo. Co. Lit. 297. If lands are 
given to two men, and the heirs of their two bodies be¬ 
gotten, and the donor confirms their eftate in the lands, 
to have and to hold to them two and their heirs; this 
fnall be conftrued a joint eftate for their lives, and after 
they (ball have feveral inheritances. Tenant in tail, or 
for life, of land, lets it for years, if after he makes a con¬ 
firmation of the land to the leffee for years, to hold to him 
and his heirs for ever, the leflee hath only an eftate for 
the life of the tenant in tail, and therein his leafe for 
years is extindh Lit. 606. 
A freehold for life, and term for years, it is faid, can¬ 
not (land together of the fame land, in the fameperfon. 
1 Self. Abr. 4. 80. If a feme leffee for years marries, and 
the lelfor confirms the eftate of hufband and wife, to hold 
for their lives, by fuch a confirmation the term will be 
drowned; and the hufband and wife are jointenants for 
their lives. Co. Lit. 300. But if the feme were leffee 
for life, then by the confirmation to hufband and wife 
for their lives, the hufband holdeth only in right of his 
wife for her life ; but fhall take a remainder for his life. 
Confirmation to leffee for life, and a ftranger to hold for 
their lives, is void, for there is no privity: but it is 
otherwife, if for years, a Dattnj. Abr. 141. If tenant for 
life grant a rent-charge, &c. to one and his heirs, he in 
reverfion is to confirm it, otherwife it is good only for the 
life of tenant for life. Lit. 529. A tenant for life, and 
remainder-man in fee, join in a leafe, this fhall be taken 
to be the leafe of tenant for life, during his life, and con¬ 
firmation of him in remainder: though after the death 
of tenant for life, it is the leafe of him in remainder, and 
confirmation of tenant for life. 1 Nelf. Abr. 481. If lef¬ 
fee for years, without impeachment for wafte, accepts a 
confirmation of his eftate for life; by this he hath loft 
the privilege annexed to his eftate for years. 8 Rep. 76. 
Acceptance of rent in fome cafes makes a confirmation 
of a le.afe : as if a man leafes for life, rel'erving rent 
upon a condition of re-entry; if after the condition is 
broken, by non-payment of the rent, the lefi'or diftrains 
for the faid rent, this ait lhall be a confirmation of the 
leafe, fo as he cannot enter. 2 Dan-is. 128. What a per- 
fon may defeat by his entry, he may make good by his 
confirmation. Co. Lit. 300. But none can confirm, un- 
lefs he hath a right at the time of the grant; he that 
hath but a right in reverfion cannot enlarge the eftate of 
a leffee. And where a perfon hath but interejj'e termini, 
he hath no eftate in him, upon which a confirmation may 
enure. Co. Lit. 290. 
As confirmation is to bind the right of him who makes 
it, but not alter the nature of the eltate of him to whom 
made, it fhall not difcharge a condition. Popb. 51. If 
A. enfeoffs B. upon condition, and after A. confirms the 
eftate of B. yet the condition remains: though if B. had 
enfeoffed C. fo that the eftate of C. had been only fubjeft 
to the condition in another deed, and after A. had con¬ 
firmed the eftate of C. this would have extinguifhed the 
condition, which was annexed to the eftate of B. t Rep. 
147. A confirmation will take away a condition annex¬ 
ed by law : and by confirmation, a condition after bro¬ 
ken in a deed of feoffment is extinguifhed. 1 Co. Rep. 146. 
Confirmations may make a defeafible eftate good ; but 
cannot work upon an eftate that is void in law. Co. Lit. 
295. A confirmation of letters-patent, which are void as 
they are againlt law, is a void confirmation. 1 Lil. Abr. 
295. If there be lord and tenant, and the tenant having 
ifl’ue, is attainted of felony, if the king pardons him, and 
the lord confirms his eftate, and the tenant dies, his iffiue 
lhall not inherit; but the lord fhall have it againlt his 
own confirmation : for that could not enable him to take 
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by defcent, who by the attainder of his father was dif- 
abled. 9 Rep. 141. 
Grants and leafes of bifhops not warranted by the 32 
Hen. VIII. c. 28, rauft be confirmed by dean and chapter: 
and grants and leafes of parfons, &c. by patron and or¬ 
dinary. 1 Inft. 297. Bifhops may grant leafes of their 
church-lands for three lives, or twenty-one years, having 
the qualities required by 32 Hen. VIII. c. 28. and con¬ 
current leafes for- twenty-one years, with confirmation 
of dean and chapter. El. c. 4. 19. If a prebend leafes 
parcel of his prebendary, and the bifliop, who is patron, 
confirms it; this lhall not bind the fucceeding bifliop, 
without confirmation of dean and chapter, becaufe the 
patronage is parcel of the polfeflions of the bifhopric; 
but it lhall bind the prefent bifliop. 2 Danv. 139. If a 
parfon grants a rent, the confirmation of the patron and 
bifliop is fufficient without the dean and chapter, and 
lhall be good againft the fi.cceeding bifliop. The dean of 
Wells may pal's his pcfleffions, with the aflent of the 
chapter, without any confirmation of the bifliop. Leafes 
of bifhops are affirmed ex ajfenfu £? confenfu decani LS totius 
capituli. See Leases. 
To the grants of a foie corporation, as parfon, preben¬ 
dary, vicar, and the like, the patron mult give his con- 
fent ; becaufe fuch foie corporation has not the abfolute 
fee : but a corporation aggregate, as dean and chapter, 
mafter, fellows, and fcholars, of a college, &<„ or any 
foie corporation that has the abfolute fee, as a bifliop 
with confent of the dean and chapter, may by the com¬ 
mon law make any grant of their pofleflions without their 
founder or patron. 1 Injl. 300. A confirmation, as has 
been already faid, is in nature of a releafe, and in fome 
things is of greater force : and in this deed, it is good to 
recite the eftate of the tenant, as alfo of him that is to 
confirm it; and to mention the confideration; the words 
ratify and confirm, are commonly made ufe of; but the 
words give, grant, demife, &c. by implication of law, may 
enure as a confirmation. 1 lnfl. 295. Wejl. Symb. 1. 457. 
CONFIRMA'TOR, f. [from confirmo, Lat.] An at- 
tefter; he that puts a matter pad doubt.—There wants 
herein the definitive conjirmator , and tell of things uncer¬ 
tain, the fenfe of man. Brown. 
CONFIRM'ATORY,/V(f/. Giving additional teftimony; 
eftablifhing with new force. 
CONFIRM'EDNESS ,/. Confirmed ftate ; radication.— 
If the difficulty arife from the conjirmednefs of habit, every 
refiftance weakens the habit, abates the difficulty. Decay 
of Piety. 
CONFIRM'FR, f. One that confirms ; one that pro¬ 
duces evidence or ftrengtli ; an attefter; an eftabliftier.— 
The oath of a lover is no ftronger than the word of a 
tapfter: they are both the confirmers of falfe reckonings. 
Shakefpeare. 
CONFIS'CABLE, adj. Liable to forfeiture. 
To CONFISCATE, <v. a. [confifcare, confifquer , i. e. in 
publicum addiccre ; from fifcus, which originally fignifieth 
a hamper, pannier, bafket, or freil; but metonyrnically 
the emperor’s treafure, becaufe it was anciently kept in 
fuch hampers. Cowell.'] To transfer private property to 
the prince or public, by way of penalty for an offence. 
The title to have thefe goods is given to the king by tjie 
law, when they are not claimed by fome other: as if a 
man be indifled for dealing the goods of another perfon, 
when they are in truth his own proper goods, and when 
the goods are brought into court againlt him, and he is 
afkecl what he fays to the goods, if he declaims them, 
he fhall lofe the goods, although that afterwaids he be 
acquitted of the felony, and the king fhall have them as 
confifcated ; but it is otherwife if he do not difclaim 
them. It is the fame where goods are found in the pof- 
feifiqn of a felon, if he difavows them, and afterwards is 
attainted for other goods, and not for them; for there 
the goods which he difavows are confifcate to the king; 
but had he been attainted for the fame goods, they fhould 
have been faid to be forfeited, and not confifcate. So if 
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