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tates are ended, n Rep'. iS. Ana if a lord of the ma¬ 
nor for the time being, lelf'ee for life, years, &c. take a 
furrender, and before admittance he dieth, or the years 
or interefi: determine, though the next lord comes in 
above the leafe for life or years, or other particular in- 
tereft, yet he (hall be compelled to make admittance ac¬ 
cording to the furrender. Co. Lit. 59. But a lord at will, 
of a copyhold manor, cannot licence a copyhold tenant 
to make a leafe for years ; though he may grant a copy- 
hold for life'according to the cuftom : if a lord for life 
gives licence to a tenant to make a leafe for years, this 
leafe fhall continue no longer than the life of the lord. 
' 2 Danv. Abr. 202. If he that is lord of the manor for 
the time being, admits one to a copyhold, he difpenfes 
with all precedent forfeitures ; not only as to himfelf, 
but alfo as to him in reverb on ; for fuch grant and ad¬ 
mittance amount to an entry for the forfeiture, and a 
new grant; hut a lord by tort cannot by fuch admit¬ 
tance purge tire forfeiture as to the rightful lord. 1 Lev. 
26. Grants by copy of court-roll by infants, &c. will 
be binding: and if a guardian in focage grants a copy- 
hold in reverfion, according to the cultom of the manor, 
this lliali be a good grant. 2 Rol. Abr. 41. If baron and 
feme leized of a manor in right of the feme grant a copy- 
hold, this fhall bind the feme notwithftanding her co¬ 
verture. 4 Rep. 23. An executor may make grants of 
copyhold e dates, according to the cultom of the manor, 
where a devife is made that the executor fhall grant co¬ 
pies for payment of debts. 2 Danv. 17S. A manor may 
be held by copy of court-roll, and the lord of fuch ma¬ 
nor,may grant copies ; and fuch cultomary manor may 
pafs by furrender and admittance, &c. A cultomary 
manor may be holden of another manor, and fuch cul¬ 
tomary lord may grant copies and hold courts : but a 
copyholder, lord of fuch a manor, cannot hold a court 
baron to have forfeitures, and hold pleas in a writ of 
right. 1 Ne/J'. Abr. 524. 
All grants of copyhold eltates are to be according to 
the cultom of the manor ; and rents and fervices cufto- 
mary mult be referved ; for what adts of the lord in 
granting copyholds are not confirmed by cultom, but 
only ftrengthened by the power and interefi of the lord, 
have no longer duration than the lord’s eftate continueth. 
tf by the cultom, a copyhold may be granted for three 
lives, and the lord grants it to one for life, remainder to 
fuch woman as he fhall marry, and to the firft fon of his 
body ; bottuhefe remainders are void : and a remainder 
limited upon a void eftate in the creation, will be like- 
wife void. But if by cultom it is demilable in fee, a 
furrender may be to the ufe of one for life, remainder in 
fail, remainder in fee. 2 Danv. Abr. 203. Cro. Eliz. 373. 
ft is held, where by the cultom of a manor the lord can 
grant a copyhold for three lives, he may grant it for 
an eftate coming within the intent of the cultom ; as to 
A. B. and his afiigns, to hold to him and his ailigns for 
Shi lives of three others, and of the longer liver of them 
fucceftively, &c. 2 Ld. Raym. 994. 
The lord of a manor may himfelf grant a copyhold 
eftate at any place out of the manor; but the itevvard 
cannot grant a copyhold at a court held out of the manor. 
4 Rep. 26. Though the fteward may take furrenders out 
of the manor, as well as the lord. 2 Danv. Abr. A 
fteward is in place of the lord, and without a command 
to the contrary may grant lands by copy. But if a lord 
command a fteward that he fhall not grant fuch a copy, 
if he grants it, it is void : and if the fteward diminilhes 
the ancient rents and fervices, the grant will be void. 
Cro:Eliz. 699. Things of neceffity done by a fteward, 
who is but in reputed authority, are good if they come 
in by preferment- of the jury ; as the admittance of an 
heir upon preferment, &c. Though a£ts voluntary, 
as grants of copyhold, are not good by fuch ftewards. 
Cro. FJiz. 6 99. If an under-fteward hold a-court without 
any difturbance of the lord of the manor, though lie 
hath no patent nor deputation to hold it, yet it is good ; 
II O L D. 
becaufe the tenants are not to examine what authority he 
hath, nor is he bound, to give them an account of it. 
Moor no. A deputy fteward may authorife another to 
do a particular act; but cannot make a deputy to aft in 
general. 2 Salk, 95. 
In admittances, in court upon voluntary grants, the 
lord is proprietor; in admittances upon furrender, the 
lord is not proprietor of the lands, but only a neceftary 
inftrument of conveyance ; and in admittances by de- 
feent, the lord is a mere inftrument, not being neceftary 
to ftrengthen the heir’s title, but only to give the lord 
his fine. 4-Rcp. 21. The heir of a copyholder may enter, 
and bring trefpafs, before admittance, being in by de- 
feent; and he may furrender before admittance : but he 
is not complete tenant to be i'worn.of the homage, or to 
maintain a plaint in the lord’s court. And if the heir 
do not come in and be admitted, on the death of his an- 
ceftor, where the fame is prefented and proclamation 
made, he may forfeit his eftate. Cro. Eliz. 90. 4 Rep. 22. 27-. 
On furrender of a copyhold, the furrenderor or perfon 
making the fame, continues tenant till the admittance of 
the furrenderee ; and the furrenderee may not enter upon 
the lands, or furrender before admittance, for he hath r.o 
eftate till then; though it is ctherwife of the heir by de- 
feent; who is in by courfe of law, and the cuftom cafts 
the poffeftion upon him. Comp. Court-Keep. 436. A fur¬ 
render is not of any effect until admittance, and yet the 
furrenderee cannot be defrauded of the benefit of the 
furrender ; for the furrenderor cannot pafs away the land 
to another or make it fubjebt to any other incumbrances ; 
and if the lord refufe the furrenderee admittance, he is 
compellable in chancery. A grantee hath no intereft 
vefted in him till he is admitted : but admittance of a 
copyholder for life is an admittance of him in remainder, 
for they are but one eftate ; and tire remainder-man may'-, 
after the death of tenant for life, furrender without ad¬ 
mittance. 3 ley. 308. Every admittance upon a defeent 
or furrender may be pleaded as a grant ; and a perfon 
may allege the admittance of his anceftor as a grant; 
and Ihew the defeent to him, and that he entered ; but 
he cannot plead that his father was feifed in fee, and 
that he died feifed, and the land defeended to himt 
2 Danv. 208. Admittance on furrenders mud, in all re- 
fpefts, agree with the furrender ; the lord having' only a 
cuftomary power to admit fecundum formam & eJfeSum 
Jurfum-redditionis. a. Rep. 26. If any are admitted other- 
wife, they fhall be feifed according to the furrender : yet 
where a voluntary furrender is general, without faying 
to whofe ufe, a fubfequent admittance may explain it. 
2 Danv. 187. In voluntary admittances,'if the lord ad¬ 
mits any one contrary to cuftom, it fhall not bind his 
heir or fucceffor. If a copyholder furrender to the ufe 
of another, and after the lord, having knowledge of it, 
accepts the rent of fuch other out of court, this is an 
admittance in law : and any act, implying the confent of 
the lord to the furrender, (hall be adjudged a good ad¬ 
mittance. 1 NclJ. Abr. 493. If'the fteward accept a’fine 
of a copyholder, it amounts to an admittance ; but deli¬ 
vering a copy is no admittance. 2 Danv. 189. 
Where a widow's eftate is created by cuftom, that fhall 
be an admittance in law; and her eftate arifing out of that 
of her hufband’s, his admittance is the admittance of her. 
Hut. iS. And ftie who hath'a widow’s eftate by the cuf¬ 
tom of the manor, upon the death of her hufband, need 
not pay a fine to the lord for the eftate; for this is only a 
branch of the hufband’s'. Hob. 181. When a cuftom is, 
that the wife of every copyholder for life fhall have her 
free bench, after the death of the baron, the law cafts the 
eftate upon the wife, fo that fire fhall have it before ad¬ 
mittance. 2 Danv. 184. But if a wife is entitled to her 
free bench by cuftom, and a copyholder in fee furrenders 
to the ufe of another, and then dies; it has been adjudged, 
that the furrenderee fhould have the land, and not the 
wife ; becaufe the wife’s title doth not commence till af¬ 
ter the death of her hulband but the plaintiff’s title be- 
