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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1757 edition. Excerpt: ...R. 2. c. 5. which makes it a forfeiture of lands to purchafe bulls, -ex tends not to copyholds, for the prejudice the lord should sustain if the king should 4C0.126.b-have the lands. The 17 Ed. 2. c. 10. 9 Co. 105.a. concem;ng the wardship of ideots lands, doth not extend to copyhold. The ilat. of fines, because made to avoid controversies, and no ways prejudicial to tenant or lord. in the supplement to my Lord (Joke's treatise of copyholds, it is said. that the jz.Jt. 8. c. 38. concerning remedy for arrears of rent, extends AEot to copyhqyis. Tco prove which, a cafe is cited in Leo. which which is this: A lord of a manor, whereof 2 L-109were divers copyholders, granted a rentcharge for life, and afterwards made a feoffment of the manor to y. S. in fee, who granted a copyhold for life to ft. J. S. died, and the grantee of the rent died, and his executors distrained for the arrears in B.'s copyhold lands; and it is there said it was held by the court, that the distress was not well taken j and the reafon is, because the words of the statute are, claiming only by and from him and the copyholder doth not only claim by his grantor, but by custom. This opinion, as it seems, was upon the first hearing of the cause j for the very cafe is report-2 Leo. Ij2. ed quite contrary by the fame reporter5 3'59and it is said to be resolved by all the judges but Fenner, that the copyhold should be charged with the rent-charge; for the custom is no part of his title, but only appoints how he shall hold; and since it was charged in the lord's hands, it is plainly within the intent and meaning of the act, as well as the words, to be charged in the copyholder's hands; and to this purpose there is a cafe in t)yer ad-Dyer 270. b. judged. But if the cafe.