OF INCORPOREAL HEREDITAMENTS (continued).
it may also be, 1. presentative; 2. collative; 3. donative,. II. tithes are a tenth part of the yearly increase from lands, stock and industry, appropriated to the parson or vicar,.
historical view thereof,.
V. offices are the right to exercise a public or private employment,.
IX. annuities are yearly sums chargeable upon the person of the grantor,.... X. rents are a certain profit, issuing periodically, out of corporeal hereditaments, 41 1. rent-service, so called because service, or at least fealty, is incident to it, 41 2. rent-charge, where the owner hath no future interest or expectant re- mainder in the land, but is given a right to distrain,.
3. rent seck, or rent reserved without right of distress,. rent is regularly due and payable on the land,...
historical view thereof,.
the fundamental maxim of the feudal system, that all lands were granted out by the sovereign, and are holden of him,...
fealty and homage due from the tenant,.
feuds originally at will, at length became hereditary, but could only be transferred by mutual consent,.
incident to it were aids, reliefs, primer seisin, wardship, marriage, fines for alienation and escheat,.. .....63-73
OF THE MODERN ENGLISH TENURES,..
socage is tenure by any certain and determinate service,.
it is free socage where the services are honorable, and villein-socage when they are of baser nature,......
6. primer seisin was incident to the king's tenants in capite,
villeins were villeins regardant, or annexed to the manor, or in gross, or pertaining to the person,..
the tenant may now alien in fee simple by an ordinary deed,.
estates less than freehold are, 1. for years; 2. at will; 3. at sufferance,
estate for years is where lands are let for any certain period of time,.
the computation of time, year, month, week and day,..................
livery is not given, and it may be made to commence in futuro,.
incident to it are estovers,
these are those, 1. on condition implied; 2. on condition expressed,
under which last head may be included, 3. estates held in pledge; 4. estates
by statute staple or statute merchant; 5. estates by elegit,..
estates upon condition implied are those which, from their nature and consti-
tution, have a condition inseparably annexed,.
estates upon condition expressed are where an express qualification is annexed
to the grant, whereby the estate is to commence, be enlarged or defeated, 154
the conditions are precedent or subsequent,..
the vendor of lands may have an equitable mortgage, without writing, for unpaid purchase-money, when he has not waived it,.
the doctrine of tacking mortgages,...
2. contingent, where the estate is limited to take effect either to an uncer- tain person or on an uncertain event,.
a contingent remainder of freehold can only be limited on a freehold, 171 they are defeated by destruction of the particular estate,............. 171
the parceners may have partition,.
the computation of the civil law is different, .
the canons of descent are:
1. inheritances shall descend to the issue of the person who last died seized, in infinitum, but never lineally ascend,..
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