ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.

INTERPRETATION CLAUSE IN THE STAT. 1 VICT. C. 26.
By the stat. 1 Vict. c. 26, s. 1, it is enacted, "that the words and

Will.

expressions hereinafter mentioned, which in their ordinary
signification have a more confined or a different meaning,
shall in this Act, except where the nature of the provision
or the context of the Act shall exclude such construction,
be interpreted as follows; (that is to say,) the word 'will'
shall extend to a testament, and to a codicil, and to an
appointment by will or by writing in the nature of a will in
exercise of a power, and also to a disposition by will and
testament or devise of the custody and tuition of any child
by virtue of an Act passed in the 12th year of the reign of
King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for taking away
the Court of Wards and Liveries, and Tenures in capite and by
Knights Service, and Purveyance, and for settling a revenue upon
His Majesty in lieu thereof, or by virtue of an Act passed in
the Parliament of Ireland in the 14th and 15th years of the
reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for
taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in
capite and by Knights Service, and to any other testamentary
disposition; and the words 'real estate' shall extend to "Real
manors, advowsons, messuages, lands, tithes, rents, and
hereditaments, whether freehold, customary freehold, tenant
right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and
whether corporeal, incorporeal, or personal, and to any
undivided share thereof, and to any estate, right, or interest
(other than a chattel interest) therein; and the words
'personal estate' shall extend to leasehold estates and other "Personal
chattels real, and also to moneys, shares of Government and
other funds, securities for money (not being real estates),
debts, choses in action, rights, credits, goods, and all other
property whatsoever which by law devolves upon the executor
or administrator, and to any share or interest therein; and
every word importing the singular number only shall extend Singular.
and be applied to several persons or things as well as one
person or thing; and every word importing the masculine Masculine.
gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well
as a male." (See footnote (a) on next page).

estate."

estate "

“Land."

"Mortgage."

"Mort

gagor."

"Mortgagee.

"Judg

ment.

INTERPRETATION CLAUSE IN THE STAT. 22 & 23 VICT. c. 35.
By the stat. 22 & 23 Vict. c. 35, s. 25, it is enacted that "in the
construction of the previous provisions in this Act the term
'land' shall be taken to include all tenements and heredita-
ments, and any part or share of or estate or interest in any
tenements or hereditaments of what tenure or kind soever;
and the term 'mortgage' shall be taken to include every
instrument by virtue whereof land is in any manner conveyed,
assigned, pledged, or charged as security for the repayment
of money or money's worth lent, and to be reconveyed, re-
assigned, or released on satisfaction of the debt; and the term
'mortgagor' shall be taken to include every person by whom
any such conveyance, assignment, pledge, or charge as afore-
said shall be made; and the term 'mortgagee' shall be taken
to include every person to whom or in whose favour any such
conveyance, assignment, pledge, or charge as aforesaid is made
or transferred: the term 'judgment' shall be taken to include
registered decrees, orders of Courts of Equity and Bank
ruptcy, and other orders having the operation of judg
ments" (a).

Par. 146, in marginal note, after "created" insert “by.”
273, n. (a) for "Hughe" read" Hughes."

686, n. (b), and par. 687, n. (c), for "113th " read “13th."

1092 b, n. (a) after "Bellamy" add "and Metropolitan Board of Works."

1291, in third marginal note, for "heir" read "heirs."

1540, n. (e), for "§" read "s."

1615, n. (c), for "V.R." read "W.R.," and add "L.R. 25

Ch. D. 646."

Page 833, n. (a), line 3, for "24" read "25."

Par. 3155, last line, for "23 and 24" read "13 and 14."

3349, marginal note, for "Who aliens are "read"Who are aliens."

Page 1476, in schedule, line 8 from bottom, for "benefice, or

"benefice) or."

read

Note. The printer, in some instances, altered the word "feme" into "femme," after the sheets were returned for press.

(a) As the provisions of these two Acts necessarily lie scattered about in this work, this seemed as convenient a place as any other for these interpretation clauses.

INTRODUCTION

In the following pages it is proposed to consider

I. THE SEVERAL KINDS OF THINGS CONSTITUTING THE SUBJECTS OF

CONVEYANCING.

1. Things Real.

2. Things Personal.

(1. Chattels Real.

2. Chattels Personal.

(1. Things Corporeal.

2. Things Incorporeal, as
1. Annuities.

2. Rents.

3. Advowsons.

4. Tithes.

5. Commons.

6. Franchises or Liberties.

7. Ways, etc.

II. THE SEVERAL KINDS OF INTERESTS IN THINGS CONSTITUTING THE SUBJECTS OF CONVEYANCING [some of which depend on or are affected by (1) Conditions, (2) Limitations].

1st.

First, in Things Real.

2nd.

1. Freehold Interests (so termed in reference to tenure).
1. Interests in hereditaments of common or ordinary

Socage tenure.

2. Interests in hereditaments of Gavelkind tenure.
3. Interests in hereditaments of Burgage tenure.
4. Interests in hereditaments of Grand Sergeanty

tenure.

5. Interests in hereditaments of Petit Sergeanty

tenure.

6. Interests in hereditaments of Frankalmoign

tenure.

2. Copyhold Interests.

1. Ordinary Copyholds.

2. Free Copyholds, or Customary Freeholds, including Antient Demesne.

1. Freehold Interests (so termed in reference to duration). 1. Freeholds of Inheritance.

(1. Estates in Fee simple.

2. Limited Fees.

1. Base or Qualified Fees.

2. Fees subject to a condition subsequent or conditional limitation.

3. Conditional Fees at Common Law.

4. Fees Tail.

2. Freeholds not of Inheritance.

1. Estates for Life, specifically so called.

2. Estates tail, after possibility of issue ex

tinct.

3. Estates by the Curtesy.

4. Estates in Dower, Freebench, and Join

ture.

Interests less than Freehold.

1. Estates for Years.

2. Estates at Will.

3. Interests by Sufferance.

4. Chattel Interests created for special purposes.

1. Interests in Severalty.

3rd. 2. Interests in Community.

1. In Joint Tenancy.

2. By Entireties.

3. In Coparcenary.

4. In Common.

1. Merely Legal Interests: and herein of Uses. 4th.2. Merely Equitable Interests or Trusts. 3. Both Legal and Equitable Interests.

5th.

6th.

1. Vested Interests or actual Estates.
(1. Present Vested Interests.

2. Future Vested Interests.

(1. Vested Remainders.

2. Reversions.

2. Executory Interests, or Interests only, as distinguished from actual Estates, whether created by executory devise, or by executory limitation by way of use.

(u)

(b)

(1. Certain.

2. Contingent.

1. Contingent Remainders.

2.

Springing Interests.

3. Alternative Interests.

4. Interests augmented in a given event.

5. Interests diminished in a given event.

6. Interests under Conditional Limitations.

3. Rights of Entry or Action.

4. Mere Possibilities.

5. Mere Adverse Possessions.

6. Expectancies of heirs apparent or heirs presumptive. 7. Powers.

8. Charges.

9. Liens.

1. Absolute or Indefeasible Interests.

2. Defeasible Interests: and herein of Mortgages of real property, and interests under Statutes Merchant, Statutes Staple, Recognisances, Judgments, Decrees, Orders, and Rules of Court, and Elegit.

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