Seymour v. The Canandaigua and N. R. Stedfast v. Nicholl, 171. v. Shepard, 118, 292. Shepherd v. McEvers, 244. Sherman v. Garfield, 140. Sherwood v. Reade, 131. v. Vandenburgh, 367. Shewen v. Vanderhorst, 341. Shirras v. Craig, 118. Siglar v. Van Riper, 73, 357. Stewart v. Doughty, 77, 90, 94. v. Hutchins, 110. v. Nichols, 513. Stewart's Ex'rs v. Lisponard, 877. Stiles v. Hooker, 349. St John v. Bumpstead, 134. v. Northup, 335. v. Stansdring, 185. Storrs v. Baker, 368. Stoughton v. Pasco, 118. Stow v. Tifft, 62, 124, 151. Strong v. Skinner, 292. T v. Burtis, 354. v. Kerr, 419. v. Marrable, 216, 427. v. McGowan, 400, 461. v. Sanger, 546. Talbot v. Chamberlin, 115, 456, 462, 532. Tallman v. White, 463. Talmadge v. Pell, 200. Taylor v. Bullen, 106. v. Gould, 525. v. Horde, 53. v. Morris, 255, 262. v. Porter, 197, 466. Snyder v. Sponable, 269. 46 v. Stafford, 146. v. Thompson's lessees, 530. Springstein v. Schermerhorn, 91, 218, 438. Thurman v. Cameron, 395. Stalker v. McDonald, 122. Stanard v. Eldridge, 415. St Andrews v. Tompkins, 118. Stanton v. Cline, 134. Starr v. Ellis, 303. State v. Trask, 226. State of Connecticut v. Jackson, 147. Stead's Ex's v. Course, 464. Tice v. Anin, 135, 145. Timmins v. Rowlinson, 94. Tinney v. Tinney, 67. Titus v. Lewis, 459. v. Neilson, 64. Toll v. Hiller, 147. Tone v. Brace, 412, 430. Tompkins v. Tompkins, 522. Town v. Needham, 187, 357, 368. Vanderheyden v. Crandall, 54, 167, 172, Warren v. Davies, 522. 325, 336. v. Mallory, 294. Vandarkan v. Vandarkan, 411. Vanderkemp v. Skelton, 122, 143, 145. Vanderpool v. Vanvalkenburgh, 471. Van Derzee v. Van Derzee, 508. Van Rensselaer v. Ball, 204, 207, 213, 431. v. Chadwick, 211, 212. Gallup, 431. V. v. Hays, 43, 54, 204, 205, 207, 208, 213, 370, 416, 425, 431. v. Jewett, 208, 211, 213, 214. v. Jones, 203,208, 211, 212, 214. v. Penniman, 91, 429. v. Poucher, 47, 48, 54, 167. v. Radcliff, 190, 348. v. Snyder, 208, 213. Van Schoonhoven, matter of, 480. Van Vechten v. Van Vechten, 525. Adams v. Saratoga and Washington R. R. | Carver v. Jackson, 601. 616. Bank of Rochester v. Gray, 604. Barney v. Griffin, 582. Beck v. Burdett, 582. Benedict v. Gilman, 604. Boardman v. Halliday, 582, 597. Bradish v. Gibbs, 631. Bull v. Follett, 614. Butts v. Genung, 614. Carpenter v. Herrington, 582. 44 v. Schermerhorn, 591. Champion v. Brown, 571. Demarest v. Willard, 578. Earl v. Camp, 582. Frazer v. Western, 637. Germond v. Jones, 635. LAW OF ESTATES. PART I. OF THE LAW OF REAL ESTATE. A CHAPTER I. OF TENURE; AND OF THE PERSONS CAPABLE OF HOLDING AND CONVEYING LAND. SECTION I. Of Tenure. PRELIMINARY dissertation on tenures, has been deemed in England a necessary introduction to the law of real property. Much of this branch of the law has its origin in the feudal system. (1 Cruise, Greenleaf's ed. p. 1.) This system, as it was established in Normandy, is said to have been first introduced into England by William the Conqueror. One of the principal fruits of that event was the adoption of the maxim, or fiction of English law, that all the lands in the kingdom were originally granted out by the king; and held mediately or immediately of the crown, in consideration of certain services to be rendered by the tenant. The thing holden was called a tenement, the possessors thereof tenants, and the manner of their possession a tenure. (Ibid. 23.) Lord Coke, in his Commentary upon Littleton, after showing the origin of the word tenant, says, "We have not properly in the law of England, allodium, that is, any subject's land that is not holden." (Co. Litt. 1 b.) The distinctive difference between feudal and allodial tenure is |