A Treatise on Conveyancing

Necessity of certainty, viz. certain commence-
ment, and certain continuance in leases for
years

Of collateral determinations

Forms of commencement

156

. 158

. 159

. 160

8. -mode of avciding by entry, &c.

Difference as to some of these particulars be-

tween,

1. Freehold leases at common law

I. The theory of the law as it applies to a convey-

ance by lease and release

Origin of the conveyance

Feoffments and their advantages

Circumstances under which alone a feoffment

might be made

Ancient power of the owner of the freehold, to

defeat the interest of termors,

Use of grant, and circumstances under which

it might operate

Necessity of attornment to a grant till altered

by statute

Release to a tenant did not require attorn-

A deed to a tenant may operate as a grant,

when it cannot operate as a release 211

Possession not an essential ground-work

for a release

Examination of Littleton,

. ib.

Blackstone

Wooddeson

Shep. Abr. and Touch. on this

point

Possession to be read as vested interest

Difference between an interesse termini and a

Of the doctrine applicable to interesse termini 216

An estate in reversion or remainder may be.

enlarged

2

ib.

PAGE.

II. Principles on which this assurance depends
1. It creates an estate to be enlarged
2. It makes a grant in enlargement
The use of the lease is to create a particular
estate and privity

217
. ib.

The difficulties which attended feoffments as
to livery by the feoffor, or his attorney, to
the feoffee or his attorney, and the want of
seisin till livery, and which attended grants
suspending the operation till attornment, led
to the practice of lease and release
Serjeant Moor its supposed author
Circumstances which led to a general adoption

of this mode of conveyance