In the Third Volume, which will contain a selection of the most useful Common Forms, I shall add a Supplement to the two former Volumes, in which I shall supply the deficiency adverted to, and bring down the cases to the period of publication.

24, OLD SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN. 20th March, 1841.

S. ATKINSON.

What estates and interests were transferable at common law.

How long the vesting of estates could be postponed

Uses at common law

10

11

12

15

17

ib.

18

19

24

25

1. Uses executed by the statute

2. Conveyance to A. to the use of A.

3. Whether the same technical words are necessary in

deeds to uses, as in common law conveyances

4. Springing and shifting uses

5. Assurances created by the statute

6. Out of what seisin, shifting and contingent uses are

supplied-The scintilla juris.

Of the declaration of uses

Of resulting uses

ib.

173

Forfeiture

Extinguishment and suspension of the copyhold tenure

Enfranchisement

III. OF CUSTOMARY COPYHOLDS.

Locality of this tenure

As to the devise and conveyance of customary tenements

Nature of the customary tenant's estate

CHAPTER VI.

OF ESTATES OF INHERITANCE.

I. OF ESTATES IN FEE.

Distinction between fee simple, base fee, and fee con-

III. EFFECT OF A BARGAIN AND SALE, OR OTHER TANTAMOUNT

ASSURANCE BY TENANT IN TAIL

IV. OF FINES.

198

Taltarum's case

Fines at common law

with proclamations

V. OF COMMON RECOVERIES.

Effect of a common recovery

202

206

216

217

Principal parts of a common recovery

218

Tenant to the Præcipe

ib.

V.-continued.

Amendment of fines and recoveries

Reversal of fines and recoveries

Collateral effects of a fine or recovery.

Covenant to levy a fine or suffer a common recovery

VI. EXISTING MODES OF DISPOSING OF ESTATES TAIL.

Disposition of estates tail in freehold lands in which

the tenant in tail has the legal, or equitable, estate

in his own right

222

224

230

232

235

ib.

236

(4) The settlor may appoint a protector

(5) Exclusion of the jurisdiction of courts of

equity over the protector's exercise of

his authority

Disposition of estates tail in lands of copyhold tenure,

of which the tenant has the legal, or equitable, es-

tate in his own right.

Disposition of estates tail under a fiat in bankruptcy

Disposition of estates tail in lands to be purchased out

of a subsisting money fund, or money to be pro-

duced by the sale of other lands

VII. OF CURTESY.

244

Of what estate the wife must be seised to entitle her

husband to curtesy .

254

Legal incidents of the estate by curtesy

ib.

VIII. OF DOWER.

Of the seisin in the husband necessary to support the

widow's title to dower.

Means of preventing dower from attaching, and of

defeating it when it has attached.