Neceffary for all Landlords, Tenants, Farmers, Stewards, Agents, Solliciters, and others concern. ed in the Buying, Selling, and Letting of Eftates. The Seventh Edition.

To which is added

An Appendix containing fuch Acts of Parliament, and proper Precedents, as relate to these Subjects, brought down to this Time.

In the SAVOT:

Printed by E. and R. NUTT, and R. GOSLING, (Affigns of Edward Sayer, Efq;) for. Walthoe, .Lintor, . Goiling, W. Mears, W. Jnnis, J. Dsborn, and T. Longman, J. Hooke, F. Clay, H. Wiliamfon, and D. Browne. M DCC XXVII.

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HE Relation of Landlord and Tenant being the most univerfal of any in civil Society, nothing need be faid to recommend the Subject of the enfuing Sheets. What has been as yet published on this Title of our Law, being fo apparently defective, 'tis conceived twould be impertinent to enter on an Enumeration of the Errors or Omiffions of thofe Books. Let any Reader but compare what is here faid on any one Point with what occurs in other Books, and he'll foon obferve the Truth of this Affertion: The Omiffion of fome Cafes, the Number of the Report-Books being fo exceeding great, is a Fault that fomething may be faid to excufe; but what can be offered for those that have wrote on this Subject, and have omitted the 32 H 8. the 8 & 9 of W. & M. and the 8 of the late Queen, which feveral Statutes have made the most material Alterations in our Law. As we have in the following Sheets treated this Subject more copiously than it hath hitherto been ;

fo we hope the Method we have digefted this Treatife into, will be thought by dif cerning Readers to be more accurate and perfpicuous than that of any other Tract concerning Landlords or Tenants. In the ift Chapter, The Nature and Origin of Tenures is confidered. In the 2d, We treat of Eftates. In the 3d, Of Copyholds. In the 4th, We explain the Nature of a Leafe. In the 5th, Is fhewn who may leafe, and who may rent. In the 6th, What may be leafed. The 7th and 8th contain the Obligations and Rights of the Parties by Virtue of the Leafe. And the 9th and 10th treat of the Remedies the Law gives each for the Recovery of their Rights. We hope the Appendix will be another Inftance of the Diligence that hath been used in collecting together what was scattered concerning our Subject in the many Volumes of the Law, fine the Reader will there find an Act of Parliament of great Import, that doth not occur in the laft Edition of the Statutes. And because Rules without Precedents are of little Ufe, we have added Some Select Precedents chiefly collected out of the Lord Chief Justice Saunder's Reports, and Vidian's Entries, which are Books of unquestionable Authority, and that cannot be in the Hands of many to. whom this Treatife will be useful.

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CHAP. I.

Of Tenants and Tenures.-

ENANT, whence derived. Lands,
how holden. To whom they efcheat.
All Lands are bolden of fome Body. The
Conqueror took from the Laity what he
pleafed, and referved Services to himself
from thofe he gave Lands to, whereby
Tenures were created. Why he referved
the Marriage of the Heir. Why primier
Seifin and Fealty referved. Inftitution
of Tenures by Grand Serjeanty. Intro-
duction of Socage-Tenures. Fines for
Alienation, and who must pay them,
and the Office where. That the Great
Lords in Imitation of the Conqueror,
referved the like Services from their
Tenants. Of Relief, Of the Origin of
Manors: Their Courts; and of Copy-
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