Lex custumaria, or, A treatise of copy-hold estates in respect of the lord, copy-holder wherein the nature of customs in general, and of particular customs, grants and surrenders, and their constructions and expositions in reference to the thing granted or surrendred, and the uses or limitations of estates are clearly illustrated : admittances, presentments, fines and forfeitures are fully handled, and many quaeries and difficulties by late resolution setled : leases, licences, extinquishments of copy-hold estates, and what statutes extend to copy-hold estates are explained : and also of actions by lord or tenant, and the manner of declaring and pleading, either generally or as to particular customs, with tryal and evidence holder may recieve relief in the Court of Chancery : to which are annexed presidents of conveyances respecting copy-holds, releases, surrenders, grants presentmets, and the like : as also presidents of court rolls, surrenders, admittances, presentments, &c.
Carter, Samuel, barrister at law.
Of a Surrender in Court.
By what words a Surrender will pass.
It cannot well pass by any other word then sursum reddidit, Surrender; if it pass in the Court by the words, Give, Grant, Bargain, Sell, this will not so pass it, but the Heirs of the Copy-holder shall avoid it: It is vocabulum artis, as Warrantizare, and some other Law words are.
