Of Admittances upon Surrender.
The nature of it will be Explained by two or three Rules.
I. The surrender of a Copy-hold to J. S. hath no effect till J. S. be admitted Tenant; therefore if J. S. before he is admitted, surren∣ders to J. B. who is admitted; this avails no∣thing to J. B. for J. S. himself had nothing, and so can pass nothing, and the Admittance of his Grantee shall not be taken by implication as Admittance to himself, for the Admittance ought to be of a Tenant certainly known to the Steward, and entred in a Roll by it self, and in such case the Right and Possession remains still in him who surrendered, and descends to his Heir; he to whom the Copy-hold is surren∣dred, comes in as a Purchaser, and his Copy is his Evidence by the Custom, and till he is admitted, he can be no customary Tenant, and therefore can transfer no right to another, Yelverton 145. Wilson and Weddel. 1 Brownlow 143. Aliter in Case of Descent, Vide infra. The Admittance of a Copy-holder is com∣pared to the Induction to a Benefice, which