Lavv, or, a discourse thereof in foure bookes. Written in French by Sir Henrie Finch Knight, his Maiesties Serieant at Law. And done into English by the same author.

Statutes.

Westm̄ 2. cap. 3. A cui in vita giuen to the wife after her husbands death, vpon his losing of the land by default. And the Te∣nant that recouered against her husband must maintaine his owne right.

If it be an estate of fee simple, and she bring not in her life time a cui in vita, the heire shall haue a Sur cui vita. But of an e∣state taile onely, a formedon lyeth in this case for the heire.

And of this nature is a cui ante diuorti∣um, when it is brought by the wife after diuorcement, vpon such an alienation as before.

A fine assensu capituli is for the Succes∣sor of a Bishop, Abbot, Prior, Deane, Prebendarie, or Master of any Hospitall after the discontinuance of the Predeces∣sor, viz. when they alien the lands they haue in the right of their Church, house, Abbey, or Priorie, without the consent of their couent, Chapter, or Confrers, &c.

Vpon an ouster, or either vpon an in∣trusion or a disseisin.

That vpon an intrusion is called a writ of intrusion, and is for him in the reuersion or remainder in fee simple, or for life, not in taile (for hee shall haue a formedon) nor for yeares, because he hath not the freehold, after the death of tenant for life in Dower, or by curtesie.

And if land bee giuen to two, and the heires of one, and hee that hath fee dyeth, and after him tenant for life dyeth. Now the heire of him in the remainder shal haue this writ. And it lyeth also for the assignee of the assignee of him in the remain∣der.

Vpon a disseisin, is when the disseisin is done to him or his Ancestors. As a writ of Entrie in the Quibus; or which is all one in the nature of an Assise.

Writs that shew the demandants title, are meere possessorie, or in the right.

Meere possessorie are those which are brought by the next heire vpon an abate∣ment after the death of any auncester, other then his father, mother, brother, sister, vn∣cle, Aunt, Nephew, Neice, for vpon an a∣batement after the death of any such aun∣cestor, an Assise of mortdauncestor lyeth as shall appeare afterwards: seised in demesne as of a fee simple the day of his death, though hee were disseised the very same day, and so died not seised at all. Of this nature are,

A Writ of Ayell after the death of his grandfather or grandmother.

A writ of Besayel after his great grand∣father or grandmother.

I writ of Cosinage after the death of his great great grandfather or grandmo∣ther, or any other collaterall Cosin, as the great great grandfathers brother.