An exact abridgment in English, of The commentaries, or reports of the learned and famous lawyer, Edmond Plowden, an apprentice of the common law.: Concerning diverse cases and matters in law, and the arguments thereupon; in the times of the reignes of King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, King Philip, and Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, with the exceptions to the pleadings, and answers thereunto; the resolutions of the matters in law, and all other principall matters arising upon the same. By F.H. of the Inner Temple London, Esq;

Wrotesly against Adams.

A Lease for 80. years of a Farm, the Lessor gran∣ted the Reversion of the Farm to a stranger, to have and to hold the Farm for 60. years after the end and expiration of the first Term of years; the Lessor maketh a Lease for life to the first Lessee for years during the first Term, and the second Lessee Enters, and upon an Ouster, bringeth Ejectione firme and by the Court it well lyeth.

1. By the Law, by a Grant of the reversion of the Farm; the Farm, and all the Demeasnes of it pass, because it is nomen collectivum, and certain in its self; and so it was adjudged in the case of Bridges, That by the Demise of the Farm, the re∣version and rent incident to it, passeth.

2. That the word [Reversion] shall be intended land reverting in the premisses, and the habendum, and not the estate in reverter, which hath his conti∣nuance but in respect of the Term; and during it, it is a Grant of the reversion habendum, the farm, or land, or reversion after the particular estate end∣ed, are all one.

3. That the second Lease for years commencing by any determination of the first Lease, whether it be in Law, or in Deed; and the expiration refers to the Term, and not to the years; Term is an estate in or for years, and is finished when the estate is fi∣nished, and this may finish when the years re∣main.

If a man marry with a woman Termor, and the

woman dies, her husband shall have the Term, for notwithstanding that the marriage hath not di∣vested this out of the woman during coverture yet by her death, this is given to the husband by Act in Law, because it is a thing in possession, and not in Action.

The Law is the Common use in Letters, Pleas, and Judgements, and the Common Law is but common use; by Anthony Brown, fol. 195.

Notes

• Tr i El. in Com. Pleas. Ej. firme.