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;

What Livery and Seisen is, and the validity of it, fol. 554. a.

Estate tayle shall not be in abeyance, nor a∣ny thing which another cannot have, for abey∣ance is onely for the benefit of a stranger, be∣cause it cannot vest immediately, 556. a. 562. a.

Estates in fee are three: First, Pure fee: Secondly, Fee determinable: thirdly, Base fee, which shall be in one when the pure fee is in another, fol. 557. a.

An estate tayle shall not be to anothers use, fol. 555. a. yet if tenant in tayle bargain and sels the Land by Deed inrolled, the Bargainee shall have see, executed by the Statute of 27. H. 8. which cannot be, except the use shall be raised first out of the estate taile, and so the estate tayle shall be to another use, fol. 557. b.

A Disseisor or Intruder upon the possession of tenant in tayle of the Kings gift, gaines not, except the estate for life of tenant in tayle,

and therefore if he dye seised, the issue in tayle shall enter upon this discent, as I beleeve, fol. 558. a.

The Father maketh a Lease for life to his Son, the Remainder for life to her which shall be his Wife at the time of his death, this is a good Remainder, and shall be in abeyance untill the Wife be knowne, fol. 562. a.

Saving in a Statute contrary to the Expla∣nation is voide, Puton and Hides Case, and Austins Case of a Lease, and the Duke of Nor∣folks Case, fol. 564. a.

The possession shall be awarded upon a Bill of Intrusion, which is but Trespas in its na∣ture, 561. a.

Tenant in tayle grants his estate, there waste is dispunishable, during the life of tenant in tayle, because it is not but onely a privi∣ledge annexed to it. Estates passe to the Gran∣tee, and amount to words of dispunishable of waste, and not because he hath a greater e∣state then for the life of tenant in tayle. So 42. H. 3.21. waste dispunishable in tenant for life (because the Lestor released all his right that he had in the same Land, and that he or his heires would not demand any right in the same, nor claime, nor challenge for the terme of the life of the tenant) for that it amounts unto a Lease without impeachmeat of waste, fol. 556.

A Writ of Error abated by the death of the Lord Chancellour, because his Christian name and Sir-name, and Keeper of the great Seale, were put into the Writ, fol. 564. b.