doubts, be expressed, whether the power is to extend to the separate States as well as to the United States, as an aggregate. See Cadett v. Earle, L. R. 5 Ch. D. 710. Page 1162, line 8 from top. For 26 read 96. Page 1227, note (e). Par. 3422, note (bb). For 408 read 248. Add: Porter v. Baddeley, L. R. 5 Ch. D. 542. "Will." "Real estate." "Personal estate." Singular. INTERPRETATION CLAUSE IN THE STAT. 1 VICT. c. 26. By the stat. 1 Vict. c. 26, s. 1, it is enacted, "that the words and expressions hereinafter mentioned, which in their ordinary signification have a more confined or a different meaning, shall in this Act, except where the nature of the provision or the context of the Act shall exclude such construction, be interpreted as follows; (that is to say,) the word 'will' shall extend to a testament, and to a codicil, and to an appointment by will or by writing in the nature of a will in exercise of a power, and also to a disposition by will and testament or devise of the custody and tuition of any child by virtue of an Act passed in the 12th year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries, and Tenures in capite and by Knights Service, and Purveyance, and for settling a revenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof, or by virtue of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the 14th and 15th years of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries, and Tenures in capite and by Knights Service, and to any other testamentary disposition; and the words 'real estate' shall extend to manors, advowsons, messuages, lands, tithes, rents, and hereditaments, whether freehold, customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether corporeal, incorporeal, or personal, and to any undivided share thereof, and to any estate, right, or interest (other than a chattel interest) therein; and the words 'personal estate' shall extend to leasehold estates and other chattels real, and also to moneys, shares of Government and other funds, securities for money (not being real estates), debts, choses in action, rights, credits, goods, and all other property whatsoever which by law devolves upon the executor or administrator, and to any share or interest therein; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and every Masculine, INTERPRETATION CLAUSE IN THE STAT. 22 & 23 VICT. c. 35. By the stat. 22 & 23 Vict. c. 35, s. 25, it is enacted, that "in the construction of the previous provisions in this Act the term 'land' shall be taken to include all tenements and heredita- "Land." ments, and any part or share of or estate or interest in any tenements or hereditaments of what tenure or kind soever; and the term 'mortgage' shall be taken to include every "Mortinstrument by virtue whereof land is in any manner conveyed, gage." assigned, pledged, or charged as security for the repayment of money or money's worth lent, and to be reconveyed, reassigned, or released on satisfaction of the debt; and the term 'mortgagor' shall be taken to include every person by whom any such conveyance, assignment, pledge, or charge as aforesaid shall be made; and the term 'mortgagee' shall be taken "Mortto include every person to whom or in whose favour conveyance, assignment, pledge, or charge as aforesaid is made or transferred the term 'judgment' shall be taken to include "Judg registered decrees, orders of Courts of Equity and Bankruptcy, and other orders having the operation of judgments" (a). any such (a) As the provisions of these two Acts necessarily lie scattered about in this work, this seemed as convenient a place as any other for these interpretation clauses. Mort gagor." gagee. ment. In the following pages it is proposed to consider— I. THE SEVERAL KINDS OF THINGS CONSTITUTING THE SUBJECTS OF CONVEYANCING. 1. Things Real. 2. Things Personal. § 1. Chattels Real. 2. Chattels Personal. 1. Things Corporeal. 2. Things Incorporeal, as / 1. Annuities. 2. Rents. 3. Advowsons. 4. Tithes. 5. Commons. 6. Franchises or Liberties. 7. Ways, &c. II. THE SEVERAL KINDS OF INTERESTS IN THINGS CONSTITUTING THE SUBJECTS OF CONVEYANCING [some of which depend on or are affected by (1) Conditions, (2) Limitations]. First, in Things Real. 1. Freehold Interests (so termed in reference to tenure). Socage tenure. 2. Interests in hereditaments of Gavelkind tenure tenure. 5. Interests in hereditaments of Petit Sergeanty tenure. 6. Interests in hereditaments of Frankalmoign tenure. 2. Copyhold Interests. 1. Ordinary Copyholds. 2. Free Copyholds, or Customary Freeholds, including Antient Demesne. 1. Freehold Interests (so termed in reference to duration). 1. Freeholds of Inheritance. 1. Estates in Fee simple. 2. Limited Fees. 1. Base or Qualified Fees. 2. Fees subject to a condition subse- 3. Conditional Fees at Common Law. 2. Freeholds not of Inheritance. 1. Estates for Life, specifically so called. 2. Estates tail, after possibility of issue ex tinct. 3. Estates by the Curtesy. 4. Estates in Dower, Freebench, and Join ture. 2. Interests less than Freehold. |