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 114 may happen everal ways. I hall intance in only one: as where lands and tenements are given to a man and the heirs of his body, on Mary his now wife to be begotten; here no iue can inherit, but uch pecial iue as is engendered between them two: not uch as the huband may have by another wife: and therefore it is called pecial tail. And here we may oberve, that the words of inheritance (to him and his heirs) give him an etate in fee; but they being heirs to be by him begotten, this makes it a fee-tail; and the peron being alo limited, on whom uch heirs hall be begotten, (viz. Mary his preent wife) this makes it a fee-tail pecial.

, in general and pecial tail, are farther diverified by the ditinction of exes in uch entails; for both of them may either be in tail male or tail female. As if lands be given to a man, and his heirs male of his body begotten, this is an etate in tail male general; but if to a man and the heirs female of his body on his preent wife begotten, this is an etate in tail female pecial. And, in cae of an entail male, the heirs female hall never inherit, nor any derived from them; nor, e convero, the heirs male, in cae of a gift in tail female. Thus, if the donee in tail male hath a daughter, who dies leaving a on, uch grandon in this cae cannot inherit the etate-tail; for he cannot deduce his decent wholly by heirs male. And as the heir male mut convey his decent wholly by males, o mut the heir female wholly by females. And therefore if a man hath two etates-tail, the one in tail male, the other in tail female; and he hath iue a daughter, which daughter hath iue a on; this grandon can ucceed to neither of the etates: for he cannot convey his decent wholly either in the male or female line.

the word heirs is neceary to create a fee, o, in farther imitation of the trictnes of the feodal donation, the word body, or ome other words of procreation, are neceary to make it a Rh