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E are next to dicoure of uch etates of freehold, as are not of inheritance, but for life only. And, of thee etates for life, ome are conventional, or exprely created by the act of the parties; others merely legal, or created by contruction and operation of law. We will conider them both in their order.

I. for life, exprely created by deed or grant, (which alone are properly conventional) are where a leae is made of lands or tenements to a man, to hold for the term of his own life, or for that of any other peron, or for more lives than one: in any of which caes he is tiled tenant for life; only, when he holds the etate by the life of another, he is uually called tenant pur auter vie. Thee etates for life are, like inheritances, of a feodal nature; and were, for ome time, the highet etate that any man could have in a feud, which (as we have before een ) was not in it's original hereditary. They are given or conferred by the ame feodal rites and olemnities, the ame invetiture or livery of eiin, as fees themelves are; and they are held by fealty, if demanded, and uch conventional rents and ervices as the lord or leor, and his tenant or leee, have agreed on. Rh