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 Ch. 9. regard to emblements, or profits of land owed by tenant for years, there is this difference between him, and tenant for life: that where the term of tenant for years depends upon a certainty, as if he holds from midummer for ten years, and in the lat year he ows a crop of corn, and it is not ripe and cut before midummer, the end of his term, the landlord hall have it; for the tenant knew the expiration of his term, and therefore it was his own folly to ow what he never could reap the profits of. But where the leae for years depends upon an uncertainty; as, upon the death of the eor, being himelf only tenant for life, or being a huband eied in right of his wife; or if the term of years be determinable upon a life or lives; in all thee caes, the etate for years not being certainly to expire at a time foreknown, but merely by the act of God, the tenant, or his executors, hall have the emblements in the ame manner, that a tenant for life or his executors hall be intitled thereto. Not o, if it determine by the act of the party himelf; as if tenant for years does any thing that amounts to a forfeiture: in which cae the emblements hall go to the leor, and not to the leee, who hath determined his etate by his own default.

II. econd pecies of etates not freehold are etates at will. An etate at will is where lands and tenements are let by one man to another, to have and to hold at the will of the leor; and the tenant by force of this leae obtains poeion. Such tenant hath no certain indefeaible etate, nothing that can be aigned by him to any other; for that the leor may determine his will, and put him out whenever he pleaes. But every etate at will is at the will of both parties, landlord and tenant, o that either of them may determine his will, and quit his connexions with the other at his own pleaure. Yet this mut be undertood with ome retriction. For, if the tenant at will ows his land, Rh