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 176 termined and reulted back to the lord or proprietor, to be again dipoed of at his pleaure. And hence the uual incidents to reverions are aid to be fealty and rent. When no rent is reerved on the particular etate, fealty however reults of coure, as an incident quite ineparable, and may be demanded as a badge of tenure, or acknowlegement of uperiority; being frequently the only evidence that the lands are holden at all. Where rent is reerved, it is alo incident, though not ineparably o, to the reverion. The rent may be granted away, reerving the reverion; and the reverion may be granted away, reerving the rent; by pecial words: but by a general grant of the reverion, the rent will pas with it, as incident thereunto; though by the grant of the rent generally, the reverion will not pas. The incident paes by the grant of the principal, but not e convero: for the maxim of law is, "acceorium non ducit, ed equitur, uum principale ."

incidental rights of the reverioner, and the repective modes of decent, in which remainders very frequently differ from reverions, have occaioned the law to be careful in ditinguihing the one from the other, however inaccurately the parties themelves may decribe them. For if one, eied of a paternal etate in fee, makes a leae for life, with remainder to himelf and his heirs, this is properly a mere reverion, to which rent and fealty hall be incident; and which hall only decend to the heirs of his father's blood, and not to his heirs general, as a remainder limited to him by a third peron would have done : for it is the old etate, which was originally in him, and never yet was out of him. And o likewie, if a man grants a leae for life to A, reerving rent, with reverion to B and his heirs, B hath a remainder decendible to his heirs general, and not a reverion to which the rent is incident; but the grantor hall be intitled to the rent, during the continuance of A's etate. Rh