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 Ch. 12.

E come now to treat of etates, with repect to the number and connexions of their owners, the tenants who occupy and hold them. And, conidered in this view, etates of any quantity or length of duration, and whether they be in actual poeion or expectancy, may be held in four different ways; in everalty, in joint-tenancy, in coparcenary, and in common.

I. that holds lands or tenements in everalty, or is ole tenant thereof, is he that holds them in his own right only, without any other peron being joined or connected with him in point of interet, during his etate therein. This is the mot common and uual way of holding an etate; and therefore we may make the ame obervations here, that we did upon etates in poeion, as contraditinguihed from thoe in expectancy, in the preceding chapter: that there is little or nothing peculiar to be remarked concerning it, ince all etates are uppoed to be of this ort, unles where they are exprely declared to be otherwie; and that, in laying down general rules and doctrines, we uually apply them to uch etates as are held in everalty. I hall therefore proceed to conider the other three pecies of etates, in which there are always a plurality of tenants. Rh