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 314 unlimited dominion. Written deeds were therefore introduced, in order to pecify and perpetuate the peculiar purpoes of the party who conveyed: yet till, for a very long eries of years, they were never made ue of, but in company with the more antient and notorious method of transfer, by delivery of corporal poeion.

of eiin, by the common law, is neceary to be made upon every grant of an etate of freehold in hereditaments corporeal, whether of inheritance or for life only. In hereditaments incorporeal it is impoible to be made; for they are not the object of the enes: and in leaes for years, or other chattel interets, it is not neceary. In leaes for years indeed an actual entry is neceary, to vet the etate in the leee: for the bare leae gives him only a right to enter, which is called his interet in the term, or interee termini; and, when he enters in puruance of that right, he is then and not before in poeion of his term, and complete tenant for years. This entry by the tenant himelf erves the purpoe of notoriety, as well as livery of eiin from the grantor could have done; which it would have been improper to have given in this cae, becaue that olemnity is appropriated to the conveyance of a freehold. And this is one reaon why freeholds cannot be made to commence in futuro, becaue they cannot be made but by livery of eiin; which livery, being an actual manual tradition of the land, mut take effect in praeenti, or not at all.

the creation of a freehold remainder, at one and the ame time with a particular etate for years, we have before een that at the common law livery mut be made to the particular tenant. But if uch a remainder be created afterwards, expectant on a leae for years now in being, the livery mut not be made to the leee for years, for then it operates nothing; "nam quod emel meum et, amplius meum ee non potet :" but it mut be made Rh