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 Ch. 20. of eiin, as feoffments in fee-imple. And this is the only ditinction that Littleton eems to take, when he ays, "it is to be undertood that there is feoffor and feoffee, donor and donee, leor and leee;" viz. feoffor is applied to a feoffment in fee-imple, donor to a gift in tail, and leor to a leae for life, or for years, or at will. In common acceptation gifts are frequently confounded with the next pecies of deeds: which are,

3., conceiones; the regular method by the common law of transferring the property of incorporeal hereditaments, or, uch things whereof no livery can be had. For which reaon all corporeal hereditaments, as lands and houes, are aid to lie in livery; and the others, as advowons, commons, rents, reverions, &c, to lie in grant. And the reaon is given by Bracton : "traditio, or livery, nihil aliud et quam rei corporalis de perona in peronam, de manu in manum, tranlatio aut in poeionem inductio; ed res incorporales, quae unt ipum jus rei vel corpori inhaerens, traditionem non patiuntur." Thee therefore pas merely by the delivery of the deed. And in igniories, or reverions of lands, uch grant, together with the attornment of the tenant (while attornments were requiite) were held to be of equal notoriety with, and therefore equivalent to, a feoffment and livery of lands in immediate poeion. It therefore differs but little from a feoffment, except in it's ubject matter: for the operative words therein commonly ued are dedi et concei, "have given and granted."

4. is properly a conveyance of any lands or tenements, (uually in conideration of rent or other annual recompene) made for life, for years, or at will, but always for a les time than the leor hath in the premies: for if it be for the whole interet, it is more properly an aignment than a leae. The uual words of operation in it are, "demie, grant, Rh