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 Ch. 20. to the ue of his intended wife and her eldet on for their lives, upon the marriage the wife takes the whole ue in everalty; and, upon the birth of a on, the ue is executed jointly in them both. This is ometimes called a econdary, ometimes a hifting, ue. And, whenever the ue limited by the deed expires, or cannot vet, it returns back to him who raied it, after uch expiration or during uch impoibility, and is tiled a reulting ue. As, if a man makes a feoffment to the ue of his intended wife for life, with remainder to the ue of her firt-born on in tail: here, till he marries the ue reults back to himelf; after marriage, it is executed in the wife for life; and, if he dies without iue, the whole reults back to him in fee. It was likewie held, that the ues originally declared may be revoked at any future time, and new ues be declared of the land, provided the grantor reerved to himelf uch a power at the creation of the etate; whereas the utmot that the common law would allow, was a deed of defeazance coeval with the grant itelf (and therefore eteemed a part of it) upon events pecifically mentioned. And, in cae of uch a revocation, the old ues were held intantly to ceae, and the new ones to become executed in their tead. And this was permitted, partly to indulge the convenience, and partly the caprice of mankind; who (as lord Bacon oberves ) have always affected to have the dipoition of their property revocable in their own time, and irrevocable ever afterwards.

this equitable train of deciions in the courts of law, the power of the court of chancery over landed property was greatly curtailed and diminihed. But one or two technical cruples, which the judges found it hard to get over, retored it with tenfold increae. They held in the firt place, that "no ue could be limited on a ue ," and that when a man bargains and ells his land for money, which railes a ue by implication to the bargainee, the limitation of a farther ue to another peron is re- Rh