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 Ch. 22.

E are next to conider aurances by pecial cutom, obtaining only in particular places, and relative only to a particular pecies of real property. This therefore is a very narrow title; being confined to copyhold lands, and uch cutomary etates, as are holden in antient demene, or in manners of a imilar nature: which, being of a very peculiar kind, and originally no more than tenancies in pure or privileged villenage, were never alienable by deed; for, as that might tend to defeat the lord of his igniory, it is therefore a forfeiture of a copyhold. Nor are they transferrable by matter of record, even in the king's courts, but only in the court baron of the lord. The method of doing this is generally by urrender; though in ome manors, by pecial cutom, recoveries may be uffered of copyholds : but thee differing in nothing material from recoveries of free land, ave only that they are not uffered in the king's courts, but in the court baron of the manor, I hall confine myelf to conveyances by urrender, and their conequences.

, urumredditio, is the yielding up of the etate by the tenant into the hands of the lord, for uch purpoes as in the urrender are expreed. As, it may be, to the ue and behoof of A and his heirs; to the ue of his own will; and the like. The proces, in mot manors, is, that the tenant comes to Rh