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Hereditaments
rights of common and, possibly, easements; (2) certain heritable rights not necessarily connected with land, such as offices. Reversions, remainders, and executory interests and conditions have usually been classed as incorporeal hereditaments, but the classification is not
Future estates
Future estates, expectancies, which are, at Common Law, of two kinds: reversions and remainders. If in land, these are now referred to as equitable interests by the L.P. Act, 1925,
Feu, or few
feu, not on lease, so that the landlord granting land for building has not, as in England, a reversion, but grants the land in perpetuity in consideration of a perpetual annual payment. As to the redemption and
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False Verdict
either at Common Law or on 11 Hen. 7, c. 24, at his election, for the purpose of reversing the judgment and punishing the jury for their verdict; but not where the jury erred merely point at
Extinguishment
life, remainder to B. and his heirs, and I release to A., this extinguishes my right to the reversion, and shall enure to the advantage of B.'s remainder as well as to A.'s particular estate, 2 Bl.
Estrepement
or waste made by tenant for life upon any lands or woods to the prejudice of him in reversion; also making land barren by continual ploughing. The writ of estrepement was abolished by the (English) Real Property
Primer seisin
of the lands, if they were in immediate possession; and half a year's profits, if they were in reversion, expectant on an estate for life. It was incident to socage-tenants in capite, as well as those who
Enrollment
Chancellor was to prevent its being reheard by him. After a decree was enrolled, it could only be reversed or altered either by appeal to the House of Lords or by bill of review. It might be
Pretensed right
land, unless the vendor had received the profits, or been in possession of the land, or of the reversion or remainder, for one whole year, on pain that both purchaser and vendor should each forfeit the value
Verdict
whole issues submitted to a jury in the particular cause, otherwise the judgment founded upon it may be reversed. See SPECIAL VERDICT; PREVERSE VERDICT.
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