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2. Challis, Real Prop. (3rd Ed.) 362.
4. Sheppard's Touchstone, 228; Williams, Real Prop. 31; 2 Blackst. Comm. 314. See ante, Sec. 16.
Effect of execution - Return or cancellation.
- Fines and recoveries. Fines and recoveries were collusive actions brought for the purpose of effecting a transfer of interests in land not otherwise transferable. They have been abolished by statute in England, and in no state of this country are they, it is believed, in practical use.8 They were for many years utilized for the purpose of barring estates tail, and thereby.evading the statute De Donis Conditionalibiis,9 but they were appropriate and necessary for other purposes, the most important of which was the transfer-of land by a married woman, she not being competent to make an ordinary conveyance.
- Grant. A grant was, at common law, made use of for the transfer of such interests in land as, from their nature, were incapable of transfer by feoffment, that is, of which there could be no seisin, including all rights in another's land, or other incorporeal things real, and also estates in remainder or reversion upon a free hold estate.10 A grant always involved a "deed,"
5. Co. Litt. Sec. 611, and Butler's note; Co. Litt. 251a, 330b; Challis, Real Prop. 371.
6. Witham v. Brooner, 63 111. ::44; Ware v. Richardson. 3 Md. 505; Rogers v. Sisters of Charity 97 Md. 556; Hunt v. Hunt, 14 Pick. (Mass.) 374; Carr v. Richardson, 157 Mass. 576, 32 N. E. 958; Eckman v. Eckman, 68 Pa.
7. 1 Stimson's Am. St. Law, Sec. 1470.
8. These proceedings are explained in 2 Blackst. Coram. 348.
10. Co. Litt. 9b, 49a, 172a; 2 Blackst. Comm. 317; 2 Sanders. Uses & Trusts (5th Ed.) 29. See ante, Sec. 16.

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