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All conveyances of freehold or leasehold interests in lands, other than certain leases for three years or less, must, by the Statute of Frauds, be in writing.22 In most, if not all, the states of this country there are statutes to the same general effect.23 These statutes, however, as be-before stated, do not interfere with surrenders by operation of law.24 And even in the case of an at955; Dobschuetz v. Holliday, 82 I11. 371; Firth v. Rowe, 53 N. J. Eq. 520, 32 Atl. 1064; Allen v. Brown, 00 Barb. (N. Y.) 39.
18. Norton Deeds, 46, citing the numerous English cases. Goodtitle v. Bailey, Cowp. 600; Roe d. Wilkinson v. Tranmer, Willes, 682; Foster's Lessee v. Dennison. 9 Ohio, 121; Hunt v. Hunt, 14 Pick. (Mass.) 374; Lambert v. Smith, 9 Ore. 185, 191. See Gray. Perpetuities Sec. 65.
United States v. Housman, 6 Paige (N. Y.) 526; Eckman v. Eckman, 68 Pa. St. 460.
20. See ante, note 33.
21. Roe d. Wilkinson v. Tranmer, 2 Wils. 75, Willes, 682; Ward v. Wooten, 75 N. C. 413: Wall v. Wall , 30 Miss. 91, 64 Am. Dec. 147; Merrill v. Publishers Paper Co.. 77 N. H. 285, 90 Atl. 786; Rembert v. Vetoe, 89 S. C. 198, 71 S. E. 959.
22. 29 Car. II c. 3, p. 1-3.
23. 1 Stimson's Am. St. Law, Sec.Sec. 1560. 414.',.
24. See ante, Sec. 431.
At common law, all written conveyances of land, as well as most other written instruments, were in the form of deeds, that is, of instruments under seal, and a deed was either a "deed of indenture" or a "deed poll." A deed of indenture was a deed made between two or more persons, while a deed poll was made by one person only.26 These terms are thus used in England at the present day, and they are occasionally so" used in this country.
26. Co. Litt. 229a. The word ,'indenture" originated in the fact that two copies of the deed were usually written on the same piece of parchment, with some word or letters written between them, through which the parchment was cut in an indented or waiving line. The words "deed poll" refer to a deed "polled" or shaven at the top. Subsequently, conveyancers adopted the practice, which still, it seems, prevails in England, of cutting all deeds between two or more parties in a waving line at the top. 2 Blackst. Comm. 296; Williams, Real Prop. (18th Ed.) 150.

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