Case Name: Abdee's case
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1793
Citations: 1 Mart. 146
Docket Number: 
Parties: Abdee’s case.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 146–146

Head Matter:
Abdee’s case.
Trin. 2 Car.
TENANT in fee granted a rent for life, and made a lease for years of the land: the grantee supposing that he had lost the deed, and that it had fallen into the hands of the lessee, sued him for the rent.

Opinion:
Doderidge, J.
If the lessee for twenty one years, grants a
rent for life, it is good during the term, and it is a chattel.
Crew, C. J.
I would not trust it in the court of requests.....
Jones, J.
. to sue for the rent, on the supposition that the deed is lost. For it is contrary to a main principle of law. And when the lessee, as here, denies the truth of the fact, they ought not to proceed over.