If it be a lease for life, the copyhold is gone, without livery thereon. Quod non suit negatum.
Anonymous, 1 N.C. 213, 1 Mart. 213 (1793)
1793
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United States Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina
1 N.C. 213, 1 Mart. 213
Anonymous.
Mich. 3 Car.
IN evidence, one of the jury asked the court, whether, if the lord makes a lease to a copyholder by parole, this, confounds the copyholder? Cur. viz. Hyde, C. J. and Jones, J. It does, if livery be given; otherwise by deed.