the same (the primer seizin on each life that dropped); it
therefore enacts: That any such lands were forfeited to the lord of
the fee; and if he did not take it within twelve months, it should
be forfeited to the king, who shall enfeoff other therein by
certain services to be done for us for the defence of the realm."

Another act, the 6th Edward I., cap. 3, provides:

"That alienation by the tenant in courtesy was void, and the heir
was entitled to succeed to his mother's property, notwithstanding
the act of his father."

The 13th Edward I., cap. 41, enacts:

"That if the abbot, priors, and keepers of hospitals, and other
religious houses, aliened their land they should be seized upon by
the king."

The 13th Edward I., cap. 1, DE DONIS conditionalitiis, provided:

"That tenements given to a man, and the heirs of his body, should,
at all events, go to the issue, if there were any; or, if there
were none, should revert to the donor."

But while the fiefs of the Crown were forbidden to alien their
lands, the FREEMEN, whose lands were Odhal (noble) and of Saxon
descent, the inheritance of which was guaranteed to them by 55
William I. (ANTE, p. 13), were empowered to sell their estates by
the statute called QUIA EMPTORES (6 Edward I.). It enacts: