(d)  So  a  tenant  by  tbe  curtesy,  in
tail,  after  possibility  of  issue  extinct,
in  dower,  for  life,  for  years,  by  sta-
tute, or  elegit,  guardian,  &c.,  hold
their  estates  subject  to  a  condition  in
law,  that  if  they  alien  the  land  in  fee,
or  claim  a  greater  estate  in  a  court  of
record  than  their  own,  they  forfeit  the
estate,  and  he  in  remainder  or  rever-
sion may  enter ;  and  if  sach  tenant  do
waste,  he  in  reversion  shall  recover
the  place  wasted  ;  Shep.  Touch.  125.
1050  Landlord  and  Tenant.
the  time  of  lively'  (e) ;  where  a  forfeiture  nisy  be  incurred  by  a  grant  or
deed,  it  ia  necessary  that  the  deed  be  a  valid  inrtniment,  for  if  by  reaton
of  any  defect  it  be  void,  it  will  not  work  a  foifeiture  of  the  estate  (_/) :
but  granting  a  lease  of  the  land  for  more  years  than  he  faimBclf  has,  ia
no  forfeiture,  because  it  is  only  a  contract  between  him  and  his  under-
lessee,  (or  rather  assignee,)  which  cannot  poewbly  prejudice  the  interest  of
the  original  lessor,  and  does  not  even  pretend  to  usurp  or  lauch  the  free-
hold or  inheritance :  a  proviso  in  a  lease  for  re-entir  on  a  condition  broken,
can  only  operate  during  the  term,  and  vanishes  when  Ihal  ends(f).
The  recent  Statute  of  Limitations  as  to  real  property,  3  &  4  Will.  IV.
c.  27,  which  operates  as  a  bar  to  other  rights  of  entry,  bars  the  party  who
has  a  right  to  enter  for  a  forfeiture,  but  who  neglects  to  do  so  for  moK
than  twenty  years  after  his  right  has  accrued  (A).
