Excerpt from A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of Laws of England, Vol. 2 of 3: On the Plan of Sir Matthew Hale's Analysis, With the Annotation of Mr. Hargrave, Lord Chief Justice Hale, and Lord Chancellor Nottingham, And a New Series of Notes and References to the Present Time, Including Tables of Parallel Reference, Analytical Tabl

If the lord disseise the tenant, and is disseised, the disseisee re lease to the second disseisor, yet the seignory is not revived, for between the parties the release enures by way of entry and feod ment as to the land, but not having regard to the seignory and for that the possession was never actually removed or revested from the disseisor, who claimeth under the lord, the seignory is not revived. But if the lord and a stranger disseise the tenant, and the disseisee release to the stranger, there the seignory, by Operation of law, is revived, for the whole is vested in the stranger, which never claimed under the lord: and in that case, if the lord had died, and the land had survived, the seignory had been revived. But if the lord had disseised the tenant, and been disseised by two, and the disseisee re leased to one of them, the seignory is not revived, because he claimed (as hath been said) under the lord.

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