c. 28, § 1, it is enacted that if any tenant for life or years hold over any lands, etc., after the determination of his estate, after demand made, and notice in writing given, for delivering the possession thereof, by the jandlord, or the person having the reversion or remainder therein, or his agent thereunto lawfully authorized, such tenant so holding over shall pay to the person so kept out of possession at the rate of double the yearly value of the lands, etc., so detained, for so long a time as the same are detained. See Woodf. Landl. &

c. 50. Tomlins.—Heritable obligation. In Louisiana. An obligation is heritable when the heirs and assigns of one party may enforce the performance against the heirs of the other. Civ. Code La. art. 1997.—Heritable rights. In Scotch law. Rights of the heir; all rights to land or whatever is connected with land, ‘as mills, fishings, tithes, etc.

c. 50. Ersk. Prin. 2, 4, 1—Ward in cery. An infant who is under the super intendence of the chancellor.—Ward-mote. In English law. A court kept in every ward in London, commonly called the “ward-mote court,” or “inquest.” Cowell.—Ward-penny. In old Pnglish law. Money paid to the sheriff or castellains, for the duty of watching and warding a castle. Spelman.—Ward-staff. In old records. A constable’s or watchman’s staff. Cowell—Ward-wit. In old English law. Immunity or exemption from the duty or service of ward, or from contributing to such service. Spelman. Exemption from amercement for not finding a man to do ward. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, § 16.—Wardage. Money paid and contributed to watch and ward. Domesday.—Wards of admiralty. Seamen are sometimes thus designated, because, in view of their general improvidence and rashness, the admiralty courts are accustomed to scrutinize with great care their bargains and engagements, when brought before them, with a view to protecting them against imposition and overreaching —Wardship. In military tenures, the right of the lord to have custody, as guardian, of the body and lands of the infant heir, without any account of profits, unti] he was twenty-one or she sixteen. In socage the guardian was accountable for profits: and he was not the lord, but the nearest relative to whom the inheritance could not descend, and the wardship ceased at fourteen. In copyholds, the lord was the guardfan, but was perhaps accountable for profits.