case haddon against Arrowsmith if a copyholder for life obtain licence to make  a lease for three year if he live so long and he grant a lease for three year  absolute yet the lease be good and the lessee may maintain ejectment but a  copyholder in fee must pursue a licence strict ante post roll Abr cro James  Owen more Poph   pale yellow ten Cowp dougl t Rep t Rep ante ejection firm  upon a special verdict the case be the queen be lady of the a adjudge accord  post croak Elizabeth er p manor of Winterboure grant licence by her steward to  a copyholder for life within the manor to make a lease for three year if he  live so long he let we the land to the plaintiff for three year absolute who  upon ejectment by a stranger bring this action Stephens for the defendant  argue that this lease be not accord to his licence and therefore it be not  warrant thereb for a authority ought precise to he pursue and then a ejection  firmce in this case lie not for although it have be here adiudzed that lessee  for year of a copyhold croak Elizabeth which be make without licence of that  lo d be a common person may maintain a ejection firmce because he be lessee  against all but the lord yet when the queen be signioress it be otherwise for  the copyholder can seize the queen wherefore it can be a good lease for  nothing pass from the copyholder to the lessee Atkinson contra for these word  if he live so long be ut to show how long the lease be to continue which be no  more than what the law appoint and therefore good enough wherefore c of that  opinion be all the court for the limitation that he shall make a lease for  three year if he so long live be but word of surplusage and no more than the  law say and then the word of the party if he live so long if hey have be in  the lease have be vain the difference in this case will he betwixt a  copyholder in fee and a copyholder for life for if such licence have be rant  to a copyholder in fee and he have grant it for three year absolute that have  not be warrant by the licence for the intent be to give he licence but not to  hurt the heir and without these word in the lease the lease be good and shall  bind the heir but it be otherwise of a copyholder for life for the law without  these word determine the lease by his death gawdy say admit it to he not  warrant by the bid on nce yet the lessee may well maintain this action for  there be not any difference betwixt a lease make by a copyholder where the  queen be signioress of the manor and where a common person for in both case  the lease be good betwixt the lessor and lessee and against all stranger quod  Fenner to go away ut Clench deny and Popham speak not to that point and Fenner  say that a lord can limit a condition in his licence for he give nothing but  only dispense with the forfeiture and all the estate passes from the  copyholder wherefore he can not annex thereto a condition no more than the  heir may assign dower upon condition or a executor deliver a legacy  conditional and Popham thereto agree but here this be not a condition but a  limitation of the estate which he may well limit but in the principal point  they all agree wherefore it be adjudge d for the plaintiff