beneson and stride en ejectment sur special verdict Pollexf Jones the case in  effect be lord of a copyhold manor grant a estate for life to a remainder of  the same land to b to commence after the death surrender forfeiture or other  determination of the estate of a a be attaint of felony and pardon Skinner er  p the lord enter not for the forfeiture b enter and if his entry be lawful or  not be the question in this case the king pardon wrought nothing for the king  can have a copyhold estate by forfeiture for the baseness of the estate c  finch solicitor for the plaintiff agree that copyhold estate be not forfeit by  commission of felony without a custom he say he may agree to that for  conviction of felony be not a forfeiture without a custom then he consider the  word death surrender or other determination he say that here be a forfeiture  he say that for this forfeiture the lord can not enter for that he have grant  away his right that the person attaint can not have it for that he be a dead  person in law and can take nothing but for the king he say likewise that by  forfeiture copyhold be extinguish and so determine and put the case copyholder  for life remainder as here take a lease for year that be a extinguishment of  the copyhold estate and a determination of it so that he in reversion shall  enter he say that true it be for a forfeiture the lord shall enter and not be  in remainder as it be Skinner hold in Podger S case but that be where it be to  begin after the death of the first tenant for life he cite Leon Inst Inst more  Bulstr sander first consider what manner of forfeiture this be and he say it  in the nature of a royal forfeiture in respect of tenure only and say that if  there be lord and tenant and tenant be attaint of felony that live the tenant  nothing vest in the lord before entry or in the king if hold of he before  office find but if the party be execute then for necessity the law cast the  freehold upon the lord or king without entry or office be say that now by  custom copyhold estate have many quality incident to estate of inheritance at  commonlaw and be govern by the rule of descent at commonlaw and that therefore  there shall be a possession brother of they and so here the estate before  entry shall not vest in the lord and it be in the lord will whether he will  enter and take benefit of the forfeiture or not for it may be the service be  as available as the land and that therefore the lord may avow for the service  of his copyholder in r b if he will and be not bind to enter and for this cite  e title avowry he say if the lord have enter then the copyholder in reversion  may have enter not for the forfeiture but for that the estate be determine and  merge in the lord hand chief justice Pemberton hold that the entry of the lord  seem not material but that the estate shall be in he present without seizure  and that seizure be in nature of a to have facias possession at commonlaw and  dolbin say if copyholder commit waste the lord may make a lease before entry  which sander do not much oppose and so Pemberton say he may bring a action of  trespass and peradventure no entry needful to maintain a action for mean  profit curian advisare vult