attorneygeneral against sir edward FARMEN in the exchequer chamber king grant  derelict land and all land conligue adjacen which hereafter at any time shall  be recover from the sea non to stand before non nominand valor magnitude sive  character land derelict after shall not pass raym Mod information by English  bill for land derelict upon the seacoast wherein the case as draw by consent  of the party be king James I grant to I S certain particular marsh land border  upon the sea et ex uberiori agreeableness grant all things solum farm earth  sand earth mariscal contigue adjacent prcemissis quce modus overflow well  water maris overwhelmed to step out quce ad some time imposterum recupere to  bore per relictionem maris well aliter elsewhere wherever modus non to stand  before non nominand v alorem quantilatem sive character after this acre become  derelict by the sea adjoin to the marsh before particular grant and whether it  belong to the king or the patentee be the question it be argue that the king  shall have it first because the king have not these acre since becorne  derelict and can levinz er p not grant that which be not in he to grant second  this be to pass a parcel of land which the king have by his prerogative which  can pass by general word three if any thing shall pass it must be only so much  as a line border upon the parcel before grant otherwise shall the sea by  recession leave ten or twenty mile of sand what must be the boundary sure the  patentee be not to have all this extent of soil to this it be answer that the  king may grant that which be not actual in he at the time of the grant as it  be in dyer levinz a b the marriage of a ware when to fall upon and yet the  king too have the ware in right of prerogative here be as much certainty as  the fact be capable of no number of acre or description of the soil because  non constat what it will be and to say that in that respect the grant be not  good be to argue against the prerogative and to make the king in a worse  condition than the subject sure that he have land but can grant or dispose of  they dly the non to stand before will make it good if not good without it for  it be non to stand before non nominand v alorem character sive quantilatem  which imply all the objection which be or can be against the grant   b  particular non to stand before in letter patent cure all default for want of  information in the king and here be a particular of all thing whereof the king  ought to be inform but can by reason of the nature of the thing thly the word  contigue adjacen include all which in any part adjoin if not unknown as one  close be say contigue adjacent areas to another and yet in fact it be not the  whole close but the skirt of it that be conligue adjacent areas in a line say  postea Montague chief baron curian with the advice of the chief justice  Rainsford and north lie ld that nothing pass by these general word but the  patent as to the acre which become derelict after the patent be void sawyer  pro ring levinz for the patentee