Release to uses

The conveyance by a deed of release to one party to the use of another is so termed. Thus, when a conveyance of lands was effected, by those instruments of assurance termed a lease and release, from A., to B. and his heirs, to the use of C. and his heirs, in such case C. at once took the whole fee-simple in such lands; B„ by the operation of the statute of uses, being made a mere conduit-pipe for conveying the estate to C. Brown.