Formedon In Descender

Lies where a gift is made in tail and the tenant In tail aliens the lands or is disseised of them and dies, for the heir in tall to recover them, against the actual tenant of the freehold; intzh. N. B. 211; Littleton § 595. If the demandant claims the Inheritance as an estate-tail which ought to come to him by descent, from some ancestor to whom it was first given, his remedy is by a writ of formedon in descender; Steam, Real Act 322. It must have been brought within twenty years from the death of the ancestor who was disseised; 21 Jac. I. c. 16; 3 Brod. & B. 217; 2 Sharsw. Bla. Com. 193, n.