The legal question arose as to enforcing repossession against a widow — would it have to wait as with the rights of the lord of the manor in the custom of that manor, under the copyhold system, until her demise.
As such a bill was filed for foreclosure, and to compel a surrender of a copyhold estate for three lives, under a covenant in the mortgage deed of 1792 (to surrender those premises as an additional security).
It is very different from an estate-tail with remainders over; for those estates are not in the power of the party, till the recovery is suffered.
A covenant by a joint-tenant to sell, though it does not sever the joint tenancy at law, will in equity.
Therefore let her convey all her estate and interest in the copyhold premises according to the deed of the 2nd of July 1792, subject to redemption.