Van Rensselaer v. . Ball

A condition annexed to a conveyance in fee, that the grantee, his heirs and assigns shall pay to the grantor and his heirs an annual rent, and that in default of payment the grantor or his heirs may reënter, is a lawful condition. LITTLETON puts it as an example of a condition in deed, at the commencement of that part of his treatise which relates to estates upon condition. Such an estate, he says, "is as if a man by deed indented enfeoffs another in fee simple, reserving to him and his heirs, yearly, a certain rent payable at one feast or divers feasts, per annum, on condition that if the…