[001] remains or one has heirs.1 But if all die without heirs, the whole will revert to the [002] donor.2 If the gift is made simply to the concubine and her heirs, and she is legitimate [003] and has heirs, [for example], a brother or sister, nephew or niece, or more [004] remote heirs who are included in the gift, she may well enfeoff her children, one or [005] several, together or in succession, [and such gift will be good] as long as there are [006] heirs who can warrant her gift, as in the case of land given in maritagium. But if she [007] has no heirs, her gift will be ineffective and the thing will revert [at her death] to her [008] feoffor. 3When the concubine and her children are enfeoffed together and, all being [009] together in seisin, are ejected, all will recover together by an assise of novel disseisin,4 [010] to be held in common. [And so if some are ejected, by a stranger or a parcener.]5 [011] If they die, their heirs will recover by mortdancestor, each his portion.6 [012] If their mother, the concubine, who was in seisin in the name of all her children, [013] dies first, and in the absence of the children the chief lord puts himself in seisin and [014] refuses to restore it to them, the assise of novel disseisin lies for them in the name of [015] their mother, whether they were in seisin before or not, [not by the assise of mortdancestor, [016] 7because she was in seisin in their name as procuratrix8 though they were [017] never personally in seisin,] since possession was acquired for them by their mother [018] as by a procurator or procuratrix,910<or [they may recover] by a writ drawn [019] according to the modus of the gift, as [in the roll] of the eyre of Martin of Pateshull [020] in the county of Hereford in the fifth year of king Henry, at the end of the roll.>11 [021] A gift may be made to men of religion just as to others to whom a gift may be [022] made, and to jews as well as christians, unless the modus of the gift is to the contrary, [023] that is, that the donee may give or sell the thing to whomsoever he wishes [024] except men of religion and jews.12 And that it may not be given to such persons [025] as it may to others neither reason nor necessity provides, only the modus of the gift. [026] A gift may be made to several persons of whom some may take and some may not, [027] and hence the gift will be good with respect to some and invalid as to the others, as [028] where a husband
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