When he died in 1331 he was seised of many Norfolk manors.
Where a man bargained and sold his land to another for pecuniary consideration, which might be merely nominal, and need not necessarily be actually paid, equity held the bargainor to be seised of the land to the use of the bargainee.
Henry comes and denies it and says that John del Bowes and his predecessors were not seised of the annual rent aforesaid.
Article 21 (now article 27) adopts a simple test of chronological priority for the court first seised.
For he expects that the question which court was first seised will be decided, for English purposes, on that occasion.