20. He who recovers debt or damages in the King's court when the person charged is not in custody, may within a year after the judgment take the body of the defendant, and commit him to prison until he has paid the debt and damages.
21. If a release or confirmation is made to him who, at the time of the release made, had nothing in the land, the release or confirmation is void, except in certain cases, such as to vouch.
22. A condition to avoid a freehold cannot be pleaded without a deed; but to avoid a gift of chattel, it may be pleaded without deed.
23. A release or confirmation made by him, that at the time of the release or confirmation made had no right, is void in law, though a right comes to him after; except if it is with warranty, and then it shall bar him to all right that he shall have after the warranty is made.
24. If land and rent that is going out of the same land, comes into one man's hand of like estate, and like surety of title, the rent is extinct.
25. If land descends to him who has right to the same land before, he shall be remitted to his better title, if he will.
26. If two titles are concurrent together, the oldest title shall be preferred.
27. If a real action be sued against any man who has nothing in the thing demanded, the writ shall abate at the common law.
28. If the demandant or plaintiff, hanging his writ, will enter into the thing demanded, his writ shall abate.
29. By the alienation of the tenant, hanging the writ, or his entry into religion, or if he is made a knight, or she is a woman, and takes a husband hanging the writ, the writ shall not abate.