[RF.MAINDE111.) As the Statute of Uses was mado previously to the Statute of Wills (32 & 34 Hen. VIII.), it has been questioned whether the former can be held to apply to the latter ; but as, before the statute, devises of the use were permitted, so, since the statute, the courts have uniformly held that, where a devise is made to a use, the intention of the testa tor must be taken to be that the devisee of the use should have the legal estate By a construction of the Statute of Uses, adopted soon after it was passed. the grounds of which it is not easy to understand, it was settled that a use could not be limited on a use, that is, that the statute would operate on the first declaration of use only : so that if, by bargain and sale, a use in lands were limited to A and his heirs in trust, or to the use of B and his heirs, the statute would vest the legal estate in A without adverting to the use declared in favour of B. Tho
Court of Chancery availed itself of this construction to revive Uaes under the name of Trusts; and it wag determined that A was, in the ease above mentioned, a trustee for B of the beneficial interest in the land. It is not true, however, as has been said by Lord Hardwicke, that the Statute of Uses " has had no other effect than to add at most three words to a conveyance ;" for the Court of Chancery, availing itself of its exclusive, jurisdiction over trusts, and aware of the mischiefs attendant upon uses before the statute, has gradually established a system well adapted to answer the exigencies of family settlements and provisions, without producing any of those evils which the statute of Henry VIII was intended to remedy. (Teeters ]