SURRENDER of Letters Patent and Offices. A surrender may be made of letters patent to the king, so that he may grant the estate to whom he pleases, &c. and a second patent for years to the same person for the same thing is a surrender in law of the first patent. 10 Rep. 66. If an officer for life accept of another grant of the same office, it is in law a surrender of the first grant; but if such an officer take another grant of the same office to himself and another, it may be otherwise.