When a tenant in tail
of any land or rent, entitled to recover the same, has died before the
expiration of the period hereinbefore limited, which is applicable in such
case, for making an entry or distress or bringing an action to recover such
land or rent, no person claiming any estate, interest, or right which such
tenant in tail might lawfully have barred, shall make an entry or distress or
bring an action to recover such land or rent but within the period during
which, if such tenant in tail had so long continued to live, he might have
made such entry or distress or brought such action.