Marriage that she shall not refuse 9. H. 6.9 Recitall of an Indenture of defeasans concludes the party to deny the Deed. By the Counsell of the Plaintiffe the Act of Parliament cannot enure as a Confirmation of an Attainder and as a new Attainder also for then a man shall be twice convict of one Crime which shall be superfluous yet 1. H. 5.5 One attainted of Fellony may be arraigned of Treason because it is a higher offence and shall forfeit Lands of whomsoever holden if the Treason is committed before the Fellony but where offences are equall he shall not be twice attainted for one Deed shall not be a Confirmation and Grant of one same thing As the King recites by his Letters Patents that he hath made J. a Denison or hath manumissed him being his villain and confirm it and besides grants that he shall be a Denison or Free all this is but a confirmation because the Kings Patents shall not enure to two intents and therefore cannot plead the second Patent for his Legitimation or Manumission But the first Patent so 9. H. 7.2 before fol. 156. and 7. H. 7.14 The King grants Land by his Letters Patents and reciting them confirmes the Estate of the Patentee by the second Letters Patents by authority of Parliament and saith further that he gives and grants the same Land to the Patentee he shall plead the second by way of Confirmation because the Land pass by the first Patent not by the second if he doth not shew that the Land came again to the Kings hands after the first Patent But if the King grants Pasture for two Oxen in his Land and by the second Patent reciting his first Grant confirmes it and moreover giveth and granteth Pasture for two Oxen to the first Grantee there it shall enure as a Grant and confirmation also And the Grantee shall have Pasture for foure Oxen because they are severall things which are mentioned in the Confirmation and in the Grant And in the other Cases before it is one same thing mentioned in both and not severall Also the Statute recites none but persons therere cited to be attainted but the Plaintiffe was not attainted before for the reasons aforesaid therefore he is not attainted by the Statute as the King recites by name that such and such were Burgesses of L. and grants to the Burgesses before named to be quit of Toll c. that will take the benefit of it they ought to averre who is Burgess of L. And if the Plaintiffe be attainted by Act also and the Defendant will plead this so then his plea shall be double because he hath pleaded an attainder by the Common Law and also by the Statute But here it is not double because it is not a new attainder but a Confirmation And because he cannot plead the Confirmation without the thing that was Confirmed Also the Recitall and Confirmation by the Statute is not taken but pro ut And also the recitall being false shall be intended to be upon Information And therefore an averment lies against this recitall So a License to alien Lands holden of the King ut dicitur there he which hath the Lisence is not Estopped to say that it is holden of another then the King because the Tenure in Capite is not precisely affirmed but ut dicitur which taketh away all absolute affirmance 29. Ass 38. Also the Statute refers to an Attainder had before And so to a thing which is not inreâ— veritate for the cause aforesaid and therefore shall be void but if the things was before and wanteth force and effect then this shall be made good by the Statute and there the Act is good and hath power as to the thing 29. E. 3. 24. Grants Fitzh 100. The King reciting an Attainder by Parliament of one Mattravers by his Charter of Pardon reverseth the same and restores him and after this all is recited in another Parliament and Confirmed by the same Parliament and good for the Cause aforesaid So 38. H. 6.33 Parliament confirmes the first Letters Patents this enures according to the Effect and Purport of the first grant and shall not take away the Condition if any such be the King gives Land to J. S. the Parliament Confirmes it s a good grant And so when the Parliament Confirmes a thing which is defective it shall give power to it if it be Confirmed as here the Act shall be void to all purposes as 5. E. 4.40 and 41. If one Village hath Customes which is against the Law and Reason and no others and the Parliament Confirmes their Customes it is void because they had not Customes for things used meerly against the Law and Reason are not Customes notwithstanding such usage And if the branch of one Act recites another Act be it in the Commencement or Continuance it is void as 1. E. 6. c. 12 repeales all offences made Fellony after the Commencement of the reigne of H. 8. and by one branch in it this Statute excepts imbâ—sselling of goods by servants made Fellony in the seven and twentieth yeare of H. 8. commencing the 4. of February and continuing untill the 24. of Aprill whereas it finished the fourteenth of Aprill and so Statutes which misrecite things and are referred to them should be void and conclude no man And so here the Statute which recites that the Plaintiffe was attainted and confirmes it whereas indeed he was not attainted shall be void Coles Case IF one gives to another a mortall wound 13. Eli. whereof he languish the 12. of February and the Queen by a generall Pardon by Parliament Pardon all misdemeanors c. the 20. day of February and after the party dies Now this murther is Pardoned Adjudged for that the wound was a Misdemeanor and the cause of death and then by consequence all that which ensueth the Cause is also pardoned The end of the first Book Newis and his Wife against Larke and others A Man devise his Lands to his eldest Son in tayle M. 13. 14. El. in the Common Pleas. Remainder to his youngest Son in tayle the Remainder to the heires of his body the Remainder over in Fee and moreover his Will was that if any of his entaylees do wrong vex or molest any other of them for the sayd Lands or should Mortgage bargaine and sell c. the sayd Lands or otherwise incumber it other then to Lease it to them that from thenceforth every such person and his heires that shal so doe shall be excluded and dismissed touching the said intaile and that the conveyance of the intaile of the said Lands against him or them shall be of no force But that it shall descend and come to the party next in tayl to him as if such disorderous person had never bin mentioned in the sayd Testament And after the eldest Son levies a Fine and after he and the youngest Brother suffer a common Recovery and their Sister enter and by
will not claim nor enter into the said land in bar that he entred not nor claimed the Plaintiff replies that he claims he ought to say how viz. That he came to the Land and claimed and entred So in 5. E. 4 6. in Replication the Plaintiff ought to shew how he is next of bloud to the Woman ravished with consent to the ravishment So for Mortmain how he is Ld. So for receipt how he came to the reversion by special conveyance to the things which the Statutes give by general words as here Titles alwaies ought to be certain because he that makes Title is by this an Actor and an Actor ought to plead certainly by Hales fol. 51. b. If a Wife which hath a Joyncture by her Husband suffers a faint recovery contrary to 11. H. 7. if the Daughter enter the Son born after shall not out her during the life of the Wife By Montogue he may enter presently and save because the Statute saith he shall enjoy it according to his Title therein and the Title is Tail which is devolved to the Son and after f. 1â—… But the Daughter because prima de sanguine â—…ring because the Wife assents to the Ravisher shall hold against the Son born afterwards and there it is Fee-simple In 5. E. 4.6 So 9. H. 7.25 the Daughter shall hold the Remainder appointed to the right Heirs against a Son born afterwards because it is vested in the Daughter as a purchaser because it is Fee-simple to which the Son afterwards born hath not right for the Land was never in any of his Ancestors before Et possessio fratris de feodo simplici facit c. of Fee-Tail not but it discends to the youngest Son of the half bloud So a Bastard eign-abate in Fee-simple Land and dies without interruption and his issue enter he shall hold against the Mulier puisne 39. E. 3.38 Of Land entailed it is otherwise so it is a great difference between Fee-simple and Fee-Tail and according to the Proverb One shall beat the Bush and another shall have the Bird. As 9. H. 7.24 and 25. A man hath Lands by the Mother and aliens upon Condition and dies without issue the Heir of the part of the Father enters for the Condition broken the Heir on the part of the Mother outs him 14. H. 8.18 by Portman if a Remainder in Tail be once executed the issue in formedon shall declare upon the Gift immediately for all passes at one time and upon one Livery But in 20. Ass Ph. ultima it was shewed of a Reversion after Seisen or making Title by grant of the Reversion he which makes Title is alwaies Actor and ought to plead certainly So 2. H. 6.14 A Patentee sheweth his Letters Patents if he maketh Title by them Words alwaies if they are ambiguous and obscure in Statutes have been expounded according to the intent of the makers as W. 2. cap. 3. speaks when a man amiserit per defaltam is expounded when the Husband and Wife lose by default because the Law alwaies was that the Wife may enter if the Husband alone lose by default So W. 2. cap. 1. Et si finis super hujusmodi tenementa imposterum levetur ipse in re sit nullus The Words seem to make a Fine void but yet it is not void but is a discontinuance and void as to bar the right of Tail So the Statute of Gloucester cap. 3. saith Whereof no Fine is levied intends by husband and Wife for they may well levy the marriages of Women and their Estates and advancement by this are greatly favoured in our Law for 14. H. 8.7 The Wife shall recover her Land given causa matrimonii praelocuti if the Feoffee will not marry her So shall have all Free-hold after Divorce So a Wife shall have a Cui ante divortium to recover the land lost by the Husband and Wife by default before the Divorce So 11. H. 7. intends to punish women if they will recompence this favor of the Law with wrong to the disinherison of Heirs here the Wife hath an Estate in the use and by his inhereditament and the Land and Use also is the inheritance of the Husband and therefore within the words of the Statute because an Use is an Hereditament For 5. E. 4.7 possessio fratris of an Use good for the Sister also if she hath the value of 40. s. in Use 15. H. 7.13.5 E. 4 7. and by Litl 108. he shall be sworn in Assizes by the Common Law and Statute of Pernors of Profits and other Statutes have admitted an Use for an Hereditament and the Land and use also is the inheritance of the Husband for an inheritance is such an Estate as the Heir may inherit as he may here and every Fee and Tail by purchase or discent is inheritance by Littleton and Britton contains many errors As to the Case of cui in vita in 7. H. 4. before fol. 47. by those of the Chancery and also by the Register Original 232. is the one the other quam clamat esse jus hereditat c. The Feoffees here were seised to the use of the husband and every of them hath an entire Use for between Husband and Wife are no moieties and after the execution of the possession to the Use By 27. H. 8. The Parliament made the Conveyance of the Land from one to another and the Feoffees are Donors for when a Gift is made by Parliament every one by it is privy and assents to it yet the thing shall pass from him which hath most right and most Authority to give it As in 21. H. 7.32 He to whose Use and the Feoffee joyn in a Feoffment it shall be said the Feoffment of the Feoffee for they have most Authority for to give this So Tenant for Life and he in a Reversion joyns in a Feoffment it shall be adjudged the Livery of the Tenant for Life So if one seised in Fee and another which hath nothing joyns in a Feoffment it shall be said the Feoffment of him which hath right and the confirmation of the other So here it shall be said the Gift by Parliament of the Feoffees and the assent and confirmation of all others For if any other shall be adjudged the Donor the Parliament should do wrong to the Feoffees in taking the thing from them And an Act of Parliament will not prejudice any man as 19. H. 6.62 the Rector of Edington had an exemption from Tythes by the Kings Grant he afterwards agrees to the Act which granted Tythes to the King and so was one of the Grantors yet shall not take benefit by this but shall be discharged For the Common Law saith That none shall be damnified by such general Act made by the Parliament and therefore W. 2. cap. 1. Gifts upon Condition shall not take away right Pattent in London but that remains to this day with protestation to sue in the nature of a Formedon in
H. 8. c. 34. to enter for a Condition broken 2. The tender of the Rent on the Feast day is not requisite nor until the last instant of the 40. day 3. Notwithstanding that the Rent be apppointed to be paid out of the Land at the Feast day and not the 40. day by express words yet it shall be so intended by relation to the place last named 4. No demand here is requisite because that the Land which is Debtor is absent the contrary is upon a general reservation and if a Rent seck payable in a forreign County be demanded and denled there it is not a disseisen by Plowden contrary upon the Land The place which was once charged with the payment in the hands of the Lessor remains chargeable in the hands of any other because he hath this as a Liberty and Authority imposed upon it by the Lessor and such Liberty is saved by the Statute of suppression of Monasteries and therefore the Lessor nor the Lessee are not Trespassers by their coming there to tender and receive the Rent Rosse against Pope ROss acknowledged a reconusance to Pope after Levies a Fine to him of patcel of his Land 5. E. 6. In Chancery upon an Audita quetela and afterwards Pope sues Execution and takes the body of the said Rosse and he brings an audita querala in the Chancery and adjudged that it lieth not 1. For that the Land is not debter but the person and the Land is onely charged in respect of the person and not otherwise until Execution sued 2. For that the purchase was before Execution sued otherwise it had been if sued afterwards for then the Land was charged in facto and not chargeable And if any part be discharged by act in Law as discent or act of the party as Surrender Feoffment c. also it shall be discharged because the duty is personall and entire 3. Because that the Conusor shall not have contribution against the Feoffees but they shall have against him and here the Conusee shall not have Execution against his Feoffees for that they may not have contribution against him Wimbish against Willoughby Assize directed Coronatoribus in Lincoin upon the surmise of the Plantiff that the Sheriff was his Cosen and shewed also Tr. 6. E. 6. Assice against L. Wall That one of the Coroners was servant to the Defendant and adjudged good 1. For the speedy expedition of the Assize and the mischlef of the Plaintiff if it should be abated by the exception of the Defendant and no mischief to him and here the venire facias is awarded the first day as in a precipe 2. Coroners in Lincoln shall be intended Coroners of Lincoln for that they are the words of the King In the Argument of this case see first where a Writ Original shall be directed to the Coroners where not Secondly and when other Judicial process Thirdly an exposition of the words in and de in Writs Grants or c. Fourthly what words are sufficlent to make a Grant of a Rent charge Fifthly some matters touching challenges and where they shall be Traversed c. Partridge against Strange and Croker IN Debt the Plaintiff counts upon the Statute of 32. H. 8. cap. 9. H. 6. 7 E. 6. In the Common Leath Of buying and selling of pretenced Titles and Rights and alleadge this to be done 28. April 32. H. 8. where in truth it was not done this day and that the Defendants have made a Lease for years of a house and nine acres of Land pertaining to it whereof they nor their ancestors nor any by which the claim were in possession Reversion or Remainder nor took the Profits for one intire year before c. and holden 1. That the Statute need not to be specially recited and pleaded because it is general but for that it is misrecited it is not good by the Court sol 84. and yet is surplusage and it shall prejudice the party in some cases sol 29. as debt by I. S. Parson of D. it is a good Traverse because he is not Parson or that there is not such a village called D. 2. When the Term shall not be certainly pleaded for that it is Conveyance of the Action and is not material here and he which pleads it is a stranger as an Indictment of the death of a certain man unknown or the stealing of the goods of a certain man unknown 3. That a Lease for years or a grant of parcell of the Right is within the Statute because the Statute speaketh of any right and is not intended only of an entire right and that the entire value of the Land shall be forfeit by such Lease per Curiam fol. 87. That this Lease made by one in possession is out of the Statute for that it is not averred to be a pretenced right by Hales and Montague fol. 87. against Cook For they mean that he which hath possession one day or however may make a Lease or Feoffment bona fide and shall be forth of the Statute although that he hath not possession or taketh the profits one whole year without averment that it is made for maintenance and the Statute shall be intended onely of those which makes Leases c. having but a right and not the possession as Montague held a promise by him which is out of possession to depart with the Land when he shall attain the possession is within the danger of the Statute fol 88. And if the Issue in Tail at full age marry a woman discontinuee of his father and maketh a Lease for years this is within the Statute for that he Leases his ancient right So by Morgun if the heir release to the Abator and afterwards claiming by discent maketh a Lease for years this may be averred a pretenced right and then is within the danger of the Statute fol. 86 and a right is within the Statute which comprehends all rights Pretenced right is where one hath the possession and another which is out of possession claims this or sues for it by Mont. f. 88. Morgan Serjeant for the Defendant He which voucheth a Record and vary in the year or Term haith failed of his Record So the Statute here no Act without the consent of the King when all assent it shall have relation to the first day of the Parliament and from that time is an Act of Parliament unless it be otherwise appointed when it shall first take effect An act made in the first or second Session relates not but to the first day of the same Session Misrecital shall prejudice the party in some cases as Debt by I. S Parson of D. where there is no such Village D. a good Traverse and abates the Writ yet the naming of him Parson surplusage So here because it recites a Statute certain made such a day where it was not although that the day is surplusage it hath made the matter vitious although it
Graisbrook against Fox A Man makes his Executor and dies the Ordinary before Probat commits the Administration to one which sels the goods P. 7. El. in C. P. the Executor proves his will and bringeth Detinue against the Buyer for the Goods and adjudged lawfull For that the Probat disproves over-reaches and annihilates the power of the Administrator and he did not die intestate and by consequence the property is cast by the Act of Law upon the Executor and the Omission of the Goods of one that hath made his Testament before refusall void by relation after probate by seising of the goods bringing action or pleading c. without Suit in the Spiritual Court but otherwise shall it be if the Administrator had imployed the money that he took for the Goods upon the necessary affairs of the Testator which the Executor was chargeable to do Weston Justice holdeth the Law with the Defendant That at the Common Law before W. 2. c. 19. the Ordinary had the goods of the intestate to dispose in pious uses because the Law adjudges him the most apt person for it and if he give or aliens his goods good at the Common Law because he hath broken only the trust required of him yet the Common Law maketh not the Ordinary being a Spiritual Governor subject to Temporall Suits of Creditors of the intestate but was defective in this point 11. H. 7.12 and 9. E. 4.33 But now Debt lyeth against him by W. 2. cap. 19. and those words there Obligati aliquibus in debito intends all Debts that the Executor is bound to pay by which the Ordinary shall pay Arrearages upon a Lease for years of an intestate but before this Statute nor after the Ordinary might not sue for Debt or thing in Action of the intestates nor release Debts due to the intestate but onely seize the things in possession of the intestate and do with them at his will and for this mischief 31 E. 3. cap. 11. compelled him to commit the Administration to the next friends and gave to them an Action of Debt and not to the Ordinary himself and so they were and might be sued and should account as Executors yet before 31. E. 3. the Ordinary might commit such Committees should be sued before E 3 by the equity of West 2. which gave the Action against the Ordinary but Committees before E. 3. might not Levy a Debt nor release a Debt because they had not to do with things in Action but in possession at their pleasure as 7. H. 4.18 Executor now cannot release a Debt nor sue for a Debt before probate of the Will and it seems to him That the sale of an administrator is good because no notice of the Testament is given to him and the Ordinary nor cannot be bound to take notice of it because secret as 8. H. 7.10 22. H. 6.34 7. E. 4.28 and 8. E. 4.12 and 19. H. 8. The Lord may avow upon his ancient Tenant if the Feoffee gives him not notice of his purchase because he is not bound to take notice So 2 H 4.21 he hath paid the assets to another hanging the writ against him before he had notice of the writ good plea for an Executor and shall not be charged therewith to the Plaintiff 31. E. 3. provides That the Ordinary shall commit Administration where one dies intestate intends also where Executors refuse before the Ordinary or if they die intestate because there is no Executor that will intermeddle Acts by the Administrator shall not be avoided by probate of the Testament where the Ordinary hath authority to commit Administration in the mean time because there is no Executor as where a man will That I. S. shall be his Executor and dies before I. S. or that I. S. shall be his Executor one year after his death So 4. H. 7.14 a man maketh an Executor and enters into Religion if he after is deraigned he shall not avoid mean Acts of the Executor Walsh and Dier holdeth the Law with the Plaintiff There are three which have to do with the Goods of the Dead by Walsh viz. First the Executor appointed by the Party himself in whom the party hath reposed the properties of his Goods and confidence of the Executor of his will and it taketh Commencement by act Temporal viz. by will and it's perfection by act Spiritual viz. probatâ— if the party appoint none Secondly the King appoints the Ordinary and he appoints three Administrators for his ease and in his discharge and they have their Commencement by Act Spiritual viz. by Letters of Administration and have as the Executor hath authority of the thing Temporal but the authority of the Ordinary or of Administrators not any except the dead die intestate and here by not gainsaying in his Bar he hath acknowledged the Testament and by Dier if he had died intestate the property of his goods cometh by the Common Law to the Ordinary because he had not appointed them to any and they shall be in some body and not in suspence as 9. H. 7.2 by course of the Common Law Free-hold shall be in some one and not in suspence the Ordinary by the Common Law was not charged for the debt of the intestate before W. 2. for those words Obligetur de cetero implies the same after West 2. Ordinary is chargeable and his Executor 16. E. 2. 11. E 3. after West 2. and before 31. E. 3. Ordinary may commit Administration and he shall be charged in action of Debt so Fitzh seems nat br fol. 120. D. and 19. E. 3. Ordinary pleads That he had committed the Administration to another before the action brought against him good but the power that the Ordinary himself had or committed to the Administration of another not unless a man dies intestate but when he makes his will by it he hath committed all his goods to his Executor and the Law favors a Will for Testaments are of the same antiquity as properties of Goods are and is a Testament when the Testator is dead and from thence executors are executors and before Probate for it is not but a Confirmation and allowance of that which the Testator hath done And by the Death the property of the goods which were in the Testator is cast and vested in the executors whereby they may give or otherwise intermeddle with them and may be sued before probat 9. E 4.47 but shall not sue before fol. 178. and 36. H. 6 7. Executor commands A. to take the Goods of the Testator out of the possession of B. A. taketh them afterwards the Executor refuses the administration and the Ordinary commits it to B. which bringeth Trespass for the taking against A. A. may justifie by commandment of the Executor for his refusal shall not make the Commandment void nor grieve him which did well at the time of the Act done which case argues That the Executor hath interest in things of the Testators before
was indicted before the said 15. of divers Treasons and express none in certain and ex illa causa and causis to proceed against him according to the Law whereupon he was arraigned and condemned thereupon accordingly and after the said attainder was confirmed by Act of Parliament which recites the said attainder and confirms it and besides ordains That the said attainted persons shall be attainted of high Treason c. And the attainder upon the indictment and the confirmation by Parliament were adjudged void 1. For that the Indictment taken before 15. is not an Indictment taken before 8. for the lesser number will not include the greater but the contrary and there may be two Indictments one taken before 15. and the other before 8. and for that the number is exprest there is certaintie what Indictment the Queen intended for misprision of time place and number shall make the thing void when they are limited for certainty and take away incertainty as of the time of 7. E. 3.26 one brings a Writ and Recites that it is contained in the Articles made in the time of King Edward Father of the King Edward the Third that no Sheriffe should put into Inquests c. and declare over according to the Statute the Writ was abated by Award for that the Articles that is to say Articuli super Chartas cap. 9. was made in the time of Edward the First and not in the time of King Edward the Second which was Father to King Edward the Third So E. 3.25 a Statute Merchant was made to pay 16. E. 3. and the party sued Execution and the Writ supposed the summe to be paid 14. E. 3. and by the suite the Feoffee was ousted and sued his Writ of Errour in the Kings Bench for the Kings Bench because it is the highest Court. shall revers Error upon suits in the Chancery according to the order of the Common Law So a defeasans which â—…tes a Statute to be made the 10. day of May where it was the first is void because time certain and that to which Acts are referred is materiall because there may be two Statutes the one the first the other the tenth day Misprision of the place as 38. H. 6.34 one pleads Letters Patents dated at Westminster where it did beare date at another place Naught because the place is materiall and is circumstance and witnesse of verity and certainty So by Commission to arraign one upon an Indictment at Dale in the County of C. where he was Indicted at another place in the same County there may not be arraigned by this authority for the reason aforesaid Misprision of number as 23. Assises placit 7. Writ of Redisseisâ—n abate because the Sheriffe tooke with him but one Coronor where Merton cap. 3. appoint two at the least So in a Precipe there ought to be twelve Summoners So 8. H. 7. pla ultima the number limited by the Act 3. H. 7. cap. 1. concerning the Star-Chamber ought to be observed So an accountant found in arrearages shall not be committed to Prison if there be not two Auditors because W. 2. cap. 12. saith auditorum So 2. E. 3.8 A Writ of Attaint supposed that the Verdict passed before 4. Justices and the Record proves that before 2. there is no Warrant to take this Attaint But 31. E. in the Booke of Assises pl. 1. a Procedendo supposed that the Assise was arraigned before 2. where it was before 3. good because no falsity there because the greater comprehends the lesse not on the contrary 2. By Anderson which was of Counsell for the Defendant and which in part confessed that the arraignment was not duly made yet said that it was not void but voidable See there the Office of Justices for Treason and their Authority for judgement given where the due circumstances of Law are not observed is not void but voidable by Error as 7. E. 4.3.11 H. 7.4 and 2. Mar. 1. Judgement given upon a Plea of Land 21. H. 6. and 21. E. 4.4 and 62. where a Fine levied without Originall is voidable by Error and by him and Lovelace this Writ of Error is taken away here because a thing defeasable confirmed by Parliament is made indefeasable The counsell of the Earle to the contrary clearly that the Authority given to the Mayor and the others by the second Commission is to proceed upon one Indictment and he proceeds upon another and so exceeds his Authority and therefore shall be void Also they are no Justices of the Treason expressed in it And there is not any such Indictment and no Treason in certain is expressed in their Commission But the Relation is generall to treasons contained in the Indictment where in truth there is not any such Indictment and so the relation of a thing incertain in it self to a thing which is not done the thing referred is void otherwise it is of a thing certain as before fol. 169. A Lease of all his Lands in D. which he hath by his Mother where 2. E. 4.27 before fol. 191. releases all his right in them and hath no Land there by the Mother but by purchase with his Father this Lease and Release are void for the cause aforesaid But otherwise it is where he leases and releaseth all his right in White acre in Dale which he hath by his Mother or hath by his Father or Purchase because the saying there which he hath by his Mother is surplusage because it was certain enough before all the parts of the Commission shall be considered together and fulfilled as of every other Deede As for the last part of the Letter of Atturney although as well to deliver seisen as to take by the words of the first part So here because they have authority to arraigne the Plaintiffe upon the Indictment onely taken before fifteen and he was arraigned by Indictment before eight of them all is void and Coram non Judice And it is not resemblable to the Cases put by Anderson fol. 349. because there they have authority upon the Cause and the Cause was within the Jurisdiction of the Court and the Order is misused in which Case the Acts shall not be void but voidable But where one is assigned to doe one thing and he doth another as here this other is meerly void and without Authotity as 9. E. 44. by Choke He who Arbitrates another thing then is committed to him makes such Arbitrement void Anderson and Lovelace for the Defendant the Plaintiffe shall be taken by this Statute to be attainted or at least concluded to say otherwise because the recitall of the Act is an Estoppell to all because every Subject is party and ptivy to an Act of Parliament and the Statute shall not be void to all intents And the Expounder ought not to make Exposition for to confound the Text by 27. H. 8. c. 10. A woman may refuse her Joincture if assigned after Marriage implies that if it were assigned before
thereof he entred this is a departure from the Bar for it is a new matter For the same reason a special agreement in evidence shall not maintain the general issue one witness is not enough nor one Juror for to try an issue if more were warned by the Sheriff 8. E. 3.50 So here the Defendant had but one witness which proves for him which is not sufficient and so judgement shall be given for the King Atkins for the Defendant A witness produced to prove a thing if he saith That he knoweth nothing of the matter his deposition is void so if he depose negatively as to say no more was not entred then so much and if no witness the knowing of the Jurors aid not the tryal of the matter and a Verdict given contrary to the testimony of witnesses good It is not needfull to aver that which of necessity must be intended as that the King hath a Beam there special agreement is an agreement as a Feoffment upon condition is a Feoffment and so this word Agreement includes every agreement by which the evidence well maintains the issue The Statute speaks not of surety and peradventure intends it not and therefore in vain to speak of it and therefore it may be he hath not answered to this exception Agreement in our Law is threefold viz. Executed at the beginning of it with payment intended by the Statute of 25. E. 3. cap. 3. which saith That goods bought by fore-stallers are forfeited to the King if the buyer had made agreement with the seller such agreement is not meant in our case because then the Statute should not be intended in the disjunctive for then the first and the second clause should be all one but the word Or disjoyns the clauses Agreement to an act made by another as in 20. E. 4.9 To a disseisin to his use maketh him a disseisor from the beginning so the party ravished to agree to the ravisher is an agreement executed here because nothing is to be done afterwards and agreement here may not be an executory agreement because the performance shall be afterwards yet both parties accord at one time before 26. H. 8. cap. 3. intends such because it speaks of payment or agreement for first fruits c. and common usage to pay after upon obligation made before proves this which intends agreement executory and here agreement is intended executory because it is not the first nor the second and an agreement executory is Duplex the one certain at the beginning as this of first fruits the other by matter ex post facto upon certainty to be known as here and such agreement executory the Statute will warrant for no Law will punish him in whom there is no default and where he cannot prevent the mischance by no possibility for the necessity of the matter and for that inevitable chance shall not prejudice any 20. H. 7.11 Fineus A man by the Common Law may kill another in his own defence or as a champion for the necessary safeguard of his life and the Tryal of right so notwithstanding the custom of the Realm new Natura brevium 94. b. If enemies of the King steal of Guests the Hoastler is discharged because he cannot resist So if the ship were on fire the casting of the goods on the land without payment or agreement for the Subsidie shall excuse the Defendant so here the extremity of the Tempest doth excuse the vigor of the Statute Sanders the Kings Serjeant Notwitstanding that an agreement conditional is included in the words of the Statute viz. The Collector not agreed with yet every Statute although it be penal shall be taken as the makers intended for the Statute of Waste is If any make waste in Lands which he holdeth by Demise c. yet if his Estate be Ex ligatione it shall be punishable in waste and yet the Statute gives Ex demissione onely suo de assignat and so it is holden 10. H. 6.3 But Gloucester cap. 5. W. cap. 14. nor Martebridge cap. 13. speaks nothing de demissione So quia emptores terrarum viz. W. 3. speaks secundum quantitatem terrae intend valore So 4. E. 4.12 An information for shipping Wooll without sureties of the carrying of Bullion according to the 14. E. 3. the last chapter holden good because the finding of sureties is not repealed by the general words of 36. of E. 3. cap. 11. which giveth the old custom of half a Mark for every sack after three years nor of 45. E. 3. cap. 4. which imposeth no charge upon Wooll other then Custom and Subsidie granted to the King and without assent of Parliament and the two last Staâ—intend not for to discharge Bullion but great Subsidies upon Wooll after 3. years so that the mind intent of the makers shall expound the general and doubtfull words of Star and abridge the generalty of them so here it shall be intended an agreement certain Also because the Commons pray the King That he will be pleased to accept of their Grant for that the words of the Statute which is their Grant shall be taken more beneficial for the King and most strong against the Grantors according to the Principle of the Common Law in case of a common person So the Statute of Prerogativa Regis 17. Ed. 2. Rastal wards 13. is the Grant of the Commons to the King which saith The King shall have the custody of all the Lands of such which hold of him by Knights service in Capite whereof the Tenants were seized in their Demeasne as of Fee at the day of their death of whomsoever they hold also by like Knights Service and notwithstanding that Fee is commonly taken to be Fee-Simple yet the King shall have of Tail because it shall be construed most strongly for the K. where it hath two intendments Agreements upon which the Common Law giveth no remedy are void and not good as in 19. H. 6.36 Upon an information for the forging of false Deeds the Defendant pleads Arbitrement made viz. That the Plaintiff shall not farther prosecute his Writ against the Defendant and saith also That the Defendant shall be non-suited in the Assize This is no Plea because non-suited founds not in satisfaction and cannot compell him to be non-suited for the award is not good if it be not executed wholly or the thing awarded may be recovered by action and therefore in 6. H. 7.10 In Trespass to say That he hath paid money but he hath not made his windows which the Heir may compel him to do for the concord is intire but wants execution in all and indeed before action brought is not good then it is performed yet not immediately and therefore it was held no Plea So in 27. ass pl. 5. A Baily known pledge the Ox of his Master for Wheat and if he pays not c. he shall keep the Ox alwaies This shall bind the Master because the wheat cometh to his use otherwise
this shall remain is a limitation of time when this shall vest and not a condition by Hinde and Montague 6. Admitting that it be a condition yet a remainder may depend upon a condition By Hales Hinde and Montague and adjudged accordingly 7. The Plaintiff hath not conveyed to himself Title to have benefit of the breach of the condition if it be broken By Montague Pollard Serjeant for the Plaintiff Except that the Form of the Plea is sufficient 1 Because he doth not aver his continual residence after the Remainder happened but after his entry which may happen to be long time after and so although that he hath performed the words of the condition which hath not satisfied the intent thereof yet he hath not performed the condition because the intent was That he should have all the Mannor So 21. H. 6.10 A man is bound that his Feoffees of the Mannor of D. should grant a Rent of 40. s. to the Plaintiff He had three Feoffees and two of them grant the said Rent to him and there all the Justices said That it shall be intended all the Feoffees so that alwaies the intent of the condition ought to be as well performed as the words of the condition and here the intent of the condition appears to be That Hospitality shall be kept upon the Grange continually from the beginning to the end of the Term which is the death of the Husband and the Wife and here he hath not shewed that he entred within as short time as he conveniently could after the death of the Husband and Wife and therefore because he hath not shewed and averred this he hath not shewed the performance of the condition and therefore his plea is not good For in all cases where the time is issuable he ought also to shew it certainly and therefore in 32. H. 6. it is held That if a man plead a Lease for years made to him that he ought to shew what day the Lease was made because it is issuable So in 33. H. 6.44 In debt by an Executor the Defendant saith That the Testator made the Plaintiff and one R. his Executors at L. the which R. is alive and not named judgement of the Writ and the Plaintiff confessing it saith That after this time last assigned by the Plaintiff that the Testator made the Plaintiff his sole Executor in Middlesex and the Defendant saith That after this time last assigned by the Plaintiff that the Testator made the Plaintiff and R. his Executors after this time and the Plea of the Defendant was not held good for that the day on which the Plaintiff and R. were made Executors is uncertain So 3. H. 6.33 In Trespass the Defendant pleads in Bar the day of the retaining of the Plaintiff who traverseth the Bar and the Defendant enforced to shew the day certain Matter in Law As to the matter in Law it seemeth to him that the Remainder is void because it ought alwaies to be limited to take its effect after the partricular estate ended and not during the particular estate for if it be limited and appointed to take its effect during the particular estate then it shall be utterly void As if A. Leases to B. for life the Remainder for life and if B. dies that it shall remain over to a stranger in Fee this Remainder is void for that it is appointed to take effect immediately after the first estate for life ended for if the Remainder in Fee should commence then it shall avoid the Remainder for life so if a Lease be made to two the Remainder over in Fee after the death of the first of them this Remainder is void because the Survivor shall have the Land So in the principal case it is given to the Baron and Fem for their lives the Remainder to the eldest son for life upon conditon That if the eldest die living husband and wife that then it shall remain to the Defendant for life which cannot be for the first estate at this time continues and if the Remainder shall be good it drowns the estate of husband and wife and therefore the Remainder void and also for that it is limited to commence upon condition which enures alwaies in privity therefore if a lease for life be made rendring rent and upon condition That if the Rent be arear that then it shall remain to a stranger in Fee if the Rent be arear and not paid the remainder is void for the Remainder which commence upon condition is not good otherwise it is if an estate be made for life upon condition That if the Tenant for Life dies it shall remain over this Remainder is good because that it commenceth upon the Determination of the I state the which is certain and therefore no condition because conditions are alwaies incertain and may be performed or broken and as our Law is for to know the time certain when the things pass from one to another and namely Free-hold because the Law hath it in greater estimation then other things and so to prevent contention hath ordained Ceremonies to be used as in every Feoffment Livery and in every Grant Reversion or Rents c. That Attornment shall be made the which are points certain containing time and by them Estates pass Rules to know when Remainders are good The Law hath appointed that every Remainder shall have three things by the matters aforesaid as Notes and Rules certain for to discern when good The first is an Estate precedent made at the same time that the remainder Commences and that the particular Estate continue when the Remainder vests and that the remainder be from the Donor at the time of Livery and if any of the said three things fail the Remainder is void And therefore for the first point if the Lessor confirm the state of his Tenant for years the Remainder in Fee this Remainder is vold for that the Estate for years was made before the Remainder So if a Lessor disseise his Tenant for Life and after makes a new Lease to him for Life the remainder in Fee this Remainder is void because it is a Remitter to his Estate So an Estate precedent was not made at the time of the remainder and therefore the Remainder is void So the Heir endows his Mother Remainder in Fee by reason of Relation and so the precedent Estates are made before the Remainder appointed Secondly That the particular Estate continue when the remainder vests as 21. H. 7.12 per Frowick Lease for Life upon Condition That if he doth not such an Act that his Estate shall cease and that then the Remainder over is void because the Estate precedent is determined before the Remainder appointed and the Remainder must vest during the particular Estate Thirdly because the Remainder passes from the Lessor at the time of the delivery as Hales Hinde and Montague say and as it is proved by the Cases before cited So Perkins 12. and 19.
18. E. 3. 15. a gift to one and his first begotten Son and he hath no Son then but afterwards he hath is a good Remainder to his Son So 39. Assise Pla. 20. a gift to Husband and Wife and to one Heir of his body is a good Remainder yet no Heir to the gift if he be in being when the Possession in Law is cast upon him but a Remainder limited upon contrariety is not good fol. 24. according but the other cause that Litl assigns for that it vests not at the time of the Livery is no cause as is proved by the cases aforesaid because after the Alienation and gift it may not remain to another And the other cause that Litl alleadgeth is because it vests not at the time of Livery which is no cause So a gift to A. and his Heirs so long as B. shall have heirs of his body Remainder to C. in Fee is void for the contrariety because a Remainder cannot depend upon a Fee determinable So a Lease for life to A. upon Condition That if B. pay 20. l. to the Lessor that then immediately it shall remain to B. is void for the contrariety because A. ought to have it during his life But if it were to remain after the death of A. to B. then it were good because no contrariety there and here if W. dies living the Husband and Wife that then it shall remain to to the Defendant is not intendable immediately in their lives but that it should remain as it ought to remain viz. after their deaths and so there is no contrariety and therefore good As to the Condition which is subsequent if he would dwell there c. because it hath two intendments the one that he should inhabite there all the Term and the other to some time during his life shall be taken strictly and the more strongly against the Lessor viz. That he inhabites there at some times during his life which sufficeth as the Feoffee upon Condition for to pay 10. l. to the Feoffor and no time is limited he hath during his life So to serve him in such an Office and saith not how long he hath during his life Harris Serjeant to the same purpose And as to the Exceptions he said That a Condition subsequent and which goeth in the Defeasance of the Estate as here he that claims the Estate shall not shew it but the other which will defeat the Estate But where the Condition precedes the state he shall shew who shall have it because enabled thereunto as if I grant a Rent Charge upon Condition That he shall do such an Act there the Grantee shall avow for the rent without shewing the thing done because it is a condition subsequent and defeats his Estate But if I grant That if he doth such a thing that then he shall have the rent he shall not avow without performance shewed because he is enabled by this to the rent 14. H. 8. Wheeler Grants his Term to one upon Condition That he shall obtain the good will of the Lessor and then shall have it he shall not have it until he hath shewed the performance of the Condition and he affirms the remainder upon Condition to be good Hales Justice If he would c. is a Condition and that the Plea is insufficient because the Defendant hath not averred his continual residence after the Remainder happened for during the Term shall be intended all the Terms as it shall be in reservation of rent or Covenant to repair a house during the Term 27. H. 8. 19. by Audley so the Feoffees shall be intended all the Feoffees and if he hath a reasonable excuse he ought to shew it fo 272. viz. That he was 200. miles distant at the time of the Survivor of the Husband and Wife and entred so soon as he had notice which he shall shew in certain that the Justice may trie it as 22. E. 4. 27. Tenant for Life Leases for years and dies The Lessor bringeth Trespass against the Lessee who saith That in as short time as he could after that he had notice of the death of the Tenant for Life he chased his beasts forth of the land and said also that the Trespass was between the death of the Tenant for Life and the chasing out of the beasts and held no plea for by the death of Tenant for Life the Lease for years was determined and no man bound to give him notice and there it is holden that he ought to say That such a day he chased out the beasts and might shew that the Lessor died in another County and so he could not have so soon notice and this shall be tried by the Justice if the avoidance was in reasonable time So in this case the day of his Entry for the knowledge of the Jurors ought to be set forth common intent is that which hath more vehement presumption and intendment then any other intent hath as 3. H. 6. 3. before 26. fully administred all goods which were the Testators the day of his death good yet might have goods were not the Testators which are assets after the Debts paid but the most common intendment is That he had no other goods except those which were the Testators but intendment indifferent the more strong intendment the one way or the other and therefore ought to be pleaded in Bar as 13. H. 8. 15. by Willoughby the life of cestui que vie is pleaded in a Lease for another life which is indifferent if he be alive or not So if he pleads a release made after the Obligation it is not good if he shews it not by express words that it was delivered after it shall be intended that it was delivered when it bears Date But on the other part it shall be intended also That the other would not bring an Action if it were delivered after and therefore shall be shewed which intendment stands indifferent so here A Demurrer all times after the Remainder happens or not is incertain and therefore because he hath not shewed this the Plea is nought As to the matter in Law it seemeth to him that the remainder is good for a man may pass the thing in question when where and how he will if it be not against Law nor repugnant as here the limitation if the remainder is not against Law for the remainder need not pass forth of the Lessor so 29. for upon the Agreement first had by Act made afterwards Franck-Tenement or remainder may be transferred and devested from one vested in another as a Lease for life remainder for life upon condition That it shall be void if he doth not such an act the remainder before the Condition broken is in him when broken it commeth to the Lessor So a rent or Reversion passeth by Attornment not by the Grant presently So 1 H. 7.31 by Brian a remainder to the K. when the Deed is inrolled then it shall pass and relate
to the Livery So in the case of Plessington 6. R. 2. where the Condition was That if the Lessor die within the Term the Lessee shall have for life and there holden that his estate shall be enlarged if the Lessor die So Disseisen to the use of I. passeth not a Free hold of I. to I. without his agreement so here A remainder passeth when W. died not before by force of the words annexed to the Livery So by Litl a confirmation to the Husband and Wife Tenants for life passes the remainder to the Husband yet it passeth not at the time of the first Estate and the diversity where Fee upon Condition is appointed to privy and whereto a stranger is but a conceit which is worth nothing 29. according 24. to the contrary and is privity because it reserveth out of both so it shall bind him in remainder and also he in remainder shall have waste and so is privy to the particular Estate and the Lessor also and the words then which shall remain shall not be intended presently to destroy the particular Estate but shall remain as a remainder ought to divest then and is to be executed after their deaths as if Donee in Tail doth such an Act then to remain to his right heirs which vests when the Act is done and after the Tail ended shall be executed and not presently upon the Act done to avoid the Tail so here There is not any repugnancie or prejudice to any but a thing when it is done made in prejudice of another shall be void as a remainder that he shall have the land in the life of the particular Tenant So 21. E. 4.44 The King discharges an Abbot That he shall not be a Collector when any Titles should be granted by the Clergy of England and Canterbury Grants Tythes provided that the Collector returned by the Bishop shall not be discharged by the King and the Bishop returns the Abbot Collector there holden that the Grant by the Clergie in this point viz. to charge persons exempt is void because it is in prejudice of others And so the remainder here shall be void rather then a shranger shall have prejudice by it but for defaults in the pleading the Plaintiff ought to recover Hinde Justice to the 3. exception the death of the particular Tenant shall not be shewed which is onely conveyance of the execution of the remainder and is not Traversable nor Issuable To the first and Second exceptions he needs not shew his continual residence after the Remainder is fallen nor the day of his entry because it is a Condition subsequent and goes in defease of his Estate and he which hath benefit by it ought to shew it as 29. H. 6.22 the Grantee of an annuity pro concilio impendendo shall have the Annuity without shewing that he hath given Councel for that the shewing of it is not beneficial to him and the denial of Councel defeats the Annuity so he agrees to the diversity in case of Annuity 15. H. 7.1 bont fol. 25 by Pollard when one shall be promoted and therefore the shewing hereof that which is surplusage and the imperfectness of it shall not make the Bar vitious and the Remainder here by him commenceth not upon Condition but it is a limitation and explanation from the time that it first begun for nothing or words makes a Condition but such which restrains the thing given as If I. Lease for life upon Condition That if the Lessee die or maketh waste and I. recover the place wasted or any parcel of it That I. shall enter into all for it is a Condition for that part in which no waste is done because it restrains and defeats that part And if it be a Condition here yet the Remainder thereupon is good if it commenced and vested at any time during the particular Estates 24 29. 32 34. for when he hath Fee-Simple he may Condition with it as he pleaseth if it be not against Law as if I. Lease for life upon Condition That I. S. paies to me 20. l. that I. shall enter then the Remainder is void because the entry avoids the first estate and then no particular estate continues upon which a Remainder may depend Brown Justice to the same purpose The entry of the Defendant shall be intended immediately for this is the most common intent and a Bar good to a common intent shall be intended that he entred presently after his Title accrued and to the matter in Law hold that the remainder shall be good upon Condition Montague Chief Justice to the same intent The entry of the Defendant shall be intended presently for this is the most common intent and a Bar good to a common intent is good as 21. E. 4.83 in Assize the Tenant pleads a discent to him as Son and Heir and he entred and it was held good yet the Father of the Plaintiff might have abated and died seised and then the Plaintiff is in as Son and Heir in which case the Tenant might not enter But this is not intendable but the most common intent is That the Tenant entred immediatly after the death of of his Father So 9. E. 4.12 in Debt against five Executors at the Distress 3. makes Default 2. appears and pleads Recovery against them two of 300. and that more they had not in their hands Exception taken That because by intent there should be five Executors two might have abated the first suit and so the Recovery not duly had but holden good because it may be that then they two onely administred and then they did lie against them two onely and the most common intent is that it might be so rather than at first to lose advantage to have abated the Writ and therefore the Plea in Bar was held good and Execution duly had and if it were otherwise the Plaintiff ought to have shewed it So 21. E. 4.8.1 In formidon in discender The Tenant pleads the release of the Demandant without Warranty in Bar yet might be made by him in the life time of the father and then it is no Bar but it shall be intended to be made after the death of the Father if the Demandant replies not to the contrary but if he which pleads in Bar is bound at a time certain he ought to shew the day of his Act certainly 24 26 27. as the day of entry for Mortmain so that it may appear to be within the year So if one justifies for Common between Lammas and Candlemas So if one justifies by Warrant by Licence by Authority he alwaies ought to shew the time certain of his justification so that pleading in abatement of the Writ or a plea after the last continuance ought to plead certainly and these are observed as principles in our Law but he which pleads in the Negative ought not to plead certainly If he would dwell c. It is like that it is not a Condition here because it is not
Discender if it be out of the words yet it shall be taken by equity although it be penal to some man for here it restrains the Liberty of Tenant in Tail because it was for to redress false Covin for to advance right and justice and benificial to the weal-publick As W. 2. cap. 3. gives a cui in vita upon a recovery by default which was a wrong to the Wife and therefore gave Cui ante Divortium by equity So Marlebridge cap. 6. De primogenith and of Feoffment yet if the first Son dies and he infeoffees the second Son or Levy a Fine it shall be taken by equity because it redresses Covin which the Law abhors So 1. H. 7. cap. 1. gives a Formedon in Remainder against Pernors of Profits and 14. H. 7.31 and after 178. scire facias for to execute a Remainder against the taker of the Profits shall be maintainable by equity No judgement was ever given in this case for this default viz. because he had not shewed certainly how he was Heir and in special for that it was issuable and Title given is certain Note that all the Justices held the case here within the words of the Statute of 11. H. 7. And if it were not within the words that yet it was within the equity of the Statute And they held also that the Heir may enter immediately that is to say in the life of Tenant in Tail but no judgement was given Dive against Maningham ONe was in prison in execution upon a Recognisance of Debt M. 4 E. 6 In the Common Pleas in debt taken according to the Statute of 23. H. 8. cap. 6. and the Defendant being a stranger made an Obligation to the Sheriff indorced with Condition That the prisoner should save him from dammage against the King and the Conusee and also that he should be alwaies at his commandment as a true prisoner to appear before the justices and the King at Westminster or elsewhere within this Realm And it was adjudged a void Obligation by the Statute of 23. H. 6. c. 10. 1. For that the prisoner was not bailable but excepted by the Statute which in this point is not but an affirmance of the Common Law 2. For that That the third branch of the Statute which maketh all Obligations vold taken for any the causes abovesaid against the form there expressed extends as well to the second branch in which the exception is as to the first for the generalty abovesaid and also by the intent of the Statute to suppress the extortion of Sheriffs in this behalf 3. Although it shall not be so yet he taketh the Obligation colore officii as Sheriff of his prisoner and so within the Statute 4. No day or place of appearance is limited in the Condition so the form appointed by the Stat. is not observed 5. Other things are mixt in the Condition with the apparance as that he shall save harmless and this shall be intended there for all things and at all times 6. He had but one surety and the Statute speaks of surety of sufficient persons in the plural number by Montaigue fol. 63. 7. The Obligation here is void by course of the Common Law for that the Condition is against the Law for the party is not bailable 2. H. 4.9 The Extent ought to precede the Liberate here are both in one Writ yet in nature they are several but the Writ remains good for the extent and the other is surplusage 7. H. 4. 44. for Toll not paid the Writ was Tolloneum asportavit illud solvere recusavit asportavit is void because surplusage and it abates not because he refused to pay for that is sufficient and be the Writ good or bad in Law it shall stand in force until it be Reversed by Error because an ancient Record 37. H. 6. 1. the Sheriff took a single Obligation for to let one to Mainprise which is not Mainpernable it was void because he took colore efficii which is taken alwaies in ill part and implies that the thing is done by pretence of Office but not yet duely and their office is but a vail and shadow to falsity Virtute officii or Ratione officii taken in good part because it is alwaies where the Office is just which causeth the thing it is pursuant to the office Obligation is void where the condition is contrary to Law as to be saved harmless if he kils a man or doth commit trespass so here the Obligation is void by the Common Law because it was to save the Sheriff harmless for wrong done against the Law as is the letting the Prisoner at freedom he being one which is not Bailable So 2. H. 4. 9. A Baily by withernam takes the Beasts of the Defendant and afterwards re-delivers them to the Defendant upon Obligation given to him by the Defendant for the saving of him harmless wherefore holden void because it was to aid the Baily for this wrong in the re-delivery of the beasts to the party for he ought to have detained them untill c. And afterward Mollineux Hales and Brown Justices argued to the same purpose Montague Cheif Justice It is likely to me that the Plaintiff shall be barred for an Act which is general in particularity or particular in a generality which is all one as in 13. E. 4. 8. That all Corporations and Licences made by H. 6. shall be void So that all Bishops or Justices shall do such an Act shall be pleaded but a general Act which extends to every man not but the Justices ought to take Conusance thereof but if this Act hath several branches concerning several matters yet contained in one Chapter there he needs not recite all but this onely which concerns him and maketh for his purpose for every branch is a several Act by it self But a Record shall not be pleaded inter alia for it is intire upon one Originall and one Judgement upon it but ought to plead certainly all the Record when it is pleaded in Bar because the Record is the matter of substance and the effect of the Bar which ought to be plain and perfect when the Record is but conveyance and induction to the Bar or Action it is sufficient to reciteithis which is the cause of the Action as 34. H. 6. 48. A Tenant by Elegit makes avow in â—…eplegiare for that he had execution as Tenant by Elegit and made a Lease reserving Rent for which being arear he avowed he needed not shew the Record because the Lease onely is traversable and is the effect of the Avowry and the execution by Elegit is the Record from which it issues which is nothing but conveyance to the effect and therefore it sufficeth to begin at the Execution upon Damages recovered without pleading how lie brought his first Action and what answer the Defendant made or such like So in the 19. H. 6. 29. a Bill of Deceit against an Attorncy for
imbesseling of a Habcas Corpora upon a Formedon between the Plaintiff and another holden good whithout shewing the Original and certainty of the Land and all the Record in certain because the Record is but a conveyance to the suit of Deceit and therefore for this cause cannot be gainsaid as to say Nultiel Record But where a Record is pleaded in Bar all shall be shewed certainly and is Traversable there in Conclusion or general Demurrer as petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the Action one shall have advantage of all defaults and of every thing mentioned in the Record and of every point that the Law gives him In Conclusion speciall of defaults onely alleadged in certain as here petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the action there if it be void for another cause then this which is mentioned he shall not have benefit of this of a thing void ab initio as the Obligation here because void by Statute so in avoidance of a Deed That he was not a man lettered and that it was read to him in another form So 24. H. 8. 28. because delivered as an Escrow upon Condition the Conclusion shall be so not his Deed because the matter proves that it was never his Deed of a thing voidable where it was void after because once is was a Deed the Conclusion shall be Judgement if Action because the duty is now extinct as 1. H. 7. 15. by release 35. H. 6. 18. for nonage 7. E. 4. 5. by dures When the Conclusion is nought and the matter in Law good Officium Judicis est for to give Verdict against the Plaintiff if it appeareth that he had not cause of Action howbeit that the Defendant hath lost the advantage thereof as it is here So 7. E. 4. 31. Trespass against B. and C. B. pleads not guilty C. pleads the gift of B. found guilty and found for C. no judgement for the Plaintiff because found against him So. appeal of a woman for the death of her father 10. E. 4. 7. because she shall not have an appeal of the death of any man except her husband or Trespass against the Lord by distress where nothing is in arear because the Statute is Non ideo puacatur dominus abate ex officio although the Defendant accepts the Writ good for the Plaintiff shall be barted by the Court ex officio and shall not have judgement although the Defendant admits his Title or by his Conclusion hath concluded himself of his advantage if it appeareth that he had no Title 1. The first branch is commanding and authorising the Sheriff to let to Bail persons manipernable by the Common Law viz. persons taken by Writ Bill or Warrant upon an Action personall or indictment of Trespass for it was indifferent if they were guilty or not made in affirmance of the Common Law 2. The second Branch viz. The exception was also made in the affirmance of the Common Law before for such persons which were in by condemnation execution Capias ut legat c. were not bailable before 3. The third is onely the purview which relates to the second branch as well as to the first for before refers to all this spoken of before as well the thing excepted as otherwise as a Lease for years of a Mannor except a Close rendring Rent the Lessee binds himself to perform all Covenants Grants and Agreements expressed or recited in the Indenture and after disturbs the Lessor of a thing excepted he hath forfeletd the Obligation because it is an Agreement for when he excepted the Close the other was contented with it and that the Lessor should occupy it and recited goes to the exception as to the rest 45. E. 3. 4. contained and recited goes to every Covenant in the Indenture An Act done Colore officii is extortion as if an Officer takes more for Fees then he ought And an Obligation taken of a prisoner for meat and drink is void because it is colore officii for he nor the Plaintiff are not bound to give him sustenance as he which distrains is not bound to give although he be in for Felony because 7. H. 4. 47. his goods are his untill he be attainted by the Common Law which is confirmed by 1. R. 3. c. 3. Rastal Forfeiture fol. 15. and if he dies for want of sustenance it is his own fault because that by presumption his ill demeanor bringeth him to such imprisonment The Statute of R. 3. restrains the Sheriff and other Officers to take Obligations of their prisoners except the Warden of the Fleet and the Kings Pallace at Westminster A Sheriff lets to mainprise one taken by Capias upon an indictment of Trespass which for the surety of the Sheriff makes an obligation to a stranger to keep his day is 7. E. 4. 5. held to be void because taken to another and not to the Sheriff onely according to the Statute Also there it is held if the Obligation hath not the Conditions expressed in the Statute That it is not the Deed of the party ex quo sequitur that he ought to conclude not his Deed keeping without dammage shall be intended by the generalty for all things Treasons Felonies Accounts and for all times if another thing is added by the Statute to be given it shall make all void as if a Condition be made according to the Statute and hath another thing not according to the Obligation is void So to add other words in a Formedon or Writ of Waste which are given by Statute all is void So to alien all the Land when he hath licence for part the licence is void in all by the Statute of 32. H. 8. because he hath exceeded the Authority thereby given to him The Statute saith That the Sheriff shall let persons mentioned therein to bail upon reasonable surety of sufficient persons in the plural number and because there is but one surety here the Obligation is void Also because the Statute saith That if it shall be taken in any other manner then is contained in the Statute if shall be void Also here by Plowden yet taken by one at large by the words of the first branch and those aid then third branch every person which extends to those at large nor for any person in their Ward which extends only to prisoners Kidwelly against Brand. LEease for years rendring 40. s. Rent by the year at H. out of the Land at the Feast of M. and if the Rent be behind H. 4. 5. E 6. In the Common Pleas. and not paid by the space of 40. daies after the said Feast then it shall be lawfull for him c. for to re-enter the Reversion is granted for Life the Grantee cometh to the Land 40. dales after M. to demand the Rent aforesaid but demanded it not and for not payment re-entred and adjudged lawfull 1. A Grantee for Life of a Reversio is an assignee within the Statute of 32.
H. 6.25 Of vigor of an appeal pleaded against an excomunication the usuall form shall be observed and good as in debt when the defendant acknowledgeth himself to be bound c. So in forgery against one only quod falsa conspiratione habita good 11. H. 6.2 because the usuall form where a man may not have by common intendment precise notice of the certainty of a thing it sufficeth to alleadge this generally as 21. H. 6.9 9. H. 7.15 that executors have administred to B. without shewing what things good because he may not know that another hath administred and that he is not privy So 5. E. 4.8 Obleige to discharge the Sheriff of all things touching his office he said that he had discharged him generally good because for the infiniteness of it Talbot and Corbets case tempore H. 7. upon the same Statute 23. H. 6. where the issue was joyned that Corbet was chosen Knight for the Parliament and he was admitted to prove it c. So 2. E 4. 19. imprison to make an obligation to the defendant to others unknown without naming them good contrary in false imprisonment So 10. E. 4. 19. bound for to serve in all lawfull commands he said that he had served him lawfully untill such a day without shewing in what good So in 12. H 7.14 he had found him meat drink and apparel untill one and twentd yeers without shewing what good So monstraverunt homines without shewing the number because a great number for the Law compels not to shew the certainty of the thing which is not to be known or remembred Brook Chief Justice so 128. and in Parliament the most voices in the upper house shall be numbred by the Clerk of the house for every one there shall be severally demanded otherwise it is in the house of Commons for there the assent is tryed by voices sounding all at one time So in election of Coroners Sanders so 126. the County of Chester was alwayes parcel of the Realm of England yet Knights and Burgesses came not from thence untill the Statute of 34. 35. H. 8. ca. 13. Statute penall extends not further then the words and namely for to punish others as 21. H. 7.21 of malefactors in Parks extends not to Forrests So 13. H. 6. cap. 10. that Sheriffs shall not let their Counties extends not to him which Leases parcel of it 21. H. 7.36 the contrary was held 20. H. 7.12 and before fol. 87. So treble dammages for a forcible entry in an Assise or trespas extends not to entry in the nature of an Assise 7. H. 4. which limit order for the election of Knights extended not to the false return of the Sheriff untill 11. H. 4. was made if London inlarge the Ancient custome viz that a villen shall not be drawn out which hath remained there a yeer and a day because Ancient demeansne 7 H. 6.32 extends not to enlargment So England altered not the subjecton of Wales Rape is made fellony by W. 2. ca. 34. Abetters inquirable cap. 12. and at one time good 2. E. 2.22 E. 3. yet Chapter the 12. seeme to be intended of fellons before made and not by the same Statute Sanders justice the allegation alledged under the viz. is a plain precise and effectuall affirmation in deed proved by Rules in grammer the authority of Latine Authors by the Register 66.160 natura brevium 63.134 h. 135. b. and the opinion of the Doctors of the Civill Law 21. E. 4.49 and after so 143. by Catlin an Abbot in discharge to be collector saith inter Record of such a term continetum that R. 2. had granted to his predecessors that he nor his successors shall be collectors and naught for it may be contained amongst the Records and yet no Record escuage was first invented to suppress the Welch and Scots rebels against whom war was made by the King of England as against Rebels and not as against enemies for that they were subject to England H. 3. made E. 1. his eldest son Prince of Wales and so it hath continued to this time which Act of H. 3. was the first alteration of Wales King E. 1. made the Statute of Snowdon The third was the Statute of 27. H. 8. the welch may sue by quod ei deforceat in the nature of what action they will Statutes sometimes explaines the Common Law Merton cap. 2. quod vidua legare possunt bluda c. and late Statutes aided by equity Statutes made before so lineal warranty Bars not the issue in taile without assets by the equity of Glocester made long before after fol. 78. so Land delivered in execution by the Statute of Marchants 1â— E. 1. yet it shall be delivered also to so high extendors although 13. E. 1. speaketh not of it by equity of Acton Burnel 11. E. 1. cap. 2. which giveth goods prised at two high prises in dammage and that the Connusee shall have them for the price because it intended to aide things in like degree although not in esse then Brown Justice to the same purpose and said that in things touching Grammer their predecessors have consulted with Grammarians and pursued their Rules as it appeareth in our books that the the Judges have said proximo antecedenti fiet Relatio the which sentence they might take out of Grammar and he argued that licet was a plain affirmative and that the matter contained under the licet is an affirmation with greater vehemency then it should be without the licet and that the licet augments the affirmation And he argued further that the generall words of the Statute of 27. enabled the plantiffe to take benefit of the penalty and in what he said agreed with Sanders in effect Brook chief Justice Gavel kind commenced by the Brittans by partition of England Scotland and Wales between the three sons of Brute continued by Bellinus Brennus Ferrex and Porrex and was altered in England by the conquest of the Saxons and the eldest son by their Law was inheritable But Gavel kind continued in Wales until 27. H. 8. for it was not conquered Priviledges within certain precincts or Dominions followed not the enlargement of the place So 38. H. 6.10 Liberties granted to the Bishop of Durham in feedis suis extends not to the purchase after So 21. H. 6. Warren is granted to B. in all his Lands in Dale and he purchaseth other Land in Dale he shall not have warren there So a grant of Conusans of Pleas of a thing parcel of the mannor of Dale tenancy Escheats afterwards he shall not have of it For the grant taketh execution of his precinct and circuit at the time of the making of it and the services shall be then parcel of the mannor and not the demeans which now escheat So grant wreck to B. in all his Lands it shall not extend to the Land of which he was then disseised because not his but the disseisors pro tempore Reference to another
one shall be the words of all in the operation of the Law Catline To the same purpose because words equivalent to a Reservation for the Law takes words of substance and not usual equivalent and words of substance is usuall and the Law regards the effect and substance more then form the words and substance will supply the form rather then the intent of the parties shall be void as Lessor and Lessee for life makes a Feoffment it shall be the Feoffment of the Lessee and confirmation of the Lessor yet no word of Confirmation before fol. 59. And so if a Tenant for years and the Lessor make a Feoffment in Fee this shall be taken the Livery and Feoffment of the Lessor and surrender of the Lessee and yet there is nor any word of surrender of the Lessee but shall be so taken by the judgemen of Law So a rent granted by Tenants in common is severall because estates several yet words joynt after fol. 161.171 and Perkins fol. 22. so renuntiavit communiam 9 H. 6.35 after fol. 162. it is a a Lease because where words are equivalent in substance the Law will appoint how they shall enure and in Contracts it is not materiall who speaks the words if the other agree for the Law respects it and the words which prove the assent and have substance sufficient And therefore 21. H. 6. if the words of the Obligee make a Condition viz. the Obligee vult concedit if the Obligor steterit arbitrio yet usually they are the words of the Obligor for Condition Brooks cond fol. 58. abridge this contrary So an annuity pro consilio or a rent for Composition of Tythes 9. E. 4.16 enure as words Conditionall and a Covenant that the Farmor shall not be impeached for waste amounts 21. H. 6.47 to hold without impeachment of wast 17. E. 3.9 award assigns land of greater value then the Dower to the Widow and the second Husband who granted a rent by the same Deed to him with distress for the overplus and the Deed recites this the Wife Lessee after the death of her husband because the Grant to pay the rent for the overplus of the land a good reservation for otherwise he shall not be bound contrary before of a Grant for reasonable Dower and no mention made that the land was more worth then the Dower because without consideration there and is a Collateral thing and so words shall enure upon Acts between the parties concerning the principal matter and Collateral matter differ also the summ is certainly recited and the rent shall be this summ for the sentence stands good without words rent or farm where those words shall be adjudged void rather then the certainty expressed to be void as 4. E. 4.29 I. is obligee to B. Solvendum to I. yet good and the Count shall be to be paid to B. for the intent of the parties makes this good So a Grant of Remainder by the name of Reversion of the land a good Grant notwithstanding the mis-terming of the thing because the certainty of the land appeareth but by a Grant of all Reversions a Remainder doth not pass because the grant is in generalty and so certainty by special Terms and by general differs So where he saith if all rents shall be arear and where the said rent of 37. l. 3. s. 4 d. in certain So words containing generalty and incertainty and specialty and incertainty differ to pay 10 s. at Michaelmas 1599 and at the same Feast of S. Michaelmas next ensuing other 10. s. there the summ is taken the like for that it cannot be the same if it come after so one word taken for another supplies the intent of the parties 2. That the Covenant and Grant for not payment that the Lease shall be void is not a Condition by Ramsey fol. 133. because it is not spoken by him which gives the estate as if two Joynt-Tenants make a Lease upon Condition and that then one Lessee enters he shall not enter but into one moytie for that he gave no more and the words of one because the Law saith he speaketh only for his moytie shall not make this Condition to another which speaks not And also the Condition is subsequent in time of the Statute which was executed before for the Demise and habendum maketh the Lease contrary by Stamford and Walsh fol. 135. for that the parties are so agreed by Indenture and the one party and the other assents and therefore all one as if he had reserved the Conditional payment which is called Rent and is a Condition annexed for to avoid the Estate Litl fol. 70. So here because the summ certainly named be it a Rent or summ in gross for it is not requisite that the Lessor should speak but if the words of the Indenture had intendment to avoid the estate it sufficeth and the words shall be taken agreement of every party and not spoken by one party more then another as provisoes are or si contingal and all the words of a Deed shall take effect at one instant because the delivery is at one instant and it hath not several times proved by 10. ass 15. where several Deeds delivered at one and the same time the one being a Lease for years the other a Charter upon Condition to have Fee if disturbed before fol. 34. So 9. H. 6.35 Lease without Impeachment of Waste provided That he makes not voluntary waste in houses is Conditional and waste lieth because all made by one Deed if by two Covenants yet it is not spoken by the Lessor more then the Lessee but shall be taken as an agreement of both the parties Gawdie Justice to the contrary fol. 137. Defeasance of a thing Executory as an Obligation Recognisance or Warranty 43. Ass fol. 44. good of a thing executed not As 43. E. 3. Defeasance of a release unless delivered at one instant nor of a Lease executed by Morgan it is Conditional fol. 138. For Covenant lyeth not here because that Covenant lyeth of a thing to come and to be done by the person of some one and not of a thing to be executed in it self and therefore if the words enure not to the effect to determine the first Lease here they shall be void because it may not enure to another effect It is not a Condition by Brooks because it is not restrictive and compulsarie as are Ita quod non if the Lessee doth such an Act or if it happens or proviso but a proviso alwaies maketh not a Condition as in Dockwraies case 27. H. 8.15 because voluntary for Leessee without words compulsary of the Lessor Covenants and Grants That he will remove c. by Catlyn fol. 142. is a condition because it implies the intent of the parties to be Conditional yet it hath not the usual words as a Feoffment to pay 20. s. or instruct his Son in such an Art For it is a Condition because the parties purport such
the Statute And when the Statute appoints place order and form of suits and before what person it shall not be altered As by W. 2. cap 11. an Accomptant found in Arrearages shall be imprisoned in the next Goal although it be in another County 27. H. 8. before fol. 17. So by Westminster 2. cap. 3. Second deliverance shall be sued out of the same Court where the first Replevin was granted and not elsewhere So 31. E. 3. c. 12. Error in the Exchequer shall be corrected before the Chancellor and Treasurer and therefore not before others So an Affirmative because general implies a Negative exclusively so all Actions shall be sâ—ed in Wales and not elsewhere is implied here as by W. 2. cap. 4. he shall vouch in Quo die deforceat as if he were Tenant and included and not otherwise and therefore shall not vouch in scire facias where it is the first Writ because he cannot vouch there before fo 113 So the issue in Tail shall not be remitted because he hath the use as a purchaser by 27. H. 8. for the Statute of 27. executes the possession in the same manner as he had the use which implies and not in any other Mannors before fol. 114. So by 31. H. 8. Leases made by Abbots after this Stat. adjudged void when Abbies came after to the King by dissolution because the Statute saith That the King shall have it as it was then which implies a Negative and therefore the King shall not have them now in Reversion by making of such Leases or before he hath them in possession On the part of the Plaintiff it was argued to the contrary And they agreed to the cases of voucher in a Quod ei deforceat of the Execution of the use and of the committing of an accomptant to the next Gaol for where an Act maketh a new thing Affirmative and gives to them Authority to do that which they could not before there they shall be in the order limited by the Statute and not otherwise and at the Common Law there was not any voucher by the demandant nor any coming to the land by the use nor any power given to Auditors to commit an Accomptant to prison and therefore there that which is limited by such Stat. ought to be pursued accordingly but where the Action which was before at the Common Law is given by any Statute in any case where it did not lie before there this Action is suable in all Courts therefore used by the Common Law before if there are not express words to restrain it for where one Act affirms a former before there the last Affirmative destroies not the first nor takes any thing from the Jurisdiction of the first but declares That they have power So 34. and 35. H. 8. hereby the Affirmative takes not away the Jurisdiction of other Courts given to them by 27. H. 8. for uniting Wales and England Sanders against Freeman THe Conusee of a Fine brings a Quidjuris clamat against Husband and Wife M. 3. and 4. Eliz. in the C. P. Quid juris clamat Tenants for life in the right of the Wife and pleads that they were seized in Tail in the right of the Wife and shew how and thereupon are at issue the Jury finds a private Verdict for the Defendant and after in open Court contradicts it and found for the Plaintiff for they were charged openly in Court and ought to give their Verdict there openly and the other was but matter of courtesie to ease the Jurors and not of necessity for the Plaintiff could not have been nonsuited upon it otherwise upon a verdict given in Court and by this Plea the estate for life was at the will of the Plaintiff A Verdict secretly given to the Justice out of Court is not a Verdict because taken of courtesie when Jurors agree for their ease until aptly pronounced in Court for at every verdict the Plaintiff is demandable and then may be nonsuited but there he is not and therefore the last open Verdict shall stand Also the Inquest may change their Verdict given in Court if mistaken or not plain in Law or for other reasonable cause immediatly perceived as to find not guilty and immediatly guilty because they may be mistaken this was received in the Kings Bench. So 4 H. 4.2 In Conspiracie acquit one and found another guilty because it was contrary in it self they may find both guilty and good Dutchie of Lancaster HENRY 8. 4. Eliz at Serj. Innâ— makes a Lease for one and twentie years under the great Seal of the Dutchie and dyeth after E. 6. being within age maketh a new Lease to a stranger under the same Seal for 21. years after the Determination Surrender c. of the first Lease and dies and by all the Justices Queen Elizabeth could not avoid this second Lease for the nonage of the King E 6. howbeit he was seized of the Dutchie in his natural body because he hath the imbecillity of infancie yet this is invested and adorned with the dignity of the body politique of the King which is utterly void of such imperfections A Lease by the King within age of Dutchie land is good although he was seized of the Dutchie in his natural body which hath the imbecillity of infancy because he hath the natural body invested and adorned with the estate and dignity Royal by conjunction of the body politique to it which is utterly void of such imperfections and so when both bodies remain in one person all the bodies shall have the properties qualities and degrees of the body politique which is the most worthy and no Act of the King made as King shall be defeasable by any disability in his body natural and therefore the letters pattents of the King within age good So a gift of the King by Thorp 36. ass pl. 54. So 6. E. 3.291 the King shall have right of seisen of his ancestor within age So the King hath by purchase or discent in capacity of his natural body when he is King or before that he was King and being given this within age good and shall pass by the Letters Pattents onely and without Livery because he may not make Livery in his natural body disjoined from the politike body which are in one and the same body and indivisible and it is contrary to the dignity Royal for a King to make livery in proper person and Livery is matter in fact and the King must have his Acts recorded So the King need not demand rent reserved upon his land by a common ancestor but shall not enter if the Condition be broken until it be found by Office if he purchases and sels before he is King and within age if King also then otherwise it is yet after he is King he shall avoid it by his nonage before but shall not enter without Office because his person which had right of entry before hath now the estate Royall united which
naturall body so may he purchase As 34. H. 6.34 and by pleading there H. 6. seized in fee of an Advowson in gross conveyed it from H. 5. to him who granted it to the plantiff good without shewing in jure Coronae or how and there if the King hath Land parcel of the Crown and parcell by purchase and dies having a son and daughter by one venter and a son by another who enters and dies without issue the daughter shall have the Land purchased and the son the other So purchased Lands by the King shall go to the naturall body So 35. H. 6.28 by Moyle after fol. 247. Land in Gavel-kind given to the King and his heirs the eldest son being King shall not have all because it vests in his naturall body but perquisites of a villaine the King hath jure Coronae as 41. E. 3.21 if a Bishop who hath a villain in the right of his Church enter he shall hold it in his body politick and shall be in the right of his Church because the signiory was for a thing in respect or by reason of another shal be in the same degree and right as the principal was at the Common Law That an estate of inheritance viz. Fee-simple was by the Common Law before the Statute First absolute when a gift was made to a man and his Heirs Secondly conditional when to him and the Heirs of his body for that formedon in Reverter at the Common Law if the Donee dies without issue in Remainder not for a remainder cannot depend upon a Fee Conditional until this Statute and before this Statute the Donee might alien after issue had so bar the issue because they construed the having of issue to be a performance of the Condition which was implied in the words and in the intent of the Donee and after issue to be as an absolute Fee because he had such heirs which were limited But if before the Statute the Donee had issue he might alien and good then here 4 E. 3. and 30. E. 1. which was contrary to the will of the Donor for which the Statute was made and then Fines were of great regard yet by this Statute ipso jure sit nullus viz. as to the right issue or Donors the Kings prerogatives are great yet the Common Law so admeasures them that they take not away any of the inheritances of the subject and therefore the King shall pay Toll though not for things bought yet Toll Traverse he shall because it is for going over another Soil because it toucheth the inheritance to permit a way over his Soil without paying any thing 46. E. 3. 23. H. 3. 35. H. 6. 26 28 29. So for to wave a Demurrer or issue yet may not change one issue into another Term because then it would be infinite which should be to the disinheritance of another 13. E. 4.8 Statutes general made in preservation of inheritances or for the publick good binds the King without naming as W. 2. c. 5. of usurpations but by 35. H. 6. good is not so clear if an infant upon whom the King usurps hath by purchase as well as discent So Merton cap. 5. That ordains that the Kings Ward shall not pay usury viz. That the Rent shall not be doubled during the Nonage of the Heir and therefore in 35. H. 6.60 by Needham if the King gives land rendring Rent yearly at Easter and if he fail to pay at the day That he shall double the Rent the Grantee dies his Heir within age he shall not double the Rent against the King So Merton cap. 6. That a man shall make his Attorney for to follow his suit to the King if it be his Lord or at the Court of another he shall do it So the Statute of 5. H. 5. of additions L. 5. E. 4.32 of one Law which belongeth to a common person the King may not defend the Common right but that every one shall have advantage but every general Statute shall not bind the King without naming of him As Magna Charta cap. 12. Communia placita c. nor such which have an intent onely between subjects and to repress disorder between them those here which concerneth salvation of inheritance or publick utility of the Realm So the Statute of gifts Conditional binds the King because by Justice and Act of Parliament the King hath submitted his will to the Donor The King as Walsh saith hath in him First power to do Secondly Justice to enforce him to do it this is as to others Thirdly Mercie to stay him from doing this is of things touching himself And because after this Statute the King may not say that the estate is Fee-simple Conditional as it was before the Act the case of the Tenant in Tail attainted of Treason was alleadged in proof of it 37. H. 8.7 7. H. 4.32 which proves that the King shall be bound by the said Statute So by 26. H. 8. cap. 13. because it is some estate of inheritance also the Tenant of the King in Capite gives in Tail Tenendum de capitali domino the King shall not have Wardship of the issue in Tail 4. H. 6.19 because it is not now Fee Conditional as before the Statute and therefore he is not immediate Tenant to the King 4. H. 7.16 The King may receive the Services of the Donor by his hands 27. H. 8.26 after fol 249. the King may take the Donor or the Tenant in Tail for his Tenant before Licence or after but once chosen shall not resort Also 8. H. 4.9 Tenant in Tail of a Signioty aliens it in Mortmain for default the Signiory revolts to the King the King seises the Land after escheat the issue in Tail hath the land by petition against the King and therefore is not Fee-Conditionall as to the King but binds the King although in these cases the King claims in the right of the Crown yet here it is very remote from the prerogative because here it remains vested in the natural body of H. 7. For the Plaintiff it was said That the Prerogative of the natural body of the King because of the union of the politick as the attainder of H. 7. discharge ipso facto as soon as he came to the Crown 1. H. 7.4 So R. 3. being Feoffee to uses when he was King the use was gone because the King in his body politique may not be seised to an use of another 5. E. 4.7 and therefore it was enacted 1. R. 3. cap. 5. Rastal Uses 3. That the Land should be in Fee to him to whom the Use was 43 E. 3.22 Franchises extinct by purchase of the King yet to him and his Heirs of a Mannor to which they were appendant So the King in his natural body and another purchase or if the purchase is before that he is King they are not Joint-Tenants but Tenants in common Fitz-nabr f. 32. G. because no body politick may hold in Joincture So 44. E.
3.45 The King may distrain in all others lands for his arrearages where he hath the signiory in his body politick and by Bentos no entry shall be upon the purchaser in his natural body before he was King or after for Condition broken by him So 10. H. 4.47 The King hath a non omittas in his scirefacias for Dutchie land and good before fol. 216. Exception in intendment of the Act here as good as if it had been in words and Use is of naming of the King when he shall be restrained The King is favored in all exposiitons because it is intended that he will not assent to prejudice himself the liberty and interest that he hath at the Common Law is not taken away by the Statute if he is not named 12. H. 7.21 proves it because at the Common Law every Lord may distrain for all Services in every part of the Tenacie 10. H. 7.10 and after quia emptores terrar W. 3. cap. 2. the Lord shall have pro particula but not more yet the King after this Statute if his Tenant aliens part shall have all Services by the hands of the Feoffee or Feoffor Fitzh nat br fol. 235. A. and Westminstere 2. cap. 17. which gives the Wardship to the first Feoffor binds not the King for he shall have it albeit he held of him by posteriority And so Prerogativa Regis cap. 2. affirms the Common Law in this point The Statute de Religiosis 7. E. 1. For Mortmain binds not the King nor Marlebridge cap. 9. which Grans That the elder percener onely shall do the suit yet Fitzh nat br fol. 159. all shall do it to the King So the King may sue for debt in the Kings Bench contrary to Magna Charta cap. 11. But 1. H. 5. cap. 5. of additions binds the King because he is included in the word Indictment expresse which is onely the suit by Carus the King gives in Tail without expressing any service he shal hold in Capite 29. H. 8. for the King shall seize for his Fine if he aliens without licence 22. E. 3.58 Ass fol. 1. and it is not in Capite if he holds of the King by reason of a Reversion or Mannor and not of his person W. 2. cap. 3. gives receipt generally to him in Reversion yet 25. E. 3.48 the King shall not be received upon the default of his Tenant because then the demandant should count anew against the King but he ought to sue to him by Petition 14. H. 8.3 by Fineux the King shall not abase himself to stand to the defence as Tenant in suit as a Common person shall Weston Justice A gift in Tail before W. 2. implies a Condition in Law viz That it should revert to the Donor if the Donee did die without issue if the words had been expressed in the gift it had been surplusage and therefore there it is a condition in Law and not in Deed for a Condition in Deed may be broken during the estate given but a Condition in Law as this is cannot Conditions in Law are two the one finishes the estate as a Lease quam diu one shall be Abbot or live sole when he is removed to be Abbot or taketh Husband there the estate finisheth the other finisheth not the estate untill suit or entry as where the Lessee maketh waste or aliens or Tenant in Fee Cess or Disclaims W. 2. restrains the alienation of the Donee now after issue had if the Gift had been to Husband and Wife and to the Heirs of their bodies ingendred and the Wife had survived that her second Husband if he had issue by her should be Tenant by the courtesie now this is restrained where the estate of the Donee before the Statute was Fee-simple now by the intent of the makers of the Act the estate is diminished and made Fee-Tail and the Fee-simple is in the donor and a reversion made of it and now the Fee-simple may be given over in Remainder and so the estate is divided The King hath two capacitles and cometh to some things meerly as King as Treasure Trove and Escheats by Treason after fol. 322. and to some not as King as if Lands discend to him from any of his bodies Politick are by Pattents of the King as Dean and Chapter Major c. cannot purchase in succession by the word Heirs but onely by the name of Successors the body politick at Common Law as the King here by the one or the other the King purchases in his naturall body yet shall not take by Livery before f. 213. for it passes not by Livery but by Record and his Grantee thereof shall hold of him by Knights Service in Capite and none may distrain for Signiory or Rents in it nor have execution of it And 7. E. 4.17 The King may not be seised to anothers use in respect of the Conjunction of the body Royall to the body natural Prerogatives of the King are by the Common Law by Custom and by Statute by the Common Law the Kings Grant is taken most favorably for him otherwise it is of the Grant of a Common person As an Advowson passes not by Grant of a Mannor without mentioning 2 R. 3.4 8. H. 7.1 41. E. 3.4 and Prerogativa Regis cap. 15. is not but Common Law in this point the King may Grant a thing in action 2. H. 7.8 and 32. H 8. an Obligee Utlawed the King shall have the entire duty 8. E. 4.24 and 19. H. 6.47 So the entire Ox after fol. 323. the King Grantee of the next avoidance or of all presentments which shall happen within 20. years and a stranger presents to them all yet the King shall have them and present when he pleaseth otherwise fol. 249. by Anthony Brown Discent taketh not away the right of entry of the King 37. H. 6.27 The King may enter after his villain and alien when he pleaseth Litl s 40. The King Counts of two presentments it is not double 43. E. 3.14 or 12. Matters of Bar the other ought to answer to them and the King shall take issue upon which he pleaseth 16. H. 7.12 by the Court the King may Traverse a Title or maintain his Office if he will 3. H. 7.3 13 14. 2. H. 7.13 The King may amend his Declaration the same Term 13. E. 4.8 The King may wave his Demurrer and Traverse the Plea of the other 28. H. 6.2 The King shall have a Non omitas in his Writs notwithstanding any Liberty That none shal serve his proces but his Ministers before fol. 239. the King shall not answer in value without express words notwithstanding his warranty after f. 334. the King shal not demand rent 2. H. 7.8 The King makes a Lease rendring rent to a stranger good the stranger may distrain or have Debt when it is ended 35. H. 6.36 The King may distrain for a rent charge granted to him or for Rent Service in all the Lands of him
which ought to pay it 13. E. 4.6 The Title of the King appeareth yet he is not party the Court of Office shall adjudge for him Stamford cap. 29. fol. 96. Fitzh nat br 38. E. 31. 6. H. 7.12 and 11. H. 4.71 by customes the custom of London to retain a pledge cujuscunque fuerit until he pays binds not the King 35. H. 6.35 nonsale in market overt 35. H. 6.28 and Doctor and Student 40. nor Wreck Waise nor Stray binds not the King 35. H. 6.26 27. Custom that all distresses taken within his Mannor shall be impounded there binds not the King 21. E. 3 4. by Statutes which binds not the King where he is not named yet he shall take advantage of them As of the Stat of Waste of 9. R. 2. c. 3. of Error and attaint by him in reversion upon a recovery against Tenant for life And of W. 2. c. 7. fol. 140. If the King as Heir to his mother brings asur cui in vita the Plea shall not be delayed by the Nonage of the Heir the King not named is not restrained by Magna Charta cap. 10. upon which the Ne injuste vexes is founded for to avoid incroachment That if the King incroach more then he ought he hath no other remedy then by Petition The King bringeth a Quare impedit in the Common Pleas good notwithstanding Magna Charta quod communia placita c. 31. E. 3.18 E. 3.22 before fol. 240. Plenarty no Plea against the King 43. E. 3.14 Non obstante W. 2. cap. 5.32 H. 8. cap. 2. Of Limitations binds not the King The King may not suffer a Common Recovery for to Dock the Tail as a common person may because no precipe or Covenant lieth against him 12. H 7.12 by Constable So the King shall be in a worse condition then a subject or common person to bar the issue Anthony Brown Justice The name of King drowns the Sir-name of the King and includes it and his proper name also and this word of substance by it self may not be omitted in purchases Pattents or Writs Land given to Henry the seventh omitting King giveth nothing to him omitting his name of Baptism So a gift by him by these words in the Pattent Rex concessit That the name Politick of the King includes his natural name and when this name is conjoyned to his natural person it altereth the quality and degree of the person natural in the estimation of the Law So if that he be within age he shall be adjudged of full age and his attainder frustrate when he is King that the greater removes the Imperfection of the Lesser before fol. 138. the body politick hath the preheminence of the natural body as Land given to the King by the name of Baptism and of King also as to Henry the King and to his Heirs this shall go in succession as the Crown and if he dieth without issue the Heir of the part of his mother which hath the Crown shall have the Land also because this name King being the greater shall have the greater preheminence in the purchase and shall draw the land with him So that his brother of the half bloud being King shall have it yet here the King shall take in such body and in such estate and condition as the Donor limits and not otherwise So if a Gift had been made before the Statute to the King and the Heirs of his Body he had taken Fee Conditional as another Common person That if he dies without issue the Donor should enter without Office And if the King before the Stat. giveth to one and his Heirs of his body there the King shall not have the Reversion more then a Common person should have and there his Donee might alien after issue because the person of the King shall not rule the estate of the land but on the contrary for to make Remitter right and possession ought to discend to one person simul and semel 19. H. 6.59.58 and 45. before the Statute after Issue the Donee might do all acts of a full Fee because then he had full Fee and inheritance and not before 5 6 7 and 8. E. 3. And the words in the Statute hath given prius facia non extenditur intends not the Donees made by the Donors before the Statute but of alienations made by the Donees before the Statute and lawfully and after issue as a Lease for life and release of Tenant in Tail before the Statute good and barred the issue in Formedon after the Statute because it was not voidable neither before nor after the Act if it was according to the power that the Common Law permitted to them 44. E. 3. But the Statute extends as to Alienations after the Statute where the Gift was before So as to the Alienation before the Statute if it were not lawfull as a woman Tenant in Tail taketh Husband having issue they alien before the Statute the issue shall have a Formedon after the Statute that is a discontinuance to the wife because Covert and when she dies a right discends to the issue but if they have aliened by Fine it is good and bars the issue because there it is duly made in respect that she is examined 4. E. 2.12 H. 4.7 before the Statute the King might not Alien before issue had as a Common person might not because the King could not do wrong and his Prerogative could not alter his estate yet the person of the King might alter the course of the thing as purchase of the King shall discend to the eldest daughter onely but if land discend to the King another or Gavel kind to him and his brother the King shall have but the Moity but this Moity shall discend to his eldest Son onely because the quality of the person may alter the discent not the estate be it Fee or Tail So that the estate shall be in the King as in another before fol. 234. and before issue had the Donee could not alien after issue he might and this mischief and other Acts of the Donee the Common Law permitted to Bar issues and the Donor until remedied by the Statute So the Common Law permits other wrongs as Lessee to make waste So if one Joynt-Tenant takes all the profits of the land the other is without remedy at the Common Law Doctor and Student fol. 32. So if the King kill a man So disinheriting of another as here post prolem is a wrong suffered by the Common Law which otherwise the issue should have had and if the issue had not issue then the Donor before the Statute the Donor had not a Reversion yet the land reverted to him as land escheated to the Lord neither had he a Reversion after the Statute of W. 2. c. 1. Yet no word in the Act divides the Statute but the Construction of the Statute ex consequenti divides the estate for to execute the will of the Donor by the intent of
the act which amounteth to so much that the precise words and the Statute restrains the estate and not the person of the Donee And the Prerogatives are in respect of the person of the King and goes in his person which the King by Prerogative without other act cannot enlarge but in taking of the estate is restrained with the estate insomuch that the act saith Dominus Rex perpendens c. It sheweth that the King is named effectually and so bound and when it provides remedy for the mischief it is not to be presumed that he intended to be at liberty to do the mischief every thing which is the intent of the donor shall be within the Stat as plainly as if it had been expressed as other estates Tail which are not mentioned in W. 2. Litl fol. 5. Lands intailed shall not be charged against the issue for the debt of his father to the King by Anthony Brown who said That it was so adjudged in William Browns case which was his Father Puttrel fol. 240. otherwise which proves that the Statute of Donis Conditionalibus binds the King Dier Chief Justice The King onely is a good name of purchase and is the highest name of honor and drowns all other names of honor and is certain enough but not so used without his name of Baptism And the name King contains both bodies natural and politick and Heirs implies Heirs and Successors and the adding of Successors is a new devise The Donor may limit in what capacity the King shall take and â—ail may be to the King as well as to a Common person That H. 8. entailed the Crown to him and the Heirs of his body the will of the Donor is the effect of the Statute of West 2. that every thing which is against his will is reformed by the Act and every thing which is his will is made Law by this Act and therefore this Tail shall not be forfeit for Felony Litl 169. it shall not be charged by the donee 14. H. 8.7 by Roo 5. H. 6 14. nor alien neither shal the second wife be endowed 46. E. 3.24 nor the second Tenant by the courtesie now 46. E. 3.5 and to express those in the Act is superfluous because included in the proviso quod voluntus c. And these three Tails mentioned there viz. Special General and Free Marriage are but examples and not as containing all Tails that his will is a law to limit other Tails Fee after issue at the Common Law is Tail now 12 E. 4. and 3. and Fee in the Donor by implication of the Act because it restrains the Donee to do the Acts of Fee or no Fee without his properties And therefore it shall be intended That the Act would not that the Donee should have Fee because it would not make an Act of Fee and it is no Tail because the Statute is limitted Docked or cut off The King shall be bound by the Statute of W. 2. de donis conditionalibus for that it is made in preservation of the inheritance in benefit of the Common wealth and in restitution of the observation of the intent and will of the giver and in Restitutions the King hath no favor but the party restored in favor as an Heir restored to a Mannor shall have the advowson without mentioning of it So a Bishop to the Temporalties shall have Knights Fees and Advowson 5. E. 3.238 41. E. 3.5 and Brian Townsend Davers and Vavasor who took this so or thought that the King should have but an estate tail that otherwise the Remainder over will be invailable and the Exposition that the Denee might alien after issue before the Statute is Communis Error Dame Hales against Petit. LEase for years to the Husband and Wife the Husband drowned himself M. 4. 5. El in the â— P. in Trespass and so became a felo de se the Wife enters an Office is found the Q. shall have the whole Term adjudged 1. The quality of the offence is murther because that it was upon malice prepenced otherwise of Homicide also it was made Nullo sciente nullo praesente 2. It is an offence against nature the Law of God and to the King for to kill his Subject and deprive him of one of his mystical members whereof he is the head and by breaking of his peace and for the ill example given to others 3. He shall forfeit for this Felony all Goods Debts Chattels real and personal which he had at the time of the Act done which was the cause of his death viz. the casting of himself into the water and the forfeiture shall have relation to this act done in his life and is an Attainder in Law to that purpose but not to make Corruption of bloud forfeit Dower or make Fee-simples escheat by the Court. 4. Although the wife be remitted to the Term by the survivor yet this is defeated by the office ex post facto 5. Where the Bishop maketh a Lease for years which is not confirmed in his life it needs not to be averred in respect it is onely voidable otherwise of Lessee for life for that it shall be void by his death 6. The pleading that Sir James Hales was possessed of two Leases at the time of his death and the Office found that he had two without saying at the time of his death sufficeth reddendo singula singulis 7. Lessee for years to commence at Michaelmas brings Trespass before the Defendant gives colour by the Lease this is not good yet the Plaintiff shall not recover because he had no Title Southcot and Puttrel Serjeants for the Plaintiff He that striketh another after this wound given giveth his goods to another before the death the gift is good So a Constable 11. H. 4.12 which arrests him permits him to escape before the death of the other is not a Felon the finding by the Coroner of his death in this case countervails an Attainder indeed because after his death he cannot be Attainted and he himself is the cause he cannot A Felon of himself cannot make a Testament or Executor nor forfeit any thing but that which ought to come to his Executor Instant is the end of one time and the Commencement of another in Instant is priority of time in consideration of Law Husband and Wife Joynt-Tenants of a Lease for years there is no Moities between them but every one of them hath the whole and if the Husband charge the land she after his death shall avoid it because remitted to the Term and in by Title Paramount to the Grant 7. H. 6.1 So 18. E. 4.5 Tenant in Tail gives Trees growing and dies before they are cut down the Donee shall not cut them because the Issue and Wife are in by Title Paramount the gift by Southcot So 14. H. 4.32 and Fitzh nat br fol. 14.143 The Lord shall take his Ward which is an Apprentice out of the possession of his Master for that his
Title to his body accrued in respect of his signiory which is more ancient then the Apprentice 49. E. 3.3 the Kings Tenant in London Devises to his wife for life and dies without Heirs the devise is good as it seems by the Book and yet taketh not effect until after the death of the Kings Tenant and preferred before an Escheat to the King yet both their Titles comes at one instant but the Title of the Wife adjudged the elder because some part of it Commences in the life of the Devisor albeit it taketh effect after his death an Obligee is a Felo de se the Survivor shall have the Obligation by the better opinion 8. E. 4.4 Walsh Chomley Benlos and Carus for the Defendant A Dead man cannot have property for the Forfeiture shall have relation to the ill Act done in his Life when the goods were his otherwise the Forfeiture shall be to the prejudice of others which after his death ought to have the goods and the law hath respect to the Commencement of the Act as in 22. E. 3. and Stamford 19. one is Lunatick when he gives himself the mortal wound he forfeits nothing and it is not Felony if then he kils another yet is of Sane memory when he died of the wound So 33. Ass 7. Stamford 10. one kils his Master one year after he departed from his service upon malice conceived when he was his servant adjudged Treason Felonies done by others may be punished in their life time in person Goods Chattels and Lands A Felon of himself hath prevented the death by Execution and forfeiture of his Land which Land shall not Escheat without Attainder in Deed for favor of the Free-hold and inheritance and the only means to make him forfeit that which he may forteit viz. his Goods and Chattels is by inquest which ought to be equivalent to the Judgement given in his life because he took away the means of the Judgement which should have been given against him in his life as he should have if he had killed another and when Judgement by the Law cannot be given the Law supplies it otherwise as 3. E. 3. a Felon flies out of the Sanctuary and will not render himself but is killed he forfeits his Goods and the King hath the year day and waste and so an Inquest there shall be equivalent to the Judgement because he himself is the cause that it cannot be given against him by carus my horse strikes A. I sell him to another A. dies he shall be forfeit So the King shall have the Goods of a Villain which gives himself a mortal wound yet the Lord hath seised them after the wound and before the death of the Villain So the Attainder of the Husband in his life shall be a Forfeiture of the Term of his wife So this Act here and if once Title be given to the King Nullum tempus occurit Regi as in 50. E. 3. the Husband Joynt-Lessor for years with the wife receives money of one Attainted which by the Attainder belongeth to the King the Husband dies the wife her self holdeth it this found after the King hath the Term in Execution for his money as he should have had in the life of her Husband if it had been found then and now found by office shall relate to the life of the Husband Curia this is Murther here and not Homicide because upon malice prepenced and is an offence against nature the Law of God and King to kill a Subject and deprive him of one of his Mystical Members as Brooks terms it whereof he is the head and by the breaking of his peace and for the ill example given to others and therefore Felo de se Forfeits to the King all his Goods Debts and Chattels 8. E. 2.3 E. 3.301 362.22 E. 3. before f. 259. Stamford fol. 188. I. and Stamford Prerogative fol. 46. 8. H. 4.2 by Tillesâ—…y and ex consequenti cannot make Executors nor have Administors neither shall the Bishop have them because out of the Church is no cause of Forfeiture 19. H. 6.63 by Paston 8. E. 4.4 by Needham and Litl and 27. H. 8.9 by Montague and if he repents he is reconciled and hath the rights of the Church before his death yet he shall Forfeit those to the King for this offence But a Felo de se Forfeits not Lands his wives Dower nor Corrupts his bloud 3. E. 3. 22. E. 3. before fol. 259. because those cannot be without attainder in Deed. Appellee in Battail is killed he forfeits his land by Benlos and Brown because this killing is equivalent to Judgement and Execution but Weston held the contrary without express attainder by Judgement for to favor the inheritance and by Dier because the three Writs of Escheat for attainder are Register the 16. pro quo suspensus est utlagatus or abjuravit if the Appellor vanquish the Appellee in battail there his land shall Escheat because there Judgement shall be given after that he shall be hanged 8. E. 3. the husband adheres to the enemies of the King in Scotland and dies there 8. E. 3. fol. 388. or is killed in levying War against the King here he forfeits his Lands the Dower of his Wife and his bloud is corrupted for this is an attainder in Law 7. H. 4.46 by Markham and Stamford fol. 198. a. this which causeth the death ought to be said Feloniously done He that refuseth the trial of the Law forfeits Goods and Chattels as 3. E. 3. 13. H. 4.13 4. H. 7.18 Stamford fol. 183. C. he which flies for Felony Stamford Prerogativae fol. 46. A. he that challengeth without cause above 35.40 E. 3.42 20. E. 4.5 Stamford fol. 185. he that taketh Clergie if he be found guilty of Felonies which refuse the Judgement of Law 14. E. 4.17 he that stands mute of malice for those are the Acts of refusal of the Law And from the time of those which appear of Record the forfeiture shall have relation to the wound given against the party himself for the forfeiture against a stranger not for to be Felony because in the mean between the wound and death he suffers himself voluntarily to escape for if the escape should be Felony then that escape had been Felony at the time of the escape by Brown A. and B. Joynte-Tenants for years A. Grants to C. That if he paies 10. l. before Michaelmas then he shall have his Term yet he shall not have the Term because the condition precedes the Grant as 14. H. 8.22 by Brudnel until the 10. l. paid the Joyncture continues and it is not but a Communication but if A. Grant or Lease it from Michaelmas next coming during the Term to C. there C. shall have it against the Survivor for there the Title is granted in deed in the estate in his life So here this Act in his life gives Title to the King and the office by relation executes the Title then and the Survivor
Return of summons of the Exchequer because it concerneth the King himself there So 2. R. 3.4 2. H. 7.7 The Kings Grantee of Amerciaments of his Tenants shall not have the amerciament of his Tenant which holdeth of him and another because it is before other Tenants as well as my Tenant Charters of the King taken according to common intent and other things which have not common intent shall not pass from the King by his Charters And therefore 3. E. 3 the King Grants to an Abbot That he and his Successors shall be quit of repairing of Bridges Cawseys and Walls it discharges not him for repairing of such which he hath been used to repair by prescription as Lord of the Village but it is good otherwise of a Town to which the King hath Granted Murage Pannage or Pontage So 9. H. 6.56 before fol. 243. The Grantee of the King with Warranty shall not have in value without precise words but he may rebutt So 2. H. 7.6 The Grantee of the King of all Fines and Amerciaments in such a County he shall not have Amerciaments if the Sheriff Coroner or other great Officer is Amerced because Royal and a Grant shall enure for common things in intendment So 43. E. 3. ass pl. 15. The King Grants to his eldest Son the Dutchie of Cornwall cum omnibus Wardis Maritagiis c. And one which held of the Dutchie by Knights Service and which held also of one which was in Ward because of Ward by Knights Service dieth his Heir within age the Prince shall not have the Wardship of him but the King because a thing pertaining to the Crown passeth not without special words So the King maketh a County Palatine and giveth to another and Jura Regalia and that Pleas within the County shall be determined there yet he himself shall sue at Westminster his actions arising within the County Palatine as 3. E. 2. For an advowson in the County Palatine of Durham the King brings his Quare impedit in the Common Pleas the Defendant pleaded to the Jurisdiction of the Court and was compelled to answer So an Abbot by the Kings Grant made to him for the amortizing of Land or Tenements may not purchase an Advowson holden of the King in Capite and this case by Wray differs from the case in 41. ass pl. 19. before fol. 332. for there the Charter names the house but names not what Lands by which it cannot be intended that the King was mistaken in the Tenure and therefore it is good there and not for the cause of Ex gratia speciali So 19. E. 3. he might not appropriate an Advowson holden of the King by licence to appropriate So 1. H. 7 23 and 26. A sanctuary for Treason shall not be without speciall Words Ex merâ—… motu c. will not pass other things then the nature of the words contain And therefore the King Grants to a man and his Heirs males excerta scientia c. passeth not inheritance 28. H. 8. A Felon may not wage battail against the King because dangerous for the King Stamford fol. 180 and 182. nor against those of London in an appeal by the Kings Grant 20. E. 3. So if one takes the Kings goods wrongfully the King may seiz his goods until restitution and 8. R 2. if any take Toll of those of the Town of Lynn they may by the Kings Grant take withernam of those another time within their Jurisdiction And so the King conveys not from the Prerogative of his person to the person of another a fortiori he may here where the thing is not but Revenue or profit These words ad humilem Petitionem Comitis deminisheth the force of the Pattent by Catline by Plowden if Gold or Silver will not defray charges the King shall not have it because no mettal without them but because the party shewed it not as our case is the Queen shall have Judgement And this point was not put to the Judges to adjudge because that the Defendant confessed that it contained gold which is intended to be of good value because the best for the King Bret against Rigden A Man seized of 10. acres Soccage Devises all his Lands by writing Tr. 10. El in the Com Pl. Repl. and after purchases 12. acres Soccage and the Devisee dieth the Devisor saith to the Son of the Devisee That he shall be his Heir and have all the Land that his Father should have had if he had survived him and dies Adjudged that he shall not have the 12. acres 1. If the Devisee shall have the Land purchased by the Devisor after the making of his Will Manwood for the Defendant said That it shall be presumed that every one knows the Law in acts indifferent and that the Will is of no effect until the death of the party for ignorance of Law excuses no man and the date and writing of the Will is not effectual but the words of the Will shall be construed as they were spoken at the time of his death And therefore if a man Deviseth a Mannor in Fee a Tenancie escheateth and after the Devisor dieth the Devisee shall have the Tenancy because parcel of the Manor at the death of the Devisor when the Will taketh effect yet when the will made not A woman Deviseth Land and after takes husband which dies the Woman dies the Devise is good because she is discovert when it took effect as she was when she made her will and marriage cannot countermand it which was not of effect in her life Also because it intends no exception for the generality of the words As if she had Devised all her plate and after bought plate and died the Devisee should have all his plate at the time of her death for the ampleness of his words declares his intent to be benificially taken for the Devisee Lovelas and all the Justices for the Plaintiff to the contrary That Land purchased after the making of the Will cannot pass by the words nor intent of the Testator because he had not the 12. acres at the time of the writing and publication of the Testament it is no presumption that afterwards he would have and is as if he had died when he writ and published the Will and therefore cannot have an intent to give it and the death which is the Confirmation of the Will follows the first Acts thereof viz. the writing and publication of it for every Act founded upon discretion consists of 3. parts The first Inception which is writing of the Testament here The Second Progression which is the publishing of the Testament begun The Third is Consummation which is the self same and continues one through all these parts or otherwise the Act is void of discretion And by Lovelas it is proved That the Commencement is to be considered in Wills because if a woman Covert Devise Land by her Will and publish it and her husband dies and after she dies
is not lawfull but that he shall be barred by the Fine with Proclamations and the five years notwithstanding his Infancy for that the five years are once attached in his Ancestor and then they ought to incur for the pursuit of a Claim within five years is a Condition in Law which shall bind an Infant Those which argued with Stowell for the better intelligence of the Statute of 4. H. 7. ca 24. which gives five years to every stranger and of the reason of making it thought the Fines and their force at the Common Law and the incidents thereof which consists in three points 1. The nature of the Fine and the puissance of it 2. The preservation of the antient right by Claim 3. What persons may make the Claims 1. Fines are as antient as any Court of Record and at the Common Law they bind all strangers but those which have defect which Enters not or Claim within a year by 17. E. 1. So Non-claim after the year and day was peremptory upon a Fine or Recovery in a Writ of Right Executory and not Executed as is a Fine sur Conusans de droit and Render 7. E. 3.335 Because transmutation of Possession gave occasion to a stranger to take notice and to bring his Action or enter within the year and a day after Recovery in Right tryed by Battail or great Assise barred a stranger if he had not defect as Nonage was for the great notice of it because publike and more notorious then in other Actions And a Proclamation shall be made before Judgement upon a Recovery in right by default for to give notice of it And from thence use is derived to make Proclamation in formedon as it is in 7. H 4.19 upon the confessing of the Action Quaere by what Law and so Fines after Recovery in a Writ of Right was of the greatest force 2. But the avoyding of a Fine by one defeats it against all although their Right was bound before by their Nonclaim which sets at large all other Rights above them although they make not claim within the year and day 16. E. 2. As if the Lord defeats a Fine at the Common Law by deceit he restoreth the right to him which Levies the Fine And if the state which passes by the Fine be defeated the right Paramount is restored although it was barred before by Nonclaim As the Feoffee upon condition if an Abator levies a Fine one year passeth the Heir is barred by Nonclaim the Abator enters upon the condition broken the Heir now shall have Mort. d' Auncestor against him and after the Statute of 4. H. 7. an Action brought within fives years shall defeat the Fine against himself and all others having right Paramount although he hath not Judgement and Execution until seven years after Proclamation Claim is defined by Dyer to be a Challenge of the Ownership or Property that he hath not in Possession but is detained from him by wrong There are four Claims for defeating of Fines whereof two are by Record viz. Action Reall and Entry of the Claim at the foot of the Fine two by Acts in the Countrey viz. by Actuall Entry and by Claim and so notwithstanding the Puissance of Fines at the Common Law the Law hath provided those Claims for to preserve the Ancient right 3. Those which are strangers to the Fine and have present right ought to make Claim and shall avail all in Remainder or Reversion their Non-claim binds all in Remainder and Reversion because all of them have but one year by the common Law after the Fine levied And such mischief was a great cause why the Statute of 34. E. 3. ca. 16. which out Nonclaims was made But before this time W. 2. ca. 1. 13. E. 1. hath provided for the Donor and Donee that Nonclaim shall not bind them as it did before 13. E. 1. as it is like But an Infant was not bound at a time certain to make Claim by the Common Law It is proved by Implication of the Statute of W. 2. ca. 1. and 18. E. 1. de modo levandi fines observe in their Exposition because he hath not discretion to consider of his right nor to conceive what Action he shall bring nor when or how to Enter or Claim or to do Acts which require intelligence and in the same degree are Non-sane a man in prison and beyond Sea But a woman Covert was bound to make Claim by the Common Law because she is not mentioned in any of the Acts and hath a Husband which may make Claim for her And therefore Infants and such are at large always and bound to no time for to make their Claim by the Common-Law And if the Father Disseisee dyeth within a year and day after the Fine Levied before the Statute of Nonclaim his Heir within age he need not make Claim because he is not bound where the right discends to him more then he is when he hath a present right when the Fine was levied nor Infant in Remainder or Reversion is not bound by the Nonclaim of the particular Tenant And so howbeit that Fines at the Common Law were of so great force yet the former right was considered and time given for to preserve it and Infants were exempt out for this time And after when Nonclaim was repealed and outed in Fines and to make their Claims and because the Law was unreasonable that those in Remainder or Reversion should be bound by Nonclaim of particular Tenants and the Law of Nonclaim being outed in process of time Fines became too feeble and were in effect but Feoffments of Record whereby the security of Inheritance was taken away which was cause of great Contention between Subjects and therefore the Statute of 4. H. 7. intending to reform three things First to magnifie Fines againe Secondly to preserve the Ancient Right if it be pursued within a certain time Thirdly of not binding of persons of defect nor feme Coverts unless they are also parties to the Fines but favoured those which had defects untill their impediment removed and then gave them time sufficient to pursue their right That which is excepted out of the Act is out of the provision of the Act and there is no Ordinance for it but is so apparantly exempted out of the Act as if no Act had ever been made As a Feoffment of a Mannor except an Acre or of all Lands in Dale except White Acre is voyd for those Acres as if no Feoffment had been made but a saving goes to them touched and not exexmpt The word having in the Statute of Fines 4. H. 7. shall be expounded of them which have right at the time of the Fine Levied and Proclamations made and also of the using of the Action or Claim c. And not only at the time of the Action or Entry The exception goes not but to those before bound The ampleness of the Exception is measured by the ampleness of the
Purview And therefore Stowell if he is bound by the Purview he is afterwards excepted and if he is not bound by the Purview he needs not to be excepted and so he is at large and out of the body of the Act which consists of the Purview and of the Exception Acts of Parliament are positive Laws consisting of Letter and sence which together make the Law And the Common Law is ancient to all positive Laws and this is to be considered to come to the sence of the positive Law viz. to put such sence to the Letter which excludes all mischiefes and inconvenience Those which Levie Fines are Parties their Heirs are Privies because there is privity of blood between them strangers are they which are not Parties to the Fine nor privies And the Fine excludes now Privies by 4. H. 7. before not Parties here and therefore it is no Mystery that the Letter of the Act will extend to them no Laches untill all the time is past Because they have Election to protract time untill the last of the five years or last day so that they within five years pursue intends Heirs also of those of full age for such sence stands best with equity reason which most avoids rigor and mischief Things within the Letter and yet out of the sence and intent of Statutes as 36. E. 3. and 4. H. 7.7 Doctor and Student 148. An Infant named a Disseisor vouched a Record and failed he shall not be imprisoned Notwithstanding W. â— ca. 25. Nor an Infant Baily or Receiver found in arâ—…rage of account shal not be committed to the next Gaol Notwithstanding W. 2. ca. 11. Nor an Infant which is convict of Ravishment of another Ward shal not be imprisoned for the Kings Fine notwithstanding Merton Cap. 6. Not if a woman Infant be Ravished and consent to the Ravisher within twelve years there the Heir shall not enter notstanding R. 2. ca. 6. But Infants are bound by Laches for a Title favoured for the Inheritance as Doctor and Student 148. An Infant shall be bound by Cessavit or Waste because an injury done by his Act and he shall purchase and the Law will presume if he hath policy to get a thing that he hath reason to defend himself So if an Infant Lord enter not for Mortmain within the year or before a Villain hath sold because he had but Title to the thing that it was never in him But Doctor and Student 29. and 27. Assises 32. Laches of Entry upon Discent or Warranty binds not an Infant because they have favour for Inheritance for Waife Stray Wreck or for Goods taken from them and offered to Images or taken by Enemies and not retaken before the Sun sets or sold in a Market Overt or Acts an Infant as Executor 35. E. 3.45 or as King before 213 or for necessity as an Obligation for meat and drink Doctor and Student 104. The Common Law is the foundation of this Act of 4. H. 7. and if the Father dies within a year after the Fine his Heir Infant is at large fol. 372. otherwise the imperfections which may happen sometimes within five years are to be considered as those which are at the time of the Fine or right then And because that the Statute provides for the Infant in the exception and in the Fine it will not be amiss in the middest And if one which hath a future right dies within five years his Heir within age shall have five à fortiori he which hath a present right as here because it is of greater estimation then a future If a stranger to a Fine cometh of Non-sane memory or is in prison the third year after Proclamations made and after the five years cometh of Sane memory or out of prison he shall not be concluded because constrained and acts involuntary but if he or she taketh Husband or go beyond Sea in the third year and after five years is discovert or within the Land he shall be bound because Acts voluntary An Expounder which adheres only to the Letter of the Statute of 4. H. 7. without adding reasonable sence will admit many absurdities as by the Letter of the Statute if an Infant which hath present right is excepted dies within age his Unkle being his Heir and of full age shall be barred So if an Infant by Entry within age avoyd the Fine after full age permit the Conusee to be for five years in possession without Claim he shall be barred by the Letter which saith that he shall take Action or Entry within five years after full age So an Infant being Diseisee in his Mothers belly when the Fine was Levied is not accepted by the Letter of the Act because his age is accounted from the time of his birth by intent of the Act here for every thing which is within the intent of the makers of the Act although that it be not within the Letter and intent also and of those exceptions the Letter binds none to five years after full age which were within age when the Fine was Levied and ingrossed and many years may be between the one and the other yet he that is born after the Fine levied and is within age when it is ingrossed goeth not at large but is bound to five years after full age as well as he which was born an Infant when the Fine was levied and ingrossed And if the Disseisee at full age when the Fine is levied die before the Proclamations his Heir within age then and when all the years pass is bound by the Letter because the Letter excepts him which hath right when the Fine is levied But the intent of the Exception intended to except those which had â—ight and are Infants when the five years commence so it shall be if the Disseisee cometh of Non-sane Memory or in prison before the Proclamations and after five years he cometh to sane-Memory or forth of Prison he shall have five years after this by the intent of the Exception Two Joint-Tenants Disseises the one within age the Disseisor levies a Fine four years passe after the Proclamations he of full age dies the Infant shall have other five years after his full age for all by Bendlos and severall five years shall be for severall Titles As A. disseiseth a woman sole taketh her to wife and have Issue A. is disseised and dies after a Fine levied by the Disseisor and before the Proclamations the Issue being of full age after the Mother dies the fifth year passe the Issue is bound as Heir to his Father because in this respect he hath but five years together But as Heir to the Mother he shall have five years to be accounted from the death of the Father for notwithstanding it is the self-same Land he hath severall rights the one the last as Heir to his Father and th' other the first right as Heir to his Mother And in respect of them hath severall times
it ought to touch this blood alwayes But then Heires of the Wife of the Father purchasor shall have it if others fail because Wives by the marriage after the purchase are of Aliance to the blood and not of the blood of the Purchasor otherwise it is of marriage which precedes the Purchase And so no marriage is to be regarded but that of the Father and Mother of the Purchasor and no marriage after shall make a man inheritable to this Land By the Court Wast assigned in digging of Gravell suffering Houses to bee uncovered whereby the Timber rotted and permitting a wall of stone to fall to ruine and a Meadow to lie continually overflowne and covered with water Sir Thomas Wrothes Case KIng Henry the eight granted and Annuitie of 20 l. to Sir Thomas Wroth for his life Tr. 15. El. in the Excheq Petition to be Usher of the Privy Chamber to the Prince Edward his Sonne without the words Pro nobis heredibus successoribus nostris And dies and after E. 6. dies The question was if the Annuity should be determined by it or if notwithstanding it the Annuity shall have his continuance And it was adjudged that the Annuity continues during his owne life and he shall have the arrerages 1. If the King reciting a thing executed which is not materiall as for the good service which he hath done grants an Annuity c. there the party in pleading shall not take averment of it by 21. E. 4.48 and 26. H. 8.1 But otherwise it is if the thing be materiall and executory as that he hath released there he ought to averre that he hath released it which is in benefit of the King 2. The not doing of the service here to the Prince shall cesse the Annuity as well as if the service had bin appointed to the grantor himself as an Annuity granted by the King to a Physician or Schoolmaster for to give Physick or teach a Stranger shall determine by not doing of it which is the cause of the grant and executory as the Annuitie it self is 3. The discent of the Crowne and State Royall to the Prince makes him King and alters the degree of his Person because another Majestie there and requires Officers of greater Honour to doe service to his politicke body And therefore by this Act of God the Law discharges Sir Thomas Wroth from his service and therefore without averment that he had served King Edward all his life time is not to purpose otherwise if the service be feaseable to his naturall body onely as Physick Surgery Musick Grammer c. for the naturall body alters not by assumption of the Royall estate from its infirmities 4. That the death of the King E. the 6. hath not determined the Annuity although that the service be discharged by the death of the Person to whom it is to be done For this discharge cometh by the Act of God otherwise it were if by the Act of the Party as if he had withdrawn himself from the Princes service when he was Prince So of an Annuity granted for life pro consilio impendendo to the Grantee which dyeth yet the Annuity remains but shall cesse by refusall of the Grantee for to give when he is required because his default and the Grantor hath not means by Law to compell him to give counsell 5. The Grantee of the Annuity is good although that it wanteth these words his Heirs and Successours for that it is granted in the body Politick and charges this body which never dies but alwayes hath continuance as a Grant of an Annuitie or Obligation made by the Abbot and Covent is good without successor because the Corporation charged which alwayes continues otherwise it is of a naturall body for there the Heire shall not be charged if he is not named and hath asserts as by Obligatton of his Father grant of Annuity or warranty because as the body naturall which grants is taken away by death so shall his charge be if the King without words heires and successors grant to one licence to Alien and die the Grantee cannot Alien in the time of another King 2. E. 3. and 3. E. 3.29 For that it is a licence onely otherwise of a licence which implies an interest as to an Abbot of a Purchasor in Mortmaine for there the King gives his Signiory upon the matter as it seemeth 2. H. 7.6 Inheritance of the King or a thing in which he is intituled of Common right as Lands Conusans of Pleas out of the Kings Courts or account by a Sheriffe shall not passe against the Heires and Successors of the King without speciall words Heires and Successors as the grant of a County Absque compoto nobis reddendo yet he shall account to the Successor because it is Executory of Common right to the Crowne otherwise of a thing newly created or a grant which is executed presently in the party yet the perception is Executory as a grant of a Faire Market Warren c. without words Heires and successors good Pension or Annuity granted by the King untill he be promoted by us are spoken in the politick body by which the Heire may promote and then the Pension is extinct by Sanders cheif Baron who said as Plowden reported was resolved by the Sages of the Law 1. Mar. that Patents without words pro nobis hered successoribus nostris granted for the corporall exercise of an Office or service are ordered to be good Eiston against Studd A Woman Tenant in fee P. 16. El. in the Common Pleas Eiect firme taketh Husband and the Husband and Wife levies a Fine Sur Conusans de droit come ceo the Conusee grants and renders the Land to the Husband and Wife and the heires of their bodies the remainder in fee to the right heires of the Wife the Husband hath issue by the Wife and dyes the Wife taketh a second Husband and they leavy a Fine to their owne uses for the terme of their lives without impeachment of wast the remainder to the Husband and his heires for sixty yeares Remainder in tayle to their issue the remainder in fee to the right heires of the Wife and the issue of the first Husband enters for the forfeiture made by this second Fine by the Statute of 11. H. 7. Cap. 20. And adjudged no forfeiture and yet is directly within the words but not within the intent for that the Joincture and advancement came not originally from the Husband or any of his Ancestors to the Wife but on the contrary from the Wife to the Husband yet the Land shall be chargable to Statutes and Recognisances which the Conusee had acknowledged before and to the dower of the Wife of the Conusee which grants and renders it But yet is not within the intent of the Statute because the advancement cometh not from the Husband nor his Ancestors and therefore to restraine Women to dispose of their inheritance after the death of
away from another by wrong Title is where a man hath cause to have the thing which another hath and hath not Action Condition is a possibilitie to have Title Action is a suite given by the Law Interest is part of the Estate of the Land as a Lease for yeares or execution by Statute fol. 484. 6. The answer to the third Objection The Lessee ought not to shew in pleading that he is not excepted in the Statute for that he gains not any new thing but will retain the old and also because the Statute is to his disadvantage but that he shall take benefit of a Statute shewing it 7. For answer to the fourth Objection it was said that admitting that the Fee here shall be forfeited to the King without Office yet the Condition shall draw it out of him without Petition or Monstrans de droit by some but Quere thereof for otherwise it shall not vest at the time of the death of the Lord Lovell it shall not vest at all for it is appointed to him as if the Lessee here had entered into Religion and the Lessor without being attainted had died without issue after the Lessee is deraigned he shall not have the Fee because it may not vest in him at the time of the Condition performed So if he was disseised at that time And so here for to avoid the inconveniency by the operation of the Law or former agreement a thing shall be devested out of tho King at the instant of the Condition performed without any such circumstance As Tenant in Taile discontinues the Discontinuee infeoffs the King by Deed inrolled the King Leases to the Tenant in Taile for life with the Remainder to his Issue for life the Lessee dies the Issue is remitted by the remainder falling to him and the Fee devests out of the King without any circumstance And so a Remitter shall defeat the Estate of the King and an Office of the King shall defeat the Remitter fol. 488. as 3. E. 4.25 in the Earle of Northumberlands Case by relation or if the Disseisee enters after the Attainder of his Disseisor Possession of the King by Office shall not be removed without Petition but if he enter before his Disseisor be attainted he shall be removed without Petition because the Title of the King there is more antient and the Office shall have relation to the Attainder onely for the profits although it relate to the time of the Treason for to avoid mean Acts and Incumbrances So Tenant in Capite maketh a Lease for life rendring Rent with clause of Re-entry for not payment and dies his Heire within age enters for the Rent arere An Office is found the entry of the Heire for the Condition broken is avoyded by Lovelace for the possession of the Heire by force of which he entered is utterly defeated by Relation which intitles the King to the Grant And so the entry of the Heire for a thing not due to him shall be adjudged Tortius by relation So if Trespasse 19. E. 4.2 where for things coming of the Land as Grasse c. Office avoids the punishment against those which doe the wrongs and takes it away by relation of the Office which Intitles the King because of the Escheat before the Trespasse an Action once good But for the entry into the Land or breaking his Fences which ariseth not from the Revenue of the Land the Action is not gone by the Office If an Office virtute Commissionis be pleaded he ought to shew the authority given by it and the execution thereof accordingly because persons appointed by Commission have not any other then what is appointed to them by the Commission otherwise it is of an Inquisition taken virtute Officii before the Escheator Sheriffe Steward of a Leete c. for that their authority appeareth to the Court judicially because it is known by the Law for that they are Officers of the Common Law A Remainder ought to vest when it is appointed otherwise it shall never vest The Kings Pardon shall not excuse any man for the repairing of a Bridge which ought to do it because it shall not take away the Interest that the Subjects take therein So a man pledgeth a Jewell for ten pound and after is attainted the King shall have it without paying of the ten pound So 13. R. 2. the Earle of Kent had return of certain Cattell in Replegiari and the Proprietor of them is attainted the Earle shall keep them against the King untill he be satisfied of the thing because the Prerogative will not give any prejudice to another Ludford against Gretton A Warrant to make Letters Patents M. 18. 19. El. in the Kings Bench Trespas was directed by H. 8. to the Chancellor which entered not the day of the Receit of the Watrant in the Record according to the Purview of the Statute of 18. H. 6. cap. 1. And yet the Letters Patents made thereupon were adjudged good For that the Purviewe of the Statute maketh Letters Patents void onely for the variance between the date of the Patent and the day of the entery of the Warrant And the Court held three manner of Patents good upon the Statute 1. If no Warrant be made at all it is good by the Common Law and not void by the Statute because there is not any variance 2. If there be a Warrant and the day of the delivery of the Warrant be not entered as in the Principall Case 3. If the day of the delivery of the Warrant be entered and the Patent dated after the day of the delivery for this variance is out of the mischief of the Purview which was in antedating of Patents before the delivery of the Warrant and not after dating and yet is within the words but out of the intent of the Act. Records shall have Relation to their date and cannot be averred contrary to the date not to vary from it because it tends to the discredit of an Officer of Record Deeds relates to the Livery and date in Deeds concludes not any to aver the contrary Grendon against the Bishop of Lincolne HENRY the eighth being seised of an Advowson in the right of his Crown P. 19. El. in the Common Pleas. Quare Impedit presents J. S. and dies E. 6. by his Letters Patents grants the advowson to the Dean and Chapter of L. and their Successors in Fee and also grants to them License and Liberty virtute authoritatis sue Regiae supremae Ecclesiae qua fungimur that they shall retain the said Advowson and all the Profits thereof for ever to their proper uses whensoever the said Church shall become void And after the death of the said Incombent the said King E. 6. present his Clerk to the said Church which was Admitted Instituted and Inducted and adjudged no usurpation which shall put the Dean and Chapter out of possession If the Plaintiffe alledge matter effectuall as discent c.
Court of a Steward is a disseisen of his Fee For the doing of matter of labour is a claime of the Commodity for his paines So an Executor which hath a Terme devised to him upon Condition that he pay 10 l. to a Stranger payes the 10 l. this is consent and execution of the Legacy So the educating of the Children here determines her Election that she taketh the Terme as a Legacy and her grant after reproves it not but argues her inconstancy If a Termer be indebted to one in a hundred pounds and maketh his Will and by it devise his Terme to his Sonne and leaves assets to pay the debt the Executor cannot sell the Terme to pay the debt but shall pay it with the assets that he hath in his hands Adjudged because he ought to perform all the Will scilicet Debts and Legacies if there are assets If the Executor disagree in Deed to a Legacy certain this shall be presently in the second Devisee of this bequest of a thing incertain to the Executor as of 20 l. and the Testator oweth 40 l. and dies having Plate Oxen Horses of every of them to the value of 20 l. this is not executed untill 40 l. paid for he may Alien which of them he will and the others have no remedy if there be no more assetts and may pay and carve to himself before any other as it is in 12. H. 4.21 because he is neerest to himself And therefore the Execution of the Terme devised here shall not be hindered by the not payment of the Legacies to others nor Lease given to his Executor ought to be sold and then in Legacies it is reason that Executor shall have preferment A gift to his Executor of all his goods for performance of his Will is no devise and a void gift because the Law giveth them without these words As if a Man devise in Fee his Land to his Son and Heire it is voyd because he shall have it without the devise by discent So for to prescribe for to distrain for Rent service voyd because he may distrain without prescription A devise of Fee tayle to his Heire is good because it is another Estate then he should have by discent So here the Estate devised to the Wife which is but percell of the Estate scilicet during the Nonage of the Heire is good because severed from that which the Law would have given to him and the Clause for educating his Children is not a thing Testamentory nor Legecy to the Children but is an intent annexed to the devise made to the Wife by which she by her entry hath the Estate devised to her as Legatory And the Execution to the Wife is also to the Son because a devise although the Estates are severall and is of the same effect as if her Estate had bin devised to another with the Remainder to her Son and agreement or assent shall not be apportioned as attornment by Tenant for life to the Grantee of the Reversion for life extends to him in Remainder So notice given by Tenant for life to the Lord shall serve to him in Remainder in Fee to compell the Lord to avow upon him after the death of the Tenant for life So Rent accepted by an Infant at full age of his Lessee for yeares hath made good the Remiander over An Intruder cannot gain such Possession against the King upon which he may maintain an Action of Trespasse because the King may punish him 19. E. 4.2 and be shall not be doubly punished but against the Lessee of the King one may gain such Possession that he may punish a Stranger trespassor yet he shall not gain no Estate from the Crowne for the Freehold which irremoveablely rests in the Crowne And the King shall not alleadge Intrusion with a continuando but divers dayes vicibus because he gaineth not any Possession by wrong scilicet by the Intiusion against the King Walsinghams Case H. 15. El. in the Excheq Intrusion TEnant in tayle of the Kings gift maketh a Feoffurent in fee to a stranger and after is attainted of Treason and executed having issue and after this attainder is confirmed by Parliament with severall rights and interests of Strangers And it was adjudged that the Feoffee continuing his estate by the Feoffment after the attainder shall be an Intruder and this Judgement was afterwards affirmed in a Writ of Error brought in the Exchequr Chamber But the contrary was adjudged in the Common Pleas 17. El. between Conway and Moulton that tenant in tayl shall not forfeit any thing First That the Feoffment of tenant in tayl had not discontinued nor devested the estate of fee in Reversion out of the King because it is but a matter in Deed which is tortious otherwise it is of a rightfull matter of Record as a Recovery upon a good title or rightfull matter in Deed as a Remitter or Condition performed As Alienee of tenant in tayle of the gist of a common person infeoffs the King by Deed inrolled which regives to the first tenant in tayle which dyes the issue euters it is a Remitter and therefore the Reversion in fee is devested out of the King and restored to the first doner because a former right matter in Deed and in Law concurr together So Lessee for life to have fee if he doth such an act after the Lessor grants by Deed inrolled the Reversion to the King the Lessee for life performes the Condition which is older then the title of the King this older title matter in Deed and operation in Law thereupon shall take the Reversion out of the King without other Suit or Circumstance because bound with the Condition and the fee simple ought to vest in him at the same instant that he performes the Condition or never But no tortious act as Disseisen Intrusion c. may take the Reversion out of the King Secondly That by the Feoffment he hath not given the fee determinable because he had it not nor an estate for life of the Feoffee but onely an estate for his owne life and so the Reversion in tayle continues in him which shall be forfeit by the Attainder and by consequence the estate of the Feoffee determines by the death of the Feoffor but the Feoffee hath an estate for the life of the Feoffor discendable and his heire shall be a speciall occupant of this estate in base fee simple Thirdly That the King shall have the estate tayle in point of Reverter for that he had the pure fee before and two fees of one thing cannot be together in one person otherwise in severall persons and then the King shall have the Land discharged of the estate tayle and by consequence of all estates charges and incumbrances derived out of it as Leases warranted by the Statute and then the laving in the Statute for a thing before determined is void as of a Lease voidable made by such tenant in tayle which the issue hath made good by the acceptance of the rent and after of the estate tayle Escheated for Treason or is determined for default of issue So that the King hath in point of Reverter there the Release shall be void and he hath nothing by the saving of the Statute Adjudged in Austins Case otherwise it is when the King hath it in point of forfeiture as if the Reversion be to a stranger fol. 559. b. What Livery and Seisen is and the validity of it fol. 554. a. Estate tayle shall not be in abeyance nor any thing which another cannot have for abeyance is onely for the benefit of a stranger because it cannot vest immediately 556. a. 562. a. Estates in fee are three First Pure fee Secondly Fee determinable thirdly Base fee which shall be in one when the pure fee is in another fol. 557. a. An estate tayle shall not be to anothers use fol. 555. a. yet if tenant in tayle bargain and sels the Land by Deed inrolled the Bargainee shall have see executed by the Statute of 27. H. 8. which cannot be except the use shall be raised first out of the estate taile and so the estate tayle shall be to another use fol. 557. b. A Disseisor or Intruder upon the possession of tenant in tayle of the Kings gift gaines not except the estate for life of tenant in tayle and therefore if he dye seised the issue in tayle shall enter upon this discent as I beleeve fol. 558. a. The Father maketh a Lease for life to his Son the Remainder for life to her which shall be his Wife at the time of his death this is a good Remainder and shall be in abeyance untill the Wife be knowne fol. 562. a. Saving in a Statute contrary to the Explanation is voide Puton and Hides Case and Austins Case of a Lease and the Duke of Norfolks Case fol. 564. a. The possession shall be awarded upon a Bill of Intrusion which is but Trespas in its nature 561. a. Tenant in tayle grants his estate there waste is dispunishable during the life of tenant in tayle because it is not but onely a priviledge annexed to it Estates passe to the Grantee and amount to words of dispunishable of waste and not because he hath a greater estate then for the life of tenant in tayle So 42. H. 3.21 waste dispunishable in tenant for life because the Lestor released all his right that he had in the same Land and that he or his heires would not demand any right in the same nor claime nor challenge for the terme of the life of the tenant for that it amounts unto a Lease without impeachmeat of waste fol. 556. A Writ of Error abated by the death of the Lord Chancellour because his Christian name and Sir-name and Keeper of the great Seale were put into the Writ fol. 564. b. FINIS
or appurtenant unless it be comprised in the premises The Office of the Habendum is for to limit the estate as a grant a Rent and stay there is for life Habendum for a year is for one year 7. E. 3.10 by Trew 7. Ass 1. Perkins fol. 22. The Habendum repugnant to the premises void and the estate before the Habendum shall stand 14. H. 8.13 by Pollard Perkins fol. 34. Contrary 13. H. 7.23 by Fineux a Grant to one and his Heirs Habendum for Life So to two Habendum to the one of them two for life the Remainder to the other for life because it severs the joyncture in the estate So a grant of two acres to two Habendum the one acre to one and the other to the other because it includes the interest of every one in one acre A Lease of land reserving the profits or two acres except one void because parcel of the thing granted Doctor and Student fol. 98. Reversion is a Tenement and ought to vest presently as a Reversion and not at a day to come otherwise it is of land Reverting without estate and agreed of land by the Serjeants for the Defendant Every Deed shall be construed most strongly against the Grantor and if it may be taken to any effect by any reasonable intendment it shall be and the intent of the parties shall be observed as here of using this word Reversion not in its proper signification for then it first ought to vest as in Reversion presently by Attornment and not at a day to come but as a demonstration certain of the land viz. all the land that they have in Reversion and that they will not have the land to pass in the degree of a Reversion but in degree of Demeasne And the Law will That when the intent appeareth incline the words not apt of their proper and common signification to the intent and one word shall have the sense of another as Litl fol. 121. Dedi concessi by the Disseisee shall enure as a confirmation So 17. E. 3.8 Mannor pass by the name of Fee de Chivalry So 10. E. 44. 5. H. 7.1 plead Demise by words of licence to occupie where one word includes in it one thing as here Reversion includes the land the thing included shall pass by the word as 11. R. 2. Piscary pass per a quam and 40. E. 3.45 Soil by Piscary and by Turbary 7. E. 3.342 So Soil and Wear by Gorss for 14. E. 3. Formedon lyeth de gurgite So 6 E. 3.183 By the name of one acre cornubiensi for Cornish acres contain so many A man Grants his Remainder of one acre to have and to hold the same Reversion of that acre good because the Law respects the intent of the matter and applies the words to it So a Gift in Tail reserving the first three daies a Rose and after 10. s. good because one rent in substance A man seised of two acres Leases one for years and after maketh a Feoffment of both Livery in this wherein he hath possession by Attornment the Reversion of the other passeth 7. E. 4.21 So 30. E. 1. Totum Molendinum suum the Reversion of the third of the Mill which was in Dower pass but Tenant for life ought to Attorn upon the Grant Brook grants f. 30. the Habendum explains and corrects the words of the premisses as here the words Reversion of the land to the land it self being the same substance So 7. E. 3.308 A Rent Granted out of a Man nor to take off one acre of the same Mannor nothing shall be charged but this acre in performance of the intent of the parties by the Serjeants for the Plaintiff Anthony Brown Serjeant for the Plaintiff Tenement compriseth a Reversion as 33. E. 3. the King licences to purchase Tenements in Mortmain he purchases a Reversion good Fitzh grants 402. and Cook Alienation fol. 55. is Advowson yet the word Tenement here agrees not with the premisses First because that in the mean time after the first Lease finished at Michaelmas the land is in possession and then it is not a Reversion because no particular estate and therefore may not yest as a reversion as 21. H. 7.11 before fol. 25. Remainder may not vest but during the particular estate and not at the ending of the first estate up on Condition broken So 10. E. 3. dower of a rent reserved upon an estate Tail good so long as the estate continues otherwise it is if the Tail be altered in Tail after possibility or Tenancy by the Courtesie for that the inheritance is determined and the rent is now in another degree 12. E. 3. and 10. H. 7.13 by Keeble if a rent be granted with a cessing during the nonage of the Heir the Wife shall have Dower and Execution shall be staid otherwise the Wife of the Son dying within age for that during the Cesser she had not possession Secondly because the Reversion cannot be granted at a day to come for then he shall have the particular estate in the mean time and shall be Lessor to himself and 38. H 6.38 a man cannot reserve the lesser estate giving the greater without alteration of the Lesser as in 8. H. 7.3 by Vavisor before fol. 152. A. hath rent in Fee and grants this to B. after the death of I.S. void because the Fee passeth presenly if ever and then he should have Franck-tenement of his own grant until I.S. dies And the Estate shall not be so devided without alteration of the whole Estate for a thing in esse cannot be granted to be in esse one time and to be insuspended or differ from the other but a new rent may be granted to commence at a day to come for there he shall not have the particular estate in the mean time because not in esse before after fol. 197. Time material shall void the thing in all viz. both the premisses and Habendum not e converso if it may not pass according to the limitation thereof because time parcel of the parties intent and if it may not pass as to the intent all is void As a man hath a Rent or Term and Grant it if he stay there good if he saies besides Habendum after the death of I. S all is void after fol. 250. So the Remainder void if the Termor enter without Livery Litl 12. But if the Term was to Commence at a day to come the Remainder over there it is void notwithstanding Livery because there is no estate present to which the Livery may be annexed so that the time of Commencement is materiall and Livery before its Commencement is void and Livery shall not destroy the time but the time the Livery and grant every act shall be taken strongest against the makers and most beneficial to him to whom it is made and he hath liberty in another sence to his advantage then the words purport prima facie for every Deed shall be construed
to some purpose and not to be void because it is made to some purpose as 21. H. 6.8 one may plead a Lease for years and a release as a Feoffment So 7 H. 6.7 and 22. H. 6.42 The Feoffment of a Joynt-Tenant as a confirmation So 9. H. 7.2 The King by Parliament confirms the estate of the Patentee dat conceditur he may use it as a Grant or confirmation So in 21. H. 7.23 Obligor may plead a Grant That it shall not be sued before M. in Bar or have a Covenant for it So here the party uses this as a Demise of the Land and not as a Grant of the Reversion for the Reyersion of the Land compriseth the Land as Litl fol. 106. after fol. 161. a release of all the land to him in Reversion is good So 5. H. 5.8 A Lease for years and after a grant of the rent this changes the reversion So Litl fol. 150. recovery of the land against Tenant for life will divest the reversion So 19. E 4.9 Writ of Covenant and the Concord is of the land to pass the reversion So Quid jur is clamat recites That the land was granted before the reversion was So before fol. 149. Formed on shall say de uno messuagio where the Reversion was granted in Tail So a Reversion in Fee Granted to a Termor he hath the intire Term presently in Possession for the reversion of the land comprises the land in substance one word will pass the thing by another word having the same sence yet varying in name because one same thing and intent of the party as 2. H. 6.4 before fol. 134. and afterwards f. 170. reverter for remainder So 3. H. 6.6 makes a Testament and commits Administration is an Executor So 20. H. 7.11 Retorn for revert by the Grant by Grant of the Church Advowson passes 14. E. 4.2 by Grant of the name of a Clerk a presentment passeth So before fol. 151. by Stagnum molendinum the Soil passes and the thing contained in the premises named in the Habendum by another name containing the same in substance is good So a Grant of the nomination of an advowson Habendum the advowson good So Manerium Habendum the services So mannor by Fine Habendum one acre of this in Fee he shall have the acre in Fee and the Mannor for life because it wanteth limitation of the estate in the residue of the Mannor So a Gift of a Mannor Habendum the reversion in Fee of one acre which is in Lease for life good Fee for the acre and for life in the Mannor because no estate is expressed in it So Litl fol. 120. confirms the estate of Lessee for life Habendum the land in Fee good because in the estate land was contained So a Joint-Tenant confirms to another Habendum the land to him and his Heirs the Fee will pass the Habendum may limit the estate to a stranger not named before in the premisses as 13. H. 7.17 a Devise to I. Habendum to him in Fee after the death of the Wife of the Devisor not named before hath an estate by implication of the intent of the party So 5. E. 3.17 a man gives land Habendum in Franck marriage with a Daughter So a Lease to A. Habendum to him for 20. years the remainder to B. in Fee good because the intent of the parties therefore a fortiori here the Habendum may explain the intent of the parties in the premisses Dieâ— Serjeant for the Plaintiff A reversion is Jus sine possessio revertendi nomen verbale quasi terra revertens after the particular estate ended proved by W. 2. of Advowsons of Churches and prayer to recite the reversion if he shall overlive the Tenant for life and bringeth wast good 14. E. 2. Fines saith remanera and not revertera where a reversion was granted before fol. 157. a reversion granted in Tail Formedon in remainder lyeth because the entire estate is not given Fitzh nat br 118. D. 10. E. 2. the Heir grants the other two parts with a third part in Dower cum acciderit reversion of Dower pass 33. H. 8. cap. ultima the not making of Leases in reversion is expounded That they shall not make Leases beginning after the first ends ad firmum dimiserunt imply that the parties intend that it shall enure as a Lease of the Demeasne for properly a man may not be Farmor of a reversion not have an Ejectione firma of a reversion No Attornment needs upon a Lease for years because it is a Contract interpretationem apportet esse benignam ut res valeat as 30. E. 2. Discendera pro Remanera 6. E. 2. recipe pro re-entry So a gift to one for life post ejus decessum to 1. in Fee good remainder for the manifest intent an Habendum giveth an estate which was not given before and to a stranger not named before and alters the estate given in the premisses as a Confirmation to Husband and Wife or to Tenant for life remainder in Fee to another good Litl 129. So Habendum by moity Litl 66. makes Tenants in common 8. E. 3.427 by the better oppinion a gift to two Habendum to one for life and after his decease to another in Fee the one shall have the entire for life onely notwithstanding the Joyncture in the premisses Otherwise fol. 153. if it be comprised within the Grant good in the Habendum as a Grant De dispositione Ecclesiae habendum advocationem grants de Soil the Wood habendum the Wood defundo domus habendum domum Manerium habendum the advowson appendant good but a Grant of Common out of the land habendum the land or herbage of a Park habendum the Park and such like are not good because not comprised in the premisses Stamford Justice rules of Exposition First deeds shall be taken most beneficially for the Grantee Secondly they shall not be void where the words may be applyed to any intent Thirdly words shall be applyed viz. expounded to the intent of the parties and not otherwise The intent directs gifts rather then the words as 41. E. 3.6 16. H. 7.10 by Fineux Grantee of annuity pro consilio hath divers faculties yet the Councel shall be given in such a faculty as was intended 9. E. 4.22 one bound to pay Recepta recipienda shall not pay what he received not but that which he hath received because the intent is taken more forcibly then the words 7. E. 3.7 Lessee of of a house which may for his profit make houses there within may not pull down or make waste for the intent was not so Sanders Justice to the same intent with the Plaintiff Exposition of Deeds shall be reasonable without wrong to the Grantor as a Grant of Corrody Estovers and Common for all Beasts he shall not have with Goats and with the largest advantage to the Grantee as a Disseisor releases all his right to the Termor he hath for his life