to prevent all acts and charges made mean by the Vendor yet it shall not relate to vest the Estate from the time of the delivery of the Deed For the Vendee cannot punish a Trespass Mean And if the Vendee hath a Wife and the Vendee dieth before Enrollment and afterwards the Deed is enrolled she shall not be endowed but here shall be some descent to take away an Entry yet the Heir shall have his age But in our Case it is otherwise for by the Waiver the Ioynture was waived ab initio And he cited Carrs Case 29 Eliz. in the Court of Wards The King granted the Mannor of C. to George Owen in Fee tenend in Socage and rendring 94 l. per annum And afterwards granted 54 l. parcel of the said Rent to the Earl of Huntington in Fee to be holden by Knight-service in Capite and afterwards purchased the said Rent in Fee And afterwards of the same Mannor enfeoffed William Carr who devised the same for the payment of his Debts And it was holden That the devise was good against the Heir And the King was not entituled to Livery or Primer Seisin And therefore the Defendant was dismissed But peradventure the Queen shall have benefit of the Act. See Cook 3 Part 30 31. Butler and Baker's Case The King gives Lands unto A. in Fee to hold by Knights-service during his life and afterwards to hold in Socage He may devise the whole For at the time when the devise took effect he was Tenant in Socage Lands holden in Knight-service are given to J.S. in tail scil to the Heirs Males of his Body the Remainder to the right Heirs of J.S. J.S. deviseth these Lands and afterwards dieth without Issue Male the same is good for two parts yet during his life he had not an Estate in Fee in possession The Father disseiseth his Son and Heir apparent of an Acre of Land holden in Chief by Knight-service in Capite and afterwards purchaseth a Mannor holden in Socage and deviseth the said Mannor and dieth his Heir within age the Devise is good for the whole and the King shall not have Wardship of any part and that in respect of the Remitter and yet it is within the words Having sole Estate in Fee of Lands holden and within the Saving Tenant in tail of an Acre of Land holden of the King in Chief by Knight-service seised of two Acres in Fee holden ut supra makes a Lease for three Lives of the Acre entailed reserving the accustomed Rent and afterwards deviseth the other two Acres in Fee and afterwards dieth seised of the Reversion and Rent The same is a good devise of all the two Acres And here is an immediate descent of the third part for the same is within the words In Possession Reversion or Remainder or any Rent or Service incident to any Reversion or any Remainder See the Statute of 34 H. 8. A Man seised of three Acres of equal value holden by Knight-service in Capite assureth one to his Wife for her Ioynture by Act executed and deviseth another to a stranger And the third to his Wife also The King in this case shall have the third part of every Acre But if the stranger waiveth the devise the King shall have the Acre to him devised and the Wife shall retain the other two Acres and it shall not go in advantage of the Heir So if he deviseth the said three Arces severally to three several persons to each of them one Acre and the one Waives the devise in one Acre The devise of the other two is good Or otherwise the King shall have the third part of every Acre c. CCCLXVII Mich. 35 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 5 Co. 29. THe Case was An Enfant was made Executor And Admimistration was committed to another viz. A. durante minori aetate who brought an Action of Debt against the Debtor and recovered and had him in Execution and now the Executor came of full age It was moved What should be done in this Case and how the party should be discharged of the Execution for the authority of the Administrator is now determined and he cannot acknowledge satisfaction or make an acquittance Windham Although the authority of the Administrator be determined yet the Record and the Iudgment remain in force But peradventure you may have an Audita Querela But he conceived That an Administrator could not have such Action for that he is rather a Bailiff to the Enfant than an Administrator See Prince's Case 42 Eliz. Cook 5 Part 29. Which Rhodes concessit A. was bounden unto B. in an Obligation of 100 l. upon Condition to pay a lesser sum The Obligee made an Enfant his Executor and died Administration was committed durante minori aetate to C. to whom A. paid the Mony It was doubted If that payment was rightful or If the Mony ought to have been paid to both Windham Doth it appear within the Record That the Enfant was made Executor and that Administration was committed ut supra To which it was answered No. Then Windham said You may upon this matter have an Audita Querela In this Case It was said to be the Case of one Gore 33 Eliz. in the Exchequer in a Scire facias by an Assignee of a Bond against an Enfant Executor He pleaded That the Administration was committed to A. and his Wife during her minority And it was adjudged no Plea. CCCLXVIII Mich. 35 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte It was the Opinion of all the Iustices Jones Rep. 243. That if Lessee for 20 years makes a Lease for 10 years that he may grant the Reversion without Deed but in such case if there be a Rent reserved there ought to be a Deed and also an Attornment if the Rent will be had And it was agreed by them all That if there be Lessee for years and the Lessor granteth the Land to the Lessee and a stranger that the Reversion shall pass without Livery or Attornment and that by the Acceptance of the Deed by him who ought to Attorn But whether he shall take joyntly or in Common or whether in a moyety or in the whole the Iustices were of divers Opinions Ideo Quaere for it was not Resolved FINIS A TABLE of the principal Matters contained in the Third Part of LEONARD'S Reports A. ABatement of Writ Page 2 4 77 92 Ex Officio Curiae p. 93 Accompt p. 38 61 63 Damages given in it p. 150 Damages given in it not expresly but the Court shall give Quoddam Incrementum p. 192 Brought by the Grantee of the King against an Executor where maintainable where not p. 197 Generally brought where good p. 230 Acquittance Must be shewed upon payment of Debts by Executors p. 3 Action upon the Case For stopping of a way p. 13 Against one for proceeding to Judgment and awarding of Execution in an inferiour Court after an Habeas Corpus awarded p. 99 Where lieth
Cantarista And it hath always been adjudged That a Chauntry by Reputation is within the Statute of 1 E. 6. CLXV Brian and Cawsen's Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Trespass by Brian and his Wife and others against Cawsen It was found by Special Verdict 2 Len. 68. That W. Gardiner was seised in Fee according to the Custom of the Mannor of C. of certain Lands and surrendred them to the use of his last Will by which he Devised them in this manner scil I Bequeath to Jo. Th. my House and Lands in M. called Lacks and Stone To Ste. Th. my House and Lands called Stokes and Newmans And to Roger Th. my House and Lands called Lakins and Brox. Moreover If the said Jo. Ste. or Roger live till they be of lawful age and have Issue of their bodies lawfully begotten Then I give the said Houses and Lands to them and their heirs in manner aforesaid to give and sell at their pleasure But if it fortune one of them to die without Issue of his body lawfully begotten Then I will that the other Brothers or Brother have all the said Houses and Lands in manner aforesaid And if it fortune the Three to die without Issue in like manner Then I Will That all the said Houses and Lands be sold by my Executor or his Assignee and the Mony to be given to the Poor The Devisor dieth Jo. Ste. and Roger are admitted according to the intent of the Will Roger dieth within age without Issue John and Ste. are admitted to his part John comes of full age and hath Issue J. and surrenders his part of the whole and his estate therein to the use of Ste. and his Heirs who is admitted accordingly Ste. comes of full age John the Father dieth Ste. dieth without Issue J. the Son as Cosen and Heir of Ste. is admitted according to the Will and afterwards dieth without Issue The Wives of the Plaintiffs are Heirs to him and are admitted to the Lands called Lacks and Stone and to the moyety of the Lands called Lakins and Brox parcel of the place where c. praetextu quorum they enter into all the Lands where the Trespass is done And it was found that A. the Executor died Intestate And that Cawsen the Defendant is Cosen and Heir to the said Devisor and that he as Heir entred and did the Trespass First It was agreed by all That by the first words of the Will the 3. Devisees had but an Estate for life But Fenner and Walmesley who argued for the Plaintiffs Conceived That by force of the later words scil If the said John Stephen and Roger live till they be of lawful age and have Issue of their body lawfully begotten Then I give the said Lands and Houses to them and their Heirs in manner aforesaid c. They have Fee and the words In manner aforesaid are to be referred not unto the Estate which was given by the first words which was but for life but to make them hold in severalty as the first Devisor willed and not joyntly as the words of the second Devise purported And Fenner said It hath been Resolved by good Opinions That where a Fine was levied unto the use of the Conusor and his Wife and of the Heirs of the body of the Conusor with divers Remainders over Proviso That it shall be lawful to the Survivor of them to make Leases of the said Lands in such manner as Tenant in tail might do by the Statute of 32 H. 8. although those Lands were never Demised before the Fine yet the Survivor might demise them by force of the Proviso notwithstanding the words In manner c. So if Lands be given to A. for life upon Condition the Remainder to B. in manner aforesaid these words In manner aforesaid refer unto the Estate for life limited unto A. and not unto the Condition nor unto any other Collateral manner The words If they live until they be of full age and have Issue are words of Condition and shall not be construed to such purpose to give to them by Implication an estate tail For the words subsequent are That they shall have them to them and their Heirs to give and sell at their pleasure By which it appeareth That his intent was not to make an estate tail For Tenant in tail cannot alien or dispose of his estate c. And as unto the last words And if it fortune they three to die without Issue c. these words cannot make an estate tail and the express Limitation of the Fee in the first part of the Will shall not be controverted by Implication out of the words subsequent As if Lessee for 40 years Deviseth his Lands to his Wife for 20 years and if she dieth the remnant of the Term unto another although that she survive the 20 years she shall not hold over and here the second sale appointed to be made by the Executor shall not take away the power of the first sale allowed to the Devisee's after-Issue Snagg and Shuttleworth Serjeants to the contrary And they Conceived That the Defendant hath right to two parts for no express Inheritance vests in the Devisees until full age and issue and because two of the Devisees died without Issue they never had any Inheritance in their two parts and so those two parts descended to the Defendant as Heir to the Devisor no sale being made by the Executor These words If John Stephen and Roger are to be taken distributive viz. If John live c. are to be taken distributive If John live until c. he shall have the Inheritance in his part and so of the rest As if J. have right unto Land which A. B. and C. hold in Common and J. by a Deed release to them all the same shall enure to them severally 19 H. 6. And here these later words If these three do die without Issue by that they conceived The same to be but an estate in tail And see to that purpose 35 Ass 11. 37 Ass 15. For a Man cannot declare his intent at once but in several parts all which make but one sentence And so it is said by Persay 37 Ass 15. We ought to have regard upon the whole Deed and not upon parcel And see Clark's Case 11 Eliz. Dyer 330 331. And it was said If I give Lands to one and his Heirs so long as he hath Heirs of his body it is a Feesimple determinable and not an estate in tail Quaere of that Then here the Feesimple is determined by the death of the Devisees without issue and therefore the Land ought to revert to the Heir of the Devisor especially being no person in rerum natura who can sell for the Executor before sale by him made died Intestate and if he had made an Executor yet the Executor of the Executor could not sell Which see 19 H. 8 9 10. And afterwards Resolved That no estate tail is
laid in a person in such sort as it may be laid and therefore in this Case forasmuch as the seisin cannot be shewed by the hands of the Inhabitants it ought to be layed in the Lord. See 4 H. 6. 29. Br. Avowry 71. In a Recordare the Defendant avowed because the King is seised of the Castle of C. in jure Ducatus sui Cornub. to which he had 20 s. Rent out of the Town of D. Solvend annuatim at Michaelmas of which Rent the King and all the Dukes of Cornwal aforesaid had been seised time out of memory c. by the hands of the Inhabitants of the same Town c. and the same was holden a good Avowry For although that seisin ought to be laid in some person certain by his hands yet in that case it is good enough For the seisin by one of the Inhabitants is the seisin of them all And in the principal Case by Periam and Walmesley It was agreed That the seisin here was well enough confessed For when the Plaintiff hath taken Issue That they have used to distrain all other matters are holden confessed because that the Plaintiff hath not saved them to him by protestation Which Rhodes granted Another Exception was taken to the Avowry because that the Leet by it is supposed to be holden in July therefore void which see Magna Charta 35. But it was holden by Anderson Windham and Rhodes That by reason of this Prescription the Court is well holden in July notwithstanding the said Statute of Magna Charta and it might be holden at what day he pleased For his Liberty and Election is not restrained by the said Statute and such is the common experience And note the words of the same Statute Ita quod quilibet habeat Libertates suas quas habuit vel habere consuevit tempore Regis H. avi nostri c. vel quod postea perquisivit c. And Rhodes conceived That the said Statute is to be intended of Turns only and not of Leets Which see 24 H. 8. Br. Leet 23. in the end of the Case But by Periam A Leet cannot be holden but according to the said Statute for to that purpose was the said Statute made But if a Leet hath been time out of mind c. holden at any other day than that which is limited by the Statute it is a good prescription and it is saved by the Statute The Prescription is That he and all c. have used to hold a Leet once in a year and hath not shewed when the said year begins for it may be that a Leet hath been holden there in this year before July and then this is a void Leet and so no Leet-Fee due and of that Opinion was Periam viz. That the Avowant ought to have shewed the beginning and end of the year viz. That he held the said Leet pro uno anno finito such a day for it may be he hath holden two Leets in one year But it was said by the other Iustices That that shall come on the other side for prima facie it shall be intended that it hath been but once holden in the same year until the contrary be shewed And Note by Anderson and Rhodes If the King grants to one a Leet to hold semel quolibet anno without saying At the Liberty of the Grantee the Grant is good and the Grantee may hold it at what day he pleaseth CCXXXII Putnam and Cook 's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 129.193 1 Cro. 52. IN Ejectione Firmae It was found That one Hawkins was seised of 3 Messuages in Bury in Fee and had Issue Robert his Son and Christien and Joan Daughters And Devised all his said Messuages to his Wife for life the remainder of one of the said Messuages to his Son Robert and his Heirs the remainder of another of his said Messuages to his Daughter Christien and her Heirs the remainder of the third to Joan and her Heirs And further willed That if any of his said Issues died without Issue of his body that then the other surviving should have totam illam partem c. between them equally to be divided The Devisor died The Wife of the Devisor died Joan died having Issue Robert died without Issue Christien entred into the whole Messuage of Robert and died and her Husband held in as Tenant by the Curtesie Cook The surviving Child shall have the whole and the Issue of Joan shall have nothing And he conceived That by this Devise they have an Estate in tail for the Fee is not vested in them for that it is incertain which of them shall survive but when one doth survive then he shall have the Fee for these words totam illam partem go to the whole Estate as well as to the whole Land. If I Devise my whole Land to J.S. he hath a Fee. And he conceived That the three had an Estate in tail with a Fee expectant each severally to the House limited to him Golding contrary Each of them hath an Estate tail in the House Devised to him and but an Estate for life expectant upon the death of the other without Issue for there are no words by which it might appear what Estate they shall have by the Survivor c. I grant the Case which Perkins denies but Littleton affirms scil A Devise of Lands to one in perpetuum for there the intent appeareth but where there are not words of Inheritance nor words amounting to so much then it shall be but an Estate for life And as to these words totam illam partem the same is all one as if he had Devised totam illam without partem Also he conceived That where one only survived no estate further vested for there ought to be two to take by the Survivorship for the words are aequaliter inter eos dividend And then if it cannot accrue by Survivor then it shall descend And if it had accrued by Survivor they should thereof have been Tenants in Common and not Ioynt-Tenants by reason of these words aequaliter dividend Clench Iustice The words totam illam partam go to the House and not to the Estate in it Shute to the same intent If both the Daughters had survived they should have Fee in the House of Robert but not by the Will but by descent in Coparcenery Also when two are dead the Son and one Daughter then it cannot be decided therefore the Will as to that is void and then the Common Law shall take place and put the Messuage to the Issue of one Daughter as to the Sister surviving Gawdy Iustice Here is but an Estate for life in the survivor It hath been Objected That then being but an Estate for life that Estate is drowned by the descent of the Feesimple so as now the Estate limited by the Will is void To which it may be answered That although now upon the matter it be void yet ab inition it
that the Queens Attorny said That it is true that Thomas Robinson was possessed but it is further said That Thomas granted it to Paramour and so the Interest of Thomas is confessed on both sides and therefore the Iury shall not be received to say the contrary But the Opinion of Manwood Chief Baron was That if the parties do admit a thing per nient dedire the Iury is not bound by it but where upon the pleading a special matter is confessed there the Iury shall be bound by it And afterwards the Issue was found against Robinson the Defendant CCLXXIII Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action of Debt by A. against B. upon an Obligation the Defendant pleaded tender of the Mony according to the Condition upon which the parties were at Issue And after the Defendant pleaded That after the Darrein Continuance the Debt now in demand was Attached in the Defendants hands according to the Custom of London for the debt of C. to whom the Plaintiff was endebted It was the Opinion of the Court That the Plea was insufficient for it is altogether contrary to the first Plea. And also the Court held That in an Action for the debt depending here in this Court the debt cannot be attached and the Court would not suffer a Demurrer to be joyned upon it but over-ruled the Case without any Argument For it was said by Wray Chief Iustice That it was against the Iurisdiction of the Court and the Priviledge of it CCLXXIV Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. NOte It was holden by the Court That if a Copyholder in Fee dieth seised and the Lord admits a stranger to the Land who entreth that he is but a Tenant at Will and not a Disseisor to the Copyholder who hath the Land by descent because he cometh in by the assent of the Lord c. CCLXXV Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. AN Ejectione firmae was brought de uno Cubiculo and Exception was taken to it But the Exception was disallowed The Declaration was special viz Leas unius Cubiculi per nomen unius Cubiculi being in such a House in the middle story of the said House And the Declaration was holden good enough and the word Cubiculum is a more apt word than the word Camera And such was the Opinion of Wray Chief Iustice And it was said That Ejectione firmae brought de una rooma had been adjudged good in this Court. CCLXXVI Johnson and Bellamy's Case Rot. 824. Mich. 30 31 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione firmae It was holden by Special Verdict 1 Cro. 122. That W. Graunt was seised of certain Lands and by his Will devised the same to Joan his Wife for life And further he willed That when Rich. his Brother should come to the age of 25 years that he should have the Land to him and the Heirs of his body lawfully begotten W. Graunt died having Issue of his body who was his Heir Rich. before he attained the age of 25 years levied a Fine of the said Lands with proclamations in the life and during the seisin of Joan to A. sic ut partes finis nihil habuerunt And If this Fine should bar the Estate in tail was the Question And the Iustices cited the Case of the Lord Zouch which was adjudged Mich. 29 Eliz. Where the Case was Tenant in tail discontinued to E. and afterwards levied a Fine to B. That although that partes finis nihil habuerunt yet the said Fine did bind the Estate tail But the Serjeants at the Bar argued That there was a difference between the Case cited and the Case at Bar For in the Case cited the Fine was pleaded in Bar but here it was not pleaded but found by Special Verdict To which it was said by the Court That the same is not any difference For the Fine by the Statute is not any matter of Estoppel or Conclusion but by the Statute binds and extincts the entail and the right of it And Fines are as sufficient to bind the right of the entail when they are found by Special Verdict as when they are pleaded in Bar. And Periam Iustice said A Collateral Warranty found by Special Verdict is of as great force as pleaded in Bar. And afterwards Iudgment was given That the Estate tail by that Fine was utterly barred and extinct CCLXXVII Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was A Man made a Lease for life rendring Rent at Michaelmas and further Leased the same to the Executors of the Lessee until Michaelmas after the death of the Lessee It was affirmed by Cook That in that Case it was adjudged That the word Until shall be construed to extend to the Term unto the end of the Feast of St. Michael and so the Rent then due payable by the Executors for without such Construction no Rent should be then due because the Term ended before Michaelmas CCLXXVIII Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. ONe was bounden to stand to the Award of two Arbitrators who awarded That the party should pay to a stranger or his Assigns 200 l. before such a day The stranger before the day died B. took Letters of Administration The Question was If the Obligee should pay the Mony to the Administrator or if the Obligation was discharged It was the Opinion of the whole Court That the Mony should be paid to the Administrator for he is an Assignee And by Gawdy If the word Assigns had been left out yet the payment ought to be made to the Administrator Which Cook granted CCLXXIX Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Defendant in Debt being ready at the Bar to wage his Law was examined by the Court upon the points of the Declaration and the cause of the Debt upon which it appeared that the Plaintiff and Defendant were reciprocally endebted the one to the other And accompting together they were agreed That each of them should be quit of the other It was the Opinion of Periam and Anderson Iustices That upon that matter the Defendant could not safely wage his Law For it is but an agreement which cannot be executed but by Release or Acquittance CCLXXX Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant in tail Covenanted with his Son to stand seised to the use of himself for life and afterwards to the use of his Son in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of the Father The Father levied a Fine with proclamations and died It was moved by Fenner If any Estate passed to the Son by that Covenant for it is not any discontinuance and so nothing passed but during his life and all the Estates which are to begin after his death are void Anderson Iustice The Estate passeth until c. And he cited the Case of one Pitts where it was adjudged That if Tenant in tail of an Advowson in gross grants the same in Fee and a Collateral Ancestor releaseth with warranty and dieth
sue in what Court he will in any of the Kings Courts of Record And in this Case the Queen is quodam modo a party For she is to have the moyety And so this cause is not meerly betwixt party and party c. CCLXXXV Willoughby's Case Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 117. WIlliam Willoughby and two other were Endicted That where the Parson of the Church of D. and all his predecessors have used to have Common in such a place The said Defendants Willoughby and others had enclosed the same and that enclosure was upon their own Land. It was moved That upon this matter they ought not to have been endicted but the party grieved was put to his Action As where a presentment is made of a Disseisin See 27 Ass 20. And it was the Case of one Marden 29 Eliz. upon the stopping of a High-Way upon his own Land and if it were upon other Land it were not material for it is but an Impeachment to take Common which cannot be Vi et armis c. Also this Endictment is Recorded and Certified as found before Iustices of Assize and Gaol-Delivery and they cannot take such presentment And although the Iustices of Assize and Gaol-Delivery were in rei veritate also Iustices of Peace yet the Endictment being recorded and certified to be taken before them in quality of Iustices of Peace shall not help it for the Court shall not respect any Authority but that which appears upon the Record And for these Causes the parties were discharged CCLXXXVI Gates and Hollywell's Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. A Man having Issue two Sons devised That his eldest Son with his Executors should take the profits of the Lands until his younger Son should come to the age of 22 years and then the younger Son should have the Lands to him and his Heirs of his body It was the clear Opinion of all the Iustices That the eldest Son should have a Feesimple in the Lands until the younger Son came to the said age of 22 years CCLXXXVII Cony and Beveridge's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 146. IN Debt upon an Obligation the Case was That the Plaintiff Leased to the Defendant certain Lands in the County of Cambridge rendring rent And afterwards the Defendant became bounden to the Plaintiff in an Obligation for the payment of the said Rent upon which Bond the Plaintiff brought an Action of Debt in the County of Northampton To which the Defendant pleaded payment of the Rent without shewing the place of payment and upon that they were at Issue And it was found by Nisi prius in the County of Northampton for the Plaintiff It was moved in Arrest of Iudgment That the Issue is mis-tryed for here the payment of the Rent being pleaded without shewing the place of payment it shall be intended that the Rent was paid upon the Land which is in the County of Cambridge and there the Issue ought to be tryed See 44 E. 3. 42. And it was the Opinion of Anderson Chief Iustice That no Iudgment should be given for the Plaintiff for the Cause aforesaid But Rhodes and Windam Iustices were of a contrary Opinion For it doth not appear That the Issue is mis-tryed because that no place of payment is pleaded and it may be for any thing that is shewed That the Rent was not paid in the County of Northampton CCLXXXVIII The Blacksmith's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Blacksmith of South Mimmes in the County of Middlesex took an Obligation of another Blacksmith of the same Town upon Condition that he should not exercise the Trade or Art of a Blacksmith within the same Town nor within a certain precinct of the same And upon that Obligation the Obligee brought an Action of Debt in the Common Pleas depending which Suit the Obligor complained to the Iustices of Peace of the County against the Obligee upon which the matter being found against him by Examination the Iustices committed the Obligee to Prison and now upon the whole matter Puckering Serjeant prayed a Habeas Corpus for the said Obligee to the Sheriff of Middlesex and hat it And Fleetwood Recorder of London being at the Bar the Court openly admonished him of that matter For by the Law Iustices of Peace have not Conusans of such Offences nor can entermeddle with them for their power is limited by the Commission and the Statutes And the Recorder relyed much upon the Opinion of Hull in 2 H. 5. 5. But it was said by the Court Although that this Court be a high Court to punish such Offences appearing before them of Record yet it doth not follow That the Iustices of Peace may also do so But as to the Obligation it self the Court was clear of Opinion That the same was void and against the Law. CCLXXXIX Russell and Broker's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 209. IN Trespass for cutting down of 4 Oaks The Defendant pleaded That the place where c. And that he is seised of a Messuage in D. and that he and all those whose Estate he hath c. habere Consueverant rationabile estoverium suum for fuel ad Libitum suum Capiendum in boscis subboscis arboribus ibidem crescentibus and that in Quolibet tempore anni unless in Fawning time The Plaintiff by Replication said That the place where is in the Forrest of D. c. And that the Defendant and all those whose Estate c. habere Consueverunt rationabile estoverium suum de Boscis c. per Liberationem Forestarii aut ejus Deputati prout Boscus pati potuit non ad exigentiam petentis And upon that Replication the Defendant demurred in Law. And it was the clear Opinion of the Court That Iudgment should be given against the Plaintiff For if he would have ousted the Defendant of his Prescription by the Law of the Forrest he ought to have shewed the Law of the Forrest in such Case Lex forestae talis est For the Law of the Forrest is not the Common Law of the Land and we are not bounden to take notice of it but it ought to be pleaded Or else the Plaintiff ought to have traversed the Prescription of the Defendant For here are two Prescriptions one pleaded by the Defendant by way of Bar The other set forth by the Plaintiff in his Replication without any traverse of that which is set forth in the Bar which cannot be good But if the Plaintiff had shewed in his Replication Lex forestae talis est then the Prescription of the Defendant had been answered without any more for none can prescribe against a Statute Exception was taken to the Bar because the Defendant hath justified the cutting down of Oaks without alledging That there was not any Vnderwoods But that Exception was not allowed for he hath his Choice ad libitum suum Another Exception was taken
185. If a pain set in a Court-Baron may be mitigated by afferrors C. 8. The remedy for a Grantee of the King to recover a Post-Fine C. 56 234. Fine for alienation without Licence may be levied upon any Lands of the Vendor C. 241. Fine of Land. See more C. 74. Partes finis nihil habuer where Executors sell by vertue of a Devise that they shall sell A. 31. Not receiveable if made to two heredibus suis A. 62. A Fine levied of two parts of a Mannor sans dire in tres partes dividend good in a Fine but ill in a Writ A. 115. How to be pleaded upon the Statutes of 4 H. 7. 1 H. 3. 32 H. 8. A. 75 76 77 78. B. 36 37. Quod partes finis nihil habuer how and in what cases to be pleaded A. 78 83 185. B. 36 37. C. 37 119. Where it shall be reversed in part or in the whole A. 115. C. 120. Levied in Exeter City and reversed because it was de duobus Tenementis A. 188. Who shall be bound and how by a Fine and Non-claim after five years A. 212 213 214 259 260 261. B. 18 19 36 37. C. 10. What remainder and contingent Uses are barred by Fine A. 244. B. 18 19 36 37. C. 10. With render of a Rent in Fee and the Lands to the same persons for life how the Law construes this render A. 255. In pleading of it it is not necessary to say that the Conusor was seised A. 255. Dangerous to plead a Fine inter alia A. 255. By Baron and Feme Come ceo que il ad del done le Baron does not bar the Feme of Dower A. 285. Of Ancient Demesne Lands avoided by a Writ of Disceit A. 290. C. 220. For life without the word Heirs is not to be received for fear of occupancy B. 124. The force of a Fine without proclamation such Fine is not void but avoidable by Formedon B. 157. An Infant may declare the Uses and it binds B. 159. Where it must be pleaded and conclude Si actio and where by Estoppel B. 160. Forfeiture Baron and Feme makes a Feoffment of the Wives Joynture to one and his Heirs to the use of the Feoffee for the life of the Feme and adjudged a Forfeiture A. 125 126. Tenant for life forfeits his Estate by levying a Fine A. 40 212 214 262 264. If a remainder which is to vest upon a contingency may be forfeited before it vest A. 244 245. What distress or acceptance shall bar a Lessor to enter for a forfeiture for non-payment A. 262. If Bargain and Sale by Tenant for life be a forfeiture A. 246. It is no forfeiture B. 60 65. What Aid Prayers Vouchers Attornments and Pleadings by Tenant for life and years in real Actions is a forfeiture of his Estate B. 61 62 63 64 65 66. C. 169 170. If Tenant for life and the Reversioner joyn in a Fine and the Reversioner reverse the Fine for his Nonage yet he cannot enter for forfeiture B. 108. If Cestuy que vie die and the Tenant hold over if he be Tenant at Will Sufferance or a Disseisor C. 151 152. Form. Want of Traverse is but Form A. 44. Pleading to a Condition performance of Covenants generally is but form A. 311. Want of shewing a Deed is but Form B. 74. C. 193. Want of shewing a place is substance C. 200. What other matter is but Form C. 235. Formedon After the Tail spent the Plaintiff may suppose all to be dead without Issue A. 286. C. 103. Gavel-kind Land no Assets to bar a Formedon A. 315. In Reverter upon a Gift to the Heirs of the Body of Baron and Feme remainder to their Heirs B. 25. Upon a Gift in Tail remainder to Coparceners the Heir of the Survivor must bring a Formedon for that they claim as purchasers C. 14. Forrest Lex Forestae is but a private Law and must be pleaded B. 209 210. Fraud Fraud shall not be presumed but must be averred C. 255. G. Gardian GArdian in Soccage may grant the Ward though he cannot forfeit C. 190. Gardian in Soccage may enter for Condition broken and make Leases A. 322 323. The Court refused to appoint one for an Infant retorned Tenant in Dower unless in Court in person B 189. Gavel-kind Dower of such Lands is by custom a moiety quamdiu sola c. A. 133. Such Lands are not Assets to bar a Formedon A. 315. Grant. Of Estovers pro Easiamento A. B. heredum suor ' how construed A. 2. Lease at will 10 l. Rent The Lessor grants eundem reditum for life A. 151. Of the next avoidance does not give the then present avoidance A. 167. Of a Vicaridge does not pass the Presentation thereunto A. 191. If an Executor bona sua the Testators Goods pass A. 263. All my Goods and Chattels in such a Town a Lease of the Pawnage of a Park passes C. 19. All Wood upon such Land to be cut and carried away in 30 years does not grant any but what was then growing C. 29 30. A Grant cannot be but of a thing in esse C. 29 30. The force of the word Grant in a Lease C. 33. Grant of all Woods and Underwoods C. 59. Grant of a Rent-Charge to begin when J. S. dies without Issue who had Issue which died without Issue C. 103. All my now Goods and Chattels if the interest or possibility of a Term pass C. 153 to 158. Of the third avoidance c. the Wife is endowed of it the Grantee shall have the fourth C. 155. What interest of a Term or possibility may be granted C. 157 158. Of the Ear-grass of a Meadow C. 213. That the Grantee may take a Load of Hay yearly out of his Meadow the Grantee cannot take no Hay in one year and take two the next C. 226. What shall be sufficient certainty to describe what Lands are granted though part of the description be false A. 119. B. 226. C. 18 19 162 235. Grant of Common in all my Lands the Grantee shall have no Common in the Orchards Gardens c. C. 250. Divers good Cases where Grants of Tenant in Tail and he in Reversion or of Coparceners Joynt-Tenant and Tenant in Common shall be adjudged joynt or several Grants or the confirmation of one C. 254 255 256. Grant of the King and Patents Of a Mannor cum pertin Another Mannor which holds of it passes A. 26. Of an Acre in a great Field not specifying where is void Secus in the case of a common person A. 30. By his Grant Omnium bonorum catallorum Felonum what passes A. 99 201 202. B. 56. Shall be taken according to the true meaning A. 119 120. B. 80. Of a Chose en Action must be very strictly penned N. 271. C. 17 18 196 198. By the Statute of 31 H. 8. cap. 20. the King may grant Lands forfeited before Office B. 124. The force of a Non obstante in
the acknowledgment of a Deed to himself A. 184. No Action or Indictment lies against one for an offence done as Judge A. 295 323 324. Upon a Justicies the Sheriff in person is Judge else all is coram non Judice B. 34. If Justices of Assise and Gaol-Delivery can take an Indictment of Trespass B. 117. A Justice of Peace cannot commit one for making a Contract against Law B. 210. What Indictment cannot be taken before Judges of Assise and Gaol-Delivery C. 216. Iusticies None but the Sheriff himself can hold Plea thereby B. 34. No Capias in Execution thereupon B. 86. Iustification By a Constable in false Imprisonment for that the Plaintiff would leave her Child to the Parish A. 327. By Prescription for a Way the Defendant must shew a quo ad quem locum certain the Way leads B. 10. By the Bailiffs of a Corporation to imprison any Subject at their pleasure for a misbehavior not good B. 34 35. If the Constable plead that he set one in the Stocks for not Watching he must aver that the party dwells in his Parish C. 208 209. K. King. See Prerogative WHat is given to the King by a Statute of Attainder which gives all rights c. A. 272. Not necessary to summon the King for matter in the Kings Bench for he is there always present A. 325. Quid operatur by assignment of a Debt to the King B. 31 55 67. C. 234. A Bond for performance of Covenants may be assigned to the King but no Execution before the party be warned B. 55. The Kings Widow cannot Marry without the Kings consent B. 141. If he may alter the Tenure notwithstanding the Stat. Quia emptores terrarum B. 151 163. C. 58. Takes nothing but by Record B. 206 207. No usurpation puts the King out of possession of an Advowson C. 17 18. What Debts may be assigned to the King B. 55. C. 234. L. Law. LEX Idumaea quid C. 264. Lex mercatoria is a publick Law and the Judges take notice so of it C. 264. Lex non praecipit inutilia If it appear the Plaintiff cannot have the thing demanded the Writ shall abate A. 330 331. Leases Power to make Leases by Stat. not pursued C. 72. Made be vertue of a power reserved to make Leases for 21 years shall not be to commence post â—xpirationem c. A. 35. Of Sheep and a Farm A. 42. What kind of property the Lessee hath in the Trees A. 49. Without Impeachment of Wast how construed Ibid. Excepting Woods Timber-Trees c. if the Soil it self is excepted A. 116 117 247. Where a Licence to occupy amounts to and shall be pleaded as a Lease A. 129. Covenant that the Covenantee shall enjoy c. is a good Lease Contra that a Stranger shall c. A. 136. For years may commence in futuro A. 171. Upon a Lease for years in remainder there must be Attornment Ibid. What words amount to a Lease A. 178. By Baron and Feme not good without Deed A. 204. For years if the Lessee so long live and if he die within the Term the remainder to J. S. The remainder is void A. 218. C. 154. Where an uncertain commencement may be ascertained by the entry or election of the Lessee A. 227. B. 1. Must have an end and beginning certain A. 245. C. 86. Lease for life cannot commence in futuro unless by way of remainder A. 275 276. None can take by it but those who are party to the Deed A. 287 288. What are void what only voidable A. 307. One Man exposuit ad culturam his Land to two the two have no Estate A. 315. To commence after a former if the former were void ab initio or since the first shall begin presently B. 11. What is a Lease for years or at will B. 78. By a several Habendum to commence after the expiration of several former Leases whether the new Lease begin till all the other be expired B. 106. Lease for so many years as J. S. shall name is good if he name in the life of both parties C. 86. Lease out of a Lease for so many years as shall be to come at the Lessors death Ibid. Lease of Lands by Lessee for years worth 8 l. per annum until the Lessee levy 100 l. what interest is left in the Lessee C. 157. Lease for 60 years and if the Lessee die within the Term that then his Executors shall have until the end of the Term C. 196 197. Leet Who is Judge there and what things are incident to a Leet A. 217 218. When to be holden by the Common Law and by the Statute B. 74. Legacy What is a good assent by an Executor to a Legacy A. 129 130. C. 6. Not payable without demand A. 17. Where and what election shall make one who is Executor and Legatee to be in by the Devise or as Executor A. 216. Payable to an Infant at his full age his Executor may sue for it before the time of his age A. 278. What Devise is a Legacy what not B. 119 120. Lieu and County Where Plea shall be ill after Verdict for want of alledging a place B. 22 76 77 146 147. C. 10. Where necessary in an Indictment B. 183. No place necessary where a Feoffment or Lease for life was made B. 31 32. Where the taking of the profits of Lands is alledged it must be said to be done at the Vill where the Lands lie N. 238. Limitation of Estates To A. and B. his Wife for years if they or any of their Child or Children live so long A. 74. What words make a Condition what a Limitation A. 167 168 244 245 298 299. B. 38 114. To the Feoffor for life and after his death to his Executors for 20 years in whom the Term is vested B. 5 6. C. 21 22. To A. for life and if A. die within 20 years to his Executors for so many years B. 6 7. C. 21 22. One having Issue a Son and a Daughter by several venters Devised to his Son and the Heirs of the Body of the Father how adjudged B. 24 25 26. Mannor of O. in S. use limited of all Lands in O yet the Mannor passeth not B. 47. The moiety of Lands to his Wife for years and his eldest Daughter to enter into the other moiety and the Daughter married and died without Issue having another Sister C. 25 26. To J.S. and his Issue imposterum procreand the present Issue take nothing C. 87. Lands given to A. for the Life of C. and B. the death of either determines the Estate C. 103. Grant to two habend moiety to one and moiety to the other good But grant of two Acres habend to two habend one to one and the other to the other is void C. 126. Limitation of Time. If a Corporation must alledge Seisin within the time limited by the Statute in real Actions A. 153. Livery of Seisin Made before enrolment
Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte It was said by Dyer and Brown Iustices That if a Man deviseth by his Will to his Son a Mannor in tail 2 Cro. 49. Yelv. 210. and afterwards by the same Will he deviseth a third part of the same Lands to another of his Sons they by this are Ioynt-Tenants And if a Man in one part of his Will deviseth his Lands to A. in Fee and afterwards by another Clause in the same Will deviseth the same to another in Fee they are Ioynt-Tenants XXVIII Drew Barrentines Case Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was Drew Barrentine and Winifred his Wife were seised of the Mannor of Barrentine which is Ancient Demesne and holden of the Lord Rich as of his Mannor of Hatfield levy a Fine thereof Sur Conusans de droit c. by which Fine the Conusee rendreth the said Mannor to the said Drew and Winifred in special tail the Remainder to Winifred in tail the remainder to the Countess of Huntington in tail the remainder to the Heirs of the body of Margaret late Countess of Salisbury the remainder to the Queen in Fee It was moved by Bendloes Serjeant If the Lord Rich being Lord of the Mannor might reverse this Fine by a Writ of Disceit and so Recontinue his Seignory and he said That he might and thereby all the Estates which passed by the Fine should be defeated even the remainder which was limited to the Queen for by it the Fine shall be avoided to all intents Welsh Iustice Such a Writ doth not lie For by the remainder limited to the Queen by the Fine all mean Signories are extinct Then if it be so Disceit doth not lie If the Tenant in Ancient Demesne levieth a Fine and afterwards the Lord Paramount who is Lord of the Mannor doth release to the Conusee and afterwards the Lord of the Mannor brings a Writ of Disceit he gains nothing by it And if the Tenant in Ancient Demesne levieth a Fine of it and dieth and the Heir confirmeth the Estate of the Conusee and afterwards the Lord by a Writ of Disceit reverseth the Fine yet the Estate of the Conusee shall stand But all these cases differ from our case For in all those cases another act is done after the Action given to the Lord but in our case the whole matter begins in an instant quasi uno flatu and then if the principal be reversed the whole is avoided For the whole Estate is bound with the Condition in Law and that condition shall extend as well to the Queen and her Estate as to another And if Lands is Ancient Demesne be assured to the King in Fee upon Condition Now during the possession of the King the nature of the Ancient Demesne is gone but if the Condition be broken so as he hath his Land again it is Ancient Demesne as it was before and so the Estate of the Queen is bounden by a Condition in Law. XXIX Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Dutchy-Chamber NOte It was holden by Welsh in the Dutchy Chamber That whereas King Edw. the 6th under the Seal of the Dutchy had demised Firmam omnium tenentium at Will Manerii sui de S. That nothing but the Rent passed and not the Land for Firma signifies Rent as in a Cessavit de feodo firmae But the Clerks of the Court said That their course had always been to make Leases in such manner But Welsh continued in his Opinion as aforesaid And further he said That this was not helped by the Statute of Non-recital or Mis-recital c. for that here is not any certainty For sometimes Firma signifies Land sometimes Rent XXX Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THis Case was holden for Law by the whole Court Two Coparceners are and one of them dieth her Heir of full age she shall not pay a Relief for if she should pay any at all she should pay but the moyety and that she cannot do for a Relief cannot be apportioned for Coparceners are but one Tenant to the Lord. XXXI 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. AN Action upon the Case was brought for stopping of a Way The Plaintiff declared That the Duke of Suffolk was seised of a House in D. and Leased the same to the Plaintiff for life And that the said Duke and all those whose Estate c. have used time out of mind c. to have a Way over the Lands of the Defendant unto the Park of D. to carry and recarry Wood necessary for the same House from the said Park to the same House and further declared That the Defendant Obstupavit the Way It was moved by Carns That upon this matter no Action upon the Case lieth but an Assise because that the Freehold of the House is in the Plaintiff and also the Freehold of the Land over which c. is in the Defendant But if the Plaintiff or Defendant had but an Estate for years c. then an Action upon the Case would lie and not an Assise All which was granted by the Court. Post 263. It was also holden That this word Obstupavit was sufficient in it self scil without shewing the special matter how as by setting up any Gate Hedge or Ditch c. for Obstupavit implyes a Nusans continued and not a personal disturbance as a Forestaller or in saying to the Plaintiff upon the Land c. that he should not go there or use that Way for in such cases an Action upon the Case lieth But as to any local or real disturbance Obstupavit amounts to Obstruxit And although in the Declaration is set down the day and the year of the Obstruction yet it shall not be intended that it continued but the same day for the words of the Declaration are further by which he was disturbed of his Way and yet is and so the continuance of the disturbance is alledged And of such Opinion also was the whole Court. Leonard Prothonotary said to the Court That he had declared of a Prescription habere viam tam pedestrem quam equestrem pro omnibus omnimodis Cariagiis and by that Prescription he could not have a Cart-way for every Prescription is stricti juris Dyer That is well Observed and I conceive that the Law is so and therefore it is good to prescribe habere viam pro omnibus Cariagiis generally without speaking of Horse-way or Cart-way or other Way c. XXXII Stowell and the Earl of Hertfords Case Mich. 8 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Formedom in the Remainder by John Stowel and R.R. against the Earl of Hertford the Case was That Lands were given to Giles Lord Daubeney in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of J.S. who had Issue two Daughters Agnes and Margaret and died The Donee died without Issue and the Demandants as Heirs of the said Agnes and Margaret brought a Formedom in the Remainder And it was awarded by the Court That the Writ should
of Bargain and Sale and he hath not election to take the Land by way of Livery But when all is in one Deed and takes effect equally together in such case the Grantee hath Election but here in this Case the Bargain and Sale the Deed being Inrolled doth prevent the Livery and taketh his full effect before And by Wray and Catline If he in the Reversion upon a Lease for years grants his Reversion to his Lessee for years by words of Dedi Concessi Feoffavi and a Letter of Attorny is made to make Livery and Seisin the Donee cannot take by the Livery for that the Lessee hath the Reversion presently XL. Mich. 14 Eliz. IN an Ejectione Firmae the Case upon Evidence appeared to be thus The Bishop of Rochester Anno 4 E. 6. Leased to B. for years rendring Rent and afterwards granted the Reversion to C. for 99 years rendring the ancient Rent To have from the day of the Lease without impeachment of Waste which Grant was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter But B. did not Attorn And for default of Attornment It was holden by the whole Court That the Lease was void for it is made by way of grant of a Reversion and to pass as a Reversion But by Catline If the Bishop had granted the Reversion and also demised the Land for 99 years it should pass as a Lease to begin first after the former Lease determined And as to the Attornment it was given in Evidence That B. after the notice of the Grant to C. spake with C. to have a new Lease from him because he had in his Farm but 8 years to come but they could not agree upon the price And the Iustices were of Opinion That that was an Attornment because he had admitted the said C. to have power to make a new Lease unto him Also the said B. being in Company with one R. seeing the said C. coming towards him said to the said R. See my Landlord meaning the said C. Bromley Sollicitor That is no Attornment being spoken to a stranger Barham contrary because he was present And it was held by the whole Court to be a good Attornment But it was holden That if the Attornment was not before that the Bishop was translated to Winchester That the Lease should be void and although that the Confirmation of the Dean and Chapter was before the Attornment so as no Estate had vested in C. yet it is good enough for the assent of the Dean and Chapter is sufficient whether it be before or after by Catline Southcote and Whiddon Wray contrary XLI Mich. 14 Eliz. THe King seised of a Mannor to which an Advowson is appendant a Stranger presents and his Clerk is in by 6 months The King grants the Mannor with all Advowsons appendant to it to B. The Incumbent dieth The Grantee may present For the Advowson was always appendant and the Inheritance thereof passeth to the Grantee and is not made disappendant by the usurpation as in the case of a common person for the King cannot be put out of possession But the Patentee shall not have a Quare Imped of the first disturbance for that presentment doth not pass to him being a thing in Action without mention of it in his Grant. And if the Patentee bringeth a Quare Impedit of the second Avoydance he shall make his Title by the presentment of the King not making mention of the usurpation yet if the Bishop presenteth for Lapse in the case of a common person he ought to make mention of it for that is his Title to the Presentment c. XLII Humfrey and Humfrey's Case Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. BEtween Humfrey and Humfrey the Case was That the Defendant in Debt after Iudgment aliened his Land and the Plaintiff sued forth Execution upon the new Statute And the Court of the Request awarded him to the Fleet because that he sued forth Execution Whereupon the Iustices of the Common Pleas awarded a Habeas Corpus and discharged the Plaintiff It was said by Bendloes Serjeant That the Chancery after Iudgment could not enjoyn the party that he shall not sue forth Execution for if they do the party shall have his remedy as above XLIII Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. A Man seised of Copyhold Lands Deviseth a certain parcel of them to his Wife for life the remainder to his Brother and his Heirs And afterwards in the presence of 3 persons of the Court said to them I have made my Will and I have appointed all things in my Will as I will have it And afterwards he said And here I surrender all my Copyhold Lands into your hands accordingly And it was moved If all his Copyhold Lands should be to his Wife or by those which were specified in the Will. And the Opinion of the whole Court was That the Surrender is restrained by the Will so as no more passeth to the Wife upon the whole matter but that which is mentioned in the Will and the general words shall not enlarge the matter XLIV Hill. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. LAnds were devised to the Mayor Chamberlain and Governors of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew in London whereas in truth they are Incorporated by another name yet the Devise is good by Weston and Dyer which Manwood also granted because it shall be taken according to the intent of the Devisor And it was said by Weston If Lands be devised to A. eldest Son of B. although that his name be W. yet the Devise to him is good because there is sufficient certainty c. XLV Pasch 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was A. seised of Lands deviseth the same to his Wife for life the remainder to his three younger Sons and to the Heirs of their bodies begotten equally to be divided amongst them by even portions and if one of them die then the other two which survive shall be next Heirs The Devisor dieth One of the Sons dieth and by Dyer and Weston Iustices The 3 Brothers were Tenants in Common in remainder But contrary it is where such a Devise is made between them To be divided by my Executors c. there they are Ioynt-Tenants until the division is made but here although the words are Equally to be divided the same is not intended of a Division in fact and possession but of the Interest and Title For if a Man bringeth a Praecipe quod reddat de una parte Manerii de D. in 7 parts to be divided it is not intended divided in Possession but divided in Interest and Title And it was said by the said Iustices That although one of the Brothers dieth the two surviving Brothers have his part by purchase and not by descent and they are Ioynt-Tenants of it And this was the Case of one Webster and Katherine his Wife the late Wife of John Bradbury XLVI Pasch 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was Lessee for years of the
Pawnage of the Park of H. grants all his Goods and Chattels moveables and immoveables within the said Park It was holden by Weston and Dyer Iustices That the Lease of the Pawnage passeth by these words And it was said by Dyer If a Man hath a Lease for years of a House and grants all his Goods and Chattels being in the same House that as well the Lease of the House as the Goods within it pass by such a Grant. XLVII Pasch 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte It was said by Weston and Bendloes That a Retraxit cannot be before a Declaration which Leonard and Filmer Prothonotaries granted And Dyer said That it being before a Declaration it is but a Nonsuit and Wheatley and Filmer affirmed the same and therefore it was adjudged That such a Retraxit in the Court of Hustings before the Sheriff is no Plea in Bar. XLVIII Pasch 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Debt brought against Christmas who shewed forth a Protection Quia Profecturus with the Lord Hunsdon to Barwick Dyer doubted If the Protection did lie But said It should be rather Moraturus then Profecturus For a Protection Quia Profecturus to Calleis was never good but super victitation Calicii Harper contrary For Barwick is out of the Realm And he said That he was once of Counsel Where a Bill was exhibited in Parliament to make Hexham part of England and he said That in the time of the Queen that now is One Carre struck a Man who thereof died at Barwick and in an Appeal thereof brought here by the Wife Carre was dismissed XLIX Cranmers Case Hill. 14 Eliz. Rott 938. In the Common Pleas. Dyer 309 310. 2 Len. 5. 1 Len. 196. 1 And. 19. More Rep. 100. Office of Executors 118. 119. TThomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury having a Reversion in Fee of certain Lands upon a Lease for years granted the Reversion to the use of the Grantor himself for his life and after his decease to the use of the Executors and Assignees of the Grantor for 20 years next after the death of the Grantor and after to the use of Thomas his Son in tail and afterwards to the use of the Grantor in Fee The Grantor is attainted of Treason and the Queen gave the said Term of 20 years to the Wife of the Grantor who took to Husband Ed. White-Church who let the Land to A. Thomas the Son entred and leased the same Land to one Kirk who upon an Ouster brought Ejectione Firmae This Case was Argued by the Iustices Manwood the puisne Iustice conceived That the Plaintiff ought to be barred and that the Lessee of White-Church who claimed by the grant of the Queen the said Term of 20 years ought to hold the Land against the Son of the Grantor For the remainder limited to the Son is not yet begun in possession And he insisted much in his Argument upon this point That Vses limited upon any Conveyance are governed and directed according to the Rules of the Common Law As if a Feoffment in Fee be made unto the use of another for life the remainder to the use of the Lessee for life and the Heirs of his body c. now the party hath an estate tail executed in possession and that is according to the Rule of the Common Law. And he cited the Case of 40 E. 3. 20. Where Land was given by Fine to A.B. and C. and to the Heirs of the body of C. and for default of such Issue the remainder to the right Heirs of A. C. died without Issue B. dyed and afterwards A. died his Heir brought a Scire facias out of the said Fine And by Iudgment of the Court the Scire facias did not lie for the Fee was vested in the Father of the Demandant although that ex vi verbi the remainder was limited not to the Father but to his Heirs But where Vses are limited in other manner than according to the Rules of the Common Law there they shall not be ruled and governed by the Rules of the Common Law As if Lands be given to the use of one for life and to the use of such Lessees to whom the Tenant for life shall demise the same for years or life rendring Rent the remainder over to a stranger in tail and afterwards the Tenant for life makes a Lease for years or life and dieth such a Lease shall bind him in the remainder although that the Lessor had not but for life and be now dead for the Vse limited here to the Lessees which would be was limited contrary to the Rules of the Common Law. For by the Common Law such Leases made by Tenant for life are determined by his death And in this Case This Lease for 20 years after the death of the Grantor was limited according to the Rules of the Common Law and therefore it shall take effect accordingly as if it had passed in possession and not in use as if the Conveyance had been of the Land it self and that Land had been granted to the Grantor for 20 years after his death that Interest had been vested in him to sell forfeit or otherwise to dispose at his pleasure and shall not accrue to the Executors as a purchase 19 E. 2. Fitz. Covenant 25. Land was Leased to one for life and after his decease to his Executors and Assigns for 10 years the Lessee assigned the Term And by Herle it is a good Assignment For it is in the Election of the Lessee to Devise that Interest or to assign it in his life-time And see 39 E. 3. 25. A Lease was made to one for life and a year over 17 E. 3. 29. Lessee for life so as after his death the Land remain to his Executors for 8 years Lessee for life died He who had the Freehold of the Land was impleaded who rendred the Land and the Executors of the Lessee for life prayed to be received scil where as Executors do hold the Term which proves that they had the Term as Executors to the use of the Testator and so Assets therefore the same was before in the Lessee for life But by Dyer in his Argument That Case doth not prove it and certainâ—y it is not Assets For although the Executor have the same Term by purchase yet they have it as Executors for that is a good name of purchase which Harper concessit And Manwood argued further and he Cited 19 E. 3. Fitz. Covenant 24. Land was let for life and if the Lessee died within 12 years that his Executors should hold the same until the end of the 12 years The Lessee for life died and the Executors entred and the Executors of the Lessee for life brought Actions of Covenant which proved that the Executors had the Term as a Chatel vested in the Testator and not in their own Rights as Purchasors by the name of Executors See 22 Ass 37. Land demised to A. ad totam vitam suam
See the Case 14 Eliz. in Dyer L. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Tottenham and Bedingfields Case Owen Rep. 35 83. IN an Accompt by Tottenham against Bedingfield who pleaded That he never was his Bailiff to render accompt the Case was That the Plaintiff was possessed of a Parsonage for Term of years and the Defendant not having any Interest nor claiming any Title in them took the Tythes being set forth and severed from the 9 parts and carried them away and sold them Vpon which the Plaintiff brought an Action of Accompt And by Manwood Iustice the Action doth not lie for here is not any privity for wrongs are always done without privity And yet I do agree That if one doth receive my Rents I may implead him in a Writ of Accompt and then by the bringing of my Action there is privity and although he hath received my Rent yet he hath not done any wrong to me for that it is not my Mony until it be paid unto me or unto another for my use and by my Commandment and therefore notwithstanding such his Receipt I may resort to the Tenant of the Land who ought to pay unto me the said Rent and compel him to pay it to me again and so in such case where no wrong is done unto me Hob. 32â— I may make a privity by my consent to have a Writ of Accompt But if one disseiseth me of my Land and taketh the profits thereof upon that no Action of Accompt lieth for it is meerly a wrong And in the principal case so soon as the Tythes were severed by the Parishioners there they were presently in the Plaintiff and therefore the Defendant by the taking of them was a wrong doer and no Action of Accompt for the same lieth against him And upon the like reason was the Case of Monox of London lately adjudged which was That one devised Land to another 1 Len. 266. and died and the Devisee entred and held the Land devised for the space of 20 years and afterwards for a certain cause the Devise was adjudged void and for that he to whom the Land descended brought an Action of Accompt against the Devisee And it was adjudged That the Action did not lie Harper contrary For here the Plaintiff may charge the Defendant as his Proctor and it shall be no Plea for the Defendant to say That he was not his Proctor no more than in an Accompt against one who holdeth as Gardian in Socage it is no plea for him to say that he is not Prochein Amy to the Plaintiff Dyer The Action doth not lie If an Accompt be brought against one as Receiver he ought to be charged with the Receipt of the Mony and an Accompt doth not lie where the party pretends to be Owner as against an Abater or Disseisor but if one claimeth as Bailiff he shall be charged and so it is of Gardian in Socage Latch 8. And it was agreed That if a Disseisor assign another to receive the Rents that the Disseisee cannot have an Accompt against such a Receivor LI. 15 Eliz. In the Court of Wards NOte That this Case was ruled in the Court of Wards That where Tenant of the King of Lands holden by Knights Service in chief made a Feoffment in Fee of the same Lands to the use of himself for life and afterwards to the use of his younger Son in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor and died his eldest Son within age That the Queen should have the Wardship of his body and of the third part of the Land and when the eldest Son comes of full age that the younger Son should sue Livery and pay Primer Seisin according to the rate and value of the whole Land viz. of the third part as in possession and of the two parts as a Reversioner For the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffee is in truth a Reversion for the Fee simple was never out of him because there is not any consideration as to that nor any Vse expressed And because Livery shall not be sued by parcels the younger Son shall not be suffered to sue Livery of the third part presently and respite the residue as to the two parts in Reversion until the Reversion fall but he shall sue Livery presently as well of the two parts in reversion as of the third part in possession and if the eldest Son had been of full age at the time of the death of his Father the younger Son should pay Primer Seisin as to the third part the whole value of it for one year as in possession and as to the two parts the moiety of the value of a year as of a Reversion LII Oliver Breers Case 15 Eliz. In the Court of Wards OLiver Breer who was Tenant in Chief by Knights Service made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life and afterwards to the use of A. his eldest Son and Heir for life and after to the use of the first begotten Son of the said A. in tail and afterwards to the use of the second Son of the said A. c. and for default of such issue to the use of the right Heirs of the Feoffor Oliver died the said A. his Son being of full age It was holden by the Council of the Court of Wards That he should pay for his first Primer Seisin a third part as in possession and two parts as a reversion See the Case before LIII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. NOte 1 Roll. 626 This Case was moved to the Iustices in the Court of the Kings Bench A Man had Issue two Daughters by divers Women and being seised of Lands in Fee he made his Will and by the same Devised That his Wife should have the moyety of his Lands for years and that his eldest Daughter at the day of her Marriage should enter into the other moyety his eldest Daughter married and died without Issue And the Question was Whether her Vncle should have that moyety or the fourth part of the whole Land. Catline conceived and said That when the Devise which was made to the eldest Daughter that she might enter after certain years is not the Inheritance in her presently and the other words void So he said here That it is not a purchase in the eldest Daughter but both the Daughters should enter in Common as one Heir to their Father until the Marriage and then the Inheritance which was once settled in them should not be removed Southcote Iustice said There are no words of Limitation of any Estate that the Daughter should have after the Marriage and therefore the Devise was void and if he had limited that the Daughter after Marriage should have it for life the Fee-simple is vested in her before and then she cannot have it for life And he said That if a Lease be made to the eldest Daughter for years by the Father and afterwards
Wife the Executrix should be charged for the not Reparations as well in the time of her Husband as in her own time And if she do make the Reparation depending the Suit yet thereby the Suit shall not abate but it shall be a good cause to qualifie the damages according to that which may be supposed that the party is damnified for the not repairing from the time of the purchase of the Reversion unto the time of the bringing of the Action And it was said by Manwood That by the Recovery of the damages that the Lessee should be excused for ever after for making of Reparations so as if he suffer the Houses for want of Reparations to decay that no Action shall thereupon after be brought for the same but that the Covenant is extinct LXXIII Easter Term. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. LOvelace moved the Court that in the Kings Bench this case was argued upon a Demurrer there A Feoffment was made by one Coxley who took back an Estate for life the remainder to him who should be his Heir at the time of his death and to the Heirs males of his body begotten And afterwards the Tenant for life after the Statute of 32 H. 8. suffered a Recovery to be had against him that that Recovery was good as it was at the Common Law Because the Statute doth not speak but that it shall not be a bar to him who hath the Reversion at the time of the Recovery but this remainder was in Abeyance until the death of the Tenant for life and that in the same Court it was adjudged accordingly in an Ejectione firmae and because the same was a discontinuance the Plaintiff had here brought his Formedon in the Remainder and therefore Lovelace prayed That they might proceed without delays because the Plaintiffs Title appeareth without Essoigns and feigned delays Which Dyer Iustice conceived to be a reasonable request and that it should be well so to do because as he said This Court is debased and lessened and the Kings Bench doth encrease with such Actions which should be sued here for the speed which is there And he said That the delays here were a discredit to the Court so as all Actions almost which do concern the Realty are determined in the Kings Bench in Writs of Ejectione firmae where the Iudgment is Quod recuperet terminum and by that they are put into possession and by such means no Action is in effect brought here but such Actions as cannot be brought there as Formedons Writs of Dower c. to the Slander of the Court and to the Detriment and Loss of the Serjeants at the Bar. And Lovelace shewed That divers mean Feoffments were made c. LXXIV Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte This Case was in Court An Heir Female was in Ward of a common person who tendred to her a marriage viz. his younger Son and she agreed to the Tender and the Guardian died The Heir married the younger Son according to the Tender The Executors of the Guardian brought a Writ de Valore Maritagii supposing the Tender by the Lord to be void by his death But the Court was of a contrary Opinion because the Tender of their Testator was executed LXXV Riches Case Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. ELizabeth Rich brought a Writ of Dower against J.S. who pleaded and Iudgment given for the Defendant and afterwards the Iudgment was reversed And she brought a new Writ of Dower and the Tenant pleaded That he always was ready and yet is c. Against which the Demandant pleaded the first Record to estop the Tenant To which the Tenant pleaded Nul tiel Record It was the Opinion of the Court That here the Demandant cannot conclude the Tenant by that Replication to plead Nul tiel Record For the Iudgment is reversed and so no Record and it cannot be certified a Record But if the Tenant had taken Issue upon the plea of the Tenant absque hoc that he was ready the same might well have been given in Evidence against the Tenant Note That the Case was That the Demandant after the death of her Husband entred into the Land in Demand and continued the possession of it 5 years and afterwards the Heir entred upon which she brought Dower It was agreed in that Case That the Tenant needed not to plead Tout temps prist after his re-entry for the time the Demandant had occupied the same is a sufficient recompence for the Damages LXXVI Vavasors Case Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NIcholas Ellis seised in Fee of the Mannor of Woodhall Leased the same to William Vavasor and E. his Wife for the life of the Wife the remainder to the right Heirs of the Husband The Husband made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself and his Wife for their lives the remainder to his right Heirs The Husband died the Wife held the Land and did Waste in a Park parcel of the Mannor It was moved to the Court If the Writ of Waste should suppose that the Wife held ex dimissione Nicholai Ellis or ex dimissione of her Husband It was the Opinion of the Court That upon this matter the Writ should be general viz. that she held de haereditate J.S. haeredis c. without saying any more either ex dimissione hujus vel illius For she is not in by the Lessor nor by the Feoffees but by the Statute of Vses and therefore the Writ shall be ex haereditate It was also the Opinion of the Iustices That the Wife here is not remitted but that she should be in according to the Term of the Feoffment Note in this Case The Waste was assigned in destroying the Deer in the Park And Meade Serjeant conceived That Waste could not be assigned in the Deer unless the Defendant had destroyed all the Deer And of that Opinion also was Dyer Manwood said If the Lessee of a Dove-house destroyed all the old Pigeons but one or two couple the same is Waste And if a Keeper destroy so many of the Deer so as the ground is become not Parkable the same is Waste although he doth not destroy them all See 8 R. 2. Fitz. Waste 97. If there be sufficient left in a Park Pond c. it is enough LXXVII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. AN Action upon the Case was brought against Executors They were at Issue Vpon nothing in their hands It was given in Evidence on the Plaintiffs part That a stranger was bound to the Testator in 100 l. for performance of covenants which were broken For which the Executors brought Debt upon the Obligation depending which Suit both parties submitted themselves to the Arbitrament of A. and B. who awarded That the Obligor should pay to the Executors 70 l. in full satisfaction c. and that the Executors should release c. which was done accordingly And it was agreed by the Court That by the Release it
shall be taken in Iudgment of Law That the Executors have Assets to the value of the whole 100 l. And although the Executors were compelled by the Award to make the release yet it was their own act to submit themselves to the Arbitrament LXXVIII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Court of Wards NOte It was Ruled by Kellaway and Wilbraham in the Court of Wards That where the Kings Tenant of Lands holden by Knight service in Capite made a Feoffment of the same Land to the use of himself for life and after to the use of his younger Son in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor and died the eldest Son within age That the Queen should have the Wardship of his body and of the third part of the Land and when the eldest cometh at full age the younger shall sue Livery and pay Primer Seisin according to the rate of the value of the whole Land viz. of the third part as in possession and of the two parts as a Reversion For the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor is in truth a Reversion For the Feesimple was never out of him because there was not any Consideration as to that nor any use expressed And also because that Livery shall not be by parcels the younger Son shall not be suffered to sue Livery of the third part presently and respite the residue as to the two parts in Reversion until the Reversion fall but shall sue Livery presently as well of the two parts in reversion as of the third part in possession And if the eldest Son had been of full age at the time of the death of his Father the younger Son should pay Primer Seisin as to the third part of the full value of it for one year as in possession and as to the two other parts the moyety of the value of a year as a Reversion And at that time Breers Case was vouched which was Oliver Breers Tenant in Chief by Knights Service made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life and after to the use of A. his Son and Heir for life and after to the use of the first begotten Son of A. in tail and after to the use of the second Son of A. c. and for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the Feoffor Oliver died the said A. his Son being of full age It was ruled by the said Council of the said Court of Wards That he should pay for his Primer Seisin a third part of the Land in possession and two parts as a Reversion LXXIX Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Post 56. THe Case was A Man was seised of a Pasture in which was two great Groves and a Wood known by the name of a Wood And also in the same Pasture were certain Hedge-Rowes and Trees there growing Sparsim Leased the same by Indenture for years And by the same Indenture bargained and sold to the Lessee all Woods and Vnderwoods in and upon the Premisses And further That it should and might be lawful to the Lessee to cut down and carry away the same at all times during the Term. Harper Iustice The Hedge-Rowes did not pass by these words Hedge-Rowes sparsim Dyer The Hedge-Rowes shall pass for the Grant is general All Woods Mounson contrary For the words of the Grant may be supplyed by other words It was moved further If by these words the Lessee may cut them oftner than once And by Harper Manwood and Mounson He can cut them but once Dyer contrary And so it should be if the words had been Growing upon the Premisses And this word Growing although it sounds in the present Tense yet it shall be also taken in the future Tense if the word tunc had not been alledged for it is a word of restraint The Case which was argued in the Chancery 27 H. 8. where I was present was such The Prior of St. John of Jerusalem Leased a Commandry Provided That if the said Prior or any of his Brethren there being Commanders will dwell thereupon then the said Lease to be void It was doubted If that did extend to the Successors for the word Being is in the present Tense And yet it was holden by Fitzherbert That it should be taken in the future Tense and so extend to the Successors Otherwise if the words had been Nunc Being LXXX Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Man seised of Lands in Fee devised 1 Len. 101. That his Wife should take the profits of his Lands until Mary his Daughter and Heir came to the age of 16 years And if the said Mary died That J.S. should be her Heir Manwood The Daughter after she hath attained the age of 16 years shall have the Land in tail For Devises ought to be construed according to the intent of the Devisor so far forth as any certainty with reason may be collected but no intent shall be taken against all reason and certainty It is certain That the Daughter shall not have the Land in Fee for that shall descend to her without any Devise And these words If she dieth cannot be intended a Condition for it is certain she shall die But if the words had been That after the death of Mary J.S. should be his Heir in such case Mary had had but an Estate for life for there it is limited what Estate she should have And when it is said J.S. shall be his Heir it shall be meant his Collateral Heir so as the Estate tail remains in the Daughter Mounson and Harper to the contrary and that she shall have but for life And by Mounson If Mary had been a stranger to the Devise she should take nothing And this Case was put by Barham Serjeant A Man deviseth 100 l. to his youngest Daughter 100 l. to his middle Daughter and another 100 l. to his eldest Daughter and that all these sums shall be levied of the profits of his Lands It was holden by the better Opinion of the Court in this Case That the youngest Daughter should be first paid and then the middle and then the eldest Daughter and that was said to be Coniers Case LXXXI Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was The King granted to the Bishop of Salisbury That he should have Catalla felonum fugitivor ' and Fines and Amercements of all Tenants and Resiants within the Mannor of D. which Mannor the Bishop Leased for years and that the Lessee should have all profits and hereditaments within the same Mannor Manwood Iustice conceived That the Lessee should have the Post Fines For all things have a being somewhere although they be not visible As Rents Fines have their being in the Lands out of which they are issuing and that is in the Son of a Fine levied of the Land within the Mannor which is due by Land of him who ought to pay the Fine And this Fine is due be reason of the
they had not any Lands in the said Town but the said Mannor And the Ejectione firmae was brought of that Mannor in Kent and from thence the Visne came and all the special matter aforesaid was found by Verdict And Exception was taken to the Verdict because they have found generally That the Master and Scholars had not any thing in the said Town of Laberhurst but the said Mannor Whereas they ought to have said That they had not any thing in the said Town in the County of Kent For they could not take notice what Lands the Master and Scholars had in that part of the Town which was in the County of Sussex And of that Opinion the whole Court seemed to be But Quaere of it for it was adjourned XCVI Hinde and Lyons Case Mich. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Post 70. Dyer 124. 2 Len. 11. IN Debt by Hinde against one as Son and Heir of Sir John Lyon who pleaded Nothing by descent but the third part of the Mannor of D. the Plaintiff replyed Assets and shewed for Assets That the Defendant had the whole Mannor of D. by descent Vpon which they were at Issue And it was given in Evidence to the Iury That the said Mannor was holden by Knights-Service And that the said Sir John the Ancestor of c. by his Will in writing Devised the whole Mannor to his Wife until the Defendant his Son and Heir should come to the age of 24 years And that at the age of his Son of 24 years his Wife should have the third part of the said Mannor for her life and his Son should have the residue And if that his said Son do die before he come to his said age of 24 years without Heir of his body that the Land should remain to J.S. the remainder over The Devisor died The Son came to the age of 24 years The Question was If the Son had an Estate in tail for then for two parts he was not in by descent And it seemed to Dyer and Manwood That here was not any Estate in tail for no tail shall rise if not that the Son die before his said age and therefore the tail shall never take effect and the Fee-simple doth descend and remain in the Son unless that he dieth before the age of 24 years and then the Estate vests with the remainder over but now having attained to the said age he hath the Fee and that by descent of the entier Mannor and then his Plea is false That but the third part descended And a general Iudgment shall be given against him as of his own Debt And an Elegit shall issue forth of the moyety of all his Lands as well those which he hath by descent from his Ancestor as his other Lands And a Capias also lieth against him But Manwood Iustice conceived That if a general Iudgment be given against the Heir by default in such cause a Capias doth not lie although it lieth in case of a false Plea. Dyer contrary And the Writ against the Heir is in the debet detinet which proves That in Law it is his own Debt And he said That he could shew a President where such an Action was maintainable against the Executors of the Heir XCVII Mich. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was A. seised of Lands in Fee 2 Len. 154. Hob. 285. Dyer 329. by his Will in writing granted a Rent-Charge of 5 l. per annum out of the same to his younger Son towards his education and bringing up in Learning The Question was If in pleading the Devisee ought to aver That he was brought up in Learning And it was holden by Dyer Manwood and Mounson Iustices That there needs no such Averment for the Devise is not Conditional and therefore although he be not brought up in Learning yet he shall have the Rent And the words of the Devise are Towards his bringing up And the Devisor well knew that 5 l. per annum would not and could not reach to maintain a Scholar in Learning Diet Apparel and Books And this Rent although it be not sufficient to such intent yet the Son shall have it And by Dyer Three years past such Case was in this Court scil Two were bounden to stand to the Award of certain persons Who awarded That the one of them should pay unto the other 20 s. per annum during the Term of 6 years towards the education and bringing up of such an Enfant and within two years of the said Term the Enfant died so as now there needed not any supply towards his Education Yet it was holden That the said yearly sum ought to be paid for the whole Term after For the words Towards his Education are but to shew the intent and consideration of the payment of that sum and are not the words of a Condition XCVIII Mich. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Quare Impedit The Plaintiff declared That the Defendant was seised in Fee of the Mannor of Orchard alias Lydcots-Farm to which the Advowson is appendant and presented such a one c. And afterwards leased to the Plaintiff the said Mannor per nomen of the Mannor of Orchard alias Lydcots-Farm with the appurtenances for 21 years and the Church became void c. And the truth of the Case was That there is the Mannor of Orchard and within the said Mannor the said Farm called Lydcots Farm parcel of the said Mannor and the Lease was of the said Farm and not of the said Mannor and so the Advowson remained to the Lessor as appendant to the Mannor In this Case It was moved What thing the Defendant should traverse Dyer He shall say That the Advowson is appendant to the Mannor of Orchard absque hoc that it is appendant to the Farm of Lydcots But it seemed to Manwood That the Defendant shall say That the Advowson is appendant to the Mannor of Orchard and that the Farm of Lydcots is parcel of the said Mannor and that he Leased to the Plaintiff the said Farm with the appurtenances absque hoc that the Mannor of Orchard and the said Farm are all one For if he traverse the Appendancy to the Farm of Lydcots then he confesseth That the Mannor and Farm are all one c. But Dyer doubted of it XCIX Kirlee and Lees Case Mich. 19 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Action upon the Case upon Assumpsit the Plaintiff declared That the Defendant in Consideration that the Plaintiff would marry the Daughter of the Defendant did promise to find to the Plaintiff and his said Wife convenient apparel meat and drink for themselves and two servants and Pasture also for two Geldings by the space of 3 years when the Plaintiff would require it And further shewed That Licet the Plaintiff had married the Defendants Daughter and that he had required the Defendant to find ut supra c. the Defendant refused c. The Defendant
Plaintiff had acquitted and discharged him of the Reparations Vpon which the Plaintiff demurred in Law. Manwood The same is an Acquittal and Discharge of the Reparations as well for the time past as for the time to come by force of the said Covenant and amounts to as much as if he had Released the Covenant And it was moved If the Covenant being broken for want of Reparations If now that Acquital and Discharge or Release of the Covenant should take away the Action upon the Obligation which was once forfeited before And it was the Opinion of Manwood That it should not For if one be bound in an Obligation for the performance of Covenants and before the breach of any of them the Obligee releaseth the Covenants and afterwards one of the Covenants is broken the Obligation is not forfeited for there is not now any Covenant which may be broken and therefore the Obligation is discharged But if the Release had been after the Covenant broken otherwise all which Dyer and Mounson Concesserunt CVI. Mich. 20. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. HVsband and Wife seised in the right of his Wife of certain Customary Lands in Fee he and his Wife by Licence of the Lord make a Lease for years by Indenture rendring Rent have Issue two Daughters The Husband dieth The Wife takes another Husband and they have issue a Son and a Daughter The Husband and Wife die The Son is admitted to the Reversion and dieth without Issue It was holden by Manwood That this Reversion shall descend to all the Daughters notwithstanding the half-blood For the Estate for years which is made by Indenture by Licence of the Lord is a Demise and Lease according to the Order of the Common Law and according to the nature of the Devise the possession shall be adjudged which possession cannot be said possession of the Copyholder For his possession is Customary and the other is meer contrary therefore the possession of the one shall not be said the possession of the other and therefore there is no possessio fratris in this Case But if he had been Guardian by the Custom or this Lease had been made by surrender There the Sister of the half-blood should not inherit And Meade said That the Case of the Guardian had been so adjudged Mounson to the same intent And if the Copyhold descend to the Son he is not Copyholder before admittance 1 Len. 174 175. but he may take the profits and punish Trepass c. CVII Hinde and Lyons Case Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 11. Dyer 124. Ante 64. DEbt by Hinde against one as Son and Heir of Sir John Lyon who pleaded Nothing by descent but the third part of the Mannor of D. The Plaintiff replyed Assets And shewed for Assets That the Defendant had the entire Mannor of B. by descent Vpon which they were at Issue And it was given in Evidence to the Iury That the Mannor was holden by Knights-Service and that the said Sir John the Ancestor of the Defendant by his Will in writing devised the whole Mannor to his Wife until the Defendant his Son and Heir should come to the age of 24 years And that at the age of the Son of 24 years his Wife should hold the third part of the said Mannor for the Term of her life and his Son should have the residue And if his Son do die before he come to the age of 24 years without Heir of his body that the Land should remain over to J.S. the Remainder over to another The Devisor died the Son came to the age of 24 years Dyer and Mounson Iustices conceived That here was not any Estate tail and then for two parts he is not in by descent For no Estate tail shall rise unless that the Son dieth before his said age and therefore the Tayl never took effect and the Feesimple descends and remains in the Son if not that he dieth before the age of 24 years and then the whole vests with the Remainder over but now having attained the said age he hath a Fee and that by descent of the whole Mannor and then his Plea is false that but the third part descended And a general Iudgment shall be given against him as of his own debt And an Elegit shall issue forth of the moyety of all his Lands as well those which he hath by descent from the same Ancestor as of his other Lands And a Capias lieth also against him But Manwood Iustice conceived That if a general Iudgment be given against the Heir by default in such case a Capias doth not lie although in case of a false Plea it lieth But Dyer held the contrary And the Writ against the Heir is in the debet detinet which proves That in Law it is his own Debt And he said That he could shew a President where such an Action was maintainable against the Executor of the Heir CVIII Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Seised of Lands in Fee Devised them to his Wife for life and after her decease she to give the same to whom she will Latch 9,39 had issue two Daughters and died The Wife granted the Reversion to a stranger and committed Waste And the two Daughters brought an Action of Waste It was holden by the Iustices That by that Devise the Wife had but an Estate for life but she had gained authority to give the reversion by his Will to whom she pleased And such a Grantee should be in by A. and his Will For A. had given expresly to his Wife for life and therefore by Implication she should not have any further Estate But if an express Estate had not been appointed to the Wife by the other words an Estate in Feesimple had passed CIX Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Lessor Covenanted with his Lessee That the Lessee should enjoy the Lands demised without any lawful Eviction And afterwards upon a Suit depending in Chancery by a stranger against the Lessor for the Land demised The Chancellor made a Decree against the Lessor and that the stranger should have the Land. It was moved If that Decree were a lawfull Eviction by which the Covenant was broken It was holden by the Lord Dyer That the same was not any Eviction For although that in Conscience it be aequum that the said stranger have the possession yet the same is not by reason of any right paramount the title of the Lessor which was in the party for whom it was decreed CX The Marquess of Northamptons Case Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. PArre Marquess of Northampton took to Wife the Lady Bouchier the Heir of the Earl of Essex 1 Roll. 430. who levied a Fine of the Land of the said Lady Sur Conusans de droit c. with a Grant and render to them for life the Remainder to the right Heirs of the body of the Lady And afterwards by Act of
Parliament 35 H. 8. it was Enacted That the said Lady should hold part of her Inheritance and dispose of the same as a Feme sole and that the Marquess should have the Residue and that he might Lease the same by himself without his Wife for 21 years or less rendring the ancient Rent being Land which had been usually demised c. The Marquess Leased for 21 years and afterwards durante Termino praedict Leased the same Land to another for 21 years to begin after the determination of the first Lease It was moved in this Case That this last Lease was void and that for 3 Causes 1. Because the Marquess had but an Estate for life and then it could not be intended that the Statute did enable one who had but such an Estate determinable to make such a Lease which peradventure might not commence in his life-time 2. The Letter of the Statute is 21 years or under and the word Under strongly expounded the meaning of the Statute to be not to extend to such an Estate For here upon the matter is a Lease for 40 years 3. Because the Land demised is the Inheritance of the Wife And in this Case it was said That in the Case of one Heydon such a private Act was strictly construed which was That it was Enacted That all Copies for 3 Lives granted by the Lord Admiral of the Lands of his Wife should be good The Admiral granted Leases in Reversion for 3 Lives And it was holden That that Grant was not warranted by the Statute Dyer said The words are general Omnes dimissiones and therefore not to be restrained unto special Leases scil to Leases in possession Manwood said A Feme Covert by duresse joyns in a Lease with her Husband the same shall bind her CXI The Queen and Sir John Constables Case Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 5 Co. Constables Case A Quo Warranto was brought by the Queen against Sir John Constable who claimed certain Wreck in the County of York The Defendant pleaded That Edward Duke of Buck. was seised of such a Mannor to which he had Wreck appendant and that he was de alta proditione debito modo attinctus and that found before the Escheator And shewed further That the said Mannor descended to Queen Mary who granted the same to the Earl of Westmerland who granted the same to the Defendant Vpon which It was demurred And Exception was taken to the Plea because the Attainder is not fully and certainly pleaded It was argued by Plowden That the Attainder was certainly pleaded scil debito modo attinctus And it is shewed That the Wreck is appendant to the Mannor and then if the Defendant hath the Mannor he hath the Wreck also and if he hath the Mannor it is not material as to the Queen how he hath it for the Queen doth not claim the same but impeacheth the Defendant for using there such a Liberty But if the Heir of the said Duke had demanded the Mannor there against him the Attainder ought to have been pleaded certainly And it was said by him That the Interest of the Queen in the Sea extends unto the midst of the Sea betwixt England and Spain But the Queen hath the whole Iurisdiction of the Sea between England and France because she is Queen of England France c. And so it is of Ireland CXII Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant for life made a Feoffment of White-Acre of which he was seised for life and made a Letter of Attorny to deliver Livery and Seisin secundum formam Chartae before Livery the Tenant purchased the Fee and afterwards Livery was made It was resolved by the Court in this Case That all passed But if the Feoffment had been of all his Lands in D. and the Letter of Attorny accordingly and before Livery made the Feoffee had many Lands there If he purchased one Acre after the Livery should not extend to that Acre because the Authority was satisfied by the other Acre CXIII Banks and Thwaits Case Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case the Case was That A. had pawned an Indenture of Lease for years of a Messuage and Lands to Banks Thwaits intending to purchase the same required Banks to deliver him the said Lease and he would give Banks 10 l. whether he bought it or no at what time he would request the 10 l. Post 200. And Banks delivered the same to Thwaits accordingly Post 200. And afterwards brought an Action upon the Case and declared upon the whole matter and concluded Licet saepius requisitus c. without alledging a request express in certain and the day and place of it It was said by Cook That here the monies did not grow due before Request nor is payable before Request and therefore a Request ought to be made in facto And so he said It was ruled in this Court in an Action upon the Case betwixt Palmer and Burroughs and he said that the Mony was not due by the Promise but by the Request And it was the Opinion of the whole Court That although it be a duty Yet it is not a duty payable before Request And the Request makes a Title to the Action But if A. selleth to B. a Horse for 10 l. there is a Contract and a Request in facto need not be layed And the Opinion of the Court was also That upon this matter the Plaintiff could not have an Action of Debt for there is not any Contract for the thing is not sold but it is a Collateral promise grounded upon the delivery And by Clench Here the Request is traversable And afterwards Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff And it was said It was so ruled in Alderman Pullisons Case in the Exchequer Post 201. CXIV Segar and Boyntons Case Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 156. IN Trespass the Case was this King Henry the 8th Anno 27 of his Reign gave the Mannor of D. to Sir Edward Boynton Knight and to the Heirs Males of his body Sir Edward Boynton had Issue Andrew his eldest Son and C. the Defendant his younger Son and died Andrew Boynton Covenanted by Indenture with the Lord Seymore that the said Andrew Boynton would assure the said Mannor to the use of himself for life the Remainder to the said Lord and his Heirs The said Lord Seymore in recompence thereof should assure other Lands to the use of himself for life the remainder to the use of the said Andrew Boynton in tail who 37 H. 8. levyed a Fine of the said Mannor without proclamations to two strangers to the uses according to the said Agreement and before any Assurance made by the said Lord The said Lord was Attainted of Treason and all his Lands were forfeited to the King And afterwards the said Andrew Boynton made a Suggestion to Queen Mary of the whole matter and upon his humble Petition the said
confirms it is a void Confirmation And 7 E. 6. Br. Grants 154. A Man possessed of a Lease for 40 years grants so many of the said years which shall be to come at the time of his death it is a void Grant for the incertainty Afterwards Shuttleworth moved another point viz. The Plaintiff hath declared of a Trespass done 1 Januarii 23 Eliz. The Defendant shews in Evidence a Lease for years to him made 14 Januarii the same year which is 13 days after the Trespass whereof the Plaintiff hath declared and it shall not be intended that the Plaintiff had another Title than that which he hath alledged and forasmuch as he hath not disclosed in himself any Title Tempore transgressionis the Plaintiff should punish him in respect of his first possession without any other Title And although it may be Objected That where the Defendant hath given in Evidence That Williamson leased to the Defendant that is not sufficient and the words subsequent 14 Januarii are void as a nugation and matter of surplusage Truly the Law is contrary for rather those words ante Transgressionem shall be void because too general and shall give way to the subsequent words after the videlicet because they are special and certain As the Case late adjudged The Archbishop of Canterbury leased three parcels of Land rendring Rent of 8 l. per annum viz. for one parcel 5 l. for another 50 s. and for the third 40 which amounts to 9 l. 10 s. It was adjudged That the videlicet and the words subsequent concerning the special reservation of the Rent was utterly void because contrary to the premisses which were certain viz. 8 l. and that the Fermor should pay but 8 l. according to the general reservation but in our case the words precedent are general i. e. ante Transgressionem and therefore the words subsequent which are special and certain shall be taken and the general words rejected As in Trespass the Defendant pleads That A. was seised of the Land where and held it of the Defendant and that the said A. 1 die Maii 6 Eliz. aliened the said Land in Mortmain for which he within a year after viz. 4 Maii Anno 7 Eliz. entred now the same is no bar for upon the evidence it appeareth that the Lord hath surceased his time and the words within the year shall not help him for they are too general and therefore at the subsequent words viz. c. Cook on the Defendants part took Exception For it appeareth here upon the Evidence of the Defendant which is confessed by the Demurrer of the Plaintiff That upon this matter the Plaintiff cannot punish the Defendant for this Trespass for he was not an immediate Trespassor to the Plaintiff for the Plaintiff hath declared upon a Trespass done 1 Januarii 23 Eliz. And it is given in Evidence on the part of the Defendant and confessed by the Plaintiff c. That 22 Eliz. Cordell Savell levied a Fine to Williamson by force of which the said Williamson entred and was seised and so seised 14 Januarii 23 Eliz. leased to the Defendant Now upon this matter the Plaintiff cannot have Trespass but the Defendant for Williamson was the immediate Trespassor to him for he entred 22 Eliz. And at length after deliberation had of the premisses by the Court The Court moved the Plaintiff to discontinue his suit and to bring de novo a new Action in which the matter in Law might come into Iudgment without any other Exception But the Plaintiff would not agree to it Wherefore it was said by Wray Chief Iustice with the consent of his Companions Begin again at your peril for we are all agreed That you cannot have Judgment upon this Action CXXVI Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was A. made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of his younger Son in tail and after to the use of the Heirs of his body in posterum procreand and at the time of the Feoffment he had Issue two Sons and after the Feoffment had Issue a third Son The younger Son died without Issue Vpon a Motion at the Bar it was said by Wray Iustice That after the death without Issue of the second Son the Land should go to the third Son born after the Feoffment for this word in posterum is a forcible word to create a special Inheritance without that it had been a general tail CXXVII Smith and Smith's Case Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. LAmber Smith Executor of Tho. Smith brought an Action upon the Case against John Smith That whereas the Testator having divers Children Enfants and lying sick of a mortal sickness being careful to provide for his said Children Enfants The Defendant in Consideration the Testator would commit the Education of his Children and the disposition of his Goods after his death during the minority of his said Children for the Education of the said Children to him promised to the Testator to procure the assurance of certain Customary Lands to one of the Children of the said Testator And declared further That the Testator thereupon Constituted the Defendant Overseer of his Will and Ordained and appointed by his Will That his Goods should be in the disposition of the Defendant and that the Testator died and that by reason of that Will the Goods of the Testator to such a value came to the Defendants hands to his great profit and advantage And upon Non Assumpsit pleaded It was found for the Plaintiff And upon Exception to the Declaration in Arrest of Iudgment for want of sufficient Consideration It was said dy Wray Chief Iustice That here is not any benefit to the Defendant that should be a Consideration in Law to induce him to make this promise For the Consideration is no other but to have the disposition of the Goods of the Testator pro educatione Liberorum For all the disposition is for the profit of the Children and notwithstanding That such Overseers commonly make gain of such disposition yet the same is against the intendment of the Law which presumes every Man to be true and faithful if the contrary be not shewed and therefore the Law shall intend That the Defendant hath not made any private gain to himself but that he hath disposed of the Goods of the Testator to the use and benefit of his Children according to the Trust reposed in him Which Ayliffe Iustice granted Gawdy Iustice was of the contrary Opinion And afterwards by Award of the Court It was That the Plaintiff Nihil Capiat per Billam CXXVIII Amner and Luddington's Case Mich. 26 Eliz. Rot. 495. In the Kings Bench. A Writ of Error was brought in the Kings Bench by Amner against Luddington Mich. 26 Eliz. Rot. 495. 2 Len. 92. 8 Co. 96. And the Case was That one Weldon was seised and leased to one Peerepoint for 99 years who devised the same by his Will in this manner viz. I Bequeath to my Wife the
that now the time before the forfeiture ought not to be accounted in this Case But the Orginal beginning of the Copyhold shall be holden to be 23 H. 8. when the Grant de Novo by Copy was made between which time and 8 Eliz. is an interval but of 47 years within which time a Customary Interest cannot be attached upon the Land And then before sufficient time encurred c. the Lord may well enter upon such a Tenant at Will For as yet there is not any Custom begotten by sufficient time to bind him It was also agreed by the Iustices That if the Lord of a Mannor is seised of an ancient Copyhold for forfeiture or by reason of Escheat and Lett the same at Will without any Copy for divers years one after the other that that is not any Interruption of the Customary nature of the Land but that the Lord may grant it again by Copy As to other parcel of the Land It was given in Evidence That at a Court lately holden at Northelman It was presented by the Homage there That Taverner the Plaintiff being a Copy-holder of the said Mannor had forged a Customary of the said Mannor containing divers false Customs pretending them to be true Customs of the said Mannor and that he had forged and put a Seal to it about which this word viz. Northelman is engraven And that he had procured divers Copyholders of the said Mannor to set their seals to it and that he said unto them That that Customary should be put into the Church of Northelman amongst the Charters and Evidences of the said Church And that he had now made his Copyhold as good as his Freehold And If the said Offence committed by the Plaintiff ut supra be a forfeiture of his Copyhold was the Question It was argued by Popham who was of Counsel with the Plaintiff That without further matter it was not any forfeiture And yet he confessed It is a forgery against the first branch of that Statute of 5 Eliz. cap. 14. And so he said it was lately adjudged in the Star-Chamber But as to the point of Forfeiture he put this difference If the Lord demand his Services of his Copyholder there If the Copyholder upon debate between the Lord and himself sheweth forth such a forged Customary and Counterpleads the Demand of the Lord with it now it is a forfeiture for that the Inheritance of the Lord is thereby hazarded As if the Copyholder after the forfeiture keep it himself and doth not encounter his Lord in his demand with it in his services the same is not any forfeiture As if the Copyholder before any Rent be due saith That he will not pay any Rent to the Lord hereafter Or when a Court is to be holden That he will not after appear to do any Suit at the Court of his Lord c. But if his Rent being due he denyeth it Or when the Court is holden he saith That he will not do any Suit the same is a foreiture As it was lately adjudged in the Kings Bench in the Case between Sir Christopher Hatton and his Copyholders of his Mannor of Wellingborough So if a Copy-holder being with the other Copyholders charged upon Oath to enquire of the Articles of the Court-Baron and sufficient matter being given to them in Evidence to induce them to find a matter within their Charge and they or any of them obstinately refuse to find the same the same is a forfeiture of his Copyhold As it was adjudged in the Case of Sir Rich. Southwell Knight and Thurston Clench Iustice conceived That in the principal Case the Offence of the Plaintiff is not any forfeiture no more 1 Roll. 508. than if a Copyholder makes a Charter of Feoffment of his Customary Land and delivereth the same as his Deed to the party but doth not execute it by Livery the same is not any forfeiture It was argued by Gawdy Serjeant who was of Counsel with the Defendant to the contrary For he said That if a Copyholder will forge a Deed of Feoffment purporting That the Lord of the Mannor hath enfeoffed him of the said Customary Land notwithstanding that he keepeth such Charter himself without shewing it forth yet it is a Forfeiture At the length The Court wished the Iury to find the special matter and to refer the same to the Court Whether it was a Forfeiture or not In this Case another matter was moved viz. The Auncestor of the Plaintiff had purchased divers several Copyholds from several Copyholders by several Copies whereof he died seised Or committed several Offences by which he forfeited to the Lord all his Copyholds for which the Lord seised and granteth them again to his Auncestor wtih the Ancient Rent and to his Heirs Tenendum per antiqua servitia consueta c. And afterwards the same Copyholder commiteth Waste whether the same shall now trench to forfeit all the Copyhold Lands which were granted ut supra by one entire Copy Or only that which was before the seizure holden by the same Rent Et nihil ultra For these words Tenendum per antiqua servitia do not trench only to the Quantity of the Services but also to the Quality scil severally so as there shall be several Services as before As if A. be seised of Copyhold Land on the part of his Father and of other Copyhold Land on the part of his Mother and thereof dieth seised and his Son and Heir be admitted to it by one Copy and by one Admittance Now if that Son dieth without Issue the Copyholds shall descend severally the one to the Heir on the part of his Father and the other to the Heir on the part of his Mother c. And afterwards the Iury found the Special Verdict and the special matter ut supra c CLIX. Vincent Lee's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Exchequer 1 Inst 138. b. VIncent Lee seised of Lands in Fee had Issue 3 Sons F.G. and J and by his last Will in writing Devised That J. his Son should have the Land for the Term of 31 years without impeachment of Waste to the intent that he pay certain Debts and Legacies set down in his said Will The remainder after the said Term expired to the Heirs Males of the Body of the said J. begotten And further willed That if the said J. die within the Term aforesaid that then G. his Son shall have such Term c. and then also shall be Executor but made the said J. his present Executor and died J. entred by force of the Devise F. died without Issue by which the Feesimple descended upon J. who had Issue P. and died within the Term P. entred G. as Executor entred upon him and he re-entred upon which re-entry G. brought Trespass Pigott said That the Term by the descent of the Fee from F. to J. being the second Son of Vincent and Heir of F. is not extinct but only suspended It hath
created by this Will but the Feesimple setled in them when they came at their lawful age and had Issue so as the residue of the Devise was void and Iudgment was given accordingly CLXVI Griffith and Agard's Case Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Disceit by Griffith against Agard and his Wife 1 Len. 290. For that a Fine was levied of a Messuage being Ancient Demesne by which it became Frank-Fee and the Fine was levied in the life of A. Griffith Grandfather of the Plaintiff Exception was taken to the Writ because it is brought by the Plaintiff as Cosen and Heir of A. G. his Grandfather And in the beginning of the Writ the words are Si Henricus Griffith fecerit te securum without saying Cousen and heir of A. G. fecerit te securum But the Exception was not allowed For afterwards in the Writ these words are Cujus haeres ipse est See the Register 238. that it is sufficient if there be in the body of the Writ these words Cujus haeres ipse est Another Exception was taken to the Declaration in that it is alledged that the Lands were De antiquo Dominico Dominae Reginae Angliae wereas it ought to have been De antiquo Dominico Dominae Coronae suae c. The Opinion of the Court was That it was good both ways See Book Entries 100. antiquo Dominco Coronae 58. de antiquo Dominico Domini Regis CLXVII Bashpool's Case Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 101. Stiles Rep. 148. THe Case was The Father was seised of Lands in Fee and bound himself in an Obligation and devised his Lands unto his Wife until his Son should come to the age of 21 years the Remainder to his Son in Fee and died and no other Land descended or came to the Son from the Father It was moved by Godfrey That the Heir in this case might elect to waive the Devise and to take the Land by Descent See 9 E. 4. 18. by Needham But it was the Opinion of Gawdy and Shute Iustices That the Son should be adjudged in by Descent and so bounden with the Debt CLXVIII Branthwait's Case Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. DEbt brought by J. D. against Branthwait upon an obligation the Condition of which was That whereas J. F. claimed to have a Lease for years of the Mannor of D. made and granted to him by one W. D. If the said Branthwait keep without damage the Plaintiff from all claim and Interest to be challenged by the said J. F. de tempore in tempus during the years c. and also deliver the said Lease to the Plantiff that then c. The Defendant pleaded That the said J. F. had not any such Lease and that after the making of the said Obligation untill the Action brought the Plaintiff was not damnified ratione dimissionis praedictae Exception was taken to the same because where the words of the Condition are Keep without damage the Plaintiff from all Claim and Interest And he hath pleaded That the Plaintiff was not damnified ratione dimissionis c. But the Exception was disallowed by the Court For if he were not damnified ratione dimissionis then he was not damnified by reason of any Claim or Interest Another Exception was taken Because he could not now say there was no such Lease For it is recited in the Obligation That J. F. claimed to have a Lease and therefore by this recital he is estopped c. And see where a Recital is an Estoppel 8 R. 2. Fitz. 2 Len. 11. tit Estoppel 283. 39 E. 3. 3. Fitz. Estoppel 112. 46 E. 3. 12. It was holden by the Court That it was a good Estoppel And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CLXIX Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. DEbt upon an Obligation The words of the Obligation were I am content to give to W. 10 l. at Michaelmas and 10 l. at our Lady day It was holden by the Court That it was a good Obligation And it did amount to as much as I promise to pay c. It was also holden by the Court That an Action of Covenant lay upon it as well as an Action of Debt at the Election of the Plantiff And it was holden That although the Action is for 40 l. and the Declaration is 20 l. and 20 l. at two several days yet it is good enough and the Declaration is well pursuant to it And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CLXX The Queen and Kettell's Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Queen brought a Writ de Valore Maritagii against Kettell and Counted of a Tenure in Chief The Defendant pleaded That pendant the Writ the Queen had granted to one Edmund Kettel Custodiam Maritagium of the said Defendant with whom he had Compounded It was holden by the whole Court to be no Plea for the Letters Patents were void because the Queen was deceived in her Grant for it appeareth by the Count that the Defendant before the Grant of the Queen was of full age And by the Letters Patents the Queen intended that he was within age and by the same granted Custodiam c. CLXXI. Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Seised of Land by his Will Devised 1 Len. 31. That his Executors should sell the Lands and died the Executors levied a Fine thereof to one F. taking Mony for it of F. The Question was If in title made by the Conusee to the said Lands by the Fine It be a good Plea against the same to say Quod partes Finis nihil habuerunt Anderson conceived That it was But by Windham and Periam upon Not guilty the Conusee may help himself by giving in Evidence the special matter in which Case the Conusee shall be adjudged in not by the Fine but by the Devise And Windham said That if A. Devise That his Executors shall sell a Reversion of certain Lands of â—hich he dieth seised and they sell the same without Deed the same is well enough for the Vendee is in by the Devise 1 Iust 113. a. and not by the Conveyance of the Executors Quod vide 17 H. 6. 23. And by Periam The Conusee may help himself in pleading As he who is in by the Feoffment or Grant of Cestuy que use by the Statute of 1 R. 3. CLXXII Lee and Loveday's Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant in tail leased for 60 years and afterwards levied a Fine to Lee and Loveday sur Conusans de Droit come ceo c. and their Heirs in Fee And afterwards the Lord of the Mannor of whom the Land was holden brought a Writ of Disceit and upon that a Scire facias against the Conusees supposing the Land to be Ancient Demesne The Defendants made default by which the Fine was annulled and now the Issue in tail entred upon the Lessee for years and he brought an Ejectione firme
now the Grant to Fortescue be good or not Vide inde Dyer 2 Eliz. 17. Vpon a Writ of Mandamus The Escheator charged the Enquest who were agreed of their Verdict and delivered the same in Paper to the Escheator And before the engrossing sealing and delivery of it came a Supersedeas And it was Resolved by all the Iustices That before the engrossing indenting and sealing it was no Verdict See this Case Reported in Cook 5. Part 54. CLXXIX Nelson's Case Pasch 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Trespass brought by Nelson chief Preignothory of the Court of Common Pleas the Case was That the Abbot of D. was seised of a Common out of the Lands of the Abby of S. as appendant unto certain Lands of the said Abby of D. And afterwards the said Houses were dissolved and the possessions of them given to the King by Act of Parliament to have and hold in as large and ample manner and form as the late Abbots c. After which the King so being seised granted the said possessions of the said Abby of D. to A. and the possessions of the said Abby of S. to B. It was argued That the Common notwithstanding the unity of possession did continue For unity of possession is so qualified and restrained by the Statute by the words aforesaid and also by the words in the state and condition as they now be And the Abbot of D. was seised in the right of his House of the said Common Therefore so also shall be the King and his Patentees and so a special seisin is given to the King. Rhodes Windham and Anderson Iustices to the contrary And the said words in the said Statute are to be construed according to the Law and no further And by the Law the said Common cannot stand against the Vnity of possession CLXXX Leonard's Case Trin. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 192. 2 Roll. 787. LEonard Custos Brevium brought an Action of Trespass for breaking of his Close The Defendant pleaded That William Heydon was seised and enfeoffed him And upon Ne enfeffa pas they were at Issue And it was found by Special Verdict That the said William Heydon was seised and leased to the Defendant for years and afterwards made a Charter of Feoffment to him by these words Dedi Concessi with a Warrant of Attorny in it and delivered the same to the said Lessee who delivered the same to him who was made Attorny in the said Deed who made Livery accordingly It was moved by the Plaintiff's Counsel That here is not any Feoffment found but only a Confirmation For as soon as the Charter was delivered to the Lessee for years the Law gave it its operation to that effect to vest the Fee in the Lessee by way of Confirmation See Litt. 532. But the Opinion of the whole Court was clear to the contrary for here the Lessee hath liberty how and by what Conveyance he shall be adjudged seised of the Land either by Feoffment or by Confirmation And it appeareth here That when the Lessee delivered the Charter to the Attorny And also when the Lessee accepted Livery from the Attorny he declared his meaning to be That he would take by the Livery And the Lord Anderson said That if Tenant in tail be disseised and makes a Charter-Feoffment with a Warranty of Attorny and delivers the same to the Disseisor who delivers the same to the Attorny who makes Livery accordingly the same is a good Feoffment and so a Discontinuance And after many Motions the Court awarded That the Plaintiff should be barred CLXXXI Palmer and Waddington's Case Trin. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. RIchard Palmer brought an Action upon the Case against Anthony Waddington And Declared That Henry Waddington Brother of the Defendant was endebted to the said Plaintiff in 20 l. Et jacens in extremis mortem indies expectans vocavit ad se dict Anthonium quem executorem Testamenti ultimae voluntatis Constituisset eum rogans ut dictas 20 Libras praefato Richardo infra spacium duorum Mensium mortem suam proxime sequend numeraret solveret Et dictus Anthonius in Consideratione inde super se assumpsit c. And all the matter aforesaid was found by Verdict upon Non Assumpsit pleaded And it was the Opinion of the whole Court That the Declaration was insufficient because there is not any good Consideration set forth in it for it is not said That in Consideration that the said Henry made the Defendant his Executor c. CLXXXII Stransham and Collington's Case Trin. 28 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Plaintiff sued in the Spiritual Court for Tythes against the Defendant within the Parish of C. The Defendant said 1 Cro. 128. That the Tythes are within the Parish of A. and the Parson of A. came in pro interesse suo and thereupon they proceeded to sentence and that was given against Stransham who now sued a Prohibition And the Question was If within such a Parish or such a Parish be tryable by the Law of the Land or by the Law of the Church Wray Chief Iustice said It hath been taken That it is tryable by our Law. Fenner The Pope hath not distinguished Parishes but hath Ordained That Tythes shall be paid within the Parish CLXXXIII Higham's Case Mich. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 226. More Rep. 221. 1 Cro. 15. IT was found by Special Verdict That Thomas Higham was seised of 100 Acres of Lands called Jacks usually occupied with a House And that he Leased the said House and 40 Acres of the said 100 Acres to J.S. for life and made his Will by which he devised the said House and all his Lands called Jacks then in the Occupation of J.S. to his Wife for life and that after the decease of his Wife the Remainder thereof and of all his other Lands appertaining to Jacks to Richard his second Son c. It was said by Meade That the Wife should not have by Implication the Residue of Jacks for that she hath an express estate in the House and 40 Acres of the Land and her Husband having expressed his Will as to that his Will shall not be construed by Implication to pass other Lands to the Wife And it was said by him That it had been adjudged in the Case between Tracy and Glover That if Lands be devised to one and to his Heirs and if he dieth without Heir of his body 1 Roll. 839. that then the Land shall remain over that in such case the Donee hath but an Estate in tail to him and the Heirs males of his body And it was then also said by Anderson Chief Iustice That in the time of Sir Anthony Brown it was holden That if a Man be seised of two Acres of Land and devised one of them to his Wife for life and that J.S. shall have the other Acre after the death of his Wife that the Wife
returned the Court cannot mitigate the damages p. 150 A second Writ of enquiry of damages where not grantable p. 177 The Plaintiff in Replevin is Non-suit the Court may assess damages without a Writ of Enquiry p. 213 Debt Lachess in pleading it where turn to his prejudice p. 63 Against the Heir a general judgment shall be given in it against him by reason of his false Plea p. 70 Lyeth not by an Inn-keeper for Dyet and Lodging in the Inn where there is not a price agreed for it certain p. 161 Where must be in the Debet where in the Detinet and of what p. 206 260 Declaration In Trespass against the Defendant Simul cum J.S. Out-lawed ad Sectam Querentis not good p. 202 Where void for the incertainty of the thing demanded by it p. 228 Deeds Of Assignment made to the King out of Term upon a day in Term which is not dies juridicus if good p. 146 Demurrer Difference between drawing up of a Demurrer upon a Plea and upon a Challenge p. 222 Deprivation Where pleadable specially where generally p. 199 Devastavit Executor of an Enfant not charged with a Devastavit made by the Executor of the first Testator p. 241 Devises Construction of them p. 25 181 Words equally divided in it amount to a Tenancy in Common p. 19 Of Rent of Lands towards education of the Son how to be expounded p. 65 Made good by Averment p. 79 Where void by the Statute of 32 H. 8. p. 105 That his Sons in Law shall sell his Lands how to be construed p. 106 Of a possibility where not good nor shall go to Executors p. 195 Of a Messuage cum pertinentiis the Curtilage and Garden passeth p. 214 Distress Upon the Glebe-Lands for Tenths and First-Fruits and where the Lessee of the Cattel shall be distrained for the same p. 259 E. EJectione Firmae De uno Cubiculo good p. 210 Election Where not transferrable over p. 211 Where the Party hath election to take by Grant or Confirmation p. 127 Entry Of a Stranger upon the Farmer of the Kings Lessee for years he hath gained the Term p. 206 Error Matter not within the Record not to be assigned for Error p. 96 If it lieth to reverse a Judgment given for the King without a Petition first sued p. 155 Lieth to reverse a Judgmene in Covenant because all the Covenanters joyned not in the Action though the Covenant was in quolibet qualibet p. 161 Where lieth not in C. B. upon a recovery had before Justices of Assise p. 159 Eviction Where a Decree in Chancery shall not be said a lawful Eviction by which a Condition shall be broken p. 71 Evidence In a Writ of Right the Tenant shall begin to give Evidence because he is in the affirmative p. 162 Evidence given where shall conclude the Party but not the Jurors ad dicendam veritatem p. 209 Executors Where their Distress for the Arrearages of a Rent Charge is good by the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Rents p. 263 Where they might satisfie Debts due upon Judgments before Debts due upon Statutes or otherwise p. 271 Executions Sued forth upon a Statute to A. shall be served before a private Statute to B. though the Statute to B. be assigned to the King p. 239 240 By Capias ad Satisfaciendum sued out within the year though not prosecuted for two or three years after together yet the Party may proceed upon it without a Scire Facias p. 259 Debt is recovered by an Administrator durante minore aetate and Execution had and when the Executor comes of age how the Party shall be discharged p. 278 F. FEoffments Livery and Seisin made by Attorny where good to pass the Lands where not p. 37 Of a Mannor An Advowson Appendant shall pass but not the Services if there be no Attornment p. 193 To divers Persons to the use of his Will and afterwards wills the Feoffees shall stand seised till they have levied 100 l. good although in Feoffees at the time of the Devise p. 262 Fines levied Upon a Release not enure to an use p. 36 Where shall make a discontinuance where not p. 74 Where a Bar where not p. 74 Remainder is limited in tail to J. S. and the Heirs of his Body to begin after the death of the Tenant for life If a Fine be levied by him with Proclamation in the life of the Tenant for life shall bar the Issue p. 211 Where a Bar to a Woman in Dower because she pursued not her Claim within five years p. 221 Forfeiture What shall be a forfeiture within the Statute of 11 H. 7. Lessee for years in debt for rent claimed fee by bargain and sale of his Lessor which was traversed by the Lessor yet a forfeiture p. 169 Forprise Where needful to be mentioned where not p. 93 G. GRants of the King p. 10 Void because the King is deceived in them p. 5 119 Not to enure to a double intent p. 75 By the King of Bona Catalla felonum utlagatorum yet the King shall have the Goods of Felo de se p. 113 Where the Church is void by the grant of the King of the Mannor with the Advowson appendant the Advowson shall not pass p. 196 Of Fines pro licentia concordandi doth not extend to Post-Fines p. 234 How to be construed p. 242 to 253 Grants of common persons Where shall enure by way of confirmation Of all Goods and Chattels passeth a Lease for years Restrained and not to extend to things in future p. 29 Of the Office of Register by a Bishop where good where not p. 30 Of a Rent-charge out of his Lands after J. S. dies without issue of his body J.S. dies having issue which issue dies without issue if a good Grant p. 103 Where the mistaking and misrecital in them shall not make void their Grants p. 136 H. HAbeas Corpus Where granted for one committed to the Marshalsey by the Chamberlain of the Houshold one of the Privy Council p. 194 Heir Where he shall be adjudged in by descent notwithstanding a Devise to him p. 118 Of a Copyholder within age not bound to come to any Court during his Non-age to pray admittance or render a Fine p. 221 I. INdictments Upon the Statute of 8 H. 6. Quare Intravit in unum Tenementum not good for the incertainty but if a Tenementum with divers Acres good for the Acres p. 102 Certified and found to be taken before Justices of Assise and Goal-delivery where not good p. 216 Upon the Statute of 5 El. of Perjury question'd because it wanted the word voluntary p. 230 Against three persons for extortion that they colore officiorum suorum had malitiously extorted excessive Fees good though their offences were several p. 268 Informations Upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. cap. for cutting down of Trees being a penal Law how to be expounded p. 104 Of intrusion upon the Possession of the King
Executor shall sell who dies his Executor cannot sell B. 69. To the Heirs of the Body of his Eldest Son is void B. 70. I give my Lease to my Wife for life and then to my Children unpreferred B. 90. To the Heir in see is void and he is in by descent B. 101. C. 18. That his Executor shall pay a Debt this is no Legacy B. 119 120. Devise shall be taken according to the Common not Legal construction B. 120. C. 18 19. Devise of three Closes to three and if any die that the other shall have all his part to be divided between them B. 129. That A. shall pay yearly 10 l. out of a Mannor is a good Devise of the Mannor to A. B. 165. They shall be construed favourably but not against Law B. 165. If the Devisor be distrained and dies before re-entry nothing passeth B. 165. All his Lands called Jacks in the occupation of J S. what passes if not in the occupation of J.S. B. 226. Like Case C. 18 19 132. Of a Mannor to B. and of a third part thereof to C. they are joynt Tenants C. 11. Words in a Devise shall never be judged repugnant if by any rational Construction they may consist C. 11 28 29 Devise of Lands to his Wife for life and after that she may give them to whom she will C. 71. Lands called H. in two Vills A. and B. Devise of H. in A. for life remainder of Hayes Land to L. No Land passes in remainder but Lands in A. C. 77. To J. for thirty one years to pay Debts remainder after the Term expired to his Heirs Males and if he die within the Term that G. shall have it and be Executor J. dies his Issue enters G. evicts him C. 110. Devise that the eldest Son shall take the profits until the younger be of Age and the remainder to the younger Son the elder hath see conditional C. 216. Devise that his Feoffees to Uses shall be seised to other Uses who are accounted Feoffees C. 262. Diminution The manner of alledging it A. 22. With what time it must be alledged B. 3. Disceit Fine reversed by such a Writ because the Land is Ancient Demesne A. 290. C. 3 12 117 120. Not abated by death of one Defendant C. 3. Upon a Recovery in a Quare Impedit A. 293. The manner of proceeding therein A. 294. For an Infant against his Guardian who lost the Land by default in Dower B. 59. Where Estate of the Conusee remains after the Fine reversed C. 12 120. Whom it shall bind without summons C. 120. Discent Takes not away the entry of him who claims by Devise condition broken c. A. 210. B. 192. cont B. 147. Disclaimer He who hath disclaimed shall not have a Writ of Error C. 176. Discontinuance de Process c. Vide Continuance Discontinuance de Terre Remainder in fee after a Lease for life where not discontinued by Fine by the Tenant for life A. 40. B. 18 19. None of Copyholds A. 95. Nor upon a Covenant to stand seised made by Tenant in tail A. 110 111. By Feoffment of Tenant in tail A. 127. B. 18 19. Quid operatur if the Feoffees joyn in the Discontinuance B. 18 19. Lease for years by Cestuy que use pur vy is no Discontinuance but warranted by the Stat. of 32 H. 8. B. 46. None if the Reversion be in the King B. 157. C. 57. Nor by Bargain and Sale by Deed enrolled without Livery C. 16. Disseisin and Disseisor Where a Man shall be a Disseisor at the election of another A. 121. B. 9. If Tenant per auter vy hold over after the death of Custuy que vie if he be a Disseisor B. 45 46. The like if Tenant for years holds over B. 45 46. If the younger Brother enter if he be a Disseisor or Tenant at sufferance B. 48. If Disseisee may give licence to put in Cattle before Entry C. 144. He who Disseiseth a Copyholder gains no Estate C. 221. Disseisin to the use of Baron and Feme he only agrees the Estate vests in both but the Feme is no Disseisor C. 272. Distress Cannot distrain upon the Kings Lands A. 191. Where and who may distrein the Cattle of a Stranger though not Levant and Couchant where and who not B. 7. If one as Bailiff may say he takes a Distress for one cause and carry it away for another B. 196. Dower The Wife not Dowable if the Husband be attaint of Treason although pardoned A. 3. Of what age the Feme must be A. 53. Inquiry of Damages where the Baron died seised A. 56 92. In such an Inquiry the Jury may find above the value of the Dower A. 56. By Custom of Gavel-kind whether demandable as by Common Law A. 62 133. How a Grand-Cape in D. must be executed A. 92. Wife Dowable of a Seisin in Fee defeasible by a Condition A. 168. The Wife shall be endowed at Common Law where the King is to have Primer Seisin A. 285. If a conditional Estate be a good Joynture to bar Dower A. 311. Bar that the Heir granted to the Wife a Rent in satisfaction c. he ought to shew what Estate he had in the Land B. 10. An Infant cannot lose by default in Dower unless per Gardian B. 59 189. Notwithstanding what divorces the Wife shall be endowed B. 169 170. If the Wife shall be endowed where the Husband takes a Fine and renders back presently C 11. If she be barred by Fine and Non-claim if she brings her Writ within five years and desists prosecution six years after C. 50. Touts temps prist a render Dower where necessary to plead it or to give Judgment by default C. 50 52. If the Wise of the Lord shall be endowed of Demeine Lands grantable and granted by Copy by the Lord B. 153. C. 59. Of a Presentation to a Church C. 155. It is a good Bar in Dower that the Feme accepted Homage from the Tenant C. 272. Pleading of agreement to a Joynture made during Coverture C. 272. Divorce If it be causa frigiditatis in the Man who hath Issue by another if the first Marriage be good or the Divorce good until avoided by Sentence B. 169 170 171 172. The several kinds of Divorce B. 169. In pleading of Divorce the Judges name Coram quo must be precisely pleaded B. 170 171. Droit The form of a Writ of Right and what is demandable therein A. 169. B. 36. Whether it lies of an Office Stat. W. 2 cap. 25. A. 169. B. 36. The manner of arrayment of the twelve Recognitors by four Knights A. 303. Droit of an Advowson where it lies A. 316. No challenge to the Polls after the Array made A. 303. Where a Man hath no remedy but by this Writ B. 62 63 65. A Writ of Droit Close directed to the Bailiff and procceeded coram Sectatoribus good C. 63 64. In such Writ twelve Recognitors retorned suffice in an Inferior Court
such Grants B. 136 to 140. Void if the King be deceived by false suggestions B. 137. C. 5 6 119 242 to 251. Of Durchy Lands Tenend in feoda firma nobis hered nostr if the Tenure is as of the Dutchy B. 150 151 162 163 164. The force of general words therein B. 157 158 162 163 164. C 243 244 250. By the words ex gratia speciali certa scientia what is supplied C. 48 49 249. Of an Advowson of a Church where the King was seised of the Rectory C. 101. Where the King may claim against his own Grant C. 113. Patents must be pleaded sub magno sigillo C. 193. If a Grant of Goods and Forfeitures of one utlawed will transfer an Action of Account C. 197. Shall be taken strongly against the King if the sense be dubious C. 243. What things in the Kings Grants shall be said to deceive the King and so avoid the Grant B. 137. C. 5 6 119 242 to 250. Where the Kings Grant shall or shall not work several effects C. 243. If the Consideration be false the Grant is void C. 247 248. The Stat. 18 H. 6. cap. 1. appoints That Patents must bear the same date as the Warrant for them yet good though of a date after C. 274. H. Habeas Corpus Corpus cum Causa WHat shall be a good retorn of a Commitment by the Kings Councel A. 70. The like upon the Defendant his disobeying the Kings Protection A. 70. The like by a Secretary of State B. 175. The party discharged being detained by Process out of contempt out of the Court of Requests where it appeared to be no cause of equity the like in Chancery C. 18. Party discharged being detained by a Lords Warrant to answer before the Kings Council but says not for what C. 194. By priviledge for one who came to attend Law-Suits at Westm C. 194. Heir Of Lands held by Knights-Service may make a Lease or sell by Bargain and Sale enrolled during the possession of the King and it shall bind the Heir A. 157. What other act such an Heir may do before he have an Ouster le main A 157 158. In Debt pleads riens per descent praeter the third part of a Mannor B. 11. C. 70. What Judgment or false Plea makes him chargeable of his own Goods and Land B. 11. C. 70. To what intents Heirs are said to be several or but one Heir A. 292. Nemo est haeres viventis Ergo a Devise to the Heirs of the Body of J.S. who is then living is void B 70. Devise to the Heir is void and he is in by descent B. 101. C. 118. It is said he cannot charge himself by his promise unless he have Assets C. 67 68. Hue-and-Cry Where notice ought to be given upon a Robbery and within what time a Man may Travel A. 57. Who must be examined where Goods are robbed from a Carrier A. 323. If an Action lies against a Justice of Peace who refuseth to examine the party A. 323 324. It ought to appear that six Moneths are past since the Robbery B. 12. Bar therein by a prescription to Rob at Glads-Hill in Kent quod est mirum B. 12. Three who were robbed joyn in one Action quod est mirum B. 82. If the parties robbed be sufficient evidence at the Trial B. 82. The party robbed his duty B. 82 174 175. No Action lies against an Hundred for a Robbery in an House C. 262. J. Ieofails See the Statutes SEe Statute 32 H. 8. cap. 3. and 18 Eliz. cap. 14. For want of the Christian Name of the Attorny in the Roll if aided A. 175 176. Mis-joyning of Issues is aided But if Issue be joyned but as to part and nothing said of the rest that is not B. 195. C. 67. Ignorance What Ignorance shall excuse the Defendant of a Tort B. 94 95. Incidents A Court is incident to a Mannor and cannot be severed A. 119. A Steward is incident to a Court A. 218. And amercâ—ament to a Court-Leet A. 217. What things are incident to a Hundred Court B. 74. Indictment For publishing false News Indorsed Billa vera And after Sed utrum verba fuer locuta seditiose is not good A. 287. Upon the Stat. of 1 Eliz. for administring the Sacrament in a wrong form A. 295. Where a greater punishment is added for a second offence the first Conviction must be recited in the second Indictment A. 295. Lies not for enclosing part of a Common B. 117. De morte cujusdam hom ignoti is good Con. of a Coroners Inquest B. 121. Against one Man for not repairing a Bridge in a Road B. 183 184. Of Trespass may be taken before two Justices though neither be of the Quorum B. 184. Of Forcible Entry good in part and void in part B. 186. C. 102. Upon a Statute cannot stand good as to the same offence at Common Law B. 188. For Perjury upon the Statute 5 Eliz. must say voluntarie deposuit B. 211. Against a Juror for disclosing that a party was indicted C. 207. Lies not for inclosing a Common in the parties own Land C. 216. For suing one in Debt in the Court of Request C. 229. Inducement What matter of Inducement is laid in Assumpsit and is the Consideration it must be certainly alledged B. 203 204. Infant May have an Action in nature of a Dum fuit infra aetatem upon a surrender of Copyhold Lands A. 95. Count against him for necessaries ought to be special 114. Suffers a common Recovery by Guardian A. 211. Cannot lose by default in Dower unless by Guardian B. 59. Declaration of the Uses of a Fine binds him B. 159. Lease by him without a valuable Rent is void B. 217 218 219. Cannot enter into a Recognizance for to discharge himself of an Execution C. 113. Infant Executor may sell Goods and it shall bind him C. 143. Not prejudiced by his Laches of not tendring his Fine to the Lord C. 221. Information In the Exchequer for Usury many diversities argued but not adjudged A. 96. For the King against the Master of his Ordinance for not rendring an account of Bullets c. but converting them c. what is a good plea to it B. 34. Inquiry of Damages Judgment upon Demurrer pro quer for part and an Issue depending for other part A Writ of Inquiry shall issue A. 141. Though too small Damages be found no new Writ shall issue B. 214. Inquest A Juror Alien need not be worth 4 l. per annum A. 35. Ought not to meddle with matter not in issue A. 67. Fined for eating before they were agreed A. 132 133. A Juror sworn who shewed his Charter in exemption A. 207. The Christian Name of a Juror mistaken is Error A. 276. Inquest fined and imprisoned for not finding an Office for the King B. 132. The first Inquest which tries the first issue may assess Damages for the whole Trespass C. 122. If an Inquest of
In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 27. THe Case was That the Bishop of Exeter leased certain Lands in the County of Devon for years rendring Rent payable in Exeter aforesaid with Clause of Re-entry and the Bishop of Exeter had a Palace in Exeter aforesaid It was the Opinion of the Iustices in this Case That the Rent ought to be demanded at the said Palace and not elsewhere And if that the Lessee come to the Common Gate of the said Palace and there tender the Rent it is a good tender without more be the Gate shut or open notwithstanding that the Bishop be within the Palace and that neither he nor any of his Servants be at the Gate for to receive it for the Lessee is not tyed to open the Gate of the Palace if it be shut nor to enter into the Palace if it be open X. Mich. 4 and 5 Phil. and Mary In the Common Pleas. COpyhold Land was surrendred to the use of the Wife for life the remainder to the use of the right Heirs of the Husband and Wife The Husband entred in the right of his Wife It was the Opinion of the Iustices in this Case That the remainder was executed for a Moyety presently in the Wife and the Husband of that was seised in the right his Wife and the Wife dying first that her Heir should have it 1 Roll. Lane and Pannel's Case But if the Husband had died first his Heir should have had one Moyety XI Joscelin and Sheltons Case Mich. 4 and 5 Phil. and Mary In the Common Pleas. More Rep. 13. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared That the Defendant in Consideration that the Son of the Plaintiff would marry the Daughter of the Defendant assumed and promised to pay to him 400 Marks in 7 years next ensuing by such portions And upon Non Assumpsit pleaded It was found for the Plaintiff It was Obiected in Arrest of Iudgment That one of the said 7 years was not incurred at the time of the Action brought c. and that appeared upon the Declaration so as the Plaintiff had not cause of Action for the whole Mony promised And for that cause the Writ was abated by the Court by award although it was after Verdict See Br. Title Action upon the Case 108. XII 2 and 3 Phil. and Mary In the Common Pleas. IN an Assise against 4. they were at Issue upon Nul Tenant del Franktenement nosme en le brief And it was found by the Assise That two of them were Disseisors and two Tenants And after Verdict and before Iudgment one of those who were found Tenants died And that was moved in Arrest of Iudgment But it was not allowed of by the Court Because the parties had not day in Court to plead it But it was said That after Iudgment given a Writ of Error lieth In the Time of Queen Elizabeth XIII Canons Case 1 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. UPon an Evidence to a Iury in the Common-Pleas 1 Roll. 839. Vpon an Issue there this Deed was given in Evidence viz. Sciant praesentes futuri Quod Ego Richardus Canon filius haeres Richandi Canon Dedi Concessi hac praesenti carta mea Confirmavi Willielmo Compton Militi Omnia Terr Tenementa c. ad usum mei praed Richardi Joannae uxoris meae pro termino vitae absque impetitione Vasti ac etiam rectorum haered mei praefat Richardi assignatorum meorum post decessum mei praefat Richardi Joannae uxoris meae Et si contingat me praefat Richardum obire sine exitu de Corpore meo procreato Tunc Volo quod omnia dict Terr Tenementa remaneant Tho. fratri meo rectis haeredibus de Corpore suo procreatis haeredib assignat eorum And it was the Opinion of the Iustices That a good Estate tail was by that Deed limited to the said Richard in use after the death of his Wife XIV Holt and Ropers Case 2 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin by Holt against Roper the Case was J. Abbot of W. Leased to T.M. Knight a Close of Land in B. for 44 years Post 242. 243. who thereof possessed was attainted of misprision of Treason and so forfeited to the King who seised the same The Abbot and his Covent surrendred 31 H. 8. the King Leased the same to Roper for 21 years and died King Ed. 6th in the fourth year of his Reign Leased the same to one Philips To have and to hold after the Term to T.M. ended for 21 years Roper surrendred to Queen Mary who Leased the same again to Roper for 30 years In this Case It was adjudged That the Lease made to Phillips was utterly void for that the King was deceived in his Grant For the Lease made to F.M. was long time before determined by extinguishment in the Person of the King who had it by forfeiture upon the Attainder of T.M. and the Statute of 1 E. 6. Cap. 8. shall not help that Lease notwithstanding the Non-recital or Mis-recital of Leases made before For here is not matter of recital but matter of Estate and Interest which is not well limited for the Commencement of it i. the Lease to Phillips For there is not any certainty of the Commencement of it For that Lease cannot begin after the Surrender of Roper for the words of the Limitation of the beginning of it cannot serve to such Construction XV. 2 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Term for years is devised to A. The Executors of the Devisor entred into the Land devised to the use of the Devisee It was the Opinion of the Court That the same was a sufficient possession to the Devisee XVI 3 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TWo Coparceners were of a Reversion the one of them granted his Interest in it by Fine to another It was holden in that Case That the Conusee should have a Quid juris clamat for a Moyety of the said Reversion XVII Mich. 4 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Lessor mortgaged his Reversion in Fee to the Lessee for years and at the day of Mortgage for payment of the Mony he paid the Mony It was holden in this Case That the Lease for years was not revived but utterly extinct XVIII Mich. 4 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. J.N. Cestuy que use in tail 14 H. 8. by Indenture between him on the one part and J.S. of the other part In Consideration of a Marriage between his Son and Heir apparent and Joan Daughter of the said J.S. to be had Covenanted with the said J.S. That neither he nor any of the Feoffees seised to his use have made or hereafter shall make any Estate Release Grant of Rent levy any Fine or do any other Incumbrance whatsoever of any of his Mannors Lands c. But that all the said Mannors c. shall immediately descend or remain to his said Son and the Heirs
of his Body after the decease of the said J.N. It was the clear Opinion of all the Iustices in this Case That by the said Indenture No use is changed in J N. nor any use raised to the said Son and Heir but that it is only a bare Covenant XIX Andrews and Glovers Case Trin. 4 Eliz. Rott 1622. IN Trespass by Andrews against Glover The Lady Mary Dacres being seised of the Mannor of Cowdam by her Indenture bargained and sold to the said Andrews all those her Woods More Rep. 15. Post 29. Winch. Rep. 5. Vnderwoods and Hedge-Rowes as have been accustomably used to be felled and sold standing growing being in upon and within the Mannor of Cowdam c. To have and to hold c. from the Feast of S. Michael last past during the natural life of the said Lady Mary And the said Andrews for himself his Heirs and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lady her Executors c. to content and pay or cause to be contented and paid to the said Lady her Executors c. yearly during the said Term 10 l. By force of which Grant he cuts down all and singular the Trees Woods and Vnderwoods in the aforesaid Mannor growing at the time of the making of the Indenture aforesaid And afterwards the said Lady by her servants felled all the other Woods and Vnderwoods growing in the same Mannor after the said felling made by the said Andrews Whereupon Andrews bringeth Trespass And the Opinion of the Court was clear That after the Bargainee had once felled that he should never after fell in the same place where the first felling was made by force of the said Grant notwithstanding the Rent yearly reserved and notwithstanding the words of the Grant viz. To have and to hold during the life of the said Dame Mary Wherefore the said Andrews durst not Demur c. XX. 6 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was A. is bounden to B. in an Obligation to pay to B. 20 l. at the Feast of our Lady without limiting in Certain what Lady-Day viz. the Conception Nativity or Annunciation And the Opinion of the whole Court was That the Deed should be construed to intend such Lady-Day which should next happen and follow the date of the said Obligation XXI Scarning and Cryers Case Mich. 7 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Rott 1851. IN a Second Deliverance by Scarning against Cryer the Defendant makes Conusans as Bailiff to J.S. and sheweth More Rep. 75 That the said J.S. and at the time of the taking c. was Lord of the Mannor of A. Within which Mannor there was this Custom time out of mind c. That the Tenants of that Mannor and other Resiants and Inhabitants within the said Mannor or the greater part of them at the Court-Baron of the said Mannor at the Mannor aforesaid holden were used and accustomed to make Laws and impose Pains as well upon the Resiants and Inhabitants within that Mannor and the Tenants of the said Mannor there being as upon every Occupier of any Tenements within the said Mannor for good government there to be had and kept and for the preservation of the Corn and Grass there growing And that the said J.S. and all those whose Estate c. distringere consueverunt pro omnibus poenis sic forisfact per Juratores Curiae praed ex assensu dictor Tenent Inhabitant residentium ibid. in forma praedict assessis impositis tam super quibuscunque tenent Maner praedict aut inhabitantibus aut residentibus infra Maner illud quam super occupatoribus aliquor Tenementor infra idem Maner ' And further said That at a Court-Baron there holden That Coram Sectatoribus ejusdem Curiae by the Homage of the said Court then charged to present with the assent of other Tenants and Inhabitants of the said Mannor it was Ordained and Established That no Tenant of the Mannor aforesaid nor any of the Resiants or Inhabitants within the said Mannor nor any Occupier of any Tenements within the said Mannor from thenceforth should keep his Cattel within the several Fields of that Mannor by By-herds nor should put any of their Oxen called Draught-Oxen there before the Feast of St. Peter upon pain Quod quilibet tenens residens c. should forfeit 20 s. And further said That the Plaintiff at the time c. Occupied and had such a Tenement within the said Mannor And that at such a Court afterwards holden viz. such a day It was presented that the Plaintiff Custodivit boves suos called Draught-Oxen within the several Fields by By-herds contrary to the Order aforesaid by which the penalty of 20 s. aforesaid was forfeited Notwithstanding the said pain de gratia Curiae illius per quosd A. E. afferratores Curiae illius ad hoc jurat assess afferrat fuit ad 6 s. 8 d. And further he said That the place in which the taking c. is within the Mannor aforesaid And that A. B. Steward of the said Mannor extraxit in scriptis extra Rotulis Curiae praed the said pain of 6 s. 8 d. and delivered the same to the Defendant Bailiff of the said Mannor to Collect and Receive by force of which he required the said 6 s. 8 d. of the Plaintiff and he refused to pay it and so avoweth the taking c. And upon this Conusans of the Defendant the Plaintiff did Demur in Law And Iudgment was given against the Conusans 1. Because he pleaded That it was presented Coram Sectatoribus and doth not shew their Names 2. The penalty appointed by the By-Law was 20 s. and he sheweth it was abridged to 6 s. 8 d. and so the penalty demanded and for which the Distress was taken is not maintained by the By-Law and a pain certain ought not to be altered 3. He sheweth that it was presented that the Plaintiff had kept his Draught-Oxen and he ought to have alledged the same in matter in fact that he did keep c. XXII Dedicots Case 7 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. DEdicot seised of certain Customary Lands Dyer 210 251. Hob. 285. surrendred the same into the hands of the Lord to the intent that the Lord should grant the same de Novo to the same Dedicot for life and afterwards to Jane his Wife during the Nonage of the Son and Heir of Dedicot and afterwards to the said Son and Heir in tail c. Dedicot died before any new Grant Afterwards the Lord granted the said Land to the Wife during the Nonage of the said Heir the remainder to the Heir in tail the Heir at that time being but of the age of 5 years so as the said Wife by force of the said Surrender and Admittance was to have the said Lands for 16 years The Wife took another Husband and died And it was the Opinion of Brown and Dyer Iustices That the Husband should have the Lands during the Nonage of