under the Common Seal authorized one A. to enter in the said Waste and in the behalf of the said Mayor and Burgesses to make election of the said moyety Election c. who did so accordingly And upon this matter gives in evidence the parties did demur in Law and the Iury were discharged 12 Co. 86. 87. Dy. 372. b. 281. Noy 29. And it was holden and resolved by the whole Court that the grant to the Mayor c. was utterly void for the incertainty of the thing granted And if a common person do make such a grant it is good enough and there the Grantee may make his choice where c. and by such choice executed the thing shall be reduced into certainty which choice the Grantee cannot have against the Queen which difference was agreed by the whole Court And it was further holden that this grant was not only void against the Queen her self but also against Sir Walter Hungerford her Patentee It was further holden by the Court that if a common person had made such a grant which ought to be reduced to certainty by Election and the Corporation to whom the grant was made ut supra should not make their election by Attorney but after that they were resolved upon the Land they should make a special warrant of Attorney reciting the grant to them in whih part of the said Waste their grant should take effect East West c. or by buttals c. according to which direction the Attorney is to enter c. XXXVII Watts and Jordens Case Trin. 27. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Debt by Watts against Jorden process continued until the Defendant was Out-lawed and upon the Capias utlagatum he appeared and pleaded to issue which was found for the Plaintiff and Iudgment given accordingly And now came Jourden and cast in a Writ of Error Error and assigned for Error that he appeared upon the Capias utlagatum and pleaded to issue the Original being determined and not revived by Scire facias upon his Charter of pardon Anderson Iustice was of opinion that it was not Error for the Statute of 18 Eliz. had dispensed with it being after verdict for the words of the Statute are For want of any Writ Original or Iudicial Windham Iustice contrary for the Statute doth not extend but where the Original is imbeselled but in this Case it is not imbeselled but in Law determined and at last the Writ of Error was allowed XXXVIII Trin. 23 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was A. seised of Lands by his Will devised 3 Len 119. that his Excutors should sell his Lands and died the Executors levy a Fine thereof to one F. taking mony for the same of F. If in title made by the Conusee to the Land by the Fine It be a good plea against the Fine to say Quod partes ad finem nihil habuerunt was the question Fines levyed Anderson conceived that it was But by Windham and Periam upon Not-guilty The Conusee might help himself by giving the special matter in evidence in which Case the Conusee shall be adjudged in not by the Fine but by the Devise As by Windham A. deviseth Devise Co. 1 Inst 113. a. that his Executors shall sell a Reversion of certain Lands of which he dieth seised they sell the same without deed and good for the Vendee is in by the Devise and not by the conveyance of the Executors See 19 H. 6. 23. And by Periam the Conusee may help himself by pleading as he who is in by the Feoffment or grant of Cestuy que use by the Statute of 1 R. 3. XXXIX Albany and the Bishop of St. Asaphs Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. ALbany brought a Quare impedit against the Bishop of St. Asaph 1 Cro. 119. who justified for Lapse The Plaintiff by Replication said that before the six months expired he presented to the said Bishop one Bagshaw Quare impedit a Master of Arts and Preacher allowed c. The Defendant by way of Rejoynder said that the Church upon the presentment to which the Action is brought is a Church with Cure of Souls and that the Parishioners there are homines Wallici Wallicam loquentes linguam non aliam And that the said Bagshaw could not speak or understand the Welch Language for which cause he refused him and gave notice to the Plaintiff of such refusal and of the cause of it c. upon which the Plaintiff did demur in Law. And first it was agreed and resolved by the whole Court that in the computation of the six months in such Cases the Reckoning ought not to be according to the Kalender January February c. but Secundum numerum singulorum dierum Co. 2 Inst 361. Co. 6. 61. b. Yel 100. 2 Cro. 141. Departure allowing eight and twenty days to every month Walmesley Serjeant argued for the Plaintiff and he took exception to the Rejoynder for in that the Defendant had departed from his Bar for in the Bar the Defendant intitles himself to the presentment by reason of Lapse and in the Rejoynder he confesseth the presentment of the Plaintff and pleads his refusal of his Clark and shewes the cause of it sc the want of the Welsh Language which is a Departure And he cited divers Cases to the same purpose 27 H 8. 3. In forfeiture of Marriage the Defendant pleaded the Feoffment of the Ancestor of the Heir to divers persons absque hoc that he died in the homage of the Plaintiff the Plaintiff by Replication said that the said Feoffment was made to the use of the said Ancestor and his Heirs The Defendant by Rejoynder saith that the said Ancestor did declare his Will of the said Lands the same was holden a Departure for he might have pleaded the same in Bar and 21 H. 7. 17 18. 37 H 6. 5. in Trespass the Defendant pleaded that I. S. was seised of the Land where c. being Land devisable and devised the same to him and his Heirs the Plaintiff by Replication said that I. S. at the time of the devise was within age c. The Defendant by Rejoynder said that the custom there is that every one of the age of fifteen years might devise his Lands c. the same was holden a departure But to this Exception the Court took not much regard But as to the matter in Law it was argued by Walmesley that the defect of the Welsh Language assigned by the Defendant in the presence of the Plaintiff is not a sufficient Cause of refusal for notwithstanding that it be convenient that such a Presentee have the knowledge of such Language yet by the Law of the Land ignorance of such Language where the party hath more excellent Languages is not any disability and therefore we see that many Bishops in Wales who have the principal Cure of Souls are English-men and the Welsh
And at another day Wray said Dy. 179. that partition by Tenants in common without deed wheresoever it is made is good but in this case it appears that the parties who made the partition were in the house for they were Tenants in common of the Messuage and a close adjoyning to it and made partition that one should have the house 6 Co. 12. and the other the close so as they were not upon the close when they made the partition and then it was void for the close and if for the close then also for the house And Iudgment was given accordingly CXXXVII Cook and Songats Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the case by Cook against Songat the Plaintiff declared Quod cum quaedam Lis and controversie had been moved betwixt the Plaintiff Lord of the Manor c. and the Defendant claiming certain Lands parcel of the said Manor to hold it by copy and whereas both parties submitted themselves to the Iudgment and Arbitrament of I. S. Counsellor at Law concerning the said Land and the title of the Defendant to it The Defendant in consideration that the Plaintiff promised to the Defendant that if the said I. S. should adjudge the said Copy to be good and sufficient for the title of the Defendant that then he would suffer the Defendant to enjoy the said Land accordingly without molestation The Defendant reciprocally promised the Plaintiff that if the said I. S. should adjuge the said Copy not sufficient to maintain the title of the Defendant that then he would deliver and surrender the possession of the said Land to the Plaintiff without any sute And shewed further that I. S. had awarded the said Copy utterly insufficient c. yet the Defendant did continue the possession of the Land c. And by Godfrey here is not any consideration But by Gawdy the same is a good and sufficient consideration because it is to avoid variances and sutes And Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CXXXVIII Pawlet and Lawrences Case Pasc 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. GEorge Pawlet brought an Action of Trespass against one Lawrence Parson of the Church of D. for the taking of certain Carts loaded with Corn which he claimed as a portion of Tythes in the Right of his Wife and supposed the Trespass to be done the seven and twentieth of August 29 Eliz. upon Not guilty it was given in evidence on the Defendants part that the Plaintiff delivered to him a Licence to be married bearing date the eight and twentieth of August 29 Eliz. and that he married the Plaintiff and his said Wife the same day so as the Trespass was before his title to the Tythes And it was holden by the whole Court that that matter did abate his Bill But it was holden that if the Trespass had been assigned to be committed one day after that it had been good but now it is apparent to the Court that at the time of the Trespass assigned by himself the Plaintiff had not Title and therefore the Action cannot be maintained upon that evidence for which cause the Plaintiff was Non-suit CXXXIX Sir John Braunches Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Forfeiture IN the Case of Sir John Braunch it was said by Cook that if a Copy-holder be dwelling in a Town long distant from the Manor a general warning within the Manor is not sufficient but there ought to be to the person notice of the day when the Court shall be holden c. For his not coming in such case cannot be called a wilful refusal Copy-holder So if a man be so weak and feeble that he cannot travel without danger so if he hath a great Office c. these are good causes of excuse It was also holden that if a Copy-holder makes default at the Court and be there amerced although that the amercement be not estreated or levyed yet it is a dispensation of the forfeiture Gawdy Iustice If the Copy-holder be impotent the Lord may set a Fine upon him and if he will not pay the Fine then it is reason that he shall forfeit his Land. Egerton Sollicitor Warning to the person of the Copy-holder is not necessary for then if the Lord of a Manor hath one Copy-holder of it dwelling in Cornwal and another in York c. the Lord ought to send his Bayliff to give notice of the Court to them which should be very inconvenient and by him continual default at the Court doth amount to a wilful refusal And by the whole Court general warning within the Parish is sufficient 1 Cro. 353. 505. 506. for if the Tenant himself be not Resient upon his Copy-hold but elsewhere his Farmer may send to him notice of the Court And it was further given in evidence that Sir John Braunch had by his Letter of Attorney appointed the Son of his Farmer his Attorney to do the services for him due for his said Copy-hold And it was holden that such a person so appointed might essoin Sir John but not do the services for him for none can do the same but the Tenant himself CXL Wilkes and Persons Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. JOhn Wilkes and Margery his Wife and Thomas Persons brought Trespass Quare clausum fregit herbam suam messuit foenum suum asportavit Trespass ad damnum ipsius Johannis Margeriae Thomae And exception was taken that it was not the Hay of the Wife nor she was not damnified by it but her Husband Wray Iustice the Declaration is good enough 1 Cro. 96. Record for although it be not good for the Hay yet clausum fregit herbam messuit makes it good And Iudgment was given for the Plaintiffs CXLI Atkinson and Rolses Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action upon the case by Atkinson against Rolfe the Plaintiff declared that the Defendant in consideration of the love which he â—ore unto A. his Father did promise that if the Plaintiff would procure a discharge of a Debt of I. S. which his said Father owed to the said I. S. that he would save the Plaintiff harmless against the said I. S. And declared further that he had discharged the Father of the Defendant from the said Debt and is become bounden to the said I. S. in an Obligation for the payment of the said Debt upon which Obligation the said I. S. hath sued the Plaintiff and hath recovered and had execution accordingly and so hath not been saved harmless c. It was objected that the Declaration was not good because the Plaintiff hath not shewed in his Declaration that he had given notice to the Defendant of the said Obligation or of the suit brought against him but that was not allowed but the Declaration was holden to be good notwithstanding the exception Shuttleworth if I be bound to make to you such an assurance as I. S. shall devise I am bound
five pounds and that the Obligation was sealed before the day of the Assumpsit supposed and added that the same is the same debt and that the Obligation was made for the same debt And by the opinion of the whole Court the same cannot be a good plea for an Obligation cannot deraign a Contract or an Assumpsit afterwards made And the truth of the matter was that the Obligation was made after the Assumpsit although that the Plaintiff declared of an Assumpsit made after And in that case it was holden that the Defendant might plead the special matter that the Obligation was made after the said Assumpsit absque hoc that he Assumpsit c. CCXV Hawkins and Lawse Case Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Debt HAwkins brought an Action of Debt against Lawse Executor of one A. for Rent reserved upon a Lease for years made to the Testator 3 Cro. 62 63. The Defendant pleaded fully administred and upon the Evidence it appeared that the said A. made the Defendant his Executor and that he did meddle with the possession of divers goods of the Testaor and so administred and afterwards â—â—â—used in Court and that the Administration was afterwards committed to one B. and that the Inventory of the goods of the Testator came to one thousand pounds And it was given in Evidence for the Defendant that he himself had paid certain debts and that divers persons have recovered against the Administrator divers sums of money amounting to one thousand pounds ultra And it was moved if that evidence did maintain the Issue for the Defendant because that the Defendant had pleaded plene adminstravit which implies an Administration by himself And now upon the Evidence it appeareth that the greatest part of the goods of the Testator were administred by the Administrator Periam If that Administrator who in truth is but a stranger pay any debts with the goods of the Testator without commandment of the Executor the same is not an Administration Administration and the Executor cannot give such matter in Evidence to prove his plea of fully administred Drew Serjeant If an Executor of his own wrong 3 Cro. 62 63. meddle with the goods of the Testator and afterwards the Administrator meddle with the residue and administer them In Debt against the Executor who pleads fully administred if he can prove that he himself hath administred part and the Administrator the Residue the same is good Evidence to maintain his Issue Periam It may be so there but here in our case the Defendant is the very Executor and he hath administred in which case afterwards he cannot refuse and so the Administration is not well committed and is granted without cause and he to whom the Administration is committed is a meer stranger and what he did was without warrant and therefore it is no Administration to prove the Issue And then the whole matter by direction of the Court was found by special verdict And by Periam in this case an Action may be brought either against the Executor of his own wrong or the Administrator but not against both of them joyntly See 21 H. 6. 8. by Yelverton and Portington Periam If the Testator mortgages a Lease for years and dyes and the Executors redeem it with their own monyes the said Lease shall be Assets in their hands for so much as the same is worth above the sum which they have paid for the redemption of it CCXVI Ivory and Fryes Case Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IT was ruled by the whole Court in this case That if A. make B. his Executor and B. makes C. his Executor and dieth and a Debt is due to A. the first Testator If C. bring an Action of Debt for the said Debt as Executor to B. the Writ shall abate It was moved if an Infant within the age of one and twenty years be made Executor and administration is committed durante minore aetate in whose name the Action shall be brought in the name of the Infant or the Administrator Periam If the Will be proved before the Administration be committed the Action shall be brought in the name of the Infant Executor CCXVII Read and Johnsons Case Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action upon the Case betwixt Read and Johnson Assumpsit the Plaintiff declared that where the Defendant was endebted to him 1 Cro. 242. he assumed to pay it And upon Non Assumpsit pleaded this special matter was found that the Plaintiff â—ased unto the Defendant certain Lands for years rendring rent eight pounds per annum and that the said Rent was behind for three years and that the Defendant was not otherwise endebted to the Plaintiff nor made any other promise but the contract upon the Reservation of the Rent And by the clear opinion of the whole Court the Action doth not lye because he hath a proper Action scil an Action of Debt in which no wager of Law lyeth CCXVIII Wright and the Bishop of Norwiches Case Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas Quare Impedit Dy. 348. 360. IN a Quare Impedit betwixt Wright and the Bishop of Norwich it was moved if the King hath title to present for Lapse and presents and his Clerk is admitted and instituted but not inducted and dyeth before Induction If now the King shall present for the said Lapse because the Church was not full against the King. And the Iustices were all clear of opinion that the King might repeal such presentment before induction And as to the principal matter the Court seemed to incline that the King might present again CCXIX. Whiskon and Cleytons Case Mich. 30 31 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Intrat Trin. 30 Eliz. Rot. 1160. Devises IN an Ejectione firmae upon a special verdict found the case was this That C. was seised in Fee and devised the same to Solomon Whiskon his God-son after the death of his Wife and if he fail then he willed all his part to the discretion of his Father and died Solomon survived Post 283. the Father being dead before without any disposition of the Land. Gawdy was of opinion that upon those words that the Father had a Fee-simple as I will that my Lands shall be at the disposition of I. S. by these words I. S. hath a Fee-simple quod Periam concessit and they amount to as much as I will my Land to I. S. to give and sell at his pleasure And by Windham and Periam there is no difference where the Devise is that I. S. shall do with the Land at his discretion and the devise thereof to I. S. to do with it at his discretion CCXX Mich. 31 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A leased to B. for years and before the expiration of the said Term leased the same by Indenture to a stranger to begin presently and the first Lessee committed Wast A. brought an Action of Wast against the
of the Contract and being made at the time of the Communication and contract should charge the Defendant but if the promise were at another time it should be otherwise There was a Case lately betwixt Smith and Edmunds Two Merchants being reciprocally endebted the one to the other agreed betwixt themselves to deliver all their Bills and Bonds into the hands of one Smith who promised that he would not deliver them to the parties until all accounts were ended betwixt them and yet he did deliver them and for that an Action brought against him was adjudged maintainable yet there was not any consideration nor was it material for the action is grounded upon the Deceit and so is it here upon the Warranty And of that opinion were Clench and Wray Iustices but Gawdy was of a contrary opinion CCLXII Woodshaw and Fulmerstones Case Hill. 30. Eliz. Rot. 699 In the Kings Bench. WOodshaw Executor of Heywood brought Debt upon a Bond against Richard Fulmerstone and the Writ was dated October Mich. 29 30 Eliz. and the Condition of the Bond was That if Fulmerstone died before his Age of one and twenty years and before that he had made a Ioynture to A. his Wife Daughter of the Testator Heywood Then if the said Defendant caused one hundred pounds to be payed to the said Heywood within three months after the death of the said William that then the Bond should be void and the said William Fulmerstone died 30 September 30 Eliz. which matter he is ready c. The Plaintiff doth traverse absque hoc that the said Heywood died intestate Tanfield It appeareth of Record that the Plaintiff hath not cause of action for this one hundred pounds was to be paid within three Months after the death of William Fulmerstone 1 Cro. 271 325 565. as the Defendant hath alledged which is also confessed by the Plaintiff and this Action is entred Mich. October 30 Eliz. scil within a month after the death of William Fulmerstone and so before the Plaintiff hath cause of action and therefore he shall be barred Gawdy Where it appeareth to the Court that the Plaintiff hath not cause of Action he shall never have Iudgment as in the Case betwixt Tilly and Wordy 7 E. 4. But here it doth appear that the Plaintiff hath cause of Action for where a man is bound in an obligation the same is a duty presently Obligation and the condition is but in defeazance of it which the Defendant may plead in his discharge CCLXIII Windham and Sir Edward Cleers Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. ROger Windham brought an Action upon the Case against Sir Ed. C. declared that the said Ed. being a Iustice of Peace in the County of N. and where the Plaintiff was a loyal subject Action upon the Case of sclander 1 Cro. 130. and of good fame all his life time nor ever touched or reproched with any offence of Roâ—ery c. the Defendant malitiose invide machinams ipsum Rogerum de bonis nomine fama et vita deprivare directed his warrant to divers Baylifs and Constables of the said County to arrest the said Plaintiff And it was alledged in the said Warrant That the Plaintiff was accused before him of the stealing of the horse of A. B. by reason of which the Plaintiff was arrested and so detained until he had entred into a Bond for his appearance c. whereas in truth he was never accused thereof nor ever stole such horse and whereas the Defendant himself knew that the Plaintiff was guiltless by reason of which he was greatly discredited c. And it was found for the Plaintiff And it was moved that upon this matter an Action doth not lye for a Iustice of Peace if he suspect any person of Felony or other such Offence may direct his Warrant to arrest him 14. H. 8. 16 Gaudy and Clench If a man be accused to a Iustice of Peace for Felony for which he directs his Warrant to arrest him although the accusation be false the Iustice of Peace is excused but if the party in truth was not accused before the Iustice it is otherwise It was a Case lately betwixt the Lord Lumley and Foord where Foord in a letter written by him had written It is reported That my Lord Lumley seeketh my life If it was not Reported an Action upon the Case lieth but if reported no Action lieth So here if he was accused no Action lieth but if not an Action lieth And afterwards in the principal Case Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCLXIV Isleys Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. ISley and others were Plaintiffs in an Ejectione firmae and upon the general Issue it was found for the Plaintiffs and 4 days after the verdict given was moved in stay of judgment a special maâ—ter in Law whereof the Iustices were not resolved for the law but took advisement and gave day over and in the mean time one of the Plaintiffs died which matter the Defendant shewed to the Court in further stay of the Iudgment But by Coke the same is not any cause for the Postea came in Quindena Pasch which was 16 Aprilis at which day the Court ought to have given Iudgment presently but took time to be advised and the 19 of April one of the Plaintiffs died And the favour of the Court ought not to prejudice us for the Iudgment here shall have Relation to the 16 of April at which time he was alive and it was so of late adjudged in the Case of Derick James who died the day after the verdict and yet Iudgment was not stayed for the Court after verdict cannot examine surmises and they have not a day in Court to plead and in our case It was but a day of Grace and no entry is made of it Although no plea can be now pleaded after verdict yet as amicus curiae one may inform us of such matter And sometimes in such case Iudgment hath been stayed as 9 Eliz. and sometimes notwithstanding such Exception as 2 Eliz. So as I conceive the matter is much in the discretion of the Iustices And because the same was a hard verdict and much against the Evidence It is good discretion upon this matter to stay Iudgment and such was the opinion of the Court. CCLXV. Steed and Courtneys Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Error 1 Cro. 116. Owen 93. More 691. Prescription to levy a fine not good ERror was brought upon a Fine levied upon a Plaint in a writ of Covenant in the City of Exceter And two Errors were assigned First The Plaint was quod teneat convent de duobus tenementis Whereas in truth the word Tenement doth not comprehend any certainty for in the Word Tenement is understood Messuage Land Meadow Pasture c. and whatsoever syeth in tenure And 11 H. 6. 18. by grant of Lands and Tenements Rent or Common shall pass And an Ejectione firmae
both not lye of a Tenement nor a forcible entry supposed in a Tenement 11 H. 7. 25. 38 H. 6. 1. Another error was because the Fine was levyed in the Court of the City of Exceter Which see 44 E. 3. 37 38. Those of Exceter can prescribe to have the Conusans but the same ought to be by special Charter of the King by express words Egerton the Queens Solicitor who sate under the Iustices and was not of Counsel in the case said 2 Inst 515. 1 Roll. 489. That he was of Counsel in a case betwixt Bunbery and Bird where such a Fine levyed in Chester by prescription was in question was by a Writ of Error reversed And afterwards in the principal case the Fine was reversed for the first Error CCLXVI. Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Cro. 96. 97. THe Case was this Grandfather Father and Son The Grandfather seised of a house called the Swan in Ipswich devised the same to his eldest Son for life the Remainder to A. Son of his eldest Son and the heirs males of his body Devises the Remainder to the right heirs of the Devisor and to the heirs males of his body and died The Father and Son died without issue male the Son having issue a Daughter who entred and assured the Land unto one Hawes and covenanted That she was seised of the said Messuage of a certain and sure estate in Fee-simple Godfrey That the Daughter shall take the last Remainder as right heir at the time that it ought to be executed to the heirs males of her body as if it had been devised to her by her proper Name so she hath but an estate tail and so the covenant is broken Cook contrary At the time that the devise took effect by the death of the Devisor the Father was his Right heir so as the Remainder vested in him immediately Antea 182. and shall not expect in abeyance until the Father and Son dye without heir male of the Son for the Father is a person able to take so that upon the death of the Devisor the Father is Tenant for life the Remainder to the Son and the heirs males of his body the Remainder to the Father in tail ut supra the Reversion to the Father in fee and the Daughter hath the same Reversion by discent after the Entayls spent all which Wray Iustice granted CCLXVII Galliard and Archers Case Mich. 31 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas Intrat Trin. 31 Eliz. Rot. 1529. GAlliard brought an Action upon the Case against Archer Trover and Conversion The Plaintiff declared That he himself was possessed of certain goods which by trover came to the hands of the Defendant who hath converted them to his own use The Defendant pleaded Postea â—â—â— That before the Trover supposed one A. was possessed of the said goods as of his proper goods and sold them to the Defendant and that he had not any notice that the said goods were the goods of the Plaintiff upon which the Plaintiff did demur in Law. And by Anderson the plea is not good for the Plaintiff may chuse to have his Action against the first finder or against any other which gets the goods after by Sale Gift or Trover And by some Postea 253. The Defendant having the goods by Sale might traverse the finding See Contr. 27 H. 6. 13. a. And see by some In detinue where the Plaintiff declares of a Bailment The Defendant may say That he found them and traverse the Bailment 39 H. 6. 37. by Moile and by Windham Iustice The Defendant may traverse the property of the goods in the Plaintiff 12 E. 4. 11. CCLXVIII Edwards and Tedbuties Case Mich. 31 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. EDwards of London was endebted unto one A. of the same City Bailment of goods to a Carrier and Edwards delivered goods to one Tedbury Carrier of Exceter who went to him to carry for him certain Wares to be carried to Exceter to certain Tradesmen there the said goods to be delivered to them c. And so the said goods Wares and Merchandizes being in the possession of the Defendant Tedbury to be carried to Exceter the said A. caused them to be attached in the hands of the said Carrier for the Debt of the said Edwards The said Carrier being then priviledged in the Common Pleas by reason of an Action there depending And by the clear opinion of the whole Court the said Attachment ought to be dissolved Attachment of goods For the Carrier for the reason aforesaid is priviledged in his parson and his goods and not only in his own goods whereof the property belongs to him but also in such goods in his possession for which he is answerable to others c. And so it was adjudged CCLXIX Cockshal and the Mayor c. of Boaltons Case Mich. 31 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. HEnry Cockshal brought an Action upon the case against the Mayor Conâ—piâ—â—â—â— Town-Clark and Goal or of Boalton in the County of L. and declared That where he himself had affirmed a Plaint of Debt in the Court of the said Town before the said Mayor c. against I.S. and thereupon had caused the said I.S. to be arrested The said Defendants did conspire together to delay the Plaintiff of his said suit in peril of his Debt had let the said I. S. go at large without taking Bail. Periam Iustice conceived That upon that matter the Action doth not lye for the not taking of Bail is a judicial act for which he shall not be impeached But all the other Iustices were strongly of opinion against him for the not taking of Bail is not the cause of the Action but the Conspiracy CCLXX. Erbery and Lattons Case Mich. 31 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 234. IN a Replevin The Defendant doth avow because he is seised of such a Manor within which there is a Custom That the greater part of the Tenants at any Court within the said Manor holden appearing may make By-laws for the most profit and best government of the Tenants of the said Manor c. and that such By-laws should bind all Tenants c. and shewed further That at such a Court holden within the said Manor the Homage there being the greater part of Tenants of the Mannor aforesaid at the Court aforesaid appearing made this By-law scilicet That no Tenant of the said Manor should put into such a Common any Steer being a year old or more upon pain of six pence for every such Offence and that it should be lawful to distreyn for the same And the Court was Clear of opinion That the By-law was utterly void For it is against Common Right where a man hath Common for all his Cattel Commonable to restrain him to one kind of Cattel c. But if the By-law had bin That none should put in his Cattel before such a
yet afterwards he seemed to be of other opinion And as to that which hath been objected That the Lease is void to all intents and purposes according to the words of the Statute for by some it cannot be resembled to the case cited before of the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfeild that such a Grant should bind him and not his Successors for if this Grant in our Case shall not be void presently it shall never be void for the Colledge never dieth no more than Dean and Chapter Mayor and Commonalty To that it was answered by Drew That although there be some difference betwixt such Corporations and that the words of the Statute are general void to all intents constructions and purposes yet they shall construed according to the meaning of the makers of the Act whose scope was to provide for the Successors and not for the present Incumbent and to the utter impoverishing of all Successors without any respect to the party himself as it appeareth by the preamble of the said Statute where it is observed That by long and unreasonable Leases the decay of Spiritual Livings is procured for the remedying and preventing of which long Leases this Act was made and that the Successors should not be bound thereby And these Leases are not void simpliciter sed secundum quid i. e. as to the Successors As upon the Statute of 11 H. 7. cap. 20. Discontinuances made by Women c. shall be void and of none effect yet such a Discontinuance made is good against the Woman her self So upon the Statute of 1 Eliz. concerning Bishops See now Coke Lincoln Colledge Case 37 Eliz. in the third Reports 60. A Lease made by Dean and Chapter not warranted by the said Statute shall not be void untill after the death of the Dean who was party to the Lease So upon the Statute of 13 Eliz. of fraudulent Conveyances such fraudulent Conveyance is not void against the Grantor but against those who are provided for by the said Statute and that the Lease in the principal case is not void but voidable all the Iustices agreed to be avoided by the Colledge or any other who claim by it and by Anderson If such a Lease should be void then great mischief would fall to the Colledge for whose benefit this Statute was made for if such Lease be made rendring a small Rent then if before the defect be found or espied the Rent was arrear the Colledge could not have remedy for the said Rent Also by Periam Such a Lessee might have an Action of Trespass against a stranger who entreth upon the Land which proves that the Lease is not void but voidable and afterwards notwithstanding all the Objections Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff and the chief Authority which moved Periam Iustice to be of such opinion was Lemans case cited before 28 H. 8. Dyer 27. where a Lease was made to a Spiritual person against the Statute of 21 H. 8. and a Bond or Obligation for performance of covenants and thereupon an Action was brought and the Plaintiff therein had Iudgment and recovered which could not have been if the Lease were utterly void against the Lessor and Lessee as the very words of the Statute are and although it is not alledged in the Book that that was any cause of the Iudgment yet in his opinion it was the greatest cause of the Iudgment in that case CCCCXXVIII Bighton and Sawles Case Pasch 35 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action upon the case it ws agreed by the whole Court 1 Cro. 235. That where Iudgment is given that the Plaintiff shall recover and because it is not known what damages therefore a Writ issueth to enquire of the damages That the same is not a perfect Iudgment before the damages returned and adjudged and therefore they also agreed that after such award and before the damages adjudged that any matter might be shewed in Court in arrest of the Iudgment and by Periam Iustice the difference is where damages are the principal thing to be recovered and where not for if damages be the principal then the full Iudgment is not given until they be returned but in Debt where a certain sum is demanded it is otherwise CCCCXXIX Maidwell and Andrews Case Pasch 33 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. MAidwell brought an Action of Covenant against Andrews Covenant and the Case was this That R. was seised of Lands and leased the same for life rendring Rent and afterwards devised the Reversion to his wife for life and died Andrews the Defendant took to wife the wife of the Devisor the Devisee of the Reversion afterwards Andrews bargained and sold the said Reversion to one Marland and his heirs during his own life and afterwards granted the Rent to the Plaintiff and covenanted that the Plaintiff should enjoy the said Rent during his Term absque aliquo legitimo impedimento of the said Andrews his Heirs or Assigns or any other person claiming from the said Marland Marland died seised and the same descended to B. his heir and the breach of the Covenant was assigned in this i. in the heir of Marland who hath the Rent by reason of the Grant of the Reversion to Marland ut supra the Defendant pleaded the Grant of the Reversion to Marland per scriptum without saying Sigillo suo sigillat hic in Curia prolat absque hoc that the said Reversion and Rent descended to B. and thereupon the Plaintiff did demur in Law and the causes of the Demurrer was assigned by Yelverton Serjeant 1. The Grant of the Reversion is pleaded per sciptum and he doth not say sigillat for a Reversion cannot pass without Deed although it be granted but for years and a bare writing is not a Deed without sealing of it and therefore the pleading ought to be per scriptum suum sigillat or per factum suum for factum suum implies the ensealing and delivery 2. It ought to be pleaded hic in Cur. prolat for the Court is to see such Deed to the end they may know if it be a lawful Deed Traverse 1 Cro. 278. without razure interlining or other defects 3. The Defendant hath traversed the descent where he ought to have traversed the dying seised for of every thing descendable the dying seised is the substance and the descent is but the effect And although the Grant of the Reversion was but for the life of the Grantor yet the estate granted is descendable as 27 E. 3. 31. Tenant by the Courtesie leaseth his estate to one and his heirs the Grantor dieth his Heir entreth and a good Bar against him in the Reversion and see 14 E. 3. Action 56. Annuity granted to one and his Heirs for the term of another mans life the Grantor dieth living Cestuy que vie the Heir of the Grantor brings a writ of Annuity and it was holden maintainable and he said that were the dying seised is confessed and avoided by
197 p VVright and the Bishop of Norwiches case 218 p VVhisker and Cleytons Case 219 p VVard and Blunts case 251 p VVeston and Grendons case 255 p VVoodshaw and Fulmerstons case 262 p VVindham and Sir Edward Cleeres case 263 p VVickes and Dennis case 271 p VValgrave and Ogdens case 305 p VVard and Knights case 315 p VViseman and VVaringers case 339 p VVeston and Garnons case 343 p VVillis and Crosbies case 373 p VVilliams and Blowers case 402 p VValpoole and Kings case 407 p VViggot and Clarks case 419 p VVangford and Sectons case 423 p VVilmer and Oldfeilds case 424 p VVolman and Fies case 449 p VVillis and VVhitewoods case 454 p VVade and Presthalls case 466 p VVharton and Morleys case 467 p VValgrave and Agars case 469 p Z. ZOuch and Bamfeilds case 102 p REPORTS AND Cases of Law Argued and Adjudged in the Time of Queen Elizabeth From the twenty fourth to the three and thirtieth year of Her Reign I. Borneford and Packingtons Case Hill. 25. Eliz. in the Kings Bench. IN Trespas It was found by special verdict Custom of Free-Bench That the Defendant was seised of the Manor of B. whereof the place where is parcel demised and demiseable by Copy c. And that B. the Granfather of the Plaintiff was seised of the place where c. according to the custom of the said Manor in Fee-simple and that within the said Manor there is this Custom That if any Copy-holder dieth seised his Wife over-living him shall hold all the Land during her Widowhood as Free-bench and shall be admitted Tenant to the Lord 2 Brownl 21. and that the Heir shall not be admitted to it during the life of his Mother And found also another Custom within the said Manor That if any Copy-holder be convicted of Felony and the same be presented by the Homage that then the Lord might seize c. And it was further found that the Grandfather of the Plaintiff took a Wife and died seised having issue A. Father of the Plaintiff The Wife is admitted to her Free-bench A. is convicted of Felony and that is presented by the Homage and afterwards A. died after which the Wife died c. It was argued by Atkinson that A. is not within the danger of this Custom for during the life of his Mother who by a Claimer is Tenant to the Lord and admitted to it she is Copy-holder and it is not like to the Case lately adjudged of possessio fratris without admittance for there the party was admittable and so he was not here And also it appeareth by the Custom as it is found That the Lord upon such matter shall seize and therefore we ought to make construction that this Custom doth not extend to Cases where the Lord cannot seize but in the Case at Bar the Lord cannot seize by reason of this Free-bench And we ought not by any construction to extend a Custom beyond the words in which it is conceived but it shall be taken strictly and not be supplyed by Equity with a Custom in the place of a Seisure But notwithstanding all this afterwards Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff II. Hill. 25 Eliz. in the Kings Bench. A Copy-holder doth surrender to the use of one A. upon trust that he shall hold the said Land until he hath levyed certain monies and that afterwards he shall surrender to the use of B the monies are levyed A. is required to make surrender to the use of B. he refuseth B. exhibits a Bill to the Lord of the Mannor against the said A. who upon hearing of the Cause decrees against A. that he shall surrender he refuseth now the Lord may seize and admit B. to the Copy-hold for he in such Cases is Chancellor in his own Court per totam Curiam III. Wade and Bemboes Case Hill. 25. Eliz. in the Kings Bench. IN a Writ of Error by Wade against Bembo upon a Iudgment given in the Court of the City of Bristol the Case was That Bembo was Plaintiff in the said Court against Wade in an Action of Covenant and declared of a Covenant made by word by the Testator of Wade with Bembo and declared also that within the said City there is a Custom That Conventio ore tenus facta shall bind the Covenantor as strongly as if it were made by writing And it was holden by the Court that that Custom doth not warrant this Action for the Covenant binds by the Custom the Covenantor but doth not extend to his Executors and a Custom shall be taken strictly and therefore the Iudgment was reversed IV. The Lord Paget and Sir Walter Ashtons Case 25 Pasch 25. Eliz. in the Kings Bench THe Lord Paget brought an Action of Trespass against Sir Walter Ashton who justified because he is seised of three Messuages to him and his Heirs and that he and all those whose estate he hath c. have had the Woodwardship of the Forrest of C. within which the place where c. and also have had within the said Forrest Estovers without number And that one Rowland Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield was seised of the Forrest aforesaid in the right of his Church and by Indenture betwixt him and Sir Edw. Ashton his Ancestor whose Heir he is setting forth that divers debates had been betwixt the said parties concerning some profits within the said Forrest It was agreed betwixt them that the said Sir Ed. Ashton should release unto the said Rowland all his right in the said Office and Estovers and that the said Rowland shoud grant de novo unto the said Edw. and his Heirs the said Office and one hundred loads of Estovers per annum out of the said Forrest After which the said Ed. according to the said agreement did release to the said Bishop ut supra after which the said Bishop by Indenture reciting the said former Convenants in compl Indenturae praedict Convent did grant to the said Sir Ed. the said Office and Estovers pro easiamento dicti Edwardi haered suorum by assignment of the Officers of the said Forrest and if the assignment he not made within ten days after request that then the said Ed. and his Heirs should cut dow wood where they pleased and averred the things released were of as great value as the things granted And upon this matter the Plaintiff did demurr in Law and it was adjuded for the Plaintiff for here no Inheritance in the things granted passed to the said Sir Ed. but only an Interest for his own life 1. Inst 148. a. 398. b. ib. Dy. 253. 1 Cro. 644. for the grant was to Sir Ed. only without the word Heirs and the reference to the Indentures by which the Bishop hath covenanted to grant the Inheritance nor the words in the grant imply an estate in Fee s. pro easimento dict Ed. haered suorum and that in default of Assignment it should be lawful for Sir Ed. and his Heirs
as other Writs and Praecipes are returnable in any Court but the Queen her self from whom originally it came shall receive it and also the Message upon it and she her self in such case is Iudge of the contempt and no Record of that Privy Seal doth remain in any Court but the Queen her self shall keep it and then when the Queen is informed of the contempt she makes a Warrant somtimes to the Chancellor to award a Commission somtimes to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to the same purpose to seize the Lands and that Warrant is signed with the Seal manual of the Queen and the Queen may certifie and set down the cause of such seizure in such Warrant and no other Certificate is made by the Queen and the Queen may certify the same Commission by word of mouth and if the other party will say that the Queen hath not certified it he shall be concluded by the commission which is under the great Seal and diverse Prsidents were shewed openly in Court to that effect And all the matter aforesaid was agreed by the Chancellor Treasurer and the said Iustices and no certificate at all needs to be in the Case and then a superfluous Certificate being nought shall not hurt for Nugation is surplusage Another matter was to consider what interest the Queen hath in the Lands of Fugitives by the common Law And as to that they were all clear of opinion Fugitives that the Queen in such case as aforesaid may seize and assign her interest over And that such Assignees may grant Copy-holds parcel of the Manor assigned which grants shall bind him who cometh in after cum manus Domini regis amoventur and also when the Statutes of 13 and 14 Eliz. come Dy. 375 b. the Statutes do not amend the estate of the Queen but the estate of the Queen doth continue as before and all the Estates under it And there was shewed unto the Court divers Presidents of seizures in such Cases 18 E 2. Edmond de Woodstock Earl of Kent went beyond Sea without Licence of the King and he went with Robert de Mortimer and the King did certifie the same into the Chancery reciting that he had sent his Privy Seal c. but that the said Edmond spretis mandatis nostris redire recusavit upon which issued a commission to seize c. And it was holden that the Queen having seised hy force of the common Law and making a grant of a Copy-hold out of it now when the Statutes of 13 14 Eliz. are made she hath not any estate thereby for she had such interest before and this new seisure after the Statutes works nothing and nothing accrues to her thereby whereof she can make a seisure For she hath departed with the whole before See 23 Eliz. Dyer 376. And note that the grant of the Queen in the case at Bar was quamdiu in manibus nostris fore contigerit And afterwards Iudgment was given that judicium praedictum in omnibus affirmetur XIII Sutton and Dowses Case Ter. Mich. 25 26 Eliz. in the Common Pleas. SUtton Vicar of Longstoke Libelled against Dowse in the spiritual Court Tithes and shewed in his Libel that upon the Erection and Endowment of his Vicaridge four quarters of Corn were assigned to the Vicar out of the Granary of the Prior of B. of the Tithes of the Parson of Longstoke and that the Parson or Fermor of the said Rectory of Longstoke had always paid the said four Quarters of Corn to the said Vicar and all his Predecessors and alledged further that the Lord Sands was seised of the said Rectory and leased the Barn and Tithe-Corn parcel of the said Rectory to the said Dowse his Wife and Son Habendum to Dowse for Term of his life the Remainder to the Wife for Term of her life the Remainder to the Son for life And shewed further that the said Dowse had covenanted with the said Lord Sands to render the said four Quarters of Wheat to the Vicar and his Successors upon which Dowse procured a Prohibition and Sutton prayed a Consultation and it was moved in stay of the Consultation that the Vicar had Libelled upon a Covenant wherein Dowse is taxed to pay the said Corn and that is a lay Title and determinable by the Law of the Land and not in the Ecclesiastical Court But as to that the opinion of the Court was that the Libel is not grounded upon the covenant as the sole Title to the said Corn against Dowse but upon the Endowment of the Vicaridge and the Lease by which Dowse is become Fermor of the Rectory Another matter was moved because that upon the Libel it appeareth that the Lease aforesaid made by the Lord Sands was made to Dowse his Wife and his Son joyntly in the Premisses Habendum ut supra in which case it was objected that Dowse his Wife and his Son are all three Fermors of the said Barn and Tithes joyntly in possession against all whom Sutton ought to have Libelled c. and not against Dowse only for the Habendum hath not severed their estates which were joynt before Co. 1 Iust 783 l. qund tota curia negavit for the Habendum hath severed the joynt estates limited by the Premisses and hath distinguished it into Remainders but if the Habendum had been Habendum successive the estate had remained joynt Another matter was moved because it appeareth upon the Libel that the Parson or Fermor of the said Rectory ought to pay to the Vicar the said Corn and also it appeareth upon the matter that Dowse is not Parson nor Fermor of the said Rectory for the Lord Sands had leased to Dowse and his Son only the Barn and the Tith-Corn parcel of the said Rectory so as Dowse is Fermor but of parcel of the Rectory and the residue of the Rectory doth remain in the Lord Sands in which the said Sut. ought to have Libelled against the Lord Sands and Dowse and not against Dowse only And for that cause the Consultation was denyed And in this case it was further agreed by the Court that if upon a Libel in the spiritual Court the Defendant makes a surmise in Banco to have a Prohibition if such surmise be insufficient the other party needeth not to demur upon it and to have it entred upon Record but as amicus Curiae he shall shew the same to the Court and the Court shall discharge him XIV Punsany and Leaders Case Mich. 25 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. OSmond Punsany brought an Action upon the case against Leader and declared Prescription of Foldage that one Bedingfield was seised of the Manor of D. and that he and all those whose estate he hath in the said Manor time out of mind have had Libertatem Faldagij cursum Ovium in the Town of D. pro meliori pasturatione omnium Ovium suorum the Inhabitants of the said Town having any
the said Indenture covenanted with Platt that the said Platt and his Heirs should quietly enjoy the said Lands without interruption of any person or persons And afterwards certain controversies rising betwixt them concerning the said Lands Arbitrament the said Bream and Platt submitted themselves to the award and arbitrament of Sir W. Cordel to whom they were bounden severally for the performance of such award the which Sir W. amongst other things awarded that the said Platt and his Heirs should enjoy quietly the said Lands in tam amplo modo forma as the said Land is conveyed and assured by the coveyance and assurance aforesaid And the truth was that the said Bream at the time of the said Assurance was bounden in a Recognizance of six hundred pounds to one More 15. Eliz. and afterwards More 16 Eliz. sued a Sci. fac upon the said Recognizance and 18 Eliz. the bargain and sale aforesaid was made and afterwards 19 Eliz. More sued forth Excution by Elegit and the moyety of the said Land assured to Platt was delivered in Execution to More And if upon the whole matter the Arbitrament was broken was the question It was argued by Godfrey that the Plaintiff ought to be barred and first 1 Hob. 35. Mor. 175. 3 Len. 43. Post 93. Post 179 279. 1 Inst 366. a. b. 388. Dy 42. he conceived that these words in the Indenture give and grant did not help the Action for the Lands passed with a charge and the general words Dedi concessi do not extend to this collateral charge but to the direct right of the Land only but if a stranger had put out the bargainee there upon such general words an Action would lie but as the Case is they do not give any cause of Action for the Recognizance was a thing in charge at the time of the Assurance and yet see 31 E 3. Br. Warr. Chartae 33. A. enfeoffeth B. with warranty who brings a Warrantia Chartae and recovers pro loco tempore and afterwards a stranger doth recover against him a Rent charge out of the said Land and it was holden that upon the matter B. should have execution the special words of the Aribitrament upon which the Action is brought are that the said Platt and his Heirs should enjoy the said Lands in tam amplo modo forma as it was assured and conveyed to the said Platt ergo not in more ample manner 1 Cro. 660. 661. Owen Rep. 65. 2 Cro. 571. 1 Roll. 425. and the said Land was conveyed to Platt chargeable to the said Recognizance therefore if Platt enjoy it charged there is no cause of Action And as to the Covenant in the Indenture that Platt and his Heirs should enjoy quietly the said Lands without interruption of any person the same is a Collateral surety and the words of the Award are that Platt shall enjoy it in tam amplo modo forma as it is conveyed and assured by the assurance aforesaid without interruption these are not words of assurance for the assurance doth consist in the legal words of passing the estate scil bargain sale Dedi concessi and in the limitation of the estate and not in the words of the Convenant And therefore it hath been adjudged that if I. be bounden to A. in an Obligation to assure to him the Mannor of D c. if A. tender to me an Indenture of bargain and sale in which are many Covenants I am not bound upon the peril of my Bond to seal and deliver it Also here doth not appear any interruption against the Covenant in the Indenture for here is not any lawful Execution for it appeareth here that More hath sued Execution by Elegit 4 years after the Iudgment in the Scire facias in which case he shall be put to a new Scire facias for the Sheriff in this Case ought to have returned that the Conusor after the Recognizance had enfeoffed divers persons and shewed who and upon that matter returned the Conusee should have a Sci. facias against the Feoffees vide F. N. B. 266. And the Court was clear of opinion against the Plaintiff XXXV Floud and Sir John Perrotts Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. FLoud recovered against Sir John Perrot 1 Cro. 63. Post 264. 3 Len. 240. in an Action upon the Case upon a promise eighty six pounds against which Floud and Barlow affirmed a Plaint of Debt in London and attached the said moeny in the hands of the said Sir John and had execution according to the custom of London And now the said Floud sued a Scire facias against the said Sir John who appeared and pleaded the said Execution by attachment upon which Floud the Plaintiff did demur in Law And it was adjudged no plea for a duty which accrueth by matter of Record cannot be attached by the custom of London And notwithstanding that the custom of London be layed generally in aliquo debito and damages recovered are quoddam debitum as it was urged by the Council of the Defendant Yet the Law is clear that Iudgments given in the Courts of the King ought not Judgments in the Kings Courts not to be defeated by particular custom of places nor cannot by such particular customs be defeated and avoided as it was lately adjudged in a Western Case Damages were recovered the Sheriff by virtue of a Fieri facias levyed the money which one to whom the Plaintiff was endebted did attach by the custom in the hands of the Sheriff but it was adjudged the attachment was not good for the custom of attachment cannot reach upon a thing of so high a nature as a Record is the same Law of Debt upon a Recognizance and Statute c. and it was affirmed by Wray chief Iustice that upon great deliberation it was agreed by Bromley Lord Chancellor himself the Lord Anderson Mead and Periam Iustices that where a Merchant having in an Action recovered certain damages became Bankrupt upon which issued an Commission upon the Statute of 13 Eliz. of Bankrupts that such Commissioners could not entermeddle with such damages to dispose of them to the Creditors according to the said Statute But now see the Statute of 1 Jacobi The Commissioners have power to dispose of such debts c. XXXVI Sir Walter Hungerfords Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Grants of the King. IN a Replevin by Sir Walter Hungerford the Case was this the Queen being seised of a great Waste called Ruddesdown in the Parish of Chipnam granted to the Mayor and Burgesses of Chipnam the moyety of a Yard-land in the said Waste without certainty in what part of the Waste they should have the same or the special name of the Land or how it was bounded and without any certain description of it And afterwards the Queen granted to the said Sir Walter the said Waste and afterwards the said Mayor and Burgesses by warrant of Attorney
in such manner and form as I my self did hold the same and no otherwise Tenant for life died within the Term and he in the Reversion entred and the Lessee brought an action of Covenant Godfrey The action doth not ly for here is not any warranty for the Plaintiff is not Lessee but Assignee to whom this Warranty in Law cannot extend but admit that the Warranty doth extend to the Plaintiff yet it is now determined with the estate of the Tenant for life and so the Covenant ended with the estate See 32 H. 6. 32. by Littleton 9. Eliz. Dyer 257. Covenant And if Tenant in tail make a Lease for years ut supra and afterwards dieth without issue the Covenant is gone and after Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff CCLV. Fish Brown and Sadlers Case Intrat Mich. 29 Eliz. Rot. 606. Trin. 31. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. AN action upon the Case was brought by Fish and Brown against Sadler Hill. 29 Eliz. rot 606. and they declared Action upon the Case That they were proprietaries of certain goods which were in the possession of one A. against which A. Sadler one of the Defendants had commenced a feigned and covenous suit in the Ecclesiastical Court in the Name of one Collison to the intent to get the said goods into his possession of which the Plaintiffs having notice and to the intent that the said Plaintiffs should suffer the Defendant to recover and obtain the said goods by the said suit the Defendant did promise to the Plaintiffs to render to them a true accompt of the said goods and shewed further That by the said suit the Defend did obtain the said goods by sufferance of the Plaintiff Tanfeild It is a good consideration the Plaintiffs were not parties or Privies at the beginning of the suit it is not like Onlies Case in 19 Eliz. Dyer 355. Where in an action upon the Case Onlie declared Assumpsit and consideration That the Defendant Countess c. being a Widow had divers suits and businesses and that the Plaintiff at her request had bestowed great labour and travail and had expended circa the affairs of the said Countess 1500 l. Whereupon she promised to the Plaintiff to pay all the said expences and such a sum above for that matter which is the ground of the action is maintenance and malum prohibitum but such matter is not here for it is lawful for a man to use means to get his goods Gawdy All covins are abhorred in Law and here the Plaintiffs are privies to the wrong and therefore it cannot be any consideration Wray Although that the suit at the beginning was wrongful and covenous yet when the Plaintiffs who were owners of the said goods do assent to such proceedings now the suit is become just and lawful ab initio Corin. and so no wrong in the consideration but all the wrong is purged by the agreement If any covin be the same is between Sadler and him who is sued to whom the Plaintiffs are not privies Clench If this privity betwixt the Plaintiffs and Sadler had been before the said suit then the consideration is without any fraud Cooper Serjeant conceived here is not any good consideration upon which the Promise of the Defendant may be grounded for the Defendant hath not any benefit by it and he cited the case between Smith and Smith 25 Eliz. Egerton Here the consideration is good enough for the Plaintiffs forbear their own suit which was a hinderance unto them Clench was of opinion that the Plaintiff should not have Iudgment for that suit was begun by Sadler in the Name of Collison without his privity and therefor it was unlawful and the same was for the goods of another man which is unlawful also and then when the unlawful act is begun the illegal agreement afterwards that they shall proceed is unlawful also and therefore there cannot be any consideration and as to the covin it is not material for without that the matter is illegal enough Also the Declaration is not good in this because it is not shewed in what Court the suit did depend so as it might appear unto us that they had power to hold plea of it Gawdy agreed with Clench in the first point and also in the last and by him in the assumpsit the Plaintiff declares that a suit was depending betwixt the Defendant and another and where the Plaintiffs if they were produced might have given strong witness against the Defendant the said Defendant in consideration that the Plaintiffs would not give Testimony against him promised to give to the Plaintiff 20 l. the same consideration will not maintain this action because it is unlawful for any man to suppress testimony in any cause 1 Cro. 337. Wray Here is a consideration good enough For where Sadler should lose costs upon the first suit now upon this promise upon his account he shall be allowed the same the which is a benefit unto him and as to the shewing in what Court the suit doth depend that needs not by way of Declaration but the same shall be shewed by way of Evidence and it is not traversable and it is but inducement to the action And as to the covin that is not here for covin is always to the prejudice of a third person but so it is not here But in truth this suit was unlawful for Sadler so to sue in the Name of another and therefore it cannot be a good consideration And for that cause it was awarded Quod querens nihil capiat per billam CCLIV How and Conneys Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Trespass 1 Cro. 159. IN an action of Trespass by How against Conney the case was That one Smith was seised of two houses and leased one of them to his Brother for life and afterwards by his Will devised viz. I give to my Executors All my Lands and Tenements free and copy to hold to them and they to take the profits of them for ten years and afterwards to sell the said Lands and Tenements and afterwards died his Brother died before the quarter of a year after and it was found That the Executors entred into the house undemised and took the profits but not into the other and that at the end of the said ten years they sold the whole Godfrey The house only which was in possession shall pass by the Will. To hold unto them doth imply matter of possession so as nothing passeth but that whereof they may take the profits the which cannot be of a bare Reversion also by this devise the Executors have not interest in the thing devised but for ten years Plow 66. Shop 437. whereas the Brother of the Testator had an estate for life which by possibility might continue above twenty years and to prove that the meaning of the devisor to be collected upon the words of the Will ought to direct the construction of the
to the Plaintiff and yet is and upon these Pleas the Plaintiff did demur in Law. Owen Serjeant for the Plaintiff That both Pleas are insufficient the first Plea is not an answer but by argument for the Plaintiff declares of a commission of his own goods and the Defendant answers to a commission of his own goods 33 H. 8. Br. Action sur le case 109. In an action upon the case the Plaintiff declares that the Defendant found the goods of the Plaintiff and delivered them to persons unknown Non deliberavit modo forma is no Plea but he ought to plead not guilty and in an action upon the case the Plaintiff declared that he was possessed of certain goods ut de bonis suis proprijs and the Defendant found them and converted them to his own use It is no Plea for the Defendant to say that the Plaintiff was not possessed of the said goods as of his proper goods but he ought to plead not guilty to the mis-demeanor and give in Evidence that they were not the goods of the Plaintiff and 4 E. 6. Br. action upon the case 113. The Plaintiff declared that he was possessed of certain goods as of his proper goods and lost them and the Defendant found them and converted them to his own use the Defendant pleaded that the Plaintiff pawned the said goods to the Defendant for ten pounds for which he detained them according to the said pawn and traversed the conversion and by some it was holden that he ought to plead not guilty give the especial matter aforesaid in Evidence and 2 3. Phil. and Ma. Dyer 121. The case of the Lord Mountegle in an action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared upon a Trover of a Chain of Gold and that the Defendant had sold it to persons unknown the Defendant pleaded That ipse non vendidit modo forma upon that the Plaintiff did demur in Law. And see 27 H. 8. 13. Where goods come to one by Trover he shall not be charged in an action but for the time he hath the possession But that is to be intended in an Action of Detinue and not in an action upon the Case for such action upon the Case is not grounded upon the Trover but upon the mis-demeanor that is the Conversion And as to the other Plea it is utterly insufficient for the Plaintiff declares of a Conversion and he pleads a possession that he is always ready and so doth not answer to the point of the action Yelverton Serjeant to the contrary and he conceived for the first Plea that it is a direct answer for he hath justified his sale to persons unknown for that he hath bought the goods of one Copland whose goods they were and because the Plaintiff hath demurred upon the Plea he hath confessed the truth of the matter contained in it scil that the property of the goods was to Copland and so in Defendant by the said sale and then he hath good cause to convert them to his own use by sale or otherwise And he conceived that there is a difference 27 H. 8. 13. betwixt Baylment and Trover for in case of Trover the parry is not chargeable but in respect of the possession which being removed the action is gone against the Finder for he who findeth goods is not bound to keep them nor to give an account for them And he put the case reported by Dyer 13 14 Eliz. 306 307. R. Fines brought an action upon the case and declared he was possessed of a Hawk as of his proper goods at W. and casually lost it at B. and that it afterwards casually came to the hands of the Defendant by Trover and that he knowing it to be the Plaintiffs Hawk sold the same for mony to persons unknown The Defendant pleaded that the Hawk first after the losing of it came to the hands of one Jeoffryes who sold it to one Rowly who gave it to the Defendant at A. who sold it to Poulton and the same was found a sufficient Bar and it is hard where goods as Oxen or Horses come to another by Trover that he should be charged to keep them and pasture them until the Owner claimeth them and therefore it is not reason but that he discharge himself by the quitting of the possession of them And as to the other Plea the matter of the Plea is good enough and the defect is but in the form which because the Plaintiff upon his Demurrer hath not shewed to the Court according to the Statute he shall not take advantage of it but the matter of the Plea is sufficient scil the finding and the offer to deliver it to the Plaintiff Anderson Iustice For the examination of the insufficiency of this Plea the nature of the action and the cause of it is to be considered the nature of the action it is an action upon the case the cause the Trover and conversion Then for the latter Plea his readiness to deliver it It cannot be any answer to the Declaration of the Plaintiff For this action is not Debt or Detinue where the thing it self is to be delivered for in such case the Plea had been good but the Conversion is the special cause of this Action which by this is not answered and for the other Plea the Declaration is not answered by it But here is some matter of justification for when a man comes to goods by Trover there is not any doubt but by the Law he hath liberty to take the possession of them but he cannot abuse them kill them or convert them to his own use or make any profit of them and if he do it is great reason that he be answerable for the same but if he lose such goods afterwards or they be taken from him then he shall not be charged for he is not bound to keep them and so he conceived Iudgment ought to be for the Plaintiff Windham Iustice neither Plea is good as to the first Plea he confesseth the conversion but hath not conveyed unto himself a sufficient title to the goods by which he might justifie the Conversion for the Plaintiff declares of a conversion of his own goods and the Defendant justifies because the property of the goods was in a stranger who sold them to him which cannot be any good title for him without a Traverse unless he had shewed that he bought them in an open Market and then upon such matter he might well have justified the Conversion And as to the other Plea the same is naught also for the goods are not in demand and their the said Plea is not proper to say that he is ready to deliver them for damages only for the conversion are in demand and not the goods themselves and therefore the same is a Plea but by Argument scil He is ready to deliver Ergo he hath not converted and yet the same is not a good argument for if a man find my Horse
this Court is especially named Wray This Proviso begins with Iustices of the Peace therefore it doth not extend to offences which are Treason and the meaning of this Statute of 23 Eliz. was to enlarge the Statutes of 1 5 Eliz. for where the offence against the Statutes before was to be enquired at the next Session and the other within six Months now by this Statute it may be enquired at any time within the year and day but it doth not extend to restrain the proceedings against offences of Treason for the words of the Statute are That such offences shall be inquired before Iustices of Peace within a year c. But in the next clause the Iustices of Peace may punish all offences against this Act but Treason by which it appeareth that no offences are restrained to time but those which the Iustices of the Peace have authority to hear and determine and that is not Treason Gawdy to the same purpose For all the Proviso is but one sentence and there the whole shall be referred to spiritual offences as the not coming to Church c. CCCXXIII Filcocks and Holts Case Mich. 32 33 Eliz. In the Exchequer Error Assumpsit IN an Action by Filcocks against Holt Administrator of A. the Plaintiff declared how that the Husband of the Defendant who died intestate was indebted to the Plaintiff in ten pounds by Bill and that the Defendant in consideration that the Plaintiff would permit the Defendant to take Letters of Administration and give to her further day for the payment of the said ten pounds promised to pay the said ten pounds to the Plaintiff at the day And upon a Writ of Error brought in the Exchequer upon a Iudgment in the Kings Bench in that case It was assigned for Error that here is not any consideration for by the Law she is to have Administration being wife of the Intestate and as to the giving of further day for the payment of the ten pounds the same will not make it good for it doth not appear that she was Administratrix at the time of the promise made and then she is not chargeable and then c. And such was the opinion of the Court. And it was said by Periam Iustice and Manwood chief Baron That the Bishop might grant Letters of Administration to whom he pleased if he would forfeit the penalty limited by the Statute â—atch 67 68. Also it was said where an Executor or Administrator is charged upon his own promise Iudgment shall be given de boniâ— propriis for his promise is his own act CCCXXIV Adams and Bafealds Case Mich. 33 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Action upon the Case AN Action upon the Case was brought and the Plaintiff declared That where such an one his Servant departed his service without cause or license the Defendant knowing him to be his Servant did retain him in his Service and so kept him Tanfeild The Action doth not lye for if my Servant depart out of my service and another doth retain him an Action doth not lye at the Common Law if he do not procure him to leave my service and afterwards retain him or immediately taketh him out of my service And this Action is not grounded upon any Statute See 11 H. 4. 176. 47 E. 3. 14. 9 E. 4. 32. Gawdy The Action lieth for here is damage and wrong done to the Plaintiff Fenner contrary For the wrong is in the departure and not in the Retainer and upon the Statutes it is a good Plea to say for the Defendant that the party was vagrant at the time of the Retainer and the sciens doth not alter the matter CCCXXV Nash and Mollins Case Mich. 32 33 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Prohibition 1 Cro. 206. Tithes NAsh and Usher sued a Prohibition against Mollins for that the Defendant had libelled against them in the Spiritual Court for Tithes of Wood growing in Barking Park in Essex the other did surmise that the Lands were parcel of the possessions of the Prior and Covent of Cree Church and that the said Prior and his Successors time out of mind c. had held the said Lands discharged of Tithes and held them so at the time of the Dissolution c. and the other part traversed it whereupon they were at Issue if the Prior c. held the Land discharged tempore Dissolutionis c. And now on the part of the Plaintiff in the Prohibition certain old persons were produced who remembred the time of the Monasteries and that they did not pay any Tithes then or from thence Exception was taken to the suggestion by Coke that here is nothing else than a Prescription de non Decimando for here is not set forth any discharge as composition unity of possession priviledge of order as Templarii Hospitiarii c. â—enner Iustice Spiritual persons may prescribe in non Decimando for it is not any prejudice to the Church Wray Although it is not set down the special manner of discharge yet it is well enough for we ought to take it that it was by a lawful means as composition c. or otherwise For the Statute is that the King shall hold discharged as the Abbot c. and we ought to take it that it was a lawful discharge of Tithes tempore dissolutionis And afterwards the Iury found for the Plaintiffs in the Prohibition But no Evidence was given to prove that the Defendant did prosecute in the Spiritual Court contrary to the Prohibition CCCXXVI Sheldons Case Mich. 32 33 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. SHeldon Talbot and two other four persons in all Indictment upon the Statute of 23 Eliz. were Indicted upon the Statute of 23 Eliz. of Recusancy the words of the Indictment were Quod illi nec eorum uterque venerunt to any Parish Church c. It was moved by Atkinson That the Indictment is not good for uterque doth refer unto one of them and not where they are many as here and so is an insensible word and so upon the matter there is no offence laid to their charge And the Iustices doubting of it demanded the opinions of Grammarians who delivered their opinions that this word uterque doth aptly signifie one of them Exposition of words and in such signification it is used by all Writers Gawdy I conceive that the opinions of the Grammarians is not to be asked in this case But I agree that when an unusual word in our Law comes in question for the true construction of it then the opinion of Grammarians is necessary But uterque is no unusual word in our Law but hath had a reasonable Exposition heretofore which we ought to adhere unto which see 28 H. 8. 19. Three bound in an Obligation Obligamus nos utrumque nostrum and by the whole Court uterque doth amount to quilibet And see 16 Eliz. Dyer 337 338. Three Ioyntenants in Fee and by Indenture Tripartite each of them
hoc that he was indebted to the Plaintiff antea vel post the said day aliquo modo upon which the Plaintiff did demur It was argued that the Traverse was not good for the consideration in Assumpsit is not traversable because it is but conveyance and amounts to the general Issue as in debt upon the sale of a Horse it is no Plea for the Defendant to say that no such Horse was sold to him Patridge If the conveyance be the ground of the Suit it is traversable an Action upon the Case against an Hostler it is a good Plea that he is not an Hostler 2 H. 4 7. See 26 H. 8. Br. Traverse 341. In an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared that whereas the Defendant habuit ex deliberatione of the Plaintiff certain goods the said Defendant in consideration of ten shillings Assumpsit eidem querenti promisit salvo Custodire c. Non habuit ex deliberatione is a good Plea. Godfrey The Defendant doth not answer the point of our Action which is the Assumpsit but only by way of Argument 11 E. 4. 4. In Trespass upon the Statute of 5 R. 2. by the Master of a Colledge and his confreers the Defendant doth justifie by reason of a Lease made by a Predecessor of the Plaintiff and his Confreers by their Deed under their Common Seal the Plaintiff Replicando saith That at the time of the making of the Lease there was no such Colledge and it was holden no Plea for it is no answer but by Argument Gawdy Iustice In all cases where the Defendant may wage his Law there the conveyance is traversable Wray The cause of the Action is the Assumpsit therefore the consideration is not traversable for it is not the point with which the Plaintiff is charged And it is common here that the Declaration in such Action upon the Case Traverse in consideration of divers sums of money without any more certainty is good which should not be good if the consideration were traversable but the consideration is to be given in Evidence and it is also common that in an Action upon the Case in Trover and Conversion the Trover is not traversable for the Conversion is the point of the Action Fenner Iustice The debt here is no cause of the Action but only the Assumpsit In debt upon Arbitrament the Arbitrament is traversable So in debt for Rent upon a Demise the Demise is traversable Antea 189. for the Arbitrament and Demise is the cause and ground of the Action At another day it was moved again and Gawdy mutata opinione said that consideration Executory is traversable As where one in consideration that he may marry my Daughter or of service promiseth to pay the same consideration is traversable contrary of a Consideration executed And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCCXLI Estons Case Trin. 33 Eliz. In the Court of Wards ESton was seised of Lands in Fee holden of the King in chief 1 Cro. 243. and took a Wife seised of other Lands holden in Socage they have Inne and the Husband dieth and afterwards the Wife dieth Owen Serjeant conceived That the Queen should not have the Wardship of the Land of the Wife or the primer seisin of it And if the Husband had survived his Wife being Tenant by the Curtesie the Queen should not have Primer seisin of it after his decease Wray If the Father be seised of Lands holden in Soccage and the Mother of Lands holded in Knights service and the Husband over-lives his Wife being Tenant by the Curtesie the King shall have all Anderson denied that and he conceived That the opinion of Stamford is not Law and yet see 13 H. 4. 278. Where the Father is seised of Lands in chief and the Mother of other and the Father dieth and afterwards the Mother dieth both shall be in ward And it was said That if there be Grandfather Father and Son and the Father dieth seised of Lands holden in Socage and afterwards the Grandfather dieth seised of Lands in Knights service the Lands in Socage shall not be in ward Anderson held strongly That the Queen should have Primer seisin of the Lands of the Mother Wray contrary Quaere CCCXLII Ellis Hartops Case Trin. 33 Eliz. In the Court of Wards ELlis Hartop was seised of divers Lands whereof part was holden of the King in Knights service and devised two parts thereof to W. Denham and his Heirs to the use of T. his brother and his wife and afterwards to the use of the said T. and his Heirs males T. died in the life of the Devisor and afterwards a Son is born First it was agreed that a Devise might be to the use of another Then when Cesty que use dyeth in the life of the Devisor the Devisee shall take it and when a Son is born it shall go to him But if the use be void then the Devisee shall have it to his own use for every devise doth imply a consideration Coke was of opinion That the Son takes by descent when Cestuy que use to whom Land is devised doth refuse the use the Devisee cannot take it for he shall not have it to his own use for if the use be void the devise is also void And the use is void for Cestuy que use died in the life of the Devisor which see Bret and Rygdens case A man seised of three Acres bargains and sells one of them without shewing which and that before the Statute of 27 H. 8. The Bargainee dyeth before Election no Election descends to the Heir for then he should be a Purchasor And by Wray and Anderson The devise is void and it is all one with Brett and Rigdens case And by Anderson a man deviseth Lands to the use of one which use by possibility is good and by possibility not good If afterwards Cestuy que use cannot take the Devise shall be to the use of the Devisor and his Heirs CCCLXIII Weston and Garmons Case Trin. 33. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Assize 1 Cro. 226. ASsize was brought of a Rent of fifty pounds per annum and the Plaintiff made his plaint to be disseised of his Free-hold in H. E. and H. W And shewed that John Vaughan and Amy his Wife who before was the wife of one Weston and Mother of Sir Henry Weston the Plaintiff in the Assize was seised of the said Manors of H.W. and H.E. lying in Barton and Kinton in Fee. And 18 Eliz. a Fine was levied betwixt Robert Vaughan and Miles Whitney Complainants and the said John Vaughan and Amy his Wife and Francis their Son Deforceants of the said two Manors inter alia per nomen of the Manors of H.E. and H.W. and of fifty Messuages three hundred Acres of Lands two hundred Acres of Meadow cum pertinentiis in the said Towns by which Fine the said Deforceants did acknowledge the right of the said Manors and Tenements to be
magnitudine sufficienti essendi maremium and that the place where they growed was neither Orchard nor Garden It was said by the Court That by the Custom the Copyholder could not cut down such Trees but the Lord might and that the cutting down of such Trees which were not Wast the Copy-holder might justifie without punishment but because by the Verdict it did not appear that the Trees for which the Action was brought were Timber in facto but only de magnitudine effendi maremium the Plaintiff had Iudgment CCCLXVI The Lord Staffords Case Mich. 25 26. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Extent UPon Recovery in debt against the Lord Stafford certain Lands of the Lord were extended by Elegit The Queen because the Lord Stafford was endebted unto her by Prerogative ousted the Tenant by Elegit Fleetwood Serjeant moved the Court in the behalf of him who recovered and surmised to the Court that the Queen was satisfied and therefore prayed a Re-extent but the Court would not grant it because they were not certain of the matter but advised the party to sue a Scire facia against the said Lord Stafford to know and shew cause why a Re-extent should not issue forth the Queen being satisfied c. CCCLXVII Gibbs and Rowlies Case Mich. 25 26. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Tithes SYmon Gibbs Parson of Beddington Libelled in the Spiritual Court against Rowlie for Tithe Milk Rowlie upon surmise of a Prescription de modo Decimandi obtained a Prohibition which was against Symon Gibbs Rectorem Ecclesiae parochial de Nether Beddington and the parties were at Issue upon the Prescription Prohibition and it was found for Rowlie Egerton Solicitor moved against the Prohibition because the Libel is against Gibbs Rectorem Ecclesiae paroch de Beddington and the Prohibition was de Nether Beddington and it was not averred that Beddington in the Libel and Nether Beddington is unum idem non diversa It was said by the Court That upon the matter there is not any Prohibition against Rectorem Ecclesiae de Beddington only and therefore said to the Plaintiffs Counsel let the Parson proceed in the Spiritual Court at his peril CCCLXVIII Russell and Handfords Case Mich. 25 26. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. RUssell brought an Action upon the Case against Handford and declared Quod cum quoddam molendinum ab entiquo fuit erectum upon such a River Nusance de quo one Thomas Russell whose Heir the Plaintiff is was seised in his Demesn as of Fee and dyed thereof seised after whose death the same descended to the Plaintiff by force of which the Plaintiff was seised in his Demesn as of Fee and so seised The Defendant upon the same River had levyed a new Mill per quod cursus aquae praedict coarctatus est and upon Not guilty It was found for the Plaintiff It was moved in Arrest of Iudgment That it is not layed in the Declaration that his Mill had been a Mill time out of mind c. And then if it be not an ancient Mill time out of mind Words of Prescription c. it was lawful for the Defendant to erect a new Mill And it was said That these words ab antiquo are not fit or significant words to set forth a Prescription but the words A tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit are the usual words for such a purpose See the Book of Entries 10 11. See 11 H. 4. 200. If I have a Mill and another levies another Mill there and the Miller hinders the Water to run to my Mill or doth any such Nusance Roll. 140. an Action lyeth without any Prescription as it seems by the Book in 22 H. 6. 14. The Plaintiff declared That he was Lord of such a Town and that he and all his Predecessors Priors of N. Lords of the same Town have had within the same Town four Mills time out of mind c. And that no other person had any Mill in the said Town but the Plaintiff and his Predecessors the said four Mills and that all the Tenants of the Plaintiff within the same Town and all other Resiants there c. ought and time out of mind c. had used to grind at the said Mills of the Plaintiff and that the Defendant one of the Tenants of the Plaintiff had erected and set up a Horse Mill within the said Town and there the Resiants grinded c. And it was holden That peradventure upon such matter an Action lyeth because the Defendant being one of the Tenants of the Plaintiff is bound by the Custom and Prescription so as he hath offended against the privity of the Custom and Prescription And as to the Case in question It was the opinion of all the Iustices Hob. 189. Ante 168. 1 Cro. 415. That if the Mill whereof the Plaintiff hath declared be not an ancient Mill that this Action doth not lye upon the matter eo quod cursus aquae coarctatur But yet at last it was holden by the Court to be good enough notwithstanding the Exception Another Exception was taken to the Declaration because that here is set forth the seisin of the Father of the Plaintiff and the Descent to the Plaintiff by force of which he was seised in his Demesn c. without shewing that after the death of the Father that he entred into the said Mill Seisin in fact and in Law. c. so as no seisin in fact is alleadged but only a seisin in Law and if the Plaintiff was not seised in fact he cannot punish this personal wrong but the Exception was disallowed for such a seisin in Law is sufficient for the maintenance of this Action And afterwards the Plaintiff had Iudgment to recover his Damages See for the Action it self contained in the Declaration 8 Eliz. Dyer 248. CCCLXIX Cleypools Case Mich. 26. Eliz. In the Exchequer Informations upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. of Tillage INformation in the Exchequer against Cleypool upon the Statute of Tillage 5 Eliz. setting forth That the Defendant hath converted three hundred Acres of arable Lands of Tillage to pasture and the same conversion hath continued from 15 Eliz. unto the two and twentieth of Eliz The Defendant as to the Conversion pleaded Not guilty and as to the Continuance the general Pardon by Parliament 23 Eliz. upon which the Attorney general did demur in Law. It was argued That that pardon did not extend to the continuance of the said Conversion And first the Barons were clear of opinion That if A. be seised of Arable Lands and converts the same to pasture and so converted leaseth it to B. who continues it in pasture as he found it he shall be charged by that Statute And it is not any good Construction where the Exception in the pardon is excepting the converting of any Land from Tillage to Pasture made done committed or permitted that the Conversion excepted
his Parishioner all demands in his Lands his Tithes thereby are not extinct and afterwards a Consultation was granted CCCCXII Lee and Curetons Case Trin. 31 Eliz. Rot. 902. In the Kings Bench. Debt 1 Cro. 153. IN Debt upon an Obligation the Defendant pleaded Non est factum and it was found for the Plaintiff and Iudgment given and afterwards the Defendant brought Error and assigned for Error that the Declaration was per scriptum suum obligat Error without saying hic in Guria prolat to which it was answered by Coke that the same was but matter of form for which a Iudgment ought not to be reversed for that the Clark ought to put in without instruction of the party and so it was holden in a case betwixt Barras and King 1 Cro. 768. 778. 3 Cro. 22. M. 29 30 Eliz. Another Error was assigned because the Iudgment is entred de fine nihil quia perdonat where it should be quod capiatur although the Plea were pleaded after the General pardon and for that cause the Iudgment was reversed for if the pardon be not specially pleaded the Court cannot take notice of it as it was holden in Serjeant Harris Case CCCCXIII Lacy and Fishers Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN a Replevin the taking is supposed in S. which Land is holden of the Manor of Esthall the Defendant made Conusans as Bailiff of the Lord of the Manor aforesaid and issue was taken upon the Tenure Trial. and it was tryed by a Iury out of the Visne of Esthall only Tanfield The trial is good for the issue ought not to have been tried by both Visnes S. and Esthall for two things are in issue If it be holden or not 2. If it be holden of the Manor of Esthall for which cause the Visne ought to be from both places and the opinion of the Court was That for the manner of it it was not good as if an issue be joyned upon common for cause of vicinage it shall be tried by both Towns See 39 H. 6. 31. by Littleton and Danby and the case in 21 E. 3. 12. was cited in a per quae servitia the Mannor was in one county and the Lands holden in another county the Tenant pleaded that he did not hold of the Conusor and that he was tried by a Iury of the County where the Land was See 2 H. 4. Gawdy denied the Book cited of 21 E. 3. to be Law and the reason wherefore the Visne shall come from both places is because it is most likely that both the Visnes may better know the truth of the matter than the one only Another Exception was taken Exposition of Stat. 21. H. 8. cap. 19. because the Conusans as it seems is made according to the Statute of 21 H. 8. 19. and yet the party doth not pursue the said Statute through the whole Conusans for by the Statute in Avowry or Conusans the party needs not to name any person certain to be Tenant to the Land c. nor to make Avowty or Conusans upon any person certain and now in this Conusans he hath not made Conusance upon any person certain but yet he hath named a person certain to be Tenant c. and in as much as this Conusans is not made either according to the Common-Law or according to the Statute it cannot be good But that Exception was dissallowed by the Court for if the Statute remedieth two things it remedieth one and the Conusance made in form as above was well enough by the opinion of the whole Court. CCCCXIV Diersly and Nevels Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action of Trespass the Defendant pleaded Not-guilty 2 Roll. 682. and if he might give in evidence That at the time of the Trespass the Freehold was to such an one and he as his servant and by his Commandment entred was the question and it was said by Coke That the same might so be well enough and so it was adjudged in Trivilians Case for if he by whose commandment he entreth hath Right at the same instant that the Defendant entreth the Right is in the other by reason whereof he is not guilty as to the Defendant and Iudgment was given accordingly CCCCXV. Savage and Knights Case Mich. 29 and 30 Eliz. Rot. 546. In the Kings Bench. Error Ante 185. 1 Cro. 106. 2 Cro. 109. 654. Sty 91. Yelv. 164. Sty 115. A Writ of Error was brought upon a Iudgment given in Leicester in Debt Tanfield assigned for Error because in that suit there was not any Plaint for in all inferior Courts the Plaint is as the Original at the Common Law and without that no Process can issue and here upon this Record nothing is entred but only that the Defendant summonitus fuit c. and the first Entrie ought to be A. B. queritur versus C c. Clench Iustice a Plaint ought to be entred before Process issueth forth and this Summons which is entred here is not any Plaint and for that Cause the Iudgment was reversed CCCCXVI Rawlins Case Trin. 31. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN Trespass for breaking his Close by Rawlins with a continuando It was moved by Coke that the Plaintiff needed not to shew a Regress to have Damages for the continuance of the first Entry scil for the mean profits and that appears by common experience at this day Gawdy Iustice whatsoever the experience be I well know that our books are contrary and that without an Entry he shall not have damages for the continuance if not in case where the Term or estate of the Plaintiff in the Land be determined and to such opinion of Gawdy the whole Court did incline but they did not resolve the point because a Regress was proved See 20 H. 6. 15. 38 H. 6. 27. CCCCXVII Harris and Bakers Case Trin. 31. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Accompt Damages 3 Len. 192. Collet and Andrews Case 2 Len. 118. 3 Len 149. IN an accompt damages were given by the Iury and it was moved that damages ought not to have been given by way of damages but the damages of the Plaintiff shall be considered by way of Arrearages but see the Case H. 29 Eliz. in the Common Pleas betwixt Collet and Andrews and see 10 H. 6 18. In Accompt the Plaintiff shall count to his damage but shall not recover damages vide 2. H. 7. 13. 21 H. 6. 26. The Plaintiff shall not recover damages expresly but the Court shall adâ— quoddam incromentum to the Arrearages Coke It hath been adjudged that the Plaintiff shall recover damages ratione implicationis non Retentionis CCCCXVIII Mich. 26. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe words of the Statute 32 H. 8. cap. 37. of Rents are that the Executor of a Grantee of a Rent-charge may distrain for the arrearages of the said Rent incurred in the life of the Testator so long as the Land charged doth continue in
that was holden by the Court clearly to be Error and afterwards at another day it was moved by Coke That a man attainted of Felony could not make Executors for he is dead in Law and as Bracton saith solus Deus facit Haeredes homo nominat Executores and therefore the Heir only shall have a Writ of Error also an Executor cannot have a Writ of Error but only upon a Iudgment given in a personal Action but this Attainder is a thing of a higher nature as where a Woman poysoneth her Husband the Heir shall not have an Appeal for Murder is changed into Treason and that offence is a thing of a higher nature so this Attainder is of a higher nature than in the personalty Also it may be mischievous to the Heir for the Executor may forthwith bring and pursue his Writ of Error by which the Iudgment shall be affirmed and so the right of the Heir shall be bound also when Error is brought to reverse an Outlawry of Felony a Scire facias ought to be sued against the Lords mediate and immediate which cannot be here at the Suit of the Executors also it was found by Enquest of the Coroner that the Testator fugam fecit so that thereby if he had been acquitted he shall lose his goods and then the Executors have not any reason to bring this Writ of Error but see 11 H. 4. Error 51. That Executors shall have a Writ of Error of an Outlawry pronounced against their Testator and if it be reversed they shall have restitution of the goods of the Testator but it doth not appear there that it was upon an Indictment of Felony Altham As well the Executor as the Heir is a person able for to sue a Writ of Error in such case as 13 E. 4. where a false oath is given against one in Assise and dieth the Heir shall have an Attaint for the Land and the Executor in respect of the damages Popham Attorney General This Outlawry is a real Iudgment therefore the Executor cannot have Error upon it Wray It is good that this case be considered for it may be mischievous for thereby the Executor shall avoid the Attainder against the King and the Lords Fenner That cannot be without a Scire facias Gawdy The Executors shall have this Action and as to that which hath been objected that the party attainted cannot make Executors the same is no reason for the Executors do pretend that their Testator was not lawfully outlawed and so by this Suit they do endeavour to take away that disability and therefore it ought not to be objected against the Executor and if the Case here be That the Testator had not lands but only goods there is no reason but that the Executors should have a Writ of Error otherwise the goods of the Testator should be lost and it was clearly holden by Wray chief Iustice That the Executor might have and pursue this Writ of Error the Outlawry of the Testator notwithstanding and afterwards the Outlawry was reversed accordingly CCCCLX Trussels Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Habeas corpus Owen Rep. 69. ◠Cro. 213 516. Co. 3 Inst 213 215. TRussel was removed out of the Counter of London by Habeas corpus into the Kings Bench. Egerton The Queens Solicitor moved the Court that Trussel was a person attainted of Felony and so had not any lands or goods to satisfie c. and also his life was not his own and upon the Return of the Habeas corpus it appeared that Trussel was detained in Prison for an Execution and for divers Actions and it was the opinion of the Court Executions Post 329 330. that as to the Execution he ought not to be discharged for then the party should lose his debt for ever but as to the other actions it was the opinion of all the Iustices that Trussel ought to be discharged of them for a man so attainted ought not to be put to answer nor taken in Execution and so are all our Books And they said that they had conferred with the Iustices of the Common Pleas and with the Barons of the Exchequer which were of a contrary opinion in this case upon the very matter and not upon the manner of the pleading but yet we will discharge our Consciences as we have done for there is not any Book against us Egerton stetit super semitas antiquas and at last it was awarded That Trussel should be discharged of all Actions brought against him CCCCLXI Sovers Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. SOver and others were Indicted upon the Statute of 8 H. 6. Indictments upon the Statute of 8 H. 6. of forcible Entry because they had expulsed one A. out of his Land and disseised the Mayor and Commonalty of London who were in Reversion and the same being removed hither Restitution was prayed thereupon and White for the City who was in Reversion and the Lessor prayed that no Restitution might be for they had let the House to another Restitution Yelv. 81. Dy. 141 142. and that he who had procured this Indictment claimed in by a Custom of London That the Executor of the last Termor should not be put out if he shall give as much for it as any other will whereas in truth there is not any such Custom and for that cause the Restitution was stayed and it was said by the Court that Restitution shall be always made to him in the Reversion and not to the Lessee for years for he who is disseised shall be restored and then the Lessee may re-enter CCCCLXII Beal and Carters Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action of false Imprisonment False Imprisonment Owen Rep. 98 287. the Defendant justified because the Plaintiff brought a Child of the age of six years and not above into the Parish Church of W. eundem ibidem relinquere voluisset intendisset without keeping or nourishment to the danger and destruction of the Child contra pacem for which the Defendant being Constable of the said Parish arrested the Plaintiff and put him in prison until he did agree and promise to carry the Child from whence it came upon which the Plaintiff did demur in Law. It was moved that the Iustification was good for every Subject might do it à fortiori a Constable and if in this case the Child being so exposed should be famished for want of nourishment it had been murder as it was holden at Winchester before the Lord chief Baron 20 Eliz. Another Exception was taken to the Plea because he saith quendam infantem without naming him and he ought to say Quendam infantem ignotum Antea 56. but that Exception was not allowed Another Exception ibidem relinquere intendisset but he doth not say that he did depart from it and then his meaning is not traversable or issuable or to be tried by Iurors See 22 E. 4. 45. Gawdy
Tanfield contrary I confess that the Father ought to have the marriage of his Son and Heir so long as he is sub potestate patris but here the Father hath committed all his interest power and authority in his Son to the Defendant his Master with whom he hath bound his Son Apprentice for seven years during which term the Father hath not any thing to do with his Son or his Marriage Wray The Action Quare filium haeredem c. is not given to the Father because his marriage belongs to him but because of the Education and such was the opinion of Clench Iustice and the marriage doth not belong properly to the Father For if the Son marrieth himself without the leave of the Father there is not any remedy for the Father And afterwards Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff LXIV Bullers Case Pasch 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. â—â—â—â—evin EDmund Buller brought a Replevin against two who make Conusans as Baylies to A. for rent arrear reserved upon a lease for life To which the Plaintiff in Bar of the Conusans pleaded that two strangers had right of Entry in the place where 2 Len. 196. c. and that the said two Defendants by their Commandment entred c. and took the Cattle of which the Replevin is brought damage feasant absque hoc that they took them as Baylies to the said A. and upon that Traverse the Defendants did demur in Law. 2 Len. 216. Post 327. Shuttleworth Serjeant the Traverse is not good for by that means the intent of the party shall be put in issue which no Iury can try but only in Case of Recaption See 7 H. 4. 101. by Gascoign If the Bayly upon the distress shews the cause and reason of it he cannot afterwards vary from it but the other party may trice him by Traverse but if he distrain generally without shewing cause then he is at large to shew what cause he will and the other party shall answer to it â— Co. 7â— And it was said by the Court that when a Bayly distreins he ought if he be required to shew the cause of his distress but if he be not required then he is not tied to do it Anderson We were all agreed in the Case betwixt Lowin and Hordin that the Traverse as it is here was well taken The Number Roll of that Case is M. 28 29 Eliz. 2494. LXV Hudson and Leighs Case Pasch 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. HUdson recovered against Leigh in an Action of Battery for which a Capias pro fine issued against Leigh and also a Capias ad Satisfaciendum returnable the same Term at one and the same Return Process As to the Capias pro fine the Sheriff returned Cepi and as to the Capias ad Satisfaciendum non est inventus And for this contrariety of the Return the Court was of opinion that the Sheriff should be amerced but it was moved by the Council of the Sheriff Return of the Sheriff that the awarding of the Capias pro fine was meerly void for the Fine is pardoned by the Parliament And it is also Enacted That all process awarded upon such Fines shall be void and then the Capias pro fine being void it matters not how or in what manner it be returned for the Court shall not respect such process nor any return of it and then the Court not having resepect to that Return there is not any contrariety for the Capias ad Satisfaciendum only is returned and not the Capias pro fine And at another day it was moved again the Battery was supposed Junij 1586. and Iudgment given the thirteenth of February the same year upon which issued Capias pro fine Escape 5 Co. â—â— and before the Return thereof the Parliament ended which pardoned such Fines and made all process thereupon void And it was said by the Court that if the Sheriff in such Case takes the party by a Capias pro fine now upon that taking he is in Execution for the party and if the Sheriff let him go at large he shall answer for the escape And in that case the Capias pro fine was well awarded and the Court ought to regard it and the Defendant lawfully taken by virtue of it and also in execution for the party in Iudgment of Law and afterward when the Parliament came and Enacted ut supra although the process be made void thereby the same ought to be meant as to the interest of the King in the Fine and the vexation of the Subject by it but not as to the Execution of the party but the Sheriff shall answer for that Execution And it was also holden by the Court that if the Plaintiff sueth an Elegit then upon the Capias pro fine executed the Defendant shall not be adjudged in Execution for the party for he hath made his Election of another manner of Execution scil of the Land and he shall never resort to an Execution of the body 13 H 7. 12. And as our case is there was an Elegit obtained but it was not on Record nor any Record made of it and therefore the election of the Execution remained to the Plaintiff And as to the point aforesaid that such process shall be void as to the King only not as to the party See now 5 Ja. C. 6. part 79. Sir Edward Phittons Case LXVI Potter and Stedals Case Pasch 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Trepass by Samuel Potter against Stedal the Case was Trespass Tenant for life of Land leased parcel thereof to hold at Will and being in possession of the residue levyed a Fine of the whole the Lessor entred into the Land which was let at will in point of forfeiture in the name of the whole it was holden the same is a good entry for the whole Ante 56. But if the Disseisor leaseth for years part of the Land whereof the disseisin was committed Entry 1 Inst 252. and the disseisee afterwards entreth into the Land which continueth in the possession of the Disseisor in the name of the whole the same Entry shall not extend to the Land leased for here the Lessee is in by title but in the other Case not for when Tenant for life leaseth it at will and afterwards levies a Fine the same is a determination of the Will. 16 Eliz. Dyer 377. 1. In the same plea it was holden that if there be lessee for life the remainder for life the remainder in fee Lessee for life in possession levyeth a Fine Sur Conusans de droit c. to his own use upon that Fine a Fee-simple accrues LXVII Leigh and Hanmers Case Pasch 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Debt upon a Recognizance THomas Leigh Esquire brought an Action of Debt upon a Recognizance in the nature of a Statute Staple against John Hanmer Esquire before the Mayor and Aldermen
the of Inner Temple being at the Bar when this Case was moved said unto Serjeant Shuttleworth that the Case had been adjudged against the Demandant and Scot Prothonotary did affirm that the Lord Dyer was of opinion that the Woman ought to be endowed according to the Custom and not otherwise And Sayer one of the Clarks of Nelson chief Prothonotary said that it was adjudged accordingly 16. Eliz. and that the Case was betwixt Gelbrand Demandant and Hunt Tenant LXXXIV Beverlie and Cornwals Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. BEverlie brought a Quare Impedit against Cornwal Quare Imped 2 Roll. 805. Out-lawry pleaded and had Iudgment to recover upon a Demurrer in Law Which see Mich. 28 29 Eliz. And now the Queen brought a Scire facias upon the matter That the said Beverly after the said Iudgment was out-lawed in an Action of Trespass at the sute of I. S. and upon that a Scire facias issued ad respondendum Quare dicta Domina Regina should not have execution of the Iudgment aforesaid by reason of the Out-lawry aforesaid and declared in all as aforesaid And further that the said Cornwal had resigned Vpon which Beverlie did demur in Law. And this Term it was argued by Puckering Serjeant for the Queen that by that Out-lawry the Interest to present is tranferred to the Queen Which see 5 H. 5. 3. Tenant at will of a Manor to which an Advowson is appendant is out-lawed in an Action of Trespass the Church voided by award of the Court it belongs to the King to present And see 8 R. 2. scil Quare Imped 200 A. seised of an Advowson the Church becomes void A. is Out-lawed in a personal Action the King shall have a Quare Impedit in that Case And as to the Exception taken because the Out-lawry is not sufficiently layed in the Writ but only generally viz. utlagatus in Com. Lincoln ad sectam J.S. in placito transgressionis without shewing the Out-lawry at large There is a difference where an Out-lawry is pleaded by way of â—â—r and disability of the person c. and where it is set down in a Writ for a Writ ought shortly and compendiously to comprehend the cause of the Action especially judicial Writs which are not tied to any form certain especially because that the Out-lawry set forth in the Writ is a Record of the same Court For the perclose of the Scire facias is prout per recordum hic in curia plenius apparet And that Record being in the Court the party cannot plead Nul tiel record as if the Record had been in any other Court But he ought to demand Dyer of the Record Which vide 5 H. 7. 24. Walmesley Serjeant contrary By Out-lawry in an Action personal the King cannot seise Land but only take the profits of it 9. H. 6. 20. 21 H. 7. 7. And as our case is nothing doth accrew to the Queen by this Out-lawry for the Queen her self is seised of the Advowson because she usurpando presentavit and her Clerk admitted and although Beverlie hath recovered in a Quare Impedit against the Presentee of the Queen yet because he is not removed by a Writ to the Bishop the Queen continues Patron and nothing remains in Beverlie that may be forfeited But Rhodes and Periam contrary for by Periam if after such Recovery the Incumbent dieth the Patron shall present for by the Iudgment in the Quare Impedit for Beverlie the Patronage is revâ—â—ted in him without any other execution And by Rhodes If after such Iudgment the Patron dieth his Executors shall have a Writ to the Bishop And by Walmesley the Scire facias doth not lie for the Queen for that Writ always runs in privity of the Record upon which it is grounded to which Record the Queen is a stranger and by Out-lawry in an Action personal no Action real shall escheat and therefore this Scire facias being in the nature of a Quare Impedit upon which it is grounded which is a real Action or at least a mixt shall not be forfeited and also it shall be absurd to grant now a Writ to the Bishop for the Queen whereas Iudgment was given against the Queen as in our case it hath been And in no Case the Iudges shall respect the title of the Queen being a stranger to the Writ But where a title for the Queen doth appear upon the pleading or otherwise within the Record 11 H. 4. 224. by Hankford If a clear title for the King be confessed by the parties upon pleading a Writ to the Bishop shall issue for the King so if such matter appear in Evidence 3 Cro. 427. c. the Land in question is seisable into the Kings hands See 9 H. 7. 9. 16 H. 7. 12. so 21 E. 4. 3. by Choke and F.N.B. 38. e. In a Quare Impedit betwixt two strangers if title doth appear to the Court for the King a Writ to the Bishop shall issue forth for the King but in our Case nothing is within the Record to intitle the Queen but all the matter upon which a Writ to the Bishop is prayed for the Queen is out of the Record and a foreign thing And as to the Out-lawry he conceived it is not sufficiently alledged for he ought to have made mention of the Exigent and of all the proceeding upon it and the Iudgment of the Coroners and for defect of that no title is given to the Queen and of that opinion was the Lord Anderson and that it ought to be set forth in the Writ in what Term the said Beverly was out-lawed and the Number Roll also so that if Beverly had demanded Dyer of the Record the Court might know it And by Nelson chief Prothonotary the Term in which the Out-lawry was ought to be comprised in the Scire facias Vide Book of Entries 485. where in a Quare Impedit for the King upon such a title the King shewed in his Count that A. was seised of such an Advowson and granted the next Avoidance to B. and that afterwards one C. impleaded the said B. in a Writ of Account in such a Court where Nihil was returned upon the summons upon which issued forth a Capias upon which is returned Non est inventus c. upon which an Exigent upon which the Sheriff did return quod ad com tent c. ad v. comitat tunc prox praecedent the said B. exactus fuit non comparuit quia ad nullum eorundem comitat apparuit utlagatus fuit and after the the Church voided and that by reason thereof it did belong to the King to present vide ibid. 196. accordingly And as to the Scire facias all the Iudges agreed that upon the matter the Writ lay well enough And it is good discretion in the Court to grant such a Writ And by Rhodes If two Coparceners of an Advowson make composition to present by turns and afterwards
hands after the Iudgment and prayed execution thereof upon which the Defendant did demur in Law. Vide 2â— H. 6. 40. 41. In debt against Executors of forty marks the Defendant pleaded that he had fully administred and it was sound that the Defendant at the day of the Writ brought had of the goods of the dead twenty marks and no more and gave damges five marks There the Plaintiff had Iudgment for the twenty marks of the goods of the dead and the five marks of their own goods And as to the other twenty marks that the Plaintiff should be amerced 33 H. 6. 24. Where Executors plead that they have nothing in their hands which is found accordingly Afterwards goods of the Testator came to the hands of the Executors Now the Plaintiff upon a surmise shall have out of the same Record a Scire facias to have execution of the said goods Scire facias to have Execution of Assets come to Executors hands after â—iens enter maynes pleaded But see 4 H. 6. 4. contrary for there it is said that upon the matter the original is determined and so no Record upon which a Scire facias can be grounded And see Fitzh abridging the Case Scire facias 25. by the verdict and the Iudgment the Original is abated Vide 7 E. 4. 9. by Moile according to 33 H. 6. and so 46 E. 3. 9. by Belknap And the Lord Anderson demanded of the Prothonotaries the manner of the entry of the Iudgments given in such Cases who said that their Entry is in this manner i. e. Quod querens recuperet that which is expresly found by the verdict but nothing of the residue for of that no mention is made at all And the Court seemed to be of opinion that where upon nothing remaining in their hands pleaded It is found that some part of the sum in demand is in the hands of the Executors there the Plaintiff upon a surmise of goods come to the hands of the Executors shall have a Scire facias 3 Cro. 272. Hob 199. 1 Cro. 318. 319 592. 8 Co. 134. contrary where upon such issue it is found fully for the Defendants that they have nothing in their hands LXXXVIII Fordleys Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In Communi Banco Tender pleaded 9 Co. 79. Dy. 25. a. 1 Inst 207. Post 69. 70. a. FOrdley brought debt upon an Obligation the Condition was that if the Defendant viz. the Obligor deliver unto the Plaintiff the Obligee at a such a day and place twenty pounds or ten Kine at the then choice of the Obligee c. that then c. The Court was clear of opinion that the Defendant in pleading the performance thereof ought to tender to the Plaintiff as well the twenty pounds as the ten Kine and for default thereof Iudgment was given against the Defendant See the Number Roll T. 29 Eliz. 1. part 324. vide 14 E. 4 4. b. LXXXIX Barker and Pigots Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In Communi Banco EDward Barker brought Debt against Rich. Pigot Executor of the Will of E. Executrix of the Will of R. The Defendant pleaded that he had fully administred the goods of his Testator E. upon which they were at issue Debt which was found for the Plaintiff And it was moved in arrest of Iudgment that here is not any issue joyned which answers to the Action for the Action is brought against the Defendant in the quality of the Executor of an Executor and the verdict extends to the Defendant but is Executor of the said E. for it is found by it that the Defendant hath fully administred the goods of his Testatrix without any enquiry of the Administration of the goods of the first Testator R. in which capacity the Defendant is charged So as here the Writ charges the Defendant in the quality of an Executor of an Executor and in respect of the first Testator and the issue and verdict doth concern the last Testator Execution must follow the nature of the Action And the whole Court was clear of opinion that although that now after verdict Fee-tail be saved and no Iudgment shall be given upon it yet here the Court shall give Iudgment as upon a Nihil dicit in which case the Execution of the Iudgment shall not fall upon the goods of the last Testator according to the verdict but shall follow the nature of the Action which was brought against the Defendant as Executor of an Executor XC Thacker and Elmers Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In Communi Banco THacker recovered in an Assize of Novel disseisin against Elmer certain Lands in Hackney and had execution Re-disseisin and the Judgment in it 1 Cro. 323. Elmer entred upon Thacker and ousted him and Redisseised him Thacker re-entred and afterwards brought a Redisseisin And it was moved whether Thacker against his Entry might have a Redisseisin And the opinion of the whole Court was that he might well maintain the Writ for he is not thereby to recover any Land but the Defendant of that Redisseisin being convicted shall be fined and imprisoned and render double damages Vide Book of Entries 502. the Iudgment in a Redisseisin is Quod recuperet seisinam suam of the Land. XCI Blaunchflower and Fryes Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In Communi Banco BLaunchflower brought debt upon a Bond against Elinor Frye as Executrix of one Andrew Frye her late Husband who pleaded Debt that this Writ was brought 9 July 27 Eliz. whereof she had notice the first of October after within which time one Lawrence had brought an Original Writ against the said Elinor as Administratrix of the said Andrew And after the bringing of the Writ the Bishop of Bath and Wels committed Administration of the goods of the said Andrew to the said Elinor which Elinor confessed the Action upon which Iudgment was given for the said Lawrence beyond which she had not goods upon which the now Plaintiff did demur in Law. And by Anderson the Recovery pleaded in bar shall not bind the Plaintiff because it appeareth unpon the plea of the Defendant that the Administration was committed after the Writ purchased which matter if the Defendant had pleaded Administration granted pendant the Writ Lawrence could not have had Iudgment to recover As where there are three Executors and debt is brought against two of them if they do not plead that matter in abatment of the Writ but plead c. or confess the Action so that the Plaintiff hath Iudgment to Recover that Recovery shall not bind a stranger who hath cause of Action against them but that he may well falsify it and yet it was said that in such Case the Defendant by the obtaining of the Letters of Administration had made the Writ good against her vid. 13 H. 4. Fitz. Executors 118. Administration committed before the Writ purchased shall abate the Writ brought against the Defendant as Executor but such Administration obtained
the Obligation which was made for the further assurance of the duty And here the Defendant ought to have pleaded the tender and see 14. E. 4. 4. A. is bound unto B. that where he hath granted to the said B. a Rent-charge out of such Land now if the said B. shall enjoy the said Rent according to the form and effect of the said Grant that then c. there he needs not to plead any tender for the Rent is not payable in other manner than it was before contrary if the Condition had been for the payment of the Annuity And of that opinion was the whole Court that he ought to have pleaded a tender Another matter of the Award was that the said Audar should yield up surrender relinquish to the Plaintiff all such Houses and Tenements which he had in his possession by reason of the custody of the said Plaintiff As to that the Defendant pleaded that he had yielded up c. All such Houses c. generally without shewing which in certain And for that cause the Court was clear of opinion that the Plea was not good which see 9 E. 4. 16. If I be bounden upon condition to enfeoff the Obligee of all Lands Tenements which were to I.S. in pleading the performance of that Condition I ought to shew what Lands and Tenements in certain for they pass out of me by the Feoffment See also 12 H. 8. 7. 13 H. 8. Non damnificatus generally where no Plea. 19. Another point of the Award was That the said Audar should acquit and discharge and save harmless the Plaintiff of such an Obligation to which the Defendant pleaded that Querens non fuit damnificatus and that Plea was holden insufficient for he ought to have shewed how he had discharged him and it is not sufficient to answer only to the damnification as if I be bounden to convey unto you the Manor of B. in pleading the performance of the condition it is not sufficient to shew that I have conveyed the said Manor but to shew by what manner of conveyance viz. by Fine or Feoffment c. 22 E. 4. 43. If the condition be to discharge the Plaintiff c. then the manner of the discharge ought to be shewed but if it be to save harmless only then non damnificatus generally is good enough 40 E. 3. 20. 38 H. 6. 39. The condition of an Obligation was that the Obligor should keep without damage the Obligee of such a sum of mony against B. to whom he was bounden for the payment of it and the said Obligor pleaded that at such a day c. the said B. at his request delivered the Obligation to the Plaintiff in liew of an acquittance without that that the Plaintiff was damnified by the said Obligation before the delivery of it and it was holden by the Court that if the Defendant had pleaded that he had kept the Plaintiff without damage and had not shewed how that the Plea had not been good See 22 E. 4. 40. The Lord Lisles Case And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff XCVI Heydons Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. RAlph Heydon pretending title to certain Land entred into it and made a Lease of it to try the title Vpon which his Lessee brought an Ejectione firmae in which the parties were at Issue And now at the day of the Enquest the Iurors were called and but five of them appeared whereupon the Defendant came and shewed to the Court that the said Heydon by his Friends and Servants had laboured the Iury not to appear and that for the further vexation of the Defendant who had four Verdicts in affirmance of his title that the said Heydon to procure the Iury not to appear had surmised to them that he and the Defendant were in course of an agreement whereas in truth no such communication of agreement had any time passed betwixt them And all this was openly deposed in Court as well upon the oath of the Defendant himself as upon the oath of one of the Iurors upon which the Court awarded an Attachment against the said Heydon to answer the contempt And also granted to the Defendant that he might sue a Decem tales with proviso for his own expedition XCVII Smith and Kirfoots Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In Communi Banco Debt upon Arbitrament SMith brought Debt upon an Arbitrament against Kirfoot and declared that the Defendant and he imposuerunt se in arbitrium ordinationem judicium Johannis Popham ar arbitratoris indifferenter electi de jure titulo inturesse in quibusdam Messuagijs c. Who taking upon him the burthen of the Arbitration ordinavit that the said Defendant should pay unto the Plaintiff ten pounds in plenam satisfactionem c. and thereupon he brought his Action It was moved by Walmesley Serjeant that the Declaration is not sufficient for it appeareth that the Arbitrament set forth in the Declaration is utterly void because whereas ten pounds is awarded to the Plaintiff nothing is awarded to the Defendant and so the Award unequal and so void But the Court was clear of opinion that notwithstanding that such an Arbitrament be void in Law yet it may be for any thing that appeareth that the award is good enough 1 Cro. 904. â— Cro. 354. 355. For the Plaintiff is not to shew in his Declaration all the Award but such part only of it which doth entitle him to the thing c. and if the Defendant will impeach the Award for any thing that is to come in on his part vide ac Book of Entries 152. 123. vide For the Arbitrament 39 H. 6. 12. by Moile 7 H. 6. 41. XCVIII Arundel against Morris Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In Communi Banco RIchard Arundel sued an Audita Querela against Morris and it was comprehended in the Writ That Morris had recovered against him a certain Debt and that he was taken by a Capias ad satisfaciendum Audita Querela at the suit of the said Morris by Hickford Sheriff of the County of Gloucester who let him go at large c. And they were at issue upon the voluntary escape it was found for the Plaintiff It was objected in arrest of Iudgment that the Writ of Audita Querela is not good for the words are that the Plaintiff captus fuit virtute brevis nostri judicialis whereas this word judicialis is not in the Register but only brevis nostri de capiendo But by the whole Court the Writ is good for the word judicialis is but a word of surplusage and shall not make void the Writ And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff XCIX Brook against King. Mich. 29 30. Eliz. IN Debt upon an Obligation by Brook against King the Defendant pleaded that the Bond was endorced with such condition viz. Debt That it the said Defendant King shall procure one I.S. to make reasonable recompence to the
petit quod inquiratur per patriam praedict Brett similiter It was moved that the parties should replead for this matter upon which they are at Issue scil the appearance is not triable by Iury but by the Record And the Court was clear of opinion that the parties should replead for the cause aforesaid And it was moved by the Lord Anderson that if A. be bound to appear in the Kings Bench at such a day and A. at the said days goe to the Court but there no process is returned then the party may go to one of the chief Clerks of the Court and pray him to take a Note of his appearance And by Nelson we have an acient form of entry of such Appearance in such Cases Ad hunc diem venit I. S. propter indemnitatem suam Manucaptorum suorum petit quod comparentia sua in Curia hic recordetur And see for the same 38 H. 6. 17. And afterwards the Lord Anderson inspecto Rotulo ex assensu sociorum awarded a Repleader And so by Nelson it hath been done oftentimes here before and put in ure The same Law is where at the day of appearance no Court is holden or the Iustices do not come c. he who was bound to appear ought to have an Appearance recorded in such manner as it may be and if the other party pleadeth Nul tiel Record it behoveth that the Defendant have the Record ready at his peril for this Court cannot write to the Iustices of the Kings Bench for to certifie a Record hither CXV Baxter and Bales Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Debt not extinct by administration BAxter brought Debt upon a Bond as Executor of I. against Bale who pleaded that the Plaintiff after the death of the Testator was cited to appear before the Ordinary or his Commissary to prove the Will of the said I. and at the day of his appearance he made default upon which the Ordinary committed Letters of Administration to the Defendant by force of which he did administer so the debt is extinct c. but the whole Court was clear of opinion that the debt was not extinct for now by the probate of the Will the administration is defeated and although the Executor made default at the day which he had by the Citation before the Ordinary yet thereby he is not absolutely debarred but that he may resort to the proving of the Will whensoever he pleaseth But if he had appeared and renounced the Executorship it had been otherwise and the debt is not extinct by the Administration in the mean time CXVI Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Franchise the parties are at Issue upon a matter triable out of the Franchise And it was moved if now the Record should be sent into the Common Pleas and there tryed and after trial sent back into the Franchise Which Periam and Anderson utterly denied and by Periam there is no reason that we should be their Ministers to try Issues joyned before them And it is not like 2 Len. 37. where in a Liberty or Franchise a Forrein Voucher is to warrant Lands in such cases we shall determine the Warranty but that is by a special Statute of Glocester cap. 12. And Nelson Prothonotary said that such an Issue was tryed here of late Quod nota CXVII The Earl of Arundel and the Lord Dacres Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. At Serjeants Inne PHilip Earl of Arundel and the Lord William Howard his Brother marryed the Daughters and Co-heirs of the late Lord Dacres And now came Francis Lord Dacres as heir male of the said Family and claimed the Inheritance c. And after long sute betwixt both parties they submitted themselves to the award of Gilbert Lord Talbot and of Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton and Windham and Periam Iustices And before them at Serjeants Inne the matter was well debated by the Council learned on both sides and as unto Greistock Lands parcel of the Lands in question the Case was That Tenant in tail makes a Feoffment in fee unto the use of himself for his life the Remainder in tail to his eldest Son with divers Remainders over with a Proviso that if any of the Entailees do any act to interrupt the course of any entail limited by the said Conveyance that then the use limited to such person should cease and go to him who is next inheritable And afterwards Tenant in tail dieth his eldest Son to whom the use in tail was first limited entreth and doth an Act against the said Proviso and yet held himself in and made Leases the Lessees enter the Lessor dieth seised his Heir being within age and in ward to the Queen It was holden by Shutleworth Serjeant Yelverton Godfrey Owen and Coke who were of Council with the Heirs general of the Lord Dacres that here is a Remitter for by this Act against the Proviso the use Remitter and so the possession doth accrue to the enfant Son of him to whom the use in tail was limited by the Tenant in tail Then when the Tenant in tail after his said Feoffment holds himself in this is a disseissin for a Tenancy by sufferance cannot be after the cesser of an estate of Inheritance But admit that he be but a Tenant at sufferance Hâ—b 255. Dy. 54. yet when he makes Leases for years the same is clearly a disseisin and then upon the whole matter a Remitter and although the Enfant taketh by the Statute yet the right of the tail descending to him afterwards by the death of his Father doth remit him as if Tenant in tail maketh a Feoffment in fee to the use of himself for life the Remainder in tail to his eldest Son inheritable to the first intail notwithstanding that the eldest Son takes his Remainder by the Statute and so be in â—â— force thereof yet when by the death of his Father the right of the Entail descends to him he is remitted CXVIII Butler and Ayres Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Dower BUtler and his Wife brought a Writ of Dower against Thomas Ayre Son and Heir of Bartholmew Ayre first Husband of the said Margaret Wife of the Plaintiff and demanded Dower of Lands in A. and B the Tenant pleaded never seised que Dower and the Iury found that the said Bartholmew was seised during the Coverture de omnibus tenementis infra script preterquam the Tenements in sic ut dicta Margareta dotari potuit Exception was taken to this Verdict because that this preterquam c. doth confound the Verdict To which it was said by the Court that the preterquam is idle and surplusage for it is of another thing than that which is in demand and the seisin of the first Husband of Lands in A. and B. is confessed and the preterquam works nothing Another matter was objected because here the Iury have assessed damages
not set down any place or time of the notification of his contentment for the same is traversable Gawdy The Issue here is non Assumpsit Assumpsit and therefore that matter is out of the Book Cook If one assume to pay twenty pounds to another upon request although the Defendant plead non Assumpsit yet if the place and time of request be not shewed Iudgment many times hath been stayed for no Action without a Request so here without notification of his contentment no Action therefore he ought to shew it Gawdy The ground of this Action is the Assumpsit but that cannot be certain without Declaration and thereof notice ought to be given to make certainty of the duty but not to enforce the promise but in our case without a Request Assumpsit will not lye But here it being but conveyance the certainty of the time and place is not necessary to be shewed but the general form shall serve for it is but inducement As if a man will plead a devise of goods to him and assent of the Executors to take them he need not to shew the time and place of the assent Gawdy at another day said that Iudgment ought to be given for the Plaintiff the Assumpsit is the ground and cause of the Action and the shewing of the contentment is only to reduce the Action to certainty And Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CLXVIII Musket and Coles Case Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. WIlliam Musket brought an Action upon the Case against Cole 1 Cro. 13. and declared that in consideration that the Plaintiff had payed unto the Defendant forty shillings for the Debt of Symon his Son the Defendant promised to deliver to him omnes tales billas Obligationes in which his Son was bounden to him which thing he would not do and it was found by Verdict for the Plaintiff And it was moved for stay of Iudgment because the Plaintiff had not averred in his Declaration that the said Defendant had Bills or Obligations in which Simon his Son was bounden to the Defendant Averment for if there were none then no damage And see Onlies Case 19 Eliz. Dyer 356. D. in consideration that the Plaintiff had expended divers sums of money circa the businesses of the Defendant promised c. Exception was taken to that Declaration by Manwood and Mounson Iustices because it was not shewed in what businesses certain and betwixt what persons Gawdy The Plaintiff here is not to recover the Bills or Obligations but damages only and therefore needeth not to alledge any Bills in certain And 47 E. 3. 3. A. covenants with B. to assure unto B. and his Heirs omnia terras tenementa quas habet in such Counties and for not assurance an Action of Covenant was brought and the Plaintiff declared that the Defendant had broken the said Covenant and that he had required the Defendant to make a Feoffment unto him of all his Lands and Tenements in the said Counties and the plea was not allowed for the Land is not in demand but only damages to be recovered See also 46 E. 3. 4. and 20 E. 3. And in the principal case the Plaintiff had time enough for the shewing to the Iury what Bills or Obligations for the instructing of the Iury of the damages CLXIX English and Pellitary and Smiths Case Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Assault and Battery 1 Cro. 139 140. IN an Action of Trespass of Assault and Battery and wounding The Defendants say that they were Lessees of certain Lands and the Plaintiff came to the said Lands and took certain Posts which were upon the Lands and they gently took them from him S. pleaded that he found the Plaintiff and P. contending for the said Posts and he to part them mollite put his hands upon the Plaintiff which is the same c. The Plaintiff replyed De injuriis suis propriis absque tali causa per ipsos P. S. allegat upon which issue was joyned which was found for the Plaintiff It was moved in arrest of Iudgment that here was not any issue for the Plaintiff ought severally to reply to both pleas aforesaid for here are several Causes of Iustification and his Replication absque tali causa Nomen Collectivum Post 139. Dy. 182. doth not answer to both Cook This word Causa is nomen Collectivum which may be referred to every Cause by the Defendants alledged reddendo singula singulis and their Iustifications are but one matter and the Defendants might have all joyned in one plea. Wray Both pleas depend upon one matter but are several causes for two justifie by reason of their Interest and the third for the preservation of the Peace And by him and the whole Court although it be not a good form of pleading yet by reasonable construction this word Cause shall be referred to every cause and so the pleading shall be maintained And afterwards Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff CLXX Cater and Boothes Case Trin. 30. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Intrat Hill. 30 Rot. 58. or 581. IF a Writ of Covenant the Plaintiff declared that the Defendant by his deed bearing date the first of October 28 Eliz. did covenant that he would do every act and acts at his best endeavour to prove the Will of I. S. or otherwise Covenant that he would procure Letters of Administration by which he might convey such a Term lawfully to the Plaintiff which he had not done licet saepius requisitus c. The Defendant pleaded that he came to Doctor Drury into the Court of the Arches and there offered to prove the Will of the said I. S. but because the Wife of the said I.S. would not swear that it was the Will of her Husband they could not be received to prove it Vpon which it was demurred in Law. It was moved by Williams that the Action doth not lie for there is no time limited by the Covenant when the thing should be done by the Defendant for which he hath time during his life for as much as it is a collateral thing See 15 E. 4. 31. if there be not a Request before but admit that the Covenant had been to perform upon request Request then the Plaintiff in his Declaration ought to have shewed an express request with the place and time of it for that is traversable See 33 H. 6. 47 48. 9 E. 4. 22. Gawdy If the Covenant had been eypresly to do it upon request there the request ought to be shewed specially But when a thing upon the exposition of the Law only is to be done upon Request such Request alledged generally is good enough And by Wray the Covenantor hath not time during his life to perform this Covenant but he ought to do it upon request within convenient time but in some case a man shall have time during his life as where no benefit shall be to any of the
by it self and the Declaration only enrolled Godfrey It was resolved in the Case betwixt Pendleton and Hunt Prohibition for tythes that an Agreement betwixt the Parson and any of his Parishioners is a good cause to grant a Prohibition if he libel in the Spiritual Court against such Agreement because the Spiritual Court cannot try it and they will not allow such Plea. Curia The Surmise is as a Writ for which if variance be betwixt the same and the Declaration all his naught CLXXVI Colebourn and Mixstones Case Intrat Hill. 31. Eliz. Rot. 146. Trin. 30. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. COlebourn was sued in the Spiritual Court for that being Executor to one Alice Leigh he had not brought in a true Inventory of all the goods of the said Alice but had omitted and left out a lease of two houses and this suit was at the pursuit of two Daughters of the Testator Colebourn sueth for a Prohibition and surmises and declares how this Lease is extinct and the matter was this H. Leigh was seised of a house called the Marigold and two other houses in London and leased the said two houses to one Alice Cheap for 21 years if she should live so long and afterwards made a Lease in Reversion of the said two houses to the said Alice Leigh for 21 years and afterwards he devised these two houses Devises and also the house called the Marigold to the said Alice Leigh for her life for to bring up his children and died after whose death the said Alice Leigh entred into the said house called the Marigold and took the rents and profits of the said two houses for the space of 7 years virtute testament praedict upon which Declaration the Defendants do demurr in Law. Coke the Declaration is not good and for the matter of it it is clear that by this devise unto Alice her Term in futuro is not extinct without her agreement to it And also in this Case the Devise is not for the benefit of the said Alice Leigh but of her children and she hath liberty to accept or refuse the said estate by devise and to make her election Extinguishment And the Plaintiff hath declared that she hath accepted the Rent reserved upon the Lease of the said two houses for 7 years And therein the Declaration naught in divers respects 1. He hath declared that the said Alice Leigh hath accepted the Rents of the said two houses by reason of the reversion virtue testament praedict by 7 years which is double and treble for acceptance of a Rent at one day scil one rent day is a sufficient election As if the Issue in tail after the death of his Ancestor who hath made a Lease not warranted by the Statute once accepts the Rent the Lease is affirmed but if in plea pleading the acceptance of the said Rent for 3 years be pleaded the same clearly is not good for no good Issue can be taken thereupon 2. This acceptance is not pleaded as the Law wills and in the phrase of the Law viz. to which devise she agreed but pleads the acceptance of the Rent which is matter of evidence the which is not good pleading As 5 H. 7. 1. One sweareth another to enter into his Land and the same to occupy for a certain time Estate executed the same is a Lease in Law and if in pleading the party is to make his title to the same Land he ought to plead it as an expres Lease and not as a Licence and if the Lease be traversed he may give the Licence in evidence Tanfield presently by the devise the estate for life is in the Devisee and the Term extinct by it and that is sufficient for the Plaintiff And if there was any disagreement the same is to be shewed on the other side But if Alice had not notice of the Devise but dieth before notice the same amounteth unto a disagreement And as to the pleading of the Agreement I conceive it s well enough pleaded for if the Lease had not been she might have entred and then if such Entry had been pleaded it had been good enough and then because she could not enter by reason of the said Lease she hath taken the rents and profits which is an actual agreement and as strong as an Entry Also we have shewed that she had entred into the house called the Marigold Assent not to be apportioned of which the Devisor died seised in possession and that is a sufficient agreement for the whole for it is an entire Legacy As 18 E. 3. Variance 63. If the Reversion of three acres be granted and the Tenant for life attorneth for one acre it is a good attornment for the whole for he cannot apportion his assent and 2 E. 4. 13. If the Executor deliver unto the Devisee goods to him devised to redeliver them to him again at such a day the same is a good assent and execution of the Devise and the words of the re-delivery are void Gawdy The devise doth not vest the estate in the Wife until agreement where a man takes in a second degree as in a Remainder the same vests presently before agreement but where he taketh immediatly it is otherwise and he held the agreement was well enough pleaded Wray Presently upon the death of the Testator the Free-hold rested in the Devisee and it was not an Agreement ut supra by taking of the Rents yet the entry into the Marigold was a consent and an Execution of the whole Legacy and as to the rest he agreed with Gawdy Clench The Free-hold rested presently in Alice Leigh before agreement also the entry into the Marigold is an execution of the whole Legacy to the Devisee for her entry shall be adjudged most beneficial for her and that is for all the three houses CLXXVII Stransham and Medcalfes Case Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Cro. 178. STransham libelled in the Court of the Bishop of Norwich against Medcalfe for a portion of Tithes as Farmor of the Rectory of Dunham the Parson of Stonham came in and said that the Land whereof the Tithes are demanded is in his Parish of Stonham and not in the Parish of Dunham and afterwards sentence passed against Stransham who brought an Appeal and notwithstanding that by the Statute of 32 H. 8. cap. 7. the spiritual Iudges may proceed to make process against the Appellant for costs for the principal matter scil parcel or within such a Parish or not is tryable at the Common Law. Cook now prayed a Consultation and he confessed ut supra that the matter was tryable at the Common Law but yet the costs were not given for the matter but for the unjust vexation No Prohibition for costs in the spiritual Court. and it was his suit and own act to prosecute the same in the Spiritual Court. Note that Stransham had a Prohibition to stay the proceedings for the costs for
and that he would name in it one B. for special Bailiff and promised the Plaintiff that if B. arrested A. by force of the said Capias and suffered him to escape That he would not sue the Plaintiff for the escape and shewed further That he made a Warrant according to the said Capias and therein named and appointed the said B. his special Bailiff who arrested A. accordingly and afterwards suffered him to escape and the Defendant notwithstanding his promise aforesaid sued the Plaintiff for the said escape And it was found for the Plaintiff It was moved in arrest of Iudgment That the promise is against the Law to prevent the punishment inflicted by the Statute of 23 H. 6. upon the Sheriff and it is meerly within the Statute and so the promise void Cooke The same is not any Bond or promise taken of the Prisoner nor of any for him and therefore it is not within the Statute as it was in Danvers Case Wray A promise is within the Statute as well as a Bond but the Statute doth not extend but where the Bond or promise is made by the Prisoner or by any for him And after Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CLXXXI Mounson and Wests Case Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Trespass by Mounson against West the Iury was charged and evidence given and the Iurours being retired into a house for to consider of their evidence Owen 38. Plowd 520. Co. 1 Inst 227. Dyer 37. they remained there a long time without concluding any thing and the officers of the Court who attended them seeing their delay searched the Iurours if they had any thing about them to eat upon which search it was found that some of them had figs and others pippins for which the next day the matter was moved to the Court and the Iurours were examined upon it upon Oath And two of them did confess that they had eaten figs before they had agreed of their verdict and three other of them confessed That they had Pippins but did not eat of them Where Jurors shall be fined for eating before verdict but it shall not make void the verdict and that they did it without the knowledge or Will of any of the Parties And afterwards the Court set a fine of five pound upon each of them which had eaten and upon the others who had not eaten forty shillings And they would advise if the verdict was good or not for the Iury found for the Plaintiff And afterwards at another day the matter was moved and Anderson was of opinion That notwithstanding the said Misdemeanor of the Iury the verdict was good enough for these victuals were not given to them by any of the Parties to the action nor by their means or procurement Rhodes thought the contrary because some of the Iurors had eaten and some not contrary if all of them had eaten See 14 H. 7. 1. A Iury was charged and before their verdict they did eat and drink and it was holden that upon that Misdemeanor their verdict was void for which cause a venire facias de novo was awarded And it was prayed by the Counsel of the Defendant West That the said Misdemeanor so found by examination might be entred of Record which the Court granted And afterwards at another day the matter was moved again And upon great advice and deliberation and conference with the other Iudges The verdict was holden to be good notwithstanding the Misdemeanor aforesaid See 24 E. 3 24. 15 H. 7. 1. 2 H. 7. 3. 29 H. 8. 37. and 35 H. 8. 55. where it was holden where the eating and drinking of the Iury at their own costs is but fineable but if it be at the costs of the parties the verdict is void And see Book of Entries 251. The Iurors after they went from the Bar ad seipsos of their verdict to be advised comederunt quasdam species sci raisins dates c. at their own costs as well before as after they agreed of their verdict And the Iurors were committed to prison but their verdict was good although the verdict was given against the King. CLXXXII Hunt and Gilborns Case Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Dower brought by Hunt and his Wife against Gilborn The Defendant pleaded That the Land of which Dower is demanded Dower of Gavelkind by Custom Ante. 62 63. 1 Cro. 825. is of the nature of Gavelkind and that the custom is That in Dower of Land of such nature The Wife ought to be endowed of the moity of such Land Tenendum quam diu non maritata remanserit non aliter upon which plea in Bar the Demandants did demur in Law and the Lord Anderson was of opinion That the Custom is strongly pleaded against the Dower in the affirmative with a Negative non aliter and that is confessed by the Demurrer That Dower out of such Land ought to be so allowed and so demanded and in no other manner And by Periam If those words non aliter had not been in the Plea yet the Demandants should not have Iudgment For Dower by moiety non maritatis is as proper in case of Gavelkind as Dower of the third part of Land at the Common Law and as the descent in such case of Lands to all the Sons And afterwards Iudgment was given against the Demandants CLXXXIII The Case of the Provost and Scholars of Queens Colledge in Oxford Hill. 30. Eliz. THe Provost Fellows and Scholars of Queens Colledge in Oxford are Guardians of the Hospital or Meason de Dieu in Southampton And they make a Lease of the Land parcel of the said Hospital to one Hazel for Term of years by the name Praepositus Socii Scholares Collegii reginalis in Oxonia Gardianus Hospitalis c. And in an Ejectione firmae upon that lease It was found for the Plaintiffs and it was objected in arrest of Iudgment That the word Gardianus ought to be Gardiani for the Colledge doth consist of many persons and every person is capable and it is not like unto Abbot and Covent But the whole Court was of opinion that the Exception was not good but that as well the Lease as also the Declaration was good for the Colledge is one body and as one person And so it is good enough Gardianus CLXXXIV Wooden and Hazels Case Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione betwixt Wooden and Hazel they were at issue upon Not Guilty and a Venire facias awarded returnable Tres Trinit And the Essoin adjudged and adjorned by the Plaintiff until Michaelmas Term Nisi Prips And at next Assises the Plaintiff not withstanding that Essoin and the adjorning of it procured a Nisi Prius by which it was found for the Plaintiff And now it was moved in Court for the stay of Iudgment because no Nisi Prius ought to issue in the Case Essoin For the Essoin was adjudged and adjorned
until Michaelmas Term by the Plaintiff himself And Leonard custos Brevium said That the words of the Statute of Westminster 2 cap. 27. Postquam aliquis posuerit se in aliquem inquisitionem ad proximum diem allocet ei esson Imports That the Essoin shall not be taken at the return of the Process against the Iury although the Iury be ready at the Bar. Anderson was of opinion That the awarding of the Nisi Prius ut supra is but a misawarding of the Process and then relieved by the Statute And afterwards the case being moved at another day 1 Cro. 367. the Court was clear of opinion That no Nisi Prius ought to issue forth in this case because that the Plaintiff himself by the adjorning of the Essoin cast by the Defendant until Michaelmas Term had barred himself of all Proceedings in the mean time But afterwards it was surmised to the Court on the Plaintiffs part that he the Defendant was not essoined for the name of the Defendant is Edward Hazel and it appeared upon the tryal that Edward Russel was essoined Amendment but no Edward Hazel and then if no Essoin no adjornment and then the Plaintiff is at large c. and may proceed c. But the Remembrance of the Clark was Edward Hazel as it ought to be and yet it was holden of no effect being in another Term And afterwards the Counsel of the Defendant prayed that the Roll in hac parte be amended according to the Remembrance of the Clark But the Court utterly denied that for no Statute gives amendment but in the affirmance of Iudgments and Verdicts and not in defeazance of Iudgments or Verdicts and afterwards it was resolved by the whole Court That Iudgment be entred for the Plaintiff CLXXXV Sir Henry Goodiers Case Hill. 32 Eliz. Intratur M. 29 30. Eliz. Rot. 2116. IN an Ejectione firmae the Case was Sir Ralph Rowlet possessed of certain Lands for years made his Will and ordained Sir Nicholas Bacon Renouncing of an Executorship Owen 44. Office of Executors 54. 1 Cro. 92. 9 Co. 37. Keeper of the great Seal of England Sir Robert Catline Lord Chief Iustice of England Iustice Southcote and Gerrard Attorney General his Executors and died And afterwards the said persons named Executors sent their Letters to the Chief Officer of the Prerogative Court as followeth Whereas our Loving friend Sir Ralph Rowlet Knight lately deceased made and ordained us Executors of his last Will and whereas our business is so great that we cannot attend the execution of the said Will Therefore we have thought good to move the bearer hereof Mr. Henry Goodier one of the Co-heirs of the said Sir Ralph to take upon him the execution of the said Will. And therefore we pray you to grant Letters of Administration in as ample manner as the justice of the cause doth require and afterwards an Entry was made in this manner in the same Court Executores Testamenti praedict executionem inde super se assumere distulerant adhuc distarent And upon that the said Goodier obtained Letters of Administration and granted a Lease to A. for years of which the said Sir Ralph Rowlet died possessed And afterwards Sir Robert Catline claiming as Executor granted the same Term to another c. and all the matter of difficulty was If this Letter written by the Executors be a sufficient Renunciation of the Executorship in Law so as the Executors cannot afterwards claim or use the said authority c. 2. If the Entry of the said Renuntiation be sufficient and effectual And it was argued by Ford one of the Doctors of the Civil Law That as well the Renunciation as the Entry of it is good and sufficient in Law so that none of the Executors could not after entermeddle And he said That in their Law there is not any certain form of Renuntiation but if the meaning and intention of the Renouncer appeareth it is sufficient without any formal Terms of Renunciation And he put many rules and Maximes in their Law to the same purpose Ego dico me nolle esse haeredem are sufficient words to such intent Non vult haeres esse quin ad aliam transferre debet haereditatem Qui semel repudiavit haereditatem non potest eam repetere Quod semel placuit post displicere non potest Variatio non permittitur in contractibus So that after the Executors have signified to the Officer of their Court their pleasure to renounce the Execution of the Will they cannot afterwards entermeddle nam interest reipublicae ut dominia rerum sint in certo And as to the Entry of the said Renunciation inter acta Curiae distulerint et adhuc distarent that was the error of the Clark. And it is Rule in our Law veritas rerum gestarum non vitiatur Errore factorum And the Lord Anderson demanded of the said Doctor how far those words haeres et haereditas did extend in their Law who answered That haereditas comprehends all Chattels as well real as personal Inheritance as well as Chattels for by their Law Haereditas nihilaliud est quam successio in universum jus quod defunctus habuit tempore mortis suae And afterwards the Court gave day to the other party to hear an Argument of their side but the case was so clear That no Professor of the Civil Law would be retained to argue to the contrary And afterwards Iudgment was given That the said Renunciation and the entry of it was sufficient CLXXXVI Littleton and Pernes Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Debt LIttleton brought Debt upon an Obligation against Humphry Pernes who pleaded that the said Obligation was endorced with this condition for the performance of certain Articles and Covenants contained in certain Indentures by which Indentures the Plaintiff first covenanted that Edward brother of Humphry should enjoy such Land until the Feast of Michaelmas next following rendring such Rent at the end of the said Term and the said Humphry covenanted that the said Edward at the Feast aforesaid should surrender quietly and peaceably the said Lands to the Plaintiff and that the said Plaintiff to such of the said Lands as by the Custom of the Country tunc jacebant frisca should have in the mean time free ingress egress c. at his will and pleasure with his servants ploughs c. And as to that Covenant the Defendant pleaded Quod permisit querentem habere intrationem exitum c. in tales terras quales tunc jacebant secundum consuetudinem patriae c. And Exception was taken to this plea because he hath not shewed in certain which Lands they were which then then did lie Frecy according to the custom of the Country which Anderson allowed of but Walmsly strongly insisted to the contrary And he confessed that where an Act is to be done according to a Covenant he who pleads the performance of it ought to
Curiam the same is no offence in the Court but it was an ill act of the Master of the Rolls For we oftentimes have persons here upon Habeas Corpus who are also arrested by Process out of the Exchequer or of the Common Pleas but we will not discharge them before they have found Sureties for their appearance c. and so the said Courts use to do reciprocally and we cannot punish the Sheriff for the Hebas Corpus was first returnable before the Latitat but the party may have an action against the Sheriff but we will speak with the Master of the Rolls c. and afterwards Baill was put in But afterwards another Exception was taken to the Return scil a custodia nostra exoneratus fuit which might be intended as to the Cause in the Chancery only and not for the Cause here for he hath not alledged that he hath not alledged That he was committed to any other in custody and for that cause day was given to the Sheriff to amend his Return CCII. Upton and Wells Case Trin. 31. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Ejectione firmae by Upton against Wells Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff and upon the habere facias possessionem The Sheriff retuned that in the Execution of the said Writ he took the Plaintiff with him and came to the house recovered and removed thereout a woman and two children which were all the persons which upon diligent search he could find in the said house and delivered to the Plaintiff peaceable possession to his thinking and afterwards departed and immediately after three other persons which were secretly lodged in the said house expulsed the Plaintiff again 2 Len. 12 13. Latch 165. upon notice of which he returned again to the said house to put the Plaintiff in full possession but the other did resist him so as without peril of his life and of them that were with him in company he could not do it And upon this Return the Court awarded a new Writ of execution for that the same was no Execution of the first Writ and also awarded an Attachment against the parties CCIII Marsh and Astreys Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Cro. 175. MArsh brought an Action upon the Case against Astrey and declared That he had procured a Writ of Entry sur disseisin against one A. and thereupon had a summons for Lands in London and delivered the said Summons to Astrey being Vnder-Sheriff of the same County virtute cujus the said Astrey summoned the said A. upon the Land but notwithstanding that did not return the said Summons Astrey pleaded Not guilty And it was tryed in London where the action was brought for the Plaintiff and it was moved by Cook in arrest of Iudgment That here is a mis-trial for this issue ought to be tryed in the County where the Land is because that the cause is local but the Exception was not allowed for the action is well layed in London and so the trial there also is good Trial. Another Exception was moved because the action ought to be against the Sheriff himself and not against the Vnder-Sheriff for the Sheriff is the Officer to the Court and all Returns are in his Name and I grant that an action for any falsity or deceit lyeth against the Vnder-Sheriff as for embesseling rasing of Writs c. but upon Non feasans as the Case is here the not Retorn of the Summons it ought to be brought against the Sheriff himself See 41 E. 3. 12. And if the Vnder-Sheriff take one in Execution and suffereth him to escape debt lyeth against the Sheriff himself Another Exception was taken because the Declaration is that the said Astrey Intendens machinans ipsum querent in actione sua praedict prosequend impedire c. did not retorn the said Summons but doth not say tunc exist Vnder-Sheriff Snag contrary If a Baily Errant of the Sheriff take one in Execution and he suffer him to escape an action lieth against the Baily himself And that was agreed in the Case of a Baily of Middlesex and Sir Richard Dyer Sheriff of Huntington and his Vnder-Sheriff who suffered a Prisoner to escape the action was brought against the Vnder-Sheriff for it may be the Sheriff himself had not notice of the matter because the Writ was delivered to the Vnder-Sheriff and he took a Fee for it and therefore it is reason that he shall be punished As if a Clerk in an Office mis-enter any thing he himself shall be punished and not the Master of the Office because he takes a fee for it But if the Retorn made by the Baily be insufficient Then the Sheriff himself shall be amerced but in the principal case it is clear That the action lieth against the Vnder-Sheriff if the party will and such was the opinion of Gawdy and Clench As to the other matter because it is not alledged in the Declaration That the Defendant was Vnder-Sheriff at the time the Declaration is good enough notwithstanding that for so are all the Presidents and if the Defendant were not Vnder-Sheriff the same shall come in of the other side See 21 E. 4. 23. And afterwards in the principal Case Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCIV. Hedd and Chaloners Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Cro. 176. 2 Roll. 42. 176. IN an Ejectione firmae by Hedd against Chaloner upon a Demise for years of Jane Berd It was found by especial Verdict That William Berd was seised in fee made a Feoffment to the use of himself for life afterward to the use of his two Daughters Joan Alice in fee and died and Joan entred into the Land and by Indenture by the name of Jane Berd leased the same to the Plaintiff for three years And it was further found That Joan intended in the Feoffment and Jane who leased are one and the same person Wray It hath been agreed here upon good advice and Conference with Grammarians that Joan and Jane are but one Name And Women because Joan seems to them a homely name would not be called Joan but Jane But admit that they were several Names Then he and Gawdy were of opinion it should not be good But afterwards it was said by Gawdy That this action is not grounded meerly upon the Indenture but upon the Demise and that is the substance and the Indenture is but to enforce it sci the lease 44 E. 3. 42. Another matter was moved here the remainder was limited to Joan and Alice in fee by which they are Ioint Tenants and then when one of them enters the same vests the possession in them both Then by the demise of Joan a moyety passeth only to the Plaintiff Wray Here the Term is incurred and the Plaintiff is to recover damages only and no title at all is found for the Defendant and so there is no cause but that Iudgment should be given for
their no cause of Action CCXXXVI Salway and Lusons Case Mich. 30 31 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. MAtthew Salway brought a Writ of Right against Luson Writ of Right 2 Len. 36. and the Writ was Messuag 200. acr jampnor bruerae And exception was taken to the Writ because jampnor bruerae are counted together where they ought to be distinguished severally As so many acr jampnor and so many acr bruer although it were objected on the part of the demandant in the maintenance of the Writ that in the Register the Writ of Right is reditu unius librae of Cloves and Mace together Abatement of a Writ without distinction or severance And it was said that in a Writ of Right we ought to follow the Register and therefore a Writ of Right was abated because this word Pomarium was put in the Writ for in the Register there is no such Writ because the word Gardinum comprehends it But in other Writs as Writs of Entry c. it is otherwise See the Case of the Lord Zouch 11 Eliz. 353 In a Writ of Entre sur disseisin mille acr jampnor bruer But this exception was not allowed for it may be that jampnor bruer are so promiscuous that they cannot be distinguished Vide 16 H. 7. 8. 9. The respect the Iustices had to the Register was such as they changed their opinions and conformed the same to the Register Another exception was taken to the Writ because thereby the Demandant doth demand Duas partes Custodiae del Hay in the Forrest of C. And the Court was of opinion that the Writ ought to be Officium Custodiae duarum partium de Hay c. and not Duas partes Custodiae As Advocationem duarum partium Ecclesiae And not Duas partes Ecclesiae Another Exception because the Writ was duas partes c. in tribus dividend where it should be Divis for Dividend is not in any Writ but only in a Writ of Partition And by Windham the parts of this Office are divided in Right which the Court granted Another Exception was taken because that in the Writ it is not set down in what Town the Forrest of C. is so as the Court doth not know from whence the Visne should come For no Venire shall be de vicineto Forestae as de vicineto Hundredi 1 Cro. 200. Manerii And the same was holden to be a material Exception Another Exception was taken Visne because a Writ of Right doth not lye of an Office for at the Common Law an Assise did not lye of it but now it doth by the Statute of West 2. Cap. 25. for it was not Liberum ten but the party grieved was put to his Quod permittat And of this opinion was the whole Court. CCXXXVII Smith and Lanes Case Mich. 30 31 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Queen was seised of a Manor whereof Bl. acr was holden by Copy in Fee the Queen leased Bl. acr to B. for one and twenty years who assigned the same to the Copyholder who accepted of it The Queen granted Bl. acr to C. in Fee Copyholder determined by acceptance of a Lease 2 Co. 16 17. the term expired C. entred and his entry was holden to be congeable for by acceptance of the sam Term the Customary Estate was determined as if the Copy-holder had accepted it immediatly from the Queen It was also holden by the Court that a Lease for years under the Seal of the Exchequer may be pleaded and that without making mention of the Commission by which the Court of Exchequer is authorized to make such Leases And so are all the Presidents as well in this Court as in the Court of Exchequer And whereas the Court was upon the point of giving their Iudgment It was objected by Shuttleworth Serjeant That here is pleaded a Bargain and Sale of Land without saying pro quadam pecuniae summa And he stood much upon the Exception and the Court also doubted of it and demanded of the Prothonotaries what is their form of pleading Bargain and Sale and consideration of it And by Nelson cheif Prothonotary these words Pro quadam pecuniae summa ought to be in the pleading Scot Prothonotary contrary Anderson conceived it was either way good but Pro quadam pecuniae summa is the best And so Leonard Custos Brevium conceived And the opinion of the Iustices was that a Bargain and Sale for dives Causes and Considerations is not good without a sum of money 1 Co. Mildmays Case And by Windham Bargain and Sale Pro quadam pecuniae summa although no money be paid is good enough for the payment or not payment is not traversable And by Periam If Pro quadam pecuniae summa be not in the Indenture of Bargain and Sale yet the payment thereof is averrable And for this Exception the Iudgment was stayed CCXXXVIII Bedel and Moores Case Mich. 30 31 Eliz. In the Exchequer Chamber Action upon the Case for not performing an Award BEdel brought an Action upon the Case against Moore in the Kings-Bench and declared That the Defendant did assume to perform the Award of J.S. and assumed also that he would not sue Execution upon a Iudgment which he had obtained against the Plaintiff in an Action of Account c. And shewed further that the Award was made c. which Award in Law was utterly void and that the Defendant had not performed the said Award and also that he had sued Execution against the Plaintiff 10 Co. 131. 5 Co. 108. The Defendant pleaded Non-assumpsit and it was found for the Plaintiff and Iudgment given accordingly Vpon which Moore brought a Writ of Error in the Exchequer-chamber upon the Statute of 27 Eliz. And assigned Error Error because the Plaintiff had declared upon two Breaches whereas for one of them there was not any cause of Action for the Award is void in Law then no breach could be assigned in that and then when the Iury hath assessed Damages intirement for both breaches whereas for one there was not any cause of Action by the Law the Verdict was void then the Iudgment given upon it reversable for it is not reason that the Plaintiff have Damages for such matter for which the Law doth not give an Action And if the Iury had assessed damages severally viz. For the not performance of the Award so much Damages and for the suing forth Execution so much then the Iudgment had been good and the damages assessed for the not performance c. void Manwood Chief Baron The verdict is well enough for here the whole Assumpsit is put in issue and there is but one issue upon the whole Assumpsit but if several issues had been joined upon these several points of the Assumpsit and both had been found for the Plaintiff and damages assessed entirely for both breaches then was the Iudgment reversable for being several
issues the Iury might have assessed the damages severally scil for each issue several damages but here is but one issue and it was the folly of the Defendant that he would not demur in Law upon the Declaration for one part scil the not performance of the Award and traverse the other part scil The suing of the Execution or the Assumpsit of it And in our case it may be that the Iury did assess the damages for the suing of the Execution without any regard had to the performance of the Award And note that the verdict for assessing of the Damages was in these Terms scil Et assidunt damna occasione non performationis Assumpsionis praedict c. And Cook who was of Councel in this Case put this Case The late Earl of Lincoln Admiral of England brought his Action of Scandalis Magnatum and declared That the Defendant exhibited in the Star-chamber against him a Bill of Complaint containing diverse great and infamous slanders viz. That the said Earl was a great and outragious oppressour and used outragious oppression and violence against the Defendant and all the Country also The Defendant pleaded Not guilty and found for the Plaintiff and assessed damages and it was moved in stay of Iudgment first That the Plaintiff had declared upon matter of slander for part for which an Action lyeth and for part not For the oppression supposed to be made to himself no Action lieth because every subject may complain for wrong done unto him and although he cannot prove the wrong an Action will not lye But as for the oppression done to others by the supposal of the Bill an Action lieth for what is that to him he hath not to do with it for he is not pars gravata But because the Iury assessed Damages entirement the Iudgment was arrested for the cause aforesaid And afterwards in the principal case the last day of this term Iudgment was staied CCXXXIX Palmer and Thorps Case Hill. 31. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. BEtwixt Palmer and Thorpe the Case was this 1 Cro. 152 A man demised his Manour of M. for thirty two years and the day after let the same Manour for forty years to begin from Michaelmas after the date of the first Lease and the Tenant attorned And by Cook the same is a good grant although to begin at a day to come for it is but a Chattel and so was the opinion of Wray Chief Iustice for a Lease for years may expect its commencement as a man seised of a Rent in Fee grants the same for twenty years from Mich. following and good for no estate passeth presently but only an Interest See 28 H. 8. 26. Dyer CCXL Sir Anthony Shirley and Albanyes Case Hill. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Rot. 668. IN an Action upon the Case upon Assumpsit by Sir Anthony Shirley against Albany Assumpsit 1 Cro. 150. The Plaintiff declared That he was seised of the Manor of Whittington for the term of his life the Reversion to the Earl of Arrundel in Fee and so seised surrendered all his Estate to the said Earl who afterwards by his Deed granted a Rent-charge of 40 l. per annum out of the said Mannor to him and afterwards conveyed the Manor to the Defendant in Fee. And afterwards 27 Maii 22. Eliz. upon a Communication betwixt the Plaintiff and the Defendant concerning the said Rent the Defendant did promise to the Plaintiff that if the Plaintiff would shew unto the Defendant any Deed by which it might appear that he ought to pay to the Plaintiff such a Rent he would pay that which is due and that which should be due from time to time And further declared that 27 April 27 Eliz. he shewed unto the Defendant a Deed by which it appeared that such a Rent was granted and due And for eighty pounds due for the two last years he brought the Action The Defendant pleaded that after the said promise and before the shewing of the said Deed scil 14 Jan. 22 Eliz. the Plaintiff entred into the said Land and leased the same for three years The Plaintiff Replicando said that 1 Decem. 27 Eliz. the Defendant did re-enter upon which they were at Issue and it was found for the Plaintiff It was moved by Glanvil Serjeant that by the entry the Promise was suspended and being a personal thing once suspended it is always extinct Wray The Action is brought for the Arrerages due the two last years and so at the time of his re-entry the Plaintiff had not cause of Action and therefore it could not be suspended Suspension of Rent Ante. 110. Gawdy When the Plaintiff sheweth the Deed the Defendant is chargable to arrerages due before and after the promise wherefore if the entry maketh a suspending of the Rent the suspension doth continue but I conceive here is not any suspension for this promise is a meer collateral thing and so not discharged by the entry into the Land for it is not issuing out of the Land. But if the Plaintiff before the Deed shewed had released all Actions the same had been a good Bar and I conceive that the Deed was not shewed in time for it ought to be shewn before any arrerages due after the promise but here it is shewn five years after But that was not denied by all ther other Iustices Another exception was taken that where the promise was that if the Plaintiff shewed any Deed by which it might appear that the Defendant should be charged with the said Rent and the Declaration is by which it might appear that the Plaintiff ought to have the Rent c. so as the Declaration doth not agree in the whole See 1 Ma. 143. in Browning and Bestons Case the Condition of the Lease was if the Rent should be arrear not paid by two Months after the Feast c. and the Rejoynder was by the space of two months c. And the pleading holden insufficient for per duos menses doth not affirm directly post duos menses but by Implication and Argument And here it was holden that the Condition was a good consideration Another exception was taken because the promise is layed All the Rent ad tunc debitum aut deinceps debend It was holden that this word ad tunc doth refer to the time of the shewing of the Deed and not to the promise And as to the last exception but one it was resolved that the Declaration notwithstanding the same was good enough scil ostendit factum per quod apparet quod redditus praedict solvi deberet in forma praedict Another exception was taken because here no breach of the promise is alledged for it is pleaded thath eight pounds de annuali redditu arrer fuer but it is not said de redditu praedict 8 l. ergo it may be another Rent and then the promise as to this Rent is not broken Wray Although the word praedict be wanting yet the Declaration is well enough
Godfrey in arrest of Iudgment That it is apparent upon the Declaration That the Trespass was done in the time of their Predecessors of which the Successor cannot have action and actio personalis moritur cum persona See 19 H. 6. 66. But the old Church-wardens shall have the action Cook contrary and that the present Church-wardens shall have the action and that in respect of their office which the Court granted And by Gawdy Church-wardens are a Corporation by the Common Law. See 12 H. 7. 28. by Frowick That the New Church-wardens shall not have an action upon such a Trespass done to their Predecessors contrary by Yaxley See by Newton and Paston That the Executors of the Guardian in whose time the Trespass was done shall have Trespass CCXLIX Hauxwood and Husbands Case Pasch 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared for disturbing of him to use his common c. and shewed that A. was seised of certain Lands to which this Common was appendant Prescription 1 Cro. 153. for the term of his Life the Remainder to B. in tail and that the said A. and B. did demise unto him the said Lands for years c. Pepper The Declaration is not good for it is not shewed how these particular estates did commence See 20 E. 4. 10. By Piggot Lessee for life and he in the Remainder cannot prescribe together and he in the Remainder cannot have common Also he declares That Tenant for life and he in Remainder demised to him whereas in truth it is the demise of Tenant for life and the Confirmation of him in the Remainder also he doth not aver the life of Tenant for life Popham He needs not to shew the commencement of the particular estates for we are a stranger to them the Prescription in them both is well enough for all is but one estate and the Lease of both See 27 H. 8. 13. The Lessee for life and he in the Reversion made a Lease for life and joyned in an action of wast and there needs no averment of the life of the Tenant for life for he in the Reversion hath joyned which Gawdy granted as to all And said the particular estates are but as conveyance unto the action Wray conceived the first Exception to be material c. CCL Sweeper and Randals Case Rot. 770. Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action of Trespass for breaking of his Close and carrying away his goods by Sweeper against Randal upon Not guilty pleaded i Cro. 156. The Iury found That one John Gilbert was seised of the Land where c. and leased the same to the Plaintiff at Will who sowed the Land and afterwards the Plaintiff agreed with the said Gilbert to surrender to him the said Land and his interest in the same and the said Gilbert entred and leased to the Defendant who took the Corn. It was moved if these words I agree to surrender my Lands be a present and express surrender Gawdy It is not any surrender for Tenant at will cannot surrender but it is but a relinquishing of the estate if it be any thing Surrender but in truth it is not any thing in present but an act to be done in future Wray I agree A. demiseth the Manor of D. at will it is no Lease no more shall it be here any Surrender or any relinquishing of the estate Clench conceived That the intent of the Party was to leave his estate at the time of the speaking otherwise those words were void for he might leave it at any time without those words Gawdy If such was his intent the Iury ought to find it expressly and afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCLI Ward and Blunts Case Trin. 31. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Trover and Conversion 1 Cro. 146. IN an Action upon the Case of Trover of certain Loads of Corn at Henden in Middlesex and the conversion of them The Defendant pleaded That before the conversion he was seised of certain Lands called Harminglow in the County of Stafford and that the Corn whereof c. was there growing and that he did sever it by force of which he was possessed and the same casually lost and that the same came to the hands of the Plaintiff and the Plaintiff casually lost the same and the same came to the hands of the Defendant at Henden aforesaid and he did convert the same to his own use as it was lawful for him to do upon which the Plaintiff did demur in Law. Atkinson The Plea is good for the conversion is the point of the action and the effect of it For if a man take the same and do not convert he is not guilty And here the Defendant doth justifie the conversion wherefore he cannot plead Not guilty The general issue is to be taken where a man hath not any colour but here the Defendant hath colour because the Corn whereof c. was growing upon his Land which might enveigle the Lay people and therefore it is safest to plead the special matter But admit that it doth amount but to the general issue yet there is not any cause of Demurrer but the Plaintiff ought to shew the same to the Court and pray that the general issue be entred and the Court ex officio ought to do it Egerton the Queens Solicitor contrary The Plea in Bar is not good The Plaintiff declares of a Trover of his goods ut de bonis suis propriis and the Defendant pleads That he took his own goods which is not any answer to the Plaintiff See 22 E. 3. 18. In Trespass of taking and carrying away his Trees The Defendant pleads That they were our Trees growing in our own soil and we cut them and carryed them away and the plea was challenged wherefore the Defendant pleaded over without that that he took the Trees of the Plaintiff So 26 Ass 22. and 30 E. 3. 22. Another matter was The Plea in Bar is That before the time of the Conversion the Defendant was seised of the Land and sowed it and that after the Corn was severed but he doth not say that he was seised at the time of the severance and then it might be that he had severed the Corn of the Plaintiff c. and that was holden by the Court to be a material exception wherefore Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff But as to the first Exception the same was disallowed For the Court ex Officio in such case ought to cause the general issue to be entred but the Plaintiff ought not to demur upon it CCLIV Cheiny and Langleys Case Hill. 31. Eliz. Rott 638. Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe case was That Tenant for life of certain Lands leased the same for years by Indenture with these words I give grant 1 Cro. 157. Leases bargain and sell my interest in such Lands for twenty years To have and to hold
case And at another day it was objected That the Deed could not be acknowledged without a Letter of Attorney being a Corporation which consisted upon divers persons as Prioress and Covent and they are alwaies to be intended to be in their Chapter-house and cannot come into Court to acknowledge a Deed To which it was answered by Cook That this acknowledgment being generally pleaded it shall be intended that it was done by a Lawful means and there is no doubt but that such a Corporation may levy a Fine and make a Letter of Attorney to acknowledge it and see 2 Ma. Fulmerstones case 105. It was further objcted 2 Inst 674. That this Deed was enrolled the same day that it beareth date for the pleading is per factum suum gerens Datum 2 Novemb. 29 Hen. 8. et iisdem die anno irrotulat And by the Statute such a Deed ought to be enrolled within six Months next after the date so as the day of the date is excluded and so it is not enrolled within six Months As to that it was answered by Cook That the time of computation doth begin presently after the delivery of the Deed as in the common Cases of Leases If a man makes a Lease for years to begin from the day of the date the same is exclusive but if it be To have and to hold from the date of the Deed it shall begin presently And an Ejectment supposed the same day is good and then here this Enrolment is within the six Months Dyer 220. b. 1 Cro. 717. and yet see 5 Eliz. 128. Dyer Pophams case It was also objected That it is alledged in the conusans That the Manor was sold to the Lord Audley and that the Deed of Bargain and Sale was acknowledged and enrolled in the Chancery the said Lord being then Lord Chancelor and he cannot take an acknowledgment of a Deed or enrolment of it to himself for he is the Sole Iudge in the said Court so as the Deed is acknowledged before himself and enrolled before himself and that is good enough for here we are not upon the common Law but upon the Statute and here the words of the Statute are performed And the enrolment of the Deed is not the substance of the Deed but the Deed it self Also the acknowledgment of the Deed after it is enrolled is not material for he is estopped to say that it is not acknowledged And as to the matter it self a man shall not have averment against the purport of a Record but against the operation of a Record as not put in view not comprised partes ad finem nihil haberunt c. And against Letters Pattens of the King Non concessit is a good plea which see 18 Eliz. for by such plea it is agreed that it is a Record but that nihil operatur CCLVIII. Osborn and Kirtons Case Hill. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Rot. 258. IN Debt upon an Obligation The Defendant cast a Protection Debt upon which the Plaintiff did demur Tanfield The Protection is not good for the Defendant is let to Bail and so is intended always in prison for so the Record makes mention and then the Protection quia moratur in portubus Zeland is against the Record Protection and the Court ought to give credit to Records especially Secondly The words of the Protection are That Kirton is imployed in Obsequio nostro which is no cause of protection for the usual form and so is the Law that such a person be imployed in negotio Regni for the defence of England c. For if the King will give aid unto another Princes Subjects employed in such service he shall not have Protection And afterwards variance was objected betwixt the Bill and Declaration and the Protection for the Bill is against John Kirton of A. Gentleman the Protection is John Kirton only But the same was holden no such variance being only in the Addition for before the Statute 1 H 5. additions were not necessary in any actions CCLIX Boyton and Andrews Case Mich. 30 Eliz. Rot. 156. In the Kings Bench. IN Debt upon an Obligation the Condition was Debt 1 Cro. 135. to make sufficient assurance of certain Lands to the Obligee before the tenth day of March 17 Eliz. And if it fortune the said Obligee be unwilling to receive or mislike such assurance but shall make Request to have one hundred pounds for satisfaction thereof Then if upon such Request the Obligor pay one hundred pounds within five months That then the Obligation shall be void And at the day the Obligee doth refuse the assurance and afterwards 27 Eliz. request is made to have the hundred pounds It was the clear opinion of the whole Court That the said Request was well enough for the time and he might make it at any time during his life he is not restrained to make it before the day in which the Assurance is to be made and afterwards judgment was given for the Plaintiff CCLX Knight and Savages Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. Rot. 546. In the Kings Bench. A Writ of Error was brought upon a Iudgment given in Leicester in Debt Tanfield assigned Error Error 2 Cro. 206. 2 Cro. 109. 654. Sty 91. Yel 164. 165. Post 302. because in that Suit there was not any plaint and in all inferior Courts the plaint is as the original at the common Law and without that no process can issue forth And here upon the Record nothing is entred but that the Defendant summonitus fuit c. and therefore the first entry ought to be A. B. queritur adversus C c. Clench A Plaint ought to be entred before process issueth the summons which is entred here is not any plaint and for that cause the Iudgment was reversed It was said That after the Defendant appeared a Plaint was entred but it was said by the Court That that shall not mend the matter for there ought to be a plaint out of which the process shall issue as in the Courts above out of the original Writs CCLXI Kirby and Eccles Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Cro. 137. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared Quod cum quaedam communicatio fuisset betwixt the Plaintiff and one Cowper That Cowper should mast certain Hogs for the Plaintiff the Defendant did promise That in consideration that the Plaintiff promised give unto the Defendant three shillings and four pence for the fatting of every Hog That the said Hogs should be redelivered to him well fatted to which promise and warranty the Plaintiff giving faith delivered to the said Cowper one hundred and fifty Hogs to be masted and that one hundred of them were delivered back but the residue were not It was moved That here is not any consideration for which the Defendant should be charged with any promise but it was argued on the other side That the Promise was the cause
Disseisor as well to Robert as to the Infant Then if the Defendant be Disseisor and hath no title by the Infant Robert who hath Right in a moyety may well enter into the whole for he hath the possession per my per tout by his Entry and then when the Defendant doth eject him he hath good cause of Action And after at another day the Case was moved and it was agreed That for one moyety the Infant is bound for Sir Thomas had an estate tail in a moyety for he was Issue of the body of the Comisor But for the other moyety the Fine levyed by Tenant for life William the Father being then Tenant beyond the Sea It was holden by Anderson Windham and Walmesly that the Infant was not barred notwithstanding the objection abovesaid That William the Father never returned into England and notwithstanding the words of the Statute of 4 H. 7. And by Walmesley If an infant make his claim within age it is sufficient to avoid the Fine and yet the said Statute seems to appoint to him time within five years after his full age so that according to the very words a claim made before or after should be vain yet in Equity although he be not compelsable to make his claim until the time allowed by the Statute yet if he make it before it is good enough And by Anderson Although that VVilliam the Father did not return yet if he makes not his claim within five years after the death of his Father being of full age and without any impediment c. he shall be barred If in such case a man hath many impediments he is not compellable to make his claim when one of the impediments is removed but when they are all removed So if the Ancestor hath one of the said impediments and dieth before it be removed and his Heir is within age or hath other impediment he is not bound to make is claim till five years after his impediment is removed And Somes case cited before was holden and agreed to be good Law for the Forfeiture may not be known unto him And as to the objection against the Lease at Will because it was made by an Infant and no Rent reserved upon it nor the Lease made upon the Land and therefore the Lessee should be a Disseisor To that it was answered Be the Defendant a Disseisor or not it is not material here for if the Plaintiff had not title according to his Declaration he cannot recover 1 Cro. 220. 1 Cro. 438. whether the Defendant hath title or not for it is not like unto Trespass where the very possession without other title is good contrary in Actions against all who gave not title but in Ejectione firmae if the title of the Plaintiff be not good and sufficient be the title of the Defendant good or not he shall not recover And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Defendant Hill. 33. Eliz. CCXCVIII Cheny and Smiths Case Mich. 32 33 Eliz. In Communi Banco IN an Ejectione firmae by Cheny and his Wife against Smith The Plaintiffs declared upon a Lease made by the Master of the House or Colledge of S. Thomas of Acons in London to I.S. who assigned it over to Knevit who by his Will devised the same to his Wife whom he made also his Executrix and dyed and afterwards she took to Husband one VVaters and died VVaters took Letters of Administration of the Goods and Chattells of his Wife and afterwards leased to the Plaintiffs And upon not guilty they were at Issue And it was given in Evidence That the Lease given in Evidence was not the Lease whereof the Plaintiffs have declared for the oriâ—inal Lease shewed in Court is Master of the House or Hospital where the Lease specified in the Declaration is Master of the House or Colledge 38 E. 3. 28. And some of the Iustices conceived that there is not any material Variance but if the parties would it might be found by special Verdict For by them Colledge and Hospital are all one And afterwards the Court moved the Plaintiffs to prove if the wife were in as Executrix or as Legatee for by Anderson and Periam until election be made he shall not be said to have it as Legatee especially if it be not alledged in fact that all the debts of the Testator are paid And Anderson doubted although that it be alledged that the debts be paid If the Executor shall be said to have the said Lease as a Legacy before she hath made Election vid. Weldens Case and Paramours Case in Plowd And afterwards it was given in Evidence That the wife after the death of the Husband had repaired the Banks of the Land and produced Witnesses to prove it as if the same should amount to claim it as a Legacy and the Court said that that matter should de referred to the Iury 1 Roll. 620. And it was further shewed in Evidence that the said Wife Executrix and her said Husband Waters formerly made a Lease by Deed reciting thereby that where the Husband was possessed in the right of his said Wife as Executrix of her first Husband c. And by the opinion of the whole Court the same was an express claim as Executrix and then when the Wife died if the Husband would have advantage of it he ought to take Letters of Administration of the Goods of her first Husband and not of the Wife but if she had claimed the Land and the Term in it as Legatee and had not been in possession Administration taken of the Rights and Debts of the Wife had been good as to that intent that his Wife was not actually possessed of it but only had a Right unto it and of such things in Action the Husband might be Executor or Administrator to his Wife but here they have failed of their title The Administration being taken of the goods of the Wife where it should be of the Goods of the Testator the first Husband And for this cause the Plaintiffs were non-suit and the Iury discharged And it was agreed by all the Iustices that if the Wife before Election had taken Husband that the Husband might have made the Election in the Case aforesaid CCXCIX The Lord Cobham and Browns Case Mich. 32 33 Eliz. In the Common Bench. THe Case between the Lord Cobham and Brown was that the Abbot of Grace was seised of the Mannor of Gravesend in the County of Kent which Mannor doth extend to the Parishes of Gravesend and Milton and that the said Abbot and all his Predecessors c. time out of mind c. have had a Water-Court within the said Mannor which Court had been holden at Gravesend Bridge in the end of it and that all the Inhabitants within the said Parishes which have Boats either entirely or joyntly with others and have used to transport or carry passengers from Gravesend to London e contra and have used to fasten
shewed our matter scil That we have Letters Patents of the Queen and that we were sworn in the said Office and so we are King of Heralds by matter of Record against which is pleaded only matter in defect of ceremony and circumstance which is not material An Earl is created with the ceremonies of putting a Sword broad-wise about his Body and a Cap with a Coronet upon his Head. Yet the King may create an Earl without such ceremonies And may also create an Earl by word if the same be after Recorded when a Knight is made Spurs ought to be put upon his Heels yet without such ceremony such degree may be conferred to and upon another for such ceremonies are or may be used or not used at the Kings pleasure Afterwards it was objected that the same is but a name of Office but not a name of Dignity To which it was answered that this word Coronamus always imports Dignity and this is a Dignity and Office as Earl Marquess c. Fenner Iustice The Patent is Nomen tibi imponimus and therefore Garter is parcel of his Name And therefore he ought to be Indicted by such Name And it should be hard to tye Estate and Degrees to ceremonies Gawdy was of opinion That this is but a name of Office and therefore the Indictment good as 1 Mar. Writ of Summons of Parliament issueth without these words Supream Head and the Writ was holden good for it is not parcel of the Name but addition only So here Fenner and Wray contrary for the words are Creamus Coronamus Nomen imponimus Ergo part of his Name which Clench also granted and afterwards Dethick was discharged CCCXXXVIII Strait and Braggs Case Pasch 32 Eliz. Rot. 318. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action of Trespass 2 Len. 1â—9 for breaking his Close in H. the Defendant pleaded that long before the Trespass the Dean and Chapter of Pauls were seised of the Manor of C. in the said County of H. in Fee in the Right of their Church and so seised King Edward the Fourth by his Letters Patents Dat. An. 1. of his Reign granted to them all Fines pro licentia Concordandi of all their Homagers and Tenants Resiants and Non-resiants within their Fee and shewed that 29 Eliz. A Fine was levied in the Common Pleas betwixt the Plaintiff and one A. of eleven Acres of Lands whereof the place where is parcel and the Post-Fine was assessed to 15 s. and afterwards Scambler the Forain Opposer did allow to them the said 15 s. because the said Land was within their Fee And afterwards in behalf of the said Dean and Chapter he demanded of the Plaintiff the said fifteen shillings who refused to pay it wherefore he in the Right of the said Dean c. And by their commandment took the Distress as Baily c. for the said 15 s. and afterwards sold it upon which the Plaintiff did demur in Law. It was moved that it is not averred that the Land whereof the Fine was levied was within their Fee but they say that Scambler allowed it to be within their Fee and the same is not a sufficient Averment which the Court granted And it was the opinion of the Court that the Dean and Chapter cannot distrain for this matter but they ought to sue for it in the Exchequer as it appeareth 9 H. 6. 27. In the Dutchess of Somersets Case Gawdy This Grant doth not extend to the Post Fine for Fine pro licentia Concordandi is the Queens Silver and not the Post Fine Wray All shall pass by it for it is about one and the same matter and they were of opinion to give Iudgment for the Plaintiff CCCXXXIX Sherewood and Nonnes Case Trin. 32 Eliz. Rot. 451. In the Kings Bench. Covenant IN an Action of Covenant the Plaintiff declared that Charles Grice and Hester his Wife were seised of certain Tenements calle Withons with divers Lands to the same appertaining and of another parcel of Land called Dole containing eight Acres to them and the heirs of the body of the said Charks on the body of the said Hester his wife lawfully begotten and so seised 15 Eliz. leased the same to the Defendant by Indenture for years by which Indenture the Lessor covenanted that the Lessee should have sufficient House-boot Fencing-wood and Hoop-wood upon the Lands during the Term and that further the Lessee covenanted for him his Executors and Assigns with the Lessor c. That it should be lawful for them to enter upon the Lands during the said Term and to have egress and regress there and to cut down and dispose of all the Wood and Timber there growing leaving sufficient House-boot Fencing-wood and Hoop-wood to the Lessee upon the Lands called the Dole for his expences at Withons and further that he would not take any Wood or Timber upon the Premisses without the assent or assigment of the Lessor or his Assigns otherwise than according to the Indenture and true meaning thereof And further declared That the said Charles and his Wife so seised levied a Fine of part of the Land to R. S. and his heirs to whom the Defendant attorned and that the said R.S. afterwards devised the same to I. his Wife the now Plaintiff for years the Remainder over to another and died and that the Defendant had felled and carried out of the Lands called Withons twenty loads of Wood without the assent and assignment of the Lessor or his Assigns for which the Plaintiff as Assignee brought the Action The Defendant pleaded That after the Lease John Grice and others by assignment of Hester had cut down and carried away fifty loads of Wood in the said Lands called the Dole and so they had not left sufficient Woods for his expences at Withons according to the Indenture for which cause he took the said twenty loads of Wood upon Withons for his expences upon which the Plaintiff did demur in Law. Godfrey The Plea is not good This Plea is no more but that sufficient Wood was not left upon the Dole for his expences and although there be not yet the Defendant cannot cut Wood elsewhere for he hath restrained himself by the Covenant Also the Covenant of the Lessor is That the Lessee shall have sufficient Wood upon the Dole for his expences at Withons but in his satisfaction he doth not alledge that he had need of Wood for to spend at Withons nor doth aver that he hath spent it there for otherwise he hath not cause to take c. And the meaning was that the Lessee should have sufficient Wood when he had need of it Hobart for the Defendant He would not speak to the Plea in Bar but he conceived that the Declaration was not good for here no breach of Covenant is assigned for the Covenant is in the Disjunctive scil That the Defendant should not take Wood without the assent or assignment of the Lessor or his Assigns And the Plaintiff
afterwards that this murder is dispunishable notwithstanding the Statute of 2 Ed. 6. CCCLXIV The Queen and Braybrooks Case Pasch 25 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 3 Co. 1 2 c. THe Queen brought a Writ of Error against Braybrook The Case was this That King Ed. 4. was seised of the Manor of Marston and gave the same to Lionel Lord Norris and A.M. and the Heirs of the body of the Lord the Remainder to H. Norris in Tail L and A. entermarry L. suffered a common Recovery against himself only without naming the said A. Hen. Norris is attainted of high Treason by Act of Parliament and by the same Act all his Lands Tenements Hereditaments Rights Conditions c. the day of the Treason committed or ever after c. Hen. Norris is executed Lionel dieth without issue the Queen falsified the said Recovery for one moiety by Scire facias because Anne who was joint-tenant with Lionel was not named party to the said Recovery and afterwards the Queen granted to the Lord Norris Son of the said Hen. Norris Manerium suum de Merston omnia jura in eodem and now upon the said Recovery the Queen brought a Writ of Error and it was argued by Egerton the Queens Sollicitor that this right to a Writ of Error is such a right as is transferred to the Queen by the Act of Parliament for the words are omnia jura sua quaecunque and here is a right although not a present right yet a right although in futuro so it is a right of some quality as A. Tenant in Tail the Remainder in Tail to B.A. makes a Feoffment in Fee B. is attainted of high Treason and by such Act all his Lands c. given to the King. A. dieth without issue the Queen shall have a Formedon in the Remainder and although the Queen hath granted to the Lord Norris Manerium suum de Merston omnia jura in eodem yet by such general words a Writ of Error doth not pass which See 32 H. 8. Br. Patents 98. And also this Action rests in privity of record and cannot be displaced from thence but by Act of Parliament see Br. Chose in Action 14. 33 H. 8. for when the King will grant a thing in Action he ought in his Patent to recite all the circumstances of the matter as the Right and how it became a Right and because the Queen here doth not make mention of this Right as of the Entail the Recovery and the Attainder for that cause the Right doth not pass The Case betwixt Cromer and Cranmer 8 Eliz the Disseisee was attainted of Treason the Queen granted to the Heir of the Disseisee all the Right which came unto her by the Attainder of his Ancestor nothing passed Causa qua supra And always where the King grants any thing which he cannot grant but as King that such a grant without special words is to no purpose Coke contrary he agreed the Case put by Egerton for at the time of the Attainder B. had a Right of Remainder but in our Case Hen. Norris had not any Right but a possibility of a Right of Action i.e. a Writ of Error And he said that this Writ of Error is not forfeitable for it is an Action which rests in privity no more than a condition in gross as a Feoffment in Fee is made upon condition of the party of the Feoffor who is attainted ut supra This word Right in the Act of Attainder shall not transfer this Condition to the Queen and of the Act of Attainder to Hen. Norris it is to be conceived That the makers of the Act did not intend that by the word Right every right of any manner or quality whatsoever should pass to carry a Condition to the Queen and therefore we ought to conceive that the makers of the Act did not intend to touch Rights which rested in privity And as to the Grant of the Queen to the Lord Norris of the Mannor of Merston Et omnia jura sua in eodem he conceived that thereby the Right of the Writ of Error did pass for it is not like Cranmers Case but if in the said Case the Land it self had been set down in the Grant it had been good enough as that Cranmer being seised in Fee of the Manor of D. was there of disseised and so being disseised was attainted of high Treason now the Queen grants to his Heirs totum jus suum in his Manor of D c. and so in our Case the Queen hath granted to the Lord Norris Manerium suum de Merston omnia jura sua in eodem c. at another day it was moved by Plowden that this Right of Writ of Error was not transferred to the Queen by the Act but such Right might be saved to a stranger c. the words of the Act are omnia jura sua and this word sua is Pronomen possessionis by which it is to be conceived that no Right should pass but that which was a present Right as a Right in possession but this Right to a Writ of Error was not in Hen. Norris at the time of his Attainder but it was wholly in him against whom the erroneous Iudgment was had and therefore if in a Praecipe quod reddat the Tenant vouch and loseth and Iudgment is given and before Execution the Tenant is attainted by Act of Parliament by words ut supra and afterwards he is pardoned the Demandant sueth for Execution against the Tenant now notwithstanding this Attainder the Tenant may sue Execution against the Vouchee and afterwards Wray chief Iustice openly declared in Court the opinion of himself and all his companions Iustices and also of all the other Iustices to be That by this Act of Parliament by which all Lands Tenements Hereditaments and all Rights of any manner and quality whatsoever Henry Norris had the day of his Attainder or ever after Lionel then being alive and over-living the said Hen. Norris that this Writ of Error was not transferred to the Queen And that the said Act by the words aforesaid could not convey to the King this possibility of right for at the time of the Attainder the Right of the Writ of Error was in Lyonel and Hen. during the estate tail limited to Lyonell had not to do with the Land nor any matter concerning it And Iudgment was given accordingly And it was holden That he in the Reversion or Remainder upon an Estate tail might have a Writ of Error by the common Law upon a Recovery had against Tenant in tail in Reversion CCCLXV Mich. 25 26. Eliz. In the common Pleas. Copy-holder IN Trespass brought by a Copy-holder against the Lord for cutting down and carrying away his Trees c. It was found by special Verdict That the place where c. was Customary lands of the Plaintiffs holden of the Defendant and that the Trees whereof c. were Chery Trees de
out of the pardon shall be intended and construed the bare Act of Conversion but the whole offence i. the continuance and practise of it is understood As if by general pardon all intrusions are excepted now by that the instant Act of Intrusion i. the bare Entry is not only excepted but also the continuance of the Intrusion and the perception of the profits And note The words of the Statute are conversion permitted and Conversion continued is Conversion permitted And the said Statute doth not punish the Conversion but also the continuance of the Conversion for the penalty is appointed for each year in which the Conversion continues And Egerton Solicitor put this Case 11 H. 8. It was enacted by 3 H. 7. cap. 11. That upon Recovery in Debt if the Defendant in delay of Execution sues a Writ of Error and the Iudgment be affirmed he shall pay damages now the case was That one in Execution brought such a Writ of Error and the first Iudgment is affirmed he shall pay damages and yet here is not any delay of the Execution for the Defendant was in Execution before but here is an Interruption of the Execution and the Statute did intend the Execution it self i. the continuance in Execution ibidem moraturus quousque It was said on the other side That the conversion and continuance thereof are two several things each by it self and so the conversion only being excepted in the pardon the continuance thereof remains in the grace of the pardon And it appeareth by the Statute of 2 and 3. Ph. Ma. That conversion and continuance are not the same but alia atque diversa and distinct things in the consideration of the Law for there it is enacted That if any person shall have any Lands to be holden in Tillage according to the said Statute but converted to Pasture by any other person the Commissioners c. have authority by the said Statute to enjoyn such persons to convert such Lands to Tillage again c. And in all cases in the Law there is a great difference betwixt the beginning of a wrong and the continuance of it As if the Father levyeth a Nusance in his own Lands to the offence of another and dyeth an Assize of Nusance doth not lye against the Heir for the continuance of that wrong but a Quod permittat See F.N.B. 124. It was adjorned CCCLXX Powley and Siers Case Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. POwley brought Debt against Sier Executor of the Will of A Debt The Defendant demanded Iudgment of the Writ for he said That one B. was Executor of the said A. and that the said B. did constitute the Defendant his Executor so the Writ ought to be brought against the Defendant as Executor of the Executor and not as immediate Executor to the said A. The Plaintiff by Reply said That the said B. before any probate of the Will or any Administration dyed and so maintained his Writ Wray Iustice was against the Writ for although here be not any probate of the Will of A. or any other Administration yet when B. made his Will and the Defendant his Executor the same is a good acceptance in Law of the Administration and Execution of the first Will for the Defendant might have an Action of Debt due to the first Testator Gawdy and Ayliff Iustices The Writ is good See Dyer 1 Cro. 211. 212. 23 Eliz. 372. against Wray CCCLXXI Pasch 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was A seised of certain Lands Bargain and sale of Trees bargained and sold by Indenture all the Trees there growing Habendum succidendum exportandum within twenty years after the date of the said Indenture the twenty years expire The Bargainee cuts down the Trees A. brought an Action of Trespass for cutting down the Trees And by Wray Iustice The meer property of the Trees vests in the Bargainee Post 288. and the Limitation of time which cometh after is not to any purpose but to hasten the cutting of the Trees within a certain time within which if the Vendee doth not cut them he should be punished as a Trespassor as to the Land but not as to the Trees Gawdy contrary And that upon this Contract a conditional property vests in the Vendee which ought to be pursued according to the direction of the condition and because the condition is broken the property of the Trees is vested in A. CCCLXXII Curriton and Gadbarys Case Pasch 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN in Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared Leases That the Defendant in consideration that the Plaintiff should make a lease for life to the Defendant of certain Lands Habendum after the death of A. before the tenth of August next following promised to pay the Plaintiff ten pounds the first day of May next after the promise which was before the tenth of August And the truth was That the said ten pounds was not paid at the day ut supra nor the said Lease made And now both sides being in default the Plaintiff brought an Action It was said by Wray Iustice If the Plaintiff had made the Lease according to the consideration and in performance thereof the action would have lyen but now his own default had barred him of the Action But for another cause the Declaration was holden insufficient for here is not any Consideration for the promise is in consideration that the Plaintiff shall lease to the Defendant for life Habendum after the death of A. which cannot be good by way of lease but ought to enure by way of grant of the Reversion so as here is no lease therefore no consideration and notwithstanding that if a Lease be made for life Habendum after the death of A. the Habendum is void and the Lease shall be in possession according to the Premises yet the Law will not give such construction to the words of a Promise Contract or Assumpsit but all the words ought to be wholly respected according to the Letter so as because that no Lease can be made according to the words of the Consideration no supply thereof shall be by any favorable construction And so it was adjudged But before the same imperfection was espied Iudgment was entred and therefore the Court awarded that there should be a cesset executio entred upon the Roll for it is hard as it was said by Wray to drive the party to a Writ of Error in Parliament because Parliaments are not now so frequently holden as they have used to be holden and the Execution was staid accordingly CCCLXXIII Willis and Crosbys Case Pasch 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Error IN a Writ of Error It was assigned for Error That whereas in the first Action the parties were at issue and upon the Venire facias one Gâ—â—gory Tompson was returned But upon the Habeas Corpora George Tâ—â—â—â—son was returned and the Iury was taken and found for the
be taken or comprehended under the name of a Benefice having Cure of Souls in any Article above specified CCCCXLIII Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Aâ—iâ—d ONe was bounden to stand to the award of two Arbitrators who award that the party shall pay unto a stranger or his assigns 200 l. before such a day the stranger before the day dieth and B. takes Letters of Administration and if the Obligor shall pay the mony to the Administrator or that the Obligor should be discharged was the Question and it was the opinion of the whole Court that the mony should be paid to the Administrator for he is Assignee and by Gawdy Iustice If the word Assignee had been left out yet the payment ought to be made to the Administrator quod Coke affirmavit CCCCXLIV Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. ONe sued in the Kings Bench for Costs given upon a Suit depending in the Hundred Court and the sum of the Costs was under 40 s. and the Plaintiff declared Steward That at the Court holden before the Steward secundum consuetudinem Manerii praedict It was objected that the Steward is not Iudge in such Court but the Suitors to which it was answered by the Iustices That by a Custom in a Hundred Court a Steward may be Iudge and so it hath been holden and here the Plaintiff hath declared upon the Custom for the Declaration is secund consuetudinem Manerii also the Subject may sue here in the Kings Bench for a lesser sum than 40 s. as if 10 s. Costs be given in any Suit here Suit to such costs lieth here in this Court. CCCCXLV Pigot and Harringtons Case Mich. 30 31. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. PIgot brought a Writ of Error upon a Fine levied by him within age Error 1 Cro. 11. the Case was That the Husband and Wife were Tenants for life the Remainder to the Infant in Fee and they three levied a Fine and the Infant only brought the Writ of Error It was objected by Tanfield that they all three ought to joyn in this Writ and the Husband and Wife ought to be summoned and severed Atkinson contrary for here the Husband and Wife have not any cause of action but the Infant only is grieved by the Fine 35 H. 6. 19 20 21 c. In conspiracy against many it was found for the Plaintiff and one of the Defendants brought Attaint and assigned the false oath in omnibus quae dixerunt but afterwards abridged the assignment of the false oath as to the damages and so the attaint well lies Two women are Ioynt-tenants they take Husbands the Husbands and their Wives make a Feoffment in Fee Attaint the Husbands dye the Wives shall have several Cui in vita's for the coverture of the one was not the coverture of the other 7 H. 4. 112. In Appeal against four they were outlawed and two of them brought Error upon it and good 29 E. 3. 14. In Assize against three Coparceners they plead by Bailiff nul tenent de Franktenement c. and found that two of them were disseisors and Tenants and that the third had nothing and afterwards the three Coparceners brought attaint and after appearance the third Sister who was acquit was nonsuit and afterwards by Award the Writ did abate Tanfield Although that the cause be several yet the erronious act was joynt and the receiving of the Fine and that Record being entire ought to be pursued accordingly and then the Husband and Wife shall be summoned and severed and it is not like to the case of 29 E. 3. cited before for there the third coparcener had not any cause of attaint for no verdict passed against her Wray As the Error is here assigned the Writ is well brought for the Error is not assigned in the Record but without it in the person of the Infant Fine upon an Infant reversed and that is the cause of the Action by him and for no other Two Infants levy a Fine although they joyn in Error yet they ought to assign Errors severally and they may sue several Writs of Error and afterwards it was holden by the Court that the Writ was good and the Fine reversed as to the Infant only CCCCXLVI Scovell and Cavels Case Mich. 30 31. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN Ejectione firmae by Scovell against Cavel Leases 1 Cro. 89 the Declaration was general upon a Lease made by William Pain and it was found by special verdict That William Leversedge was seised of the Lands c. and leased the same to Stephen Cavel John Cavel and William Pain habend to them for their lives and for the life of the survivor of them Provided always and it was covenanted granted and agreed betwixt the parties that the said John Cavel and William Pain should not take any benefit profit or commodity of the Land during the life of Stephen Cavel and further that the said William Pain should not take any benefit c. during the life of John Cavel c. Stephen Cavel died John Cavel entred and afterwards William Pain entred and made the Lease to the Plaintiff upon whom the Defendant entred and if the Entry of William Pain were lawful was the Question Gawdy Serjant his Entry is not lawful It will be agreed That if a man lease to three for their lives they are Ioynt-tenants but if by the habendum the estate be limited to them by way of Remainder the joynt estate in the Premises is gone and the Land demised shall go in Remainder and I agree that in deeds Poll the words shall be taken strong against the grantor contrary in the Case of Indentures the words there shall be taken according to the intent of the parties for there the words are the words of both See Browning and Beestons Case 2. and 3. Ma. Plowd 132. where by Indenture the Lessee covenanted to render and pay for the Land Leased such a Rent the same is a good reservation although it be not by apt words and here in our Case this Proviso and Covenant Grant and Agreement doth amount to such a limitation by way of Remainder especially when such a clause followeth immediately after the Habendum Coke contrary The Office of the Habendum is to limit and explain the estate contained in the premises and here the Habendum hath done its Office and made it a joynt estate and therefore the Clause afterward comes too late and in truth is repugnant and utterly void as to such purpose but perhaps an action of Covenant lies upon it Wray It hath been by me adjudged if a Lease be made to three Habendum successive the same is a void word and the Lessees are joynt-tenants contrary of Copyhold by reason of Custom and here the proviso and the clause following is contrary to the Habendum and repugnant and so void as to the dividing of the estate by way of Remainder which Gawdy Iustice granted Heale
it should be lawful for the Defendant to cut down good for Fire-boot and Hedge-boot without making any wast or cutting more than necessary And the Plaintiff assigned the breach in that Covenant which is in truth the Covenant of the Plaintiff that the Defendant had committed wast in felling wood c. And the Condition was to perform all Covenants and Agreements And Exception was taken because that the Condition ought to extend but unto Covenants to be performed on the part of the Lessee but the Exception was not allowed for it is the Agreement of the Lessee although it be the Covenant of the Lessor the Plaintiff CCCCLVIII Foster and Wilson against Mapes Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Covenant Ow. 100. 1 Cro. 212. FOster and Wilson brought an action of Covenant against Mapes and declared That by certain Indentures of Articles it was agreed betwixt the Plaintiffs and the Defendant whereof one part was sealed with the seal of the Defendant and the other with the seals of the Plaintiffs that whereas the Defendant had leased to the Plaintiffs the Parsonage of B he covenanted That he would keep the Plaintiffs harmless concerning the same against one N. B And declared further That the said N.B. had entred upon them And that at the time of the making of the Indentures he was Parson of B. The Defendant had pleaded Non est factum and it was found by special Verdict That the Defendant sealed one part of the Indentures and that one of the Plaintiffs only sealed the other part Exception was taken to the Declaration because there is not set forth in it any sufficient breach for when the Defendant Covenants to save the Plaintiffs harmless against B. the same is to be intended of a lawful Eviction As in Puttenhams Case 13 Eliz. Dyer 306. But if the Covenant had been That the Lessee should peaceably enjoy the Term sine ejectione interruptione alicujus personae upon an unlawful entry of a wrong doer an action lieth See 16 Eliz. Dyer 328. And here the finding of N.B. to be Parson at the time is to no purpose And there is not layed any express title in N.B. but only by implication for it might be that the Parson had leased to the Defendant rendring Rent with clause of re-entry and the Parson had entred for the Condition broken and the Plaintiffs ought to have shewed and not generally that he had entred and that he was Parson Also it is layed That N. B. was Parson at the time of the Entry but it is not shewed what Entry which may be taken that he was Parson at the time the Plaintiffs entred by virtue of their Lease and not when the said N. B. entred upon the Plaintiffs Also the Plaintiffs have not declared That they had entred by force of the Lease aforesaid and if not then they cannot be ejected c. and then no breach of Covenant Pudsey contrary We have declared that the Parsonage was demised to us and that N. B. being Parson hath entred and the Record was read i. That where the Defendant had demised to the Plaintiffs the Parsonage of B. It was agreed That the Defendant always should keep harmless the Plaintiffs and the Premisses against N.B. for and concerning omnibus pertinentiis c. Tanfield The breach is well laid and the words of the Covenants amount to as much as if he had said that he would keep them from all interruption and the difference is when the Covenant is general i. keep harmless c. the same doth not extend but to a lawful interruption but when it is special against such as one there is extends to any interruption whatsoever Gawdy Iustice conceived That the breach of Covenant is well laid i. that N. B. hath entred upon them and removed them 1 Inst 384. and be it by wrong or by right the same is a breach for he hath not kept harmless the Plaintiffs for the premisses and profits of them against N.B. 2. E. 4. 15. A Bond was endorsed upon condition That the Obligor should defend to the Obligee for such a time such Land whereof he had before enfeoffed him It was holden That if a stranger ousteth the Obligee without any Title the Bond is forfeited by reason of the word Defend And although the Plaintiffs have not laid in their Declaration that they have entred the same is not material for it is not the point of the Action Fenner Iustice conceived That the difference put at the Bar betwixt general Covenant and special is good Law and that in case of such a special Covenant interruption without Title gives an Action but he conceived that because it is not alledged that the Plaintiffs had entred that there was no breach of Covenant See 9 Eliz. Dyer 257. Wray The words of the Covenant do amount to peaceable enjoying during the Term and so to an interruption without Title Fenner 18 E. 4. 27. A. is bound to B. to save B. harmless from an Obligation made by the Plaintiff to one R. if R. affirm a plaint of Debt against the said Plaintiff upon the said Bond the Bond of A. is forfeit but here the Plaintiffs cannot be harmed for they have not entred Gawdy The conclusion of the Declaration is That N.B. entred upon the profits and removed them so as they could not take the profits thereof so it is implied that the Plaintiffs had entred and afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCCLIX Marshes Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. MArsh Executor of one Nicholson Error by Executors to reverse an Attainder of the Testator Owen Rep. 147. 1 Cro. 22. brought a Writ of Error to reverse an Outlawry in Felony had against his Testator the Error assigned was plain but it was moved that this Writ of Error would not lye Gawdy The Action will well lye for by this Suit the Plaintiff intends to reverse and so undo the Outlawry for which cause this matter ought not to be objected against him for the Executor may have this Action as well as the Heir Fenner Iustice Where the principal reverseth the Attainder the same shall extend to the Accessory In Assise against Tenant and disseisor each of them may have a Writ of Error and the reversal by the one shall make void the Record as to both and he needs not any Garnishment for by intendment the King is to have all his goods and the King is always presumed present in this Court quod tota Curia concessit and therefore there needs not any Garnishment by Scire facias but Wray said we use in such cases to call the Attorney General of the King to know if he can say any thing wherefore the Outlawry should not be reversed The Error assigned was That the Exigent issued forth into London and the Sheriff returned that he had proclaimed the party de Com. in Com. quousque c. where he ought say de Hustingo in Hustingum and
the Seisin or possession of the Tenant in Demesn who ought immediately to have paid the said Rent so behind to the Testator in his life or in the Seisin or possession of any other person or persons claiming the said Lands only by and from the said Tenant by Purchase Gift or Discent in like manner as the Testator might or ought to have done in his life time And now it was moved to the Court. If A. grant a Rent-charge to B. the Rent is behind B. dyeth A. infeoffeth C. of the Lands in Fee who diverse years after infeoffeth D. who divers years after infeoffeth E. It was holden by Walmesey Periam and Windham Iustice against Anderson Lord chief Iustice that E. should be chargeable with the said arrearages to the Executors of A. But they all agreed That the Lord by Escheat Tenant in Dower or by the curtesie should not be charged for they do not claim in by the party only but also by the Law. CCCCXIX Wigot and Clarks Case Hill. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Writ of Right by Wigot against Clark for the Mannor of D. in the County of Glocester the four Knights gladiis cincti did appear Writ of Right and took their corporal Oath that they would choose 12 c. ad faciendum magnam Assisam and by direction of the court they withdrew themselves into the Exchequer chamber and there did return in Parchment the names of the Recognitors and also their own names and at the day of the return of the Pannel by them made the 4 Knights and 12 others were sworn to try the issue and it was ordered by the Court That both the parties scil the Demandant and the Tenant or their Attornies attend the said 4 Knights in the Exchequer chamber and to be present at the making of the Pannel so as each of them might have their challenges for after the return of the Pannel no challenge lieth and thereupon the said 4 Knights went from the Bar and within a short time after sitting the Court they returned the Pannel written in Parchment in this form Nomina Recognitorum c. inter A. petentem B. tenentem and so set down their names six other Knights ten Esquires and four Gentlemen and the Iustices did commend them for their good and sufficient Pannel and thereupon a Venire facias was awarded against the said parties CCCCXX Pory and Allens Case Trin. 30 Eliz. Rot. 611. In the Common Pleas. THe case was That Lessee for 30 years leased for 19 years 1 Cro. 173. Owen 97. Post 322 323. Surrender 1 Cro. 302. and then the first Lessee and one B. by Articles in writing made betwixt them did conclude and agree That the Lessee for 19 years should have a Lease for three years in the said Lands and others and that the same should not be any surrender of his first Term to which Articles the said Lessee for 19 years did after agree and assent unto and it was the opinion of all the Iustices of the Court that the same was not any surrender and they also were of opinion That one Termor could not surrender to another Termor CCCCXXI Glanvil ane Mallarys Case Trin. 31 Eliz. Rot. 321. In the Common Pleas. GLanvil was Plaintiff in Audita Querela Audita Querâ—la 1 Cro. 2â—8 against Mallary upon a Statute Staple for that the conusor was within age at the time of the acknowledging of it it was moved for the Defendant that the Court ought not to hold Plea of this matter because there was no Record of the Statute remaining here and therefore by Law he was not compellable to answer it c. and a President was disallowed 5 H. 8. where such a pleading was allowed and judgment given that the Defendant eat sine die Loves Case Dudley and Skinners Case vide 16 Eliz. Dier 332. But on the other side divers presidents were shewed that divers such Writs had been shewed in the Common Pleas as 30 Eliz. Loves case and the Lord Dudley and Skinners case and thereupon it was adjudged that the Action did well lye in this Court. CCCCXXII Pet and Callys Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Debt IN Debt upon a Bond for performance of covenants the case was I. S. by Indenture covenanted with I.D. that such a woman viz. R.S. at all times at the request and charges of I.D. should make execute and suffer such reasonable assurances of such Lands to the said I.D. or his heirs as the said I. D. or his heirs should reasonably devise or require I.D. devised a Fine to be levied by the said Woman and required her to come before the Iustices of Assise to acknowledge it and the woman came before the said Iustices to that intent and because the said woman at that time was not compos mentis the said Iustices did refuse to take the Conusans of the said Fine and this was averred in the pleading in an Action brought upon the said Bond for performance of Covenants where the breach was assigned in not acknowledging of the said Fine and upon the special matter the party did demur in Law and the opinion of the whole Court was that the condition was not broken for the words are general to make such reasonable assurances which c. but if the words had been special to acknowledge a Fine there if the Iustice doth refuse to take such acknowledgment the Bond is forfeited for the party hath taken upon him that it should be done Wangford and Sextons Case Mich. 22 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Cro. 174. Kel 87. a. THe Plaintiff had recovered against the Defendant in an Action of Debt and had execution The Defendant after the day of the Teste of the Fierifacias and before the Sheriff had medled with the execution of the Writ bona fide for money sold certain goods and chattels and delivered them to the buyers it was holden by the Court that notwithstanding the said Sale that the Sheriff might do execution of those goods in the hands of the buyers Executions for that they are liable to the execution and execution once granted or made shall have relation to the Test of the Writ CCCCXXIV Wilmer and Oldfields Case Trin. 29 Eliz. Rot. 2715. In the Common Pleas. Award IN Debt upon a Bond the Condition was to perform the Award of I. S Antea 140. c. the Arbitrators make Award That the Defendant before such a day shall pay to the Plaintiff 1000 l. or otherwise procure one A. being a stranger to the Bond to be bound to the Obligee for the payment of 12 l. per annum to the Plaintiff for his life the Defendant pleaded the performance of the Award generally the Plaintiff assigned the breach of the Award in this That the said A. had not paid the said 100 l. without speaking of the cause of the award of the 12 l. per annum upon which the
Defendant did demur in Law it was holden by the whole Court that the Replication was good for the Award as to the second point was meerly void as if no such Award at all had been because A. was a stranger to the Award and the submission 1 Cro. 4. but as to the point of the 100 l. the same is good and shall bind the parties and the Plaintiff had Iudgment to recover vide 21 E. 475. 18 E. 4. 22 23. CCCCXXV Fabian and Windsors Case Mich. 31 and 32. Eliz. Rot. 814. In the Common Pleas. IN Trespass for entring into his house or Inn at Uxbridge Leases 1 Cro. 209. it was found by special verdict That the Plaintiff leased to the Defendant the said house for seven years rendring Rent at the Feasts of the Annunciation of our Lady and Saint Michael c. with condition that if the said Rent shall be behind by the space of ten days c. that it shall be lawful to the Lessor to re-enter And afterward at the Feast of the Annunciation 31 Eliz. the Rent was behind and the tenth day after the Lessor came to the said House a quarter of an hour before the sun setting and demanded the rent in these words I demand three pound ten shillings for a half years rent of this House now due and there continued till the Sun was set but no Rent was paid But note that the Issue was If he came to the House half an hour before Sun set and there continued demanding the half years Rent of the Premises due at the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady then last past It was moved by Fenner That upon this Verdict the Issue is not found for the Plaintiff i. the Issue was upon the half hour and the quarter part of the hour was found 2. the Issue was If the demand were of the Rent due at the Feast of the Annunciation passed and the Verdict is for Rent due at the time of the demand c. And it was the opinion of Anderson Periam and Walmesley Demand of Rent That as to the first point the Verdict was good enough for the Plaintiff Windham contrary But it was agreed by them all That if in demand of Rent ut supra the Lessor or any on his part doth demand one penny more or less than is due or in his demand doth not shew the certainty of the Rent and the day of payment of it and when it was due the demand is not good Conditions taken strictly for a condition which goes in defeazance of an estate is odious in Law and no re-entry in such Case shall be given unless the demand be precisely and strictly followed CCCCXXV Elmes and Meldcalfes Case Mich. 32. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IT was holden for Law by the whole Court 1 Cro. 189. That if one of the witnesses after the Iury are departed from the Bar doth repeat unto the Iury the same Evidence which he gave before and no more That that doth make the Verdict to be void CCCCXXVII Carter and Claycoles Case Mich. 32 33 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Leases More 593. 4 Co 76. IN Ejectione firmae by Carter against Claycole the Plaintiff declared upon a Lease made by the Wardens and Fellows of All-souls Colledge 1. July 10 Eliz. And it was found by special Verdict That Overden Warden of the said Colledge and the Fellows c. leased unto the Plaintiff To have and to hold from the Feast of the Annunciation next following to the end of twenty years and made a letter of Attorney to one to enter into the said Manor and to seal and deliver the Deed of the said Lease in their names to the Plaintiff who by force thereof entred into part of the demised Premises and there did seal and deliver the same c. But it was not found that any rent was reserved thereupon And if this Lease were gooâ— Then the Iury found for the Plaintiff but if not then for the Defendant Cooper Serjeant It hath been objected That this Lease being but for twenty years is not warranted by the Statute of 13 Eliz. Cap. 10. For the words of the Statute are Other than for the term of 21 years 5 Cr. 6. as to that It was not the intent of the Statute but only to abridge the great and long Leases heretofore made by Colledges and to limit such Leases to a certain measure of time ut supra for twenty one years or three lives non ultra but on this side as much as they would which was granted by the whole Court Another matter was because it is not found That the due rent was reserved upon the said Lease accustomed yearly rent or more and yet the same is good enough 1 Cro. 707. 708. Post 333. for if the other party will take advantage of such defect he ought to shew the same otherwise it shall be intended because it is found that such Lease was made that it was made according to the Statute For if a man is to make title to himself by a conditional Lease he is not to plead the condition but only the Lease and if the other party will defeat the Lease by the Condition he shall shew the same And in this Case The Defendant also ought to have shewed the Statute by which such defective Leases are made void Also it hath been objected That by the Statute of 18 Eliz. the third part of the Rent ought to be reserved in Corn and here is not found any Corn as to that It is to be considered that the said Statute is not a general Law Special Statutes ought to be pleaded whereof the Iudges are bounden to take notice but it ought to be pleaded for it extends but to four places viz. Cambridge Oxford Winchester and Eaton and therefore such a Statute ought to be pleaded or given in Evidence and found by Verdict As where a man pleads a general pardon in which divers persons are excepted he ought to plead it specially and shew that he is not any of the persons excepted 8 E. 4. 7. 28 H. 7. So special customs ought to be pleaded Gavelkind Borough-English 21 E. 4. 55. 36. The King grants to the Citizens of Norwich c. And afterwards by Act of Parliament all their Liberties c. are confirmed by a general confirmation to all Cities and Boroughs this is a special Act and ought to be pleaded by Brian 59 13 E. 4. 8. The Lord Saies case an Act of Parliament That all Corporations made by the King H. 6. shall be void is a special Act and ought to be pleaded And see 28 H. 8. 27. 28. Dyer If the Statute of 21 H. 8. cap. 13. Of Lands taken to Form by Ecclesiastical persons be a special Law Yelverton contrary The Statute of 13 Eliz. is a special Law and ought to be pleaded but the Statute of 13 Eliz. is now a general Law which see Hollands