Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	administrator_n	assign_v	executor_n	5,414	5	11.5134	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60117	Cases in Parliament, resolved and adjudged, upon petitions, and writs of error	Shower, Bartholomew, Sir, 1658-1701.	1698 (1698)	Wing S3650; ESTC R562	237,959	239

All their Arguments will hold as well to a Month Week or Days surviving of the Mother as to this of two Years and therefore it must be thus construed to be her Intent that the Devises over should take effect if the Child should not live to an Age of Maturity and Power of Disposition And as to the pretence of the Child's starving in the mean time there neither is nor can be any weight in that for the Interest and Produce of the whole during all that time must remain and be to and for the benefit of the Child Wherefore upon the whole Matter 't was prayed that the Decree should be affirmed and it was affirmed Philip Jermin and Sarah Vxor ejus ' Plaintiffs Versus Mary Orchard Widow Defendant WRit of Error to Reverse a Judgment of Reversal given in the Exchequer Chamber upon a Judgment given in the Kings Bench for the Plaintiffs in an Action of Trespass for the mean Profits after a Recovery in Ejectment and Possession had thereupon The Case was this upon Record The Plaintiffs declare that the Defendant 1 Sept. 1672. their Close c. vi armis c. did break and upon the Possession of the Plaintiff did enter and the Plaintiffs from their Possession did expel and remove and them so being removed and expelled for a long time viz. from the said 1 Sept. 1672. to the time of exhibiting the Bill viz. 6 May 1685. did hold out from the same by which they lost the Prosits thereof c. Et al' Enormia c. The Defendant by Plea takes Issue as to the Force and Issue thereon and as to part of the Trespass pleads the Statute of Limitations and as to the residue of the Trespass pleads that Sir William Portman made a Lease to one Trowbridge for 1000 years and by mesne Assignments derives a Title down to Thomas Nicholas and that he in his Life time by Indenture assigned to the Defendant The Plaintiffs Reply and as to the first part of the Plea viz. of the Statute of Limitations they demur and as to the other part of the Plea they tender a Traverse and deny that Thomas Nicholas did assign the Premisses to the Defendant The Defendant joyns in Demurrer as to the first part of the Plea viz. the Statute of Limitations And as to the other part she takes Issue upon the Traverse which Issue is joyned and a Venire awarded tam ad triand ' the two Issues quam ad inquirend ' de dampnis upon the Demurrer The Jury find that Thomas Nicholas was possessed in manner as the Defendant in her Plea hath alledged and that he did make Seal and as his Deed deliver the Indenture in the Plea mentioned which said Indenture follows in these words and so set forth the whole in which after a Recital of the Lease and a Deducement of the Title down are these words viz. The said Thomas as well for and in consideration of the natural Love and Affection which he beareth to the Defendant his Grand child as for other good Causes and Considerations hath granted assigned and set over and by these Presents doth grant assign and set over unto the said Mary her Executors Administrators and Assigns all the said Cottage Barn and Lands and all and singular other the Premisses herein before recited or mentioned with the Appurtenances to the same belonging or appertaining together with the said recited Lease and all Writings and Evidences touching the Premisses to have and to hold the said Cottage Barn and Premisses and every part thereof with the Appurtenances unto the said Defendant Mary her Executors Administrators and Assigns from and immediately after the Death and Decease of the said Thomas Nicholas party to these presents and Mary his Wife unto the end of the term and for and during all the rest and residne of the said term of 1000 Years which shall be therein to come and unexpired by and under the yearly Rents Covenants c. expressed in the said Original Indenture of Lease Then the Jury leave it to the Court whether the Deed of Assignment be good in Law or not and conclude specially if the Assignment be not good in Law then they find for the Plaintiffs and Assess Damages 50 l. and 40 s. Costs and thereupon c. And now it was argued for the Plaintiff and it was said in the first place That this Case was extraordinary that tho' the Majority of the Judges in Westminster-hall were of Opinion with the Plaintiffs yet they were forced to sue this Writ they had the four Judges of the King 's Bench and the then Mr. Justice Powell and the then Baron Powell concurring with the King 's Bench and the chief Baron Atkins being absent the other Five in the Exchequer-Chamber reversed the Judgment it having been resolved upon the Stat. of Eliz. which erects that Jurisdiction That the Concurrence of six are not necessary to reverse but only that six must be present to make a Court so that here were six to five for the Plaintiff and yet he hath lost it Then it was argued That there had been two Things insisted on below one was the finding of Damages generally and the other was as to the Validity of the Assignment and as to the finding it was said That the Matter of the Force is meer Form and if there had been no non prosequi the same could not make an Error That in C. B. and B. R. the Issue upon the vi armis c. is seldom or never taken notice of no Entry is made of it upon the postea at all unless a wounding or some such other special Matter were mixt with it in the same Issue That 't is held in the Case of Law and King 1 Saund ' 81. If nothing be answered to the vi armis in a special Plea 't is well upon a general Demurrer and the 7 Hen. 6. 13. and 1 Hen. 7.19 are plain That if the Party have the special Matter which he pleads found for him the vi armis shall not be inquired of So if the Defendant have Judgment against him upon Demurrer to the special Matter pleaded by him the vi armis shall never be tried tho' Issue were joyned upon it but the Party shall be fined upon the Capiatur c. without any Inquiry So is the King and Hopper 2 Cro. 599. in a Scire Facias on a Recognizance for the good Behaviour special Matter pleaded held That the Jury need not inquire about the vi armis if such Special Matter be found for the Defendant much more is it so in case it be found for the Plaintiff for there the Act which is found imports it c. and it shall be intended to be vi armis c. and the Book of Hen. 6. is full in it no need of any Inquiry in such Case And in this Point both the Courts having concurred the Counsel for the Defendant did not contest