appertaining to Christianity and such as without good knowledge in Divinty cannot be well judged of being heretofore held by Archbishops and Bishops as from the Pope of Rome but after his ejection they held them by the Kings Authority by virtue of his Magistracy as the Admiral of England holds his Court whence it proceeds that they send out their Precepts in their own names and not in the Kings as the Iustices of the Kings Courts do and therefore as the Appeal from those Courts did lie to Rome now by the Stat. of 25 H. 8. cap. 19. it lies to the King in his Chancery Court-Baron COurt-Baron is a Court that every Lord of a Mannor hath within his own Precincts Of this Court and Court-Leet Kitch hath writ a learned Book This Court as it seems in Cok. lib. 4. fol. 26. fs twofold And therefore if a man having a Mannor in a Town grants the inheritance of all the Copyholds therein to another this Grantee may hold a Court for the customary Tenants and accept of Surrenders to the use of others and make Admittances and Grants The other Court is of Free-holders which is properly called the Court-Baron wherein the Suitors that is the Free-holders are Iudges whereas of the other Court the Lord or his Steward is Iudge Coutheutlaugh COutheutlaugh is he that wittingly receives a man utlawed and cherishes or hides him in which case he was in ancient time subject to the same punishment as the man utlawed was Br. l. 3. tr 2. c. 13. nu 2. It is compounded of couth i. known and utlaw outlawed as we now call them Cranage CRanage is a liberty to use a Crane for drawing up wares or Goods out of any Ship Boat or Barge at any Creek or Wharf and to make profit of it It is used also for the Money that is taken for that work Creditor CReansor or Creditor comes of the French Coryance that is Confidence or perswasion and it signifies him that trusts another with any Debt be it money wares or other things This word is used in the Old N. B. in the Writ of Audita querela f. 66. a. Creek CReek is that part of a Haven from whence any thing is landed or disburthened out of the Sea And this word is used in the Stat. 5 El. cap. 5. and 4 H. 4. cap. 20. c. Croft CRoft is a little Close or Pightle adjoyning to an House used either for pasture or arable as the owner pleases And it seems to be derived from the old word Creaft that is Handicraft because these lands are for the most part manured with the best skill of the owner Cucking-stool CUcking-stool is an Engin invented for the punishment of Scolds and unquiet women and it was called in old time a Tumbrell as appears by Lamb. in his Eirenarc l. 1. c. 12. And by the Cases and Iudgements in Eire in the time of Ed. 3. a Pillory and a Tumbrell are appendant to a Leet without which right cannot be administred to the parties within the view Keloway fol. 140. b. And in the Stat. 51 H. 3. ca. 6. it is called Trebuchett Cui ante divortium CUi ante divortium is a Writ that lies when Alienation is made by the husband of the wifes Land and after Divorce is had between them then the woman shall have this Writ and the Writ shall say Whom she before the Divorce might not gain-say Cui in vita CUi in vita is a Writ that lies where a man is seised of Lands in Fee-simple Fee-tail or for life in right of his wife and aliens the same and dies then she shall have this Writ to recover the Land And note That in this Writ her Title must be shewed whether it be of the purchase or inheritance of the woman But if the husband alien the right of his wife and the husband and the wife die the wifes Heir may have a writ of Sur cui in vita Cuinage CUinage See Cuynage Cuntey CUntey cuntey is a kind of Trial as appears by Bract. in these words The matter in this case shall be ended by Cuntey cuntey as between coheirs l. 4. tr 3. cap. 18. And again in the same place In a Writ of right the business shall be determined by cuntey cuntey And thirdly l. 4. tr 4. c. 2. The cause shall be tried by Writ of right neither by Battel nor by the great Assise but by Cuntey cuntey only which seems to be as much as by ordinary Iury. Curfew CUrfew comes of two French words Couvrir to cover and Feu Fire It is used with us for an evening Peal by which the Conqueror willed every man to take warning for the taking up his Fire and putting out his Light So that in many places at this day when a Bell is customably rung toward Bed-time it is said to ring Curfew Curia avisare vult CUria avisare vult is a Deliberation which the Court purposes to take upon any difficult point of a Cause before Iudgement be resolved on For which see the New Book of Entries verbo Curia c. Curia claudenda IS a Writ or Action to compell another to make a Fence or Wall which the Defendant ought to make between his land and the Plaintiffs Currier CUrrier is one that dresses or liquors Leather and is so called of the French word Cuir id est Corium Leather The word is used in all the Statutes made for the good making of Leather as in 1 Jac cap. 22. c. Cursiter CUrsiter is an Officer or Clerk belonging to the Chancery who makes out Original Writs 14 15 H. 8. cap. 8. They are called Clerks of Course in the Oath of Clerks of the Chancery appointed anno 18 Ed. 3. Stat. 5. There are of them twenty four to each of whom is allotted certain Shires into which they make out such Original Writs as are by the subject required and are a Corporation among themselves Curtesie of England CUrtesie of England is where a man takes a wife seised in Fee-simple or Fee-tail general or seised as Heir of the tail special and hath issue by her male or female be the issue dead or alive if the wife die the husband shall hold the Land during his life by the Law of England And it is called Tenant by the Curtesie of England because this is not used in any other Realm but only in England If the Infant was never alive then the husband shall not be Tenant by the Curtesie but if the issue be born alive it suffices If the woman be delivered of a Monster which hath not the shape of mankind this is not Issue in Law But though the issue hath some deformity or defect in the hand or foot and yet hath humane shape if suffices to make the husband Tenant by the Curtesie And in some cases the time of the birth is material and in some not Therefore if a man marries a woman Inheritrix who is great with child by him
And the Escheator is an Officer of Record and may ordain an under-Escheator as the Sheriff may an under-Sheriff yet the Escheator cannot return any Office by vertue of his Office but he shall be punished See F. N. B. 100. Office Escaetriae is the Escheatorship Reg. orig fol. 259. Exchequer EXchequer Scaccarium comes of the French word Eschequier id est Abacus which in one signification is taken for a Counting-Table or for the art or skill of Counting And from thence as some think the place or Court of the Receits and Accounts of the Revenues of the Crown is called the Exchequer Others have otherwise derived the name But the Exchequer is defined by Crompton in his Jurisd of Courts fol. 105. to be a Court of Record wherein all Causes touching the Revenues of the Crown are handled Escrow AN Escrow is a Deed delivered to a third person to be the Deed of the party upon a future condition And is called in Latine Schedula Rast Ent. 181. Escuage EScuage in Latine Scutagium that is Service of the Shield and he that held by Escuage held by Knight-service and to that did belong Ward Marriage and Relief c. But see the Stat. 12 Car. 2. c. 24. for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and turning all Tenures into free and common Soccage Escuage was a certain Sum of mony levied by the Lord of his Tenant after the quantity of his Tenure when Escuage ran through all England and was Ordained by all the Council of England how much every Tenant should give his Lord and that was properly to maintain the wars against Scotland or Wales and not against other Lands for that those Lands did of right belong to the Realm of England See Lit. lib. 2. cap. 3. Eslisors ARe persons nominated by a Court of Law to whom a Venire facias is directed by challenge to the Sheriff and Coroners who return the Writ in their own names with a panel of the Iurors names 15 E. 4. 24. pl. 4. Esnecy ESnecy is a Priviledge given the eldest Coparcener to choose first after the Inheritance is divided Flet. lib. 5. cap. 10. Esplees ESplees is the Profit or Commodity that is to be taken of a thing As of a Common the taking of the Grass by the mouths of the Beasts that common there of an Advowson the taking of gross Tithes by the Parson of Wood the â— elling of Wood of an Orchard the selling of Apples and other Fruit growing there of a Mill the taking of Toll are the Esplees and of such like And note that in a Writ of Right of Land Advowson or such like the Demandant ought to alledge in his Count that he or his Ancestors took the Esplees of the thing in demand otherwise the Pleading is not good Essendi quietum de Tolonio ESendi quietum de Tolonio is a Writ to be quit of Toll and lies in case where the Citizens or Burgesses of any City or Borough have been acquitted of Toll by the Grant of the Kings Progenitors throughout the whole Realm or by Prescription then if any man of the said Cities or Boroughs come with his Merchandises to any Town Fair or Market and there put them to sale or buy any Merchandises if the Officers of the said Town will demand any Toll of him against the Kings Charter or against the Vsage and Custom he may sue and have such a writ Fitz. N. B. fol. 226. Regist original fol. 258. Essoine Essoine Where an Action is brought and the Plaintiff or Defendant may not well appear at the day in Court for one of the five causes under specified he shall be Essomed to save his default There are five manner of Essoins viz. Essoine De ouster le mere by which the Defendant shall have a day by forty days The second is De terra sancta and upon this the Defendant shall have a day by a year and a day and these two shall be laid in the beginning of the Plea The third Essoin is De male vener and that shall be adjourned to a common day as the Action requires and this is called the Common Essoine and when and how this Essoine shall be see the Statutes and the Abridgment of Statutes where it is well declared The fourth is De malo lecti and that is only in a Writ of Right and thereupon there shall a Writ go out of the Chancery directed to the Sheriff that he shall send four Knights to see the tenant and if he be sick to give a day after a year and a day The fifth Essoine is De service del Roy and it lies in all Actions except i â— Assise De Novel Disseisin Writ of Dower Darreine presentment and in Appeal of Murther but in this Essoine it behoves at the day to shew his warrant or else it shall turn to a Default if it be in a Plea real or else he shall lose xx s. for the journey or more by the discretion of the Iustice if it be in a Plea personal as it appears by the Statute of Gloucest cap. 8. Essoino de malo lecti ESsoino de malo lecti is a writ directed to the Sheriff to send four lawful Knights to view one that hath essoined himself De malo lecti Reg. Orig. fol. 8. b. Establishment de Dower EStablishment de Dower seems to be the Assurance of Dower made by the husband or his friends before or at the time of the Marriage And Assignment of Dower is the Setting it out by the Heir afterward according to the Establishment Brit. cap. 102 103. Estandard EStandard or Standard signifies an Ensign in war but is also used for the principal or Standing Measure of the King to the proportion whereof all the Measures through the Land are and ought to be framed by the Clerk of the Market Aulneger or other Officer according to their Function For it was established by Magna Charta ann 9 H. 3. c. 25. that there should be but one scantling of Weights and Measures through all the Realm which is since confirmed by An. 14 Ed. 3. cap. 12. and many other Statutes as also that all should be â— itted to the Standard sealed with the Kings Seal And there is good reason that it should be called a Standard because it stands constant and immoveable and hath all other Measures coming towards it for their conformity as Souldiers in the Field have their Standard or Colours for their direction in their March or Skirmish Of these Standards and Measures read Britton cap. 30. See the Statute 17 Car. 1. cap. 19. Estate EState is that Title or Interest that a man hath in Lands and Tenements as Estate simple otherwise called Fee-simple and Estate conditional or upon Condition which is either upon Condition in Deed or upon Condition in Law See Littleton lib. 3. cap. 5. Estoppel EStoppel is when one is concluded and forbidden in Law to speak against his own act or deed yea though it be
who is therefore called the Incumbent of that Church because he doth bend all his study to the discharge of the Cure there Indicavit INdicavit is a Writ or Prohibition that lies for the Patron of a Church whose Clerk is Defendant in Court-Christian in an Action for Tithes commenced by another Clerk and extending to the fourth part of the Church or of its Tithes in which case the Suit belongs to the Kings Court by Westm 1. c. 5. Wherefore the Defendants Patron being like to be prejudiced in his Church and Advowson if the Plaintiff obtain in the Court-Christian has this means to remove it to the Kings Court Reg. orig fol. 35. and Britton c. 109. This Writ is not returnable but if they cease not their Suit he shall have an Attachment Inditement INditement See Enditement Indorsement INdorsement is that which is written upon the Back of a Deed as the Condition of an Obligation is said to be indorsed because it is commonly written on the Back of the Obligation Induction INduction is a lay act made by prescept of the Ordinary by which actual possession of the Church is given to the Rector or Vicar after his Presentation and Institution to it Infangtheef INfangtheef is a Priviledge or Liberty granted to Lords of certain Mannors to judge any Thief taken within their Fee Information INformation for the King is that which for a common person is called a Declaration and is not always done directly by the King or his Attorney but rather by some other man who sues as well for the King as for himself upon the breach of some penal Law or Statute wherein a Penalty is given to the party that will sue for the same but no Action of Debt to recover it therefore it must be had by Information Ingrosser INgrosser comes of the French word Grosier that is one that sells by Whole-sale But in our Law an Ingrosser is one that buys Corn Grain Butter Cheese Fish or other dead Victuals with an intent to sell the same again And so he is defined in the Stat. of 5 E. 6. c. 14. made against such Ingrossing Inheritance INheritance See Enheritance Inhibition INhibition is a Writ to inhibit a Iudge to proceed farther in the Cause depending before him And there is another Writ where after the Kings Presentment to a Benefice he presents another and inhibiteth the Bishop to give Induction to the first Presentee Plo. Com. 528. See F. N. B. f. 39. where he puts Prohibition and Inhibition together Inhibition is most commonly a Writ issuing forth of an higher Court-Cheistian to a lower and inferiour upon an Appeal Anno 24 H. 8. c. 12. and Prohibition out of the Kings Court of Record at Westminster to a Court-Christian or to an inferiour Temporal Court Injunction INjunction is an interlocutory Decree out of the Chancery sometimes to give Possession to the Plaintiff for defect of Apparance in the Defendant sometimes to the ordinary Courts of the King and sometimes to the Court-Christian to stay Proceeding in a Cause upon suggestiou made that if the rigor of the Law take place it is against Equity and Conscience in that Case See West part 2. tit Proceedings in Chancery sect 25. Inlagary INlagary or Inlagation is a Restitution of one outlawed to the Kings Protection or to the benefit condition of a Subject Inlaugh INlaugh signifies him that is sub Lege in some Frank-pledge not out-lawed of whom see Bract. l. 3. tract 2. c. 11. Inmates INmates are those persons of one Family that are suffered to come and dwell in one Cottage together with another Family by which the poor of the Parish will be increased And therefore by the Statute of 31 Eliz. c. 7. there is a Penalty of ten shillings a Month set upon every one that shall receive or continue such an Iumate Inquisition INquisition See Enquest Inrolment INrolment is the Registring Recording or Entring of any Act or Deed in the Chancery or elsewhere as of a Recognizance Fine Statute or Deed indented by the Statute of 27 H. 8. c. 16. by which a Freehold shall pass Instant INstant in Latine Instans is defined by the Logicians A thing not dividable in Time which is not any Time nor part of Time to which yet the parts of time are conjoyned and much considered in the Law and though it cannot be actually divided yet in consideration and conceit it may be divided and applied to several purposes as if they were several times whereof see in Plowdens Commentaries in the Case between Fulmerston and Stuard where the Statute of 31 H. 8. which Enacted That if an Abbot within a year before the Statute had letten Lands to one who at the time of making that Lease had the same Land to farm for a term of years then not expired that the Lessee should have that Land only for twenty one years is expounded And there it is debated That when the Termor takes the second Lease he surrenders his former term and so at the same instant of taking the second Lease the former term is expired And in the Case between Petit and Hales he who kills himself commits not Felony till he be dead and when dead he is not in being so as to be termed a Felon but at the instant is in the Law so adjudged And there are many other Cases in Law where the instant time that is not dividable in nature in the consideration of the mind and understanding of the Sages of the Law is divided upon which arise many arguments of great use and profound learning Institution INstitution is a Faculty made by the Ordinary by which a Vicar or Rector is approved to be Inducted to a Rectory or Vicarage Interdiction INterdiction has the same signification in the Common as in the Canon Law where it is thus defined Interdictio est Censura Ecclesiastica prohibens administrationem Divinorum And so it is used 22 H. 8. cap. 12. Intrusion INtrusion is a Writ that lies against him that enters after the death of Tenant in Dower or other Tenant for Life and holds out him in the Reversion or Remainder for which see Fitz. N. B. fol. 203. E. And every entry upon the possession of the King is called an Intrusion as where the Heir of the Kings Tenant enters after Office and before Livery this is called an Intrusion upon the King as appears in Stanf. Prerog fol. 40. and many other Books Intrusion INtrusion See Entrusion Inventary AN Inventary is a Catalogue or Recital in Writing of all the Goods and Chattels of one that is dead with the Valuation of them by four several persons which every Executor and Administrator ought to exhibit to the Ordinary at the time appointed Jointenans JOintenants are where two men come to any Lands and Tenements by one joynt Title as if a man give Lands to two men and to their Heirs Tenants in common are where two have Lands by several Titles or by Feoffment to two
only by the Law that is to say by Escheat Privy in Right is where one possessed of a Term for years grants his Estate to another upon Condition and makes his Executors and dies now these Executors are Privies in Right for if the Condition be broken and they enter into the Land they have it in right of their Testator and to his use Privy of Blood is the Heir of the Feoffor or Donor c. Also if a Fine be levied the Heirs of them that levied the Fine are called Privies Privileges PRivileges are Liberties and Franchises granted to an Office Place Town or Mannor by the Kings great Charter Letter Patents or Act of Parliament as Toll Sake Socke Infangtheef Outfangtheef Tourne Ordelfe and divers such like for which look in their proper titles and places Also there are other privileges which the Law takes notice of that is to say the privileges of the Commons Peers of the Parliament the privileges of Attornies Officers of the Courts at Westm that they shall not be sued or impleaded in another Court but in that where they are Attornies or Officers Procedendo PRocedendo is a Writ that lies where any Action is sued in one Court which is removed to another more high as to the Chancery Kings Bench or Common Place by a Writ of Priviledge or Certiorari and if the Defendant upon the matter shewed have no cause of Priviledge or if the matter in the Bill whereupon the Certiorari issued be not well proved then the Plaintiff shall have this Procedendo to send again the matter unto the first base Court there to be determined Proces PRoces are the Writs and Precepts that go forth upon the Original And in Actions real and personal there are sundry sorts of Proces For in Actions real the Proces i ◠Grand Cape before Appearance Therefore see of that in the 〈◊〉 Petit Cape But in Actions personal as in Debt Trespass or Detinue the Proces is a Distress and if the Sheriff return Nihil habet in Balliva c. then the Proces is Alias Capias and Pluries and an Exigent and they are called Capias ad respondendum Also the Exigent shall be proclaimed five times and if the party do not appear he shall be outlawed But in divers Actions there are divers manners of Proces which at large is declared in N. B. And there are divers other Proces after Appearance when the parties are at Issue to make the Enquest appear as a Writ of Venire facias and if they do not appear at the day then a Writ of Habeas corpora Jurat ' and after a Writ of Dist ◠ingas Jurat ' And there are divers other Proces after Iudgment as Capias ad satisfaciendum and Capias utlagatum c. Capias ad satisfaciendum lies where a man is condemned in any Debt or Dammage then he shall be arrested by this Writ and put in Prison without Bail or Mainprise till he hath paid the Debt and the Dammages Capias utlagatum lies where one is outlawed then he shall be taken by this Writ and put in Prison without Bail or Mainprise for that he had the Law in contempt And there are other Proces and Writs Iudicial as Capias ad valentiam Fieri facias Scire facias and many other and therefore look for them in their Titles Next friend NExt friend is commonly taken for Gardian in Soccage and is where a man seised of Land holden in Socage dies his issue within age of 14 years then the next friend or next of kin to whom the Lands cannot discend shall have the keeping of the Heir and of the Land to the only use of the Heir until he come to the age of 14 years and then he may enter and put the Gardian out and bring him to accompt But in that Accompt he shall be allowed for all reasonable costs and expences bestowed either upon the Heir or his Land The next friend or next of kin to whom the Inheritance cannot discend is thus to be understood If the Lands discend to the Heir from his Father or any of the kin of his Fathers side then the Mother or other of the Mothers side are called the next of kin to whom the Inheritance cannot discend for before it shall so diseend it shall rather escheat to the Lord of whom it is holden And where the Lands come to the Heir from his Mother or any of her side then the Father or other of the Fathers side are called the next of kin to whom the Inheritance cannot discend but shall rather escheat to the Lord of whom it is holden Otherwise Prochein amy is he who appears in any Court for an Infant who sues any Action and aids the Infant to pursue his Suit whereof see the Statutes of Westm 1. cap. 47. and Westm 2. cap. 15. that an Infant may not make an Atturney but the Court may admit the next Friend for the Plaintiff and a Gardian for the Infant Defendant as his Atturney Proclamation PRoclamation is Notice publickly given of any thing whereof the King thinks good to advertise his Subjects so it is used Anno 7. R. 2. c. 6. Proclamation of Rebellion is an open notice given by an Officer that a man not appearing upon a Subpoena or Attachment in the Chancery shall be reputed a Rebell except he render himself at the day assigned Crompt Jurisdict fol. 92. And it is to be noted that no man may make Proclamation but by authority of the King or Majors and such like as have proviledges in Cities and Boroughs so to do or have it by Custom And therefore where an Executor made Proclamations in certain Market-towns that the Creditors should come by a certain day and claim and prove their Debts due by the Testator and because he did this without Authority he was committed to the Fleet and Fined Brook Proclamation 10. Procurator PRocurator is used for him who gathers the Fruits of a Benefice for another man Anno 3 Ric. 2. Stat. 1. cap. 2. Prohibition PRohibition is a Writ that lies where a man is impleaded in the Spiritual Court of a thing that touches not Matrimony nor Testament nor meerly Tithes but the Kings Crown This Writ shall be directed as well to the party as to the Iudge or his Official to prohibit them that they pursue no farther But if it appear afterward to the Iudges temporal that the matter is fit to be determined in the Spiritual Court and not in the Court Temporal then the party shall have a Writ of Consultation commanding the Iudges of the Court Spiritual to proceed in the first Plea Also there are many other Prohibitions to the Admiralty and to other Courts of Common-Law if they exceed their power Properite PRopertie is the highest Right that a man hath or can have to any thing which no way depends upon another mans courtesie And this none in this Kingdom can be said to have in any Lands or
hath or might have against him Bracton l. 5. tract 5. ca. 9. nu 9. Quo jure QUo jure is a Writ that lies where a man hath had Common of Pasture in anothers Several within the time of memory then he to whom the Several belongs shall have this Writ to charge him to shew by what Title he claims the Common Quo minus QUo minus is a Writ that lies where a man hath granted to another Housebote and Heybote in his wood and the Grantor makes such waste and destruction that the Grantee cannot have his reasonable Estovers then the Grantee shall have the aforesaid Writ which is in nature of a Writ of Waste And note that Housebote is certain Estovers to mend the House and Heybote certain Estovers to mend Heyes and Hedges There is another Writ called a Quo â— inus in the Exchequer which any Termor or Debtor to the king shall have against any other for Debt or Trespass in the Excheques Office called the Common Pleas by which the Plaintiff shall surmise that for the wrong which the Defendant doth him he is less able to pay the King his Debt or Term which is surmised to give Iurisdiction to the Court of Exchequer to hear and determine the cause of the Suit between them which otherwise should be determined in another Court Quo warranto QUo warranto is a Writ that lies where a man usurps to have any Franchise upon the King then the King shall have this Writ to make him come before his Iustices to shew by what Title he claims such Franchise Quod ei deforceat QUod ei deforceat is a Writ that lies where Tenant in Tail Tenant in Dower or Tenant for Life loses by Default in any Action then he shall have this Writ against him that recovers or against his Heir if he think he hath better right than he who recovered See the Statute West 2. cap. 4. Quod permittat QUod permittat is a Writ that lies where a man is disseised of his Common of Pasture and the Disseisor aliens or dies seised and his Heir enters then if the Disseisee die his Heir shall have this Writ Quod permittat Habere Chiminum Rast Entr. 538. Co. Entr. 526. Estoverium turbarum F. N. B. 124. Passagium ê‘ aquam Rast Entr. 538. Liberam chaceam 2 Institut 654. Liberum raurum F. N. B. 124. Liberam faldam Ibid. 6. E. 4. 1. Liberam piscar c. Ibidem Prosternere Domum murum sepem 5 Coke 100. Ripam c. 9 Coke 53. R. Ran. RAn signifies so open a Spoiling of a man that it cannot be denied Lambert Arch. fol. 125. Ranger RAnger comes from the French word Rang that is Ordo vel Series and signifies an Officer of the Forrest that is appointed to walk every day through the Purlieu whereof he is Ranger to drive back the wilde Beasts into the Forrest again to see hear and inquire of Offenders there and to present their Offences See Manwood cap. 20. fol. 185. c. Ransome RAnsome signifies properly the Sum that is paid for the redeeming of one that is taken Captive in War But it is also for a Sum of money paid for the pardoning of some great Offence as in the Statute of 1 H. 4. cap. 7. and in other Statutes Fine and Ransome going together 23 H. 8. cap. 3. and elsewhere Rape RApe hath two significations The first is when it is taken for part of a County as Sussex is divided into six parts which by a peculiar name are called Rapes Cambd. Britan. pag. 225. and these parts in other Countries are called Hundreds Tithings Lathes or Wapentakes In the other sense it is the violent Deflouring a Woman against her will and this offence is Felony as well in the Principal as in his Aidors See 11 H. 4. c. 13. 1 Ed. 4. c. 1. West 2. c. 13. CroÌ„pt Just of Peace f. 43 44. Rationabili parte bonorum RAtionabili parte bonorum is a Writ that lies for the Wife against the Executors of her Husband to have the third part of his Goods after Debts paid and Funeral expences discharged But whether this Writ lies by the Common Law or only by the Custom of some Countries is a question in our Books See F. N. B. fol. 122. L. Rationabilibus divisis RAtionabilibus divisis is a Writ that lies where there are two Lordships in divers towns and one nigh the other and any parcel of one Lordship or Waste hath been incroched by little parcels then the said Lord from whom the parcel of Ground or Waste hath been incroched shall have this Writ against the Lord that hath so incroched Ravishment de Gard. RAvishment de Gard is a Writ that lies for the Gardian by Knights Service or in Soccage against him that takes from him the Body of his Ward And of this see F. N. B. fol. 140. E. c. Rebutter REbut â— er is when one by Deed or Fine grants to warrant any Land or Hereditament to another and he who made the Warranty or his Heir s â— es him to whom the Warranty is made or his Heir or Assignee for the same thing now if he who is so sued pleads the said Deed or Fine with Warranty and demands Iudgment if the Plaintiff shall be received to demand the thing which he ought to warrant against that Warranty by Fine or Deed aforesaid comprehending such Warranty such Pleading of the Warranty is called a Rebutter This word is also a denomination of a Plea which followeth a Rejoynder And after the Rebutter followeth the Surrebutter See Cokes Entries fol. 284. Recaption REcaption is a second Distress of one former distrained for the self-same cause and that during the Plea grounded upon the former Distress It is also the name of the Writ or Remedy that the Law gives him who is thus twice distrained for one thing the form and use of which Writ you may see in Fitz. N. B. fol. 71. E. c. Recluse REcluse is one that by reason of his Order in Religion may not stir or depart out of his House or Cloister And of such Littleton speaks sect 434. Recognizance REcognizance is an Obligation made before a Master of the Court of Chancery for a Debt or to perform Covenants or an Order or Decree of the Court upon which an Extent issues if the Condition be not performed But no Capias lies upon it against the Cognizors or his Executors Quaere vide 2 Len. 84. Recordare REcordare is a Writ directed to the Sheriff to remove a Cause out of an inferior Court as a Court of Ancient Demesne Hundred Court or County Court into the Kings Bench or Common Pleas. And of this see Fitz. N. B. fol. 70. B. Record REcord is a Writing or Parchment wherein are Enrolled Pleas of Land or Common Pleas Deeds or Criminal Proceedings in any Court of Record But in Courts not of Record as Admiralty Courts Christian Courts Baron c. Their
his Father and he shall have be no other Recovery against the Tenant or any other because such advantage is given by the Law to the Tenant And note that Fealty of common right belongs to Rent service but not to Rent charge nor Rent seck If a man distrain for Rent charge and the Distress be rescued from him and he was never seised before he hath no recovery but by Writ of Rescous for the Distress first taken gives not Seis â— to him unless he had the Rent before for if he were seised of the Rent before and after the Rent be behind and he distrain and Rescous be made he shall have Assise or a Writ of Rescous In every Assise of Rent charge and annual Rent or in a Writ of Annuity it behoves him that brings the Writ to shew an Especialty or else he shall not maintain the Assise But in an Assise of Mortdancestor or Formedon in the discender or other Writs in which Title is given or comprised brought of Rent charge or annual Rent the Especialty need not be shewn And note well that if a man grant a Rent charge to another and the Grantee release to the Grantor parcel of the Rent yet all that Rent is not extinct If Rent charge be granted to two joyntly and the one release yet the other shall have the half of the Rent And if the one purchase the half of the Land whereout the Rent is going the other shall have the half of the Rent of his companion And if the Disseisor charge the Land to a Stranger and the Disseisee bring an Assise and recover the Charge is defeated But if he that hath right charges the Land and a Stranger feign a false Action against him who hath no right and recovers by Default the charge abides In case Partition be between two Parceners and more Land be allowed to one then to the other and she that hath most of the Land charges her Land to the other and she happeth the Rent she shall maintain Assise without Especialty And it is a Rent seck where a man holds of me by Homage Fealty and other Services yielding to me a certain yearly Rent which I grant to another reserving to me the other Services If Rent seck be granted to a man and to his Heirs and the Rent be behind and the Grantor die the Heir may not distrain nor shall recover the arrearages of the time of his Father as it is said before of Rent services And in the same manner it is of Rent charge or annual Rent But in all these Rents the Heir may have for the arrerages in his own time such advantage as his Father had in his life See the Statute 32 H. 8. cap. 37. And note well that in Rent seck if a man be not seised of the Rent and it be behind he is without recovery for that it was his own folly at the beginning when the Rent was granted him or reserved that he took not Seisin of it as a peny or two pence A man may not have a Cessavit per biennium or any other Writ of Entry sur Cessavit for any Rent seck behind by two years but only for Rent service as it appears in the Stat. West 2. cap. 21. It behoves him that sues for Rent seck to shew a Deed to the Tenant cise the Tenant shall not be charged with the Rent except where the Rent seck was Rent service before as in this case Lord Mesne and Tenant and every of them holds of other by Homage and Fealty and the Tenant of the Mesne by 10 s. rent the Lord paramount purchases the Lands or Tenements of the Tenant all the Seigniory of the Mesne but the rent is extinct and for this cause this rent is become Rent seck and the Rent service changed for he may not distrain for this rent and in this case he that demands the rent shall never be charged to shew a Deed. Also in a Writ of Mordint-cestor Ayle or Besayle of rent seck it needs not to shew a Specialty for that these Writs of Possession comprehend a Title within themselves that is to say that the Ancestor was seised of the same rent and centinued his possession in respect of which Seisin the Law supposes that it is also averrable by the Countrey Yet learn for some suppose a necessity to shew forth a Deed because rent seck is a thing against common right as well as rent charge But in Assise of Novel disseisin and in a Writ of Entry sur disseisin brought of Rent seck it is needful to shew forth a Deed for that Rent seck is a thing against Common Right except in the case aforesaid where it was Rent service before and by the act of Law it is become Rent seck And Assise of Novel disseisin and a Writ of Entry sur disseisin contain within them no Title but suppose a Disseisin to be done to the Plaintiff and by the intendment of the Law the Disseisin gives no cause of Averment against common Right but there is a necessity to shew forth a Deed. Repleader REpleader is where the plea of the Plaintiff or Defendant or both are ill or an impertinent Issue joyned then the Court makes void all the Pleas which are ill and awards the Parties to replead Coke Entr. 152. and 221 224. Replevin REplevin is a Writ that lies where a man is distrained for Rent or other thing then he shall have this Writ to the Sheriff to deliver to him the Distress and shall find Surety to pursue his Action and if he pursue it not or if it be found or judged against him then he that tooks the Distress shall have again the Distress which is called the Return of the Beasts and he shall have in such case a Writ called Returno habendo But if the Defendant avow for Rent he may have Iudgment for the value of the Cattel by the Statute of 17 Car. 2. cap. 7. If it be in any Franchise or Bailiwick the party shall have a Replevin of the Sheriff directed to the Bailiff of the same Franchise to deliver them again and he shall find Surety to pursue his Action at the next County And this Replevin may be removed out of the County unto the Common place by Writ of Recordare See more of Replevin in the Title Distress Also see Mich. 2 E. 3. pl. 31. 7 E. 3. 27. pl. 13. the word Plevin where Land was taken out of the Kings hands and are afterwards delivered or replevied out of the Kings hands For which see Stat. 9. 3. cap. 2. The Writ of Homine replegiando lies where a man is in Prison and not by special commandment of the King nor of his Iustices nor for the death of a man nor for the Kings Forest nor for such cause which is not replevisable then he shall have this Writ directed to the Sheriff that he cause him to be replevied This Writ is a Justcies
de Audience est un CurÌ„ appertient al Archevesque de Canterbury de legal authority avec le Curia de Arches bien qÌ„ inferieur en digni â— y antiquity De quel vous pois lire pluseurs en un Livre entitule De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britannicae Historia Audita Querela AUdita Querela est un Brief que gist lou un est oblige en un Estatute-Merchant Estatute-Staple ou Recognisance on lou JudgmÌ„t est done vers luy pÌ„ Dett son corps en Execution sur cÌ„ donques sil ad un Releas ou aut ' sufficient matter destrÌ„ discharge del Execution mes nad jour en Court de ceo pleader donques il avera cest Brief vers cestuy que ad recover ou vers ses Executors Auditeur Auditeur est un Officer del Roy ou del auter grand person que per annuel Examination del Accounts de tout inferior Officers accountable fait un general Livre que monstre le difference perenter lour Receptions ou Charge lour Payments ou Allocations Veies le Stat. 33 H. 8. c. 33. Est auxy un auter sort â— Auditors assigne 〈◊〉 ascÌ„ Court en quel un Defendant est adjudge â— Accounter queux pristeront l'account mise ceo en form en escript donque ceo est enrol le Plaintiff plede a ceo le Defendant reply si mistier soit issint aleront al issue sur divers points particulars del account Average AVerage est le Service que le Tenant doit a son SeignÌ„ destre fait 〈◊〉 les Avers le Tenant semble destre derive del parol Averia pÌ„ ceo que est le Service que les Avers le Tenant â— form pur le Seignior 〈◊〉 carriage ou auterment Auxy ceo parol ad un auter signification est mult use en le Statute 32 H. 8. c. 14. pur un certain Contribution que Merchants auters payont proportionalment pur les perdes de eux que ont leur biens ejects en un tempest pÌ„ le safe-guard del Niefe ou des biens vifes de eux que sont en le Niefe Averment AVerment est lou un home plead un Plea en Abatement del Brief ou BarrÌ„ de Action que il dit est prist de prover come le Court voit agard Cest offer de prover son Plea est appel un Averment Auxy est un Brief appel Brief de Averment que est fait hors â— ascun Court del Ley a Westminster Sale ou un Action Depend quant le Viscount sur un Distringas returne petits issues donques les Judges al Assises poit cause ceo destre enquise 〈◊〉 un Jery si le Viscount poit returne pluis issues des terres le Defendant si soit trove qÌ„ il poit donques il doit returne pluis issues a compel le Defendant de appear al suit del Plaintiff ou a faire ceo que le Distringas require luy a faire Averpeny AVerpeny est quietum esse de diversis denariis pro arreragiis Domini Regis Augmentation AUgmentation suit le nosme de un Court erect en le 27 An. del Roy Henry le huict Et le cause de ceo fuit qÌ„ le Roy puit estre vierment use touchant les ê“fits de tiels Religious Measons lour TerrÌ„ que fueront done a luy 〈◊〉 Act â— ParliamÌ„t mesme le an nient imprimee Pur le dissolving le quel Court le fuit un Act sait en le Parliament tenus en le primÌ„ an del Reign del Roign Mary Sess 2. Cap. 10. que el puis mis en Execution per sa Letters Patents Le nosme del Court surde 〈◊〉 ceo Que les Revenues del Corone fueront tant augment â— le Suppression des dit Measons quant le Roy reserve al Corone nient done ou vende al auters Mes le Office de Augmentation remain a cest jour en que la sont plusors Records de grand use importance Aumone AUmone ou Tenure en Almoin est Tenure per Divine Service car issint Brit. dit fol. 164. Tenure en Aumone est terre ou tenements do â— e a Aumone dont ascun Service est retenue al Feoffor ou Donor Auneel weight AUncel weight fuit un ancient manner de poiser en Angleterre 〈◊〉 le pender des balences hooks al chescun fine â— un baston le quel le party elevate sur son digit ou ove sa main issint discerne le equality difference des choses poises Mes ceo weight esteant subject al mult deceit divers Statutes fueront faits qÌ„ ceo ouster comÌ„ le Statute 25 E. 3. c. 9. 34 E. 3 c. 5. 8 H. 6. c. 5. auters Et fuit appel Auncel weight quasi Handsale weight Auncient ou ancient Demesne ANcient Demesne est un certain Tenure per quel touts ceux Manors queux fueront en maines de S Edward le Confessor les queux il fist escrier en un Livre appel Dooms-day sub tit â— lo Regis touts les terÌ„ tenus de dit Manors sont tenus les TenaÌ„ts ne serra implead hors del di â— Mannors sil soyent ils poyent monstre le matter abater le Brief mes sil responder al Brief plead Judgment soit done donques les terre sont devenus frank-see a touts jours Tantque ceo Judgment est reverse per BreÌ„ de Disceit Rast Ent. 100 221. 2 R. 3. 1. 11 H. 4. 36. 21 E. 3. 20. Auxy touts Tenants eÌ„ Ancient demesne sont frank 〈◊〉 Tolle pÌ„ touts choses concernont lour viand husbandrie en aucient demesne pÌ„ tiels terres ils ne serra mis ne empanÌ„el sur aseÌ„ Enquest Mes touts les terres en AncieÌ„t demesnÌ„ queux sont en maines le Roy sont frank-fee pleadable al ComÌ„ Ley. Veies plus apres en le Title Sokmans Avoir de pois AVoir de pois est tant adire veri sive justi ponderis Et signifie en nostrÌ„ Ley deux choses Primerment un kind 〈◊〉 pois different 〈◊〉 ceo qÌ„ est appel Troy Weight que nad forsque 12 ounces al liver lou le Avoir de pois contein 16. Secondment signifie tiel Merchandises queux sont poises â— cest weight nemy per Troy weight Come est a veier en le Stat. de York 9 E. 3. 27 E. 3. c. 9. Stat. 2. c. 10. le Stat. 〈◊〉 Glocester 2 R. 2. c. 1. Avowrie AVowrie est lou un prist Distress pur Rent ou auter chose lauter sua Replevin donques celuy que avoit ceo prise justifiera eÌ„ son Plea pur quel cause il prist ceo si il prist ceo en son droit demesne il doit ceo monstre issint avow a le prisel ceo est appel son Avowrie Mes
de un Common l' prender Ä‘l Grasse ê‘ les bouches de les Beasts que coÌ„mon la de un Advowson le prenÄ‘ de gros Dismes per le Parson de Bois ie vender de Bois d'un Orchard le vender de Pomes auters Fruits cressant la d'un Molin le prisel de Tolle sont les Esplees de tiels semblables Et nota que en Brief de Droit de Terre Advowson ou tiels semblables le Demaundant doit alledge en son Count que il ou ses Auncestors prise les Esplees Ä‘ chose eÌ„ demaÌ„d auterment l' Count nest bonÌ„ Essendi quietum de Tolonio ESsendi quietum de Tolonio est un Brief destre quit Ä‘ Tolle gist en case ou les Citizens ou Burgesses de ascun Citie ou Borough ount estrÌ„ quit de Tolle ê‘ Graunt des Progenitours del Roy per tout le Royalme ou per PrescriptioÌ„ donque si asc ' hoÌ„e des dits Cities ou Boroughs veignoÌ„t oves ses MerchaÌ„dises a asc ' Ville Fair ou Market la eux mitt ' a vender ou achatont ascuns Merchandises si les Officers del di â— Ville voile demaunder ascun Tolle de luy encount ' l'Charter le Roy ou encounter le Usage Custome il puit suer aver tiel BrÌ„e F. N. B. f. 226. Regist orig fol. 258. Essoine Essoine Lou un Action est port le Plaintife ou Defendant ne poit bien appearÌ„ al jour en Court pur un de cinque causes desouth expresse il serra Essoine de saver son Default Sont cinque mannÌ„s de Essoines cest adire Essoine De ouster le mere ê‘ quel le Defendant avera jour per xl jours Le second est De terrae sancta sur ceo le Defendant avera jour per un an un jour ces deux serront gist al commencement del Plee Le tierce Essoine est De male vener ceo serra adjourne al common jour come Action require cest appel ' le Common Essoine quant coment cest Essoine serra veies les Statutes Livre de Abridgement de Statutes lou il est bene declare Le quater est De malo lecti ceo est solement en Brief de Droit sur ceo issera Brief hors del Chauncerie direct al Viscount que il mandera quat ' Chivalers de veier le Tenant sil il soit mala â— de donÌ„ a luy jour apÌ„s un an jour Le cinq ' Essoine est De service del Roy gist en touts Actions forsque en Assise De Novel Disseisin Brief de Dower Darreine presentment en Appeal de Murder mes en cest Essoine il covient al jour de monstre son Garrant ou auterment il turnera a un Default si soit en Plee real ou auterment il perdera xx s. pur le journey ou pluis per le discretion del Justice si soit en Plee personel ut patet per le Statute de Gloucest cap. 8. Essoino de malo lecti ESsoine de malo lecti est un Brief direct al Viscount pur le mitt ' quat ' loyal Chivaliers a veyer un que ad essoin luy mesme De malo lecti Reg. Orig. fol. 8. b. Establishment de Dower EStablishment de Dower semble destre l' Assurance de Dower fait per le Baron ou ses amies devant ou al temps del Espousels Et Assignment de Dower est le Mittant ceo hors per le Heire apÌ„s accordant al Establishment Brit. cap. 102 103. Estandard EStandard ou Standard implia uÌ„ Ensigne en l' guerre mes est auxy use pÌ„ le prlmÌ„ ou Certaine Measure del Roy ê“prortion del que touts les Measures per le Terre devoient estre fait per le Clerke del Market Aulneageor ou auter Officer accordant a lour Function Car il fuit estable ê‘ Magna Charta an 9 H. 3. ca. 25. que la serroit forsque un Assise de Poys Measures per tout le Royalme le quel est jammes confirme ê‘ An. 14 Ed. 3. c. 12. plusors aut's Statutes coÌ„e auxy que touts serroyent fait al Estandard seale ove le Seale le Roy Et bone cause la est que il serroit appel Estandard pÌ„ ceo que il estoia constant immove ad touts auters Measures vient a icel pur lour conformitie en mesme le manÌ„er come Souldiers en le champe on t lour Estandard ou Colours pur lour direction en lour March ou Battel De eux Estandards Measures lies Brit. cap. 30. Veies le Stat. 17. Car. 1. c. 19. Estate EState est cel Title ou Interest que home ad en Terres ou Tenements come Estate simple auterment appell Fee-simple Estate Conditional ou sur Condition que est ou sur Condition en Fait ou sur Condition en Ley. Veies Littl. lib. 3. cap. 5. Estoppel EStoppel est quant un est conclude denie en Ley 〈◊〉 â— arlar encounter son act ou fait demÌ„ nient obstant il soit pÌ„ dire le veritie Et de Estoppels il y ad un grand number Un pur example est quant J. S. est oblige en un Obligation per le nosme de T. S. ou ascun aut ' nosmÌ„ est sue apres accordaÌ„t al mesme le nosme mis en l' Obligation ore il ne serra receive a dire que il est misnosme mes ferra chase a respon â— accor â— al nosme mis eÌ„ l'Obligation cest adire T. S car peradventure l' Obligee ne scavoit pas son nosme mes ê‘ le report tantsolement del Obligor mesmÌ„ entant qÌ„ il est mÌ„ le hoÌ„e que fuit oblige il serra estoppe denie en Ley pÌ„ adire le contrarie encont ' son fait demesne car autermÌ„ il poit prend advantage 〈◊〉 son tort demesne le quel le Ley ne voit suffer uÌ„ hoÌ„ne de faire Si le file que est Heire a son pere voit suer Liverie ove sa soer que est un Bastard el ne serra apres receive pur dire que sa soer est un Bastard entant que si la Bastard soer prist le moietie del Terre il nad Remedie per le Ley. Auxy si un home seisie de TrÌ„e en Fee-simple voit prender un Lease pÌ„ ans de mesme le TrÌ„e d'un estranger ê‘ Fait indent cest un Estoppel durant le terme d'ans le Lessee est per ceo barre a dire le veritie car le veritie est Que il que lessa le TrÌ„e nad riens en ceo al temps le Lease fait q' le Fee-simple fuit eÌ„ le Lessee Mes ceo il ne serra receive adire tanque apÌ„s les ans serra determine pÌ„ ceo que il
il poit dire al Judgment ne deves aler Et pÌ„ ceo que ê‘ tiels niceties mults delaies fueront en Suits divers Statutes soÌ„t faits de redresser ceo auxy bien en temps 〈◊〉 Roy H. 8. an 32. c. 30. come en le temps le Roigne Eliz. de queux come piot dire coÌ„e les Civilians Quod tametsi Juris formulas amputari jusserit Constantinus Imperator quotidianus tamen forensis usus eas revocasse videtur vel potius quod crescunt ut Hydrae capita Veies auxy ore un novel Statute de Jeofailes fait en 21 Jac. c. 13. Jetsam JEtsam est quant un Niefe est en peril destre merge pÌ„ disburden le Neife les Mariners jetta les biens en le Mer puis nient obstant le Niefe perish nul 〈◊〉 ceux biens que sont appel Jetsam Floatsam ou Lagan sont appel Wreck cy long come ils remain en ou sur le Mer mes si asc ' d' eux sont mise al trÌ„e ê‘ l'Mer donque ils serront dit Wreck passe ê‘ le graunt â— Wreck Coke l. 5. f. 106. Jettezoons JEttezoons ceo est mention eÌ„ Policies d' Insurance signifie biens eject en le mere en un grand storm Illoyal Assembly Iloyal Assemblie est lou people eux assemble insimul pÌ„ faire illoyal chose enconter le Peace nient obstant que ils ne execute lour purpose en fait Imparlance IMparlance Veies Emparlance Impeachment de Waste IMpeachment de Waste Impetitio Vasti est tant adire come un Demand fait ou destre fait pÌ„ Waste fait pÌ„ uÌ„ Tenant que nad forsque un particular Estate pÌ„ vie ou pÌ„ ans Et pÌ„ ceo cestuy que ad tiel Lease sans Impeachment de Waste ad ê‘ ceo uÌ„ ê“pertie ou interest a luy done eÌ„ les Measons Arbres poit faire Waste en eux sans estre impeach pÌ„ ceo cestascavoir sans estre question ou ascun Recompence â— luy demand pÌ„ le Waste fait Veies Coke l. 11. en Bowles Case f. 82. b. Implements IMplements venust ou del parol Francois Employer ou del Latine Implere est use pÌ„ choses necessarie destre use en asc ' Trade ou Mysterie queux sont imployes en le practice del dit Trade ou sans queux l'ouvrage ne poit estre accomplish Auxy pÌ„ le Furniture quibus impletur Domus Et en ceo sense vous trovers le paro â— plusors foits eÌ„ darreine Velunts auters Conveyances des Moveables Impost IMpost est un parol Francois qÌ„ sign â— fie Tribute mes ove nous est prise pur le Tax pay al Roy pur ascun Merchandise emport en ascun Havre hors des lieus ouster le Mer. Et est use en le Statute de 31 Eliz. cap. 5. come un Synonymon ove Custome que Merchants payont Imprisonment IMprisonment est le Restraint del Libertie d'un home soit c ' eÌ„ l'over Champs ou en le Cippes ou Cage en les Streets ou en le ê“oper Meason d' un home cybien coÌ„e en le common Coal Et en touts ceux lieus le partie issint restrain est dit destre un Prisoner cy longement come il nad son Libertie frankmÌ„t d' ire a touts teÌ„ps lieus lou il voit sans Baile ou Mainprise Incumbent INcumbent venust del Latine Incumbere signifie cestuy que est ê‘sent admit institute al ascon Esglise ou Benefice ove Cure que est pÌ„ ceo appel l' Incumbent de ceo Esglise eo quod incumbit ad Curam animarum ibid. omni studio Indicavit INdicavit est un BrÌ„e ou Prohibition qÌ„ gist pÌ„ un Patron d'un Esglise quel Clerk est Defendant en Court-Christian eÌ„ un Action pÌ„ Tithes commence ê‘ un aut ' Clerk extendant al quart part del Esglise ou ses Tithes en quel case le Suit appertein al Court le Roy ê‘ Westm 2. c. 5. Et pÌ„ cest cause le Patron del Defendant esteant en ê‘il destre ê‘judice en son Esglise Advowson si le Plaintife gaine eÌ„ le Court-Christian al cel means il remover al Court de Roy Reg. orig f 35. Brit. c. 209. Cest Brief nest retornable mes sils ne cestont lour Suit il avera un Attachment Inditement INdictment Veies Enditement Indorsement INdorsement est c ' qÌ„ est escrÌ„ sur le Dorse d'un Escript come le Condition d'un Obligation est dit destre indorse pÌ„ ceo que est communemÌ„t escrie sur le Dorse del Obligation Induction INduction est un lay act fait per precept del Ordinary ê‘ quel Actual possession de Esglise est done al Rector ou Viccar puis son Presentation Institution a ceo Infangtheef INfangtheef est un Privilege ou Libertie concede al SnÌ„rs del certein Mannors pÌ„ juger ascun Larons prife deins lour Fee Information INformation pur le Roy est ceo qÌ„ pÌ„ un comÌ„on ê‘son est appel un Declaration nest touts foits fait directmÌ„t ê‘ le Roy ou son Attorney mes ê‘ un auter home qui tam pro Domino Rege quam pro seipso sequitur sur le breach d'ascun penal Ley ou Statute en que un Penaltie est done al partie que voit suer pur ceo mes nul Action de Det pÌ„ recover c ' donque il doit estre ew per Information Ingrosser INgrosser venust del parol Francois Grosier id est Solidarius venditor Mes en nrÌ„e Ley uÌ„ Ingrosser est uÌ„que achare Blees Graine Butre Formage Poisson ou auter mort Victuals ove un intent pÌ„ ceux ven â— arrere Et issint il est define en le Stat. de 5 E. 6. c. 14. fait encounter tiel Ingrosser Inheritance INheritance Veies Enheritance Inhibition IInhibition est un BrÌ„e d' inhibit ' un Judge de ê“ceder ouster en le Cause dependant devant luy Et eÌ„ auter Brief lou puis Presentment le Roy al Benefice il present auter inhibite l' Evesque a faire Induction al primer Presentee Plo. Com. 528. Veies F. N. B. f. 39. ou il mitta Prohibition Inhibition ensemble Inhibition est pluis communement un BrÌ„e issuant hors d'un pluis haut Court-Christian a un pluis base inferior sur un Appeal Anno 24 H. 8. c. 12. Prohibition hors del Court le Roy de Record al Westminster a uÌ„ Court-Christian ou a un inferior Court Temporal Injunction INjunction est un interlocutorie Decree hors del ChaÌ„cerie ascun foits a done Possession al Plaintife pur defect de Apparance en le Defendant asc ' foits al ordinar e Court del Roy ascun foits al Court-Christian d'estop Proceeding en un Causesur suggestion fait qÌ„ si le rigour del Ley prend lieu est encounter Equitie Conscience en cel Case Veies
ad le Reversion ê‘ Fait Privie en L â— y est lou il est Seignior Tenant le Tenant lessa le Tenancie pÌ„ vie morust sans Heir le Reversion escheat al Seignior il est dit Privie en Ley pÌ„ ceo que il nad son Estate solemÌ„t per le Ley cest adire per Escheat Privie en Droit est lou un possesse d' un terme pur ans granta son Estate al un auter sur Condition fait ses Executors morust ore ceux Executors soÌ„t Privies en droit car si le Condition soit enfreint ils entront en le TrÌ„e ils averont ceo eÌ„ le droit de lour Testator a son use Privie de Sanke est l' Heir de le Feoffor ou Donor c. Item si un Fine soit levie les Heires de celuy que levie le Fine sont appel Privies Privileges PRivileges sont Liberties Franchises grant al un Office Lieu Ville ou Mannor per le grand Charter del Roy Letters Patents ou Act de ParliameÌ„t coÌ„e Toll Sake Socke Infangtheefe Outfangtheefe Turne Ordelf divers tielx semblables pÌ„ qÌ„ux veies en lour ê“per Titles lieus Auxi sont auters Privileges d'ont le Ley prist cognuzance cest ascavoir les Privileges des Commons Peers del Parliament privileges des Attorneys Officers des Courts a Westm qÌ„ ils ne serront sue ou implead en auter Court qÌ„ en ceux ou ils sont Artorneys ou Officers Procedendo PRocedendo est un Brief que gist lou ascun Action est sue en un Court que est remove a un pluis hault coÌ„e al Chancerie Banke le Roy ou Common Banke per Brief de Privilege ou Certiorari si le Defendant sur le matter monstre nad cause de Privilege ou si le matter en le Bill sur que le Certiorari issu st ne soit bien prove donques le Plaintiff avera cest Procedendo pur remaunder le matter al primer base Court la destre determine Proces PRoces sont les Briefs Precepts que issuont sur l'Original Et en Actions real personal sont divers sorts de Proces Car en Actions real le Proces est Grand Cape d â— vant Appearance Ideo vide de ceo en le Title Petit Cape Mes en Actions personal come en Dette Trespasse ou Detinue le Proces est uÌ„ Distresse si le Visc ' return Nihil habet in Balliva c. donques le Proces est Alias Capias Plures un Exigent ils sont appelles Capias ad respondendum Auxy le Exigent serra cinque soits ê“claime si le partie n' appeare il serra utlage Mes en divers Actions sont divers manners de Proces que est pluis alarge declare en N. B. Auxy sont divers auters Proces apres Appearance quant les ê‘ â— ies sont al issue pur faire l'Enquest appearer come un Venire facias sils ne appearont al jour donques un Briefe de Habeas corpora Jurat ' apres un Brief de Distringas Jurat ' Auxy sont divers auters Proces apres JudgmÌ„t come Capias ad satisfaciendum Capias utlagatum c. Capias ad satisfaciendum gist lou home est condemne en ascun Det ou Dammages donques il serra arrest per cest Brief mis en prison sans Bail ou Mainpr â— se tanque il ad pay le Det les Dammages Capias utlagatum gist lou un est utlag â— donq's il serra prise per tiel Brief mis en prison sans Baile ou Mainprise pÌ„ ceo que il ad fait contempt encounter le Ley. Auxy sont auters Proces Briefs judicials come Capias ad valentiam Fieri facias Scire facias plusors auters ideo vide c'en lour Titles Prochein amy PRochein amy est communement prise pur Gardian en Soccage est lou un home seisie de Terres tenus en Socage morust son issue deins age de 14 ans donques le ê“cheind ' sank a que les TrÌ„es ne poient discender avera le gard del Heire del Terre al use solemÌ„t del Heire tanque il vient al age d' 14 anÌ„s donques le Heire poit enter luy ouste amesner luy de accompter Mes en cest Accompt il avera allowance pÌ„ touts reasonable costs expences bestow ou sur le Heire ou son Terre Le Prochein amy ou prochein de sanke a que le Inheritance ne poit discend est issint destre entende Si les Terres discenda al Heire de son Pere ou ascun del sanke del part son Pere donques l' Mere ou aut ' del part l'Mere sont appelle ê“chein de sanke a qÌ„ le Inheritance ne poit discender car devant que il issint discendra il pluis tost escheaterÌ„ al SnÌ„r d' que il est tenÌ„ Et lou les Terres vient al Heire de sa Mere ou ascun del sa part donque le Pere ou auter del part son Pere sont appelle le prochein de sanke a que le Inheritance ne poit â— iscend mes pluis tost escheatrÌ„ al Seignior 〈◊〉 que il est tenus Auterment Prochein Amy est celuy que appiert en ascun Court pur un Enfant que sue ascun Action que ayde le Enfant de pursuer son Suit dont vide les Statutes de Westm 1. c. c. 47. Westm 2. cap. 15. que un Enfant ne poit faire Attourney mes le Court poit admitter le prochein amy pur le Plaintiff un Gardian pur le Enfant Defendant coÌ„e son Attorney Proclamation PRoclamation est un Notice appertment done de ascuÌ„ chose de que le Roy soi pleirot d' advertiser ses Subjects issint il est An. 7. R. 2 c. 6. Proclamation de Rebellion est un overt notice done ê‘ l' Officer que un home nient apparent sur un Subpoena ou attachmÌ„t en le Chancery serra repute destre un Rebel sinon que il loy mesme render al jour assigne Crompt Jurisd fol. 92. Et est destre observe que nul poit faire Proclamation mes ê‘ authoritie del Roy ou Majors hujusmodi que ont privileges en Cities ou Boroughs de ceo faire ou ont ceo use per custome Et pur c ' ou un Executor fist Proclamation en certain Marketvilles que les Creditors veigneta ê‘ certain jour claim provera â— our dets due per le Testator pur ceo que il ceo fist sans authority il fuit commit al Fleet mise a un Fine Broke Proclamation 10. Procurator PRocurator est use pur luy que collige les Fruits de un Benefice pur un auter home Anno 3 Ric. 2. Stat. 1. cap. 2. Prohibition PRohibition
avantdit de Rent service Et in mÌ„ le manner est de Rent charge ou annual Rent Mes eÌ„ touts ces Rents le Heire pro â— t aver pÌ„arrearages en son temps demesne tiel advantage come avoit son Pere en sa vie Vide Statute 32 H 8. cap. 37. Et nota bien que en Rent seck si home ne soit seisie del Rent il soit aderere il est sans recovery pur c ' que il fuit son folly demesne al primer quant le Rent fuit grant a luy ou reserve que il ne prist my Seisin del Rent sicome un denier ou deux HomÌ„ ne poit averÌ„ Cessavit per biennium ou un auter BrÌ„e d'entry sur Cessavit pÌ„ ascun Rent seck aderere per deux ans mes il pÌ„roit tant solement pÌ„ Rent service ut patet in le Stat. Westm 2. cap. 21. Il covient pÌ„ luy que sue pÌ„ Rent seck monstrÌ„ Fait al Tenant autermÌ„t le le Tenant ne serra my charge del Rent sorsque lou le Rent seck fuit Rent service adevant come en cest case SnÌ„r Mesne Tenant chesc ' de eux tient de auter per Homage Fealtie le Tenant de Mesne per 10 â— de Rent le Seignior paramount pÌ„chase les Terres ou Tenements 〈◊〉 Tenant tout le Seigniorie del Mesne forsprise le Rent extinct pur cest cause cest Rent est devenus Rent seck le Rent service change car il ne poit distraine pur cest Rent en cest case celuy qÌ„ demaÌ„da le Rent ne serra jammes charge de monstre Fait Auxy en Brief 〈◊〉 Mortdancestor Ayle ou Besayle de Rent seck il ne besoigne de monstre Especialtie pur ceo que ceux Briefs de Possession comprehendont un Tir'e delns eux mesmes cestascavoire que le Ancestor fuit seifie de mesme le Rent continua son possession per cause de quel Seisin le Ley suppose qÌ„ est auxy averrable per le Pays TameÌ„ quaere car ascuÌ„s supposant uÌ„ fine sorce a moÌ„strÌ„ avaÌ„t Fait pÌ„ ceo que Rent seck est uÌ„ chose eÌ„count ' coÌ„mon droit auxy bien come Rent charge Mes en Assise de Novel disseisin en Brief de Entrie sur disseisin port de Rent seck il covient de Fine fore mrÌ„e avant Fait pÌ„ ceo que Rent seck est un chose encounter coÌ„mon droit sinon en le case suisdit ou il fuit Rent service adevaÌ„t ê‘ le act del Ley est devenus Rent seck Et Assise de Novel disseisin Brief de Entrie sur disseisin ne conteigne deins eux nul Title mes supposant un Disseisin deÌ„e fait en le Plaintiff de entendment del Ley le Disseisin ne done nul cause de Averment encounter common droit mes de fine force il monstre avant Especialy Repleader REpleader est ou le plees de Plaintiff ou Defendant ou ambi-deux sont male ou un impertinent Issue joyne donque le Court annul touts ceux pleas queux sont male agard quod partes replacitent Co. En. 152. 221 224. Replevin REplevin est un Brief que gist quant un home est distreine pur Rent ou auter chose donques il avera cest Brief al Viscount pur deliver a luy le Distresse trovere Surety de pursuer son Action si il ne pursua ou si soit trove judged encounter luy donques cestuy que prist le Distresse re-avera Distresse que est appel ' Retourne des Avers il avera en tiel case Brief appel Returno habendo Mes si le Defendant avow pur Rent il poit aver judgement pur le value des avers per le Statute 17 Car. 2. cap. 7. Si soit en ascun Franchise ou Bailiwicke le party avera un Replevin del Viscount directe al Bailiff de mÌ„ le Franchise pur eux redeliver il trovera Surety de pursuer son Action al prochein County Et cest Replevin poit estre remove hors del County en le Common banke ê‘ Brief de Recordare Vide plus de Replevin devant Title Distress Auxi vide Mic. 2. E. 3. pl. 31. 7 E. 3. 27 pl. 13. un parol Plevin ou terr' fuit prist en la main le Roy. Et puis sont deliver ou Replevy hors des mains le Roy per que veies Stat. 9 E. 3. cap. 2. Brief de Homine replegiando gist lou un home est en Prison nemy per especial commandement le Roy ne de ses Justices ne pÌ„ le mort de home ne pur le Forrest le Roy ne pur tiel cause que nest replevisable donques il avera cest Brief direct al Vicount que il luy faire estre replevy Et cest Brief est un Justicies nient retournable Et si Vicount ne ceo face donques issera auter Brief Sicut alias apres auter Brief Sicut pluries vel causam nobis significes que serra retornable Et si le Viscount uncore ne face Replevin donques issera un Attachment directed al Coronors dattacher le Vicount de luy amesner devant les Justices a un certain jour ouster ceo que ils facent execution del primÌ„ Brief Replication REplication est quant le Defen â— en ascun Action fait Respons le Plaintiff replie a ceo ceo est appel le Replication del Plaintiff Reprises REprises sont Deductions Payments Duties que va annuelmÌ„t sent pay hors de un Mannour come Rent charge Rent seck Pensions Corrodies Annulties Fees de Seneschals ou Baylifes tiels semblables Reprieve REprieve venust del Francois Repris Resumptus issint que repriver est ê“perment â— resumer un Prisoner soner del Execution proceeding del Ley pur ceo temps Requests REquests est un Court teigne en le Palace del Roy devant le Master de Requests ê‘ Petition semble estre un Court d' Equity Rere County REre County Retrocomitatus est un ê‘ol use en les Stat. Westm 2. c. 39. 2 E. 3. c. 5. semble ê‘ ceux Stat. destre asc ' publique lieu que l' Viscount appoint pÌ„ le receit des deniers le Roy apres le fine de son County Court Resceit REsceit est quant ascun Action est port vers Tenant pur terme de vie ou de ans cestuy en le Reversion vient eins pria destre receive pÌ„ defen â— le Terre pÌ„ pleader ovesque le Demandant Auxy quant il vient il covient que il soit touts foits prist a pleader ove le Demandant En mesme le manner un Feme serra receive pur default sa Baron en Action port vers ambideux Et Tenant pur ans serra receive a defend ' son
LES TERMES DE LA LEY OR Certain difficult and obscure Words and Terms of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Realm now in use expounded and explained Now Corrected and Enlarged With very great Additions throughout the whole Book never Printed in any other Impression Hor. Multa renascentur quae jam cecidere cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula si volet usus LONDON Printed by W. Rawlins S. Roycroft and M. Flesher Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires For G. Walbanke S. Heyrick J. Place J. Poole and R. Sare 1685. To the READER I Need not strive much to prove the necessity of this Book if you consider that the most accomplished Pleader that ever charm'd his Author with Eloquence and Reason began with it much less shall I have difficulty to shew its profitableness to any who looks about and sees how many fair Estates are every day gained by the Professors of this Noble Science to which this little Book must open the door and let them in But least of all need I suspect that whoever is convinced of these two Points its Necessity and Profitableness will fail to peruse and esteem it Though no name of any Authour appears to it yet my Lord Cook in his preface to his Tenth Report ascribes it to William Rastal that reverend Judge who was eminently knowing both in the Common and Statute Law of this Land as appears by the many Leraned Expositions and Excellent Cases which every where occur in it And we may probably guess it to be written by him originally in French only having some cause to suspect the Translation to be done by a less skilful Hand For though by the many Impressions of it and carelesness of Printers it has suffered much as other Books of like nature daily do yet some Objection lay against the Translator himself as to omit others Chapter is defined to be Locum in quo fiunt communes tractatus Collegiatorum which was Englished thus odly A Place wherein common Tracts of men Collegiate are made And for Errors of the Press they were very numerous and strangely unhappy as disseised for die seized Common Law for Canon Law deep for deer necessary for accessary tiel for viel rather for either owner for power c. In devastaverunt sans compulsion was Englished by compulsion In the word Gild two whole Lines were omitted in the English and the French imperfect so likewise in Garranty and other words There was also a mistake in Geography in the word Pape where Rome was said to be 1500 miles from hence full 500 too much And still as Impressions were iterated Errat's increased Besides the very many Faults which were thus crept into this Book it was so extreamly misalphabeted that some words could not be found without much difficulty I had almost said not at all for if the Reader finds not the word he seeks in its true place he commonly lays by the Book with despair To remedy these encreasing Evils I was willing to bestow my endeavour First by adding above an hundred Words with Explications in their proper places and making references to others where needful Secondly by Correcting the whole Work in what I found amiss and retrenching some antiquated and tautological Expressions as they occurred Thirdly by adding to some old words such late Statutes as alter or concern the Law established by them And lastly by digesting the whole into an exact Alphabet and taking care to prevent Errors of the Press That I intended well I can give you but my word how I have performed I make my Reader Judge Inner Temple T. B. TERMS OF THE LAW EXPOUNDED Abate ABate seems to come from the French Abbatre is to destroy or defeat utterly and has several significations As to Abate a Castle or Fortlet Old Natura brev fo 45. which in Westem 1. cap. 17. is interpreted to beat down And to abate a Writ is to defeat or overthrow it by some Error or Exception Britton cap. 48. And he that steps in between the former possessor and his Heir is said to abate in the Lands See Abatement Abatement of a Writ or Plaint ABatement of a Writ or Plaint is when an Action is brought by Writ or Plaint wherein is want of sufficient and good matter or else the matter alledged is not certainly set down or if the Plaintiff or Defendant or Place are misnamed or if there appear variance between the Writ and the Specialty or Record or that the Writ or the Declaration be uncertain or for Death of the Plaintiff or Defendant and for divers other like causes then upon those defaults the Defendant may pray that the Writ or Plaint may abate that is to say that the Plaintiffs Suit against him may cease for that time and that he shall begin again his Suit and bring a new Writ or Plaint if he be so disposed But if the Defendant in any Action plead a matter in Bar to annul the Action for ever he shall not come afterwards to plead in Abatement of the writ but if after it appear in the Record that there is some matter apparent for which the Writ ought to be abated then the Defendant or any person as a friend to the Court may well plead and shew it in Arrest of Iudgement See the titles of Writ Misnosmer and Variance in the Abridgements and the Book called The Digests of Writs in which this matter especially is very well handled There are also other matters Which abate and stay Actions and Writs that is to say Variance between the Writ and the Count. If the Plaintiff be an alien Enemy For want of naming the Defendant of what Town Trade or degree he is where the Suit is by Writ That a Woman Plaintiff is married before or hanging the Suit That the Plaintiff hath another Action depending for the same cause That the Writ is dated before the Action accrued For that the Defendant ought to be sued in another Court of which he is an Attorney or Officer For that the Land is ancient demesne For that the matter in Suit was done upon the high Sea in which case the Admiral hath Iurisdiction These csuses underneath do not abate the Writ or Action but suspend the prosecution for a time If the Plaintiff in Action personal be out-law'd or convicted of Recusancy or Excommunicated Vpon a Scire facias against ter ' tenants for Debt plea that there are other Lands liable to the same Debt which are not returned doth stay the Proceedings until they be also returned Abatement in Lands ABatement in Lands or Tenements is when a man dies seised of Lands or Tenements and one that hath no right enters into the same before the Heir this Entry is called an Abatement and he an Abator But if the Heir enter first after the death of his Ancestor and the other enter upon the possession of the Heir this last entry is a Disseisin to the Heir Look in
Law is if the Tenant holds of his Mesne by like Service as the Mesne holds over of the Lord and the Tenant doth or pays his Services to the Mesne but the Mesne doth not his Services to the chief Lord wherefore he distrains the Beasts of the Tenant In this case the Mesne for the equalness of the Services ought to acquit the Tenant of the Service due unto the Lord. Also there is Acquital in Law acquital in fact Acquital in Law is when two are appealed or indicted of Felony the one as Principal the other as Accessory the Principal being discharged the Accessory by consequence is also acquitted And in this case as the Accessory is acquitted by the Law so is the Principal in Fact Stamf. pl. cor fol. 168. Acquittance ACquittance is a Discharge in Writting of a Sum of money other Duty which ought to be paid or done As if one be bound to pay money upon Obligation or Rent reserved upon a Lease or such like and the party to whom the money or duty should be paid or done upon the Receipt thereof or upon other agreement between them had makes a writing or Bill of his hand in discharge thereof witnessing that he is paid or otherwise contented and therefore doth acquit and discharge him of the same Which Acquittance is such a Discharge and Bar in the Law that he cannot demand and recover the sum or duty again if he produce the Acquittance This word differs from that which in the Civil Law is called Acceptation because that may be by word without writting and is nothing but a feigned Payment and discharge though no payment be had Nor can it be said to be Apocha which is a witnessing the payment or delivery of money whch disscharges not unless the money be paid Acre ACre is a certain parcel of Land that contains in length forty Perches and in breadth four Perches or of this quantity be the length more or less And if a man will erect a new Cottage he ought to lay four Acres of Land unto it according to this measure 31 Eliz. cap. 7. And with this measure agrees Master Crompton in his Jurisdiction of Courts fol. 222. Yet he saith that according to divers customs of several Countries the Perch differs being in some places and most usually but sixteen foot and an half But in the County of Stafford the Perch is twenty four foot as was heretofore adjudged in the Exchequer In the Stat. made an 24 H. 8. c. 14 for the sowing of Flax 166 Perches make au Acre The Ordinance of Measuring of land made an 34 E. 1. St. 1. agrees with this account Action ACtion is the form of a Suit given by the Law to recover a thing as an Action of Debt and such like or as it is Co. 8. f. 151 a. An Action is a right of prosecuting to judgment that which is due to any one See the Lexicon of the Law for Action Action of a Writ ACtion of a Writ is a phrase of speech used when one pleads some matter by which he shews that the Plaintiff had no cause to have the writ which he brought and yet it may be that he may have another writ or Action for the same matter Such a Plea is called a Plea to the Action of the Writ whereas if by the Plea it should appear that the Plaintiff hath no cause to have an Action for the thing demanded then it shall be called a Plea to the Action Action upon the Case ACtion upon the Case is a writ brought against one for an offence done without force as for not performing promise made by the Defendant to the Plaintiff or for speaking of words by which the Plaintiff is defamed or for other misdemaenour or deceit where the whole case shall be contained in the Writ Trover Nusance Slander of the person Trade Title Escape on mesne Process For negligent keeping Fire for inartificial performing work for turning an ancient Water-course for a Commoner against one who digs the soil of his Common or puts his Cattel into it without right or incloses part of the Cemmon Action mixt ACtion mixt is a Suit given by the Law to recover the thing demanded and damages for the wrong done as in Ass of Novel dis which Writ if the Disseisor make a Feoffm to another the Diseissce shall have against the Disseissor and the Feoffee or other Tertenant and thereby shall recover his Seissn of the land and his damages for the mean profits and for the wrong done him And so is an Action of Waste Quare impedit But an Action of Detinue is not called an Action mixt although by it the thing withheld is demanded and shall be recovered if it may be found and damages for the withholding and if it cannot be found then damages for the thing and the detaining But that is called only an Action personal because it should be brought only for Goods and Chattels or Charters Action upon the Statute ACtion upon the Statute is a Writ founded upon any Statute whereby an Action is given to one in any case where no action was before As where one commits perjury to the prejudice of another who is indamaged shall have a Writ upon the Statute and his case And the difference between an Action upon the Statute and Action popular is That where the Statute gives the Suit or Action to the party grieved or otherwise to one person certain that is called Action upon the Statute But where by the Statute Authority is given to every one that will to sue that is termed Action popular Actions personal ACtions personal are such Actions whereby a man claims debt or other Goods and Chattels or damage for them or damages for wrong done to his person and it is properly that which in the Civil Law is called Actio in personam which is brought against him who is bound by Covenant or Default to give or grant any thing Action Popular ACtion popular is an Action given upon the breach of some penal Statute which Action every man that will may sue for himself and the King by information or otherwise as the Statute allows and the case requires Aud of these Actions there are an infinite number but one for example as when any of the Iury that are impannelled and sworn to pass between party and party indifferently do take any thing of the one side or other or of both parties to say their Verdicts on that side then any man that will within the year following the offence may sue a writ called Decies tantum against him or them that so did take to give his Verdict And because this Action is not given to one especially but generally to any of the Kings people that will sue it is called an Action popular But in this case when one hath begun to pursue an Action no other may sue it and in this as it seems it varies from an Action popular by the Civil
Woods turned up and all their Lands and Tenements forfeited to the King But if it pass against him that brought that Attaint he shall be Imprisoned and grievously ransomed at the Kings will See the Statute 23 Hen. â— cap. 3. Attaint also is when Iudgment is given in Treason or Felony Attendant ATtendant is where one ows a duty or service to another or as it were depends upon another As if there be Lord Mesne and Tenant the Tenant holds of the Mesne by a peny the Mesne holds over by two pence the Mesne releases to the Tenant all the right which he hath in the Land the Tenant dies his wife shall be endowed of the land and she shall be Attendant to the Heir of the third part of one peny and not of the third part of two pence for she shall be endowed of the best possession of her husband Also where the wife is endowed by the Gardian she shall be attendant to the Gardian and to the Heir at his full age Attournment ATtournment is when one is Tenant for term of Life and he in Reversion or Remainder grants his right or estate to another then it behoves the Tenant for life to agree thereto and this agreement is called an Attournment For if he in the Reversion grant his estate and right to another if the Tenant for life attourn not nothing passes by the grant But if it be granted by Fine in Court of Record he shall be compelled to attourn And see thereof after Title Quid juris c â— mat and in Littl. lib. 3. cap. 10. Atturney ATturney is one appointed by another man to do something in his stead whom West hath defined thus Attorneys are such persons as by consent commandment or request take care of see to and undertake the Charge of other mens Business in their absence And where in ancient time those of authority in Courts have had it in their dispose when they would permit men to appear or sue by any other than themselves as appears by F. N. B. 25. in the Writ of Dedimus potestatem Ä‘ Attornato faciendo where it is shewed that men were driven to procure the Writs or Letters Patents of the King to appoint Atturneys for them it is now provided by divers Stat. that it shall be lawful so to do without any such circuity And there is great diversity of Writs in the table of the Register by which the King commands his Iudges to admit of Atturneys By which means at last there were so many unskilful Atturneys and so many mischiefs by them that an Act was 4 H. 4 c. 18. ordained for their restraint that the Iustices should examine them and put out the unskilful and An. 33 H. 6. c. 7. that there should be but a certain number of them in Norfolk and Suffolk In what cases a man at this day may have an Atturney and in what not see F. N. B. in the place before cited Atturney is either general or special Atturney general is he that is appointed to all our Affairs or Suits as the Atturney general of the King Atturney general of the Duke Cromp. 105. Atturney special or particular is he that is imploi â— d in one or more things particularly specifyed Atturneys general are made two ways either by the Kings Letters Patents or by our own appointment before Iustices in Eyre in open Court See Glan lib. 11. cap. 1. Brit. 126. Audience Court AUdience Court Curia audientiae Canturiensis is a Court belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury of equal Authority with the Arches Court though inferior both in dignity and antiquity Of which you may read more in a Book entituled De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britannicae historia Audita Querela AUdita Querela is a Writ that lies where one is bound in a Statute-Merchant Statute-Staple or Recognisance or where Iudgment is given against him for Debt and his body in Execution thereupon then if he have a Release or other matter sufficient to be discharged of Execution but hath no day in Court there to plead it then he shall have this writ against him which hath recovered or against his Executors Auditor AUditor is an Officer of the King or some other great person who by yearly examining the Accounts of all under-Officers accountable makes up a general Book that shews the difference between their Receipts or Charge and their Payments or Allowances See the Statute 33 H. 8. c. 33. There is also another sort of Auditor assigned by any Court wherein a Defendant is adjudged to Account who take the Account and put it in form into Writing and then it is inrolled and the Plaintiff pleads to it and the Defendant replies if occasion be and so go to issue upon divers points and particulars of the Account Average AVerage is that Service which the Tenant owes his Lord to be done by the Beasts of the Tenant and it seems to be deriv'd from the word Averia because it is the Service which the Tenants Beasts perform for the Lord by carriage or otherwise This word also hath another signification and is much used in the Statute 32 H. 8. c. 14. for a certain Contribution which Merchants and others pay proportionably towards their losses that have their goods cast out in a tempest for the saving of the Ship or of the goods or lives of them that are therein Averment AVerment is where a man pleads a Plea in Abatement of the Writ or Bar of the Action which he saith he is ready to prove as the Court will award This offer to prove the Plea is called an Averment Also there is a Writ called a Writ of Averment which is made out of any of the Law Courts of Westminster-Hall when the Action is depending when the Sheriff upon a Distringas returns small issues then the Iudges of Assise may cause it to be enquired by a Iury if the Sheriff could return more issues of the Lands of the Defendant and if it be found he may then he must return more issues to force the Defendant to appear to the Plaintiffs suite or to do what the Distringas required him to do Averpeny AVerpeny is to be quit of divers sums of money for the Kings arrerages Augmentation AUgmentation was the name of a Court erected in the 27 year of King Henry the eighth And the cause thereof was that the King might be iustly used touching the profits of such Religious Houses and their Lands as were given him by Act of Parliament the same year not printed For dissolving which Court there was an Act made in the Parliament held in the first year of the Reign of Queen Mary Sess 2. cap. 10. which she afterward put in execution by her Letters Patents The name of the Court arises from this That the Revenues of the Crown were so much augmented by the Suppression of the said Houses as the King reserved to the Crown and neither gave nor sold to others But the Office of
Lessee pays the Rent to the Lessor and he receives it and puts it in his purse and afterwards upon review of it at the same time he finds that he hath received some counterfeit pieces aud thereupon refuses to take away the Money but re-enters for the Condition broken there his Entry is not lawful for when he hath accepted the Money this was at his peril and after this allowance he shall not take exception to any of it Collateral COllateral is that which comes in or adheres to the side of any thing as Collateral Assurance is that which is made over and beside the Deed it self For example if a man covenants with another and enters Bond for the performance the Bond is called Collateral Assurance because it is external and without the nature and essence of the Covenant And Crompton fol. 185. saith that to be subject to feeding the Kings Deer is collateral to the soil within the Forest In like manner we may say that the liberty to pitch Sheds or Standing for a Fair in the soil of another man is collateral to the land The private Woods of a common person within the Forest cannot be cut down without the Kings license for it is a Prerogative collateral to the soil Man part 1. pag. 66. Collateral Warranty See tit Warrantie Collation COllation is properly the bestowing of a Benefice by the Bishop that hath it in his own Gift or Patronage and differs from Institution in this for that Institution into a Benefice is performed by the Bishop at the motion and Presentation of another who is Patron of the same Church or hath the Patrons right for that time Yet Collation is used for Presentation in 25 E. 3. Stat. 6. and there is a Writ in the Regist 31. b. called De Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius c. directed by the Iustices of the Common Pleas commanding them to direct their Writ to the Bishop for the admitting a Clerk in the place of another presented by the King who during the Suit between the King and the Bishops Clerk deceased for judgment once passed for the Kings Clerk and he dying before he be admitted the King may give his Presentation to another Collusion COllusion is where an action is brought against another by his own agreement if the Plaintiff recover then such Recovery is called by Collusion And in some cases the Collusion shall be enquired of as in Quare impedit and Assise and such like which any Corporation or Body politick brings against another to the intent to have the Land or Advowson whereof the Writ is brought in Mortmain But in Avowry nor in any Action personal the Collusion shall not be inquired See the Stat. of Westm 2. c. 32. which gives the Quale jus and enquiry in such cases Colour COlour is feigned matter which the Defendant or Tenant uses in his barre when an Action of Trespass or an Assise is brought against him in which he gives the Demandant or Plaintiff a Shew at first sight that he hath good cause of Action where in truth it is no just cause but only a Colour and Face of a cause and it is used to the intent that the determination of the Action should be by the Iudges and not by an ignorant Iury of twelve men And therefore a Colour ought to be a matter in Law doubtfull to the common people As for example A. brings and Assise of land against B. and B. saith he himself did let the same land to one C. for term of life and afterward did grant the Reversion to A. the Demandant and after C. the Tenant for term of life died after whose decease A. the Demandant claiming the Reversion by force of the Grant whereto C. the Tenant for life did never atturn entred upon whom B. entred against whom A. for that Entry brings this Assise c. This is a good Colour because the common people think the land will pass by the Grant without Atturnment where indeed it will not pass c. Also in an Action of Trespass Colour must be given of which there are an infinite number one forexample In an Action of Trespass for taking away the Plaintiffs Beasts the Defendant saith that before the Plaintiff had any thing in them he himself was possessed of them as of his proper goods and delivered them to A. B. to deliver them to him again when c. and A. B. gave them unto the Plaintiff and the Plaintiff supposing the property to be in A. B. at the time of the gift took them and and the Defendant took them from the Plaintiff whereupon the Plaintiff brings an Action that is a good Colour and a good Plea See more hereof in Doctor and Student l. 2. c. 13. Colour is for this cause viz. where the Defendant justifies by title in trespass or Assize if he do not give the Plaintiff Colour his plea amounteth only to not guilty for if the Defendant hath title he is not guilty 1 Co. 79. 108. Colour of Office COlour of Office is always taken in the worst part and signifies an act evilly done by the countenance of an Office and it bears a dissembling face of the right of the Office whereas the Office is but a vail to the falshood and the thing is grounded upon vice and the Office is as a shadow to it But by reason of the Office and by virtute of the Office are taken always in the best part and where the Office is the just cause of the thing and the thing is pursuing the Office Plo. in Dive Man case sol 64. a. Combat COmbat in our ancient Law was a formal Trial of a doubtful Cause or quarrel by the Sword or Bastons of two Champions See Glanvile l. 14. c. 1. Britton c. 22. and Dyer fol. 301. num 41. Commandment COmmandment is taken in divers significations sometimes for the Commandment of the King when by his mere motion and from his own mouth he casts any man into prison Stamf. Plac. Coron fol. 72. or of the Iustices And this Commandment of the Iustices is either absolute or ordinary Absolute as when upon their own authority or wisdom and discretion they commit any man to prison for a punishment Ordinary is when they commit one rather to be safely kept then for punishmenr and a man committed by such ordinary Commandment is bailable Placit Cor. fol. 73. Commandment is again used for the offence of him that wills another man to transgresse the Law or to do any such thing as is contrary to the Law as Murther Theft or such like Bract. l. 3. tract 2. c. 19. The Civilians call this Commandment Angelus de maleficiis Commendrie COmmandrie was the name of a Manor or chief Messuage with which Lands or Tenements were used belonging to the late Priory of S. John of Jerusalem untill they were given to King Henry the eighth by Statute made in the 32 year of his reign And he who
lastly to be out of Court voluntarily Confession of Offence COnfession of Offence is when a prisoner is appealed or indicted of Treason or Felony and broughe to the Bar to be arraigned and his Indictment is read unto him and he is demanded by the Court what he can say thereto then either he confesses the Offence and the Indictment to be true or he estranges himself from the Offence and pleads not guilty or else gives an indirect answer and so in effect stands mute Confession may be made in two sorts and to two several ends The one is he may confesse the offence whereof he is indicted openly in the Court before the Iudge and submit himself to the censure and judgement of the Law which Confession is the most certain answer and best satisfaction that may be given to the Iudge to condemn the Offendor so that it proceeds freely and of his own accord without any threats force or extremity used for if the Confession arise from any of these causes it ought not to be recorded As a woman was indicted for the felonious taking of Bread to the value of two shillings and being thereof arraigned she confessed the Felony and said that she did it by the commandment of her husband and the Iudges in pity would not record her Confession but caused her to plead Not guilty to the Felony whereupon the Iury found that she stole the Bread by the compulsion of her husband against her will for which cause she was discharged 27 Assis pla 50. The other kind of Confession is when the prisoner confesses the Indictment to be true and that he hath committed the Offence whereof he is indicted and then becomes an Approver that is an Accuser of others who have committed the same Offence whereof he is indicted or other Offences with him and then prayes the Iudge to have a Coroner assigned him to whom he may make relation of those Offences and the full circumstances thereof There is also a third kind of Confession made by an Offendor in Felony which is not in Court before the Iudge as the other two are but before a Coroner in a Church or other priviledged place upon which the Offendor by the ancient Law of the Realm is to abjure the Realm Confirmation COnfirmation is when one who hath right to any Lands or Tenements makes a Deed to another who hath the possession or some Estate with these words Ratificasse Approbasse Confirmasse with intent to enlarge his Estate or make his possession perfect and not defesible by him that makes the Confirmation nor by any other that may have his right Whereof see more in Littl. l. 3. cap. 9. of Confirmation Confiscate COnfiscate is derived from the Latine Fiscus which originally signifies a Hamper or Basket but metonymically the Princes Treasure because in ancient time it was put in the Hampers or Frails And though our King doth not put his Treasure in such things yet as the Romans have said that such goods as were forfeited to the Emperors Treasury were Bona Confiscata in like manner do we say of such goods as are forfeited to the Kings Exchequer And the title to have these goods is given to the King by the Law when they are not claimed by some other As if a man be indicted that he feloniously stole the goods of another man where in truth they are the proper goods of him indicted and they are brought in Court against him as the manner and he there asked what he says to the said goods to which he disclaimes by this Disclaimer he shall lose the goods although that afterwards he be acquitted of the Felony and the King shall have them as confiscated But otherwise it is if he doth not disclaim them The same Law is where goods are found in the Felons possession which he disavows and afterwards is attainted of other goods and not of them there the goods which he disavows are confiscate to the King But had he been attainted of the same goods they should have been said to be forfeited and not confiscate notwithstanding his Disavowment So if an Appeal of Robbery be brought and the Plaintiff leaves out some of his goods he shall not be received to enlarge his Appeal and forasmuch as there is none to have the goods so left out the King shall have them as confiscate according to the old rule Quod non capit Christus capit Fiscus And as in the case aforesaid the Law punishes the owner for his negligence and connivency so the Law abhors malice in seeking the bloud of any without just cause And therefore if A. hath the goods of B. by delivery or finding and B. brings an Appeal against A. for taking them feloniously and it is found that they were the Plaintiffs goods and that the Defendant came lawfully by them in this case these goods are confiscate to the King because of the false and malicious Appeal Congeable COngeable comes of the French word Conge id est venia and signifies in our Common Law as much as Lawfull or lawfully done and so Littleton uses it in his 410. sect where he says that the Entry of the Disâ— elsee is Congeable Conged ' eslire COnge Ä‘ eslire i Leave to chuse or Power of chusing is the Kings Royal Permission to any Dean and Chapter in time of Vacancy to chuse a Bishop or to an Abbey or Priory of his own foundation to chuse their Abbot or Prior. Fitzh Nat. Brev. fol. 169. b. 170. b. c. c. Master Gwin in the Preface to his Readings saith That the King of England as Soveraign Patron of all Archbishopricks Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical Benefices had of ancient time free disposition of all Ecclesiastical Dignities whensoever they happen'd to be void investing them first per baculum annulum and afterwards by his Letters Patents and that in progress of time they gave power to others to make Election under certain forms and conditions as namely that they upon e â— ery Vacation should beg of the K. Conge de eslire that is licence to proceed to Election and after to crave his Royal Assent c. And farther he affirms by good proof out of the Common-Law Books that King John was the first that granted it and that it was afterward confirmed by Westm 1. c. 1. which Statute was made Anno 3 E. 1. and again by the Statute de Art Cleri c. 2. which was ordained Anno 25 E. 3 Stat. 3. Conjuration COnjuration is a Compact or Plot made by men combining themselves together by oath or promise to do any publick harm But it is more commonly used for such as have personal Conference with the Devil or evil Spirit to know any secret or to effect any purpose Anno 5 Eliz. c 16. And the difference between Conjuration and Witchcraft may be this Because the one seems by Prayers and Invocation upon the powerful Name of God to compell the Devil to say or do what he
have been taken for such as a man retains to speak for him in any Court as Advocates and Pledeurs to be another sort as Attorneys for one that is present himself but suffers another to speak for him Countours according to M. Horne are such Sergeants skilful in the Law which serve the common people to defend their Actions in Iudicature for their fee. Countee COuntee so called a comitando because they accompany the King was the most eminent and high dignity from the conquest untill the 11 year of King Ed. 3. when the Black Prince was created Duke of Cornwall and those who of ancient time were created Countees were of the Blood-Royal aud at this day the King in all his appellations stiles them by the name of Our most dear Cousin And for these causes the Law gives them high and great Priviledges and therefore their body shall not be arrested for Debt Trespasse c. because the Law intends that they assist the King with their counsel for the publick good and keep the Realm by their prowesse and valour Also for the same cause they shall not be put in Iuries although it be for the service of the Country And if issue be taken whether the Plaintiff or Defendant be a Countee or not this shall not be tried by the Countrey but by the Kings Writ Also the Defendant shall not have a day of favour against a Lord of the Parliament because he is intended to attend the publick And of ancient time the Countee was Praefectus or Praepositus Comitatus and had the charge and custody of the County and now the Sheriff hath all the authority for administration and execution of Iustice which the Countee had Cok. lib. 9. fol. 49. and therefore he is called Viscount Countenance COuntenance seems to be used for Credit or Estimation Old Nat. Brev. 111. in these words The Attaint shall be granted to poor men that will take their oaths they have not any thing whereof to make their Fine saving their Countenance In the same manner it is used 1 Edw. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 4. in these words Sheriffs shall charge the Kings Debtors with as much as they may levy with their oaths without abating the Debtors Countenance Countermand COuntermand is where a thing formerly executed is afterward by some act or ceremony made void by the party that hath first done it As if a man hath made his last Will whereby he devises his Land to J. S. and afterwards he infeoffs another of the same Land there this Feoffment is a Countermand to the Will and the Will as to the disposition of the Land is void If a woman seised of Land in fee makes a Will in writing and devises that if A. of B. survives her then she devises and bequeaths to him and his heirs her Land and afterward she entermarries with the said A. of B. there by taking him to husband and coverture at the time of her death the Will is Countermanded But if a Baroness widow retains two Chaplains according to the Statute and takes one of the Nobility to husband and afterwards the husband dies the Reteiner of those two Chaplains remains and they without new Reteiner may take two Benefices for their Reteiner was not determined nor countermanded by such Marriage If a woman makes a Lease at will and afterwards takes an husband this Marriage is no Countermand to the Lease without express matter done by the Husband after the Marriage to determine the Will Also if a Lease be made at will to a woman and she takes an Husband the Lease continues notwithstanding the Marriage and is no Countermand thereunto Counterplea COunterplea is when one brings an Action and the Tenant in his Answer and Plea vouches or calls any man to warrant his Title or prayes in aid of another who hath better Estate than he as of him that is in the Reversion or if one that is a stranger to the Action come and pray to be received to save his Estate if the Demandant reply thereto and shew cause that he ought not to vouch such a one or of such a one to have aid or that such a one ought not to be received this Plea is called a Counterplea to the Voucher Aid or Resceit as the case is But when the Voucher is allowed and the Vouchee comes in and demands what cause the Tenant hath and the Tenant shews his cause and the Vouchee pleads any thing to avoid the Warranty that is called a Counterplea in the Warranty Countie COuntie signifies as much as Shire both containing a compasse or portion of the Realm into which all its land is divided for the better government thereof and more easie administring of Iustice so that there is not any part of the Kingdom that lies not within some County and every County is governed by a yearly Officer whom we call Sheriff who among other duties belonging to his Office puts in execution all the Commandments and Iudgments of the Kings Courts that are to be executed within the compasse Fortesc ' cap. 24 Of these Counties there are four more remarkable than others called County Palatines as Lancaster Chester Durham and Ely an 5. El. c. 23. There was also the County Palatine of Hexam an 33 H. 8. cap. 10. but thereof quaere A County Palatine is of so high a nature that whereas all Pleas touching the life or maihem of a man called Pleas of the Crown are usually held and sped in the Kings name and cannot be passed in the name of any other the chief Governours of these by special Charter from the King heretofore did send out all Writs in their own name and did all things touching Iustice as absolutely as the Prince himself in other Counties onely acknowledging him to be their Superiour and Soveraigne But by the Statute of 27 H. 8. cap. 25. this power was much abridged which fee and Cromp. Jurisdict 137. Besides these two sorts of Counties there are also Counties corporate as appears by the Statute of 3 Ed. 4. 5. and these are certain Cities or ancient Boroughs of the Land upon whom the Princes of this Nation have bestowed such extraordinary Liberties as London York Chester Gloucester and many others County in another signification is used for the County Court which the Sheriff keeps every moneth within his charge either by himself or his Deputy See for this Dal â— on s Office of Sheriffs Of these Counties or Shires there are reckoned to be 37 in England besides the twelve in Wales Court COurt is diversly taken sometimes for the House where the King remains with his ordinary retinue and also the place where Iustice is judicially ministred of which you may find 32 several sorts in Cromp. Jurisd well described And of those the greater part are Courts of Record some are not and therefore accounted Base Courts in comparison of the others Besides these there are also Courts Christian so called because they handle matters chiefly
and not retornable And if the Sheriff do it not then there shall go forth another Writ Sicut alias and afterward another Writ Sicut pluries vel causam nobis significes which shall be retornable And if the Sheriff yet make no Replevin then there shall issue an Attachment directed to the Coroners to attach the Sheriff and to bring him before the Iustices at a certain day and farther that they make execution of the first Writ Replication REplication is when the Defendant in any Action makes an Answer and the Plaintiff replies to that that is called the Replication of the Plaintiff Reprises REprises are Deductions Payments and Duties that go yearly and are paid out of a Mannor as Rent chare Rent seck Pensions Corrodies Annuities Fees of Stewards or Bailiffts and such like Reprieve REprieve comes from the French Repris that is taken back so that to reprieve is properly to take back or suspe â— d a Prisoner from the Execution and proceedings of the Law for that time Requests REquests is a Court held in the Kings Palace before the Master of the Requests by Petition and it seems is a Court of Equity Rere County REre County is a word used in the Statutes of Westm 2. cap. 39. and 2 E. 3. c. 5. and seems by those Statutes to be some publick place which the Sheriff appointed for the receiving of the Kings mony after his County Court was done Resceit REsceit is when any Action is brought against the Tenant for term of life or years and he in the Reversion comes in and prays to be received to defend the Land and plead with the Demandant And when he comes it behoves that he be alway ready to plead with the Demandant In the same manner a Wife shall be received for the default of her Husband in an Action brought against them both And Tenant for years shall be received to defend his Right where in an Action brought against the Tenant of the Free-hold he pleads faintly Rescous REscous is a Writ that lies when any man takes a Distress and another takes it again from him and will not suffer him to carry the Disress away this is a Rescous upon which he may have this Writ and shall recover dammages Also if one distrain Beasts for dammage Feasant in his Ground and drives them in the High way to Impound them and in going they enter into the House of the owner and he withholds them there and will not suffer the other to impound them that withholding is a Rescous Also if a Sheriff takes my Debtor by an Execution or by mesne Process and J. S. rescue him out of the Custody of the Sheriff I may have an Action of Rescous against J. S. for this wrong and recover Dammages and Debt Reservation REservation is taken divers ways and hath divers natures As sometimes by way of exception to keep that which a man had before in him As if a Lease be made for years of Ground reserving the great Trees growing upon the same now the Lessee may not meddle with them nor with any thing that comes of them so long as it abides in or upon the Trees as Mast of Oak Chesnut Apples or such like but if they fall from the Trees to the ground then they are by right the Lessees for the Ground is let to him and all thereupon not reserved c. Sometimes a Reservation doth produce and bring forth another thing which was not before As if a man Lease his Lands reserving yearly for the same xxli c. And divers other such Reservations there be And note that in ancient time their Reservations were as well in Victuals whether Flesh Fish Corn Bread Drink or what else as in Money until at last and that chiefly in the Reign of King Henry 1. by agreement the Reservation of Victuals was changed into ready Money as it hath hitherto continued Residence REsidence comes from the Latine Residere and is all one with Resiance but that this word Residence is oftner appropriated to the Continuance of a Parson or Vicar upon his Church or Benefice and so it is used in the Statute of 28 H. 8. cap. 13. Resignation REsignation is where an Incumbent of a Church resigns or leaves it to the Ordinary who did admit him to it or to his Successors which differs from Surrender since by that he to whom the Resignation is made hath no interest in the thing so resigned but he to whom the Surrender is made hath by that the thing it self Restitution REstitution is when a Iudgment is reversed by Error then a Writ of Restitution shall issue to restore to the Defendant in the Action what he hath lost And there is a Writ of restitution of stolen goods upon conviction of the Thief which is made at the Sessions or Assises on the Statute of 21 H. 8. 11. Noy rep 128. Resummons REsummons is a Second Summons of a man to answer an Action where the first Summons is defeated by the Demise of the King or such other cause And of this see Coke lib. 7. fol. 29. b. Also if a Terr-tenant returned upon a Scire facias or Defendant in another Action plead non-age and the Plea stays until c. When he comes of full age the Plaintiff upon a suggestion may have a Scire facias or resummons And so when a Plea is staid by pleadiny Protection Excommunication or such other disability Resumption REsumption is a word used in the Statute of 31 H 6. c. 7. and is there taken for the Taking again into the Kings hands such Lands or Tenements as upon false suggestion or other error he had made Livery of to an Heir or granted by Patent to any man Retraxit REtraxit is the Preterperfect tense of Retraho to pull back and is when the party Plaintiff or Demandant comes in proper person into the Court where his Plea is and saith he will not proceed any farther in the same c. this will be a Bar to the Action for ever Reve or Reeve REeve is an Officer more known in ancient time then at this day for almost every Mannor had then a Reeve and yet still in many Copyhold-Mannors where the old custom prevails the name and office is not altogether forgotten And it is in effect that which now every Bayliff of a Mannor practises although the name of Bayliff was not then in use amongst us being siuce brought in by the Normans But the name of Reeve anciently called Greeve which Particle Ge in continuance of time was altogether left out and lost came from the Saxon word Geresa which signifies a Ruler And so indeed his Rule and Authority was large within the compass of his Lords Mannor and among his men and Tenants as well in matters of Government in peace and war as in the skilful use and trade of Husbandry For as he did gather his Lords Rents pay Reprises or Duties issuing out of the Manor set the Servants
same Statute And when any Waste or destruction is made by the Recognisee his Executors or him that hath his Estate the Recognisor or his Heirs shall have the same Law as is before said of the Tenant by Elegit If Tenant by Statute-Merchant hold over his term he that hath right may sue against him a Venire fac ' ad computandum or else enter immediately as upon Tenant by Elegit See the Statute 11 E. 1. and of Acton Burnel and 13 E. 1. De Mercatoribus Starr-chamber STarr-chamber was an High Court held in the Star-Chamber at Westm before the King Peers and Iudges abolished per Stat. 17 Car. cap. 10. Sterbrech STerbrech alias Strebrech is the Breaking Obstructing or or making less of a Way Stilyard STilyard is a word used in the Statute of 22 H. 8. chap. 8. where the Ha â— se-Merchants are called the Merchants of the Sti yard which is a place in London where these Merchants or their Brotherhood had their thode And the House is said to be so called because bullt upon a Court-yard near the Thames where Steel was wont to be much sold Sub poena SUb poena is the name of a Writ made in divers Courts of Law and Equity viz. in Chancery and all other Courts to summon Witnesses and in that Court and in the Exchequer in Law and Equity and in the Common Pleas upon Informations qui tam c. to summon Defendants and in the Crown Office upon Informations Suffragan SUffragan is a word used in the Statut of 26 H. 8. cap. 14. and signifies a Titular Bishop appointed to aid and assist the Bishop of the Diocess in his Spiritual Function And he is called Suffraganeus in Latin because by his Suffrage Ecclesiastical Causes are to be adjudged Suggestion SUggestion is an Information drawn in Writing shewing cause to have a Prohibition which is left in Court and is mentioned in the Statute 2 E. 6. cap. 13. Sumage SUmage seems to be Toll for Carriage on Horseback Cro. Jurisd f. 191. Summons ad Warrantizandum c. SUmmons ad Warrantizandum and Sequatur sub suo periculo See of them after in the Title Voucher Supercargo ou Supracargo SUpercargo ou Supracargo is a Factor or Agent which goes with a Ship beyond the Seas by order of the Owner of the Wares therein and disposes thereof And the Master of the Ship is obliged to perform the Orders of such Factor or Supereargo Supersedeas SUpersedeas is a Writ that lies in divers cases as appears by F. N. B. f. 236. A. but it is always a command to stay some ordinary Proceedings in Law which ought otherwise to proceed Supplicavit SUpplicavit is a Writ issuing out of the Chaucery directed to the Sheriff and some Iustices of the Peace in the County or to one or more Iustices without the Sheriff for taking Surety of such a one as it is prayed against that he should keep the Peace and this is by the Statute of 1 E. 3. c. 16. See F. N. B. f. 80. C and see the Stat. 21 Jac. c. 8. Sur cui in vita SUr cui in vita is a Writ that lies for the Heir of an Inheritrix whose Husband aliened the Inheritance of his Wife and the Wife died before she recovered in a Cui in vita See for this F. N. B. 194. C. Surplusage SUrplusage comes of the French Surplus that is an Overplus and signifies in the Law an Addition of more then needs which sometimes is the cause that a Writ shall abate but in pleading many times it is absolutely void and the residue of the Plea shall stand good Surrejoynder SUrrejoynder is an Answer to the Defendants Rejoynder or a second inforcing of the Plaintiffs Declaration Surrender SUrrender is the Consent of a particular Tenant that he in the Reversion or the Remainder shall presently have the possession And this is either Surrender in Deed by an actual yielding up of the Estate or in Law by the taking of the new Lease or such other act See of this Perkins c. 9. Also it is an act done to the Lord of a Mannor or his Steward of a Copy-hold Estate or done by special Custom of some Mannors to two Copy-hold Tenants of Mannors which surrender ought to be presented at the next Court Baron Swainmote SWainmote or Swannimote is a Court held thrice in a year within a Forrest by the Statute of Charta de Foresta c. 8. for all the Free-holders of the Forrest for so much the Etymology of the word imports Mote in the Norman speech signifying a Court and Swain in the Saxon a Charterer or Free-holder so that Swannimore is the Court of the Free-holder See of this Manwoods Forrest Laws cap. 23. f. 217 c. at large Swainmote in this Court Presentments of Offences done to the Forrest or Game are made given into the Iustices in Eyre Syb Som. SYb Som i. Peace and Security L. L. Eccles. Canuti Regis c. 17. Symony SYmony is an unlawful Contract made to have a man presented to a Rectory or Vicarage which is prohibited by Stat. 31 Eliz. cap. 6. T. Fee-tail TO hold in the Tail is where a man holds certain Lands or Tenements to him and to his Heirs of his Body begotten If the Land be given to a man and to his Heires males and he hath Issue male he hath Fee-simple which was adjudged in Parliament But where Lands are given to a man and to his Heirs males of his body begotten then he hath Fee-tale and the issue Female shall not inherit as appears in the 14 year of E. 3. in an Assise 18 E. 3. 45. Fee-tail is where the Land is given to a Man and the Heirs of his Body begotten and he is called Tenant in Taile general If Lands are given to the Husband and Wife and the Heirs of their two Bodies begotten then the Husband and the Wife are Tenants in Tail especial And if one of them die he that survives is Tenant in Tail after possibility of issue extinct and if he make Waste he shall not be impeached for it See Littleton But if the King give Lands to a man to his Heires males and the Donee dies without issue male then the Cousin collateral of the Donee shall not inherit but the King shall re-enter and so it was adjudged in the Exchequer-chamber 18 H. 8. in an Information made against the Heir of Sir T. Lovel Knight Tail after possibility TO hold in the Tail after possibility of Issue extinct is where Land is given to a Man and his Wife and the Heirs of their two Bodies engendred and one of them overlives the other without issue between them begotten he shall hold the Land for term of his own life as Tenant in the Tail after possibility of Issue extinct and notwithstanding that he do Waste he shall never be Impeached of it And if he alien he in the Reversion shall not have a Writ of Entry in consimili casu
for him that is infeoffed with Warranty and is afterward impleaded in an Assise or other Action in which he cannot vouch then he may have this Writ against the Feoffor or his Heir to compel them to warrant the Land unto him And see of this Fitz. N. B. f. 134. D. See Garrantie of Charters Warrantia diei WArrantia diei is a Writ the lies in case where a man hath a day in any Action sue â— against him to appear in prope â— person and the King at that day or before imploys him i â— some service so that he cann â—â— appear at the day in Court the â— he may have this Writ direct â— to the Iuistices that they shal â— not record them to be in Defau â—â— for his not appearing And see 〈◊〉 this Fitz N. B. fol. 17. A. and â—â— the form of the Writ see G 〈◊〉 vile lib. 1. cap. 8. Warren WArren is a place Priviledged by Prescription or Grant of the King for the Preservation of Hares Conies Partridges and Pheasants or any of them Warwit WArwit or Wardwit as some Copies have it is to be quit of giving money for keeping of Wards Wast WAst is where Tenant for term or years Tenant for life or Tenant for term of anothers life Tenant in Dower or Tenant by the Curtesse or Gardian in Chivalry doth make Wast or Destruction upon the Land that is to say pulls down the House or cuts down Timber or suffers the House willingly to fall or digs the Ground then he in the Reversion shall have a Writ for that Wast and shall recover the place where the Wast is done and treble Dammages And if a Man cut down Timber without Licence and therewith repairs old Houses yet that is no Wast But if he with the Timber build a new house the cutting down of such Timber is Wast Also the cutting down of Vnder-wood or Willows which is no Timber shall not be said to be Wast unless they grow in the sight or shadow of the House Wast by the Civil Law is call'd Dilapidation and for that the Executor of a Rector or Vicar are answerable in the Court Christian There is also a Writ of Wast permittendo Messuagium vel domum fore in decasu ruinosum Co. Ent. 601. Wharf WHarf is a word used in the Statute of 1 Eliz. cap. 11. and other Statutes and is a Broad place near a Crock or Hithe of water upon which Goods and Wares are laid which are to be Ship'd and Transported from place to place Withernam WIthernam is the Taking or Driving of a Distress to a Hold or out of the County so that the Sheriff cannot upon Replevin make delivery thereof to the party distrained in which case a Writ of Withernam is directed to the Sheriff for the taking of as many of his Beasts that did thus unlawfully distrain or as much Goods of his into his keeping until he hath made deliverance of the first Distress Also if the Beasts be in a Fortier or Castle the Sheriff may take with him the Power of the County and bear down the Castle as appears by the Statute of Westm 1. cap. 20. Brit. cap. 27. Woodgeld WOodgeld seems to be the Gathering or Cutting of Wood within the Forrest or money paid for the same to the Foresters And the Immunity from this by the Kings Grant is by Crompt fol. 197. called Woodgeld Woodmote WOodmote is the old name of that Court of the Forrest which is now since the Statute of Charta de Foresta called the Court of Attachments and by the Statute is held every forty days but was wont to be held at the will of the chief Officers of the Forrest and at no certain time See Manwoods Forrest Laws cap. 22. fol. 207. a. Woolferthfod WOolferthfod is the condition of such who were Outlawed in the Saxons time for not submitting themselves to Iustice for if they could be taken alive they should be brought to the King and if they in fear of apprehension did defend themselves they might be slain and their heads brought to the King for they carried a Woolfs Head that is to say their Head was no more to be accounted of than a Woolfs head being a Beast so hurtful to man See the Laws of King Edward by Lambert f. 127. num 7. Bract. lib. 3. tract 2. cap. 21. This is written Wulve-sheaved by Roger Hoveden part poster Annal. fol. 343. Wreck WReck or Varech as the Normans from whom it came call it is where a Ship is perished on the Sea and no man escapes alive out of it and the Ship or part of it so perished or the Goods of the Ship come to the Land of any Lord the Lord shall have that as a Wreck of the Sea But if a Man or a Dog or a Cat escape alive so that the party to whom the Goods belong come within a year and a day and prove the Goods to be his he shall have them again by Provision of the Statute of Westm 1. cap. 4. made in King Edw. 1. days who therein followed the Decree of H. 1. before whose days if a Ship had been cast on shore torn with Tempest and were not repaired by such as escaped alive within a certain time that then was taken for Wreck Y. Yard-land YArd-land Virgata terrae in some Counties contains 20 Acres in some 24 and in some 30 Acres of Land Abate ABate semble de vener del Francois Abbatre i. rescindere destruere ad pleuseurs significations Come abater un Chesteau ou Fortlet Vet. Nat. br fo 45. que en Westm 1. ca. 17. est enterprete to beat down Et abater un brief est pur le defaire ou renverser per ascun Erreur ou Exception Britton ca. 48. Et luy que s'enterpose enter le prieur possesseur son Heir est dit abater en les Terres Veies Abatement Abatement de Brief ou Plaint ABatement de Brief ou Plaint est quant un Action est port per Brief ou Plaint en que fault sufficient bone matter ou auterment le matter alledge nest certainment alledge ou si le Plaintiff ou Defendant ou Lieu sont misnosme ou si la appear varience perenter le Brief le Specialty ou Record ou que le Brief ou Declaration sont uncertain ou pur mort del Plaintiff ou Defendant ou pur divers auters semblable causes donques sur ceux defaults le Defendant poit prier que le Brief ou Plaint abatera cest adire que le Suit del plaintiff envers luy cessera pur cest temps que il commencera auter temps son Suit port uÌ„ novel Brief ou Plaint sil soit issint dispose Mes si le Defendant en ascun Action plede un matter en Bar ' pur adnuller de Action a touts jours il ne viendra apres a pleader en Abatement de Brief mes si apres il
appiert in le Record que est ascun matter apparaÌ„t pur que le Brief doit estre abate donque le Defendant ou ascÌ„ auter person ut amicus Curiae poiet bien plede monstre ceo in Arrest de Judgment Veies les titles de Brief Misnosmer Variance en les Abridgements le Livre appel Les Digests del Briefs en queux cest matter especialment est fort bien entreat Sont auxi auters matters queux abate stay actions Briefs cestaseavour Variance ent ' Brief Count. Si le Plaintiff soit Alien Enemy Titulo Alien Pur default de nosmer le Defendant de quel Vil ou Trade ou degree il est ou le Suit est per Brief Que le Feme Plaintiff est covert devant ou pendant la Suit Que le Plaintiff ad auter Action pendant pur mesme le cause Que le Brie â— est date devant le Action accrue Pur ceo que le â—â— fendant doit estre sue euauter Court de quel il est Attorney ou Officer Pur ceo que la ter ' est ancient demesne Que le matt ' en Suit fuit fait sur le haut mere en quel case l' Admiral ad Jurisdiction Ceux cases suisdits n' abate le Brief ou Action mes suspend le prosecution pur temps Si le Plaintiff en Action personel soit utlage ou convict de Recusancy o â— excomenge Sur Scire facias versus Ter-tenants pur debt plea que sont auters Tenant queux ouÌ„t terrs liable a mesme le debt queux ne sont return siay proceeding tanque sont auxi return Causes de Abatement de Brief ou Plaint Fault de sufficient ou bone matter Le matter nest certainment alledge Plaintiff Defendant ou Lieu. misnosme Variance enter Brief Specialty ou Record Uncertainty del Brief Count ou Declaration Mort Plaintiff ou Defendant Abatement en Terres ABatement en Terres ou Tenements est quant un hom ' morust seisie de ter ' ou Tenements un que nad droit entra en mesmes devaÌ„t le Heir cest Entry d'luy est appel un Abatement il un Abator Mes si le Heir enter primes apres le mort de son Ancestor le auter enter sur le possession del Heir cest dernier entry estun disseism al Heir Vide livre de Entries fol. 63. c. 205. d. 519. c. lou cest AbatmeÌ„t est appel en Latin Intrusio Et jeo extend destre melius d' appel ceo en Latin Interpositio ou Intratio per interpositionem de fair difference enter ceo parol Intrusion puis le mort de le Tenant pur vie Abbe ABbe fuit le Sovereign Teste ou Principale de ceux Measons queux quant ils estoient fueroÌ„t appel Abbeys cest Abbe ove les Moigns de mesme le Meason queux fueront appel le Covent fiere un Corporal ' Et tiel Soveraign de ascun tiel Meason ne serra charge pur le Act de son Predecessor sil ne soit per common Seal â— e pur tiel chose que vient al use de son Meason Auxy uÌ„ Abbe ne serra charge pur le det en que son Commoign fuit en det devant son entre en Religion mesque le Creditor ad de ceo un especialty si non que il avoit devenus al use d' son Meason mes les Executors del Commoigne serra charge ove ceo Vide que ceo en le Abridgment mesme title desouth quel veies coment ascuns de ceux fueront elective ascuns presentative coment fueront Prefects lour authority Et en cel title sont auxy comprehend touts auters Corporations Spiritual come Prior son Covent Friers Canons Dean Chapter Abettors ABettors sont in divers cases diversment prise Un kind de Abbetters sont ceux que maliciousment sans droit cause ou desert procur ' aut ' de suer faux Appeals de Murder ou Felony envers homes al entent de troubler griever eux pur fair eux en infamy slander Abettors en Murd ' sont ceux que command procur ' counsel ou comfort aut ' de Murder Et en ascun case tiel Abettors serront prise come Principals en ascun case forsque come Accessories Issint en auter Felonies Et lour presence a le chose fait lour absence d'la fuit uÌ„ difference en le case Il y ad Abettors auxy en Treason mes ils sont come Principals car en Treason il ny ad ascun Accessories Vies pluis de ceo en le Livre appelle Les Pleas del Co â— one compile per le tres reverend Judge Sir W. Stamf. en les titles de Accessor â— es Damages en appeal Abeyance ABeyance est quant un Lease est fait pur Term de vie le Remainder al droit Heirs de J. S. que est en vie al temps del Grant ore Per cest Grant le Remainder passa hors del Grantor maintenaÌ„t unc ' il ne vesta maintenant ne prist effect en le Grantee cest a dire le droit Heir d' J S. mes est dit destre en abeyance cu come les Logiciens appelle ceo in potentia ou in intellectu come nous dicimus in nubibus cestascavoir en le consideration de Ley Que si J. S. morust ayant un droit Heir en vie vivant le Lessee pur vie donques ceo est un bone Remainder a ore veste vient en le dit droit Heir en tiel sort que il poit grant forfeit ou auterment dispose ceo cessa destre ore en abeyance pur ceo que il est un a ore de ability pur preÌ„der ceo pur ceo que J. S. est mort ad relinquish un droit Heir en vie le quel ne poit estre vivant J. S. car durant son vie nul poit ê“ê‘meÌ„t eeÌ„ dit son Heir Item si un hom ' soit patron dun Esglis present aut ' a ceo or est le Fees des ter ' ou TenemÌ„ts perteignant al Rectory en le Parson mes si le Parson morust le Esglise est devenus void donque est le Fee en abeyance tanque il soit un novel Parson present admit induct car le Patron nad le Fee mes solement le droit de presenter le Fee est en le Incumbent que est present puis son mort il nest en ascun mes en Abeyance tanque il soit un novel Incumbent come est avant dit Vies Litt ' Lib 3. c. 11. fo 145. Perk. fo 12. Abishersing ABishersing en ascun Copies Mishersing est quiet ' esse de Amerciamentis coram quibuscunque de Transgressione probata Abjuration ABjuration est un Serement
adhere al later ' â— un chose come Collateral Assurance est ceo qÌ„ est fait ouster pÌ„ter le Fait mesme Pur example si home covenant ove un auter luy oblige pÌ„ le performance l'ObligatioÌ„ est appel Collateral Assurance pÌ„ ceo qÌ„ est external sans le nature essence del Covenant Et Cromp â— o â— fol. 185 dit qÌ„ destre subject al de pasturing des DaÌ„es le Roy est collateral al soyle deins le Forest En mesme le manÌ„er poyomus nous dire que libertie a pitcher Sheds ou Stalls pur un Faire eÌ„ le soile â— un au â— ' home est collateral al terre Le private Bois 〈◊〉 un comÌ„on ê‘son deins le Forest ne poit estre succide sans le licence del Roy car il est un Prerogative collateral al soile Man part 1. pag. 66. Collateral Garrantie Veies tit Garranty Collation COllation est ê“perment le Donation de un Benefice ê‘ l'Evesque qÌ„ ceo ad en son Done ou Patronage demesne differ â— de Institution en ceo pur ceo que Institution en un Benefice est performe ê‘ l'Evesque al motion Presentation â— un auter qÌ„ est Patron de mesme Esglise ou ad le droit del Patron ê“ hac vice Uncore Collatio est use pÌ„ Presentation en 24 E. 3. Stat. 6. la est un Brief en le Regist 31. b. appel De Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius c. direct al Justices del ComÌ„on Bank eux commandant a directer lour BrÌ„e al EvesqÌ„ pÌ„ l'admittance 〈◊〉 un Clerk en le lieu 〈◊〉 un auter pÌ„sent ê‘ le Roy que devant le Suit perenter le Roy le Clerk del Evesque morust car judgement un foits p â— sse pÌ„ le Clerk le Roy il morant devant qÌ„ il soit admit le Roy poit done son Presentation al auter Collusion COllusion est lou un Action est port vers un auter per son agreement demesne si le Plaintife recover tiel Recoverie est dit per Collusion Et en ascun cases le Collusion serra inquire come en un Quare impedit Assise tiels semblables queux ascun Corporation ou Corps politique port envers aut ' al entent â— aver le TrÌ„e ou Advowson dont le BrÌ„e est port en Mortmain Mes en Avowrie ne en asc ' Action personal le Collusion ne serra enquire Veies le Stat. de Westm 2. c. 32. que done le Quale jus enquirie en tiel case Colour COlour est un fained matter le quel le Defendant ou Tenant use en son barre quaÌ„t un Action de Trespasse ou un Assise est port envers luy en le quel il done le DemandaÌ„t ou Plaintiff un shew prima facie que il ad bone cause de Action lou en veritie il nest just cause mes tantfolemeÌ„t un Colour Visour 〈◊〉 un cause il est use al entent que le determination del ActioÌ„ doit este ê‘ les Judges nemy ê‘ un ignorant Jurie de douze homes E pÌ„ ceo un Colour doit estre un matter en Ley difficult al lay gentes Come pÌ„ example A. port uÌ„ Assise â— terre envers B. B. dit que il mesme lesse mesme le terre al un C. pÌ„ terme de vie apres grant le Reversion al A. le Demandant puis C. Tenant pÌ„ terme de vie morust apres que decease A. le Demandant claimant le Reversion ê‘ force del Grant ou C. le TenaÌ„t pÌ„ vie ne unques attourne entra sur qÌ„ B. entra envers que A. pur mesme entrie port cest Assise c. Cest un bone Colour qÌ„ ceo que les lay gentes pensant qÌ„ le terre voile passe per le Grant sans Atturnment lou en fait il ne voile passe c. Auxy eÌ„ un Action 〈◊〉 Trespasse Colour doit estre done â— eux sont uÌ„ infinite number un pur Example En un Action de Trespasse pur prise de Avers del Plaintiff le Defendant dit que devant le Plaintiff reins avoit en eux il mesme fuit possesse de eux come de les propter biens eux deliver al A. B. pur eux rebailer a luy quando c. A. B. eux dona al Plaintiff le Plaintiff supposant le property destre en A. B. al temps del donÌ„ prist eux le Defendant eux reprist del Plaintiff sur que le Plaintiff port l' Action cest un bone Colour un bon Plea Veies de ceo pluis en Doctor Student l. 2. c. 13. Colour est pur ceo cause viz. lou le deft justifie ê‘ title en transgrÌ„ ou assize sil ne done le Plaintiff Colour son plea amount tanqÌ„ al general issue car si le Defendant ad title il n'est culpable 1 Co. 79. 108. Colour de Office COlour de Office est touts foits prist in malam partem signifie un act malement fait per le countenance â— un Office il port un dissimulant visage del droit del Office lou le Office nest que vaile del fauxitie le chose est ground sur vice le Office est come uÌ„ shadow al ceo Mes ratione Officii virtute Officii sont prises touts foits in bonam partem lou le Office est le just cause del chose le chose est pursuant al Office Plo. en Dive Man case 64. a. Combat COmbat eÌ„ nrÌ„e antiqÌ„ Ley estoit un formal Trial â— un ambigieux Case ou controversie ê‘ l'Ense ou Bastons â— deux Champions Veies Glanvile l. 14. c. 1. Britton c. 22. Dyer fol. 301. numb 41. Commandment COmmandment est prise ê‘ divers significations alc ' foits pÌ„ le Commandment le Roy quaÌ„t ê‘ son mere motion de son bouche demesne il jette asc ' hoÌ„e eÌ„ prison Stamf. Plac. Cor. fol. 72. ou des Justices Et ceo CommandmÌ„t des Justices est ou absolute ou ordinarie Absolute sicome quant sur lour authoritie demesne ou lour sapieÌ„ce prudence ils comÌ„ittont asc ' hoÌ„c a prison pÌ„ uÌ„ punishmÌ„t Ordinarie est quant ils comÌ„ittont un pluis destre safemÌ„t gard qÌ„ pÌ„ punishmÌ„t hoÌ„e comÌ„it ê‘ tiel ordinarie ComÌ„andmÌ„t est mainpernable Placit Cor. fol. 73. CommandmÌ„t est use arere pÌ„ l'offence 〈◊〉 celuy qÌ„ comÌ„and aut ' home 〈◊〉 transgresser le Ley ou 〈◊〉 faire asc ' tiel chose que est encounter le Ley come Murder Larcenie ou tiels semb'ables Bract. l. 3. Tract 2. c. 19. Les Civillians appel cest CommandmÌ„t Angelus de maleficiis Commandrie COmmandrie fuit le nosme â— un Manor ou chief Messuage ove qÌ„ TrÌ„es ou TenemÌ„ts fueront occupies ê‘teignont al Priorie ê‘ S. Johan de
que en ascun Chose legal el ne poit responder sans sa baron lib. 5. tract 1. cap. 3. Et si le baron alien le Terre fa feme durant le Coverture el ne poit ceo dedire eÌ„ le vie sa baron Covin COvin est un secret Assent determine en le les coeurs de deux ou plusors al prejudice dun auter Come si Tenant pÌ„ terme de vie ou Tenant en le taile secretmÌ„t conspire ove un auter que lauter recovera vers le Tenant pur vie le Terre que il tient c. en prejudice de celuy en le Reversion Ou si Executor ou Administrator ê‘mit JudgmÌ„ts â— estre enter envers luy ê‘ fraud plead eux al obligation ou si ascun fraudulent assignmÌ„t ou conveiance soit fait la party greive poet plead Covin releive luy mesmÌ„ See the Stat. 2. R. 2. c. 3. 3 H. 7. c. 4. 13. El. c. 5. 27 El. c. 4. Count. COunt est tant come l'original DeclaratioÌ„ eÌ„ un Proces uncorÌ„ pluis toft use eÌ„ real qÌ„ ê‘sonal ActioÌ„s come DeclaratioÌ„ est pluis apply al ê‘sonal que real F. N. B. 16. a 60. d. n. 71. a. 191. e. 217. a. Libel ove les Civilians comprehend aÌ„bidexu Et uncorÌ„ Count Declaration sont asc ' foits confound coÌ„e Count en Det Kit. 281. Count ou Declaration en Appeal Pl. Cor. 78. Count en Trespas Brit. c. 26. Count eÌ„ Action de TrnÌ„s sur le Case pÌ„ Slander Kitch 252. Conteurs ad este prise pur tiels queux home receive de ê‘ler pÌ„ luy en asc ' Court come Advocates Pledeurs destrÌ„ un auter sort come Artornies pur un que est present en ê‘son mes souffre un auter a dire pur luy Countours ê‘ M. Horne sont tiels SergeaÌ„ts erudite eÌ„ les Leyes que servont les laye gents de defender lour Actions en Judicature pur lour fee. Countee COuntee dicitur a comitando quia comitantur Regem fuit le pluis emineÌ„t supreme dignitie del Conquest jesque le unzisme an del Roy Ed. 3. ou le Black Prince fuit create Duke de Cornwal ceux qÌ„ de ancieÌ„t temps fueroÌ„t create CouÌ„tees fueront de Sanke-Royal jesque a cest jour le Roy en touts ses appellations stile eux ê‘ le nosme Charissimi consanguinei nostri Et pÌ„ ceux causes le Ley doÌ„e a eux haut graÌ„d Privileges pur ceo lour corps ne serra arrest pÌ„ Det TrnÌ„s c. pÌ„ ceo qÌ„ le Ley entend qÌ„ ils assistont le Roy ove lour counsell pÌ„ le weale publique gardont le Royalm en safetie per lour prowesse valour Auxy pur mesme le cause ils ne serrÌ„ mise en Juries coment qÌ„ ceo soit pur le service del Pais Et si issue soit prise si le Plaintiff ou Defendant soit un Countee ou nemy ceo ne serra trie ê‘ Pais mes ê‘ le Brief le Roy. Auxy le Defendant navera jour de grace vers le Seigniour del Parliament pur ceo que il est intend 〈◊〉 attender le publique Et 〈◊〉 ancient temps le Countee fuist Praefectus seu Praepositus Comitatus ad le charge custodie del Countie ore le Viscount ad tout l'authoritie pÌ„ administration execution de Justice que le Countee avoit Cok. lib. 9. fol. 49. pÌ„ ceo est appelle Viscount Countenance COuntenance semble destre use pur Credance ou Esteeme Veil N. B. 111. in ceux ê‘ols L' Attaint serra grantus as povers hoÌ„es qÌ„ pÌ„ndront lour seremÌ„t que ils ont reins de qÌ„ ils poyent faire lour Fine ouster lour Countenance En mesmÌ„ le manner est use 1 Ed. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 4. en ceux ê‘ols Visconts chargeront le Dettors le Roy ove tant qÌ„ ils poyeÌ„t levier ove lour seremÌ„ts sans abatement del Countenance des Dettors Countermand COuntermand est quant chose execute per devant est apres per ascun act ou ceremony frustrate per le party que ad ceo primes fait Come si home ad fait son darreine Volunt per que il devise son Terre al J. S. puls il enfeoffe auter home 〈◊〉 memÌ„ le Terre ore ceo feoffmÌ„t est un Countermand al Volunt le Volunt quant al dispositioÌ„ del Terre est voide Si feme seisie de Terre en fee fist sa volunt en escript per ceo devisa que si A. de B. luy survivera donque el devise bequeath a luy a ses heires sa Terre apres el entermarrie ove le dit A. de B. ore pur prisel de luy a baron coverture al temps de sa mort le Volunt est countermand Mes si un Baroness widow retaine deux Chapleins solonque le Statute prist un de Nobility a baron puis le baron mo rust le Reteiner de ceux deux Chapleins remaine ils sans novel Reteiner poient prender deux Benefices car lour Reteiner ne fuit determine ne countermand per tiel Marriage Si feme fist Lease a volunt puis prist baron ceo Marriage nest Countermand al Lease sans expresse matter fait per le baron apres le Marriage a determiner le Volunt Auxy si Lease soit fait al feme a volunt el prist baron le Lease continue nient obstant le Marriage il nest Countermand al ceo Counterplee COunterplee est lou un port un Action le Tenant en son Respons Plee vouch ou appel asc ' home pur garrant son Title ou prayer ayd de auter que ad melior Estate come de cestuy en la Reversion ou si un estrange al Action vient priera destre rescev ' de saver son Estate si le Demandant reply a ceo monstrÌ„ cause que il ne doit tiel home voucher ou de tiel home aid aver ou que tiel home ne doit este rescev ' cest Plee est appel uÌ„ Counterplee al Voucher Ayde ou Resceit come le case est Mes quant le Voucher soit allow le Vouchee vient eius demande quel chose le Tenant ad de luy voucher le Tenant monstrÌ„ son cause le Vouchee plede ascun matter de avoid le Garrantie cÌ„ est appel Counterplee del Garrantie Countie COuntie est tant en significat ' come Shire ambideux continent un circuit ou portion del RoyalmÌ„ en qÌ„ tout le terre est apporc ' pÌ„ le mieux governance de cÌ„ pluis facile administrat ' de Just ' issint qÌ„ la nest ascun ê‘t â— l Royalm qÌ„ ne pas gist deins asc ' County chesc ' County est governe ê‘ un annual Officer le quel nous
appel Custuma en Latine Reg. Orig. 129. a. 138. a. Et de â— ermÌ„t pÌ„ tiels Services que Tenants de un Manor doiont a lour SnÌ„r Veiel livre â— Entries verb ' Custome Veies Consuetud Servitiis Custos Brevium Custos Brevium est le primer Clerk apperteinant al Court 〈◊〉 ComÌ„on Pleas ou Bank le Roy l' office de quel est de receive tener touts les Briefs mitter eux sur Files chescun Return ê‘ luy mesme al fine 〈◊〉 chescÌ„ Terme 〈◊〉 receiver del Prothonotaries touts les Records de Nisiprius appel le Postea Le Custos Brevium aux ' fait entrie des BrÌ„es â— Covenant le Concord sur chesc ' Fine fait hors Exemplifications Transcripts de touts les BrÌ„es Records en son Office de touts les Fines levie Les Fines puis qÌ„ ils sont engrosse les parts de ceo sont divide ê‘ent ' le Custos Brevium le Chirographer â— qÌ„ le Chirographer reteigna touts foits le Brief de Covenant le Note le Custos Brevium reteina le CoÌ„cord Pee del Fine sur quel Pee le Chirograph ' causa le Proclamations destre indorse quaÌ„t ils touts sont ê‘claime Custos Rotulorum CUstos Rotulorum est celuy qÌ„ ad le Custody â— s Rolls ou Records des Sessions del Peace coÌ„e ascuns semble del Commission del Peace mesme Lam. l. 4. c. 3. p. 373. Il est touts foits Justice del Peace Quorum en le Countie ou il ad son Office ê‘ son Office il est piuistoft appel un Officer ou Minister que un Judge pur ceo que le Commission del Peace impose ceo especial Charge per expresse parols sur luy Quod ad dies loca predicta Brevia Praecepta Processus Indictamenta praedicta coram te dictis Sociis tuis venire facias Custos des Spiritualities CUstos des Spiritualties est celuy qÌ„ exercisa le Spiritual Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction â— ascun Diocesse durant le Vacancie del See l'appointment de quel per le Ley Canon apperteinÌ„ al Dean Chapiter Ne Sede vacante aliquid innovetur Mes en Angleterre l' Archievesque del Province ad ceo per Prescription Uncore plusors Deanes Chapiters come dit M. Gwyn en le Preface a son Lectures demande ceo ê‘ veils Charters des Roys de cest Terre Cuynage CUynage est un parol use eÌ„ le Statute 11 H. 7. c. 4. pÌ„ le framer 〈◊〉 Estaigne en tiel forme come solont 〈◊〉 ceo framer pÌ„ le pluis apt portage de ceo en auters lieus D. Dammage DAmmage est un part ê‘ ceo qÌ„ les Jurors sont Ä‘ enquirÌ„ donant lour Verdict pÌ„ le Plaintiff ou Demandant en uÌ„ Action real ou ê‘sonal Car puis le Verdict done sur le principal cause ils sont auxy demaund lour consciences touchant Costs queux sont les Expences del Suit Dammages que coÌ„tein le parde qÌ„ le Plaintiff ou Demandant ad susteine per cause del tort a luy fait ê‘ le Defendant ou Tenant Et entaÌ„t qÌ„ Justice Reason vollont qÌ„ quant le vie le credit les tres les beins le eorruption de son sanke tout ceo qÌ„ home ad a forfeit ' eÌ„ cest monde sont mise eÌ„ peril sans voyer cause mes solemÌ„t sur le malicious Accusation dun aut ' ê‘ Appeal qÌ„ l'Appellee averoit satisfaction pÌ„ ceo envers son faux Accuser sil nad sufficient donque vers luy ou ceux que luy abbetta ou procura de pursuer le Appeale Pur ceo le Common Ley donast DamÌ„ages al Defendant en un Appeal assigne a luy un meane pur le recoverie de eux quant il fuist acquite del Felony coÌ„e est 48 Edw. 3 22. Mes entant que les DamÌ„ages vers le Procurors Abbettors fueront destre recover per Original Brief cestascavoir ê‘ Brief de Conspiracy nient auterment que ne fuist cy curt remedie come le heinous degree del tort require le Statute de Westminster le 2. An. 13. Ed. 1. cap. 12. pur le pluis subite redresse fuit ordaine Mes si le Defendant barre le Plaintiffe de son Appeale donque il ne poit recover DamÌ„ages ê‘ le dit Stat. envers le Plaintiff forsque le Barre soit tiel qÌ„ acquite le Defend ' â— l Felonie Et si le Defendant plead que le Appellant est ou Bastard ou ad un Eigne frere ou tiels Pleas en barre per eux barre le Plaintiff uncore il ne recovera Dammages vers luy pur ceo que le Defendant poit estre endite arere de mesme le Felonie attaint nient obstant ascun de ceux Pleas car per eux le innocencie del Defendant nest pas trie pur ceo il navera DamÌ„age 27 Ass pla 25. Mesme le ley est si le Defendant barre le Appellant ê‘ Demurrer en Ley Et issint est si en Appeal del mort duÌ„ home le Defendant plead al issue est trove ê‘ Verdict que il occide le hoÌ„e en soÌ„ defence demesne ou per Misadventure en ceux cases il ne recovera DamÌ„ages Mes si le Defendant en Appeale ad le Release del Appellant ou le Pardon le Roy voile eux waiver pled ' Nient culpable est acquite en cest case il recovera DamÌ„ages Cest parol Damna est prise en la Ley en deux several significations l'un propermÌ„t generalment l' auter relative stricte Properment come est en cases ou DamÌ„ages sont foundue sur le Stat. de 2 H. 4. cap. 1. 8 H. 6. c. 9. ou Costs sont enclude deins cest parol DamÌ„ages car Damnum en son proper general signification dicitur a demendo cum Diminutione res deterior fit en cest sense Costs de Suit sont Dammages al Plaintiff car per eux res sua diminuit ' Mes quant le Plaintiff monstrÌ„ le tort fait a luy a Dammage de tiel summe ceo est destre prise relative pur le tort que est passe devant le Brief port sont assesse occasione Transgressionis praedict ne poit extender al Costs del Suit que sont future d' un auter nature Veies Co. l. 10. f. 116 117. Dammage fesant DAmmage fesant est quant les Beasts de un estrang ' sont en auters terÌ„s sans liceÌ„ce del TenÌ„t d' la trÌ„e la mangeront trea â— ou auterment spoilont les blees grasse bois ou tiels semblables En quel case le Tenant que ils issint dammage poit pur ceo prender distrainÌ„ impound eux cybien en le nuict come en le jour Mes en auters cases come pur Rent Services
estate est un Terme en pleading pÌ„ avoider prolixity si come un plead un feoffment en see al A. Cujus quidem A. statum idem B. modo habet null poet ceo plead forsque Tenant dei fee nec poit estree plead de choies queux passont merement ê‘ grant come Advowsons ou Franchises c. Quid juris clamat QUid juris clamat est un BrÌ„e qÌ„ gist lou jeo graunt le ReversioÌ„ de mon Tenant a terme de vie ê‘ Fine en Court le Roy le Tenant ne voit atturner donques le Grantee avera cest BrÌ„e pÌ„ luy chaser Mes Brief de Quem redditum reddit gist lou jeo grant per Fine un Rent charge ou auter Rent que nest Rent service quel mon Tenant tient de moy le Tenant ne voit attorner donques le Grantee avera cest Brief Et BrÌ„e de Per quae servitia gist en semble case pur Rent service Auxy si jeo graunt iv divers Rents a un home le Tenant de Terre attourna al Grauntee per payment de un denier ou un maile en nosme de Attournment de touts ceux Rents cest AttournmÌ„t luy mittera en seisin de tout cest Rent Mes ceux trois Briefs covient estrÌ„ port vers eux que sont Tenants a jour del Fine levie vers nul auters Quinzisme QUinzisme est un Payment grant en ParliemÌ„t al Roy les Layes gents cestascavoir l' quinzisme part de lour Biens Et fuit use en ancient temps destre levie sur lour avers esteaunts en lour terres que chose fuit mult troublous pÌ„ ceo a ore pur le pluis part cest voy est alter ils use de levie ceo per le Verge ou Acre ou auter measure de Terre per reason de que il est a ore meins troublous plus certain qÌ„ devant chescÌ„ Ville Pays scient qÌ„l summe est destre pay perenter eux comment ceo serra raise Nous legemus que Moses fuit le pri â— et qÌ„ number le people car il number les Israelites pur cÌ„ le primer Tax Subsidie Tribute ou Quinzisme fuit invent per luy enter les Hebrews come Polydore Virgil suppose Quit claim QUit claim est uÌ„ Release ou Acquitting d un hoÌ„e pÌ„ asc â— n Action qÌ„ il ou poit aver envers luy Bracton l. 5. tract 5. ca. 9. nu 9. Quo jure QUo jure est un Brief que gist lou home ad ewe Common de Pasture en auter Several deins le teÌ„ps de memorie donques celuy a que appertient l' Several avera cest Brief a charge luy de monstrer ê‘ quel Title il claim le Common Quo minus QUo minus est un BrÌ„e que gist lou home ad grant a un auter Housebote Heybote en son boys le Grantor fait tiel Wast destruction que le Grantee ne poit aver soÌ„ reasonable Estovers donque l'GraÌ„tee avera le avant dit Brief que est en natura de Brief de Wast Et nota que Housebote est certain Estovers pur amender le Meason Heybote est certain Estovers pÌ„ amender Heyes Hedges Est auter Brief appelle Qu â— minus en l' Exchequer quel ascun Termour ou Dettour al Roy avera vers ascun auter pur Debt ou Trespasse en le Exchequer Office appelle le Common Pleas pur que le Plaintiff surmittera que pur le tort que le Defendant fait a luy il est meynes able a payer le Roy son Dett ou Terme quel est surmise a doner Jurisdiction al Court d' Exchequer d' oyer a terminer la cause del Suit enter eux quel auterment serroit determine en auter Court Quo warranto QUo warranto est un Brief qÌ„ gist lou home usurpe daver aseun Franchise sut le Roy donques le Roy avera cest Brief de faire luy vener devant ces Justices pur monstre per quel Title il claime tiel Franchise Quod ei deforceat QUod ei deforceat est uÌ„ BrÌ„e que gist lou Tenant en Tail Tenant en Dower ou Tenant a Vie perde ê‘ Default en ascun Action doÌ„ques cestuy avera cest Brief vers celuy que recovera ou vers son Heire si il entende que il avoit melior droit qÌ„ i â— qÌ„ recovera Veies l' Stat. West 2. c. 4. Quod permittat QUod permittat est un Brief qÌ„ gist lou home est disseise de son Common de Pasture l' Disseisor alien ou devie seisie son Heire entrÌ„ donques si l' Disseisee devie son Heire avera cest Brief R. Ran. RAn significat tam apertam Rapinam quae negari non potest Lamb. Arch. fol 125. Ranger RAnger venust del parol Francois Range id est Ordo vel Series signifie un Officer del Forrest que est appoint se pourmen â— r chesc ' jour ê‘ le purlieu dont il est le Ranger pur rechaser les Feres hors ceo en le Forrest arrere de veier oyer enquire des Offenders la de presenter lour Offences Veies Manw. cap. 20. fol. 185. c. Ransome RAnsome signifie properment ceo Summe que est pay pur le Redemption dun qÌ„ est pr â— se captive en guerre Mes est auxy use use pur un Summe des deniers paye pur le pardoner dascun grand Offence come en le Statute de 1 H. 4. cap. 7. en auters Stat. Fine Ransome alants insemble 23 H. 8. cap. 3. aylors Rape RApe ad deux significations Le primer est quant il est prise pÌ„ le part del County come Southsex est divide en size parts que ê‘ un peculiar noÌ„e sont appel ' Rapes Cambd. Britan. p. 225 ceux parts en auters pays so â— t app ' Hundreds Tythings Lath 5 ou Wapentakes En laut ' sense il est l' violeÌ„t Conusance duÌ„â— eÌ„e encount ' sa volunt cest offence est EeloÌ„ie cybieÌ„ eÌ„ l Principal coÌ„e eÌ„ les Accessories V. 11 H. 4. c. 13. 1 Ed 4. c. 1. Westm 2. c. 13. Cromptons Just de Peace f. 43 44. Rationabili parte bonorum RAtsonabili parte bonorum est uÌ„ BrÌ„e que gist pÌ„ uÌ„ Feme vers les Executors sa baron daver le tierce part de ses beins apres Detts payes Funeral Expences discharge Mes si cest Brief gisera al Common Ley ou solemÌ„t per le Custom dascun Pais est un question en nostre Livres Veies F. N. B. 122. L. Rationabilibus divisis RAtionabilibus divisis est un Brief que gist lou sont deux Seigniories en divers Villes un pres de auter ascun parcel de un SnÌ„rie ou de Wast ad este encroche ê‘ petits parcele donques celuy Seignior
have any real or personal Action concerning land but in every such Action the Tenant or Defendant may plead that he was born in such a place which is not within the Kings liegeance and demand judgment if he shall be answered Every alien friend may by the Common Law have and get within this realm by gift trade or other lawful ways any treasure or personal goods whatsoever as well as any Englishman and may maintain any Action for the same But Land within this realm or houses if not for their dwelling only Alien friends connot have nor get nor maintain any Action real or personal for any Land or House unless the House be for their necessary dwelling An Alien enemy cannot maintain any Action nor get any thing within this Realm And the reasons why aliens born are not capable of inheritance within England are 1. The Secrets of the Realm may by this be discovered 2. The Revenues of the Realm shall be taken and injoyed by Strangers born 3. This will tend to the destruction of the Realm First in the time of war for then Strangers may fortifie themselves in the heart of the Realm and set in combustion the Common-wealth Secondly in the time of peace for by such means many Aliens born may get a great part of the Inheritance and free-hold of the Realm by which there would ensue a want of Iustice the supporter of the Common-wealth for this that Aliens cannot be returned of Iuries nor sworn for the tryal of Issues between the King and Subject or between Subject and Subject Vide Coke lib. 7. Calvins Case Alienation ALienation is as much to say as to make a thing another mans or to alter or put the possession of Lands or other things from one man to another And in some cases a man hath power in himself so to do without the assent or licence of any other and in some not As if Tenant in chief alien his estate without the Kings licence then by the St. of 1 Ed. 3. c. 12. a reasonadle Fine shall be taken where at the Common Law before the said St. the Lands and tenements held in chief of the K. and aliened without licence have been held forfeited And if the K's Tenant that holds in chief intended to alien unto C. to the use of D. and hereupon if he purchase Licence to alien to C. and accordingly aliens to C. to the use of D. which use is not mentioned in the Licence in this case he shall pay but one Fiue for it is but one Alienation Coke lib. 6 fol. 28. But if a man will alien Lands in Fee-simple to an House of Religion or to a body incorporate it behoves him to have the Kings Licence to make this Grant or Alienation and the chief Lords of whom such lands are held c. otherwise the land so alienated in Mortmain shall be forfeited by the Statute of 15 R. 2. cap. 5. Allay ALlay is the Temper or mixture of Gold and Silver with baser metal for the increasing the weight of it so much as might countervail the Kings charge in the coyning This word is used in the Statute of 9 H. 5. cap. 11. for the payment of English Gold by the Kings weight Almner ALmner is an Officer of the Kings house whose Office is to distribute the Kings Alms every day and to that purpose he hath the collecting of all Forfeitures of Deodands and of the goods of Felons de se which the King allows him to dispose in Alms to the poor And of his Office see Flets lib. 2. cap. 22. Almoin ALmoin See Aumone Alnager ALnager is an Officer of the Kings who by himself or by his Deputy looks to the Assise of all Cloth made of Wool throughout the Land and to put a Seal for that purpose ordained unto them 35 E. 3. Stat. 4. c. 1. Anno 3. R. 2. c. 2. And he is to be accomptable to tae King for every Cloth that is so sealed in a Fee or Custom hppertaining to it Altarage ALtarage in Latin Altaragium signifie Duties and Offerings to holy Altars mention'd 2 Cro. Rep. 516. that a Vicarage was endowed with it and small Tythes Ambidexter AMbidexter is he that when a matter is in suit between men takes money of the one side and of the other either to labour the Suit or such like or if he be of the Iury to give his Verdict Amendment AMendment is When Error is in the Process the Iustices may amend it after Iudgment But if there be Error in giving Iudgment they may not amend it but the party is put to his Writ of Error And in many cases where the default appears in the Clerks that writ the Record it shall be amended but such things as come by information of the party as the Town Mystery and such like shall not be amended for he must inform true upon his peril Amercement AMercement most properly is a Penalty assessed by the Peers or equals of the party amerced for an offence done as for want of Suit of Court or for not amending someting that he was appointed to redress by a certain time before or for such like cause in which case the party who offends puts himself in the mercy of the King or Lord and thereupon this Penalty is called Amerciament And there is a difference between Amerciaments and Fines Kitch 214. For Fines are Punishments certain which grow expressy from some Statute and Amerciaments are such which are arbitrarity imposed by the Affeerors which Kitchin seems to confirm fol â— 8. in these words The Amerciament is affeered by Equals Also it appears Coke lib. 8. fol. 39. That a Fine is always imposed and assessed by the Court but Amerciament which is called in Latin Misericordia is assessed by the Country Another diversity there is as if a man be convict before the Sheriff of the County of a Recaption he shall be only amerced but if he be convict of this in the Common Bench he shall be fined And the reason of this diversity is That the County Court is not a Court of Record and therefore cannot impose a Fine for no Court can impose a Fine but such a Court as is of Record Cok. lib. 8. fol. 41. a. If the Defendant or Tenant plead a false Deed to him or deny his own Deed and this is found against him or he leaving his own Verification acknowledges the Action he shall be fined for his falsity because we ought to be sure of our own Acts. But if one deny the Deed of his Ancestor and this is found against him yet he shall not be fined but amerced only because it was the act of a Stranger Co. lib. 8. fol. 60. a. see more there Amercement royal AMercement royal is when a Sheriff Coroner or other such Officer of the King is amerced by the Iustices for his abuse in the Office Learn if it should not be called a Fine Amoveas manus AMoveas manus See Ouster le
woman at such a place within such a Diocess and that she is dead and that he hath married another woman within the same Diocess or within some other Diocess and so is Bigamus Or if he have been but once married then to say that she whom he hath married is or was a Widow that is the Relict of such a one c. which shall be tried by the Bishop of the Diocess where the Marriages are alledged And being so certified by the Bishop the prisoner shall lose the Benefit of the Clergy But at this day by force of the Act made 1 E. 6. ca. 12. this is no Plea but he may have his Clergy notwithstanding So is Brook titulo Clergie Placito 20. to the same purpose By-laws BY-laws are Orders made in Court-Leets or Court-Barons by a common consent for the good of them that are the makers of them And they are called By-laws quasi Birlaws or Bawrlaws of the Dutch word Bawr that is a Countrey-man and so Bawrlaws or By-laws is as much as the Laws of Country-men Bilinguis BIlinguis in general is a man with a double tongue but is commonly used for that Iury which passes between an English man and an Alien whereof part ought to be Englishmen and part Strangers And for this cause it is enacted by the Statute of 28 E. 3. cap. 13. That if any variance chance to be about the packing of Wooll before the Mayor of the Staple between the Merchants or Ministers of the same thereupon to try the truth thereof Enquest shall be taken and if the one party and the other be Denizons it shall be tried by Denizons or if the one party be Denison and the other Alien the half of the Enquest or of the proof shall be Denizons and the other half Aliens Bill BILL is all one with an Obligation saving that when it is in English it is commonly called a Bill in Latin an Obligation Also a Declaration in writing that expresses either the grievance and wrong which the Complainant has suffered by the party complained of or else some fault by him committed against some Law or Statute of the Realm By a Bill we now ordinarily understand a single Bond without a Condition by an Obligation a Bond with a Penalty and Condition West part 2. Symbol tit Supplications sect 52. Billa vera BIlla vera is the Indorsement of the grand Inquest upon any Presentment or Indictment which they find to be probably true Blackmail BLackmail is a word used in the Statute of 43 Eliz. c. 13. and signifies a certainty of Money Corn Cattel or other consideration given by the poor people in the North of England to men of great name and alliance in those parts to be by them protected from such as usually rob and steal there Black rod. BLack Rod is the Huissier belonging to the most Noble Order of the Garter so called of the Black rod he carries in his hand He is also Huissier of the Lords house in Parliament Bloodwit BLoodwit is to be quit of Amerciaments for Blood-shedding and what Pleas are holden in your Court you shall have the Amerciaments thereof coming because Wit in English is Misericordia in Latin Bloody hand BLoody hand is the apprehension of a Trespasser in the Forest against Venison with his hands or other part bloody though he be not found chasing or hunting Of which see Manwood part 2. c. 18. Bockland BOckland in the Saxons time was that we at this day cail Free-hold Land or Land held by Charter and it was by that name distinguished from Folkland which was Copy-hold Land Bona notabilia BOna notabilia is where a man dies having goods to the value of five pound in divers Diocesses then the Archbishop ought to grant Administration and if any inferior Bishop do grant it it is void 37 H. 6. 27. 28 10 H. 7. 18. Dyer 305. Bordlands BOrdlands signifie the Demesns which Lords keep in their own hand â— for he maintenance of their Bord or Table Bracton l. 4. Tract 3. c. 9. num 5. Borow BOrow which with us signifies an ancient Town as appears by Littleton sect 164. is a word derived either of the French Burg id est Pagus or of the Saxon Borhoe id est â— ignus for that anciently the Neighbours of a Town became Pledges one for another and from thence comes Headborow for the chief Pledge or Borhoe-Aldere with us now called the Borow-holder or Bursholder Borow English BOrow English is a customary Descent of Lands or Tenements in some places whereby they come to the youngest son or if the owner have no issue to his youngest brother as in Edmunton Kitchin fol. 102. Borowhead BOrohead See Head-borow Bote. BOte is an old word signifying Help Succor Aid or Advantage and is commonly joyned with another word whose signification is doth augment as these Bridgebote Burgbote Firebote Hedgebote Plowbote divers other for whose significations look in their proper Titles Bottomry vulgo Bomry IS when a Master of a Ship in case of necessity doth engage his Ship for money for use of the Ship Bribor BRibor Fr. Bribeur i. Mendicus seems to signifie one that pilfers other mans goods Anno 28 E. 2. Stat. 1. Brief BRief Breve signifies most properly in our Law the Process that issues out of the Chancery or other Court commanding the Sheriff to summon or attach A. to answer to the Suit of B. c. But more largely it is taken for any Precept of the King in writing under Seal issuing out of any Court whereby he commands any thing to be done for the furtherance of Iustice and good order And they are therefore called Briefs because they briessy comprehend the cause of the action And some of them are Original and some judicial as you may see at large in the Register of Writs Broadhalpeny BRoadhalpeny in some Copies Broadhalfpeny that is to be quit of a certain custome exacted for setting up of Tables or Boards in Fairs or Markets and those that were freed by the Kings Charter of this Custome had this word put in their Letters Patents by reason whereof at this day the Freedom it self for brevity of speech is called Broadhalfpeny Broker BRoker seems to come of the French word Broieur id est Tritor he that grinds or breaks a thing into small pieces And the true trade of a Broker as it appears in the Statute made 1 Jac. c. 21. is to beat contrive make and conclude Bargains between Merchants and Tradesmen But the word is now also appropriated to those that buy and sell old and broken apparel and Houshold-stuff Brugbote BRugbote and in some copies Bridgebote is to be quit of giving aid to the repair of Bridges Bull. BULL is an Instrument so called granted by the Bishop of Rome and sealed with a Seal of Lead containing in it his Decrees Commandments or other Acts according to the nature of the thing for which it is granted And these
Money is not to be accounted Goods or Catals nor Hawks nor Hounds for they are ferae naturae But it seems that Money is not a Chattel because it is not in it self valuable but rather in imagination than in Deed. Catals are either real or personal Catals real are either such as do not immediately appertain to the person but to some other thing by way of dependance as a Box with writings of Laud the body of a Ward the Apples upon the tree or the Tree it self growing upon the ground Crom. fol. 33. b. Or else such as are issuing out of some thing immovable to the person as a Lease for Rent or term of years Personal may be so called in two respects The one because they belong immediately to the person of a man as a Horse c. The other because when they are wrongfully detained we have no other means for their recovery but personal Actions The Civilians comprehend these things and also Lands of all natures and tenures under the word Goods which are by them divided into Moveable and Immovable See Bract. lib. 3. c. 3. num 3 4. Cepi corpus CEpi corpus is a Return made by the Sheriff that upon an Exigend or other Writ he has taken the body of the party F N. B. fol. 26. Certificate CErtificate is a Writing made in some Court to give notice to another Court of something done there as a Certificate of the cause of Attaint is a transcript briefly made by the Clerks of the Crown Clerks of the Peace or Clerks of Assise to the Court of Kings Bench containing the tenor and effect of every Indictment Outlawry or Conviction and Clerk attainted made or declared in any other Court But note that this Certificate ought to be made by him that is the immediate Officer to the Court and therefore if the Commissary or Official of the Bishop certifie an Excommunication in bar of an action at the Common Law this is not good as was resolved in Coke lib. 8. fol. 68. but such Excommunication ought to be certified by the Bishop himself Yet the Certificate of an Excommunication by special Commissioners Delegates under their Common Seal was allowed and held good enough in the Common-place Dyer fol. 371. pla 4. Certification of Assise CErtification of Assise of Novel disseisin c. is a Writ awarded to re-examine or review a matter passed hy Assise before any Iustices and is used when a man appears by his Bailiff to an assise brought by another and loses the day and having some other matter to plead farther for himself as a Deed of Release or c. which the Bailiff did not plead or might not plead for him desires a better Examination of the Cause either before the same or other Iustices and obtains Letters Pa â— ents see their form F. N. B. 181. and then brings a Writ to the Sheriff to call the party for whom the Assise had passed and also the Iury which was impannelled upon the same Assise before the said Iustices at a day and place certain And it is called a Certificate because therein mention is made to the Sheriff that upon the parties complaint of the defective Examination or doubts remaining yet upon the Assise passed the King hath directed his Letters Patents to the Iustices for the better certifying of themselves whether all the points of the said Assise were duly examined or not Certiorari CErtiorari is a Writ that lies where a man is impleaded in a base Court that is of Record and he purposes that he may not have equal Iustice there then upon a Bill in the Chancery comprising some matter of Conscience he shall have this Writ to remove all the Record into the Chancery there to be determined by Conscience but if he prove not his Bill then the other party shall have a Writ of Procedendo to send again the Record into the base Court and there to be determined And it lies in many other cases to remove Records for the King as Indictments and others This Writ is also granted out of the Court of Kings Bench or Common Pleas to remove any Action thither out of Inferior Courts of Record and so the Plaintiff must declare and proceed in the Superior Court Also to certifie original writs or proceedings out of any Courts of Record into the Kings Bench where nullum tale Recordum is pleaded Also upon Writs of Error of a Iudgment in the Common Pleas each party may have this Writ to bring any of the Proceedings into the Kings Bench upon alledging Diminution as appears Coke Entr. 232 233 242. 2 Cro. 131 479. Cessavit CEssavit is a Writ that lies where my very Tenant holds of me certain Lands or Tenements yielding certain Rent by the year and the Rent is behind for two years and no sufficient Distress may be found upon the Land then I shall have this Writ by which I shall recover the Land But if the Tenant come into the Court before Iudgment given and tender the Arrearges and Damages and find Surety that he shall cease no more in payment of the said Rent I shall be compelled to take the Arrerages and the Damages and then the Tenant shall not lose the Land The heir may not maintain this Writ for Cessure made in the time of his Ancestor And it lies not but for Annual service as Rent and such other and not for Homage and Fealty Also there is another Writ called Cessavit de cantaria which lies where a man gives Land to a House of Religion to find for the soul of him his ancestors and his heirs yearly a Candle or Lamp in the Church or to say Divine Service feed the poor or other Alms or to do some other thing then if the said Services be not done in two years the Donor or his Heirs shall have this Writ against whosoever holds the things given after such Cessure See the Statute W. 2. cap. 41. Cession CEssion is when an Ecclesiastical Person is created Bishop or when a Parson of a Parsonage takes another Benefice without dispensation or otherwise not qualified c. In both cases their first Benefices are become void and are said to become void by Cession And to those that he had who was created Bishop the King shall present for that time whosoever is Patron of them And in the other case the Patron may present See 41 E. 3. 5. 11 H. 4. 37. Cestuy a que vie cestuy a que use CEstuy a que vie is he for whose life another holds an estate and cestuy a que use is he who is a Feoffee for the use of another Challenge CHallenge is an Exception taken either against Persons or Things Persons as in an Assise the Iurors or any one or more of them or in case of Felony by the Prisoner at the Bar against Things as a Declaration Old N. B. 76. Challenge made to the Jurors is either made to the Array or
had the Government of any such Manor or House was called the Commander who had nothing to do to dispose of it but to the use of the Priory and to have only his sustenance from it according to his degree which was usually a Brother of the same Priory who had been made Knight in the Wars against Infidels and they were lately called Knights of the Rhodes or Knights of Malta of the places where their grand Master did dwell See the said Statute and the old Statute intituled De Templariis whose decay was a great increase of this Order And many of these Commandries are called in the Country by the name of Temple Commandam COmmendam is a Benefice that being void is commended to the care of some sufficient Clerk to be supplied untill it may be conveniently provided of a Pastor And the true original of these Commendams was either evident profit or necessity He to whom the Church is commended hath the fruits and profits thereof only for a certain time and the nature of the Church is not changed thereby but is as a thing deposited in the hands of him to whom it is commended who hath nothing but the Custody thereof which may be revoked Commissary COmmissary is a title of Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction appertaining to him that exercises Spiritual Iurisdiction in places of the Diocess so far distant from the chief City that the Chancellor cannot call the Subjects to the Bishop's principal Consistory without their great trouble This Commissary is called by the Canonists Commissary or Officialis foraneus and is ordained to this special end that he should supply the Office and Iurisdiction of the Bishop in the out-places of the Diocess or in such Parishes as are peculiars to the Bishop and exempted from the Archdeacon's Iurisdiction for where by prescription or by composition there are Archdeacons who have Iurisdiction in their Archdeaconries as in most places they have there this Commissary is superfluous and rather to the prejudice then good of the people Commission COmmission is as much in the Common Law as the word Delegate in the Civil and is taken for the Warrant or Letters Patents which all men using Iurisdiction either ordinary or extraordinary have for their power to hear or determine any matter or action Yet this word sometimes extends more largely then to matters of Iudgement as the Commission of Purveyors or Cakers 11 H. 4. c. 28. But with this Epithete High it is most commonly used for the High-Commission Court instituted and founded upon the Stat. of 1 Eliz. c. 1. for the ordering and reforming of all offences in any thing appertaining to the Iurisdiction Ecclesiastical but especially such as are of highest nature or at least require greater puishment then the ordinary Iurisdiction call afford See the Statutes 17 Car. 1. c. 11. and 13 Car. 2. c. 12. by which the said Court is wholly abolished Commission of Rebellion Com̄ission of Rebellion otherwise called a Writ of Rebellion is used when a man after Proclamation made by the Sheriff upon an Order or Process of the Chancery under penalty of Allegeance to present himself to the Court by a day certain appears not And this Commission is directed by way of command to certain persons to the end they three two or one of them shall apprehend or cause to be apprehended the party as a Rebell and contemner of the Kings Laws in what place s ◠ever they shall find him within the Kingdom and bring or cause him to be brought to the Court upon a day therein assigned Committee COmmittee is he or they to whom the consideration or ordering of any matter is referred either by some Court or consent of the parties to whom it appertains as in Parliament a Bill being read is either consented unto and passed or denied and referred to the consideration of some certain man appointed by the House who hereupon are called a Committee But this word is otherwise used by Kitchen f. 160. where the widdow of the Kings Tenant is called the Committee of the King that is one committed by the ancient Law of the Land to the Kings care and protection Common COmmon is the right that a man hath to put his Beasts to Pasture or to use the ground that is not his own And note that there are divers Commons that is Common in grosse Common appendant Cōmon appurtenant and Common because of neighbourhood Common in Gross is where I by my Deed grant to another that he shall have Common in my Land Common appendant is where a man is seised of certain land to which he hath Common in anothers ground only for those beasts which compost the land to which it is appendant excepting Geese Goats and H ◠gs which Common is by prescription and of common right and appendant to arable land only Common appurtenant is of the same nature with Common appendant but with all manner of beasts as well Hogs and Goats as Horses Kine and such as compost the ground And this Common may be made at this day and severed from the land to which it is appurtenant but so cannot Common appendant Common because of neighbourhood is where the Tenants of two Lords are seised of two Mannors adjoyning to each other and the Tenants have time out of mind intercommoned each with other with all manner of beasts commonable Yet the one may not put his Cattel in the others ground for so they of the other Town may distrain them Dammage fesant or have an Action of Trespass but they may put them into their own fields and if they stray into the fields of the other Town there they ough to suffer them And the inhabitants of the one Town ought not to put in as many beasts as they will but with regard to the inhabitants of the other for otherwise it were no good Neighbourhood upon which all this depends Common Fine COmmon Fine is a certain summe of Money which the Resiants in a Leet pay unto the Lord of the Leet and it is called in some places Head-silver in some places Certum Letae and was as it seems first granted to the Lord towards the charge of his purchase of the Leet whereby the Resiants had now an ease to do their Suit royal within the Mannor and not be compelled to go to the Sherifs Tourn to do it And for this Common Fine the Lord must prescribe and cannot distrain for it without a prescription as it appears in Godfrey's Case in 11. Rep. fo 44. b. Common Law COmmon Law is for the most part taken three ways First for the Laws of this Realm simply without any other Law as Customary Civil Spiritual or whatever other Law joyned to it as when it is disputed in our Laws of England what ought of right to be determined by the Common Law and what by the Spiritual Law or Admirals Court or such like Secondly it is taken for the Kings Courts as the Kings Bench or Common Place only
to shew a difference between them and base Courts as Customary Courts Court-Barons County Courts Pipowders and such like as when a Plea of land is removed out of ancient Demesne because the land is Frank-fee and pleadable at the Common Law that is to say in the Kings Court and not in ancient Demesne or in any other base Court Thirdly and most usually by Common Law is understood such Laws as were generally taken and holden for Law before any Statute was made to alter the same as for example Tenant for life nor for years were not to be punished for doing Waste at the common Law till the Statute of Gloucester cap. 5. which gives an Action of Waste against them But Tenant by the courtesie and Tenant in dower were punishable for Waste at the Common Law that is by the usual and common received Laws of the Realm before the said Statute was made Common Pleas. COmmon Pleas is the Kings Court now held in Westminster-Hall but in ancient time moveable as appears by Magna Charta cap. 11. But Gwyn in the Preface to his Reading saith That untill the time that Henry the third granted the Great Charter there were but two Courts only called the Kings Courts the Exchequer and Kings Bench which was called Aula Regia because it followed the Court and that upon the grant of that Charter the Court of Common Pleas was erected and setled in a place certain viz. at Westminster and therefore all the Writs were made with this Return Quid sit coram Justiciariis meis apud Westmonasteriū where before the partie was commanded by them to appear coram Me vel Justiciariis meis without any addition of any place certain All Civil causes as well Real as Personal are or were in ancient time tried in this Court according to the strict Law of the Kingdom And by Fortescue cap. 50. it seems to have been the only Court for Real Causes The thief Iudge thereof is called The Lord chief Justice of the Common pleas accompanied with three or four Assistants or Associates who are created by the Kings Letters Patents and as it were installed or placed upon the Bench by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Iustice of the Court as appears by Fortescue cap. 51. who expresses all the circumstances of this Admission The rest of the Officers appertaining to this Court are these The Custos Brevium three Prothenataries Chirographer fourteen Philasers four Exigenters Clerk of the Warrants Clerk of the Iuries Clerk of the Treasurie Clerk of the Kings Silver Clerk of the Essoines Clerk of the Outlawries Common day in plea of land COmmon day in plea of land Anno 13 R. 2. Stat. 1. cap. 17. signifies an ordinary day in the Court as Octabis Michaelis Quindena Paschae c. as you may see in the Statute ◠1 Hen. 3. concerning general days in the Bench. Commotes COmmotes seems to be a compound word of the Preposition Con and Motio that is Dictio Verbum and signifies in Wales part of a County or Hundred An. 28 H. 8. cap. 3. It is written Commoithes Anno 4 H. 4. cap. 17. and is used for a Gathering made upon the people of this or that Hundred by Welsh Minstrels Communi Custodia COmmuni Custodia is a Writ which didlie for that Lord whose Tenant holding by Knights service dies his eldest son within age against a stranger who entred the land and obtained the Ward of the body It seems to take name from the common Custome or right in this case which is That the Lord shall have the wardship of his Tenant untill his full age or because that it is common for the recovery both of the Land and Tenant as appears by the form thereof Old N. B. 89. Regist Orig. 161. Compromise COmpromise is a mutual Promise of two or more parties that are at controversie to submit themselves and all differences between them unto the Award Arbitrement or Iudgment of one or more Arbitrators indifferently chosen between them to determine and adjudge upon all matters referred and upon which the parties differ Computation COmputation is used in the Common Law for the true and indifferent Construction of time so that neither the one party shall do wrong to the other nor the determination of times referred at large be taken one way or other but computed according to the just censure of the Law As if Indentures of Demise are ingrossed bearing date the eleventh day of May 1665. to have and to hold the land in S. for three years from henceforth and the Indentures are delivered the fourth day of June in the year aforesaid In this case from henceforth shall be accounted from the day of the Delivery of the Indentures and not by any computation from the Date And if the said Indenture be delivered at four of the clock in the afternoon of the said fourth day this Lease shall end the third day of June in the third year for the Law in this Computation rejects all fractions or divisions of the day for the incertainty which alwayes is the Mother of contention So where the Statute of Inrollments made Anno 27 Henr. 8. cap. 16. is That the Writings shall be inrolled within six moneths after the Date of the same Writings indented if such Writings have Date the six months shall be accounted from the Date and not from the Delivery but if they want Date then it shall be accounted from the Delivery Co. li. 5. fol. 1. If any Deed be shewed to a Court at Westminster the Deed by Iudgment of the Law shall remain in Court all the Term in which it is shewed for all the Term in Law is but one day Co. lib. 5. fol. 74. If a Church be void and the true Patron doth not present within six months then the Bishop of the Diocess may collate his Chaplain but these six months shall not be computed according to 28 days to the month but according to the Kalendar And there is great diversity in our common speech in the singular number as a Twelve-moneth which includes all the Year according to the Kalendar and twelve-months which shall be computed according to 28 days to every month See Coke lib. 6. f. 61. b. Computo COmputo is a Writ so called of the effect because it compells a Bayliff Chamberlain or Receiver to yield his Account Old Nat. Brev. fol. 53. It is founded upon the Statute of Westm 2. cap 2. which you may for your better understanding read And it also lies for Executors of Executors 15 Ed. 3. Star de Provis Victual cap. 5. Thirdly against the Gardian in Secage for Waste made in the Minority of the Heir Malbr cap. 17. And see farther in what other cases it lies Reg. Orig. fol. 135. Old N. B. fol. 58. F. N. B. fol. 116. Concealers COncealers are such as find out lands concealed that is such lands as are secretly detained from the King by common persons having nothing to shew
Winchester 13 Edw. 1. which appoints for the conservation of the Peace and view of Armour two Constables in every Hundred and Liberty and these are at this day called High Constables because the increase of people and offences hath again under these made others in every Town called Pe ◠ie Constables who are of the like nature but of inferiour authority to the other Besides these there are Officers of particular places called by this name as Constable of the Tower Stan. 152. 1 H. 4. 13. Constable of the Exchequer 15 H. 3. Stat. 5. Constable of Dover Castle Camb. Brit. pag. 239. F. N. B. otherwise called Castellain Manw. part 1. cap. 13. of his Forest Law makes mention of a Constable of the Forest Customes and Services See Prescription CUstomes and Services is a Writ and lies where I or my ancestors after the limitation of Assise for which see the Title of Limitation in the Collection of Statutes were not seised of the Customes or Services of the Tenant before then I shall have this Writ to recover those Services Also the Tenant may have this Writ against his Lord but after the Tenant hath declared the Lord shall defend the words of the Declaration and replying shall say that he distrained not for the Customes whereof the Declaration is and then he shall declare all the Declaration of the Customes and Services and then the Tenant who was Plaintiff shall become Defendant and shall defend by Battel or great Assise Consultation COnsultation is a Writ whereby a Cause being formerly removed by Prohibition out of the Ecclesiastical Court or Court Christian to the Kings Court is returned thither again For if the Iudges of the Kings Court comparing the Libell with the Suggestion of the party find the Suggestion false or not proved and therefore the Cause to be wrongfully called from the Court Christian then upon this Consultation or Deliberation they decree it to be returned again whereupon the Writ in this case obtained is called a Consultation Of this you may read the Regist Orig. fol. 44. untill fol. 58. Old Nat. Brev. fol. 32. Fitzh Nat. Brev. fol. 50. Contenement COntenement seems to be the Freehold-land that lies to the Tenement or Dwelling-house that is in his own occupation for in Magna Charta cap. 14. there are these words A Free-man shall not be amerced for a small fault but according to the quantity of the fault and for a great fault according to the manner thereof saving unto him his Conteuement or Free-hold And a Merchant shall also be amerced saving to him his Merchandizes and a Villain saving to him his Wainage Continual Claime COntinual claim is where a man hath right to e ◠ter into certain lands whereof another is seised in Fee or Fee-tail and dares not enter for fear of death or beating but approaches as nigh as he dares and makes Claim thereto within the year and day before the death of him that hath the Lands if that he who hath the Land die seised and his Heir is in by discent yet he that makes such Claim may enter upon the Heir notwithstanding such discent because he hath made such Continual claim But such Claim must always be made within the year and the day before the death of the Tenant for if such Tenant do not die seised within a year and a day after such Claim made and yet he that hath right dares not enter then it behoves him that hath such right to make another Claim within the year and day after the first Claim and after such second Claim to make the third Claim within the year and day if he will be sure to save his Entry But if the Disseisor die seised within the year and day after the Disseisin and no Claim made then the entrie of the Disseisee is taken away for the year and day shall not be taken from the time of the title of the Entry to him grown but only from the time of the last Claim by him made as is aforesaid See more hereof in Littl. li. 3. c. 7. and see the Stat. 32 H. 8. cap. 33. Continuance COntinuance in the Common Law is of the same signification with Prorogatio in the Civil as Continuance until the next Assise Fitzh Nat. Brev. 154. f and 244. d. in both which places it is said That if a Record in the Treasury be alledged by the one party and denyed by the other a Certiorari shall be sued to the Treasurer and the Chamherlain of the Exchequer and if they do not certifie in the Chancery that such Record is there or that it is like to be in the Tower the King shall send to the Iustices repeating the said Certificate and commanding them to continue the Assise In this signification it is also used by Kitchen 202. and 119. also Anno 11 H. 6. cap. 4. Contract COntract is a Bargain or Covenant between two parties where one thing is given for another which is called Quid pro quo as if I sell my Horse for money or if I covenant to make you a Lease of my Mannor of Dale in consideration of twenty pound that you shall give me these are good Contracts because there is one thing for another But if a man make promise to me that I shall have xx s. and that he will be debtor to me thereof and after I ask the xx s. and he will not deliver it yet I shall never have any Action to recover this xx s. because this Promise was no Contract but a bare Promise and Ex nudo Pacto non oritur Actio But if any thing were given for the twenty shillings though it were but to the value of a peny then it had been a good Contract Contra forma Collationis COntra formam Collationis is a Writ that lies where a man hath given Lands in perpetual Almes to any of the late Houses of Religion as to an Abbot and Convent or other Soveraign or to the Warden or Master of any Hospital and his Covent to find certain poor men and to do other Divine Service if they alien the Lands then the Donor or his heirs shall have the said Writ to recover the Land But this Writ shall be alway brought against the Abbot or his successor and not against the Alienee although he be Tenant but in all other Actions where a man demands Free-hold the Writ shall be brought against the Tenant of the Land See the Stat. West 2. cap. 41. Contra formam Feoffamenti COntra formā Feoffamenti is a Writ that lies where a man before the Statute of Quia emptores terrarum made 18 Edw. 1. infeoffed another by Deed to do certain Service if the Feoffor or his heirs distrain him to do other Service then is comprised in the Deed then the Tenant shall have this Writ commanding him not to distrain him to do other Service then is comprised in the Deed. But this Writ lies not for the Plaintiff who
dishonour of the King and his Crown and discredit of the Law that any person by birth and oath obliged to the obedience of the King and his Laws should presume of his own authority by Force and strong hand to resist them both by violent Intrusion into the Possession of another before the Law hath decided his Tttle therein therefore divers Statutes have been made for the restraint and reformation of these Abuses as among others the Stat. of 5 R. 2. ca. 7. where the King defends any Entry into Lands or Tenements but in case where Entry is given by the Law and then not with strong hand or with a multitude of people but onely in a peaceable manner See more of this in Po â— lt de pace Reg. f. 34. 35 c. Degrading DEgrading See Disgrading Delegates ARE Commissioners appointed by Letters Patents to determine Appeals upon things testamentary or matrimonial in which sentence was given Demaines DEmaines or Demesnes generally speaking are all the parts of any Mannor which are not in the hands of Freeholders though they be held by Copy-holders Lessees for years or for life as well as Tenants at will And the reason why Copyhold is accounted Demesnes is because they who are Tenants to it are adjudged in Law to have no other Estate but at the will of the Lord so that it is still reputed to be in a manner in the Lords hands yet in common speech that is ordinarily called Demesnes which is neither free nor copy And this word Demesne is sometimes used in a more special signification and is opposite to Frank-fee as those Lands which were in the possession of Edward the Confessor are called Ancient demesne and all others are called Franck-fee Kitch fol. 98. and the Tenants which hold any of those Lands are called Tenants in Ancient demesn the other Tenants in Frank-fee And no common person hath any Demesnes in the simple acceptation of the word because there is no Land but depends mediately or immediately of the Crown that is of some Honor or other belonging to the Crown and not granted in fee to any inferiour person and therefore when a man in pleading will signifie his Land to be his own he saith That he is or was seised thereof in his Demesne as of Fee Littleton f. 3. whereby it appears that though his Land be to him and his Heirs for ever yet it is not true Demesne but depending upon a superiour Lord and holding by Service or Rent in lieu of Service or by Service and Rent together Demaines according to the common speech are only understood the Lords chief Mannor-place which he and his Ancestors have time out of mind kept in their own hands with all buildings and houses meadows pastures woods arable lands and such like therewith occupied Demand DEmand is a word of art and if one release to another all Demands this is as Littleton fol. 117. a. saith the best Release to him to whom the Release is made that he can have and shall most enure to his advantage for by it not onely all Demands but also all causes of Demands are released And there are two manner of Demands that is in Deed and in Law In Deed as in every Praecipe there is expresse Demand and therefore in real Actions he is called Demandant in personal Plaintiff In Law as every Entry in Land Distresse for Rent Taking or seisure of Goods and such like acts in the Countrey which may be done without any words or demands in Law As a Release of Suits is more large then a Release of Quarrels or of Actions so a Release of Demands is more large and beneficial than either of them for by it is released all that which by the others is released and more By Release of all Demands all Freeholds and Inheritances executory are released By Release of all Demands to the Dissetsor the right of the Entry in the land and all that is contained therein is released By Release of all Demands all Executions are released and he that releases all Demands excludes himself from all Actions Entries and Seisures Littleton fol. 170. holds That if Tenant in tail enfeoffs his Vncle who enfeoffs another in fee with Warranty if after the Feoffee by his Deed releases to the Vncle all manner of Demands by such Release the Warranty which is a Covenant real and executory is extinct and the reason is because that by Release of Demands all the means and remedies and their causes which any hath to Lands Tenements Goods Chattels c. are extinct and by consequence the right and interest it self unto the thing Yet a Release of all Demands doth not extend to such Writs by which nothing is demanded neither in Deed nor in Law but lie only to relieve the Plaintiff by way of Discharge and not by way of Demand as a Release of all Demands is no Bar in a Writ of Error to reverse an Outlawry and so of such like See 18 Edw. 3. 59. Coke lib. 8. fol. 153 154. Demandant DEmandant is he that sues or complains in an Action real for Title of land and he is called Plaintiff in an Assise and in an Action personal for Debt Trespass Deceit Detinue and such like Demurrage IS called the time when a Shi â— lies idle in a Port or Harbour or on the Sea in a Calm Demurrer DEmurrer is when any Action is brought and the Defendant pleads a Plea to which the Plaintiff says that he will not answer for that it is not a sufficient Plea in the Law and the Defendant avers the contrary that it is a sufficient Plea and thereupon both parties submit the Cause to the Iudgement of the Court which is called a Demurrer for that they go not forward in pleading but rest upon Iudgement in that point and is called in Latine Records Moratur in Lege For in every Action the difference consists either in Deed or in Law If in Fact it is tried by the Iury if in Law then the matter is either plain or difficult and rare if it be plain then Iudgment is presently given but when it is hard and doubtfull then is stay made and time taken either to consider farther thereupon by the Iudges to agree if they can or otherwise for all the Iustices to meet together in the Exchequer-Chamber and upon hearing of that which the Serjeants shall say unto both parts to advise and determine what is Law and that which is there concluded on by them shall stand firm without further remedy There is also a Demurrer to Evidence given to a Iury upon Tryal of an Issue Plo. Com. 2. 3 Rast Entr. 607. Half bloud HAlf bloud is when a man marries a wife and hath issue by her a son or daughter and the wife dies and then he takes another woman and hath by her also a son or daughter Now these two sons are after a sort Brothers or as they are termed Half-brothers or Brothers of the half
punishes her Officers as Serjeants Pleaders Philizers Exigenters Attornies and others so she renounces and condemns all acts of greatest importance if they be intermixt with Disceit and falshood As if a Fine be levied by Disceit and five years past by the Statute of 4 H. 7. c. 24. all persons and their rights shall be barred thereby yet for that it was by Disceit th â— Fine shall be avoided as is a â—â— dged in Cok. lib. 3. fol. 77. 〈◊〉 the same manner if one â—â— cover Land by Disceit the â—â—â— overy for this shall be fru â—â—â— ated and made void 3 Ed. 3. 2 â— So if a woman that hath good cause to be endowed will by Disceit have the Tenant to be disseised and after recovers her Dower by a Writ of Dower against the Disseisor yet she shall be adjudged in possession against the Disseis â— e but as a Disseisoresse in respect of the Disceit Cok. lib. 5. fol. 35. There is another manner of Writ of Disceit where Land which is auncient demesn is impleaded by the Kings Writ at Westm Then the Lord of the Mannor may have this Writ and reverse all the former proceedings and Iudgment as it appears Rast Ent. 100 221. 2 R. 3. 1 11 H. 4. 36. Discent DIscent or Descent is in two sorts either lineal or collateral Lineal Discent is when a Discent is conveyed in the same Liue of the whole bloud as grandfather father son sons son and so downward Collateral Discent is out in another branch drawn from above of the whole bloud as grandfathers brother fathers brother and so downward Note that if one die seised in fee or in tail of Land in which another hath right to enter and that discends to his Heir such Discent shall take away the Entry of him who hath right to enter for that the Heir hath it by Discent from his father and so by act of the Law and he that hath right cannot put him out by entring upon him but is put to sue his Writ to demand the Land according to the nature of his Title See hereof in Littl. lib. 3. cap. 6. and Stat. 32. H. 8. cap. 33. Disclaimer DIsclaimer is where the Lord distrains his Tenant and he sues a Replevin and the Lord avows the taking by reason he holds of him if the Tenant say that he disclaims to hold of him this is called a Disclaimer and if the Lord thereupon bring in a Writ of Right sur Disclaimer and it be found against the Tenant he shall lose his Land Also if one brings a Praecipe against two others for the Land and the Tenant disclaims and saith that he is not thereof Tenant nor claims any thing therein then the other shall have the whole Land but if the Praecipe be brought against one alone and he disclaims as aforesaid the Writ shall abate yet the Demandant may enter in the Land and hold it in his rightfull estate though his Entry was not lawful And after the Tenant in an Action brought against him disclaims he shall not have a Writ of Error against his own Disclaimer because by it he hath barred himself of his right to the Land for the words of the Disclaimer are He hath nothing neither claims he to have in the Land neither at the day of the bringing of the Original Writ aforesaid c. had or claimed but any thing in the same Land to have he disavows and disclaims and against this he shall not have Restitution by a Writ of Error See Cok. lib. 8. fol. 62. So if a Lord in case where he may disclaims his Seigniory in Court of Record his Seigniory by this is extinct and the Tenant shall hold of the Lord next above him that so disclaimed Lit. sect 146. If Lands be given to the husband and wife in tail or in fee and the husband dies the wife cannot devest the Freehold cut of her by any verbal Waver or Disclaimer in the Countrey as if before any Entry made by her she saith that she altogether waves and disclaims the said Estate and will never take nor accept thereof yet the Free-hold remains in her and she may enter when she pleases So a Charter of Feoffment was made to four and Seisin was delivered to three in the name of all and after the Seisin was delivered the fourth coming sees the Deed and saith by word that he will have nothing of the Land nor agree to the Deed but disclaims and it was adjudged that this Disclaimer by word in the Countrey shall not devest the Freehold out of him Cok. lib. 3. fol. 26. Discontinuance DIscontinuance is when a man alienates to another Lands or Tenements and dies and another hath right to the same Lands and may not enter into them because of this Alienation as if an Abbot alien the Lands of his House to another in fee fee-tail or sor life or if a man alien the Lands that he hath in right of his wife or if Tenant in tail makes of the Lands given to him and the Heirs of his body any Feoffment Gift in tail or Lease for life not warranted by the Statute 32 Hen. 8. by Fine or Livery of seisin then such Alienations are called Discontinuances for such Estates passe away by Livery and seisin In these cases the Successors of the Abbot or the woman after the death of her husband or the issue in tail after the death of the Tenant in tail and they that have any Remainder or Reversion after the end of the Estate-tail may not enter but every of them is put to his Action And as there is Discontinuance of Possession as is said before so also is there Discontinuance of Process or Plea and this is when the instant is lost and may not be regained but by a new Writ to begin the Suit afresh for to be discontinued and to be put without day is all one and nothing else but finally to be dismissed the Court for that time West part 2. tit Fines sect 115. So Crompton in his Jurisdictions fol. 131. uses it in these words If a Justice-seat be discontinued by the not coming of the Justices the King may renew it by his Writ And if the Iustices of any Court do not meet at the day and place appointed then the Cause shall be discontinued unto another day as in Cok. lib. 1 fol. 38. So if a man hath an Action in the Court of the Marshalsea and the King removes forth of the Vierge the Pleas shall be discontinued Cok. lib. 10. fol. 73. See more hereof in Litt. lib. 3. cap. 11. and 32 H. 8. cap. 28. which takes away Discontinuances by the husband seised in right of his wife Disgrading DIsgrading or Degrading is when a man having taken upon him a Dignity temporal or spiritual is afterwards thereof deprived be he Knight Clerk or other Whereof if a Clerk be delivered to his Ordinary and cannot clear himself of the Offence whereof he is convicted by the
Fieri facias If a man recover by a Writ of Debt and sue a Fieri facias and the Sheriff return that the Defendant hath nothing whereof he may satisfie the Debt to the party then the Plaintiff shall have Elegit or Capias sicut alias and a Pluries And if the Sheriff return at the Caplas Mitto vobis corpus and he have nothing whereof he may make satisfaction to the party he shall be sent to the prison of the Fleet and there abide untill he have made Agreement with the party and if the Sheriff return Non est inventus then there shall go forth an Exigent against him Note well That in a Writ of Debt brought against a Parson who hath nothing of Lay-Fee and the Sheriff returns that he may not be summoned then shall the Plaintiff sue a Writ to the Bishop to cause his Clerk to come and the Bishop shall make him come by Sequestration of the Church And if a man bring a Writ of Debt and recover and make his Executors and die they shall not have Execution notwithstanding it be within the year be a Fieri facias There is another sort of Elegit upon adjudging execution against Terr-tenants which Elegits recite the lands against which Execution is adjudged and commands the Sheriff to deliver to the Creditor a moyty of those Lands and nothing is therein mentioned of any Goods or Chattels as in the other Elegits Elopement ELopement is when a married woman departs from her husband and dwells with an Adulterer for which without voluntary reconcilement to her husband she shall lose her Dower by the Statute of West 2. cap. 34. Whereupon is this old Verse The woman that her husband leaves And with Adult'ry is defil'd Her Dower she shall want unless She first to him be reconcil'd Embleaments EMbleaments are the Profits of the Land which have been sowed and in some cases he who sowed them shall have them and in some not as if Tenant for life sow the Land and afterwards die the Executors of the Tenant for life shall have the Embleaments and not he in Reversion But if Tenant for years sow the Land and before that he hath reap'd his term expires there the Lessor or he in Reversion shall have the Embleaments If one desseises me and cuts the Embleaments growing upon the Land and afterwards I re-enter I shall have an Action of Trespasse against him for the Embleaments but if my Disseisor makes a Feoffment in fee or leases the Land whereof he disseised me and the Feoffee or Lessee takes the Embleaments and after I re-enter I shall not have Trespass Vi armis against them who come in by Title but against my Disseisor Cok. lib. 11. f. 51. If a woman Copiholder during her Widowhood according to the Custome of the Mannor sows the Land and before severance of the Embleaments she takes a husband the Lord shall have the Embleaments So if a woman seised of Land during her Widowhood makes a Lease for years and the Lessee sows the Land and the woman takes a husband there the Lessee shall not have the Embleaments although his Estate be determined by the act of a stranger And although it is commonly held in our Books That if a man leases Lands at will and after the Lessee sows the Land and then the Will is determined that the Lessee shall have the Embleaments yet if the Lessee himself determines the Will before the severance of the Corn. he shall not have the Embleaments See Cok. lib. 5. fol. 116. Embrasour or Embraceour EMbrasour or Embraceour is he that when a matter is in trial between party and party comes to the Barrs with one of the parties having received some reward so to do and speaks in the case or privily labours the Iury or stands there to survey or overlook them thereby to put them in fear and doubt of the matter But persons learned in the Law may speak in the case for their clients Emparlance EMparlance is when a man being to answer to a Suit or Action desires some time of Respite to advise himself the better what he shall answer and it is nothing else but a Continuance of the Cause untill a fatther day And though the Plaintiff in the Kings Bench after the Barre pleaded hath time to reply two or three Terms after yet no mention shall be made in the Roll of any Emparlance or Continuance but the Entry shall be general and so intended to be the same Term. But it is otherwise with a Barre for it contains the Emparlance or Continuance and is in this manner And now at this day that is Friday c in the same Term untill which day the aforesaid A had licence to imparle c. But there is no such Entry upon any Replication or Rejoynder See Coke lib. 5. fol. 75. Brit. cap. 53. uses this word for the Conference of a Iury upon the business to them committed There is a special Imparlance also for a Defendant salvis sibi omnibus omnimodis exceptionibus ad breve narrationem or ad billam which is of use where the Defendant is to plead some matters which cannot be pleaded after a general imparlance Encheson ENcheson is a French word much used in our Law Books as in the Statute of 50 E. 3. cap. 3 and it signifies as much as the Occasion cause or reason for which any thing is done So it is used by Stamford lib. 1. cap. 12. in his description of a Deodand Encrochment ENcrochment comes from the French word Acrocher that is to Pull or draw to And it signifies an Vnlawfull gaining upon the right or possession of another And so a Rent is said to be encroched when the Lord by Distresse or otherwise compells the Tenant to pay more Rent then he ought or then he need See Bucknal's Case 9 Rep ' fol. 33. So when a man sees his Hedge or his Wall too far into the land or ground of his neighbour that lies next him he is said to incroach upon him Enditement or Indictment INdictment comes of the French Enditer that is to set a man out as he is And it is a Bill or Declaration in form of Law exhibited by way of Accusation against one for some offence either criminal or penal and preferred to Iurors and by their Verdict found and presented to be true before a Iudge or Officer that hath power to punish or certifie the Offence Endowment ENdowment Dotatio signifies properly the Giving or assuring of Dower to a woman But it is sometimes by a Metaphor used for the Setting out or severing of a sufficient part or portion to a Vicar for his perpetual maintenance when the Benefice is appropriated And so it is used in the Statutes of 15 R. 2. cap. 6. and 4 H. 4. cap. 12. Endowment de la pluis belle part ENdowment de la c. is when a man dies seeised of some Lands held in Knights-service and others in
King certain Land by the Service of carrying his Banner or Launce or to lead his Host or to be his Carver or Butler at his Coronation or the like and that is the most Honorable Service that a Tenant may do and for that it is called Grand Serjeanty But Petit Serjeanty is when one holds of the King paying him yearly a Bow a Sword a Spear or such like and that is but Socage in effect but a man cannot hold in Grand Serjeanty or Petit Serjeanty but of the King Also if a Tenant by Grand Serjeanty dies his Heir being of full age shall pay to the King for Relief the value of the Lands besides the charges that he pays to the King by Grand Serjeanty but he that holds by Escuage shall pay for his Relief but C. 5. Those that are in the Marches of Scotland who hold of the King by Cornage that is to blow an Horn when the Scots enter England are Tenants in Grand Serjeanty Also where a man holds of the King to find a man in his Wars within the Realm that is called Grand Serjeanty because it is done by a mans Body And if the Tenant cannot find a man to do it he is bound to do it himself But see the Stat. 12 Car. 2. c. 24. whereby all Tenures are now turned into Free and Common Socage Gree. GRee comes of the French word Gre good liking and it signifies in our Law Contentment or Satisfaction as in the Statute of 1 R. 2. c. 15. to make Gree to the parties is to give them Contentment or Satisfaction for an Offence done unto them Green hew GReen hew is all one with Vert as appears by Manwood in his Forest Laws cap. 6. sect 5. And for it see Vert. Green Wax GReen Wax is a word used in the Statutes of 42 E. 3. c. 9. and 7 H. 4. c. 3. and signifies the Estreats of Issues Fines and Amerciaments in the Exchequer and delivered out to the Sheriffs under the Seal of the Court to be levied by them in their several Counties Grithbreach GRithbreach that is the Kings Peace broken because Grith in English is Pax in Latine Gule of August GUle of August is the first day or the Calends of August which in the time of E. 1. and E. 3. was called ordinarily the Gule of August as appears by F. N. B. f. 62. l. and Plowdens Com. f. 316. b. It is the very day of S. Peter ad vincula and the reason why it was called the Gule of August is conceived upon a Story recorded by Durandus in his Rationale Divinorum l. 7. c. 19. of a Miracle wrought by S. Peter's Chain upon the daughter of one Quirinus a Tribune of Rome who by the kissing of that Chain was healed of the Kings Evil in her Throat gula And see Hospinian de origine festornm f. 85. b. Gultwit GUltwit is an Amends for Trespass according to Saxton in his Description of England c. 11. H. Habeas Corpus HAbeas Corpus is a writ which a man indited of any Trespass before Iustices of the Peace or in a Court of any Franchise and upon his Apprehenston being laid in Prisost for the same may have out of the Kings Bench thereby to remove himself hither at his own Costs and to answer the Cause there F. N. B. f. 250. h. And the order in this case is first to procure a Certiorari out of the Chancery directed to the said Iustices for the removing of the Indictment into the Kings Bench and upon that to procure this writ to the Sheriff to cause his Body to be brought at a day Reg. Judic f. 81. where you may find many cases wherein this writ shall be used Habeas Corpora HAbeas Corpora is a writ which lies against a Iury or any of them that refuse to come upon the Venire facias for the Trial of a Cause brought to issue Habendum HAbendum is a word of form in a Conveyance to the true understanding whereof it is to be observed That in every Deed or Conveyance there are two principal parts the Premisse and the Habendum The Office of the Premisses is to express the Name of the Grantor the Grantee and the thing to be granted The Office of the Habendum is to limit the Estate so that the general Implication of the Estate which by construction of Law passes in the Premisses is by the Habendum controlled and qualified as in a Lease to two men Habendum to the one for life the Remainder to the other for life alters the general Implication of the Joynt-tenancy in the Free-hold which passes by the Premisses if the Habendum were not See Coke l. 2. c. 55. HAbere facias Seisinam Habere facias Seisinam is a Writ Iudicial that lies where one hath recovered certain Lands in the Kings Court then he shall have this writ directed to the Sheriff commanding him to give him Seisin of that Land and it shall not be retornable Habere facias Visum HAbere facias Visum is a writ that lies in divers Cases where view is to be taken of the Lands or Tenements in question See F. N. B. In Indice verbo View Bract. l. 5. tract 3. c. 8. Half-blood HAlf blood See Demysank Half Seal HAlf Seal is a Seal used in Chancery for the Sealing of Commissions to Delegates upon an Appeal in a Cause civil or marine as it appears by the Statute made in 8 Eliz. c. 3. Halymote HAlymote is a Court-Baron as appears by Manwood in his Forest Laws c. 23. f. 217. a. And it is called Halymote that is the Meeting of the Tenants of one Hall or Mannor Hambling or Hoxing of Dogs HAmbling or Hoxing or Hock-sinewing of Dogs are old Forrest terms for the Lawing of Dogs when the Custom was as appears in Manwood's Forrest Laws c. 16. sect 12. to cut or gash Dogs in the Hamms but now they use to do it in their Feet Of which see Expeditate Hand-gun HAnd-gun is an Engine which is prohibited to be used and carryed about by the Statute of 33 H. 8. c. 6. And though a Dag was invented of late time and after the making of the said Act and is not known by the name of Hand-gun but a special name yet the carrying of a Dag is within the said Act and comprehended within the word Hand-gun So whereas Cross-bows are forbidden by the said Act thereby Stone-bows are also forbidden See Coke l. 5. f. 71 72. Hangwit HAngwit is to be quit of a Thief or Felon hanged without Iudgment or escaped out of your custody Hanper HAnper of the Chancery Anno 10 R. 2. c. 1. seems to signifie as Fiscus originally does in Latine Haque HAque is a little Hand-gun of three quarters of a yard long and it is mentioned in the Statutes of 33 H. 8. c. 6. and 2 3 E. 6. c. 14. There is also mention made of an half Haque Haquebut HAquebut is a Gun mentioned in the
the Statute of Mag. Charta cap. 14. speaks And therefore if a man be outragiously amerced in a Court not of Record as in a Court-Baron c. there is a Writ called Moderata Misericordia to be directed to the Lord or his Baily commanding them that they take moderate Amerciaments according to the quantity of the fault And of that see Fitzh N. B. fol. 75. A. and Moderata Misericordia after Misnomer MIsnomer is the Mistake of a Name or the using of one Name for another See Broke tit Misnomer Misprision MIsprision is when one knows that another hath committed Treason or Felony and will not discover him to the King or his Council or to any Magistrate but conceals the same Divers other offences are called Misprision as when a Chaplain had fixed an old Seal of a Patent to a new Patent of Non-residence this was held to be Misprision of Treason only and no counterfeiting of the Kings Seal So it is holden in 37 H. 8. Bro. tit Treason 3. in Fine but 2 H. 4. f. 25. A. it is adjudged contrary and Stamf. Pl. cor fol. 3. B. cites it Treason and so it is holden at this day And if a man know Money to be counterfeit and bring the same from out of Ireland hither and utter it in payment yet this is but Misprision of Treason and no Treason and so it is in divers like cases In all cases of Misprision of Treason the Party offendor shall forfeit his Goods for ever and the profits of his Lands for his life and his Body to Prison at the Kings pleasure And for Misprision of Felony or Trespass the Offendor shall be committed to Prison until he have found Sureties or Pledges for his Fine which shall be assessed by the discretion of the Iustices before whom he was convict And note That in every Treason or Felony is included Misprision and where any man hath committed Treason or Felony the King may cause him to be Indicted and Arraigned of Misprision only if he will See more hereof Stamf. lib. 1. cap. 39. Mittimus MIttimus is a Writ by which Records are transferred from one Court to another sometimes immediately as it appears in the Statute of 5. R. 2. cap. 15. as out of the Kings Bench into the Exchequer and sometimes by a Certiorari into the Chancery and from thence by a Mittimus into another Court as you may see in 28 H. 8. Dyer fol. 29. a b. 29 H. 8. Dyer fol. 32. a b. This word is used also for the Precept that is directed by a Iustice of Peace to a Goaler for the receiving and safe keeping of a Felon or other Offendor committed by the said Iustice to the Goal Moderata Misericordia MOderata Misericordia is a Writ that lies where a man is amerced in Court-Baton or County more then he ought to be then he shall have this Writ directed to the Sheriff if it be in the County or to the Bayliff if it be in Court-Baron commanding them that they amerce him not but with regard to the quantity of the Trespass and if they obey not this Writ then shall go forth against them a Sicut alias and Causam nobis significes and after that an Attachment Modus decimandi MOdus decimandi is Mony or other thing of value given annually in lie â— of Tithes The tryal of which appertains to the Common Law and not to any Court-Christian Ridley's view del Civil Law 141. In which he says There was one modus decimandi pro omnibus rebus per totum regnum Monstrans de Droit MOnstrans de Droit is a Suit in Chancery for the Subject to be restored to Lands and Tenements which he shews to be his Right but are by Office found to be in the possession of another that is lately dead by which Office the King is intitled to a Chattel Free-hold or Inheritance in the said Lands And this Monstrans de Droit is give by the Statutes of 34 E. 3. cap. 14. and 37 E. 3. cap. 13. See Coke lib. 4. fol. 54. B. in the Case of the Wardens and Commonalty of Sadlers Shewing of Deeds or Records SHewing of Deeds or Records is thus An Action of Debt is brought against A upon an Obligation by B or by Executors c. After the Plaintiff hath declared he ought to shew his Obligation and the Executor the Testament to the Court. And so it is of Records And the diversity between Shewing of Deeds or Records and Hearing of Deeds or Records is this He that pleads the Deed or Record or Declares upon it ought to shew the same and the other against whom such Deed or Record is pleaded or declared and is thereby to be charged may demand hearing of the same Deed or Record which his Adversary brings or pleads against him Monstraverunt MOnstraverunt is a Writ that lies for the Tenants in Ancient Demesne and is directed to the Lord him commanding not to Distain his Tenant to do other Service then he ought and they may have this Writ directed to the Sheriff that he suffer not the Lord to distrain the said Tenant to do other Service If the Tenants cannot be in quiet they may have an Attachment against the Lord to appear before the Iustices and all the names of the Tenants shall be put in the Writ though but one of them be grieved Also if any Land in ancient Demesne be in variance between the Tenants then the Tenant so grieved shall have against the other a Writ which is called of Right close after the Custome of the Mannor and that shall be alway brought in the Lords Court and thereupon he shall declare in the nature of what Writ he will as his case lies and this Writ shall not be removed but for a great cause or non-power of the Court. Also if the Lord in another place out of ancient Demesne distrain his Tenant to do other Service then he ought he shall have a Writ of Right called Ne Injuste vexes and it is a Writ of Right Patent which shall be tried by Battel or Grand Assise Mortdancester MOrtdancester See before in the Title Cosinage MOrtgage or Morgage MOrtgage or Morgage is when a Man makes a Feoffment to another on such condition that if the Feoffor pay the Feoffee at a certain day 40 li. of money then the Feoffor may re-enter c. In this case the Feoffee is called Tenant in Morgage And as a Man may make a Feoffment in Fee in Morgage so he may make a Gift in Tail or a Lease for Life or Years in Morgage And it seems the cause why it is called Morgage is for that it stands it doubt whether the Feoffoe will pay the mony at the day appointed or not and if he fail then the Land which he laid in gage upon condition of payment of the money is gone from him for ever and so dead to him upon condition but if he pay the mony then is the gage dead
Prebend for that the Temporalties of the Bishoprick were in his hands by the death of W. late Bishop c. The Defendant saith that it was not void the Temporalties being in the Kings hand by the death of W. This is a Negative pregnant for it may be in the Kings hands otherwise then by the death of W. and it suffices the King if it be in his hands by any means c. So is it where an Information was brought in the Exchequer against J. S. for that he bought Wool of J. N. between Shearing-time and the Assūmption such a Year The Defendant saith he did not buy any of J. N. as it is alledged c. This is called a Negative pregnant for if he bought it of any other yet he is culpable for the buying Neif or Nief NIef is a Woman that is bound or a Villain Woman but if she marry a Freeman she is thereby made free because she and her Husband are but one person in Law and she ought to be of the same nature and condition in Law to all intents as her Husband is but her Husband is free to all intents without any condition in Law or otherwise and so by consequence the Wife ought to be and is free according to the nature of her free Husband And then if she were once free and clearly discharged of Bondage to all intents she cannot be Nief after without special act done by her as Divorce or Confession in Court of Record and that is in savor of Liberty And therefore a Free woman shall not be Bound by taking of a Villain to her Husband but their Issue shall be Villains as their Father was which is contrary to the Civil Law for there it is said The Birth follows the Belly Bondage or Villainage had beginning amongst the Hebrews and its original of Chanaan the son of Cham who because he had mocked his father Noe to scorn lying dissolutely when he was drunk was punished in his son Chanaan with penalty of Bondage Ne. Injuste vexes NE injuste vexes Look in the Title Monstraverunt Next Friend NExt Friend See Prochein Amy. Nihil dicit NIhil dicit is when an Action is brought against a Man and the Defendant appears the Plaintiff declares and the Defendant will not answer or pleads to the Action and doth not maintain his Plea but makes Default now upon this Default he shall be condemned because he Saith nothing Nisi prius NIsi prius is a Writ judicial and lies where an Enquest is empanelled and returned before the Iustices of the Bench then the Plaintiff or Defendant may have this Writ directed to the Sheriff commanding him to cause the Enquest to come before the Iustices in the same County at their coming and that for the ease of the Enquest Nomination NOmination is where one may in right of his Mannor or otherwise nominate and appoint a worthy Clerk or man to a Parsonage Vicarage or such like Spiritual promotion 〈◊〉 note that this Nomination ought to be another then the Ordinary which other shall present him to the Ordinary Non-ability NOn-ability is where an Action is brought against one and the Defendant says that the Plaintiff is disable to sue an Action and demands Iudgment if he shall be answered There are six causes of Non-ability in the Plaintiff as if he be an Outlaw or an Alien born but that Disability is in Actions real and mixt only and not in Actions personal except he be an alien enemy or condemned in Praemunire or professed into an Abby Priory or Friety or Excommunicate or a Villain aud sues his Lord. But this last is no Plea for another that is not Lord to the Villain See more hereof Littl. l. 2. c. 11. Non-age NOn-age is all that time of a mans age under 21 years in some cases and 14 in others as Marriage See Broke Tit. Age. Non-claim NOn-claim is the Omission or neglect of him that ought to challenge his Right within a time limitted by which neglect he is either barred of his Right as at this day upon Non claim within five years after a Fine and right to him accrued by the Statute of 4 H. 7. c. 24. or of his Entry by a discent for want of Claim within five years after the Disseisin made by the Statute of 32 H 8. cap. 33. Non omittas propter libertatem NOn omittas propter libertatem is a Writ that lies where the Sheriff returns upon a Writ to him directed that he hath sent to the Bailiff of such a Franchise which hath Return of Writs and he hath not served the Writ then the Plaintiff shall have this Writ directed to the Sheriff that he himself enter into the Franchise and execute the Kings Writ Also the Sheriff shall warn the Bayliff that he be before the Iustices at the day contained in the Writ and if he come not and excuse himself then all the Writs judicial which shall pass out of the Kings Court during the same Plea shall be Writs De non omittas c. and the Sheriff shall make execution of them depending that Plea Non-suit NOn-suit is the Renouncing of a Suit by the Plaintiff or Defendant when the matter is in probability to proceed after the Tenant or Defendant hath appeared c. And see the Statute of 2 H. 4. c. 7. in what cases a man cannot be Non-suit and 23 H 8. cap. 15. and 8 Eliz. c. 2. and 4 Jac. c. 3. where he that is Non-suit shall pay Costs to the Defendant Non sum informatus NOn sum informatus is a formal Answer made by an Attorny who is commanded by the Court to say something in Defence of his Client by which he is deemed to leave his Client undefended and so Iudgement passes for the other party Novel Assignment NOvel assignment is where a man brings Trespass for breaking his Close And the Defendant justifies in a place where no Trespass was done then the Plaintiff assigns the Close where it was to which the Defendant may plead Not guilty or justifie by Title And there are other Replications in Battery and other Trespasses as if the Defendant in Battery justifies by a Writ The Plaintiff replies that after the Retorn of it the Plaintiff in that Suit discharged the Plaintiff out of Prison and that the Defendant after that Imprisoned him now the Defendant must answer to that Replication Bare or Naked Contract BAre Contract or Naked Promise is where a Man bargains or sells Lands or Goods or promises to give one Money or a Horse or to build a House or do such a thing at such a day and there is no recompence appointed to him for the doing thereof as if one say to another I sell or give to you all my Lands or Goods and there is nothing appointed assigned or agreed upon what the other shall give or pay for it so that there is not one thing for another this is a Naked Contract and void in
Serjeantie TO hold by Petit Serjeantie is as if a man held Lands or Tenements of the King yielding him a Knife a Buckler an Arrow a Bow without string or other like Service at the will of the first Feoffor and there belongs not Ward Marriage or Relief And mark well that a man may not hold by Grand or Petit Serjeanty but of the King See the Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 24. Piccage PIccage is the payment of money or the money paid for the breaking of the ground to set up Booths and Standings in Fairs Picle or Pitle PIcle or Pitle seems to come from the Italian Picco â— o Parvus and signifies with us a little small Close or Inclosure Pillory PIllory is an Engine of punishment ordained by the Statute of 51 H. 3. for the punishment of Bakers but now used for many other Offendors and is called in Latine Collistrigium Pipowders PIpowders is a Court which is incident to every Fair for the determination of differences upon Bargains and disorders therein See more hereof Crom. Jurisd fol. 229. Coke lib. 10. fol. 73. Piscary PIscary is a Liberty of Fishing in another mans waters or his own Placard PLacard is word used in the Statutes of 33 H. 8. cap. 6. 2 3 Ma. cap. 9. and it signifies a Licence to use unlawful Games or to shoot in a Gun Plaintiff PLaintiff is he that sues or complains in an Assise or in an Action personal as in an Action of Debt Trespass Disceit Detinue and such other Pledges PLedges are Sureties either real or formal which the Plaintiff finds to prosecute his suit Pleading PLeadings are all the Sayings of the parties to Suits after the Count or Declaration namely that which is contained in the Bar Replication and Rejoynder and not that contained in the Count it self and therefore defaults in the matter of Count are not comprised within Mispleading or insufficient Pleading nor are remedied by the Statute of Jeofails 32 H. 8. but only the Mispleading or insufficient Pleading committed in the Bar Replication and Rejoynder are there provided for But see those now remedied also by the Statute of 18 Eliz. cap. 13. Plenartie PLenartie is when a Benefice is full directly contrary to Vacation which signifies the being void of a Benefice Stamf. Prerog cap. 8. fol. 32. Plevyn See Replevyn Pluralities PLuralities are where a Uicar or Rector has two or more Ecclesiastical Benefices For which see Stat. 21. H. 8. cap. 13. Policy of Assurance POlicy of Assurance is a course taken by Merchants for the assuring of their Adventures upon the Sea by giving a certain proportion in the Hundred for securing the safe return of the Ship and so much Merchandize as is agreed upon And of this you may read in the Statute of 43 Eliz. cap. 12. Vpon which an Action lies at the common Law or in the Court by the Kings Patent sitting at the Royal Exchange in London the Iudges of which are Civilians common Lawyers and Merchants Pone POne is a Writ whereby a Cause depending in the County-Court is removed into the Common-Pleas See for this Old N. B. fol. 2. a. Pontage POntage is a word mentioned in many Statutes as in Westm 1. cap. 25. 1 H. 8. cap 9. 39 Eliz. cap. 24. and it signifies sometimes the Contribution that is gathered for the Repairing of a Bridge sometimes the Toll paid by the Passengers to that purpose Portgreve See Viscount Portmoot POrtmoot is a word used in the Statute of 43 Eliz. cap. 15. and signifies a Court kept in a Haven-Town Possessio Fratris POssessio Fratris is where a man hath a son and a daughter by one Woman and a son by another Venter and dies the first son enters and dies without Issue the daughter shall have the Land as Heir to her brother although the second son is Heir to the father Litt. Sect. 8. Possession POssession is twofold either actual or in Law Actual Possession is when a man actually enters into lands or tenements to him discended or otherwise Possession in Law is when Lands or Tenements are descended to a man and he hath not as yet really actually and in Deed entred into them And it is called Possession in Law because in the eye and consideration of the Law he is deemed to be in Possession since he is Tenant to every mans Action that will sue concerning the same Lands or Tenements Post diem POst diem is the Return of a Writ after the day assigned for its Return Postd â— sseisin POstdisseisin Look for that before in the Title Assise Postea POstea is the Record of the proceedings upon a Trial by a Writ of Nisi prius which is returned after the Trial by the Iudge before whom it was tried into the Court where the first Suit began to have Iudgment there given upon the Verdict and it is called the Postea because it begins with Postea die loco c. Poundage POundage is a Subsidie to the value of 12 d. in the pound which is granted to the King by every Merchant as well Denizen as Alien for all manner of Merchandize carried out and brought in And of such Subsidies see the Statute 1 2 Ed. 6. cap. 13. 1 Jac. cap. 33. 14 Car. 2. cap. 24. Also by Stat. 29 El. cap. 4. every Sheriff is allowed poundage for levying Debt or Damages by Execution Pounds POunds are in two sorts the one Pound open the other close Pound open is every place wherein a Distress is put whether it be common Pound or Back-side Court Yard Pasture or else whatsoever whereto the Owner of the Distress may come to give them meat without offence for their being there or his coming thither Pound close is such a place where the owner of the Distress may not come to give them meat without offence as in a Close house or whatsoever else place Preamble PReamble takes his name of the preposition prae before and the verb ambulo to go so joyned together they make the compound verb praembulo to go before and hereof the first part or beginning of an Act is called the Preamble of the Act which is a Key to open the minds of the makers of the Act and the mischiefs which they intend to remedy by the same As for example the Statute made at Westm the first the 37 chap. which gives an Attaint the Preamble of which is thus Forasmuch as certain people of the Realm doubt very little to give false Verdicts or Oaths which they ought not to do whereby many people are disherited and lose their right It is provided c. Prebend and Prebendary PRebend and Prebendary are terms often used in our Books and they come of the Latine praebeo Prebend is that portion which every member or Canon of the Cathedral Church receives in right of his place for his maintenance and Prebendary is he that hath such a Prebend Precipe or Praecipe in capite PRecipe in capite
deins cest Realm ê‘done chivi â—â— ns ou aut ' loyal voyes as â— treasure ou biens personal quecunque cybien coÌ„e ascÌ„ hoÌ„e Englois puit maintain ascÌ„ ActioÌ„ pÌ„ y cel Mes teiÌ„s deins cest Realm ou Measons si noÌ„ solemÌ„t pÌ„ lour habitation alieÌ„ amies ne poieÌ„t aver ne acquirer ne maintain asc Action real ou ê‘sonal pÌ„ ascun Terre ou Meason sinon qÌ„ le meason soit pur lour necessary habitation Un AlieÌ„ enemie ne poit maintain ascÌ„ Act ' ou acquirÌ„ ascÌ„ chose deins cest Realm Et les reasons pÌ„ qÌ„ Aliens nee ne sont capable de inheritaÌ„ce deins Angleterre sont PrimermÌ„t Les secrets del Royalm poieÌ„t ê‘ ceo eeÌ„ coÌ„ Secundment Les Revenues del Royalm serront prise enjoy ê‘ Estrangers nee TiercemÌ„t Ceo voile tend al destruct ' del Royalm PrimermÌ„t en le temps de guerrÌ„ car donqÌ„s estraÌ„gers poieÌ„t fortifie eux mesmes en le euer â— l Royalm coÌ„buster le Commonweale SecundmÌ„t en le teÌ„ps Ä‘ peace car ê‘ tiels meaÌ„s plusors AsieÌ„s nee poieÌ„t acquirer un grand part del inheritance franktenement del Royalm ê‘ qÌ„ la voile ensue un failer Ä‘ Justice le supporter â— l Common-weale pÌ„ ceo qÌ„ Aliens ne poient estre returne â— Juries ne jure pÌ„ le trial de issues perent ' le Roy le Subject ou perenter Subject Subject Vide Coke lib. 7. Calvins Case Alienation ALienation idem est quod alienum facere ou de alter ou mitt ' le possession â— Terres ou auter chose de lun home al auter Et en ascun cases home ad poier en luy mesme issint a faire sans lassent ou licence dascun auter en ascun nemy Come si Tenant en capite alien son estate sans coÌ„ge le Roy. donqÌ„ ê‘ le Stat. de 1 Ed. 3. cap 12. un reasonable Fine serra prise ou al Common Ley devant le dit Stat. les Terres tenemÌ„ts tenus en chief del Roy alieÌ„ saÌ„s coÌ„gee oÌ„t este tenus forfeit Et si Tenant le Roy qÌ„ teigne eÌ„ capite intend de aliener al C. al use de D. sur ceo si il purchase licence de aliener al C. accordant il alien a C. al use de D. quel use nest mentioÌ„ e le Licence en cest case il payerÌ„ forsque uÌ„ FinÌ„ car est forsque un Alienation Cok. lib. 6. fol. 28. Mes si home voile alienÌ„ terrÌ„ en fee-simple a un Meason de Religion ou a un Corps incorporate covient a luy daver conge le Roy de faire cest Grant ou Alienation le chief Seigniors Ä‘ queux tiels TerrÌ„ sont tenus c. autermÌ„t le terrÌ„ issint alien en Mortmaine serra forfeit ê‘ le Stat. de 15 R. 2. cap. 5. Allay ALlay est le Temper ou mixture de Or Argent ove plus base metal pur l'augmenter del pois de ceo entant que poit countervaile le charge del Roy en le coynage Cest parol est use en le Statute 9 H. 5. cap. 11. pur le payment del Or Anglois per le pois le Roy. Almner ALmner est un Officer del Hostel le Roy son Office est pur dispence les Alms le Roy chescun jour a cest purpose il ad le collect ' des touts Forfeitures des Deodands des biens des Felons de se que le Roy luy allow pÌ„ disposer eÌ„ Alms as povers Et de son Office vide Fletam l. 2. c. 22. Almoin ALmoin Veies Aumone Alnageor ALnageor est un Officer del Roy que per luy mesme ou ê‘ son deputy vey al Assise de tout le Pane que est fait de Lane per tout le Terre a mitter Signets pur tiel purpose ordeignes al eux 35 E. 3. Stat. 4. c. 1. Anno 3. R. 2. c. 2. Et il est destre accomptable al Roy pur chescun Pane que est issint seale en un Fee ou Custome a ceo apperteignant Altarage ALtarage en Latin Altaragium signify Duties Offerings al sainct Altars mention 2 Cro. Rep. 516. que un Vicarage fuit endow ove ceo petit disms Ambidexter AMbidexter est celuy que quant un matter est en suit ê‘nter homes prist argent de lun part del aut ' ou pur labour le Suit ou tiels semblables ou sil soit del Jury pur dire son Verdict Amendment AMendment est quant Error est en le Process les Justices poieÌ„t cÌ„ amen â— apres Judgment Mes si Error soit eÌ„ Judgment done ils ne poieÌ„t amender ceo mes le party est mis al BreÌ„ de Error Et en plusors Cases lou le default appiert en le Clerk qÌ„ escria le Record il serra amend mes tiels choses que vient ê‘ information del party come le Ville Mysterie hujusmodi ne serra amend car il doit informer uray a son peril Amercement AMercement pluis properment est un Penalty assess per les Peers ou pares del partie amÌ„cie pur un offence fait come pÌ„ default â— Suit de Court ou pur non amend Ä‘ ascÌ„ chose qÌ„ il fuit appoint de redresser devant ou pur tiel semblable cause en quel case le party que offend soy mist en le mercie del Roy ou Seignior sur ceo cel Penalty est appel Amerciament Et la est un difference perenter AmerciamÌ„ts Fines Kitch 214. Car Fines sont punishments certain que cresceront expresment de ascun Statute Amerciaments sont tiels que sont arbitrablement impose per les aff â— eerors quel Kitch semble a confirmÌ„ fol. 78. en ceux parolx Amerciament est affere per Pares Auxy il appiert Coke lib. 8. f. 39. que un Fine est touts foits impo â— e assesse per le Court mes Amerciament qÌ„ est appel en Latin Misericordia est assesse ê‘ Pays Auter diversity la est come si home soit convict devant le Vicount en le County â— un Recaption il serra forsque amercie mes sil soit convict de ceo en le Common Bank il serra fine Et le reason de cest diversity est Que le County-Court nest pas Court de Record pur ceo ne poit imposer un Fine car nul Court poit imposer Fine mes tiel Court qÌ„ est de Record Coke lib. 8. fo 41. a. Si le Defendant ou Tenant plead un faux Fait a luy ou deny son fait demesnÌ„ ceo est trove vers luy ou sil relicta verificatione cognoscit Actionem il serra fine pur fauxism Quia certi debemus esse de proprio facto Mes si ua deny le Fait son Ancestor ceo est trove vers
Brook titulo Clergie placito 20. al mesme purpose By-laws BY-laws sont orders faits en Court-Leets ou Court-Barons ê‘ le comÌ„on consent pÌ„ le bien 〈◊〉 eux Et sont les feasors de eux qÌ„ sont appels By-laws quasi Birlaws ou Bawrlaws de parol Germanols Bawr id est Rusticus issint que Bawrlaws ou By-laws est tant adire comÌ„ Leges Rusticorum Bilinguis BIlinguis en general est un homÌ„ ove uÌ„ double langu un â—Ì„ il est comÌ„unemÌ„t use pur cest Jury qÌ„ passont perenter un home 〈◊〉 Angleterre un Alien de que part convient â— eÌ„ homes de Angleterre part Estrangers Et pÌ„c â— o est enact ê‘ le Statute 〈◊〉 28 E. 3. c. 13. Que si ascÌ„ debate happa destrÌ„ sur le packing de Lane devant le Major del Staple ent ' les Merchants ou Ministers del mesme sur ceo de prover la veritie de ceo Enquest serra prise si lun partie laut ' soit Denizen il serra trie per Denizens ou si lun partie soit Denizen lauter al â— en le Moiety 〈◊〉 l'Enquest ou del proof serra Dâ—nizens lauter Moiety d â— Aliens Bill BILL est la mesme chose ove un Obligation f â— rsque quant il est en Anglois il est comÌ„unement appel un 〈◊〉 en Latin un Obligation Auxy un Declaration en escript qÌ„ expresse ou le grievance injury que le Plaintiff ad su â—â— er ê‘ le partie de qÌ„ le plaint est fait ou ascÌ„ fault ê‘ luy comÌ„se contre ascÌ„ Ley ou Statute de le Royalm Per un Bill nous maintenant entendons un single Bond sans Condition ê‘ un Obligation un Bond ove un Penalty Condition West part 2. Symbol tit Supplications sect 52. Billa vera BIlla vera est le Endorsement del grand Inquest sur ascuÌ„ PresentmÌ„t ou Indictment qÌ„ ils trovont estre probablement voyer Blackmail BLackmail est un parol use en le Stat. 43 Eliz. c. 13. signifie uÌ„ certain rate des Deniers Blees Cattel ou auter coÌ„sideration donÌ„ ê‘ les povers homes en le North parts de Angleterre as homes 〈◊〉 grand nosmÌ„ alliance en ceux parts destre ê‘ eux ê‘tects del eux qÌ„ usualmÌ„t robbe embler la. Black rod. BLack rod est le Huissier appurtein a tres Noble Order â— Jarter issint appel de la Black rod qÌ„ il port en son main Il est auxi Huissier 〈◊〉 la Meason des Peers en ParlamÌ„t Bloodwit BLoodwit est quietum ess as Amerciamentis de Sanguine fuso quae teneantur Placita in Curia vestra habebitis Amerciamenta inde provenientia quia Wit en Anglois est Misericordia en Latin Bloody hand BLoody hand est l' apprehension â— un Trespasser en le Forest vers Venison ove ses maines ou ascÌ„ part 〈◊〉 luy embrues en sank comÌ„t qÌ„ il ne soit trove chasing ou hunting De quel veies Manw. par 2. c. 18. Bockland BOckland en temps de Saxons fuit ceo terrÌ„ qÌ„ nous a ceo jour appellomÌ„ FranktenemÌ„t ou terÌ„ tenus ê‘ Charter fuit ê‘ ceo nosme distinguish del Folkland qÌ„ fuit terre tenus ê‘ Copy Bona notabilia BOna notabilia lou un home devy ayant biens al value de 5 l. en divers Diocesses donque le Archievesque doit commit Administration si ascun inferior Evesque graÌ„t ceo est void 37 H. 6. 27 28. 10 H. 7. 18. Dyer 305. Bordlands BOrdlands signifie le Demesnes que Seigniors tenent en leur maines demesne pÌ„ le maintenance de leur Bords ou Tables Bracton l. 4. tract 3. c. 9. num 5. Borow BOrow qÌ„ ovesque nous signifie un ancient Ville comÌ„ appiert ê‘ Littleton sect 164. en uÌ„ parol derive ou del FraÌ„cois Burg id est Pagus ou del Saxon parol Bo hoe id est Pignus pÌ„ ceo qÌ„ en ancient temps vicines dun Ville deveignont Pledges lun pÌ„ lauter 〈◊〉 ceo venust Headborow pÌ„ le chief Pledge ou Borhoe-Aldere que nous appellomus le Borow-holder ou le Bursholder Borow E â— glish BOrow English est un custumary Descent del Terres ou Tenements en quelques lieus ê‘ la quel ils vient a la pluis june fits ou si le ê“prieteur ad nul issue a le pluis june frere comÌ„ en Edmunton Kitch in fol. 102. Borowhead BOrowhead Veies Headborow Bote. BOte est un veil parol signifie Help Succor Aid ou Advantage est comÌ„unemÌ„t joyn ove un aut ' parol qÌ„ significatioÌ„ il augmÌ„t coÌ„e ceux Bridgebote Burgbote Firebote Hedgebote Plowbote divers tiels semblables pÌ„ queux significations veies eÌ„ lour proper Titles Bottomry vulgo Bomry EST quant un Master â— un Neise en case de necessity gage ceo pÌ„ denyers pÌ„ le use de le Neife Bribor BRribor Fr. Bribeur i. Mendicus semble 〈◊〉 signifier luy qÌ„ pilfer les biens des aut ' homÌ„s An. 28 E. 2. Stat. 1. Brief BRief Breve signifie plus ê“propermÌ„t eÌ„ nostre Ley le Process que issuist hors del Chancery ou auter Court commandant le ViscÌ„ de summoner ou attacher A. pÌ„ responder al Suit B. c. Mes pius largemÌ„t est prise pÌ„ ascun Precept del Roy en escript south Seal isiuant hors 〈◊〉 ascÌ„ Court ê‘ qÌ„ il comÌ„and ascun chose deeÌ„ fait pur le furtherance del Justice bone order Et ils font appel Briefs Brevia pÌ„ ceo qÌ„ ils briefmÌ„t coÌ„prehend l' cause del ActioÌ„ rem brevit ' enarraÌ„t Er ascÌ„ â— eux sont Originals ascuÌ„ Judicials come poies veier alarge en le Register des BreÌ„s Broadhalpeny BRoadhalpeny en ascun Copies Broadhalfpeny hoc est quietum esse de q â— adam consuetudine exacta pro Tabulis levie ou Boords en Faires ou Markets ceux qÌ„ esteont enfranchised ê‘ le Charter le Roy de cest cust â— m ont cest parol mise eÌ„ lour Let ' Patents ê‘ reason 〈◊〉 quel a cest jour le EnfranchisemÌ„t mesme pÌ„â— le brevity 〈◊〉 elocution est appel Broadhalfpeny Broker BRoker semble de vener del parol Francois Broieur id est Tritor cestuy qÌ„ grinde ou rumper un chose en petit parcels Et le voyer office dun Broker come appiert ê‘ le Stat. falt 1 Jac. c. 21. est de barÌ„ contriver faire concluder bargains ent ' Merchants Tradesmen Mes le parol est ore auxi appropriate as eux que achate vende vieux broken apparel Houshold-stuff Brugbote BRugbote en ascuns Copies Bridgebote est quietum esse de auxilio dando ad reficiendum Pontes Bull. BULL est un InstrumÌ„t issint appel grant ê‘ l'Evesque â— Rome enseal ove un Seal de plumbe conteinent en
grantus ou le TenaÌ„t ê‘ courtesie ou Tenant pÌ„ term 〈◊〉 vie ou pÌ„ aut ' vie alien en fee ou en tail ou pur term daut ' vie Et il ad cest nosme pÌ„ ceo que les Clerks del Chancery ont ceo framÌ„ ê‘ lour comÌ„on consent ensemble al Brief appel In casu proviso accordant al auctority done al eux ê‘ le Statute de Westminister 2. cap. 24. que voit Quotiescunque evenerit in Cancellaria quod in uno casu reperitur Breve in Consimili casu indigente remedio concordent Clerici de Cancellari a de Brevi faciendo c. Et cest Brief est graÌ„t al cestuy en reversion vers le party a qÌ„ le dit Tenant issint alien a son prejudice en le vie del dit Tenant Veies pluis de ceo F. N. B. f. 206. Casu proviso CAsu proviso est done per le Stat. de Gloucester c. 7 Cest Brief gift lou Tenant en Dower alien en Fee ou a term de vie ou en tail la terre que el tÌ„ient en Dower ore cestuy que ad le ReversioÌ„ en Fee ou en Tail ou a termÌ„â— vie maintenant avera cest Br â— ve vers le Alienee ou cestuy qÌ„ est Tenant del franktenement del terre cÌ„ durant la vie le Tenant eÌ„ Dower F. N. B. fol. 205. n. Catals CAtals ou Chattels comprehend touts biens movable immovable forsque tiels que sont en nature de FranktenemÌ„t ou parcel de cÌ„ comÌ„ poit estre collect hors Stamf. Praerog ca. 16. an 1 El. c. 2. UncÌ„ Kitch fol. 32. dit que Mony nest deeÌ„ account biens ou Catals ne Espervers ne ChieÌ„s car ils sont ferae naturae Mes il semble qÌ„ Money nest Catal pÌ„ ceo qÌ„ nest de luy mÌ„ chose valuable mes pluis en imagination qÌ„ en Fait Catals sont ou real ou personal Catals real sont ou tiels que ne apperteinont immediatement al person mes al ascÌ„ auter chose ê‘ voy 〈◊〉 dependancie come un Boxe ove Chartes de terre le corps dun Gard les PomÌ„s sur l' arbrÌ„ ou l' Arbre mesme cressant sur le terre Crom. f. 33. b. Ou autermÌ„t tiels qÌ„ sont issuant hors â— ascÌ„ chose immoveable al person coÌ„e uÌ„ Lease pur Rent ou terme 〈◊〉 ans Personal polent estrÌ„ issint appel en deux respects Le un pÌ„ cÌ„ que ils appent immediatement al ê‘son 〈◊〉 uÌ„ hoÌ„e coÌ„e uÌ„ Chival c. lautrÌ„ pÌ„ cÌ„ que quant ils soÌ„t tortiousmeÌ„t deteigne nous ne avomÌ„ pas ascÌ„ aut ' means pur lour recoverie forsque per ê‘sonal Actions Les Civilians comprehendont ceux choses aux ' TrÌ„s de touts natures ou tenures desouth le parol Bona que est ê‘ eux divide in Mobilia Immobilia Vid. Br. lib. 3. c. 3. num 3 4. Cepi corpus CEpi corpus est un Return fait per le Viscount que sur un Exigend ou auter Brief il a pris le corps del partie Fitzb. Nat. br f. 26. Certificate CErtificate est un Escript fait en ascun Court a doner notice al auter Court dascÌ„ chose fait la come un Certificate del cause de Attaint est un traÌ„script briefmÌ„t fait ê‘ les Clerks del Corone Clerke del Peace ou Clerke de Assise al Court del Bank le Roy conteinant le tenor effect de chescÌ„ Indictment Utlagarie ou Conviction Clerk attaint fait ou declare en ascÌ„ auter Court Mes nota que cest Certificate doit estre falt ê‘ cestuy que est I'immediate Officer al Court pÌ„ cÌ„ si le Commissarie ou Official del Evesque certifie un Excommengement en barrÌ„ de un Action al Common Ley ceo nest bonÌ„ come fuit resolve en Coke lib. 8. fol. 68. mes tiel Excommengement doit estre certifie ê‘ le Evesque mesme Uncore le Certificate dun Excommengement ê‘ special CommissionÌ„s Delegates desouth lour common Seal fuit allow tenus assets bonÌ„e eÌ„ le Common Banke Dyer fol. 371. pla 4. Certification de Assise CErtification d'un Assise d' Novel disseisin c. est un Brief agard a re-examinÌ„ ou reviser uÌ„ chose passe ê‘ Assise devant ascÌ„ Justices est use quant home appiert ê‘ soÌ„ Bailife al un Assise port ê‘ un aut ' ê‘de le jour ayant ascÌ„ aut ' chose ouster a plea â— ê‘ luy mesme comÌ„ un Fait â— release ou c. que le Bailiff ne plederoit cu ne puit pleader pÌ„ luy apris un mieux Examination del Cause ou devant mesme les Justices ou auters acquire Letters Patents vide lour forme F. N. B. 181. donque port un BreÌ„ al Vicount 〈◊〉 appeller le party pÌ„ que le Assise ad pass auxi le Jury que suit impannel sur mesme le Assise devant les dits Justices a un jour lieu certain Et est appel un Certificate pÌ„ ceo que en ceo mention est fait al Vicount que sur le partles coÌ„plaint del defective Examination ou awrust uncore remainant lur le Assise passe le Roy ad direct ses Letters Patents a les Justic s pÌ„ le mieux certification 〈◊〉 lour mesmes ou touts les points del dit Assise fueront examin ou nemy Certiorari CErtiorari est un Brief que gist lou un est implead en un base Court que est de Record il suppose qÌ„ il ne poit aver equal Justice la donques sur un Bill en le Chancery comprisant ascun matter en Conscience il avera cest Brief pÌ„ remover tout le Record en le Chancery la destre determine ê‘ Conscience mes fil ne proya son Bill donques l' auter party avera un Brief de Procdendo a reman â— le Record en le base Court la destre determine Auxy il gist en plusors auters cases pur remover Records pur le Roy comÌ„ Indictments auters Cest Brief est auxy grant hors del Court del Bank le Roy ou Common Pleas a remover ascun Action al eux hors de inferior Courts de Record issint le Plaintiff doit declare proceed en le superior Court Auxy a certifyer Original Briefs ou proceeds hors dascuÌ„ Courts de Record en Bank le Roy ou Nullum tale Recordum est plede Auxy sur Briefs de Error dun Judgment en le Common Pleas chescun party poit aver cest Brief a remover ascun proceedings en Bank le Roy sur alleger diminution comÌ„ appiert Co. Ent. 232 233 242. 2 Cro. 131 479 Cessavit CEssavit est un Brief que gist lou mon verie Tenant tient de moy certain terres ou tenements rendant certain Rent per an le ReÌ„t est arrere
ascuns lieus Capitagium vel Capitale argentum en ascuns lieus Certum Letae fuit al primes come semble grant al SnÌ„r vers le charge de son purchase del Leet ê‘ que les Resiants avoyent ore un aise pÌ„ faire lour Suit royal deins l' ManÌ„or nemy destre compells 〈◊〉 alter al Tourne le Viscount de fairÌ„ ceo Et pÌ„ cest CoÌ„mon Fine le SnÌ„r doit prescriber ne poit distre â— n pÌ„ ceo sans Prescription come appiert en Godfrey's Case en 11 R â— p. fo 44. b. Common Ley. COmmon Ley est pÌ„ le pluis part prise 3 voyes Prime â— mÌ„t pÌ„ les Leyes de cest RealmÌ„ simply sans ascuÌ„ aut ' Ley coÌ„e Customarie Civil Spiritual ou quecunque auter Ley joyne a ceo come quant est dispute en nostre Leyes de Engleterre quid doit de droit estrÌ„ determine ê‘ le Common Ley quid ê‘ Spiritual Ley ou le Court del Admiral ou tielx semblables SecondarimÌ„t il est pris pÌ„ les Courts le Roy come le Bank le Roy ou ComÌ„on Place taÌ„tsolemÌ„t pÌ„ monstre un difference perent ' eux less base Courts come Customary Courts Court-Barons County Courts Pipowders tielx semblables come quant un Plee de terre est remove hors de ancieÌ„t Demesne pÌ„ ceo que le terre est Frank-fee pleadable al Common Ley cest adire en le Court le Roy nemy en ancient Demesne ou en ascun aut base Court TiercemÌ„t pluis usualmÌ„ â— Common Ley est enten due tielx Leyes qÌ„ fueront generalmÌ„t prise tenus pÌ„ Ley devant qÌ„ asc ' Stat. fuit fait pÌ„ alt ' ceo coÌ„e pÌ„ example Tenant pÌ„ vie â— e pÌ„ ans ne fueront destre punish pÌ„ fesans Wast al Common Ley tanqÌ„ le Statute de Glouc. c. 5. le quel donÌ„ uÌ„ Action de Wast envers eux Mes Tenant ê‘ le curtesie T â— nant en dower fu â— ront punishable pur Wast al Common Ley cest adire per le usual common received Leys le Realm devant le dit Sta â— ute fuit fait Common Pleas. COmmon Pleas est le Court le Roy jamÌ„es tenus en le Sale de Westminster mes en ancient teÌ„ps moveable sicoÌ„e appiert ê‘ Mag. Char. c. 11. Mes Gwyn en le Preface a son Lecture dit Que jesque le temps que Henry le tierce grant le Grand Charter la fuerÌ„ forsqÌ„ deux Courts solemÌ„t appel les Courts le Roy de que uÌ„ fuit l'Eschequer l'auter le Banke le Roy quel fuit appel auxly Aula Regia pÌ„ ceo que el ensue le Court qÌ„ sur le grant de cel Chart ' le Court 〈◊〉 Common Pl â— es fuit erect settle eÌ„ un lieu certain viz. al Weminster pÌ„ ceo touts les Briefs fueront faits ove cest Returne Quod sit coram Justificariis meis apud Westmonasterium ou devant le party fuit commaund per eux de appearer coram Me vel Justiciariis meis sans ascun addition de ascun lieu certein Touts Civil causes cybien Real come Personal sont ou fueront eÌ„ ancient temps trye en cest Court accordant al strict Ley del RoyalmÌ„ Et ê‘ Fortescue cap. 50. il semble daver este le sole Court pur Real Causes Le primer Judge de ceo est appelle Seigniour Chiefe Justice del Common Plees accompany ove trols ou quater Assistants â— u Associates que sont create per Letters Patents del Roy sicome fuit enstalle ou place sur le â— ank ê‘ le Seigniour Chancellor Seigniour Chiefe Justice del Court come appiert ê‘ Fortescue ca. 51. que expresse touts les circumstances de cel Admission Le residue des Officers appertinant a cel Court sont ceux Le Custos Brevium trois Prothonotaries Chirographer dixe quater Philasers quater Exigenters Clerk des Garrants Clerk des Juries Clerk del Treasury Clerk de Argent le Roy Clerk des Essoines Clerk des Utlagaries Common jour en plee de terre COmmon jour en plee de terre Anno 13 R. 2. Stat. 1 cap. 17. signifie un ordinarie jour en le Court come Octabis Michaelis Quindena Paschae c. come poies veier en le Statute 51 H. 3. concernant gener l jours eu le Bank C â— mm â— tes COmmotes semble destre un parol composit del Preposition C â—â— Motio i. e. Dictio Verbum signifie en Gales le part dun Countie ou Hundred Anno 28 H. cap. 3. Il est escrie Commoithes An. 4. H. 4. ca. 17. est use pur un Collection fait sur les gents de ce â— ou cest Hundred ê‘ Minstrels de Gales Communi Custodia COmmuni custodia est un Brief que gisoit pur cel Seigniour le Tenant de quel reindrant p â— r service de Chivaler morust son eigne fils deins age envers un estranger que enter le terre obtaine le Gard del Corps Il semble de prender le nosme del common Custome ou droit en ceo case que est Que le Seigniour avera le Gard de son Tenant jesque son pleine age ou pÌ„ ceo que est common pur recoverie â— l Terre Tenant come appiert ê‘ le forme de ceo V â—â— l N. B. 89. Regist Orig. 161. Compromise COmpromise est un mutual Promise de deux ou plusors parties que sont al controversie pur submitter eux mesmes touts differeÌ„ces ent ' eux al Agard ArbitremeÌ„t ou JudgmeÌ„t â— l ua ou plusors Arbitrators ent ' eux indifferentment essi â— u pÌ„ determiner ad â— udger des touts matt's refe â— es sur que les parties differont Computation COmputation est use en le Common Ley pur le voyer indiff â— rent Construction de temps issint que ne le un partie ferra tort al auter ne le determination de termes referrÌ„ a large deste prise un voy ou auter mes compute accordant al droitural censure de la Ley. Come si Indentures de Demise sont i â— grosse portont date le unisme jour de May 1665. de aver tener le terre en S. pur tro â— s ans de cest temps les Indentures sont deliver le quart jour de June en le an avantdit En cest case de cest temps serra account del jour del Deliverie des Indentures nemy ê‘ asc ' computation del Date Et â— i le dit Indenture soit deliver al quart de la horologe puis meridie le dit quart jour cest Leas finiera le tierce jour de June en le tierce an car la Ley en cest Computation reject touts fractions ou divisions del jour pur le incertainty que touts foits est le
hoÌ„e soit endet a divers aut's nien obstant eÌ„ consideration â— natural affection done touts ses biens a son fits ou cousin ceo serra entend destre un fraudulent Done deins l' Act de 13 Eliz. c. 5. pÌ„ ceo qÌ„ cest Act entend uÌ„ Valuable Consideration Consistory COnsistory est uÌ„ parol emprent del Italianois ou pluis tost Lombards signifie tant come Praetorium Est vocabulum utriusque Juris est use pÌ„ le lieu del Justice eÌ„ les Courts Espirituals eu Christians Consistory COnsolidation est use pÌ„ le Combinancie unificence ê‘ deux Benefices eÌ„ un cest ê‘ol est pris de le Ley Civile ou il ê“ê‘mÌ„t signifie uÌ„ Uniting del possession occupation ou ê“fit ove le ê“pertie Come si home ad ê‘ Legacie usum fructum fundi puis purchase le Propertie ou Fee-simple del Heir en cest case un Consolidation est fait des Profits Property Vide Brook tit Union Conspiracie COnspiracie nient obstant qÌ„ eÌ„ Latine Francois est use pÌ„ uÌ„ AgreemeÌ„t des hoÌ„es a faire un chose bone ou male uncore il est coÌ„munemÌ„t prise eÌ„ nrÌ„e Ley eÌ„ le male part est define en 34 E. 1. Stat. 2. destre un Agreement 〈◊〉 tiels qÌ„ confederont ou lieront eux mesmes ê‘ SeremÌ„t Covenant ou aut ' alliance qÌ„ chesc ' de cux portera aidera lauter fauxmÌ„t maliciousmÌ„t 〈◊〉 enditer on fauxmÌ„t a mover ou maintainer Plees aux ' tiels qÌ„ causant Enfants deins age â— appealer hoÌ„es 〈◊〉 Felony ê‘ qÌ„ ils sont imprison duremeÌ„t grieve tiels qÌ„ reteignout gentes eÌ„ le Pais ove Liveries ou Fees de maintainer lour Actions malicious ceo extend cybien a les prisors coÌ„e les donors Aux ' Seneschals Reeves 〈◊〉 grand SnÌ„s qÌ„ ê‘ lour SeignÌ„rie Office ou poyar assume 〈◊〉 port ' ou maintainer Quarrels Plees ou Debares qÌ„ concernout aut ' parties que tiels que touchaÌ„t l'Estate de lour SnÌ„rs ou de eux mesmes Anno 4. E. 3. c. 11. 3. H. 7. c. 13. Et de ceo veies pluis 1 H. 5. c. 3. 18 H. 6. c. 12. auxy en le veiel Livre de Entries verb ' Conspiracie Cest ê‘ol en les lieus devaÌ„t rehearse est prise pluis generalmeÌ„t est confound ove Maintenance Champerty mes en uÌ„ pluis special significatioÌ„ il est prise pÌ„ un Confederacie ê‘ent ' deux ou plusors fauxmÌ„t endit ' uÌ„ ou 〈◊〉 ê“eurer un destre endict ' 〈◊〉 Felony Et le punishmÌ„t â— Conspiracie sur un IndictmÌ„t de Felony al Suit le Roy est Que le party attaint ê‘dera sont frank ley al enteÌ„t qÌ„ il ne soit impannel sur Juries ou Assises ou tiels semblables employmÌ„ts pÌ„ le testification del voyertie sil ad a fair eÌ„ le Court le Roy qÌ„ il fait son Attorney qÌ„ ses t'res bieÌ„s chattels sont seisie eÌ„ les mains le Roy ses t'res estreape ses arbres defosse son corps commise al prison 27 lib. Assise 59. Crompton 156. b. ceo est appel villanous Judgement Mes si si le partie grieve voyle suer un Brief de Conspiracie donque veies Fitzh Natur. Brev. 114. d. 115. i c. Constable COnstable est diversement use eÌ„ le CoÌ„mon Ley. Et primermÌ„t le Constable 〈◊〉 Angleter ' qÌ„ est auxy appel Marshal Stanf. Pl. Cor. fol. 65. de l' authoritie dignitie de quel home poit trover plusors arguments signes cybien eÌ„ les Statutes come les Chronicles â— c'Royalm Son poyer consist en le care del common Peace del TerÌ„e eÌ„ Faits marshal choses de Chivalry Lamb. Dutie de Constab numb 4. ove que agree le Statute de 13 R. 2. cap 2. Stat. 1. De ceo Officer ou Magistrate Gwyn en le Preface a ces Lectures dit a tiel effect Le Court de Constable Marshal finist Contracts touchant Faits de chivalrie hors del Royalme treat choses concernont Guerres deins le Royalme come Combats Blasons de armory tiels semblables mes il nad a fairÌ„ ove Battel en appeale ne genÌ„almeÌ„t ove ascun aut ' chose que poit estrÌ„ trie per les Leyes de TerÌ„e Veies Fortescue cap. 32. Cest Office en temps par devant fuit apperteynant al SnÌ„rs de certain Manors Jure feudi pur quel cause ceo discontinue veies Dyer 385. Pl. 39. Hors de cel Magistracie dit Lambert â— uerÌ„ trahe ceux south Constables les quels nous appellomus Constables des Hundreds Franchises primermÌ„t ordein ê‘ l'Statute de Winchest 13 E. 1. le quel appoint pÌ„ le conservation del Peace view 〈◊〉 Armor deux Constables eÌ„ chesc ' Hundred Franchise ceux sont a cest jour appel Alt Constables pÌ„ ceo que le encrease des gents peches ad arrere south ceux fait aut's en chesc ' Vill ' appel Petit Constables queux sont de semblable nature mes de inferior authority al auter Ouster ceux la sont Officers de particular lieux appel ' per cest nosme come Constable â— l Tower Stanf. 152. 1 H. 4. 13. Constable de Exchequer 15 H. 3. St. 5. Constable de Dover Castle Camb. Brit. p. 239. F. N. B. aut'meÌ„t appelle Castellaine Manwood part 1. c 2. 3. de â— es Leys del Forest fait mention 〈◊〉 un Constable del Forest Consuetudinibus Servitiis Vide Prescription COnsuetudinibus Servitiis est un Breve gist lou jeo ou mes ancestors depuis le limitation 〈◊〉 Assise pÌ„ quel veies le Title 〈◊〉 Limitation en le Collection de Statutes ne Fueront seises des Customes ou Services de Mon Tenant devant donques jeo aver cest BrÌ„e pÌ„ recover ' ceux Services Anxy le Tenant poit aver cest BrÌ„e vers son Seigniour mes apres que le Tenant ad count le Seigniour defendera les motes del Count repliant dirra que il ne distreina pas pur les Customes dont le Count est donques il countera tout le Count de les Customes Services donques le Tenant que fuit Plaintiff deviendra Defendant defendra per Battaile ou grand Assise Consultation COnsultation est un Breve ê‘ qÌ„ uÌ„ Cause esteant ê‘ devant remove per Prohibition hors del Court Ecclesiastical ou Court Christian al Court le Roy est la returne arere Car si les Judges del Court le Roy comparont le Libell ove le Suggestion del partie trovant le Suggestion faux ou nient prove pur ceo le Cause destre tortiousment appel del Court Christien donque sur ceo Consultation ou Deliberation â— s decree ceo destrÌ„ returne arere sur que le Brief en ceo case obtaine est appel
casu terminabitur per Cuntey cuntey sicut inter Cohaeredes l. 4. tr 3. c. 18. Et arer eÌ„ mÌ„ le lieu In Brevi de recto negotium terminabitur per Cuntey cuntey Et tiercemÌ„t l. 4. tr 4. c. 2. Terminabitur negotium per Breve de recto ubi nec Duellum nec magna Assisa sed per Cuntey cuntey omnino le quel semble destrÌ„ tant come per l' ordinary Jury Curfew CUrfew vieÌ„t des deux parols Francois Courir cover Feu Fire Est use ove nous pÌ„ un Peale vespre ê‘ qÌ„ le Conqueror comÌ„and chesc ' home de prender garnie pÌ„ le coverture de son Feu l' extinguishmeÌ„t de son Lumen issint que en plusors lieus a cest jour un CampanÌ„ est usualment tinta prochein temps du Lect il est dit de â— inter Curfew Curia avisare vult CUria avisareÌ„ vult est un Deliberation qÌ„ le Court enteÌ„d preÌ„dre sur asc ' difficile point â— un Cause devant JudgmÌ„t soit resolve Pur qÌ„l veies le Novel Livre de Entries verbo Curia c. Curia claudenda EST un breif ou action a compeller auter a fair un fence ou mure qÌ„ le def ' doit fair ent ' son terr' la terr' del Plaintiff Currieur ou Courroieur COuroieur est un que dresse liquor Cuir est issint appel del Francois parol Cuir id est Corium Cest ê‘ol Currier est frequent en touts les Statutes faits pÌ„ le bon feasance de Cuir come en 1 Jac. cap. 22. c. Cursiter CUrsiter est un Officer ou Clerk apperteynant al Chancerie que fait hors Original Briefs 14 15 H. 8. cap. 8. Sont appel Clerks del Course eÌ„ le SeremÌ„t des Clerks del Chancerie appoint an 18 Ed. 3. Stat. 5. La sont de ceux vint quat ' qÌ„ ont allotta a chescun 〈◊〉 eux ascun Counties en le quel ils font hors tiel Original Breves que iont per le subject require sont un Corporation in t ' eux mesmes Curtesie de Angleterre CUrtesie de Angleterre est lou home prent feme seisie eÌ„ Fee-simple ou Fee-tail general on seisie coÌ„e Heir de la taile special ad issue ê‘ la feme male ou female soit issue mort ou eÌ„ vie si la feme devie le baron tiendra le TrÌ„e duraÌ„t sa vie ê‘ la Ley 〈◊〉 Angleter ' Et est appel Tenant per le Curtesied ' Angleterre pÌ„ cÌ„ qÌ„ est use eÌ„ nul auter Royalme forsqÌ„ taÌ„tsolemÌ„t eÌ„ Angleterre Si l â— Enfant ne unques soit vise donque la baron ne serra Tenant per le Curtesie mes si le issue soit nee en vie ceo suffist Si la feme soit deliver 〈◊〉 un Monster que nad le shape de homes ceo nest pas Issue en Ley Mes coment le issue ad ascun deformitie ou defect en le maine ou pee uncore ad humane shape ceo suffist de faire le baron Tenant per le Curtesie Et en ascun cases le Temps del nestre est material en ascun nemy Pur ceo si home prist feme Enheretrix qÌ„ est grandment enseint per luy le issue est rippe hors 〈◊〉 sa veÌ„ter en vie ore il ne serra Tenant per le Curtesie car ceo doit commencer per le issue consummate per le mort la feme le Estate de Tenant per le Curtesie covient a toller le immediate discent Mes si baron ad issue per sa feme puis TrÌ„e discend al feme soit le issue donque mort ou en vie il serra Tenant per le Curtesie car le temps del nestre del issue nest matâ—rial si ceo soit en la vie sa seme Si Terres sont dones al seme al heires males de sa corps el prist baron ad issue file morust le baron ne serra Tenant per le Curtesie car le issue ne poit ê‘ asc ' possibilitie enherit ' mesme les Tenements Auxy come un feme alien espousant uÌ„ subject â— Roy ne serra endowe en mesme le manner un home alien ne serra Tenant per le Curtesie Auxy si home seisie de TrÌ„e en droit sa feme soit attaint â— Felony ayant issue donque purchase le Pardon le Roy puis son seme morust la il ne serra Tenant ê‘ le Curtesie Mes sil ad issue per son feme nee puis le Pardon en tiel case il serra Curtilage CUrtilage est un Garden Yard Camp ou piece de vacant trÌ„e gisant ê“chein apperteinaÌ„t al Messuage West part 2. sect 26. Et issint est use 35 H. 8. c. 4. 37 Eliz. 2. Coke l. 6. fol. 64. Customary Tenants CUstomary Tenants sont tiel Tenants que tient de la Custome del ManÌ„or coÌ„e lieur special Evidence Custome CUstome poit este define deeÌ„ un Ley ' ou Droit nient escrie qÌ„ esteant estable ê‘ veil use le consent de nostre Ancestors ad este jouremÌ„t mise en ure Custome est ou general ou particular General est ceo qÌ„ est approve ê‘ tout Angleterre de queux vous poyes lier eÌ„ Doctor Student l. 1. c. 7. plusors fort digne destre conus Particular est cÌ„ qÌ„ apê‘tient a ceo ou tiel Countie coÌ„e Gavelkind al Kent ou a cÌ„ ou tiel SnÌ„rie Citie ou Ville Custome differt del Prescription pÌ„ ceo qÌ„ Custome est coÌ„mon a plusors Prescription ê‘ l' opinion 〈◊〉 ascun est particular a celou tiel home Auxy Prescription poit estre pÌ„ un pluis curt temps qÌ„ Custome sc pur cinque ans ou meins Come si Fine soit duement levie 〈◊〉 TrÌ„es ou Tenements ne soit dedit deins cinque ans cÌ„ est BarrÌ„ a chescÌ„ Claime a touts jours Si home omitra son Continual claime pur un an jour donque le Tenant en possession prescribe uÌ„ Priviledge envers l' Entrie le Demandant son Heire Fitzh Nat. Brev. 79. Hors de nostre Statutes vous poyes aver pluis grand diversitie issint que ceo semble destre un voyer dit Que Prescription est un ExceptioÌ„ foundue sur tant temps ale passe que le Ley limita pÌ„ le pursuance 〈◊〉 ascun Actlon Un example poit este prise hors del Statute 〈◊〉 1 H. 8. c. 4. que enact Que eÌ„ touts Actlons populars informatioÌ„ serra fait deins trois ans puls l' offence commi autermÌ„t destre de nul vigour Custome est auxy use pÌ„ le Tribute ou Toll que Merchants payont al Roy de porter eins hors Merchandizes 14 E. 3. Stat. 1. c. 21. En quel significatioÌ„ est
le Tenant disclaime dit que il nest de c ' Tenant ne claime rien en ceo donques lauter avera tout le Terre Mes si le Praecipe soit envers un sole il disclaime come avant est dit le Brief abatera uncore le Demandant poit enter en le Terre ceo tener en son droitural estate comÌ„t son Entrie ne fuit loyal Et apres qÌ„ le TenÌ„t eÌ„ un ActioÌ„ port vers luy disclaime il navera Brief de Error encount ' son Disclaimer pÌ„ ceo qÌ„ ê‘ son Disclaimer il ad barre luy mesme del droit del Terre car les parols del Disclaimer sont Nihil habet nec habere clamat in Terra illa nec die impetrationis Brevis Originalis predictae c. habuit sive clamavit sed aliquid in Terra illa habere deadvocat disclamat encounter ceo il navera Restitution per Brief de Error Veies Cok. lib. 8. fol. 62. Issint si uÌ„ SnÌ„r en case ou il poit disclaim son SnÌ„rie en Court de Record son SnÌ„rie ê‘ ceo est extinct le TenaÌ„t tieÌ„dra del SnÌ„r prochein paramount cestuy que issint disclaim Lit. sect 146. Si Terres sont donÌ„ al baroÌ„ feme en taile ou eÌ„ fee le baron morust la l' feme ne poit devest le Frank-TenemÌ„t hors de luy per ascun verbal Waiver ou Disclaimer en Pais come si devant ascun Entrie fait per luy el dit que el ousterment waive disclaime die Esta â— e ne unques voile prender ou accepter de ceo uncore le Franktenement remaine en luy el poit ent ' quant a luy pleist Issint un Charter 〈◊〉 FeoffmÌ„t fuit fait a quarter Seisin fuit deliver a trois en nosme de touts apres le Seisin fuit deliver le quater veignaÌ„t view le Fait dit ê‘ ê‘ol que il voi â— e aver riens del Terre ne agrea al Fait mes disclaima fuit adjudge que cest Disclaimer per parol en Pais ne devestera le Frank-tenement hors de luy Cok. lib. 3. fol. 26. Discontinuance DIscontinuance est quant un home alien a un auter Terres ou Tenements morust un auter ad droit a mesme les Terres ne puit enter en eux ê‘ cause de cel Alienation si come un Abbot alien les Terres de son Meason a un auter eÌ„ fee see-taile ou pur vie ou si un hoÌ„e alien les Terres que il ad en droit sa feme ou si Tenant en taile fait de les Terres done a luy a ses Heires de son corps ascÌ„ FeoffmÌ„t DonÌ„ en taile ou Leas pÌ„ vie nient garrant ê‘ Statute 32 H. 8. ê‘ Fine ou Liverie 〈◊〉 seisin doÌ„que tiels alienat ons sont appel ' Discontinuances car tiels Estates passont touts foits per Liverie seisin En ceux cases les Successors del Abbe ne la feme apres le mort sa baron ne l' issue en le taile apres le mort le Tenant en le taile ceux en Remainder ou Reversion puis le fine del Estate taile no po â— ent entre mes chescun de eux est mise a son Action Et sicoÌ„e la est Discontinuance de Possession come est dit avant issint auxy la est Discontinuance de Processe ou Plee ceo est quant l' instant est perde ne poit estre prise arere mes per novel Brief a coÌ„mencer le Suit a novel car destre discontinue destrÌ„ mis sans jour est tout un nient auterment que destre finalment dismisse l' Court de cel instaÌ„t West part 2. tit Fines sect 115. Issint Crompton en son Jurisdictions fol. 131. ceo use en ceux ê‘olx Si un Justice-seat soit discontinue per le nient vener des Justices le Roy poit c'renuer per son Brief Auxy si les Justices de ascÌ„ Court ne viendront al jour lieu appoint donque le Cause serra discontinue tanque al aut ' jour come est en Cok. lib. 1. fol. 38. Issint si home ad un Action en le Court del Marshalsea le Roy remove hors del Vierge les Pleas serront discontinue Cok. lib. 10. fol. 73. Veies pluis de ceo en Lit. lib. 3. cap. 11. 32 H. 8. cap. 28. que tolle Discontinuances ê‘ baron seise en droit son feme Disgrading DIsgrading est quant un homÌ„ ayant prise sur luy un Dignity temporal ou Ecclesiastical est enapÌ„ 〈◊〉 ceo deprive soit il Chivaler Clerk ou auter home Pur que si un Clerk soit deliver a son Ordinarie ne poit acquit ' luy mesme del Peche â— que il fuit convict ê‘ le Jurie il serra pur ceo disgraded qÌ„ riens aut ' est forsque le Deprivation â— luy de ceux Orders que il ad sur luy prise comÌ„ Priesthood Deaconship ou auterment Stanf. Pla. Co. fol. 130 138. Et en mesme le manÌ„ la est Disgrading un Chivaler come est avantdit Veies Stow. Annal. pag. 685. Et est digne l' observation qÌ„ ê‘ le Canon Ley la sont deux sorts 〈◊〉 Disgradings l'un summarie ê‘ parol solemÌ„t laut ' solemnÌ„ per Devestant le partie disgrade de ceux Ornaments Rites que sont les Ensignes â— son Order ou Degree Veies 4 E. 4. 19 20. Dismes DIsmes sont les Disme parts de ascun chose mes ê“perment de ceux choses que encrease queux pur le pluis part perteignÌ„ al Ministers â— Esglise pÌ„ lour maintenance ils sont divides en 3 sorts nosmement Predial Personal mixt Predial Dismes sont Dismes qÌ„ sont paid de choses queux vieÌ„t 〈◊〉 de TerrÌ„ solemeÌ„t come Blees Fene Fruits del arbres tiels semblables Personal Dismes sont les Dismes que sont paid de tiels ê“fits que veignÌ„ ê‘ le Labor industry del ê‘son 〈◊〉 un hoÌ„e come ê‘ Emption Vendition gain 〈◊〉 Merchandise de Manuel-crafts homes Laborers tiels que labor pur salary come Carpenters Masons tiels sembables Mixt Dismes sont les Dismes â— Vitels Agnes Porcels tiels semblables que encrease partment del Terre sur qÌ„ ils sont depasture partmÌ„t â— l garding industry diligence del owner Disparagement DIsparagement est uÌ„ HoÌ„te Disgrace ou Villanie fait ê‘ le GardelnÌ„ eÌ„ Chivalrie a son Gard deins age ê‘ reason de son Marriage Come quant le Gardein marrie son Warde deins age de xiv ans deins tiel temps qÌ„ il ne poit consent al Marriage al un Niese ou al file 〈◊〉 un qÌ„ demurt en un Borough qÌ„ est destre entend tiels queux peres ê‘fesse Maincrafts tiels baser Arts de emption
4 Rep. 66. Sil a â—â— en eÌ„ fee ou a terme ê‘ vie ou eÌ„ taile tout le TrÌ„e ou parcel de le TrÌ„e qÌ„ il tient ê‘ E â— egit si l AlienatioÌ„ soit fait deins le terme ou apÌ„es cestuy que ad droit avera vers luy un Assise de Novel Disseisin Et covient que ils soient mis en l Assise ambid â— ux auxybien l' Alienor come l' Alienee non obstant que l'Alienor devie mai â— tenant uncore cestuy que ad droit avera vers l' Alienee sole Assise coÌ„e sil ust este son simple Teâ— a Ì„t a term 〈◊〉 ans Et ceo est ê‘ l'equitie del Statute de West 2. cap. 25. pur ceo que il ad forsque Chattel en effect Et mesme l' Ley est de ses Executors de cestuy que ad son Estate coÌ„e est s â—â— sdit En Elegit si le Viscount retourne que le partie avoit riens jour de la Recognisance fait mes que il purchase Terres puis le temps adonqÌ„s le Plaintiff avera novel BrÌ„e de aver Execution de ceo Mesme le Ley est sur un Statute-Merchant Apres le Fieri facias un home poit aver le Elegit â— es non c â— nt ' â— ntant que Elegit est 〈◊〉 pluis hault nature que le Fieri facia â— Si home recover per Briefe de De â— sue un Fieri facias le Viscount return que le Defendant nad riens dont il poit fair Gree a le partie donques le Plaintiff avera un Elegit ou un Capias sicut alias Pluries Et si Viscount returne a le Capias Mitto vobis Corpus il nad riens dont il poit fairÌ„ gree al partie il serra maund al gaole del Fleet illonques demurre tanque il ad â— ait Gree al partie si le Viscount returne Non est inveâ—tus adonques issera l' Exigent envers luy Nota Que en Brief de Det port devers Parson qÌ„ nad rien de Lay-fee le Viscount returne que il nad rieÌ„s per que il poit estre summonÌ„ adonques le Plaintiff suera Brief al Evesque que il face v â— ner son Clerk l'Evesque luy ferra vener per Sequestration del Esglise Et si home port Brief de Det recover face ses Executors devie ils naveront Execution non obstant que il soit deins l' an per un Fieri facias Est un aut ' so â— t 〈◊〉 Elegit for adjudgant 〈◊〉 execution envers Terr-Tenants Quel El â— git recite les Terres enve â—â— queux execution est adjudge maund al Viscou â—â— deliver al Creditor un moyety de ceux terres rien encÌ„ est mention des biens ou chateaux come en auters Elegits Elopement ELopement est quant feme espouse departa de son baron ove un Adulterer ove le Adulterer demurra sans voluntarie ReconcilemÌ„t a sa baron per ceo el perdra sa Dower per le Statute de Westm 2. cap. 34. Sur que cest veil Verse Sponte virum mulier fugiens adultera facta Dote sua careaâ— nisi sponso sponte retracta Emblements EMblements sont les Profits de Terre qÌ„ ad estaÌ„ semy en ascuns cases cestuy que ceo emblea eux avers en ascuns nemy come si TenaÌ„t pur vie emblea le Terre apres morust les Executors del Tenant pur vie avera les Emblements nemy cestuy en Reversion Mes si Tenant pur ans emblea le Terre devant que il ad sever son terme expire ore le Lessor ou cestuy eÌ„ Reversion avera les EmblemÌ„ts Si un disseise moy succide les EmblemÌ„ts cressans sur le Terre puls jeo re-enter jeo avera Action de Trespasse verts luy pur les Emblements mes si mon Disseisor fait Feoffment en fee ou lessa le Terre dont il moy disseisist le Feoffee ou Lessee prist les Emblesments puis jeo re-enter jeo navera Trespasse Vi armis vers eux queux veignont eins per Title mes vers mon Disseisor Cok. lib. 11. fol. 51. Si feme Copiholder durante Viduitate sua solonque le Custome del ManÌ„or emblea le TerrÌ„ devant le severaÌ„ce des EmblemÌ„ts el prist baron le SnÌ„r avera les Emblements Issint si feme seisie de Terre durante Viduitate fait un Lease pur ans l â— Lessee emblea le Terre puis la femÌ„ prist baron ore le Lessee navera les Emblements coment que son Estate est determine ê‘ l'act â— un estranger Et nieÌ„t obstaÌ„t qÌ„ est communemÌ„t tenus eÌ„ nostrÌ„ LivrÌ„s Que si home lessa Terres a volunt puis le Lessee emblea le Terre puis le Volunt est determine que le Lessee avera les Emblements uncorÌ„ si le Lessee luy mesme determine le Volunt devant le severance des Blees il navera les Emblements Veies Cok. lib. 5. fol. 116. Embrasour ou Embraceour EMbrasour ou Embraceour est celuy que quant un matt ' est eÌ„ trial ê‘ent ' ê‘tle ê‘tie vient al Barre ove uÌ„â— l ê‘ties ayant receive ascun Reward pur issint faire ê‘le en le case ou privimÌ„t labor le Jurie ou estola la pur surveier ou surview eux per cest meanes de mitter eux en pavor dout del matt ' Mes hoÌ„es erudite eÌ„ Ley poleÌ„t ê‘ler en le case pÌ„ lour ClieÌ„ts Emparlance EMparlance est quant home esteant a responder al Action ou Suit pria ascun temps de Respite de luy mesme adviser le meux que il respondera nest aut ' forsqÌ„ Continuance del Cause al un jour ouster Et coment le Plaintiff en Ban â— e le Roy apres le Bar â— e plede ad jour de reply deux ou trois Termes apÌ„s uncorÌ„ nul mention serra fait en le Rolle â— ascun Em ê‘lance ou Continuance mes l' Entry serra generalment enteÌ„d â— estrÌ„ mesmÌ„ le TermÌ„ Mes autermÌ„t est de un Barre car ceo containe 〈◊〉 ImparlaÌ„ce ou Continuance est en tiel forme Et modo ad hunc diem scilicet diem Veneris c. isto eodem Termino usque ad quem diem praedictus A habuit licentiam interloquendi c. Mes nul tiel Entrie est la fait sur ascun Replication ou Rejoynder Veies Cok. lib. 5. fol. 75. Brit. cap. 5 â— usa cest ê‘ol pur le Conference â— un Jurie sur le Cause a eux commise Est un special Imparlance auxi pur un Defendant salvis sivi omnibus omnimodis exceptionibus ad breve narrationem ou
Felonie eÌ„ cestuy que luy lesser 〈◊〉 escaper si pur Treason il serra Treason en luy si pur un Trespasse donque Trespasse sic d â— singulis Quant un est arrest puis escape encounter le volunt de cestuy que luy arrest ne foit freshment pursu â— reprise devant que le pursuor perdra le view de luy ceo serra dit negligent Escape non obstant que cestuy hors de que possession il escape luy reprist apres le vieu perdu Aux y si un soit arrest puis escape est a son libertie cestuy en que garde il fuist luy reprise apres luy amesne a le prison uncore il est Escape en luy Si un Felon soit arrest per le Constable amesne a le Gaol en le Countie le Gaoler ne voit luy receiver le CoÌ„stabl luy demit le Gaoler auxy issint il escape cest est un Escape en le Gaoler pur ceo qÌ„ en tiel case le Gao â— er est tenus de luy receiver per le main del Constable sans ascun Precept de le Justice de Peace Mes autermÌ„t est si un comÌ„on ê‘son arrest auter pur suspicion de Felony la le Gaoler nest tenus de luy receiver sans Precept de ascun des Justices de Peace Il y ad un E â— cape auxy sans Arrest come si Murder soit fait en le jour le Muderer ne soit prise d â— nque il est Escape pur que le Ville ou le Murder fuit fait serra amercie Et est destre observe Que home poit estre dit 〈◊〉 escaper nient obstant qÌ„ il touts foits remain en Prison Come si home soit en Prison sur deux ExecutioÌ„s a Suit de deux several homes l' ancient Viscount deliver ouster cest Prisoner al novel Viscount ê‘ Indenture accordant al usual manner en le dit IndeÌ„ture ne fait ascun mentioÌ„ 〈◊〉 un des dits Executions cest OmissioÌ„ serra dit uÌ„ Escape eÌ„ Ley immediatment pÌ„ que le ancient Viscount respondera nient obstant que l' Execution fuit matt ' de Record de que le novel ViscouÌ„t puit aver prise notice Mes aut'mÌ„t est lou l'ancieÌ„t Viscount morust car en tiel case covieÌ„t al novel Viscount a soÌ„ peril de preÌ„der notice de tout les Executions que sont vers ascun person que il trova en le Gaole Mes en le dit case ou le Viscount morust devant que auter est fait un que est en Execution enfreint Ie Gaole depart a large ceo est nul Escape car qnÌ„t un Viscount morust tout les prisoners sont en le custodie del Ley tanque novel Viscount soit fait Veies Co. lib. 3. fol. 72. Si le Viscount sur un Capias ad satisfaciendum a luy direct fait Retorne Quod cepit Corpus uncore nad le Corps en Court al jour de le Retorne le Plaintiff poit aver son Action vers le Viscount pur l' Escape nient obstant que le partie issint prise soit en le Gaole Veies 7 H. 4. 11. Br. 107. Escheat EScheat est lou un Tenant en Fee-simple face Felonie pur que il pendue ou abjure le Realme ou utlage de Felonie Murder ou Pe â— it Treason ou si le Tenant morust sans Heire general ou special donque le SnÌ„r de que le Terre est tenus ê‘ le Tenant poit enter ê‘ voy de Escheat ou si ascun auter home enter le Seignior avera vers luy un Brief appel Brief de Escheat Escheator EScheator est le nosme del Officer que regarda les Escheats del Roy en l'Countie de que il est Escheator certifia ceux en le Exchequer Cest Officer est designe ê‘ le SnÌ„r Treasurer ê‘ Letters Patents de luy continua en son Office forsque un an neque poit asc ' estrÌ„ Escheator forsque un foits en trois ans Anno 1. H. 8. cap. 8. an 3. ejusdem cap. 2. Veies pluis de cest Officer son authority en Cromptons Justice de Peace Veies An. 21 Edw. 1. Le forme del SeremÌ„t del Escheator veies en l' Reg. orig fol. 301. b. Et l Escheator est un Officer de Record puit ordein un south-Escheat coÌ„e le Visc ' poit un south-Vise ' unc ' l' Escheator ne poit returne asc ' Office virtute Officii mes il serra punie Veies F. N. B. fol. 100. Officium Escaetriae est l' Escheatorship Reg. orig fol. 259. Eschequer ESchequer Scaccarium venust del ê‘ol Francis Eschequier id est Abacus qÌ„ en un signification est prise pÌ„ un Counting Table ou pur l' art ou science del Compt ' Et de ceo coÌ„e ascuns pensoient le lieu ou Court des Receits ou Accounts des Revenews del Corone est appel l' Eschequer Auters on t autermÌ„t derive le nosme de ceo Mes l' Eschequer est define per Crompton en son Jurisd des Courts fol. 105. destre un Court del Record en qÌ„ touts les Causes que concernÌ„ les Revenews l' CoroÌ„ soÌ„t tracts Escrowle UN Escrow est un fait deliver al tierce person d'estre le fait del party sur future condicion Et est appell en Latine Schedula Rast Entr. fol. 181. Escuage EScuage en Latine Scutagium cest adire Servitium Scuti cestuy que tient per Escuage tient per Servic â— de Chival a ceo appeÌ„t Gard Marriage Relief c Mes veies le Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. pÌ„ abolishing le Court de Gards Liveries turning touts les Tenures en frank comÌ„on Soccage Escuage fuit un certein Summe de Argent levie ê‘ le SnÌ„r de ses Tenants solonque l' quantitie de son Tenure qnÌ„t l' Escuage courge per tout Angleterre fuit ordeigne per tout le Council d' Angleterre qnÌ„t chesc ' Tenant donÌ„a a son SnÌ„r ceo fuit propermÌ„it pur susteiner le GuerrÌ„ coÌ„tre Escoce ou Gales noÌ„ pas coÌ„tre aut's TrÌ„s pur ceo q' les avantdit TrÌ„s serroÌ„t de droit appendaÌ„t a le RealmÌ„ d' Angleterre Vide Lit. l. 2. c. 3. Eslisors SOnt persons nominate ê‘ uÌ„ Court del comÌ„on Ley al queux un venire facias serroit direct ê‘ challeng al Viscount Coroners queux retorne le brÌ„e en lour nosmes ove un pannel ces nosmes des Jurors 15 E. 4. 24. fol. 4. Esnecy ESnecy eÌ„ un imÌ„unitie donÌ„ al pluis eigne CoparcenÌ„ de Eslier primerment puis l' Inheritance est divide Flet. l. 5. c. 10. Esplees ESplees est le Profit ou Commoditie que est a prender dun chose Come
Grand Serjeanty GRand Serjeantie est lou un home tient del Roy certaine Terres ê‘ le Service de porter son Banner ou Launce ou amesner son hoste ou destre son Carver ou Butler a son CoronmÌ„t tiels semblables ceo est la pluis digne Service qÌ„ le Tenant poit fairÌ„ pÌ„ ceo est appel Grand Serjeantie Mes Petit Serjeanty est quant uÌ„ tient Ä‘ Roy rendant a luy annualmÌ„t un Arc un Coteau un Launce ou tiel semblable ceo nest forsque Socage en effect mes hoÌ„e ne poit tener eÌ„ Grand Serjeanâ—ie ne ê‘ Petit Serjeantie si non de Roy. Auxy si Tenant ê‘ Grand Serjeantie morust son Heir esteant Ä‘ plein age payera al Roy pur Relief le value des TrÌ„es oust ' les charges que il pay al Roy pÌ„ GraÌ„d Serjeanty mes cestuy q' tient ê‘ Escuage payera pÌ„ son Rel â— ef forsque C. s. Ceux que sont en les Marches de Scotland que tient del Roy ê‘ Cornage ceo est pÌ„ ventiler un Cornu quant les Scots entront Angleterre sont Tenants ê‘ Grand Serjeantie Aux ' ou un home tient del Roy pÌ„ trover un home en sa Guerre deins le Realm c'est dit Grand Serjeantie pÌ„ ceo que il est fait ê‘ Corps d'uÌ„ home Et si le Tenant ne poit trover home de faire ceo il est tenus de faire ceo luy mesme Mes veies le Stat. 12 Car. 2. c. 24. ê‘ quel touts les Tenures sent ore turne eÌ„ frank common Socage Gree. GRee venust del Francois parol Gâ—e Beneplacitum signifie en nostre Ley Contentment ou Satisfaction come en le Statute 1 R. 2. c. 15. de faire Gree as parties est a doner eux contentment ou Satisfaction pur un Offence as eux fait Green hew GReen hew est tout un ove Vert coÌ„eappiert ê‘ Manwood en ses Leys del Forrest c 6. sect 5. Et pÌ„â— c veies Virt. Green Wax GReen Wax est un parol use en les Statutes 〈◊〉 42 E. 3. c. 9. 7 H. 4. c. 3. sign fie les Estreats des Issues Fines Amerciaments en l' Eschequer bailes hors as Viscounts south le Seale del Court destre ê‘ eux levies en lour several Counties Grithbreach GRithbreach hoc est Pax Domini Regis fracta quia Grith Anglice Pax Latine Gule de August Gule de August est le primÌ„ jour ou les Calends del August qÌ„ en le temps E. 1. E. 3. fuit usualment appel de Gule de August come appiert ê‘ F. N. B. f. 62. l. Plowden Com. f. 316. b. Est le verie jour S. Petri ad vineula le reason pur que est appel le Gule de August est conceive sur un Historie recorde per Durandus en son Rationale Divinorum l. 7. c. 19. d'un Miracle effect per le Chaine de S. Peter sur le file d'un Quirine un Tribune del Rome que ê‘ le baiser del dit Chaine fuit cure des Escrovel en sa Gule gula Et veies Hospin de origine festorum f. 85. b. Gultwit GVltwit est un amends pur Trespasse solonque Saxton en son Description del Angleterre c. 11. H. Habeas Corpus HAbeas Corpus est un BrÌ„e le quel home endite d'asc ' Trespasse devant Justices del Peace ou en un Court d'asc ' Franchise sur son Prisure esteant gist en Prison pur mÌ„ poit aver hors del Banke le Roy ê‘ c ' d'amesner luy mesme la a ses costs demesne de respon â— le Cause ley F. N. B. f. 250. h. l'order â— n ceo case est primerment 〈◊〉 ê“curer un Certiorari hors del Chancerie direct al dits Justices pur le remover del Endictment eÌ„ le Banke le Roy sur ceo de ê“curer cest Bre al Visc ' de causer son Corps destre amesne al un jour Reg. Judic f. 81. ou vous poies trover plusors cases eÌ„ queux cest Brief serra use Habeas corpora HAbeas corpora est un BrÌ„e que gist contre un Jurie ou ascun d'eux que refusont de venur sur le Venire facias pur le Trial d'un Meistre port al issue Habendum HAbendum est un parol de forme en un Conveyance al voyer intelligence de que est destre observe que en chesc ' Fait de Conveyance la sont deux principal darts le Premisses l' Habendum Le Office des Premisses est d' expresser le nosme del Grauntor le Grantee le Chose destre grauntee L' Office del Habendum est 〈◊〉 limitter l'Estate issint que le general Implication del Estate que per construction del Ley passa en les Premisses est ê‘ le Habendum controlle qualifie SicoÌ„e en un Lease a deux homes Habendum a l'un pÌ„ vie ie Remainder al auter pur vie alter le genÌ„al Implication del Joynt-tenancie en le FranktenemÌ„t que passera ê‘ les Premisses si l' Habendum ad este omis Veies Coke l. 2. f. 55. Habere facias Seisinam HAbere facias Seisinam est un Brief Judicial que gist lou un ad recover certaine Terres en Court le Roy donques il avera cest Brief direct al Viscount luy commandment de done a luy Seisin del Terre ne serra retournable Habere facias Visum HAbere facias Visum est un BrÌ„e que gist en pluseurs Cases lou View est estre pris del TrÌ„es ou Tenements eÌ„ question Veies F. N. B. in Indice verbo View Br. l. 5. tra 3. c. 8. Half-bloud HAlf-bloud Veies Demysank Demy Seal Demy Seal est un Seal use eÌ„ le ChaÌ„cerie pÌ„ le sealer de â— Commissions as Delegates sur un Appeal en un Cause civil ou marine come appiert ê‘ le Stat. fait en 8 Eliz. c. 5. Halymote HAlymote est un Court-Baron coÌ„e appiert per Manwood eÌ„ ses Forrest Leys c. 23. f. 217. a. Et est appel Halymote cestascavoit le Concurse des TenaÌ„ts d'un Hall ou ManÌ„or Hambling ou Hoxing des Chiens HAmbling ou Hoxing ou Hock-sinewing des Chiens sont antient t'mes del Forrest pÌ„ le Lawing des Chiens quant le customÌ„ fuit coÌ„e appiert ê‘ Manw. Fo. Leys c. 16. sect 12. â— couê‘ ou berluffer Chiens eÌ„ lour Jareds mes ore est use destre fait en lour Pieds De qÌ„ veies Expeditate Hand-gun HAnd-gun est un Engine qÌ„ est ê‘hibite destre use emport per le Statute de 33 H. 8. c. 6. Et com't que un Dagge fuit envent de tardife teÌ„ps puis le fesans del dit Act nest conust ê‘ le nosmÌ„â— Hand-gun mes ê‘ uÌ„ especial nosme uncore le carrying d'un
grieve Auxy si a â— cun Terre en Ancient demesne soit en variance enter les Fenants donques le Tenant issint grieve avera vers auter Brief quod vocatur Droit close secundum Confuetudinem Manerit ceo serra touts foits port en le Court le Seigniour sur ceo il countera en le nature de quel brief il voit come son case gist cest Brief ne serra remove si non pÌ„ grand cause ou non-power de le Court. Auxy si le SnÌ„r en auter lien hors de ancient Demesne distraine son Tenant de faire auter Service que il doit il avera Brief de Droit appelle Ne injuste vexes cest un Brief de Droit Patent que serra trie per Battel ou Grand Assise Mortdancester MOrtdanc st â— r â— Vide devant en le Title Cosinage Mortagage ou Morgage MOrtgage ou Morgage est quant un fait un Feoffment a un auter sur tiel condition que si le Feoffor paya al Feoffee a certain jour 40 l. â— argent que adonque le Feoffor poit re-enter c. En ceo case le Feoffee est appel Tenant en Morgage Et ficome un home poit faire Feoffment en Fee en Morgage issint il poit faire DonÌ„ en taile ou Lease pÌ„ vie ou pÌ„ ans en Morgage Et il semble que la cause pÌ„ que il est appel Morgage est pur ceo que il estdit en anrust si le Feoffor voile payer al jour limit l' argent ou non si il ne paya pas donque le Terre que il mist en gage sur condition 〈◊〉 paymÌ„t â— le money est ale de luy a touts jours issint mort a luy sur coÌ„dition mes si il paya le money donques est le gage mort qnÌ„t a le Tenant cestascavoit le Feoffee Et pÌ„ cest cause il est appel en Latine Mortuum vadium come Littleton dit ou Mortuum vas come jeo pense Auxy si FeoffmÌ„t soit fait eÌ„ Morgage sur condition que si le Feoffor paya tiel summe a tiel jour c. le Feoffor morust devant le jour unco â— si le Heire le Feoffor paya le summe a mesme le jour al Feoffee le Feoffee ceo refusa le Heire le Feoffee poit enter Mes en tiel case si n â— soit ascun jour de payment expresse donques tiel Tender del Heire est voide pur ceo que quant le Feoffor morust le temps del Tender est passe autermÌ„t les Heires le Feoffor averont temps del Ten â— a touts jours que serra inconvenient qÌ„ un avera un Fee-simple a luy ses HeirÌ„s defeasible touts foits a le pleasure volunt de auters Mes en le primer case l' teÌ„ps del sender ne fuit expire per la mort le Feoffor Mortmaine MOrtmaine lou Terres sont dones a Meason 〈◊〉 Religion ou a un auter Companie qÌ„ sont corporate ê‘ le Grant le Roy cest TreÌ„ est devenus eÌ„ Mortmaine cest adire en Anglois a dead hand donque le Roy ou le SnÌ„r de que le TrÌ„e est tenus poit entre come appiert per le Statute de Religiosis Auxy cy un fait Feoffment sur confidence a certain persons al oeps de un meason de Religion ou al oeps de ascun G â— ld ou Fraternity corporate il serra dit Mortmain il encourage mesmÌ„ le pain ut patet per l' Statute Anno 15 R. 2. Mortuary MOrtuary Mortuarium est ceo Aver ou auter Chattel moveable que apres le mort del owner per le Custome des ascuns lieus accrue al Parson Vicar ou Priest del Paroche en lieu ou satisfaction des Dismes ou Oblations oblites on nient duement payes ê‘ cestuy que est mort Veies ore l' Statute de 21 H. 8. cap. 6. que limit le course order del payment de ceux Mortuaries ou de deniers pur eux Mulier MUlier est up ê‘ol use en nostre Ley mes coÌ„e aptmÌ„t jeo nepoy dier car accordaÌ„t al ê“per significatioÌ„ Mulier est Foemina corrupta sicome il est use ê‘ Ulpianus en tiel manÌ„ Si ego me VirginÌ„ emere putarem cum esset Mulier emptio non valebat Per c ' poyes veir que Mulier est un Feme que ad ew le coÌ„panie â— uÌ„ hoÌ„e Mes a relinquisher l' droit significant Mulier est prise en nostre Ley pur uÌ„ que est loyalment engeÌ„der nee est touts foits contradistinguished ovesque uÌ„ Bastard solemÌ„t pÌ„ monstre un differeÌ„ce pent ' eux coÌ„e pÌ„ example Un hoÌ„e ad un Fitz ê‘ un Feme devant Marriage cest issue est un Bastard illoyal apÌ„s il marrie ove le Mere del Bastard ont un aut ' Fitz cest second Fitz est appelle Mulier cest adire loyal serra Heire a son pere mes le auter ne poit estre Heire al ascun home pur ceo que il nest conus ne certaine en le judgement del Ley que fuit son Pere pur cest cause est dit destre nullius filius ou filius populi issint sans Pere accordant al cestuy veil verses Cui Pater Populus Pater est sibi nullus omnis Cui Pater est Populus non habet ipse Patrem Et touts foits vous troves cest addition al eux Bastard eigne Mulier puisne quant ils sont compare ensemble Muniments MUniments Munimenta sont EvideÌ„ces ou Escripts touchants le Possession ou Inheritance dascun home per queux il est able pur defâ—nd ' l'Eâ—â—ate que il ad Et ils sont issint appels del Latin parol Muvio que signifie pur defender ou fortifier Et 35 H. 6. f. 37. b. Wangford dit que cest parol Muniment include touts manners des Evidences viz. Charters Releases auters Murage MUrage Muragium est un Tolle ou Tribute levie pur l' Repairer ou edifier des publique Mures Veies Fitzh N. B. fol 227. D. l' Stat. 3 E. 1. cap. 30. Murder MUrder est un voluntarie Occider 〈◊〉 un home sur malice prepense semble â— e vener de le Saxon parol Mordren que issint signifie Et Mordridus eÌ„ le Murderer tanque al cest jour ent ' eux in Saxony â—que nous avomus mults 〈◊〉 nostrÌ„ parolx come ad estre sovent dit Ou poit estre derive de Mort dire quasi Mors dira Veies Stanf. Plees del Coron lib. 1. Muster MUster venust del parol Francois Monstrer id est Monstrare car de muster nest riens forsque de monstre homes lour Armes d'eux inroller en un Livre come appiert ê‘ l'Stat de 18 H. 6. cap. 19.
N. Naam NAam est le Pursuer on Apprehension des biens moveables de un auter home il est ou loyal ou illoyal Naam loyal est un reasonable Distresse accordant al value del chose pur que Distresse est fait Veies puis de ceo en Hornes Mirrour de Justices lib. 2. Nativo habendo NAtivo habendo est un Brief que gist lou le Villeine ou Nief de un Seigniour est ale â— luy donques le Seigniour avera cest Brief direct al Vic' que il face le SnÌ„r aver son Villein ou Niefe ovesque touts ses chateux En cest Brief plusors Villeins ou Nieses ne purront estrÌ„ demandes que deux mes cy tant des Villeins ou Niefes que voilent joyntmÌ„t poieÌ„t porter BrÌ„e de Libertate probanda Et si un Nief port Brief de Libertate probanda avant que le Seigniour port cest Brief donques le Villein Plaintif ou Niefe serra en peace jesque al venue des Iustices ou autermÌ„t son Brief ne luy aidera Au â— y si un Villein ad demur en Antient demesne per un an jour sans claime del Seigniour donques il ne poit luy seiser deins le dit Franchise Naturalization NAturalization Veies Denizen Ne admittas NE admittas est un Brief direct al Evesque al Suit de un que est Patron de ascun Esglise il doubta que l'Evesque voit collate un son Clerk ou admit un auter Clerk pÌ„sent ê‘ auter home al dit Benefice donques il qÌ„ c ' doubta avera cest Brief de inhibiter le Viscount de collater ou admitter ascun a son Esglise Negativa pregnans NEgativa pregnans est quant un Action Information ou tiel semblable Suite est port envers un le Defendant plead en Barre del ActioÌ„ ou auterment un Negative Plee que nest cy special aunswer al Action mes que il enclude auxy un affirmat â— ve Come pÌ„ example Si uÌ„ BrÌ„e de Entre en casu proviso soit port per cestuy en le Reversion sur Alienation ê‘ le Tenant pur vie supposant que il ad alien en Fee que est un Forselture de son Estate le Tenant al Brief dit que il nad alien en Fee cest un Negative en que est include un Affirmative car nient obstant il soit veray que il nad alien en Fee uncore il poit estre q' il ad fait un Estate en taile le qÌ„l est auxy un Forfeiture donques l' Entry de celuy en l'Reversion est loyal c. Item en un Quare impedit l'Roy fist Title de presenter a un Prebend ratione que les Temporalties de l'Evesquerle fueront en sa mains ê‘ le mort â— W. nuê‘ Episcopum c. Le Defendant dit que ne voida pas esteants les Temportalties eÌ„ les maines â— l Roy ê‘ le mort de W. Cest un Negative pregnant car il poit estre en les maines del Roy auterment que per le mort de W. il suffist al Roy si soit en sa maines c. Issint est lou un Information fuit port in Scaccario vers J. S. pur ceo que il achate lanes pereÌ„ter Sheringtemps Assumption tali anno de J N. Le Defendant dit quod non emit de J. N. come il est alleadge c. Ceo est appelle un Negative pregnant car sil ceo achate de auter uncore il est culpable pur achater Neif ou Nief NIef est un Feme que est bonde ou uÌ„ Villein Feme mes si el marrie un Frankhome el est ê‘ ceo fait frank pur ceo que el sa Baron sont forsque un person en Ley el covient estre de mesme le nature condition en Ley a touts entents coÌ„e sa Baron mes sa Baron est frank a touts entents sans ascun condition en Ley ou autermÌ„t issint per consequens le Feme covient estre est frank accordant al nature son frank Baron Et donques si el soit un foits franke cleerement discharge de Villenage a touts entents el ne poit estre Niefe apres sans especial act fait per luy come Divorce ou Conusans en Court de Record c ' est en favour de Libertie Et pÌ„ ceo un Franke feme ne serra Villeine per prisel del Villein a sa Baron mes lour issue serra Villeines come lour Pere fuit que est contrary a le Ley Civile car la est dit Partus sequitur Ventrem Bondage ou Villeinage ad son coÌ„mencemÌ„t enter les Hebrews son original de Chanaan le fits de Cham qÌ„ pÌ„ ceo que il avoit derise son Pere Noe gisant dissolutement quant il fuit ebrle fuit punie en son fits Chanaan ovesque penaltie d'Bondage Ne Injuste vexes NE injuste vexes Vide Titulo Monstraverunt Next Friend NExt Friend Veies Prochein Amy. Nihil dicit NIhil dicit est quant un Action est pore envers un home le Defendant appeare le Plaintife declare le Defendant ne voile responder ou pleade al Action ne maintaine son Plee mes fait Default ore sur cest Default il serra condemne quia Nihil dicit Nisi prius NIsi prius est un BrÌ„e judicial gist quant l'Enquest est impanell ' retorne devant les Justices en Banke donques le Plaintife ou Defendant poit aver cest BrÌ„e direct al Vil â— ' luy commandant qÌ„ il face vener la Enquest devant les Justices en mÌ„ le Countie a lourvener ceo pÌ„ easement del Enquest Nomination NOmination est lou un poit en droit de son Mannor ou auterment nominate appoint un able Clerk ou hoÌ„e al un Parsonage Vicarage on tiel Spiritual promotion Et nota que cest Nomination poit estre al auter que l' Ordinarie que auter luy presenterÌ„ al Ordinarie Non-ability NOn-abilitie est lou un Action est port vers un le Defendant dit que le Plaintiff est non able de suer asc ' Action demand Judgment sil serra responde Il y ad 6 causes de Non-abilitie en le Plaintiff come sil soit Utlage ou Alien nee mes cest Disabilitie est en Actions reals mix solement non en Actions personals si non que il solt un Alien enemie ou condemne en Praemunire ou ê“fesse en un Abbie Priorie ou Frierie ou Excommenge ou un Villeine sue son Seignoir Mes cest darreine nest Plee pur auter que nest Seignior al Villeine Vide de ceo Littl. l. 2. c. 7. Non-age NOn-age est tout les temps de l'age del home desouth 21 ans en