are absolute viz. if for one hour onely it sufficeth and there he may alien without danger of the Statute and here no offence is shewed to be made against the Statute Pollards Assise of Freshforce 7. E. 6. In the Guild-Hall London in the Hustings in time of Tent. AN Assise of Freshforce upon a plaint of Intrusion or of Novell Diseisen was brought by John Pollard Esquire and Mary his wife in the Hustings of the Guild-Hall London against Bartholomew Jekell Ralph Foxley and Anne his wife and eleven others 10. of them appear by Baily and plead nultiel in rerum natura as one named in the Writ this shall abate but for him onely and shall stand good for the others It was adjudged so in the quare impedit against the Bishop of Carlile many others where the death of one of the Defendants was pleaded by abatement for speed in avoiding of delays therein For voucher lyeth not in it unless the party himself be present in Court and Protection lyeth not because excepted in an Assise therefore it sufficeth if Tenant and Disseisor relinquish and the Land is the chief and Original cause of the Action otherwise in Trespass for there the person is chief and the death of one shall abate the whole Writ by 29. Ass fol. 62. adjudged but the contrary was held 44. E. 3.18 47. E. 3.18 The Parson of Honylanes Case AN Assise of Freshforce against Moore 7. F. 6. Panel Parson against Moore the Mercers of London and a Corporation The Corporation may not appear by Baily without Warrant for that it is to defend their wrong otherwise it is to justifie a Trespass which is but a personall thing And although the Assise Pone per vadios salvos plegios predict Defend vel Ballivum suum si ipse inventus non fuerit generally yet he shall be intended a Lawfull Baily by Warrant And the Defendant pleaded that the Plaintiff hath entred after the last continuance and Issue taken thereupon the Jury gave a speciall Verdict That he entred for to see the antiquity of the buildings at the request of the Defendant which had invited him to dinner and adjudged no entry to abate the Writ for that if he were a stranger he should not be a Trespasser by this because of the request because he had not any intent to enter and continue in possession The Jury may give a speciall Verdict and find the matter at large upon every issue by equity of the Statute of Westminster 2. cap. 30. if this tends to prove the part of the Issue onely per curiam Woodland against Mantle and Redsole THe Lord incroacheth services of another nature and avow for this 5. 6. E. 6. Replevin The Tenure shall be Traversed and not the Seisen otherwise it is if he encroach more of the same nature as where he holdeth by 12. d. to encroach 2. s. c. There the seisen shall be Traversed for the quality of the Tenure is Traversable and not the quantity But to avoid the incroachment of the quantity the Tenant is put to a Writ of Customs and Services or contra formam Feoffamenti and this is an Estoppell between true Lord and Tenant onely in Replevin and the Tenant may make Rescous if he Distrains for this incroachment And the Lord may not make Title in Assise for this incroachment And also this encroachment is intendable onely between true Lord and true Tenant and not Donor and Donee Lessor and Lessee for there they ought to avow upon the Reservation which the Tenants may Traverse notwithstanding the encroachment by Plowden The Lord may Seise or Distrain for Heriot Service adjudged because he hath property in this by the death of his Tenant and the certainty thereof appeareth by 6. E. 3 277. Matters of the Crown at Salop. IF one be present and abet a Murtherer he is principall as well as he that kils the man 1. Mar. at the Sessions in Salop. and shall be indicted although that the Murtherer flies and be not attainted because both are principals in the first and same degree And he which abets is not onely principall in the second degree but if one be Indicted as accessary to two he shall not be arraigned with the abettor untill he which flies is also attainted and adjudged which agreeth with 40. Ass 25.7 H. 4.29 and 36. b. And if the abettor be found guilty by one Verdict and the Murtherer by another Verdict is acquitted now Judgement shall be respited against the abettor for the Court will give more credit to the Verdict which was charged directly upon the principal act then another which is charged implicitely and oblique 1 Mar at the same Sessions FIve were Indicted of Murther of a Servant of Doctor Ellis's and one venire facias awarded against all and they severed in peremptory Challenges yet the Jurors which were challenged shall be drawn against all upon the Challenge of one although that the others challenge him not but allow him 1. Adjudged for that the venire facias is intire that the Court in discretion at the prayer of the Attorney of the King may sever the Jury and Tales thereupon 2. They may make one Jury serve severally against every of them by himself 3. The evidence given against the prisoners prove That the Servant was killed upon malice prepenced to Doctor Ellis himself which was in company at the time of the Murther And the Court resolved That this Malice to the Master extends to the Servant and all others which defend the Master and resist the malice of the Murtherers 4. Resolved also That if two are fighting of malice prepenced and a stranger which hath no malice takes part with the one and kils the other this is manslaughter in him and Murther in the other 5. Resolved if one be indicted of Murther and found guilty of Manslaughter and acquitted of the Murther yet Judgement shall be given against him that he shall be hanged for that the death of a man which is the substance is found although that the circumstance is not yet he was reprieved by the discretion of the Justices Fulmerston against Steward M. 1. 2. P. Mar. in the kings Bench in trespass PLeading that the Masters and confreres of a Colledge was seized in fee is good without saying in the right of the Colledge for it shall be so intended for that they are named by the name of corporation otherwise it is if they were named by their particular names 2. If one plead a Lease of a Mannor with an exception made to the defendant and will avoid this for parcel of the Mannor because of another Lease made to the first Lessee within a year after the making of the Statute of 31. H. 8. ca. 13. he ought to aver in pleading that the exception extends not to this parcel For otherwise it shall so intend strongest against him that pleads it and then pass not
AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT IN ENGLISH OF The COMMENTARIES or REPORTS of the learned and famous Lawyer EDMOND PLOWDEN An Apprentice of the Common Law Concerning diverse Cases and Matters in Law and the Arguments thereupon in the times of the Reignes of King Edward the Sixth Queen Mary King Philip and Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth with the Exceptions to the Pleadings and Answers thereunto the Resolutions of the Matters in Law and all other principall Matters arising upon the same By F. H. of the Inner Temple London Esq Tractant fabrilia fabri London Printed by R. White and T. Roycroft for Henry Twyford and are to be sold at his Shop in Vine Court in the Middle Temple 1650. A Table of the severall Cases Contained in this Booke A ARchers and Saunders Case Indictment Fol. 28. Part. 2 B Berkley Knight Lord Berkly Ej. firme fol. 223 Brett against Rigden Replevin fol. 195 Bracebridge against Cooke Ej. firme fol. 44. part 2 Bracebridge against Clouse fol. 6. p. 2 Bransby against Grantham Ej. firme f. 48. part 2 Browning against Beeston Trespas fol. 102 Buckley against Rice Thomas debt fol. 96 C Colthirst against Bejushyn Trespas Fol. 20 Chapman against Dalton Covenant fol. 169 Carrill against Cuddington Court of Wards fol. 176 Coles case Pardon fol. 232 Cleere against Brooke alias Cobham Wast fol. 18. p. 2 Croft against Howell Ej. firme fol. 51. part 2 Crowne matters concerning it fol. 87 Croker against Partridge maintainance fol. 74 D Dive against Maningham debt fol. 64 Earle of Darby Challenge fol. 95 Dutchy of Lancaster fol. 134 Delamer against Barnard Trespas fol. 200 Davies against Pepis debt fol. 17. part 2. Doctor Ellis Case Indictment fol. 88 E Ellis Case Indictment fol. 38 Eyston against Studd Ej. firme Fol. 29. p. 2 Eare against Snow Ej. firme fol. 43. p. 2 F Fulmerston against Steward trespasse fol. 89 Fish against Brocket Error fol. 160 G Greisbrooke against Fox detinue fol. 163 Grendon against the Bishop of Lincolne fol. 37. part 2 H Hill against Grange trespasse fol. 124 Dame Hales Case for forfeiture fol. 153 Hare and Bickly Annuity fol. 50. p. 2 Hadden against Brooke wast fol. 18. p. 2 K Kidwelly against Brand trespasse fol. 71 L The Earle of Leicesters Case trespasse f. 224 Ludford against Gretton trespasse f. 36. p. 2 M Mantle against Redsole Replevin fol. 86 Matters of the Crown at Shrewsbury f. 87 Mynes Information fol. 184 Mannors at the suite of Vernon fol. 10. p. 2 N Norwood against Read action Sur le Case fol. 126 Earle of Northumberlands Case Information fol. 148 Sir Henry Nevells Case in the Exchequer fol. 221 Nicholls against Nicholls fol. 30. p. 2 O Osborne against Carden and Iay trespasse fol. 175 P Platt against the Sheriffes of London debt fol. 42 Partridge against Strange c. debt fol. 74 Pollards assise of Fresh force fol. 85 Parson of Hony-lanes Case Assise of Freshforce ibid. Paramor against Yardley trespasse f. 53. p. 2 Pepis at the suite of Davies fol. 17. p. 2 R Reniger against Fogassa Information fol. 1 Rosse against Pope Audita Querela f. 73 Rice Thomas at the suit of Buckley debt f. 96 Ratcliffes case in the Court of Wards f. 160 S Say against Smith and Fuller Replevin f. 161 Stradling against Morgan debt fol. 128 Saunders against Freeman Quid Juris clamat fol. 133 Smith and Fullers case Replevin fol. 161 Sherington and Pledalls case trespasse f. 177 Stowell and Zouch entry Sur disseisen f. 204 Scholastic Nâ—wys her case against Larke fol. 1. part 2 Smith and Stapletons case repl fol. 10. p. 2 Sobie and Molins Attachment upon a Prohibition fol. 26. p. 2 Saunders Archers case Indictment f. 28. p. 2 T Townsends case in the Court of Wards f. 93 Throgmorton against Tracy second deliverance fol. 112 V Vernon against Mannors Formedon Challenge fol. 10. p. 2 W Wimbish against Tayllois trespasse fol. 46 Lord Willoughbies Case Assise fol. 73 Willion against Berkley Ej. firme fol. 137 Woodward against the Lord Darcie debt fol. 126. Wrotesly against Adams Ej. firme f. 127 Sir Thomas Wroths case Petition f. 20. p. 2 Welkden against Elkington trespasse fol. 44. part 2 Walsinghams case Information for Intrusion fol. 59. p. 2. THE FIRST PART Reniger against Fogassa An Information by Reniger against Fogassa upon the Statute of 1. Ed. 6. cap. 13. FOgassa shipped 4500 Kintals of Woad for England 2 E. 6. in the Exchequer Chamber and upon the sea a tempest did arise and endanger the drowning of the ship for the safety whereof and of the men and goods in it he casts part of the Woad into the sea and after arrives at the Port with the residue and before the landing Fogassa came to the Collector of the Subsidie and shewed unto him the accident aforesaid and that by reason thereof he knew not the certaintie of the remnant and prayed him to make entry of 2000. Kintals of Woad which he supposed were left and if more were remaining then he would pay Custom for it according to the rate when the certainty should appear and desired licence for to land it which was granted and before the woad was weighed Reniger informed against him for landing 1693 Kintals of woad more then 4500. Kintals the Subsidie not paid nor the Collector agreed with for it to which he pleaded the matter aforesaid and concluded and super hoc he did agree and upon the agreement Issue was taken and the Defendant gave in evidence the especial agreement aforesaid and upon the evidence the King Demurs and adjudged for Fogassa the Defendant by force of a Privy Seal sent by the King to that purpose But the opinion of all the Justices and Barons except Hales and Montague were with the Defendant 1. For that this agreement incertain and conditional is an agreement and so saith the words of the Statute which sufficeth because the Statute is penal and shall be expounded strictly against offenders and shall not be intended beneficial for the King to be an agreement 2. Admit it to be an Agreement yet here this incertaintie is reducible to a certaintie by circumstances viz. by weighing which shall be done by the Collector at his pleasure 3. Admit that the agreement ought to be certain at first yet here the casting out of the woad for the avoiding of greater mischief viz. The drowning of the ship men and goods the necessity for the avoiding of eminent danger of death the compulsion for fear of death caused his ignorance to be involuntary and by consequence his agreement incertain every one of which by it self may dispence with any law à fortiori altogether 4. When the defendant pleads a special agreement in the Affirmative and concludes upon it super hoc agreement the conclusion hath not waved the matter aforesaid as if it had been in the Negative 5. He had performed the intent of the Statute by this agreement for when the Collector hath weighed the
Remainder to the right Heirs of I. S. in Life passes from the Lessor presently although it vests not presently but here the Remainder passeth not presently because the Condition precedes the Remainder as 15. H. 7. 1. if A. Grant to B. That when he is promoted to a Benefice or do such an Act he shall have an Annuity there he shall shew his Promotion if he demands his Annuity because it is a Condition precedent and to him which maketh the Grant but if he Grants an Annuity until he be promoted there he shall not shew it because the Promotion is subsequent to the Annuity and will defeat the Annuity and therefore it shall be shewed by the other party which is contray So 7. E. 3.10 A Lessee for eight years rendring 10. s. yearly and if he holdeth over to him and his heirs an action of Debt is maintainable during the Term for the Rent is a Chattle because the Fee passeth not presently for that the Condition precedes the Fee So 6. R. 2. a Lease to two for years upon Condition That if the Lessee aliens within the Term or die he shall have Fee it is holden that the Fee passeth not presently because the Condition precedes it which Cases prove That the Remainder passes not out of the Lessor at the time of the Livery albeit that the Condition precede the Remainder and proves also That the Remainder Commenceth upon Condition and proves also That the Remainder is appointed to begin after the Commencement of the particular Estate the which is contrary to the grounds of Law and therefore and for the said other causes the Remainder shall be void And so for the insufficiencie of the matter of the Bar and Form also the Plaintiff shall recover Cook Serjeant to the contrary As to the two Exceptions which have been moved That the Plea is not good because he shews not that he hath been resiant after the deaths of the Husband and Wife alwaies nor what day he entred Sir I take it That it shall be taken that he entred immediately after the death of the Husband and Wife for the Defendant hath pleaded by way of Bar and if the Bar hath matter of substance and is good to a common intent it sufficeth although it be not good to every special intent and therefore in the Case of 33. H. 6. fol. 24. where the Defendant pleads That the Testator made the Plaintiff and one R. his Executor Judgement c. The Plea was good without shewing that he was made after that the Plaintiff was made sole Executor because it shall be intended after So 10. H. 7. 15. by Keble in Trespas the Defendant pleads his Free-hold good because good by Common intendment yet the Plaintiff might have an Estate for years and it may stand with his Bar and by which he may punish the default but such special matter will not be intended So 6. E. 4.1 in Debt upon an Obligation the Defendant saith That he hath done such things as was contained in the Indenture and at Issue and found for the Plaintiff and spoken to in Arrest of Judgement because the Defendant said not that the two Covenants were all and so had not alleadged the performance of all but held good because by Common intent there shall not be intended more then two Covenants if the Plaintiff shew not the contrary So 3. H. 6.4 in Formedon he gave not prima facie a good Bar because it intends a general gift and yet it may be That the Land was recovered in value and then the Plea is not apt for other Land was given So 3. H. 6.3 In Debt nothing in their hands pleaded by Executors good yet it may be that other goods first not the Testators at the day of his death are come to their hands in place instead of other goods So 21. H. 6.17 In Assise the Defendant was in by discent where he had a mean Title which tolled the Assise of the other shall not be void by the said recovery but this shall not be intended without shewing so discent and entry in Bar good yet it may be that a stranger abated and dyed seised and the Heir could not enter but if shall not be intended without shewing specially but when a thing Commenceth in respect of the time then the certainty of the time shall be shewed fol. 24.27.33 as 20. H. 7.12 by Rede A Servant which demanded 20. s. Sallary for his service by the year ought to shew the expiration of the year because the Action is given in respect of the year past and the time is parcell of the cause of the Demand and precedes the Demand but here the time pursues the Remainder and is not cause of the Remainder and therefore we ought to shew it so certainly as where time gains a thing for here it goeth in defeasance of the thing and therefore the Bar is good notwithstanding the said two Exceptions besides it seemeth to me the Remainder is good For first he hath an Estate here upon which the Remainder may be grounded here the remainder is appointed thereupon but the cause wherefore the Remainder shall not be good is alleadged in two great points viz. because the Fee passeth not presently forth of the Lessor and also for that the Remainder cannot pass upon Condition And it seems to me That the Remainder passeth out of the Lessor presently howbeit that it vests not presently as in Litl 81. A Lease for five years if he pay within the first two that then he shall have Fee the Fee passeth out of the Lessor presently so the Remainder to the right Heirs of I. S. in life and a Remainder may Commence upon Condition as a Lease for life upon Condition That I. S. Marry my Daughter during the state for Life which shall remain to him is good because he hath an Estate upon which it may be grounded So 34. E. 3. Devise for Life upon Condition That if the Heir to whom the Reversion discends disturbs Tenant for Life or his Executors of their Administration That then the Land shall remain to the Daughter of the Devisor and to her Heirs and dyeth Tenant for Life dyeth the Son of the Daughter brings his Formedon against the Heir because he disturbs the Tenant and also the Executors of the Tenant traverse it and at issue and upon this issue is joyned which should not have been so if the Remainder had not been good Also if Assent as 18. E. 4. 12. by Catesby ante 8. post 31. to the Diseisen made before to anothers use may Traverse the Free-hold from one to another à fortiori a condition may namely where the Franck-Tenement precedes to which a Condition may be annexed Morgan Serjeant for the Plaintiff The Plea is not good because it doth not shew the day in certain of the death of W. nor of the Husband and Wife but he argued not this Also it is not good because he shewed not the
18. E. 3. 15. a gift to one and his first begotten Son and he hath no Son then but afterwards he hath is a good Remainder to his Son So 39. Assise Pla. 20. a gift to Husband and Wife and to one Heir of his body is a good Remainder yet no Heir to the gift if he be in being when the Possession in Law is cast upon him but a Remainder limited upon contrariety is not good fol. 24. according but the other cause that Litl assigns for that it vests not at the time of the Livery is no cause as is proved by the cases aforesaid because after the Alienation and gift it may not remain to another And the other cause that Litl alleadgeth is because it vests not at the time of Livery which is no cause So a gift to A. and his Heirs so long as B. shall have heirs of his body Remainder to C. in Fee is void for the contrariety because a Remainder cannot depend upon a Fee determinable So a Lease for life to A. upon Condition That if B. pay 20. l. to the Lessor that then immediately it shall remain to B. is void for the contrariety because A. ought to have it during his life But if it were to remain after the death of A. to B. then it were good because no contrariety there and here if W. dies living the Husband and Wife that then it shall remain to to the Defendant is not intendable immediately in their lives but that it should remain as it ought to remain viz. after their deaths and so there is no contrariety and therefore good As to the Condition which is subsequent if he would dwell there c. because it hath two intendments the one that he should inhabite there all the Term and the other to some time during his life shall be taken strictly and the more strongly against the Lessor viz. That he inhabites there at some times during his life which sufficeth as the Feoffee upon Condition for to pay 10. l. to the Feoffor and no time is limited he hath during his life So to serve him in such an Office and saith not how long he hath during his life Harris Serjeant to the same purpose And as to the Exceptions he said That a Condition subsequent and which goeth in the Defeasance of the Estate as here he that claims the Estate shall not shew it but the other which will defeat the Estate But where the Condition precedes the state he shall shew who shall have it because enabled thereunto as if I grant a Rent Charge upon Condition That he shall do such an Act there the Grantee shall avow for the rent without shewing the thing done because it is a condition subsequent and defeats his Estate But if I grant That if he doth such a thing that then he shall have the rent he shall not avow without performance shewed because he is enabled by this to the rent 14. H. 8. Wheeler Grants his Term to one upon Condition That he shall obtain the good will of the Lessor and then shall have it he shall not have it until he hath shewed the performance of the Condition and he affirms the remainder upon Condition to be good Hales Justice If he would c. is a Condition and that the Plea is insufficient because the Defendant hath not averred his continual residence after the Remainder happened for during the Term shall be intended all the Terms as it shall be in reservation of rent or Covenant to repair a house during the Term 27. H. 8. 19. by Audley so the Feoffees shall be intended all the Feoffees and if he hath a reasonable excuse he ought to shew it fo 272. viz. That he was 200. miles distant at the time of the Survivor of the Husband and Wife and entred so soon as he had notice which he shall shew in certain that the Justice may trie it as 22. E. 4. 27. Tenant for Life Leases for years and dies The Lessor bringeth Trespass against the Lessee who saith That in as short time as he could after that he had notice of the death of the Tenant for Life he chased his beasts forth of the land and said also that the Trespass was between the death of the Tenant for Life and the chasing out of the beasts and held no plea for by the death of Tenant for Life the Lease for years was determined and no man bound to give him notice and there it is holden that he ought to say That such a day he chased out the beasts and might shew that the Lessor died in another County and so he could not have so soon notice and this shall be tried by the Justice if the avoidance was in reasonable time So in this case the day of his Entry for the knowledge of the Jurors ought to be set forth common intent is that which hath more vehement presumption and intendment then any other intent hath as 3. H. 6. 3. before 26. fully administred all goods which were the Testators the day of his death good yet might have goods were not the Testators which are assets after the Debts paid but the most common intendment is That he had no other goods except those which were the Testators but intendment indifferent the more strong intendment the one way or the other and therefore ought to be pleaded in Bar as 13. H. 8. 15. by Willoughby the life of cestui que vie is pleaded in a Lease for another life which is indifferent if he be alive or not So if he pleads a release made after the Obligation it is not good if he shews it not by express words that it was delivered after it shall be intended that it was delivered when it bears Date But on the other part it shall be intended also That the other would not bring an Action if it were delivered after and therefore shall be shewed which intendment stands indifferent so here A Demurrer all times after the Remainder happens or not is incertain and therefore because he hath not shewed this the Plea is nought As to the matter in Law it seemeth to him that the remainder is good for a man may pass the thing in question when where and how he will if it be not against Law nor repugnant as here the limitation if the remainder is not against Law for the remainder need not pass forth of the Lessor so 29. for upon the Agreement first had by Act made afterwards Franck-Tenement or remainder may be transferred and devested from one vested in another as a Lease for life remainder for life upon condition That it shall be void if he doth not such an act the remainder before the Condition broken is in him when broken it commeth to the Lessor So a rent or Reversion passeth by Attornment not by the Grant presently So 1 H. 7.31 by Brian a remainder to the K. when the Deed is inrolled then it shall pass and relate
to the Livery So in the case of Plessington 6. R. 2. where the Condition was That if the Lessor die within the Term the Lessee shall have for life and there holden that his estate shall be enlarged if the Lessor die So Disseisen to the use of I. passeth not a Free hold of I. to I. without his agreement so here A remainder passeth when W. died not before by force of the words annexed to the Livery So by Litl a confirmation to the Husband and Wife Tenants for life passes the remainder to the Husband yet it passeth not at the time of the first Estate and the diversity where Fee upon Condition is appointed to privy and whereto a stranger is but a conceit which is worth nothing 29. according 24. to the contrary and is privity because it reserveth out of both so it shall bind him in remainder and also he in remainder shall have waste and so is privy to the particular Estate and the Lessor also and the words then which shall remain shall not be intended presently to destroy the particular Estate but shall remain as a remainder ought to divest then and is to be executed after their deaths as if Donee in Tail doth such an Act then to remain to his right heirs which vests when the Act is done and after the Tail ended shall be executed and not presently upon the Act done to avoid the Tail so here There is not any repugnancie or prejudice to any but a thing when it is done made in prejudice of another shall be void as a remainder that he shall have the land in the life of the particular Tenant So 21. E. 4.44 The King discharges an Abbot That he shall not be a Collector when any Titles should be granted by the Clergy of England and Canterbury Grants Tythes provided that the Collector returned by the Bishop shall not be discharged by the King and the Bishop returns the Abbot Collector there holden that the Grant by the Clergie in this point viz. to charge persons exempt is void because it is in prejudice of others And so the remainder here shall be void rather then a shranger shall have prejudice by it but for defaults in the pleading the Plaintiff ought to recover Hinde Justice to the 3. exception the death of the particular Tenant shall not be shewed which is onely conveyance of the execution of the remainder and is not Traversable nor Issuable To the first and Second exceptions he needs not shew his continual residence after the Remainder is fallen nor the day of his entry because it is a Condition subsequent and goes in defease of his Estate and he which hath benefit by it ought to shew it as 29. H. 6.22 the Grantee of an annuity pro concilio impendendo shall have the Annuity without shewing that he hath given Councel for that the shewing of it is not beneficial to him and the denial of Councel defeats the Annuity so he agrees to the diversity in case of Annuity 15. H. 7.1 bont fol. 25 by Pollard when one shall be promoted and therefore the shewing hereof that which is surplusage and the imperfectness of it shall not make the Bar vitious and the Remainder here by him commenceth not upon Condition but it is a limitation and explanation from the time that it first begun for nothing or words makes a Condition but such which restrains the thing given as If I. Lease for life upon Condition That if the Lessee die or maketh waste and I. recover the place wasted or any parcel of it That I. shall enter into all for it is a Condition for that part in which no waste is done because it restrains and defeats that part And if it be a Condition here yet the Remainder thereupon is good if it commenced and vested at any time during the particular Estates 24 29. 32 34. for when he hath Fee-Simple he may Condition with it as he pleaseth if it be not against Law as if I. Lease for life upon Condition That I. S. paies to me 20. l. that I. shall enter then the Remainder is void because the entry avoids the first estate and then no particular estate continues upon which a Remainder may depend Brown Justice to the same purpose The entry of the Defendant shall be intended immediately for this is the most common intent and a Bar good to a common intent shall be intended that he entred presently after his Title accrued and to the matter in Law hold that the remainder shall be good upon Condition Montague Chief Justice to the same intent The entry of the Defendant shall be intended presently for this is the most common intent and a Bar good to a common intent is good as 21. E. 4.83 in Assize the Tenant pleads a discent to him as Son and Heir and he entred and it was held good yet the Father of the Plaintiff might have abated and died seised and then the Plaintiff is in as Son and Heir in which case the Tenant might not enter But this is not intendable but the most common intent is That the Tenant entred immediatly after the death of of his Father So 9. E. 4.12 in Debt against five Executors at the Distress 3. makes Default 2. appears and pleads Recovery against them two of 300. and that more they had not in their hands Exception taken That because by intent there should be five Executors two might have abated the first suit and so the Recovery not duly had but holden good because it may be that then they two onely administred and then they did lie against them two onely and the most common intent is that it might be so rather than at first to lose advantage to have abated the Writ and therefore the Plea in Bar was held good and Execution duly had and if it were otherwise the Plaintiff ought to have shewed it So 21. E. 4.8.1 In formidon in discender The Tenant pleads the release of the Demandant without Warranty in Bar yet might be made by him in the life time of the father and then it is no Bar but it shall be intended to be made after the death of the Father if the Demandant replies not to the contrary but if he which pleads in Bar is bound at a time certain he ought to shew the day of his Act certainly 24 26 27. as the day of entry for Mortmain so that it may appear to be within the year So if one justifies for Common between Lammas and Candlemas So if one justifies by Warrant by Licence by Authority he alwaies ought to shew the time certain of his justification so that pleading in abatement of the Writ or a plea after the last continuance ought to plead certainly and these are observed as principles in our Law but he which pleads in the Negative ought not to plead certainly If he would dwell c. It is like that it is not a Condition here because it is not
imbesseling of a Habcas Corpora upon a Formedon between the Plaintiff and another holden good whithout shewing the Original and certainty of the Land and all the Record in certain because the Record is but a conveyance to the suit of Deceit and therefore for this cause cannot be gainsaid as to say Nultiel Record But where a Record is pleaded in Bar all shall be shewed certainly and is Traversable there in Conclusion or general Demurrer as petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the Action one shall have advantage of all defaults and of every thing mentioned in the Record and of every point that the Law gives him In Conclusion speciall of defaults onely alleadged in certain as here petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the action there if it be void for another cause then this which is mentioned he shall not have benefit of this of a thing void ab initio as the Obligation here because void by Statute so in avoidance of a Deed That he was not a man lettered and that it was read to him in another form So 24. H. 8. 28. because delivered as an Escrow upon Condition the Conclusion shall be so not his Deed because the matter proves that it was never his Deed of a thing voidable where it was void after because once is was a Deed the Conclusion shall be Judgement if Action because the duty is now extinct as 1. H. 7. 15. by release 35. H. 6. 18. for nonage 7. E. 4. 5. by dures When the Conclusion is nought and the matter in Law good Officium Judicis est for to give Verdict against the Plaintiff if it appeareth that he had not cause of Action howbeit that the Defendant hath lost the advantage thereof as it is here So 7. E. 4. 31. Trespass against B. and C. B. pleads not guilty C. pleads the gift of B. found guilty and found for C. no judgement for the Plaintiff because found against him So. appeal of a woman for the death of her father 10. E. 4. 7. because she shall not have an appeal of the death of any man except her husband or Trespass against the Lord by distress where nothing is in arear because the Statute is Non ideo puacatur dominus abate ex officio although the Defendant accepts the Writ good for the Plaintiff shall be barted by the Court ex officio and shall not have judgement although the Defendant admits his Title or by his Conclusion hath concluded himself of his advantage if it appeareth that he had no Title 1. The first branch is commanding and authorising the Sheriff to let to Bail persons manipernable by the Common Law viz. persons taken by Writ Bill or Warrant upon an Action personall or indictment of Trespass for it was indifferent if they were guilty or not made in affirmance of the Common Law 2. The second Branch viz. The exception was also made in the affirmance of the Common Law before for such persons which were in by condemnation execution Capias ut legat c. were not bailable before 3. The third is onely the purview which relates to the second branch as well as to the first for before refers to all this spoken of before as well the thing excepted as otherwise as a Lease for years of a Mannor except a Close rendring Rent the Lessee binds himself to perform all Covenants Grants and Agreements expressed or recited in the Indenture and after disturbs the Lessor of a thing excepted he hath forfeletd the Obligation because it is an Agreement for when he excepted the Close the other was contented with it and that the Lessor should occupy it and recited goes to the exception as to the rest 45. E. 3. 4. contained and recited goes to every Covenant in the Indenture An Act done Colore officii is extortion as if an Officer takes more for Fees then he ought And an Obligation taken of a prisoner for meat and drink is void because it is colore officii for he nor the Plaintiff are not bound to give him sustenance as he which distrains is not bound to give although he be in for Felony because 7. H. 4. 47. his goods are his untill he be attainted by the Common Law which is confirmed by 1. R. 3. c. 3. Rastal Forfeiture fol. 15. and if he dies for want of sustenance it is his own fault because that by presumption his ill demeanor bringeth him to such imprisonment The Statute of R. 3. restrains the Sheriff and other Officers to take Obligations of their prisoners except the Warden of the Fleet and the Kings Pallace at Westminster A Sheriff lets to mainprise one taken by Capias upon an indictment of Trespass which for the surety of the Sheriff makes an obligation to a stranger to keep his day is 7. E. 4. 5. held to be void because taken to another and not to the Sheriff onely according to the Statute Also there it is held if the Obligation hath not the Conditions expressed in the Statute That it is not the Deed of the party ex quo sequitur that he ought to conclude not his Deed keeping without dammage shall be intended by the generalty for all things Treasons Felonies Accounts and for all times if another thing is added by the Statute to be given it shall make all void as if a Condition be made according to the Statute and hath another thing not according to the Obligation is void So to add other words in a Formedon or Writ of Waste which are given by Statute all is void So to alien all the Land when he hath licence for part the licence is void in all by the Statute of 32. H. 8. because he hath exceeded the Authority thereby given to him The Statute saith That the Sheriff shall let persons mentioned therein to bail upon reasonable surety of sufficient persons in the plural number and because there is but one surety here the Obligation is void Also because the Statute saith That if it shall be taken in any other manner then is contained in the Statute if shall be void Also here by Plowden yet taken by one at large by the words of the first branch and those aid then third branch every person which extends to those at large nor for any person in their Ward which extends only to prisoners Kidwelly against Brand. LEease for years rendring 40. s. Rent by the year at H. out of the Land at the Feast of M. and if the Rent be behind H. 4. 5. E 6. In the Common Pleas. and not paid by the space of 40. daies after the said Feast then it shall be lawfull for him c. for to re-enter the Reversion is granted for Life the Grantee cometh to the Land 40. dales after M. to demand the Rent aforesaid but demanded it not and for not payment re-entred and adjudged lawfull 1. A Grantee for Life of a Reversio is an assignee within the Statute of 32.
it ought to be conjoyned to certainty as 9. H. 7.3 by Fineux and 6. H. 4.7 Debt upon payment at two days whereof the one is come abates by shewing of the Plaintiff the same because he hath shewed falsity So 20. H. 6.30 one ought to reherse the Stat. upon which he bringeth Champerty for to Warrant this certainly which ought to appear alwaies to the Court but not in one manner as sometimes by the replication in Assizes sometimes by Verdict as in aquare impedit the value of the Church In Ward the value of the Marriage in Detinue the value of the goods as in 20. H. 6. Champerty was brought which was not Warranted by any Statute and there Newton said That if the party could not shew to them some Statute by which it is Warranted that they would award that the Writ should abate And for that which hath been said that he needs not to recite the Statute and therefore misrecital is not material it seemed to them That howbeit he need not yet if he recites it and there is none such then he hath failed of his substance for the Court will not aid him nor think he intendeth any other thing then what he hath shewed and by this abundance in reciting more then needs hurts the party many times And therefore in 20. H. 6. fol. 42. contrary to 8. H. 6.33 Fitz. H. Count 15. of forging of false Deeds the Writ was of Diversa facta and minimenta c. and he counted but of one onely and by assent of all the Justices it was awarded That the Writ should abate and so abundance abated the Writ And if one maketh Title in Assize in his plaint where he need not yet if it be not formall all shall abate and yet it was abundance and more then he was compelled to do So in the principal case And where it was said That the Defendants by their Demurrer have confessed such Act of Parliament as the plaintiff hath declared they held that admitting this to be a confession yet this binds nor the Court which is a third person as appears by 10. E. 4. Wherein Trespass of Cattle taken brought by the Lessee for years the Defendant said That the Lessor held of him by Rent which was Arear and he took the beasts for it the Plaintiff said nothing Arear and there although the Defendant had admitted the Writ good yet the opinion of the Justices was That the Writ should abate for that the Lord was Defendant And so if the Defendant will admit good an appeal brought by the wife of the death of her Father yet the Court ought to abate it although the party affirm it and a Demur-is a Confession of all matters in Fact but not of matters in Law For by the Demurrer he puts it to the Judgement of the Court and confesseth not the Law against himself although the King may wave the Issue and so Demur in Law and recover afterwards fol. 236. and he hath many other prerogatives yet shall he be bound by misrecitall or by misusing or misconceiving of his Action and there shall abate the Writs where he is sole party as in the case of a common person à fortiori where another is party with the King as here the Plaintiff ought to shew certainty of the Lease here by Cook by other Justices not In Decies tantum certainty of the Summ received here because he shall not recover ten times as much and may not without shewing in Champerty the certainty of the first plea here because privy to the Record So in Trespass if the Defendant pleads Franck-Tenenemt the Plaintiff intitles himself by a Lease made by him the Defendant will shew that he made a Feoffment and that he entred for Forfeiture he ought to shew the name of the Feoffee and certainty of the Feoffment because he is privy and in all cases of privies he ought to shew the certainty as 2. H. 7.6 in Bar of Dower the Heir pleaded detainer of evidences he shall shew certainty for he is privy to them that he affirms to appertain to him of a bag sealed with Charters not 18. H. 8.1 because the bag sealed is certain Indictment cujusdam ignoti good Stamford fol. 95. and after fol. 129. Statute penal here not taken by equity by all the Justices as an Attaint shall not 14. H. 7.13 nor the Statute which augments bread by evil making nor things out of the words shall not be taken by equity But the words may be expounded beneficially as Treason by the Statute 25. E. 3. for killing of a Master so of a Mistris are of one effect 19. H. 6.47 but not by equity but rather within words Plural number contains singular by Hales So here pretenced Rights and Titles as shall be punished for forging one false Deed yet 1. H. 5. cap. 3. speaks of false Deeds So for Entry into one Tenement yet 5. R. 2. cap. 7. speaks of Entry into Tenements under this word any the lesser Estate is contained in the greater as 23. H. 6.10 prohibits that a Sheriff shall Lease his County to farm in any manner shall not Lease part thereof after fol. 124. contrary by Hales This Lease here made by one in possession is out of the Statute because it is not averred to be a pretenced right viz. the bargain and Lease to be made for maintenance contrary Cook for this was the point of the Statute as 9. H. 6.26 if published onely yet the Stat. is in the Copulative for forging and publishing this within the Statute but ought to aver That it was published to trouble the possession and Title of the Plaintiff for this is the point of the Statute So here the Lease ought to be averred for maintenance for this is the point of our Statute Montague Chief Justice He that is in possession may buy the pretenced right of another he which is out of possession if he promise or bargain to depart with the Land when he shall get the possession is within the Statute and maketh it void by the Common Law wherefore the Statute affirms it and adds a greater pain to the thing done against the Common Law and the Statute shall be meant to avoid a bargain of Right when out of possession he which hath possession but one hour alwaies may sell or it shall be a hard Exposition Acts expounded against the words of the Statute because Law and Reason allows it As Tenant hanging a Precipe Infeoffs his Son and Heir 6. E. 3. fol. 274. after fol. 204. good contray to the words of the Articuli super Chartas cap. 2. because the Son may not maintain to the Father but is bound to aid his father So an Heir may abet his Mother for to bring an appeal as W. 2. Cap. 12. So a Trespass in a Park without hunting shall not be punished by a year before refers to the Clause before onely so that the Clause being in possession Reversion or Remainder
intent So proviso That the Lessee make such a thing So here it shall enure as a Condition in whatsoever manner it be called it shall enure as a Determination of the Leasee because it was made at the time when the Lease began If the second Lease admit it be a Condition shall be good before re-entry or not Ramsey fol. 133. It is not good because after the Condition broken untill he enters he hath but a Title because he may not grant and the Lease continues and the possession also And therefore 22. E. 4.37 Lesser shall not have Trespass untill entry 14.3 Ass 11. Distress estop his entry because it affirms the continuance of his Term. Where a man may enter he ought to enter or not have the thing and where he cannot enter he ought to make claim before he shall have it As a Reversion granted upon Condition which is broken the Rent is extinct without Claim for that he may not have it by Claim by Stamford and Walsh it is good fol. 136. for that the first Lease for years commenced by words without entry it may be determined by words without entry Lease for life not 2. Mar. fol. 142. because Livery and Seisen which gave the State and Entry which ought to be avoided by entry upon Condition broken it is expressed here how the Lease shall be avoided viz. by entry and there if he enters not or doth an Act which excludes him to Enter as the making of an acquittance or distraining there the Lease is good But the words here are utterly extinct dissolving the Lease without Entry and no Act after shall make it good and the words of the entry here are surplusage and take away the effect of the first words As to 22. E. 4. The Lessor cannot punish him because the entry was first with his assent and when the Lease ended he was Tenant at sufferance but he may make a Lease to another and it determines his will by Gawdy it is not good Void here shall be expounded void by Entry as W. 2. cap. 1. before fol. 82. Finis ipsojure sit nullus viz. to the right yet it is a discontinuance So by 8. H. 6. cap. 10 Outlary shall be void in Indictment or Appeal if no Capias in the County where he dwelleth Common Law 19. H. 6.2 expounds it shall be void by Writ of Error he that hath a possession in Law may Lease before entry after fol. 142. after a stranger hath abated not because another hath possession in Deed. So a Lease by the Husband for years shall not be void of the Wives land after his death before entry of the Wife for possession ought to be defeated by possession and possession ought to be gained by entry Catline fol. 142. b. By the not payment the first Lease is determined without entry because it may be made by word without other circumstance otherwise of Free-hold and therefore may make a Lease but cannot have Trespass without entry as Heir before fol. 137. he may make a Lease before entry but cannot have Trespess before entry 11. H. 7.22 So a Lessee may grant his Term before it commence 22. E. 4.37 yet he shall not have Trespass before entry 37. H. 6.18 To shew two matters where both are effectual and answerable makes a double plea as 3. H. 6.32 Feoffment up-Condition to infeoff the Heir and averment of the Collusion in Wardship of the body So 20. H. 6.7 Seisen in his Ancestor and himself by avowing So 22. H. 6.37 Two continuall claims viz. by the predecessor and the Plaintiff for to avoid a discent So 19. E. 4.4 by Vavisor and Brian Two discents in Fee bars not two discents is not double in Tail because one answer viz. he gave not makes an end of all for if he cannot shew one thing without the other it is not double nor if the one is pursuant to the other as fully administred and so nothing in his hands for the last is but a conclusion of the former But the other Justices held the aforesaid two exceptions effectual for the causes aforesaid and that the Rejoynder was vicious wherefore they said That it was in vain to argue them and therefore in consideration of them onely without respect to the other matters rising upon the Rejoynder and before debate they awarded for the plaintiff Throgmorton against Tracie M. Mar in the Common Plaes second deliverance A Man makes a Lease for life and after Grants the Reversion of the Land habendum the land at Michaelmas after the determination of the first Lease for life for one and twenty years and adjudged a good Lease for years of the Reversion and of the Land Reverting and that the Habendum stood well with the premises because that the land is the degree and state of the Grantor was included in the premises by the word Reversion and the degree and estate excluded by the Habendum and the other part onely granted viz. The land Reverting and so was the intent of both the parties Reversion is compounded of the remnant of the estate which is left in the Lessor and of the land Reverting and carties with him the land to be afterwards happening in possession and the land is the substance of both and by the grant of this both pass So the Mannor which is compounded of Demeasnes and Services and of stegno aqua priscarie 4. E. 3. or gurgite which consists of water and land The Habendum which is not pursuant to the premises is void as a grant of a Mannor Habendum a Rent parcell of the Mannor because in the grant it was Rent service and in the Habendum it is Rent Seck So a Grant of Services Homage Fealty and rent Habendum the rent to the Grantee in Fee this habendum is void because in the grant the rent was contained as a rent Service but here it is rent Seck Grant of it after the death of I. S. void for the nature of a Grant is that the thing Granted ought to pass presently after fol. 155. for it is a thing in possession and is granted as a Reversion where no Reversion was of it If one maketh a Lease of land for years and after maketh a feoffment of the same without livery it passeth not the Reversion by Attornment Quere because the Grant of a thing which includes all interests in it shall make the Reversion to pass but the Reversion granted shall not make the possession to pass 38. H. 6.34 and after fol. 399. The King Grants a Mannor to which an Advowson is appendant for life the Advowson passeth not nor if he grant the Reversion Habondum cum advocatione it passeth not because in gross because it was not mentioned in the first Grant but the Reversion of an Advowson may be parcel or appendant of or to a Mannor in possession not possession of or to the Reversion of a Mannor the Habendum passes not a thing not parcel nor appendant
the act which amounteth to so much that the precise words and the Statute restrains the estate and not the person of the Donee And the Prerogatives are in respect of the person of the King and goes in his person which the King by Prerogative without other act cannot enlarge but in taking of the estate is restrained with the estate insomuch that the act saith Dominus Rex perpendens c. It sheweth that the King is named effectually and so bound and when it provides remedy for the mischief it is not to be presumed that he intended to be at liberty to do the mischief every thing which is the intent of the donor shall be within the Stat as plainly as if it had been expressed as other estates Tail which are not mentioned in W. 2. Litl fol. 5. Lands intailed shall not be charged against the issue for the debt of his father to the King by Anthony Brown who said That it was so adjudged in William Browns case which was his Father Puttrel fol. 240. otherwise which proves that the Statute of Donis Conditionalibus binds the King Dier Chief Justice The King onely is a good name of purchase and is the highest name of honor and drowns all other names of honor and is certain enough but not so used without his name of Baptism And the name King contains both bodies natural and politick and Heirs implies Heirs and Successors and the adding of Successors is a new devise The Donor may limit in what capacity the King shall take and â—ail may be to the King as well as to a Common person That H. 8. entailed the Crown to him and the Heirs of his body the will of the Donor is the effect of the Statute of West 2. that every thing which is against his will is reformed by the Act and every thing which is his will is made Law by this Act and therefore this Tail shall not be forfeit for Felony Litl 169. it shall not be charged by the donee 14. H. 8.7 by Roo 5. H. 6 14. nor alien neither shal the second wife be endowed 46. E. 3.24 nor the second Tenant by the courtesie now 46. E. 3.5 and to express those in the Act is superfluous because included in the proviso quod voluntus c. And these three Tails mentioned there viz. Special General and Free Marriage are but examples and not as containing all Tails that his will is a law to limit other Tails Fee after issue at the Common Law is Tail now 12 E. 4. and 3. and Fee in the Donor by implication of the Act because it restrains the Donee to do the Acts of Fee or no Fee without his properties And therefore it shall be intended That the Act would not that the Donee should have Fee because it would not make an Act of Fee and it is no Tail because the Statute is limitted Docked or cut off The King shall be bound by the Statute of W. 2. de donis conditionalibus for that it is made in preservation of the inheritance in benefit of the Common wealth and in restitution of the observation of the intent and will of the giver and in Restitutions the King hath no favor but the party restored in favor as an Heir restored to a Mannor shall have the advowson without mentioning of it So a Bishop to the Temporalties shall have Knights Fees and Advowson 5. E. 3.238 41. E. 3.5 and Brian Townsend Davers and Vavasor who took this so or thought that the King should have but an estate tail that otherwise the Remainder over will be invailable and the Exposition that the Denee might alien after issue before the Statute is Communis Error Dame Hales against Petit. LEase for years to the Husband and Wife the Husband drowned himself M. 4. 5. El in the â— P. in Trespass and so became a felo de se the Wife enters an Office is found the Q. shall have the whole Term adjudged 1. The quality of the offence is murther because that it was upon malice prepenced otherwise of Homicide also it was made Nullo sciente nullo praesente 2. It is an offence against nature the Law of God and to the King for to kill his Subject and deprive him of one of his mystical members whereof he is the head and by breaking of his peace and for the ill example given to others 3. He shall forfeit for this Felony all Goods Debts Chattels real and personal which he had at the time of the Act done which was the cause of his death viz. the casting of himself into the water and the forfeiture shall have relation to this act done in his life and is an Attainder in Law to that purpose but not to make Corruption of bloud forfeit Dower or make Fee-simples escheat by the Court. 4. Although the wife be remitted to the Term by the survivor yet this is defeated by the office ex post facto 5. Where the Bishop maketh a Lease for years which is not confirmed in his life it needs not to be averred in respect it is onely voidable otherwise of Lessee for life for that it shall be void by his death 6. The pleading that Sir James Hales was possessed of two Leases at the time of his death and the Office found that he had two without saying at the time of his death sufficeth reddendo singula singulis 7. Lessee for years to commence at Michaelmas brings Trespass before the Defendant gives colour by the Lease this is not good yet the Plaintiff shall not recover because he had no Title Southcot and Puttrel Serjeants for the Plaintiff He that striketh another after this wound given giveth his goods to another before the death the gift is good So a Constable 11. H. 4.12 which arrests him permits him to escape before the death of the other is not a Felon the finding by the Coroner of his death in this case countervails an Attainder indeed because after his death he cannot be Attainted and he himself is the cause he cannot A Felon of himself cannot make a Testament or Executor nor forfeit any thing but that which ought to come to his Executor Instant is the end of one time and the Commencement of another in Instant is priority of time in consideration of Law Husband and Wife Joynt-Tenants of a Lease for years there is no Moities between them but every one of them hath the whole and if the Husband charge the land she after his death shall avoid it because remitted to the Term and in by Title Paramount to the Grant 7. H. 6.1 So 18. E. 4.5 Tenant in Tail gives Trees growing and dies before they are cut down the Donee shall not cut them because the Issue and Wife are in by Title Paramount the gift by Southcot So 14. H. 4.32 and Fitzh nat br fol. 14.143 The Lord shall take his Ward which is an Apprentice out of the possession of his Master for that his
Title to his body accrued in respect of his signiory which is more ancient then the Apprentice 49. E. 3.3 the Kings Tenant in London Devises to his wife for life and dies without Heirs the devise is good as it seems by the Book and yet taketh not effect until after the death of the Kings Tenant and preferred before an Escheat to the King yet both their Titles comes at one instant but the Title of the Wife adjudged the elder because some part of it Commences in the life of the Devisor albeit it taketh effect after his death an Obligee is a Felo de se the Survivor shall have the Obligation by the better opinion 8. E. 4.4 Walsh Chomley Benlos and Carus for the Defendant A Dead man cannot have property for the Forfeiture shall have relation to the ill Act done in his Life when the goods were his otherwise the Forfeiture shall be to the prejudice of others which after his death ought to have the goods and the law hath respect to the Commencement of the Act as in 22. E. 3. and Stamford 19. one is Lunatick when he gives himself the mortal wound he forfeits nothing and it is not Felony if then he kils another yet is of Sane memory when he died of the wound So 33. Ass 7. Stamford 10. one kils his Master one year after he departed from his service upon malice conceived when he was his servant adjudged Treason Felonies done by others may be punished in their life time in person Goods Chattels and Lands A Felon of himself hath prevented the death by Execution and forfeiture of his Land which Land shall not Escheat without Attainder in Deed for favor of the Free-hold and inheritance and the only means to make him forfeit that which he may forteit viz. his Goods and Chattels is by inquest which ought to be equivalent to the Judgement given in his life because he took away the means of the Judgement which should have been given against him in his life as he should have if he had killed another and when Judgement by the Law cannot be given the Law supplies it otherwise as 3. E. 3. a Felon flies out of the Sanctuary and will not render himself but is killed he forfeits his Goods and the King hath the year day and waste and so an Inquest there shall be equivalent to the Judgement because he himself is the cause that it cannot be given against him by carus my horse strikes A. I sell him to another A. dies he shall be forfeit So the King shall have the Goods of a Villain which gives himself a mortal wound yet the Lord hath seised them after the wound and before the death of the Villain So the Attainder of the Husband in his life shall be a Forfeiture of the Term of his wife So this Act here and if once Title be given to the King Nullum tempus occurit Regi as in 50. E. 3. the Husband Joynt-Lessor for years with the wife receives money of one Attainted which by the Attainder belongeth to the King the Husband dies the wife her self holdeth it this found after the King hath the Term in Execution for his money as he should have had in the life of her Husband if it had been found then and now found by office shall relate to the life of the Husband Curia this is Murther here and not Homicide because upon malice prepenced and is an offence against nature the Law of God and King to kill a Subject and deprive him of one of his Mystical Members as Brooks terms it whereof he is the head and by the breaking of his peace and for the ill example given to others and therefore Felo de se Forfeits to the King all his Goods Debts and Chattels 8. E. 2.3 E. 3.301 362.22 E. 3. before f. 259. Stamford fol. 188. I. and Stamford Prerogative fol. 46. 8. H. 4.2 by Tillesâ—…y and ex consequenti cannot make Executors nor have Administors neither shall the Bishop have them because out of the Church is no cause of Forfeiture 19. H. 6.63 by Paston 8. E. 4.4 by Needham and Litl and 27. H. 8.9 by Montague and if he repents he is reconciled and hath the rights of the Church before his death yet he shall Forfeit those to the King for this offence But a Felo de se Forfeits not Lands his wives Dower nor Corrupts his bloud 3. E. 3. 22. E. 3. before fol. 259. because those cannot be without attainder in Deed. Appellee in Battail is killed he forfeits his land by Benlos and Brown because this killing is equivalent to Judgement and Execution but Weston held the contrary without express attainder by Judgement for to favor the inheritance and by Dier because the three Writs of Escheat for attainder are Register the 16. pro quo suspensus est utlagatus or abjuravit if the Appellor vanquish the Appellee in battail there his land shall Escheat because there Judgement shall be given after that he shall be hanged 8. E. 3. the husband adheres to the enemies of the King in Scotland and dies there 8. E. 3. fol. 388. or is killed in levying War against the King here he forfeits his Lands the Dower of his Wife and his bloud is corrupted for this is an attainder in Law 7. H. 4.46 by Markham and Stamford fol. 198. a. this which causeth the death ought to be said Feloniously done He that refuseth the trial of the Law forfeits Goods and Chattels as 3. E. 3. 13. H. 4.13 4. H. 7.18 Stamford fol. 183. C. he which flies for Felony Stamford Prerogativae fol. 46. A. he that challengeth without cause above 35.40 E. 3.42 20. E. 4.5 Stamford fol. 185. he that taketh Clergie if he be found guilty of Felonies which refuse the Judgement of Law 14. E. 4.17 he that stands mute of malice for those are the Acts of refusal of the Law And from the time of those which appear of Record the forfeiture shall have relation to the wound given against the party himself for the forfeiture against a stranger not for to be Felony because in the mean between the wound and death he suffers himself voluntarily to escape for if the escape should be Felony then that escape had been Felony at the time of the escape by Brown A. and B. Joynte-Tenants for years A. Grants to C. That if he paies 10. l. before Michaelmas then he shall have his Term yet he shall not have the Term because the condition precedes the Grant as 14. H. 8.22 by Brudnel until the 10. l. paid the Joyncture continues and it is not but a Communication but if A. Grant or Lease it from Michaelmas next coming during the Term to C. there C. shall have it against the Survivor for there the Title is granted in deed in the estate in his life So here this Act in his life gives Title to the King and the office by relation executes the Title then and the Survivor
Court of a Steward is a disseisen of his Fee For the doing of matter of labour is a claime of the Commodity for his paines So an Executor which hath a Terme devised to him upon Condition that he pay 10 l. to a Stranger payes the 10 l. this is consent and execution of the Legacy So the educating of the Children here determines her Election that she taketh the Terme as a Legacy and her grant after reproves it not but argues her inconstancy If a Termer be indebted to one in a hundred pounds and maketh his Will and by it devise his Terme to his Sonne and leaves assets to pay the debt the Executor cannot sell the Terme to pay the debt but shall pay it with the assets that he hath in his hands Adjudged because he ought to perform all the Will scilicet Debts and Legacies if there are assets If the Executor disagree in Deed to a Legacy certain this shall be presently in the second Devisee of this bequest of a thing incertain to the Executor as of 20 l. and the Testator oweth 40 l. and dies having Plate Oxen Horses of every of them to the value of 20 l. this is not executed untill 40 l. paid for he may Alien which of them he will and the others have no remedy if there be no more assetts and may pay and carve to himself before any other as it is in 12. H. 4.21 because he is neerest to himself And therefore the Execution of the Terme devised here shall not be hindered by the not payment of the Legacies to others nor Lease given to his Executor ought to be sold and then in Legacies it is reason that Executor shall have preferment A gift to his Executor of all his goods for performance of his Will is no devise and a void gift because the Law giveth them without these words As if a Man devise in Fee his Land to his Son and Heire it is voyd because he shall have it without the devise by discent So for to prescribe for to distrain for Rent service voyd because he may distrain without prescription A devise of Fee tayle to his Heire is good because it is another Estate then he should have by discent So here the Estate devised to the Wife which is but percell of the Estate scilicet during the Nonage of the Heire is good because severed from that which the Law would have given to him and the Clause for educating his Children is not a thing Testamentory nor Legecy to the Children but is an intent annexed to the devise made to the Wife by which she by her entry hath the Estate devised to her as Legatory And the Execution to the Wife is also to the Son because a devise although the Estates are severall and is of the same effect as if her Estate had bin devised to another with the Remainder to her Son and agreement or assent shall not be apportioned as attornment by Tenant for life to the Grantee of the Reversion for life extends to him in Remainder So notice given by Tenant for life to the Lord shall serve to him in Remainder in Fee to compell the Lord to avow upon him after the death of the Tenant for life So Rent accepted by an Infant at full age of his Lessee for yeares hath made good the Remiander over An Intruder cannot gain such Possession against the King upon which he may maintain an Action of Trespasse because the King may punish him 19. E. 4.2 and be shall not be doubly punished but against the Lessee of the King one may gain such Possession that he may punish a Stranger trespassor yet he shall not gain no Estate from the Crowne for the Freehold which irremoveablely rests in the Crowne And the King shall not alleadge Intrusion with a continuando but divers dayes vicibus because he gaineth not any Possession by wrong scilicet by the Intiusion against the King Walsinghams Case H. 15. El. in the Excheq Intrusion TEnant in tayle of the Kings gift maketh a Feoffurent in fee to a stranger and after is attainted of Treason and executed having issue and after this attainder is confirmed by Parliament with severall rights and interests of Strangers And it was adjudged that the Feoffee continuing his estate by the Feoffment after the attainder shall be an Intruder and this Judgement was afterwards affirmed in a Writ of Error brought in the Exchequr Chamber But the contrary was adjudged in the Common Pleas 17. El. between Conway and Moulton that tenant in tayl shall not forfeit any thing First That the Feoffment of tenant in tayl had not discontinued nor devested the estate of fee in Reversion out of the King because it is but a matter in Deed which is tortious otherwise it is of a rightfull matter of Record as a Recovery upon a good title or rightfull matter in Deed as a Remitter or Condition performed As Alienee of tenant in tayle of the gist of a common person infeoffs the King by Deed inrolled which regives to the first tenant in tayle which dyes the issue euters it is a Remitter and therefore the Reversion in fee is devested out of the King and restored to the first doner because a former right matter in Deed and in Law concurr together So Lessee for life to have fee if he doth such an act after the Lessor grants by Deed inrolled the Reversion to the King the Lessee for life performes the Condition which is older then the title of the King this older title matter in Deed and operation in Law thereupon shall take the Reversion out of the King without other Suit or Circumstance because bound with the Condition and the fee simple ought to vest in him at the same instant that he performes the Condition or never But no tortious act as Disseisen Intrusion c. may take the Reversion out of the King Secondly That by the Feoffment he hath not given the fee determinable because he had it not nor an estate for life of the Feoffee but onely an estate for his owne life and so the Reversion in tayle continues in him which shall be forfeit by the Attainder and by consequence the estate of the Feoffee determines by the death of the Feoffor but the Feoffee hath an estate for the life of the Feoffor discendable and his heire shall be a speciall occupant of this estate in base fee simple Thirdly That the King shall have the estate tayle in point of Reverter for that he had the pure fee before and two fees of one thing cannot be together in one person otherwise in severall persons and then the King shall have the Land discharged of the estate tayle and by consequence of all estates charges and incumbrances derived out of it as Leases warranted by the Statute and then the laving in the Statute for a thing before determined is void as of a Lease voidable made by such tenant in tayle which the issue hath made good by the acceptance of the rent and after of the estate tayle Escheated for Treason or is determined for default of issue So that the King hath in point of Reverter there the Release shall be void and he hath nothing by the saving of the Statute Adjudged in Austins Case otherwise it is when the King hath it in point of forfeiture as if the Reversion be to a stranger fol. 559. b. What Livery and Seisen is and the validity of it fol. 554. a. Estate tayle shall not be in abeyance nor any thing which another cannot have for abeyance is onely for the benefit of a stranger because it cannot vest immediately 556. a. 562. a. Estates in fee are three First Pure fee Secondly Fee determinable thirdly Base fee which shall be in one when the pure fee is in another fol. 557. a. An estate tayle shall not be to anothers use fol. 555. a. yet if tenant in tayle bargain and sels the Land by Deed inrolled the Bargainee shall have see executed by the Statute of 27. H. 8. which cannot be except the use shall be raised first out of the estate taile and so the estate tayle shall be to another use fol. 557. b. A Disseisor or Intruder upon the possession of tenant in tayle of the Kings gift gaines not except the estate for life of tenant in tayle and therefore if he dye seised the issue in tayle shall enter upon this discent as I beleeve fol. 558. a. The Father maketh a Lease for life to his Son the Remainder for life to her which shall be his Wife at the time of his death this is a good Remainder and shall be in abeyance untill the Wife be knowne fol. 562. a. Saving in a Statute contrary to the Explanation is voide Puton and Hides Case and Austins Case of a Lease and the Duke of Norfolks Case fol. 564. a. The possession shall be awarded upon a Bill of Intrusion which is but Trespas in its nature 561. a. Tenant in tayle grants his estate there waste is dispunishable during the life of tenant in tayle because it is not but onely a priviledge annexed to it Estates passe to the Grantee and amount to words of dispunishable of waste and not because he hath a greater estate then for the life of tenant in tayle So 42. H. 3.21 waste dispunishable in tenant for life because the Lestor released all his right that he had in the same Land and that he or his heires would not demand any right in the same nor claime nor challenge for the terme of the life of the tenant for that it amounts unto a Lease without impeachmeat of waste fol. 556. A Writ of Error abated by the death of the Lord Chancellour because his Christian name and Sir-name and Keeper of the great Seale were put into the Writ fol. 564. b. FINIS