Ignorance and wilfulnesse and some Stewards to please their Lords and for feare of loosing their Fee being but Stewards at the will of their Lords and some for Letters and other causes that Justice many times hath not place there to the perillous example and overthrow of Estate and for that that henceforth hereafter Justice in these Courts may be the better administred before that I shall treat of the Courts aforesaid I think it is convenient to write to the Stewards these sentences insuing to be a Glasse to Stewards to reade their better remembrance to administer Justice and for that it thus followeth Who worketh Justice he shall be advanced Eccles 20. Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for Justice for they shall be satisfied Matth. 16. Justice advanceth a Nation and it maketh a miserable people to be pacified Prov. 19. He that justifieth a wicked man and condemneth the just man he is most abominable with God Pro. 17.15 Unless your Justice abound more then that of the Scribes and Pharisees you cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Matth. 18. The soules of the Just are in the hands of God Wisedome In the streight path of Justice but the contrary way leadeth to death Prov. 12. Love God and thy neighbour as thy selfe then if you doe not Justice how doe you love him who is Justice and truth and how doe you love your neighbour as your selfe Matth. 22. Justice surely is immortall and everlasting Injustice is the wages of death love Justice you that Judge the Earth Wisedome 1. Riches doe not prevaile in the day of revenge but Justice shall free from death Prov. 2. God shall give to the Just the reward of their labours Wisedome 10. And if any love Justice his labours have great vertues sobriety and vertue then which there is nothing more profitable in this life to men Wisedome 1. Nothing truely can be honest which wanteth Justice Tully in his Offices From Justice as out of a certaine Fountaine all rights doe spring for a just man hath a will to give to every man his owne Bracton Another Cause of doing Justice It is appointed for all men once to dye and afterwards to come to Justice And as Athanasius saith At whose comming all men shall rise with their bodies and shall give a reason and account of their owne workes and they that have done good shall goe into life everlasting but they that have done evill into everlasting fire What men have done this present time of life Shall reap the Harvest when Goe and Come is rise Rev. 14. Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for their workes follow them Corinth 1. Chap. 3. Every one shall receive his reward according to his worke 2 Corinth 4. Who soweth in blessednesse shall reape in blessednesse if Christ had not been borne of the Virgin Mary and dyed for us no man could have come to eternall life therefore beleeve and doe Justice and then shall yee have the aforesaid thing promised And note That though Christ hath redeemed us yet if we doe evill it is written We shall goe into everlasting fire and for that obey and feare to breake the Commandements of God and then in doing of Justice you doe the Commandement of God for which you shall have the thing promised that is to say Eternall life for not all which say unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but those that doe the will of the Father saith Saint John Therefore if you will have eternall life doe Justice and also remember that death doth not delay no man knoweth his day and therefore prepare your life and doe Justice because no man knoweth his end and as Fishes are taken with a hook and Birds taken with a Snare so the body of a man in the day of evill The third Cause of doing Justice is to have a good Report Have a care of a good name It is better to have a good name then much Riches Cursed is the man that neglecteth his good Name It is better to have a good Name then precious Oyntments and to conclude he saith What profiteth If you shall gaine the whole World if you shall loose your owne soule First the Steward shall make a Precept to warne the Court by reasonable warning as by six or more dayes as followeth and it is the better if it be by fifteene dayes according to the common dayes in the Bench. The Precept J. K. Steward to the Bayliffe thereof health Prebenda de Islington I command likewise and appoint that diligently you give to understand the view of Frankpledge of the Court there to be held against the Thursday that is to say the sixteenth day of October next comming after the date of these presents and have there this command And as c. Dated under my Scale the first day of this moneth of October the yeare of the Reigne of Queen Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. 21. Then enter your beginning of your Court-Rollin manner following The view of Frankpledge with the Court J. F. Prebenda de Islington Order de tenor Leet Clerk there held the Thursday Viz. The sixteenth of October the yeare of the Reigne of our Lady Elizabeth Queene by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. the 21. held by J. K. the Steward there It is good to make this entry that is to say Held by J. K. Steward there If there be any Copiholders there for that the Name of the Steward is in the Copy to the admittance then after this entry the Steward shall cause the Bayliffe to make Oyes three times if it be a Leet for this is the Kings Court though the other hath that by Grant or by Prescription In the yeare 21. Edw. 4. fol. 37. is that where either adjournment of the Terme or other matter for the King B. Proclamation 6. is There at the beginning there shall be three Proclamations made and in all other matters which are not for the King but one Proclamation and for that at the beginning in the Court-Baron shall be but one Proclamation and in Court Leet for that it is the Kings Court shall be three Proclamations Scilicet O yes three times shall be made Note that none may make Proclamation but by authority of the King or Maiors and such like where they have used it by Custome 22. H. 6. fol. 19. Then forthwith after the three Proclamations made the Steward shall make the Bailiffe to say All manner of Persons which are resident or Deciners and doe owe Suit royall to this Leet come in and make your Suit and answer to your names every one upon paine and perill which shall ensue And after that all are called and all which are absent are marked to be amerced then the Steward shall cause againe if it be in a Leete to be made three
to pay his Rent it is no forfeiture The same Law is if he be much in Debt and in feare to be arrested or if one be bankrupt and keep his House and doth not come to the Lords Court but makes divers defaults these are no forfeitures of their copy-holds But if he deny to come to the Court of the Lord this is a forfeiture of his copy-hold But if the Lord claime a Fine custome or services which is in doubt whether due or not and the Tenants pray the Lord that the Homagers may inquire if it be due or not and saith if it be found by the Homagers upon their Oath that they are due or if there can be Presidents shewed that it is due he will pay it this is no forfeiture of his copy-hold If twelve are assembled against the form of this Statute then if any copy-holder being a Yeoman Handy-crafts-man Artificer Husbandman or Laborer and being of the age of eighteen yeares or more and under forty years not Impotent Lame Maimed nor having reasonable excuse and being required to serve the Queen for any the causes in the Statute and refuses he shall forfeit his copy-hold during his life 1 Marie chap. 12. If a copy-holder in Court-Baron will say to his Lord that he extorts and exacts Fines and Services not due or such unreverent words of his Lord and they be false that is finable but no forfeiture But if he deny to be Tenant to the Lord and to be a Juror of the Homage it is a forfeiture but if a copy-holder indict his Lord or gives in evidence in an action against his Lord or arrest him or commence a Suite against his Lord in any Court of the Queens these are not finable nor no forfeiture If Tenant in taile be of a copy-hold the remainder over in Fee if the Tenant in taile be attaint of Felony it seems that the Issue in taile shall have the Land and not the Lord. If a copy-holder make a Feoffment of his copy-hold and the Feoffee dies seised and his Heires levy a Fine of that and five yeares passe the Lord is barred to seise the Land by forfeiture as it seems Some Copy-holder by the custome may make waste and is no Forfeiture and waste by some Copy-holder is Forfeiture LOpping of Trees by a copy-holder is no forfeiture but a copy-holder cannot lop Trees and burn that in the house upon other Land or Mannor nor sell the lops unlesse by the custome he may make wast If a Guardian in Socage of a copy-hold make waste the Infant shall not forfeit his copy-hold but only the Interest of the Wardship but inquire If Lessee for yeares of a Copy-hold make wast and inquire when he is Lessee for yeares by surrender and when he is Lessee by the license of the Lord it is said it is a forfeiture but during the Tearm J. S. Seised in fee of an Acre in D. by Charter and of another by copy and make a Feoffment and Livery in the Acre by Charter in name of them both it is no forfeiture of the Acre by copy but if he make Livery in the Acre by copy in name of both the Acre by Charter passes and it is forfeiture of the Acre by copy If a copy-holder suffer a common recovery against him at the common Law and after surrenders to the use of another which is admitted and after one or two admittances passe upon surrender yet after when the Lords takes notice of the forfeiture he may well seise it for that forfeiture for that that the copy-hold was destroyed by the forfeiture But otherwise it seems if the forfeiture do not destroy the Copy-hold as if he make wast or break any custome the Lord is barred by this admittance as it seems If a copy-holder levy a Fine and five yeares passe after Proclamation this seems barres the copy-holder and his Heires but it seems doth not barr the Lord but if a copy-holder make a Feoffment and Livery of his copy-hold and after levy a Fine and six yeares passe now the Lord is barred If two Joynt Tenants by copy are and one makes wast in all the Land yet he shall forfeit but one part If the Heire of a copy-holder having notice of the death of his Ancestor do not claime within the yeare and day after the death of the Ancestor and Proclamation made he shall loose it for ever but otherwise it is if he be beyond Sea or within age or a Woman having a Husband it seems she shall not loose by not claiming Tenant for life of a Mannor is and copy-holder of that commits wast and the Tenant for life dyes he in remainder may seise the Land for this wast for that it is a forfeiture which runs with the Land See before forfeiture touched in the Title of copy-holder Formedon In so much that plaints are sued in nature of Formedon for Copy-holds something shall be said touching Formedon and first let us see where a Formedon lies and where not and for that that there are three manner of Formedons that is Formed on in Discender Remainder and Reverter in Fitzh Nat. Brevium and there declared how everyone lieth much shall not be said but what is in Fitzher Natura brevium touching the lying of a Formedon FOrmedon in Discender lieth where the Donee in taile or free Marriage aliens that Land so given in taile or is disseised and dies his Heire shall have a Formedon in Discender to recover these Lands so given in taile Fitzh f. 211. A. Where Tenant in taile aliens or is disseised or if recovery be against him by default after default and hee dies his heire shall have a Formedon for the heire shall not have other recovery of the possession of his Ancestor then by Formedon but if he be outed of his own possession as if he be seised and be put out he shall have Assise Natura brevium fol. 145. Formedon lies by the heire of a gift made before the Statute of Westm 2. Where the Donee after the Statute aliens and dies and yet the Statute is to gifts before made it shall not be extended 12 H. 4. f. 9. Where there is a Tenant in Dower or by the curtesie the reversion to another in taile if one intrude after the death of the Tenant in Dower or by the curtesie he in reversion shall not have Intrusion but Formedon Fitzh 204. D. Woman Tenant in taile takes a Husband which aliens and after they are divorced and after the Wife dies the heire of the Wife shall not have A cui in vita but a Formedon Fitzh f. 204. K. If Tenant in taile lets for life and the Tenant for life aliens in fee the Tenant in taile shall have a consimili casu or a Formedon at his pleasure Fitz. f. 207. D. Where land is given to one for life the remainder to the Father in tayl if it were executed in the Father and he Alien the Issue may have a Formedon
in their life time and it seemes that after the death of R. and A. without Issue the Land ought to revert to J. See 45 Ed. 1. fol. 20. Tenant after possibility of Issue extinct TEnant after possibility of Issue extinct shall not have ayd of him in reversion but he in remainder shall be received upon his default 2 H. 4. fol. 17. 7 H. 4. f. 10 11 H. 4. fol. 14. the same Time of Ed. 1. Fitzh wa st 125. shall not be punished in wast Nor shall be compelled to attorn in a Quid juris clamat 46 Ed. 3.25 39 Ed. 3. the same and 12 Ed. 4. fol. 3. the same If he alien he in reversion may enter for forfeiture 45 Ed. 3.25 11. H. 4. f. 14. the same 10 H. 6. f. 1 and 39 Ed. 3. f. 20. Tenant after possibility of Issue extinct shall not have wast 2 H. 4. f. 21. wast doth not lie against Tenant after possibility of Issue extinct 45 Ed. 3. f. 25. He shall not have aid but if he alien he in reversion may enter for forfeiture 10 H. 6. f. 1. 39 Ed. 3. f. 20. Lit. f. 7. and 11 H. 4. f. 14. the same 39 Ed. 3. tit 17. Taile Tenant after possibility of Issue extinct which is impleaded shall not have aid of him in reversion but if he alien in Fee he in reversion may enter and shall not be compellable to attorn nor wast lies against him but if he makes default after default he in reveresion may be received Tenant by the Curtesie IF a married woman be Tenant after possibility of Issue extinct and the Fee discends from her Ancestor and she dies it is held that the Husband shall be Tenant by the curtesie 9 Ed. 4. f. 19. and 14 Ed. 3. f. 7. Husband discontinues Lands of his Wife and takes an Estate again to them in fee and hath Issue and the Wife dies then the Husband shall not be Tenant by the curtesie 9 H. 7. f. 1. If a man have Issue by his Wife Inheritrix though she had Issue a Daughter before she inherited yet he shall be Tenant by the curtesie 21 H. 3. Title Dower 198. If a woman Signioresse take her Tenant to Husband and hath Issue and dies the Husband shall not be Tenant by the curtesie of Services 1 Ed. 3. Tit. Dower 70. A man shall not be Tenant by the curtesie unlesse his VVife have possession in Deed of it but of an Advowson and Rent where she dyed before day of payment he shall be Tenant by the curtesie 21. Ed. 3. fol. 49. the same If the Issue be born living notwithstanding that he dies before he be heard cry the Husband shall be Tenant by the curtesie for the Issue shall not be taken if the Infant were heard cry after he was born but if he were born alive or not Perkins f. 89. A man seised of Land in fee is attaint of felony his Wife shall loose Dower but if the VVife seised in fee be attaint of felony and hath Issue by her Husband and she is hanged yet the Husband shal be Tenanr by the curtefie 21 Ed. 3. f. 49. A man takes a VVife seised in fee and hath Issue he commits felony for which he is attaint the King pardons him it seems he shall not be Tenant by the curtesie by reason of the Issue which he had before his attainder but if he had Issue after his pardon it is otherwise 13 H. 7. fol. 17. If a man takes a VVife seised in fee and she is attaint of Felony and hanged the King shall have the Land forthwith if the Husband were not intitled to be Tenant by the curtesie 11 H. 4. f. 19. b. Daughter and Heire endows her Mother and after takes a Husband and hath Issue and dies the Mother after dies the Husband shall not be Tenant but by the curtesie of that 8 Book of Affises 6. 3 H. 7. f. 5. If Rent discends to a Daughter which takes a Husband and she dyes before the day of payment the Husband shall be Tenant hy the curtesie Fitzh f. 149. D. A man shall not be Tenant by the curtesie of Land of the VVife unlesse the VVife have possession in Deed of that Land if it be not in a special case as of Advowson or Rent where she dies before the day of payment of the Rent Tenant in dower THE Wife after the death of her Husband shall remain in the cheife House by forty daies after the death of her Husband within which daies her Dower shall be assigned unto her unlesse before it were assigned and there shall be also assigned unto her the third part of all the Land of her Husband which was his in his life time Magna Charta chap. 7. Of Widowes which cannot have their Dowers without Suit that is that whosoever shall deforce them of their Dowries of the Tenements of which their Husbands died seised and afterwards the same Widowes by Suit recover them they shall give unto the said Widowes all their dammages according to the value of the whole Dowrie due unto them from the time of the death of their Husbands Merton chap. 1. If a Woman of her own accord leave her Husband and departeth and liveth with an Adulterer she shall for ever loose her action of recovering her Dower which was due unto her of her Husbands Tenements and be of that convicted unlesse her Husband of his own accord and without cohersion of the Church shall receive her and suffer her to dwell with him West 2. chap. 34. If the Hnsband be attaint convict or out-Lawed of Felony yet his Wife shall be indowed but if the Husband be attaint of Treason his Wife shall not be indowed by 1 Ed. 6. chap 12 5 Ed. 6. chap. 11. Where a woman shall beindowed and where not WHere the Husband Tenant of the King dies and his Wife is committed to the King during that time she shall not have Dower if she be not surprised of Dower 2 H. 4. f. 7. 6 H. 4. f. 7. It seems if a woman takes a lease by Indenture for years that during this lease she is not Dowable but if she take the Lessor to Husband and after he dies she is Dowable notwithstanding the lease 6 H. 4. fol. 7. Fitzh 149. E. the same Dower shall not be where the Husband dies having the reversion of a Free-hold that is of a reversion of an Estate for life as a man lets for life and afterwards takes a Wife and dies 2 H. 4. f. 27. 1 Ed. 6. tit Dower 89. 7 H. 6. f. 9. by June Fitzh 149. C. A woman may be endowed of a mine of Coals but she cannot make new mines for that shall be said wast Where the Estate is made to the Husband for life the remainder to another for life the remainder to the Husband in fee the Husband dies his Wife shall not have Dower unless that the Husband survive him in remainder for life 46 Ed. 3. f.
Affraies and blood-shed but not if one hath broken my Close or if one hath beaten me but if any Affray were so that the Kings People were disturbed for that is more then particuler 1 R. 3 fol. 1. If one come to make a Boothe and doth it not and yet one maketh a Fray upon him and upon him draw blood with his Sword or Dagger it is punishable by presentment in Leet 11 H. 6. fol. 29. If one assault to beat you and you fly and he inclose you or if you be at Hedge or Ditch and then you beat him and wound him this is not punishable in a Leet 34 H. 6. fol. 8. and 33. H. 6. fol. 20. If J. S. makes an Assault upon a Stranger and J. D. draws his Sword and beats and wounds J. S. in defence of the Stranger this is punishable by a presentment in a Leet But if a Servant beat and wound one which maketh an assault upon his Master in defence of his Master he is not punishable by presentment in Leet 12 H. 8. fol. 3. and 9 Ed. 4. fol. 51. If one lay his hands unlawfully upon any unlesse that he arrest him or part two that fight he is a trespassor but that is not punishable by presentment in Leet 9 Ed 4. fo 3. If one beat one in defence of his Goods this is not punishable in a presentment in Leet Booke of Entries fol. 553. and 19. H. 6. fol 21. Trespss of Assaults and Fraies TRespass by a Chaplain of Grayes Inne the Defendant pleads of his own Assault and it was held if he upon whom the Assault is made can escape with his life it is not lawfull for him to beate the other which made the Assault but it is held that I ought not to stay till the other hath given me a blow for paradventure he commeth too short 2 H. 4. fol. 9.10 Ed. 4. fol. 7. Trespasse of Grassetrod and threatning of life and member a man cannot justifie the menace of death and for that to that he pleads not guilty 21 H. 6. tit 26. the same 33 H. 6. fol. 20. Trespasse of Threatning by Prisot I cannot threaten one of Life and Member but if he upon whom the Assault is made fly and the other followeth him so neere that he cannot escape or hath him under him upon the Ground or hath chased him to a Wall Hedge Water or Ditch there it is lawfull for him to say if you will not depart that he to save his Life will kill him 3 H. 4. fol. 8 Trespasse of Assault Imprisonment and Battery Defendant plead to the Battery not guilty and to the Assault that the Plantiff came to such a River where the Defendant had a Mill and would have stopt the River and the Defendant took him by the Arme without that that he made other Assault and to the Imprisonment the Defendant pleads that the Plantiff Assaulted him and would have beate him by which he prayed the Constable to arrest him and he came in aid of him judgment if action and good 22 H. 6. fol. 48. Trespasse of a Servant beaten and Entry into his House yeare 7 H. 6. Defendant saith that yeare 8 H. 6. he served a Subpena upon the Plaintiff and that the Plaintiff and the Servant took him and carried him to his House and there deteined him half a day which is the same Trespasse and to any Trespasse before not guilty to the Battety of his Servant which was of his Assault at another day and to any Assault before not guilty Bracton saith he is not worthy of Peace which will not keep it Stamford fol. 30 a. 40 Ed. 3. fol. 40. Trespasse of Assault and Battery and found the Assault only and Plaintiff recover but shall not have action of Assault only 42 Ed 3 fol 7 the same and see 22 Assise 60. 9 Ed 4 fol 30 Trespasse of Battery it was held that if a man will take my goods I may lay my hands upon him and rather beate him then suffer him to carry them away 19 H. 6. fol. 33 the same that he may beat one in defence of his Goods 19 Ed 4 fol 189 Trespasse of Battery a man may Justifie the beating of another in his defence but by Catesby a man cannot beat another in defence of his Son but a Servant may beat one in defence of his Master or Mistris 21 H 7 fol 39. the same Mortmaine Mortmaine is inquirable in a Leet for that it is for the benefit of the King and in the Kings Court What is Mortmaine within the Statute and what not WHere one Abbot aliens to another Abbor or Bishop to another Bishop and his Successor it is Mortmaine Fitzh fol 222 D. 16 Assise 1. VVhere Land is divised to one to pay twelve pound to finde two Chaplaines for ever to sing in the Church of Saint Albanes in Wood street for ever if it be behinde that the Chaplaine may distraine that is Mortmaine see 32 Ed 3 10 and 40. Assise 29. J. S. deviseth certaine Land to his Executors that they should provide a fit Chaplaine in the Church of D. to celebrate for ever which Chaplaine shall receive yearly out of the aforesaid Lands six markes that is no Mortmaine for nothing is divised to the Chaplaine 4 Assise 27.43 Assise 27. Foure Acres were devised to one in Fee so that he and his Heires should pay yearly six pound for the maintaining of one Chaplaine to celebrate yearly for ever in the Church of Saint Leonards in Estcheape and that the Rector for the time may levie it for ever that is Mortmaine 43 Assise 33. J. S. deviseth Land and two shillings Rent for the maintaining of a Chaplaine in the Church of D. yearly to celebrate and I will that my Executors should ordaine the aforesaid Chaplaine and the Executors do nothing therefore no Mortmaine 43 Assise 34. If a Villain of a Bishop purchase Lands in Fee and the Bishop enter without license it is Mortmaine 41 of Assises 4 Fitzh 224 B. 41 Ed. 3. fol 16. If a Feoffment be made to the use of a Bishop and his Successors it is within the Statute De religiosis and so it is where he takes profits 8 Ed 4. fol. 18. A Bishop cannot appropriate an Advowson of which he is seised in Fee without the Kings license and if he doth it is Mortmaine Fitzh 223 H. see 21 Ed. 3. fol 5. seemeth contrary If one let to a religious man for a hundred yeares and so from a hundred to a hundred during eight hundred yeares this is Mortmaine but it seemeth that a lease to a Religious man for eighty years or for a hundred yeares is no Mortmaine but in the first case it is by colour of a Tearme and Mortmaine 29 H 8 Mortmaine 39. Lease for eighty years to an Abbot by Martin is Mortmain Quere 4 H. 6. fol. 9. The Tenant lets for life to J. S. the Remainder to a Religious and his Successors the Lord need
8. chap. 3. After Verdict he cannot abridge IT is said that after Verdict the Plaintiff cannot abridge his Plaint 28 As 38. Dower demanded may abridge after view Edw. 3. fol. 3. Assise they were adjourned upon Title ASsise they were adjourned upon Title and for that that they cannot agree at the day of the Adjournment after the argument Plaintiff abridge and might 10 H. 6. fol. 22. After the Jury in Assise were together in the house before their Verdict came the Plaintiff and abridged and was suffered 33 H. 7. Tit. 6. B. Attornement WHen any Mannour descends to the Lord upon every descent to the Lord it belongeth to the Steward at the first Court to make all the Tenants to make Fealty and also upon every purchase of Mannour to enter the Fealty of every Tenant which holds of that and also to enter their Attornement and Seisin of Services to the end that the Lord may by this means distrain for his Services and the Tenants may hereafter be better known to him and by 28 H. 8. Tit. 40. Attornement may be made by Tenants to the Lord in his Court to the Steward or Purchasor and not to his Servant in absence of the Lord. For that something shall be said of Fealty and where there ought to be Attornement and where not IT is said that the Tenant that hath made Homage to the Father shall not make Homage to the Son for that he hath once made Homage to his Lord but yet he shall make Fealty to the Son though he have made it to the Father but if the Mannour be recovered against the Father which hath taken Homage now he shall make Homage again Littleton fol. 29. If a Mannour be exchanged yet there ought to be Attornement otherwise the Lord cannot distrain for the Arrearages Perkins fol. 47 56 58. If one alien his Mannour by Deed indented of Bargain and Sale and inrolls that according to the Statute that is good without Attornement and the Lord may distrain for his Services and the same Law is of a Reversion so granted Rastall Inrolment 2. but of a Grant by Fine it is otherwise 27 H. 8. chap. 16. 30 H. 8. Tit. Attornement If the King grant Reversion of Lands or grant a Mannour to one and his Heirs or otherwise by his Letters Patents the Patentee may distrain or avow without Attornement and he need no Attornement 34 H. 6. fol. 7. Fitzh fol. 60. J. 6 Ed. 3. Tit. 13. Natura brevium fol. 171. accordingly 12 Ed. 4. fol. 3. Where a Mannour or Reversion is devised by Will in writing that is good and shall passe without Attornement 19 H. 6. fol. 24. Littleton fol. 132. accordingly of Devise where Lands were devisable by Custome 34 H. 6. fol. 7. The Lord may avow upon the Tenant by the Curtesie and in dower and upon him which recovered against his Tenant without Attornement for they are in by Law and need to have no Attornement 36 H. 6. fol. 35. If one have a Mannour delivered in Execution by vertue of a statute Merchant or an Elegit he may avow without Attornement 20 H. 6. fol. 7. Where a Mannour Escheats or the Lord have that as a Perquisite by his Villain he may avow without Attornement Littleton fol. 132. 34 H. 6. fol. 7. accordingly and Fitzh fol. 60. J. If a man have a Common of Pasture to a certain number or a Common of Estovers certain and grants them over these shall passe without Attornement for that they are not to be taken by the hands of Tenants but by the mouths of Beasts and where no attendance nor payment is to be made by the Tenant there the things may passe without Attornement 31 H. 8. Tit. Attornement Where a man lets for forty years and after lets the same Land to another to have the Land from the end of the first Terme for twenty years there need no Attornement and contrary when he grants a Reversion to have the same Reversion at the end of the first Terme for twenty years then next ensuing there ought to be Attornement by Horewood 37 H. 8. Tit. 41. and 1 Ed. 6. Tit. 4. A man lets a House for Life and after grants the Reversion of the said House to have from the Feast of Saint Michael next after the Death of the Tenant for Life for 21 years then next following this is goâ—â— without Attornement for this passeth by to have the House as a Lease and not as a Reversion and also the Tenant for Life is not attendant to him 3 Mary Tit. 69. One lets for twenty years and this Lessee lets that for ten years rendring Rent and after this Lessee for twenty years grants the Reversion of the Terme Rent to a stranger it behoveth that the Lessee for ten years attorne otherwise it is if no Rent be reserved 2 Ed. 6. Tit. 45. If a man lets for ten years and the same Lessee lets that to another for four years the Lessor makes a Feofment to a stranger by sufferance of the second Lessee this is a good Feofment without Attornement of the first Lessee 28 H. S. Tit. Feofments 68. B. Two joint-tenants and one release to the other it is good without Attornement 28 H. 6. Then let us see what is good Attornement and what not WHere a Reversion is granted and the Tenant attorn by a Penny it is good for it an Agreement 8 Book of Assise 25. A man grants four divers Rents and the Tenant attornes by a Penny this is good for them all that is to say for them all to distrain but not for them all to have an Assise for it is not Seisin 22 Book of assise 66. Attornement ought to be made by the Tenant in the life of the Grantor for Attornement after is not good 16 Book of Assises 25. A Lease is made for Life and after the Reversion is granted to one and the Tenant for life surrender to him this is a good attornement 23 As 18. A man seised of two acres or of two Mannours le ts one for years and after makes a Feofment of both and makes Livery of that in Possession yet the other shall passe without attornement 7 Ed. 4. fol. 20. Where a Feofment and Livery is made of a Mannour that one hath in execution by a Statute this Livery is as an attornement if the Tenant by Statute enter again 46 Ed. 3. fol. 30.7 H. 4. Statham 46. the same If a man lets a Mannour for years and after outs the Termor and enfeoffes another and makes Livery and the Termor re-enter it is good without other attornement 5 H. 5. fol. 12. the same 9 H. 6. fol 16. the same Littl. fol. 130. If a Feofment be made and Livery also and do not out the Termor nor he attorne it is not good 5 Book of Ass 1.17 Ass 3.2 Book of Ass 1. the same and 21 H. 7. fol. 7. If my tenant for life lets his Estate to another upon
Recognition of the Assise and in evidence that the Plaintiffe is Bastard it is not good for it is contrary to this thing admited and imployed 22 Book of Ass 3. Covenant Issue was If the Defendant had made an Estate sufficient to the Plaintiffe of Higgens Close or not and evidence that it is not so much in value it is not good for it is not answerable to the matter in Issue 27 H. 8. fol. 35. Trespasse The Defendant justifies for Common appendant and gives in evidence that he hath Common by reaion of Neighbourhood it is not good for it is not answerable to the matter in Issue 13 H. 7. fol. 13. 11 H. 4. fol. 63. Trespasse of beating not guilty and evidence that it was in his defence it is not good for it is a matter of justification and contrarying 7 Ed. 6. tit 14. In Debt upon an Obligation made for Usury If the Defendant plead it is not his Deed he cannot give in evidence that it was made for Usury for it is contrarying 5 Ed. 4. fol. 5. Debt upon obligation for letting him to baile and doth not name Sheriff the Defendant gouht to plead that and so not his Deed but not generally not his Deed and give that in evidence for it is contrarying 3 H. 7. f. 5. Where two are bound joyntly and severally and one Seale is broken yet in Debt against the other or against him he cannot plead not his Deed and give that in evidence for it is contrary but he may plead the speciall matter and conclude so not his Deed. 5 H. 7. f. 2. If one plead nothing passed by the Deed he cannot after give in evidence that it is not his Deed for it is contrarying 9 H. 7. fol. 3. Derinue the Defendant saith he doth not detaine and he cannot give in Evidence that he hath that in pawn for it is contrarying Where the Evidence proves the effect and substance of the Issue is good THE Plaintiff Pleads a Lease simply and gives in evidence a Lease upon condition and for that that the condition is performed it is good for the evidence proves the effect and substance of the Issue and for that it is good 14 H. 8. f. 20. 38 H. 6. f. 9. The Array was challenged for that that was made at the denominating of the Clerke of the Plaintiff Evidence that it was made by the Bailiff of the Franchise at his denomination is good 44 Ed. 3. fol. 39. J.S. pleads a Feoffment made to him and gives in evidence that there was a Fine which is a Feoffment of Record and is good 27 H. 8. fol. 29. Action upon the case by the Husband of an Assumpsit made to him and given in evidence that it was made to his Wife to which he agreed and is good 14 H. 8. fol. 18. False Imprisonment If the Defendant justifie by Warrant if the Warrant were after the Arrest the Plaintiff may say of his own wrong without that that he had any warrant and may give this matter in Evidence Forraine matter plead in Court-Baron IF a Plaint be in the Court-Baron of a Debt or trespass and forraine matter is pleaded there it shall not be tried in Bench though that this Court shall be out of the Jurisdiction but it seems shall be tried in the County where the Court-Baron is or the forraine matter is alleadged to be done 1 H. 5. f. 12. A man cannot remove a Plea out of Court-Baron into Bench but in a Replegiare and not in Debt or trespasse unlesse that the Damages are not to forty shillings 14 H. 8 f. 17. by Fitzh Note more before that Fine Where it shall be paid by Copy-holder that I have seen used is as insues NOte that it is commonly said and the ground of paying Fines is that a Fine is due to the Lord upon every alteration and change of Tenant that is to say upon every admittance of every new Tenant to the Lord by copy as upon every alienation by surrender and admittance upon that and upon every discent and admittance upon that also if a Copy-holder surrender into the hands of the Lord to the use of diverse and their Heires as to 2.3 or 4. and their Heires upon the admittance of them the Lord shall have but one Fine for it is but one surrender and one admittance of a Tenant and upon the death of the Survivor and the admittance of his Heire then an other Fine so that the Fine is to be adjudged due alwaies upon admittance of Tenant and not without admittance And for that if two be admitted and one dies the other shall have his part by Survivor without new admittance and shall not pay a Fine Also where a Surrender is made to the use of a Husband and his Wife and to the Heires of the Husband upon their admittance the Lord shall have but one Fine for it is one surrender and both are but one new Tenant and after the death of the Husband and the Wife upon admittance of the Heire of the Husband the Lord shall have another Fine Also where a surrender is made to one for life and after his death the remainder to another and the Heires of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue remainder to a third and his Heires in this case admittance of the Tenant for life vests the remainder in the others and divers learned Stewards take but one Fine only of admittance of a Tenant for tearme of life and nothing of those two in remainder when the Remainder falls but I have seen that every one in the remainder when they come to the Land shall make Fine though it be not the whole fine but a halfe and every one is admitted when a remainder falls but it need not for by the admittance of the Tenant for life the remainder is so vested that he in remainder need no other admittance and they are but one Estate and one surrender the same Law is where there is a surrender to one for life the remainder to another and his Heires there shall be but one Fine But then it is good that both be admitted together according to the surrender at the time of the surrender made Also where one out of the Court by custome surrenders into the hands of two Tenants to the use of himselfe for life and after his death to the use of J.S. and his Heires and dies before the next Court and then all this is presented at the next Court he in the remainder shall be admitted and pay but one Fine for it is impossible to admit one which is dead and by the act of God his Fine is gone and now there is but one to be admitted and upon one surrender and one being to be Copy-holder shall be paid but one Fine Also where a Copy-holder is admitted upon surrender he shall pay a Fine but if it be so that he have common recovery in plaint in nature of a VVrit of entry in the
that 40. Ed. 3. fol. 34. If Rent of a Lessee for yeares be behinde the Lessor cannot avow upon the Termor as of Tenant upon the Land but upon the matter 47 Ed. 3. fol. the last 24 H. 8. Tit. Fealty 8. In the Exchequer held that if Lands discends to me which is held of J.S. by Homage and I make to him Homage and after other Land discends to me by another Ancestor held of J.S. also by Homage I shall make Fealty but not Homage again for I am become his man before the same Law is if both the Tenements are held of the King by Homage he shall not have two Homages but one Homage only Lit. f. 29 Tenant at will by the common Law shall not make Fealty to the Lessor but Tenant by copy at will according to the custome of the Mannor shall make Fealty to his Lord Lit. in the end of the first book and f. 29. and 10 H. 6. f. 13. accordingly If there be Lord and Tenant and the Tenant holds three Acres of the Lord by Fealty and Rent and aliens all the three Acres the Lord is not held to change his Avowrie without notice and to avow upon the Feoffee for Fealty and Rent But if he will he may the same Law if he alien but one Acre not that the Statute of Westminster the third is that he shall hold for that particular yet this is upon notice 8 Ed. 4. fol. 12. and 47. Ed. 3. fol. 4. If the Tenant make a Feoffment and there is no notice made to the Lord and the Tenant dies the Lord may distraine the Issue for Fealty and Rent and avow upon him for it sufficeth that he dies Tenant though he doth not dye seised of the Land 44 Ed. 3. fol. 13. If the Tenant be disseised and the Disseisor dyeth seised the Lord there cannot distraine the Tenant for Fealty but the Issue of the Disseisee 32 H. 6. fol. 31. and 34 H. 6. fol. 51. If the Tenant hold by Fealty and Rent if the Tenant make a Feoffment in Fee the Lord may distraine the Beasts of the Feoffee for Fealty and Rent And make avowrie upon the Feoffor till notice be given and after notice given he shall avow upon the Feoffee if he tender the arrearages otherwise not for by the Feoffment and notice he shall not loose the arrearages but may distrain as above and avow upon the Feoffor for the arrearages But I intend if the Lord accept Fealty of the Feoffee he hath lost the arrearages 47 Ed. 3. f. 4. Note that by the Statute of 21. H. 8. chap. 9. One may avow the taking in the Land if he will as within his Fee and Lordship as in Lands held of him without avowing or justiffing of any person certaine Where one in ward of the King holds of a common person also by Homage or Fealty the Lord cannot distraine for Homage or Fealty during the time that it is in the Kings hand and yet the Signiorie is not suspended but only from distresse so that after he may distraine 13 H. 7. fol. 16. If Tenant in taile which holds by Fealty makes a feoffment yet the Donor cannot avow upon the Feoffee for Fealty but if one recover against a Tenant in taile the Donor ought to avow upon him which recovers for the Fealty and if there be Lord and Tenant and the Tenant were disseised and the Lord accepts the Rent of the disseisor yet that shall be but as a Bailiff to the Disseisee and ought to avow upon the Disseis otherwise I suppose of Fealty 41 Ed. 3. f. 26. If there be Lord and Tenant by Homage and Fealty and the Tenant be disseised and the Lord accept Homage of the Disseisor he cannot avow for Homage upon the Disseisee Fitzh 142. E. Hariot For that that diverse Lords of Mannors have Hariots and these are to be inquired for the Lord in Court-Baron in the second Article of Charge It is to be noted that there are two manner of Hariots that is to say Hariot custome and Hariot service and for that Hariot custome is properly as it seems after the death of the Tenant for life and for yeares and of every Estate and also is upon altenation IT is properly Hariot custome after the death of the Tenant for life 8 H. 7. fol. 11. To have a Hariot after the Death of every Tenant that is to say for life and for yeares is a Hariot custome 21 H. 7. f. 16. f. 13. the same To have a Hariot after the death of the Tenant for life is Hariot custome for Hariot service is after the death of the Tenant in Fee 21 H. 7. Tit. 5. Br. Custome that every Tenant of every Estate ought to pay Hariot after his death is Hariot custome 14 H. 4. f. 5. Where the Lord is to have Hariot upon every surrender or upon every alienation is Hariot custome 3 H. 6. Tit. 8. b. Note that a Hariot custome may be due after death or alienation as the custome will serve It seems Hariot service is properly after the Death of Tenant in fee upon discent and not upon every Estate as before is said HAriot service is by reason of the Tenure 8 H. 7. fol. 20. Hariot service is by the Tenure and if the Tenant alien the Land without notice yet the Lord may distraine upon the Land for the Hariot for it is by reason of the Tenure and the Land is charged 8 H. 7. f. 10. B. 6. that is by prescription Hariot service is after the death of the Tenant in fee and not of every Estate 21 H. 7. f. 13. B. 5. You shall see more for payment of Hariot service title discent before and title releife after Where a Haâ—iot is certaine the Lord may seise that as Hariot custome and note that for Hariot service he may distrain it seems where it is certaine to have the best Beast that he may seise THE Lord may seise as well for Hariot service where he is to have the best Beast as for Hariot custome But it is said in another place that for Hariot custome he shall alwaies seise and not distraine for the property is in the Lord forthwith 38 Ed. 3. fol. 7. Br 2. For Hariot custome the Lord may seise and if it be conveyed away he shall have a Detinue and for Hariot service if it be conveyed away he may distraine time of H. 8. Br. 6. Doctor and Student f. 65. The Lord hath property in Hariot custome and may seise that and for Hariot service he may distrain and not seise 8 H. 7. f. 10. Br. 7. He cannot prescribe to distraine for Hariot custome though that it be conveyed away for that that he may have a Detinue for the Law adjudges possession in him 13 Ed. 3. Br 9. It is adjudged that the Lord may seise Hariot service as well as Hariot custome See Plowdens Commentaries fol. 96. between Woodland and others and 16 H. 7. f. 5. It seems
where the Lord prescribes to have the best he may seise for that that it is certaine 6 Ed. 3. Tit. but inquire Who shall pay Hariot and who not and when it shall be paid and what remedy upon putting it away ISsue in avowry if he die his Tenant for the Lord shall have Hariot though that the Tenant do not dye scised for it is sufficient if he dyed his Tenant though that he did not dye seised 44 Ed. 3. fol. 13. Br 1. and 7 H. 4. fol. 17. The Husband and Wife and their Son purchase lands joyntly hariotable and the Husband dies the Lord shall not have a Hariot till after the death of the last of them 24 Ed. 3. fol. 50. Br. 4. and Fitzh 3. 25 Ed. 3.7 and 19. R. 2. tit Hariot 5. Where a man dies seised of two Houses hariotable the Tenant shall pay two Hariots and note there the prescription that a Parson shall have the best Mortuary and the Lord the second best and if the Lord shall have the second best was the Issue taken 7 H. 6. fol. 26. Br. 3. Beasts which are remaining within the Fee of the Lord if they be removed out of the Lordship the Lord may take them for Hariot where he is to have Hariot after the death of every Tenant 27 Book of Ass 24. If my Tenant which holds of me by a Hariot aliens parcell of his land to another every one of them shall pay Hariot for that that it is intire 34 Ed. 3. Fitzh 3. After the death of a Prior Hariot shall not be paid for that he hath no property in the Beasts 32 Ed. 2. Fitzh 7. If a Husband Wife and their Son are seised for their lives the remainder to their said Son in taile after the death of the Husband the Lord shall not have a Hariot for he was not sole seised 24 Ed. 3. Tit. 3.19 R. 2. Tit. 5. The same for it is said there that if one do not dye sole Tenant there shall be no hariot paid Recordare longum If the Lord purchase the Tenancy held by hariot service then the hariot is extinct by the unity of possession for that that it is service annexed to the Land but I intend that it is otherwise of hariot custome where the Lord grants over the land 14 H. 4. f. 8. and 8 H. 7.11 Note that hariot is due immediately after the death of the Tenant Trespasse the Defendant as Lord may justifie taking of hariot within his Fee or if the taking were out it is good and the conveying it out is to no purpose but that the Lord may seise hariot out of his Lordship for it is not in case of the Statute where the Lord distraines within his fee for his services 19 R. 2. Fitzh 5. The Lord may seise Hariot which is the best Beast that his Tenant hath which held of him by hariot though they be in some place out of his Mannor for that that it is certaine 6 Ed. 3. Fitzh 4. If one which holds by hariot service to pay the best Beast dies and hath a Cow at the time of his death which is the best though that the Executors sell that the Lord may seise that in the hands of him to whom shee is sold if the Sale be not in an open Market and not there if without fraud 16 Ed. 3. Fitzh 2. By the custome of some Mannor and of most Mannors the Lord shall have only one hariot upon the dying seised of his copy-holder and discent and not upon every surrender But by the custome of some Mannor hariot is due upon every surrender for life in taile or in Fee as well as upon discent and that in nature of a hariot custome at the Common Law and by the custome of divers Mannors the Lord hath no hariot of some of his Tenants within the Mannor and of some he hath The Lord may seise for hariot custome the hariot and is to seise that of the Goods of the dead and for hariot service to distraine upon the land If a Copy-holder of Inheritance of lands hariotable lying in extreamity upon his bed surrender into the hands of two Tenants to the use of his eldest Son in Fee and dies before that surrender be presented in the Court the Lord shall have hariot but if this surrender had been presented in Court and the eldest Son had been aâ—â—â—ted accordingly and after the Father had dyed there the Lord shall have no hariot unlesse it be hariot custome due to him onely by custome upon every alteration and exchange of Tenant for life and in Fee The same Law is if the Father copy-holder of Land hariotable surrencer in the Lords Court to the use of himself for life of the Son of his Daughter for life and after to the use of the Son of his Daughter and to the Heires of the Son and they are admitted accordingly and after the Father dies the Lord shal not have hariot unlesse it be hariot by custome due upon every Estate for life in tail and fee upon every surrender which is due by the custome but in this case if the hariot were due by the death of his Tenants and discends to the heire only then the Lord shall not have the hariot If the Father being a Copy-holder of Inheritance or by the custome the Lord is to have Hariot upon every discent only and he lying in extreames surrenders into the hands of the Steward to the use of his eldest Son and his heirs and dies and after that surrender is presented in Court and he is admitted accordingly it seems that the Lord there shall have a hariot But if the Father being Copy-holder of Inheritance or by the custome the Lord having Hariot upon every discent only surrender in full Court to the use of his eldest Son and his heirs and the eldest Son is admitted accordingly and after the Father dies there the Lord shall have no Hariot So it seems if in this case the Father surrender to the use of himselfe for life the remainder to the use of his eldest Son and his heires and they both are admitted accordingly and after the Father dies there the Lord shall not have hariot 34 Ed. 3. Statham If my Tenant which holds of me by a hariot alien parcell of that land to another every of them is charged to me of a hariot for that it is intire and though the Tenant purchase the land again yet if I be seised of a hariot by another man I shall have of him for every portion a hariot and that by the opinion of Wilby and Sharde 4 Ed. 3. Statham Tit. Avowrie one avowes for hariot Plaintiff demands Judgement for that he doth not allead â—â—eisin of the hariot and it seemes of hariot custome he need not to alleadge Seisin but otherwise it is of hariot service 6 Ed. 3. Statham Tit. avowrie if one avow for hariot custome he shall recite the custome in his Avowrie 24 Ed. 3. Statham
no Mortmain Non-Tenure In so much that you sue here plaints for Coppy-holder and make protestation in nature of what Writ serves your case and many times non tenure in them is pleaded let us see where non tenure is a Plea or is a plea of parcell and not of all NOntenure is no Plea in a Nuper obiit for it is to try privity of blood 7 H. 6. fol. 8. Fitzh fol. 197. D. F. accordingly but abridgment Ass fol. 120. Non-tenure is a good Plea in Mortdancester If one plead Ancient Demesne he cannot afterwards plead Non-tenure for none may plead ancient Demesne but the Tenant 41. Ed 3. fol. 22. If one plead Non-tenure of parcell he ought to shew that he is Tenant of that But if he plead Non-tenure of al otherwise it is 8 Ed 4. fol. 6.11 H. 4. fol. 16. and 36 H. 6.6 Non-tenure is no Plea in Scire facias to have Execution upon a Fine 7 H. 4. fol. 12. Generally Non tenure is no plea in Scire facias to have Execution for that that nothing in that is demanded but Execution is demanded only But it seems one may plead speciall Non-tenure as to say that he was a Disseisor and the Disseisee hath entered upon him 7. H. 6. fol. 16. Cessavit and counts that the Tenant held a house of him by fealty and suit of Court he may deny that he is no Tenant of the whole house for he cannot tender the whole arrearages without his companion and goes in abatement of all Rast Non-tenure 1. But Non-tenure of a parcell in a Precipe shall not abate for all 21 Ed. 4. fol. 25. Non-tenure of parcel shal abate all the Writ by the Common Law and now by the Statute but for the parcell 36 H. 6. fol. 6.18 Ed. 4.41 Ed. 3.20 4. Ed. 4.33 Littleton fol. 126. Formedon If the Tenant plead Non tenure Judgement shall be that the Tenant shall go without day and after such judgment the Demandant may enter 26 H. 8. fol. 3. Attaint He which was party to the first Record cannot plead Non-tenure by Hare but his feoffee may 21 H. 6. fol. 62. Attaint against him which recovers and the petty-Jury and he saith that he was not tenant day of the Writ purchased and held good 6. Book of Assises Attaint against J.S. upon a verdict which passed for J. S. in a Writ of Entry upon disseisin and notwithstanding that J. S. pleads as Tenant yet for that that he was not Tenant day of this attaint nor ever after the Writ shal abate by Non-tenure 14 Book of Ass 2. Attaint Non-tenure was good but it was pleaded there by the Heir or other person against whom the recovery was Fitzh fol 107. L. Attaint Non-tenure hath been admitted a good Plea divers times 8 Ed 4.20 A man recovers in Court Baron in right and the other brings false judgement and recovers that and in Scire facias to have Execution he which first recovered pleads speciall Non-tenure to stay Execution and said that he shall have it 9. H. 5. fol. 11. Scire facias to have Execution if the Tenant pleads Non-tenure specially That is that he hath nothing but for years the Plaintiffe shall not have Execution at his peri II. Nuper obii In so much that Nuper obiit is a Plaint sometimes by Copi-holder of that in Court Baron something shall be said of that and where it lies and where not IT appears it lies where Lands discends to Coparceners and after the death of the Ancestor one enters into all and deforceth the other as where Grandfather Father Brother Uncle or other Ancester die seised of an estate in Fee and after their death one of their Heirs enters and deforces the other Coparceners here the Coparceners deforced shall have a Nuper obiit against the other Coparcener which deforceth them And if one Coparcener be deforced by the other Coparcener and a stranger she shall have a Naper obiit against her Coparcener and this Jointenancy shall not abate the Writ And this Writ lieth as well between Coheirs in Gavelkind as between women which are Coparceners if one deforce the other Fitzh fol. 197. A. C. Nuper obiit lieth between sisters of the half blood 3. Ed. 1 Tit. 5. Fitz. f. 179. G. Nuper obiit is maintainable where her Ancester was carried out of the same tenements the day before his death against his will by the other Coparcener and dies out of the same tenements 4. Ed. 2. Tit. 10. Fitzh 197. L. Nuper obiit lieth of a Corody 16. Ed. 2. tit 11.10 Ass 11. Br 3. Fitzh 179. If there be two Coparceners and one of them marries a Villain and the other deforce them the Villain and his wife shall not have a Nuper obiit 16. Ed. 3. tit Fitzh 17. Officer Where your Officer or Sheriffe shall be punished for executing of Processe as trespassor and where not and how he ought to carry hemself in executing Processe OFficer shall be punished in trespasse that by Fieri facias out of any Court breaks the door of a house to do execution and for that only not for taking the goods in execution 18. Ed. 4. fol. 4. It is held that an Officer cannot break the close to make a Replegiare where there is a gate unless that that be stopt the same Law is of executing Processe out of a Court Baron 21. H. 6. fol. 30. Where one is indicted of trespas and Capias awarded or a Commission to take the party indicted and he shuts his gates there the Officer may break the gates unlesse he may otherwise come to take him for this is for the King otherwise it is to execute Processe out of a Court Baron 27. Book of Assise 35. Where erronious Judgment is given in any Court the Officer which doth the execution is excused Contrary where the Court gives Judgment of Land or contract which lieth out of their jurisdiction for their trespasse or Assise lies against the Officer 22. Ass 64. Plowden 19â— There is also a Diversity where in Court Baron Judgment is given that is void or voidable for where judgment and execution is there of a thing whereof they have no jurisdiction there trespasse lies against the Officer for executing it but if Judgment be there but erronious and so not void false judgment lies and no trespasse against the Officer Plowdens Com. 394. contrary Law Where an Officer by commandment of a Bishop arrests one for holding an opinion that he would not pay Tithes false Imprisonment lies The same Law where a Justice of Peace laies his command upon one out of the Sessions without other matter and for that is Imprisoned Where one by a Capias out of the Court Baron arrests one false Imprisonment lies against the Officers 10. H. 7. fol. 17. It seems if the Sheriffe arrest one by a Capias awarded against him out of the Common Bench where there is no Originall yet false Imprisonment doth
heires males adjudged that the Grant is void for that that the King is deceived in his Grant for this sounds in Fee simple whereas it is sayd the King intended but an Estate taile which is not so expressed And therefore now he is but Tenant at will and contrary in the case of a common person For Littleton fol. 6. saith Lands are given to another to have and to hold to him and his heires Males or to his heires Females or to whom the gift is made hath Fee in a common persons case for that there is no limitation in the gift of what body 6 H. 7. fol. 13. If Office be granted to one for life and after the King grants that to another and doth not recite the first Grant the King is deceived and it seemes that the second Grant is voyd 1 H. 7. fol. 13. Where the King of meer motion forgave A B of all his Debts and was Sheriff and after in the Exchequer he pleads that as Sheriff and held for that that it is of his owne motion and is generall yet he may plead that and it is a good Barr Otherwise it is where it is by suggestion for where it is of meer motion it is intended the King is not deceived but it seems if the King pardon one all his Debts he as an Executor shall not take advantage of that The same Law is if two be indebted and the King pardon one the other shall not take advanrage of that for it was the onely debt of him 9 H. 7. fol. 2. Where a Grant of the Kings is of his meer motion and the King recites that where he hath granted by his Patent he ratifies and confirmes and over We give and grant this give and grant is not but voyd for the King is Estopped to say the contrary but that he granted and ratified that but if it were as We are informed he is not Estopped and the King there is deceived And where it is of his meer motion recyted that he holds for life he is Estopped to say contrary but if it were as We are informed he is not Estopped and the King is deceived and he holds not for life 3 H. 8. fol. 7. held VVhere a Grant of the King is not onely of his meere motion but also of suggestion there if any part of the suggestion be not true the whole Grant is voyd 8 H. 7. fol. 1. VVhere the King upon information of the party Grants a Mannor which he hath by forfeiture and hath not that by forfeiture it is voyd for he is deceived So it is sayd where the King grants reversion where there is no reversion he is deceived and voyd 27 H. 8. tit Patents 100. It is sayd for Law that a false consideration in letters Patents shall not avoyd them as where the King for ten pounds to him payd gave such Land and the ten pounds is not payd the Patent is not void and shall not be repealed Contrary of Patent granted upon false surmise as to falsifie that the Land came to the King by the attainder of J. S. which is not true or such like 26 H. 8. fol. 1. If the King grants Lands to J. S. and recites for good service he hath done he grants and it is not true yet the Grant is good though the consideration is false 27 H. 8. fol. 33. by 6 H. 8. fol. 15. Will That the second Patent of an Office shall be voyd where another Patent is made before during the will of the King If mention and recytall be not made in the second Patent of the first Patent made at the will of the King if the Officer hath Fee it is voyd otherwise it is if hee have no Fee as it seemes 3 H. 7. fol. the last 6 H. 7. fol. 13. the same Where the remainder in Fee depends upon determination of Estate and where upon Condition and where upon Contingent HUsband and his VVife seised in right of his VVife in taile the Husband enfeoffs other two so long as J. S. and seven other persons live together and if it happen any of them to dye that then the remainder to the Husband and his VVife and to the heires of the VVife and J.S. dyes and the Husband and the VVife enter as they may for the remainder depends upon determination of Estate and not upon condition for death is certaine and for that the Estate is determined 18 H. 8. fol. 3. 18 Ed. 3. fol. 2. A Fine was levyed to the Husband and his VVife and to their heies Males of their two bodies begotten so that if the Husband dyed without heire Male that that should remaine to the right heires of the Husband and is received for that doth not depend upon condition but upon a limitation upon contingent of death which is certaine 27 H. 8. fol. 28. A Fine upon grant and render by which the Conisee grants and renders to the Conisor the Lands in taile upon condition that the Conisor and his heires shall carry the Standard of the Conisee in Battell and if the Conisor or his heires faile that then that shall remaine to a stranger this depends upon a condition and by Fitzherbert Fine cannot be taken upon a condition but if it be taken it is good And by Fitzherbert the Fee is in the stranger forthwith before the Tenant for life dyes otherwise it takes no effect for this word that then it shall remaine referrs to the possession of the Lands that is that then the possession of the Land after the death of the Tenant for life should remaine but if one let for life upon condition that if he dye c. the remainder to a stranger that is in him presently Plowdens Commentaries fol. 487. Nichols Case If a Lease be made upon condition that if the Lessee pay certaine Moneys within the tearme that he shall have it in Fee he hath no fee forthwith but upon the payment but it seemes this varies from the remainder If a man makes a Lease for life upon condition that if the Lessor dye without Issue that then the Lessee shall have fee the Lessee enters into Religion and after the Lessor dyes without Issue and after the Lessee is drawne out of Religion he shall not have fee in so much that at the time of the condition the fee could norvest in him 21 H. 7. fol. 11. Gift is in taile upon condition that if he alien in Fee that his Estate shall cease and that this shall remaine to a stranger it is not good for an Estate of Inheritance cannot cease also it cannot remaine without particular Estate and it cannot be upon a condition repugnant Where your Tenant hath the fee in him in expectancy and not executed in him and where it is executed in him A Lease to the Father for life the remainder to the eldest Son in taile the remainder to the right heires of the Father the Father dyes and the eldest Son dyes
and this land intailed is delivered in execution and the Tenant in tail dies after that his issue may enter notwithstanding this Act without suing Audita querela 38 book of Assisse 5. Tenant in tail grants a rent charge and dies the issue enters and enfeoffes I. S. and takes back an estate the charge is determined for by the entry of the issue the rent was extinct notwithstanding execution upon the Statute was executed against the Feoffee of the Tenant in tail and not against his issue 14 Book of Assises 4. Inquire and see the case of Trapps Plow Com. f. 436. 5 H. 7. f. 12. Rent charge is granted by Tenant in tail and after he dies this is determined If issue in tail be outlawed of felony in the life time of his father and hath a Charter of pardon in the life time of his father and after the father dies the issue may enter otherwise it is if the Charter were granted after the death of the father for then if he enter the King shall seise for his life but his issue may enter 29 Book of Assises 60. If Tenant in tail be bound in a Statute Merchant and hath issue and dies and execution is sued against the issue this is disseisin to him 17 book of Assise 21. If Tenant in tail grant a Rent charge and dies the Rent is determined and shall not bind the issue 5 H. 7. f. 14. B. 38 Ed. 3. tit 13. Tenant in tail chargeth the land enters into a Statute or Recognizance and dies it shall be void against the issue If one recover against the Tenant in tail and the Tenant in tail dies before he which recovers enters or hath execution the issue in tail may enter and is not bound by that 7 H. 4. f. 17. B. Littleton f. 155. Tenant in tail of a reversion acknowledgeth that by fine to one with warranty and dies yet this shall not bind his issue for it is no discontinuance by the Common-Law 9 Ed. 4. f. 19. But by 32 H. 8. chap. 36. this fine with Proclamation is now a barr after the year Tenant in taile of Rent grants that to one with warranty and dies this shall not binde the Issue for it is no discontinuance but at pleasure that is if he bring a Formedon and then warranty with Assets is a Barr 15 Ed. 4. fol. 6. 21 H. 7. fol. 10. and 13 H. 7. fol. 10. the same If the Tenant in taile exchange or devise his land in taile and dies this shall not binde the Issue but that he may enter for it is no discontinuance 9 Ed. 4. fol. 22. Tenant in taile grants a Rent charge for release of right in the Land this shall binde his Issue after his death 44 Ed. 3. f. 22. 8 H. 6.23 If Tenant in taile be attaint of Felony and dies that shall not bind the Issue but that he may enter by the common Law 12 H. 4. f. 3. Nat. Bre. f. 102. the same Tenant in taile of full age le ts for 21. yeares according to the Statute of 32 H. 8. chap. 28. reserving the ancient Rent or more and dies this is a good Lease and shall binde the Issue If Tenant in taile let for 22. yeares and dies this shall not binde his Issue but he may enter and our the Lessee but yet he may have covenant against the Excutors of Tenant in taâ—le though it were not warranted in the Indenture 48 Ed. 3. fol. 2. 18 Ed. 3. Tit. 13. the same If the father Tenant in taile of land suffers recovery and execution and dies or cause collaterall warranty to he made one or other shall binde the Issue untill c. for it is discontinuance 3 H. 7. f. 13. The Issue in taile in Formedon may falsifie a recovery by default had against his Father and also where it is by fained action as there was a release made to his Father not pleaded and so recovery joynt Littleton fol. 155 The Issue in taile is not bound by a recovery against his Father but that he may say that his Father discontinued and took another intaile and so was seised of another intaile then he demanded time of the recovery 12 Ed. 4. fol. 15. and 13 Ed. 4. f. 1. the same The Issue in taile is not bound by recovery against his Father if his Father were not Tenant but one J.S. 14 Ed. 4. fol. 2. and fee Plowd Com. fol. 1. the case of Mansell If Tenant in tail infeoffs one against whom a Precipe quod reddat is brought or an entry in the Post and he voucheth the Tenant in taile which made the Feoffment and he over the common Vouchee this double Voucher is the most sure conveyance to Barr the Issue by reason of the recompence in value and this is the common conveyance at this Day where there is an Estate taile and this barrs the Issue in taile forthwith and also is a Barr to him which hath over that in remainder in taile by reason of the recompence which the first Tenant in taile hath by his Voucher 13 Ed. 4. f. 1. and 27 H. 8. Tit. Recovery in value 28. Recovery upon Voucher against Tenant in taile is a Barr by reason of the recompence in value and recovery by Writ of Entry in the Post by single Voucher doth but give the Estate which the Tenant in taile hath in possession at the time of the recovery so that if he were in of another Estate then in taile there the taile is not bound against the Heire 23 H. 8. Tit. 32. Note that a Fine levied by Tenant in taile where the remainder is to another in taile with Proclamations if he dye without Issue he in remainder hath five yeares to make his claime and for that recovery is better for it is a Barr forthwith 30 H. 8. Tit. Recovery in value 30. Of Lands in taile the Issue in taile shall be bound and charged of these Lands to the payment of Debt which his Ancestor ought by obligation made to the King as I take it 33 H. 8. chap. 39. inquire Land that a woman holds in Dower of her Husbands shall be charged where the Husband was indebted to the King if the Heires or Executors have not sufficient but where the title of Dower was before the Debt to the King otherwise it is Fitzh fol. 150. Q. It seems that the Heire in taile shall be charged for Debt due in the Exchequer to the King by his Father if the Executors have not sufficient Fitzh fol. 117. C. Notwithstanding if Tenant in taile Debtor of the King in the Exchequer dy his Issue shall not be charged as it is held in Plowd Comment fol. 249. See there 440. For Debt of the King against the Heire in Fee 32 H. 8. Tit. Discont 32. Recovery against the Tenant in taile the Reversion or remainder in the King in Fee shall binde the Tenant in taile and the Issue in taile but shall not binde the King but now
cannot enter without Assignement but in other Precipe if one recover he may enter but here it shall be assigned to her by the Sheriff by metes and bounds 40 E. 3. fol. 22. Where the Woman recovers damage and where the Tenant may say he is yet ready to excuse him of damages if it be in Copy-hold and otherwise A VVoman shall recover damages where the Husband dyed seised if the Tenant do not come in the first day ready to render Dower Nat Bre fol. 7. If the Tenant come at the first day and saith that he was alwaies ready the Plaintiffe may averr that she hath demanded Dower and she cannot have it 2 H. 4. fol. 8. and this found she shall recover damages At the Summons returned the Tenant comes and saith that he was alwaies ready to render Dower and yet is for the Plaintiff to say that he was not ready alwaies is no Plea but by Thirne she ought to shew that her Husband died seised and she demanded in the Country and you refused but by Hank the bringing of the Writ is a demand in Law but he agreed that she ought to aver the dying seised of her Husband if she will recover dammages 6 H. 4. f. 5. Dower the Tenant saith that he was alwaies ready and yet is and the Demandant avers that her Husband died seised and saith that he was not ready and for that this is no Issue but she shall say that she demanded inquest of Office was awarded which findes he died seised and the Wife shall recover dammages from the time of his death but where the Tenant was ready though that the Husband died seised the wife shall not recover dammages 11 H. 4. f. 39. 6 H. 4. f. 5. Dower the Tenant saith that he hath been alwaies ready to render Dower and yet is the Plaintiff saith that her Husband died seised And she required the Defendant at D. and he refused and the Issue shall not be that he did not refuse generally but he offered and she refused without that that he refused 13 Ed. 4. f. 7. Dower the Tenant acknowledgeth the action and the Demandant to have dammages surmiseth that her Husband died seised and hath a Writ to inquire of dammages and held that if the Tenant come at the first day and will aver that he was ready and yet is if the demandant cannot aver the contrary the Demandant shall not recover dammages 14 H. 8. f. 28. If the Tenant be effoyned yet he may say yet ready for the Essoyne may be put in by a stranger 7 H. 7. f. 7. f. the last the same 2 Ed. 4. f. 20 and 14 H. 6. fol. 4. The same Dower after imparlance the Tenant cannot say that he was alwaies ready and yet is 5 Ed. 4. f. 141. Tenant for Life A Man devise all his Goods to his Wife and would that his Son should have his House after the death of his Wife notwithstanding that it is not devised to the Wife she shall have that for her life 13 H. 7. fol. 17. Lease to a Woman as long as she lives unmarried or as long as she behaves her self well it is for life conditionall 37 H. 6. fol. 28. Land is given to one to have and to hold so that he paies to the Grantor for his Life 10 l. this is an estate for life 3 Book of Ass 9. An Estate to one till he hath levied ten pounds he hath that for life till c. 21 Book of Assise 18. If I let to W.N. to hold till a hundred pound be paid and without making Livery and Seisin he hath an Estate but at will and if there be Livery it is for life upon condition to cease the hundred pound levied 2 Mar. Brook Lease 67. And so in the three cases next it is to be intended Livery to be made J.S. Tenant for life aliens to B. to have to him and to his Heires for the life of J.S. B. hath an Estate but for the life of J.S. 24 H. 8 Tit. Forfeiture 87. If Lands be given to a man and his Wife and to the Heires of their two Bodies begotten and they are divorced now they have but an Estate for their lives 7 H. 4. f. 18. If I grant Rent to you without more you shall have that for life 7 Book of Ass 1. If a devise be to one without more he hath an Estate for life 22 Ed. 3. f. 16. Tenant for yeares What Act determines a Lease for yeares and who shall have the Corne what is a good Lease for yeares and what not THE Husband seised in right of his Wife le ts for seven yeares and dies the Wife may enter but if the Termor had sowed the Land in the life time of the Husband the Termor shall have the Corn 7 Book of Assises 19. If the Lord enter upon a Copy-holder for Forfeiture and the Land be sowed the Lord shall have the Corn 42 Ed. 3. f. 25 The Husband and the Wife lets the Land of the Wife for twenty yeares rendring Rent and the Husband dies the Wife accepts the Rent it is a good Lease and was not void 3 H. 6. fol. 2.2 H. 6. fol. the same and 21 H. 6.24 If a Parson or a Prebendary let for yeares rendring Rent and dies though that the Successors accept the Rent the Lease is not good 32 H. 8. tit acceptance 14.32 H. 8. Tit. Dean and Chapter 20.24 H. 8. tit B. 19.38 H. 8. Lease 18. 22 H. 8. tit Ancestor 14. If Tenant in Dower lets for yeares rendring Rent and dies the Lease is void and acceptance by the heire of the Rent will not make the Lease good for it was void before 9 E. 4. f. 37. by Nedham If I let Land for yeares in which is a Mine I cannot enter and take that nor Trees but I shall be punished The Bishop lets for yeares rendring Rent and dies and the Successor accepts the Rent this makes the Lease good for the Bishop hath Fee and may have a Writ of Right 2 Ed. 6. tit acceptance 20. The same Law is where an Abbot lets for yeares rendring Rent and dies the Successor accepts the Rent the Lease is good 21 Ed. 4. f. 5. B. Where Tenant in taile lets for 21. yeares and dies and the Issue in taile outs the Lessee as he may and doth not accept the Rent the Lessee may have covenant against the Executor of the Lessor and recover dammages though it be not warranted 48 Ed. 3. f. 2. A Lease by Tenant in taile for 21. yeares made according to the Statute rendring ancient Rent or more though Tenant in taile dye this is a good Lease against the Issue but if Tenant in taile dy without Issue the Donor may avoid this Lease by entry 32 H. 8. chap. 28. Tenant in taile the remainder over le ts for yeares rendring Rent and dies without Issue and he in the remainder accepts the Rent this shall not binde him insomuch that when
the intaile is determined the Lease is determined and void 1 Ed. 6. tit acceptance 19. Lease for yeares and so from yeare to yeare as long as both parties pleased after he hath entred into every yeare it is a Lease for that yeare and a Lease for a thousand yeares is good 14 H. 8. f. 1. Lease for three hundred yeares is good and is but a Chattell notwithstanding the long time 32 Book of Assises 6. If a man lets for sixty yeares and so from sixty yeares to sixty yeares untill two hundred yeares be ended this is also one self same Lease and good 29 H. 8. tit Lease 49. and Plowdens Commentaries 273. the same The Husband and his Wife purchase to them and to the Heires of the Husband and after the Husband lets for yeares and dies the Wife may enter and avoid the Lease for her Life but if she dy before the residue of the Tearm it is good to the Lessee against the Heire of the Husband 33 H. 8. tit Lease 58. And note by all the Justices that the Guardian by Knight Service shall not out the Termor where he hath a Lease of his Tenant which dies his Heire within age contrary was the Law in times past as it appeares before in the title Ward VVhere it is agreed and granted to J.S. that he shall have twenty Acres in D. for twenty yeares this is a good Lease for this word Concessit is as strong as devised 37 H. 8. tit Lease 60. If one license one to enter and to occupie his Land for years it is a Lease for yeares in Law 10 Ed. 4. f. 4. 5 H. 7. f. 1. the same Tenant in taile lets for twenty two yeares rendring Rent and dies and the Lessee lets that over for ten yeares and the Issue accepts the Rent of the second Lessee this is no confirmation of the Lease for there is no privity betwixt the second Lessee and him 32 H. 8. Tit. Acceptance 13. A man lets for ten yeares and the next day lets the same Land to another for twenty yeares this is a good Lease for the last ten yeares of the twenty yeares which are ended after the first ten yeares 26 H. 8. Tit. Lease 48. See the time of H. 8. Tit. Lease 35. Weston saith If I let for so many yeares as J.S. shall name and after J.S. in my life time names certaine years the Lease is good for those yeares Plowdens Commentaries 273. A man lets a House with the Appurtenances no Land passes but if a man lets a House with all the Land to the same belonging there the Lands with that used passe and it is a good Lease of those Plowd Com. f. 273. 31 H. 8. tit Lease 55. See Plowd Com. 85. b. and f. 170.23 H. 8. tit Feoffments 53. If a man lets for life to J.S. and the next day lets to W. N. for yeares the second Lease is void if it be not granted of a Reversion 37 H. 8. tit Lease 48. A man lets for yeares to have after the Lease thereof made to J.N. ended and in truth J.N. hath no Lease this begins forthwith 3 Ed. 6. tit Lease 62. A man hath a Lease for yeares as Executor of J.S. and after purchaseth the Reversion the Lease is extinct and determined yet it may be assets 4 Ed. 6. Tit. Extinguishment 24. Leases made by a Bishop otherwise then for 21. yeares or three lives from the time that such Lease begins and where upon the old Rent is not reserved is void 1 Eliz. not in Print and for that a Lease made for thirty yeares by a Bishop and confirmed by the Dean and Chapters under their Seale shall not binde their Successor but if the Bishop Dean and Chapter joyne in a Lease for thirty yeares this is a good Lease notwithstanding this Statute And see Pulton tit Ecclesiasticall persons What Lease by Spirituall persons is good and what not And see 13 Eliz. chap. 10. That a Lease by Bishop Dean and Chapter for longer time then twenty one yeares or three lives is not good and by 14 Eliz. chap. 11. They may make a Lease of Houses in Cities and Borroughs for forty years and by 18 Eliz. chap. 11. They cannot let where there is an old Lease which hath continuance for three yeares or more A man possessed of a Tearm for forty yeares grants so many of them to J.S. which shall be behinde at the time of his death and it seems it is void for the Incertainty otherwise it is if it were by devise But if a man lets his Land to have after his death for forty yeares this is good for this is certaine 7 Ed. 6. tit Lease 66. See 8 H. 7. fol. 4. Grant of Rent but if a man let for life and foure yeares over is good Tenant which holds in cheife dies his heire before Livery sued makes a Lease for yeares this is good if no Intrusion be found by Office and if after the Lease the dying seised be found by Office and no intrusion it hath no relation to the death of the Ancestor unlesse for the profits and not to defeat the Lease 5 Ed. 6. Tit. Lease 57. Tenant at will What acts Tenant at will may do and what to him and what by him are good and what not IF Tenant at will lets for yeares in his own name He is a Disseisor 12 Ed. 4. f. 12. Release made to the Tenant at will by the Lessor is good Lit. f. 108. If one alien his Mannor there need not that Tenant at will attoin Lit. f. 125. Tenant at will cannot grant over his Estate to any for he hath no Interest certaine 27 H. 6. f. 3. B. If a man lets to one at will the Lessor dies the will is determined 21 H. 6. f. 42. If Tenant at will be outed this is Disseisin to the Lessor and yet the Tenant at will may enter without commandement of his Lessor for the will continues 38 H. 6. fol. 28. If Tenant at will make wast action upon the case lies against him and not wast 48 Ed. 3. f. 25. 11 H. 6. f. 38. the same See Lit. f. 15. 12 Ed. 4. f. 8. the same 22 Ed. 4. f. 5. Trespasse lies 14 H. 8 f. 12. By Brown If Tenant at will makes wast action upon the case lies and by Roo if my Father lets at will and dies the will is determined Littleton fol. 14. If Tenant at will makes voluntary wast he saith that the Lessor shall have an action of trespasse but it seems he intended trespasse upon the case 48 Ed. 3. f. 2. Action upon the case lies against Tenant at will which makes wast in burning of Houses willingly and not action of wast 2 Ed. 4. fol. 5. By Littleton If I deliver to you my Gown and you burn it action upon the case lies and not trespasse By force of Armes 43 Ed. 3. f. 30. If one hath Goods by delivery trespasse doth not lye against him but
Detinue 21 H. 6. fol. 43. is That an action of wast doth not lye against Tenant at will which makes wast but trespasse 41 Ed. 3. f. 24. Where a Miller takes more tole then he ought action upon the case lies against him and not trespasse 2 Ed. 4. f. 5. If my Servant of a shop which hath power to sell gives my Wares it seems that I shall have trespasse against the Donee Tenant at will may cut Trees seasonable but if he cut great Trees wast doth not lye but action upon the case Tenant at will of a Mine may take the Oare and sell it 12 Ed. 4. f. 8. He which holds at will hath that at the will of both and Debt lieth for the Rent reserved 20 Edw. 4. fol. 9. If the Lessee at will sow the Land and after be outed he shall have the Crop but if he be outed after the plowing and before the sowing he shall loose the Costs of plowing and the compost of that 11 H. 4. fol. 90 Tenant at sufferance Who is Tenant at sufferance and who not and what acts he may do TEnant at sufferance is where one of his own head occupies my Land and claims nothing but at my will and release to him is not good Littleton f. 108. There is no Tenant at sufferance but he which first enters by authority and Lawfully as a man lets for yeares or for anothers life and holds in further after the Lease expired or after the death of him for whose life time of H. 8. tit Tenant by copy 15. Tenant at sufferance is when Lessee for yeares after the tearm ended occupies the Land by consent of the Lessor without a Lease at will 21 H. 6. f. 42. Tenant at sufferance may distrain doing dammage upon the Land and yet release made to him is not good 4 H. 7. f. 3. and he may have trespasse Villainage For that that in the fifth Article villainage is to be inquired in Leet and in Court-Baron and is to be inquired who is Villainof the Kings Somthing shall be said touching that and first how they began and where the Lord may seise and have them and how their Goods and Chattells and other things and how contrary and how not VIllaines began after Noahs Flood that is when all things were in common and when they increased and also were taken in Battells and one kil'd another to avoid this mischeife it was ordained that none should kill another but those which they overcame should be their Villaines to use at their pleasure but not to kill them Britton f. 77. If the Villaine buy Goods and sell them or give them to another before the Lord seise them then the Lord cannot seise them nor have them otherwise it is of the Kings Villaine Littleton f. 39 Lord and Villaine the Lord is indebted to one which makes the Villaine his Executor the Villaine shall have Debt against his Lord and the Lord cannot seise and have the Goods which the Villaine hath as Executor 3 H. 4. f. 15. the same 47 Ed. 3. f. 16. Littleton f. 41. and 21 Ed. 4. f. 50. Old Tenures 2. If a Villaine dy before the Lord seise his Goods or claim by word the Lord cannot seise them not have them but his Executors 3 H. 4. f. 17. If a villaine purchase Lands and alien them before that the Lord enter or buy Goods and sells them before that the Lord seise them the Lord shal not have them Lit. f. 39. If the Lord seise Goods and deliver them to the Villain again if they be taken from him the Lord may have trespasse or take and seise them again and have them 11 H. 4. f. 2. Lit. f. 39. If he seises parcell of the Goods in name of all that suffices forâ—ll The Lord hath possession of Goods of his Villaine by Seisure of land by entry of Rent Reversion and Advowson by claim Perkins f. 6. Littleton 40. The Lord cannot seise his Villaine in the presence of the King and yet after he may have him 27 Book of Ass 49. If my Villaine Infant be in ward of one by reason that he holds of him by Knights service I may enter and seise the Infant and out the Guardian and shall have him 40 Book of Ass 7. The Lord cannot take and seise his Villaine out of the service of another which hath retained him unlesse that he hath more Servants but he may seise the Goods 39 R. 2. tit action upon the case 52. The Lord may take the Rent which a Villaine hath in possession but not a thing in action as obligation of Debt or Covenant What is infranchisement and what not IF a â—ree-man marry his she Villaine she is infranchised Little fol. 41. And that their Issue is free 46 Ed. 3. fol. 4. If a she Villaine marry a Free-man she is made free for ever and shall not be a Villaine again unlesse by a speciall act afterwards as being divorced or acknowledgeth her self a she Villain in Court of Record â—itzh fol. 78. G. 33 Ed. 3. f. 187. Statham is that shee is infranchised but during the marriage If a Villaine woman marry a Free-man she and all her Issue have a free Estate for ever and a Villaine becomes free if he marry his Mistris the same Law if a she Villaine marry her Lord Brit. f. 78. a. If a Villaine dwell in ancient Demesne of the King by a year and a day without claime he is infranchised Fitzh f. 79. A. But there held if he dwell in the ancient Demesne of another Lord then the King by a yeare and a day without claime he is not infranchised 39 H. 6. tit 20. and 39 E. 3. f. 6. If the Lord and his Villaine vouch together where the Villaine hath purchased Lands if he be not from all benefit shut up being called to warranty it is an infranchisement 33 H. 6. f. 1. The Reversion is granted to a Villaine and his Lord being Tenant for life attornes this doth not infranchise the Villaine for the Lord gives nothing to the Villaine and he cannot otherwise have the Reversion 11 H. 7. fol. 13. If a man infranchise his Villaine with the whole sequell it behoveth to be for those created and to be created some born before that infranchisement is not made free 15 H. 7. f. 14. Though the Lord make Attorney where his Villaine is Plaintiff it is no infranchisement 22 Book of Ass 4. 29 Ed. 3. f. 24. the same If the Lord suffer his Villaine to be sworn of a Jury in the Kings Court it is an infranchisment Britton fol. 83. Villaine shall not be infranchised for that his Lord sues a Recordare upon a plaint of Replegiare 5 Ed. 3. f. 187. Statham Tenant in taile of a Mannor to which is a Villaine regardant aliens the same Land to the Villaine and dies The Issue recovers the Land against the Villaine yet he may after seise the Villain and he is not infranchised notwithstanding that
covenant to deliver great Timber of the said Land to repair the House let and will not and for lack of that the Lessee will not repair that but suffers the House to fall he is punishable for this waste but if the great Timber were to be taken from other Land and is not delivered this excuses him and he is not punishable for this waste 44 Ed. 3. f. 21. If Land be let to a lone Woman and she takes a Husband which makes waste and dies she shall be punished for that waste but if the Lease were made to the Husband and his Wife and he makes the waste and dies for that waste she shall not be punished Nat. brev f. 36. B. 3 Ed. 3. Tit. 20. Register f. 72. against the Husband and the Wife summoned B. and E. his Wife that they be c. to shew why they made waste c. of Lands c. which they held for the Dower of the said E. Register fol. 74. against a Woman Summon B. which was the Wife of C. that she be c. to shew wherefore c. of the Houses c. which she holds for her life by a Lease which D. thereof made to the said B. and the aforesaid C. sometime her Husband and to the Heirs of the said C. 14 H. 8. f. 12. When the terme of years is ended the Writ shall be which he held and where it is during the terme shall be which he holdeth 40 Ed. 3. f. 23. Where the terme passes and where the Infant is of full age it shall be against the Guardian and Termor which they held 41 Ed. 3. fol. 23. Against Tenant for life the forme is which he holds for terme of his life 40 Ed. 3. f. 33. 14 H. 6. f. 14. the same 46 Ed. 3. f. 25. If a Lease be made to one for life which grants over his Estate the VVrit shall say which he holds but where a Lease is made for anothers life and he for whose life dies the VVrit shall say he held by Finchden and not denied And if a Lease be made to a woman for years which takes a Husband before the terme ended which makes waste and the VVife dies waste lies against the Husband for the occupation See Brook Tit. 47. The same Law where a Lease was to the VVoman for life which takes a Husband c. Nat. Brev. f. 36. If Land be let to a single VVoman and she take a Husband and the Husband makes waste and dies the Wife shall answer for this waste but otherwise it is where the Land is let to the Husband and his Wife for terme of their two lives and the Husband makes waste and dies the wife shall not answer for that waste for it was the folly of the Lessor to let that to him 15 H. 3. Tit. 133. Fitzh Time of Ed. 1. Tit. 128. Fitzh If a woman Tenant for life take a husband which makes waste and dies it seems that the woman shall be charged of that for that that the woman agreed to the Lease after the death of her husband 10 E. 3. Tit. 17. Tit. 21. 133. 23 H. 8. Tit. 138. If a single woman Tenant for life takes a husband which makes waste and dies Action of waste lies against the wife but if a Lease be made to the husband and the wife and the husband makes waste and dies it is otherwise and held there for Law that if the Termor make waste and make his Executors and dies the Action of waste is gone for it is as a Trespasse which is a personal Action which dies with the person but if the Executors make the waste it lies against them Fitzh f. 56. A. If a Guardian in Knight-service grant over his Estate and the Grantee makes waste the writ of waste shall be brought against the Grantee and not against the Guardian but if the Guardian make waste and after grant over his Estate waste lies against the Guardian and not against the Grantee and so where Tenant for life or for years makes waste and grants over his Estate the writ of waste lies against him that made the waste but waste shall be alwayes brought against Tenant in Dower or Tenant by the Curtesie notwithstanding their Grant over Fitzh 550. Register fol. 72. 40 Ed. 3. Tit. 33. Waste against Tenant for life it is no Plea to say that he had nothing in the Tenancy Day of the writ purchased nor ever after for if he hath made waste and granted his Estate over yet he shall answer for this waste and though the writ be which he holdeth it is good and by Finchden waste is a writ of Trespasse in his nature and cannot be brought but against him which is Tenant when the waste was made unlesse he be Tenant by the curtesie or Tenant in Dower 41 Ed. 3. fol. 23. 44 Ed. 3. fol. 21. Fitzh 55. C. In waste against Tenant in Dower the Statute need not be rehearsed nor in waste against Guardian but against Tenant for life or for years by Demise shall be rehearsed Fitzh 56. C. In waste against Tenant by the curtesic without rehearsing the Statute that is without when of the common Councel of our Kingdome of England it is good and so it seems it is if it be rehearsed Every writ of waste is to the dis-inheriting of him which brought the writ and for that it shall be shewed in the writ though the Plaintiff hath Reversion by the Assignement of the Lessor Fitzh 58. A.B.C.D.E. Register 74. 75. And the writ of waste is of me that is the Plaintiff holds and for that it is shewed by Assignement as 46 Ed. 3. f. 25. Waste by the Assignement of the Defendant Dd. that you have it by Assignement and the Plaintiff shews that he had a Feoffment and Livery saving the terme and good Also it shall be shewed in the writ of whose Demise the Defendant hath it that is as by the Demise of another Fitzh 57. A.B.C.D.E. Register 745. that is for the Plaintiff is to recover the place wasted 34 H. 6. fol. 6. Tit. Waste Brook 121. 11 H. 6. f. 8. If waste or Quare ejecit infra terminum be brought and the terme ends hanging the writ the writ shall not abate for though he cannot recover the place wasted he shall recover Damages Also if waste be brought Quas tenuit after the terme ended he shall recover Damages though he do not recover the place wasted So where one which holds for terme of anothers life makes waste and after he for whose life dies the Lessor shall recover Damages though he do not recover the place wasted Fitzh 60. 10 H. 6. fol. 8. Waste supposed by the writ that the Defendant hath that by Legacy of one such ancester of the Plaintiff for that that the custome was so that he might devise and good 8 Ed. 2. tit 112. Waste was found in a House which was principal and the Plaintiff by Award recovered
against the Sherif for that that one was outlawed at his Suit and that the Defendant then Sheriff would not return the VVrit to the losse c. 30 Book of Ass 5. VVhere the Bailiff of a Franchise returnes a Pannell to the Sheriff and returnes another Pannell of himself this shall not be outed at the request of the Bailif but they shall have their action of the case against the Sherif 11 H. 6. f. 18. If a Lawyer be retained to looke over evidence and after he discovers that to another person by which c. Action upon the case lies against him contrary if he shew him his evidence and do not retaine him 15 H. 7. f. 14. By Fro VVhere an Attorney appeares for a man without authority and Imparles where he might have pleaded misnaming and by this hath lost the advantage of this Plea Action upon the Case lyes against him for that that he appears without authority 9 Ed. 4. tit 118. B. Where a Guardian pleads falsly for an Infant or vouches one which is not sufficient to render in value to the Infant the Infant shall have aâ— Action of Deceit Action upon the Case against Executors ACtion upon the Case was brought against the Executors of J. D. and Count that J. S. bought things of the Plaintif and J. D. undertook if he payd not at the day he would and counts that he had Assets sufficient to pay all his Debts and Legacies and sufficient to content him and it lyes Note J. D. did not make the bargaine and contract but undertook for J. S. and upon Assumpsit he could not wage his Law 12 H. 8. fol. 12. 27 H. 8. f. 29. Where Tatam was in execution the Defendant saith if he would discharge him out of execution that such a Day he would pay him if Tatam could not the same Law if he saith to a Baker Deliver Tatam so much Bread and if he do not pay you such a Day I will pay you Debt doth not lie against me upon this Promise but an Action upon the Case 27 H. 8. f. 27. It seems if a man be indebted upon a simple Contract leaves Assets and dies the Action upon the Case doth not lie against the Executors for the Testator might have waged his Law but he shall have a Quo minus in the Exchequer 15 Ed. 4. f. 15. Where the Testator may wage his Law as in Debt of Contract made by him and borrowed Debt doth not lie against his Executor Plowd Com. f. 181. Action upon the Case was brought by Richard Norwood against the Executor of Tho Gray and counts that the Testator in consideration of forty shillings to him paid undertook to deliver to the Plaintiff certain Corn at a Certain Day and did not and counts that the Goods and Chattels of the said Tho Gray the Testator at the time of his Death were sufficient to satisfie as well all the Debts which the said Tho Gray did owe to any person or to any persons at the time of his Death as to satisfie the Plaintiff for the said forty shillings and adjudge that this Action lies against the Executors And if an Action upon the Case be brought against Executors upon a simple Contract if the have no Assets but to pay Specialties they may plead that and shall not be charged 4 Ed. 3. chap. 7. is That an Executor shall have Trespasse of Goods carryed away in the life of the Testator or before an Action personal dies with the person 7 H. 4. fol. 8. Executors shall have Eiectione firme by the equity of the Statute 23 H. 8. Tit. 138. Waste if a Termor make waste and makes Executors and dies the Action of waste is gone for it doth not lie against Executors but for waste made by them Action upon the Case for not performing his Promise and Assumpsit and the place and how where it shall be traversed WHere a man makes a promise or an Assumption to doe a thing and doth it not and there is no specialty of that promise he shall have an Action upon the Case and not a Covenant for that it was not by specialty as for a hundred pound paid the Defendant bargained and sold his Land to the Plaintiff and promised to infeoff him and infeoffs another person he shall have Deceit or Action upon the Case 20 H. 6. f. 36. 3 H. 7. f. 14. Action upon the Case and counts that the Defendant for 10. l. took upon him to labor for the Plaintiff to J.S. that J. S. should let the Mannor of D. to him and counts that the Defendant hath taken that to himself the Action lies so if he undertake for 10. l. paid to infeoff him and infeoffs another for this mis-doing an Action of the case lieth 2 H. 7. f. 12. the same 48 Ed. 3. f. 6. Action of the Case lies against him which took upon him to cure the Plaintiff of a Wound and did not and by his negligence the Plaintiff was worse 3 H. 6. f. 37. Action upon the Case and counts that the Defendant took upon him to make a Mill before such a Day and did not but held that he ought to have counted what he should have for it shall be Quid pro quo and otherwise the Action doth not lie 2 H. 4. f. 4. Action upon the Case and counts that the Defendant took upon him to make him a House and it seems it doth not lie I conceive that was for that he doth not count what he should have for doing it 11 H. 4. fol. 31. 14 H. 6. fol. 19. Action upon the Case where one had bargained to him certain Land for a certain summ and undertook that a stranger released unto him Where a Carpenter covenants to make to me a House or a Chyrurgeon takes upon him to cure me of my Hurts and they do not for this not doing it seems an Action upon the Case lies 21 H. 6. f. 63. If one for ten Markes bargaine with the Plaintif for two Pipes of Wine and undertake to deliver them at D. and did not an Action upon the case lies though that sounds in Covenant for that there is no specialty and the same Law is of all other bargaines and by Paston bargained sold or bought It is no diversity to one or the other 19 H. 6. f. 49. Action upon the case that the Defendant assumed upon him to cure his Horse of a certain Disease and that be negligently and carelesly applied Medicines that the Horse dyed and it lies 26 H. 8. Tit. 133. Action upon the Case that the Plaintiff delivered Goods to the Defendant and the Defendant for ten shillings undertook to keep them safe and did not to the losse c. The Defendant saith that he had them not by the Delivery of the Plaintiff good by Fitzh and Shelley 34 H. 8. Tit. 107. Action upon the Case in London and counts that he was Possessor of Wine and Stuff and showed that certain in
perform the covenants of an Indenture the Defendant alledges them performed specially and one Covenant was that J S should pay to the Plaintiffe 10 l. and he said that he offered it to him and the Plaintiffe refused by Fitzh and Shelley he need not say yet ready 27 H. 8. fol. 1. Debt upon an obligation The Defendant saith that it is endorced upon condition that if the Prior of W. made an obligation to the Plaintiffe before such a day that then c. And saith that the Prior tendered that to the Plaintiffe and he refused it and shall nor say yet ready for it is a thing out of his power and to be made by a stranger 10 H 6. fol 17. If a man be bound in 20 l. and the condition is to pay 10 l. if the Defendant plead in debt upon the obligation that he tendred the 10 l. at the day and the Plaintiffe refused it yet he shall say yet ready But if the condition were that J. S should pay at the day to the Plaintiffe and the Plaintiffe refuse he shall not say yet ready 14 H. 6. fol 24. Debt upon an obligation of 10 l. the Defendant pleads that after by Indenture of defesance the Plaintiffe granted that if the Defendant paied unto him 20 s. such a day that then the obligation should be void and saith that he tendred to him the 20 s. at the day and he refused it and by Prisot he shall not say yet ready 33 H. 6. fol 2. Debt upon an obligation the condition to pay a lesse sum this lesse sum is parcell of the sum in the obligation and for that the Defendant shall say yet ready but otherwise it is where the condition is to stand to the award or other collatteral matter there the Defendant shall not say yet ready 20 Ed 4. fol 2. The Court Roll. THe Court Baron of W. T. Prebend of Islington Gentleman Farmer of R. F. Clark Prebend of the preben dary aforesaid there to be held the Tuesday that is the 6 day of May the year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland defender of the faith the â—oth L. H. by W. I. essoyned of Common Essoyne Homagers Jury J. H J. P T. G R. M R. H R. E T. L R. W R. B W. R T. W. First they say upon their Oath Default of the Freeholders W. A 4d J. H 4d and R. B 4d are Freeholders of this Mannour and owe suit to the Court and at this day have made default Therefore every of them in the mercy as it appears upon their heads Also they say upon this Oath Des Tenants by Copie of the Rolâ— that W. J. 2d and J. R. 2d are Tenants by the Copy of the Rolls of this Court and owe Suit to the Court and at this day made default therefore either of them in the mercy as it appears above upon their heads Also they present that W. J. which held of the Lord freely one house Death and 30 acres of Meddow and Pasture with the appurtenances within this Lordship by fealty suite of Court and by the yearly Rent of 6 d. dyed of such an estate so seized and that R. J. is son and next heir of the aforesaid W. J. and is of the Age of 10 years and came to Court the aforesaid W. J. and payeth to the Lord for releif â—â—d and made his fealty Also they say upon their Oath Alienation that G. B. which of the Lord held freely one Cottage one Orchard and 6 acres of mâ—ddow with the appurtenances by his deed indented bearing date the 6th day of January the year of the reign of the said Queen gave granted bargained and sold all and sing â—lar the premises aforesaid with their appurtenances to R. K. of c. to have and to hold all and singular the premises aforesaid with their appurtenances aforesaid to the said R. K. his heirs and Assignes of the chief Lords of the fee by the Rents Services and customes there first due and of right accustomed and the premises doth hold of the Lord of this Mannor by fealty Suite of Court by the yearly Rent of 12 d. And at this Conrt the said R. K. made to the Lord his fealty Also they say upon their Oath Legacie that W. A. which held of the Lord freely one house or tenement â— and 20 Acres of Land called H. by fealty suite of Court and by the yearly rent of 6 d. dyed thereof seised And by his last Will made in Writing bearing date the 28th of September the year of the Reign of the aforesaid Queen the 19th bequeathed the house or Tenement and the aforesaid 20 Acres of land to certain R. A. and T. A. his sons by the name of all his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Scituate Lying and being in J. aforesaid to have and to hold the aforesaid messuage or tenement c. And the aforesaid 20 Acres of Land to the said R. A. and T. A. their Heirs and Assignes for ever to the poper use and behoof of R. and T. their Heirs and Assignes for ever Therefore it is commanded to the Bayliffe that he should distrain the aforesaid R. A. and T. A. according to the form of the Statute in that case provided to pay his Releif and likewise let them be distrained to make their fealty Surrender Also they say upon their Oath that R. R. customary tenant of this Mannor out of the Court surrendered into the hands of the Lord by the hands of W. T. and R. M. two customary tenants of this Mannor according to the custome of this Mannor All that messuage and 30 acres of meddow feeding and Pasture with the appurtenances late in the tenure or occupation of R. B. to the use and behoof of R. R. for tearm of his naturall life after the decease of the said R. R. then to the use and behoof of T. B. and the heirs of the body of the said T. lawfully begotten and for defect of such issue of the body of the said T. B. lawfully begotten the remainder thereof to J. J. the son of R. J. of J aforesaid Gentleman his heirs and assignes for ever and they say that the aforesaid R. dyed and now at this Court aforesaid T. B. came and requested to be admitted to all and singular the premises aforesaid and at this Court the Lord by J. K. his steward granted him seisin thereof by the rod to have and to hold to the said T. B. and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and for defect of such issue the remainder to the use and behoof of the said J. J. and his heirs for ever and the aforesaid T. B. gave to the Lord a fine 4 pound and made to the Lord his fealty and is admitted tenant thereof To this Court it is witnessed by W. T. steward Surrender taken by the
Body of the aforesaid A.B. before the Justices within written at the day and place therein contained I cannot have as within I am commanded By vertue Latitat c. I have taken the Body of J.C. within named whose Body before our Lady Queen wheresoever shee shall be in England at the day and place therein contained I have ready as within I am commanded And if the Defendant which is so taken be sick in Prison or if the Sheriff will be at no cost to remove him to Westminster before the Justice saccording to the contents of the Writ then so By vertue of this Writ A.B. Sick within written is taken by his body and in such a prison or Goale so sick and weak that his body at the day and place within named I cannot have wiihout danger of death By vertue of this Writ to me directed Otherwise I have taken the body of within named J.S. which truly J. is in Prison of our Lady the Queens at F. so sick that without danger of death I cannot have him before the Justices within written at the day and place therein contained as I am commanded Which truly J. is so vexed with divers infirmities Otherwise that him without great perill of Death and for the weaknesse of his Body before the Justices within written at the Day and Place therein contained I cannot have as within c. R.D. within named was taken by J. C. Constable of the Town of D. at T. in the County of D. Otherwise for Felony for suspition of Felony and for that cause in the Gaol aforesaid under my Custody was detained and in the same Gaol is so sick that by no means he can labor or can be carried or so Whose Body I have ready before you at the Day and Place within contained Otherwise Supersedeas upon Capias to do what that Writ in it commandeth and requireth By vertue of this Writ I certifie you that after this Writ was delivered to me to take R.T. and other Defendants in this VVrit specified the same K. and others within named brought to me a Writ of our Lady the Queens of Supersedeas which is fastened to this Writ by vertue of which Supersedeas not at all c. By verrue of this Writ to me directed Supersedeas after Cepi Corpus I have taken the Body of the within named B.D. which afterward brought to me a Writ of our Lady the Queens of Supersedeas to me directed and fastened to this Writ therefore his Body before the Justices within written at the Day and Place aforesaid I could not have as within I am commanded And if upon this Writ there be sent another Writ which is called a Habeas Corpus then thus To have his Body and the Body with the Cause By vertue of this Writ I certifie you that before the coming of this Writ Sick by vertue of a certain other Writ to me first directed A. B. within written in the Prison of the Castle of our Lady the Queen of E. is imprisoned and there so sick and weak doth lie and in the same Prison yet sick and weak lieth so that him for fear of Death I cannot remove therefore the Body of the said A. B. at the Day within named I cannot have c. And in these Writs there are divers manners of Returns and divers of them are so By vertue of this Writ I certifie you that before the comming of this Writ W. B. within named was taken in another place and committed to the Queens Prison of W. By vertue of which other Writ to me first directed the Transcipt whereof is sent to you fastened to this VVrit notwithstanding the Body of the said W. I have ready to come before you at the day and place within named as within it is commanded me c. VVe Sheriffs aforesaid signifie unto you Trespasse that before the coming of this VVrit of our Lady the Queens to us directed and fastened to this VVrit J. F. of T. in the said VVrit nominated was taken in such a place and committed to our Lady the Queens Prison of W. for twenty pounds of Damages T. C. of N. in a Plea of Trespasse in the Queens Court in the said City of E. before us the said Sheriffs held and adiudged and likewise the said J. is detained in Prison aforesaid at the the Suit of W.S. in a Plea of Trespasse before us the said Sheriffs in the Court aforesaid had and prosecuted yet his Body c. as in the next Return before c. By vertue of this VVrit I signifie to you that before the coming of this VVrit of our Lady the Queens Felony R.A. in the said VVrit named was taken in L. and committed to the Prison of our Lady the Queens of W. for suspition of a common Theif and further the said R. was detained in the said Prison for that that he for divers Felonies by him done and committed at D. in the Hundred of A. is indicted as I am informed and another time taken armed at I. in such a County was carried to the Prison of our Lady the Queen and the said A. the same Prison of our Lady the Queen felloniously broke and from thence escaped as it is said notwithstanding the Body of the said R. as above c. By vertue Excom c. I certifie you that before the coming of this VVrit A. W. within named by the Ecclesiastical Censure in the Church of N. such a day and year c. for his Contempt and such like is excommunicated and the said A. by the Ordinaries of the Church of Saint Martins Justices in the Premises as yet stands in the same Church excommunicated and this is the cause of the taking and imprisoning the aforesaid A. notwithstanding the Body of the said A. W. before our Lady the Queen at the day and place within contained wheresoever she is I have him ready as c. Before the coming of this VVrit C.D. Counterfeit Money within written was in such a place and Prison of our Lady the Queen of R. committed for suspition of counterfeiting Money of the Queens and for that cause and no other is detained in the said Prison notwithstanding the said C. D. before you at the day and place within contained I have ready as within is commanded B. W. was taken at D. in the County of E. by H.S. Murder Steward of T. F. and before the said Steward at a Hundred held c. was indicted for the death of J. T. by the aforesaid B. slain and by the aforesaid Steward was sent the Queens Prisoner to R. which truly Indictment remains with the aforesaid Steward notwithanding the Body of the said B. before our Lady the Queen in her Chancery at the day in that contained wheresoever he be c. I have ready as that VVrit in that commands and requires c. Here follow divers Causes upon Returnes
Imparlance saith that the Plaintiffe was knight day of the Writ purchased not named knight Judgment of the Writ and had plea by Judgment Otherwise it is said after continuance by day given 42 Ed 3. fol 1. Debt the Defendant came at the Exigent by Reddidit se and was bayled and the Plaintiffe came and prayed day by Prece partium and had it notwithstanding that the Defendant was by Bayl for that is by agreement of the parties 8 H. 5. fol 8. After day given and after speciall Imparlance the Defendant may plead in abatement and not after generall Imparlance 14 H. 4. fol 14. If the parties be at Issue and the Demandant releases to the Tenant and he takes continuance by request of the parties he shall not plead the release 22 Ed 3. fol 8. The Tenant after the request of the parties was received to plead Joyntenancie by Fine Pleas after Issue and at the Nisi prius day in Bench and after Verdict DOwer by Thorpe the day of the Nisi prius and the day in Bench is not all one to all respects for a Writ purchased mean between the Nisi prius and day in Bench shall abate for the first Writ is hanging till Judgment be given notwithstanding the Plaintiffe was non-suited at the Nisi prius But when to plead any Pleas which come mean between them there shall be one same day 40 Ed 3. fol 38. 28 H. 6. fol 1. A man may plead a Plea after last continuance at the Nisi prius Inquire what Pleas. 34 H. 6. fol 45. At the day of the Nisi prius the Defennant pleads to the Writ that one of the Plaintiffes was dead after the last continuance at D. in the County of Darby Judgment of the Writ and had it 47 Ed 3. fol 2. If it be found against the Plaintiffe at the Nisi prius and the Plaintiffe makes default at the day in Bench yet Judgment shall be upon the Verdict for that is all one day and the day of the Nisi prius 10 H. 7. fol 21. Debt upon a Lease for yeers and the Issue was levyed by distresse or not And now at the Nisi prius he could not plead a Release made after the last continuance 19 H. 6. fol 36. Forging of false Deeds against many they were at Issue Processe continued against the Enquest till the Jury appeared at which day the Defendant pleads arbitrement after the last continuance and upon this the Jury was discharged 21 H. 6. fol. 10. Nisi prius was returned Octa Mich that is the day in Bench and one Plaintiffe dyed after Octa Mich and before Judgment given upon the Verdict And the Defendant may plead that for Judgment shall have relation to Octa Mich and then the Defendant cannot have remedie by Writ of Error Audita querela nor otherwise therefore he shall have the Plea again But it seems that the Defendant cannot plead Release made to him by the Plaintiffe after Verdict for he shall have an Audita querela contrary of his death the day of Nisi prius and the day in Bench were all one self same day and no mean time and therefore Release made mean between these two cannot be pleaded at the day in Bench notwithstanding it seems at the day of Nisi prius before the Jury taken The Release which is made mean between the Award of the Writ of Nisi prius and the day of the Nisi prius may be pleaded at the Nisi prius See 10 H. 6. tit 53 and tit 55. Br. 22 H. 6. fol 1. Dower It seems if the Plaintiffe release to the Defendant mean between the award of the Nisi prius and the day of the Nisi prius there if the Jury remain for default of Jurors the Defendant may plead this Release at the day in Bench after the last continuance though he did not offer it at the day of Nisi prius and contrary it seems if the Jury had been ready at the Nisi prius 36 H. 6. fol 24. At the Nisi prius the Enquest past for the Plaintiffe and he released before the day in Bench the Defendant shall have an Audita querela and of this it follows that the Defendant cannot plead that at the day in Bench after the last Continuance 34 H. 6. fol 3. 21 H. 7. fol 33. After the Enquest taken by default the Defendant cometh before Judgment and pleads that he and the Plaintiffe have put themselves to Arbitrement after the last Continuance c. And by the opinion of the Court he hath no day in Court to plead that Plea And it was said that he shall plead no plea in such case but as a freind to the Court But of matter apparent he shall be received but in the Kings case he shall have that by plea for he hath no other remedie But in the case between common persons he shall have Audita querela contrary against the King 11 H. 7. fol 10. tit B. 61. 38 H. 6. fol 33. Debt by Moyle the Defendant after that he was at Issue might once plead plea after the last Continuance as release or such like notwithstanding no oftner then once 41 Book of Ass 19. If Verdict passe for the Plaintiffe and the Defendant get a release before Judgment yet he cannot plead that 21 Ed 4. fol 52. Adjudge that the Defendant cannot plead Release made mean between the Nisi prius and the day in Bench. 16 Ed 4. fol 5. A man may plead a Plea after the last Continuance after Issue joyned and in another Tearm And therfore it seems that the parties have day in Court as well after Issue joyned till Verdict as before 50 Ed 3. fol 4. Imparlance at a day in the same Tearm and at a day and Tearm between and Imparlance of the Plaintiffe COntinuance by Capias ought to be made from Tearm to Tearm and cannot have other Tearm between for that that the party shall not stay so long in prison but continuance by distresse may be made by a Tearm between as from Michaelmasse Tearm to Easter 8 Ed 4. fol. 13. 12 H. 7. fol Common recoveries for assurance the Tenant tenders Issue the Demandant may Imparle to a day in the same Tearm 44 Ed 3. fol 16. If a man Imparle to another day in the same Tearm or till the next day yet that is a new day at which the parties are demandable 37 H. 6. fol 27. Debt Defendant pleads misnaming of himself and the Plaintiffe Imparles and had it 22 Ed. 4. fol. 19. Where the Defendant in appeal of Robbery by which he put his life in jeopardie the Plaintiffe shall not Imparle to that and therefore ruled that he should answer the Court sitting What Pleas he shall have after the last Continuance WHere the parties and Jury appear at the fourth day in the Common Bench and are adjourned at another day a man may plead a Plea after the last Continuance 28 H. 6. fol. 1. 8 Ed. 4. fol. 9. Where
a man pleads death of the Defenfendant hanging the Writ he shall not plead that after the last Continuance for that by this the Writ is abated in deed contrary of a Plea which proves the Writ abateable 34. H. 6. fol 49. At the day of Nisi prius the Defendant pleads to the Writ that one of the Plaintiffes was dead after the last continuance at D. in the County of Darby Judgment of the Writ and the Plea recorded and the matter adjourned and had that Plea 14 H. 6. fol 9. 38. Ed 3. fol 5. Precipe by a Woman the Tenant tenders his Law of not summoned and at the day was essoyned and at the day saith that the Demandant took a Husband after the Law tendered and for that that he did not say after the last continuance that is after the essoyn it was held no Plea 4. H. 7. fol 8. A man shall have but one Plea after the last continuance 38. H 6. fol 33. the same 16 Ed 4. fol 5. A man may plead a Plea after the last continuance after Issue joyned and in another Tearm till Verdict but not mean between Nisi prius and the day in Bench. â— H. 7. fol 8. A man shall not have a Plea after the last continuance unlesse such Pleas which were not in being at the time of the first Plea for otherwise it is not after the last continuance Maintenance In so much that Maintenance may be the better avoided let us see what maintenance is forbidden by the Law THat no Clark of a Justice or Sheriffe shall not maintain parties in quarrels nor in businesses which are in the Kings Court West 2. chap 28. That none of the Kings Counsellors nor none of his house nor none of his other servants nor no great ones of the Land by sending of their Letters nor in other manner nor no other of the Realm shall not undertake to maintain quarrels nor parties in the Country in disturbance of the Common Law 1 Ed 3. chap 14. See 20 Ed 3. chap 3. That no Counsellor Officer or Servant nor any other persons shall not uphold or maintain any quarrels by maintenance in the Country nor elsewhere first of R. 2. chap 4. That henceforth none buy or sell or take promise grant or Covenant to have Mannors Lands Tenements or hereditaments But if such person which sells their Heirs or they by whom they claim have been in possession of the same or of the reversion or remainder of that or hath taken Rents or profits of that by the space of one whole year next before that bargain Covenant Grant or promise made upon pain of him that bargains to forfeit the value of the Lands And the Buyer also knowing that to forfeit also the value of the Land the one half to the King the other to him which will sue for the same within one year after the same offence And it is also Enacted that none from henceforth unlawfully maintain or cause or procure any unlawfull maintenance in any action or complaint in any of the Courts of the King of the Chancery Starr-Chamber White-Hall or otherwhere within the Kings Dominions where they have power to hold Plea of Land by Commission Patent or Writ And also that none shall instruct Jurors or subborn Witnesses by Letters Promises or by any other sinister labour or means to maintain any matter or cause or to hinder Justice or to procure or occasion any manner of perjury upon pain of forfeiture for every such offence 10 l. one half to the King and the other to him that will sue for the same within one year after the same offence 32. H. 8. chap 9. If one will say he will maintain and doth it not he shall not be punished for maintenance And Champerty lies where one purchases hanging the Suit 9. H. 7. fol 18. See 3 H. 6. fol 53. It seems it is no maintenance to give money before a Suit begins but hanging the Suit Maintenance the Writ was in Plea which was hanging he maintains and it is good and it seems it is better to say in Plea which was hanging 10. H. 7. f. 27. It seems one may covenant to have part of an Obligation when it is recovered for travelling with an Alien which cannot speak English nor Latine to his Counsell so one may covenant with one indebted to him and deliver him the Obligation of another in satisfaction of his Debt to sue in his name and notwithstanding that he paid Counsell it is no Champerty Every Champerty implies in it Maintenance but not of the contrary and he to whose use and every one that hath lawfull Interest in the Land may maintain 15 H. 7. f. 2.34 H. 6. fol. 33. the same By Fineux If a Servant be arrested for Debt or other thing in London or other Franchise the Master may maintain him and spend of his proper money for losse of his Service Inquire But otherwise it is in Precipe 21 H. 7. fol. 40. B. See 21 H. 6. fol. 19. by Newton By Newton and Paston Servant may pray one skilled in the Law to be of Counsell with his Master but a stranger cannot pray one to be of Counsell with my Adversary for he hath nothing to do 21 H. 6. fol. 19. If a man be at the Barre and another informs the Court that this man can declare the truth and pray that he be sworn and by the commandement of the Court he swears this is Maintenance iustifiable but if he had said for one or the other of his own head this is Maintenance punishable the same Law if he informe a Jury sworn of his own head it is Maintenance punishable 28 H. 6. f. 6. The Master may pray one skilled in the Law to be Counsell with his Servant and this is Maintenance iustifiable but he cannot give of his own proper goods to distribute to men of the Countrey for maintaining his quarrell for then he meddles with a thing forbidden by the Law and by Prisot he may iustifie giving money to Lawyers to be of Counsell with his Servant but not to give money to others not learned in the Law 28. H. 6. fol. 12. By Fortescue Master may pray one learned in Law to be of Counsell with his Servant but not to give to them money unless it be of his Wages and he saith one skilled in the Law may be of Counsell without a Fee Inquire 31. H. 6. f. 2.36 H. 6. fol. 29.3 H. 6. f. 55. Maintenance one may iustifie for that he is his Servant but he cannot give money Maintenance Defendant iustifies that he is a Bail and that he came to the Defendants Attorney and prayed him to be carefull the which is the same Maintetenance by Prisoâ— it is not good to say it is the same maintenance for this is no Maintenance for every stranger may pray the Attorney for it is the part of an Attorny to attend to that and for that it is no Maintenance 32 H. 6. f.