Executor prosecureth as Executor c. and for the Testator and there it ought to have a resemblance of the Regionall debt and although that the Statute appoints that the sayl shall be to the party as Altham Baron remembred yet here as the pleading purports the Bayl is to the aforesaid Executor which implies a legall dependency upon the first suit Then it hath been granted and the Law is so that if an Executor recover a debt which was due to the Testator and hath judgement for it now if you will have an action upon this judgement this ought to be in the detinet because it is a legall pursuance of a thing given to the Testator and not voluntary as a bond for further security or assurance and so here the Bayl being pursuant and compulsory but by 5. E. 3. if it be voluntary then it ought to be put in the Kings Bench to an Executor which is to be resembled to our case if an Executor bring debt upon a Bayl it ought to be as Executor and not as I. S. cleerely Altham the Bayl in the Kings Bench is upon the originall suit and so it is not here wherefore c. to which it was not answered but for that matter it was adjourned see H. 6. in the Kings Bench if a Feme c. take Husband and one of the Debtors of the Testator promise the husband if he will forbear his suite to pay the debt if the Husband will commence his action upon this promise it ought to be in the name of his Wife also because the action pursueth the Originall debt Williams contr it was agreed that if the Law were such that the Action ought to be in the detinet only then the bringing of it in the debet and detinet is such a Ieofaile as is not aided by the Statute of 18. Eliz. Nichols case and Chamberlains case Cook lib. 5. Tanfield chief Baron said in this case that it is proper that the Action ought to be brought in the detinet only but as our case is here is no issue joyned because here is not a negative and an affirmative for the declaration is that he oweth and detaineth and the Bar whereupon the issue is joyned is that he oweth not so where if his Action ought to be in the detinet then there is not any Nâ—gative and so no issue which was not denyed at another day they agreed that the action ought to have bin in the detinet only and therefore judgement was given that the Plaintif take nothing by his bill Sir Henry Browns case touching the Countesse of Pembrook SIR Henry Browns case wherein Hawkins and Moore were parties was this the Plaintif declared of an ejectment of the Mannor of Kiddington Dâ—le Sale and doth not mention them to be adjacent to any Ville and also of an 100. Acres of Land lying in the same Ville of S. and that upon not guilty pleaded the Iury at the Assises at Oxon were ready and then the Defendant pleaded that the Plaintif after the last continuance had entred into a Close called Well Close parcell of the Tenements mentioned with conclusion and this in the Declaration he is ready to aver and demanded judgement if it c. and this was before Yelveton Iudge of Nisi Prius there and now the Plea here was debated And 1. in this case it was upon conference with all the Iudges allowed that this plea may be pleaded at the Assises well enough and the Iudge there accepting of it had done well but as Tanfield chief Baron said the Iudges may allow it or not for if they perceive that it is Dilatory they may refuse it for it is in their discretion and therefore c. But by Dodderidge the Kings Serjeant the Iudge of Nisi prius is not Iudge thereof if it be well pleaded or not but is to give day to the Parties in Court where the Suit depends to maintain this Plea for he is only appointed Iudge to take the issué and upon such Plea he ought to discharge the Iury of the matter in issue and record the Plea and this is all his duty and by him in this case here is a Discontinuance for the parties have no day given upon the Roll as it ought to be for the day in bank in judgement of Law is all one with the day of Nisi prius and this is of course given to the Parties to hear Iudgement only concerning the matter in issue and here is other matter and therefore the Iudge c. Nota that in all Cases where a thing is pleaded triable before other Iudges the Iudge before whom it depents ought to give day to the Parties to be before the Iudges where the matter is tryable 12. E. 3. Voucher 115. and Title Day 25. and 34. and Assise pla 14. a Lord demands Cognizance of Pleas day ought to be given to the Franchises or otherwise it is a discontinuance of the Nisi prius for there ought to be a speciall day for the parties here to hear judgment in this Plea 10. H. 7. fo 26. so if at the Nisi prius a protection be cast the Iudges shall give day to the Parties in Bank to hear judgment if this protection shalve allowed or not for the Iudg of Nisi prius is no Iudg therof Also the Iudg in this case ought to have discharged the Iury it appears not here that he had done so therefore upon the whole matter it is a discontinuance but admitting that here was no discontinuance it seemeth that the plea was good and I agree that in all cases of Pleas issuable the plea ought to be expresly shewed or that which Tantamounts and here is shewed that which Tantamounts for when the Plantiffe in his Action had shewed the names of the Mannors and the Towns in which the acres lies then the Venue to try it for every parcel shall come de vicineto from all together and by consequence it is reasonable that the Venue for the trial of one particular to be parcel or not parcel shall come from all for if the plea in this case were that the Plantiff hath entred into the premises this had been good and then if it be good for the general it seemeth it should be good for every particular also it is clear that two may be parcel of all the three Mannors as in this case it is admitted to be parcel of all the premises by the demurrer if so c. Coventry the plea here is not good for the plea is to the writ and the conclusion ought to be pursuant to the premises of the plea or otherwise the plea is not good 36. H. 6. if a man plead to the writ and conclude to the Action it is evil 20. Eliz. Dyer 361. also the plea is not good because it is not shewed where the land lies wherein the entrie is alledged and therefore if the Plantiffe had denied it then is there no
touching the premisses Also peradventure if he will assign the place this may fall out to be in another County then where the Action was brought for so it may be and yet parcell of the premisses and so he may give us cause to demur Also to say cleerely that the Plaintiff had entred c. is not good for it ought to be that the Plaintif also expelled or amoved the Defendant as appears in the book of Entries Tit. Debt or Lease fo 11. or 12. and fo 175. B. also here the Plea is double to say in one close called Well Close and this is matter of substance whereof we may take advantage notwithstanding this general Demurrer And also he saith it is parcell of the tenements mentioned in the Declaration this may be and yet never parcell of the thing whereof the Action is brought for there are other Writs therein comprehended within the pernosme And as to the objection of Serjeant Dodderidge that here is a discontinuance because the Plea is not continued by the Iudge of Nisi prius into this Court here if seemeth that this needs not notwithstanding that it be a collaterall Plea in this Court in Trin. Term at the Assises but it is that the parties aforesaid do attend in Octab. Mich. and the continuing untill the Assises is but with a Nisi prius c. and by expresse words the the Parties have day to attend to hear judgement and at the Assises to try the issue and this is a sufficient continuance and as to that the Iudges of Nisi prius ought upon this Plea to discharge the Iury to that it seemeth that the relinquishing of the issue joyned and the acceptance of this new Plea is a discharge in Law Also the Iudges of Nisi prius have no power to give day in the Court here to the Parties for the Court here is to appoint the day in the book of the other part 37. H. 6. fo 2. is only that the Iudgs of Nisi prius give to the parties their day viz. the ordinary day and not another day and the cases tit Voucher and tit Journ in Fitz. cited of the other part are where the Plea is to be put in another Court as Durham c. where the parties have no day before and there a day ought to be given but that is apparantly different from our case Nichols Serjeant to the contrary admit that the Action had been brought of the Mannor of D. only and the entry had been alledged in parcell as here it is then it had been good see the Book of Entries tit Debt or Lease 11. or 12. accordingly and by the same reasons it seemeth the Action being brought for the ejectment of three Mannors the entry was pleaded to be in one Close parcell of the Tenements and good for the venue shall come from all as well from one Close as from the other Also here the entry is alledged to be in parcell of the Tenements and not of the premisses and so the venue for the tryall ought to be from the three Towns where the odde Acres lye and not from the Mannor also and by a reasonable intendment it may be conceived that the place where c. lyeth in all the three Towns 36. H. 6. fo 17. the Defendant saith that the place where c. is parcell of the Mannor of B. that he intitled himself unto he needs not shew where the Mannor lyeth and yet it shall be intended in the same County and although that in such case it is said to be shewed in certain by the Book in 6. E. 6. Dyer fo 76. yet this doth not prove that it ought to be of necessity and here by the shewing of the Plaintiff he had confest the matter of fact which is an entry into parcell of the Premisses and by consequence he falsified his Writ for if he confesse that he had entred into any parcell thereof whereof he brought his Action he had falsified his Writ cleerely he vouched 21. H. 6. fo 8. and 6. Eliz. Dyer 226. in a Ejectione firme against Nevell and others it is said that by a Demurrer to such a Plea the Plaintiff had confessed the Entry but otherwise it should be if he had imparled see Bowld and Mullinexes case in Dyer fo 14. for the shewing of a place c. and l. 5. E. 4. fo 138. an Executor pleads fully administred and at the Nisi prius he pleads that the Plaintiff recovered part of the Debt in D. after the last continuance and a good Plea although it be not shewed in what County D. is Also it seemeth that day ought to be given in this Plea or otherwise it is a discontinuance for the day given upon the Roll is to hear judgement upon the verdict and this plea is Collateral wherefore c. and he vouched 10. H. 7. fo 27 and 7. E. 3. fo 338. by Herl where a difference was taken when a day in Bank shall be given and when not and he vouched 4. and 5. Eliz. Dyer 218. where Fitz. Iustice gave day in Bank Tanfield chief Baron true it is that if it be in an Assise which commenteth originally before the Iudge of Assise he may give day Nichols also vouched 33. H. 6. and 11. E. 4. fo 13. Hobert Attorney general the demurrer doth not confess the plea when it is insufficient but if upon the demurrer the plea be adjudged sufficient then the fact is confessed for the demurrer only confesseth the matter of the plea conditionally viz. if it be good in the matter of the case in 6. Eliz. Dyer 226. the Plantiffe conceived that the plea there ought not to be pleaded in an ejectment after the last continuance and did not demur for the form and a demurrer doth not confess the plea good although that the matter is true and the Book in 21. H. 6. doth not prove against me for that was of an actual confession but in 37. H. 6. the issue joyned was if he who prayes to be received may plead the entrie of the demandant after the last continuance and the cause of the demurrer there was only if he could plead that plea or not because it appears not if he had any thing in reversion or no and so it seemeth that we might have demurred specially and this had been no confession and therefore the general demurrer shall not prejudice us for the matter of confession Bromley Puisne Baron it seemeth the plea is not good because a place is not assigned in certain in what Town the entrie is divers Towns being alledged it seemeth that it is no discontinuance for there needs no special day to be given but the day of return of the nisi prius for they cannot give any day being delegate only to a special purpose and it seems to me that the demurrer doth not confess the plea of the Defendant but conditionally viz. if the plea fall out to be good for otherwise
impedit praesentare to the Church of D. the Defendant saith that there is no such Church 22. E. 4. fo 34. an action was brought against I. S. Maior of D. and he Traversed that there is no such Corporation Tanfield chief Baron said that if in an action of Trespass the Defendant saith that I. S. was seised in fee and infeoffed him without that c. and the Plantiff saith that I. S. was seised in fee and infeoffed me without that that there was any such person as I. S. in being this is no good Traverse Hern Baron seemed that this Traverse is good in the principal Case but he was once of Counsel with the Plantiff and it was moved that the Case should be Compounded An Information against Page IN an Information against Page and another upon the Statute of 3. 4. E. 6. cap. 21. for buying of Butter and selling of the same by retail contrary to the form of the Statute upon not guiltie pleaded the Iury found one of them only guiltie both of buying and selling and the other not guiltie and it was moved that no judgement may be given in this Case in asmuch as the action is conceived upon a joynt buying by two and it appeareth that this is but by one but it was argued that judgement ought to be given for it cannot be intended in Law as to this purpose a joynt buying for the wrong is several and in proof thereof was cited 36. H. 6. fo 27. the 11. H. 4. Dyer fo 194. or 195. accordingly also this action is for a wrong done to the Common-wealth which is a several wrong by either and to this purpose was cited 40. E. 3. fo 35. 36. H. 6. cited before and 5. H. 5. fo 3. where an action de malefactoribus in Pareis was brought against three and one only was found guiltie and judgement was given against him and there is no difference as to this purpose between this Case and an action of debt upon a joynt contract made by two as appeareth by 21. H. 7. and Partridges Case in Plowden where it is said that the bargaining is but matter of conveyance to the action and according unto this was cited 33. H. 8. Brook tit issue and also 28. H. 6. fo 7. and 36. H. 6. fo 29. and a Case was adjudgeed in Mich. 35. 36 Eliz. in the Kings Bench which proves the same also where an information was brought supposing the Defendant to have bought Cattle of two contrary to the form of the Statute and it was found that he bought them but of one and yet judgement was given Hitchcock to the contrary and he argued that no judgement ought to be given for he said that if an information be brought against two upon the Statute of usury and one only is found guiltie yet no judgement may be given in this Case to which the Court agreed and he cited Dyer 160.5 Ma. where two sued in the Court of Admiraltie one for an offence triable within the bodie of the Countie contrary to the Statutes of 13. 15. of R. 2. and an action was brought against one of them only and good and he vouched also 22. Eliz. Dyer fo 370.2 R. 3. fo 18. where three brought an account against one he pleads he was never their receiver and the Iury found c. and he cited a case to this purpose an information was brought against two for buying of Cattle of one B. and for selling of them contrary to the form of the Statute and in this Case the Iury found the Defendant not guiltie for the buying them of B. but that he bought them of one P. and upon an attaint of the Iury the opinion of the Court was in this case that though the verdict was affirmed yet no judgement ought to be given thereupon and this was the true Case of Lidwood and Pearpoint cited before on the other side as George Crook said York and Allein A Man recovered damages in an action upon the Case against B. who at the time of the judgement was joyntly seised in fee with C. and that after B. and C. aliened the partie who recovered is outlawed the King eight years after this outlawry extends the moitie of this land for these damages recovered against B. and it was moved if he shall have them in extent for them or not also if he shall have it without a scire facias and the Barons were clear in opinion that he shall have it in extent for it was liable to the extent of the partie outlawed before the Alienation and then when it comes to the King by the outlawry although it be after the Alienation it continueth extendible for the King although the Alienation was before the outlawry It was admitted by all the Barons that if a Coppiholder surrender to the use of a younger son and dies that this younger son cannot bring an action until admittance but if the Copihold had descended to the heir he may have an action before admittance see Cook Coppihold Cases lib. 4. fol. 22. and also it was said that all Coppiholders of the Kings Mannors may now have admittance into their Coppihold estates well enough and the order for the stay of their admittances which was made heretofore is now dissolved and quashed Dennis against Drake DEbt was brought by Dennis against Drake Sheriff for an escape a man had judgement in the Kings Bench and a writ of error was brought within the year and after the year passed the judgement was affirmed in the Exchequer Chamber and within a year after the affirmation a Capias issued to the said Drake the Sheriff who took the partie and suffered him to escape and this being the Case upon the declaration in this action the Defendant demurred and all the Barons said that there is no question but a Capias may well issue within the year after judgement affirmed without a scire facias though it be more then a year after the first judgement and it seemed to them that there was no difference though that the writ of error was not brought untill after the year of the first judgement given although in such case there be an apparant neglect in the partie who had not sued his execution within the year and therefore he was enforced to a scire facias thorough his neglect whereas if error had been brought within the year he had never been driven to his scire facias in this Case yet for asmuch as when the judgement is affirmed this is all one as a new judgement they conceived it made no difference and Tanfield chief Baron said that it had been often so judged in the Kings Bench. It was said here that if a man be instituted to a benefice he ought to pay the first fruits before induction by the Statute but by the Common Law it was otherwise for he is not to have the temporalities until induction and therefore he could not pay the first fruits
of no force to avoid the lease Altham Baron Contra for the matter in Law but for the insufficiency of the verdict he thought that there ought to be a new venire facias for no judgement may be given for any partie for the insufficiency of the verdict for it is not found that Doctor Airie was presented And therefore he cannot have an action for it cannot be intended that his presentation was by a better name then the other presentation was and he cited the 11. H. 7. fo 8. and 17. E. 3 title quare impedit he who will avoid a presentation ought to intitle himself Secondly it is not found here that the Church is void sufficiently he said that if a Provost present himself this is void meerly and he cited Heckers Case it is not found here that Doctor Airie entred post inductionem for it is said that he entred ante praedictum tempus quo c. but not that he entred after induction and therefore it may be he entred before and then it is not good but for the matter of Misnosmer it seemeth that this avoids the lease contrary to Baron Herns opinion wherefore the chief Baron Tanfield advised the parties to agree to have the true case rightfully found by a new special verdict for he said to Doctor Airie that no judgement can be given for him what opinion soever himself and Baron Snig should hold the which they would not deliver for Snig Baron said that by 40. Assise that if a man be indebted to the King and deviseth all his goods to A. and the Executor assenteth and after this debt is demanded the Legatee in this Case shall be charged for this debt and so was it ordered by him and Tanfield as reasonable and equal but Hern and Altham contrary for it was the folly of the Executor to assent to the Legacie and they said that it was so adjudged and resolved in Sir William Fitzwilliams Case in the Exchequer Chamber by an English Bill Upon a motion made by Walter it was shewed by him out of a Record in the Tower that in the 31. E. 1. a Statute was made to discharge Merchants strangers from the payment of Prisage of Wine and allowed by the Court that no Merchant shall be chargable for the prisage of Wines see more of this Case in the Tit. of Doublin in Ireland An Information against Sir Edward Dimock THe Case of the Information against Sir Edward Dimock which was the fast Term was now argued again by Thomas Crew for the King but his argument I have not written Walter for the Defendant said that the Commission for taking of the acknowledgement of the lease was not returned in the life of the Queen nor the case was not put in this case in the Queens life time as it was in divers of the cales cited of the other side and therefore it differs from them in this case he observed foure points First if this lease should be good if it were never inrolled Secondly admitting that it cannot if here be such an inrolment as is requisite Thirdly admitting that the fease is good without inrolment or with this inrolment then if this can avoid the lease made in the Interim Fourthly if no lease be good until inrolment then if the confirmation being made before the inrolment can be a good confirmation And as to the first he conceived that the Cases put of personal Chattels vested in the King without Record are good Law but here it is of a real Chattel and he said that there are three reasons to prove that personal Chattels are in the King without Record First they are in judgement of Law trivyal Secondly they are perishing and of no continuance Thirdly the Records would be infinite if they should be of Record but there are no such reasons to prove that real Chattels should not be of Record for in the judgement of Law they are of greater value and are also more permanent and therefore Thrope saith in the 18. E. 3. that it had been adjudged that Livery ought to be made upon a lease for 100. years also lessee for years shall have aid but lessee at will shall not also it appears by Cook lib. 4. in Sir Andrew Corbets Case that a Gardian shall not avoid a lease for years also the Statutes regard leases for years and it was holden in Gravenors Case in the 23. Eliz. in the Court of Wards that a woman shall forfeit her joynture for making of a lease for 40. years by acceptance of a fine and reservation of a rent also lessee for years may falsifie a recovery also it is agreed of the other part that the King cannot take an use without Record and 6. E. 6. Dyer Bourchers Case the King cannot take an use without record also he said that in every case where a Deed or Record is requisite for a freehold the same conveyance is also requisite for a lease for years and therefore if a freehold be conveyed to a body politick it ought to be by Deed the same Law if a lease for years be conveyed to them and so if a lease for years be made of a hundred or rent this ought to be by Deed by 15. H. 6. fo 38. also in Bayes and Norwoods Case 41. Eliz. it was adjudged that a lease for years cannot be made to a corporation without Deed 2. E. 6. Brook Tit. Recognizance 19. a man cannot make a surrender to the King without Record the second point he said that the inrolment being made after the death of the Bishop Lessor or of the Queen Lessee is no sufficient matter of record for in judgement of Law nothing shall pass out of the Lessor until the inrolment and therefore the inrolment is the thing which maketh the estate and not only which perfecteth it and in all cases as appears in Say and Fullers Case the thing which maketh the estate or which perfecteth it ought to be in the life of the Lessor and therefore if a reversion be granted attornament ought to be made in the life of the grantor 40. Assises pla 19. 16. Assises pla 15. and Cook lib. 2. in Tookers Case and to prove further that the thing which ought to perfect the estate ought to be in the life of the grantor or feoffor he vouched 31. E. 3. tit abbe 10. and 41. E. 3. and temps H. 8. tit feofments if a feoffe enter not by force of a livery within the View this is not good and if a Bishop make a lease and the Chapter do not confirm it until after his death it is not good by 31. E. 3. tit Abbe 10. also here to prove that in respect of the Queen Lessee died before inrolment that the lease is not good for this purpose he vouched 24. E. 3. and the 11. E. 4. and the 7. H. 4. and 21. E. 4. that Chattels granted to the King shall go to the successor and not to the Executor and
Earl of C. now dead and found that by fine and recovery he conveyed an estate in this land to the use of his brother that now is Earl of C. in tail the remainder over to c. and died having a daughter now Countess of Dorset who moved by Dodderidge the Kings Serjeant in the Court of wards that this office was insufficient for by the pretence of the said Countess the first estate given to the Cliffords by E. 2. was a general tail and then the fine levied and the recovery suffered by the last Earl her father is no Bar but that it may discend to this Countess as his heir in tail and therefore Serjeant Dodderidge said to the Lord Treasurer then present in Court that if this should be allowed that Iurors may finde generally a grant made and shew no quallitie of the conveyance nor any place or time but if this were a grant of reversion or of a possession he said that many men by such offices should have their lands given away whereunto they had no means for uncertainties to take a Traverse and as to insufficiency of this office he said that the insufficiency therein consisted first in matter Secondly in form for the insufficiency of the matter is two fold First because that the office findes only that King H. 6. by sufficient conveyance not limited any manner of conveyances nor any qualitie thereof which ought to be shewed and it is material because we may give a different answer thereunto for against letters Patents we may plead one thing and against an other conveyance we may plead another thing and so our answer differeth according to the qualitie of the conveyance Secondly it is insuffient in matter because it is found that H. 6. granted the possession and that he granted the reversion nec non manerium which is repugnant for if the King grant a reversion then no possession passeth and if he pass a possession then no reversion passeth and therefore it is repuguant to say that he granted Reversionem nec non manerium which implieth a possession also he said that his exceptions to the office as to the Mannor of it are two-fold First the office doth finde any time of the grant made by H. 6. and this is material for the grants upon Record take their force from the time of their date as appears by Ludfords Case in Plowdens Commentaries and he said that at this time the case is material to be exprest in respect that H. 6. was for part of his reign deposed and after restored and it might be in the time that he was deposed by Edward the fourth but unto that it was answered by the attorney of the wards that the office found that H. 6. granted c. that it was not in the time when he was deposed the second insufficiency in the Mannor is because it is not found at what place H. 6. made the said grant and that this is material to be found by office he vouched 36. H. 6.32 and he said that it is very requisite that in such offices all circumstances ought to be expressed in as ample certaintie as in a declaration so that the partie prejudiced by the office may know where to search for the conveyance but the Attorney general said that there needs no such express finding of all circumstances by a Iury as it ought to be in pleading for it shall be taken by intendment in divers cases but yet he said that it appears by 1. Eliz. Dyer 174. it is a good plea to say that A. granted a reversion c. to the King without shewing how much more in office which is the Act of the Iurors and therefore Serjeant Harris cited the Book of 14 15. H. 7.22 where an office found an estate tail without mention of the Donor and yet good and the Attorney general said also that it appears by the finding of the Iury in Fulwoods Case Cook lib. 4. that the Iury need not precisely to finde all circumstances for if there be convenient certaintie the residue shall be supplied by intendment as it is there said and the Attorney said that whereas it hath been objected that the issue is evil because it is found that H. 6. granted the reversion and also the Mannor and Castle aforesaid and doth not limit incertaintie that the King granted a reversion or that he granted a Mannor in possession to that he said that it is clear that the King may after recital of a particular estate grant the reversion nec non terras sive manerium and then be the land in lease or be the lease void in Law yet the land shall pass and this is his course alwayes in granting the Kings lands to others and therefore the Iury did well to finde the truth without determining what should pass for admit that there were no estate precedent in being yet by this finding it appears plainly that the Mannor and Castle should pass by the grant in the time of H. 6. to which the Lord Cook agreed for Law and so he said it was his use when he was Attorney general to which also the Lord Treasurer Flemming chief Justice and Tanfield chief Baron agreed and the Attorney general said that his use was if A. had a lease from the King of B. acre which by effluction is to determine in Anno. 1612. and the said A. doubting that this lease was not good in Law prayed to have a new lease that in this case he recited the first lease in the new letters Patents and thereby granted the land for twentie years from c. which shall be in Anno 1612. or from the sooner determination of the former lease and the Iudges allowed it to be good and Dodderidge Serjeant said that after the difference taken between the pleading and the finding of the Iury it seemed to him that there is a great difference between them but after the finding of the Iury upon an office as our case is and a pleading there is no difference for the office is a thing to which an answer may be made but a verdict given upon issue joyned between the parties hath no other proceeding but to judgement immediately and therefore such a verdict shall be divers times supplied by the construction of the Iudges but a verdict upon an office ought to be as certain as an indictment because the partie may Traverse and to prove that upon such uncertain offices there is no remedy by Traverse he vouched the case of 3. H. 4 5. upon an insufficient office after the outlawry of A. and no time is found of the outlawry and he observed out of the said book that the partie outed by the said insufficient office had no remedy by Traverse but was compelled to make a motion to the Court and after this case for difficultie was referred to the two chief Iustices and the chief Baron to consider upon who the said Term at Serjeants Inne appointed it to be
Baron answered that he should have them of right see Bartues case in Dyer but the Lord Treasurer said that he saw no reason to satisfie himself thereof Doillie against Joiliffe DOillie Plantiff against Joiliffe in an Action upon the case for false imprisonment of the Plantiffs wife the case was that Leonard Lovies was formerly Plantiff in an action in the Common Pleas against Julian Goddard a feme sole and in this action the Plantiff and Defendant were at issue and a venire facias was awarded and before the return thereof the said Julian took to husband Doillie now Plantiff and after upon a special verdict found in the suit judgement was given in the Common Pleas for the said Julian against th◠said Leonard upon which judgement Leonard brought error in the Kings Bench and a scire facias was awarded against Julian by the name of Julian Goddard as a feme sole and she appeared by Attorney as a feme sole and this as the Defendant said in his answer was by the consent of her husband now Plantiff and after judgement was given to reverse the judgement in the Common Pleas and the entrie of that judgement as it was pleaded by the Defendant here was quod praedict Leonard Lovies recuperet c. versus praedict Julianam c. and costs and damages were taxed c. upon which judgement the said Lovies sued a Capias ad satisfaciendum against Julian Goddard and by vertue of that writ the Defendant here the Sheriff or Devon took the said Julian being the Plantiffs wife and imprisoned her until the Plantiff paid 10. l. which was the cost taxed by the Kings Bench for her deliverance upon which imprisonment the husband only hath brought his action against the Defendant being Sheriff Davenport of Grayes Inne argued for the Defendant and first he thought that between the parties to the error and the first action in the Common Pleas there is an estoppel and admittance that the said Julian continued a feme sole for the process in all the proceedings ought to be as it was in the Original and he vouched 18. Assise pla 16. by which book it appears that if a man bring an assise for lands in the Countie of O. and the Tenants plead a Common recovery of the same land in the Common Pleas this doth conclude the partie to say that the lands did lie else where c. also if an original be depending and before the first Capias or process awarded the Defendant intermarrieth and after a capias issueth against her as a feme sole this is well awarded lib. 5. E. 4.16 and also 5. E. 3. fo 9. and 10. also he said that such a thing as is done between the plea and not after the judgement is not material to alter the proceedings in that course it was begun for the same partie against whom judgement is given shall error have against him for whom the judgement is given except she had married after the judgement for then he agreed that the writ of error shall be brought by the husband and wife in case judgement had been given against the wife while she was sole 35. H. 6. fo 31. and 12. Assise pla 41. and it also appears by 18. E. 4. fo 3. if Trespas he brought against a married wife as against a feme sole and she appears as a feme sole and judgement is given and execution accordingly this is good until it be reversed by error and the Sheriff in such case never ought to examine if it be evil or nor no more then if Trespas be brought against A. my servant by the name of B. and A. is taken in execution the Master shall not take benefit of this misnaming admitting that A. should punish the Sheriff for it also he vouched one Shotbolts case 10. and 11. Eliz. Dyer and 15. Eliz. Dyer 318. in the Earl of Kents case which prove that the Sheriff is to be excused for taking me by a false name and if the Iudges admit this false name yet this judicial writ ought not to be examined by the Sheriff and it was adjourned Shoftbey against Waller and Bromley SHoftbey brought an action upon the case against Waller and Bromley and declared that the Defendants conspired that the said Bromley should commence a suit against the Plantiff and that the Plantiff was then worth 5000. l. and that he was then dwelling in Middlesex and that the Defendants knowing thereof maliciously and falsely agreed that the said Bromley should lay his action in London and prosecute it until the Plantiff were outlawed in the said suit to the intent that his goods should be forfeited to the King and after in performance of the agreement aforesaid the Plantiff suggested that he was dwelling in London and laid his action here which was prosecuted until the Plantiff here was outlawed to his damage c. Tanfield chief Baron thought that if the suggestion was by Bromley to make the process into a wrong County it seemed that the Action should lie against him only but in regard it is shewed in the Declaration that the said suggestion was made by him in performance of the precedent agreement that the action lieth against both which the Court granted Godfrey in this action moved in arrest of judgement and that for two causes the action lieth not upon the matter here it appears by the 4. Eliz. Dyer 214. that a man may say his action wherein an outlawry lies in London and then by the Statute of 6. H. 8. cap. 4. proclamation shall issue into the Countie where he dwelleth therefore the suing of him in another Countie is no such act wherefore an action should be brought no more then if before the Statute of W. 2. cap. 12. a man had brought an appeal Maliciosè yet no remedy before the said Statute as appears in the 13. H. 7. in Kellawaies case because it was lawful to bring an appeal and so notwithstanding the said Statute no action did lie against him who brought an appeal if it abated 9. H. 5. cap. 1. also the Statute of the 18. H. 6. provideth remedy for false appeals or judgement in another Countie maliciosè c. by action of the case whereby it appeareth that in such case the Common Law allowed no action also the Statute of the 18. H. 6. provideth another remedy then that Statute and therefore no action lies against us no more then in the case aforesaid at the Common Law Secondly here is no issue joyned if the Defendants be guiltie of the execution of this practice but only if they be guiltie of the agreement and this is found for the Plantiff but clearly such agreement without execution giveth no cause of action and the word Practizatione comprehends only the going about and not the executing of this conspiracy and therefore the issue should have been general if the Defendants be guiltie or not and therefore he prayed judgement might be stayed and he cited Owen
Woods case in Cook lib. 4. Tanfield chief Baron it is true that the issue should be better if it were general not guiltie of the Trespass aforesaid but yet it is good enough in this case for the special words comprehend as much as the words not guiltie of the practice and agreement aforesaid c. and the word Practizatione comprehends aswel the subsequent Acts of execution as the precedent combination and therefore Tantamounts a general issue and it was good by the Court and as to the action Altham Baron conceived that it lieth although it be for a lawful cause for the Law abhoreth fraud and conspiracy as if two conspire to vex me for my land by suit an action lieth F. N. B. yet it is lawful for every man to sue me without title and he vouched 16. Assise and here it is laid that the Defendants indeavoured to make the Plantiff forfeit his goods which are worth 5000. l. and this is reasonable that it should lie and 9. E. 2. Fitz. discents 52. is our case directly upon the matter and therefore it seemeth to me that it lies Tanfield chief Baron said that 9. E. 2. crosseth this case in part and yet he thought that the action lies to which Snig agreed and it seemed the cases of appeal put by Godfrey did lie well enough without aid of the Statute of W. 2. if there be such a conspiracy Tanfield chief Baron accordingly if it be legally thought without cause yet if without conspiracy the action lieth not for it as it appears in Owen Woods case Cook lib. 4. and in all cases where strangers have nothing to do with the suit brought for the conspiracy and yet combine with the Plantiff in the suit an action upon the case lieth for this vexation and judgement was entred for the Plantiff by the Court. An inquisition for the King was returned here and it was found that Fleet-wood the Kings debtor for his office of receiver for the Court of Wards did purchase a certain Term and interest of and in the rectory of Yeading for divers years then to come and that being so possessed he became indebted to the King and that this term is now in the hands of the Lady Edmonds and by colour of this inquisition the land is extended for the Kings debt Harris Serjeant moved that this inquisition is insufficient to extend the land but good to sell a term and he vouched Palmers case Cook lib. 4. to which the Court inclined but it was adjourned If a Bishop becomes indebted to the King for a subsidie and dieth his successors shall not be charged upon the lands of the Bishoprick but the executors of the predecessor or his heir and if they have nothing the King shall lose it as chief Baron Tanfield said which the Court granted upon the motion of Bridgman for the Bishop of Saint Davids Trallops case A Scire facias issued against Trallop the father and Trallop the son to shew cause wherefore they did not pay to the King 1000. l. for the mean profits of certain lands holden by them from his Majesty for which land judgement was given for him in this Court and the mean rates was found by inquisition which returned that the said mean profits came to 1000. l. upon which inquisition this scire facias issued whereupon the Sheriff returned Trallop the father dead and Trallop the son now appeared and pleaded that he took profits but as a servant to his father and by his commandment and rendred an accompt to his father for the said profits and also the judgement for the said land was given against his father and him for default of sufficient pleading and not for the truth of the fact and he shewed the Statute of the 33 H. 8. cap. 39. which as he pretended aided him for his equitie whereupon the King demurred Hitchcock for Trallop seemed that the Statute did aid him by equity and he moved two things the one that if here be such a debt that the Statutes intends to aid it the other if the Defendant hath shewed sufficient matter of equitie within the intent of the Act and he thought that it is such a debt as the Statute will aid for although that here be au uncertainty of the time of the judgement given for the King that being reduced to a certainty by the inquisition after it shall be within the intent of the Statute for id certum est quod certum reddi potest and the words of the Statute are if any judgement be given for any debt or duty c. and here although that there was no certainty unto how much these mean rates extended at the time of the judgement given yet it is clear that it was a duty at the time of the judgement and then it is within the Statute also he said that the words in the proviso of that Statute explain that the intent of the makers of the Act was so for the words are for any thing for which the partie is chargable and the mean rates are a thing for which he is chargable see Cook lib. 7. fo 20. and the Lord Andersons case there fo 22. as to the point of equitie there seem to be two causes First he shewed that he was but a servant to his father and had given an accompt to him Secondly the judgement was given against him upon a point of mispleading Tanfield chief Baron said that the matter in equitie ought to be sufficiently proved and here is nothing but the allegation of the partie and the demurrer of Mr. Attorney for the King and if this be in Law an admittance of the allegation and so a sufficient proof within the Statute it is to be advised upon and for that point the case is but this a scire facias issueth out of this Court to have Execution of a recognizance which within this Act ought by pretence and allegation of the Defendant to be discharged for matter in equitie and the Defendant pleads his matter of equitie and the King supposing this not to be equity within this Statute demurreth in Law whether that demurrer be a sufficient proofe of the allegation within the Statute or not and it was adjourned Trin. 7. Jac. in the Exchequer Doillie and Joiliffs case again Trin. 7. Jac. in the Exchequer CRessey for the Plantiff said that the Plea in Bar is not good because the Defendant justified by force of a Capias ad satisfaciendum and pleads no return thereof and moved that it is not justifiable without returning of the writ but the Court seemed the plea to be good notwithstanding that but if it were a mean process then it ought to be pleaded to be returned see Cook lib. 5. Hoes case fol. 19. according to this diversitie Tanfield chief Baron thought that the Plantiff shall recover for first the writ of error here is not a writ but a commission and therefore false lattin shall not abate it as it hath been
adjudged in the Exchequer chamber and in this case the scire facias ad audiendum errores and all the writ and this scire facias in our case ought to have been made against the said Julian as against a married woman and the writ of execution which is the warrant to the Sheriff is not in such words as the judgement in the Kings Bench is upon which it is founded viz. that he should take the aforesaid Julian c. but that he take the said Julian Goddard then the Sheriff shall not say in his defence that all the proceeding in the writ of error was against the person and aided himself by entrie in the roll of the Court viz. quod praedict Julianum capiat c. but he ought to rely only upon the writ and if in this case he would save himself then he should have inquired upon the delivery of the writ unto him by Lovies who was that Julian Goddard and if thereupon Lovies had informed him that it was Julian Doillie then the Sheriff should have an action upon the case against Lovies upon this false information viz. if A. prosecute a replevin to replevy his Cattle and thereupon he cause the Sheriff to deliver unto him the Cattle of B. for this here B. hath his remedy against the Sheriff and the Sheriff against A. for this false information also he said that if a fieri facias cometh to make execution of the goods of B. if the Sheriff take others goods in execution a Trespass lieth and therefore to secure himself he ought to impannel an inquest to finde if they be the goods of B. or not and then as he conceived it is good but the opinion of the Iudges in the Kings Bench in Mich. 5. Jac. in Trespass between Rookwood and Beal was to the contrary for there a Trespass was brought by Rookwood and the Defendant justified the taking and so forth as Sheriff by vertue of a fieri facias as of the goods of Edward Rookwood father of the Plantiff and upon the execution of this writ the Defendant impannelled a Iury who found the goods to be the goods of the said Edward Rookwook for which c. the Plantiff in the replication Traversed that they were his goods absque hoc that the Iury found that they were the goods of Edward Rookwood c. whereby it seemeth that the finding of the Iury in this case is not material and so the Court then conceived therefore quaere the opinion of Tanfield chief Baron in that point and see the 17. E. 2. pl. 373. and 31. E. 3. Assise pla 378. and 7. H. 4. fo 27. Trespass pla 279. what acts a Sheriff may justifie by reason of a commandment and authoritie from the Court which commanded him Snig Baron seemed that the action did lie for the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum maketh no mention that Julian Doillie is the same person against whom judgement was given in the Kings Bench by the name of Julian Goddard and although that the entrie in the Roll is against the said Julian c. yet the writ is directed that he should take Julian Goddard and then the Sheriff had not done according to the writ in the taking of Julian Doillie and he said that if A. binde himself by the name of I. and judgement is given against him by the name of I. without appearing in person and execution is granted against him by the name of I. in this case an action lies against the Sheriff if he take the said A. in execution for it appears not to him that it is the same person but for the other cause it seemeth that the Plantiff shall not have judgement for the Sheriff is no such person who ought to be priviledged here and therefore the Plantiff should have his remedy else where and he said that such a case hath been reversed in the Exehequer Chamber for error for the under-Sheriff is but an Attorney for a partie priviledged that is for the Sheriff but all the Clarks of the Court and the other Barons were against him in that and also all the presidents Altham Baron had never heard it argued before and therefore he respited his opinion till another day at which day he said that the arrest is not justifiable and so for the matter an action well lieth for by him the arrest ought to be in this case with a special recital that whereas judgement was given and so forth as in the 1. and 2. H. 6. if an Abbot hath judgement to recover and after he is deposed a scire facias lieth not against him as Abbot to reverse this judgement and see 10. E. 4. a capias against A. the son of R. c. see the 19. of H. 6. fo 12. Summons against Iohn S. c. see 18. H. 8. fo 1. a replevin was brought in the Countie Palatine against A. widdow and after she married D. and the plaint was removed into the Common Pleas mentioning her marriage c. and so here the scire facias ought to mention all the special matter and thereupon the writ of execution upon the reversal of the judgement ought to be against Iulian Doillie and not being so the Sheriff is punishable c. but it seemed to him that in this action the wife ought to have joyned with her husband for the false imprisonment or at the least if the husband had brought the action alone there ought to have been a special mention of the loss which the husband particularly had sustained as per quod consortium uxoris suae amisit or otherwise clearly it lieth not for the husband alone and he resembled this case to the cases in the 9th of E. 4. fo 51.22 Assise pla 87.46 E. 3. fo 3. where husband and wife ought to joyn in an action or at the least the declaration ought to be special as aforesaid and so are the books of the 20. H. 7. and Kellaway to be intended and for this cause he thought the Plantiff shall not have jugement here Tanfield chief Baron as I conceived said unto him that the writ ought to have been with a special averment but a surmise ought to have been made against Iulian Doillie as she now is for as the writ is the Sheriff may safely return she is not to be found and thereupon c. quaere if he intended the writ of scire facias ad audiendum errores or the writ of execution awarded upon the judgement in the Kings Bench for he did not mention any particularity of the writ but it seemeth that he intended the writ of execution and then the surmise whereof Tanfield spoke ought to be made upon the roll of the judgement given upon the writ of error and Tanfield chief Baron said as to the joyning in action that clearly for a battery made upon the wife the husband and wife ought to joyn in the action as the books are cited before by Baron Altham and so
of the wife of the devisor is not determined until the issue should have come to the age of 18. years and so none of the other points came now in question and judgement was given as above-said Nota that in Mich. 6. Jac. upon a motion made by Mr. Nicholas Row of the Inner Temple it appeared that an inquisition was returned in this Court by force of a commission whereby it was found that one A. was seised of the Mannor of D. and so being seised of the said A. was attainted of Treason in the Kings Bench and of this should be a double matter of Record to intitle the King so that the owner of the land shall be forced to his Petition it was the question and by the Court in regard that the record of the attainder is not in this Court here is not in judgement of Law a double matter of Record but if the attainder he removed into this Court then that and the inquisition would make a double matter of Record and the Attorney general moved that when an office findes the attainder that the party ought to plead no such record Worselin Mannings case AN Information of intrusion was brought against Worselin Manning and others and upon the opening of the evidence at the Bar it appeared that Worsely Manning was an alien born and that he was made a denizen by the King and the Charter of Denization had this Proviso usual in such Charters of Denization that the Denizen should do legal Homage and that he should be obedient and observe the Lawes of this Realm and after by vertue of a Commission under the great Seal an office found that the said Worselin after the Denization purchased the land in question and it was found also by the same office that the said Worselin never did legal Homage and that he was not obedient to all the Lawes of this Realm and there was an offer of demurrer upon the evidence if the Prviso makes the Patent of Denization conditional and so for the not performance thereof the Charter of Denization shall be void and Harris thought clearly that this proviso for the performance and observation of the Lawes doth not make the Patent conditional but the intent only was that if he do not observe them then he shall forfeit the penalties therein appointed to which the Court inclined and after resolved accordingly At another day it was moved in Mr. Rowes case that the possession shall be awarded to the King and in this case Tanfield gave a Rule that Mr. Row ought to plead to the inquisition but no possession should be taken from him for although that the attainder make a double Record yet if the indictment of Treason be taken before Iustices of the peace more then a year after the Treason committed as in this case it was and the partie is outlawed upon this indictment and the inquisition findes this outlawry generally yet this is no double matter of Record for the outlawry is meerly void upon the said indictment because the indictment it self is void and to prove that when an indictment is void that is void as to all purposes be vouched Vauxes case Cook lib. 4. fo 44. and 11. R. 2. and after in this case the Barons awarded proces to plead but not to dispossess the partie Vaux against Austin and others AN Information by Vaux against Austin and others that they did ingross a 1000. quarters of Corn upon not guiltie the Iury found one of the Defendants guiltie for 700. and not guiltie for the residue and found the others not guiltie for all Prideaux moved that judgement may be given to acquit the Defendants in this case and he vouched the 9th of E. 3. fo 1. and 14. E. 4. fo 2. where an Information was brought for forgery and proclaiming false deeds and he was found not guiltie of the proclaiming and 3. Eliz. Dyer 189. in the Lord Brayes case put by the way and therefore he said that if there be an information upon the Statute of Vsury against two and the Iury found the contract to be but with one of them both shall be acquitted and also he vouched Treports case in lib. 6. where a man declared of a lease made by two where in Law it was only the lease of one and the confirmation of the other and therefore evil 8. R. 2. tit brief and if judgement in this case should be given against one being in a joynt information he could not plead it in Bar of another information for the same thing and then he should be twice punished for one fault Hitchcock to the contrary the Defendants plead that they nor any of them are guiltie and issue was joyned thereupon and by him this case is not to be resembled to the cases which have been put of joynt contracts for here the parties commit several wrongs and he said if in a decies Tantum against divers if one be acquitted the other shall be condemned and so in an action of Trespas 37. H. 6. fo 37. touching maintenance and if in Trespas against two one is found guiltie for one part and the other found guilty for the other part and 40. E. 3. fo 35. and 7. H. 6 32. in trespas the Defendant pleads that John S. infeoffed him and R. S. and the Plantiff saith that he did not infeoffe them and the Iury found that be infeoffed the Defendant only in this case judgement ought to be given if either of them be guiltie and therefore there is a difference between that and Wain-wrights case for the information was for the joynt buying of butter and Cheese but here the information is for ingrossing by way of buying and so he prayed that judgement may be given for the King Tanfield chief Baron if upon the Statute of Champertie a man declares upon a joynt demise by two and it is found that one only made the demise it was adjudged good and by him this proves the case in question and the Barons agreed it to be clear that if a contract be alledged to be made with one of them no judgement for usury ought to be given but in the principal case all but Tanfield agreed that several judgements may be given for it is like unto a Trespass and accordingly judgement was given in the principal case against him who was found guiltie Nota by Tanfield chief Baron and all the Court that where the Statute of the 23. Eliz. appointeth that if any will inform against A. Recusant and the Recusant be thereupon convicted that the informer shall have one moitie and the King shall have another yet if a recusant be convicted according to the form of the Statute of 28. Eliz. by indictment an informer can never have any advantage upon an information exhibited after for the Statute of the 28. Eliz. altereth the course of Law which was upon 23. Eliz. and no informer can have any advantage upon a conviction of Recusancy by indictment after the Statute
by express terms quaer if in this case there was any land occupied with Parkhal which was not parcel of Cudworth nor of Parkhal for if so then it seems that Blackclose will be within the exception in regard that the words and lands occupied therewith viz. Parkhal are well satisfied Harris Serjeant said that the case is to be resembled to the point in Carter and Ringsteeds case concrrning the Mannor of Odiam where a man was seised of of a Mannor within which the Mannor of D. did lie and is parcel thereof and he by his will devised the Mannor of D. excepting the Mannor of Odiam where the Mannor passeth by the devise and is not excepted Snig and Altham Barons agreed that this proves the case in equity but by the chief Baron Tanfield because this is a rare case that we should reverse or undo a decree made by our predecessors in the very point decreed by them it is good to be advised and therefore they directed Arden to finde presidents if he could by search made for them in the said case and therefore the Attorney general who was of Councel for Darcie had demurred upon the Bill which was exhibited by Arden and that he being not present day was given until another term to hear Councel on both parts at which day the Attorney said that he conceived it a strange case and without president that a Court should impeach and reverse the decrees given in the same Court and that if it should be suffered the subjects would be vexed and troubled without any end or quiet and this stands with the gravity of every Court to maintain their own judgements and therefore several Statutes were made to reverse judgements upon erroneous proceedings and judges of other Courts constituted to examine them which proveth that before the Statutes aforesaid and without aid of them the Iudges would not reverse their own Iudgements and so here Harris to the contrary it is not without presidents that in a Court of equity one and the same decree in the same Court hath been reversed by decree of the same Court upon some consideration had of the erroneous misprisions of Law and it is no dishonour to a Court of justice so to do for matter in Law but otherwise it were for matter of fact for then that betrayeth an Ignorance in the Iudges which would be a dishonour to the Court but for Law men are not Angles and for that point there may be errour to prove that the Court of equity may do so he vouched the Book of 27. H. 8. fo 15. Martin Dockwraies case which is our very case ruled in the Chancery and so he said that in this Court 3. Jac. a decree made in the time of Baron Manwood was reversed upon the like reason and Tanfield chief Baron said to Serjeant Harris that if it appear by your president that if the same matter in Law which was decreed was reversed in the same point in Law then this proveth for you but if it were for matter of fact otherwise it is and therefore we will see your president Kent and Kelway KEnt and Kelway entred Hil. 6. Jac. Rot. 722. in the Exchequer in the case between Kent and Kelway which was debated Pasc 8. Jac. the Iudges pronounced in the Exchequer Chamber that judgement ought to be affirmed notwithstanding their opinion before to the contrary as it appeareth and therefore I demanded of Mr. Hoopwel Clark of the Errors what was the reason of their opinions and he told me that the case was debated by them this Term at Serjeants Inne and then they resolved to affirm the Iudgement and the reasons as he remembred were as followeth and he also delivered unto me the case as he had collected it out of the Records and delivered it to the Iudges which was that the Plantiff in the Kings Bench declared that one Benjamin Shephard was indebted to him in 300. l. and that he sued out of the Kings Bench an Alias Capias directed to the Sheriffe of N. to the intent to compel the said Benjamin Shephard upon his appearance to put in Bail according to the custome of that Court for the Recovery of his debt which writ was delivered to John Shaw Sheriffe of the said County to be executed the Sheriffe made his warrant to the Bailiffe of the liberty of the Wapentake of Newark and the Plantiffe himself delivered it to James Lawton Deputy of the Lord Burley the Kings chief Bailiâ—e of that liberty to be executed and the Deputy Bailiffe by vertue of the said warrant arrested the said Benjamin Shephard whereupon the Defendant with others made an Assault and rescued the said Benjamin Shephard out of the custody of the said Deputy Bailiffe whereby he lost all his debt and damages were assessed at 172. l. and cost 10. l. and in this case the Iudges agreed that notwithstanding the Defendant had rescued the said Benjamin Shephard out of the hands of c. when the said Benjamin Shephard was arrested upon an Alias Capias out of the Kings Bench which writ is only in nature of a plea of Trespass yet the party who rescued him shall answer in this action damages for the debt because the Plantiffe by this means had lost his debt And yet it is not shewed that the Rescuer knew that the Plantiffe would declare for his debt but if in this case the Sheriffe or Bailiffe had suffered a Negligent escape they should be charged only with the damages in the same plea as the writ supposeth and no for the debt and so a diversity also they agreed that the Declaration is good enough to say that he was rescued out of the hands of the Deputy Bailiffe and the course in the Kings Bench was alwayes so upon the return of a rescue notwithstanding the Book of the 7. Eliz. Dyer fo 241. also it was resolved that the Declaration was good saying that he sued an Alias Capias without mention of any latitat before sued also it was agreed that the arrest was good made by the Deputy Bailiffe by vertue of a warrant delivered to the Sheriffe but quere if they should not examine if the Bailiffe had a power given to make a Deputy by his Patent for this appears not in the case Bently and others against Leigh in Trespas Hill 45. Eliz. Rot. 1231. Trin. 7. Jac. in the Exchequer TPe Iudges affirmed a Iudgement this Term between Leigh Plantiffe in a writ of Error and one Bentley and others Defendants and the matter assigned for Error was because the Trespass was brought in the year 45. Eliz. for a Trespass made in the 42. Eliz. and the judgement upon the verdict was against the Defendant and the Margent of the Roll it was entred quod Defendens capiatur where it ought to be pardonatur as he pretended for the general pardon which was in 43. Eliz. had pardoned the fine to the King for the Trespass and this is a thing whereof the Iudges
convicted of the intrusion and Moil said that he ought to shew matter sufficient whereupon he upon the intrusion aforesaid ought to be convicted so that a thing is demanded of us to give out judgement in which is not in question before us and therefore no judgement at all may be given here wherefore it is not needful for us to dispute other matters in the case and as to the questions in Law which were argued by George Crook and others Tanfield chief Baron nor Altham spoke not at all because they might come before them again to be adjudged upon a better office but Bromley and Snig Barons spoke to the matters in Law and their opinions were as follow and upon the plea of Moil the case was this that the Tenant pleaded protestando that the Priory of Bister was not founded by the name of the Priory of Saint Mary and Saint Egbert of Bister as the inquisition supposeth for plea he saith that one Thomas Banbury Prior of the Church of Saint Mary and Saint Egbert of Bister infeoffed him of the Mannor of Caversfield by the name of the Moity of his Mannor of Caversfield as also by the name of all his lands and Tenements in Caversfield and that the said feofment was made by the name of the Prior of Saint Egbert of Bister and that it was known aswel by the name of Saint Egbert as Saint Mary and that the Mannor of Caversfield was well known by the name of the Moity of the Mannor of Caversfield and that the Prior had no other land in Caversfield and shewed also that there is another in Caversfield which is called Langstons Mannor the which heretofore was the Priors and allotted as a Moitie of a Mannor in the same Mannor of Caversfields and those and other circumstances he used in his plea to the intent to shew that all the land of the Prior shall pass to him and he shewed that this Mannor sold to him was known by the name of Langstons Mannor Bromley Baron the Corporation is mis-named in the Grant because it is a thing material viz. the omission of the word Saint Mary for the name of assent in a body politick is as the name of Baptisme in a body natural and the name of Baptisme cannot be missnamed as it appears 3. H. 6. and 1. H. 7 if Iohn by the name of Thomas make an Obligation this shall not binde him if he doth not admit it and therefore it shall not conclude the King see the 11. Eliz. Dyer 279. where in some cases the estate shall pass by livery and seisin by what name soever it be made but a Corporation cannot pass an estate from them but by Charter and it may be conceived that the founder intended two things the one was Religion or more properly superstition the other was that it may remain to posterity as a Monument of the piety of his Ancestors and then if the name should be altered the remembrance would also decay and therefore what name soever is first imposed ought alwayes to be observed and that the omission of Saint is material and he vouched Eaton Colledge case 3. and 4. Ma. Dyer and 35. H. 6.31 the case of the foundation of Saint Peter and Paul c. but he agreed the case in 11. Eliz. Dyer 278. that omission of the word undivided is not prejudicial because no material variance Secondly it seemed that all the Priors Mannor of Caversfied passed by this grant for by 20. H. 6. and 22. H. 6. it appears that a feofment of 20. Acres by the name of a Mannor is good and 6. and 7. E. 6. Dyer if a man grant his Mannor in S. containing 10. Acres yet if it contain 20. Acres it is good and the word Omnia greatly inforceth the case as it seemeth wherefore c. Snig Baron said that the mis-naming is a material variance which avoids the grant also it seemeth that Omnia alia shall not be intended to refer to more then was granted by the other words except there were other lands besides the Mannor and therefore he thought that only a Moity of the Priors Mannor passed super totam materiam Sir Henry Browns case before HObert Attorney general it seems to me that the plea is not good for divers causes see the beginning before fol. he said that first every issuable plea ought to express a place but if the issue be triable by the Record or witnesses a place is not necessary 11. H. 7. fo 1. if there be no place there is no plea and therefore if it be beyond the Sea it is no plea. Secondly in our case there is no place alledged from whence the venue should come to trie the entrie in this case to be of all the premises for it is to trie the entrie but in one particular parcel but I agree as it hath been said of the other part if the entry had been alledged to be in the premises then the venue shall come from all the premises for here the plea of the entrie pleaded by the Defendant is double and yet it is good because of necessitie it cannot be otherwise intended in this case but I cannot plead in this case that I have not entred into two Closes parcel of the premises for that is Negative preignans as is in 9. H. 6. fo 44. in debt upon a bond where the Defendant was bound to require a house the Defendant said that A. by the command of the Plantiffe disturbed him the Plantiffe shall not be admitted to replie that A. did not disturb him by his command but by protestation that A. did not disturb him for plea that the Plantiffe did not command him c. 6. H. 6. fo 9. in a writ of entrie the Tenant pleads that the demandant confirmed after the last continuance the demandant shall not say that he did not confirm after the last continuance 5. E. 3. fo 1. in a per quae servitia of the grant to the husband and wife the Defendant said that the wife released while she was sole the other cannot replie that she did not release when she was sole but ought to deny the deed and so in our case if you will say by protestation that the place where the entrie is supposed is not parcel c. for plea that you have not entred after the last continuance then the issue ought to be joyned if we please or not and this shall not have any reference to the premises but only to the two Closes and then the venue shall come from the two Closes wherefore c. also by this plea so uncertain the Plantiffe is prejudiced for admit that in this case Hawkins the Defendant had re-entred before the day of nisi prius this had made our writ good again as appears by 26. H. 8. fo 10. and 36. H 6. and 8. H. 7. and then if here the Defendant will say that the Plaintiff had entred before the issue now it shall not be
the Plantiffe shall be outed to take advantage of a bad plea and so upon the whole matter it seems that judgement shall be given in the ejectione firme for the Plantiffe Altham second Baron to the same purpose there needs no special day to be given by the Iudge of nisi prius although that it be upon a Collateral matter or plea for by the record in this Court a day is given to the Iurors conditionally viz. if the Iustices of nisi prius at the Assises do not come c. but to the parties it is given absolutely fee 6. Assises pla 7. and L. 5. E. 4. fo 2 3 and 4. where there are several cases to this purpose see 9. E. 3.21 H. 6. fo 10. if the Defendant make default at nisi prius a new distress shall issue to the same Iurors to be here in Bank and 3. H. 6. fo 8. and 9. if a man appear and plead he shall never take advantage of any discontinuance Also it seemeth that the plea is not good and to say that the word Tenementorum refers only to the odde acres and not to the Mannor it seemeth that it refers to all but if it shall be taken to refer only to the odde Acres yet this is not good and this is proved by the Book in L. 5. E. 4. fo 110. for a plea to the writ ought to be alwayes certain and this case also answereth that which hath been said that the demurrer confesseth the matter against the Plantiffe for I say if you plead a release in Bar of a debt and shew no place where the release was made this demurrer is no confession of the release except that the cause of the demurrer fall out against me wherefore in respect that the plea is not good and is peremptory to the Defendant as other pleas to the writs are for this cause I conceive Iudgement shall be given for the Plantiffe Snig Baron accordingly that the plea is not good for the not shewing of a place certain wherein the entrie was as by the matter of discontinuance it seemeth that the day of nisi prius is all one with the day in Bank and therefore there needs no day to be given and for that the death of any of the parties after the verdict and before the day in Bank shall not stay the judgement the Books which were cited on the other parts are different from our case for there the suit was adjourned into another Court and the Courts in the Country are not as the Courts here and therefore it was necessary that in such cases a day ought to be given for the manner of pleading we ought to give judgement against him who pleads the plea notwithstanding the matter admitted by the Plantiffe wherefore judgement shall be given for the Plantiffe Tanfield chief Baron accordingly the plea whereupon the issue was joyned was for three Mannors and lands in three Towns and entrie is alledged to be in two Closes called c. parcel of the premises in Bar of the Action if the Defendant in liew of not guiltie plead an affirmative plea and at nisi prius he pleads another plea then the entrie ought to be that the Defendant relicta verificatione c. but in our case such an entrie needs not the plea here ought to be more certain then others for two reasons First it is pleaded in abatement of the writ Secondly it is in delay of the Plantiffe and to which no rejoynder can be made as to the plea it seemeth it is not good for by 10. H. 7. fo 16. a quare impedit was brought by an Administrator of a grantee of a next avoidance and shewed that the Bishop of Sarum granted Administration to him the Defendant saith that the intestate had bona notabilia in divers Diocesses and so the Administration void and shewed in what Diocesses the goods were but shewed no place where they were and therefore it was adjudged that the plea was not good because he did not shew a place c. see 2. R. 3. and 5. H. 7. accordingly and this plea shall not be amended by a rejoynder as is 21. H. 7. also to say parcel of the premises this cannot be intended that parcel of three Mannors or of the three Towns in certain and therefore the plea cannot be good because there is no place from whence the venue should come and it is inconvenient that the venue should come from all if the place where c. lies but in one Town for as it appears in Arundels case Cook lib. 6. if a Mannor be alledged to be within a Town the venue shall come from the Town because it is a place more certain as to the general demurrer that the plea aforesaid is lesse sufficient in Law c. in 18. E. 4. it appears that in debt upon an Obligation the Plantiffe doth not shew a place where the Obligation c. and the Defendant confessed the Action yet notwithstanding this fault Iudgement ought to be given against the Defendant but this differeth from our case because here is an express confession and in our case here is not also here needs not to be shewed any special cause of demurrer but advantage may be taken well enough upon the general demurrer but if the demurrer were that the plea amounted to the general issue only there ought to be shewed a special cause or otherwise no advantage to be taken and he cited the agreement of seven Iudges to be at Serjeants Inne in Fleetstreet this Term in a writ of Error in Dickensons case the case intended was between White and Priest parties in an Action upon Trover and conversion and the Record thereof is in the Kings Bench Trin. 7. Jac. Rot. 843. as to the matter in Law touching the discontinuance for want of a doy given by the Iudge of nisi prius it seemeth there is no discontinuance in this case for there needs not to be any day given as our case is yet in some case the Iudge of nisi prius ought to give day but that shall not be a new day but only the day within contained and that but in special cases viz. if the issue be joyned and at the shewing of the evidence there is a demurrer here the Iudge giveth to the party the day within contained as it appears in 10 H. 8. Rot. 835. and Hill 11. H. 8 accordingly in the Common Pleas but Hill 36. Eliz Rot. 448. upon non-suit at the Assises no day given so if the party confess the Action and so if there be a bill of exceptions yet no day shall be given Hill 38. Eliz. Rot. 331. in the Kings Bench but peradventure it will be said that these Authorities do not match with our case because it is upon a material plea but I say it is all one and therefore in case of a release pleaded after the last continuance this is recorded and yet no day given as appears Hill 4. H. 8.
was in a Formedon in remainder and it was moved now by Serjeant Harris if the partie against whom it was given may sue in the Exchequer Chamber by Bill or petition to the King in the nature of a writ of false judgement for the Reversal of that judgement Tanfield seemed that it is proper so to do for by 13. Rich. 2. if a false judgement be given in a base Court the partie grieved ought first to sue to the Lord of the Mannor by petition to reverse this judgement and here the King being Lord of the Mannor it is very proper to sue here in the Exchequer Chamber by petition for in regard that it concerneth the Kings Mannor the suit ought not to be in the Chancery as in case a Common person were Lord and for that very cause it was dismissed out of the Chancery as Serjeant Harris said and Tanfield said that he was of Councel in Pettishals case in the time of the Lord Bromley where it was debated at large if such a judgement ought to be reversed by petition in the Chancery in case where a Common person was Lord and at last it was decreed that it should be as in that case of Patshal and for the same reason here the King being Lord and therefore day was given till the next Term to shew their errours and Serjeant Harris said that the errors are in effect no others then were in the case 9. Eliz. Dyer fo 262. and in Godmanchesters case and it was adjourned Scot and his wife against Hilliar SCot and his wife Plantiffs against Hilliar for these words spoken of the wife viz. she would have cut her husbands throat and did attempt to do it Hutton Serjeant in arrest of judgement said that these words are not actionable for the will or attempt is not punishable by our Lawe and he vouched Cockains case Cook lib. 4. cited in Eaten and Allens case but by the Court an Action lies for the attempt is a cause for which the husband may be divorced if it were true and it is a very great slander and Baron Snig said that in the same Term a judgement was given in the Kings Bench and was affirmed in the Exchequer Chamber upon a writ of error for these words He lay in the high way to rob me and therefore let judgement be entred for the Plan̄tiffe but it was adjudged in the principal case that for the words she would have cut her husbands throat no Action would lie Gooches Case A Coppyholder surrenders into the hands of the Customary Tenants to the use of Anne his Wife and after before any Court the said Coppyholder surrenders the Land into the hands of other Customary Tenants to the use of the said Anne for her life the remainder to Percie in Fee upon condition that he in remainder his Heirs should pay 20. s. per annum at Michaelmas for ever the first payment to commence immediacely after the death of the said Anne viz. at the next feast of St. Michael and this to be paid in the Church Porch or D. to the Church Wardens of D. in the presence of four discreet Parishioners or otherwise that a stranger should re-enter and at the next Court both these surrenders were present and the Steward admitted the said A. according to the second surrender and she dyed and now upon pretence that the rent of 20. s. was not paid by the Heirs of him in remainder the Heir of Gooch who made the surrender had entred and thereupon an Action was brought and upon the evidence the Jury to the County of Bedford now at the Bar These matters were moved by Serjeant Nichols That a surrender into the hands of Customary Tenants cannot be Countermanded and therefore the second surrender void and the admittance shall work to such uses as the first surrender was made as in Anne Westwicks Case Cook Lib. 4. And to prove that a surrender into the hands of Customary Tenants is not countermandable he said that it is not countermandable by death nor surrender Cooke lib. 4. in his Coppyhold Cases That a presentment in the Court may be after the death of the surrenderer and the admittance thereupon is good and he compared it to the Case of the delivery of a Deed as an Escroll which may be delivered as his Deed after the death of the Maker as it is in Jennings and Braggs case Cook lib. 3. which was not denyed by the Court Serjeant Dodderidge said that when a surrender is made upon condition that he shall pay a summe of money to a stranger these words make an estate conditionall and give power implyedly to the Heirs of the party who did surrender to re-enter for non-payment and the words which give power to a stranger to re-enter are meerely void neverthelesse the precedent words shall stand and make the estate conditionall Tanfield Littleton saies that such a re-entry is void for a re-entry cannot be limited to a Stranger Nichols Serjeant said that if a surrender be made that he shall pay so much money that this makes the estate conditionall and gives a re-entry to the Heirs of him who did surrender But when it goes further and doth not leave the condition to be carried by the Law in such case all the words should be void because it cannot be according to the intent as in the case of a reservation of rent the Law will carry it to the Reversion but if it be particularly reserved then it will go according to the reservation or otherwise will be void and so here Tanfield Admit that here was a conditionall estate by vertue of the Surrender last made and this condition is also to be performed to a stranger which generally ought to be taken strictly yet as it is here he who will take advantage thereof ought to prove a voluntary neglect in the party in the not performance of the Condition and inasmuch as there is no certain time appointed when the payment of this Annuall rent should be made but generally at Michaelmas next after the death of the said Anne thereby in this case the Chuch-wardens ought to notifie the death of the said Anne before the first day of payment by reasonable space or otherwise the condition is not broken and also it is appointed here to be paid in the presence of four discreet Parishioners by the party who should perform the condition yet by intendment he hath no notice who are discreet or who are not especially he being an Infant as in our case he is and therefore although the condition is to be performed to a stranger which generally ought to be performed strictly according to 12. E. 3. Yet this is to be intended only in such cases where the party had certain notice of all circumstances requisite for payment thereof and therefore he directed the Iury that for want of knowledge of such circumstances they should give a Verdict that the condition was not broken And Dodderidge
purpose as to the avoiding of the Benefice but his want of privitie availeth to excuse him of being Simoniacus yet because he is Simoniace Promotus the presentation is void and the King shall have it by the expresse words of the Statute and therefore as it seems if in this Statute there had been an expresse saving of the interest of the Incumbent by reason of his innocency yet such a saving of Interest had been void and repugnant in respect that it was expresly given to the King before as it is in Nichols case in Plowden upon the Stat. of 1. H. 7. See 1. Mar. Dyer and 7. Eliz. Dyer 231. such a saving doubted if it be void and in Cook lib. 1. Altonwoods case a saving Repugnant to the expresse words of the Premisses is void and so in our Case the Presentation is given to the King expressely and therefore if there were a saving in the words subsequent this were void much more in our Case where there is no saving And to prove that by the Symonie in the Patron that the Patron shall be prejudiced he vouched 42. E. 3. fo 2. It goods be given to B. by A. this is by fraud in A. to the intent that he may defraud another although B. is not knowing of this friend yet the gift is void as to him 34. E. 1. Title Garranty accordingly and Burrells case Cook lib. 6. upon the Statute of 27 Eliz cap. 4. to the same purpose To the second matter it seems that by the Queens death her Presentation is determined cleerely and so in case of a common person for if an Admission c. should follow after the death of the Presentor this is without any Authority of the instrument of Presentation for although there were no Admission there is no Presentation and he said that the Presentation passeth no interest but is as a Commendation and therefore he compared it to the Case of Say and Fuller in Plowden Com. If a Lease be made for so many years as a stranger shall name there ought to be certainty of years appointed in the life of the parties or otherwise it will be void and in 38. E. 3.3 If a Bishop present and die before c. Now the King shall present anew and also there it appears that the King may present by Paroll well enough and so it is said in 34. E. 3.8 tit Quare impedit 11. That a Presentment made by the Bishop becometh null and void by his death and therefore it appeareth in Fitzh Office of Court 29. that licence to alien granted to the King is void by the Kings death there needeth no actual Repeal or recital of the new presentation yet I agree that the King may make an actual repeal if he will as it appears by divers cases which have been cited before but that is of necessity to be done and as it seems the words of the Statute 6. H. 8. prove that before this Statute a second Grant made the first void without actual repeal in case where the thing passed by the Grant and by 38. E. 3. fo 3.4 it appears that a second Presentation made by the King was good without a repeal of the first and by Gascoigne 7. H. 4.32 if the King make a Presentation to one and then presents another without recitall or repeal of the first yet the Bishop ought to receive the latter Presentee for it is good without actual repeal wherefore judgement ought to be given for the Plaintiff Snig Baron said that as the Action is brought judgement ought to be given for the Plaintiff but if the Plaintiff had brought a Quare impedit peradventure I should have been of another opinion And as to the point of Symonie by the Civill Law it was punishable by deprivation and the guilt of the Patron should prejudice the Parson as to matter of Commodity in the Parsonage and at the Common Law if the Parson will pleade such Presentment he should be prejudiced as appears by our Books and hereby the incumbency the words of the Statute will not be satisfied for then the Queen should not Present if an usurper present and the Presentee is in by six moneths this gives Title of Presentation to the King against the rightfull Patron also it seemeth That if I. S. hath an Advowson and A. purchase the next avoidance to the intent to present B. and the Church becomes void and A. presents B. this is Symonie by averment as by good pleading the Presentation of B. shall be adjudged void To the second Point in respect that the Plaintiff had the possession by induction it is no question but he may retaine a possessorie Action for the Titles But if it were in a Quare impedit it would be materiall whether a Repeal should be in the case or not according to the Presidents in the Booke of Entries fo 303 304 305. for if a Licence be Granted to purchase in Mortmaine this may well be executed after the death of the Queene as it appeareth by Fitzherberts natura brevium expresly and so in Dyer a license of Transportation doth not cease by the Kings death 7. H. 4. in the Countess of Kents case it appears when the King makes a grant which is void yet there shall be no new grant without an actual repeal but it seems we are out of the intent of the Statute of 6. H. 8. because the words during his pleasure are not in the grant or Patent and so upon the whole matter judgement shall be given for the Plantiffe Tanfield accordingly the case is that the Defendant had prioritie of the possession of the Corn for which the action is brought and yet it seems judgement ought to be given for the Plantiffe and first as this case is here is Simonie by the Civil Law and the partie had his benefice by Simonie although he be not conusant thereof Secondly admit that here was not Simonie by the intendment of the Civil Law yet the Statute hath made an avoidance of the benifice in this case although it be not Simonie for the Statute speaks not one word of Simonie throughout the Act and yet by express words it doth avoid such presentations as this is and as to the Civil Law such benefice is to be made void by sentence declaratorie but it is not void ipso facto as it seems in the case where a common person was consenting to the Simonie but the text of the Civil Law sayes expresly that the Church ought not to be filled Corruptivè or by corruption and the Civil Law expresseth such a person as is in our case by Simoniace promotus and calls him who is particeps criminis Simoniacus and he who is Simoniacus is by the Civil Law deprived not only of the benefice ipso facto but also is deprived to be a Minister and adjudged guiltie in Culpa et poena Petrus Benefieldus a late writer of good authoritie saith that if a friend
by seisure of two parts of the land c. then when a Statute gives a new thing which was not at the Common Law and limits a course and means whereby it shall be levied that course ought to be pursued and it cannot be done in any other manner the Statute of 8. H. 6. cap. 12. makes the imbesting of a Record Felony and that this shall be inquired by Iury whereof one halfe shall be Clarks of some of the same Courts and that the Iudges of the one Bench or of the other shall hear and determine it and the case was that part of the offence was done in Middlesex and part in London so that the offence could not have such proceeding as the Statute appointed and therefore it was holden that it should not be punished at all Mich. 41. et 42. Eliz. Betwixt Aggard and Standish the Statute of 8. Ed. 4. cap. 2. inflicts a penaltie upon him that makes a retainer by parol and moreover it is thereby ordained that before the King in his Bench before the Iustices of the Common Pleas Iustices of the Peace Dyer and Terminer every man that will may complain against such person or persons doing against the form of this ordinance shall be admitted to give information for the King and it was holden that the informer could not sue for himself and the Queen upon this Statute for an offence done in any Court not mentioned in that Statute the Statute of 35 Eliz. cap. 1. appoints that for the better and spedier levying and Recovering for and by the Queens Majestie of all and singular the pains duties forfeitures and payments which at any time hereafter shall grow due or be payable by vertue of this Act and of the Act made in the 23 d. year of her Majesties Raign concerning Recusants that all and every the said pains duties c. may be recovered to her use by Action of debt Bill plaint or information or otherwise in any of her Courts of her Benth Common Pleas or Exchequer in such sort in all respects as by the ordinary course of the Common Lawes of this Realm any other debt due by any such person in any other case should or may be recovered wherein no essoin c. Note that this Statute extends not to any penaltie upon the Statute of 28. Eliz. cap. 6. also the Common Law doth not give any means to levie a debt upon a trust and as to the general point it seems that no land can be seised after the death of the Recusant 23. Eliz. cap. 1. enacteth that every person of the age of 16. years which shall not repaire to some Church c. but forbear the same contrary to the Tenor of the Statute made in the first year of her raign for uniformity of common prayer and being thereof lawfully convicted shall forfeit to the Queen for every moneth which he or she shall so forbear 20. l. And that statute doth give no forfeiture at all for Lands And also it giveth no penaltie without conviction so that the death of the party before conviction dischargeth all and so without question it was at that day This last Point seems to be remedied in part by the Statute of 28. Eliz. cap. 6. for thereby if the party be once convicted he shall alwaies pay after without other conviction and this Statute gives also a Seisure but before any seisure Three things ought to concur 1. Recusancy 2. Conviction 3. Default of payment And the last of these was the tâ—ue cause of the seisure viz. That is the contempt of not payment Therefore it was adjudged in Sir William Greenes case that this seisure shall not go in satisfaction of such debt but the King shall hold it as a penalty for the contempt untill the debt be paid so that when a Statute imposeth a penaltie for a contempt as the contempt is personall so is the penalty And therefore the death of the party before that it be excuted or turned in rem judicatam dischargeth all and I shall prove it by the different plea in an Action upon a penall Statute and other common Actions and therefore in debt not guilty is no plea but in debt upon a penall Law it is a good Plea for in truth untill it be adjudged it is no debt but a contempt Michaelmas 41 42. Eliz. betwixt Car and Jones and in debt upon the Statute of 2. Ed. 6. not guilty was adjudged a good plea Trin. 42. Eli between Morley Edwards 2. It may be proved by the different forms of judgment for in common actions the judgment is Quod quaerens recuperet c. But in informations the usuall form is Quod defendens foris faciet 41. Ass which implies that it is not perfect untill the Iudgement and before it is only a contempt and if so then by the death of the party it is discharged Thirdly I shall prove it by Authority that the death of the parties before Iudgement dischargeth aswell the contempt as the penaltie of a penall Law 40. Ed 3. Executor 74. debt lies not against the Executors of a Iaylor who suffers Prisoners to escape 15. Eliz. Dyer 322. in the like Case the opinion of the Court was that an Action did not lye against the Executors of the Warden of the Fleet. but there ought to have been a Iudgement against him in his life time for the Offence is but a Trespass by negligence which dies with the Person 18. Eliz. Dyer An Action brought against the Heire and ruled that it doth not lie for it is a Maxime that no Law or Statute chargeth the Heir for the wrong or trespasse of his Father Also it is to be observed in the Principall Case that the Statute limits the seisure to be by Proces out of the Exchequer so no seisure can be without Proces as it may be upon some other Statute But a judiciall course is hereby prescribed whereupon the Partie may plead with the King for his Land and therefore if that course be not pursued in the life of the party it is too late to pursue it after his death Also the words are that he shall seise all the goods and two parts of the Lands of such Offendors But after his death the goods are not his but his Executors and the Lands are not his but his Heirs and a seisure by way of penalty relateth no higher then to the time of the seisure also the words of the subsequent Proviso explame it further for it it be demanded when the King shall seise two parts it is answered at the same time when he leaveth the third part and when must be leave the third part it is auswered in the life of the Recusant That it may be for the maintenance of his Wife Children and Family and after his death he hath neither Wife Children nor Family for in a Writ of Dower the Demandant shall say that she was Wife and not that she is Wife As to the
judgement ought to be given for the Defendant for he laid that the Patent made to Hitchmore proveth that it was not made by reason of any suggestion of the partie for it is expressed to be made ex mero motu c. and then the not surrendring of the other Term doth not vitiate also if the lease be forfeited to the Queen for not repairing then the Queen should have a title before the lease made to the contractors under which the Plaintiffe claims and that not being found by office the contractors shall have no benefit thereof and as to the cases 9. H. 6. and Torringtons case cited Cook lib. 1. Altonwoods case the words of the Patent which express that the Patent should be good so that it be not ad nocumentum c. which is not in our case doth not prove the case in question also if the consideration be smal and recited as executed it doth vitiate the Patent although it be false and it is said in Sir Thomas Wrothes case in Plowden that it is not honourable for the King to construe his Patent to be void by colour of deceipt upon an inference except it be upon a manifest deceipt and in Barwicks case Cook lib. 5. the consideration was a surrender of all the estate and therefore it differed from the case in 18. Eliz. Dyer because there it was in consideration of an estate which in truth was never in being and the cases whereupon he relied for the proofe of this matter is the principal case of Altonwoods and the Lord Chandos case that if a violent intendment might be admitted in the Kings grants upon an inference it might be here inferred that the King should have the estate by this particular surrender but the Book is resolved that no such inference shall be admitted to avoid the Kings patent or otherwise but in that case of the Lord Chandos it appeared that the information of the partie was true and so it was not here because it was informed that all the right which Potter had is devolved to Hitchmore which is not so and therefore a difference between those two cases Nota that the course of this Court is that if A. be indebted or be an accomptant to the King and A. hath another debtor which debtor hath a third person indebted unto him in such case A. may by English Billin the Exchequer pray that the estate of the debtor of his debtor Pasch 9. Jac. in the Exchequer may be extended for the debt of the said A. and it shall be granted Clerk against Rutland IN 6. Jac. in Ejectione firme between Clerk and Rutland it appeared that a feme sole possessed of a Term of years assigns this to A. in trust and after entermarries with him in reversion and after the husband being in quiet possession he and his wife joyn in a Bargaine and sale to B. upon valueable consideration and after the wife dies and the assignee doth set on foot the lease and if this shall be void against the Bargainee was the question upon evidence and it seemeth not because the Bargainee claimeth nothing by conveyance from the wife and also this trust in the Term doth not belong to the husband after the death of the wife for Tanfield said that it was decreed in the Chancery and the opinion of the Iudges was in one Denies case if a feme sole assign a lease in trust and after taketh husband and dieth that the administrator of the wife should have this trust and that the Administration shall be granted for this Term although there be no other thing for which the Administration ought to be granted also it was touched in this case that if the father make a lease for fortie years to a stranger and continue in possession and after conveys the land to a younger son who for a valuable consideration conveyeth it over it was doubted if the purchasor should avoid this lease or not but it was said that if in that case the father after the making of such a lease had suffered the land to descend to his eldest son who had been privie to this trust that then the Purchasor of the eldest son should avoid this lease as it was ruled in Burwels case Cook lib. 6. Upon a motion made by Prideaux that Robert winter one of the Powder Traitors made a lease for years 1. Jac. to one Gower and that after 3. Jac. the Lessor was attainted of Treason by Parliament which attainder related to a time before the conveyance of the Fee and if in this case the Term be saved or lost it was the question Pasch 9 Jac. in the Exchequer Wickham against Wood Pasch 9. Jac. in the Exchequer EDward Wickham declared in an Ejectione firme that Skreen 17. April 6. Jac. at Framlingham in Suffolk demised to him 30. Acres of pasture to have for three years c. and upon the general issue pleaded the Iury found that Thomas Cooper and three others were seised of the lands in question and the fifth of February 24. H. 8. infeoffed by Indenture M. B. and five others to the uses and intents mentioned in a Schedul annexed and that was upon condition that if they aliened to any other uses or purposes that the Feoffor should re-enter and the Iury also found the Schedule which in effect was this viz. that the Feoffees and their heirs should take the profits and therewith finde an honest priest by them or the greater number of them to be hired and competently paid to say Mass for the soules of the Feoffor and his friends and that by the space of 99. years then ensuing and at the end of the said years the Feoffees their heirs and assigns who then should be seised should sell the lands and with the money finde a Priest to Chaunt for the soules aforesaid and with the said moneys or lands also to make further provision for a competent poor honest Priest for the timr being if then it could be by a Amortization or otherwise as they should think best for the sure and long continuance of the said honest Priest if so it could be continued by order of Law the Iury found all things executed accordingly and the finding of a Priest from the 24th of H. 8. untill the first of Ed. 6. by which Act the King was entituled prout lex postulat and that Queen Eliz. granted to Mildmay for 21. years upon whom Fuller the heir of the surviving Feoffee entred and made a Feofment to Wilbey and Skreen by force whereof they were seised and Mildmay re-entred and his Term expiring he obtained a new lease 43. Eliz. and made a lease to Wood and Skreen survived Wilbey and made a lease to Wickham who entred and being outed by Wood brought this Action Bromley puisne Baron upon all the matter I observe three things First if the Fee-simple in this case by the letter or meaning of the Statute be given to the Crown for the lease
Greyhound and è conversò and this was ruled to be an imployment for it was whereby or wherewith a Priest was maintained although it was not whereof and Mich. 21. Eliz. the Kings head in Breadstreet now Fishstreet was given to finde a Priest and a rent-charge granted in performance of the Will and this was adjudged an imployment of the house and so where the assignment is good a small thing will make an imployment And it seems that the Liverie is good and as to that that no Livery can be made without ousting of the Lessor and by his consent and therefore 9. Eliz. It is ruled that a Feoffement with a Letter of Atturney to the Lessee to make livery is good and no surrender and Eides and Knotsfords case 41. Eliz. Lessee for years remainder for life remainder in fee he in remainder in fee makes a Feoffement to the Lessee for years and makes Livery and it was adjudged a good Feoffement because it was not a surrender in respect of the meane estate for life and no ouster nor consent will serve for then it would be a disseisin which cannot be upon the possession of the Lessee for years for his possession is also of him in the remainder for life and I put these Cases that there ought to be a consent or ouster but I agree that the Queens possession cannot be defeated by entry or ouster as it is 4. Mar. Dyer 139.8 Ass 21.18 H. 8.16 But the Kings Ward may make an estate 1. H. 7. But if the King be not in possession but a remainder only in him and the Lessor makes a Feoffement rendring 12. d. rent this estate in the King doth not priviledge any other in possession and so judgement was given for the Plaintiff against the opinion of Altham Mrs Chamberlains case IN 22. Eliz. York recovered by Indicement in the Kings Bench against Allen upon an Assumpsit York being thus interessed of the debt after that is in May 26. Eliz. was outlawed upon a mean Proces at the suit of I. S. and in the same year and moneth was outlawed after judgement at the suit of the same I. S. and after a generall pardon came 27. Eliz. in which pardon after the pardon of all contempts for outlawrie there are words also purporting a Grant bounty and liberality whereby the Queen granted all montes forfeited or come unto her hands by reason of any such outlawry with other words in the same pardon and Provisoes therein contained necessary to be observed And after in 28. El. York was outlawed again after judgement at the suit of I. S. and then Yorke died but he lived a full year after the pardon 27. Eliz. and did not sue any Scire facias against the party at whose suit he was outlawed after Iudgement and after the death of Yorke another pardon came 29. Eliz. to the same effect with the pardon in 27. And after the Queen grants this debt to Anger for the benefit of Mrs Chamberlain who was the Wife of Yorke and Anger sued in the Queens name to have an extent out of this Court against Allen who was the party against whom Iudgement was given and all this was drawn into a Case and delivered to the Barons of the Exchequer to consider upon viz. If execution may be sued in the Queens name against Allen and this case was argued at the Barre at which I was present And now it was argued at the Bench by Bromley Puisne Baron and concluded that Anger may well sue execution in the Queens name but he had almost made an end of his Argument before I came into the Court and three points seemed to be considered of in the Case The 1. was unanimously resolved and agreed by all the Barons that either of the pardons will advantage Allen who was debtor to the party outlawed for although that the words of the pardon unport a pardon of all debts and sums of money accrued to the Queen by reason of the outlawry yet comparing all the parts of the pardons together it will plainly appear that the intent of the pardon was only for the advantage of him who had committed the forfeiture by the contempt and extends only to him by way of restitution And another construction would be repugnant to all the Causes contained in the Act By Tanfield as a Will ought to receive construction by due consideration of the intention of the Testator collected out of all the parts thereof so the meaning of an Act of Parliament ought to be expounded by an examination of the intention of the makers thereof collected out of all the causes thes therein so that there be no repugnancy but a concordancy in all the parts thereof and therefore if a man by will devise Bacre to A. and his heirs and by another cause in the same Will he devises B acre to B. and his assignes it shall not be void in any part insomuch that if both had been placed together A. and B. should be Ioyntenants and therefore the Law will make such a construction and so if a man devise B. acre to A. and after he devises a Rent out of it to another both shall stand Brett and Rigdens case Plowden Also this Debt was due by Allen 2. It was resolved by Tanfield and Bromley that Yorke should take no advantage by the Pardon in 27. Eliz. to have his goods restored which were forfeited by the outlawry after judgement for by them all the Statute for the pardon of the outlawry after judgement was penued in such a form as it is but conditionall for it is in effect provided that the pardon shall not extend to the party outlawed after judgement untill he shall pay or agree with the party at whose suit he was outlawed and this payment ought to be in the Court or in such manner that the Court may be satisfied by the suing of a Scire facias and an acknowledgement of the party at whose suit c. for a bare payment in the Country is not sufficient But when the party outlawed hath once lawfully satisfied the party at whose suit he was outlawed then the pardon will relate ab initio to avoid all intervenient matters if the satisfaction be made in convenient time and therefore if the King had granted the goods forfeited by outlawry after judgment meane between the pardon and the suing of the Scire facias yet if the party outlawed sue this Scire facias within convenient time the pardon shall have such relation as it shall defeat the grant of the goods and therefore Tanfield compared the words in the pardon of the outlawry after judgement to the words in the Statute of 27. H. 8. of intolments for there it is provided that nothing shall passe by bargaine and Sale except the Deed be inrolled within six moneths after but if it be not inrolled otherwise it is Beckets case R. B. seised of Lands in fee 36. Eliz. levies a fine c. and
Bent and another for a Close it was ordered and an Injunction accordingly awarded that the Defendant should suffer the Plaintiffe to injoy the said Close with the appurtenances until c. and contrary to this order the Defendant had put his Cattle into the Close and thereupon an Attachment issued to answer this contempt and he said that he put in his Castle for a title of Common and it was ruled that this was no breach of the Injunction because the Common was not in question in the Bill but only the title of the Close wherefore he was discharged of the contempt and with the appurtenants doth not include the Common to be taken in the said Close Henry Clares case UPon a motion made by Serjeant Barker it appeared that one Henry Clare was indebted to the King and was seised of a third part of certain lands in Norfolk and that Mr. Richardson of Lincolns Inne was seised of other two Acres of the same laud as Tenant in Common and the beasts of Mr. Richardson pastured promiscuously upon all the land and Henry Clare put more Cattle in and upon proces to levy this debt for the King the Sheriffe took the Cattle of Mr. Richardson and sold them and it was now ruled that in regard it was lawful for a Tenant in Common to put in his Cattle upon all the land and that if they depasture all the grass the other hath no remedy and for that cause the Sheriffe could not take those Cattle for the debt of another Tenant in Common but otherwise it would be if the Cattle had been levant and Couchant upon the land of the Kings debtor and in the principal case the Sheriffe was ordered to restore the monie to Richardson for which they were sold and that if they were worth more yet the Sheriffe should not be charged therewith except it could be made appear some fraud in the sale or that sufficient suerties were to pay and discharge the dutie but if my Cattle are levant and Couchant upon the land of the Kings debtor the King may distrain them damage Feasant but he cannot distrain them for the debt by Tanfield chief Baron and Altham clearly to which Baron Bromley consented but Snig said beware of that Smith and Jennings case VPon evidence to a Iury it was said by Tanfield that if a man make Charter of Feofment of lands in two Towns and a Letter of Attorney to make livery and before livery made by the Attorney the Feoffor himself maketh livery of the land in one Town this is a Countermand of the Letter of Atturney and so livery cannot be made by the Attorney in the other Town and quere if the Towns were in several Counties Bacon the Kings Solicitor said that if a man make a Charter of Feofment of two several Acres whereof one is in lease for years and the other in demeasne and the Feoffor makes a Letter of Attorney to make livery and before that be executed the Feoffor himself makes livery now although that one Acre cannot pass by this livery because it is in lease yet this is a Countermand and revocation of the authoritie given by the Letter of Attorney for his intent is manifest so to be to which Tanfield and all the Court agreed Hobert Attorney general said that in this case although that one of the Acres was in lease yet in regard it appeareth not that the Lessee was in actual possession therefore he conceived that it should be construed that the Lessee was not in actual possession at the time of the livery made by the Lessor in the name of all and in respect there was no house upon the Acre in Lease it may be intended that the Lessee should be in actual possession but for that cause he rather conceived that it should be construed that the Lessee was not in possession and so the livery might well operate to pass it Tanfield and all the Court denied that the livery was good to pass it although that the Lessor was in actual possession but where Mr. Atturney alledged further that before the livery made an Infant had a Term for years in this Acre in lease and that the Feoffor at the time of the livery was gardian to the Infant and thereby had a possession therein and therefore the livery made in the other Acre in the name of all should be good to pass all to which the Court agreed and thereupon directed the Iury to finde the livery and seisin to be made of all and in this case the Court inclined that because this Feofment was made but ten dayes before that the Feoffor committed Treason and in asmuch as it was made to the use of the son being an Infant and not upon consideration of marriage that therefore the Feofment should be fraudulent and void as to the King but the Atturney general said that this Feofment was made in performance of a precedent agreement viz. it was agreed that the Feoffor should make such a conveyance to an use c. and that the wife of the Feoffor also being an Inheritrix should make such a conveyance of her land which was done accordingly and upon proofe of this agreement the Court inclined that it was no fraud and in this case it was ruled by the Court if parties have matter of evidence by the Records of this Court they ought to produce the Records themselves for Copies of them are not allowable It was said by Altham and agreed by the Court that if an Information be exhibited for intruding into a Close the 24th day of March and for the asportation of 9. Cart Loads of Wheat betwixt the 24th of March and the first of October the which the Detendant converted c. and upon not guiltie pleaded the Jury found that the Defendant took three Cart Loads of the said Corn upon the 24th day of March and after before the first of October they took also three Cart Loads more and damages were assessed for all that here no judgement shall be given upon this verdict for the Information doth not charge the Defendant with the taking of any part upon the 24th day of c. and then in regard that damages are more judgement can be given for no part of it see Cook lib. 5. Plaisters case but this case being moved at another day Tanfield said that he having inspected the Record he found the verdict insufficient for another cause because the Jury found that as to one Cart Load of Wheat to the value of 20. l. the Defendant was guiltie and doth not mention to what damage viz. to the damage of 100. s. or otherwise and by him ad valentiam is not sufficient without shewing also to what damage and for that cause by him a venire facias de novo ought to be awarded and so it was done by the Court. Edwards case EDwards case was that an erroneous judgement was given in a Coppihold Court where the King was Lord and this
false the Patent is void although it hath these words Ex certa scientia et mero motu and so is 18. Eliz. Dyer 352. where the Patent was ex certa scientia et mero motu c. but there Dyer held that this falsitie in the matter of Recital did avoid the Patent notwithstanding the words ex mero motu c. but he held it otherwise if it were in a consideration which is faise for at that time the point of falsitie in matter of consideration for 100 l. to be paid although it be much contraverted in our Books and it seems in what place soever of the patent it appears that the King is mis-informed deceived in any matter material or concerning his own estate in the thing to be granted that that will dictate the Patent and therefore 17. Eliz. the Queen seised of the Mannor of D. grants all her purpartie of the Mannor of D. if in this case a Common person had granted by such words the Mannor had passed but in the Queens case it will be a void grant because a thing which she intended to pass cannot pass in such plight as she conceived it viz. as a purpartie and 36. Eliz. the Queen granted all her portion of Tithes c. although she had a Parsonage there yet it doth not pâ—â—s for this manner of Appellation implies that the Queen was mis-informed and not well instructed of the thing to be granted and therefore void see Cook lib. 4. in Bozuns case Ex certa scientia et mero motu c. doth not help it also if the King recite that whereas he had such land by the attainder of I. S. where in truth he had it not by his attainder now although that he grants this land Ex certa scientia et mero motu yet this will not pass but if the King be not deceived in the point of intitling himself but in the deducing of his title that will not prejudice the Patent as if the King recite that whereas I. S. had land by descent from his father and he grants it to the King and the King doth re-grant the same to I. S. this grant is good notwithstanding that I. S. had it not by descent from his father see the Lord Lovels case in Plowden that if the King be deceived only in the point of mis-conveyance the Law will not avoid the Patent as if be grant to one and his heirs born at D. the last words are void and the grant is good Pasch 42. Eliz. it was agreed that if the King be Tenant for life or years and makes a lease for one and twenty years this lease is void to all intents against the King because it appears not in the grant what estate the King had and by that lease the King conceived that he had power by his estate to make an absolute lease whereas legally his lease ought to determine by his death so by implication it is manifest that the King was not well instructed of his estate 39. Eliz. the Queen leased for twenty one years to begin whensoever the land should fall in possession by the expiration of any former lease then in being if in that case there were no precedent lease then in being this lease will be void for these words implie that the Queen conceived her former lease to be in being and so impliedly she is deceived in her intent in like manner in the principal case the Queen was deceived in her intention for the recital is that all the estate which Potter had is come to the Queen by surrender and in truth all the estate is not come unto her in respect of a mean estate to Wilkinson c. as to the second point it seems the consideration being that he did assume to new build implies asmuch as if he had said he faithfully promised and then it is all one as if it had been for that that he shall build for it is a consideration executory and is of value and then the not performance thereof vitiates the Patent and the estate was as if it had been by a limitation to cease and these words that he did assume upon himself cannot be construed to any other intent but unto an executory consideration because the King hath no remedy by way of Action for the breach of this promise and it cannot be conceived that the Covenant is satisfied in giving securitie for it is observable that the Covenant is but the ordinary Covenant viz. to repair and keep repaired and so a Trivial reparation will satisfie that but it appears that the Queens intent was not to make the lease for such a petty consideration because the Lessee had undertaken at his own charges to new build the Mills but the express Covenant doth not binde him to the new building of them and in 6. Eliz. the like lease was made of the Mannor of Lidlescourt to Customer Smith and the lease was for that that he assumed that he at his costs would c. and he avoided his lease upon a former lease made to A. of the premises and in truth the lease formerly made to A. was meerly void upon the making of this lease though perad venture the condition may be good and the consideration performed but the Queen was not well instructed of her title also in this case the lease to Hitchmore is not determined by a condition as it hath been objected but it ceaseth and is determined by a limitation and this may well enough revest in the Queen without entrie or office because it was but a Term and such words purporting an executory consideration in the Queens case implies as much as if in case of a Common person it had been said expresly to cease upon an act not performed for in the Kings case the Law speaketh and if so then the lease for years is void and the Patentee may enter without office and all considerations executory in leases made by the King amount to a conditional limitation and then he who will have benefit by such a lease ought to aver the performance of the consideration as if a man declare upon a lease made unto him c. if I. S. should so long live he ought to aver his life in the Declaration because it determines by limitation at his death but otherwise it is upon a condition if a Parson make a lease for years the Lessee must aver the life of the Parson because by his death the lease ends by a limitation implied but otherwise it should if it were upon condition for the performance of that needs not be averred but that ought to be shewed on the other part and so it seemeth that as wel for the point of falsitie in the recital as also in the not performing of the consideration that the lease is void and the Plantiffe should have judgement which was entred accordingly Snig Baron was of opmion against all the other Barons and he held that