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A64839 The reports of Sir Peyton Ventris Kt., late one of the justices of the Common-pleas in two parts : the first part containing select cases adjudged in the Kings-Bench, in the reign of K. Charles II, with three learned arguments, one in the Kings-Bench, by Sir Francis North, when Attorney General, and two in the Exchequer by Sir Matthew Hale, when Lord Chief Baron : with two tables, one of the cases, and the other of the principal matters : the second part containing choice cases adjudged in the Common-pleas, in the reigns of K. Charles II and K. James II and in the three first years of the reign of His now Majesty K. William and the late Q. Mary, while he was a judge in the said court, with the pleadings to the same : also several cases and pleadings thereupon in the Exchequer-Chamber upon writs of error from the Kings-Bench : together with many remarkable and curious cases in the Court of Chancery : whereto are added three exact tables, one of the cases, the other of the principal matters, and the third of the pleadings : with the allowance and approbation of the Lord Keeper an all the judges. Ventris, Peyton, Sir, 1645-1691.; Guilford, Francis North, Baron, 1637-1685.; Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas. 1696 (1696) Wing V235; ESTC R7440 737,128 910

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the first Man for he is only to compound the business if he can Twisden The discharge being set forth in an Order we must intend it duly made 't is the common practice to go to the Sessions first It was moved at first that it did not appear that the Plaintiff had Notice but that Point was waided for being in a judicial proceeding it shall be intended Et Adjurnatur Lucy versus Levington PAsch ult Rot. 96. Covenant by the Plaintiff as Executor of J. S. for that the Defendant covenanted with J.S. his Heirs and Assigns to levy a Fine c. and that they should enjoy the Lands against all persons claiming under Sir Peter Vanlore and then he says that Sir Robert Crooke and Peter Vandebendy in the Testators life time did enter claiming under Sir P. Vanlore c. The Defendant pleads That he had a good and indefeasible Title in the Lands at the time of the Covenant by vertue of certain Fines from Sir Ed. Powel and his Wife but that in 13 Regis nunc there was an Act of Parliament by which these Fines were made and declared to be void and that Sir R. C. and P. Vandebendy had Title and entred by reason of the Act and not otherwise The Act which was pleaded in haec verba recites that certain Men came with armed force and thereby extorted and took the Fines c. And to this the Plaintiff demurred It was urged for the Defendant That this Title was by matter subsequent to the Covenant and not any thing which was in being then as 9 Co. 106. Sir T. Gresham conveys Land to certain uses with power of Revocation and then does revoke and Aliens and dies the Revocation was not warranted by his power but was after made good by Act of Parliament and then Process went out against his Widow for a Fine for the Alienation of Sir T. G. the Lands being of capite tenure but she was discharged because the Alienation had its effectt by an Act of Parliament which can do no wrong Twisden 'T is hard this should be a breach for the Defendant cannot be intended to Covenant against an Act of Parliament a thing out of his power Baron and Feme levied a Fine J. S. Covenants that the Conusee shall enjoy it against all lawfully claiming from B. and F. brings Dower after the Death of B. the Conusee does not plead the Fine but suffers Judgment and brings Covenant against J.S. and adjudged against him for the Covenant shall not extend to a Right which is barred and besides she did not claim lawfully There is an Old Book which says that if an Attainder be reversed by Parliament the person shall have Trespass against him which took the profits of his Land in the interim Hale My Lady Greshams Case is not like this for there the party was in by the Queens consent to the Alienation by the Act she passed but here the Covenant is broken as much as if a Man recover Land and then sell and Covenant thus and then it be evicted in a Writ of Right for this is in the nature of a Judgment Tho' it be by the Legislative power it may be the prospect of this Act was the reason of the Covenant nor has the Defendant reason to complain for the Act was made because of his own fraud and force Every Man is so farr party to a private Act of Parliament as not to gainsay it but not so as to give up his Interest 't is the great question in Barringtons Case 8 Co. the matter of the Act there directs it to be between the Forresters and the Proprietors of the Soil and therefore it shall not extend to the Commoners to take away their Common Suppose an Act says Whereas there is a Controversie concerning Land between A. and B. 'T is Enacted That A. shall enjoy it This does not bind others tho' there be no saving because it was only intended to end the difference between them two Whereupon Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff It was agreed by all the Justices that tho' the Covenant were made only to J. S. his Heirs and Assigns and it were an Estate of Inheritance yet the Breach being in the Testators Life time the Executor had well brought the Action for the Damages Peter versus Opie IN an Assumpsit the Plaintiff declares That there was an Agreement between him and the Defendant that be the Plaintiff should pull down two Walls and build an House c. for the Defendant and that the Defendant should pay him pro labore suo in circa divulsionem c. 8 l and that in consideration that the Plaintiff assumed to perform his part the Defendant assumed to perform his and the Plaintiff avers that he was paratus to perform all on his part but that Defendant had not paid him the Money And after a Verdict for the Plaintiff it was moved in Arrest of Judgment That he did not aver that he had done the work Hale Pro labore here makes a Condition precedent and therefore the performance of the work ought to have been averred for tho' in case of a Reciprocal Promise performance need not be averred yet if the Promise refers to an Agreement which contains a Condition precedent the performance of that must be averred as if I should promise one to go to York and in consideration of that he promise to pay me 10 l there needs no averment of my going to York otherwise if the Counter promise were to pay 10 l for my going to York So if the Counter promise were to do a thing after a time ascertained or to be ascertained it must be averred that the time is past Therefore that it is said by way of Reciprocal promise will not concern much for every Agreement is a Reciprocal promise but the matter is what the Agreement is Here tho' the Reciprocal promise be the foundation of the Consideration yet 't is to be considered that it refers to a Conditional promise or an Agreement and the Promise obliges not the Defendant to do it otherwise than according to the Agreement Now to shew this pro labore makes a Condition precedent Suppose the Agreement to be in writing thus Memorand that J.S. agrees and promises to build and J. N. promises to pay him so much for his pains it cannot be taken but that the building must be precedent to the payment 'T is the common way of Bargaining and in common dealing men do not use to pay before the work be done it would be inconvenient to give cross Actions in such cases especially since 't is likely that the Workman is a poor Man 'T is true if there be a time limited for the payment which time may fall out before the work or thing be done there the doing it is not a precedent Condition Vivian and Shipping 3 Cro. An Award that one should pay 10 l and in Consideration thereof the other should become bound
B. for causing to be framed printed and published a Scandalous Libel Entituled c. thereby scandilizing of one C. D. Vpon Not guilty pleaded It appeared upon the Evidence that after the discovery of the Libel there were Warrants from the Lord Arlington Principal Secretary of State to search the Lodgings of the Defendant who was suspected to be the contriver of it where were found two of these Libels printed The Opinion of the Court was That this was no Crime within the Information though he gave no account how they came there 5 Co. 125. B. and the having of a Libel and not delivering of it to a Magistrate was only punishable in the Sarchamber unless the Party maliciously published it Anonymus Hob. 192 300 301. IF the Jury upon an Issue joyned in a Prohibition upon a Modus Decimandi find a different Modus yet the Defendant shall not have a Consultation for it appears he ought not to Sue for Tythes in Specie there being a Modus found Termino Sanctae Trinitatis Anno 21 Car. II. In Banco Regis Jurado versus Gregory THe Case was this There was a Contract of Malaga concerning the Lading of a Ship and for breach of this which was laid to upon be the Sea viz. That he would not receive 40 Butts of Wine into the Ship according to the Agreement there was a Libel in a Foreign Admiralty and Sentence that the Wine should be received into the Ship which being refused another Libel was commenced in the Admiralty here in England Reciting the former Sentence and charging the Defendant with the breach of it and a Prohibition was prayed because it appears the Contract was made upon the Land Vid. Latch 234. Against which it was objected by Finch Solicitor that where Sentence is obtained in a Foreign Admiralty one may Libel for Execution thereof here because all the Courts of Admiralty in Europe are governed by the Civil Law and are to be assistant one to another though the matter were not Originally determinable in our Court of Admiralty and for this he cited a Judgment 5 Jac. Rolls Tit. Courts Sect admiralty And this the Court agreed But here was no compleat Sentence in the Foreign Admiralty but only an Award that the Wine should be received and now for breach thereof he Sues here which is in the nature of an Original Suit and to have Execution of the Sentence and this ought not to be though the breach were at Sea it being of a Contract made upon the Land wherefore they granted a Prohibition The King Grants bona catalla felonum the Grantée shall not have Felons Debts nor bona catalla Felonum de se Anonymus A Conviction was certified of one for carrying of a Gun not being qualified according to the Statute where the words in the Statute are Upon due Examination and proof before a Justice of the Peace The Court resolved That that was not intended by Jury but by Witnesses and no Writ of Error lies upon such Conviction And an Exception was taken because it was before such an one Iustice of the Peace without adding Nec non ad diversas Felonias Transgressiones c. audiend assign ' And the Court agreed so it ought to be in Returns upon Certiorari's to remove Indictments taken at Sessions But otherwise of Convictions of this nature for 't is known to the Court that the Statute gives them Authority in this Case The King versus Benson IN an Information against him for Extortion an Issue was joyned the day the Jury were returned and the King sent a Writing under his Sign manual to Sir Thomas Fanshaw Clerk of the Crown to enter a Cesser of Prosecution And Palmer Attorney General affirmed that the King might stay proceedings yet notwithstanding the Court proceeded to swear the Jury and said they were not to delay for the great or little Seal whereupon the Attorney entred a Noli prosequi Anonymus TRover against Baron and Feme and laid quod ad usum proprium converterunt and it was alledged proprium might be applied only to the Husband so also if it had been ad usum suum But the Court held neither had been good so it was prayed that Judgment might be entred quod Querens nihil capiat per billam For if it had been quod Defendens eat inde sine die the Plaintiff could not have brought an Action de novo Note A man is Outlawed in Middlesex A Capias utlagatum may be sued out against him into any other County without a Testatum Anonymus IN Trespass the Defendant justifies by reason of Common in the place where for Cattel Levant and Couchant upon his Land and doth not aver the Beasts were Levant and Couchant This is aided after a Verdict A Judgment in Debt is had in the Kings Bench and a Writ of Error is brought it still remains a Record of the Kings Bench and an Action of Debt may be brought upon the Judgment In a Writ of Error if the Defendant dyed the Writ is not abated Otherwise if the Plaintiff die And the Secondary informed the Court of a Case betwéen Sir H. Thyn and Corie where a Scire facias ad audiend Errores went against the Executors when the Defendant in the Writ of Error dyed Note The Exchequer Chamber doth not award a Scire facias ad audiend Errores but notice is given to the Parties concerned Skirr and Sikes IN Trespass upon the Stat. of 8 H. 6. the Plaintiff had Iudgment It was moved whether a Writ of Error would lie of this into the Exchequer Chamber For though Trespass be one of the seven Cases where the Statute gives it yet it might intend Common Trespasses only and not where the Action is founded upon a Statute as Actio de Scandalis Magnatum is not within the Statute And the Court would advise Cabell and Vaughan 5 Co. Whelphdales Case He cannot plead non est factum IN an Action of Debt upon a Bond against one and it appears another was joyntly bound with him wherefore the Defendant Demurrs But it was adjuged for the Plaintiff for the Defendant cannot Demurr in such case unless the other Obligor be averred to be living and also that he sealed and delivered the Bond 3 Cro. 494 544. Ascue and Hollingworth's Case 28 H. 6. 3. And if one be bound to two one Obligee cannot Sue unless he Averrs the other is dead In B.R. 1651 1068. Levit Staneforth Perries Case IN an Information of Forgery against him there was a Mis-trial And it was moved That this was aided by the Statute of 21 Jac. the general Purview whereof is extended to any Action Suit Bill or Plaint Then there is a Proviso which excepts Indictments and Informations upon Penal Statutes and this being an Information at Common Law was not within the Proviso and it may be taken within the word Suit for it is Secta Domini Regis But the Court held it not
the Parson shall not take them from him for it shall be taken to have commenced since the Endowment Note If the Matter concerns the whole County it is to be Tryed in another County which is indifferent Hall versus Philips AN Information was brought for the forfeiture of a certain quantity of Brandy and sets forth the two Acts 13 14 Car. 2. c. 23 and 24. of Excise upon that and other Liquors and then the additional Act of 15 Car. cap. 11. wherein it is Enacted That no Foreign imported excisable Liquours shall be Landed c. before due Entry be first made thereof c. or before the Duty of Excise due and payable for the same be fully satisfied and paid and that every Warrant for the Landing or Delivery of any such Foreign Liquors shall be Signed by the Hand of the said Officer c. upon pain that all such Foreign Liquors as shall be landed c. contrary to the true intent and meaning thereof or without the presence of an Officer or Wayter for the Excise or the value thereof shall be forfeited and lost the one Moiety to the King the other to him which shall seize inform c. And avers that this Brandy was Landed the Duty not fully satisfied and paid and without the presence of an Officer or Wayter for the Excise but doth not aver that a due Entry was not first made thereof Whereupon it was moved after a Verdict for the Informer in Arrest of Judgment that if either the Duty were paid or Entry made or the Landing were in the presence of an Officer it satisfied the Act which is in the Disjunctive and or shall not be taken Conjunctive unless the words are of like nature as 1 Mar. cap. 3. Maliciously or Contemptuously disturb Preachers especially in a Penal Law Besides if the Act required these three things should be done then payment would not suffice without the presence of an Officer at the Landing the like words are taken Disjunctively in Renigers Case Pl. Com. But it was said on the other side That the word or must be taken here in the Conjunctive and that for the apparent inconvenience that would follow and that the Statute intended all thrée should be performed and that an Entry should not suffice without payment or agreement with the Officer which Tantamounts For otherwise this Act which was made to be further remedial to the King would rather disappoint this Revenue of Excise given by former Acts which did also require an Entry to be made but this Act adds the Penalty for Non-entry and this Entry is to be made for a check upon the Officer that he accounts right to the King 2 Cro. 322. Also it appoints Landing in the presence of the Officer that it may be observed whether more be Landed than is contained in the Warrant for Landing but never meant that Entry should suffice without payment for so if Party be a Foreigner or Insolvent the King loseth his Duty And the Court gave Iudgment for the Informer But said they would have staied until the next Term but that great mischief might be done in the interim if it should be known that such a doubt sticks here and they would not give any incouragement to the lessening of the Kings Revenue Anonymus IN an Indictment upon the Act for coming within five Miles of a Corporation It was moved that no Indictment lay upon it because the Act appoints a Penalty of 40 l to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information Sed non allocatur For when a Statute makes an Offence the King may punish it by Indictment but an Information will not lye when a Statute doth barely prohibit a thing vid. 2 Cro. 643. 3 Cro. 544. Note It was resolved at Serjeants Inn That when a Penalty is to be divided viz. To the King the Poor and the Informer If the King along Sue so that there is no Informer yet the Poor shall have their part Adrian Lampereve and other Frenchmens Case A Motion was made by the Solicitor upon a Special Direction from the King in behalf of the said Lampereve and others Frenchmen to have a Certiorari to Bedford Gaol where they were committed for Robbery Keeling Chief Justice I lately attended his Majesty about this matter and I thought he had been satisfied with what I then said and now repeat viz. That if we should remove them now we should discharge his Majesties Justice for there is no Indictment found and none can be found but at Bedford and the Prosecutors and Witnesses are there but he might have it Tryed at the Bar if he pleased so the only way is to let them stay at Bedford till the Assizes and then if Prosecutors appear not or an Ignoramus be found they will be discharged by Proclamation and if the Indictment be found then the Judge may take a new Recognizance of the Prosecutors to appear and Prosecute here and you may have a Certiorari now to deliver there or you may have it there from my Brother Rainsford who goes that Circuit to remove all up hither Sollicitor I suppose this will satisfie Curia We must acquit our selves of the Kings Justice In Easter Term following they were brought up hither and being Arraigned upon the Indictment they pleaded Not guilty and some of them desired to be Bailed and the Court said they might but it must be done in the Court because the Bail must be bound Body for Body and they required 4 Men to be Bail each worth 300 l Body for Body and in no sum certain They were afterwards Tryed per medierat ' linguae and some of the Aliens were not Frenchmen and most of them dwelt in Middlesex Lady Baltinglass's Case THe Court denied a Tryal at the Barr because the Costs were not paid upon other Tryals which went against her in other Courts which the Court here would take notice of Articles were exhibited against a Register of an Ecclesiastical Court for Misdemeanours done by him in his Office He moved for a Prohibition but it would not be granted unless they examin him concerning the Articles upon his Oath Wright and Johnson Assmpsit To deliver a Gelding in as good plight as he borrowed him and Avers that he did not deliver him at all A Verdict was had for the Plaintiff yet Iudgment was given against him because the Breach was not laid as the Promise is Playters versus Sheering IN a Replevin removed by Recordari There was a Non-suit for want of a Declaration and thereupon the Defendant made a Suggestion and took out a Writ of Enquiry upon 17 Car. 2. cap. 7. The Plaintiff moved that this might be set aside because the Non-suit hapened through the sudden Sickness of the person emploied to Prosecute Curia This new Statute having taken away the Writ of Second Deliverance hath made the Plaintiff remediless unless we help him therefore we will endeavour it as far as we can Let
warranted by the Writ so to do and if Iudgment be given after the Teste and before the Return of the Writ of Error the Record shall be removed but if Iudgment be entred after the Writ is returnable the Writ is only to be returned and that no Iudgment is yet given and here was an omission in the Plaintiff that he did not see that Iudgment was entred for after a Writ of Enquiry of Damages returned the Court is to give Iudgment at the prayer of either Party and not without Note If the Record vary from the Writ of Error yet the inferiour Court ought to remove it The King versus Ledgingham IN an Inormation against him for the King the Court took a privy Verdict and so it was said was the usual course at the Assizes But it cannot be so in case of Felony and Treason as is said in the 1 Inst 227. b. In cases of Life and Member if the Jury cannot agree before the Judges depart they are to be carried in Carts after them so they may give their Verdict out of the Country Polus versus Henstock IN Trespass for impounding of 11 Oxen. The Defendant Pleads That Sir H. Vernon was seized of a Close called the Cowes Lesowe in Fee and Let it to him for 99 years and that the Cattel came upon the Close and so justifies for Damage Feasant The Plaintiff Replies confessing Sir H. V's Estate and the Lease and saith that Sir H. V. was seized of another Close adjoyning called Browns Close and alledges a Custom in Peplow in which Town both the Closes are that all the Occupiers of the Cowes Lesowe had maintained a Fence against Bowmers and that the Cattel came upon the Land in default of the Fence c. and Issue taken upon the Custom and found for the Plaintiff It was moved in Arrest of Judgment First That this was in the nature of a Prescription and not of a Custom for a Custom cannot be laid in a Ville and applied to a particular place or Inhabitant therein unless in case of a Coppyholder where it is necessary in regard he cannot prescribe 4 Co. 113. Secondly If it had béen alledged by way of Prescription it should be laid in him that had the Inheritance And if it be objected that it is hard to drive a Stranger to discover that then it ought to be alledged quod omnes Tenentes but not as it is here omnes Occupatores 1 Cro. Baker and Breremans Case Thirdly By the Vnity this Duty of Fencing is extinguished and shall not revive though the Closes come after into several Hands In Dier 295. b. it is left a Quaere But in Popham 172 it is clearly held so where it is said things of necessity shall revive as a Way to Market or Church but not so of Easments 1 Cro. Baker and Breremans Case And of this Oppinion were the Court. Jones versus Powell THe Plaintiff declared that he was an Attorney and the Defendant to Scandalize him in his Profession said of him That he could not read a Declaration By reason of which many of his Clients left him And the Opinion of the Court inclined against the Plaintiff For the Allegation of Special Damages will not maintain the Action unless the words import some Slander which these did not unless brought in by some words precedent touching his knowledge in his Profession for the Declaration might be so written that he might not be able to read it without any Imputation of Ignorance Sard versus Ford. MIch 21. Car. 2. In an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared That he was seized of the Mannor of Newton Abbot and that he c. had kept a Market there every Wednesday and used to have the profits of Stallage c. That the Defendant had erected a new Market at a place 7 miles distant from the Plaintiffs held every Tuesday c. Jones excepted to this Declaration for that it could not be to the hindrance of the Plaintiff's Market which was 7 miles off and kept upon another day 22 H. 6. 14. 2 Rolls 140. It appears that an Action was brought against one that levied a Market not above 5 miles distant and upon the same day Curia contra The Writ of ad quod damnum doth not express the Market to be erected the same day and notwithstanding it will hinder recourse to the other Market Anonymus A Dean and Chapter made a Lease of Tythes for years the Lessée assigned over his Interest and afterwards the Dean and Chapter bring Debt against him for the Rent Who Pleads That the Plaintiffs accepted the Rent due since the Assignment from the Assignee to which the Plaintiffs Demurr Jones This is no Rent but a méer Sum in gross due upon the Contract therefore in the 5 Rep. in Jewells Case it appears that such a Rent cannot go to the Successor of a Bishop for the Successor of a Sole Corporation cannot Sue upon a Personal Contract to his Predecessour If the Reversion be granted over the Grantee cannot bring Debt 2 Rolls 447 451. 1 Inst 47. a. By the same Reason the Assignée of the Lease is not liable Again The Acceptance is not well pleaded for it is only Acceptaverunt Whereas a Corporation aggregate cannot accept but by Bayliff and an Acquittance must be given Saunders contra This is not a meer Sum in gross but in the nature of a Rent as is held in Valentine and Dentons Case 2 Cro. 111. If it were a sum in gross no Action could be brought until all the days of payment were incurred 1 Inst as upon a Bond to pay Money at several days Also the pleading of Acceptaverunt is good for it being such a Corporation as can accept necessary circumstances are ever implied as Livery in a Feoffment such a Corporation in an Assumpsit shall declare of a Promise made to them which yet must be by means of their Bayliff or Attorney The Court held this last Matter to be most doubtful And Twysden and Rainsford said it might be questioned whether after acceptance of the Assignée the Lessor might not resort to his Lessee for his Rent It is delivered in Walkers Case thus fuit dit not as a Resolution 3 Co. Et Adjurnatur Catterel versus Marshal ERror to Reverse a Judgment in an Assumpsit brought by Marshal in the Common-Pleas wherein he declared that he being sued in the Kings Bench retained Catterel for his Attorney who in Consideration of 30 s given him and that he would enter into a Bond with sufficient Penalty to save him harmless promised to get Bail filed for him and Avers that he did give him Bond with a great and sufficient Penalty c. The Defendant Pleads Non Assumpsit and found for the Plaintiff and he had his Iudgment Now it was assigned for Error that he did not express of what Penalty the Bond was that it might appear to the Court to be sufficient as if one avow for a
Entitle him to the Penalty and here the declaring that he broke the Covenants without shewing which or how is altogether insufficient though the Defendant who pleads in the Negative might have pleaded non infregit conventiones Vid. Rastals Entries 162. Pl. Com. 5. A President just agreeing to this Case But the Opinion of the Court inclined for the Plaintiff here Sed Adjornatur Vide Postea Anonymus A Mandamus was prayed to the Ecclesiastical Court to Swear two Churchwardens elected by the Parish surmising that so was the Custom in that place but that the Bishops Officers had refused to admit them upon pretence that the Parson ought to chuse one And it was granted Vid. 2 Rolls 106 107. 3 Cro. 551 589. such a Writ granted The Case of the City of London and Coates COates who was Imprisioned in Newgate by the Court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen brought an Habeas Corpus and the Sheriffs returned that the Custom of the City was That if any Freeman hath Forestalled any Fish coming to any Market within the City and complaint made thereof to the Court of Aldermen and he appearing there confessing the same and they ordain that he shall desist from such Forestalling and he will not promise to obey but declares in Court That he will not obey their Order That the Court there had time out of mind used to Commit such Freeman until he signified to the said Court that he would conform himself Then it is Returned That complaint was made to the said Court that this Coates had Forestalled a great number of Lobsters whereupon they caused him to appear which he did and confessed the same and they ordained that he should desist from such Forestalling but he said Obstinately and in Contempt of the Court That he would not obey their Order whereupon they committed him to Newgate until he should signifie to the Court that he would conform himself or otherwise he delivered by due course of Law The Return being Filed It was moved by the Attorney General That is was insufficient for a Custom to commit a man for Forestalling is void and that Offence was always Bailable and so it appears by the Register But here the Commitment is to remain in Prison without Bail or Mainprise Also the Commitment is upon a Complaint without Oath which ought not to be neither ought they to extort a Promise from him to observe their Order admitting it to be Legal for an Oath cannot be imposed upon a Man to keep the Law Besides The Custom is absurd to Commit a Man to Prison until he submits to the Court whereas a Man in Prison cannot come into Court to make such Submission and then suppose they will keep no Court must a Man lie in Prison whilest they do Then the Custom as it is laid reserves the discharge of him only to themselves for it is said or by due course of Law This Imprisonment looks in the Face of Magna Charta which saith nullus liber homo Imprisonetur c. in all Offences Finable the Imprisonment is only to be until the Fine is paid if the Fine be tendred there is to be no Imprisonment at all and so resolved in Parliament Br. tit Imprisonment 100. To this it was answered by Jones on the other side That the Imprisonment in this case was not for Forestalling but for the Contempt to the Court. It is returned that he confessed the Fact and yet declared that he would not conform himself to the Order of the Court the Proceeding is very mild not to punish for an Offence unless committed after an Admonition in Court It is implied in the Custom That he may be delivered by due course of Law it is sufficient to express that in the Commitment and so it is Also he cannot be prejudiced by the deferring of Courts for the Custom is returned to keep the Court of Aldermen twice a Wéek It is not that he shall come in person and submit to the Court but that he shall signifie his conformity to the Court which may be done by Letter or Message and it is returned that he did not by any means submit himself Twisden The Custom doth not here come in Question The Commitment is returned to be for a Contempt to the Court It must be allowed they have such power for they are a Court of Record Langham was Committed for refusing to take the Oath usually administred to Sheriffs and resolved to be good because it concerned the Government The City hath the Regulation of Trade and Orders made by them that one Man should not use the sign of another and for distinguishing Trades Viz. That a Plaisterer should not use the Trade of a Bricklayer and such like have béen allowed Wherefore the Court remanded the Prisoner he promising to make submission at the next Court and the Sheriff promising he should be discharged thereupon Phillips versus Kingston HIll 22 23 Car. 2. In an Action of Slander the words were He hath broke three or four of his Fathers Ribbs of which he shortly after died and I will complain to a Justice of him He may be hang'd for the Murder altho' it were done twenty years since After Verdict for the Plaintiff it was moved in Arrest of Judgment that he did this hurt to his Father against his will as it might be intended and tho' the Defendant said he might be Hanged for it that is but his Iudgment and Collection thereupon As Jacob and Mills's Case 2 Cro. 343. where the words were Thou hast poysoned Smith and it shall cost me an hundred pounds but I will have you hanged for it And it was Resolved that an Action did not lye because it might be unwillingly done Hob. 6. Also it is not averred that the Father was dead and that is necessary for otherwise it shall be taken that he is alive and then 't is no Slander and so is Yelverton 21 and Hob. 6. But the Court held That the Plaintiff must have his Judgment for taking all the words together the Defendant must necessarily intend a murdrous Killing and for the not averring that he was dead Twisden said the latter Opinions have all been that this is not necessary and the Action lies unless it appears upon the Record that the party is alive Anonymus IN an Action for Words the Plaintiff declared that he was a Woollen Draper and the Defendant said of him You are a cheating Fellow and keep a false Book After Verdict for the Plaintiff it was moved in Arrest of Judgment that the words might not be intended to relate to his Trade for they were capable of another sense and there was no colloquium of his Trade Sed non allocatur For they must be intended of a Debt-Book which Shop-keepers keep and to say such an one keeps a False Book it is a great slander to him in his Trade Vid. 1 Cro. 403. Twisden cited a Case Where Roberts an Attorney brought an
poena c. of if so then it is no Offence by the Act. To which it was Answered that if the Body of the Act were That all persons which should resort to such place which were not Summoned or Subpoena'd thither should forfeit c. then 't is true it must be averred But that matter comes in a Proviso of the Act viz. That it shall not extend of such Cases and therefore if there were any such thing the Defendant is to plead it Wherefore the Court ordered Judgment to be Entred for the Plaintiff Ante. Anonymus IN an Action of Trover and Conversion After Verdict for the Plaintiff it was moved in Arrest of Judgment that the Action was commenced in Hillary Term and the Conversion alledged to be the 3d of February in the same Term and the Bill filed relates to the first day of the Term so before the Cause of Action But it was Resolved by the Court that if the Bail were Entred after the 3d Day of February it is well enough for it is that which gives this Court Iurisdiction So an Ejectment may be brought upon a Lease made in the same Term So the Statute of Limitations may be pleaded to an Action if the time be elapsed before the Day wherein the Bail is filed though not before the 1st Day of the Term wherein the Action is brought For the Action shall not be said to be depending until the Bail is filed And upon Search it was found that the Bail was filed the last Day of the Term. Putt versus Nosworthy IN Debt the Plaintiff declared upon certain Articles whereby the Plaintiff Covenanted to convey certain Lands to the Defendant and in Consideration thereof the Defendant Covenanted to pay a certain Sum to the Plaintiff After a General Imparlance the Defendant prayed Oyer of the Deed whereby it appeared that the Defendant and one Vincent Covenanted that he or Vincent should pay the said Sum. And he avers that Vincent sealed and delivered the Deed and demands Judgment of the Bill si actionem poterit habere versus eum solummodo To this the Plaintiff Demurred which was Entred thus Et dicit quod ab actione praedicta praecludi non debet quia materia insufficiens c. And the Defendant joyns Quod materia praeallegat ' sufficiens c. praedict ' le Plaintiff ab actione praedict ' praecludere Jones moved for the Plaintiff that the Defendant's Plea being in Abatement could not be admitted after an Imparlance and that a peremptory Judgment ought to be here given because he had concluded in Bar as well as Abatement For he doth not only demand Judgment of the Bill but saith actionem habere non debet and the Demurrer is joyned as upon a Plea in Bar. And it was agreed that if a man concludes a Plea in Abatement as in Bar if it be against him that pleads it Judgment peremptory is to be given But here the Conclusion is not actionem habere non debet but 't is added versus eum cum solummodo So if a man begins a Plea in Abatement actio non c. Judgment peremptory ought to be thereupon given But then it was said That although it were too late to urge this Matter in Abatement yet it appeared upon the Deed shewn that the Plaintiffs Declaration was insufficient For it being If the Defendant or one Vincent should pay and the Plaintiff alledging that the Defendant had not paid is not enough to intitle him to his Action albeit that Vincent were no Covenantee or had ever Sealed and Delivered To which it was Answered and so Resolved by the Court that it appeared by the frame of the Deed that Vincent was as well party as the Defendant and it is too late now to averr that he did Seal and Deliver so it shall be taken that he did not and then it remains the sole Covenant of the Defendant And though the words are That the Defendant or Vincent shall pay that is no more than the Law would have implied if Vincent had Sealed And the Chief Justice cited one Cartwright's Case in Debt for Rent where the Indenture of Lease was a Demise from Cartwright and another Ioyntenant with him reserving a certain Rent to them both but the other never Sealed Cartwright brought Debt and declared of a Demise of the Moiety and Reservation of the Moiety of the Rent And upon Nil deber the Matter aforesaid was Specially found And it was moved First That the Lease being by Indenture whether the whole Rent were not well reserved to Cartwright as by Estoppel or whether it were not good to him as to a Stranger for one Moiety or whether it should not be good to him as an intire thing which was reserved to him as well as the other But the Court Resolved that it was good only for a Moiety as he had declared For there being an Expectation of the others Sealing which never was done the Deed as to one Moiety of the Land and the Rent reserved had no effect And where one Declares against one upon a Deed whereby it appears that another was bound with him it shall not be intended that the other Sealed unless averred on the Defendants Side Otherwise where the Declaration is upon Matter of Record And it was held by the Court That if the Declaration were defective in this yet it was but in Matter of Form For he saith that the Defendant did not pay sed adhuc injuste detinet which is an Averment tho' unformal that the Money is not yet paid neither by the one nor other And so it hath been held where in Debt against an Executor it is averred that the Executor did not pay it adhuc injuste detinet and not averred that the Testator had not in his life time that after a Verdict this is aided And they held that a Judgment ought to be given quod respondeat ouster for the joyning Demurrer as upon a Plea in Bar is not material besides the Fault begun on the Plaintiffs part Tailour versus Fitzgerald ERror upon a Judgment given in the King's Bench in Ireland in Ejectment where the Plaintiff declared that J. S. demised to him per quoddam Scriptum Obligatorium c. habend ' à die datus Indenturae praedict ' And upon Not guilty pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff and he had his Iudgment It was assigned for Error that there was no time when this Lease should commence for it was Habend ' after the Date of the aforesaid Indenture and there was none before it being Scriptum Obligatorium and not Indenturam But the Court Resolved that the Writing shall be intended an Indenture and tho' called Scriptum Obligatorium which is improper yet it may be said every Deed obligeth or if it shall not be intended Indented then the Lease shall commence presently as if it had been Habend ' from the 40th of September Crossing versus Scudamore IN Trespass Quare clausum fregit the
business to enquire of the Condition of her whom he will make his Wife Then the next thing to be considered is the Infancy of the Defendant and that is nothing in this Case Porter who was the probablest person to give notice is found to be an Infant too Conditions in Fact bind Infants Again the Condition here relates to an Act which she is capable of doing The Statute of Merton which Enacts Non currant usurae c. whereby Infants are exempted from Penalties yet in another Chapter gives the Forfeiture of the said double value to the Lord where his Ward Marries without his consent 'T is a restraint laid upon her in a matter proper for her Condition and with respect to her Condition that being and Infant she might advise with her Friends about her Marriage The Cases which have been objected do not come to this Case as the Opinion in Sanders and Carwells Case which might be good Law if it could be known what that case was for the words might either explicitly or implicitly require notice as if they were if he refused to pay c. or it may be no time might be set for payment for in Molineux Case there Rents were granted and after a Devise for the payment of them which naturally lie in demand Secondly There it concerned the younger Children to give notice for the Rents were not only to be paid to them but upon failer of payment the Land was Devised to them So that was a Concurrence of concern in them as to the performance of the Condition and the Estate they should acquire by the Breach Whereas the Plaintiff in this Case is not concerned in the performance of the Condition Thirdly The penning of the Condition were quite differs for 't is upon default of payment which implies notice must be first had In Frances Case there would have been no need of notice if the Devise had not béen to the Heir which is the only thing wherein it differs materially from this Case In Alfords Case the debate was occasioned by the special penning for it was thus that if thorough Obliviousness the Trusts should not happen to be performed Now there could be no Oblivion of that they never knew therefore there is some Opinion there that the Mayor and Citizens of L. ought to have had a precedent notice yet the Judgment is contrary for they could not have been barred by the Fine and Non-claim if notice had been necessary to the Commencement of their Title and 't is not found whether those to whom the Estate was devised before had notice so that this cause proves rather that there needs no notice in this case than otherwise Wherefore the Plaintiff must have his Judgment When my Lord Chief Justice had concluded Rainsford said he had spoken with Justice Moreton who declared to him that he was of the same Opinion Fitzgerald versus Marshall ERror of a Judgment given in the Kings Bench in Ireland in affirmance of a Judgment removed thither by Error out of the Common Pleas in Ireland By the Record it appeared that the Writ of Error to the Common Bench was directed Rob. Booth Militi Socijs suis quia in Recordo processu ac in redditione Judicij loquelae quae suit coram vobis Socijs vestris And the Judgment certified appeared to be in an Action commenced in the time of Sir R. Smith who died and Sir R. Booth made Chief Justice in his place before Judgment given And the Court here were of Opinion that the Record was not well removed into the Kings Bench there by that Writ which commanded them to remove Recordum loquelae coram R. Booth whereas the loquela commenced before R. Smith and the Titling of the Record is in such case placita coram R. Smith c. tho' some of the Continuances might be entred coram R. Booth and the Judgment given in his time and for this Cause the Judgment given in affirmance in the Kings Bench there was reversed Sir Samuel Sterling versus Turner ERror of a Judgment in the Common Bench in an Action upon the Case where the Plaintiff declared upon the Custom of London of Electing of two Men in the Office of Bridge-masters every year by the Citizens assembled in a Common Hall and a Custom that if two be Competitors he that is chosen by the greatest number of Votes is duely Elected and that if one in such case desire the Polls to be numbred the Mayor ought to grant the Poll. And shews that there was a Common Hall assembled the 18 of October 22. Regis nunc Sterling being Mayor and that then the Plaintiff and one Allet stood as Competitors to be chosen to that Office and avers that he had the greatest number of Voices and that he affirmed then and there that he had the greatest number which the other denying he requested the Mayor that according to the Custom they might go to the Poll and the Defendant not minding the Execution of his Office but violating the Law and Custom of the City then and there did maliciously refuse the numbering of the Polls but immediately made Proclamation and dismissed the Court by which he lost the Fees and Profits of the Place which he averred belonged unto it Vpon Not guilty pleaded and Verdict for the Plaintiff after it had béen several times argued in Arrest of Judgment that this Action did not lie it was adjudged for the Plaintiff by Tyrrel Archer and Wyld Vaughan dissenting And now Error was brought and assigned in the matter of Law and argued for that it was incertain whether the Plaintiff should have been Elected and that he could not bring an Action for a possibility of damage and this was no more not being decided who had the greatest number of Voices But the Court were clear of Opinion that the Judgment should be affirmed for the Defendant deprived the Plaintiff of the means whereby it should appear whether he had the greatest number of Electors or no. And Hale said it was a very good President and so it was adjudged by both Courts One D. of Bedfordshire Esquire was indicted of High Treason for coyning a great number of counterfeit pieces of Guinnies of Gold 23 Regis nunc and being Arraigned at the Bar he pleaded the Kings Pardon which was of all Treasons and of this in particluar but did not mention that he stood indicted Twisden said that my Lord Keeling was of Opinion that such a Pardon was not good But Hale said it might be well enough in this case but in case of Murther it is necessary to recite it because of the Statute of 27 E. 3. 2. vid. 10 E. 3. 2. 14 E. 3. 15. and so it was allowed The Lady Chesters Case A Prohibition was prayed to the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Sir Henry Wood having devised the Guardianship of his Daughter by his Will in VVriting according to the Act of this King to the Lady Chester his
the Suit against one alone ought not to be as in an Assize for a Rent-charge all the Ter-Tenants are to be named and here the party has an Election to Sue a Writ of Annuity and if so be must have named all that had been chargeable Curia 'T is true in our Law it were a good Plea in Abatement but perhaps their Law and Course is otherwise And here they have Jurisdiction and may proceed according to their own Rules or if not you may have an Appeal Whereupon a Prohibition was denied Anonymus IN an Habeas Corpus and Certiorari for the Body of J. S. who had been Imprisoned for not paying of a Fine of 20 l set at the Quarter Sessions The Return was that he being Constable and demanded by the Court to Present an High-way which was sworn before him by Two Witnesses to be out of Repair said in Contempt of the Court That he would not Present it For which and certain other contemptuous words the Fine was set The Counsel for the Prisoner moved that it might be Filed Which was done The Court were of Opinion that the Fine was not well set for Constables are to Present upon their own Knowledge and the Two Witnesses should have been carried to the Grand Jury for the Constable was not obliged to Present upon their Testimony This Court is to judge of their Fines whether without Cause or to mitigate them when excessively imposed and for the Contemptuous Words the Return is ill because not expressed what On the other side it was prayed that the Return might be amended for he had spoken Opprobious Words but that could not be admitted after the Filing And so the party was discharged Anonymus IT was moved to quash an Order of Sessions for the Keeping of a Bastard Child First That it doth not appear that the Child was born within the Parish Secondly 'T is to allow so much Weekly until the Child is Eight years of Age whereas the Statute gives power to make a Weekly allowance while the Child shall be chargeable Thirdly The Order was at Eight years old to pay 5 l for the Binding of it out But the Court would not quash it for they said it was implied by saying it would be chargeable to the Parish that it was born there and 't was apparent it would continue Chargeable for so long as they appointed the Allowance and they might Order 5 l to be paid in the end Sed Quaere For a Sum in gross ought not to be set but a Weekly allowance And the Court said they must shew that respect to Justices of the Peace who served the Country at their own charge as not too nicely to examine their Orders Anonymus ERror upon a Judgment by Nihil dicit given in the Common Pleas where the Action was for Words which in the Declaration were laid thus That the Defendant said Quidam J. S. which was the Plaintiffs Name innuendo the Plaintiff was c. The Error assigned was that there was no Averment that these Words were spoke of the Plaintiff for there might be more of the name But Holt for the Defendant said the Innuendo would help that fault and he cited the Case of Rebotham and Venlecke in the 3 Cro. 378. where the Plaintiff Declared that he had made an Oath before a Judge upon certain Articles exhibited for the Good Behaviour and the Defendant to Scandalize him said He made a false Oath Innuendo the said Oath before the Judge where it was held that the Innuendo was sufficient to ascertain what Oath was meant But the Court Reversed the Judgment in this Case and said that not saying in the Declaration that the Words were spoken of the Plaintiff it was not sufficient to bring that in by an Innuendo which ought to have been Averred and it is the worse because 't is said quidam J.S. which imports another person than the Plaintiff Anonymus ERror to Reverse a Judgment given in the Kings-Bench in Ireland in a Prohibition where the Issue was Whether he had Prosecuted in the Court Christian after the Prohibition and it was found for the Plaintiff and Damages assessed to 100 l and 6 d pro misis custagiis And now the Error was assigned in the Judgment given which was That the Plaintiff should recover damna praedicta per Juratores assess ad 100 l nec non pro misis custagiis de incremento per Cur ' adjudicat ' 20 l omitting the 6 d Costs given by the Jury On the other side it was said That damna praedicta in the Judgment included all and the saying 100 l was but a Miscomputation Et Adjornatur Postea Hill 33 34 Car. 2. How versus Whitfield A Fine of certain Lands to the use of J. S. for Life and after to his Executors and Assigns for 80 years with Power to the Lessee and his Assigns to lett Leases for 21 years reserving the ancient Rent After several mean Assignments the Assignee of an Executor of an Assignee made a Lease for 21 years which in the Special Verdict was found to be made of the said Lands inter alia reserving proinde six shillings per annum and found that six shillings was the ancient yearly Rent for the Land The Court seemed to be of opinion that an Assignee after so many Removes might execute this Power for it was coupled with an Interest and annexed to the Estate tho' to be construed strictly but in regard the Lease was made of the Land inter alia reserving proinde c. in case the Reservation should be taken to be for the whole Land then it was not the ancient Rent reserved for this and upon that they doubted Et Adjornatur Postea Anonymus AN Indictment was quashed for want of Addition For the Court said no Process ought to go out thereupon because the party cannot be Outlawed Anonymus IN an Habeas Corpus the Return was that the party was taken upon an Excom ' Cap ' It was moved that the party might be discharged because upon Search it appeared that the Writ had not been Enrolled in this Court for so it ought to be by the Statute of the 5th of the Queen tho' the Writ issues out of Chancery The Court doubted whether they could Discharge him upon a Motion or that he should be driven to plead this Matter And it was said the Course had been both ways Vid. Parker's Case 3 Cro. 553. But the party was afterwards Discharged ut opinor Herne versus Brown A Prohibition was prayed to a Suit in the Ecclesiastical Court The Libel sets out That a Tax had been made for the Repairs of a Church where the Defendant inhabited and was to make him pay his proportion To which they required his Answer viz. Whether he had paid c. The Suggestion was that the party had tendred his Answer but the Court had refused it because it was not upon Oath and that the Ecclesiastical Court
the Statute are to King James and in administring the Oath King Charles is named 171 172 The Ecclesiastical Court may make Defendants answer upon Oath as the Chancery doth 339 Obligation If two be bound joyntly and one be sued he cannot demur unless he aver the other is living And if there be two Obligees one cannot sue unless he avers the other is dead 34 A Release of one Joint Obligee of all Actions c. upon his own account does not discharge the Obligation 35 I do acknowledge to E. H. by me 20 l upon demand for doing the Work in my Garden Adjudged upon Demurrer to be a good Bond 238 Office and Officer Whether acceptance of a second Grant of an Office be a surrender of the first 297 An Act begun by one Officer and left imperfect what remains for his Successor 319 320. Outlawry Reverst for want of the Words pro Comitatu and why 108 P. Pardon See Witness WHere good without mentioning the Indictment 207 Parliament See Error The Three Estates See King Pasture Custom for Copyholders to have sole Feeding in a Certain Waste it is not needful to alledge that the Beasts were Levant and Couchant Here also a Copyholder may license others without Deed to put on their Beasts 165 Peace See Indictments Ac. Case Formality of Words where necessary in the Proceedings of Justices of Peace 39 Justices of Peace their Proceedings in relation to Bastard Children 48 59 210 310 336 Upon a Forcible Entry 308 Order of Sessions final in relation to a settlement of the Poor 310 King's Bench may judge of Fines imposed at Sessions and mitigate them 336 Perjury See Indictment One gave Evidence at a Trial and afterwards made Affidavit that he was perjured and suborn'd for which Affidavit an Information of Perjury was exhibited against him and he found guilty of Perjury in swearing he was perjured 182 Pleading See Escape Trespass In Debt upon Obligation the Defendant pleads that he delivered it as an Escrow plea nought 9 Where the Defendant pleads in Abatement and the Plaintiff Demurs if it be adjudged against the Defendant it shall be quod respondeat ulterius But if any thing be alledged in Abatement where upon Issue joyned it goes for the Plaintiff there he shall have Judgment to recover his Debt 22 In Actions laid by way of Reciprocal Promise there needs no Averment of Performance 41 178 Double Plea what 48 272 Trespass quare Arbores succidit Declaration insufficient because not exprest what kind of Trees 53 The like of Fishes 272 329 In Battery absque hoc quod moderate castigavit no direct Traverse to the Defendants Justification 70. Yet good after a Verdict ibid. A Plea in Abatement shall not be admitted after Imparlance 76 136 184. Exception 236 A Traverse designed to bring a Colateral matter in question not allowed 77 Executor pleads plene Administravit the Plaintiff confesseth the Plea and prays Judgment de bonis Testatoris quae in futuro ad manus defendentis devenerint 94 Where the Plaintiff denies what the Defendant affirms whether he ought to traverse or conclude to the Country 101 In Trespass where the Defendant claims a Way what Justification is sufficient what not 13 Incertainty in the Declaration or Plea where naught 106 114 120 278. What shall be said a Departure in Pleading what not 121 Where one Declares against one upon a Deed and it appears that another was bound with him it shall not be intended that the other sealed unless averr'd on the Defendants side 136 137 Deed delivered as an Escrow how to be pleaded 210 An apt Issue is not formed without an Affirmative and a Negative 213 To declare that a Bishop was seized in fee and not say in Jure Episcopatus not binds Successor 223 In Debt for Rent semper paratus is no good plea without saying quod obtulit 322 The effect of an Innuendo 337 The Statute for discharge of poor Prisoners how to be pleaded 356 Several Freeholders cannot joyn or be joyned in a Prescription to claim an Intire Interest in another mans Soyl 384. Nor can Freeholders and Copyholders joyn 390 Powers See Rocovery Of Power to Lease where well persued 294 340 Of Power of Revocation See Revocation Whether the Power of Revocation is extinguished by a Fine 368 371 Prescription See Appurtenant Common Grant The Nature and Rules of Prescription 386 Diversity between Prescription and Custom 389 The Owner of the Soyl can by no Prescription or Custom be excluded out of his own Soyl at all times of the year 390. But he may be excluded for a certain time and as to some kind of Profits 391 Prohibition Where it lies to the Admiralty 1 146 To the Ecclesiastical Court where a Parson sues for calling him Knave 2 Whether it lies where a Bishop sues for a Pension in his own Court 3 Whether it lies upon Suggestion that the Proprietors and Occupiers of such a Mannor or any parcel thereof pay a Groat to the Parson for Herbage-Tythes ibid. Lies for citing a man to answer in the Ecclesiastical Court and not delivering a Coppy of the Articles 5. And if the Party be excommunicate a Prohibition with a Mandamus to absolve him ibid. 252 Not lies to the Ecclesiastical Court for calling Impudent Whore 7. Or Whore and Bawd 61 220. Denied to the Ecclesiastical Court for calling Old Theif and Old Whore 10. Secus in London 343 352 In Prohibition on a Suit for Tythes what Suggestion is to be proved within six months 107 To the Ecclesiastical Court to stay a Suit there for Apparators Fees Suggesting there were no such Fees due by Custom 165 To Woodstreet Compter London for refusing to admit a Plea to their Jurisdiction before Imparlance 180 The Defendant in the Ecclesiastical Court pleads that the Tythes belong to another which Plea is refused Prohibition lies 248 335 Granted to the Ecclesiastical Court where Custom and Prescription comes in question tho the Principal Cause belongs properly to that Court as Church-Wardens Rates Tythes Mortuaries 274 Whether it lies to the Ecclesiastical Court for refusing to admit a Proof by one Witness 291 No Precedent for a Prohibition quia timet 313 To the Council of the Marches 330 Proof See Record Where Proof is to be made upon a Writ of Enquiry and where not 347 Q. Queen A Reservation to the Queen of England does not exclude a Queen Dowager 151 One who hath been a Queen not properly called nuper Regina in her Life time 152 Qui tam. See Error Action Judgment arrested because Issue was joyned only on behalf of the Informer and not also for the King 122 Quo Warranto Against certain Persons of the City of Worcester claiming to be Aldermen 366 R. Record If a Record be lost it may be proved to Jury by Testimony 257 Recorder See Mandamus What Causes may be sufficient to remove a Recorder 144 145 Recovery Where a Fine is Levyed to Lessee for years with an Intent
Delivery thereof covenant and agree with the Defendant That so long as the Defendant and the said Sarah should Cohabit he should be saved harmless from the said 300 l Annual payment and that it should be lawful for him during such Cohabitation to detain the same ut per dictam Indenturam plenius apparet and averreth That ever since the last mentioned Indenture they did Cohabit and demands Judgment of the Action The Plaintiff Replies That they did not Cohabit modo forma prout the Defendant placitando allegavit hoc petit quod inquirat ' c. And to that the Defendant Demurred Birch Serjeant Argued for the Defendant That this latter Indenture which sets forth a mutual Agreement to Cohabit and that they did Cohabit which is alledged in the Bar and confessed by the Demurrer had dispensed with those Circumstances viz. A Writing mutually Subscribed arrested by two Witnesses giving Notice of each parties Intention so to Cohabit and this Covenant That it should be lawful for the Defendant to detain the same so long as such Cohabitation should continue as is therein mentioned might well be pleaded in Bar to the Action brought upon the first Indenture But by the Opinion of the whole Court Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff for they held that unless the Cohabitation had been according to the first Indenture it was no Bar for the last Deed had not taken away the effect of the former a latter Covenant cannot be pleaded in Bar of a former But the Defendant must bring his Action upon the last Indenture if he would help himself Anonymus A Fieri facias was taken out which was executed after the party was Dead upon the Goods in the hands of the Executor but the Teste was before his death But it appeared that the Delivery to the Sheriffs and Endorsment thereupon according to the New Statute of 29 Car. 2. was after his Death The Court held that at the Common Law the Execution had been clearly good But the Statute is that the property of the Goods shall be bound but from the delivery of the Writ to the Sheriff And the Court rather inclined that the Execution was good and that the Statute was made for the benefit of Strangers who might have a Title to the Goods between the Teste of the Writ of Execution and the time of the delivery thereof to the Sheriff But as to the party himself the Goods were bound from the Teste ever since the Statute of Vicesimo nono Car. 2. But it was Ordered to be further spoken to Watmough versus Holgate Eborum ss WILLIELMUS HOLGATE nuper de Sawley in Com. praedict ' Yeoman alias dictul Williel ' Debt upon a Bond. Holgate de Sawley in Com' Eborum Yeoman sum̄ fuit ad respondend ' Roberto Watmough Radulpho Duxbury Willelmo Swire de placito quod reddat eis quadraginta libras quas eis debet injuste detinet c. Et unde ijdem Robertus Radulphus Willielmus Swire per Robertum Scater Attorn ' suum dic ' quod cum praedict ' Willielmus Holgate secundo die Augusti anno regni domini Regis Jacobi secundi Angl ' c. quarto apud Gisborne per quoddam scriptum suum obligatorium concessisset se teneri praefat ' Roberto Radulpho Willielmo Swire in praedictis quadraginta libris solvend ' eisdem Roberto Radulpho Willelmo Swire cum inde requisit ' fuisset praed ' ramen Willielmus Holgate licet saepius requisit ' praedict ' quadraginta libras eisdem Roberto Radulpho Willielmo Swire nondum reddidit set ill ' ei hucusque reddere contradixit adhuc contradict unde dic ' quod deteriorat ' sunt dampn ' habent ad valenciam viginti librar ' Et inde produc ' sectam c. Et proferunt hic in Cur ' scriptum praedict ' quod debitum praedict ' in forma praedicta testatur cujus dat' est die anno supradicto c. Et praedictus Willielmus Holgate per Johannem Mitchel Attorn ' The Defendant craves Oyer of the Condition suum ven ' defend ' vim injur ' quando c. Et pet ' auditum scripti praedicti ei legitur c. petit etiam auditum Condiconis ejusdem scripti ei legitur in haec verba ss The Condition of this Obligation is such That if the above-bounden William Holgate Which is for the performance of an Award his Heirs Executors and Administrators for his and their parts and behalves shall and do in all things well and truly stand to obey abide perform fulfil and keep the Award Order Arbitrament final End and Determination of Ambrose Pudsey of Colton Esquire and Thomas Parker of Crouseholme Esquire Arbitrators indifferently elected and named as well on the part and behalf of the above-bounden William Holgate as of the above-named Robert Ralph and William Swire to arbitrate award order judge and determine of and concerning all and all manner of Action and Actions Cause and Causes of Actions Suits Bills Bonds Specialties Iudgments Executions Extents Quarrels Controversies Trespasses Damages and Demands whatsoever at any time heretofore had made moved brought commenced sued prosecuted done suffered committed or depending by or between the said parties so as the said Award be made and put into writing and ready to be delivered to the parties in difference or such of them as shall desire the same on or before the Eleventh day of November next then this Obligation to be void or else to stand in force The Defendant pleads That the Arbitraters made no Award Quibus lectis auditis idem Willielmus Holgate dic ' quod praedict ' Robertus Radulphus Willielmus Swire acconem suam praed ' inde versus eum habere non debent quia dic ' quod praedict ' Ambrosius Pudsey Thomas Parker Arbitratores praedict ' post confecconem scripti praedicti ad vel ante praedict ' undecim ' diem Novembr ' in Condicone scripti praedicti menconat ' nullum fecer ' arbitrium in t ' partes praedict ' in Condicone praedict ' superius menconat ' de in praemissis in Condicone praedict ' superius spec ' Et hoc parat ' est verificare unde pet ' Judic ' si praedict ' Robertus Radulphus Willielmus Swire acconem suam praedict ' inde versus eum habere debeant c. The Plaintiff Replies and sets forth the Award Et praedict ' Robertus Radulphus Willielm ' Swire dic ' quod ipsi per aliqua per praefat ' Willielm ' Holgate superius placitando allegat ' ab accone sua praedicta versus eum habend ' praecludi non debent Quia dic ' quod praedicti Ambrosius Pudsey Thomas Parker Arbitratores in Condicone praedict ' superius nominat ' accepetis super se onera arbitrandi in t ' partes praedict ' de super praemissis in Condicone praedicta superius