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A33621 An abridgement of the Lord Coke's commentary on Littleton collected by an unknown author; yet by a late edition pretended to be Sir Humphrey Davenport, Kt. And in this second impression purged from very many gross errors committed in the said former edition. With a table of the most remarkable things therein.; Institutes of the laws of England. Abridgments. Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.; Littleton, Thomas, Sir, d. 1481. aut; Davenport, Humphrey, Sir, 1566-1645, attributed name. 1651 (1651) Wing C4906; ESTC R217258 305,227 456

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12 years or more be vide c. Reg. Orig. 132. 3 H. 5. tit Vtlawry Statham Sect. 187 c Lex Angliae nunquam matris sed semper patris conditionem imitari partum judica Surculus totum alimentum ā stipite capit poma tamen edit sua Fortescue c. 42. Si mulier serva copulata sit libero c. quod partus habebit hereditatem mater nullum dotem quia mortuo vito libero redit iu pristinum statum servitutis nifi haeres ei dotem secerit de gratia● Bract lib. 4. fo 298. b. A child was born after the father deceased per undecim dies post ultimum tempus legitimum sc nine moneths or forty weeks mulieribus constitutum and it was adjudged Quod dici non debet filius c. Trin. 18. E. 1. Rot. 61. Beaf coram Rege Un villeine n'avar action envers son seigneiur mes en special cases c. il poit aver action c. sicome appeal de mort son pere c. Auxi un Niefe avant un appeale de Rape en v●rs sa seignieur W. 1. c. 13. W. 2. cap. 35. Sect. 191 and 192. The Villain shall have an action as Executor against his Lord and it is no plea for the Lord to say that the Plaintiff is his villain for he shall not be enfranchised by the user of this action because he hath it by a gift in Law to the use of the Testator and not to his own use Note Damages recovered by the Executor in an action of Trespass shall be assets and yet they were never in the Testator 21 E. 4. 4. b. 1 H. 4. 6. Not onely tenant in tail and tenant for life of a Villain shall have the perquisite of the Villain in fee but tenant for years and tenant at will also shall have it in fee for the law respecteth not the quantity of the estate but the law respecteth the quality for in what right he hath the Villain in the same right he shall have the perquisite c. For if a man hath a Villain in the right of his wife and after he is intitled to be tenant by the Curtesie in his own right he shall have the perquisite to him and his heires vide lib. c. fo 124. b. Protestation is an exclusion of a Conclusion that a party to an action may by pleading incur or it is a safegard to the party which keepeth him from being concluded by the plea he is to make if the issue be found for him but in this case without a Protestation albeit the issue be found for the Lord the Villain shall be en franchised S. 192 Pl. c. 276. in Greysbrooks Case Sect. 193. Three things be favored in Law Life Liberty Dower Tryal is to find out by due examination the truth of the point in issue or question between the parties whereupon Judgement may be given Quaestio juris shall be tryed by the Judges either upon a Demur speciall Verdict or Exception for cuilibet in sua arte perito est credendum quod quisque norit in hoc se exerceat ad quaestionem juris non respondeant juratores But quaestio facti shall be tryed by the Verdict of Twelve men fo 125. a vide c. If the Jury cometh out of a wrong place or returned by a wrong Officer and give a Verdict Judgement ought not to be given upon such a Verdict qu. c. Every 〈◊〉 must come out of the Neighborhood of a Castle Manor Town or Hamlet or place known out of a Castle c. as some Forrests c. for that the inhabitants c. may have the better and more certain knowledge of the fact 3 E. 3. 73. 20. H. 6. 30 7. H. 4. 27. Every plea concerning the person of the Plaintiff c. shall be tryed where the Writ is brought Where the matter alleged extendeth into a place at the Common Law and a place within a Franchise it shall be tryed at the Common Law In an action against two the one pleads to the Writ the other to the action the plea to the Writ shall be first tryed for if that shall be found all the whole Writ shall abate and make an end of the business 8 E. 4. 24. In a plea personall against divers Defendants the one Defendant pleads in barre to parcell c. and the other pleads a plea which goeth to the whole sc to both Defendants this last plea shall be first tryed for in a personall action the discharge of one is the discharge of both but in a plea reall it is otherwise 15 E. 4. 25. b. c. vide lib. c fo 125. b. 9. H. 6. 46. Where an issue is joyned for part and a Demurre for the residue the Court may direct the tryall of the issue or judge the Demurre first c. l. 5. 36 b. Omnis consensus tollit errorem fol. 1126. a. * Issue exitus a single certain and materiall point issuing out of the allegations or pleas of the Plantiff and Defendant consisting regularly upon an Affirmative and Negative to be tryed by Twelve men and it is twofold A speciall Issue as here in the case of Littleton or generall as in Trespas Not guilty in Assise nul tort nul disseisin c. And as an Issue naturall cometh of two severall persons so an Issue legal issueth out of two severall Allegations of adverse parties vide Sect. 414. An Issue being taken generally referreth to the Count and not to the Writ 7. E. 3. 34. vide c. A speciall Issue must be taken in one certain materiall point which may be best understood and best tryed 20 E. 3. Issue 31. 22. E. 4● 28. An Issue shall not be taken upon a Negative pregnant which implieth another sufficient matter but upon that which is single and simple as Ne dona pas par left imply a gift by Parol therefore the Issue must be Ne dona pas mo do forma 21. H. 6. 9 b. 16. E. 4 5. An Issue joyned upon an Absque hoc c. ought to have an Affirmat●ve after it Two Affirmatives shall not make an Issue unless it be left the Issue should not be tryed 18. Eliz Dyer 253. 22. H. 6. 19. 11. H 4. 79. Some Issues be good upon matter Affirmative and Negative albeit the Affirmative and Negative be not in precise words as in Debt upon a lease for yeares the Defendant pleads that the Plaintiff had nothing at the time of the lease made the Plaintiff replies that he was seised in fee c. this is a good Issue 2 H. 7. 4. 5. H. 7. 12. 26. H. 8. in formedon Where the Issue is joyned of the part of the Defendant the entry is de hoc ponit se super patriam but if it be of the part of the Plaintiff he entry is hoc petit quod inquiratur per patriam 26 H. 8. 3. 18 Eliz. Dyer 353. There be
Negative pleas that be issues of themselves wherunto the Demandant or Plaintiff cannot reply no more than to a generall Issue which is Et praedictus A similiter As if the tenant do vouch and the Demandant counterp●●ad That the Vouche or any of his Ancestors had any thing c. whereof he might make a feoffment he shall conclude Et hoc petit quod inquir ' per patriā praed ' tenens similiter So in a fine Pleaded by the tenont c. the Demandant may say quod partes finis nihil habuerunt hoc petit c. And so in a Writ of Dower the Tenant plead unques seisie Dower he shall conclude Et de hoc point se c. 22. H. 6. 57. 59. 3. H. 7. 9. 12. E. 4. 13. Filiatio nou potest probari and therefore the issue must be whether the wife was ensenit the day of her husbands death 41. E. 3. 11. b. A protestation availeth not the Party that raketh it if the issue be found against him except in some speciall Case * as if a man enter into warranty and taketh by protestation the value of the Land albeit the plea be found against him yet the protestation shall serve him for the value 10 E. 4. Protest 5. Vid. S. 192. * 30 E. 3. 14. Sect. 194. Si le Seignior Mayhem son villeine il ser de ceo endite a le suit del roy sil soit de ceo attaint il ferr un fine al roy Mes le villein nava c. appeal de Mayhem because that in appeal he shall recover but damages which the Lord after execution might take again and so the judgment inutile illusory and the Law never giveth an action when the end of it can bring no profit or benefit to the pl. 1 H. 4. 6. b. Mahemium i. e. membri mutilatio Endite i. e. an accusation found by an equest of 12. or more upon their oath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to accuse Finis Sumitur tripliciter 1. For a pecuniary punishment for an offence c. against the King 2. For a sum given by the Tenant to the Lord 3. For the highest best assurance of lands If a praecipe be brought against an infant and hanging the Plea he commeth of full age he shall be amerced for the delay after his full age Lib. 5. fo 49 Vaughans Case So if the demandant or plaint be nonfute or judgement given against him he shall be likewise amerced pro falso clamore Vide lib. fo 126. b. c. If a Writ do abate by the act of the demandant or plaintiff or for matter of form the demandant or plaintiff shall be amerced but if it abate by the act of God as by the death of one c. it is otherwise Lib. 8. fo 60. b. Bechers Case Wit wita Bote wera or were old Saxon words signifie amerciament or compensation c. Ransome ne forsque redemption de paine corporel pro fine des deniers Mirror ca. 1 S. 1. and 3. Ransome is ever when the Law inflicteth a corporall punishment by imprisonment and so is also a fine but otherwise it is of an amerciament Alwaies at the common Law when the Defendant should lose life or member the writ said Felonice c. And now albeit the Law be changed for the Plantiff shall recover but damages yet the writ of appeal saith still felonice Vita membra sunt in manu seu protestate regis Bract. Lib. 1. fo 6. This offence of Mayhem is under all felonies deserving death and above all other inferior offences Inter crimina majora minimum inter minora maximum Inutilis labor fine fructu non est effectus legis Non licet quod dispendio licet Sapiens incipit à fine Lex non praecîpit inutilia Therefore the Law forbiddeth such recoveries whose ends are vaine chargeable and unprofitable Sect. 195. Demandant and Tenant in reall actions plantiff and defendant in actions personall and mixt In a personall action brought by A. B. against C.D. the defence is and praed C.D. defendit vim injuriam quando c. Et damna quicquid quod ipse defendere debet Vide libr. c. fo 127. b. The defendant in this and the like action can plead no Plea at all before he make himself party by this part of the defence 1 E. 4. 15. Sect. 196. c. 6. Maners de homes y sont queux sils suont action judgement poit estr demand sils serront respous c. 1. Lou villein suist action euvers son Seignior 2. Lou hom est utlage sur act de debt trns. c. ou enditement 3. Vn alien c. 4. Un home que per judgment done envers luy sur un brē de premunire facias c. ē hors del protection le roy 5. Un home enter c. en Religion 6 Un home que est excommenge per le ley de St. Esglise Sils sorront respondus c. This is the legall conclusion of the plea when the plea is in disability of the person Fo. 128. a. By the common Law the plaintiffe or defendant the demandant or Tenant could not appear by attorney without the Kings speciall Warrant by Writ or Letters Patents Abusion ē a reteiner Attorny sans brē de la Chancery Mirr ca. 5. Attorneys point estr touts ceux aux queux le voile suffer fems ne poient este Attor ne ensans ne serfs ne nul que ē en garde non auterment faut de foy ne nul criminous ne nul essoigne ne nul que nest a le foy le roy nul que ne poit este Counter c. Mir. ca. 2. Sect. 21. If an executor c. Sueth any action utlary in the plaintiffe shall not disable him because the suit is in auter droit 21 E. 4. 49. b. 21 H. 6. 30. b. In a Writ of error to reverse an utlary utlary in that suit or at any strangers suit shall not disable the plaintiffe because if he in that action should be disabled if he were outlawed at severall mens suits he should never reverse any of them 7 H. 4. 40. When any man pleads an outlawry in disability of the person he must shew forth the Record of the Outlawry Maintenant sub pede figilli because the plea is dilatory unless the Record be in the same Court But if he plead an outlawry in bar if it be denyed he shall have a day to bring in 6 Eliz. Dyer 228. F.N.B. 241. Stanf. pl. cor 105. Note there be two kind of appearances before the Quinto exactus to avoid the outlawry viz. an appearance in Deed i.e. to render himself c. and the other is by apparance in Law i. e. by purchasing a supersedeas out of the Court where the Record is c. Tr. 44. El. in Co. banco inter Mere dolburie If the ground or cause of the action be forfeited by
dictum l. 8. fo 155. l. 9. f. 13. l. 11. f. 10. Ex facto jus oritur fo 266. Vide c. Omnis conclusio boni veri judicii sequitur ex bonis veris promiss dictis Jurator Trin. 33 E. 1. in Thesaur utile per inutile non vitiatur M. 28 El. 29. Gomershall account in Ban. R. 32 E. 3. Cessavit 25. 5. 484 485. If the matter and substance of the issue be found it is sufficient S. 58. 35 Ass 8. 1 H. 4. 6. b. 27 H. 8. 22. b. Pl. 515. l. 4. f. 53. Raulins case and Pledols case H. 31. El. Sutton c. Com ban Estopper which bind the interest of the Land as the taking of a lease of a mans own land by deed indenture c. being specially found by the Jury the Court ought to judge according to the speciall matter for albeit estopper Reg. must be pleaded and relied upon by an apt conclusion and the Jury is sworn ad verit dicendam yet when they finde veritatem facti they pursue well their oath and the Court ought to judge according to law So may the Jury find a warranty being given in evidence though it be not pleaded because it bindeth the right unlesse it bee in a writ of right when the Mesc is joyned upon the Meer right 34 E. 3. Droit 29. After the verdict recorded the Jury cannot vary from it Pl. Fremans case 11 H. 4. 2. 20 Ass 12. 5 H. 7. 22. An issue found by verdict shall always be intended true untill it be reversed by attaint and thereupon c. no Supersedeas is grantable by Law If the Jury after evidence at Bar c. do at their own charges eat or drink either before or after they be agreed on their verdict it is finable but it shall not avoid the verdict P. 24 H. 8. Just Spilman Ban. R. 29 H. 8. 37. Dier P. 6 E. 6. Com. Ban. 11 H. 4. 16 17. 24 E. 3. 75. The King cannot be Nonsuit for he is ever present in Court in judgement of Law 21 E. 3. 18. The condition is executed by re-entry and yet the Lessor after his re-entry shall not plead the condition without shewing the deed because he was party and privy to the condition for the parties must shew forth the Deed unlesse it be by the act and wrong of the party but an estranger which is not privy to the condition nor claimeth under the same shall not after the condition is executed in pleading be forced to shew forth the Deed. Pl. 92. 9 H. 7. 3. Lib. 9. 12 13. Downams case 31 Ass p. 21. 10 H. 4. 9. Note that a speciall verdict or at large may be given in any action and upon any issue be the issue generall or speciall 8 E. 4. 29. 11 Eliz. Dyer 283 284. Discretio ē discernere per legem quid sit justum Si à jure discedas vagus eris erunt omnia omnibus incerta l. 10. fo 4. case de Sewers Sect. 367. A verdict is twofold 1. A verdict at large or a speciall verdict because it findeth the speciall matter c. Or leaves it to the judgement of the Court. 2. A generall verdict that is generally found according to the issue as if the issue be not guilty to finde the party guilty or not guilty generally c. There is also a verdict given in open Court and a privy verdict given out of Court before any of the Judges of the Court. To finde the speciall matter is the safest way for the Jury where the case is doubtfull Sect. 369. Lease pur vie rendt rent re-entry sur condition c. ceo est sans fait lessor enter pur non payment c. lessee enter sur le lessor et luy disseist c. en cē case le disseisee navera Ass et enc ' si le lessee soit pl ' et le lessor defendant il bar se lessee par verdict de Ass c. Mes en ceo case lou lessee est defendant sil ne voile plead le lease pur vie c. en bar mes plede nultort nul diss donques le lessor recovera per Assize 4 El. Dyer 207. 8 El. Dyer 246. A lease for life the reversion to the Plaintiff was a good barre in Assize and also that a lease for years the reversion to the Plaintiff might be pleaded in an Assize and so of a Feoffment with Warranty And note a diversity viz. of a lease for life the Tenant shall plead it in barre But in case of a lease for years or of an estate of Tenant by Statute or Elegit the Defendant shall not plead in barre as to say Ass non c. but justifie by force of the lease c. and conclude issint sans tort And if the Tenant of the Freehold be not named he shall plead Nul tenant de franktenement nosme en le breve and in the case of the Feoffment with Warranty he must relye upon the Warranty 18 E. 4. 10. 12 Ass 38. Sect. 370. Si Indenture soit bipartite ou tripartite c. touts les parts del endent ' ne sont que un fait en ley chesc ' part del endent ' est auxi de grand force effect sicome touts les parts ensemble l. 5. fol. 20. Stiles Case An Indenture may be without words but not by words without indenting A Deed poll because it is cut even polled c. Note That if the Feoffor Donor or Lessor seal the part of the Indenture belonging to the Feoffee c. the Indenture is good albeit the feoffee never sealeth the Counterpart belonging to the feoffor fo 229. a. 9 E. 4. 18. Pl. 134. Sect. 371 372. A communi observantia non est recedendum minimè mutanda sunt quae cert ' habuerunt interpretationem Magister rerum usus 17 El. Dyer 342. 12 H. 4. 12. 30 Ass 31. It is provided by the Statute of 38 E. 3. cap. 4. That all penal bonds in the third person be void wherein some of our books seem to differ c. But the Statute was principally intended of the Courts of Rome in which Courts bonds were taken in the third person So as such bonds made out of the Realm are void but other bonds in the third person are Resolved to be good as well as Indentures in the third person 40 E. 3. 1. 2 H 4. 10. 8 E. 4. 5. Brevis via per exempla longa per praecepta It is a safe thing to follow approved Presidents for Nihil simul inventum est perfectum Sect. 273. Fol. 230. b. Si en l'endenture fait en le 3. person ou en le 1. person mention foit fait que le grantor avoit mise solement son seale nemy le grantee donques est l'endent ' tantsolement le fait le grantor Mes lou mention est fait que le grantee ad mise son seale c.
part fo 70. 71. If there be Grandfather Father and Son and the 〈◊〉 disseise the Grandfather and make a Feoffment in fee the Grandfather dyeth the Father against his own Feoffment shall not enter but if he dye his Son shall enter And so note a diversity between a Release a Feoffment and a Warrant A release in that case is void a Feoffment is good against the Feoffor but not against his heir a Warrant is good both against himself and his heirs 39. H 6. 43 21. E 4. 81. 9 H 7. 1. b 2 E 3. 38 1● H 4. 33. Note three diversities 1. Between a Power and an Authority 〈◊〉 a Right 2. Between Powers and Authorities themselves 3. Between a Right and a possibility 43 E 3. 17. 42 E 3. 24. per Finchden 17 E 3. 67. As to the 1. If a man by his will deviseth that his executors shall sell his land and dieth if the executors release all their right and title to the heir this is void● for they have but onely a bare Authority And so it is if cestu● que use had devised that his Feoffees should have sold the land albeit they had made a Feoffment over yet might they sell the Vse for their Authority in that case it not given away by the liver● 1 H 7. 11. As to the second there is a diversity between such Powers and Authorities as are onely 〈◊〉 the use of a stranger and nothing for the benefit or him that made the Release as in the case before and a Power or Authority which respecteth the benefit of the Releasor as in these usual powers of revocation when the Feoffor c. hath a power to alter change determine or revoke the uses being intended for his benefit he may release and where the estates before were defeasible he may by his release make them absolute and seclude himself from any alteration or revocation l. 1. Alban●●s case 10. H 6. 4. As to the third before Iudgement the Plaintiff in an action of debt releaseth to the Bail in the Kings Bench all Demands and after Iudgement is given this shall not ba● the Plaintiff to have execution against the Bail because at the time of the release be had but a meer possibility and neither Ius in re nor Ius ad rem but the duty is to commence after upon a contingent and therefore could not be released presently So if the Conusee of a Statute c. release to the Conusor all his right in the land yet afterwards he may sue execution for he hath no right in the land till Execution but onely a possibility 25 Ass p. 7. 27 E 3. Execut. 130. P. 38. El. Rot. 521. Borough and Grey Sect. 447. En Releases de tout le droit que home ad en cert ' terres c. il covient a celuy a que le release est fait en asc ' case que il ad le franktenement en les terres en fait ou en ley al temps de release sait c. This must be intended of a bare right and not of a release of right whereby any estate passeth as to a lessee for years 49 E 3. 2● Also it must be intended of a right of Freehold at the least and not to a right to any term for years or Chattels real as if lessee for years be ousted and he in the reversion disseised and the disseisor maketh a lease for years the first lessee may release unto him all which is implyed in the first c. Also in some case a Release of a right made to one that hath neither Freehold in deed nor in Law is good as the Demandant may release to the Vouchee and yet the Vouchee hath nothing in the Land for that when the Vouchee enters into the Warranty he becomes Tenant to the Demandant and may render the land to him in respect of the privity but an estranger cannot release to the Vouchee because in rei veritate he is not Tenant of the Land 7 E 4. 13. 20 H 6. 29. 5 H 7. 41. 18 E 3. 12. 8 H 4. 5. vide Sect. 490 491. And so it is if the Tenant alien hanging the Praecipe the Release of the Demandant to the Tenant to the Praecipe is good and yet he hath nothing in the land 20 E 4. 14. 12. Ass p. 41. In time of vacation an Annuity that the parson ought to pay may be released to the Patron in respect of the privity but a release to the Ordinary onely seemeth not good because the Annuity is Temporal 8 E 3 81. 46 E 3 6. b 21 H 7 41. If a disseisor make a lease for life the disseisee may release to him for to such a release of a bare right there needs no privity But if the disseisor make a lease for years the disseisee cannot relea● to him because he hath no estate of free hold And yet in some case a right of Freehold shall drown in a Chattle as if a feme hath a right o● Dower shee may release to the Guardian in Chivalry and her right of Freehold shall drown because the Writ of Dower doth lie against him and the heir shall take advantage by it And note That by a Maxime a right of entry or a chose in action cannot be granted or transferred to a stranger Mirr cap. 2 S 17. If a man be disseised of an acre of land the disseisee hath jus proprietatis the disseisor hath jus possessionis and if the disseisee release to the disseisor he hath jus proprietatis possessionis Reg. When a naked right to land is released to one that hath jus possessionis and the other by a mean title recovers the land from him the right of possession shall draw the naked right with it For example if the heir of the disseisor being in by discent A. doth disseise him the disseisee release to A. now hath A. the meer right to the land but if the heir of the disseisor enter into the land and regain the possession that shall draw with it the meer right c. Br. l 2. f. 32. Brittf● 8● 121. But if the Donee in Tail discontinue in fee now is the reversion of the Donor turned to a naked right if the Donor release to the discontinuee and dye and the issue in Tail recover the land c. he shall leave the reversion in the discontinuee for the issue in Tail can recover but the estate Tail onely and the Donor cannot have it against his release but if the disseisee enter upon the heir of the disseisor and infeoff A in fee the heir of the disseisor recover the whole estate that shall draw with it the meet right and leave nothing in the Feoffee Another diversity is observable when the naked right is precedent before the accquisition of the defeasible estate for there the re-continuance of the defeasible estate shall not draw with it the preceding right As
in tail to A. the remainder to his right heirs A. dyeth without issue the Collaterall heir of A. shall have a writ of right of the seisin of A. 4. E. 3. 16. 17. And so note a diversity between a seisin to cause posses fratris c. for there is required a more actuall seisin and a seisin to maintain a writ of right 40. E. 3. 8. 42. E. 3. 20. 37. Ass 4. 14. E. 4. 24. 7. H 5. 4. 11. H. 4. 11. Sect. 483. 484. Note a diversity where the issue taken goeth to the point of the writ or action there modo and forma are but words of form as in Littletons case of the writ of entry in casu proviso and so is the c. well explained in this Section But otherwise it is when a collaterall point in pleading is traversed as if a feoffment be alleadged by two and this is traversed modo and forma and it is found the feoffment of one there modo and forma is materiall So if a feoffment be pleaded by deed and it is traversed absque hoc quod feoffavit modo forma upon this collaterall issue modo forma are so essentiall as the Jury cannot find a feoffment without deed 9. H. 6. 1. 40 E. 3. 35. 21. E. 3. 4. 22. F.N.B. 205. 206. g. 40. E. 3. 5. 32. H. 8. issue Br. 80. 12. E. 4. 4. Here is another diversity to be observed that albeit the issue be upon a collaterall point yet if by the finding of part of the issue it shall appear to the Court that no such action lieth for the plaintiffe no more then if the whole had been found there modo forma are but words of forme as here in the case which Littleton putteth of the Lord and Tenant appeareth 10. E. 4. 7. 8. E. 4. 15. 20. and 21. E. 4. 3. Merlbr cap. 3. If the matter of the issue be found it is sufficient and this rule holds in criminall causes Pl. Com. 101. v. 6. E. 3. 41. b. 9. H. 7. 3. 13. H. 7. 14. 8. E. 3. 70. 8. Ass 29. 39. 5. H. 4. 22. 7. H. 4. 11. Pl. Com. 92. 3. Mar. Dyer 115. 116. 40. E. 3. 35. 31. E. 3. account 58. 28. Ass 48. The lessee covenants with the lessor not to cut downe any trees c. and binds himself in a bond of 40. l. for performance of covenants the lessee cuts down ten trees the lessor brings an action of debt upon the bond and assigneth a breach that the lessee cutteth down twenty trees whereupon issue is joyned and the Jury find that the lessee cut down ten judgment shall be given for the Plaintiff for sufficient matter of the issue is found for the Plaintiff Sect. 485. 486. An assault battery or taking of goods c. alledged in another county cannot be traversed without speciall cause of justification which extendeth to some certain place as if a Constable of a Town in another county arrest the body of a man that breaketh the peace there he may traverse the county but he must not rest there but all other places saving in the Town whereof he is Constable And so it is of taking of goods the Defendant justifies for damage feisant in another county he must as before traverse But where the cause of the justification is not restrained to a certain place that is so locall as it cannot be alledged in any other Town c. then albeit the action be brought in a forraigne county yet he must alledge his justification in the county where the action is brought In an action upon the case the Plaintiff declared for speaking of slanderous words which are transitory and laid the words to be spoken in London the Defendant pleaded a concord for speaking of words in all the counties of England saving in London and traversed the speaking of the words in London the Plaintiff in his Declaration denied the concord whereupon the Defendant demurres and Judgment c. for the Plaintiff Tr. 30. El. Kings Bench. Inglebert and Jones Com. Pleas. Pasche 38. El. Rot. 1656. It is an ancient Principle in Law That for transitory causes of action the Plaintiff might alledge the fame in what place or County he would It is better that it be turned to a default then the Law should be changed or any innovation made 2. H. 4. 18. 38. E. 3. 1. A man did grant a rent that the grantee should hold the distress against gages and pledges and yet he shall gage delivery for otherwise by this new invention all Replevins shall be taken away 4. E. 3. cap. 5. 4. H. 4. cap. 2. Where the Jury is bound to find as well locall things in many cases as transitory in other Counties Vide lib. 6. fol. 46. Dowdales Case 3. E. 3. Ass 446. 14. H. 4 35. 5. H. 5. 2. 37. H. 6. 2. 7. E. 4. 45. 18. E. 4. 1. 13. H. 7. 17. 2 Mar. Br. att 104. 20. El. Dyer 171. 19. H. 6. 48. 28. H. 8. Dyer 29. 12. H. 8. 1. Reg. by the Common Law if the Defendant hath cause of justification or excuse then can he not plead Not guilty for then upon the evidence it shall be found against him for that he confesseth the battery and upon that issue cannot justifie it but he must plead the speciall matter and confesse and justifie the battery If in battery the Defendant may justifie the same to be done of the Plaintiffs own assault he must plead it specially and must not plead the generall issue and so of the like In trespasse of breaking his close upon Not guilty he cannot give in evidence that the beasts came through the Plaintiffs hedge which he ought to keep nor upon the generall issue justifie by reason of a rent charge common c. 25. H. 8. Br. In Detinue the Defendant pleaded non detinet he cannot give in evidence that the goods were pawned to him for money and that it is not paid but must plead it but he may give in evidence a gift from the Plaintiff for that proveth he detaineth not the Plaintiffs goods 22. H. 6. 33. 20. El. Dyer 276. 2. M. Dyer 212. If two men be bound in a bond joyntly and the one is sued alone he may plead matter in abatement of the Writ but he cannot plead Non est factum for it is his Deed though it be not his sole deed lib. 5. fo 119. Whelpdales case vide c. fo 283. a. Reg. whensoever a man doth any thing by force of a Warrant or Authority he must plead it But all that hath been said must be under two cautions 1. That whensoever a man cannot have advantage of the speciall matter by way of pleading there he shall take advantage of it in the evidence For example the Rule of Law is That a man cannot justifie in the killing or death of a man and therefore he shall be received to give the especiall matter in evidence as that it
in Curia nostra rite acta sunt debitae executioni demandari debent parum est latam esse sententiam nisi mandetur executioni Executio juris non habet injuriam Executio est fructus finis legis Juris effectus in executione coufistit Prosecutio legis est gravis vexatio executio legis coronat opus Boni judicis est judicium fine dilatione mendare executioni Favorabiliores sunt executiones aliis processibus quibuscunque When Littleton wrote by force of certain Acts of Parliament execution mtght be had of lands besides by force of the Elegit upon Statute Merchant Statute Staple and Recognizances taken in some Court of Record and since he wrote upon a Recognizance or Bond taken by force of the Statute 23. H. 8. before one of the Chief Justices or the Mayor of the Staple and Recorder of London out of Term which hath the effect of a Statute Staple 11. E. 1. Stat. de Acton Burnel 13. E. 1. de Mercat 27. E. 3. c. 22. 23. H. 8. cap. 6. 25. E. 3. 53. vide 32. H. 8. c. 5. a profitable Statute concerning executions of Lands Tenements c. Sed opus est interprete Vide fo 289. lib. 4. fo 66. Fulwoods Case If a man have a Judgement given against him for debt or damage or be bound in a Recognizance and dyeth his heir within age or having two daughters and the one within age no execution shall be sued of the Lands by Elegit during the minority albeit the heir is not specially bound but charged as Terre-tenant 15. E. 3. Age 95. 24. E. 3. 28. 29 Ass 37. 29. E. 3. 50. 47. Ass 4. 47. E. 3. 7. lib 3. f. 13. Brook Age 33. And so against an heir within age no execution shall be sued upon a Statute Merchant or Staple nor upon the obligation or recognizance upon the Statute 23. H. 8. for it is excepted in the processe against the heir Neither if the heir within age endow his mother shall execution be sued against her during his minority Temps E. 1. 402. 417. fo 290. a. Vide le statute 13. Eliz. cap. 5. made against fraudulent Feoffments gifts grants c. Judgements and Executions as well of lands and tenements as of goods and chattells to delay hinder or defraud Creditors and others of their just and lawfull Actions Suits Debts Damages Penalties Forfeitures Heriots Mortuaries and Releases Sed opus est c. Lib. 3. fo 80. c. Troyns Case l. 5. f 67. Gooches Case l. 6. f. 18. Pakemans Case l. 10. f. 56. the Chancellor of Oxfords Case See the Statute of 3. H. 7. c. 4. 50. E. 3. c. 6. M. 12. 13. Eliz Dyer 295. 18. Eliz. 451. Dyer Elegit is a judicial Writ and is given by the Statute either upon a recovery for debt or damages or upon a Recognizance in any Court The words of the writ be Elegit sibi liberari c. By this Writ the Sheriff shall deliver to the Plaintiff Omnia catalla debitoris exceptis bobus afris Carucae medietatem terrae And this must be done by an Enquest to be taken by the Sheriff W. 2. c. 18. W. 2. c. 18. Fieri fac is a Writ mentioned in the said Statute but is a Writ of Execution at the Common Law and is called a Fieri fac because the words of the Writ directed to the Sheriff be quod fieri fac de bonis catallis c. But note that a Capias ad satisfac is not mentioned in the said Statute because no Capias ad satisfac did lie at the Common Law upon a Judgement for debt c. or damages but only when the originall action was Qu. vi armis c. but later Statutes have given a Capias ad satisfac where debt c. or damages are recovered Lib. 3. fo 11. Sir William Herberts Case And note that these three Writs of Execution ought to be sued out within the year and the day after Judgment but if the Plaintiff sueth out any of them within the year he may continue the same after the year untill he hath execution And to none of these Writs of executions the Defendant can plead but if he hath any matter since the Judgment to discharge him of execution as a release of all executions c. he may have an Audita querela and relieve himself that way Sect. 505. Fol. 290. b. Scire fac is a judiciall Writ and properly lieth after the year and day after Judgment given But because the Defendant may thereupon plead this Scire fac is accounted in Law to be in nature of an action and therefore a release of all actions is a good bar of the same and so is a release of executions c. 19. H. 6. 3. 4. 18. E. 4. 7. This Writ was given in this case by the Statute of W. 2. c. 45. for at the Common Law if the Plaintiff had surceased to sue execution by fieri fac or levari fac a year and a day he had been driven to his new Originall 8. E. 3. 297 298. 18 E. 3. 33. l. 3. 12. Note that every Writ whereunto the Defendant may plead be it Originall or Judiciall is in Law an action Sect. 507. Fol. 291. a. Note a diversity between a release of all actions and a release of all suits If a man release all suits all execution is gone for no man can have execution without prayer and suit but the King only 26. H. 6. Exec. 4 l. 8. f. 153. Ed. Althams case Brook tit Rel. 87. So if the body of a man be taken in execution and the Plaintiff release all actions yet shall he remain in execution but if he release all debts or duties it is otherwise 26. H. 6. Exec. 7. If A. be accountable to B. and B. release him all his duties this is no bar in an action of account for what shall fall out upon the account is incertain but duties do extend to all things due that is certain and therefore dischargeth Judgments in personall actions and executions also 20. H. 6. per Paston Sect. 508 509 510 511. Fol. 291. b. 292. a. There be two kinds of Demands or Claims Pl. Com. Stiles Case 359 c. 1. Express or in deed as in all reall actions 2. Implyed or in Law as 1. In all actions personall 2. In actions of Appeals 3. Of execution 4. Of Title or right of Entry either by force of a condition or by any former Right 5. Of a rent service rent charge common of pasture c. verte fol. All which Littleton here and in the two next Sections following putteth but for example for by the release of all Demands other things also be released as rents seck all mixt actions a Warranty which is a Covenant reall and all other Covenants reall and personall Estovers all manner of Commons and profit appender Conditions before they be broken or performed or after Annuities
Consensus tollit errorem fol. 37. a. Sect. 43. Lou le certainty appiert queux terres c. Feme avera per la Dower la le feme entra apres la mort sa baron sans assignment de nulluy Sect. 45. The wife shall not be endowed of lands c. which her husband holdeth jointly with another at the time of c. Of his death for the jointenant which surviveth claimeth the land by the feoffment and by the survivorship which is above the Title of Dower c. But Tenants in common have several freeholds and inheritances and their moities shall descend to their several heirs and therefore their wives shall be endowed fol. 37. b. Sect. 46. Lissue en le Tail poit enter sur la possession la feme endowe ad ost eccles apres la mort sa baron The husband is seised c. being within age he cannot by a voluntary Act bind himselfe but otherwise is it where he doth an act whereunto he is compelled by Law Fo. 38. a. And so an Infant cannot endow his wife aed osti eccl but he may endow her ex Ass patris because the Father is sole seised c. And the Son hath nothing c. Sect. 48. Guardian in chivalry c. Is not possessed of the Land untill he doth enter because it is permanent of the wardship of the body he is possessed before seisure because it is transitory After the guardian hath entred c. A Writ of Dower lieth against him and not against the heire who is Tenant of the Freehold because the Law hath trusted him to plead for the heire within age that is in his custody and also for his own particular interest c. Fo. 38. b. Vide quaere 44. E. 3. 13. 4. H. 6. 11. If the heire before the gardein enter endow the wife of more than she ought and the gardein assigne over his Estate his Assignee shall have no Writ of Admesurement because it was a thing in action But the gardein himselfe shall have a Writ c. Stat. West 2. ca. 7. And so shall the heire have a Writ c. At full age and some have said that in that case he may have it within age Fo. 39. a Vide c. F.N.B. 149. Judicium quasi juris dictum the very voyce of Law and right and therefore judicium semper pro veritate accipitur In every judgement there ought to be three persons actor reus judex Fo. 39. a. The common Law giveth this priviledge to the Land holden by Knights service viz. That it shall not be dismembred but the whole Dower taken of the Lands holden in Socage for that the Knights service is for the defence of the Realm which is pro bono publico and therefore to be favoured Sect. 49. Sect. 50. Lou le judgment est fait en Court le roy ou en aut Court c. le feme poit perender ses vicines en lour presence endow luy inper metes bounds de la pluis beale c. que el ad come gardein en socage cei ē solvāon del Gardein en Chivelry durant le nonage lenfant Lect. 52. If a man taketh a wife seised of Lands c. In Fee hath issue and after the wife is attainted of Felony so as the iss●● cannot inherit to her yet he shall be Tenant by the Curtesie in respect of the issue which he had before the Felony and which by possibility might then have inherited But if the wife had been attainted of Felony before the issue albeit he hath issue afterwards he shall not be Tenant c. Fo. 40. a. Except the wife be actually seised the heire shall not make himselfe heire to the wife and this is the reason that a man shall not be Tenant by the Curtesie of a seisin in Law Lib. 8 fo 34. in Paines Case Sect. 53. Si Teniments sont dones a un home a les heires quae il engendera de corps sa feme en tiel case la feme nad riens c. Vnc'si le baron devie sans issue me la feme ser endowe per ceo que lissue que el per possibility puissoit aū per. me le baron puit enheriter A man seised of land in generall Taile taketh wife and after is attainted of Felony before the Statute of 1. E. 6. The issue should have inherited and yet the wife should not have bin endowed For the Statute of West 2. ca. 1. relieveth the issue in taile but not the wife in that case But at this day if the husband be attaint of Felony the wife shall be endowed and yet the issue shall not inherit the lands which the Father had in Fee simple If the wife elope from her husband c. she shall be barred of her dower and yet the issue shall inherit Sect. 55. The Law hath inflicted five punishments upon him that is attainted of Treason or Felony 1. He shall lose his life by an infamous death of hanging c. 2. His wife shall lose her Dower 3. His bloud is corrupted his children made ignoble if c. And cannot be heirs to him 4. He shall forfeit all his Lands and Tenements 5. All his goods and Chattels But the wife of a man attaint of Felony shall be endowed by force of the statute in that case provided If the heir be vouched by the Tenant in the Writ of Dower in the gard of the gardein The gardein shall plead it as well when he comes in as vouchee as when he is Tenant Also if the Lands holden in socage be not equall to the lands holden in chivalry some say that the defendant in the Writ of dower must have assets in her hands to the value of her Dower so as he shall not be partly indower against the gardein and partly retain in her own hands 18. E. 3. 4. But by 25. E. 3. 52. b. auterment est que est melior opinion c. CHAP. VI. Tenant a Terme de vie Sect. 56. IF Tenant per terme dauter vie dyeth living cesty que vie he that first entreth shall hold the land during that other mans life and he is in Law called an Occupant because his title is by his first occupation And so if Tenant for his own life grant over his Estate to another if the grantee dyeth there shall be an Occupant so it is if Tenant by the Curtesie or Tenant in Dower grant over his Estate or hers c. Fo. 41. a. l. 6. 37. nullum tempus occurrit regi in this case There can be no occupant of any thing that lyeth in grant and that cannot passe without deed because every Occupant must claime by a que estate averr the life of Ce ' que vie It were good to prevent the incertainty of the estate of the Occup to add these words to have and to hold to him and to his heirs during the life of Ce ' que
of the Corn altereth not the case for the regresse is a continuation of the Freehold in him in judgment of law from the beginning If the husband and wife make a lease at will of the wifes land reserving a rent and the husband dye yet the lease continueth So if a lease be made by two to two others at will and the one of the lessors or of the lessees dye the lease at will is not determined c. l. 5. 10. Hensteads case Dier 269. b. * Quando lex aliquid alicui concedit concedere videtur id fine quo res ipsa esse non p●test 14. H. 8. 2. If the lessee at will be disturbed of his free entry egresse and regress to carry away his Corn c. he shall have his action upon his case and recover his damages for whensoever the law giveth any thing it giveth also a remedy for the same fo 56. a. Any Inhabitant of Southwark having by custom a watring place for Cattel which being stopped may have an action c. Sect. 69. and Sect. 70 71 72. Messuagium containeth Buildings Curtelage Orchards and Garden A Praecipe lieth not de Domo but de Messuagio Nothing that is contrary to reason is consonant to Law Si home fait un ft. de feoffment de terre c. a un auter deliver a luy le fait mes nemy livery de seisin en ceo case le feoffee enter tener a volunt c. The lessor hath no remedy at all against tenant at will for permissive Waste fo 57. a. If tenant at will grant over his estate and the grantee enter he is a desseisor and the lessor may have an action of trespasse against him though the grant is void for the will is determined A Trespass or Transgression passeth that which is right Transgressio est cum modus non servatur nec mensura debet enim quilibet in suo facto modum habere mensuram Nota in the lowest offences there are no Accessaries but all are Principals as in Riots Routs Forcible entries c. and so in the highest offence which is Crimen laesa Majestatis there be no Accessaries but in Felonies there be Accessaries both before and after Si le lessor sur tiel leas a volunt reserve a luy un annuall rent il poit distr per se rent arere ou aver de ceo un action de debt Note he may distrain c. and yet it is no rent service for no Fealty belongeth thereunto but a rent distrainable of common right fo 57. b. Tenant at will is always by right and tenant at sufferance entreth by a lawfull lease and holdeth over by wrong Sic vide diversitatem Note a diversity between particular estates made by the terretenant and particular estates created by act in law as if a Guardian after the full age of the heir continueth in possession he is not tenant at sufferance but an Abator against whom an Assize of Mortdanc doth lie c. F.N.B. 196. CHHP. IX Tenant by Copy Sect. 73. TEnantes per Copie de Court-Roll out use daū terres c. a eux a lour heirs in fee fee taile ou a terme de vie c. a volunt le sur solonque le custome del Manor Eundum veteres aut ex scripto qui Bockland aut fine scripto qui Folkland dicebatur possidebant Curia Court is a place where Justice is judicially administred and is derived à cura quia in curiis publicis curas gerebant Court Baron so called of the Baron who is Lord of the Manor fo 58. a. or for that it hath relation to the Freeholders As there may be a Court Baron of Freeholders onely without Copiholders and then is the Steward the Register So there may be a customary Court of Copiholders only c. then is the Lord or his Steward the Judge And when the Court Baron is of this double nature the Court Roll containeth as well matters appertaining to the customary Court as to the Court Baron Manerium dicitur a manendo secundum excellentiam sedes magna fixa stabilis Et sciendum est quod Manerium poterit esse per se ex pluribus edificiis coadjuvatum five villis Hamletis adjacentibus Poterit etiam esse Manerium per se cum pluribus villis cum pluribus Hamletis adjacentibus quorum nullum dici poterit Manner perse sed villae suae Hamlettae poterit etiam esse per se Manerium Capitale plura continere sub se Maneria non Capitalia plures villas plures Hamlettas quasi sub uno Capite aut dominio suo Bract. l. 4. fo 212. Tenant for years Tenant by Statute Merch Staple Elegit Gardian in chivalry c. who are not properly seised but possessed are domini pro tempore not only to make admittance but to grant voluntary Copies of ancient Copihold Lands which come into their hands Fo. 58. b. And in some special Case an estate may be granted by Copy by one that is not dominus pro tempore c. As if the Lord of a Manor by his will in writing deviseth that his executor shall g●ant the Customary Tenements of the Mannor according to the custome of the Mannor for the payment of his debts and dieth the executor having nothing in the Mannor may make grants c. Consuetudo properly signifieth a custome as here c. But legally it signifieth also Tolles Murage Pontage c. Sect. 74. and 75. Et tiel Tenant ne poit alien sa terre per fait c. Fo. 59 a. But when a man hath but a right to a Copihold he may release it by Deed or by Copie to one that is admitted Tenant de facto l. 4. 24. b. Kite Queinton For is facere i.e. extra legem seu consuetudinem facere to do a thing against or without Law or Custome and that legally is called a forfeiture Si tiel tenant voit alien sa terre a un aut il covient c. de surrender les tenements en asc ' Court c. en le main le signior al use celuy que at avera le state Ils nont auter evidence concernant lour tenements forsque le Copies des Rolles de Court. Of Fines due to the Lord by the Copyholder some be by the change or alteration of the Lord and some by the change of the Tenant the change of the Lord ought to be by the Act of God otherwise no Fine can be due but by the change of the Tenant either by the act of God or by the Act of the party a Fine may be due Of Fines taken of Copyholders some be certain by custome and some be incertain but that Fine though it be incertus yet must it be rationabilis Fo. 59. b. Vide c. The Lord of a Manor is described by Fleta as he ought to be in these words Fleta lib. 2. ca.
he hath a Deed or if it be by parol then an action upon his Case or an action of deceipt c. The proces whereby the vouchee is called is a Summon ad Warr. whereupon if the Sheriff return that the vouchee is summoned and he maketh default Mag. Cape ad valentiam is awarded when if he make default again then judgement is given against the Tenant and he over to have in value against the vouchee But if the Sheriff return that he hath nothing then after Writs of Alias and pluries a Writ of sequatur sub suo periculo shall be awarded c. and the demandant shall not have judgement to recover in value because the vouchee was never warned Vide Libr. Fo. 101. b. When the tenant being impleaded within a particular jurisdiction as in London c. Voucheth one to warr and prayes that he may be summoned in some other County out of the jurisdiction of that Court this is called a forrain voucher By the Civil Law every man is bound to warrant the thing that he selleth or conveyeth albeit there be no expresse warrant but the Common Law bindeth him not unlesse there be a warranty either in Deed or in Law for Caveat emptor c. There be three kindes of disclaimer i. e. in the Tenancy in the bloud and in the Seigniory F.N.B. 197. 151. b. In the case of Homage Auncestrel which is a special warranty in Law by the authority of Littleton the Lands generally that the Lord hath at the time of the voucher shall be liable to execution in value whether he hath them by discent or purchase But in the case of an expresse warranty the heir shall be charged but only for such Lands as he hath discent from the Auncestrel which created the warranty F.N.B. 152. And note the Lands of the vouchee shall be liable to the warranty that the vouchee hath at the time of the voucher for that the voucher is in lieu of an action and in a Warr. Cartae the Land which the defendant hath at the time of the Writ brought shall be liable to the warranty Fo. 102. a. Upon a judgement in debt the Plaintiff shall not have execution but only of that Land which the Defendant had at the time of the judgement for that the action was brought in respect of the person and not in respect of the Land Vide Lib. c. If a man give Lands in Fee with warranty and binde certain Lands specially to warranty the person of the Feoffor is hereby bound and not the land unlesse he hath it at the time of the voucher 32. E. 1. voucher 292. Sect. 146. En Chesc ' case lou le Seignior poit disclaymer c. Et de ceo poit disclaimer en Court de Record son Seigniory ē extinct le rerant tiendra del Seignior procheine Paramount c. Meliorem conditionem Ecclesiae suae facere potem praelatus deteriorem nequaquam and again Ecclesiae suae condici melior facere possunt sine consensu deteriorem non possunt sine consensu Expedit reipublicae ut sit finis litium vide fol. 103. a. If an action of Debt upon an Obligation against an Abbot the Abbot acknowledgeth the action and dieth the successor shall not avoid Execution though the Obligation was made without the assent of the Covent for he cannot falsifie the Recovery in an higher action Et res judicata pro veritate accipitur and this is but a Chattel 7 Reg. 2. tit Abbot 7. Sect. 147 and 148. If the tenant make a feoffment in fee upon condition and dieth his heir performeth the condition and re-entreth the Homage ancestrel is destroyed in respect of the interruption of the continuance of the privity and estate 1. Mich. 14 15 El. Tenant que fist homage al pere ne ferre homage al fits fo 103. b. vide le except a ce rule Sect. 149 150 c. Fealty est incident a chesc ' atturnment del tenant grant le seigniory est grant None shall do homage but the tenant of the Land to the Lords of whom it is holden fol. 104. a. 8 Ed. 4. 27. b. * The recovery of the seigniory differeth from the alienation of the Lord which is his own act or the descent of the seigniory to the heir which is an act in law for that by the Recovery the state of him that received the homage is defeated for it shall not lie in the mouth of the tenant to falsifie the recovery which was against his Lord c. for that the tenant had nothing therein c. If a man had made a Lease for years to begin at Michaelmas reserved a rent and he had suffered a Common Recovery before Michaelmas the Recoverer should distrain for rent which the lessor before the recovery could not 28 H. 8. Dyer 41. fol. 104. b. The tenant ought to seek the Lord to do him homage c. for this service is personal c. but rent may be paid and received by other and therefore a tender of the rent upon the land is sufficient fo 105. a. CHAP. VIII Grand Sergeanty Sect. 153. GRand Sergeanty est lou home tient ses terres del Roy per les services que il doit faire en son proper person com de port le banner del Roy out sa lance c. Ceo tenure en ten per service de Chivalry mes le livery paiam al Roy pur reliese le value ouster les charges reprises des terres pur an S. 154 158. Magna Sergeanty i. e. Magna Servitium because it is greater and more worthy than Knight service for this is Revera servitium Regale and not Militare onely This Tenure hath seven special properties 1. To be holden of the King onely 2. It must be done when the tenant is able in proper person 3. This service is certain and particular 4. The Relief due c. differeth from Knights service 5. It is to be done within the Realm 6. It is subject to neither Aid pur faire fits Chivaler or file mariage And 7. it payeth no Escuage fo 105. b. 11 H. 4. 34. F.N. B. 83. There were divers Lords Marshals of England before the reign of R. 2. yet King R. 2. created Tho. Moubrey Duke of Norfolk and first Earl Marshal of England per nomen Comitis Marischalli Angliae in Rot. pat 20. R. 2. Thesaurus Regis rospicit Regem Regnum And Census Regis est anima reipub fol. 106. a. Dyer 4 El. 213. Where the Grand Sergeanty is to be done to the Royal person of the King or to execute one of those high and great Offices there his tenant cannot make a Deputy without the Kings license c. But he that holdeth to serve him in his War within the Realm or by Cornage may make a Deputy fol. 107. a. vide libr. c. qu. CHAP. IX Petit Sergeanty Sect. 159. PEtit Serjeanty est lou home tient c. del
gratum ingratum Fortescue cap. 46. fol. 137. b. There be some cases wh●re the Villain shall be privileged from the seisure of the Lord c. 1. Ratione loci as if a Villain in the ancient Demesn of the King a year and a day without claim or seisure of the Lord the Lord cannot seise him c. so long as he remains and continues there 39 E. 3. 6. b. F.N. B. 79. a. 2. Ratione professionis as if he a Monk be c. Gla●v l. 5. cap. 5. 3. Ratione dignitatis if he be made a Knight c. Britt fo 79. 4. Ratione matrimonii as if a Neife marry a free-man she is priviledged during the marriage c. But if the Lord himself marry the Neife then she is infranchised for ever Mirr c. 3. sect 18. acc Doct. S●u. 141. If a Niefe ●e regardant to a Manor and she taketh a free-man to husband by license of the Lord and the Lord make a feoffment in fee of the Manor the husband dyeth the feoffor shall have the Neife for that during the marriage she was severed from the Manor * and so is lib. 29. Ass which is falsely prin●ed to be understood If two Coparceners be of a Villain and one of them taketh him to husband she and her husband shall not have a Nuper obiit against her Coparcener but after the decease of her husband she shall 16 H. 3. Nuper ob 17. When the Lord enableth the Villain to have an action against him as for Debt or Annuity c. or if he sue against his Villain an Action of Debt or of Covenant c. or giveth to the Villain a certain and fixed estate in Lands c. as a lease for years by Deed or without Deed this is an infranchisement for ever But if the Lord atturn to his Villain c. or if he release all his right in black Acre and the Villain is not thereof seised this is no infranchi●ement because it is void and can give no cause of action fol. 138. a. 11 H. 7. 13. Sect. 208. The Tenant infeoffs the Villain of the Lord and a stranger * upon by Collusion in this case although the Lord may enter upon the Villain for the moity yet may he have a Writ of Ward against them both without infranchisement of the Villain for if the Lord should enter upon the Villain then should the seigniory be suspended and then could he not have a Writ of Ward against the other vide c. There is a Nonsure before appearance at the return of the Writ or after appearance at some day of continuance A Nonsute is ever upon a demand made when the Demandant or Plaintiff should appear and hee makes default A Retraxit is ever when the Demandant or Plaintiff is present in Court c. and this is either Privative as upon demand made that he depart in despight of the Court having made default c or Positive as when he saith that he will not prosecute his plea c. sed abin●e omnino se retraxit c. fol. 139. a. * Also a Retraxit is a bar of all other actions of like or inferior nature qui semel actionem renunciavit amplius repetere non potest But Reg. a Nonsute is not so but that he may commence an action of like nature c. again lib 8. fo 58. Bechers Case But yet for some speciall reasons Nonsute in some actions is peremptory as in a qu. imp if the Plaintiff be Nonsute after appearance the Defendant shall make a Title and have a Writ to the Bishop c. and the Incumbent that commeth in by that Writ shal never be removed 5 E. 3. 35. lib. 7. fo 27. b. Sir Hugh Portmans c. So it is in a Writ de Nativo habendo in favorem libertatis 6 E. 2. Vill. 26. F. N. B. 78. c. And in an appeal of Murther Rape Robbery c. in favorem vitae 9 H. 4. 1. Pl. Com. 148 a. 171. And in an appeal of Mayhem for the Writ saith Feloni●è Mayhemavit 43 Ass 39. And in Attaint and the reason is for the faith that the Law gives to the Verdict and for the fearfull Judgement that should be given against the first Jury if they should be convicted and therefore upon the Nonsute the Plaintiff shal be imprisoned and his pledges amerced but if the Process in an attaint be discontinued the Plaintiff may have another Writ of Attaint because upon the Nonsute there is a Judgement given but not upon the discontinuance F. N. B. 108. d. 32 Ass 13. Nonsuit before appearance is not peremtory in any case for that a stranger may purchase a Writ in the name of him that cause of action hath * In realor mixt actions the Nonsuit of one Demandant is not the Nonsuit of both but he that makes default shall be summoned and severed but Reg. in personal actions the Nonsuit of one is the Nonsuit of both unless it be in certain particular cases * F. N. B. 35. b. as in personall actions brought by Executors c. lib. * 6. fo 25. Ruddocks Case And in an Aud. quaer concerning the personalty * vide qu. lib. fo 139. a. In a quid Juris clamat the Nonsuit of the one is the Non-suit of both because the tenant cannot attorn according to the grant 20. E. 3. Severance 17. Some actions follow the nature of those actions whereupon they are grounded as the Writs of Error attaint Scire fac ' c. If a reall action be brought by severall Praecipes against two or more if the Demandant be Nonsuit against one he is a nosuit against all for as to the Demandant it is but one Writ under one Teste 47. E. 3. 6. b. Severance is twofold viz. by Summons ad sequend ' simul and that is when one of the Demandants or Plantiffs never apeared and by award of the Court of Nonsuit without any Summons and that is after appearance fo 149. b. At the Common Law upon every continuance or day given over the Plantiff might have been Nonsuit and therefore after Verdict given if the Court gave a day to be advised at that day the Plantiff was demandable and therefore might have been Nonsuit which is now remedied by the Statute of 2 H. 4. cap. 7. But after demurre in law joyned if the Court doth give a day over at that day the Demandant or Plantiff is Demand and may be Nonsuit for that is not holpen by any Statute 2 H. 5. 5. and after an award to account the Plantiff may be Nonsuit and so note a diversity between an interlocutory award of the Court and a finall Iudgement l. 11. fo 39. 41. Medcalfs Case Albeit the Lord be Nonsuit yet the infranchisment of the villain doth remain for that grew by the appearance to the Writ So it is if the Writ do abate Wheresoever the Lord giveth to the villain a just cause of action he is
the rent is behind the grantee hath election to bring a Writ of annuity * and charging the person only c. or to d●straine upon the Land and to make it reall * and charging the person onely to make it personall Put case that A. be seised of Lands in fee and he and B grant a rent charge to one in fee this prima facte is the grant of A and the confirming of B. but yet the grantee may have a VVrit of Annuity against both Two men grant an annuity of 20 l. per an to another although the persons be severall yet he shall have but one annuity But if the grant be Obligam nos utrumque nostr The grantee may have a VVrit of Annuity against B either of them but he shall have but one satisfaction 16 E. 2. tit annuity 47. If a rent charge be granted to a man and his heires he shall not have a Writ of annuity against the heire of the grantor albeit he hath Assets unlesse the grant be for him and his heires 2 H. 4. 13. Dyer 17 Eliz. 344. b. Vide c. Fo. 144. b. But Littl. is to be understood with some limitation for of a rent granted for owelty of partition a writ of annuity doth not ly because it is of the nature of the Land descended Also of such a rent as may be granted without Deed a Writ of annuity doth not lye though it be granted by Deed. 29 Ass p. 23. Note as to elections these diversities following 1 When nothing passeth to the Feoffee or Grantee before election c. There the election ought to be made in the life of the parties c. But when an estate or interest passes immediately to the Feoffee Donee or Gaantee there the Election may be made by them or by their heirs or executors Lib. 2. fo 36. c. Sir Row Haywards c. 2 When one and the same thing passeth c. and the Donee or grantee hath election in what manner or degree he will take this there the interest passeth immediately and the party his heires or executors may make election when they will 3 When election is given to severall persons there the first election made by any of the persons shall stand 4 In case an election be given of two severall things alwaies he which is the first agent and ought to doe the first Act shall have the. election 2 H. 7. 23. a. 5 When the granted is of things annuall and are to have continuance there the election remaineth to the grantor in case where the Law giveth to him election as well after the day as before otherwise it is when the things are to be performed unica vice 9 E. 4. 36. and ●3 E. 4. Grantee for life c. ought to bring his Writ of annuity in the disjunctive else the judgment c. shall determine his election for ever herein Fitzh is mistaken 6 The Feoffee by his act and wrong may lose his election and give the same to the Feoffer as if one infeoffe another of two acres to have and to hold the one for life and the other in tail and he before election make a Feoffment of both in this case the Feoffer shall have election to enter into which of them he will c. Note that this determination of the election of the grantee must be by action or sure in Court of Record If the grantee doth bring a Writ of annuity and at the returne thereof appear and account this is a determination of his election in Court or Record albeit he never proceedeth any further F.N.B. 152. a. 5 H. 7. 33. b So if the grantee bring an Ass for the rent and make his plaint he shall never after bring a Writ of annuity 10 E 4. 17. For an Anvowry in Court of Record which is in nature of an action is a determination of his election before any judgment given F. 145. b. It is a generall rule that the plaintiffe must have the property of the goods in him at the time of the taking 3 E. 3. 74. 6 H. 4. 2. But yet if the goods of a villain be distreined the Lord of the villain shall have a Replevy because the bringing of a Replevy amounts to a claim in Law and vests the property in ●he plaintiff But in that case if the goods of a villain be taken by a trns. the Lord shall have no Replevy because the villain had but a right 33 E. 3. Repl. 43. F.N. B. 69 F. Property ought to be tryed by Writ 30 E. 3. 22. A man cannot claim property by his Bayliffe or servant for that if the claim fall out to be false he shall be fined for his contempt which the Lord cannot be unlesse he maketh claim himself for nemo punitur pro alieno delicto 5 E. 3 38. 11 H. 4. 4. fo 145. b. In a speciall case a man may have a Replevy of goods not distreined as if the Mesner put in his catrell in lieu of the cattel of the tenant peravaile that he is bound to acquite he shall have a Replevy c. 34 H. 6. 47. It is against the nature of a distresse taken c to be irreplevisable 31 E. 3. Gage Deliū 5. And Bract. Lib 4. fo 233. a. and b. Saith E●dem modo de via obstructa per breve quod justiciet propter cōem utilitatem ne transeuntes ire diu impediantur quia hoc esset commune damnum in hoc vicecomes Justiciarii faciant sicut super detensionem averior contra vadium plegii propter commune utilit ne animalia diu inclusa pereant If the beasts of divers severall men be taken they cannot joyn in a Repleg but every one must have a severall Repl. and so in a Repleg it is a good plea to say that the property is to the plaintiff and to a stranger and where there be two plaintiffes that the property is to one of them 28 E. 3. 92. 2 E. 4. 23. Electio semel facta placitum cestatum ō patitur regressum Quod semel in electionibus placuit amplius displicere nō potest Note a diversity between the case * fo 65. a. aforesaid of the grant of the rent where he may take it either reall or personall and when a man may have election to have several remedies for a thing that is meerly personall or meerly reall from the beginning As if a man may have an action of account or an action of debt at his pleasure and he bringeth an action of account and appear to it and after it Nonsuit yet may he have an action of debt afterwards because both actions charge the person So it is of an Ass and of a Writ of entry in the nature of an Ass c. 28 E. 3. 98. b. 27 E. 3. 89. b. Fo. 146. a. Sect. 220. By this Section it appeareth that when in a general grant the Law doth give two remedies that the grantor may provide that the
and rent and the rent be recovered the Fealty shall includedly be recovered 44 E. 3. 19. 26 Ass 38. 8 E. 4. 28. So long as Homage continues the Fealty cannot be divided from it vide lib. c. 151. a. Note a diversity between these corporeal services of Homage Fealty and Escuage which cannot become seck or dry but make Tenure whereunto Distresses Escheats and other Profits be incident and other corporeal services ast ●o Plough Repair Attend c. And all Rents whatsoever for they may become seek and make no Tenure Rent and Fealty are incident to the Reversion viz. Rent separably and Fealty inseparably 12 E. 4. 3. Doct. Stud. lib. 2. c. 9. The incident shall pass by the grant of the Principal but not è converso Accessorium non ducit sed sequitur suum principale fo 152. a. If the Tenant infeoff the Lord Paramount and his wife and their heires in this case the Mesnalty is but suspended for if the wife survive both Mesnalty and Seignory are revived 7 Ass 2. 7 E. 3. 20. It is said that if there be Lord Mesne and Tenant each of them by Fealty and 6 d. the Lord confirm the state of the Tenant to hold of him by Fealty and 3 d. that the Mesnalty is extinct So it is if ●he Lord release to the Tenant for whether the Lord purchase the Tenancy or the Tenant the Seigniory the Mesnalty is extinct 8 H. 6. 24. fo 152. b. So if there be Lord and Tenant and the Tenant make a gift in tail the remainder to the King the Seigniory it extinct 4 5 P. M. Dyer 154. Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum quam publicum malum 13 H. 4. 3. 40. Ass p. 27. No man can hold one and the same land immediately of two severall Lords And one man cannot of the same land be both Lord and Tenant It is Reg. true Res inter alios acta alteri nocere non debet Et factum unius alteri nocere non debet which are true with this Exception unless an inconvenience should follow c. Quando lex aliquid alicui concedit concedere videtur id sine quo res ipsa esse non potest And therefore if a man maketh a lease for life reserving a rent and binde himself in a Statute and the Cognisee hath the rent extended and delivered to him he shall distrain for the rent because he commeth to it by course of Law 13 H 4 Avowry 237. La ley voet plus toft suffer un mischiefe que un inconvenience pur ceo si Mesne tient per 12 d. tenant per 5 s. le seignieur purchase le tenancy le seigniory del Mesnalty ē extinct Et le mesne aūa 4 s. come rent seck de le seignieur Sect. 233. Si home que ad rent seck est un foits sei d'asc ' parcel de le rent apurs le tenant ne voile payer le rent aver il aūa ass de novel diss A rent seck or rent charge may be demanded after it is behinde at any time c. for Remedies for Rights are ever favourably expounded M. 41. E. 4 adjudged If the demand be made upon the land and the rent is not paid whether the tenant be present or absent yet this is a denyall in Law c. Disseisina is a putting out of a man out of seisin and ever implyeth a wrong But dispossessing or ejectment is a putting out of possession and may be right or by wrong Bract. l. 4 f. 161. Mirr c. 2. s Disseisin est un personal trespass de tortius ouster del seisin Where the Statute of Merton 20 H. 3. saith Disseisitus de libero tenemento Littleton expounds it to extend to a rent seck or rent charge albeit they be against common rights yet a man hath a Freehold in them 40. Ass 23. ac And he that granteth omnia tenementa sua a rent charge or a rent seck doth pass 14 E. 4. 4. 11 H. 6. 22. Recuperare i. ad rem per injuriam extort ' sive detentam per sententiam Judicis restitui Execution is the obtaining of actuall possession of any thing acquired by Judgement of Law or by a Fine executory levied whether it be by Sheriff or by the entry of the party vide Sect. 504. If the Recovery in Assize c. be had against one and hee and another redisseise the Plaintiff he shall not have a Redisseisin for he●e is alius and hee cannot have a Redisseisin against the former disseisor alone because he is joynt-tenant with another For joynt tenancy in a Writ of Redisseisin is a good plea and a stranger shall not be subject to double imprisonment and double damages 33 E. 3 Redisse●st 17. 9 H. 4. 5. F.N.B. 118. e. A Redisseisin doth lye against the disseisor which doth redisseise and his Feoffee after the second disseisin for otherwise the redisseisor might prevent the Plaintiff of his redisseisin If the Mesne recovereth a rent when it is a rent service and after the rent becommeth a rent seck by surplusage and doth redisseise him of the rent hee shall have a redisseisin for the substance of the rent remains though the quality be altered Sect. 234. He that is of a Jury must be liber legalis homo 9. E 4. 16. First hee ought to be dwelling most neare to the place where the question is moved 2. He ought to be most sufficient both for understanding and competency of estate 3. To bee least suspitious that is to be indifferent as he stands unsworn Vide S. 102. 193. Ad questionem facti non respondent Indices Ad quaestio juris non respondent lu●atores Calumniare to challenge i. e. to except against them in Court that are returned to be Iurors Fo. 155. b. It is most necessary that Iurors be omni exceptione majores forasmuch as mens lives c. are to be tried by them Nota that there is a principall cause of challenge to the array and a challenge to the favour Fol. 156. a. Vide nota The challenge to the array is in respect to the cause of unindifferency or default in the Sheriff or other officer that made the returne and not in respect of the persons returned where there is no default in the Sheriff c. for if the challenge to the array be found against the party that takes it yet he shall have his particular challenge to the Polls that is to the particular persons and these be of four kinds i.e. peremptory principall which induce favour and for default of hundredors fo 156. b. A man may challenge peremptorily without shewing any cause and this only is in case of Felony c. In favorem vitae Vide c. Principall challenges to the Poll may be reduced to foure heads 1. Propter honoris respectum as no Peer of the realme is to be sworn on Juries l. 6. 52. 2. Propter
them taketh husband and dyeth yet the terme shall survive for though all chattels realls are given to the husband if he survive yet the survivor between the joynt-tenants is the elder Title and after the marriage the feme continued sole possessed for if the husband dyeth she shall have it and not the executors of the husband but otherwise it is of personall goods fol. 185. b. vide c. Inprimis autem debet quilibet qui testaverit dominum suum de meliore re quam habuerit recognoscere postea ecclesiam de alia meliore c. Fleta lib. 2. cap. 50. Sect. 288. Chesc ' joint est sei del terre que il tient joint per my per tout sic totum tenet nihil tenet sc totum conjunctim nihil per se separatim and albeit they are so seised yet to divers purposes each of them hath but a right to a moity as to enfeoffe give or demise or to forfeit or lose by default in a Praec 40. Ass 79. Brit. cap. 35. A communi observantia non est recedendum If two joyntenants be and both they make a feoffment in Fee upon condition and that for breach thereof one of them shall enter into the whole yet he shall enter but into a moity because no more in judgment of Law passed from him and so it is of a gift in taile or a Lease for life c. Pl. com Brownings c. If two joyntenants make a feoffment in fee and one of the feoffors die the feoffee cannot plead a feoffment from the survivor of the whole because each of them gave but his part but otherwise it is on the part of the feoffees 14 E. 4. 5. fol. 186. a. Two joyntenants de terres c. And one of them by Deed indent●● bargain and sell the Lands and the other joyntenant dyeth and then the Deed is inrolled there shall passe but a moity 6 E. 6. Tit. Faits inroll 9. Br. Sect. 289. En grant de rent charge per joint c. les tenements demurg touts foits come ils fuer adevat sans ceo que asc ' ad asc ' drt. daū asc ' parcel de les tenem fo rs eux me les tenem sont en tiel plite come ils fueront devant le charge c. mes ou leas ē ft. per un joint a un aut per terme de ans c. maint per force de lease le lessee ad drt. en m. la terre se de tout ceo que a son lessor affiert daū ceo per force de lease durant son Feme Fo. 186. b. If two joyntenants be of an Advowson and the one present c. and his Clark is admitted and instituted this in respect of the privity shall not put the other out of possession but if that joyntenant that presenteth dyeth it shall serve for a tittle in a Qu. Imp. brought by the survivor 11 H. 4. 54. 10 E. 4. 94. 1 H. 7. 1. b. 9 El. Dyer 259. 6 E. 4. 10. b. Doct. St. 116. F. N. B. 34. u. But yet if one jointenant or tenant in common present or if they present severally the ordinary may either admit or refuse c. such a presentee unlesse they joyne in a presentation and after the six moneths he may present by lapse But if two coperceners be c. and they cannot agree to present the eldest shall present and if her sister doth disturbe her she shall have a qu. imp and so shall the issue and the Assignee of the eldest and yet he is tenant in common with the youngest and so tenant per Curtesie of the eldest shall present 38 H. 6. 9. 5 H. 5. 10. F.N.B. 34. Sect. 290. Jointenants fils violont faire partition c. But this partition must be by Deed. Vide Sect. 249. 318. But jointenants for years may make partition without Deed 18 Eliz. 350. b. Dyer Since Littleton wrote joyntenants and tenants in common are compellable to make partition by writ Stat. 31 H. 8. c. 1. 32 H. 8. c. 32. Sect. 264. 247. 259. F.N.B. 9. b. 62. b. lib. 6. Fo. 12 13. Morrices c. If one joyntenant or tenant in common disseise another and the disseisee bring his Ass for the moity though the plaintiffe prayeth it yet no judgment shall be given to hold in severaltie for then at the common Law there might have been by compulsion of Law a partition bteween Joyntenants and tenants in common and by rule of Law the plaintiffe must have judgement according to his plaint or demand 187. a. Sect. 291. c. Baron feme sont forsq un person en ley vir axor sunt quasi unica persona quia caro una sanguis unus Lib. 4. fo 68. Tokers c. Pl. com 483. Nicholls ca. If an estate be made to a man and a woman and their heirs before marriage and after they marry the husband and wife have moities between them If a Feoffment be made to a man and a woman and their heires with warranty and they entermarry and after are impleaded and vouch and recover in valew moities shall not be between them for though they were sole when the warranty was made notwithstanding at the time when they recovered and had execution they were husband and wife in which time they cannot take by moities Fo. 187. b. Vide c. A right of Action and a right of entry may stand in jointure Vide Sect. 302. F.N.B. 193. k. A right of action or a bare right of entry cannot stand in joynture with a freehold or inheritance in possession and therefore if the husband make a Feoffment of the moity this was a discontinu of that moity and the other joyntenant remained in possession of the freehold and inheritance of the other moity which for the time was a severance of the joynture Statute of 32 H. 8. ca. 1. If two joyntenants be of a rent and one of them disseise the tenant of the Land this is a severance of the joynture for a time for the moity of the rent is suspended by unity of possession and therefore cannot stand in joynture with the other moity in possession Pl. com 419. Nihil de re accrescit ei qui in re quando jus accresceret habet A State of Freehold cannot stand in joynture with a terme for years nor a reversion upon a Freehold with a Freehold and inheritance in possession Neither can a seisin in the right of a politick capacity stand in joynture with seisin in a naturall capacity 37 H. 8. 8. 3 E. 4. 10. Fo. 188. a. Vide c. In all cases where the joyntenants pursue one joynt remedy and the one is summoned and severed and the other recover he that is summoned c. shall enter with him but where their remedies be severall there the one shall not enter with the other till both have recovered Littleton cap. Remitt the last
one that hath a former Right F. N. B. 35. Right and wrong cannot consist together 194. a. Sect. 307. Et en asc ' case un release vera per voy dextinguisment aydera le joyntenant a que le release ne fuit fert c. sicome un home soit disseisee le disseisor fort feoffment a 2. homes in fee si le disseisee release per son f●rt a un des feoffees cel release vera a ambideux c. pur ceo que les feoffees ont estate per la ley scil per feoffment nemy per tort fert a nulluy c. The reason of the diversity between the desseisors and their feoffees is for that the feoffees coming in by Title and Purchase are intended in Law to have a Warranty which is much esteemed in Law and therefore lest the Warranty should be avoided the Release shall inure to both the feoffees in favour of purchasors and so the right and benefit of every one saved And therefore in ancient time if the feoffee of a disseisor had continued in seisin quietly a year and a day the entry of the disseisee had not been lawfull upon him 20 H. 3. Ass 432. Sect. 311. Note that in reall actions and in actions also that are mixt with the personalty Tenants in common shall sever because they have severall Freeholds c. Come si 2 tenants in common sont disseisees ils doient aver 2. Ass pur ceo que ils fueront seisees per several titles c. Vide lib. fol. 195. b. Auterment est de joyntenants Sect. 313. Quant a suer des actions que touchant le realty y sont diversities perenter parceners que sont eins per divers discents tenants in common Vide Sect. 241. Sect. 314. If two Tenants in common be and they grant a rent of 20. s. per annum out of their land the Grantee shall have two rents of 20. s. Pl. Com. Hill and Granges Case 171. vide Sect. 219. But if they two make a gift in taile a lease for life c. reserving 20. s. rent to them and their heirs they shall have but one 20. s. for they shall have no more then themselves reserved And albeit the reservation of rents severable be in joynt words yet in respect of the severall reversions the law makes thereof a severance fol. 197. a Lex spectat naturae ordinem vide Sect. 129. lex neminem cogit ad vana seu inutilia lib. 5. fol. 21. The law wils that in every case where a man is wronged and endamaged that he shall have remedy Aliquid conceditur ne injuria remaneret impunita quod alias non concederetur 31 E. 3. 35. 3 E. 3. 19. a. Tenants in common shall joyn in a Qu. imp because the Presentation to the Advowson is entire 5 H. 7. 8. 33 H. 6. 11. 6 E. 4. 10. Also Tenants in common of a Seigniory shall joyn in a Writ of Right of Ward and Ravishment of Ward for the body because it is intire 6 H. 4. 6 7. If two Tenants in common be of the Wardship of the body and one doth ravish the Ward and the one Tenant in common releases to the Ravisher this shall goe in benefit of the other Tenant in common and he shall recover the whole and the release shall not be any barre to him And so it is if two Tenants in common be of an Advowson and they bring a Qu. imp and the one doth release yet the other shall sue forth and recover the whole Presentment Two Tenants in common shall joyn in a Detinue of Charters and if one be Nonsuit the other shall recover It is said that Tenants in common shall joyn in a Warr. Chartae but sever in Voucher 18 E. 3. 56. Sect. 315. Item Tenants in common averont un action joynt-tenement recoveront joynt-tenement lour damages quant l' action est en le personalty nemy en le realty c. Note a diversity between a Chatel in possession and a personall chose in action belonging unto them As if two Tenants in common be of land and one doth a trespasse therein of this action they are joyntenants and the survivor shall hold place 22 H. 6. 12. S. 319 320. But if two Tenants in common be of goods as of an horse c. there if one dye his Executors shall be Tenant in common with the survivor fol. 198. a. If two Tenants in common be of an Advowson and a stranger usurp so as the right is turned to an action and they bring a Writ of Qu. imp which concerns the realty the six months passe and the one dyeth the Writ shall not abate but the survivor shall recover otherwise there should be no remedy to redresse this wrong And so it is of Coparceners and this is one exception out of our Authors rule 14 H. 4. 12. 38 E. 3. 5. 37 H. 6. 9. b. 10 El. Dyer 279. F.N.B. 35. Pl. Com. Seignieur Barkleys Case But if three Coparceners recover land and damages in an Assize of Mordane ' albeit the judgment be joynt that they shall recover the land and the damages yet the damages being accessory though they be personall doe in judgment of Law depend upon the Freehold being the Principall which is severall And though the words of the judgment be joynt yet shall it be taken for distributive And therefore if two of them die the entire damages doe not survive but the third shall have Execution according to her portion and this is another Exception 14 E. 3. Execution 75. 45 E. 3. 3. b. But if all three had sued Execution by force of an Elegit and two of them had dyed the third should have had the whole by survivor till the whole damages be paid Sect. 317 318. En avowry pur rent tenants en common covient sever car ceo ē en le realty come le Ass ē supra Tenants en common poient bien faire partition enter eux sils voilont c. Sect. 321. Lou divers persons ont chateux reals ou personals en common pur divers Titles si lun de eux mor ' ses executors tienderant occupier ceo ovesque eux que survesquont c. Sect. 322 323. Albeit one Tenant in common take the whole profits the other have no remedy in Law against him for the taking of the whole profits is no Ejectment but if he drive out of the land any of the Cattel of the other Tenant in common or not suffer him to enter and occupy the land this is an Ejectment c. Whereupon he may have an Eject firmae for the one moity and recover damages for the entry but not for the mean profits fo 199. b. Note a diversity between actions which concern Right and Interest as of Eject ' firmae Eject ' de gard quare ejecit infr Term. of a Chattel reall upon an expulsion or Ejectment and actions concerning the bare taking of
ft. lease pur vie rend rent c. apres il mor. sans heire c. Note that the Lord by Escheat shall distreine for the rent and yet the rent was reserved to the lessor and his heires but both Assignees in Deed and Assignee in Law shall have the rent because the rent being reserved of inheritance to him and his heirs is incident to the reversion c. The Guardian c. shall in the right of the heir take benefit of a condition by entry or reenter by the common law 21 H. 7. 18. 17. Ass 20. 18. Ass pl. 18. lib. 7. f. 7. Earl of Bedfords Case otherwise it is of Assignees Si terre soit grant a un home pur 2. ans sur condition que sil payroiit al grantor deins les 2. ans 10. l. donques il averoit Fee c. Si livery de fein soit sait en ce case donques le grantee avoit le franktenement le Fee sur●m le condition Note First A condition precedent 2. A condition which createth an estate may be made by parol without deed 3. Livery c. in this case must be made before the lessee enter for after his entry livery made to him that is in possession is void 4. If no livery be made no Fee simple doth passe 5. It is inconvenient that the Fee should passe without livery c. 6. Argumentum ab inconvenienti is forcible in law vide Sect. 60. fol. 216. a. Sect. 350. Si terre soit grant a un home pur terme de 5 ans sur condition que sil paya al grantor deins les 2 primer ans 40 M. que adonque il avant fee ou auterment forsque pur les 5 ans livery est fait c. per force del grant ore il ad fee simple condition c. Many are of opinion a against Littleton in this case and their reason is because the Fee simple is to commence upon a condition precedent and therefore cannot passe untill the condition be performed And that Littleton here of a condition precedent doth before performance make it subsequent and they avouch many Authorities as 31 E. 1. Feoffments Faits 119. 12 E. 2. Voucher 265. 7 E. 3. 10. Pl. Com. 272. Sayes Case 44 E. 3. Attaint 22. 43 Ass p. 41. 10 E. 3. 39 40. 10 Ass 15 Ass 161. Pl. Com. 135. Brownings Case 6 R. 2. tit quid juris clamat 20. And generally the Books are cited that make a diversity between a condition precedent and a condition subsequent 15 H. 7. 1. a. 14 H. 8. 18. 20. 3 H. 6. 6. b. And lastly they cite Dyer 10 El. 281. and in Say and Fullers Case Pl. 272. the opinions of Dyer and Browne vide lib. fol. 217. a. Notwithstanding all this there are those that defend the opinion of Littleton both by Reason and Authority By Reason for that by the Rule of Law a Livery of Seisin must passe a present Freehold and cannot give a Freehold in futuro 2. It cannot stand with Reason that a Freehold should remain in the lessor against his own Livery of Seisin seeing there is a person able to take it A Livery of Seisin can●ot expect And they say further That seeing all the Books aforesaid prove that such a Condition is good and that the Livery made to the Lessee is effectuall by consequence the Freehold and Inheritance must passe presently or not at all and it is not rare say they in our Books that words shall be transposed and marshalled so as the Feoffment or Grant may take effect Pl. 171. Hill and Granges Case 10 Eliz. 3. lib. 8. fol. 74. Seignior Staffords Case Pl. 487. Nichols Case And further they take a diversity in this case between a lease for life and a lease for years For in this case of a lease for life with such a Condition to have fee they agree that the Fee simple passeth not before the performance of the Condition for that the Livery may presently work upon the Freehold But otherwise it is in case of a lease for years Also they take a diversity between Inheritances that lie in grant and that lie in livery fol. 217. b. They also make severall Answers to the Authority before cited for as to the case in 31 E. 1. they say That either the case is misreported or else the law is against the judgment For the case is but this That a man make a lease of a Manour to B. for 20 years and after the 20 years B. shall hold the Manour to him and his heirs by 12. l. rent and as it must be intended maketh Livery of Seisin in this case it is clear say they that B. hath a Fee simple maintenant for there is no Condition precedent c. As for the case in 12 E. 2. the case is That J. de M. made a Charter to J. de Burford of Fee simple and the same day it was covenanted between them That J. de B. should hold the same Tenements for 8 years and if he did not pay 100 Mark at the end of the term that the land shall remain to J. de B. and his heirs In which case say they there is a repugnancy c. for the Covenant being made after the Charter could neither alter the absolute Charter nor upon a Condition precedent give him a Fee simple that had a Fee before To all the other Books viz. 7 E. 3. c. they say that being rightly understood they are good law for in some of those Books as in 10 E. 3. 10 Ass c. it appeareth That there was a Charter made in surety of the Term which say they must be intended thus viz. A man maketh a lease for years the lessee enters and the lessor makes a Charter to the lessee and thereby doth grant unto him that if he pay unto the lessor 100 Mark during the term That then he shall have fee c. In this case say they there need no livery seisin but doth enure as an Executory grant by encreasing of the state and the fee simple passeth not before the condition performed Pl. 487. Nichols Case And therefore Littleton warily putteth his case made all at one time by one Conveyance and a Livery made thereupon And this diversity say they is proved by Books 10 E. 3. 54. 32 E. 3. Garr 30. 43 E. 3. 35. 20 Ass Pl. 20. And they adde That Littleton had seen and considered of the said Books and hath set down his Opinion c. Fol. 118. a. Benigne lector utere tuo judicio nihil enim impedio Conditi● beneficialis quae statum construit benigne secundum verbor ' intentionem est interpretanda odiosa autem quae statum destruit strictè secundum verborum proprietatem est accipienda Lib. 8. fol. 90. Frances Case Note a precedent Condition to increase an estate must be performed and if it become impossible no estate shall rise Regularly when any
donques il est le fait d'ambideux c. The feoffee is no way made party to make it being made in the first person but onely by the clause of putting his Seal thereunto Vide Lib. c. Sect. 374. If A. by Deed indented between him and B. let lands to B. for life the remainder to C. in fee reserving a rent Tenant for life dyeth he in remainder entreth into the lands he shall be bound to pay the rent because he agreeth to have the lands by force of the Indenture 50 E. 22. 3 H. 6. 26. b. fo 231. a. An Indenture of lease is ingrossed between A. of the one part and D. and R. of the other part which purport a demise for years by A. to D. and R. A. sealeth and delivereth the Indenture to D. and D. seal the Counterpane to A. but R. did not seal and deliver it And by the same Indenture it is mentioned that D. and R. did grant to be bound to the Plaintiff in 20 l. in case that certain conditions comprised in the Indenture were not performed And for this 20 l. A. brought an action against D. onely and sued forth the Indenture The Defendant pleaded That it is proved by the Indenture that the demise by Indenture was made to D. and R. which R. is in full life and not named in the Writ Judgement of the Writ The Plaintiff replied That R. did never seal and deliver the Indenture and so his Writ was good against D. sole And there the Counsel of the Plaintiff took a diversity between a rent reserved which is parcel of the lease and the land charged therewith and a sum in gross as here the 20 l. is for as to the rent they agreed That by the agreement of R. to the lease he was bound to pay it but for the 20 l. that is a sum in gross and collateral to the lease and not annext to the land and groweth due onely by the Deed and therefore R. said he was not chargeable therewith for that he had not sealed and delivered the Deed. But in as much as he had agreed to the lease which was made by Indenture for the same sum in gross and for that R. was not named in the Writ it was adjudged that the Writ did abate 38 E. 3. 8. a. vide 44 E. 3. 11 12. Qui sentit commodum sentire debet onus transit terra cum enere Sect. 375. Le feoffer poit pledere condition en fait Poll pur ceó que il est privy al fait c. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Et ratio melior semper praevalet Fol. 231. b. If the Deed remain in one Court it may be pleaded in another Court without shewing forth Quia lex non cogit ad impossibilia 40 Ass 34. l. 5. 75. b. Wymarks 12 H. 4. 8. F. N. B. 243. Sect. 376. When divers do a Trespass the same is joynt or several at the will of him to whom the wrong is done yet if he release to one of them all are discharged because his own Deed shall be taken most strong against himself but other wise it is in case of Appeal of Death c. As if two women be joyntly and severally bound in an Obligation if the Obligee release to one of them both are discharged and seeing the Trespassers are parties and privies in wrong the one shall not plead a Release to the other without shewing of it forth albeit the Deed appertain to the other 27 E. 3. 83. 13 E. 4. 2. 15 E. 4. 26. 21 E. 4. 72. 22 E. 4. 7. 13 H. 8. 10. 34 H. 8. estrange al fait 21. Sect. 377. Semper quaere de dubiis quia per rationes pervenitur ad legitimam rationem c. Ratio est radius divini luminis If a man hath an Obligation though he cannot grant the thing in action yet he may give or grant the Deed viz. the Parchment and Wax to another who may cancel and use the same at his pleasure Omnia praesumuntur legitimè facta donec probetur in contrarium Injuria non praesumitur fo 232. b. There be three kindes of unhappy men 1. Qui scit non docet Infelix cujus nulli sapientia prodest 2. Qui docet non vivit Infelix qui recta docet cum vivit inique 3. Qui nescit non interrogat Infelix qui pauca sapit spernitque doceri Inter cuncta leges percunctabere doctos Sect. 378. Estates que homes ont sur condition en ley sont tiels estates que ont un condition per la ley a eux annex comment que ne sont specifie en escript sicome home grant person fait a un auter le office del Parkership pur terme de son vie le estate que il ad en le office sur condition en ley sc que le Parker bien loialment gardian le Park c. issint est de offic ' de Seneschalship c. auterment bien lirroit al grantor a ses heires de luy ouste c. Quia in eo quo quis delinquit in eo de jure est puniendus 15 E. 4. 3. l. 5 E. 4. 26. 28 H. 8. Bendloes c. Lib. 6. fo 50. 95. 96 99. Mich. 33 E. 1. Coram Rege in Thesaur ' levesque de Durhams Case Forresta est tuta ferar'mansio non quarumlibet sed silvestrium non quibuslibet in locis sed certis ad hoc ideonis unde Foresta E. mutata in O. quasi feresta hoc est ferarum statio Ockam vide Bract. fo 231. 316. Non-user of it self without some special damage is no forfeiture of private Offices but Non-user of publike Officers which concern the administration of Justice or the Commonwealth is of it self a cause of forfeiture Pl. 379 380. 2 H. 7. 11. 30 H. 6. 32 c. There is a diversity between Officers that have no other profit but a collateral certain fee for there the grantor may discharge him of his service as to be a Baily Receiver Surveyor Auditor c. the exercise whereof is but labour and charge to him but he must have his Fee for the main Rule of Law is That no man can frustrate or derogate from his own grant to the prejudice of the grantee 18 E. 4. 8. 31 H. 8. Grants Br. 134. 34 H. 8. ibid. 93. 11 El. Dyer 285. But in all cases where the Officer relinquisheth his Office and refuseth to attend he loseth his office fee profit and all There is another diversity where the grantee besides his certain fee hath profits and avails by reason of his Office as the Office of Stewardship of Courts there the grantor cannot discharge him of his service or attendance for that should be to the prejudice of the grantee 22 H. 6. 10. 3. 6 E. 6. Dyer 72. Conditions in Law be of two natures i.e. by the Common Law and by Statute and those
to avoid a collate●al Warranty or the lessor in that case may recover in an Assize and so as some have holden may the lessor enter in case of a lease for life to this intent to avoid a dis●ent or a Warranty Dyer 19 El. Pl. Com. 374. 15 H 7 3 4. Iacobius Case 28. H 6 28. S 442. 45 E 3 21. If the disseisee make continual Claim and the disseisor dye seised within the year his heir within age and by Office the King is entitled to the Wardship albeit the entry of the disseisee be not lawful yet may he make continual Claim to avoid a discent and so in the like 7 H 6. 40. Con. Claim 1 Dounclers Case 5 E 4 4. No continual Claim can avoid a discent unless it be made by him that hath Title to enter and in whose life the dying seised was 22 H 6 37. 9 H. 4. 5. a. 15. E 4 22. a. Sect. 415. fol. 251. a. A continual Claim may be made as well where the lands are in the hands of a feoffee c. by Title as in the bands of a Disseisor Abater or Intruder by wrong Sect. 416. Note that a Forfeiture may be made by the alienation of a particular Tenant either in paiis or by matter of Record 1. In paiis of lands and tenements which lie in Livery where a greater estate is by liver● then the particular Tenant may lawfully make wher●by the reversion or remainder is divested vide S 581 609 610. 611 17 El. Dyer 339. 16. El. Dyer ●2● A particular estate of any thing that lies in grant cannot be forfeited by any grant in fee by Deed for that nothing passes thereby but that which lawfully may pass 3● E 3. Devise 21 15 E 4 9. vide S 608. But if Tenant for life or years of land the reversion or remainder being in the King make a feoffment in fee this is a forfeiture and yet no reversion or remainder is di●ested out of the King and the reason is in respect of the solemnity of the feoffment by livery tending to the Kings disherison 35 H 6 62. Tr. 32 El. in Informat ' de intrusion vers Rebinson Exchequers 2. By matter of Record and that by three manner of wayes 1. By Alienation 2. By Claiming a greater estate then he ought 3. By affirming the reversion or remainder to be in a stranger 1. By Alienation and that either divesting as by levying of a Fine or suffering a Common Recovery of Lands whereby the reversion or remainder is divested or not divesting as by levying of a fine in fee of an Advowson Rent Common or any other thing that lyeth in the grant And of this Opinion is Littleton in our Books and so note two diversities 1. Between a grant by Fine which is of Record and a grant by Deed in paiis and yet in this they both agree That the reversion or remainder in neither case is divested 2. Between a matter of Record as a Fine c. and a Deed recorded or a Deed inrolled for that worketh no forfeiture because the Deed is the Original 15 E. 4. 9. 2. By Claim and that may be in two sorts either Express as if Tenant for life will in Court of Record claim fee or if lessee for years be ousted and he will bring an Assize ut de libero tenemente or Implyed as if in a Writ of Right brought against him he will take upon him to joyn the Misce upon the meer Right which none but Tenant in fee simple ought to do So if lessee for years do loose in a Praecipe and will bring a Writ of Error for Error in Process this is a Forfeiture 15 E. 4. 29. 36. H. 6. 29. 2 H. 6. 9. 4. El. Dyer 9. H. 5. 14. 22 Ass 31. 18 E. 3. 28. 16. Ass 16. 3. By affirming the reversion or remainder to be in a stranger and that either actively or passively Actively by five manner of ways as 1. Tenant for life pray in aid of a stranger whereby he affirms the reversion to be in him 2. If he Attorn to the grant of a stranger and there note also a diversity between an Attornment of Record to a stranger and an Attornment in paiis for an Attornment in paiis worketh no Forfeiture 3. If a stranger bring a Writ of entry in casu proviso and suppose the reversion to be in him if the Tenant for life confess the action this is a forfeiture 4 If Tenant for life plead covinously to the disherison of him in the reversion this is a forfeiture 5. If a stranger bring an action of Waste against lessee for life and he plead Nul waste fait this is a forfeiture or the like 21 E. 3. ●4 a. 5 E. 4. 2. 24 H. 8. Forf br 87. lib. 2. fo 55 56. Bucklers Case 24. E. 3. 68. 1 H. 7. 15 Ass 3. Passively as if Tenant for life accept a Fine of a stranger Sur conusans de droit come ceo c. for hereby he affirmeth of Record the reversion to be in a stranger 3 M. Dyer 148. Note that the Right of a particular estate may be forfeited also and that he that hath but a Right of remainder or reversion shall take benefit of the forfeiture as if Tenant forlife be disseised and he levy a Fine to the disseisor c. fo 152. a. 13 E. 4 4. If Tenant for life make ale s● for life or a gift in Tail or a Feoffment in fee upon Condition and enter for the Condition broken yet the Forfeiture remaineth So it is of Tenant in Ta●l apres possi ilit● c. tenant per le Curtesie c. Tenant for years Tena●●●y sta●ute Merchant c 39 Ass 15. 43 E. 3 Enter co●g 3 ●2 H 5. 7 39 E. 3. 16. 45 E 3. 25. If Tena●●●or life in rema●●der make continuall Claim and the Aliene ●f the first Tenant for life dye seised then may he in the remainder for life enter and the right of entry which he gained by his entry shall go to him in the remainder in fee in respect of the privity of the estate And so it is of him in the reversion in fee in like case for he is also privy in estate If Tenant i● Tail the remainder in fee with garr have Iudgement to recover in value and dye before execution without issue he in remainder shall sue Execution for hee hath right thereunto and is privie in estate So if a Seigniory be gra●te●●o one by Fine the grantee for life dyeth he in remainder shall have a per que servit for he hath right to the remainder and is privy in estate Sect 417 It is not sufficient to tell one generally what he should do but to direct him how and in what manner he shall do it Note that the entry of a man to recontinue his Inheritance or Freehold must ensue his action for recovery of the same Mich. 14 ●5 El. Rot. 1458. in the Earl of Arundels
Case lib. fo 252 b. But if a disseiser had letten severally three acres to three persons for years there the entry upon of the the lessees in name of all the three acres shall recontinue and revest all the three acres in the disseisee for that the disseisee might have had one Assize against the disseisor because he remained Tenant of the Freehold for all the three acres 7 Ass 18. 12 E. 4. 10 36 H 6. 27. 32 Ass p 1 If I infeoffe one of one acre of ground upon Condition and at another time I infe●ffe the same man of another acre in the same county upon Condition also and both the Conditions are broken an entry into one acre in the name of both is not sufficient for that I have no right to the land nor action to recover the same but a bare Title But an entry into one part of the land in the name of all the land subject to one Condition is good although the parcels bee several and in severall Towns And so n●●e a diversity between several rights of entry and several Titles of entry by force of a Condition 11 H. 7. 25. Dyer 16 El. 33● Ennosme de tout c. dont il ad Title d'entry here in a large sence Title of entry is taken for a Right of entry If I b●i●g an Assize of two acres if I enter into one hanging the Writ albeit it shall revest that onely acre yet the Writ shall abate 5 H. 7 7. 4 E 4 19. 12 E 9 11. a Sect. 418 Nota A man may make a feoffment of lands in another County and make livery of seisin within the view albeit he might peacably enter and make actual livery and so may he shew the Recognitors in an Assize the view of lands in another County But a man cannot make an entry into lands within the view where he may enter without any fear for it is one thing to invest and another to devest 3● E 3 11 38 Ass 3 fo 253 a If livery of seisin be made of parcel of the Tenements c. in one Town in the name of all c. All the said Tenements c. pass by force of the said livery c. Agr. à minore ad majus if it be so in a Feoffment passing a new right à multo fortiori it is for the restitution of an ancient right as the worthier and more respected in Law which holdeth Affirmative Vide S. 438. Sect. 419 Fear of imprisonment sufficeth to avoid a Bond or a deed for the Law hath a special regard to the safety and liberty of a man But note a diversity between a Claim or an Entry into Land and the Avoidance of an act or deed for fear of Battery 4 E 4 7. 11 H 4 6 8 Ass 25 vide S 434 10 2 cap 49. 13 H ● Dures 2● If a man hath Title to enter into any Lands or Tenements if he dares not enter c. for doubt of maiming c. if hee goeth and approach as near to the Tenements as he dare for such doubt and by word claim the lands to be his this entry in Law is as forcible i● Law as an entry in Deed and upon such an entry in Law an Assi●e doth lie as well as upon an entry in Deed and such an entry in Law shall avoid a Warranty c. vide S 378. 11 H 6 5● But note a diversity here between an entry in Law and an entry in Deed for that a●●ontinual Claim of the disseisee being an entry in Law shall vest the possession and seisin in him for his advantage but not for his disadvantage And therefore if the diss●isee bring an Assize and hanging the Assize he make Continual Claim this shall not abate the Assize but he shall recover damages from the beginning but otherwise it is of an entry in Deed. Vide S 442. Pl. Com. 93. Parson of Hony lanes Case Arg. ab autor ' est fortissimum in lege 38 Ass p 13 Sect 421 422. Where a Continual Claim shall devest an estate in any other person in any lands or tenements there he that maketh the Claim ought to enter into the land or some part thereof But where the Claim is to bri●g him that maketh it into actual possession there a Claim within the view sufficeth as upon a discent the heir having the Freehold in Law may claim land within the view to bring himselfe into actual possession and in that sense is the opinion of Hull and the Court to be intended 9 H 4 5 c. But yet the entry in to some parcel in the name of the residue is the surest way vide S. 177. 11 H 6. accord with Li●tleton 51. At the Common Law upon a fine or f●●ll judgement given in a writ of right the party grieved had a yeare and a day to make his claime So the wife or heire hath a yeare and a day to bring an appeale of death c. After judgement given in a ●ea●● action the pl●i●tiffe within the yeare and day may have habere sac s●si●am and in an action of debt c. a Capias fieri fac or a L●vari facias A protection shall be allowed but for a year and a day and no longer and in many other cas● Vid. S. 385. 426. 14. H 4. 36. 7. E. 3. 37. Pl. 356. 357. 367 Brit. fo 45. b. Sect. 423 424. 426. Il covient a luy que fist claime c. de faire un cl ' deins chese ' an jour prochein apres chesc ' claime fait durant la vie son adversarie d●●●u●s a quecunque temps que son Adversary mor. Seisee son ●ntry ne ser toll per nul tiel dis cent Brit. fo 209. Dy. 17. Eli. 345. Si disseisor mor. Seise● dein l'an jour c. per que les tenements discend a son heire ●n cē case l'enter le disseisee ē toll car l'an le jour que a●droit le lessee en tiel case ne serre pris de temps de title dent a luy accrue mes tautsolment del temps de claime per luy fait en le maner avantd pur cest causeil serre bo●e pur tiel disseisee pur faire son cla●me en auxi breve temps queil puissoit apres le disseisin c. This in case of a disseisor is now holpen by the Statute of 37. H 8. ca. 33. For if the disseisor dye seised within five years after the disseisin though there be no cont claim made it ●●all not take away the entry of the disseisee but after the five years there must be such continuall claime as was at the Common Law But that Statute extended not to any Feoffee or donee of the disseisor immediate or mediate but they ●maine still at the common Law Vi. S. 385. 422. Sect. 428 429. Item sicome ē dit en les cases mises lou home ad title dent pur caus dun
year and a day but this Statute extends onely to Fines and not to Non-claim upon a judgement in a Writ of Right and therefore the Statute of ●● E 3 16 which ousteth Non-claim onely to Fines levied extendeth not to a judgement in a Writ of Right to this day and therefore the Common Law in that case remaineth c. viz that claim must be made within a year and a day after judgement Also if a Fine be levied without Proclamations or without so many as the Law requireth then the Statute of Non-claim doth extend to such a Fine l 3 fo 44 c. Case del fines l 1. fo 96 Shelleys Case l 2 f 93 Binghams Case l 8 f 100 Lechfords Case l 91 f 139 c. Beaumands Case l 10. f ●9 b Lampots Case 99 a l 9 f 105 Margaret Podgers Case l 5. f 124 Saffins Case l 1● 96 Seymors Case l 8 f 72. Greysleys Case l 11 ●65 7● 78. Pl. Com. Smith and Stapl. Case Stows Case and Howels Case Bract. 435 Brit. 216 fo 262 a Finis finem litibus imponit A feme covert also they in reversion or remainder expectant upon any estate of Freehold are holpen by the Statute of 4 H 7 vide lib. fo ●62 b Sect. 442. In a Writ of entry sur disseisin against one supposing that he had not entry but by I. S. who disseised him the Tenant said that I.S. dyed seised and the land descended to him and prayed his age the Plaintiff counterpleaded his age for that he arraigned an Assize against S. who dyed hanging the Assize and he was ousted of his age for that the bringing of the Assize amounted to a Claim 24 E 3. 25. 9 E 2. Age 1●1 If Tenant in Dower alien in fee with Warranty and the heir in the reversion bring a Writ of entry in Casu proviso c and hanging the plea the Tenant dyeth the heir shall not be rebutted or barred by this Warranty for that the Praecipe did amount to a continuall Claim 3 E 3. Garr 62. Fleta l. 6 c. 52 Bract. l. 5 fo 436 Fo. 263 a. Nota c. If the goods of Villain before any seisure c. be distrained the Lord may have a Replevin and the very bringing of the Writ doth amount to a Claim of the goods and vesteth the property in the Lord 33 E 3 Repl. 43 ●2 E 3 18. b 9 H ● 25. Nemo debet rem suam sine facto aut defectu suo emittere Sect. 443. If an usurpation be had to a Church in time of vacation this shall not prejudice the Successor to put him out of possession but that at the next avoidance he shall present F. N. B. 34 M.W. 2 c 5. imp excus c. When there is no Dean or Mayor the Chapter or Commonalty in that case cannot make claim because they have neither ability nor capacity to take or to sue any action But during the vacation of the Abathy of D. if a lease for life or a gift in Tail be made the remainder to the Abbot of D. and his Successors this remainder is good if there be a● Abbot made during the particular estate 2 H 7 13. 40 As 26. 34 E ● Garr 29. Qu. de dubiis c. Inter cuncta leges percunctabere doctos Hor. As Collatio peperit artes so Collatio perficit artes Crescente scientia cresunt simul dubitationes Autortias Philosophorum Medicorum Poetarum sunt in causis allegandae tenendae fo 264. a. CHAP. VIII Of Releases Sect. 444 REleases are of two sorts viz. a Release of all the right which a man hath either in lands and tenements or in goods and chattels Or there is a Release of actions real of or in lands or tenements or personal of or in goods or chattels or mixt partly in the realty partly in the personalty vide S 4●2 Remis Relax quiet clamasse are proper words of Releases and be much of one effect besides there is Renunciare Acquietare and there be many other words of Release as if the lessor grants to the lessee for life that he shall be discharged of the rent vide S 532. Express Releases must of necessity be by Deed. Releases in Law are sometime by Deed and sometime without Deed. As if the Lord dissease the Tenant and make a Feoffment in fee by Deed or without Deed this is a Release of the Seigniory And so it is if the disseisee disseise the heir of the disseisor and make a Feoffment c this is a Release in Law of the right And the same Law is of a right in action 27 H 8. 29. Vse 34 H 6. 44. Attaint 3 E 3. 38. 21 E 4. 21. Pl. Com. de la mere If the Obligee make the Obligor his executor this is a release in law of the action but the duty remains for the which the executor may retain so much goods c. 8 E 4. 3. 21 E 4. 2. If the feme Obligee take the Obligor to husband this is a Release in Law So it is if there be two femes Obligees and the one take the debtor to husband 11 H 7. 4 ●0 H 7. 29 8 E 4. 3. If an Infant make the debtor his executor this is a good Release in Law of the action But if a feme execu●rix take the Debtor to husband this is no Release in Law for that should be a wrong to the dead and in Law work a Devastavit which an act of Law shall never work M. 30 31 E● adjudged Note a diversity between a Release in Deed and a Release in Law ● for if the heir of the disseisor make a lease for life his right is gone for ever But if the disseisee doth disseise the heir of the disseisor and make a lease for life by this Release in Law the right is released but during the life of the lessee for a Release in Law shall be expounded more favorably according to the intent of the parties then a Release in Deed which is the act of the party and shall be taken most strongly against himself 30 E 3. 24 32 E 3. sc fac 102. Ius includeth not onely a right but also any Title or Claim either by force of a Condition Mortmain c. for the which no action is given by Law but onely an entry Sect. 446 fol. 265. a. Null droit passa per un release forsque le droit que le relesior ad al temps del release fait Note a man may have a present right though it take effect in possession but in futuro As he that hath a right to a reversion or remainder and such a right he that hath it may presently release Brit. fo 101. The Baron makes a lease for life and dieth the Release made by the wife of her Dower to him in reversion is good albeit she hath no cause of action against him in present 16 E 3. Bar. 245. Hoes Case 5.
a good bar in a Qu. imp because it is a mixt action 22. H. 6. 27. b. A disseisor that hath nothing in the land may plead a release of actions personalls because damages are to be recovered against him 11. Ass 9. 18. E. 3. 2. 23 24. And the Tenant in an Assize shall plead a release of actions personalls to the disseisor for that plea proveth that the Plaintiff hath no cause of action against him 13. H. 4. 2. a. If the disseisee release to the disseisor all actions realls and the disseisor maketh a Feoffment in fee and an Assize is brought against them the Feoffee shall not plead the release to the disseisor for that he is not privy to the Release for a release of actions shall only extend to privies If the disseisee release all actions to the disseisor and dye this doth bar him but for his life So note a diversity between a release of right and a release of actions 19. H. 6. 23. a. Sect. 496. Fol. 286. a. If the disseisee release all actions to the heir of the disseisor which is in by discent he hath no remedy to recover the land but yet the disseisee hath a right for that he hath released his actions and not his right If the heir of the disseisor make a Feoffment in fee to two and the disseisee release to one of the Feoffees all actions the survivor shal not plead this Release Note when a man hath severall remedies for one and the self-same thing be it reall personall or mixt albeit he release one of his remedies he may use the other 19. Ass 3. 30. E. 3. 19. 6. 21. H. 7. 23. Sect. 498. Fol. 286. b. If the Plaintiff in an action of Detinue of Charters which concern the inheritance of his land can declare of one Charter in especiall the Defendant shall not wage his Law 41. E. 3. 2. 8. H. 6. 18. 28 29. 10. H. 6. 20. 21. H. 6. 1. 14. H. 6. 4. 14. H. 4. 23 24 27. An action of Detinue for Charters doth sound in the realty for therein Summons and severance lieth and in Detinue of goods a Capias doth lye but for Charters in speciall a Capias lieth not and yet a release of actions personalls in a Writ of Detinue of Charters is a good barre 20. H. 6. 45. 19. E. 3. Severance 14. Sect. 499. Fol. 287. a. In a Writ of Dower the Tenant pleaded that before the Writ purchased A. was seised of the Land c. untill by the Tenant himself he was disseised and that hanging the Writ A. recovered against him c. Judgement of the Writ and adjudged a good plea in which plea the Tenant confessed a disseisin in himself 15. E. 4. 4. b. Sect. 500. Fol. 287. b. Placitorum criminalium alia majora alia minora alia maxima secundum criminum quantitatem sunt enim crimina majora dicuntur capitalia eò quod ultimum inducunt supplicium c. Minora verò quae fustigationem inducunt vel poenam pilloralem vel tumboralem vel carceris inclusionem c. Bract. lib. 3. 101. b. Criminalium quaedam sententialiter mortem inducunt quaedam verò minime Fleta lib. 1. c. 15. Appellum signifieth Accusatio and the Appellant Accusator is peculiarly in legall signification applied to Appeals of three sorts 1. Of wrong to his Ancestor whose heir male he is and that is only of death whereof our Author here speaketh The 2. is of wrong to the husband and is by the wife only of the death of her husband to be prosecuted The 3. is of wrongs done to the Appellants themselves as Robbery Rape and Mayheme The word Apellum is derived of Appeller to call because Appellans vocat reum in judicium Glanv l. 7. c. 9. aestimatio capitis i.e. so much as one paid for the killing of a man Fleta lib. 1. cap. 42. Hoved. fol. 344. You shall not read of any Insurrection or Rebellion before the Conquest when the view of Frankpledge and other ancient Laws of this Realm were in their right use A release of all actions reall and personall cannot barr an Appeal of Death because that release extendeth to common or civill actions and not to actions criminall 21. H. 6 16. Roberia is a felonious taking away of goods de la Robe that is from the person 22. Ass 39. W. 1. c. 20. Sect. 502. Fol. 288. a. En appeale de Mayhem un release de touts maners actions personalls est bone plea c. for that every action wherein damages only are recovered by the Plaintiff is in Law taken for an action personall 21. H. 6. 16. Sect. 503. Fol. 288. b. Before that time that the Outlary appear of Record the Defendant doth not forfeit his goods nor the Plaintiff can be disabled nor any Writ of Error doth lie in that case 28. Ass 49. 12. E. 3. Vtlage 3. M. 4. 5. Eliz. Dyer 222. S. 197. If a man by process upon the Originall be Outlawed there he shall be restored to nothing in the personalty against the Plaintiff But whereby the Outlawry he forfeited all his goods and chattells to the King he shall be restored to them also thereby he shall be restored to the Law and to be of ability to sue c. but if the Plaintiff in a personall action recover any debt c. or damages and the Defendant be Outlawed after Judgment there in a Writ of Error brought by the Defendant upon the principall Judgment a release of all actions personalls is a good plea. And so it is where a Judgment is given in a reall action a release of all actions realls is a good bar in a Writ of Error thereupon And in this speciall case here put by Littleton wherein the Plaintiff is to recover or to be restored to nothing against the party yet for that the Plaintiff in the former action is privy to the Record a release of a Writ of Error to him is sufficient to bar the Plaintiff in the Writ of Error of the Suit and vexation by the Writ of Error And so note that an action reall or personall doth imply a recovery of something in the realty or personalty or a restitution to the same but a Writ implyeth neither of them 1. H. 4. 6. 13. E. 4. 1 2. 26. H. 8. 3. b. 29. Ass 35. 47. E. 3. 6. 35 H. 6. 19. Sect. 504. fol. 289. a. b. A release of all actions reg is no bar of execution for the execution doth begin when the action doth end And therefore the foundation of the first is an Originall Writ and doth determin by the Judgment and Writs of execution are called Judiciall because they are grounded upon the Judgement 13. H. 4. Rel. 53. 19. H. 6. 3. Where a Capias ad Sat. lieth at the Common Law and where it is given by Statute vide Sir William Herberts case lib. 3. fo 11 12. Maximes in the Law concerning Executions Ea quae
Recognizance Statute merchant or of the Staple obligations contracts c. are release and discharged 38. H. 8. tit Release Br. 9. 6. H. 7. 7. 15. 20. Ass p. 5. 40. E. 3. 22. 49. E. 3. 7. b. 50. Ass p. 6. 13. R. 2. Avow 89. Althams case ante lit Sec. 748. Dy. 5. Eliz. 217. Quaerela à quaerendo this properly concerneth personal actions of mixt at the highest for the plaintiffe in them is called quaerens And yet by a release of all quarrells all actions reall and personall are released likewise all causes of action are released thereby albeit no action be then depending for the same 39. H. 6. 9. Sect. 512. 513. Fo. 292. b. A sum of money to be paid at a day to come is debitum in praesenti quamvis sit solvendum in futuro 11. H. 4. 41. 43. An Executor before probate may release an action and yet before probate he can have no action because the right of the action is in him T. 2. Ja. in C.B. inter Middleton Rinnot 18. H. 6. 23. b. Pl. Com. 277 278. Greysbrokes case per Weston If a man make a lease of land to another for yeares rendring to him at Mich 40. shillings and after before the day of paiment he release to the lessee all actions this is a void release 7. H. 7. 5. a. But the lessor before the day may acquite or release the rent But if a man be bound in a bond or by contract to another to pay one 100. pound c. at five severall dayes he shall not have an action of debt before the last day be past and so note a diversity between duties which touch the realty and meer personalty But if a man be bound in a Recognizance to pay 100. pound c. presently after the first day of paiment he shall have execution upon the Recognizance for that sum c. for that is in the nature of severall judgments and so it is of a covenant or promise and so note the diversities 45. E. 3. 8. 13. H. 4. Avow 240. 30. E. 3. 13. 10. E. 2. Execution 137. F.N.B. 267. 9. E. 3. 7. 5. Mar. action sur le case Br. 108. 3. Mar. Dy. 113. lib. 4. fo 94. Slades case lib. 5. fo 81. b. Fords case If a man hath an annuity for terme of years or for life or in fee and he before it be behind doth release all actions this shall not release the annuity for it is not meerly in action because it may be granted over 39 H. 6. 28. b. 5 E. 4. 45. 2 H. 4. 13. 12 R. 2. release 29. Sect. 514. Fo. 293. c. Mise so called because both parties have put themselves upon the meer right to be tried by grand Ass or by Battaile so as that which in all other actions is called an issue in a writ of right in that case is called a Mise But in a writ of right if a collaterall point is to be tried there it is called an issue 33 H. 8. c 13. 3. Ed. 6. ca. 36. And seeing the Mise is joyned upon the meer right albeit the verdict of the grand Ass be given upon another point yet judgement finall shall be given and so it is if the Tenant after the Mise joyned make default or confesse the action or if the demandant be non-suit c. 34 E. 3. Judgement 250. 13. H. 4 Judgement 245. M. Dy. 98. li. 5. fo 85. Penerius Case F.N.B. 5. 11. 13. If the petty Jury be attainted of a false Oath c. The judgement of the common Law is 1. Quod amittat liberam legem imperpetuum i. e. he shall never be received to be a witnesse or of any Jury 2. Quod foris faciat omnia bona Catalla sua 3. Quod terrae tenementa in manus domini Reg. capiantur 4. Quod uxores liberi extra domus suas ejicerentur 5. Quod domus suae prostrentur 6. Quod arbores sua extirpentur 7. quod prata sua arentur 8. quod corpora sua carceri mancipentur So odious in this case and the severity of this punishment is to this end ut paena ad pau●os metus ad omnes perveniat for there is misericordia puniens and there 's crudelitas parcens In no case where a contempt trespasse deceit or injury is supposed in the defendant he shall wage his Law because the Law will not trust him with an Oath to discharge himself in those cases only in some cases in debt detinue accompt the defendant is allowed by law to wage his Law 44 E. 3. 32. 18 E. 3. 4. 24 E. 3. 39. In an action of account against a Receivor upon a receipt of mony by the hand of another c. the defendant shall not wage his Law because the receipt is the ground of the action which lyeth not in privity betweene the plaintiffe and defendant but in the notice of a third person and such a receipt is traversable 15 E. 4. 16. 10 E. 4. 5. But in an action of debt upon a arbitrement or in an action of detinue by the baisement of another hand the defendant shall wage his Law because the debt and detinet is the ground of those actions and the contract of bailement though it be by another hand is but the conveiance and not traversable In an action of account against the Bayliffe of a Manor the defendant cannot wage his Law because it soundeth in the realty 33. H. 6. 24. 13 H 7. 3. a. 1 H. 6. 1. b. 11 H. 4. 54. 5. H. 5. 13. 9 E. 4. 1. 34. H. 8. ley gager Br. 97. In an action of debt brought by an Attorney for his fees the defendant shall not wage his Law because he is compellable to be his Attorney 21 H. 6. 4. 10 H. 6. 7. 28. H. 6. 4. 38 H. 6 6. Whensoever a man is charged as Executor or Administrator he shall not wage his Law for no man shall wage his Law of another mans deede but in case of a successor of an Abbot for that the house never dyeth 5 H. 6. 38. 1 H. 7. 25. CHAP. IX Of Confirmation Sect. 515. COnfirmatio omnes supplet defectus licet id quod actum est ab initio non valuit Brac. li. 2. 58. A confirmation is a conveiance of an estate or right in esse whereby a voidable estate is made sure and unavoidable or whereby a particular estate is increased Confirmatio est nulla ubi donum praecedens est invalidum ubi donatio nulla omnino nec valebit confirmatio Brac. li. 2. fo 27 28. Non valet confirmatio nisi ille qui confirmat sit in possessione rei vel juris unde fieri debet confir eodem modo nisi ille cui confir fit sit in possessione 10 E. 2. confir 14. 32. E. 3. 9. Pl. Com. Count de Leicesters case Quaelibet confirmatio aut est perficiens crescens aut diminuens lib. 9. fol. 142. Beaumonds case
Land and makes a feoffment in fee with warranty and dyeth this is no disccontinuance of the rent 3 H. 7. 12. 9 E. 4. 22. And where the thing doth ly in livere as Lands and Tenements yet if to the conveyance of the freehold or inheritance no livery of seisin is requisite it worketh no discontinuance As if Tenant in Taile exchange Lands c. or if the King being Tenant in Taile grant by his Letters Patents the Lands in fee there is no discontinuance wrought 38 H. 8. Pat. Br. 10. 1. Pl Com 233. l. 1. f. 26. Altwoods case Of a thing that lyeth in grant though it be granted by Fine yet it is no discontinuance and this is Regularly true 48 E. 3. 23. If Tenant in taile make a Lease for years of Lands and after levy a Fine this is a discontinuance for a Fine is Feoffment of Record and the freehold passeth 15 E. 4. discontinuance 30. But if Tenant in taile make a Lease for his owne life and after levy a Fine this is no discontinuance because the reversion expectant upon a Statute of freehold which lyeth only in grant passeth thereby 6 H. 8. 56 57. Sect. 620. Si Tenant in tail fait Lease a Terme de vie le lesee c. apres tenant in taile grant per son fait le reverson in fee a un auter le tenant a terme de vie attornment mor. vivant le Tenant in taile le grantee del reversion enter c. en la vie le Tenant in taile donque ceo est un discontinuance en fee. For when the revetsion in this case executed in the life of Tenant in taile it is equivalent in judgement of Law to a Feoffment in Fee for the state for life passed by livery 32 E. 3. discontinuance 2. 3 H. 4. 9. 34. Ass 6. p. 4. 38. Ass 6. p. 6. But if the Tenant in taile make a Lease for Terme of the life of the Lessee c. and grant over the reversion and dyeth and after the death of Tenant in taile the Lessee dye the entry of the issue is lawfull because by the death of the Lessee the discontinuance is determined and consequently the grant made of the reversion gained upon that discontinuance is void also If Tenant in taile make a Lease for life the remainder in fee this is an absolute discontinuance albeit the remainder be not executed in the life of Tenant in taile because all is one estate and passeth by livery and so note a diversity between a grant of a reversion and a limitation of a remainder 21 H. 6. 52 53. B. Tenant in Tail makes a gift in Tail to A. and after B. releases to A. and his heirs and after A. dyeth without issue the issue of the first Donee may enter upon the collateral heir because A. had not seisin and execucion upon the reversion of the land in the demesn as of fee. But if Tenant in Tail make a lease for the life of the lessee and after release to him and his heirs this is an absolute discontinuance because the fee simple is executed in the life of Tenant in Tail If Tenant in Tail of a Manor whereunto an Advowson is appendant make a feoffment in fee by Deed of one acre with the Advowson and the Church becommeth void and the feoffee present Tenant in Tayl dyeth the Church becometh void the issue shall not present untill he hath reconcontinued the acre But if the feoffee had not executed the same by Presentment then the issue in Tail should have presented And so was it at the Common Law of the husband seised in the right of his wife Mutatis mutandis 34 E. 1. Qu. imp 179. 22 E. 3. 6. 17 E. 3. 3. 33 E. 3. qu. imp 196. 23 Ass 8. If the husband and wife make a lease for life by Deed of the wives land reserving a rent the husband dyeth this was a Discontinuance at the Common Law for life and yet the reversion was not discontinued but remained in the wife otherwise it is as if the husband had made the lease alone 38 E. 3. 32. 18. Ass 2. 18 E. 3. 54. 22 H. 6. 24. If Tenant in Tail make a lease for life of the lessee and after grant the reversion with Warranty and dyeth before execution this is no discontinuance because the discontinuance was but for life and the Warranty cannot enlarge the same Bro. Discontinuance 3. 21 H. 7. 11. l. 1. fo 85. l. 10. fo 96 97. If Tenant in Tail make a Lease for life and grant the reversion in fee and the lessee attorn and that grantee grant it over and the lessee attorn and then the lessee for life dyeth so as the reversion is executed in the life of Tenant in Tail yet this is no Discontinuance because he is not in of the grant of the Tenant in Tail but of his grantee 15 E. 4. Discont 30. Vide Sect. 642. fol. 333 b. If Tenant in Tail make a lease for life and after disseiseth the lessee for life and maketh a feoffment in fee the lessee dyeth and then Tenant in Tail dyeth albeit the fee be executed yet for that the fee was not executed by lawful means it is no Discontinuance Sect. 625. Fol. 335. a. Littleton here putteth his case of a reversion immediately expectant upon the gift in Tail Also it is to be intended of a feoffment made to the donor solely or only for if the donee infeoff the donor and a stranger this is a Discontinuance of the whole land 41 Ass 2. 41 E. 3. 2. 28 H 8. Dyer 12. lib. 1. fo 140. in Chudleys case 9 E. 4. 24. b. But if Tenant for life make a lease for his own life to the lessor the remainder to the lessor and estranger in fee in this case forasmuch as the limitation of the fee should work the wrong it enureth to the lessor as a surrender for the one moity and a forfeiture as to the remainder of the stranger Nul poit discont ' lestate en taile si non que il discont ' le reversion c. ou le remainder c. 40 Ass 36. 61 Ass 36. 18 E. 3. 45. F N B. 142 a. Pl. Com. 555. And therefore if the reversion or remainder be in the King the Tenant in Tail cannot discontinue the estate Tail But Tenant in Tail the reversion in the King might have barred the estate Tail by a Common recovery untill the Stature of 33 H. 18. cap. 20. which restraineth such a Tenant in Tail but that Common Recovery never barred nor discontinued the Kings reversion 33 H 8. Tail Br. 41. If a feme covert be Tenant for life and the husband make a Feoffment in fee and the lessor enter for the forfeiture here is the reversion revested and yet the Discontinuance remained at the Common Law 27 Ass p. 60. 29 Ass 43. 11 Ass 11. 16. Ass 11 18 E. 3. 45. Sect. 632. Fol. 336. b. Si
which inheritances put in Abeyance are by some called Haereditates jacentes Bract. l. 1. c. 2. and some say Que le fee est en baiaunce Brit. fo 249. Sect. 641. Fol 343. b. Principium est quasi primum caput from which many cases have their original or beginning which is so strong as it suffereth no contradiction Contra negantem principia non est disputandum 11 H. 4. 9. Note a diversity when the right of fee simple is perpetually by Judgement of Law in Abeyance without any expectation to come in esse there he hath the qualified fee Concurrent ' his quae in jure requiruntur may charge or alien it as in the case of Parson Vicar Prebend c. But where the fee simple is in Abeyance and by possibility may every hour come in esse As if a lease for life be made the remainder to the right heirs of I.S. the fee simple cannot be charged till I.S. be dead Lands intailed may be charged in fee for the estate Tail may be cut off by Fine or Recovery Also the estate Tail may continue and yet Tenant in tail may lawfully charge the Land and binde the issue in Tail 44 E. 3. 21 22. As if a disseisor make a gift in Tail and the Donee in consideration of a Release by the disseisee of all his right to the Donee grant a rent charge to the disseisee and his heirs proportionable to the value of his right this shall binde the issue in Tail Vide Sect. 1. Bridgewaters Case 59. fol. 48. b. Which Lands by the Rule of Littleton may be charged and therefore if the owner of those 13 acres grant a rent charge out of those 13 acres generally lying in the Meadow of eighty without mentioning where they lie particularly there as the state in the land removes the charge removes also If the Parson dye and in time of Vacation the Patron of the assent of the Ordinary and the Patron and Ordinary grant an Annuity or rent charge out of the Gleab this shall binde the succeeding Parsons for ever A Church Parochial may be Donative and exempt from all Ordinary Jurisdicton and the Incumbent may resign to the Patron and not to the Ordinary neither can the Ordinary visit but the Patron by Commissioners to be appointed by him And by Littletons Rule The Patron and Incumbent may charge the Gleab and albeit it be Donative by a Lay-man yet merè Laicus is not capable of it but an able Clerk infra sacros ordines is for albeit he come in by Lay Donation and not by admission or institution yet his function is spiritual Vide 133 530. 11 E. 3. Jur. utr 3. 8. Ass 29. 31. 13 Ass 2. As the King may create Donatives exempt from the visitation of the Ordinary so he may by his Charter license any subject to found such a Church or Chappel and to ordain that it shall be Donative and not Presentable and to be visited by the Founder and not by the Ordinary And thus began Donatives in England whereof common persons were Patrons F.N.B. 35 E. 4. 2. A.B. Dyer 10. El. f. 273. 14 El. cap. 5. 2 H. 5. cap. 1. Ordinarius is he that hath ordinary Jurisdiction in causes Ecclesiastical immediate to the King and his Courts of Common Law for the better execution of Justice as the Bishop c. Regularly according to the Ecclesiastical Laws allowed by the Laws of this Realm viz. which are not against the Common Law whereof the Kings Prerogative is a principal part nor against the Statute and Customs of the Realm The Ordinary and other Ecclesiastical Judges do proceed in Causes within their Conusance and this Jurisdiction was so bounded by the ancient Common Laws of the Realm and so declared by Act of Parliament 25 H. 8. c. 19. 33 H. 6. 34. 32 H. 6. 28. Note that institution is a good plenarty against a Common person but not against the King unless he be inducted and that is the cause that Regularly plenarty shall be tryed by the Bishop because the Church is full by institution which is a spiritual act but void or not void shall be tryed by the Common Law 22 H. 6. 27. 38 E. 3. 4. At the Common Law if an usurpation had been had upon an Infant or feme Covert having an Advowson by discent or upon Tenant for life c. the Infant feme Covert and he in the reversion were driven to their Writ of Right of Advowson for at the Common Law if the Church were once full the Incumbent could not be removed and plenarty was a good plea in a Qu. imp or Assize of dar Presentment and the reason of this was to the intent that the Incumbent might quickly intend and apply himself to his spiritual charge And secondly the Law intended That the Bishop that had Cure of Soules within his Diocesse would admit and institute an able man c. 6 E. 3. 28. 39. 52. If the King do present to a Church and his Clerk is admitted and instituted yet before induction the King may repeal and revoke his Presentation But Regularly no man can be put out of possession of his Advowson but by admission and institution upon an usurpation by a Presentation to the Church Cum aliquis jus praesentandi non habens praesentaverit c. and not by collation of the Bishop 45 E. 3. 35. 38 E. 3 4. 13 El. Dyer 292. 18 El. Dyer 348. 14. E. 4. 2. 7 H. 4. 32. fol. 344. b. Nota that an usurpation upon a presentation shall not only put out of possession him that hath right of presentation but right of Collation also Therefore at this day the Incumbent shall be removed by a Qu. imp or Assize of dar ' presentment if there be not a plenarry by six moneths before the Teste of the Writ but then the Incumbent must be named in the Writ or else he shall never be removed 9 H. 6. 32. 56. 19 H. 6. 68. At the Common Law if hanging the Qu. imp against the Ordinary for refusing of his Clerk and before the Church were full the Patron brought a Qu. imp against the Bishop and hanging the Suit the Bishop admit and institute a Clerk at the presentation of another in this if Judgement be given for the Patron against the Bishop the Patron shall have a Writ to the Bishop and remove the Incumbent that came in pendente lite by usurpation for pendentelite nihil innovetur and therefore at the common Law it was good policy to bring the Qu. imp against the Bishop as speedily as might be So it is good policy at this day to name the Bishop in the Qu. imp for then he shall not present by lapse 30 E. 3. Qu. imp Statham 5 E. 4. 115. 9 E. 4. 30. Sect. 649 650. fol. 345. a. If Tenant in Tail of lands holden of the King be attainted of Felony and the King after Office seiseth the same the estate Tail is
43. 43 E. 3. 5. Sect. 671. Note a diversity between a Remitter and a Discent For if a woman be disseised and being of full age taketh husband and then the disseisor dyeth seised this discent shall binde the wife albeit she was covert when the discent was cast because she was of full age when she took husband But albeit the wife that hath an ancient Right and being of full age taketh a husband and the Discontinue letteth the land to the husband and wife for their lives this is a Remitter to the wife for Remitters to ancient Rights are favoured in Law Sect. 672. Fo. 354. a Here it appeareth That the husband against his own alienation if he had taken the estate to him alone could not have been remitted But when the estate is made to the husband and wife albeit they be but one person in Law and no moities between them yet for that the wife cannot be remitted in this case unlesse the husband be remitted also and for that Remitters are favored c. therefore in this case in Judgement of Law both husband and wife are remitted which is worthy of great Observation Sect. 673. Fol. 354. b. Littleton having spoken of Remitters to the issue in Tail who is privy in blood and to the wife who is privy in person now he speaketh of Remitters to them in reversion or remainder expectant upon an estate Tail who are privy in estate and this case proveth That the wife is remitted presently for the equity of the Law requireth that as the discontinuance continuance of the estate in Tail is a discontinuance of the reversion or remainder so that the Remitter to the estate Tail should be a Remitter in the reversion or remainder 42 E. 3. 17 41 Ass 1. 36 Ass p. 4. Tenant for life the remainder to A. in Tail the remainder to B. in fee Tenant for life is disseised a collateral Ancestor of A. releaseth with Warranty and dieth whereby the estate Tail is barred the Tenant for life re-enters the disseisor hath an estate in fee simple determinable upon the estate Tail and the remainder of B. is revested in him And so note in this case the estate for life and the remainder in fee are revested and remitted and an estate of inheritance left in the disseisor 44 Ass p. 15. 44. E. 3. 30. If a Fine be levied sur grant rend to one for life or in taile the remainder in Fee if Tenant for life or in taile execute the estate for life or in taile this is an execution of the Remainder 20. E. 3. Aid 29. A gift in tail is made to B. the remainder to C. in Fee B. discontinueth and taketh back an estate in tail the remainder in Fee to the King by Deed inrolled Tenant in taile dyeth his issue is remitted and consequently the remainder as Littleton here saith and the diversity is between an Act in Law for that may devest an estate out of the King and a tortious Act or entry or a false and a fained recovery against Tenant for life or in taile which shall never devest any Estate remainder or reversion out of the King Pl. Com. 489. Nichols case and 553. Walsinghams case 17. El. Dy. 344. 25. E. 3. 48. Resceit 18. 49 E. 3. 16. Surre Staffords case l. 8. fo 76 b. But a Recovery by good Title against Tenant for life or in taile where the remainder is to the King by defeasable Title shall devest the remainder out of the King and restore and remit the right owners Cholmleyes case l. 2. 53. 7 R. 2. Aid le roy 61. 22. E. 3. 7. Sect. 674. 675 Fo. 355. Quod ei deforceat is a writ that is given by the statute of W. 2. ca. 4. to any Tenant for life or in Taile upon a Recovery by default against them in a Precipe and lyeth against the Recoveror and his heirs in which case the particular Tenant was without remedy at the common Law because he could not have a writ of right There hath been a question in our Books upon these words by default c. And some do hold contrary to three Objections made c. and as to the first they say That albeit that in the writ of waste judgement is not only given upon the default yet the default is the principal and the cause of awarding of the writ to enquire of the waste is an incident thereunto and the Law alwayes hath respect to the first and principal cause and therefore upon such a Recovery a writ of deceit lieth and that writ lyeth not but where the recovery is by default 17 E 3. 58. 29 E 3. 42. F. N. B. 98. b. 12 H. 4. 4. 19 E. 2 disceit 56. w. 2 ca. 3. 3 H. 4. 1. So in an acton of waste against the Husband and wife upon the default of the Husband the wife shall be teceived and yet the Statute there speaketh also per defaultam So upon such a recovery in waste against the Baron and feme by default the wife shall have a cui in vita by the Statute and it speaketh where the recovery is per defaul 9 E. 4. 16. and albeit the defendent may give in evidence if he knoweth it yet when he makes default the Law presumeth he knoweth not of it and it may be that he in truth knew not of it and therefore it is reason that seeing the statute that is a beneficial Statute hath given it him that he be admitted to his quod ei deforceat in which writ the truth and right shall be tried and so it is of a Recovery by default in an Ass albeit the Recognitor of the Ass give a verdict a Quod ei deforceat lyeth and all this was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas and so the doubt in 41 E 3. 8. well resolved 2 H. 4. 2. 21 H. 6. 56. 44 E. 3. 42. Br. quod ei deforceat 4 P. 33 Eliz Rot. 1125. inter Ed Elmer and William Thacker in quod ei deforceat Nota If Tenant for life make default after defaltation and he in Reversion is received and pleading to issue and it found by verdict for the demandant the default and the verdict are causes of the judgement and yet the Tenant shall have a quod ei deforceat As to the 2. Ob. That the defendant may have an attaint 1. It was utterly denyed that an Attaint did lie in this case for though it be taken by the oath of 12 men yet it is but an Enquest of Office where upon no Attaint did lye on either party us upon an enquiry of Collusion although it be by one Jury nor upon a verdict in a quale jus 2. Admitting that an Attaint did lye in that case yet it followeth ex conseq that a quod ei deforceat did not lye 33 E 3. quod ei deforceat pl. ult F.N.B. 156. Fleta l 5 ca. 11. 48. E. 3. 19. 40. Ass 23. 33 H. 6. 25. 39 H.
6. 1. F.N.B. 107. For if an Ass be taken by default a quod ei deforceat doth lye and yet the party may have an Attaint for this is no enquest of Office but a Recognition by the Recognitors of an Ass who were returned the first day and not returned upon the awarding of the Ass by default 17 E. 2 Attaint 69. 21 H. 6. 56. 34. H. 6. 12. As to the 3. Ob. That the damages should be the principal because they were at the common Law that is an Argument that they are more ancient but not that they are more principal and treble dammages were not at the common Law for the common Law never giveth more dammage than the losse amounteth unto but are given by the Statute of Glocester but the place wasted is worthier being in the realty then dammages that be in the personalty Et omne majus dignum trahit ad se minus dignum quamvis minus dignum sit antiquius à digniori fieri debet denominatio and it is confessed That in an action of waste against Tenant for life or for years the place wasted is the principal because the statute of Glocester doth give the place wasted and treble dammages at one time for no prohibition or action of waste lay against them at the Common Law and in an action of waste 34 H. 6. 7. waste 50. And in an action of waste if the defendant confesse the action the plaintiffe may have judgement for the place wasted and release the damages which proveth that the damgas are not the principal for a man shall never release the principle and have judgement of the Accessory and an action of waste against Tenant for life is as reall as an action a-against Tenant in Dower and as to the case of 9 H. 5. It was answered that it was an action in the Tenuit which is only in the personalty and then the release of one doth barre both neither could summons and severance lye in that case but in an action of wast in the Tenet either against Tenant for life or yeers the release of the one doth not bar the other and in those two cases Summons and severance doth lye 6 E. 3 47. 48. E. 319. But when these 3. parts were resolved by the Court for the demandant then the counsel of the Tenant moved in arrest of judgement another point viz. That the judgement was given upon a nihil dicit which is alwayes after appearance and not per defaltam and there upon judgement was stayed But to return to Littleton Here he openeth a secret of Law for the cause of this Remitter is for that the Tenant for life in this case might have a quod ei deforceat And the Tenant for life at the common Law was remedilesse because he could not have a writ of right and consequently the feme Covert in this case could not be remitted by the taking of an estate to her husband and her because her right was remedilesse and could have no action But when an act of Parliament or a custome doth alter the reason c. thereby the Common Law it self is alterd if the Act of Parliament and custome be pursued for Alterata causa ratione legis alteratur lex cessante causa ratione leg cessat lex as in this case the statute of W. 2. giving remedy to this feme Tenant for life in this case it giveth her ability to be remitted c. 14 H. 7 11. per Fineux 27 H. 8. 4. 6. Aid 35 H. 6. gard 72. 29 E. 3. per wilbie custome l. 3. fo 86. Justice Windhams cases And Littleton warily puteth his case That the Recovery was had against the feme while she was sole for there was a time when it was a question whether a Recovery being had by defalt against the husband and wife the wife being Tenant for life the said statute gave a quod ei deforceat to the Husband and wife for that the statute gave it a gainst Tenant in Dower and Tenant for life c. and here the Husband is not Tenant for life but seised in the right of his wife and therefore out of the statute and of this opinion is one book * But Apices juris non sunt jura parum differunt quae re concordant * 4. E. 3. 38. 33. E. 3. Avowry 255. The contrary hath been adjudged and so that point is now in peace 5. E. 3. 4. 33. E. 3. 255. F.N.B. 156. a. 5. E. 3. 5. 2. E. 4. 13. F.N.B. 156. c. 33. H. 6. 46. 2. E. 4. 11. 19. E. 4. 2. And the like in case of Resceit for him in reversion But if the husband lose by default and the husband die the wife shall not have a quod ei deforceat for a cui in vita is given to her in that case by a former statute viz. W. 2. ca. 3. These things are worthy of due observation c. and Littleton in our books of another kinde of quod ei deforceat at the common Law upon a disseisin Fo. 356. a. When the reversion is devested the lessor cannot have an action of waste because the Writ is That the Lessee did waste ad exhaeredationem of the Lessor and that inheritance must continue at the time of the action brought And Nota That in an action of waste brought by the lessor against the lessee the Lessee in respect of the privity cannot plead generall * riens en le reversion But he must shew how and by what means the reversion is devested out of him and this holdeth between the lessor and lessee but if the grantee of a reversion bring an action of waste the lessee may plead generally That he hath nothing in the reversion 45. E. 3. 21. 44. E. 3. 34 35. F.N.B. 60. 23. H. 8. waste Br. 138. * 45. E. 3. 20. 8. H. 6. 13 30. H. 6. 7. And yet in some speciall cases an action of waste shall lie albeit the lessor had nothing in the reversion at the time of the waste done As if Tenant for life make a feoffment in Fee upon condition and waste is done and after the lessee reenter for the condition broken in this case the lessor shall have an action of waste And so if a Rishop make a lease for life or yeers and the Bishop die the lessee the Sea being void doth waste the successor shall have an action of waste So if Lessee for life be disseised and waste is done the lessee reenter an action of waste shall be maintained against the lessee and so in like cases Here note that albeit the action be false and feigned yet is the recovery so much respected in Law as it worketh a discontinu●● But if Tenant for life suffer a common recovery or any other recovery by covin and consent between the Tenant for life and the recoverer this is a forfeiture of his estate and he in the reversion may enter c. 5. Ass p. 3.
as no man that is innocent or free from injury or wrong be by a literall construction punished or endammaged and therefore in this case albeit the Letter of the Statute is generally to give damage against him that is found Tenant and the case that Littleton here putteth D. being survivor is consequently found Tenant of the Land yet because he waived the estate and never agreed to the Feoffment nor took any profits he shall not be charged with the damages Sect. 686 687. fol. 360. b. Feint ou fained action est tiel action que comit que les perols de le breve sont voyers encore per certaine causes home nad cause ne title per la ley de recover per mesne le action Et faux action est lou les perolls de breve Sont faux Sect. 687. postea vide As discents do remit the heire which comes in the Per so succession doth remit the successor albeit he cometh in the post and so in other cases where the issue in taile of full age shall be remitted there in the like case shall the successor be remitted also and all meane charges and incumbrances Vide Sect. 150. Stat. Merton Sect. 688. Fol. 361. a. Si home suist faux action c. recover envers le Tenant en Taile per defalt Littleton addeth by default because if the recovery passed upon an issue tried by verdict he shall never falsifie in the point tried because an attaint might have been had against the Jurors and albeit all the Jurors be dead so as the attaint doe faile yet the issue in Taile shall not falsifie in the point tried untill it be lawfully avoided pro veritate accipitur As if the Tenant in Taile be impleaded in a Formedon and he traverse the gift and it tried against him and thereupon the demandant recover In this case the issue in Taile shall not falsifie in the point tried but he may falsifie the recovery by any other matter as the Tenant in Taile might have pleaded a collaterall warranty or a release as Littleton here putteth the case or to confesse and avoid the point tried and Littletons case holdeth not only in a Recovery by default whereof he speaketh but also upon a nihil dicit or confession or demurre 12 E. 4. 19. 13 E. 4. 3. 11 H. 4. 89. 7 H 4. 17. 14 H. 7. 10 11. 28. Ass 32. 52. 34. Ass 7. 10 H. 6. 5. 19 H. 6. 39. Br. faux Recovery 55. Sect. 689. Fo. 361. b. Vide Sect. 686 687. Here note That a Remitter may be had after a recovery upon a feint action by a disseisin and a discent as well as by a discent after a discontinuance by a Feoffment c. Sect. 690. Fol. 362. a. Here it appeareth that if a Judgement be given against a Tenant in Tail upon a faint or false action and Tenant in Tail dye before execution no execution can be sued against the issue in Tail 10. H. 6. 6. 12. E. 4. 20. 23. El. Dy. 276. l. 1. f. 106. Shelleys case Pl. Com. 55. vide les Autor supra cited c. But if in a common recovery Judgement be had against Tenant in Tail where he vouched and hath Judgement to recover over in value albeit Tenant in Taile dye before execution yet the recoveror shall execute the Judgement against the issue in Tail in respect of the intended recompence and for that it is the common assurance of the realm and is well warranted by our Books and was not invented by Justice Cook in the time of E. 4 as some hold by tradition but it may be that it was upon former authors and opinions of Judges discovered by him assented unto by the rest of the Judges Vide S. 709. 15. E. 3. Bre. 324 1. E. 4. 5. 5. E. 4. 2. 12. E. 4. 20. 23. El. Dy 376. l. 10. 37. 38. Mary Portingtons case If a recovery be had against Tenant for life without consent or covine though it be without Title and execution be had and Tenant for life dyeth the reversion or remainder is discontinued c. but if such a Recovery be had by covin between the Demandant and Tenant for life then he in the reversion or remainder may enter for forfeiture So it is if Tenant for life suffer a common Recovery at this day it is a forfeiture of his estate 5. Ass 3. 5. E. 3. enter cong 42. lib. 1. 15. 16. Sir William Pelhams case Since Littleton wrote there were two Statutes made for preservation of Remainders and Reversions expectant upon any estate for life the one in 32 H. 8. the other in 14. El. But 32 H 8. extendeth not to Recoveries when Tenant for life came in as vouchee c. and that Act is repealed by 14 El. and full remedy provided for preservation of the entry of them in reversion or remainder But the Statute of 14 El. extend●●● not to any recovery unlesse it be by agreement or Covin 32 H 8. ca. 31. 14 El. ca. 8. 2. If there be Tenant for life remainder in Taile the reversion or remainder in fee if tenant for life be impleaded by agreement and he vouching Tenant in Taile and he vouch over the common vouchee this shall barre the reversion or remainder in fee although he in reversion or remainder did never assent to the recovery because it was not the intent of the Act to extend to such a recovery in which a Tenant in Taile was vouched for he hath power by common Recovery if he were in possession to cut off all Reversion and Remainders L 3. fo 60 61. Lincolne Coll. Case So if Tenant for life had surrendred to him in Remainder in Taile he might have barred the remainders and reversions expectant upon his Estate 3. Where the proviso of the Act speaketh of an assent of Record by him in reversion or remainder it is to be understood that such assent must appear upon the same Recovery either upon a voucher Aid prier Receit or the like for it cannot appear of Record unlesse it be done in course of Law and not by any extraiudiciall entry or by Memorandum Sect. 691. Fol. 362. a. Here it appeareth That upon the plea of non tenure or of a disclaimer of the Tenant in a Formedon in the descending albeit the expresse judgement be that the Tenant shall goe without day yet in the judgement of Law the demandant may enter according to the title of his Writ and be seised in Tail notwithstanding the discontinuance 5. E. 4. 1. 36 H. 6. 29. 6 E. 3. 8. 4 E. 4 38. Bract. l. 5. f. 431. c. Brit. ca. 84. And in this case the demandant hath not two rights but hath onely one ancient right and is restored to the same by course of Law and so Remitter here in a large sence is taken for a recontinuation of the right Here note that in such a praecipe where the demandant is to recover damages if the Tenant plead
non-tenure or disclaime there the demandant may averre him to be Tenant of the Land as his Writ supposes for the benefit of his damage which otherwise he should lose or pray judgement and entry 13 H. 7. 28. 22 H 6. 44. But where no damages are recoverd as in a Formedon in discent c. there he cannot aver him Tenant but pray his judgement and enter for thereby he hath the effect of his suit frustra fit per plura quod c. 8 E. 3. 434. 24 E 3. 9. 11 H. 4. 16. and 7 H. 6. 17. A general averment is the conclusion of every plea to the Writ or in barre of replication and other pleadings for Counts or Avowries in nature of Counts need not be averred containing matter affirmed ought to be averred hoc paratus est verificare c. Particular averments are as when the life of Tenant for life or Tenant in Tail are averred and there though this word verificare be not vsed but the matter avouched and affirmed it is upon the matter an averment and an averment containeth as well the matter as the forme thereof Sect. 692 Fol. 363. a. Albeit in this case and in the case before the entry of the demandant is his own act and the demandant hath no expresse judgement to recover yet he shall be remitted causa ●●a supra 36 H. 6 Fo. 29. Sect. 693. Fo. 363. b. Here note a diversity If a man of full age having but a right of action taketh an estate to him he is not remitted But where he hath a right of entry and taketh an estate he by his entry is remitted because his entry is lawful and if the disseisor infeoffe the disseisee and others the disseisee is remitted to the whole for his entry is lawful otherwise it is if his entry were taken away 29. Ass p. 26. 43. Ass 3. 11 H. 7. ●0 3 H. 6. 19. 40 E. 3. 43. If Tenant in Tail be of a manor where unto an advowson is appendant the Tenant in Tail discontinue in Fee discontinuee grant away the Advowson in Fee and dyeth the ●●e in tail recontinueth the Manor by Recovery he is thereby remitted to the Advowson and he that right hath shall present when the Church becometh void 8 R. 2. Qu. imp 199. 26. H. 8. 4. F.N.B. 36. 35. b. The Patron of a benefice is outlawed and the Church become void an estranger usurpeth and six moneths passe the King doth recover in a qu. imp and remove the incumbent c. Advowson is recontinued to the rightful patron 22. Ass p. 33. Theobald Grinvile and so note a diversity a remitter cannot be properly unlesse there be two Titles but a recontinuance may be where there is but one If the disseisor by Deed Indented make a Lease forlife or a gift in Taile c. yet the Deed Indented shall not suffer the livery made according to the form and effect of the Indenture to work any Remitter to the disseisee but shall estop the disseisee to claim his former estate and if the disseisor upon the feoffment doth reserve any Rent or condition c. the rent or condition is good 13 H. 4. 5. 3 H. 4. 17. 8 H. 4. 8. 12 H. 4. 19. 35. Ass 8. 17. Ass 3. 43. E. 3. 17. Parkers Case 21 H. 6. 2. per Paston Sect. 695. Fol. 364. a. Note a diversity A claime in paiis shall not hinder Remitter otherwise it is a claime of Record because that doth work a conclusion Sect. 696. Fol. 344. b. Here note a notable diversity If two joyntenants or coparceners joyn in a reall action where their entry is not lawful and the one is summoned and severed and the other pursueth and recovereth the moity the other Joyntenant or Coparceners shall enter and take the profits with her because their remedie was one and the same But where two Coparceners and they are disseised and a discent is cast and they have issue and dye if the issue of the one recover her moity the other shall not enter with her because their remedies were severall and yet when both have recovered they are coparceners again 10. H. 6. 10. 19 H. 6. 45. 31 H. 6. Ent. Cong 54. So here in this case that Littleton putteth then two joyntenants have not equall remedy for the Infant hath a right of Entry and the other a right of action and therefore the Infant being remitted to moity the other shall not enter and take the profits with her If A and B. joyntenants in fee be disseised by the Father of A. who dyeth seised his Sonne and heir enter he is remitted to the whole and his companion shall take Advantage thereof Otherwise here in the case of Littleton for that the Adventure is given to the Infant more in in respect of his person than of his right whereof his companion shall take no advantage But if the Grandfather had disseised the Joyntenants and the land had discended to the Father and from him to A. and then A. had dyed the entry of the other should be taken away by the first descent and therefore he should not enter with the heire of A. But here in the case of Littleton if after the discent the other Joyntenant had dyed and the infant survived some say that he should have entred into the whole because he is now in Judgement of of Law solely in by first feoffment and he claimeth not under the discent Vide 35 Ass p. ultimo ** CHAP. XIII Of Warranty Sect. 697. A Communi observantia non est recedendum minime mutanda sunt quae certam habuerunt interpretationem A warranty is a convenant reall annexed to Lands or Tenements whereby a man and his heires are bound to warrant the same and either upon voucher or by judgement in a writ of Warrant Cartae to yeeld other Lands and Tenements to the value of those that shall be evicted by a former title or else may be used by way of Rebutter i.e. to repel or barre Bract. l. 2. fo 37. and l. 5. fo 380. c. Glan l. 3. ca. 1. 2. 3. 38. E. 321. 45 E 3. 18. Fol. 365. a. Garronter en un sense signifie a defender son tenant en sa seisin en auter sence signifie que si il ne defendant que le garrant luy soit tenue a eschanges de faire son gree a la vaillaunce Brit. Fo. 197. b. By the Statute of Glocestor foure things are enacted 1. That if a Tenant by the Curtesie alien with warranty and dyeth that this should be no barre to the heir in a Writ of Mordanc without Assets in fee simple and if Lands or Tenements descend to the heir from the Father he shall be barred having regard to the value thereof 2 That if the heir for want of Assets c. doth recover the Lands of his mother by force of this Act and afterwards Assets discend c. 3. That the issue of the Sonne
shall recover by a Writ of Cosinage Aiel and Besail and lastly that the heire of the wife after the death of the Father and Mother shall not be barred of his action to demand the heritage of his Mother by Writ of Entry which his Father aliened in the time of his Mother whereof no Fine was levied in the Kings Court Fo. 365. b. Concerning the 1. There be two points in Law to be observed 1 Albeit the Statute in this Article name a Writ of Mordanc and after writs of Cosinage c. yet a writ of Right a Formedon a writ of Entry ad Com. legem and all other like actions are within the purview of this Statute * 2 Where it is said in the said Act if the Tenant by the Curtesie alien yet his release with warranty to a disseisor c. is within the purview of the Statute for that it is in equall mischief 11 E. 2. gar 83. 4 E. 3. gar 63. Pl. Cam. 110. * 27 E. 3. 80. 14 E. 4. gar 5. and 4. M. Dy. 148. a. If Tenant by the Curtesie be of a Seigniory and the Tenancy escheat unto him and after he alien with warranty this shall not binde the issue unlesse assets descend for it is in equal mischief 22. Ass 9. 37. temps i.e. gar 86. Note a diversity between a warranty on the part of the Mother and an estoppel for an estoppel c. shall not binde the heir when he claimeth from the Father As if Lands be given to the husband and wife and to the heires of the husband the husband make a gift in Tail and dieth the wife recover in a Cui in vita against the donee supposing that she had fee simple and make a feoffment and dieth the donee dyeth without issue the issue of the husband and wife bring a Formedon in the Reverter against the Feoffee and notwithstanding he was heir to the Estoppel and the Mother was Estopped yet for that he claimed the Land as heir to his father he was not Estopped 18 E 3. 9. If a feme heire of a disseisor infeoffe me with warranty and marrieth with the disseisee if after the disseisee bring a Praecipe against me I shall rebut him in respect of the warranty of his wife and yet he demandeth the Land in another right and so if the husband and wife demand the right of the wife a warranty of the Collateral Ancestor of the husband shall barre 21. R. 2. judgement 263. By the Statute of 11 〈◊〉 7. c. 20. where the woman hath any estate for life of the inheritance or purchase of her husband or given to her by any of the Ancestors of the husband or by any other person seised to the use of her husband or of any of his Ancestors there her alienation release or confirmation with warranty shall not binde the heir l. 1. f. 176. l. 3. 50 51. 59. 60. 61. 62. Dy. 146. 362 D. St. 55 Pl. Com. 56. I will only adde two cases the one was A man seised of Lands in fee levyed a fine to the use of himself for life and after to the use of his wife and of the heirs males of her body by him begotten for her joynture and had issue male and after he and his wife levied a fine and suffered a Common recovery the husband and wife die and the issue male enter by force of the said Statute of 11 H. 7. and it was holden by the justices of Ass that the entry c. was lawful and yet this case is out of the letter of the Statute for she neither levied the Fine c. Being sole or with any other after taken husband but is by her self with her husband that made the joynture Sed qui haeret in littera haeret in Cortice this case being in the same mischief is therefore within the remedy of the Statute by the intendment of the makers of the same to avoid the disherison of heirs who were provided by the said joynture and especially by the husband himself that made the joynture M. 13. Jac. inter Harley and West in eject fir in Com. B. Linc. The other was A man is seised of Lands in the right of his wife and they two levy a Fine and the Conusee grant and render the Land to the husband and wife in especial taile the remainder to the right heirs of the wife they have issue the husband dyeth the wife taketh another husband and they two levy a Fine in Fee and the issue enter this is directly within the Letter of the Statute and yet is out of the meaning because the State of the Land moved from the wife so as it was the purchase of the Husband in Letter and not in meaning P. 17. El. in Com. B Lattons Case But where the woman is Tenant for life by the gift or conveyance of any other her alienation with warranty shall binde the heir at this day So if a man be Tenant for life otherwise than as Tenant per Curtesie and alien in fee with warranty and dyeth this shall at this day binde the heir that hath the reversion or remainder by the Common Law not holpen by any Statute But all this is to be understood unlesse the heir that hath the reversion or remainder doth avoid the estate so aliened in the life of the Ancestor for then the estate being avoided the warranty being annexed unto the estate is avoided also Sect. 725. As to the second clause of the Statute of Glocestor there are two points of Law to be observed 1. That by the expresse purview of the Statute if Assets do after descend from the Father then the Tenant shall have recovery or restitution of the lands of the Mother But in a Formedon if at the time of the warranty pleaded no Assets be descended whereby the Demandant recovereth if after the Assets descend there the Tenant shall have a Sc. fac for the Assets and not for the land intailed because that if in this case the Tenant should be restored to the land intailed then if the issue in Tail alienated the Assets his issue should recover in a Formedon Pl. Com. 110. a. l. 8. f. 53. Sims Case 2. Note That after Assets descended the recovery shall be by writ of Judgement viz. by Sc. fac which shall issue out of the Roll of the Justices c. to resummon him that ought to warrant c. Also if the Tenant will have benefit of the Statute he must plead the Warranty and acknowledge the Title of the Demandant and pray that the advantage of the Statute may be saved unto him and then if after Assets descend the Tenant upon this Record shall have a sc fac and if Assets descend but for part he shall have a scire fac for so much l. 8. fo 134. Mary Shipleys Case But if the Tenant plead the Warranty and Assets descended c. and the Demandant taketh issue that Assets not c.
years c. in this case if he be ousted by a stranger without being impleaded the Obligation is forfeit But if he be bound to warrant the land c. the bond is not forfeit unlesse the Obligee is impleaded and then the Obligor must be ready to warrant c. 2 E. 4. 15. tit Det. 71. Qui benè distinguit benè docet fol 384. a. A Warranty in Deed is created onely by this word Warrantizo but Warranties in Law are created by many other words they are therefore called Warranties in Law because in Judgement of Law they amount to a Warranty without this Verb Warrantizo As Dedi is a Warranty in Law to the feoffee and his heirs during the life of the feoffor but Concessi in a Feoffment or Fine implieth no Warranty But before the Statute of Quia Emp. ter if a man had given lands by this word Dedi to have and to hold to him and his heires of the Donor and his heirs by certain Services then not onely the Donor but his heirs also had been bound to warrant But if before the Statute a man had given lands by this word Dedi to a man and his heirs for ever to hold of the chief Lord there the feoffor had not been bound to Warranty but during his life as at this day he is Lestat de Bigamis c. 6. 2 H. 7. 7. 6 H. 7. 2. 48 E. 3. 2. 31 E. 1. vouch 290. F. N.B 134. b. 6 E. 2. vouch 258. Dedi doth import a warranty in Law albeit there be an expresse warranty in the Deed. For if a man make a feoffment by Dedi and in the Deed doth warrant the land against I. S. and his heirs yet Dedi is a generall warranty during the life of the feoffor and so was the Statute expounded in both points H. 14. El. in Com. Banc. And if a man make a lease for life reserving a rent and adde an expresse warranty here the expresse warranty doth not take away the warranty in Law for he hath election to vouch by force of either of them and in Nokes Case note a diversity between a warranty that is a Covenant and a warranty concerning a Chattell l. 4. fo 80. 8 E. 3. 69. 3 E. 3. Formedon 44. Also this word axcambium doth imply a warranty Also a Petition implyeth a warranty in Law and homage Aunc ' doth draw to it selfe warranty 4 E. 2. vouch 245. 22 E. 3. 3. 14 H. 6 2. 20 H. 6. 14. l. 4. 122. l. 1. 96. l. 5. fo 17. l. 8. 75. Seignior Staf. case And note that the warranty wrought by this word dedi is a speciall warranty and extends to the heirs of the Feoffee during the life of the donor only But upon the exchange Homage Aunc ' the warrant extending reciprocally to the heires and against the heires of both parties and in none of these cases the Assignee shall vouch by force of any of these warranties but in the case of the exchange and dedi the Assignee shall rebutt but not in the case of Homage Auncestrel And so no man shall have a writ of contra formam collationis but onely of the feoffee and his heirs which be privy to the Deed but an Assignee may rebutt by force of the Deed. 28 Ass 33. 14 H. 4. 5. 11 E. 3. Avowr 100. 30 H. 6. 7. 33 H. 8. Dy. 51. 10 H. 7. 11 b. F. N. B. 163. a. If a man make a gift in Taile or a Lease for life of land by deed or without deed reserving a rent or of a rent service by deed this is a warranty in Law and the donee or lessee being impleaded shall vouch and recover in value and this warranty extendeth not onely against the donor or lessor and his heires but also against his Assignees of the reversion and so likewise the Assignee of lessee for life shall take benefit of this warranty in Law 6 E. 2. vouch 105. 5 E. 3. 67. 3 H. 7. 13. 6 H. 7. 2. 7 E. 3. 6. F.N.B. 134. g. When dower is assigned there is a warranty in Law included that the Tenant in Dower being impleaded shall vouch and recover in value a third part of two parts whereof she is Dowable 4 E. 3. 36. 43. Ass 32. 50 E. 3. 7. F.N.B. 149. m. A warranty in Law and Assets is in some cases a good barre In a Formedon in the discender the Tenant may plead that the Ancestor of the demandant exchanged the Land with the Tenant for other Lands taken in exchange which descended to the demandant whereunto he hath entred and agreed or if he hath not entered and agreed unto the Lands taken in exchange then the Tenant may plead the warranty in Law and other Assets descended 14 H. 6. 2. 15 E. 3. Bar. 255. If Tenant in Taile of Lands make a gift in Taile or a Lease for life render a rent and dyeth and the issue bring a Formedon in the discending the Reversion and rent shall not barre the demandant because by his Formedon he is to defeat the reversion and rent Et non potest adduci exceptio ejusdem rei cujus petitur dissolutio 38 E. 3. 22. 23. 24. 13 E. 3. gar 35. But if other Assets in fee simple doe discend then this wa●ranty in Law and Assets is a good barre in the Formedon 16 E. 3. Age 45. 31 E. 3. gar 29. Here four things are to be observed 1. That no warranty in Law doth barre any collaterall title but is in nature of a lineall warranty wherein note the equity of the Law Fo. 384. b. 2. That an expresse warranty shall never binde the heirs of him that made the warranty unlesse they be named but in case of warranty in Law in many cases the heires shall be bound to warranty albeit they be not named 3. That in some cases warranties in Law do extend to execution in value of speciall Lands and not generally of Lands descended in fee simple lib. 4. fol. 121. Bustards Case 4. That warranty in Law may be in some cases created without Deed as upon gifts in Taile Leases for life eschanges and the life 45 E. 3. 20. b. Also it is necessary to shew who shall take advantage of a warranty as Assignee by way of voucher to have recompence in value If a man infeoffee A. and B. to have and to hold to them and their heires and Assignes with a clause of warranty praedictis A. and B. eorum haered Assignatis in this case if A. dyeth and B. surviveth and dyeth and the heire of B. infeoffeth C. he shall vouch as Assignee and yet he is but the Assignee of the heir of one of them for in judgment of Law the Assignee of the heire is the Assignee of the Ancestor and so the Assigne of the Assignee shall vouch in infinitum within these words his Assignes 14 E. 3. gar 33. 13 E. 1. gar 83. lib. 5. fol. 17. b. Spencers case 38 E. 3. 21.
upon the Statute of H. 6. Ass c. there a warranty may be pleaded in barre Although a collaterall warranty be descended yet if the estate whereunto the warranty was annexed be defeated albeit it be by a meer stranger as in this case that Littleton here put by the discontinuee the warranty is defeated and although the discontinuance remain and no Remitter wrought to the heir yet the warranty is defeated and barre removed so as the issue in Tall may have his Formedon and recover the land Sublato Principali tollitur Adjunctum 3 H. 7. 9. b. 16 E. 3. Continual Claim 10. 9 H. 4. 8. Pl. Com. 158. Sect. 743. Fol. 390. a. Si tenant in tail fait un feoffment a son uncle pui● l' uncle fait un feoffment in fee ovesque gar c. a un auter c. When the uncle taketh back as large an estate as he had made the warranty is defeated because he cannot warrant land to himself And so it is if the uncle had made the warranty to the feoffee his heirs and assigns and taken back an estate in fee and after infeoffed another yet the warranty is defeated for that he cannot be assignee to himself 40 E. 3. 14. 16 E. 3. Vouch. 87. 19 E. 3. Vouch. 122. 17 E. 3. 73 74. 20 H. 6. 29. A man shall not regularly vouch himself as assignee of a fee simple And yet if the Father be infeoffed with warranty to him and his heirs the Father infeoffeth his heir apparent in fee and die he shall vouch himself and be heir in Borough English by reason the act in Law determined the warranty between the Father and the Son 41 E. 3. 25. a. But if a man make a feoffment in fee with warranty to the feoffee his heirs and assignes and the feoffee reinfeoffe the feoffor and his wife or the feoffor and any other stranger the warranty remaineth still 11 H. 4. 20 42. 17 E. 3. 47 49. 18 E. 3. 56. 29 E. 3. 46. 39 E. 3. 9. Sect. 744. ib. A man infeoffeth a woman with warranty they intermarry and are impleaded upon the default of the husband the wife is received she shall vouch her husband c. notwithstanding the warranty was put in suspence 6 E. 2. Vouch. 257. 3 E. 3. ib. 201. 5 E. 3. 16. 178. And so on the other side if a woman infeoffe a man with warranty and they intermarry and are impleaded the husband shall vouch himself and his wife by force of the said warranty 4 E. 2. Vouch. 245 246. An Infant en ventre sa mere may be vouched if God give him a birth and if not such a one heir to the warranty but he cannot be vouched alone without the heir at the Common Law for Processe shall be presently awarded against him Temps E. 1. gard 1. 3. 31 E. 1. Breve 873. 8 E. 2. Vouch. 237. 11 E. 3. ib. 13. 9 H. 6. 24. Pl. Com. Stowels Case per Saunders and Brown Tenant in Tail maketh a feoffment in fee with warranty and disseise the discontinuee and dieth seised leaving Assets to the issue some hold that in respect of this suspending warranty and Assets the issue in Tail shall not be remitted but that the discontinuee shall recover against the issue in Tail and he take advantage of his warranty if any he hath and after in a Formedon brought by the issue the discontinuee shall barre him in respect of the warranty and Assets and so every mans Right saved 21 E. 3. 36. a. b. 38 E. 3. 21. 44 E. 3. 26. 45 E. 3. Title 32. 44 E. 3. ib. 31. 33 E. 3. ib. 4. Sect. 745. Note a diversity In the case of an Appeal the Defendant shall forfeit no lands but such as he had at the time of the outlawry pronounced for that there is no time alledged in the Writ when the Felony was done But in case of Indictment such as he had at the time of the Felony committed for there is a certain time alledged And in the case of the Indictment there is also a diversity to be observed for it shall relate to the time alledged in the Indictment for avoiding of Estates Charges and Incumbrances made by the Felon after the Felony committed but for the mean Profits of the land it shall relate onely to the Judgement as well in this case of Outlawry as in other cases 33 E. 3. Forfeit 30. 38 E. 2. 31. 3 E. 4. 25. 19 E. 4. 2. Pl. Com. 488. b. Felony Ex vi termini significat quodlibet capitale crimen felleo animo perpetratum Glan If a Felon be convicted by Verdict Confession or Recreancy he doth forfeit his goods and chattels c. presently A man is said convict before he hath judgement For Felony by Chance-medley or se defendendo or petit larceny a man shall forfeit his goods and chattels and no lands of any estate of Freehold or Inheritance Stanf. prerog 45. b. 16 E. 3. Cor. 116. By the Law at this day under the word Felony in Commissions c. is included Petit Treason Murther Homicide Burning of houses Burglary Robbery Rape c. Chance-medley se defendendo and Petit larceny Sect. 746 747. It is a generall rule That having respect to all those whose blood was corrupted at the time of the Attainder the Pardon doth not remove the corrupting of blood neither upward nor downward Bract. l. 3. fo 132. c. Brit. fo 215 b. As if there be Grandfather and Son and the Grandfather and Father have divers other Sons if the Father be attainted of Felony and pardoned yet doth the blood remain corrupted not onely above him and about him but also to all his children born at the time of this Attainder But in the case of Littleton if Tenant in Tail at the time of his Attainder had no issue and after his pardon had issue that issue should have been bound by the warranty And if his Father had issue before the pardon and had issue also after and dieth nothing can descend to the youngest for that the eldest is living and disabled But if the eldest son had died in the life of the Father without issue then the youngest should inherit Nota That a judgement against a man for felony is that he be hanged by the neck untill he be dead but implicativè he is punished 1. In his wife That he shall lose her dower 2. In his children they shall become base and ignoble 3. He shall lose his posterity for his blood is stained and corrupted that they cannot inherit unto him or any other Auncestrel 4. He shall forfeit all his lands and tenements which he hath in fee and which he hath in tail for term of his life And 5. all his goods and chattels The wife of a man attainted of high Treason or pety Treason shall not be received to demand Dower unlesse it be in certain cases specially provided for Stan. Pl. Cor. 195. But the wife of a
person attainted of misprision of Treason Murther or Felony is dowable since our Author wrote by the Statute of 1 E. 6. cap. 13. 5 E. 6. cap. 11. 5 El. ca. 1. 11. 18 El. cap. 1. 12 H. 4. 3. Vide Sect. 55. So if a Seigniory be granted with warranty and the Tenancy escheat the Seigniory whereunto the warranty was annexed is extinct and consequently the warranty defeated and it shall not extend to the land sic in similibus 6 H. 4. 8. 45 E. 3. vouch 72. Pl. Com. 292. 16 E. 3. Age 46. 28 H. 3. vouch 281. 23 E. 3. garr 77. Vide Sect. 200. If a collaterall Auncestrel release with warranty and enter into Religion now the warranty doth binde but if after hee be deraigned now it is defeated Sect. 748. Fol. 393. Per release de touts manners de garr ou de touts covenants reall ou de touts demandes le garr est extinct Et mults auters cases matters y sont per queux home poit defeate garr c. As by a defeasance as other things executory may Also a warranty may lose his force by taking benefit of the same 43 E. 3. 17. Pl. Com. Brownings case In a Precipe the tenant voucheth and at the sequatur sub suo periculo the tenant and the vouchee make default whereupon the demandant hath judgement against the tenant and afterwards the demandant brings a Scire facias against the tenant to have execution In this case the Tenant may have a War Cartae And if in that case a stranger had brought a praecipe against the Tenant hee might have vouched again for by the judgement given against the Tenant the warranty lost not his force but if the Tenant had judgement to recover in value against the vouchee he should never vouch again by reason of that warranty because he had taken advantage of the warranty and it is to be observed that upon the processe of Summon ad warr if the Sheriffe return the vouchee summoned and he make default the Tenant shall have a Capias ad val but if he return that the vouchee had nothing then after the Sicut alias plures a seq sub suo periculo shall issue and there if the vouchee make default the Tenant shall not have judgement to recover in value for he was never summoned and it appeareth of Record that he hath nothing but in the Cap. ad Val. it appeareth that he had Assets and he had been summoned before But in some speciall cases there shall be two recoveries in value upon one warranty As if a disseisor give lands to the husband and wife and to the heirs of the husband the husband alieneth in fee with warranty and dieth the wife bringeth a Cui in vita the Tenant vouch and recover in value if after the death of the wife the disseisee bring a praecipe against the Alienee he shall vouch and recover in value again So it is where the wife bringing a Writ of Dower against the Alienee he shall recover in value and after her death hee shall recover in value again upon the same warranty 45 E. 3. vouch 72. In the same manner it is if a man be seised of a rent by a defeasible title and release to the Tenant of the Land all his right in the Land and warrant the Land to him and his heirs if he be impleaded for the rent he shall vouch and recover in value for the rent and if after he be impleaded for the Land he shall vouch c. again for the Land But in these and the like cases the reason is in respect of the severall Estates recovered but for one and the same estate he shall never recover but once in value and though the Land recovered in value be evicted yet he shall never take benefit of that warranty after and as warranty may be defeated in the whole so they may be defeated as to the party of the benefit that may be taken of the same As he that maketh a warranty may make a defeasance not to take any benefit by way of voucher In the like manner that he shall take no advantage by way of Warrantia Cartae or by way of Rebutter 7 H. 6. 43. 13 Ass 8. 13 E. 3. gar 24 25. 3. 7. 22 H. 6. 51. 8 H. 7. 6. Sect. 749. If Tenant in Tail alien with warranty and leave Assets to discend if the issue in Tail doth alien the Assets and die the issue of that issue shall recover the Land because the lineall warranty descends onely to him without Assets for neither the pleading of the warranty without Assets nor Assets without warranty is any barre in the Formedon in the descender But if the issue to whom the warranty and Assets descended had brought a Formedon and by judgement had been barred by reason of the warranty and Assets In that case albeit he alieneth the Assets yet the estate Tail is barred for ever for a barre in a Formedon in the descender which is a Writ of the highest nature that an issue in Tail can have is a good barre in any other Formedon in the descender brought afterwards upon the same gift Temps E. 1. gar 89. 34 E. 1. ib. 88. 11 E. 2. ib. 3. 4 E. 3. 24. 5 E. 3. 14. 40 E. 3. 9. 14 H. 4. 39. 24 H. 8. a. Br. 33. 4. M. Dy. 139. l. 10 37 38. Mary Portingtons case Epilogus Nulla virtus nulla scientia locum suum dignitatem conservare potest sine modestia Ratio est anima legis If by study and industry we make not the reason of the Law our own it is not possible for us to retain it in our memories And we must couple arguments and reasons together Quia Argumenta ignota obscura ad lucem rationis proferia●● reddunt splendida Sir Richard Hankford 11 H. 4. 37. Home ne scavera de quel mettal un campane est sine soit bien bate ne le ley bien conus sans disputation Jeo aye disputir cest matter pur la apprender la ley 41 E. 3. 22. Kirton Vide Sect. 377. Lex plus laudatur quando ratione probatur Lex est sanctio sancta jubens honesta prohibens contraria Vide cest definitio Lib. 1. fo 131. Chudleighs Case Al unique Dieu gloire FINIS An Alphabetical Table A ALien may purchase what and how p. 2 Attainder how it corrupteth the blood 7 Arguments legal 11 Arguments from Statutes ib. Advocatio what 15 123 Advocatio medietatis ib. Armories how descendable 20 Authority with interest or without the difference 63 Attorney to deliver seisin ib. Accessaries where 67 Ages their several purposes in the Law 95 Agreement and Disagreement the time for the confirming Matrimony the equal Obligation 96 Agriculture its commendation 98 Actus Legis 100 Aetas Legitima 101 Alienatio restricta 106 Acquittal quotuplex 107 Appendant and Appurtenant their differences 125 126 Alienee plead where