this shall remain is a limitation of time when this shall vest and not a condition by Hinde and Montague 6. Admitting that it be a condition yet a remainder may depend upon a condition By Hales Hinde and Montague and adjudged accordingly 7. The Plaintiff hath not conveyed to himself Title to have benefit of the breach of the condition if it be broken By Montague Pollard Serjeant for the Plaintiff Except that the Form of the Plea is sufficient 1 Because he doth not aver his continual residence after the Remainder happened but after his entry which may happen to be long time after and so although that he hath performed the words of the condition which hath not satisfied the intent thereof yet he hath not performed the condition because the intent was That he should have all the Mannor So 21. H. 6.10 A man is bound that his Feoffees of the Mannor of D. should grant a Rent of 40. s. to the Plaintiff He had three Feoffees and two of them grant the said Rent to him and there all the Justices said That it shall be intended all the Feoffees so that alwaies the intent of the condition ought to be as well performed as the words of the condition and here the intent of the condition appears to be That Hospitality shall be kept upon the Grange continually from the beginning to the end of the Term which is the death of the Husband and the Wife and here he hath not shewed that he entred within as short time as he conveniently could after the death of the Husband and Wife and therefore because he hath not shewed and averred this he hath not shewed the performance of the condition and therefore his plea is not good For in all cases where the time is issuable he ought also to shew it certainly and therefore in 32. H. 6. it is held That if a man plead a Lease for years made to him that he ought to shew what day the Lease was made because it is issuable So in 33. H. 6.44 In debt by an Executor the Defendant saith That the Testator made the Plaintiff and one R. his Executors at L. the which R. is alive and not named judgement of the Writ and the Plaintiff confessing it saith That after this time last assigned by the Plaintiff that the Testator made the Plaintiff his sole Executor in Middlesex and the Defendant saith That after this time last assigned by the Plaintiff that the Testator made the Plaintiff and R. his Executors after this time and the Plea of the Defendant was not held good for that the day on which the Plaintiff and R. were made Executors is uncertain So 3. H. 6.33 In Trespass the Defendant pleads in Bar the day of the retaining of the Plaintiff who traverseth the Bar and the Defendant enforced to shew the day certain Matter in Law As to the matter in Law it seemeth to him that the Remainder is void because it ought alwaies to be limited to take its effect after the partricular estate ended and not during the particular estate for if it be limited and appointed to take its effect during the particular estate then it shall be utterly void As if A. Leases to B. for life the Remainder for life and if B. dies that it shall remain over to a stranger in Fee this Remainder is void for that it is appointed to take effect immediately after the first estate for life ended for if the Remainder in Fee should commence then it shall avoid the Remainder for life so if a Lease be made to two the Remainder over in Fee after the death of the first of them this Remainder is void because the Survivor shall have the Land So in the principal case it is given to the Baron and Fem for their lives the Remainder to the eldest son for life upon conditon That if the eldest die living husband and wife that then it shall remain to the Defendant for life which cannot be for the first estate at this time continues and if the Remainder shall be good it drowns the estate of husband and wife and therefore the Remainder void and also for that it is limited to commence upon condition which enures alwaies in privity therefore if a lease for life be made rendring rent and upon condition That if the Rent be arear that then it shall remain to a stranger in Fee if the Rent be arear and not paid the remainder is void for the Remainder which commence upon condition is not good otherwise it is if an estate be made for life upon condition That if the Tenant for Life dies it shall remain over this Remainder is good because that it commenceth upon the Determination of the I state the which is certain and therefore no condition because conditions are alwaies incertain and may be performed or broken and as our Law is for to know the time certain when the things pass from one to another and namely Free-hold because the Law hath it in greater estimation then other things and so to prevent contention hath ordained Ceremonies to be used as in every Feoffment Livery and in every Grant Reversion or Rents c. That Attornment shall be made the which are points certain containing time and by them Estates pass Rules to know when Remainders are good The Law hath appointed that every Remainder shall have three things by the matters aforesaid as Notes and Rules certain for to discern when good The first is an Estate precedent made at the same time that the remainder Commences and that the particular Estate continue when the Remainder vests and that the remainder be from the Donor at the time of Livery and if any of the said three things fail the Remainder is void And therefore for the first point if the Lessor confirm the state of his Tenant for years the Remainder in Fee this Remainder is vold for that the Estate for years was made before the Remainder So if a Lessor disseise his Tenant for Life and after makes a new Lease to him for Life the remainder in Fee this Remainder is void because it is a Remitter to his Estate So an Estate precedent was not made at the time of the remainder and therefore the Remainder is void So the Heir endows his Mother Remainder in Fee by reason of Relation and so the precedent Estates are made before the Remainder appointed Secondly That the particular Estate continue when the remainder vests as 21. H. 7.12 per Frowick Lease for Life upon Condition That if he doth not such an Act that his Estate shall cease and that then the Remainder over is void because the Estate precedent is determined before the Remainder appointed and the Remainder must vest during the particular Estate Thirdly because the Remainder passes from the Lessor at the time of the delivery as Hales Hinde and Montague say and as it is proved by the Cases before cited So Perkins 12. and 19.
Remainder to the right Heirs of I. S. in Life passes from the Lessor presently although it vests not presently but here the Remainder passeth not presently because the Condition precedes the Remainder as 15. H. 7. 1. if A. Grant to B. That when he is promoted to a Benefice or do such an Act he shall have an Annuity there he shall shew his Promotion if he demands his Annuity because it is a Condition precedent and to him which maketh the Grant but if he Grants an Annuity until he be promoted there he shall not shew it because the Promotion is subsequent to the Annuity and will defeat the Annuity and therefore it shall be shewed by the other party which is contray So 7. E. 3.10 A Lessee for eight years rendring 10. s. yearly and if he holdeth over to him and his heirs an action of Debt is maintainable during the Term for the Rent is a Chattle because the Fee passeth not presently for that the Condition precedes the Fee So 6. R. 2. a Lease to two for years upon Condition That if the Lessee aliens within the Term or die he shall have Fee it is holden that the Fee passeth not presently because the Condition precedes it which Cases prove That the Remainder passes not out of the Lessor at the time of the Livery albeit that the Condition precede the Remainder and proves also That the Remainder Commenceth upon Condition and proves also That the Remainder is appointed to begin after the Commencement of the particular Estate the which is contrary to the grounds of Law and therefore and for the said other causes the Remainder shall be void And so for the insufficiencie of the matter of the Bar and Form also the Plaintiff shall recover Cook Serjeant to the contrary As to the two Exceptions which have been moved That the Plea is not good because he shews not that he hath been resiant after the deaths of the Husband and Wife alwaies nor what day he entred Sir I take it That it shall be taken that he entred immediately after the death of the Husband and Wife for the Defendant hath pleaded by way of Bar and if the Bar hath matter of substance and is good to a common intent it sufficeth although it be not good to every special intent and therefore in the Case of 33. H. 6. fol. 24. where the Defendant pleads That the Testator made the Plaintiff and one R. his Executor Judgement c. The Plea was good without shewing that he was made after that the Plaintiff was made sole Executor because it shall be intended after So 10. H. 7. 15. by Keble in Trespas the Defendant pleads his Free-hold good because good by Common intendment yet the Plaintiff might have an Estate for years and it may stand with his Bar and by which he may punish the default but such special matter will not be intended So 6. E. 4.1 in Debt upon an Obligation the Defendant saith That he hath done such things as was contained in the Indenture and at Issue and found for the Plaintiff and spoken to in Arrest of Judgement because the Defendant said not that the two Covenants were all and so had not alleadged the performance of all but held good because by Common intent there shall not be intended more then two Covenants if the Plaintiff shew not the contrary So 3. H. 6.4 in Formedon he gave not prima facie a good Bar because it intends a general gift and yet it may be That the Land was recovered in value and then the Plea is not apt for other Land was given So 3. H. 6.3 In Debt nothing in their hands pleaded by Executors good yet it may be that other goods first not the Testators at the day of his death are come to their hands in place instead of other goods So 21. H. 6.17 In Assise the Defendant was in by discent where he had a mean Title which tolled the Assise of the other shall not be void by the said recovery but this shall not be intended without shewing so discent and entry in Bar good yet it may be that a stranger abated and dyed seised and the Heir could not enter but if shall not be intended without shewing specially but when a thing Commenceth in respect of the time then the certainty of the time shall be shewed fol. 24.27.33 as 20. H. 7.12 by Rede A Servant which demanded 20. s. Sallary for his service by the year ought to shew the expiration of the year because the Action is given in respect of the year past and the time is parcell of the cause of the Demand and precedes the Demand but here the time pursues the Remainder and is not cause of the Remainder and therefore we ought to shew it so certainly as where time gains a thing for here it goeth in defeasance of the thing and therefore the Bar is good notwithstanding the said two Exceptions besides it seemeth to me the Remainder is good For first he hath an Estate here upon which the Remainder may be grounded here the remainder is appointed thereupon but the cause wherefore the Remainder shall not be good is alleadged in two great points viz. because the Fee passeth not presently forth of the Lessor and also for that the Remainder cannot pass upon Condition And it seems to me That the Remainder passeth out of the Lessor presently howbeit that it vests not presently as in Litl 81. A Lease for five years if he pay within the first two that then he shall have Fee the Fee passeth out of the Lessor presently so the Remainder to the right Heirs of I. S. in life and a Remainder may Commence upon Condition as a Lease for life upon Condition That I. S. Marry my Daughter during the state for Life which shall remain to him is good because he hath an Estate upon which it may be grounded So 34. E. 3. Devise for Life upon Condition That if the Heir to whom the Reversion discends disturbs Tenant for Life or his Executors of their Administration That then the Land shall remain to the Daughter of the Devisor and to her Heirs and dyeth Tenant for Life dyeth the Son of the Daughter brings his Formedon against the Heir because he disturbs the Tenant and also the Executors of the Tenant traverse it and at issue and upon this issue is joyned which should not have been so if the Remainder had not been good Also if Assent as 18. E. 4. 12. by Catesby ante 8. post 31. to the Diseisen made before to anothers use may Traverse the Free-hold from one to another à fortiori a condition may namely where the Franck-Tenement precedes to which a Condition may be annexed Morgan Serjeant for the Plaintiff The Plea is not good because it doth not shew the day in certain of the death of W. nor of the Husband and Wife but he argued not this Also it is not good because he shewed not the
not agree otherwise then for landing because the Statute will as if a Baily pay the debts of his Master he shall not be allowed for this in his accompt without specialty but if he pay Quit-Rents issuing out of the Land he shall be allowed for this for that the payment of this belongeth to his Office And so if the Collector accept another Agreement then is intended by the Statute this shall not help the party and said that agreement upon condition ought to be performed before it be pleaded as if I give all the money in my purse to I. S. he cannot have his action for it except that he alleadge the certainty of it So here wherefore judgement shall be given for the King Pollard Serjeant for the Defendant An agreement upon condition is an agreement as a Feoffment upon condition is a Feoffment and included in words of the issue that is to say in this word Agreement which contains every agreement So 36. H. 6.2 In debt upon a Regognisance and the Defendant saith That there is no such Recognisance whereupon they were at issue and at the day c. a Recognisance with condition was certified held good and that he had not failed of the Record because a Recognisance upon condition is held to be a Recognisance So here the agreement general was put in issue the which shall be intended the more common agreement and this is the general agreement and the evidence given by W. proves a special agreement viz. an agreement upon condition which is other then the agreement tendred by the issue therefore the Demurrer shall be adjudged for the King and Informer Sir as to this I answer That by the arguments made before nothing hath been put in issue but if they agree according to the Statute so here admitting that the agreement general had been in issue but the especial is The especial matter viz. Tempest super hoc agreavit are in the affirmative and may stand together and therefore both remain as one entire matter and substance of the issue As if the Tenant pleads special Bastardy against the Plaintiff in mort D'ancester and alleadge this incertain as he ought viz. That the Plaintiff was ingendred between I. and A. and born before marriage then they marry and conclude as he ought and so Bastard This conclusion hath not avoided the special matter before for if so then it should be Bastard generally and triable by the Bishop and then shall be by him certified Mulier because such is a mulier in the law spiritual but shal be tried here by Assize and therefore the special matter remains and the issue is taken thereupon So 3. H. 7.5 by Keble One counts of a gift in formedon and being demandant maintains it by recovery in value by reason of a Warranty and so gave the Tenant ought not to traverse the conclusion viz. as he should do if he had avoided the special matter before because it is matter in fact triable by the Countrey but he ought to answer to the recovery triable by Record which proves That the special matter before the conclusion shall remain So 32. H. 6.14 by Litl If the Plaintiff in Assize makes to himself a Title and concludes and so he was seised until by the Defendant disseised now if this conclusion hath avoided the especial matter before then it ensueth that the Defendant cannot answer to the Title but the Law is That he ought to answer to the Title and traverse it by which it is proved that the conclusion hath not avoided the especiall matter before and in all these cases the matter before the conclusion and the conclusion are in the Affirmative as in Debt the Defendant pleads payment and so ows nothing and in Trespass the Defendant pleads a gift of the goods and so not guilty when it is agreed between any That a principal thing shall be done or had and before that this may be done or had there is another thing first to be done which is not certainly agreed who shall do the other thing the Law appoints him which hath the most skill to do the said other thing So 9. E. 4.4 One is bound to make the great Bell of M. tunable with the other Bels there in that case to say in Debt by Obligation That the Bell was not weighed judgement if action is no Plea because in construction of the Law he shall weigh it for it belongeth to his Office So a Taylor bound to make a gown shall shape the cloth So here the Collector in behalf of the King shall have the Subsidie which is the principal thing and therefore he shall weigh for it belongeth to his Office to try the certainty for without certainty the King may not be satisfied And in Trespass because that he justisies the necessary circumstance and mean or hath Title to the principal thing as 2. R. 2. Fitz. Bar. 333. and Perkins fol. 23. He may cut and carry trees granted to him and justifie it although the grass is spoiled by it So one may take Fishes in a Pond with Nets and justifie it but if he digg a Trench to drain out the water not A Collector may weigh when he pleases for where one shall have benefit upon the first act to be done by him and no time is limited when he shall do it the Law saith That it shall be done at his pleasure So the Mortgager shall pay when he pleaseth when no time is limited so one may marry the daughter of A. when he pleaseth if no time be limited so in the principal case for as much as payment shall be made to the Collector upon the weighing and no time is limited for the weighing the Law refers the time of it to the will of the Collector and so the agreement is good and perfect 3. H. 7.11 The Sheriff takes A. by Capias now he doth well but if he return non est inventus then he shall be a Trespassor ab initio but here the not weighing because the King refers this to the Collector in the behalf of the King in his default the agreement shall not be made void ab initio in prejudice of the Defendant which before was good notwithstanding that the agreement special is an agreement as Sanders confesseth yet it shall be construed best viz. general for the King as he urged The rules of the Common Law in the construction of Statutes prohibite this for Statutes Penal shall be taken and restrained to their general words favourably and to the benefit and not prejudice of him against whom the pain is inflicted and shall not extend farther then the words as W. 2. cap. 40. saith where the husband aliens the land of his wife quod secta mulieris non differatur c. per minorem aetatem heraedis qui warrantizare debet and saith not the Heir of the husband nor of a stranger yet 18. E. 4.16 and 17. E. 4.59 postea 47.
imbesseling of a Habcas Corpora upon a Formedon between the Plaintiff and another holden good whithout shewing the Original and certainty of the Land and all the Record in certain because the Record is but a conveyance to the suit of Deceit and therefore for this cause cannot be gainsaid as to say Nultiel Record But where a Record is pleaded in Bar all shall be shewed certainly and is Traversable there in Conclusion or general Demurrer as petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the Action one shall have advantage of all defaults and of every thing mentioned in the Record and of every point that the Law gives him In Conclusion speciall of defaults onely alleadged in certain as here petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the action there if it be void for another cause then this which is mentioned he shall not have benefit of this of a thing void ab initio as the Obligation here because void by Statute so in avoidance of a Deed That he was not a man lettered and that it was read to him in another form So 24. H. 8. 28. because delivered as an Escrow upon Condition the Conclusion shall be so not his Deed because the matter proves that it was never his Deed of a thing voidable where it was void after because once is was a Deed the Conclusion shall be Judgement if Action because the duty is now extinct as 1. H. 7. 15. by release 35. H. 6. 18. for nonage 7. E. 4. 5. by dures When the Conclusion is nought and the matter in Law good Officium Judicis est for to give Verdict against the Plaintiff if it appeareth that he had not cause of Action howbeit that the Defendant hath lost the advantage thereof as it is here So 7. E. 4. 31. Trespass against B. and C. B. pleads not guilty C. pleads the gift of B. found guilty and found for C. no judgement for the Plaintiff because found against him So. appeal of a woman for the death of her father 10. E. 4. 7. because she shall not have an appeal of the death of any man except her husband or Trespass against the Lord by distress where nothing is in arear because the Statute is Non ideo puacatur dominus abate ex officio although the Defendant accepts the Writ good for the Plaintiff shall be barted by the Court ex officio and shall not have judgement although the Defendant admits his Title or by his Conclusion hath concluded himself of his advantage if it appeareth that he had no Title 1. The first branch is commanding and authorising the Sheriff to let to Bail persons manipernable by the Common Law viz. persons taken by Writ Bill or Warrant upon an Action personall or indictment of Trespass for it was indifferent if they were guilty or not made in affirmance of the Common Law 2. The second Branch viz. The exception was also made in the affirmance of the Common Law before for such persons which were in by condemnation execution Capias ut legat c. were not bailable before 3. The third is onely the purview which relates to the second branch as well as to the first for before refers to all this spoken of before as well the thing excepted as otherwise as a Lease for years of a Mannor except a Close rendring Rent the Lessee binds himself to perform all Covenants Grants and Agreements expressed or recited in the Indenture and after disturbs the Lessor of a thing excepted he hath forfeletd the Obligation because it is an Agreement for when he excepted the Close the other was contented with it and that the Lessor should occupy it and recited goes to the exception as to the rest 45. E. 3. 4. contained and recited goes to every Covenant in the Indenture An Act done Colore officii is extortion as if an Officer takes more for Fees then he ought And an Obligation taken of a prisoner for meat and drink is void because it is colore officii for he nor the Plaintiff are not bound to give him sustenance as he which distrains is not bound to give although he be in for Felony because 7. H. 4. 47. his goods are his untill he be attainted by the Common Law which is confirmed by 1. R. 3. c. 3. Rastal Forfeiture fol. 15. and if he dies for want of sustenance it is his own fault because that by presumption his ill demeanor bringeth him to such imprisonment The Statute of R. 3. restrains the Sheriff and other Officers to take Obligations of their prisoners except the Warden of the Fleet and the Kings Pallace at Westminster A Sheriff lets to mainprise one taken by Capias upon an indictment of Trespass which for the surety of the Sheriff makes an obligation to a stranger to keep his day is 7. E. 4. 5. held to be void because taken to another and not to the Sheriff onely according to the Statute Also there it is held if the Obligation hath not the Conditions expressed in the Statute That it is not the Deed of the party ex quo sequitur that he ought to conclude not his Deed keeping without dammage shall be intended by the generalty for all things Treasons Felonies Accounts and for all times if another thing is added by the Statute to be given it shall make all void as if a Condition be made according to the Statute and hath another thing not according to the Obligation is void So to add other words in a Formedon or Writ of Waste which are given by Statute all is void So to alien all the Land when he hath licence for part the licence is void in all by the Statute of 32. H. 8. because he hath exceeded the Authority thereby given to him The Statute saith That the Sheriff shall let persons mentioned therein to bail upon reasonable surety of sufficient persons in the plural number and because there is but one surety here the Obligation is void Also because the Statute saith That if it shall be taken in any other manner then is contained in the Statute if shall be void Also here by Plowden yet taken by one at large by the words of the first branch and those aid then third branch every person which extends to those at large nor for any person in their Ward which extends only to prisoners Kidwelly against Brand. LEease for years rendring 40. s. Rent by the year at H. out of the Land at the Feast of M. and if the Rent be behind H. 4. 5. E 6. In the Common Pleas. and not paid by the space of 40. daies after the said Feast then it shall be lawfull for him c. for to re-enter the Reversion is granted for Life the Grantee cometh to the Land 40. dales after M. to demand the Rent aforesaid but demanded it not and for not payment re-entred and adjudged lawfull 1. A Grantee for Life of a Reversio is an assignee within the Statute of 32.
Litl fol. 108. before fol. 140. two Tenants in Common grant 20. s. it shall enure as several Grants 34. ass fol. 11. Grants totum piscariam salvo stagno molendini sui yet the piscarie passes not for the stagno shall be excepted and not the piscarie because he hath a Reversion in the Propriety of the land and possession of the Ter-Tenancy The nature of an habendum is to give in large or qualifie Malitiosa juris interpretatio herere in verbis c. the words are but witnesses to the contract reversion includes land by all Brown Justice To the same intent of the Abbot and Covent and of Smith and his wife was to have the land pass as a Lease after the paticular estate ended and not otherwise and from that hour that their intent was to have the word reversion enure that way it seemed to him That the Law would warrant it for the land is included in the reversion for if it was not a man by Granting of a reversion could not have the Land in possession after the particular estate ended And a Feoffment of a Carue habendum the Mannor of D. is good if the Carue maketh the Mannor And if land is parcel of an Office it shall pass by the Grant of the office Much more he said tending to the effect to make the Lease good and so the Plaintiff shall recover Brook Chief Justice to the contrary Estate in lands includes land it self land is a generall word and contains Grantor and reversion particular words containing a Decree where one estate onely intent shall be inclined and ruled by the Law and not otherwise and intent nevertheless in certainty of words as 9. H. 6.35 Renuntiavit communium and not to whom void before fol. 122. 13. E. 3. Husband and Wife Tenants for life grant reversion of the Land that he holdeth by Homage Fealty and Castle gard the Lord grants all Services Castle gard passeth not because he granted not the Castle But in Testaments the intent shall be onely observed and rule the Law because the Teastator had not time by presumption to ordain all things according to the Law In conclusion he agreed that Judgement should be given for the Plaintiff Hill against Grange A Man maketh a Lease for years of a Messuage and an hundred acres of land appertaining to it 3. Mar in Common Pleas in Trespass c. by Deed indented the 6. of August rendring rent yearly payable at our Lady day and Michaelmas or 10 days after with clause of re-entry and after Grants the reversion and the Grantee the last instant of the 10. day after Michaelmas demands the rent and enters for not payment and it was adjudged that the entry was good for these reasons 1. Land may not appertain to a Messuage because both are things corporate simply otherwise of Advowsons waies c. which are things incorporate but things Corporate or Incorporate may pertain or be parcel of a thing compounded as a Mannor Castle Knights Fees Honors Forrests Monasterie Rectorie fol. 170. a. But here the land passes as appurtenant but by the intent and phrase of the parties as they have said usually occupied or let c. 2. The rent shall be paid at the first Feast of M. for otherwise it cannot be annual notwithstanding the other feast be first named 10. E. 3. the Abbot of Osneys case 3. The demand of the rent the last instant is good 4. That the Gantee of a Common person is an Assignee to have benefit of a Condition or Covenant fol. 173. a. and shall not be intended of the Pattentee of the King 5. That the Pattentee of the Heir and Successors of E. 6. shall take benefit of the Condition by equity of the said Stat. and not by the words Things of distinct and several natures the one is not parcel of or appendant to the other as 8. H. 7.1 by Keeble a Warren cannot be pertaining to a Leet nor a Leet to a Hundred nor one Office to another nor land to other land to a thing Compounded they may as a Mannor Knights Fee Honor Monastery Castle and a Village or to words general as are Oxgang a yard land a hide of land which contains land meadow pasture wood c. Messuage is a single word consisting of a thing special and not Compound nor a general word for that 27. H. 6.2 Land not parcel or appendant to a house and by demand of a Messuage in precipe land shall not be recovered and therefore pass not by the Grant of a House by the Serjeants on the part of the Plaintiff 23. H. 8. and 31 H. 3. by Feoffment of a Messuage with the appurtenances Land passes not a Mannor and things made appertaining to it are made by usage and continuance So 2. H. 7.28 land belonging to a Forrest and Warden of the Fleet and the house of the Master of the Rolls and divers farms to the Guardians of the Castle of Colchester and one Office to another as the custos brevium giveth one of the Offices of prothonatories and use and continuance is cause of it A man Leases a Messuage and land rendring rent be ought to demand the rent at the Messuage because most worthy Perk. 166. Meadow appertains to land 3. E. 3. by the Serjeants on the part of the Defendant Norwood against Read Action upon the case upon assumpsit made by the Testator 5. Mar â—…n K. Bench. lieth against the Executors adjudged For that the Testator could not gage his Law otherwise it is where he might gage his Law for the ignorance that the Law imputes of it to Executors and therefore there they ought to Demur but if they plead in Bar which is found against them they have lost the benefit of the Law and take Conusance of it whereof otherwise their ignorance shall excuse them 39. H. 6.19 12. H. 8.11 27. H. 8.23 Woodward against the Lord Darcie IF the Debtor make the Debtee his Executor and leaves him assets to satisfie the debt 5. Mar. Reso by the Judges of both Courts and dies the Debtee may pay himself by way of retainer by the Court 12. H. 4 21. according And in such case the Action is not utterly exstinct by the Administration for that the Law intends that he is satisfied by retainer before and so a thing in Action altered to a thing in possession by Act in Law for satisfaction of the party which hath no other remedy but if he hath not sufficient assets for to satisfie the debt the administration there extinguishes not the Action because that he cannot retain for parcel and have his Action against the Heir for the residue but ought to do the one for the other at his peril Wrotesly against Adams A Lease for 80. years of a Farm Tr i El. in Com. Pleas. Ej. firme the Lessor granted the Reversion of the Farm to a stranger to have and to hold the Farm for 60. years after the
end and expiration of the first Term of years the Lessor maketh a Lease for life to the first Lessee for years during the first Term and the second Lessee Enters and upon an Ouster bringeth Ejectione firme and by the Court it well lyeth 1. By the Law by a Grant of the reversion of the Farm the Farm and all the Demeasnes of it pass because it is nomen collectivum and certain in its self and so it was adjudged in the case of Bridges That by the Demise of the Farm the reversion and rent incident to it passeth 2. That the word Reversion shall be intended land reverting in the premisses and the habendum and not the estate in reverter which hath his continuance but in respect of the Term and during it it is a Grant of the reversion habendum the farm or land or reversion after the particular estate ended are all one 3. That the second Lease for years commencing by any determination of the first Lease whether it be in Law or in Deed and the expiration refers to the Term and not to the years Term is an estate in or for years and is finished when the estate is finished and this may finish when the years remain If a man marry with a woman Termor and the woman dies her husband shall have the Term for notwithstanding that the marriage hath not divested this out of the woman during coverture yet by her death this is given to the husband by Act in Law because it is a thing in possession and not in Action The Law is the Common use in Letters Pleas and Judgements and the Common Law is but common use by Anthony Brown fol. 195. Stradling against Morgan EXceptions alleadged in arrest of Judgement 2 El. Exchequer debt upon not guilty pleaded by the Defendant and found against him 1. The Plantiff hath shewed in his Declaration That the Defendant was then receiver c. and saith not That the Mannors were the Queens then and therefore shall be intended more strong against him then it should be to a common person and by consequence the Defendant is Baily to a common person by the Court. 2. That no receiver or Baily accomptant of a common person shall be within the Statute of 7. E. 6. c. 1 but onely of the Queen by the Court. 3. That the Action was not maintainable and the matter well alleadged lieth in the Queens Courts at Westminster notwithstanding the Statute of 34. and 35. H. 8. for Wales for that they are in the Affirmative and not in the Negative 4. That by this Statute an Action of debt by original Writ lieth for the forfeiture in the Exchequer howbeit that the party hath not cause of priviledge there 5. The Plaintiff ought to make mention of the Statute of 38. H. 8. and 7. E. 6. in his count for that the one is founded upon the other 6. He ought to shew expresly in his Count That the Queen was seized and made him her Bedel 7. Jeofails remedies not mispleadings in counts adjudged in Moon and Cliffords case In Debt the Plaintiff counts That whereas he was Bedel and Collector of certain Mannors by vertue of Letters Pattents of H. 8. and had a Fee for it the Defendant being Receiver of the said Mannor in 3. and 4. P. and M. took extortion for the payment of his Fee viz. 4. d. for every pound against the form of the Statute of 7. E. 6. the Defendant pleads not guilty and found against him And yet judgement given against the Plaintiff because the Count was incertain to whom he was Receiver and shall be intended against him then done to a Common person and a Receiver of a Common person is not within 7. E. 6. yet within the words for the intent of the makers shall be observed in the exposition of Statutes and so acts general in words have been expounded to be but particular where the benefit hath been particular As the King shall not have Wardship of lands which discends to the youngest Son but of that which discends to the heir general 12. E. 4. Stamford fol. 8. yet the Tenant dyed seized of others in Fee because the Statute of Praerogativa regis cap. 2. intends where the land is holden of the King and a Common person discended to the same Heir where one is Heir to the Tenant And Praerogativa Regis cap. 3. intends not that Soccage in capite shall give to the King primer seisen of lands holden of a Common person yet the words are general before fol. 109. Stamford Prerogative fol. 13. So Marlebr cap. 4. intends where Signiory and Tenancie are in the same County and therefore the Lord may bring a Distress taken in one County to a Mannor in another County of which the land is holden 1. H. 6.3 30. E. 3.6 before fol. 18. So Glouc. cap. 1. giveth Damages to the Disseisee against him which is found Tenant after the Disseisor for that he is Tenant by his own agreement and therefore the Disseisee shall not recover Damages against him which agrees not to a Feoffment made to him and others by the Disseisor yet he is Tenant but not Tenant by his agreement Litl Remitter fol 153. so long 5. E. 4. fol. 142. if he hath view in a precipe and afterwards abates the Writ for false Latine or for some other cause apparent he shall again have another Writ because there the Court might have abated this without motion For W. 2. cap. 49. although general intends where the Tenant abates the Writ by exception not apparent by 25. E. 3. cap. 16. by non-tenure of parcel no Writ abateable but for the quantity intends if the thing demanded be several as Acres but all the Writ shall abate where the thing demanded is entire as a Mannor before fol. 109. and the intent of the Statute never was contrary to the Text. By W. 2. cap. 25. if one fail of a Record he shall be a Disseisor yet a woman Covert shall not be 11. H. 4.50 nor infant because excepted by the intent yee in words hath included all So extenders shall not pay presently according to the words of Acton Burnel which ought to answer presently c. but shall be debtors presently with the duty and chargeable with the payment and daies payable of the rent or Revenues receiveable So by Exposition it seems against the Text of the Statute and is not because the intent of the makers guides them to it Of the part of the Defendant it was argued That the Action shall be sued there in Wales where the receipt is alleadged although that Wales is united to England by 27. H. 8. because by the same Statute Wales is divided into 12. Counties and by 34. and 35. H. 8. four Justices are appointed for wales viz. one for every three Counties and hold plea of all things within their circuit and one seal appointed for every circuit and all Actions suable there by the words of
probat And by him the Ordinary ought not to suffer the Executor to refuse after he hath once medled with the Goods of the Testator for if before the probat he had released a Debt and after he proves the Will this hath made the release good Walsh probat maketh the Release of the Executor made before good because it is a consummation of the Will and refers to the death Dier Chief Justice If the Ordinary commit and after the Metropolitan commit to another because the intestate hath Goods of the value of 10 l. in diverse Dioces 10. H 7.18 this disproves the authority of the first Administrator and avoids his mean Acts and by Keeble the second Administrator shall have Trespass against the first for taking of the first Goods So 7. E. 4.12 Executor pleads that he hath proved the Testament the action of the Administrator depending against him a good Bar because the power of the Administrator disproved and mean acts avoided by Probat of the Testament and the Executor which is made not knowing of it if he agree after good seems to be 3. H. 7.14 The Ordinary ought to award Proces against the Executor to come in for to prove the Testament before he commits the Administration The Probat here disproves the Administration for ever and proves the Executor to be full Executor from the death of the Testator and is not like to the cases before fol. 239. because the mean time in which no Executor and this time the Ordinary hath authority The Seal of the Ordinary put to the administration is but matter in fact and no estopple and the executor shall not be inforced to sue in the spiritual Court to recall this but shall avoid it by Plea or by matter in fact as 44. E. 3.16 A. bringeth Debt against B. as administrator and sheweth certainly how his Deed was as he ought B. saith he and another are executors Judgement of the Writ and shew forth the Testament to prove it A. offers to aver that he died intestate B. saith to it he shall not be received contrary to the Testament proved and under Seal to take the Plaintiff from his averment but that he shall have it and try it by the Country also the taking of Letters of Administration discharges not a Suit against those which were executors of their own wrong before 21. H. 6.8 2. R. 3.20 So 34. H. 6.14 in debt by the Administrator the Defendant received to avoid Letters of Administration by saying the dead made an executor and taking issue upon it Chapman against Dalton A Man makes a Lease for 21. years by Indenture and Covenants with his Lessee Tr. 7. El. in the K. B. Covenant and his Executors to make a new Lease for 21. years after the expiration of the first to the Lessee and his Assignes the Lessee dies and the Executor of the Executor brings Covenant after the first Lease determined against the Lessor and adjudged good 1. That the executor is an Assignee in Law to whom the Lease ought to be made and so the executor of an executor by the Common Law 2. That the Lease ought to be made to the Lessee if he were alive or to his Assignes in Deed and if he die Assignee in Deed then to his executor and although that the Covenant be in the Copulative in the Letter yet it shall be expounded disjunctive in sense for to avoid absurdity or impossibility 3. Admitting that the word Assignee were void or omitted out of the deed yet this shall be made to the executor for that the intent was such which shall be performed where the words could not Baber and Wray argued for the Defendant as it is abridged by Ash fol. 50. Fleetwood and another apprentice for the Plaintiff Every Covenant and Grant shall be taken most strong against the Maker and most available to the other And if the words thereof have a double sense that which is for the benefit of the Grantee shall be taken then the word Assigned here shall be drawn to so effectuall sense for the avail of the Grantee And if the word Assignee as the Councel on the part of the Defendant would have it applied to a limitation viz. in the sense of an Habendum to him and his Assignes for 21. years it is void and conveys no benefit to the Grantee because if I Lease to A. for 21. years and his Assignes shall have this as largely as I do vest this Lease in him and his Assignes because the Law gives power to him to assign it to another Assignee hath two senses in the one it signifies the person to whom the thing granted or given shall be afterwards conveyed by him which hath the thing as the Lessor Grants to the Lessee for years That he or his Assignes shall have twenty Carts of Wood annually in such a Wood Assignee there hath the sense of the person to whom he shall Assign the Lease So one warrants Land to the Feoffee his Heirs and assignes there the second Feoffee shal vouch So I sell a Horse upon Condition That if I pay 40 s. to him or his Assignees that I shall have the horse again Assignee there is he to whom he grants the horse but such Assignee is not in our case because he hath not any estate first made and such a one is Assignee after the thing granted in the second it contains the person to whom the thing which is to be made and is not made shall be made as I am bound to make a Feoffment or give a horse to you or your Assignee there the Assignee is such a person which you shall name to me to receive and the Assignee in this sense is before the things done or granted and Assignes in this sense is in the first also But with this in the first sense we have not to do here there are Assignes in Deed and Law in Deed where you name such a one to whom I shall make the Feoffment or give the horse in Law where you name no man to receive then the Executor shall have it because the Law saith That they are your Assignes to such purpose and present your person as to receive any Chattels real or personal So 27. H. 8 2. Executor is an Assignee in Law to take a Rental where the Lessee bound himself to deliver it to the Lessor or his Assignes at the end of the Term a true rental and the Lessor made no Assignee he is an ill expounder which confounds the Text. And therefore here and the Copulative shall be taken for or the Disjunctive for otherwise the sense will be absurd that the Lessee if he had been alive at the end of the first Lease should not take a new Lease until he names his Asasignee or impossible as joyning his assignee in law with him because he cannot have an Executor in his life So in our Law a copulative is taken as a disjunctive and a disjunctive as a
Return of summons of the Exchequer because it concerneth the King himself there So 2. R. 3.4 2. H. 7.7 The Kings Grantee of Amerciaments of his Tenants shall not have the amerciament of his Tenant which holdeth of him and another because it is before other Tenants as well as my Tenant Charters of the King taken according to common intent and other things which have not common intent shall not pass from the King by his Charters And therefore 3. E. 3 the King Grants to an Abbot That he and his Successors shall be quit of repairing of Bridges Cawseys and Walls it discharges not him for repairing of such which he hath been used to repair by prescription as Lord of the Village but it is good otherwise of a Town to which the King hath Granted Murage Pannage or Pontage So 9. H. 6.56 before fol. 243. The Grantee of the King with Warranty shall not have in value without precise words but he may rebutt So 2. H. 7.6 The Grantee of the King of all Fines and Amerciaments in such a County he shall not have Amerciaments if the Sheriff Coroner or other great Officer is Amerced because Royal and a Grant shall enure for common things in intendment So 43. E. 3. ass pl. 15. The King Grants to his eldest Son the Dutchie of Cornwall cum omnibus Wardis Maritagiis c. And one which held of the Dutchie by Knights Service and which held also of one which was in Ward because of Ward by Knights Service dieth his Heir within age the Prince shall not have the Wardship of him but the King because a thing pertaining to the Crown passeth not without special words So the King maketh a County Palatine and giveth to another and Jura Regalia and that Pleas within the County shall be determined there yet he himself shall sue at Westminster his actions arising within the County Palatine as 3. E. 2. For an advowson in the County Palatine of Durham the King brings his Quare impedit in the Common Pleas the Defendant pleaded to the Jurisdiction of the Court and was compelled to answer So an Abbot by the Kings Grant made to him for the amortizing of Land or Tenements may not purchase an Advowson holden of the King in Capite and this case by Wray differs from the case in 41. ass pl. 19. before fol. 332. for there the Charter names the house but names not what Lands by which it cannot be intended that the King was mistaken in the Tenure and therefore it is good there and not for the cause of Ex gratia speciali So 19. E. 3. he might not appropriate an Advowson holden of the King by licence to appropriate So 1. H. 7 23 and 26. A sanctuary for Treason shall not be without speciall Words Ex merâ—… motu c. will not pass other things then the nature of the words contain And therefore the King Grants to a man and his Heirs males excerta scientia c. passeth not inheritance 28. H. 8. A Felon may not wage battail against the King because dangerous for the King Stamford fol. 180 and 182. nor against those of London in an appeal by the Kings Grant 20. E. 3. So if one takes the Kings goods wrongfully the King may seiz his goods until restitution and 8. R 2. if any take Toll of those of the Town of Lynn they may by the Kings Grant take withernam of those another time within their Jurisdiction And so the King conveys not from the Prerogative of his person to the person of another a fortiori he may here where the thing is not but Revenue or profit These words ad humilem Petitionem Comitis deminisheth the force of the Pattent by Catline by Plowden if Gold or Silver will not defray charges the King shall not have it because no mettal without them but because the party shewed it not as our case is the Queen shall have Judgement And this point was not put to the Judges to adjudge because that the Defendant confessed that it contained gold which is intended to be of good value because the best for the King Bret against Rigden A Man seized of 10. acres Soccage Devises all his Lands by writing Tr. 10. El in the Com Pl. Repl. and after purchases 12. acres Soccage and the Devisee dieth the Devisor saith to the Son of the Devisee That he shall be his Heir and have all the Land that his Father should have had if he had survived him and dies Adjudged that he shall not have the 12. acres 1. If the Devisee shall have the Land purchased by the Devisor after the making of his Will Manwood for the Defendant said That it shall be presumed that every one knows the Law in acts indifferent and that the Will is of no effect until the death of the party for ignorance of Law excuses no man and the date and writing of the Will is not effectual but the words of the Will shall be construed as they were spoken at the time of his death And therefore if a man Deviseth a Mannor in Fee a Tenancie escheateth and after the Devisor dieth the Devisee shall have the Tenancy because parcel of the Manor at the death of the Devisor when the Will taketh effect yet when the will made not A woman Deviseth Land and after takes husband which dies the Woman dies the Devise is good because she is discovert when it took effect as she was when she made her will and marriage cannot countermand it which was not of effect in her life Also because it intends no exception for the generality of the words As if she had Devised all her plate and after bought plate and died the Devisee should have all his plate at the time of her death for the ampleness of his words declares his intent to be benificially taken for the Devisee Lovelas and all the Justices for the Plaintiff to the contrary That Land purchased after the making of the Will cannot pass by the words nor intent of the Testator because he had not the 12. acres at the time of the writing and publication of the Testament it is no presumption that afterwards he would have and is as if he had died when he writ and published the Will and therefore cannot have an intent to give it and the death which is the Confirmation of the Will follows the first Acts thereof viz. the writing and publication of it for every Act founded upon discretion consists of 3. parts The first Inception which is writing of the Testament here The Second Progression which is the publishing of the Testament begun The Third is Consummation which is the self same and continues one through all these parts or otherwise the Act is void of discretion And by Lovelas it is proved That the Commencement is to be considered in Wills because if a woman Covert Devise Land by her Will and publish it and her husband dies and after she dies
their Husbands is contrary to the intent of the Statute and the intent ought to be thought on because the Purviewe extends not further then the intent of the makers of the Statute as the Wife infeoffs the Father of him with whom she intends to marry for to regive the Land to them after their intermarriage for lives or remainder in tayle to the Wife the Father doth so they have issue the Wife after the death of the Husband levies a Fine to other uses their issue may not enter yet it is with in the words of the Act of 11. H. 7. because the Father gave it to them But this cometh from the Wife her selfe by circumstance And the Father was but as an Instrument of it and therefore out of the intent of 11. H. 7. which restraineth the generalty of the letter of the Statute and maketh the Cases within the words out of the penalty of the Statute by the intent of the Makers As Infants and mad Men are excepted out of the Cases of Fellonies made by any Statute so neither those nor a Fem covert shall be concluded in the intent of the Statute which maketh them accessary which shall give them Meat Drink or other ayde to them which shall commit such an Act. So if a bargaine for Land be made before a Writ brought against him and the suite depending Livery and Seisen is made It is not Champarty 19. R. 2. because he ought to performe the bargaine made upon just consideration notwithstanding W. 2. Cap. 49. and Articul super Chart. Cap. 11. So a barr fee is within the letter but not the intent of the Statute of 32. H. 6. cap. 10. because appointed to the Sheriffe in the beginning by the order and discretion of the Court for his labour and attendance when the Prisoners are brought to their delivery 21. H. 7.16 So Wreck if a Man Dog or Car escapes alive shall be kept that the party may have his goods if he claimes within the yeare by W. 1. cap. 4. is intended of such things which will endure so long and not perish in the meane time as are Lemans Oringes c. So a rent granted by tenant in tayle for a release of right in other Lands is good 44. E. 3.21 because for the benefit of the estate tayle And W. 2. De donis c. intends not to restraine that which amends the estate tayle So Parsonages and Vicarages are within the words but out of the sense and intent of 1. E. 6. cap. 14. which inlargeth the words of the Statute and maketh that Cases within the like mischeife shall be within the Purview by equity as by the Book of entrys fol. 406. a man shall recover double damages for costs sustained with force by equity of 4. H. 4. cap. 8. which gives this for disseisen of the Land So that Executor which cometh first by distresse shall answer by equity of 9. E. 3. cap. 5. which speaketh of Executors by equity of Gloucester the Lessor shall have wast against the Lessee for half a yeare or for twenty weeks which pleads yeares So 1. E. 6. cap. 12. which takes away Clergy for stealing Horses takes it away also for one Horse because included in the Plurall Number and therefore Plowden disallows 2. E. 6. cap. 33. which taketh away Clergy for the stealing of one Horse as a superfluous Statute and was made in vaine And so 1. E. 6 cannot of Law but morall vertue which reforme the Law and the other equity is Quasi equality because in the like reason in the like Law Sobye against Molins TIthes shall be payd for the Boughs of Hornebeame H. 17. El. in the Kings Bench. Attachment upon prohibition Hasell Sallows Maple and such Trees which are not fit for building and so of the Trees themselves although that the Trees and Boughs are above the age of one and twenty yeares for they are not great Trees which are exempted and priviledged of Tithes by the Statute of 45. E. 3. cap. 3. or rather by the Common Law in affirmance of which this Statute was made as appeareth 50. E. 3.10 But Tithes shall not be payd for Ashes Oaks and Elmes Beech and such like Trees which are fit for building and of the age of twenty yeares nor for the Branches of them which are of the age of twenty yeares Quere if the Branches are within such age as the Timber trees which use to be lopped and lopt if Tithe shal be payd for them and it seemeth Tithes shall be payd of them by the Book The use at this day is upon suggestion to have a prohibition that the party shall be bound by Obligation or Recognisans to the King to preferr a Bill of attachment against the party which sues in the spirituall Court if he requires it and upon it to declare and joine issue or demurr upon the right of Tithes and award consultation which Plowden held vicious First for that the Defendant is not Actor and therefore may not have consultation upon such proceedings Secondly For that the Judgement upon the Attachment ought to be to acquit or attaint the party of the Contempt and not proceed upon the right of Tithes Thirdly For that the Plaintiffe cometh into the Court voluntarily Scilicet by his Recognisans to exhibit his Attachment where he ought to be brought in voluntarily by Process Fourthly Because the suggestion of the Attachment is false Fifthly For that if the Plaintiffe will not proceed the Defendant hath no remedy but a Recognisance forfeited to the King But Plowden held it to be the best course after the prohibition that the Defendant sues out a Scire facias against the Plaintiffe Quare consultatio concedi non debeat And upon this the Plaintiffe may declare and the matter shall be tryed and the Defendant may have consultation and then he will be an Actor Sanders and Archers Case ARcher gave Poison to Sanders to Poison his Wife H. 18. El. the Report of the opinions of Dyer Cheife Justice and Barham Justices of Assises in Warw. and Sanders gives this to his Wife in a roasted Apple which did eate part of it and gave the residue to their daughter being an Infant and after the Wife recovers and the Infant dyes and it was adjudged Murder in Sanders for which he was hanged but not in Archer for he was acquit to be no accessary to this Murder First For that Sanders had an evill intent of Murder at the beginning of his Act to kill his Wife and therefore the consequent of his Act by which the Daughter dyes shall be adjudged according to the commencement So if a man shoots at one and kills another or lyeth in waite to kill one and kills another otherwise it is where he hath no ill intent of killing any as to lay poyson to kill Rats and one eates of it and dyeth Secondly The consent of Archer to kill the Woman may not bee conjectured further then he gave it