Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	debt_n	executor_n	testator_n	1,390	5	12.7600	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75476	The Anti-Levellers antidote against the most venomous of the serpents, the subtillest monopolizers. Collected by divers officers and soldiers of the army, and other honest people of this nation.		1652 (1652)	Wing A3501; Thomason E673_10; ESTC R207181	37,344	43

thousand Parishes there is in every of them a Hunred Court or Three-Weeken Court held every three weeks in the year for every ten of those Parishes which amount to eight hundred three Weeken or Hundred Courts in those eight thousand Parishes besides a County Court for every of the fourty Counties held every Month for every of such Counties yeatly In every of which Courts have been very few or none regarded by the Judges Stewards or Sheriffs there or suffered quietly to practise as Counsel or Attorneys in such Courts but such as are or usually have been were or usually be Under-Sheriffs Deputy-Sheriffs Bayliffs or such like who usually side with or are linked or allyed to such Under-Sheriffs Deputies or persons and partake with them in their Exactions and Extortions before mentioned and in some of such Courts they Monopolize as much as in the Corporation and other Courts before mentioned by which means seldom any other but such persons before mentioned come to or practise in such Courts and thereby those Monopolizing and siding persons do what they please in Suits in such Courts and usually cause the Suitors in those Suits to pay what they lust or otherwise to betray their Causes and so defraud them and by those means cause as much or more expences and charges and exact and extort in those Courts last mentioned more then in the Corporation and other Courts therewith before mentioned which is cast up but only to as much In the like Courts which have been and are like to be again in wales and Ireland if not prevented there hath been such yearly Expences Trouble and Charges Exactions and Extortions occasioned to half as much as last before mentioned Twenty Tryals for every hundred of Parishes at 20 l. apiece come to four hundred pounds 400 li. Double for Winter and Summer eight hundred pounds 800 li. For eight thousand Parishes besides London and Middlesex eight times 8000 l. is sixty four thousand pounds 64000 l. A sixth part so much more for Tryals in London and Middlesex ten thousand six hundred sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence 10666 l. 13 s. 4 d. Total eighty three thousand eight hundred sixty six pounds thireen shillings and four pence 83866 l. 13 s. 4 d. Half-as much in those taken up after Counsel retained Fourty one thousand nine hundred thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence 41933 l. 6 s. 8 d. pa For the Superior Courts the Total of all these One hundred twenty five thousand and eight hundred pounds 125800 l. Half as much for Ireland and Wales Sixty two thousand and nine hundred pounds 62900 l. pa The Total of England Wales and Ireland One hundred eighty eight thousand and seven hundred pounds 188700 l. Two hundred Courts in a year in every Corporation eight Tryals in every of them one with another sixteen thousand ten pounds expence in every of them cometh to One hundred sixty thousand pounds 160000 l. As much in County Hundred and three Weeken Courts One hundred and sixty thousand pounds 160000 l. Total Three hundred and twenty thousand pounds 320000 l. Half as much in Ireland and Wales One hundred and sixty thousand pounds 160000 l. Total in all Courts Six hundred fourty eight thousand and seven hundred pounds 648700 l. 42. For recording of Conveyances to preserve Purchasers from being defrauded of their Estates purchased for mony by former Sales of the same or Statutes and Judgments or such like Incumbrances upon the same 43. And for prevention of Executors and Administrators from being put to pay Debts out of their own Estates to their undoing after they have payd as much as the Testators or Intestates Estates have amounted unto 44. And for saving of many Debts which Creditors Devisees nd Legatees have lost and like to lose 45. For Preservation of many Ships which have been fraudulently over-charged with Engagements upon the same called Bottomre by wicked and unconscionable Persons sailing in the same and after by them wilfully run a-ground and thereby besides the loss of the Ships the Creditors defrauded above the value thereof If these 42 43 44 and 45 were Ordained there would be no less then one million 1000000 l. besides twenty thousand pounds 20000 l. in the abatement of the charge of Conveyances yearly saved to the honest people of this Nation as we are informed by most with whom we have conferred about the same for then could no man be so defrauded as formerly but such things would be prevented in manner and form as is mentioned in the several Propositions and Proposals at large published concerning the same for now of late few can rely upon the Oath of any to a Bill exhibited against him in Chancery for discovery of Incumbrances which hath been formerly accounted a good course before divers unconscionable people have grown too crafty many false Oaths of late having been made to such Bills and the parties thereupon relying defrauded of many great sums of Money And divers people who have continued in Debt several years together and some of them borrowed Mony upon Lands and Tenements of griping Usurers for far less then the value thereof have been constrained to forgo the same for so much only by reason such needy persons use to incumber such Tenements with Bargains Sales Leases Annuities Statutes and Judgments and other Incumbrances that few dare meddle with the same but at an under-value sometime at half and at other times at less then the value thereof and divers who have delt with merciless Creditors have had their Woods cut down and sold at a very small value and their houses demolished and their Lands and Tenements extended at small rates and thereby many others of the Creditors have either lost or come short of their Debts and such poor people their wives and children utterly undone All which the Enacting of those Propositions would prevent and save many ships from perishing and preserve many Executors and Administrators from undoing by paying Debts out of their own Estates after they have formerly payd as much as the Estates which have been of such Testators and Intestates at the time of their deceases came to And many Creditors of other such Testators and Intestates from losing their Debts 46. That poor Prisoners not able to pay may be let out till they shall become of ability 47. That the Estates of Prisoners of ability may be sold to satisfie their Debts notwithstanding their lying in Prison 48. And that those lying in Prison and fraudulently concealing their Estates or which wilfully shall consume the Estates which they shall get into their hands of others may be strictly held to work for the benefit of their Creditors till satisfaction given or agreement made with them If these 46 47 and 48 Propositions and Proposals were Enacted then would be saved to the honest people of this Nation to the value of three hundred thousand pounds 300000 l. at least yearly hereafter besides yearly saving of