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
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
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.
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.
thereof he entred this is a departure from the Bar for it is a new matter For the same reason a special agreement in evidence shall not maintain the general issue one witness is not enough nor one Juror for to try an issue if more were warned by the Sheriff 8. E. 3.50 So here the Defendant had but one witness which proves for him which is not sufficient and so judgement shall be given for the King Atkins for the Defendant A witness produced to prove a thing if he saith That he knoweth nothing of the matter his deposition is void so if he depose negatively as to say no more was not entred then so much and if no witness the knowing of the Jurors aid not the tryal of the matter and a Verdict given contrary to the testimony of witnesses good It is not needfull to aver that which of necessity must be intended as that the King hath a Beam there special agreement is an agreement as a Feoffment upon condition is a Feoffment and so this word Agreement includes every agreement by which the evidence well maintains the issue The Statute speaks not of surety and peradventure intends it not and therefore in vain to speak of it and therefore it may be he hath not answered to this exception Agreement in our Law is threefold viz. Executed at the beginning of it with payment intended by the Statute of 25. E. 3. cap. 3. which saith That goods bought by fore-stallers are forfeited to the King if the buyer had made agreement with the seller such agreement is not meant in our case because then the Statute should not be intended in the disjunctive for then the first and the second clause should be all one but the word Or disjoyns the clauses Agreement to an act made by another as in 20. E. 4.9 To a disseisin to his use maketh him a disseisor from the beginning so the party ravished to agree to the ravisher is an agreement executed here because nothing is to be done afterwards and agreement here may not be an executory agreement because the performance shall be afterwards yet both parties accord at one time before 26. H. 8. cap. 3. intends such because it speaks of payment or agreement for first fruits c. and common usage to pay after upon obligation made before proves this which intends agreement executory and here agreement is intended executory because it is not the first nor the second and an agreement executory is Duplex the one certain at the beginning as this of first fruits the other by matter ex post facto upon certainty to be known as here and such agreement executory the Statute will warrant for no Law will punish him in whom there is no default and where he cannot prevent the mischance by no possibility for the necessity of the matter and for that inevitable chance shall not prejudice any 20. H. 7.11 Fineus A man by the Common Law may kill another in his own defence or as a champion for the necessary safeguard of his life and the Tryal of right so notwithstanding the custom of the Realm new Natura brevium 94. b. If enemies of the King steal of Guests the Hoastler is discharged because he cannot resist So if the ship were on fire the casting of the goods on the land without payment or agreement for the Subsidie shall excuse the Defendant so here the extremity of the Tempest doth excuse the vigor of the Statute Sanders the Kings Serjeant Notwitstanding that an agreement conditional is included in the words of the Statute viz. The Collector not agreed with yet every Statute although it be penal shall be taken as the makers intended for the Statute of Waste is If any make waste in Lands which he holdeth by Demise c. yet if his Estate be Ex ligatione it shall be punishable in waste and yet the Statute gives Ex demissione onely suo de assignat and so it is holden 10. H. 6.3 But Gloucester cap. 5. W. cap. 14. nor Martebridge cap. 13. speaks nothing de demissione So quia emptores terrarum viz. W. 3. speaks secundum quantitatem terrae intend valore So 4. E. 4.12 An information for shipping Wooll without sureties of the carrying of Bullion according to the 14. E. 3. the last chapter holden good because the finding of sureties is not repealed by the general words of 36. of E. 3. cap. 11. which giveth the old custom of half a Mark for every sack after three years nor of 45. E. 3. cap. 4. which imposeth no charge upon Wooll other then Custom and Subsidie granted to the King and without assent of Parliament and the two last Staâ—intend not for to discharge Bullion but great Subsidies upon Wooll after 3. years so that the mind intent of the makers shall expound the general and doubtfull words of Star and abridge the generalty of them so here it shall be intended an agreement certain Also because the Commons pray the King That he will be pleased to accept of their Grant for that the words of the Statute which is their Grant shall be taken more beneficial for the King and most strong against the Grantors according to the Principle of the Common Law in case of a common person So the Statute of Prerogativa Regis 17. Ed. 2. Rastal wards 13. is the Grant of the Commons to the King which saith The King shall have the custody of all the Lands of such which hold of him by Knights service in Capite whereof the Tenants were seized in their Demeasne as of Fee at the day of their death of whomsoever they hold also by like Knights Service and notwithstanding that Fee is commonly taken to be Fee-Simple yet the King shall have of Tail because it shall be construed most strongly for the K. where it hath two intendments Agreements upon which the Common Law giveth no remedy are void and not good as in 19. H. 6.36 Upon an information for the forging of false Deeds the Defendant pleads Arbitrement made viz. That the Plaintiff shall not farther prosecute his Writ against the Defendant and saith also That the Defendant shall be non-suited in the Assize This is no Plea because non-suited founds not in satisfaction and cannot compell him to be non-suited for the award is not good if it be not executed wholly or the thing awarded may be recovered by action and therefore in 6. H. 7.10 In Trespass to say That he hath paid money but he hath not made his windows which the Heir may compel him to do for the concord is intire but wants execution in all and indeed before action brought is not good then it is performed yet not immediately and therefore it was held no Plea So in 27. ass pl. 5. A Baily known pledge the Ox of his Master for Wheat and if he pays not c. he shall keep the Ox alwaies This shall bind the Master because the wheat cometh to his use otherwise
Discender if it be out of the words yet it shall be taken by equity although it be penal to some man for here it restrains the Liberty of Tenant in Tail because it was for to redress false Covin for to advance right and justice and benificial to the weal-publick As W. 2. cap. 3. gives a cui in vita upon a recovery by default which was a wrong to the Wife and therefore gave Cui ante Divortium by equity So Marlebridge cap. 6. De primogenith and of Feoffment yet if the first Son dies and he infeoffees the second Son or Levy a Fine it shall be taken by equity because it redresses Covin which the Law abhors So 1. H. 7. cap. 1. gives a Formedon in Remainder against Pernors of Profits and 14. H. 7.31 and after 178. scire facias for to execute a Remainder against the taker of the Profits shall be maintainable by equity No judgement was ever given in this case for this default viz. because he had not shewed certainly how he was Heir and in special for that it was issuable and Title given is certain Note that all the Justices held the case here within the words of the Statute of 11. H. 7. And if it were not within the words that yet it was within the equity of the Statute And they held also that the Heir may enter immediately that is to say in the life of Tenant in Tail but no judgement was given Dive against Maningham ONe was in prison in execution upon a Recognisance of Debt M. 4 E. 6 In the Common Pleas in debt taken according to the Statute of 23. H. 8. cap. 6. and the Defendant being a stranger made an Obligation to the Sheriff indorced with Condition That the prisoner should save him from dammage against the King and the Conusee and also that he should be alwaies at his commandment as a true prisoner to appear before the justices and the King at Westminster or elsewhere within this Realm And it was adjudged a void Obligation by the Statute of 23. H. 6. c. 10. 1. For that the prisoner was not bailable but excepted by the Statute which in this point is not but an affirmance of the Common Law 2. For that That the third branch of the Statute which maketh all Obligations vold taken for any the causes abovesaid against the form there expressed extends as well to the second branch in which the exception is as to the first for the generalty abovesaid and also by the intent of the Statute to suppress the extortion of Sheriffs in this behalf 3. Although it shall not be so yet he taketh the Obligation colore officii as Sheriff of his prisoner and so within the Statute 4. No day or place of appearance is limited in the Condition so the form appointed by the Stat. is not observed 5. Other things are mixt in the Condition with the apparance as that he shall save harmless and this shall be intended there for all things and at all times 6. He had but one surety and the Statute speaks of surety of sufficient persons in the plural number by Montaigue fol. 63. 7. The Obligation here is void by course of the Common Law for that the Condition is against the Law for the party is not bailable 2. H. 4.9 The Extent ought to precede the Liberate here are both in one Writ yet in nature they are several but the Writ remains good for the extent and the other is surplusage 7. H. 4. 44. for Toll not paid the Writ was Tolloneum asportavit illud solvere recusavit asportavit is void because surplusage and it abates not because he refused to pay for that is sufficient and be the Writ good or bad in Law it shall stand in force until it be Reversed by Error because an ancient Record 37. H. 6. 1. the Sheriff took a single Obligation for to let one to Mainprise which is not Mainpernable it was void because he took colore efficii which is taken alwaies in ill part and implies that the thing is done by pretence of Office but not yet duely and their office is but a vail and shadow to falsity Virtute officii or Ratione officii taken in good part because it is alwaies where the Office is just which causeth the thing it is pursuant to the office Obligation is void where the condition is contrary to Law as to be saved harmless if he kils a man or doth commit trespass so here the Obligation is void by the Common Law because it was to save the Sheriff harmless for wrong done against the Law as is the letting the Prisoner at freedom he being one which is not Bailable So 2. H. 4. 9. A Baily by withernam takes the Beasts of the Defendant and afterwards re-delivers them to the Defendant upon Obligation given to him by the Defendant for the saving of him harmless wherefore holden void because it was to aid the Baily for this wrong in the re-delivery of the beasts to the party for he ought to have detained them untill c. And afterward Mollineux Hales and Brown Justices argued to the same purpose Montague Cheif Justice It is likely to me that the Plaintiff shall be barred for an Act which is general in particularity or particular in a generality which is all one as in 13. E. 4. 8. That all Corporations and Licences made by H. 6. shall be void So that all Bishops or Justices shall do such an Act shall be pleaded but a general Act which extends to every man not but the Justices ought to take Conusance thereof but if this Act hath several branches concerning several matters yet contained in one Chapter there he needs not recite all but this onely which concerns him and maketh for his purpose for every branch is a several Act by it self But a Record shall not be pleaded inter alia for it is intire upon one Originall and one Judgement upon it but ought to plead certainly all the Record when it is pleaded in Bar because the Record is the matter of substance and the effect of the Bar which ought to be plain and perfect when the Record is but conveyance and induction to the Bar or Action it is sufficient to reciteithis which is the cause of the Action as 34. H. 6. 48. A Tenant by Elegit makes avow in â—…eplegiare for that he had execution as Tenant by Elegit and made a Lease reserving Rent for which being arear he avowed he needed not shew the Record because the Lease onely is traversable and is the effect of the Avowry and the execution by Elegit is the Record from which it issues which is nothing but conveyance to the effect and therefore it sufficeth to begin at the Execution upon Damages recovered without pleading how lie brought his first Action and what answer the Defendant made or such like So in the 19. H. 6. 29. a Bill of Deceit against an Attorncy for
be a general because the not referring to the science of the Judges as he doth if he saith generally contra formam Stat. c. a Statute hath no words in vain Whiddon for the Plaintiff A general Statute shall not be recited as 27. H. 8. of Conveyance of the possession to the Use So the demandant may Demur without recital of the Statute of W. 2. c. 36. If the Tenant vouches out of the line So an Executor of an Executor shall have account without recital of the Statute of 25 E. 3. cap. 5. So 5. H. 7.17 Information for Liveries good without reciting of the Statute Misrecital of the surplusage shall not make the mattor bad as 21. H. 6.1 by Newton one as an Executor shall not bring an action of Debt upon a Contract made with himself he shall not shew the Testament for that the naming of him Executor is surplusage So 33. H. 6.19 by Danby in Detinue against two as Executors They shall not plead that another is Executor with them because they are not charged as Executors But Detinue is cause of Action and the naming of them Executors is surplusage A man shall not aver that which by the Statute is made apparent as the Lord shew that he entred into the Land within the year because his Tenant aliened to the Dean and Chapter he shall not aver that it is Mortmain because it appeareth now nor here that it is a pretenced right because he counts that the Defendant nor his Ancestors c. were not in possession the space of a year before the Lease and then is pretenced Conveyance to the Action as the Lease is here shall not be pleaded So certainty is the substance it self as appeareth 34. H. 6.4 by Prisot in decies lantum If the Plaintiff sheweth such part of the Record as conveys him to his Action it is sufficient without shewing all But a Writ judicial ought to recite the Record certainly out of which it issueth because the Record is the substance and effect there and not only the Conveyance a stranger to the Deed or thing as the Plaintiff here is to the Lease that he pleads shall not shew the certainty of it as 35. H. 6.8 after fol. 148.13 H. 7.19 By Fineux au ancient Major in Trespass justifie the taking of goods because the Plantiff was out-lawed without shewing Pattent because he is now as a stranger to them for it belongeth to the successor and not to him So a Wife shall have Dower for a Rent Charge granted to the husband without shewing the Deed. So 7. H. 6.1 by Strange Lessee in Debt against him for Rent reserved may say That the Estate of his Lessor was upon Condition for which broken such a one had entred before the Rent arear Judgement if Action without shewing what condition Sanders to the same intent The Statute here although penall yet because it is beneficial for the Common Wealth viz. for to avoid maintenance subordination of witnesses c. Things taken out of the Works thereof taken by equity and the words obscurely expounded most strong for the Common wealth and words are but the image of the Statute and the life thereof in the minds of the makers and Expositors of it and which approach nearest to their minds are the true Expositors and words should be inclinable to the mind So W. 3. cap. 2. Fines upon Lands intailed ipso jure sit millus viz. as to right to be bound but as to the possession is a discontinuance before fol. 57. and after fol. 137. So the heir may demand the heritage of his Mother aliened by his Father if he onely Levied the Fine Yet Gloucester cap. 3. saith Whereof no Fine is Levied intends lawfull Fines by the Father and Mother before fol. 57. So a Statute Marchant wills that it shall be delivered to the Conusee Yet 21. E. 3.21 shall be delivered to the extendors because prised too high it shall he delivered to the praisors for the price after f. 172. So if the Plaintiff be nonsuit in a second deliverance the Defendant shall recover Dammages by the equity of 7. H. 8.4 Return irreplevisable shall be awarded and so by this means the Plaintiff is barred and so the intent of the makers directs the words and equity of Statutes Lessee for years hath a right Estate and Title to Enter right because by Bracton he hath jus utendi fruendi in alieno libero Tenemento an Estate because a Remainder in Fee is good upon a Lease for years and a Remainder is not good without an estate precedent Title because 7. H. 7.11 a Termor may falsifie a faint Recovery against his Lessor by the Common Law So 9. H. 6.64 by Strange I grant to B. That if my Tenant for life dies living my self that he shall have for 10. years B. may maintain because he hath colour yet he hath nothing and is in doubt if he shall have it for 10. years or not Then if the Leffee for years hath such interest that by the Common Law he may maintain there is no need of a remedy for all other the Statutes before avoid maintenance the suit depending for the Staute of 32. H. 8. is made for the avoidance in medling with other mens matters before any suit or after Account shall not abate for default of form if it hath substance 36. E. 3. cap. ultimo After fol. 190. If one be found guilty of an offence which is pardoned by Parliament Judges ought not to proceed to judgement yet it is not pleaded because they are bound to take notice of it for it appeareth to them by judicial knowledge 26. H. 8 7. by Fitz. H. But if A. kill B. in the presence of the Justices and C. is found guilty of it 7. H. 4.41 by Tirwit and Gascoin the Justice ought to respite judgement because he knoweth the contrary but not to acquit C. because he cannot judge of his own knowledge 22. E. 4.47 where it was granted by Parliament That A. should have a Writ with Proclamation out of the Chancery against one G. to answer divers trespasses which were contained in the Act of Patliament and the Writ was abated by award because it did not mention those Trespasses in certainty because a private Act and there not recitall or misrecital shall hurt And as to the cerainty of the Term he shall not shew it because he is a stranger to it As the Defendant shall plead Joyntenancie of the Plaintiff without shewing of whose gift All the Court say That Declarations ought to have certainty So that the Defendant may know to what thing he ought to answer after fol. 193. and 3. H. 7.12 So 3. E. 4.21 In Debt for a sallary against a Successor declares That he was retained with his Predecessor and shews not who retained him because a stranger may retain him the County shall abate by the better opinion for the incertainty good by Brook Laborers 39. and the truth is That
was indicted before the said 15. of divers Treasons and express none in certain and ex illa causa and causis to proceed against him according to the Law whereupon he was arraigned and condemned thereupon accordingly and after the said attainder was confirmed by Act of Parliament which recites the said attainder and confirms it and besides ordains That the said attainted persons shall be attainted of high Treason c. And the attainder upon the indictment and the confirmation by Parliament were adjudged void 1. For that the Indictment taken before 15. is not an Indictment taken before 8. for the lesser number will not include the greater but the contrary and there may be two Indictments one taken before 15. and the other before 8. and for that the number is exprest there is certaintie what Indictment the Queen intended for misprision of time place and number shall make the thing void when they are limited for certainty and take away incertainty as of the time of 7. E. 3.26 one brings a Writ and Recites that it is contained in the Articles made in the time of King Edward Father of the King Edward the Third that no Sheriffe should put into Inquests c. and declare over according to the Statute the Writ was abated by Award for that the Articles that is to say Articuli super Chartas cap. 9. was made in the time of Edward the First and not in the time of King Edward the Second which was Father to King Edward the Third So E. 3.25 a Statute Merchant was made to pay 16. E. 3. and the party sued Execution and the Writ supposed the summe to be paid 14. E. 3. and by the suite the Feoffee was ousted and sued his Writ of Errour in the Kings Bench for the Kings Bench because it is the highest Court. shall revers Error upon suits in the Chancery according to the order of the Common Law So a defeasans which â—…tes a Statute to be made the 10. day of May where it was the first is void because time certain and that to which Acts are referred is materiall because there may be two Statutes the one the first the other the tenth day Misprision of the place as 38. H. 6.34 one pleads Letters Patents dated at Westminster where it did beare date at another place Naught because the place is materiall and is circumstance and witnesse of verity and certainty So by Commission to arraign one upon an Indictment at Dale in the County of C. where he was Indicted at another place in the same County there may not be arraigned by this authority for the reason aforesaid Misprision of number as 23. Assises placit 7. Writ of Redisseisâ—n abate because the Sheriffe tooke with him but one Coronor where Merton cap. 3. appoint two at the least So in a Precipe there ought to be twelve Summoners So 8. H. 7. pla ultima the number limited by the Act 3. H. 7. cap. 1. concerning the Star-Chamber ought to be observed So an accountant found in arrearages shall not be committed to Prison if there be not two Auditors because W. 2. cap. 12. saith auditorum So 2. E. 3.8 A Writ of Attaint supposed that the Verdict passed before 4. Justices and the Record proves that before 2. there is no Warrant to take this Attaint But 31. E. in the Booke of Assises pl. 1. a Procedendo supposed that the Assise was arraigned before 2. where it was before 3. good because no falsity there because the greater comprehends the lesse not on the contrary 2. By Anderson which was of Counsell for the Defendant and which in part confessed that the arraignment was not duly made yet said that it was not void but voidable See there the Office of Justices for Treason and their Authority for judgement given where the due circumstances of Law are not observed is not void but voidable by Error as 7. E. 4.3.11 H. 7.4 and 2. Mar. 1. Judgement given upon a Plea of Land 21. H. 6. and 21. E. 4.4 and 62. where a Fine levied without Originall is voidable by Error and by him and Lovelace this Writ of Error is taken away here because a thing defeasable confirmed by Parliament is made indefeasable The counsell of the Earle to the contrary clearly that the Authority given to the Mayor and the others by the second Commission is to proceed upon one Indictment and he proceeds upon another and so exceeds his Authority and therefore shall be void Also they are no Justices of the Treason expressed in it And there is not any such Indictment and no Treason in certain is expressed in their Commission But the Relation is generall to treasons contained in the Indictment where in truth there is not any such Indictment and so the relation of a thing incertain in it self to a thing which is not done the thing referred is void otherwise it is of a thing certain as before fol. 169. A Lease of all his Lands in D. which he hath by his Mother where 2. E. 4.27 before fol. 191. releases all his right in them and hath no Land there by the Mother but by purchase with his Father this Lease and Release are void for the cause aforesaid But otherwise it is where he leases and releaseth all his right in White acre in Dale which he hath by his Mother or hath by his Father or Purchase because the saying there which he hath by his Mother is surplusage because it was certain enough before all the parts of the Commission shall be considered together and fulfilled as of every other Deede As for the last part of the Letter of Atturney although as well to deliver seisen as to take by the words of the first part So here because they have authority to arraigne the Plaintiffe upon the Indictment onely taken before fifteen and he was arraigned by Indictment before eight of them all is void and Coram non Judice And it is not resemblable to the Cases put by Anderson fol. 349. because there they have authority upon the Cause and the Cause was within the Jurisdiction of the Court and the Order is misused in which Case the Acts shall not be void but voidable But where one is assigned to doe one thing and he doth another as here this other is meerly void and without Authotity as 9. E. 44. by Choke He who Arbitrates another thing then is committed to him makes such Arbitrement void Anderson and Lovelace for the Defendant the Plaintiffe shall be taken by this Statute to be attainted or at least concluded to say otherwise because the recitall of the Act is an Estoppell to all because every Subject is party and ptivy to an Act of Parliament and the Statute shall not be void to all intents And the Expounder ought not to make Exposition for to confound the Text by 27. H. 8. c. 10. A woman may refuse her Joincture if assigned after Marriage implies that if it were assigned before
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