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A58086 Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.; Expositiones terminorum Legum Anglorum. English and French. Rastell, John, d. 1536. 1685 (1685) Wing R292; ESTC R201044 504,073 1,347

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Executors he that doth appear by Distress shall answer doth extend by Equity to Administrators for such of them as appear first by Distress shall answer by Equity of the said Act because they are of the like kind So likewise the Statutes of Gloucester gives the Action of Waste and the Penalty of it against him that holds for Life or Years and by the Equity thereof a man shall have an Action of Waste against him that holds but for one year or half a year yet this is without the words of the Statute for he that holds but for half a year or one year doth not hold for years but that is the meaning and the words that Enact the one by Equity Enact the other Errant ERrant id est Itenerans comes from the French word Errer id est Errare or if the old word Erre id est Iter and is appropriated unto Iustices that go Circuit and to the Bailiffs at large who are therefore called Justices Errants and Bailiffs Errants because they go and travel from place to place the one to do Iustice and the other to execute Process See Eire Error ERror is a Fault in Iudgement or in the Process or Proceeding to Iudgment or in the Execution upon the same in a Court of Record which in the Civil Law is called a Nullitie Error is also the name of a Writ that lies where Iudgment is given in the Common place or before the Iustice in Assise or Oyer and Terminer or before the Major and Sheriffs of London or in other Court of Record against the Law or upon undue and ill Process then the party grieved shall have this Wrft and thereupon cause the Record and Process to be removed before the Iustices of the Kings Bench and if the Error be found it shall be reversed But if an erroneous Iudgment be given in the Kings Bench then it could not be reversed but by Parliament until the Statute of 27 Eliz. cap. 8. Also if such a Default in Iudgment be given in a Court not of Record as in a County Hundred or Court-Baron the party shall have a Writ of False Iudgment to cause the Record to be brought before a Iustice of the Common-place Also if Error be found in the Exchequer it shall be redressed by the Chancellor and Treasurer as it appeas by the Statute E. 3. an 31. c. 12. 31 El. c. 1. Also there is another Writ of Error upon a Iudgment in the Kings Bench and that is where the Plaintiff assign matter of Fact for Error And this lies in the same Court for this Court can redress their Errors in Fact but not their errors in Law But the Court of common B. cannot do so Escape EScape is where one that is arrested comes to his liberty before he be delivered by Award of any Iustice or by order of Law Escape is in two sorts voluntary and negligent Voluntary Escape is when one doth arrest another for Felony or other Crime and after he in whose custody he is lets him go where he will And if the Arrest were for Felony then shall it be Felony in him that suffered the Escape if for Treason then Treason in him and if for Trespass then Trespass and so in all other When one is arrested after escapes against the will of him that did arrest him and is not freshly pursued and taken before the pursuer loses the sight of him this shall be said a negligent Escape notwithstanding that he out of whose possession he escaped do take him after he lost sight of him A so if one be arrested and after escape and is at his liberty and he in whose ward he was take him afterward and bring him to the prison yet it is an Escape in him If a Felon be arrested by the Constable and brought to the Goal in the County and the Goaler will not receive him and the Constable lets him go and the Goaler also and so he escapes this is an Escape in the Goaler for that in such case the Goaler is bound to receive him by the hand of the Constable without any Precept of the Iustice of Peace But otherwise it is if a common person arrest another upon suspicion of Felony there the Goaler is not bound to receive him without a Precept of some Iustice of Peace There is an Escape also without an Arrest as if Murder be made in the day and the Murderer be not taken then it is an escape for which the Town where the Murder was done shall be amerced And it is to be observed That a man may be said to escape notwithstanding he always continues in Prison As if a man be in Prison upon two Executions at the Suit of two several men and the old Sheriff delivers over this Prisoner to the new Sheriff by Indenture according to the usual course and in the said Indenture makes no mention of one of the said Executions this Omission shall be said an Escape in Law instantly for which the Old Sheriff shall answer although the Execution was matter of Record whereof the new Sheriff might have taken notice But otherwise it is where the old Sheriff dies for in such case it behoves the new Sheriff at his peril to take notice of all the Executions that are against any person that he finds in the Gaol But in the said Case where the Sheriff dies and before another is made one that is in Execution breaks the Gaol and goes at large this is no Escape for when a Sheriff dies all the Prisoners are in the custody of the Law until a new Sheriff be made See Coke lib. 3. fol. 72. If the Sheriff upon a Capias ad satisfaciendum to him directed makes Return That he hath taken the Body and yet hath not the Body in Court at the day of the Return the Plaintiff may have his Action against the Sheriff for the Escape although the party so taken be in the Gaol See 7 H. 4. 11. Br. 107. Escheat EScheat is where a Tenant in Fee-simple commits Felony for which he is hanged or abjured the Realm or Outlawed of Felony Murder or Pety Treason or if the Tenant die without Heir general or special then the Lord of whom the Tenant held the Land may enter by way of Escheat or if any other enter the Lord shall have against him a Writ called a Writ of Escheat Escheator EScheator is the name of an Officer that observes the Escheats of the King in the County whereof he is Escheator and certifies them into the Exchequer This Officer is appointed by the L. Treasurer and by Letters Patents from him and continues in his Office but one year neither can any be Escheator but once in three years An. 1. H. 8. cap. 8. and an 3 ejusdem cap. 2. See more of this Officer and his Authority in Crompton's Justice of Peace See An. 21 Ed. 1. The form of the Oath of the Escheator see in the Regist orig fol. 301. b.
en Religion ou luy disable issint que il ne puit luy prender accordant a le dit Condition donques la feme Donour ses Heirs avera le dit Brief vers lui ou vers quecunque est eins en le dit Terre Mes cest Condition doit estre fait per Endenture auterment cest Brief ne gist Et touts ceux auters Briefs 〈◊〉 Entre poient este fait en le Per Cui Post Entrusion ENtrusion est un Brief que gist lou Tenant pur vie devie seisie de certain Terres ou Tenements un Estrange entra celuy en ia Reversion avera cest Brief vers l'Abator ou quecunque que soit eins apres lour Entrusion Auxy un Brief de Entrusion serra maintainable pur le Successor de un Abbe vers l'Abator que enter en ascun Terres ou Tenements Tempore vocationis que appent a la Esglise per le Statute de Marlebridge cap. u●timo Et il semble que le difference perenter un Entrudor un Abator est en ceo Que un Abator est celuy que entra en Terres void per le mort de un Tenant en Fee un Entru ● or est celuy que entra en Terres void per le mort de un Tenant p̄ vie ou ans Veies F. N. B. fol. 203. Entrusion de Gard. ENtrusion de Gard est un Brief que gist ou le Heir deins age entra en ses Terres tient hors son Seignior car en ti ● l case le Seignior navera le Brief de commun Custodia mes cest Brief de Entrusion 〈◊〉 Gard. Veil N. B. fol. 90. Enure ENure signifie Prendre place ou effect estre available Come un Release enura per voy d'Entinguishment Lit. Ca. Release Equitie EQuitie est en deux manners ceux de contrarie effects car un abri ● ge ● ol le letter del Ley l' auter enlarge adde a eo Le primer est issint define Equilas est Correctio Legis generatim latae qua parte deficit le quel Correction del general ● ols est mult use en nr̄e Ley. Sicome pur exampleo Quant Act de Parliament est fait quecunque q̄ fait tiel act serra Felon serra mise al mort uncor̄ si home de Non sane memorie ou Enfant que nad discretion le fait is ne serront Felons ne mise al mort Auxy si Statute soit fait Que touts persons que receiveront ou donerōt maunger ou boyer ou aut ' aid a cestuy que fera tiel act serront accessary a son Offenc serront mise al mort si ils conusteront del fact uncor̄ l'un fait tiel act veigne a sa proꝑfem̄ q̄ sciāt ceo luy receive done maunger boyer a luy el ne serra Accessary ne Felon car ꝑ le generalitie ● les dits parols cestuy de Non sane memorie Enfant ne feme fueront enclude en Entent de Ley. Et issint Equitie correct le generaltie del Ley ē ceux cases les parols generals sōt ꝑ Equitie abridge Laut ' Equit ● e est defin̄ estre un Extension des parols de la Ley al Cases non exprimez ayant neantmoins la mesm ● raison Ainsi qn̄t les parols enact un chose ils enact touts choses que sont ē semblables degrees Sicōe le Statute que ordeigne Que en Action de Det vers Executors cestuy que vient per Distresse respondera extenda per Equite al Administratours car cestuy de eu ● que vient primes ꝑ Distresse respondera per Equitie del dit Act quia sunt in aequali genere Issint le Statute de Gloucester done l' Action de Waste le Punishment de ceo vers cestuy que tient pur vie ou ans per l' Equitie de ceo home avera Action de Waste vers cestuy que tient sorsque pur un an ou demy an uncore ceo est hors del parols del Statute car cestuy que tient sorsque pur demy an ou un an ne tient pur ans mes ceo est l' entent les parol quel enact l'un per Equitie enacteront l' auter Errant ERrant id est Intinerans ven ● st del parol Francois Errer id est Errare ou del vieux parol Erre id est Iter est appropriate as Justices que alont en Circuit as Bailies a large que pur ceo sunt appelle Justices Errants Bailies Errants eo q̄ ils alont travailont del un lieu al auter l' un pur faire Justice auter per executer Proces Veies Eire Error ERror est un Fau ● t en un Judgment ou en le Proceste ou Proceeding al Judgment ou ē Execution sur ceo en Court de Record quel Fault en le Civil Ley est appel ū Nullitie Auxy Error est le nosm̄ 〈◊〉 ū Brief gist lou Judgm̄t est don̄ ē le Com̄on Banke ou devant Justice en Assise ou devant Justice de Oyer Terminer ou devāt le Maior ou Viscoūt de Londres ou en aut ' Court de Record contra le Ley ou sur undue ou male Proces donques le ꝑtie grieve avera cel Brief ꝑ ceo causera le Record Proces destr̄ remove devāt les Justices de Bank le Roy ia fil Error soit trove il serra reverse Mes si erroneous Judgment soit done en Bank le Roy donques il ne poit este reverse forsque per Parliament tanque le Statute 27 Eliz cap. 8. Auxy si tiel Default soit en Judgment don̄ ē Court q̄ nest de Record com̄ en Countie Hundred ou Court-Baron donque le ꝑtie avera Brief de Faux Judgment pur faire le Record vener devant Justice de Com̄on Bank Auxy si Error soit trove en i'Exchequer il serra redresse per le Chauncelor Treasurer ut patet ꝑ Statute Ed. 3. an 31. c. 12 31 Eliz. c. 1. Est auxi un aut ' breif d'error sur Judgm̄t en Bank le Roy Et cest ou le Plaint ' voil assigne matter ē fait pur Error Et c̄ gist ē mesme le Court car cest Court poit redress lour errors ē fait mes nemy lour lour Errors en ley mes le Court de Com. B. ne poit issint fair Escape EScape est lou un que est arrest deveigne a son liberty devant que il soit deliver ꝑ Agard de ascū Justice ou ꝑ order de Ley. Escape est en deux sorts voluntarie negligent Voluntarie Escape est qn̄t un arrest auter pur Felonie ou auter crime puis celuy en que custodie il soit luy lesser aler lou il voit Et si l'Arrest fuit pur Felonie ceo serra dit
Money is not to be accounted Goods or Catals nor Hawks nor Hounds for they are ferae naturae But it seems that Money is not a Chattel because it is not in it self valuable but rather in imagination than in Deed. Catals are either real or personal Catals real are either such as do not immediately appertain to the person but to some other thing by way of dependance as a Box with writings of Laud the body of a Ward the Apples upon the tree or the Tree it self growing upon the ground Crom. fol. 33. b. Or else such as are issuing out of some thing immovable to the person as a Lease for Rent or term of years Personal may be so called in two respects The one because they belong immediately to the person of a man as a Horse c. The other because when they are wrongfully detained we have no other means for their recovery but personal Actions The Civilians comprehend these things and also Lands of all natures and tenures under the word Goods which are by them divided into Moveable and Immovable See Bract. lib. 3. c. 3. num 3 4. Cepi corpus CEpi corpus is a Return made by the Sheriff that upon an Exigend or other Writ he has taken the body of the party F N. B. fol. 26. Certificate CErtificate is a Writing made in some Court to give notice to another Court of something done there as a Certificate of the cause of Attaint is a transcript briefly made by the Clerks of the Crown Clerks of the Peace or Clerks of Assise to the Court of Kings Bench containing the tenor and effect of every Indictment Outlawry or Conviction and Clerk attainted made or declared in any other Court But note that this Certificate ought to be made by him that is the immediate Officer to the Court and therefore if the Commissary or Official of the Bishop certifie an Excommunication in bar of an action at the Common Law this is not good as was resolved in Coke lib. 8. fol. 68. but such Excommunication ought to be certified by the Bishop himself Yet the Certificate of an Excommunication by special Commissioners Delegates under their Common Seal was allowed and held good enough in the Common-place Dyer fol. 371. pla 4. Certification of Assise CErtification of Assise of Novel disseisin c. is a Writ awarded to re-examine or review a matter passed hy Assise before any Iustices and is used when a man appears by his Bailiff to an assise brought by another and loses the day and having some other matter to plead farther for himself as a Deed of Release or c. which the Bailiff did not plead or might not plead for him desires a better Examination of the Cause either before the same or other Iustices and obtains Letters Pa ● ents see their form F. N. B. 181. and then brings a Writ to the Sheriff to call the party for whom the Assise had passed and also the Iury which was impannelled upon the same Assise before the said Iustices at a day and place certain And it is called a Certificate because therein mention is made to the Sheriff that upon the parties complaint of the defective Examination or doubts remaining yet upon the Assise passed the King hath directed his Letters Patents to the Iustices for the better certifying of themselves whether all the points of the said Assise were duly examined or not Certiorari CErtiorari is a Writ that lies where a man is impleaded in a base Court that is of Record and he purposes that he may not have equal Iustice there then upon a Bill in the Chancery comprising some matter of Conscience he shall have this Writ to remove all the Record into the Chancery there to be determined by Conscience but if he prove not his Bill then the other party shall have a Writ of Procedendo to send again the Record into the base Court and there to be determined And it lies in many other cases to remove Records for the King as Indictments and others This Writ is also granted out of the Court of Kings Bench or Common Pleas to remove any Action thither out of Inferior Courts of Record and so the Plaintiff must declare and proceed in the Superior Court Also to certifie original writs or proceedings out of any Courts of Record into the Kings Bench where nullum tale Recordum is pleaded Also upon Writs of Error of a Iudgment in the Common Pleas each party may have this Writ to bring any of the Proceedings into the Kings Bench upon alledging Diminution as appears Coke Entr. 232 233 242. 2 Cro. 131 479. Cessavit CEssavit is a Writ that lies where my very Tenant holds of me certain Lands or Tenements yielding certain Rent by the year and the Rent is behind for two years and no sufficient Distress may be found upon the Land then I shall have this Writ by which I shall recover the Land But if the Tenant come into the Court before Iudgment given and tender the Arrearges and Damages and find Surety that he shall cease no more in payment of the said Rent I shall be compelled to take the Arrerages and the Damages and then the Tenant shall not lose the Land The heir may not maintain this Writ for Cessure made in the time of his Ancestor And it lies not but for Annual service as Rent and such other and not for Homage and Fealty Also there is another Writ called Cessavit de cantaria which lies where a man gives Land to a House of Religion to find for the soul of him his ancestors and his heirs yearly a Candle or Lamp in the Church or to say Divine Service feed the poor or other Alms or to do some other thing then if the said Services be not done in two years the Donor or his Heirs shall have this Writ against whosoever holds the things given after such Cessure See the Statute W. 2. cap. 41. Cession CEssion is when an Ecclesiastical Person is created Bishop or when a Parson of a Parsonage takes another Benefice without dispensation or otherwise not qualified c. In both cases their first Benefices are become void and are said to become void by Cession And to those that he had who was created Bishop the King shall present for that time whosoever is Patron of them And in the other case the Patron may present See 41 E. 3. 5. 11 H. 4. 37. Cestuy a que vie cestuy a que use CEstuy a que vie is he for whose life another holds an estate and cestuy a que use is he who is a Feoffee for the use of another Challenge CHallenge is an Exception taken either against Persons or Things Persons as in an Assise the Iurors or any one or more of them or in case of Felony by the Prisoner at the Bar against Things as a Declaration Old N. B. 76. Challenge made to the Jurors is either made to the Array or
grantus ou le Tenāt ꝑ courtesie ou Tenant p̄ term 〈◊〉 vie ou p̄ aut ' vie alien en fee ou en tail ou pur term daut ' vie Et il ad cest nosme p̄ ceo que les Clerks del Chancery ont ceo fram̄ ꝑ lour com̄on consent ensemble al Brief appel In casu proviso accordant al auctority done al eux ꝑ le Statute de Westminister 2. cap. 24. que voit Quotiescunque evenerit in Cancellaria quod in uno casu reperitur Breve in Consimili casu indigente remedio concordent Clerici de Cancellari a de Brevi faciendo c. Et cest Brief est grāt al cestuy en reversion vers le party a q̄ le dit Tenant issint alien a son prejudice en le vie del dit Tenant Veies pluis de ceo F. N. B. f. 206. Casu proviso CAsu proviso est done per le Stat. de Gloucester c. 7 Cest Brief gift lou Tenant en Dower alien en Fee ou a term de vie ou en tail la terre que el t̄ient en Dower ore cestuy que ad le Reversiō en Fee ou en Tail ou a term̄● vie maintenant avera cest Br ● ve vers le Alienee ou cestuy q̄ est Tenant del franktenement del terre c̄ durant la vie le Tenant ē Dower F. N. B. fol. 205. n. Catals CAtals ou Chattels comprehend touts biens movable immovable forsque tiels que sont en nature de Franktenem̄t ou parcel de c̄ com̄ poit estre collect hors Stamf. Praerog ca. 16. an 1 El. c. 2. Unc̄ Kitch fol. 32. dit que Mony nest deē account biens ou Catals ne Espervers ne Chiēs car ils sont ferae naturae Mes il semble q̄ Money nest Catal p̄ ceo q̄ nest de luy m̄ chose valuable mes pluis en imagination q̄ en Fait Catals sont ou real ou personal Catals real sont ou tiels que ne apperteinont immediatement al person mes al asc̄ auter chose ꝑ voy 〈◊〉 dependancie come un Boxe ove Chartes de terre le corps dun Gard les Pom̄s sur l' arbr̄ ou l' Arbre mesme cressant sur le terre Crom. f. 33. b. Ou auterm̄t tiels q̄ sont issuant hors ● asc̄ chose immoveable al person cōe ū Lease pur Rent ou terme 〈◊〉 ans Personal polent estr̄ issint appel en deux respects Le un p̄ c̄ que ils appent immediatement al ꝑson 〈◊〉 ū hōe cōe ū Chival c. lautr̄ p̄ c̄ que quant ils sōt tortiousmēt deteigne nous ne avom̄ pas asc̄ aut ' means pur lour recoverie forsque per ꝑsonal Actions Les Civilians comprehendont ceux choses aux ' Tr̄s de touts natures ou tenures desouth le parol Bona que est ꝑ eux divide in Mobilia Immobilia Vid. Br. lib. 3. c. 3. num 3 4. Cepi corpus CEpi corpus est un Return fait per le Viscount que sur un Exigend ou auter Brief il a pris le corps del partie Fitzb. Nat. br f. 26. Certificate CErtificate est un Escript fait en ascun Court a doner notice al auter Court dasc̄ chose fait la come un Certificate del cause de Attaint est un trāscript briefm̄t fait ꝑ les Clerks del Corone Clerke del Peace ou Clerke de Assise al Court del Bank le Roy conteinant le tenor effect de chesc̄ Indictment Utlagarie ou Conviction Clerk attaint fait ou declare en asc̄ auter Court Mes nota que cest Certificate doit estre falt ꝑ cestuy que est I'immediate Officer al Court p̄ c̄ si le Commissarie ou Official del Evesque certifie un Excommengement en barr̄ de un Action al Common Ley ceo nest bon̄ come fuit resolve en Coke lib. 8. fol. 68. mes tiel Excommengement doit estre certifie ꝑ le Evesque mesme Uncore le Certificate dun Excommengement ꝑ special Commission̄s Delegates desouth lour common Seal fuit allow tenus assets bon̄e ē le Common Banke Dyer fol. 371. pla 4. Certification de Assise CErtification d'un Assise d' Novel disseisin c. est un Brief agard a re-examin̄ ou reviser ū chose passe ꝑ Assise devant asc̄ Justices est use quant home appiert ꝑ sō Bailife al un Assise port ꝑ un aut ' ꝑde le jour ayant asc̄ aut ' chose ouster a plea ● ꝑ luy mesme com̄ un Fait ● release ou c. que le Bailiff ne plederoit cu ne puit pleader p̄ luy apris un mieux Examination del Cause ou devant mesme les Justices ou auters acquire Letters Patents vide lour forme F. N. B. 181. donque port un Brē al Vicount 〈◊〉 appeller le party p̄ que le Assise ad pass auxi le Jury que suit impannel sur mesme le Assise devant les dits Justices a un jour lieu certain Et est appel un Certificate p̄ ceo que en ceo mention est fait al Vicount que sur le partles cōplaint del defective Examination ou awrust uncore remainant lur le Assise passe le Roy ad direct ses Letters Patents a les Justic s p̄ le mieux certification 〈◊〉 lour mesmes ou touts les points del dit Assise fueront examin ou nemy Certiorari CErtiorari est un Brief que gist lou un est implead en un base Court que est de Record il suppose q̄ il ne poit aver equal Justice la donques sur un Bill en le Chancery comprisant ascun matter en Conscience il avera cest Brief p̄ remover tout le Record en le Chancery la destre determine ꝑ Conscience mes fil ne proya son Bill donques l' auter party avera un Brief de Procdendo a reman ● le Record en le base Court la destre determine Auxy il gist en plusors auters cases pur remover Records pur le Roy com̄ Indictments auters Cest Brief est auxy grant hors del Court del Bank le Roy ou Common Pleas a remover ascun Action al eux hors de inferior Courts de Record issint le Plaintiff doit declare proceed en le superior Court Auxy a certifyer Original Briefs ou proceeds hors dascū Courts de Record en Bank le Roy ou Nullum tale Recordum est plede Auxy sur Briefs de Error dun Judgment en le Common Pleas chescun party poit aver cest Brief a remover ascun proceedings en Bank le Roy sur alleger diminution com̄ appiert Co. Ent. 232 233 242. 2 Cro. 131 479 Cessavit CEssavit est un Brief que gist lou mon verie Tenant tient de moy certain terres ou tenements rendant certain Rent per an le Rēt est arrere
have any real or personal Action concerning land but in every such Action the Tenant or Defendant may plead that he was born in such a place which is not within the Kings liegeance and demand judgment if he shall be answered Every alien friend may by the Common Law have and get within this realm by gift trade or other lawful ways any treasure or personal goods whatsoever as well as any Englishman and may maintain any Action for the same But Land within this realm or houses if not for their dwelling only Alien friends connot have nor get nor maintain any Action real or personal for any Land or House unless the House be for their necessary dwelling An Alien enemy cannot maintain any Action nor get any thing within this Realm And the reasons why aliens born are not capable of inheritance within England are 1. The Secrets of the Realm may by this be discovered 2. The Revenues of the Realm shall be taken and injoyed by Strangers born 3. This will tend to the destruction of the Realm First in the time of war for then Strangers may fortifie themselves in the heart of the Realm and set in combustion the Common-wealth Secondly in the time of peace for by such means many Aliens born may get a great part of the Inheritance and free-hold of the Realm by which there would ensue a want of Iustice the supporter of the Common-wealth for this that Aliens cannot be returned of Iuries nor sworn for the tryal of Issues between the King and Subject or between Subject and Subject Vide Coke lib. 7. Calvins Case Alienation ALienation is as much to say as to make a thing another mans or to alter or put the possession of Lands or other things from one man to another And in some cases a man hath power in himself so to do without the assent or licence of any other and in some not As if Tenant in chief alien his estate without the Kings licence then by the St. of 1 Ed. 3. c. 12. a reasonadle Fine shall be taken where at the Common Law before the said St. the Lands and tenements held in chief of the K. and aliened without licence have been held forfeited And if the K's Tenant that holds in chief intended to alien unto C. to the use of D. and hereupon if he purchase Licence to alien to C. and accordingly aliens to C. to the use of D. which use is not mentioned in the Licence in this case he shall pay but one Fiue for it is but one Alienation Coke lib. 6 fol. 28. But if a man will alien Lands in Fee-simple to an House of Religion or to a body incorporate it behoves him to have the Kings Licence to make this Grant or Alienation and the chief Lords of whom such lands are held c. otherwise the land so alienated in Mortmain shall be forfeited by the Statute of 15 R. 2. cap. 5. Allay ALlay is the Temper or mixture of Gold and Silver with baser metal for the increasing the weight of it so much as might countervail the Kings charge in the coyning This word is used in the Statute of 9 H. 5. cap. 11. for the payment of English Gold by the Kings weight Almner ALmner is an Officer of the Kings house whose Office is to distribute the Kings Alms every day and to that purpose he hath the collecting of all Forfeitures of Deodands and of the goods of Felons de se which the King allows him to dispose in Alms to the poor And of his Office see Flets lib. 2. cap. 22. Almoin ALmoin See Aumone Alnager ALnager is an Officer of the Kings who by himself or by his Deputy looks to the Assise of all Cloth made of Wool throughout the Land and to put a Seal for that purpose ordained unto them 35 E. 3. Stat. 4. c. 1. Anno 3. R. 2. c. 2. And he is to be accomptable to tae King for every Cloth that is so sealed in a Fee or Custom hppertaining to it Altarage ALtarage in Latin Altaragium signifie Duties and Offerings to holy Altars mention'd 2 Cro. Rep. 516. that a Vicarage was endowed with it and small Tythes Ambidexter AMbidexter is he that when a matter is in suit between men takes money of the one side and of the other either to labour the Suit or such like or if he be of the Iury to give his Verdict Amendment AMendment is When Error is in the Process the Iustices may amend it after Iudgment But if there be Error in giving Iudgment they may not amend it but the party is put to his Writ of Error And in many cases where the default appears in the Clerks that writ the Record it shall be amended but such things as come by information of the party as the Town Mystery and such like shall not be amended for he must inform true upon his peril Amercement AMercement most properly is a Penalty assessed by the Peers or equals of the party amerced for an offence done as for want of Suit of Court or for not amending someting that he was appointed to redress by a certain time before or for such like cause in which case the party who offends puts himself in the mercy of the King or Lord and thereupon this Penalty is called Amerciament And there is a difference between Amerciaments and Fines Kitch 214. For Fines are Punishments certain which grow expressy from some Statute and Amerciaments are such which are arbitrarity imposed by the Affeerors which Kitchin seems to confirm fol ● 8. in these words The Amerciament is affeered by Equals Also it appears Coke lib. 8. fol. 39. That a Fine is always imposed and assessed by the Court but Amerciament which is called in Latin Misericordia is assessed by the Country Another diversity there is as if a man be convict before the Sheriff of the County of a Recaption he shall be only amerced but if he be convict of this in the Common Bench he shall be fined And the reason of this diversity is That the County Court is not a Court of Record and therefore cannot impose a Fine for no Court can impose a Fine but such a Court as is of Record Cok. lib. 8. fol. 41. a. If the Defendant or Tenant plead a false Deed to him or deny his own Deed and this is found against him or he leaving his own Verification acknowledges the Action he shall be fined for his falsity because we ought to be sure of our own Acts. But if one deny the Deed of his Ancestor and this is found against him yet he shall not be fined but amerced only because it was the act of a Stranger Co. lib. 8. fol. 60. a. see more there Amercement royal AMercement royal is when a Sheriff Coroner or other such Officer of the King is amerced by the Iustices for his abuse in the Office Learn if it should not be called a Fine Amoveas manus AMoveas manus See Ouster le
Augmentation remains to this day wherein there are many Records of great use and importance Aumone AUmone or Tenure in Almoin is Tenure by Divine Service for so says Britton fol. 164. Tenure in Aumone is Land or Tenements given for Aims whereof some Service is reserved to the Feoffer or Donor Auncel weight AUncel weight was an ancient manner of Weighing in England by the hanging of balances or hooks at each end of a staff which the party lifted up upon his finger or with his hand and so discerned the equality or difference of the things weighed But this weight being subject to much deceit many Statutes were made to out it as the Stat. of 25 E. 3. c. 9. 34 E. 3. c. 5. 8 H. 6. c. 5. and others And it was called Auncel weight as much as to say Handsale Weight Ancient or Ancient Demesne ANcient demesne is a certain Tenure whereby all those Manors that were in the hands of S. Edward the Confessor and which he caused to be written in a Book called Dooms-day sub titulo Regis and all the Lands holden of the said Manors are held and the Tenants shall not be impleaded out of the said Manors and if they be they may shew the matter and abate the Writ but if they answer to the Writ and Iudgment be given then the Lands become frank-free for ever until that Iudgment be reversed by writ of Disceit Ra. Ent. 100 221. 2 R. 1. 11 H. 4. 36. 21 E. 3. 20. Also the Tenants in Ancient demesne are free of T ● ll for all things concerning their sustenance and Husbandry in ancient Demesne and for such Lands they shall not be put or impannelled upon any Enquest But all the Lands in Ancient Demes ● e that are in the Kings hands are frank-free and pleadable at the Common Law See more after in the Title Sokmans Avoir de pois AVoir de pois is as much as to say true or just weight And it signifies in our Law Two things first a kind of weight diverse from that which is called Troy Weight which hath but 12 ounces to the pound whereas Avoir de pois hath 16. Secondly it signifies such Merchandises as are weighed by this weight and not by Troy weight As you may see in the Statute of York 9. E. 3. 27 E. 3. c. 19 Stat. 2. c. 10. and the Statute of Glocester 2 R. 2. c. 1. Avowry AVowry is where one takes a Distress for Rent or other thing and the other sues Replevin then he that hath taken it shall Iustifie in his Plea for what cause he took it and if he took it in his own right he ought to shew that and so avow the taking and that is called his Avowry But if he took it in or for the right of another then when he hath shewed the cause he shall make conusance of the taking as Bailiff or servant to whom in whose right took it Avowterer AVowterer is an Adulterer with whom a married woman continues in Adultery the Crime is called Avowtry 43 E. 3. 19. Awme AWme is a Vessel that contains 40 galons of Rhen ● sh wine and is mentioned in the Statute made 1 Jac. c. 23. B Backberind Thief BAckberind Thief is a Thief taken with the manner that is having that found upon him being followed with a Hue and Cry which he hath stollen whether it be Money Linnen Wollen or other stuff but it is most properly said when he is taken carrying those things that he hath stolen in a bundle or fardel upon his Back Manwood in part 2. notes this for one of the circumstances or cases in which a Forester may arrest the body of any offender against Vert or Venison in the Forest which are Dog-draw Stable-stand Back-berind and Bloody-hand Badger BAdger is as much as to say Bagger of the French word Baggage id est Sarcina And it is used with us for one that is licenced to buy Corn or other Victuals in one place and carry them to another and such a one is exempted in the Statute made in the 5 and 6 of E. 6. cap. 14 from the punishment of an Ingrosser within that Statute Bail BAIL is when a man is taken or arrested for Felony suspicion of Felony indicted of Felony or any such case so that he is restrained of his liberty and being by Law bailable offers Surcties to those who have authority to bail him which Sureties are bound for him to the Kings use in a certain Sum of money or body for body that he shall appear before the Iustices of Goal-delivery at the next Sessions c. Then upon the Bonds of these Sureties as is aforesaid he is bailed that is set at liberty until the day appointed for his appearance Manwood in the first part of his Forest Law pag. 167. says There is a great diversity between Bail and Mainprise for he that is mainprised is always said to be at large and to go at his own liberty out of ward after he is put to Mainprise until the day of his Appearance by reason of Common Summons or otherwise But it is not so where a man is put to bail by four or two men by my Lord chief Iustice in Eyre of the Forest until a certain day for there he is always accounted by the Law to be in their ward and custody for the time and they may if they will hold him in ward or in Prison till that time or otherwise at their will so that he that is bail'd ● hall not be said by the Law to be at large or at his own liberty Bailement Bailement is a Delivery of things whether Writings Goods or Stuff to another sometimes to be delivered back to the Bailor that is to him that so delivered it sometimes to the use of the Bailee that is of him to whom it is delivered and sometimes also it is delivered to a third person This delivery is called a Bailment Bailiff BAiliff is an Officer that belongs to a Mannor to order the husbandry and hath authority to pay Quit-rents issuing out of the Mannor fei ● Trees repair Houses make Pales Hedges distrain Beasts doing hurt upon the ground and divers such like This Officer is he whom the ancient Saxons called a Reeve for the name Bailiff was not then known amongst them but came in with the Normans and is called in Latin Villicus There are two other sorts of Bailiffs that is Bailiffs errant and Bailiffs of Franchises Bailiffs errant are those that the Sheriff makes and appoints to go about the Country to execute Writs to summon the County Sessions Assises and such like Bailiffs of Franchises are those that are appointed by every Lord within his Liberty to do such Offices within his Precincts as the Bailiff errant doth abroad in the County This Bailiff distrains for Amerciaments in Courts held within the Mannor of which he is Bailiff But if such Court is by prescription to be
shall have the Land but for term of life for those words will carry no greater Estate If one will that his son J. shall have his Land after the death of his wife here the wife of the Devisor shall have the Land first for term of life So likewise if a man devise his goods to his wife and that after the decease of his wife his son and heir shall have the House where the goods are there the son shall not have the House during the life of the wife For it doth appear that his intent was that his wife should have the House also for her life notwithstanding it were not devised to her by express words If a Devise be to J. N. and to the Heirs females of his body begotten after the Devisee hath issue a son and daughter and dies here the daughter shall have the Land and not the son and yet he is the most worthy person and Heir to his father but because the Will of the dead is that the daughter should have it Law and Conscience will so also And herein the very Heathens were precise as appears by those Verses of Octavius Augustus which Donatus reports he made after Virgil at his death gave commandment that his Books should be burnt because they were imperfect and yet some perswaded that they should be saved as indeed they happily were to whom he answered thus Let Faith and Law be kept and what last Will Commandeth to be done we must fulfill Devoire DEvoire is as much as to say a Duty It is used in the Statute of 2 R. 2. ca. 3. where it is provided That all the Western Merchants being of the Kings amity shall pay all manner Customs and Subsidies and other Devoires of Caleis See the Stat. 5 Ejusdē Regis cap. 2. Devorce DEvorce or Divorce Divortium dictum est Diversitate mentium quia in diversas partes eunt qui distrahunt Matrimonium or else from the verb Diverto which signifies to return back because after the Devorce between the husband and wife he returns her again to her father or other friends or to the place from whence he had her And though Devorce was never approved of by the Divine Law but contrariwise prohibited as appears by this precept Let no man separate that which God hath joyned together yet in all ages and well-governed Common-wealths it hath been used and permitted As at this day with us there are divers causes for which the husband and wife may be devorced as first causa Praecontractus Therefore if a man marry with a woman precontracted and hath issue by her this issue in Law and in truth bears the surname of his father but if after the husband and wife be devorced for the Precontract there the issue hath lost his surname and is become a Bastard and nullius filius Cok. lib. 6. fol. 66. Devorce may be causa Frigiditatis and therefore if a man be married to a woman and after they are devorced causa Frigiditatis and then the man takes another wife and hath issue by her yet this issue is lawfull because that a man may be habilis inhabilis diversis temporibus and by the Devorce causa Frigiditatis the Marriage was dissolved a vinculo Matrimonii and by consequence either of them might marry again Cok. lib. 5. fol. 98. b. Also a man may be devorced causa Impubertatis or Minoris aetatis and in this case if two are married infra annos nubiles and after full age Devorce is had between them this dissolves the Marriage and the woman may arraign an Assise against the Husband for the Lands or Tenements given with her in Frank-marriage 19 lib. Assise Pla. 2. So Devorce may be had causa Professionis causa consanguinitatis causa Fornicationis and for many other causes too long to be now recited It is requisite that in the sentence of Devorce the Cause thereof be shewed because some Devorce dissolves the Matrimony that is to say a vinculo Matrimonii bastards the issue and barrs the wife of Dower and some a mensa thoro the which dissolves not the Matrimony nor barrs the Woman of Dower nor bastards the issue Devorce is a Iudgement spiritual and therefore if there be cause ought to be reversed in the Spiritual Court See Cok. lib. 7. Kenns Case If a Woman Copiholder of certain Land durante viduitate sua according to the Custome of the Mannor sows the Land and before the severance of the Corn takes a husband the Lord shall have the Emblements and not the husband But if a Lease be made to the husband and wife during the Coverture and the husband sows the Land and afterward they are devorced causa Praecontractus the husband shall have the Emblements and not the Lessor Dicker DIcker is a word used in the Statute of 1 Jacobi cap. 22. and it signifies the quantity of Ten Hides of Leather And it seems to come from the Greek word Decas which signifies Ten. Diem clausit extremum DIem clausit extremum is a Writ that lies where the Kings Tenant that hold in Chief dies then this Writ shall be directed to the Escheator to enquire of what Estate he was seised who is next Heir and his age and of the certainty and value of the Land and of whom it is holden and the Inquisition shall be returned into the Chancery which is commonly called The Office after the death of that persō And there is another Writ of Diem clausit extremum awarded out of the Exchequer after the death of an Accountant or Debtor of his Majestie to levy the Debt of his Heir Executor Administrators lands or goods Dietus datus DIes datus is a Respite given to the Tenant or Defendant before the Court Brook Tit. Continuance Dieta rationabilis DIeta rationabilis is sometimes used for a Reasonable Days journey as Bract. l. 3. patt 2. cap. 16. It hath in the Civil Law other significations which need not be here mentioned See Vocabul utriusque Juris Dieu son act DIeu son act these are words oftentimes used in our Law and it is a Maxime That the Act of God shall prejudice no man And therefore if a House fall down by Tempest or other Act of God the lessee for life or years shall not only be quit in an Action of Waste brought against him but hath by the Law a special interest to take timber to build the House again if he will for his habitation Cok. lib. 4. 63. lib. 11. 82. a. In like manner when the Condition of an Obligation consists of two parts in the disjunctive and both are possible at the time of the Obligation made and afterwards one of them becomes impossible by the Act of God the Obligor is not bound to perform the other part for the Condition shall be taken beneficially for him Coke lib. 5. 22. Dignitie Ecclesiastical DIgnitie Ecclesiastical is a phrase of speech used in the Statute of 26 Hen. 8.
Alfred after he had divided the whole Realm into certain parts or sections which of the Saxon word Scyran signifying to cut he termed Shires or as we yet spake Shares and Portious These Shires be also dividid into smaller Parts whereof some were called Lathes of the word Gelathian which is to assemble together others Tithings because there were in each of them to the number of Ten persons whereof each one was Surety and Pledge for others good abearing others Hundreds because they contained Iurisdiction over one Hundred Men or Pledges dwelling peradventure in two or three or more Parishes Boroughs or Towns lying and adjoyning nevertheless somewhat near together in which he appointed Administration of Iustice to be exercised severally among them of the same Hundred and not that one should run out disorderly into anothers Hundred Lathe or Tithing wherein he dwells not These Hundreds continue to this day in force although not altogether to the same purpose whereunto at first they were appointed yet still to very needful both in time of Peace for good order of Government divers ways and in War for certainty of levying men as also for the more ready Collection of Payments granted in Parliament to the Kings of this Realm Hundred-Lagh HUndred-Lagh signifies the Hundred-Court from which all the Officers of the Kings Forrest were freed by the Charter of Canutus cap. 9. Hundredum HUndredum is to be quit of Money or Customs to be paid to Governors and Hundredors Husfastene HUsfastene quasi Domi fixus is he that holds House and Land Bract. lib. 3. tract 2. c. 10. Hustings HUstings Hustingum is a Court of Common-Pleas held before the Major and Aldermen of London and it is the highest Court they have for Error or Attaint lies there of a Iudgment or saise Verdict in the Sheriffs Court as it appears by Fitzh N. B. 22 H. c. and the Statute of 11 H. 7. cap. 21. And other Cities and Towns have had a Court of the same name as Winchester Lincoln York and Sheppy So called from the Saxon Hus Domus and Thing Causa quasi Domus Causarum I. Idemptitate or Identitate nominis IDemptiatis nominis is a Writ that lies where a Writ of Debt Covenant or Account or such other Writ is brought against a Man and another that hath the same name with the Defendant is taken for him then he shall have this Writ by which the Sheriff shall make Inquiry before the Iustice assigned in the same County if he be the same person or not and if he be not sound to be the party then he shall go without day in peace Ideot IDeot is he that is a Natural Fool from his Birth and knows not how to count Twenty pence or name his Father or Mother nor tell his own age or such like easie and common matters so that it appears he hath no manner of Vnderstanding Reason or Government of himself But if he can read or learn to read by instruction and information of others or can measure an Ell of Cloth or name the Days of the Week or beget a Child or such like whereby it may appear he hath some light of Reason such a one is no Ideot naturally Jeofaile JEofaile is when the parties to any Suit in Pleading have proceeded so far that they have joyned Issue which shall be tried or is tried by a Iury or Enquest and this Pleading or Issue is so badly pleaded or joyned that it will be Error if they proceed then some of the said parties may by their Councel shew it to the Court as well after Verdict given and before Iudgment as before the Iury is charged And the Councel shall say This Enquest ye ought not to take And if it be after Verdict then he may say To judgment you ought not to go And because such niceties occassioned many delays in Suits divers Statutes are made to redress them as well in the time of King H. 8. an 32. c. 30. as of Queen Eliz. whereof we may say as the Civilians That although Constantine the Emperor commāded the forms of the Law to be cut off yet the daily use of Pleading doth seem again to recal them or rather some of them increase as the heads of Hydra See also now a new Statute of Jeofailes made in 21 Jac. c. 13. Jetsam JEtsam is when a Ship is in danger to be cast away and to disburthen the Ship the Mariners cast the Goods into the Sea and although afterward the Ship perish none of those goods called Jetsam Floatsam or Lagan are called Wreck as long as they remain in or upon the Sea but if any of them are driven to Land by the Sea there they shall be reputed Wreck and pass by the grant of Wreck Coke l. 5. f. 106. Jettezoons JEttezoons This is mentioned in Policies of Insurance and signifies Goods thrown into the Sea in a great Storm Unlawful Assembly UNlawful Assembly is where people assemble themselves together to do some unlawful thing against the Peace although they execute not their purpose in deed Imparlance IMparlance See Emparlance Impeachment of Waste IMpeachment of Waste Impetitio Vasti is as much as to say as a Demand made or to be made of Recompence for Waste done by a Tenant that hath but a particular Estate for Life or Years And therefore he that hath such a Lease without Impeachment of Waste hath by that a property or interest given him in the Houses and Trees and may make waste in them without being impeached for it that is without being questioned or demanded any recompence for the Waste done See Coke l. 11. Bowles Case f. 82. b. Implements IMplements comes either from the French word Employer to imploy or from the Latine Implere to fill up and is used for things of necessary use in any Trade or Mystery which are imployed in the practice of the said Trade or without which the work cannot be accomplished Also for Furniture with which the House is filled And in that sense you shall find the word often in Wills and Conveyances of Moveables Impost IMpost is a French word that signifies Tribute but with us it is taken for the Tax that is paid the King for any Merchandise brought into any Haven from Places beyond the Seas And it is used in the Statute of 31 Eliz. c. 5. as a word of the same signification with Custom which Merchants pay Imprisonment IMprisonment is the Restraint of a mans Liberty whether it be in the open Field or in the Steeks or Cage in the Streets or in a Man 's own House as well as in the common Geal And in all these places the party so restrained is said to be a Prisoner so long as he hath not his Liberty freely to go at all times to all places whether he will without Bail or Mainprise Incumbent INcumbent comes of the Latine Incumbere and signifies him that is presented admitted and instituted to any Church or Benefice with Cure
and not retornable And if the Sheriff do it not then there shall go forth another Writ Sicut alias and afterward another Writ Sicut pluries vel causam nobis significes which shall be retornable And if the Sheriff yet make no Replevin then there shall issue an Attachment directed to the Coroners to attach the Sheriff and to bring him before the Iustices at a certain day and farther that they make execution of the first Writ Replication REplication is when the Defendant in any Action makes an Answer and the Plaintiff replies to that that is called the Replication of the Plaintiff Reprises REprises are Deductions Payments and Duties that go yearly and are paid out of a Mannor as Rent chare Rent seck Pensions Corrodies Annuities Fees of Stewards or Bailiffts and such like Reprieve REprieve comes from the French Repris that is taken back so that to reprieve is properly to take back or suspe ● d a Prisoner from the Execution and proceedings of the Law for that time Requests REquests is a Court held in the Kings Palace before the Master of the Requests by Petition and it seems is a Court of Equity Rere County REre County is a word used in the Statutes of Westm 2. cap. 39. and 2 E. 3. c. 5. and seems by those Statutes to be some publick place which the Sheriff appointed for the receiving of the Kings mony after his County Court was done Resceit REsceit is when any Action is brought against the Tenant for term of life or years and he in the Reversion comes in and prays to be received to defend the Land and plead with the Demandant And when he comes it behoves that he be alway ready to plead with the Demandant In the same manner a Wife shall be received for the default of her Husband in an Action brought against them both And Tenant for years shall be received to defend his Right where in an Action brought against the Tenant of the Free-hold he pleads faintly Rescous REscous is a Writ that lies when any man takes a Distress and another takes it again from him and will not suffer him to carry the Disress away this is a Rescous upon which he may have this Writ and shall recover dammages Also if one distrain Beasts for dammage Feasant in his Ground and drives them in the High way to Impound them and in going they enter into the House of the owner and he withholds them there and will not suffer the other to impound them that withholding is a Rescous Also if a Sheriff takes my Debtor by an Execution or by mesne Process and J. S. rescue him out of the Custody of the Sheriff I may have an Action of Rescous against J. S. for this wrong and recover Dammages and Debt Reservation REservation is taken divers ways and hath divers natures As sometimes by way of exception to keep that which a man had before in him As if a Lease be made for years of Ground reserving the great Trees growing upon the same now the Lessee may not meddle with them nor with any thing that comes of them so long as it abides in or upon the Trees as Mast of Oak Chesnut Apples or such like but if they fall from the Trees to the ground then they are by right the Lessees for the Ground is let to him and all thereupon not reserved c. Sometimes a Reservation doth produce and bring forth another thing which was not before As if a man Lease his Lands reserving yearly for the same xxli c. And divers other such Reservations there be And note that in ancient time their Reservations were as well in Victuals whether Flesh Fish Corn Bread Drink or what else as in Money until at last and that chiefly in the Reign of King Henry 1. by agreement the Reservation of Victuals was changed into ready Money as it hath hitherto continued Residence REsidence comes from the Latine Residere and is all one with Resiance but that this word Residence is oftner appropriated to the Continuance of a Parson or Vicar upon his Church or Benefice and so it is used in the Statute of 28 H. 8. cap. 13. Resignation REsignation is where an Incumbent of a Church resigns or leaves it to the Ordinary who did admit him to it or to his Successors which differs from Surrender since by that he to whom the Resignation is made hath no interest in the thing so resigned but he to whom the Surrender is made hath by that the thing it self Restitution REstitution is when a Iudgment is reversed by Error then a Writ of Restitution shall issue to restore to the Defendant in the Action what he hath lost And there is a Writ of restitution of stolen goods upon conviction of the Thief which is made at the Sessions or Assises on the Statute of 21 H. 8. 11. Noy rep 128. Resummons REsummons is a Second Summons of a man to answer an Action where the first Summons is defeated by the Demise of the King or such other cause And of this see Coke lib. 7. fol. 29. b. Also if a Terr-tenant returned upon a Scire facias or Defendant in another Action plead non-age and the Plea stays until c. When he comes of full age the Plaintiff upon a suggestion may have a Scire facias or resummons And so when a Plea is staid by pleadiny Protection Excommunication or such other disability Resumption REsumption is a word used in the Statute of 31 H 6. c. 7. and is there taken for the Taking again into the Kings hands such Lands or Tenements as upon false suggestion or other error he had made Livery of to an Heir or granted by Patent to any man Retraxit REtraxit is the Preterperfect tense of Retraho to pull back and is when the party Plaintiff or Demandant comes in proper person into the Court where his Plea is and saith he will not proceed any farther in the same c. this will be a Bar to the Action for ever Reve or Reeve REeve is an Officer more known in ancient time then at this day for almost every Mannor had then a Reeve and yet still in many Copyhold-Mannors where the old custom prevails the name and office is not altogether forgotten And it is in effect that which now every Bayliff of a Mannor practises although the name of Bayliff was not then in use amongst us being siuce brought in by the Normans But the name of Reeve anciently called Greeve which Particle Ge in continuance of time was altogether left out and lost came from the Saxon word Geresa which signifies a Ruler And so indeed his Rule and Authority was large within the compass of his Lords Mannor and among his men and Tenants as well in matters of Government in peace and war as in the skilful use and trade of Husbandry For as he did gather his Lords Rents pay Reprises or Duties issuing out of the Manor set the Servants
to work fell and cut down Trees to repair the Buildings and Inclosures with divers such like for his Lords commodity so also he had Authority to govern and keep the Tenants in peace and if need required to lead them forth to war Reversion REversion of a Land is a certain Estate remaining in the Lessor or Donor after the particular Estate and Possession conveyed to another by Lease for Life or years or Gift in tail And it is called a Reversion in respect of the possession separated from it so that he that hath the one hath not the other at the same time for in one body at the same time there cannot be said a Reversion because by the uniting the one of them is drowned in the other And so the Reversion of Land is the Land it self when it falls Ribaud RIbaud seem to be sturdy Vagabonds Rot. Par. 50 E. 3. 61. Right Right of Entrie RIght and Right of Entry See in Droit Riot RIot is when three at the least or more do some unlawful act as to beat a man enter upon the possession of another or such like Robbery RObbery is when a Man takes any thing from the person of another Feloniously although the thing so taken be to the value but of a penny yet it is Felony for which the Offendor shall suffer death Rood of Land ROod of Land is a certain quantity of Land containing the fourth part of an Aere Anno 5 Eliz. c. 5. Rout. ROut is when people assemble themselves together and after proceed or ride or go forth or move by the instigation of one or more who is their Leader This is called a Rout because they move and proceed in routs and numbers Also where many assemble themselves together upon their own quarrels and brawls as if the Inhabitants of a Town will gather themselves together to break Hedges Walls Ditches Pales or such like to have Common there or to beat another that hath done them a common displeasure or such like that is a Rout and against the Law although they have not done or put in execution their mischievous intent See the Stat. 1 Mar. c. 12. S. Sac or Sake SAke is a Plea and Correction of Trespass in your Court because Sake in English is Encheson in French and sake is put for sick See Keloway in his Cases incerti temporis f. 145. a. that the privilege called Sake is for a man to have the Amerciaments of his Tenants in his own Court Sacrilege SAcrilege is when one steals any Vessels Ornaments or Goods of Holy Church which is Felony 2 Cro. 153 154. Salary SAlary is a word often used in our Books and it signifies a Recompence or Consideration given a man for his pains bestowed upon another mans business And it is so called as Pliny says in the 31 Book of his Nat. Hist cap. 7. because it is as necessary for a man as Salt and makes his labor relish as Salt doth his meat Sanctuary SAnctuary is a Priviledged place by the Prince for the safeguard of mens lives who are Offendors being founded upon the Law of Mercy and upon the great Reverence Honor and Devotion which the Prince bears to the place whereunto he grants such a Privilege which was heretofore so great that the Princes have granted the same in cases of Treason committed against themselves Murder Rape or other Crime whatsoever Hereof see Stamf. Pl. of the Crown l. 2. c. 38. Satisfaction SAtisfaction is when a Defendant hath paid a Debt or Dammages recovered against him it behoveth him to have satisfaction to be entred upon the Record of the Iudgment Sarpler SArpler is a quantity of Wool which in Scotland is called Serplath and contains 80 stone and with us in England a Load of Wool contains by the opinion of some fourscore Tod and every Tod two Stone and every Stone fourteen Pounds and that a Sack of Wool is in common account equal with a Load and a Sarpler the one half of a Sack Scandalum magnatum SCandalum magnatum is an Evil report invented or dispersed to the prejudice or slander of any great personage or Officer of the realm The punishment of which is enacted by divers Statutes viz Westm 1. c. 33. 2 R. 2. c. 5. 12 R. 2. c. 11. Scavage SCavage or Shewage is a Toll exacted by the Mayors Sheriffs and Bayliffs of Cities and Towns Corporate for wares or merchandise shewed to be sold within their precincts or jurisdiction which Exaction being against the priviledge of the Kings subjects was prohibited by a Statute made in 19 H. 7. c. 8. See 21 H. 7. f. 14. a. and see the Statute of 22 H. 8. c. 8 in the end thereof The Mayor c. of London brought debt for this duty by these words Pro supervisu a ꝑcionis H. 18 19 C. 2. B. R. roll 625. Scire facias SCire facias is a Writ judicial going out of the record and lies where one hath recovered Debt or Dammages in the Kings Court and sues not to have Execution within the year and the day then after the year and the day he shall have the said Writ to warn the party and if the party come not or if he come and say nothing to discharge or stay the Execution then he shall have a Writ of Fieri facias directed to the Sheriff commanding him to levy the Debt or Dammages of the goods of him that hath lost The Writ of Fieri facias lies within the year without any Scire facias sued Also if the summ of the same Debt or Dammages may not be levied of the Goods of him that hath lost them he may have a Writ of Elegit commanding the Sheriff to deliver him the one half of his Lands and Goods except his Oxen and implements of Plow When one hath recovered Debt or Dammages in an Action personal where the Preces is a Capias he may have another Writ of Execution called a Capias ad satisfaciendum to take the Body of him that is so condemned which shall be committed to prison there to abide without Bail or mainprise till he hath satisfied the party And when one hath Iudgment to recover any Lands or Tenements he shall have a Writ called Habere facias seisinam directed to the Sheriff commanding him to deliver to him Seisin of the same Land so recovered See more of that in the Titles Fieri facias and Execution The Writ abovesaid is given by the Statute of Westm 2. cap. 45. But there are also other manner of Scire facias Scil. upon Audita Querela Writs of Error as well to hear errors as wherefore the Plaintiff ought to have Execution against terrtenants upon Iudgments and the like Scot. SCot is to be quit of a certain Custom as of common Tallage made to the use of the Sheriff or Bayliff Scotale SCotale is an Extortion prohibited by the Statute of Charta de Forresta cap. 7. and it is where any Officer of the Forrest
deins cest Realm ꝑdone chivi ●● ns ou aut ' loyal voyes as ● treasure ou biens personal quecunque cybien cōe asc̄ hōe Englois puit maintain asc̄ Actiō p̄ y cel Mes teīs deins cest Realm ou Measons si nō solem̄t p̄ lour habitation aliē amies ne poiēt aver ne acquirer ne maintain asc Action real ou ꝑsonal p̄ ascun Terre ou Meason sinon q̄ le meason soit pur lour necessary habitation Un Aliē enemie ne poit maintain asc̄ Act ' ou acquir̄ asc̄ chose deins cest Realm Et les reasons p̄ q̄ Aliens nee ne sont capable de inheritāce deins Angleterre sont Primerm̄t Les secrets del Royalm poiēt ꝑ ceo eē cō Secundment Les Revenues del Royalm serront prise enjoy ꝑ Estrangers nee Tiercem̄t Ceo voile tend al destruct ' del Royalm Primerm̄t en le temps de guerr̄ car donq̄s estrāgers poiēt fortifie eux mesmes en le euer ● l Royalm cōbuster le Commonweale Secundm̄t en le tēps đ peace car ꝑ tiels meās plusors Asiēs nee poiēt acquirer un grand part del inheritance franktenement del Royalm ꝑ q̄ la voile ensue un failer đ Justice le supporter ● l Common-weale p̄ ceo q̄ Aliens ne poient estre returne ● Juries ne jure p̄ le trial de issues perent ' le Roy le Subject ou perenter Subject Subject Vide Coke lib. 7. Calvins Case Alienation ALienation idem est quod alienum facere ou de alter ou mitt ' le possession ● Terres ou auter chose de lun home al auter Et en ascun cases home ad poier en luy mesme issint a faire sans lassent ou licence dascun auter en ascun nemy Come si Tenant en capite alien son estate sans cōge le Roy. donq̄ ꝑ le Stat. de 1 Ed. 3. cap 12. un reasonable Fine serra prise ou al Common Ley devant le dit Stat. les Terres tenem̄ts tenus en chief del Roy aliē sās cōgee ōt este tenus forfeit Et si Tenant le Roy q̄ teigne ē capite intend de aliener al C. al use de D. sur ceo si il purchase licence de aliener al C. accordant il alien a C. al use de D. quel use nest mentiō e le Licence en cest case il payer̄ forsque ū Fin̄ car est forsque un Alienation Cok. lib. 6. fol. 28. Mes si home voile alien̄ terr̄ en fee-simple a un Meason de Religion ou a un Corps incorporate covient a luy daver conge le Roy de faire cest Grant ou Alienation le chief Seigniors đ queux tiels Terr̄ sont tenus c. auterm̄t le terr̄ issint alien en Mortmaine serra forfeit ꝑ le Stat. de 15 R. 2. cap. 5. Allay ALlay est le Temper ou mixture de Or Argent ove plus base metal pur l'augmenter del pois de ceo entant que poit countervaile le charge del Roy en le coynage Cest parol est use en le Statute 9 H. 5. cap. 11. pur le payment del Or Anglois per le pois le Roy. Almner ALmner est un Officer del Hostel le Roy son Office est pur dispence les Alms le Roy chescun jour a cest purpose il ad le collect ' des touts Forfeitures des Deodands des biens des Felons de se que le Roy luy allow p̄ disposer ē Alms as povers Et de son Office vide Fletam l. 2. c. 22. Almoin ALmoin Veies Aumone Alnageor ALnageor est un Officer del Roy que per luy mesme ou ꝑ son deputy vey al Assise de tout le Pane que est fait de Lane per tout le Terre a mitter Signets pur tiel purpose ordeignes al eux 35 E. 3. Stat. 4. c. 1. Anno 3. R. 2. c. 2. Et il est destre accomptable al Roy pur chescun Pane que est issint seale en un Fee ou Custome a ceo apperteignant Altarage ALtarage en Latin Altaragium signify Duties Offerings al sainct Altars mention 2 Cro. Rep. 516. que un Vicarage fuit endow ove ceo petit disms Ambidexter AMbidexter est celuy que quant un matter est en suit ꝑnter homes prist argent de lun part del aut ' ou pur labour le Suit ou tiels semblables ou sil soit del Jury pur dire son Verdict Amendment AMendment est quant Error est en le Process les Justices poiēt c̄ amen ● apres Judgment Mes si Error soit ē Judgment done ils ne poiēt amender ceo mes le party est mis al Brē de Error Et en plusors Cases lou le default appiert en le Clerk q̄ escria le Record il serra amend mes tiels choses que vient ꝑ information del party come le Ville Mysterie hujusmodi ne serra amend car il doit informer uray a son peril Amercement AMercement pluis properment est un Penalty assess per les Peers ou pares del partie am̄cie pur un offence fait come p̄ default ● Suit de Court ou pur non amend đ asc̄ chose q̄ il fuit appoint de redresser devant ou pur tiel semblable cause en quel case le party que offend soy mist en le mercie del Roy ou Seignior sur ceo cel Penalty est appel Amerciament Et la est un difference perenter Amerciam̄ts Fines Kitch 214. Car Fines sont punishments certain que cresceront expresment de ascun Statute Amerciaments sont tiels que sont arbitrablement impose per les aff ● eerors quel Kitch semble a confirm̄ fol. 78. en ceux parolx Amerciament est affere per Pares Auxy il appiert Coke lib. 8. f. 39. que un Fine est touts foits impo ● e assesse per le Court mes Amerciament q̄ est appel en Latin Misericordia est assesse ꝑ Pays Auter diversity la est come si home soit convict devant le Vicount en le County ● un Recaption il serra forsque amercie mes sil soit convict de ceo en le Common Bank il serra fine Et le reason de cest diversity est Que le County-Court nest pas Court de Record pur ceo ne poit imposer un Fine car nul Court poit imposer Fine mes tiel Court q̄ est de Record Coke lib. 8. fo 41. a. Si le Defendant ou Tenant plead un faux Fait a luy ou deny son fait demesn̄ ceo est trove vers luy ou sil relicta verificatione cognoscit Actionem il serra fine pur fauxism Quia certi debemus esse de proprio facto Mes si ua deny le Fait son Ancestor ceo est trove vers
de Audience est un Cur̄ appertient al Archevesque de Canterbury de legal authority avec le Curia de Arches bien q̄ inferieur en digni ● y antiquity De quel vous pois lire pluseurs en un Livre entitule De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britannicae Historia Audita Querela AUdita Querela est un Brief que gist lou un est oblige en un Estatute-Merchant Estatute-Staple ou Recognisance on lou Judgm̄t est done vers luy p̄ Dett son corps en Execution sur c̄ donques sil ad un Releas ou aut ' sufficient matter destr̄ discharge del Execution mes nad jour en Court de ceo pleader donques il avera cest Brief vers cestuy que ad recover ou vers ses Executors Auditeur Auditeur est un Officer del Roy ou del auter grand person que per annuel Examination del Accounts de tout inferior Officers accountable fait un general Livre que monstre le difference perenter lour Receptions ou Charge lour Payments ou Allocations Veies le Stat. 33 H. 8. c. 33. Est auxy un auter sort ● Auditors assigne 〈◊〉 asc̄ Court en quel un Defendant est adjudge ● Accounter queux pristeront l'account mise ceo en form en escript donque ceo est enrol le Plaintiff plede a ceo le Defendant reply si mistier soit issint aleront al issue sur divers points particulars del account Average AVerage est le Service que le Tenant doit a son Seign̄ destre fait 〈◊〉 les Avers le Tenant semble destre derive del parol Averia p̄ ceo que est le Service que les Avers le Tenant ● form pur le Seignior 〈◊〉 carriage ou auterment Auxy ceo parol ad un auter signification est mult use en le Statute 32 H. 8. c. 14. pur un certain Contribution que Merchants auters payont proportionalment pur les perdes de eux que ont leur biens ejects en un tempest p̄ le safe-guard del Niefe ou des biens vifes de eux que sont en le Niefe Averment AVerment est lou un home plead un Plea en Abatement del Brief ou Barr̄ de Action que il dit est prist de prover come le Court voit agard Cest offer de prover son Plea est appel un Averment Auxy est un Brief appel Brief de Averment que est fait hors ● ascun Court del Ley a Westminster Sale ou un Action Depend quant le Viscount sur un Distringas returne petits issues donques les Judges al Assises poit cause ceo destre enquise 〈◊〉 un Jery si le Viscount poit returne pluis issues des terres le Defendant si soit trove q̄ il poit donques il doit returne pluis issues a compel le Defendant de appear al suit del Plaintiff ou a faire ceo que le Distringas require luy a faire Averpeny AVerpeny est quietum esse de diversis denariis pro arreragiis Domini Regis Augmentation AUgmentation suit le nosme de un Court erect en le 27 An. del Roy Henry le huict Et le cause de ceo fuit q̄ le Roy puit estre vierment use touchant les ꝓfits de tiels Religious Measons lour Terr̄ que fueront done a luy 〈◊〉 Act ● Parliam̄t mesme le an nient imprimee Pur le dissolving le quel Court le fuit un Act sait en le Parliament tenus en le prim̄ an del Reign del Roign Mary Sess 2. Cap. 10. que el puis mis en Execution per sa Letters Patents Le nosme del Court surde 〈◊〉 ceo Que les Revenues del Corone fueront tant augment ● le Suppression des dit Measons quant le Roy reserve al Corone nient done ou vende al auters Mes le Office de Augmentation remain a cest jour en que la sont plusors Records de grand use importance Aumone AUmone ou Tenure en Almoin est Tenure per Divine Service car issint Brit. dit fol. 164. Tenure en Aumone est terre ou tenements do ● e a Aumone dont ascun Service est retenue al Feoffor ou Donor Auneel weight AUncel weight fuit un ancient manner de poiser en Angleterre 〈◊〉 le pender des balences hooks al chescun fine ● un baston le quel le party elevate sur son digit ou ove sa main issint discerne le equality difference des choses poises Mes ceo weight esteant subject al mult deceit divers Statutes fueront faits q̄ ceo ouster com̄ le Statute 25 E. 3. c. 9. 34 E. 3 c. 5. 8 H. 6. c. 5. auters Et fuit appel Auncel weight quasi Handsale weight Auncient ou ancient Demesne ANcient Demesne est un certain Tenure per quel touts ceux Manors queux fueront en maines de S Edward le Confessor les queux il fist escrier en un Livre appel Dooms-day sub tit ● lo Regis touts les ter̄ tenus de dit Manors sont tenus les Tenāts ne serra implead hors del di ● Mannors sil soyent ils poyent monstre le matter abater le Brief mes sil responder al Brief plead Judgment soit done donques les terre sont devenus frank-see a touts jours Tantque ceo Judgment est reverse per Brē de Disceit Rast Ent. 100 221. 2 R. 3. 1. 11 H. 4. 36. 21 E. 3. 20. Auxy touts Tenants ē Ancient demesne sont frank 〈◊〉 Tolle p̄ touts choses concernont lour viand husbandrie en aucient demesne p̄ tiels terres ils ne serra mis ne empan̄el sur asē Enquest Mes touts les terres en Anciēt demesn̄ queux sont en maines le Roy sont frank-fee pleadable al Com̄ Ley. Veies plus apres en le Title Sokmans Avoir de pois AVoir de pois est tant adire veri sive justi ponderis Et signifie en nostr̄ Ley deux choses Primerment un kind 〈◊〉 pois different 〈◊〉 ceo q̄ est appel Troy Weight que nad forsque 12 ounces al liver lou le Avoir de pois contein 16. Secondment signifie tiel Merchandises queux sont poises ● cest weight nemy per Troy weight Come est a veier en le Stat. de York 9 E. 3. 27 E. 3. c. 9. Stat. 2. c. 10. le Stat. 〈◊〉 Glocester 2 R. 2. c. 1. Avowrie AVowrie est lou un prist Distress pur Rent ou auter chose lauter sua Replevin donques celuy que avoit ceo prise justifiera ē son Plea pur quel cause il prist ceo si il prist ceo en son droit demesne il doit ceo monstre issint avow a le prisel ceo est appel son Avowrie Mes
ensemble un partition de Terres done en Frank-marriage ovesque auters Terr̄ ē Fee-simple discendus Pur example Un hōe seifie de 30 acres de Terre en Fee ad issue deux Files done ovesque un 〈◊〉 ses Files al un home que luy marrie 10 acres de c ' Terre en Frank-marriage morust seisie de les auters 20 acres Ore si el que est issint marrie voilloit aver asc ' part d' les 20 acres d' que sa Pere morust seisie el doit mit ' ses Terres done en Frank-marriage en Hotchpot c ' est adire el doit refuser d' p̄der les sole Profits ● l Terre dona en Frank-marriage suffer le Terre de estre commixt mingle ensemble ovesque le aut ' Terre de que sa Pere morust seisie issint que un equal Division poit estre fait 〈◊〉 lentire perenter luy sa Soer Et issint p̄ sa x acres el avera xv auterment sa Soer voit aver les les xx acres de queux lour Pere morust seisie Housebote HOusebote est necessaire Merisme q̄ le Lessee pur ans ou pur vie de common droit poit prender sur le Terre a repairer les Measons sur m̄ le Terre a luy lessa nient obstant il ne soit expresse en l' Lease nient obstant il soit un Lease ꝑ Parol sans Fait Mes si il prist pluis q̄ besoign̄ il poit estre punish ꝑ un Action de Waste HUe and Cry Hue Crie est un Pursuit de ū aiant com̄it Felonie per le Haut chimin car si le partie rob ou ascun en l' cōpanie de ūque fuit murdr̄ ou rob vient al Constable del ꝓchein Ville luy commanda de faire Hue Crie ou de faire Pursuit puis l'Offendor describant le partie cy pres q̄ il poit monstrās quel voy il est ale le Constable doit immediatement de appeller sur le Paroche p̄ aiđ en querance le Felon si il ne soit trove la donque de doner garrein al ꝑchein Cōstable il ad prochein a luy jesque le Offendor soit apprehend ou al meins jesque il soit este pursue al latere de Mere. De ceo veies Bract. l. 3. tr 2. c. 5. Smith de Repub. Angl. l. 2. c. 20. le Statute de Winchest fait An. 13 E. 1. le Stat. de 28. E. 3. c. 11. An. 27. El. c. 13. HUers Huers Veies Conders Hundred HUndreds fueront divide ꝑ Alfred le Roy apres q̄ il ad divide le entire Realm̄ en certain̄ ꝑts ou sectiōs le q' l ● le Saxon ꝑol Scyran significā● scinder il terme Shires ou sicōe nous uncor̄ ꝑle Shares Portions Ceux Shires il auxy divide en petlts ꝑts ● queux ascuns fueront appelles Lathes de le ꝑol Gelathian q̄ est de assembIer ensemble aut's Tithings pur ceo q̄ la fuerōt en chesc ' de eux al number ● Dize ꝑsons 〈◊〉 que chesc ' fuit Suretie Pledge pur auters bone behaviour auters Hundreds p̄ ceo que ils contain̄ Jurisdiction sur un Hundred hōes ou Pledges ● murrāt ꝑadvent ' en deux ou trois ou pluis Paroches Boroughs ou Villes esteant adjoynant niens meines procheine ensemble en le quel il appoint administration de Justice destre exercise severalment enter eux de mesme le Hundred nemy q̄ l'un irra hors disorderment en l'auter Hundred Lathe ou Tithing en que il ne demurt Ceux Hundreds continue a cest jour en force nient obstant ne en tout al m̄ le purpose pur que al primer ils fueront ordeine uncore a ore mult necessarie en tem̄ps de Peace pur bon̄ order de Governm̄t divers voies en Guerre p̄ certaintie de levying de hōes come auterm̄t p̄ le pluis speedie Collection des Payments grant en Parliament a les Roys de ceo Realme Hundred-Lagh HUndred-Lagh signifie le Hundred-Court de quel touts les Officers ● l Forrest l' Roy fueront exempt per le Chartre de Canutus cap. 9. Hundredum HUndredum est quietum esse de Denariis vel Consuetudinibus faciendis Praepositis Hundredariis Husfastene HUsfastene quasi Domi fixus est il q̄ tient Meason Tr̄e Br. l. 3. tr 2. c. 10. Hustings HUstings Hustingium est un Court de Common-Plees tenus devant le Maior Aldermen de Londres est le plus hault Court que ils ont car Error ou Attaint gist la dun Judgement ou faux Verdict en le Court le Viscount come appiert per Fitzh N. B. 22 H. c. ꝑ le Statute de 11 H. 7. c. 21. Et auters Cities Boroughs o ̄t ew ū Court de m̄ le nosm̄ cōe Winchester Lincoln York Sheppy Issint appel ' 〈◊〉 le Saxon Hus Domus Thing Causa quasi Domus Causarum I. Idemptitate ou Identitate nominis IDemptitate nominis est un Brief q̄ gist loū Brief de Det Covenant Accompt ou tiel semblable Brief est port vers un home un auter que ad mesme le nosme ove le Defendant est pris pur luy donques il avera cest Brief per que le Viscount ferra inquirie devant le Jestice assigne in mesme le Countie si soit mesme le ꝑson ou memy ● i ne soit trove le partie donques il alera sans jour en peace Ideot IDeot est celuy que est un Sot natural de sa neisture ne scavoit d' accompter xx d. ou nosme son Pere ou Mere ne de quel age luy mesme est ou tiel semblable plaine common choses issint q' il appiert que il nad ascun man̄er d'Intendment reason ou governm̄t ● luy mesm̄ Mes si il poit lier ou apprehender de lier ꝑ instruction information des auters ou poit measure un Ulne ● e drape ou nosme les Jours en le semaigne ou engen ● un Enfant ou tiel semblable ꝑ q̄ il poit appear que il ad asc ' lumen de Reason tiel nest Ideot naturalmēt Jeofaile JEofaile est quant les parties al ascun Suit en pleadant ont a tant ꝓceed que ils ayant joyne Issue quel serra trie ou est trie ꝑ un Jurie ou Enquest cel Pleading ou Issue est cy malement plede ou joyne que il serra Error si eux ꝓceed donque ascun del dits parties poit per lour Councel monstre c ' al Court auxy bien apres Verdict done devant Judgment come devant le Jurie soit charge Et le Councel dirra Cest Enquest ne doit prend ' Et si soit apres Verdict donques