Chancellour Treasurer a justice of either Bench a justice in Eyre of Assize or Oyer and Terminer being in their places and doing their Offices is High Treason III. Here the punishment is by drawing hanging and quartering for a man and drawing and hanging a woman CHAP. 22. Courts of Record Court Baron County Court I. Thus we have gone through both the parts of the Law there remaineth yet one generall and common Affection scattered throughout the whole law as the blood is through the body which we call Action II. Action is the handling of a cause in controversie before certain Judges who in respect of the place where they are set to do justice are commonly called a Court. III. Of all apparant faults proceeding from the Action the Court must take notice IV. Every Court hath power to award forth precepts and if the precept be not served another of the like nature shall go forth untill it be served V. To every Court do belong Clerks and Officers VI. A Clerk is he that serveth for things to be done in Court VII Any errour that appeareth to the Court to be the Clerks mistaking may be amended at any time VIII Officers are those who are to serve the Courts precepts and to certifie the Court thereof IX Courts are Courts of Record or Court Barons X. Of Record which are the Kings Courts XI These have such credit that no averment can be taken against any thing there entred or done XII Things also that cannot be granted but by deed passe here by matter of Record XIII The King taketh hereditaments by matter of Record onely XIV Villennage beginneth onely by confessing a mans self to be one in a Court of Record XV. Duties of the Testator growing by Record must be answered by Executors before other duties See Bankrupts 34. XVI Courts of Record are the Parliament or Courts that have ordinary jurisdiction XVII The Parliament is a Court of the King Nobility and Commons assembled having an absolute power in all causes XVIII Statuts of restraint binde not the King unlesse they concern the Common-whealth or he be specially named XIX He may license things forbidden by the Statutes XX. But where the Statute saith his license shall be void there it must have a clause of Non obstante viz. this clause notwithstanding any statute c. XXI Courts of Record which have ordinary Jurisdiction are either general whose jurisdiction extends throughout the Realme or but within some Countie XXII The former are those that are holden iâ— Term time only the whole year having four Terms viz. Michaelmas and Hilary Term Easter and Trinity term and every term severall dayes of Return XXIII Michaelmas term begining the 10 of October and ending the 28 of November hath eight Returns Octabis Michaelis Quindena Michaelis Tres Michaelis Mense Michaelis Crastino animarum Crastino Martini Octabis Martini Quindena Martini XXIV Hilarie term begining the â—3 day of January and ending the 12 of February hath four Returns Octabis Hilarii Quindena Hilarii Crastino Purificationis Octabis Purificationis XXV Easter term beginning 17 dayes after Easter and ending the Munday next after Aâ—cension day hath five Returns Quindena Paschae Tres Paschae Mense Paschae Quinque Paschae Crastino Ascentionis XXVI Trinity term beginning 12 dayes after Whitsunday and continuing 19 dayes hath five Returns Octabis Trin. Quind Trin. Crastino Johannis Baptistae Octa. Johannis Baptistae Quindena Iohannis Baptistae XVII To these Courts belongeth the power of sending forth Writs XXVIII A writ is a Latine letter of the Kings in parchment sealed with his seal XXIX All writs have a salutation Rex to such an one salutem and a conclusion expressing the place as apud Westmonasterium c. and the time both day and year of making it if it be returnable the day of the return is also appointed in it XXX The third writ termed the Pluris not served is a contempt XXXI And therefore the third writ hath alwayes this clause in it vel causam nobis significes so may the second termed the Alias also have if the Plaintiffe will XXXII The Officer of these higher Courts is the Sheriffe to whom is committed the custodie of the Countie XXXIII For matters spirituall the Ordinary is their Officer XXXIV These generall Courts are the Chancery and two Benches the Kings Bench and Common place XXXV Chancery which dealeth in suits concerning the King XXXVI Here the judge is the Chancellor having the Custodie of the great Seal of England under which pass all suits out of the Chancery with Teste meipso XXXVII The Kings Grants are also entred of Record in this Court XXXVIII Such grants are effectuall to passe a free-hold from the King without any Livery XXXIX and being Matters of Record they take effect from the time of the Date XL. In default of a Chancellor the Lord Keeper oâ— the great Seal hath his Authority XLI The Keeper or Master of the Rolls is an assistant to his Court. XLII In the Kings Bench and common place thâ— Judges are one Chief Justice and three and sometimeâ— more other Justices XLIII The Teste of their writ is Teste Johanâ— Popham the Chief Justice for the time being XLIV The Kings Bench is that which dealetâ— properly with pleas of the Crown XLV The Common place which dealeth properlâ— with Common Pleas. XLVI The King hath a proper Court of this kind for all things touching his Revenues called the Exchâ—quer XLVII The Judges whereof are called Barons being one chief Baron and three other XLVIII And this also hath a Court of Chancery before the Chancellor and Barons of the Exchequer called the Exchequer-chamber XLIX The escheator here is a speciall Officer anâ— hath a kinde of a Court for finding out the Kings titlâ— to lands tenements and other things L. Those Courts which deal but within some County are the Sheriffes Turn and the Coroners Court LI. The Sheriffes Turn is a Court of Record for offences which are common greivances LII Whereunto every man of the age of 12 yearâ— and upwards being within the Precinct oweth suit and must be there sworn to the Kings allegeance LIII But Peers of the Realm are excepted LIV. The offender here shall be amerced and distrained for that amerciament LV. The Coroners Court is a Court for matters of the Crown as Battery Mayhem Rape Murder c. LVI Upon just exception to the Sheriff processe out of the higher Courts shall be directed to the Coroners LVII The Steward and Marshall of the Kings house have a Court for all personal Actions and pleas of the Crown arising there LVIII By reason of certain Franchises grow two other Courts of Record which deal within some certain Precinct viz. a Leet and a Court of Pipowders LIX A Leet is a Court of Record having the saâ—e Jurisdiction within an hundred or some lesse precinct which the Sheriffs turn hath in the County the profit thereof being to a Common person LX A
after possibility of issue extinct be impleaded judgment passe against him the reversioner or remainder man at the time of the judgment shall have writ of error upon an error in the record of the same judgment as wel in the life of such a tenant as after his death And if at the time of reversing the judgement the tenant for life c. be alive he shall be restored c. his possession with the mean profits the reversioner c. to the arrerages of the rent if any be due But if the tenant for life c. be dead at the time of reversing the judgement then the reversioner c shall be restored to the possession with the issues after the death of the tenant for life c. and also to the arrerages due in his life see the Marqu of Winch. case Co. 3. 4. Stat. 31. E. 3. 12. Error in the Exchequer shall be reversed before the Chancellor and Treasurer taking to them such justices and other sage persons as they shal think fit and afterwards the roll shall be sent back into the Exchequer to make execution Stat. 31. El. 2. If either the Lord Chancellor or Lord Treasurer or both the Chief Justices come at the day of adjournment in the Writ of error in the Exchequer it shall be no discontinuance Stat. 32. H. 8. 30. Made perpetuall 2. E. 6. 32. After a Verdict tryed by 12 men or more in any suit in a Court of record no Judgement shall be stayed or reversed for any mispleading lack of colour insufficient pleading miscontinuance discontinuance misconveying of Processe misjoyning of Issue lack of warrant of Attourney for the party against whom the Issue is tryed or any other default or negligence of the parties their Councellors or Attourneys Stat. 18. El. 14. After a Verdict of 12 men or more in any suit in Court of Record Judgment shall not be stayed or reversed for default of form or lack of form false Latine variance for the register c. in any writ original or judicial Declaration Bill or Plaint or for want of any writ original or judicial or by reason of any imperfect or insufficient return or for want of any warrant of Attourney or by reason of any manner of default in proces upon or after Aid prayer or Voucher Stat. 27. El. 5. After Demurrer joyned or entred in any suit in Court of Record the judges shal proceed give Judgement according to right the matter in law appearing to them without regarding any imperfection defect or want of form in any writ Return Plaint Declaration or other pleading whatsoever except those only which the party specially and particulary shall set down and expresse together with his Demurrer And no Judgment to be given shall be reversed by writ of error or by any such imperfection defect or want of form aâ— aforesaid except as is before excepted The two last Satutes extend not to suits of Felony or Murder nor to the indictment or presentment of them or of treason nor to the Proces of any of them nor to any suit upon any popular or penal Staute Rule 16 Stat. 27. E. 8. An error in the Kings Bench in an action of debt detinue covenant account action upon the Case Ejectione firmae or trespass first commenced there where the King is no party may at the parties choise be reversed in the Exchequer chamber before the Justices of the Common place and such Barons of the Exchequer as are of the Coife or six of them at least other then for error concerning the jurisdiction of the Kings Bench or want of form in a writ Return Plaint Bill Declaration Pleading Process Verdict or proceeding whatsoever And upon the judgement affirmed or reversed the Record shall be sent back into the Kings Bench to proceed and award Execution therupon the party grieved with such reversall or affirmation may have a writ of error in the Parliament in such sort as is now used upon erroneous judgements in the Kings Bench. Stat. 31. El. 1. Any three of the Justices and Barons if the full number come not may receive Writs of Error award Processe prefix dayes for the continuance of Writs of Error c. Rule 12. West 1 37. 3. E. 1. An Attaint is given in pleas of Land or of Freehold and of things that touch Freehold Stat. 1. E 3. Stat. 1. 6. It is given in Writs of Trespass as well upon the principal as upon the damages Stat. 5. E. 3. 6 7. In attaints no Essoin or Protection shall be allowed and a nisi prius is given in such Writs as well as in others Stat. 28. E. 3. 8. An Attaint is given in trespasse as wel upon a Bill as upon a Writ without having regard to the quantity of the Damages Stat. 34. E. 3. 7 An Attaint is granted in all pleas as well real as personall Stat. 9. R. 2. 3. It is given to the Reversioner during the life of his Tenant for life upon a recovery against him with restitution to the Tenant that left his possession together with the mean profits and of the arrearages to the reversioner but if the tenant that so lost be dead or were of covin with the recoveree restitution shall be made to the reversioner of the possession it selfe with the mean profits arrerages after such death or recovery by covin saving to the tenant his action by scire facias if he wil traverse the Covin Stat. de Attinctis 13. E. 2. If the petty Jury appear not at the first distresse against them or a nihil be returned the grand Jury shal be taken by their default Stat. 23 H. 8. 3. Made perpetuall by 13 El 25. In any suit before Justices of Record not concerning life an Attaint is given against the Petty Jury and every of them and the party himselfe the processe against the Petty Jury and Grand Jury shall be summons and Resummons and distresse infinite Open proclamation shall be made in the Court where the distresse is awarded more then 15 dayes before the return of the distresse and the Grand jury shall be taken in default of the Defendant or petty jurors or any of them If any of the petty jury appear then the Plaintiffe shal assigne the false Oath of the first verdict untruly given wherunto the petty jury shall have no answer if they be the same persons and the Writ Processe Return and Assignment be good and lawfull except the plaintiff in the same attaint hath before been non-suit or discontinued his suit or hath had a former judgment therin but only that they made a true oath which issue shall be tryed by 24. of the Grand jury and the party shal plead that they gave a good Verdict or any other matter which shall be a sufficient bar of the attaint Notwithstanding which plea the grand Jury shall without delay enquire of the truth of the Virdict such a day shal be given in a Processe as in
seisin and damages and the plaintif shall be punished by Imprisonment at the discretion of the Iustices In like manner also shall the Iustices proceed in case the defendants proof is by deeds and releases for if the plaintif purchased the Assize contrary to his own deed he shall be punisht as aforesaid Stat. 7. R. 1. 10. An Assize of novel disseisin for 〈◊〉 issuing out of Lands in divers Counties shall be takeâ— in confinio comitatus as is used for Common of Pasâ—â—â— in one County appendant to tenements in another Stat. 1. H 4. 8. A speciall Assize is maintainable by the disseisee for such lands as are granted by the King patent without title first found by inquest for thâ— King without suit to be made to the King in that behalfe And if the pattentee pray in Aide of the King a procedendo shall also be granted without suit Here 〈◊〉 the Assize passe for the disseises he shall recover 〈◊〉 damages against the patentee Stat. H. 4. 8. If any make forcible entry into land by way of maintenance the Chancellor of England shall grant a special Assize without suing to the King and if the disseisor shall be attainted thereof he shaâ— suffer one whole yeares imprisonment and restorâ— double damages to the party grieved Stat. 21. H. 8. 3. The plaintif in Assize may abridgâ— his plaint of any part whereunto a bar is pleaded without prejudice to the residue Merton 3. 20. H. 3. A man disseised recovering his seisin by Assize of novel disseisin or confession of the party and having the same delivered him by the Sherif if he be again disseised of the same tenements by the same disseisor he shall have a writ of redisseisin to command the Sherif taking with him the Keeper of the pleas of the Crown and other Knights in proper person to go to the land c. and by the first Iurors or other lawfull men to make inquiry Howbeit this must not be without speciall commandment of the King The redisseisor shall be imprisoned Marlbr 8 52. H. 3 And not delivered without special command of the King and payment of a Fine Westm 2. 8. 13. E. 1. Writs of redisseisin must be inrolled in the Chancery and transcripts thereof shall be sent into the Exchequer Westm 2. 26. A writ of Redisseisin shall lie for them-that have recovered by default reddition or otherwise without recognition of assizes or Iuries The redisseisor shall answer double damages and not be reprevisable by common writ Rule 8. Westm 2. 24. 13. E. 1. Giveth an assize of nusance against him to whom the tenement is alienated after the nusance is made Stat. 6. R. 2. 3. The Plaintif if he will may have a writ of nusance in the nature of an Assise determinable before the Iustices or before the Iustices of Assize Rule 9. Magn. Cart. 12. Vide suprae Rule 2. Marlb 16. 52. H. 3. If the Lord will not render unto the heir the land when he comes to age without plea the heir shall recover his land by an Assize of Mortdancestor together with all his damages West 2. 4. 13 E. 1. If a woman haveing no right recover Dower against a Guardian the heir at full age shall have a Mortdancester aginst her Glocester 3. The heir shall have an Assize of Mortdancester if the tenant by eouttesie alien and leasâ— no Assets Glocester 6. All the heirs whereof one is Son oâ— Daughter Brother or Sister Nephew or Niece and the other in a further degree shall joyne in a Mortdancester Rule 10. Mag. Cart. 13. An Assize of Darrein presentment shall be alwayes taken before the Iustice of the Common place Rule 1â— Westm 2 24 13. E. 1. A writ of Juris utrâ—â— shall be granted to try whether free almes belong to one Church or another in case where they are transferred from one Church to another Rule 13. Stat. 31. H. 8 1. Iointenants and tenants in Common of an estate of Inheritance in their owne right or in the right of their wives in any Mannors Land c. may be compelled to make partition by writ de partitione facienda as Coparceners are compellable to do and afterwards shall have aid to deraigne the Warranty paramount and to recover pro rata as Coparceners after partition should Stat 32. H 8. 32. Iointenants and tenants in common that hold for life or years amongst themselves 〈◊〉 with others that have Inheritance or freehold in any Mannors lands c shall also be compelled to make partition by the said writ to be pursued upon their case Howbeit such partition shall not be prejudicial to any but the parties to such partition their executors and assignes CHAP. 31. Rule 3. STat. 9. E. 3. Stat. 1. 3. In a writ of debt brought against divers executors they shall have but one Essoine before appearance and another after appearance he or they that do first appeare in the Court at the grand distresse shall answer to the Plaintiffe and the plaintif if it passe for him shall have judgment and execution of the goods of the Testator against all named in the writ as well as if they had all pleaded Rule 7. Mag. Cart. 8. 9. H. 3. The pledges shall be free so long as the principal debtor is sufficient And they answering the debt shall have the lands and rents of the principall untill they be satisfied but note that this is meant of the Kings debtor Stat. 1 R. 2. 12. No Warden of the Fleet shall suffer any prisoner in execution to go out of prison by Mainprize Bail or Baston without making gree with the party unlesse by writ or other commandement of the King upon pain to lose his Office and the Creditor to have a writ of debt against him Stat. 23 H. 6. 10. Every Obligation taken by a Sheriff or his Ministers by colour of their office of any peâ—son in their Ward by course of Law shall be by the name of their office and upon condition that the prisoner appeared at the day and place mentioned in his Writ Bill or Warrant an Obligation in any other forme taken is void Stat. 32. H. 8 37. The Executors and Administrators of him that hath any rent or fee-farm in fee-simple fee-tail or for life shall have an Action of debt for the arrerages in the Testators life time against the tenants that should then have paid it or may distreine and make avowrie upon their matter in the lands so long as they remaine in the possession of the said tenant or of any claiming onely from him A husband seised of any such estate in any rent or fee-farm in his wives right shall after her death himself also his executors or administrators have the same remedy for arrerages due in her life So likewise of him his executors or administrators that hath a rent or fee-farme during anothers life and Cesty qui viâ— dye the same being unpaid Rule 9. Stat. 13. El. 4. The lands profits and hereditaments of
of Court when one that hath agreed in the Kings Court to levie a fine is so feeble that he cannot travel XXXV The Cheif Justice of the Common Place may take the acknowledgment of a fine without any dedimus potestatem XXXVI Dedimus Potestatem de Atturnato faciendo for the Judges to admit an Atturney for one in a suit CHAP. 39. Improper Original Processe Prohibitorie I. PRohibitorie improper original writs are these that follow II. A Protection cum clausula nolumus to free ones possessions that nothing be taken against his will for the Kings businesse III. Parsons or other spirituall persons not to be charged to the payment of fifteens for goods in their possessions annexed to their Churches IV. Quod Clerici non elegantur in Officium Balivi for a Clerk not to be chosen an Officer for his lands V. A prohibition to forbid tenant in Dower or by courtesie of England or Guardian by Knight service oâ— in soccage to commit waste to the destruction of the Inheritance VI. A Quo minus for grantee of Estovers to restrain the grantor from committing waste so as he cannot haue estovers VII De exoneratione sectae for tenants by suit oâ— Court or other services that they be not distreined tâ— do the same for such time as they ought to hold the land discharged VIII De exonerando pro rata to discharge the tenaâ—â— of parcel of the Land according to the rate of hiâ— land when he is lawfully distreined for all the rent and services IX De essendo quieto de Tholonio to Officers not tâ— grieve spiritual persons and others that ought to be quit of paying of Toll Murage Pannage Pontage c X. De non ponendo in Juratis to discharge Peers oâ— the Realm and other persons priviledged from being of Juries unlesse their presence be for any speciall cause necessary XI Ne exeas regnum to the party himself to inhibit him from going into forreign parts without the Kings license CHAP. 40. The Count and Pleading I. THus far the beginning of a suit the Proceeding followes which hath two parts The Count and the Pleading II. A condition annexed to an estate of freehold cannot be alleadged in Count or pleading unless it be by Deed. III. The Count is a larger declaration of the substance of the original writ and therefore is usually termed Declaration IV. In reall actions which are in the right the demandant must alledge the taking of the-profits called Esplees in the declaration V. In stead of the Count a plaint shall be made in Assizes of novel disseisin and in writs of Dower a demand VI. Pleading is the parties debating of the suit VII Every plea must be offered to be proved true by saying in the plea Et hoc paratus esse verificare and this is termed an averment VIII An advantage of a matter which cannot be pleaded shall be saved by protesting not acknowledging it to be true although the matter pleaded passe against him IX Pleas are either of the defendant when he is first brought in to answer or the mutual pleas of both X. In a joynt action against two or more one of them appearing shall not answer till the other come in to answer or the suit be finished against him as by death outlawry c. XI An action by or against an Infant as heir shall not proceed till his full age unlesse it be apparant that by proceeding he cannot be prejudiced XII But in a writ of Dower an Infant heir shall not have his age XIII The defendants first pleas are dilatory or to the Action XIV Dilatory which are before any plea in Bar. XV. When an action is brought against many they must joyn in the plea if they inrend to plead these dilatories XVI Dilatory Pleas are exceptions or forein advantages XVII Exceptions are dilatories grounded upon the matter it self of the suit and are in disability or abatement XVIII Those in disability are to the jurisdiction or persoâ— both which must be before the Count. XIX To the jurisdiction when it is alledged that the Court ought not to hold plea of it XX. To the person when it is alledged that the Plaintiffe ought not to be answered as if he be outlawed excommunicated c. XXI But in case of excommunication the suit shall be put without day onely till he be absolved XXII Those in abatement are for any fault in the first matter of the suit XXIII For this cause the defendant may have Oyâ—â— of any thing tendred by the Plaintiffe and not being parcel of the Record as of the writ condition c. XXIV Pleas in abatement are to the Count first and then to the writ XXV Amongst Pleas to the writ exceptions thaâ— arise upon the view of the writ are to be pleaded before those that are forein as non-tenure several tenancy c. XXVI Pleas to the Count are for insufficiencie variance from the writ c. XXVII Pleas to the writ are for default of forâ— false Latine c. XXVIII By waging of law for non-summons in a praecipe quod reddar the writ shall abate XXIX In Assize of novel disseisin and nusance and in appeals of felonie and Juris utrum the defendant may have many pleas in abatement xxx The writ abating for some cause that can not be imputed to the Plaintiffes folly himself bringing another with speed in the same Court against the same party shall have all advantages of the former anâ— this is called a writ purchased by Journeys accompt xxxi Forain advantages are delayes without excepion to any thing as in all actions Oyer of the writ c. In real actions view aid prayer and voucher XXXII View is in real actions of the thing demanded or of the land whence it cometh when it is so necessary as without view the defendant cannot wel answer XXXIII Ayde prayer is for the tenant for life to request him that hath the inheritance to help him to plead so must the Incumbent pray in aid of the patron and Ordinary XXXIV Voucher is the calling in of one that should warrant to answer the action XXXV Here the voucher loosing the tenant shall recover in value against him any hereditaments that he had at the time â—f voucher XXXVI Therefore voucher is in liew of another action where the original processe is Summons ad Warrantizandum and then a Grand Cape ad valentiam XXXVII If one be vouched within age it is a summons ad habendum visum first and being awarded of full age a summons ad warrantizandum and Grand Cape as before XXXVIII But if he be awarded within age the parol shall demurre until his full age XXXIX If the summons ad warrantizandum or habendum visum be not served then a sequatur sub suo periculo is to go forth and if the tenant cannot get that served he looseth his warranty for it is sub periculo of the tenant XL. But in exchanges the hereditaments are liable from
these that follow first such as cmomande◠do somthing as III. Re-summons and Re-attachment to receive 〈◊〉 the former plight a suit put without day IV. These may either revive the original alone 〈◊〉 the whole proceeding by speciall words V. All certificatorie writs VI. Certiorari to remove a Record out of a Count 〈◊〉 Record into the Chancery VI. Writs to remove suit out of the Court Baron VIII These may be without shewing any cause the writ if the remove be at the Plaintiffes suit b◠not without shewing good cause in the writ if it be 〈◊〉 the defendants suit VIII These are to remove pleas by writ or by plaint IX Of the first sort are Tolt and Pone X. Tolt or Tollas is for the Plaintiffe to remove a writ of right out of the Lords Court into the County Court XI A Pone is to remove into the Common place in all other cases XII But a Pone to remove a Replevin by writ out of any other Court Baron then the County Court cannot be without shewing cause XIII Of the second sort are a Recordare and Accedas ad Curiam in both which nothing but the plaint shall be removed XIV A Recordare is to remove plaints in the County Court XV. An accedas ad Curiam is to remove plaints in any other Court Baron XVI This also upon good cause shewed in the writ lieth for a tenant to remove the plea in writ of right out of the Lords Court immediately into the Common place XVII A Mittimus to send a Record out of the Chancery into another Court of Record XVIII But the Chancelor may send such a Record by his own hands without any Mittimus if he please XIX A Procedendo to proceed in suits XX. Of this nature is a writ of consultation to proceed in the spirituall Court when one suing there for matters belonging to that Court is restrained to prosecute the suit XXI A writ of Mainprise to set at liberty one bailable finding bail to answer the action XXII Such persons bailable be they which are taken upon a Capias original XXIII But not the defendant in appeal of mayhem if the mayhem be heinous nor the principall in an indictment or appeal of felony nor the accessory after the attainder of the principall nor any in high Treason CHAP. 44. Other judicial Processe of the like nature I. A Writ of Recaption for him whose goods being distrained before for rent or services are distrained again for the same thing hanging the plea in the County Court or before the Justices II. A Writ de magna Assisa eligenda to the Sheriffe to summon four Knights to choose the Grand Assize when the Mise is joyned thereupon in a writ of right III. And this is a meer Judicial writ issuing out of the Common place when the Plea hangeth there IV. A Certificate of Assize upon an imperfect Verdect given in an Assize to bring in the same Jurors to give a more perfect one V. A proprietate probanda unto the Sheriffe to enquire whether the property be to the plaintiffe or defendant when upon a Replevin sued the defendant claimed property VI. And this also may be meer Judicial issuing o◠of the Kings Bench or Common place and returnabl◠there CHAP. 45. Prohibitory judicial processe in the nature of new Originals I SEcondly hither belong such Writs as are prohibitory or restrain from doing some thing where the prohibition it self is in lieu of a summons and after that the process is an Attachment and Distresse of this sort are II. Prohibitions to restrain the party from suing in an inferiour Court that ought not to hold plea of it III. Such a prohibition is an indicavit for the defendants Patron when the right of advowson in any part of ones tithes is in demand in a spirituall court between two Clerks claiming from severall Patrons IV. A Supersedeas to stay any further proceeding in a suit V. Of this nature are a writ of peace for the tenant upon a writ of Right brought in the Lords Court vouching one to warranty out of the power of that court which is called a Forraine Voucher or joyning the mise upon the grant Assize to have the matter respited untill the Justices in Eyre come thither which writ if he bring not after such voucher or mise joyned he looseth his tenancy VI. De libertate probanda for the Defendant upon a Nativo habendo in the County Court claiming to be frank to the Sheriff to adjourn the plea before the justices in Eyer VII Identitate nominis for one molested by a suit against another of the same name VIII Protections cum clausula volumus when the King in respect of the defendants being in his service taketh him into his protection for one year to be free from all suits IX Therefore such a protection shall for that time save all defaults X. Howbeit writs of Dower Quare impedit Assizes of novel disseisin and pleas before the Justices in Eyre are accepted XI This kinde of protection is double viz. Protectio quia profecturus when he is to go beyond sea in the Kings businesse XII And Protectio quia moratur when he stayeth there about it XIII Of this nature also is a protection quia in prisona when being sent beyond sea in the Kings wars he is there taken and detained in prison XIV The King may take his Creditor into his protection that no other Creditor shall sue or arrest him till the King be satisfied XV. He may also by a writ called Warrantia Dei rehearsing that one which should appear in proper person is in his service will that for one day no default be recorded upon him XVI Essoin de malo lecti which is a writ to warrant an Essoin of lying sick a bed cast by the tenant in a writ of right Commanding four Knights to see him and if he be sick to give him adjournment of a year and a day XVII A ne admittas for either partie in a Quare impedit or Assize of Darrein presentment to the Ordinary not to admit the others Clerk till the matter be discussed XVIII This writ must be sued within six moneths otherwise the Ordinary may present by lapse XIX A Quare incumbravit for him that sueth a Ne admittas and afterwards recovereth in a Quare impedit against the Ordinary for imcumbring the Church contrary to the Ne admittas CHAP. 46. The Judgment I. THus far of suit Judgment is the Courts final determination of the suit II. Upon judgment against the King in a petition he is presently out of possession III. In a writ of right the judgment after issue joyned is final on either side IV. Against the King judgment is not final but is alwayes with a Salvo jure Regis V Recovery in a writ of right bindes all strangers not claiming within a year VI. Tenant for life suffering a wrongful recovery it shall not prejudice his right that hath
c. hath an Interest This Act shall not be prejudicial to Lords and Commoners in any part of wasts not assigned to Drainers c. nor to any Port or Haven CHAP. 9. Rule 3 STat. 19 H. 7. 15. Upon a feoffment made to the use of a Villein the Lord may enter into the land it self Rule 7. Stat. 9. R 2 2. In a suit by a Villein against his Lord the Lord shall not be barred of their Villeins because of their answer in Law Rule 11. E. 61. 6. 16. No office or deputation thereof or of any part thereof which concerneth the administration or execution of Justice or the receit controlement or payment of the Kings money or revenue or any accompt Aulnage Auditorship or Surveying of the Kings Lands or Customes or Administration or Attendance in any Custome-house or keeping of any of the Kings Towns Castles or Fortress being places of strength or defence or any Clerkship in a Court of Record shall be bargained or sold or any reward or agreement of Reward taken for it upon pain that the seller c. shall forfeit all his Interest in such office or deputation c. and the buyer be a disabled person to enjoy the same And all bonds c. to be void as against him by whom they are made Howbeit all Acts executed by any such person offending before he be removed from his Office c. shall remain good This sttatute extendeth not to any Office of Inheritance or to any parkership or to any offices to be given by the Chief Justices of the Kings Bench or Common place or by any Iustices of Assize CHAP. 10 Rule 2. STat. 27. H. 8 24. No subject shall have authority to pardon any felony or any accessories to felony or any outlawry for such offences Nor to make any justices of Eyre Assize Peace or Gaole-delivery All originall Writs Indictments of treason felonie tre passe and processe upon the same shall be only in the Kings name and the Teste in his name that hath the Franchise Every Writ and Indictment whereby any thing is supposed to be done against the peace shall be supposed to be done against the Kings peace onely and not against the peace of any subject the King shall have all fines issues amerciaments and forfeitures lost by any Officers of Franchises for non-execution or insufficient returnes of processe or for any misdemeanour concerning their office with many provisoes in the same Statute CHAP. 11. Rule 4 WEstm 2. 23. 13. E. 1. Executors shall have a Writ of accompt and the action and processe in the same writ as their testator should if he had lived Stat. 4. E. 3. 7. 1. Executors shal have an action for a trespass done to their testator as of his goods and chattels carried away in his life and recover their damages in like manner as he whose executors they are might have done if he had lived Stat. 32. H. 8. 1. He that hath lands tenements 〈◊〉 hereditaments in soccage and none holden by knight-service or soccage in chief may devise all by his waâ— in writing or give all by act executed in his life 〈◊〉 may he that hath land holden by soccage in cheif anâ— other land holden of a common person by soccage and none holden by Knight-service saving to the Kingâ— primer seisin relief suing of the same out of the Kingâ— hands fines for alienation c. and all other dutieâ— for the soccage in chief as before hath been accustomed He that hath lands c. holden by Knight service whether he have any other lands holden of the King or of any other person by Knight-service or orherwise or not may do the like for two parts in three to be divided in certainty for the advancement of his wife or children and payment of his debts saving unto the King the wardship or primer seisin of the third part without any charge dower c. and finds for alienation He that hath lands c. holden by knight-service whether of the king alone by knight-service not in cheif or of a common person or som holden of the king some of a common person and other land in soccage may devise by will or give by act executed in his life two parts of that holden by knight-service and all the soccage saving to the Lord of the land holden by knight-service the Wardship of a full third part thereof without any charge dower c. Provided that every one shall sue his liverie and pay his relief and heriot as if this Act had never been made Stat. 34. 35. H. 8 The former Statute shall be extended to enable devises and other Acts onely by Land in Fee-simple And if the partie that maketh the will or other Act be seized in Coparcenerie or in the common it shal be good for so much as in himselfe of right is The wardship relief primer seisin c. shall be of lands that descend immediatly after the death of him that maketh the will or other act as well in fee-tail as fee-simple And the devise of two parts residue shall be good though it be of all his fee-simples land Such a will shall be good for two parts in case only where two may be devised though it be made for the whole or more then two parts Such wils made by a feme-covert infant under the age of 21 yeares Ideot or one of non-sane memorie shall not be good See also some other things there for the explanation of the former Act of 32 H. 8. 1. Rule 10. Stat. 21. H 8. 4. that part of the executors which take upon them the charge of a will may sell the land devised by the Testator to be sold albeit the other part which refuse will not joyn with them Rule 11. Stat. 25. E. 3. Stat. 5 5. Executors of executors shall have actions of debt accompt and goods carried away of the first Testators and Execution of Statute-Merchants recognizances made unto him And shall also answer for Assets as the first executors should have done Rule 12. Westm 2. 19. 13. E. 1. the Ordinarie shall satisfie debts wherein the Intestate was bound as executors should Stat. 31. E. 3 11. the Ordinaries shall depute next friends of the Intestate to administer his goods who shall sue and be sued and be accountable to the Ordinaries as executors should Stat. 21 H. 8. 5. Administration shall be committed to the widdow of the Intestate or to the next of his blood or to both at the discretion of the Ordinary The Oâ—dinary not doing his duty herein forfeiteth ten pound Stat. 43. El. 8. If any obtain goods of an Intestate fraud as by procuring administration to be granted a stranger of mean estate or not to be found and noâ— upon valuable consideration c. he shall be charge as executor in his own wrong as far as the goods debts extend Rule 20. Westm 1. 4. 3. E. 1. Where a man dog cat escape alive out of the Ship it
Frâ—â—chise Deputy Clerk of the Sheriffe c. must take 〈◊〉 oath of Supremacie and another oath for the true spâ—â—dy and indifferent returning of writs and impanelliâ—â— of Jurors without taking above the fees allowed Stat. 29. El 4. No Sheriffs Under-Sheriffe Baliffe 〈◊〉 a libertie or any of their Deputies shall either directly or indirectly take more for serving an extent or execution then after the rate of 12 d. for every pound under 100 l. and 6 d. for every pound above 100 l. of what they shall so levie in pain to forfeit treble damages 〈◊〉 the party grieved and besides 40 l. to be divided betwixt the Queen and the prosecutor Rule 11. Stat. 1. E 34. Stat. 1. Averment given in a writ of false judgment against the record certified Rule 26. trinity Term shal begin the monday after Trinity Sunday for keeping of Essoines proffers returnes c. the full term shall begin the Friday after Corpus Christi day and have four returnes onely Crassino Trin. Octabis Trin. Quindena Trin. and Tres Trin. the rest are cut off also by a late Act the two first Returnes of Michaelmas Term are abridged Rule 37. 18. H. 6. 1. The Kings Letters Patents must bear date the day of the delivery of the warrant to the Chancellor and not before otherwise they are void Stat. 3. 4. E. 6. 4 Every one that hath any Intrest in any land or office by or under authority of the Kings Letters Patents made after the fourth of February 27. H. 8. may make his title plea avorwie c. as well against the King as any other by an exemplification or â—â—stat under the great Seal Stat 13. El. 6. So likewise of the Patentees of H. 2. â—â— Qu M.P. M. and Qu. Eliz. and all claiming under them Rule 49. Stat. 14. E. 3. 8. Escheators shall not continuâ— in their office above a year Rule 51. Mag. Cart. 35. The Sheriffe shall make his turn throughout the Hundred but twice a year viz. once after Easter and once after Michaelmas And the view of Frank pledge shall also be made at the turn of Michaelmas Stat. 31. E. 3. Stat. 1. 15. Every Sheriffe shall hold his turn yearly one time within the month after Easter and another time within the month after Michaelmas in pain to lose his turn for the time Stat. 1. E. 3 Stat. 1. 17. Indictments in Sheriffs turns must be by rolls indented one part thereof to remain with the Endictors the other with the Sheriff Stat. 1. E. 4. 2. upon Indictments and presentments taken before Sheriffs or their Ministers at their turns or Law-dayes they shall not attach arrest or imprison nor levie any fine or amerciament of any person so indicted or presented but deliver the same Indictments or presentments to the Justice of peace of the same County at their next Sessions who shall proceed hereupon as if they were taken before them Stat. 1. R. 3. 4. None shal be returned upon a pannel of inquirie for the Sheriffs Turn but men of good name and fame having within the same County Free-hold land to the yearly value of 20 s. or Copihold land to the yearly value of 26 s. 8 d. and every Indictmenâ— ortherwise taken shall be void Rule 55. Westm 1. 10. 3. E. 1. Coroners shall be chosen in all counties of the most wise discreet Knighâ— Sheriffes shal have Counterparts with the Coroners all things which concern their office they shall 〈◊〉 nothing of any man to do their office in pain of greâ—â— forfeiture to the King Stat. 14. E. 3. Stat. 1. 8. A coroner shal have sufficieâ—â— in the County whereof to answer all people Stat. 28. E. 3. 6. Coroners shall be chosen in theâ—â— Counties of the most convenient and lawfull men â—â—ving unto the King and other Lords that may 〈◊〉 Coroners their Franchises Stat. 1. H. 8. 7. where one is slain by misadventure 〈◊〉 Coroner shall execute his office without fee in pain 〈◊〉 40 s. Justices of Assize and Peace have power to require of and punish the defaults and extortions of Coroners Rule 57. Artic. super Cart. 3. 28. E. 1. They shall behold plea of any contracts or covenants but such as 〈◊〉 of the Kings house maketh with another of the 〈◊〉 house Nor of any trespasse unlesse the party were â—â—tached and the plea determined before the Kings â—â—parture from the place where the trespasse was committed Any thing attempted here against is void Pleas of felonie that cannot be determined before the Steward because the felons cannot be attached or 〈◊〉 other like cause shall be refered to the Common Law Stat. 5 E. 3. 2. 10. E. 3. Stat 2. 2. Inquests shal be taken by the men of the country about 〈◊〉 by none of the Kings house except it be in Covenants contrasts trespasses when either party is of the Kings house Stat. 13. R. 2. Stat. 1. 3. the jurisdiction of the Steward and Marshall of the Kings house shall extend no further then twelve miles from the Kings Lodging Stat. 15. H. 6. 1. The defendants may averre that themselves and the Plaintiffe at the time of the Suit commenced were not of the Kings house against the Record Stat. 33. H. 8. 12. The Lord Steward of the Kings house alone or in his absence the Treasurer and controller of the kings house with the Steward of the marshalsie or two of them whereof the Steward of the Marshallsie to be one may without Commission hear and determine all Treasons Murders Man slaughters and blood-shed within the kings house although the king be removed before the inquiring and verdict must be by the Kings houshold servants in the Check-roll No Clergie or Sanctuary is given to any found guilty before them Rule 60. 17. E. 4. 2. made perpetuall 1 R 2. 6. No Plea shall be holden in Court of Pipowders unlesse the Plaintiffe or his Attorney swear that the matter of the declaration was done in the time of the same fair and within the Jurisdiction thereof but that oath shall be-no conclusion to the defendant but that he may plead as he might before Every Steward holding plea otherwise forfiteth 5 l. CHAP. 23. Rule 2. Glocester 8. 6. E. 1. Attorneys may be made in all pleas where appeales lie not Merton 10. 20. H. 3. In suits at the County Court Hundred Weapontake or Lords court Westm 2. 10. 13. E. 1. An Attorney may be made in all Counties where justices do journey and Stat. 3. H. 7. 1. An appeal of death may be pursued by Attorney Westm 1. 25. 3. E. 1. Westm 2. 49. 13. E. 1. and Artic. supp Cart 11. 28. E. 1. there shall be no maintenance in such Stat. 32. A. 8. 9. None shall buy sell or get or take promise or grant to have any pretenced rights or 〈◊〉 to lands except the seller or those by whom he claimeth were in possession or tooke the profits by the span of a year next before upon pain that the
or Darrein presentment at his pleasure Rule 15. Westm 2. 9. The Mesne not coming in to acquit the tenant loseth the service and the tenant shal have like remedy against the lord for exaction as the Mesne might have had And there see the processe and proceeding to be used against the Mesne Rule 21. Stat. de finibus 18. E. 1. Stat. 4. After the writ original is delivered in the presence of the parties before the Justices the Pleader shall say Sir Justice Conge d'accorder then the Justice shall say what saith Sir R And when the Kings fine is agreed for and the peace cried the Pleader shall declare the substance of the fine the parties ought to be of full age of sâ—â— memorie and out of prison A feme-covert must be examined before four Justices and without her consent the fine cannot be leived Stat. de finibus levatis It shall be no good exception that before and at the time of the fine leived the demandant or his ancestors were seised of the land contained in the fine or of some part thereof Fines shall be openly read at two certain dayes in the week by the discretion of the Justices and in the meane time all pleas shall cease Sta. 5. H. 4. 13 Every writ of Covenant All other whereupon Fines are levyed the dedimus potestatem and all knowledges of the same before they be drawn out of the Common Bench by the Chirographer shall be inrolled in a Roll to be of Record for ever out of which execution shall be had if the Notes and Fines be imbeziled Stat. 23 El. 3. Every writ of Covenant or other writ whereupon any fine is levyed the Return thereof the Concord Note and Foot of the Fine the Proclamations and the Queens silver also every writ of Entry in the post and other writ whereupon any common recovery is suffered writs of Summons ad Warrantizandum and the returne of all these writs and every warrant of Attorney may at any mans request be inrolled which Inrollment shall be of as great force to all purposes in law as the things themselves if they were extant No Fine Proclamation or common Recovery shall be reversed by writ of Errour by reason of false Latine Razure Interlining mis-entring of the warrant of Attorney or of any Proclamation or by reason of any other defect of form in words and not in matter of substance Rule 22. Stat. 34. E. 3. 16. The plea of non claim of Fines shall be no barr hereafter Stat. 4. H. 7. 24. Every fine after the ingrossing shall be proclaimed in the Court the same Term and the three next four severall dayes in every Term all pleas ceasing the whilest The Proclamations being so made The fine shall conclude all privies strangers except women Covert persons within 21 years of age in prison out of the Realm or of non-sane memory being no parties to the Fine so as they or their heirs take their action or lawfull entry within five yeares after those imperfections removed saving to all persons and their heirs other then parties the right claim and interest which they have at the time of the fine so as they pursue it by action or lawfull entry within five years next after the Proclamations And saving to all other persons such right title claim and interest as first shall grow remain or come to them after the Proclamations by force of any matter before the fine so as they take their right according to the Law within five years next after it so growes c. And those that be Covert-baron c. at the time when it groweth that they or their heirs take their action or lawfull enuy within five years after those imperfections removed saving also to all not parties or privies the exception that none of the parties or any to their use had any thing in the lands at the time of the fine Stat. 1. M. Parl. 1. 7. All Fines whereupon Proclamations be not or shall not be duly made by reason of the adjournment of any term by writ shall be as good as if any term had been holden from the beginning to the end and proclamations therein made according to the Statute Stat. 32. El. 2. Proclamations of Fines shall be only four times viz. once in the term wherein the Fine is ingrosed and once in every of the three termes next after CAAP. 30. Rule 2. MAg Cart. 12 9. H. 3. Assises of Mortdancester and novel-disseisin shall not be taken but in their proper County by the Justices of Assize and if they cannot be determined there they shall be determined by the same Justice in their Journey Also difficult matters shall be referred to the Justices of the bench to be there determined westm 1. 24 3. E. 1. An Assize given against an Escheator Sherif or other Bailiffe of the King that seiseth any lands by colour of his office without special-warrant and double damages to be recovered by the â—estâ—e partie greieved Westm 2. 25. 13. E. 1. An Assize of novel disseisin shall lie for estovers of wood profit to be taken in woods a Corody delivery of Corn and other victuals and necessaries to be received yearly in a certain place toll tronage passage Pontage Pawnage and the like to be taken in places certain the keeping of Parks Woods Forests Chases Warrens Gates and other Bayliwicks and Offices in fee And in all these cases the writ shall be de libero tenemento All an Assise is given for common of turbarie fishing and such like Commons appendant to a freehold or without a freehold by special deed at least for term of life If any holding for years or in ward alien in fee remedie shall be had by an Assize and both the feoffors and feoffees shal be had for disseisors so that during the life of any of them the said writ shall hold place but if they die the remedie shall be by writ of entry the giving of this writ in new cases shal not diminish the force thereof in those wherein it had force before and remedie also shall be had thereby in case where on feedeth in the sevrall of another In this suit if the defendant fail to make good the exception which he pleads he shall be adjudged a disseisor without taking the Assize and shall give to the Plaintiffe double damages both inquired and to be inquired and besides shall suffer a years Imprisonment If such an exception shall be alledged by a Bailiffe the taking of the Assize shall not thereby delayed nor yet the judgement upon the restitution of the land and damages Howbeit if the Master of such Bailiffe afterwards offer to prove to the Court by matter of Record that there was just exception whereby the Plaintif might have been barred he shall have a venire facias to produce such record And then if the Justices see cause the plaintif shall be warned to appeare at a certain day and the defendant shall then have again his
Writs of admeasurement both of Dower and Pasture after the great distresse proclamation shall be made two County dayes whereupon if the party come the plea shall proceed if not admeasurement shall be made in his default Westm 2. 8. 13. E 1. when the same party after admeasurement another time surchargeth the Common a writ to enquire of that second surcharge shall go 〈◊〉 either judiciall if the former admeasurement were before the Justices or otherwise Originall out of the Chancery and the beasts surcharging the Common or their value shall be answered to the King Rule 24 c. Marlbr 21. 52. H. 3. The Sheriff may replevin beasts not only without but within a liberty also if the bayliff of the liberty will not do it Westm 2. 2. 13. E. 1. The sheriff or bayliff shall take pledges of the plaintiff before they make deliverance of the beasts not only de prosequendo but for return in them if a return be adjudged he that taketh pledge otherwise shall answer the price of the beasts Upon a return awarded to the defendant the writ de returno habendo shall have this clause that the Sheriffe shall not deliver them without writ wherein mention shall be made of the Judgment and thereupon he may if he will hare a judicial writ to the Sheriffe to deliver him the beasts but if afterwards the Plaintiffe desire to replevie his Beasts again he shall have a Judiciall writ viz a writ of second deliverance that the Sheriffe taking surety for the suit also for the beasts to be returned or their price if return be awarded shall deliver the beasts before returned and the distrainor shall be attached to come before the justices at a certain day and if he that replevied make default or for some other cause return of the dissresse is awarded being now twice replevied the distresse shal afterwards remain irrepleviable Stat. 1. 2. P.M. 12. Every Sheriffe of a Shire being no City shall at his first County-day or within two moneths after receit of his patent proclaim in the shir-town four deputies at least dwelling not past 12 miles one from another which in his name shall make Replevins as the Sheriffe might do himselfe Rule 30 Stat. 2. E. 3. 3. Commissions of Oyer and Terminer shall be only granted to the Justices of the one Bench or other or to Justices errants CHAP. 36. Rule 1. STat de quo warranto 18. E. 1. Pleas of quo warranto shall from hencforth be pleaded and determined in the Circuits of the Justices See also Stat de quo warranto novum Rule 3 c. Stat. 36. E. Stat. 1. 13. No Escheator shall take enquests of office but indented between the Jurours and him otherwise they are void Stat. 33. H. 8. 22. No Escheator shall sit virtute officiâ— only to find an office of lands holden of the King of 5 l. value or above in pain of five pounds Stat. 8. H. 6. 16. No escheator shall take inquests bâ— of people impannelled by the Sheriff and those enquests must be returned within a month after the taking in pain of 20 l. so also of Commishoners Stat. 23. H 6. 17. An Escheator shall take an inquest virtute brevis within a month after the delivery of the writ unto him his fees are there also set down Stat. 1. H. 8 8. He shall not sit unlesse he have land c. to the clear yearly value of 40 marks in pain of 20 l. He shall not delay to take the Verdict when the Jury offers it in pain of 100 l. so also of Commissioners He shall not be Escheator again within three years after that year ended Stat. 36. E. 3. Stat. 1. 13. A traverse is given to the party whose lands are seized by office of alienation without licnece or the nonage of the heir in Ward It shall be sent to the Kings Bench to be tryed Stat. 69. E. 3. Stat. 1. 13. Upon a traverse of monstrâ—â— de dron the Chancellor may let him that tenders it the lands holden to farm finding surety to do to waste Stat. 8. H. 6. 19. They shall not be let to farm till the inquests returned nor within a month after withoâ—â— which time the party grieved may have the benefit oâ— the former statute All Letters Patents within the moneth shall be void Stat. 18. H. 6. 6. All Letters patents made of lands oâ— tenements before office found and returned shall bâ— vo d. Stat 1. H. 8. 8. Divers good provisions concerning â—â—cheators Commissioners Jurors and Offices and thâ— manner of returning offices into the petty bagg Stat. 1. H. 8. 10. Lands soiled into the Kings hand by office shall be let to farm to him that tendred to traverse the same within three moneths after such office found notwithstanding the Statute of 8 H. 6. 16. Stat. 2 3. E. The estates and interests of others shall be saved though they be not found in the office where an heir of full age is found within age he shall have a writ de aetate probanda and may proceed to sue out his livery or ouster le main as his case is and receives the profits of his lands notwithstanding such office found Where after the Kings tenants death more hiers then one are found or if one be untruly found a Lunatick Ideot or dead the party grieved may have his traverse as in other cases of untrue Inquisitions A Traverse of Monstrans de droit is given without peition though the King be titled by double matter of Record When the Jury finds de quo vel de quibus Ignorant or per quae servitia ignorant the first shall not make a tenure of the King nor the last tenure in Caâ—ite but in such cases a Melius inquirendum shall issue forth traverse given to an ofice where a wrong tenure is found the rents of mean Lords shall be paid during the nonage of the Ward by the officer that receives the revenue of the Wards lands Artic de super cart 19. 68 E. 1. When the Sheriffe or Escheator seize land into the Kings hand without cause upon ousting of the Kings hands the party shall have the mesne issues Stat. de Escheatoribus 29 E. 4. 3. If the Escheator by writ out of the chancery seize land into the kings hand and after upon Inquisition no title is found for the king to have the Custodie an ouster le main shall be awarded for the party out of the Chancery Provided that if any thing afterwards may be found in the Chancery Exchequer or K. Bench for the King a scire facias shalâ— go out against the party and if the King have right 〈◊〉 shall be answered of all the issues from the time of thâ— Escheators first seisiing of the land Stat. 23. H. 6. 17. In a scire facias upon a traversâ— against any Patentee no protection shall be allowed Rule 11. Stat. 28. E. 3. 4 The rents given to theâ— that sue livery when the rent day
fine in the Mothers life time excepe he leave Assets Rule 68. Westm 1. 12. Notorious Felons which will not put themselves upon an Inquest at the Kings suite against them shal be put to a pain for t dure as those that refuse to be tried by the law of the Land Rule 70. The Statutes that concern Abjuration are Stat. de Artic. Cler. 10. and 15. 21. H. 8 2. 21. 2. 8 12. 24. but Sanctuaries being taken away that is now also out of use CHAP. 41. Rule 18. WEstm 2. 38. In an Assize there shal be but 14 summoned And men of the age of 70 years continually languishing or sick at the time of the summons shall not be put upon Juries Artic. super Cart. 9 34. E. 3. 4 Juries shall be made of the next people of the Countie Stat. 11. H. 6. 1. None dwelling in Stews shall be of a Jury Stat. 9. E. 3. 5. A Deed pleaded in a Franchise shall be tryed in the County where the action is brought Stat. 2. 3. E. 6. 24. Upon a stroke or poyson in one Countie the party dying in another an indictment and triall may be in the County where he dieth and also an appeal sued there and tryed by 12 men of the same County Likewise the accessories in one County to a murder or felonie in another County shal be indicted arreigned c. in the County where the offence of accessorie is committed Stat. 33. H. 8. 20. The indictment and triall of Lunaticks confessing treason c. Stat. 33. H. 8. 23. The triall of Treason c. confessed before the Lords of the Counsel shal be by commission out of the Chancery Stat. 27 H. 8. 4. and 28. H. 8. 13. Treason Felonie c. commited within the Admirals jurisdiction shall be heard and determined by commission directed to the Admirall and three or four others c. Stat. 32. H. 8. 4. Treasons and misprisions of Treason in wales shall be tried there by such Commissioners as the King shall appoint Stat. 35. H. 8. 2. Treason c. committed out of England shall be tried in the Kings Bench or by Commisssioners c. Stat. 1. 2. P. M. 10. Trials for Treason shall be according to the course of the Common Law Stat 23. E. 33. No Indictors shall be put on Inquests upon the deliverance of Indictees of Felonies or Trespass westm 2. 38 None shall be put in Assize or juries triable in their own County but such as have 20 s. per annum free-hold nor in Assize c. triable out of their County unless they have 40 s. per annum c. Stat. de ponend in Assis 21. E. 1. None shll he put in Assize out of their County unless they have 5 l. per annum now within their County unless they have 40 s. per annum Stat. 2. H. 5 3 Upon triall for the death of a man and betwixt party and party when the debt or damages amount to 40 Marks he shall have 40 s. per annum Stat. 33. H. 8.13 In Corporations 40 l. in good sufficeth Stat. 2. E. 6 32. The 40 s. yearly value must be inferred in the Venire facias Stat 27. El. 6. Such a Jurour shall have 3 l. yearly value Howbeit these two lost Statutes extend not to Corporations Stat. 27. El. 7. The Jurour shall be returned by some addition whereby he may be known Stat. 8. H 4 3. every Jurour returned within the County of Middlesex shall be called the fourth day of the return Stat. 5. E. 3. 10. An Ambidexter shall never be of a Jury more Stat. 34. E. 3. 8. The party or any stranger may sâ—â— him for it Stat. 38 E. 3 12. And both the Jurours and the Embraceours being thereof attaint shall pay ten times so much as they have taken Westm 2. 30. when and how Assizes c. shall be taken in the Country See also Statutum de finibus levatis 4. 21 E. 1. That Enquests thereof being taken shall be returned into the Bench and there judgment shal be given thereupon c Stat. Eberac 3. 12. E. 2. Enquests in Pleas of Land that require too great examination shal be taken iâ— Country before a Justice of the place whe e the plea depends and a Knight there or other c. Stat. 42. E. 3. 11. Nisiprius shall not be granted before the name of the Jurours returned Stat. 14. E 3. 16. The directing of Nisi Prius to be tried in the Countrey Stat. 18 El. 12. Trial of Nisi Prius for Middlesex iâ— the term time or 4 dayes after Rule 19. Stat. â—5 H 8 6. Made perpetual 2 E. 6. 3â— Six sufficient Hundreders shal be returned upon everâ— Jury Stat. 27. El. 6. If two sufficient Hundreders appear in any personal Action it sufficeth Rule 20. Stat. 7. R. 2. 10. An Assize of novel disseisin of rent issuing of tenements in divers Counties shall be in the Confines of the said Counties Rule 22. Stat. 28. E. 3. 3. confirmed by 8. H. 6. 28. In every suit between an alien and a Denizen though the King be a party the one halfe of a Jury shall be Aliens if there be so many in that Visne and if there be not so many then so many as be there not parties Rule 23. Mag Cart. 29 A Peer of the Realm upon an Indictment of Felony or Treason shall be tried by his Peers Stat. 20. H. 6. 9. Duchesses Baronesses Countesses c. sole or married shall be tried in such cases as Peers of the Realm Rule 37. Stat. 22 H. 8. 14. No person arraigned for petty Treason Murder or Felony shall be admitted to any peremptory Challenge above the number of twenty Rule 38. Stat. 35. H. 8. 6. made perpetual 2. E. 6. 32 A Tales may be made up before the Justices of Assize or Nisi prius of able persons of the same County then present at the prayer of the plaintiffe or demandant Stat. 4. 5. P. M. 7. So likewise for the King upon request by any authorized thereunto or assigned by the Court or by the Informer that followes as well for the King as for himselfe Stat. 14. El. 9. Such a Tales de circumstantibus shall be also granted at the prayer of the defendant or Advowant Rule 53. Stat. 21. H. 8. 3. The demand of a thing intire may be abridged before Verdict though thereby the writ become false Rule 60. Magn. Cart. 28. Wager of Law shall not be addmitted without credible witnesses Stat 5. H. 4 8. In actions of debt upon arrerages of accompt faining to the Intent to put the defendants from their law that the same was found before their Apprentices or Servants Auditors assigned therein it shall be in the Judges discretion upon examination of the Attorneis or whom else they please to receive the defendants to their law or else to try the same by Enquest CHAP. 42. Rule 10 c. WEstm 2. 12. In an appeal of the death of
shall be put to answer to any offence committed before his admission to the Clergy wherupon Clergy is not allowable and wherof before he was not indicted and acquitted convicted or attainted and pardoned and shall be demeaned in all things as if he had never been admitted to his Clergie Stat. 18. El. 7. He that is allowed Clergie shall not be deliverd to the Ordinary but after burning in the hand shall be forthwith delivered by the Justices out of prison yet for further correction they may detain him in prison so as it be not above a year Rule 24. Westm 2. 12. One being acquitted upon an Appeal or Indictment of felony may have the abettors inquired and have a judicial writ for damages against them if the appellant be not sufficient Stat. 8. H. 6. 10. An Action upon the case given for him that is duely acquit by Verdict against every procurer of any judgment or appeal of treason felony or trespasse and like processe shall be therin as in a writ of trespasse vi armis Rule 37. Westm 2. 18. 13. E. 1. Where debt is recovered or knowledged in the Kings Court or damages awarded it shall be from henceforth in the election of the Plaintiffe to have a writ of Fieri facias unto the Sheriff to levie the debt upon the lands and chattels of the debtor or that the Sheriffe shall deliver to him all the chattels of the debtor except oxen and beasts of his Plough and the one half of his land until the debt be levied upon a reasonable price or extent And if he be put out of the land he shall recover it again by a writ of Novel disseisin and after that by a writ of redisseisin if need be Action Burnel 11. E. 1. A debt acknowledged to a Merchant before the Major of London York or Bristol or before a Major or Clerk appointed therunto by the King shall be enrolled and if it be not paid at the day the debtors moveables shall be prized and sold in satisfaction by the Major if he have any within his jurisdiction else by writ out of the Chancery upon a Certificate of the Recognizance thither The Apprisors are to take them at the price if they apprize them too high if the debtor have not moveables sufficient he shal be imprisoned until c. The like processes against pledges in default of sufficient movables of the principall Stat. de Mercatoribus 13. E. 1. A debt acknowledged to a Merchant before the Major of London or chief warden of the Town which the King shall appoint or other sufficient men when they cannot attend before a Clerk which the King shall assigne shall be enrolled and if it be not paid at the day the debtor if he be a Lay man shall be imprisoned by the Major untill c. if he be within their power else by writ out of the Chancery upon Certificate of the Recognisance thither And if he agree not with the Creditor within a quarter of a year after then all the lands which were the debtors the day of the Recognisance made and also his goods shal be delivered to the creditor upon a reasonable extent And of these lands so delivered the Conisee being ousted shal have an assize or redisseisin The writ out of Chancery shall be returnable before the Justices of either Bench and upon a non est inventus returned or that he is a Clerk writs to all the Sheriffes where he hath lands or goods shall go forth to deliver the same upon reasonable extent and to what Sheriff he wil to take his body The like Proces shal be against the pledges if the mony be not paid at the day If the debtor or pledges die the Creditor shal have execution upon the lands of the heir as at his ful age The Stat. of the Staple 27. E. 3. Stat. 28 the Major of the staple shall take recognisance of debt before himself and the Constables of the Staple whereupon default of payment being made the debtors body shal be imprisoned and his goods sold in satisfaction of the debt if they be within the Staple otherwise upon a Certificate in the Chancery a writ shall go out from thence to imprison his body and seize his lands and goods which shall be returned into the Chancery and execution therupon in all respects as in the Statute-Merchant save that the debtor shal have no advantage of the quarter of a Year Stat. 5. H. 4. 12. a Statute being once shewed in the Common Place and the processe afterwards discontinued yet execution may afterwards be awarded without showing it again Stat. 11. H. 6. 10. He that is in Prison upon a Recognisance shall not be delivered out of prison upon a scire facias against the party and surety found to the King alone but shall finde sureties severally as well to the King as to the other Partie Stat. 23. H. 8 6. Either of the Cheif Justices or in their absence out of the term the Major of the Staple of Westminster with the Recorder of London may take Recognisances and they shall be executed in all respects as a Statute Staple Stat. 27. El. 4 Every Statute Staple or Merchant not brought to the Clerk of Recognisances within 4 months next after the acknowledgement therof shall be void against all persons their heirs successors executors administrators and assigns onely which for good consideration shal after the acknowledging therof purchase the land or any part thereof lyable thereunto or any rent lease or profit out of the same Stat. 32. H. 8. 5. Lands lawfully delivered in execution upon a judgement Statute Merchant Staple or Recognisance being evicted without any fraud or default in the tenant before he have levied the whole debt and damages and Recoverer and Recognisee shall have a scire facias out of the same Court where execution was awarded returnable there full forty dayes after the date and therupon a new writ of execution of the nature of the former shall issue forth to levie the rest of his debt and damages if the defendant make default or shew no good matter in barre Mag. Cart. 8. 9. H. 3. The King shall not take the lands or rents of the debtor if he have sufficient chattels Mag. Cart. 18. The goods of the debtor may be attached after his death by the view of lawful men that nothing be medled with till the Kings debt paid Stat. 33. H. 8. 39. All obligations to the King shall be of the force of a Statute staple Rule 48. Westm 2. 45. 13. E. 1. For all things recorded before the Kings Justices or contained in fines as contracts Covenants Obligations Services or Customes acknowledged or any other things enrolled a writ of execution shall be within the yeer But after the yeer a Scire facias The like also is of a Mesne who by judgment or recognisance is bound to acquit CHAP. 47. Rule 9 Stat. 9. R. 2. 3. If tenant for life or in tail
of him when the Tenant in a Court of Record disclaimeth to hold of him TABLE 29. A reall Praecipe quod faciat which is either to recover an Heredittament and this is either In respect of a Seigniory A Writ de consuetudinibus servitiis Secta ad molendinum To recover some other Herediament A Quare Impedit A Quod permittat A Curia claudenda Some reall thing that concerns an Hereditament as A Writ of Covenant as to levie a Fine of Lands c. Writs in the nature of a Covenant reall A Writ of Mesne A Warrantia Cartae TABLE 30. A reall Si fecerit te securum An Assise Of his own possession as An Assise of Novell Dâ—seisin An Assise of Nusance Of his Ancestors Possession as an Asise of Mortdancestor Either of his own or his Ancestors posession as an Assise of Darrein presentment A Juris utrum for a Parson or Vicar upoâ— his Predecessors alienation Others Such as be between Privies in blood as A Partitione faâ—enda A Nuper obiit A Quo jure to try for Common TABLE 31. A personal Originall Writ is also A Praecipe A Praecipe quod reddat Debt and a Writ of Annuity Detinue A Praecipe quod faciat An Action oâ— Account An Action of Covenant A Si fecerit te securum Tab 32 TABLE 32. A personal si fecerit te securum which is Without force Where the peace is not broken 1 Rationabili parte bonorum 2. Valore Maritagii 3 VVrit or forfeiture of marriage 4 Intrusion of VVard 5 Ejectione custodiae 6 Quare ejecit infra terminum 7 Trespasses upon the Case not against the Peace Where the Peace is broken yet not Vi as An Action of Deceit An Action of Conspiracy With force An Action of Trespass Speciall Actions of Trespass as De parco fracto Rescous Ejectione firmae TABLE 33. An Appeal which concerneth life and is the parties private Action prosecuting also for the Crown in respect of a Felony and this is given only to the Heir of the party slain TABLE 34. A Commissionall Writ which is either Commissionary as A Writ of right Patent A Justiciis An assise of petty Nusance Admeasurement of Dower Admeasurement of Pasture A Nativo habendo A Rationabilibus divisis A Homine reâ—legiando A Replevin Also many of the Actions thâ—â— went before as Consueâ—â—â— nibus Servitiis Secta 〈◊〉 molendinum Quod permitâ—â— Mesne Dower Unde 〈◊〉 habet Annuity Debt Detinue Covenant Trespasâ— c to what summâ— soevâ—â— be brought and also deteâ—mined in the County by Jâ—stices Meer Commissions as Oyer and Terminer Association Si non omnes Ad quod damnum Perambulatione faciâ— de TABLE 35. In Courts that hold plea without original Writ the Suit may be by Plaint in matters that conceâ—â— Common pleas Bill in Pleas of the Crown aâ— Officers of any Court by pâ—â—viledge may sue or be 〈◊〉 there and not elsewhere by 〈◊〉 TABLE 36. Suits for the King are A Quo warranto for the trying of the right of Franchises As inquiry by a Jury which is an Office to entitle the King to som Possession wherof consider The severall wayes how it may be found viz. Virtute officii brevis Commissionis The severall Writs or Commissions used therein concerning a Wardship viz For finding of it Diem clausit extremum within the year after the â—enants death Mandamus after the year Devenerunt when the Ancestor dyed in Ward to the King For mending it Quae plura Melius Inquirendum Datum est nobis intelligi For discharge of it An Aetate probanda A Writ of Livery for Lands in Capite An Ouster le main for other Knight-service Lands How the party may be releived against it By Traverse or Monstrans de droit when the King is entitled by Office only By Petition when he is intitled by double matter of Record as when the Office finds an Attainder of Treason or the like Presentment or Indictment to find an Offence against the King and for penall Lawes an Information TABLE 37. The Originall Process which is Proper Single By the Possessions By the Land In all reall Praecipes quod reddat Summons iâ— Land Grand cape iâ— seise it into the Kings hands A Mortdancester juris utrum daâ—rein presentment Summons Re-summons upon default the Inquest awarded By the Goods as in Assises of noveâ— Disseisin Nusance Attachmeâ—â— by the defendants goods which hâ— shall lose if he appear not and up on default the Inquest awarded By the person in Mayhem Felony and Treason Cap. Exig Outlawry Mixt By the goods and lands In all other reall Actions and in all personal Actions except Trespas offences against the publike and also in all Justicies Summons bâ— the Goods Attachment Distress Infâ—nite and â—sues of the Land In all Trespasses upon the Case except Deceit and conspiracy and in all Offences in the nature of Trespasses upon the Case Attachment Distresâ— infinitâ— and iâ—sues By the goods and person as in Trespaâ—â— vi Deceit Conspiracy and Offence against the publike Attachment Dâ—stress infinite and upon nihil returne 3. Capias Exigent Outlawry Improper Tab. 38. TABLE 38. Improper which is not to bring any matter into Plea or solemn Action but only to do or leave undone something and in is Commandatorie as Dote assignanda Homagio capiendo Scutagio habendo De Corrodio habendo De Annua pensione hab De Libertatibus alloc De executione Judicii De restitutione Temporalium De securitate pacis De vi laica removenda Of cleansing Streets De excommunicato capiendo De excommunicato deliberando De leproso amovendo De cautione admittenda De haeretico comburendo De Coronatore exonerando De Coronatore eligendo De exoner viâ— forest De Electione viâ— forest A Writ for the Royall Assent to elect an Abbot De securitate invenienda All Dedimus potestatems de fine leuando de attornato faciendo c. Prohibitory Tab. 39. TABLE 39. Prohibitory as 1 A Protection cum clausula nolumus to free ones Possessions that nothing be taken against his will for the Kings business 2 To discharge Spirituall Persons of Fiâ—teens 3 Quod clerici non eligantur in Officium Bâ—livi c 4 To forbid Tenant in Dower by the Curtesie or Guardian by Knight service oâ— in Soccage to commit VVast to the destruction of the Inheritance 5 A Quo minus for Grantee of Estover to restrain the Grantors from committing VVast so as he cannot have his Estovers 6 De exoneratione sectae for Tenants by Suit of Court or other Services that they be not distrained to do the same for such tiâ—â— as they ought to hold the Land discharged 7 Dâ— deonerando pro rata to discharge the Tenant of parcell of the Land according 〈◊〉 the rate of his Land when he iâ— lawfullâ— distrained for all the Rent and Services 8. De essendo quieto de Thelonio 9. De non ponendo in Juratis 10. Ne exeas