Peace all the County over The Peace was prayed upon Articles read in Court against one one of which Articles was that the party against whom the peace was prayed did threaten that he would burn down the house of him that prayed the peace and upon that Article it was granted Hill 21. Car. B. r. To grant the Peace against one is to grant that the process of the Court may issue out of the Crown Office against him to bring him into the Court to finde suerties to be bound with him in a recognisance to the King to keep the peace towards all the Kings Liege people but more especially towards the party that prayes the Peace A Justice of Peace ought not to binde any person to the good behaviour upon a general information and if the party accused doth refuse to be so bound and find Suerties to be of good behaviour yet the Justice of Peace ought not by the Law to send the party to the Goal for refusing it Pasc 23. Car. B. r. For he that desires to have one bound to the good behaviour must shew some particular miscarriages wherein the misbehaviour of the party consists for accusatio generalis est nulla for what defence can be made to it The Justices of Peace ought by the duty of their places to attend at the Assizes and at the publike Sessions of the Peace held for the County whereof they are Justices Pasc 23. Car. B. r. The Commission of Oyer and Terminer doth extend to those that are Justices of the peace Pasc 23. Car. B. r. Q. Whether it be generally so A Justice of Peace may actually Arrest and commit the party to prison that doth a Felony in his own view without any warrant made under his hand and seal to arrest him but if there be an information made to a Justice of Peace that one hath committed Felony there the Justice must make a Warrant under his hand and seal to Arrest the Felon and may not do it by word of mouth 1650 B. S. It is usual in the Capital Office if one be bound to the peace there to keep him bound to the peace during his life But by Rolle Chief Justice there is no reason why this should be done 13. Maii. 1651. B. S. For the party may be come reformed and so no cause to continue him bound and his suerties for so long a time A Justice of Peace may require a Bond or Recognizance of a thousand pound of one for his keeping the peace if he see cause for it in regard that the party to be bound is a dangerous person and likely to break the Peace and to do much mischeif Pasc 1652. B. S. This Court will bind one to the Peace if they see cause to do it although there be no Oath made by any person against him that is to be bound that he goeth in fear of his life of him Trin. 1652. B. S. For the Oath of a party is but to manifest unto the Court that there is just cause why the party should be bound unto the Peace and therefore if the Court be sufficiently satisfied without such an Oath that there is good cause to bind the party to the peace they may do it without such an Oath If one do take his Oath in this Court against another that he doth go in fear of his life of him and prayes the peace against him he against whom the peace is thus sworn and the Peace prayed ought to be committed to prison if he do not find Suerties to keep the peace although there be no Articles exhibited and sworn against him 1652. B S For there appears sufficient cause by the Oath for the Court to do it though there be no Articles exhibited as the usual course is to do Issues The Court doth use upon a motion to order that good Issues be set upon a Sheriff or other Officer for not bringing in the body of the party into Court upon a Writ of Habeas Corpus directed unto him or for not making a good retorne but they will not order-what summe shall be set upon him but leave that to be done according to the custome of the Court Hill 22. Car. B. r. For where things are to go on in a common way of practice there the Court will not make a special Rule in the Case When Issues are set upon a Sheriff or other Officer by the Court for the neglect of his duty and afterwards upon some reasons shewed to the Court why they should be taken off or discharged the Court doth discharge them the Roll ought to be marked to shew they are discharged otherwise Process may issue out to levy these Issues notwithstanding they are discharged by order of Court Hill 22. Car. B. r. For as the Issues do appear upon the Record so they cannot be discharged but upon record If an Issue be not well joyned it is helped after a verdict by the Statute of Jeofailes but if there be no Issue joyned and a Verdict passeth this is erroneous and is not helped by the Statute Mich. 23. Car. B. r. But there must be a repleader to the intent there may be an Issue joyned upon which a tryall may be had Judges The Judges are to have a paper of the Causes which are to be spoken to in Court sent unto them particularly at five of the Clock in the evening the day before they are to be spoken to in Court Hill 22. Car. B. r. That they may have time to prepare to speak to them Justices of Oyer and Terminer cannot proceed to try persons endicted upon endictments not preferred before themselves but the Justices of the Goale-delivery may Trin. 23. Car. B. r. For the Justices of Goale-delivery have a more generall Commission for proceeding against malefactors than the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer have The Judges of the Common Law have no ordinary jurisdiction to examine Witnesses in their Chambers but by the consent of the parties and by the Rule of the Court they may do it and there useth not to be any cross examinations of the party but the course is to put the Depositions in writing on both parts and then the Judg doth examine the parties upon their severall oathes whether their Depositions be true Mich. 23. Car. B. r. Where there do speciall and doubtfull matters arise upon the reading of a Record so that the Court is not for the present satisfied of the Law the Attorneys on both sides ought to prepare Books viz. Copies of the Record for the Judges at the Clyents equall charge that the Judges may upon view of the Record the better consider of the matters in dispute For it is the course for the Attorneys to make their Clyents for to pay for such Books in all such Cases although they never make any for the Judges By Rolle Chief Justice The Judges of this Court declared that they would not sit longer in Court then till one a clock in the
a Procedendo that the cause may be removed into London that the Custome may be tryed there for it cannot be tryed here and so if a Procedendo should not be granted the cause would remain untryed and the party that brought the Action would be without remedy Hill 22. Car. B. r. After the Defendant hath filed Baile in this Court a Procedendo ought not to be granted much less after issue is joyned in the cause Pasc 23. Car. B. r. For by admitting of the Bail the Plaintiff hath admitted the jurisdiction of the Court and it is then too late to move for a Procedendo It is not necessary that a Procedendo do agree in form with the Habeas Corpus by which the cause was removed into this Court but it is sufficient if it do agree in the matter with it Trin. 24. Car. B. r. If the Defendant hath put in Bail in this Court upon the removal of the cause hither by Certiorari or Habeas Corpus cum causa if afterwards the Bail be disalowed by the Court if the Defendant shall refuse to put in better Bail such as the Court shall approve of a Procedendo may be granted to the Plaintiff to remove the cause back again to try it where the Action was first said Mich. 24. Car. B. r. For disalowing of the Bail makes the Defendant to be in the same condition as if he had put in no Bail If a Certiorari to remove a cause be returned before a Judge and not in Court and their follows no proceedings in the cause after the Certiorari returned if the party who is concerned will move for a Procedendo he must move for it before the Judge before whom the Certiorari was returned and not in the Court whether the cause is removed Mich. 1649 B. S. Because the Judge hath been formerly acquainted with the return of the Certiorari and may have better knowledge why it was granted and therefore the Court will not intermedle to undo what the Judge hath done Practice If the Atturney for the Plaintiff do tell the Defendants Atturney that he is content to stay for a Plea till such a time and yet doth in the mean time enter Judgment for want of a Plea this is not fair practice but if this be made to appear to the Court the Court will vacate the Judgement and force him to accept of a Plea Hill 22. Car. B. r. For the Law will not countenance fraud and falshood in the proceedings thereof but loves plain and fair practice It is not fair practice for the Defendants Atturney to Demur to the Plaintiffs Declaration without probable cause but onely to gaine time to plead Trin. 23. Car. B. r. For this is apparent cause of delay Peace and Justice of Peace A Justice of Peace in one part of York-shire is not a Justice of Peace throughout the whole County but onely in that division of York-shire where he is authorised by his Commission to be a Justice Hill 22. Car. B. r. This is in regard of the large extent of that County for in other Counties a Justice of Peace in every County is a Justice of Peace throughout the whole County The Peace was granted against one upon an Article sworn in Court amongst others that he did threaten to burn down the Plaintiffs house Hill 22 Car. B. r. For such menaceing words are accounted to be a breach of the Peace and such persons are dangerous persons in the Commonwealth and to be restrained from doing mischief A Justice of Peace ought not to binde a man to his good behaviour upon a general Information and if the party shall refuse to put in sureties for his good behaviour upon such an information yet the Justice ought not to send him to the Gaol for his refusal Pasc 23. Car. B. r. But the information must be particular and shew wherein the misbehaviour consists for accusatio generalis non est applicabilis personae particulari It is the duty of Justices of Peace to attend duly at the quarter Sessions and at the Assizes held for the County where they are Justices Pasc 23. Car. B. r. For there are the most important businesses which concern the Peace and Government of the County managed The Commission of Oyer and Terminer doth extend to Justices of the Peace Pasc 23. Car. B. r. A Justice of Peace may himself actually arrest and commit a Felon for a Felony done in his own view without any Warrant made to another to do it but he may not command one to be apprehended for Felony upon a bare information made against the party but by a warrant under his hand and Seal and not by Paroll Pasc 23. Car. B. r. It is the course used in the Capital Office to continue one that is there bound to the Peace to be so bound during his life but by Rolle Chief Justice this is not reasonable Pasc 1651. B. S. 13. Maii. If the person that is to be bound unto the Peace be a dangerous person and the cause for which he is to be bound do require great security a Justice of Peace may require him to find extraordinary sureties to be bound with him and in what sum he shall judge the cause doth require Pasc 1652. B. S. If this Court do see cause to bind one to the Peace they may do it although no person doth make Oath that he goes in fear of his Life of the party Pasc 1652. B. S. For such Oath is but evidence against the purty that there is cause to bind him to the peace and if the Court be satisfied that there is cause to do it without such evidence the not having of such an Oath is no hindrance unto them to do it If one do swear the Peace in Court against another that is doth make Oath that he goes in fear of his life or corporal hurt of him the party against whom this Oath is made ought to be committed if he do not find sureties for the Peace although there be no Articles exhibited and sworn against him Mich. 1652. B. S. Priviledge A Committee man of Parliament that is not a Member of the Parliament is not Priviledged from serving upon the grand enquest Hill 21. Car. B. r. A Clerk of this Court is not to be compelled to lay his Action out of that County where this Court doth sit Mich. 22. Car. B. r. By reason of the constant attendance he is bound unto in this Court No Priviledge is to be allowed to one that hath an Indictment preferred against him although he be a Peer of the Realm Mich. 22. Car. B. r. For an Endictment is at the sute of the King and against him no Priviledge is to be allowed One that was coming unto this Court to attend upon his cause was arrested as he was coming and was forced to put in Bail but upon a motion and making it so to appear unto the Court he and his Bail were both discharged Mich. 22.
entred upon the Judgement and so the Judgment in the Trespass and the Act of Oblivion are both satisfied 1651. B. S. One may speak in Arrest of a Judgement given upon a nihil dicit after the Writ of Enquiry of dammages is executed upon that Judgement Mich. 23. Car. B. r. Infant An Infant ought not to appear to an Action brought against him by his Atturney but he must appear by his Guardian Pasc 24. Car. B. r. For he cannot make an Atturney and the Guardian is Assigned but with the consent of the Infant by the Court Trin. 24. Car. An Action of Debt doth lye against an Infant upon his promise to pay for necessaries as meat and drink lodging and apparel but if the Infant and the party from whom he had these necessaries do come to an account and reduce that which the Infant is endebted for them to a certain sum of money and upon this account the party brings an Action against the Infant for the money stated to be due by the account this Action will not lye against the Infant Trin. 24. Car. B. r. For the account upon which the Action is grounded is void for an Infant can agree to no such account Justification Where the Action concerns a transitory thing if the Defendant do justifie the taking or doing in one place this is a Justification in all places but if the Action concern a local thing a Justification in one place is not a Justification in another place Pasc 24. Car. B r. For in the former Case the place is not material but the meer doing or taking of the thing but in the latter the place is material for the Defendant it may be may be able to Justifie in one place and yet may be guilty in another place Jurisdictions The essentiall difference betwixt Free Chappels and other Churches and Chappels is that all free Chappels are free from the Jurisdiction of the ordinary Hill 23. Car. B. r. So that the ordinary is not to intermeddle with them in any thing that doth concern them or to visit them whereas all other Churches and Chappels are within the Jurisdiction of some ordinary and may be visited The Jurisdidiction of a Court where a cause is depending cannot be extended further in relation to that cause by the Consent of the Plaintiff and Defendant then of right it ought to extend Pasc 24. Car. B. r. For this would be for the parties to erect as it were a Court which was not before for the tryal of their cause and by this means the Jurisdictions of every Court would grow to be unlimited This Court hath no conusance of the proceedings in Parliament Pasc 24. Car. B. r. So held in John Lilburns Case because the Parliament is the supreme Court and subject to no other Court. This Court hath a general Jurisdiction to reform the abuses of all persons in their behavior throughout all England and the abuses and miscarriages of all Courts of Justice throughout all England 9. Feb. Hill 1649 B. S. 3. Julii 1650. B. S. If the Court of Chancery do grant a Habeas Corpus to a prisoner that is in the custody of the Marshall of this Court this Court hath not power to restrain the prisoner so long as the Habeas Corpus is in force 3. July 1650. Trin. B. S. In the Case of Sir Arthur Smithes and Workman This Court hath Jurisdiction over all the Courts of England in all Mandatory Writs 10. Feb. 1650. B. S. Injunction An Injunction out of the Court of Chancery doth not lye to stay execution after a Judgement given at the Common Law although the Bill upon which such Injunction is granted were put in before the Judgement given at Law for although the Chancery make a difference between exhibiting the Bill before the Judgement given and the exhibiting a Bill after the Judgement given yet this is no good difference for it is a like in both Cases Trin. 23. Car. B. r. But the Chancery may if there be cause stay proceedings at Law before Judgement given Information If by a penal Statute he that prefers an Information against another for an offence done against this Statute is to have half of the penalty which shall be recovered upon this Information there if an Informer do prefer an Information upon the Statute before any Information is preferred by the King the King cannot hinder the Informer from having his proportion of the penalty given him by the Statute but if the King do first prefer the Information he may Inform for the whole penalty Pasc 23. Car. B. r. For the King is not bound to stay till an Informer prefer the Suit but may sue at any time and if no body Inform none hath right to the penalty but the King and he may pardon it If the Marshall of the Kings Bench do misdemean himself in his office to the prejudice of any person he who is prejudiced by his misdemeanor may prefer an Information against him in this Court Hill 23. Car. B. r. And if he be found guilty upon a tryal thereupon had he may be fined by this Court or put put out of his Office if the Court shall see cause to do it The Clerk of the Crown ought not to set his hand to an Information without examining the cause for which it is preferred Pasc 24. Car. B. r. For if there be not at least in probabilities good matter in Law to ground an Information upon the party that doth prefer it is not to be assisted and encouraged in it for the Law doth abhor vexations and causeless suites An Information may be preferred in this Court against the Inhabitants of any Town or Village in England for the not repairing the High-wayes which by Law they are bound to repaire Mich. 1649. B. S. For this Court may punish offences done against the Weal Publick all England over If an Information be preferred at the Suite of the party there the Endictment ought to be brought to a tryal at the charges of the party that prosecutes the Endictment but if an Endictment be preferred at the Suite of the King there the Endictment shall be brought to tryal at the costs of the party against whom the Information is brought Pasc 1650. 24. Maii. B. S. Although an Information be faulty in the body of it yet upon a motion the Court will not quash it but the Defendant must demur to it for its insufficiency Pasc 1650. B. S 24. Maii. Justice of Peace A man may be a Justice of Peace in one part of Yorkeshire and yet not be a Justice of Peace in every part of the County Hill 22. Car. B. r. For Yorkshire is divided into divers parts called Ridings viz. into the East Riding West Riding and North Riding and he may be a Justice of Peace in one of those Ridings and yet not a Justice of Peace in another of those Ridings but generally a Justice of Peace of a County is a Justice of
in the possession of one of the Tenants that holds parcel of these Lands This is a good Lease to try the title of all the Lands But if the Freehold of the Lands in question be not an entire Freehold such a Lease sealed upon parcel of the Lands in question is not good to try the title of all the Lands Pasc 23. Car. B. r. For several Freeholds must have several Leases to try them because they are the Right and Titles of several persons or by several Titles A Lease for years although it be a very long Lease cannot be entailed For the nature of a Chattel cannot be turned into an Inheritance Hill 23. Car. B. r. Which would be if such a Lease which is but a Chattel might be entailed for an Estate intayl is an Estate of Inheritance A Lessee for years is not bound to repair the house let unto him which is burned by accident if there be not a special Covenant in the Lease that he shall leave the house in good repair at the end of the term But if the house be burned by the negligence of the Lessee he shall repair it although there be no such Covenant in the Lease Pasc 24. Car. B. r. For by the Lessees Covenant it shall be intended that he took notice of what accidents might happen and his Covenant shall be taken generally and without exception and strongest against himself In a Lease for years by Indenture the term is not certain before the habendum tenendum in the Lease Term. Trin. 24. Car. B. r. For though it do appear before the habendum tenendum that the Lands in the Lease mentioned are demised unto the Lessee yet it doth not appear for how many years they are demised nor when the Lease is to begin nor when to end until it is declared in the habendum One may raise an Estate for life in Lands to another by way of use viz. by covenanting with A. B. to stand seised to the use of J. S. for and during the natural life of J. S. without Livery and Seisin Mich. 24. Car. B. r. For the Estate is executed in the cestuy que use by the Statute of Vses of 32. H. 8. without Livery If one be in Possession of Lands of another and hath usually paid a Rent unto him for these Lands although it cannot be expresly proved that the Lands were demised at will to him that is thus in possession of the Lands that is that he should hold them as long as both parties should please yet this holding of the Lands shall be interpreted to be by a Lease at will Mich. 1650. B. S. For it shall be presumed that he in possession doth hold the Lands and that the owner of the Lands did receive the Rent for those Lands upon some Contract made between the parties for holding the Lands for some term and for paying of such a rent for them and a less time cannot be supposed then to hold them at will If one make a Lease for years and after the Lessor enters upon the Lands let before the term is expired or determined and doth make a Lease of these Lands to another this second Lease is a good Lease untill the first Lessee doth re-enter 2. Maii. Pasc 1650. B. S. And then the first Lease is revived Although a Lessee for years do lose his Indenture of Demise of the Lands let unto him yet he shall not lose his term in the Lands let by the Indenture which is so lost If it can be proved any way that there was such a term let unto him by Indenture and that it is not determined so it is of any other Estate in Lands if the Deed that created the Estate be lost if it can be proved that there was such a Deed made and that such an Estate was conveyed by the Deed. Pasc 1650. 14. and 15. Maii. 1650. B. S. For the Estate in the Lands is derived from the Party that made the Deed and not from the Deed otherwise then instrumentally and declaratively to shew his minde and intent that conveys the Estate as also the minde and intent of him that receives it Liberty Matters which do concern the Liberty of any one ought to be determined as speedily as lawfully they may be Trin. 22. Car. B. r. For Liberty is counted very precious and exceedingly favoured in Law not only in respect of the particular profit which every one obtains by his Liberty but also in respect of the Weal-publique For one in prison is disabled to be usefull to himself or any other Where any thing is shewed to be done within a Liberty or a Franchize there it is not necessary to shew within what County that Liberty or Franchize doth lie Trin. 23. Car. B. r. Leet If a Court Leet do not choose a Constable to serve within that Leet the Quarter-Sessions of that County where that Leet is may choose one Mich. 22. Car. B. r. For the Commonwealth must not be unserved and it much concerns the Peace of the Commonwealth but more especially of the County wherein the Leet lies to have such Officers chosen Q. Whether a Court Leet may enquire of private Assaults and batteries if there be no bloud shed in the Case For Bacon Justice and Walker apprentise of the Law of the Inner-Temple held that a Court Leet might enquire of them But Rolle Justice held the contrary Pasc 24. Car. B. r. because they are actionable at the Common Law only by the Party injured and are not publique offences against publique Limitation If a Limitation of an Estate in Lands be uncertain such a Limitation is not good in Law but void Hill 22. Car B. r. For the Law cannot tell what construction to make of such a Limitation by reason of the incertainty of it There is a difference between a condition precedent annexed to an estate subsequent to this condition and a Limitation subsequent annexed to an Estate presently vested Hill 22. Car. B. r. A thing that is expresly limited in a Will by plain words shall not be afterwards made incertain by general words which follow in the said Will. Hill 23. Car. B. r. For that were to encounter a thing that is plain and certainly known with that which is obscure and doubtfull A Limitation of an Estate to begin after the determination of an absolute Estate in Fee-simple is a void-Limitation in Law for if the Law should suffer such a Limitation to be made this would be to suffer perpetuities to be made which the Law doth abhor but yet a Limitation of an Estate to begin after a Fee-simple upon a Contingency is a good Limitation 19. April 1650. B. S. For such an Estate may never take effect London By the ancient Custom of the City of London there ought to be but four hundred Carmen allowed within London Hill 23. Car. B. r. Latitat A Latitat out of this Court is in the nature of an original Writ by
avoid trouble and charge which may otherwise befall him by executing the Judgement if he have a violent and malicious adversary After a Writ of Error is brought and allowed by the Court where the Judgement was given for the reversal whereof the Writ of Error is brought the hands of the Court are foreclosed that is stopped from proceeding upon the Judgement any further and there needeth no Supersedeas to be directed unto them nor is it necessary to mark the Rolle Mich. 1049. B. S. For every one ought to take notice of such general Writs as may any wayes concern them If a Writ of Error be brought to reverse a Judgement given upon a nihil dicit the bringing of this Writ of Error is a Supersedeas to stay Execution upon the Judgement notwithstanding the late Statute that enacts that a Writ of Error shall be no Supersedeas to stay Execution upon a Judgement Pasc 1651. B. S. 13. Maii. For that Statute onely extends to Judgements given upon a Verdict and not to Judgements given upon a nihil dicit or upon a non sum informatus or upon a demurrer Surprisal The Court is alwayes very cautious that no person that hath any cause depending before them be Surprised especially in such matters as are finall and penall to the party that is surprised Mich. 1649. B. S. Because by Surprisals the parties Surprised are deprived of making their full defence Setlement If one hath hired a dwelling house in one Parish and be settled in that house but a small time yet this is such a setlement in the Parish where the house is that the Justices of the Peace have no power to make an order to remove the party setled out of the Purish wherein he was so setled except the party so setled be lame or blind or likely to be suddainly chargeable to the Parish where he was so setled Mich. 1650. B. S. 11. Nov. Tryal and Proceedings to it NOtice to an under-tenant of a house or land that there is a Lease of Ejectment sealed and delivered to Try the title of the thing of which he is in possession is no good notice in respect to the upper tenant thereof or to him in reversion whose title is properly concerned and therefore if there be a Tryal and a Verdict and a Judgement in such a case where there was notice onely given to the under-tenant as aforesaid the Court upon a motion and proof of this matter will vacate such a Judgement as a fraudulent Judgement Hill 21. Car. B. r. For it is deceitfully obtained as to him in the reversion whose title is concerned in the Judgement No tryal ought to be had at the Bar the same Term that the Defendants plea is put in but the Term following by the Rules of the Court Hill 21. Car. B. r. Except it be by special rule of Court or in causes depending on the Crown side wherein the King is a party This Court will grant a Habeas Corpus to Try a Felon at the Bar although the Felony was not committed in the County of Middlesex isthere be not a Gaol Delivery in the usuall manner in the County where the Felony was committed Hill 21. Car. B. r. This is done for the expedition of Justice and that the prisoner may not lye long in prison for the Law favors liberty A Tryal in that Court where the issue Tryed was not joyned is not a good Tryal Hill 21. Car. B. r. For there was nothing before them to Try and so it was Coram non judice Where the Plaintiff will not Try his cause in such due time as he ought to do by the Rules of the Court the Defendant may upon warning given thereof to the Plaintiff proceed to the Tryal of it himself Hill 21. Car. B. r. That he may free himself from the Action that is brought against him Justices of Peace may by there Commission Try a murder committed in the County where they are Justices Pasc 22. Car. B. r. But they do not often do it but leave such matters to be Tryed by the Justice of the Gaol Delivery at the Assizes If any of the Defendants Witnesses to be used at a Tryal do live above fourty miles distant from London the Plaintiff by the Rules of the Court ought to give the Defendant fourteen dayes notice of the Tryal before he Try his cause Pasc 21. Car. B. r. That the Defendant be not surprised for want of sufficient time to get his Witnesses to be at the Tryall Upon a Tryal at the Bar when the Jury is at the Bar and the Court ready and the panell of the Jurors names is delivered to the Secondary he bids the cryer call the Defendant which he doth and if his Councel say they appear then the Secondary bids both parties take heed to their challenges and then proceeds to swear the Jurors but if he do not appear after thrice calling by the Cryer the Plaintiffs Councel do pray the Court the Verdict may be taken by default Trin. 24. Car. B. r. It is called a Verdict by default because if it pass against the Defendant where the Defendant had right and might have defended himself it is not the fault of the Court or Jury but his own that would not appear and defend his cause Where a Tryal is had by provisoe the Plaintiff may be called before the Jury is sworn if the Defendant do require it Trin. 22. Car. B. r. For the Plaintiff is as it were in the place of the Defendant because the cause is brought to a Tryal by the Defendant The Court will not grant a Tryal at the bar except there be oath made that the matter to be Tryed is very difficult or of great value Mich. 22. Car. B. r. In which cases it is fit the Tryal should be at the Bar where Tryals are more solemn and where more time may be spent in the Tryal then can be at the Assizes After a Tryal hath been in a cause the Court ought not to order that there shall be a new Tryal of it except it doth appear that there was a surprisall in the Tryal had or some fraudulent miscarriage in it for if they might in any case they please order a new Tryal this would be for the Court to have an Arbitrary power which the Law will not permit Mich. 22. Car. B. r. For this would weaken the Common Laws to the prejudice of the people Where warning is given of a Tryal to the Atturney in the cause and the Atturney cannot give notice of this warning timely enough for his Clyent to prepare for the Tryal the Court will not force the Atturney to go to a Tryal but will give longer time Mich. 22. Car. B. r. Because the Court will not surprise any person and such Tryals very seldome do determine the business but beget more trouble and charges to both parties Where there ought to have been a place alleadged whence the venue should come and there
to defraud the Plaintiff of his appearance but the Atturney ought by the Rules of the Court to appear for him according to the Rules of the Court notwithstanding his Warrant be so repealed Trin. 22. Car. B. r. If an Atturney do practice deceitfully an Attatchment lies against him out of this Court at the prayer of the party grieved if he make it appear to the Court and good costs shall be given against him 22. Car. B. r. An Atturney and his Clerk were both committed by the Court for entring things against express Rules of the Court and after notice of those Rules given them by the Atturney of the other side 22. Car. B. r. One Atturney ought not to suffer another Atturney to practice in his name by reason of many inconveniencies that often happen to the Clyents by this means 22. Car. B. r. One G. H. an Atturney was ordered to be put out of the Roll of Atturneyes for entring a judgement against an express Rule in Court Mich. Car. 22. B. r. but it was not done The proper place for the Atturney General to sit upon any special matters wherein his attendence is required in Court is under the Judges on the left hand of the Clerk of the Crown Mich. 22. Car. B. r. No Under Sheriff ought to be Atturney for it is often the cause of encreasing of Suits and also a hindrance in dispatch of Clyents causes Trin. 23. Car. B. r. If the Atturney of the Plaintiff or Defendant do dye hanging the Suite and the other party whose Atturney is dead have notice given of it and will not retain another Atturney to prosecute for him the other party may proceed and is not bound to hinder his Clyents cause for it Mich. 23. Car. B. r. The Plaintiff or Defendant may change his Atturney pending the Suite without leave of the Court but it is not fair practice to do it without just cause Mich. 23. Car. B. r. It was the old course in proceeding in an Action of Trespass and Ejectment to deliver the Lease of Ejectment to the party to whom the Plaintiff had made a Letter of Atturney to execute the Lease and for the Atturney to deliver possession of the Land upon the delivery of the Lease Pasc 24. Car. reg If one have a Letter of Atturney to deliver a Deed to another and also authority from the party by word of mouth to do it he may make use of which of these he will to do it by but not of both for the first that he makes use of shall be effectual and the other shall be void Pasc 24. Car. B. r. An Infant ought not to appear to an Action by an Atturney but by his Guardian for he cannot retain an Atturney but the Court may assigne him a Guardian Pasc 24. Car. B. r. The Atturneys ought to be ordered in the ordinary manner of their practice by the Master of the Office and if differences arise betwixt them concerning it he is to hear both parties and to order the matters in difference betwixt them and they are to submit to him Pasc 24. Car. B. r. and the Court is not to be troubled but in extraordinary and difficult matters If there be divers Defendants declared against in one Declaration the Atturney in the cause on the Defendants part cannot be compelled to appear for more of the Defendants then for those from whom he hath Warrant to appear 24. Car. B. r. If one retain one by Warrant to be his Atturney in a Suite depending against him in this Court he may appear for him by that Warrant in all Suites which are there depending against him Hill 1649. B. Sup. Atturneys ought to be of some Inns of Court or Inn of Chancery and not to lodge in Inns or Ale-houses or in private places By Roll chief Justice Hill 1649. B. Sup. 8. Feb. Atturneys of the Upper Bench ought to be allowed in all Circuits as the Atturneys of the Common Pleas are although it hath been denyed them in the Western Circuit and ought not to be compelled to pay extraordinary Fees for practising there per Rolle Pasc 1650. 1. Maii. vid. 1. H. 7. f. 12. a. that the Atturneys of the Upper Bench are not Atturneys upon Record Ergo quaere An Action upon the Case lyes for the Clyent against his Atturney if he plead a Plea for him for which he hath not his Warrant Hill 49. B. Sup. The Atturneys of this Court were ordered from hence forth to besworn as the Atturneys of the Common Pleas are by Rolle Pasc 1650. 1. Maii B. Sup. One cannot force an Atturney to be his Atturney against his will by Rolle Chief Justice One may be an Atturney for a Clyent upon Record and yet another Atturney may act all the business for this Clyent An Atturney that hath Warrant to appear for his Clyent may plead for him without another Warrant by Rolle Chief Justice See Q. for divers Clerks in Court said privately that he cannot plead no any other Plea for his Clyent without a special Warrant but a non sum informatus If an Attnrney dye pending his Clyents cause his Warrant of Atturney is determined and his Clerk may not proceed in the Suite without another Warrant by Rolle Chief Justice Actions There ought to be both apparent malice in the Defendant and prejudice also done to the Plaintiff to ground an Action upon the Case upon or else it will not lye for if there be only malice and no dammage done by it there can be nothing recovered and so the Action will be vain and to no purpose and if there be only dammage and no malice it is but damnum sine injuria and not punishable by Law Hill 21. Car. B. r. Where there are two several dammages done to the party he ought to have two several Actions and not to joyn them in one Action Entred Oct. 156. 20. Car. Hill 21. Car. B. r. Although dammage without wrong will not maintain an Action nor malice without dammage yet malice may aggravate the dammages recoverable where there is dammage and wrong meeting together Hill 21. Car. B. r. Where two Actions though of several natures do depend one upon the other the abatement of one of the Actions is the abatement of both Hill 21. Car. B. r. In an Action upon the Case grounded upon a promise the Declaration is Actio in super casum in the singular number although the Action be brought upon divers promises for the word Case includes all 21. Car. B. r. An Action brought against a Constable for a thing done by him by vertue of his Office ought by the Statute to be brought against him in the County where he is Constable and not else where 21. Car. B. r. A Transitory Action may be laid in any County at the will of the Plaintiff yet generally and it seems the better and more indifferent course so to do it useth to be laid in that County where the cause
Car. B. r. A Tenant that is within the distress of a Lord of a Mannor or Leete ought not to serve upon a Jury in a Cause that concerns the Lord Mich. 23. Car. B. r. For it shall be presumed he may not be indifferent in regard of fearing to displease his Lord. After a Juror is sworne he may not go from the Barr untill the evidence be given and the directions of the Court for any cause whatsoever without leave of the Court and although he have leave he must have a keeper with him Pasc 24. Car. B. r. If a Juror be challenged and the Challenge entred by the Secondary that Juror cannot be after that sworne as a Jury man to try that Cause wherein he was challenged viz. at that tryall 24. Car. Pasc B. r. Q. Whether before the Challenge entred he may be sworn Where a tryall is to be for a thing that concerns the Under-Sheriff there the High-Sheriff shall retorne the Jury Trin. 24. Car. B. r. For here shall be no favour supposed but if the tryall concerne the High-Sheriff the Vnder-Sheriâ—… shall not retorne the Jury for there may be presumed to be favour for the servant depends upon the master and not the master upon the servant The Jury ought not to have any writting with them when they go from the Barr which hath not been proved although such a writting hath been given in evidence unto them Mich. 24 Car. B. r. The Jury may finde matter of Record if they do know it of their own knowledge Pasc 1650. B. S. 10. Maii. For a mans own knowledge is more certain than any evidence can be given There are three grand-Juries retorned every Term to serve in this Court every Jury consisting of 16 17 18 19 or 20 Jurors or more Though a man be very aged yet if he be of an able body and not infirm he is not to be excused from serving upon the grand Jury One _____ Butler a man of 72. years of age was denied by Rolle Chief Justice to be excused to serve because he was of an able body Hill 1651. B. S. One that hath no Freehold in the County or is a Constable or a Surveyor of the high-way or is a sequestred person are not thereby to be excused from serving upon the grand Jury Pasc 1651. B. S. By Rolle Chief Justice But Q. of a sequestred person The Jurors that appear at a tryall shall not have their charges allowed them if the Cause be not tryed for want of Jurors Pasc 1652. B. S. For their apparance is to no benefit of any body When a Juror is withdrawn he is strook out of the panell by the Secondary Upon a generall issue the Jury may finde a Record but not upon a nul tyell Record Pleaded 1651. If but eleven of the Jury be sworne if the twelfth man do stand by and hear all the evidence that was given to his fellowes he may be sworne afterwards and pass upon the tryall By Rolle Chief Justice 1654. Pasc B. S. For the Jurors are sworne to try the issue upon the evidence they shall hear so that it seems the time of being sworne is not materiall whether before or after the evidence Q. The Jury may take Depositions taken in Chancery and exemplified there given in evidence to them from the Barr with them but if they be not exemplified they may only look upon them in Court but not take them with them out of the Court 1654. B. S. For to see them is no more then to hear them read Issue Every Issue is to be joyned in such a Court that hath power to try it otherwise the Issue is not well joyned 21. Car. B. r. For if the Cause cannot be tryed the issue is fruitless If an Action of Trespass be brought against two for entring into the Plaintiffs Land and one of them pleads that the Land is his freehold and the other that he entred into the Land by the commandment of him that pleads it is his freehold here is to be but one Issue joyned 21. Car. B. r. For but one of the Defendants claimes an interest in the Land and the other justifies but as a servant unto him and if the tryal pass for him that claimes the interest there is no colour of Action to be maintained against the other If there be a Demurrer to an evidence and the party whose evidence is demurred unto do plead to the demurrer and joyn Issue with the Defendant upon it this Issue must not be joyned upon a matter in fact in the evidence but that must be agreed or else the Issue is not well joyned for the Court are not to try matter of fact for that would be for them to give a verdict Mich 22. Car. B. r. Whereas the Court are only to declare the Law whether admitting that all the matter given in evidence by the Plaintiff be true it doth prove the Issue in question or not By the Rules of the Court if the Plaintiff will not try his Issue after it is joyned in such time as he ought by the course of the Court to do the Defendant may try it by Proviso if he will Hill 22. Car. B. r. That he may free himself if he can of the danger and trouble he may be subject to by the depending of the Action brought against him and to recover his dammages for his unjust vexation A judgment may be entred as to one part of an Issue and a nolle prosequi to another part of the same Issue Pasc 23. Car. B. r. This is only where the Issue may be divided Where there is a demurrer to part of an Issue and the other part of it remains to be tryed by a Jury the Tryal of it may be either before or after the arguing of the Demurrer at the Election of the Plaintiff Pasc 23. Car. B. r. For the Demurrer and the Issue have no depondancy one upon the other Every issue ought to be joyned upon the most material thing in the Cause depending that all the matter in question between the parties may be tried Hill 23. Car. B. r. For else the triall will prove to little purpose If an Issue be once joyned between the parties this Issue cannot afterwards be waved except both parties do consent unto it although the Issue be but in paper and not engrossed in parchment Trin. 24. Car. B. r. Therefore it is good to be well advised before the Issue be joyned The place ought not to be made part of the Issue in a transitory action Trin. 24. Car. B. r. For the place is not material as it is in a real and mixt action An immaterial Issue joyned which will not bring the matter in question to be tried is not helped after Verdict by the Statute of Jeofailes but there must be a Repleader 26. Jan. Hill 1649. Pasc 1650. 4. Maij. B. S. For this is matter of substance For if there was no Issue there could be no Verdict
a Trial there he must give the Defendant new Notice but if such Trial be to be the next Term after the reference it is not necessary to give new Notice of it for it may be tried by proviso Trin. 1652. B. S. If one give Notice of a Trial to the Defendant and yet doth not try his Cause at the day appointed but do defer his Trial for longer time than one Term after If after that he will try it he must give a whole Terms Notice before his Trial but if he try it the next Term after there needs no new notice For if the Plaintiff try it not than the Defendant may try it by proviso Trin. 1652. B. S. If an Action be laid in London and the Defendant do live fifty miles off the Plaintiff by the Rules of the Court ought to give the Defendant fourteen dayes Notice of the Trial before he proceed to it By Rolle Chief Justice In regard of the distance of place it is fit he should have time for his travel and to prepare for his Defence If the Defendant will try the Cause by proviso he ought to give the Plaintiff due Notice that he will try it and may not take advantage of the Notice formerly given by the Plaintiff 1654. B. S. Because it lies in the Election of the Defendant either to try the Cause by proviso or not to try it And the Plaintiff cannot presume he will try it being Defendant in the Action except the Defendant give him Notice that he will try it If one give Notice to another that he will move the Court in one thing and tell him in what and at the time he moves the Court in another matter and not in that whereof he gave Notice that he would move the Court in This is not good Notice of the motion but the Court will give the partie further time to answer the motion By Rolle Chief Justice For by such deceitfull Notice the party concerned cannot prepare to answer the motion Notice given to the party concerned by the Councel in the cause that he intends to move the Court against him at such a time is not to be taken by the Court for good Notice upon the bare averment of the Councel at the Barre that he gave such Notice but if the Councel will make Affidavit in writing that he gave such Notice the Court will allow it This Court is not bound ex officio to take notice of private Orders made by the Councel of State By Rolle Chief Justice For they are matters but of particular concernment and not matters of Law or publique businesses whereof as Judges they are to take Notice Notice given in the night of a robbery by the party robbed with an intent that Hue and Cry should be made after the Fellons is good Notice according to the Statute if it be given in convenient time after the robbery was done By Rolle Chief Justice It is not necessary to give Notice of a robbery to the Vill that is next within the Hundred where the robbery was done and unto that place where it was done For if the next Vill be out of the Hundred yet Notice given there is good Notice according to the Statute of Winchester Non omittas If the Bailiff of a Liberty do not retorn a Warrant made upon a Latitat out of this Court to arrest one within the Liberty directed unto him the party that is prejudiced by his not making a retorn of it may by the course of this Court have a Writ called a Non omittas directed to the Sheriff of the County in which the Liberty lies commanding him to enter into the Liberty and to make Execution of the Writ viz. the Latitat 21. Car. B. r. For Liberties must not be priviledged to hinder or delay the Execution of Justice and if they or their Ministers do neglect their duties herein this Court may intermeddle notwithstanding their priviledges to put the process of this Court in Execution that the Law may receive no obstruction by them Negative preignans A Negative preignans is when two matters are put in Issue in one plea. Hill 23. Car. B. r. And this makes the plea to be naught because the Plaintiff cannot tell in which of these matters to joyn Issue with the Defendant for the incertainty upon which of the matters the Plaintiff doth insist upon Oath OFficers of Justice are by the Common Law bound to take an Oath for their due Execution of Justice and if they refuse to take such an Oath they may be imprisoned for refusing to take it Trin. 22. Car. B. r. So carefull is the Law to have Justice done to all parties One that is to testifie on the behalf of the King upon an arraignment of a Felon cannot be examined upon his Oath for the prisoner against the King but he may be examined without giving him his Oath Mich. 22. Car. B. r. He is suffered to give his testimony for the prisoner against the King and without his Oath in favour of life The Court will rather believe the Oath of the Plaintiff than the Oath of the Defendant if there be Oath against Oath because it is supposed that the Plaintiff hath wrong done him and that the Defendant is the wrong doer and may therefore be rather supposed to swear falsly to protect himself from the Law than the Plaintiff that is forced to flie to the Law to obtain his right Pasc 23. Car. B. r. One that is to be a Witness in a Cause may have two Oaths given him one to speak the truth to such things as the Court shall ask him concerning himself and the other to give testimony in the Cause in which he is produced as a Witness The former is called an Oath upon a Voyre dire Pasc 23. Car. B. r. Obligation One ought not to be admitted to be a Witness to prove an Obligation or other Deed which he takes in the name of another 21. Car. B. r. For if he might be so admitted this would be upon the matter to suffer him to be a Witness to prove a Bond or Deed made to himself which is not reasonable If a Sheriff take a Bond of the Defendant for his apparance to the Action upon which he is arrested by the Sheriff at the Plaintiffs sute and the Defendant doth not appear accordingly and according to the Condition of the Bond the Plaintiff may by the leave of the Sheriff sue this Bond in the Sheriffs name and proceed to Judgement upon it against the Defendant but without his leave it cannot be done but it is at the election of the Plaintiff to sue this Bond or not for he may proceed if he please by amercements upon the Sheriff untill he make a retorn of the Writ directed unto him Hill 22. Car. B. r. For the Bond is only to save the Sheriff harmless against what may befall him if the Defendant do not appear and doth no way concern the
The Statute of 21. Jac. of Jeofailes which is to help defects in pleadings doth extend to all inferior Courts as well as to the superior Courts for it is a beneficial Law for the people and shall therefore be expounded largely and not with a restriction Pase 24. Car. B. r. The misrecital of a Statute in pleading in a thing which doth not concern the ground of the Action which is brought upon the Statute is helped by the Statute of Jeofailes Trin. 1650. B. S. Although a penal Statute shall not be extended to equity in the exposition of it yet it shall be so expounded that the true intent and meaning of it may be known Mich. 1650. B. S. For if the former should be the exposition would be too large and arbitrary and if the latter should not be the exposition would be to narrow and would extenuate the force of the Statute Satisfaction Satisfaction pleaded to an Obligation which appears to be of a thing which was performed before the date of the Obligation is not good Mich. 22. Car. B. r. For the date of the Obligation shall not be intended to be after the ensealing and delivery of it Moneys that are to be paid by an Executor by vertue of a Decree in Chancery are not to be satisfied by the Executor before a Debt due upon an Obligation made by the Testator and grown due after the death of the Testator By Rolle Chief Justice Trin. 23. Car. B. r. Whether a Legacy given by the Testator or a Covenant entred into by him in his life time and broken in the time of the Executor shall be first satisfied Trin. 23. Car. B. r. Q. In Eeles and Lamberts Case A Guardian may acknowledge Satisfaction upon Record for the Infant unto whom he is Guardian for a Debt which as Guardin he hath recovered for the Infant Trin. 23. Car. B. r. For it is reason that he that hath power given him to recover a Debt should have power to discharge the party of whom it is recovered when he hath received it The ancient course of this Court was that if the Defendant will make the Satisfaction for that which he is sued for to the intent that the Court may cause the Plaintiff to cease his prosecution and may receive the Satisfaction offered that the Defendant should come into Court before he pleads and tender Satisfaction or else the Court would not receive this tender nor order any thing in it Hill 1650. B. S. But now if the Defendant do offer this Satisfaction after be hath pleaded the Court will not utterly reject it but will upon the prayer of the party refer the matter to the Secondary to end the matter the Defendant making full Satisfaction for the principle matter and for costs and dammages suffered and expended by the Plaintiff in the suite Sheriff and Vnder-Sheriff In some cases the Court will order the Sheriff to attend the Secondary of the Office with his Book of Free-holders of the County where the Land in question doth lye that an indifferent Jury may be returned for a tryal at the Bar. Mich. 22. Car. B. r. A Sheriff is not bound to return a Writ directed unto him except the party whom the Writ doth concern do tender him his Fees for the executing of it that is in such cases where he is allowed Fees Mich. 22. Car. B. r. Q. de ceo For the very words of the Writs do enjoyn the Sheriff to make a return of them Mich. 22. Car. B. r. So that it seems he is to return them whether the parties concerned do call on him or not and if he be not paid his Fees where he is allowed to take them he may recover them by an Action A Sheriff out of his Office cannot be fined by the Court but a Tipstaff may be sent for him to bring him in to answer this misdemeanor committed by him when he was in his Office 22. Car. B. r. The old Sheriff of a County is Sheriff untill the new Sheriff be sworn although he be chosen Hill 22. Car. B. r. For the taking of his oath doth compleat him in his Office The Under-Sheriff ought alwayes to have his Deputy to be attendant in Court to receive and execute their commands and to give account of businesses which may fall out concerning the Sheriff Hill 22. Car. B. r. Both the Sheriffs of the City of London are in Law but one Sheriff and one of them is not onely Sheriff of Middlesex and the other Sheriff of London or one the Kings Sheriff and the other the City Sheriff as it is commonly said 11. Feb. Hill 1650. B. S. Every Sheriff ought to answer for the misdemeanors of his Bailiffs Trin. 1651. B. S. For they are his servants and ought to be under his Government Suggestion or Surmise A Suggestion made to the Court that the thing for which it is libelled in the Admiralty against the party was done infra Corpus comitatus where as in truth it was done beyond the Seas is notwithstanding a good Suggestion for the Court to grant a prohibition unto the Admiralty upon for it is but to try the jurisdiction of the Admiralty and not the merits of the cause and if it be false the Plaintiff in the Admiralty may joyn issue upon it and try it at the Law and if the Verdict pass for him the Court will grant a consultation that he may proceed in the Admiralty Mich. 22. Car. B. r. Matters of Record ought not to be stayed upon the bare Suggestion or Surmise of the party but there ought to be an Affidavit made of the matter Suggested to induce the Court to ground a Rule for staying the proceedings upon the Record Mich. 1650. B. r. Surrender If Lessee for Life do accept of a Lease for years it is a Surrender in Law of his Lease for life By Rolle Pasc 24. Car. B. r. For if it should be otherwise the Lease for years would be made in vain and to no purpose for both the Leases cannot stand together and where things may have an operation by a reasonable construction in Law the Law will support them Supersedeas If a Writ of Error be brought there ought not to be a Supersedeas granted to him that brings the Writ of Error to stay Execution upon the Judgement which is to be reversed by the Writ of Error untill he that brings the Writ of Error have put in special Bail to pay costs and dammages if the Judgement be not reversed by the Writ of Error but affirmed Trin. 24. Car. B. r. It is very hard to compell the party that brings a Writ of Error to take out a Supersedeas into all the Counties where he hath Lands or goods lyable to the Execution upon the Judgement for the reversing whereof the Writ of Error was brought Mich. 1650. B. S. By Rolle Chief Justice Yet it is a sure way for him that doth bring the Writ of Error to do it to
Parliament or other payments Trin. 23. Car. B. r. Tithes The rector of a Church shall be accounted the proprietor of the Tithes of that Parish to which the Church doth belong if the contrary be not shewed Trin. 24. Car. B. r. Tithes of Land which do not lye in an Parish do properly belong to the King Mich. 24. Car. B. r. For that which no Subject can justly claim is the Kings Lands which lye in a Forest and are in the hands of the King are free from paying of Tithes although they do lye within some Parish but if they be disaforested and come into the hands of another they ought to pay Tithes for the not paying of Tithes for them whilst they were in the Kings hands is but an immunity for the time and not an absolute discharge Mich. 24. Car. B. r. Tithes are not due to be paid Jure Divino but per legem terrae so held by the Court agreeing with J. Seldons History of Tithes Mich. 1649 B. S. If Lands paid no Tithes before the Statute of Ed. 6. or but very inconsiderable Tithes and afterwards the Lands for which the Tithes were paid are improved by the owner he shall onely pay the accustomed Tithes paid for them before the improvement of them to wit for the seven last years immediately preceding the improvement but if no Tithes were paid for them before the improvement no Tithes shall be paid for them after the improvement 1650. B. S. Venue and Venire Facias AVenire Facias ought to be de aliquo vicineto that is neighborhood and there if the Writ of Venire do say Venire Facias homines Burgi it is not a good Venire for it ought to be Venire Facias homines de Burgo 21. Car. B. r. Q Differentiam inter of and from If a special Verdict be imperfect in matter of substance there must be a new Venire that there may be a new Verdict found because the ill Verdict doth not give the Court power to Judge of the matter in Law and so it is also if a demurrer upon an evidence be not good By Rolle Mich. 22. Car. B. r. Trin. 23. Car. B. r. Q. A Venire Facias that is filed cannot be altered without the consent of the parties Mich. 22. Car. B. r. For the filing of it doth make it a Record In an Action of Trespass and Ejectment the venue ought to be from the Vill or Hamlet where the Lands in question do lye and if the Lands lye in no Vill or Hamlet the venue ought to be de corpore Comitatus that is from the body of the County Mich. 22. Car. B. r. The Judges may alter the venue from the place whence by the Law it ought otherwise to be if they believe there cannot be an indifferent tryal in the County where the venue was first laid Mich. 22. Car. B. r. By reason of the great power that one party hath in the County or for some other cause Where the venue cannot be from a Vill Hamlet or lieu conus there it may be de corpore comitatus Mich. 22. Car. B. r. For if it might not be so the cause could not be tryed A lieu conus is a Castle Mannor or other notorious place well known and generally taken notice of by those that dwell about it and not a close or Pasture ground or such like place of no repute Mich. 22. Car. B. r. In all cases where there is to be a special Jury there the Venire Facias must be special Mich 22. Car. B. r. For ordinary forms are not applicable to extraordinary cases If the matter to be tryed be within divers places in one and the same County the Venire shall be general but if the matter be in divers Countries there the venire ought to be special Mich. 22. Car. B. r. For the general form of a venire doth not warrant to return a Jury in one cause out of divers Counties but in such cases to prevent the failer of Justice the Court hath power to vary from the old forms Where a certain place cannot be known whence the venue should be the venue is to be de corpore comitatus and so it is where a custom of the County is to be tryed for the custom runs through the whole County Hill 22. Car. B. r. And therefore may be indifferently tryed by Jurors returned from any part of the County A fault in a Venire is helped after a Verdict by the Statute of Jeofailes but where the venire is wholly insufficient it is not helped for the Statute extends not to such venires Hill 22. Car. B. r. After a Plea pleaded and an issue joyned in the cause the Venire cannot be amended except the parties consent to it Hill 22. Car. B. r. Pasc 24. Car. B. r. Trin. 24. Car. B. r. If the venue be laid in a foreign County and the parties proceed to issue in the cause the Court will not change the Venue afterwards although the Defendant would try the issue afterwards by provisoe Pasc 23. Car. B. r. Where the Verdict is imperfect so that Judgement cannot be given upon it there must be a new venire to try the cause de novo Mich. 23. Car. B. r. For the former tryal is to no purpose If a matter in Law be depending undetermined and an issue also joyned in the cause there must be a special venire awarded tam ad tryandum exitum quam c. Hill 23. Car. B. r. It is not necessary to enter the venire facias before the tryal but the Plaintiffs Atturney ought to give a Copy of it unto the Defendants Atturney before the tryal if he desire it and after the tryal it may be entred Pasc 24. Car. B. r. A Venire de vicineto Civitatis is good without naming of the Parish within the City out of which the Jurors are summoned and so was it said to be adjudged in Gavell and Gippoes case 10. Jacob. contrary to the book of 5. H. 5. For a City may have but one Parish in it The party that will move to have the venue changed he must move for it the next Term after the Action is brought Trin. 23. Car. B. r. This Court ought not to change the venue so that by it the cause cannot be tryed within the jurisdiction of the Court Trin. 23. Car. B. r. If the Defendant will move to change the venue he must make oath that the cause of Action if any be did arise in the County where he would have the venue laid and not in the County where the Plaintiff hath laid his Action and the Defendants Atturney or his Clerk must make oath that he received the Plaintiffs Declaration after the precedent Term and not before Trin. 23. Car. B. r. Or else the Court will not change it Where an Action is brought for a real thing which is called a real Action the venue ought to be laid in that County where the thing is