thereof he entred this is a departure from the Bar for it is a new matter For the same reason a special agreement in evidence shall not maintain the general issue one witness is not enough nor one Juror for to try an issue if more were warned by the Sheriff 8. E. 3.50 So here the Defendant had but one witness which proves for him which is not sufficient and so judgement shall be given for the King Atkins for the Defendant A witness produced to prove a thing if he saith That he knoweth nothing of the matter his deposition is void so if he depose negatively as to say no more was not entred then so much and if no witness the knowing of the Jurors aid not the tryal of the matter and a Verdict given contrary to the testimony of witnesses good It is not needfull to aver that which of necessity must be intended as that the King hath a Beam there special agreement is an agreement as a Feoffment upon condition is a Feoffment and so this word Agreement includes every agreement by which the evidence well maintains the issue The Statute speaks not of surety and peradventure intends it not and therefore in vain to speak of it and therefore it may be he hath not answered to this exception Agreement in our Law is threefold viz. Executed at the beginning of it with payment intended by the Statute of 25. E. 3. cap. 3. which saith That goods bought by fore-stallers are forfeited to the King if the buyer had made agreement with the seller such agreement is not meant in our case because then the Statute should not be intended in the disjunctive for then the first and the second clause should be all one but the word Or disjoyns the clauses Agreement to an act made by another as in 20. E. 4.9 To a disseisin to his use maketh him a disseisor from the beginning so the party ravished to agree to the ravisher is an agreement executed here because nothing is to be done afterwards and agreement here may not be an executory agreement because the performance shall be afterwards yet both parties accord at one time before 26. H. 8. cap. 3. intends such because it speaks of payment or agreement for first fruits c. and common usage to pay after upon obligation made before proves this which intends agreement executory and here agreement is intended executory because it is not the first nor the second and an agreement executory is Duplex the one certain at the beginning as this of first fruits the other by matter ex post facto upon certainty to be known as here and such agreement executory the Statute will warrant for no Law will punish him in whom there is no default and where he cannot prevent the mischance by no possibility for the necessity of the matter and for that inevitable chance shall not prejudice any 20. H. 7.11 Fineus A man by the Common Law may kill another in his own defence or as a champion for the necessary safeguard of his life and the Tryal of right so notwithstanding the custom of the Realm new Natura brevium 94. b. If enemies of the King steal of Guests the Hoastler is discharged because he cannot resist So if the ship were on fire the casting of the goods on the land without payment or agreement for the Subsidie shall excuse the Defendant so here the extremity of the Tempest doth excuse the vigor of the Statute Sanders the Kings Serjeant Notwitstanding that an agreement conditional is included in the words of the Statute viz. The Collector not agreed with yet every Statute although it be penal shall be taken as the makers intended for the Statute of Waste is If any make waste in Lands which he holdeth by Demise c. yet if his Estate be Ex ligatione it shall be punishable in waste and yet the Statute gives Ex demissione onely suo de assignat and so it is holden 10. H. 6.3 But Gloucester cap. 5. W. cap. 14. nor Martebridge cap. 13. speaks nothing de demissione So quia emptores terrarum viz. W. 3. speaks secundum quantitatem terrae intend valore So 4. E. 4.12 An information for shipping Wooll without sureties of the carrying of Bullion according to the 14. E. 3. the last chapter holden good because the finding of sureties is not repealed by the general words of 36. of E. 3. cap. 11. which giveth the old custom of half a Mark for every sack after three years nor of 45. E. 3. cap. 4. which imposeth no charge upon Wooll other then Custom and Subsidie granted to the King and without assent of Parliament and the two last Staâ—intend not for to discharge Bullion but great Subsidies upon Wooll after 3. years so that the mind intent of the makers shall expound the general and doubtfull words of Star and abridge the generalty of them so here it shall be intended an agreement certain Also because the Commons pray the King That he will be pleased to accept of their Grant for that the words of the Statute which is their Grant shall be taken more beneficial for the King and most strong against the Grantors according to the Principle of the Common Law in case of a common person So the Statute of Prerogativa Regis 17. Ed. 2. Rastal wards 13. is the Grant of the Commons to the King which saith The King shall have the custody of all the Lands of such which hold of him by Knights service in Capite whereof the Tenants were seized in their Demeasne as of Fee at the day of their death of whomsoever they hold also by like Knights Service and notwithstanding that Fee is commonly taken to be Fee-Simple yet the King shall have of Tail because it shall be construed most strongly for the K. where it hath two intendments Agreements upon which the Common Law giveth no remedy are void and not good as in 19. H. 6.36 Upon an information for the forging of false Deeds the Defendant pleads Arbitrement made viz. That the Plaintiff shall not farther prosecute his Writ against the Defendant and saith also That the Defendant shall be non-suited in the Assize This is no Plea because non-suited founds not in satisfaction and cannot compell him to be non-suited for the award is not good if it be not executed wholly or the thing awarded may be recovered by action and therefore in 6. H. 7.10 In Trespass to say That he hath paid money but he hath not made his windows which the Heir may compel him to do for the concord is intire but wants execution in all and indeed before action brought is not good then it is performed yet not immediately and therefore it was held no Plea So in 27. ass pl. 5. A Baily known pledge the Ox of his Master for Wheat and if he pays not c. he shall keep the Ox alwaies This shall bind the Master because the wheat cometh to his use otherwise
Litl fol. 108. before fol. 140. two Tenants in Common grant 20. s. it shall enure as several Grants 34. ass fol. 11. Grants totum piscariam salvo stagno molendini sui yet the piscarie passes not for the stagno shall be excepted and not the piscarie because he hath a Reversion in the Propriety of the land and possession of the Ter-Tenancy The nature of an habendum is to give in large or qualifie Malitiosa juris interpretatio herere in verbis c. the words are but witnesses to the contract reversion includes land by all Brown Justice To the same intent of the Abbot and Covent and of Smith and his wife was to have the land pass as a Lease after the paticular estate ended and not otherwise and from that hour that their intent was to have the word reversion enure that way it seemed to him That the Law would warrant it for the land is included in the reversion for if it was not a man by Granting of a reversion could not have the Land in possession after the particular estate ended And a Feoffment of a Carue habendum the Mannor of D. is good if the Carue maketh the Mannor And if land is parcel of an Office it shall pass by the Grant of the office Much more he said tending to the effect to make the Lease good and so the Plaintiff shall recover Brook Chief Justice to the contrary Estate in lands includes land it self land is a generall word and contains Grantor and reversion particular words containing a Decree where one estate onely intent shall be inclined and ruled by the Law and not otherwise and intent nevertheless in certainty of words as 9. H. 6.35 Renuntiavit communium and not to whom void before fol. 122. 13. E. 3. Husband and Wife Tenants for life grant reversion of the Land that he holdeth by Homage Fealty and Castle gard the Lord grants all Services Castle gard passeth not because he granted not the Castle But in Testaments the intent shall be onely observed and rule the Law because the Teastator had not time by presumption to ordain all things according to the Law In conclusion he agreed that Judgement should be given for the Plaintiff Hill against Grange A Man maketh a Lease for years of a Messuage and an hundred acres of land appertaining to it 3. Mar in Common Pleas in Trespass c. by Deed indented the 6. of August rendring rent yearly payable at our Lady day and Michaelmas or 10 days after with clause of re-entry and after Grants the reversion and the Grantee the last instant of the 10. day after Michaelmas demands the rent and enters for not payment and it was adjudged that the entry was good for these reasons 1. Land may not appertain to a Messuage because both are things corporate simply otherwise of Advowsons waies c. which are things incorporate but things Corporate or Incorporate may pertain or be parcel of a thing compounded as a Mannor Castle Knights Fees Honors Forrests Monasterie Rectorie fol. 170. a. But here the land passes as appurtenant but by the intent and phrase of the parties as they have said usually occupied or let c. 2. The rent shall be paid at the first Feast of M. for otherwise it cannot be annual notwithstanding the other feast be first named 10. E. 3. the Abbot of Osneys case 3. The demand of the rent the last instant is good 4. That the Gantee of a Common person is an Assignee to have benefit of a Condition or Covenant fol. 173. a. and shall not be intended of the Pattentee of the King 5. That the Pattentee of the Heir and Successors of E. 6. shall take benefit of the Condition by equity of the said Stat. and not by the words Things of distinct and several natures the one is not parcel of or appendant to the other as 8. H. 7.1 by Keeble a Warren cannot be pertaining to a Leet nor a Leet to a Hundred nor one Office to another nor land to other land to a thing Compounded they may as a Mannor Knights Fee Honor Monastery Castle and a Village or to words general as are Oxgang a yard land a hide of land which contains land meadow pasture wood c. Messuage is a single word consisting of a thing special and not Compound nor a general word for that 27. H. 6.2 Land not parcel or appendant to a house and by demand of a Messuage in precipe land shall not be recovered and therefore pass not by the Grant of a House by the Serjeants on the part of the Plaintiff 23. H. 8. and 31 H. 3. by Feoffment of a Messuage with the appurtenances Land passes not a Mannor and things made appertaining to it are made by usage and continuance So 2. H. 7.28 land belonging to a Forrest and Warden of the Fleet and the house of the Master of the Rolls and divers farms to the Guardians of the Castle of Colchester and one Office to another as the custos brevium giveth one of the Offices of prothonatories and use and continuance is cause of it A man Leases a Messuage and land rendring rent be ought to demand the rent at the Messuage because most worthy Perk. 166. Meadow appertains to land 3. E. 3. by the Serjeants on the part of the Defendant Norwood against Read Action upon the case upon assumpsit made by the Testator 5. Mar â—…n K. Bench. lieth against the Executors adjudged For that the Testator could not gage his Law otherwise it is where he might gage his Law for the ignorance that the Law imputes of it to Executors and therefore there they ought to Demur but if they plead in Bar which is found against them they have lost the benefit of the Law and take Conusance of it whereof otherwise their ignorance shall excuse them 39. H. 6.19 12. H. 8.11 27. H. 8.23 Woodward against the Lord Darcie IF the Debtor make the Debtee his Executor and leaves him assets to satisfie the debt 5. Mar. Reso by the Judges of both Courts and dies the Debtee may pay himself by way of retainer by the Court 12. H. 4 21. according And in such case the Action is not utterly exstinct by the Administration for that the Law intends that he is satisfied by retainer before and so a thing in Action altered to a thing in possession by Act in Law for satisfaction of the party which hath no other remedy but if he hath not sufficient assets for to satisfie the debt the administration there extinguishes not the Action because that he cannot retain for parcel and have his Action against the Heir for the residue but ought to do the one for the other at his peril Wrotesly against Adams A Lease for 80. years of a Farm Tr i El. in Com. Pleas. Ej. firme the Lessor granted the Reversion of the Farm to a stranger to have and to hold the Farm for 60. years after the
Testator and to the same use shall the Lease The Court increases the costs here Osburn against Carden and Jay A Woman guardian in Soccage taketh husband they make a Lease for years of the Land to Commence at Michaelmas M. 7. 8. El. in K. Bench Tr. and before Michaelmas the Lessee maketh a Lease for a lesser Term of years the Husband dies the Wife enters and being outed bringeth Trespass and adjudged lawful For that the Lease is voidable by the Wife because she hath the Wardship to another use and by reason of Natural affection presumed by the Law to be the nearest friend for the proximity of bloud for that the Custody of him cometh not to the executor Litl fol. 27. The Custody cannot be given by the Husband or forfeited by Utlary or Attainder longer then during the life of the Guardian because no such Natural affection there 33. H. 6.55 But the husband hath interest in the Custody in the right of his Wife for to participate with his Wife in all matters of interest and Prerogatives because they are one person in Law but looseth his interest when his Wife dies because Cessante causa cessat effectus And although Doctor and Student saith fol. 13. That the Wife cannot avoid the Act of the Husband as to give Demise or sell Chattels real or personal which she hath to her own use yet here she may because she hath it in anothers right and the Wardship of the body which is the principal remains which shall be maintained with the profits of the Land and this is in effect the suit of the Ward by the woman Caril against Cuddington A Woman seised of 2. acres in Fee the one holden of the Queen by Knights Service onely M. 7. 8. El. in the Court of Ward the other in Soccage taketh husband she and her husband levies a Fine sur Conusans come ceo of both the Conusee Grants and Renders to the husband and Wife and the Heirs of their bodies Remainder in Fee to the right Heirs of the wife the Husband and wife die their issue within the age of 14. years the Grand-mother on the part of the Mother enters and the Grand-father on the part of the Father of the infant sues as next friend in the Court of Wards because that the Queen hath the Wardship of the acre holden by Knights Service and of the body and adjudged that the Grandfather on the part of the father shall have the wardship of the acre holden in Soccage as Guardian in Soccage and not the Grand-mother for that the Grand-mother by possibility may have the Land by discent after the estate Tail determined and the Grand-father cannot but they are in equal degrees as to the estate Tail the wife here is a purchaser by the Fine of the Fee-simple and the Law is all one of land only as if it were of the land and body also Sherington c. against Stratton ANdrew Bainton by Indenture Covenants and Grants with his brother Edward M. 7. 8. El. in K. B. Tr. for the affection that he hath That the Lands shall discend and come to the Heirs males of their own bodies and continue in the bloud and name of the Baintons and also for brotherly love and good will That he his Heirs and Assignes shall stand seized to the use of himself for his life and after to the use of Edward Bainton for his life and after to the Heirs Males of the body of Andrew and afterwards to the Heirs Males of the body of Edward and adjudged that every of the considerations by it self being grounded upon Nature is sufficient to raise the uses according to the Limitation although it were without Deed. And so Covenant and Grant That he will stand seized to another use by Indenture without any valuable or natural consideration is good enough for that the deed imports consideration in the Will of the Covenantor by Plowden Quere notwithstanding Fleetwood and Wray for the Plaintiff An use is a confidence annexed to the estate with which he departs An use may be created by the Common Law First by Transmutation of Possession as by Feoffment Fine or Recovery to the use intended Secondly without Transmutation of Possession by one Act done importing good consideration which shall make the land subject to the use as a bargain and sale or Covenant or Grant upon good consideration First by a new Act done of two parts 21. H. 7.18 and 6. E. 6. by bargain and sale viz. Land for mony or 36. H. 8. Covenant for marriage because advancement to the Daughter and comfort to her parents Secondly where of one part onely as Covenant for Natural affection from the Father to the Daughter or Brother to Brother and a desire to have the land continue in his name and posterty For a new thing to be done by both is not requisite by the Councel of the Defendant But long acquainiance ancient familiarity or that they have been Scholars in their youth no considerations to raise a use because they are not considerations of value or recompence as if I promise to pay to you 10. l. because you are my Brother or old acquaintance it is Nudum pactum and so note that a use was at the Common Law A new use cannot be Created without consideration but being created and in esse may be granted over without consideration as another Chattel and Doctor and Student fol. 99. may be devised 1. Bromley and another Aprrentice with the Defendant and they Grant that there are two waies by the Common Law to make a Use without Transmutation of possession viz. Bargain and Sale and Covenant upon Consideration proved by the words of 27. H. 8. cap. 10. and Consideration arising from the one part onely good and it is not requisite to have Consideration and a new thing done by both the parties First Consideration It is natural to engender and nourish after engendred or otherwise the first is without effect the Father shall have the Custody and Education of his Son for his natural affection to him Litl fol. 25.33 H. 6.55 and Trespass for taking away his Son Fitzh nat br fol. 143. and 3. E. 4.12 And the Son shall have an Appeal of the death of his Father before others for his earnest intent of revenge and his reciprocal love So a Feoffment to the Son a Suit depending is not Champerty 6. E 3. cap. 274. yet within the words of Articuli super Chartas cap. 2. because by all Laws the Son ought to aid his Father and so out of the intent of the Statute and there by Herle the Son may abet his Mother to bring an appeal of the death of her husband and shall not answer Damages And Litl 8. The Son and Heir apparent endowes his wife ex assensu patruâ—… good without Livery because the wife of his Son is as his own wife for the love that the Law presumes is between the Father
AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT IN ENGLISH OF The COMMENTARIES or REPORTS of the learned and famous Lawyer EDMOND PLOWDEN An Apprentice of the Common Law Concerning diverse Cases and Matters in Law and the Arguments thereupon in the times of the Reignes of King Edward the Sixth Queen Mary King Philip and Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth with the Exceptions to the Pleadings and Answers thereunto the Resolutions of the Matters in Law and all other principall Matters arising upon the same By F. H. of the Inner Temple London Esq Tractant fabrilia fabri London Printed by R. White and T. Roycroft for Henry Twyford and are to be sold at his Shop in Vine Court in the Middle Temple 1650. A Table of the severall Cases Contained in this Booke A ARchers and Saunders Case Indictment Fol. 28. Part. 2 B Berkley Knight Lord Berkly Ej. firme fol. 223 Brett against Rigden Replevin fol. 195 Bracebridge against Cooke Ej. firme fol. 44. part 2 Bracebridge against Clouse fol. 6. p. 2 Bransby against Grantham Ej. firme f. 48. part 2 Browning against Beeston Trespas fol. 102 Buckley against Rice Thomas debt fol. 96 C Colthirst against Bejushyn Trespas Fol. 20 Chapman against Dalton Covenant fol. 169 Carrill against Cuddington Court of Wards fol. 176 Coles case Pardon fol. 232 Cleere against Brooke alias Cobham Wast fol. 18. p. 2 Croft against Howell Ej. firme fol. 51. part 2 Crowne matters concerning it fol. 87 Croker against Partridge maintainance fol. 74 D Dive against Maningham debt fol. 64 Earle of Darby Challenge fol. 95 Dutchy of Lancaster fol. 134 Delamer against Barnard Trespas fol. 200 Davies against Pepis debt fol. 17. part 2. Doctor Ellis Case Indictment fol. 88 E Ellis Case Indictment fol. 38 Eyston against Studd Ej. firme Fol. 29. p. 2 Eare against Snow Ej. firme fol. 43. p. 2 F Fulmerston against Steward trespasse fol. 89 Fish against Brocket Error fol. 160 G Greisbrooke against Fox detinue fol. 163 Grendon against the Bishop of Lincolne fol. 37. part 2 H Hill against Grange trespasse fol. 124 Dame Hales Case for forfeiture fol. 153 Hare and Bickly Annuity fol. 50. p. 2 Hadden against Brooke wast fol. 18. p. 2 K Kidwelly against Brand trespasse fol. 71 L The Earle of Leicesters Case trespasse f. 224 Ludford against Gretton trespasse f. 36. p. 2 M Mantle against Redsole Replevin fol. 86 Matters of the Crown at Shrewsbury f. 87 Mynes Information fol. 184 Mannors at the suite of Vernon fol. 10. p. 2 N Norwood against Read action Sur le Case fol. 126 Earle of Northumberlands Case Information fol. 148 Sir Henry Nevells Case in the Exchequer fol. 221 Nicholls against Nicholls fol. 30. p. 2 O Osborne against Carden and Iay trespasse fol. 175 P Platt against the Sheriffes of London debt fol. 42 Partridge against Strange c. debt fol. 74 Pollards assise of Fresh force fol. 85 Parson of Hony-lanes Case Assise of Freshforce ibid. Paramor against Yardley trespasse f. 53. p. 2 Pepis at the suite of Davies fol. 17. p. 2 R Reniger against Fogassa Information fol. 1 Rosse against Pope Audita Querela f. 73 Rice Thomas at the suit of Buckley debt f. 96 Ratcliffes case in the Court of Wards f. 160 S Say against Smith and Fuller Replevin f. 161 Stradling against Morgan debt fol. 128 Saunders against Freeman Quid Juris clamat fol. 133 Smith and Fullers case Replevin fol. 161 Sherington and Pledalls case trespasse f. 177 Stowell and Zouch entry Sur disseisen f. 204 Scholastic Nâ—wys her case against Larke fol. 1. part 2 Smith and Stapletons case repl fol. 10. p. 2 Sobie and Molins Attachment upon a Prohibition fol. 26. p. 2 Saunders Archers case Indictment f. 28. p. 2 T Townsends case in the Court of Wards f. 93 Throgmorton against Tracy second deliverance fol. 112 V Vernon against Mannors Formedon Challenge fol. 10. p. 2 W Wimbish against Tayllois trespasse fol. 46 Lord Willoughbies Case Assise fol. 73 Willion against Berkley Ej. firme fol. 137 Woodward against the Lord Darcie debt fol. 126. Wrotesly against Adams Ej. firme f. 127 Sir Thomas Wroths case Petition f. 20. p. 2 Welkden against Elkington trespasse fol. 44. part 2 Walsinghams case Information for Intrusion fol. 59. p. 2. THE FIRST PART Reniger against Fogassa An Information by Reniger against Fogassa upon the Statute of 1. Ed. 6. cap. 13. FOgassa shipped 4500 Kintals of Woad for England 2 E. 6. in the Exchequer Chamber and upon the sea a tempest did arise and endanger the drowning of the ship for the safety whereof and of the men and goods in it he casts part of the Woad into the sea and after arrives at the Port with the residue and before the landing Fogassa came to the Collector of the Subsidie and shewed unto him the accident aforesaid and that by reason thereof he knew not the certaintie of the remnant and prayed him to make entry of 2000. Kintals of Woad which he supposed were left and if more were remaining then he would pay Custom for it according to the rate when the certainty should appear and desired licence for to land it which was granted and before the woad was weighed Reniger informed against him for landing 1693 Kintals of woad more then 4500. Kintals the Subsidie not paid nor the Collector agreed with for it to which he pleaded the matter aforesaid and concluded and super hoc he did agree and upon the agreement Issue was taken and the Defendant gave in evidence the especial agreement aforesaid and upon the evidence the King Demurs and adjudged for Fogassa the Defendant by force of a Privy Seal sent by the King to that purpose But the opinion of all the Justices and Barons except Hales and Montague were with the Defendant 1. For that this agreement incertain and conditional is an agreement and so saith the words of the Statute which sufficeth because the Statute is penal and shall be expounded strictly against offenders and shall not be intended beneficial for the King to be an agreement 2. Admit it to be an Agreement yet here this incertaintie is reducible to a certaintie by circumstances viz. by weighing which shall be done by the Collector at his pleasure 3. Admit that the agreement ought to be certain at first yet here the casting out of the woad for the avoiding of greater mischief viz. The drowning of the ship men and goods the necessity for the avoiding of eminent danger of death the compulsion for fear of death caused his ignorance to be involuntary and by consequence his agreement incertain every one of which by it self may dispence with any law à fortiori altogether 4. When the defendant pleads a special agreement in the Affirmative and concludes upon it super hoc agreement the conclusion hath not waved the matter aforesaid as if it had been in the Negative 5. He had performed the intent of the Statute by this agreement for when the Collector hath weighed the
will not claim nor enter into the said land in bar that he entred not nor claimed the Plaintiff replies that he claims he ought to say how viz. That he came to the Land and claimed and entred So in 5. E. 4 6. in Replication the Plaintiff ought to shew how he is next of bloud to the Woman ravished with consent to the ravishment So for Mortmain how he is Ld. So for receipt how he came to the reversion by special conveyance to the things which the Statutes give by general words as here Titles alwaies ought to be certain because he that makes Title is by this an Actor and an Actor ought to plead certainly by Hales fol. 51. b. If a Wife which hath a Joyncture by her Husband suffers a faint recovery contrary to 11. H. 7. if the Daughter enter the Son born after shall not out her during the life of the Wife By Montogue he may enter presently and save because the Statute saith he shall enjoy it according to his Title therein and the Title is Tail which is devolved to the Son and after f. 1â—… But the Daughter because prima de sanguine â—…ring because the Wife assents to the Ravisher shall hold against the Son born afterwards and there it is Fee-simple In 5. E. 4.6 So 9. H. 7.25 the Daughter shall hold the Remainder appointed to the right Heirs against a Son born afterwards because it is vested in the Daughter as a purchaser because it is Fee-simple to which the Son afterwards born hath not right for the Land was never in any of his Ancestors before Et possessio fratris de feodo simplici facit c. of Fee-Tail not but it discends to the youngest Son of the half bloud So a Bastard eign-abate in Fee-simple Land and dies without interruption and his issue enter he shall hold against the Mulier puisne 39. E. 3.38 Of Land entailed it is otherwise so it is a great difference between Fee-simple and Fee-Tail and according to the Proverb One shall beat the Bush and another shall have the Bird. As 9. H. 7.24 and 25. A man hath Lands by the Mother and aliens upon Condition and dies without issue the Heir of the part of the Father enters for the Condition broken the Heir on the part of the Mother outs him 14. H. 8.18 by Portman if a Remainder in Tail be once executed the issue in formedon shall declare upon the Gift immediately for all passes at one time and upon one Livery But in 20. Ass Ph. ultima it was shewed of a Reversion after Seisen or making Title by grant of the Reversion he which makes Title is alwaies Actor and ought to plead certainly So 2. H. 6.14 A Patentee sheweth his Letters Patents if he maketh Title by them Words alwaies if they are ambiguous and obscure in Statutes have been expounded according to the intent of the makers as W. 2. cap. 3. speaks when a man amiserit per defaltam is expounded when the Husband and Wife lose by default because the Law alwaies was that the Wife may enter if the Husband alone lose by default So W. 2. cap. 1. Et si finis super hujusmodi tenementa imposterum levetur ipse in re sit nullus The Words seem to make a Fine void but yet it is not void but is a discontinuance and void as to bar the right of Tail So the Statute of Gloucester cap. 3. saith Whereof no Fine is levied intends by husband and Wife for they may well levy the marriages of Women and their Estates and advancement by this are greatly favoured in our Law for 14. H. 8.7 The Wife shall recover her Land given causa matrimonii praelocuti if the Feoffee will not marry her So shall have all Free-hold after Divorce So a Wife shall have a Cui ante divortium to recover the land lost by the Husband and Wife by default before the Divorce So 11. H. 7. intends to punish women if they will recompence this favor of the Law with wrong to the disinherison of Heirs here the Wife hath an Estate in the use and by his inhereditament and the Land and Use also is the inheritance of the Husband and therefore within the words of the Statute because an Use is an Hereditament For 5. E. 4.7 possessio fratris of an Use good for the Sister also if she hath the value of 40. s. in Use 15. H. 7.13.5 E. 4 7. and by Litl 108. he shall be sworn in Assizes by the Common Law and Statute of Pernors of Profits and other Statutes have admitted an Use for an Hereditament and the Land and use also is the inheritance of the Husband for an inheritance is such an Estate as the Heir may inherit as he may here and every Fee and Tail by purchase or discent is inheritance by Littleton and Britton contains many errors As to the Case of cui in vita in 7. H. 4. before fol. 47. by those of the Chancery and also by the Register Original 232. is the one the other quam clamat esse jus hereditat c. The Feoffees here were seised to the use of the husband and every of them hath an entire Use for between Husband and Wife are no moieties and after the execution of the possession to the Use By 27. H. 8. The Parliament made the Conveyance of the Land from one to another and the Feoffees are Donors for when a Gift is made by Parliament every one by it is privy and assents to it yet the thing shall pass from him which hath most right and most Authority to give it As in 21. H. 7.32 He to whose Use and the Feoffee joyn in a Feoffment it shall be said the Feoffment of the Feoffee for they have most Authority for to give this So Tenant for Life and he in a Reversion joyns in a Feoffment it shall be adjudged the Livery of the Tenant for Life So if one seised in Fee and another which hath nothing joyns in a Feoffment it shall be said the Feoffment of him which hath right and the confirmation of the other So here it shall be said the Gift by Parliament of the Feoffees and the assent and confirmation of all others For if any other shall be adjudged the Donor the Parliament should do wrong to the Feoffees in taking the thing from them And an Act of Parliament will not prejudice any man as 19. H. 6.62 the Rector of Edington had an exemption from Tythes by the Kings Grant he afterwards agrees to the Act which granted Tythes to the King and so was one of the Grantors yet shall not take benefit by this but shall be discharged For the Common Law saith That none shall be damnified by such general Act made by the Parliament and therefore W. 2. cap. 1. Gifts upon Condition shall not take away right Pattent in London but that remains to this day with protestation to sue in the nature of a Formedon in
imbesseling of a Habcas Corpora upon a Formedon between the Plaintiff and another holden good whithout shewing the Original and certainty of the Land and all the Record in certain because the Record is but a conveyance to the suit of Deceit and therefore for this cause cannot be gainsaid as to say Nultiel Record But where a Record is pleaded in Bar all shall be shewed certainly and is Traversable there in Conclusion or general Demurrer as petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the Action one shall have advantage of all defaults and of every thing mentioned in the Record and of every point that the Law gives him In Conclusion speciall of defaults onely alleadged in certain as here petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the action there if it be void for another cause then this which is mentioned he shall not have benefit of this of a thing void ab initio as the Obligation here because void by Statute so in avoidance of a Deed That he was not a man lettered and that it was read to him in another form So 24. H. 8. 28. because delivered as an Escrow upon Condition the Conclusion shall be so not his Deed because the matter proves that it was never his Deed of a thing voidable where it was void after because once is was a Deed the Conclusion shall be Judgement if Action because the duty is now extinct as 1. H. 7. 15. by release 35. H. 6. 18. for nonage 7. E. 4. 5. by dures When the Conclusion is nought and the matter in Law good Officium Judicis est for to give Verdict against the Plaintiff if it appeareth that he had not cause of Action howbeit that the Defendant hath lost the advantage thereof as it is here So 7. E. 4. 31. Trespass against B. and C. B. pleads not guilty C. pleads the gift of B. found guilty and found for C. no judgement for the Plaintiff because found against him So. appeal of a woman for the death of her father 10. E. 4. 7. because she shall not have an appeal of the death of any man except her husband or Trespass against the Lord by distress where nothing is in arear because the Statute is Non ideo puacatur dominus abate ex officio although the Defendant accepts the Writ good for the Plaintiff shall be barted by the Court ex officio and shall not have judgement although the Defendant admits his Title or by his Conclusion hath concluded himself of his advantage if it appeareth that he had no Title 1. The first branch is commanding and authorising the Sheriff to let to Bail persons manipernable by the Common Law viz. persons taken by Writ Bill or Warrant upon an Action personall or indictment of Trespass for it was indifferent if they were guilty or not made in affirmance of the Common Law 2. The second Branch viz. The exception was also made in the affirmance of the Common Law before for such persons which were in by condemnation execution Capias ut legat c. were not bailable before 3. The third is onely the purview which relates to the second branch as well as to the first for before refers to all this spoken of before as well the thing excepted as otherwise as a Lease for years of a Mannor except a Close rendring Rent the Lessee binds himself to perform all Covenants Grants and Agreements expressed or recited in the Indenture and after disturbs the Lessor of a thing excepted he hath forfeletd the Obligation because it is an Agreement for when he excepted the Close the other was contented with it and that the Lessor should occupy it and recited goes to the exception as to the rest 45. E. 3. 4. contained and recited goes to every Covenant in the Indenture An Act done Colore officii is extortion as if an Officer takes more for Fees then he ought And an Obligation taken of a prisoner for meat and drink is void because it is colore officii for he nor the Plaintiff are not bound to give him sustenance as he which distrains is not bound to give although he be in for Felony because 7. H. 4. 47. his goods are his untill he be attainted by the Common Law which is confirmed by 1. R. 3. c. 3. Rastal Forfeiture fol. 15. and if he dies for want of sustenance it is his own fault because that by presumption his ill demeanor bringeth him to such imprisonment The Statute of R. 3. restrains the Sheriff and other Officers to take Obligations of their prisoners except the Warden of the Fleet and the Kings Pallace at Westminster A Sheriff lets to mainprise one taken by Capias upon an indictment of Trespass which for the surety of the Sheriff makes an obligation to a stranger to keep his day is 7. E. 4. 5. held to be void because taken to another and not to the Sheriff onely according to the Statute Also there it is held if the Obligation hath not the Conditions expressed in the Statute That it is not the Deed of the party ex quo sequitur that he ought to conclude not his Deed keeping without dammage shall be intended by the generalty for all things Treasons Felonies Accounts and for all times if another thing is added by the Statute to be given it shall make all void as if a Condition be made according to the Statute and hath another thing not according to the Obligation is void So to add other words in a Formedon or Writ of Waste which are given by Statute all is void So to alien all the Land when he hath licence for part the licence is void in all by the Statute of 32. H. 8. because he hath exceeded the Authority thereby given to him The Statute saith That the Sheriff shall let persons mentioned therein to bail upon reasonable surety of sufficient persons in the plural number and because there is but one surety here the Obligation is void Also because the Statute saith That if it shall be taken in any other manner then is contained in the Statute if shall be void Also here by Plowden yet taken by one at large by the words of the first branch and those aid then third branch every person which extends to those at large nor for any person in their Ward which extends only to prisoners Kidwelly against Brand. LEease for years rendring 40. s. Rent by the year at H. out of the Land at the Feast of M. and if the Rent be behind H. 4. 5. E 6. In the Common Pleas. and not paid by the space of 40. daies after the said Feast then it shall be lawfull for him c. for to re-enter the Reversion is granted for Life the Grantee cometh to the Land 40. dales after M. to demand the Rent aforesaid but demanded it not and for not payment re-entred and adjudged lawfull 1. A Grantee for Life of a Reversio is an assignee within the Statute of 32.
uses in the first branch of it executes the possession according to the quantity of the State in use And the quantity of the State in use was for that Term of the life of the husband and wife ergo the Estate executed by the Statute shall be to them also for their lives according to the use aforesaid The second branch of the Statute executes the possession according to the quality of the Estate in use But the quality and manner of this Estate was by purchase for they shall be purchasers of the use therefore she shall have the Land as a new purchase and in no other manner for the words Affirmative in the Estate includes a Negative for that where the Statute appoints or limits order or form in things which shall not be by the Common Law before by words Affirmative in the Statute includes a Negative and shall not be in any other manner then the Statute appoints as execution of uses hereby 27. H. 8. and of voucher as if he were Tenant by W. 2. cap. 4. 14. H. 7.18 and after fo 206. and entry for forfeiture by Jointures by 11. H. 7. cap. 20. before fol. 56. but contrary and its words in the Negative viz. and not above twenty one yeers and the continuance of the State shall not alter the possession in other degree then the continuance made it at first where the entry is taken away contrary it is where the entry is lawfull as if the disseisor maketh a Feeffment to the use of the diffeisee and is in possession by 27. H. 8. but untill his reentry is not remitted yet after he shall in respect of the first disseisen and not by possession transferred by the Statute 3. The wife here is not remitted because the Statute of 27. H. 8. executes the possessions of the remitter c. And if it should be a remitter the remainder shall be defeated and void thereby contrary to the words of the Statute And although that by the Feoffment the freehold passeth to the wife and she remains Tenant thereof after the death of her husband and is Tenant to the precipe of a stranger untill her disagreement or disclaimer yet she may use her action against him in the remainder which is a disagreemen in Law to the use and possession conveyed by means thereof and then the possession vests in the next remainder as if the wife had not been named or had been a dead person in Law So if it were to the use of the wife in fee if she refuse it she may use her Action of Cui in vita against the Feoffor or his Heir for by her refusall they are Tenants to her Action and the use reflects to the Feoffor or his Heir for upon a Feoffment to the use of one which refuses which is as to the use as a dead person or of the thing insensible as Pauls Steeple there wanteth considerations and then the Feoffment shall be to the use of the Feoffor and by using of her Action she may purge the incombrance by her husband and so no inconveniency if she were not remitted as was objected It is not a remitter as the case here is if the Estate had been made by immediate Feoffment because the husband survives the wife Littl. here presently fol. 150. she is Tenant to the Action of the Heir of the wife and therefore in 21. E. 3.26 Ass 2. that the Heir in like case enter upon the husband bringeth an Assise and good no Law now by Brook Remitter 41. The Earle of Darby against Newdigate THe Earle challenges the Array of the Pannel because that he is a Peer of the Realm 2 Ma. in the Common pleas Aslise and no Knight is named in it and adjudged a good Challenge according to 13. E. 3. Fit H. Title Challenge 115. Challenge by the Bishop of Exeter was taken in Quare Impedit because he had not a Knight named in the Pannel and it was allowed Buckly against Rice Thomas DEbt upon the Statute of 23. H. 6. by Buckly Knight Mâ—… Mar. in debt against Rice Thomas the Plantiff counts that although he was returned a Knight of the Parliament in a County in Wales whereof the defendant was Sheriff by the greatest number of Freeholders of the County yet the defendant returned not it But that another was chosen Knight and recites how by the Statute of 27. H. 8. Wales was incorporated and annexed and made parcel of England and the Welch Nation by this enabled and made inheritable to all liberties franchises rights priviledges and laws of England as other the subjects of the King of England had and adjudged that he should recover 1. For that the allegation alleadged under the licet is a precise affirmative by the Rules of great authority the Latine Authors by the Register and opinion of Doctors of the Civill Law by Brook 2. That the Plantiff need not to shew the number of choosers in certain for the Infiniteness of it and for the impossibility that he should take notice of it 3. That the penalty of the Statute of 23. H. 6. for false returns of Sheriffs upon election of Kinghts of the Parliament and all other Laws of this Realm extends to the Welch Nation by the last clause of the Statute of 27. H. 8 which enables them to it and not by the generall words of this which makes it parcell of England The most voices in the upper house shall be numbered by the Clerk of the house for every one there shall be severally demanded Otherwise in the Commons house for there the assent is tried by the voice and are all at one time So in Election of Coroners fol. 126. a. Stamford Justice Declarations ought contain the materiall points pertaining by apt words of affirmation and not by recitall or implication As by debt upon an obligation it appeareth by the obligation that the defendant stands bound to the plantiff in ten pound the which he hath not paid So upon an escape by which the plaintiff was excluded from his debt is not good because he saith not that for the matter in fact he was not satisfied when the prisoner escaped So 38. H. 6.14 for debt for a salary declare upon retain in all occupations the defendant shall have his Law howbeit that the generalty imply husbandry in which Law lieth not which is not expressed plainly but by implication that he was retained in Husbandry The Law of England prays aide of other faculties and Sciences in matters appending to it as of Grammer for the exposition of Latin words as of a renuntiavit toti Communiae 9. H. 63. So adjudged imaginavit which was amended in the writ because no such Latin 9. H. 6.35 So of Penticosts 11. H. 6.2.9 H. 7.16 of Latin for fine Gold by Sanders fol. 125.7 H. 6.11 aide of the Civil Law for difference of Compulsion precisa causativa 21. H. 7.35 of Surgeons for maihem of the Canon Law 20.
shall not have it from him because once attached in him as the Kings Villain and his wife are Joynt-Tenants for years the Villain dies his wife hath the Lease by Survivor this found by office takes away the interest of the wife as the entry of the King should in the life of the Villain and upon Cesser thereof the Kings Title once vested is not taken away because Nullum tempus occurit Regi by Dier by Weston where Titles of the King and of others concur in one instant the King shall be preferred as Land discends to a villain his Lord enters after this found the Ideot of the King shall have the Land and laches of entry shall not prejudice the King yet both Titles at once in the Lord because born Villain to the King because born Ideot by relation of office to it So if the husband be intituled to be Tenant by the courtesie and his wife after this found Ideot this takes away the Title from the Husband for ever for the Heir shall be in ward therefore if holden of the King or shall have it out of the Kings hands if not holden because the Title of the King to the Free-hold of the Land by the custody of it during the life of the wife shall take away by relation of the Office the Title of the husband which before the Office was found was vested in the husband Fish against Brocket TEnant in Tail Levies a Fine with Proclamations M. 4. 5. El. in the K. Beâ—ch Error whereof the one was recorded to be made the seventh day of June which day was Sunday and dies the issue brings Error and Reverses all the Proclamations but the Fine remains good at the Common Law and shall be a Discontinuance adiudged and this Proclamation could not be made as it is Recorded because it is no day in Court and the Fine and Proclamations are several Records and might have been avoided by Plea Sir Iohn Ratcliffs Case IF an Infant be made Knight in the life of his Ancestor P. 6. El. in the C. of Wards and the Ancestor dies he shall not be in Ward for his body for by this degree he is admitted to be able to do Knights Service and the wardship is due in respect of imbecility to do it he shall not pay the value of his marriage but his land shall be in Ward by the Statute of Magna Charta c. 4. so if he be made Knight being in Ward or before the same Law is if he be made Knight when he is in Ward 2. E. 6. Brook Gard 42. and 72. at the Common Law an Infant made Knight shall be out of Wardship for land and body Say against Smith and Fuller LEase for 10. years by indenture from Michaelmas last past the Lessee Grants P. 6. El. in C. P. Repleviâ— That he will pay 1000. Tiles to the Lessor or a summ in gross at the end of the Term the Lessor grants That if the Lessee pays the said 1000. Tiles at the end of every 10. years from thenceforth next ensuing That then he shall have a perpetual Demise and Grant of the premisses from ten years to ten years continually and inconsequently beyond the memory of man and adjudged good except onely for the first ten years for the incertainty of the begining continuance and ending of the other ten years For the second ten years begins not until the condition which is precedent to it be performed for this cannot ever be performed for all the ten years that ever shall be precedes the payment and the payment precedes the Lease and so the Condition impossible Also he cannot pay the same Tiles that he hath paid at first Also the payment at a day after the Term ends is good because that the Lease Commences from M. and so M. day is not part of the Term. Every contract to make good a Lease for years ought to have certainty of begining continuance and ending of the Term all which ought to be known at the begining of the Lease and if any of them fails it is not a good Lease because it wants certainty by Brown a Lease Conditional is good untill the Condition broken because the Estate precedes and the Condition is subsequent A condition to have a Lease gains not the thing until it be performed as the needle precedes the threads as he ought to marry my daughter before the time limited otherwise he shall not have the 100. l. which I promised So 7. E. 3.308 before fol. 25. if he will hold over eight years to him and his Heirs shall pay twenty pounds yearly Debt lyeth for the Lessor for the Rent within eight years because the Lessee hath but a Term for the Condition precedes the Fee-simple by Litl fol. 81. Lessee for five years upon Condition That if he doth such a thing within two years he shall have Fee but no law by Dier because he hath not Fee until the Act done Referrence to time certain is as much as express nomination of the time contained in the reference as a Lease for ten years and so from ten to ten during an hundred years a good Lease for an hundred years 29. H. 8. So I make a Lease until I. S. shall be imprisoned by the Statute of W. 1. cap. 20. So I make a Lease for years rendring 5. l. yearly and after I grant the Rent and Reversion to B. until he hath received of the Rent 20. l. it is all one as if I had granted the Reversion for 4 years because he shall receive 20. l. in 4. years and so the referrence contains such certainty from the time of the Lease certainly limited for the number of years may commence or determine upon incertainty very well as a Lease for 20. years after that the Lessee shall do such an Act good So for 20. years if the Coverture between I. S. and his wife so long continue good So 4. E 6 before fol. 6. and 13. 14 H. 8 11. A Lease for so many years as I. S. shall name and he names so many years in my life good for so many years that my Executor shall name not because he cannot name in my life and so it is not a Lease in my life and the certainty ought to be known in my life But a lease untill I. S. who hath Execution of a Statute Merchant until he is satisfied thereof no good Lease because Terminus contains certainty and there it is uncertain how long the Lease will endure So a Lease for three years and so from three years to three years during the life of I. S. is good for six years onely because those onely certain and the end of the number of years intended ought to be known at the begining So a person Leases for five years and so from 5. years to 5. years during his life is good for 10. years onely yet he continues person above ten years Dier said That he knew it Adjudged
Marriage that she shall not refuse 9. H. 6.9 Recitall of an Indenture of defeasans concludes the party to deny the Deed. By the Counsell of the Plaintiffe the Act of Parliament cannot enure as a Confirmation of an Attainder and as a new Attainder also for then a man shall be twice convict of one Crime which shall be superfluous yet 1. H. 5.5 One attainted of Fellony may be arraigned of Treason because it is a higher offence and shall forfeit Lands of whomsoever holden if the Treason is committed before the Fellony but where offences are equall he shall not be twice attainted for one Deed shall not be a Confirmation and Grant of one same thing As the King recites by his Letters Patents that he hath made J. a Denison or hath manumissed him being his villain and confirm it and besides grants that he shall be a Denison or Free all this is but a confirmation because the Kings Patents shall not enure to two intents and therefore cannot plead the second Patent for his Legitimation or Manumission But the first Patent so 9. H. 7.2 before fol. 156. and 7. H. 7.14 The King grants Land by his Letters Patents and reciting them confirmes the Estate of the Patentee by the second Letters Patents by authority of Parliament and saith further that he gives and grants the same Land to the Patentee he shall plead the second by way of Confirmation because the Land pass by the first Patent not by the second if he doth not shew that the Land came again to the Kings hands after the first Patent But if the King grants Pasture for two Oxen in his Land and by the second Patent reciting his first Grant confirmes it and moreover giveth and granteth Pasture for two Oxen to the first Grantee there it shall enure as a Grant and confirmation also And the Grantee shall have Pasture for foure Oxen because they are severall things which are mentioned in the Confirmation and in the Grant And in the other Cases before it is one same thing mentioned in both and not severall Also the Statute recites none but persons therere cited to be attainted but the Plaintiffe was not attainted before for the reasons aforesaid therefore he is not attainted by the Statute as the King recites by name that such and such were Burgesses of L. and grants to the Burgesses before named to be quit of Toll c. that will take the benefit of it they ought to averre who is Burgess of L. And if the Plaintiffe be attainted by Act also and the Defendant will plead this so then his plea shall be double because he hath pleaded an attainder by the Common Law and also by the Statute But here it is not double because it is not a new attainder but a Confirmation And because he cannot plead the Confirmation without the thing that was Confirmed Also the Recitall and Confirmation by the Statute is not taken but pro ut And also the recitall being false shall be intended to be upon Information And therefore an averment lies against this recitall So a License to alien Lands holden of the King ut dicitur there he which hath the Lisence is not Estopped to say that it is holden of another then the King because the Tenure in Capite is not precisely affirmed but ut dicitur which taketh away all absolute affirmance 29. Ass 38. Also the Statute refers to an Attainder had before And so to a thing which is not inreâ— veritate for the cause aforesaid and therefore shall be void but if the things was before and wanteth force and effect then this shall be made good by the Statute and there the Act is good and hath power as to the thing 29. E. 3. 24. Grants Fitzh 100. The King reciting an Attainder by Parliament of one Mattravers by his Charter of Pardon reverseth the same and restores him and after this all is recited in another Parliament and Confirmed by the same Parliament and good for the Cause aforesaid So 38. H. 6.33 Parliament confirmes the first Letters Patents this enures according to the Effect and Purport of the first grant and shall not take away the Condition if any such be the King gives Land to J. S. the Parliament Confirmes it s a good grant And so when the Parliament Confirmes a thing which is defective it shall give power to it if it be Confirmed as here the Act shall be void to all purposes as 5. E. 4.40 and 41. If one Village hath Customes which is against the Law and Reason and no others and the Parliament Confirmes their Customes it is void because they had not Customes for things used meerly against the Law and Reason are not Customes notwithstanding such usage And if the branch of one Act recites another Act be it in the Commencement or Continuance it is void as 1. E. 6. c. 12 repeales all offences made Fellony after the Commencement of the reigne of H. 8. and by one branch in it this Statute excepts imbâ—sselling of goods by servants made Fellony in the seven and twentieth yeare of H. 8. commencing the 4. of February and continuing untill the 24. of Aprill whereas it finished the fourteenth of Aprill and so Statutes which misrecite things and are referred to them should be void and conclude no man And so here the Statute which recites that the Plaintiffe was attainted and confirmes it whereas indeed he was not attainted shall be void Coles Case IF one gives to another a mortall wound 13. Eli. whereof he languish the 12. of February and the Queen by a generall Pardon by Parliament Pardon all misdemeanors c. the 20. day of February and after the party dies Now this murther is Pardoned Adjudged for that the wound was a Misdemeanor and the cause of death and then by consequence all that which ensueth the Cause is also pardoned The end of the first Book Newis and his Wife against Larke and others A Man devise his Lands to his eldest Son in tayle M. 13. 14. El. in the Common Pleas. Remainder to his youngest Son in tayle the Remainder to the heires of his body the Remainder over in Fee and moreover his Will was that if any of his entaylees do wrong vex or molest any other of them for the sayd Lands or should Mortgage bargaine and sell c. the sayd Lands or otherwise incumber it other then to Lease it to them that from thenceforth every such person and his heires that shal so doe shall be excluded and dismissed touching the said intaile and that the conveyance of the intaile of the said Lands against him or them shall be of no force But that it shall descend and come to the party next in tayl to him as if such disorderous person had never bin mentioned in the sayd Testament And after the eldest Son levies a Fine and after he and the youngest Brother suffer a common Recovery and their Sister enter and by