18. E. 3. 15. a gift to one and his first begotten Son and he hath no Son then but afterwards he hath is a good Remainder to his Son So 39. Assise Pla. 20. a gift to Husband and Wife and to one Heir of his body is a good Remainder yet no Heir to the gift if he be in being when the Possession in Law is cast upon him but a Remainder limited upon contrariety is not good fol. 24. according but the other cause that Litl assigns for that it vests not at the time of the Livery is no cause as is proved by the cases aforesaid because after the Alienation and gift it may not remain to another And the other cause that Litl alleadgeth is because it vests not at the time of Livery which is no cause So a gift to A. and his Heirs so long as B. shall have heirs of his body Remainder to C. in Fee is void for the contrariety because a Remainder cannot depend upon a Fee determinable So a Lease for life to A. upon Condition That if B. pay 20. l. to the Lessor that then immediately it shall remain to B. is void for the contrariety because A. ought to have it during his life But if it were to remain after the death of A. to B. then it were good because no contrariety there and here if W. dies living the Husband and Wife that then it shall remain to to the Defendant is not intendable immediately in their lives but that it should remain as it ought to remain viz. after their deaths and so there is no contrariety and therefore good As to the Condition which is subsequent if he would dwell there c. because it hath two intendments the one that he should inhabite there all the Term and the other to some time during his life shall be taken strictly and the more strongly against the Lessor viz. That he inhabites there at some times during his life which sufficeth as the Feoffee upon Condition for to pay 10. l. to the Feoffor and no time is limited he hath during his life So to serve him in such an Office and saith not how long he hath during his life Harris Serjeant to the same purpose And as to the Exceptions he said That a Condition subsequent and which goeth in the Defeasance of the Estate as here he that claims the Estate shall not shew it but the other which will defeat the Estate But where the Condition precedes the state he shall shew who shall have it because enabled thereunto as if I grant a Rent Charge upon Condition That he shall do such an Act there the Grantee shall avow for the rent without shewing the thing done because it is a condition subsequent and defeats his Estate But if I grant That if he doth such a thing that then he shall have the rent he shall not avow without performance shewed because he is enabled by this to the rent 14. H. 8. Wheeler Grants his Term to one upon Condition That he shall obtain the good will of the Lessor and then shall have it he shall not have it until he hath shewed the performance of the Condition and he affirms the remainder upon Condition to be good Hales Justice If he would c. is a Condition and that the Plea is insufficient because the Defendant hath not averred his continual residence after the Remainder happened for during the Term shall be intended all the Terms as it shall be in reservation of rent or Covenant to repair a house during the Term 27. H. 8. 19. by Audley so the Feoffees shall be intended all the Feoffees and if he hath a reasonable excuse he ought to shew it fo 272. viz. That he was 200. miles distant at the time of the Survivor of the Husband and Wife and entred so soon as he had notice which he shall shew in certain that the Justice may trie it as 22. E. 4. 27. Tenant for Life Leases for years and dies The Lessor bringeth Trespass against the Lessee who saith That in as short time as he could after that he had notice of the death of the Tenant for Life he chased his beasts forth of the land and said also that the Trespass was between the death of the Tenant for Life and the chasing out of the beasts and held no plea for by the death of Tenant for Life the Lease for years was determined and no man bound to give him notice and there it is holden that he ought to say That such a day he chased out the beasts and might shew that the Lessor died in another County and so he could not have so soon notice and this shall be tried by the Justice if the avoidance was in reasonable time So in this case the day of his Entry for the knowledge of the Jurors ought to be set forth common intent is that which hath more vehement presumption and intendment then any other intent hath as 3. H. 6. 3. before 26. fully administred all goods which were the Testators the day of his death good yet might have goods were not the Testators which are assets after the Debts paid but the most common intendment is That he had no other goods except those which were the Testators but intendment indifferent the more strong intendment the one way or the other and therefore ought to be pleaded in Bar as 13. H. 8. 15. by Willoughby the life of cestui que vie is pleaded in a Lease for another life which is indifferent if he be alive or not So if he pleads a release made after the Obligation it is not good if he shews it not by express words that it was delivered after it shall be intended that it was delivered when it bears Date But on the other part it shall be intended also That the other would not bring an Action if it were delivered after and therefore shall be shewed which intendment stands indifferent so here A Demurrer all times after the Remainder happens or not is incertain and therefore because he hath not shewed this the Plea is nought As to the matter in Law it seemeth to him that the remainder is good for a man may pass the thing in question when where and how he will if it be not against Law nor repugnant as here the limitation if the remainder is not against Law for the remainder need not pass forth of the Lessor so 29. for upon the Agreement first had by Act made afterwards Franck-Tenement or remainder may be transferred and devested from one vested in another as a Lease for life remainder for life upon condition That it shall be void if he doth not such an act the remainder before the Condition broken is in him when broken it commeth to the Lessor So a rent or Reversion passeth by Attornment not by the Grant presently So 1 H. 7.31 by Brian a remainder to the K. when the Deed is inrolled then it shall pass and relate
Court of a Steward is a disseisen of his Fee For the doing of matter of labour is a claime of the Commodity for his paines So an Executor which hath a Terme devised to him upon Condition that he pay 10 l. to a Stranger payes the 10 l. this is consent and execution of the Legacy So the educating of the Children here determines her Election that she taketh the Terme as a Legacy and her grant after reproves it not but argues her inconstancy If a Termer be indebted to one in a hundred pounds and maketh his Will and by it devise his Terme to his Sonne and leaves assets to pay the debt the Executor cannot sell the Terme to pay the debt but shall pay it with the assets that he hath in his hands Adjudged because he ought to perform all the Will scilicet Debts and Legacies if there are assets If the Executor disagree in Deed to a Legacy certain this shall be presently in the second Devisee of this bequest of a thing incertain to the Executor as of 20 l. and the Testator oweth 40 l. and dies having Plate Oxen Horses of every of them to the value of 20 l. this is not executed untill 40 l. paid for he may Alien which of them he will and the others have no remedy if there be no more assetts and may pay and carve to himself before any other as it is in 12. H. 4.21 because he is neerest to himself And therefore the Execution of the Terme devised here shall not be hindered by the not payment of the Legacies to others nor Lease given to his Executor ought to be sold and then in Legacies it is reason that Executor shall have preferment A gift to his Executor of all his goods for performance of his Will is no devise and a void gift because the Law giveth them without these words As if a Man devise in Fee his Land to his Son and Heire it is voyd because he shall have it without the devise by discent So for to prescribe for to distrain for Rent service voyd because he may distrain without prescription A devise of Fee tayle to his Heire is good because it is another Estate then he should have by discent So here the Estate devised to the Wife which is but percell of the Estate scilicet during the Nonage of the Heire is good because severed from that which the Law would have given to him and the Clause for educating his Children is not a thing Testamentory nor Legecy to the Children but is an intent annexed to the devise made to the Wife by which she by her entry hath the Estate devised to her as Legatory And the Execution to the Wife is also to the Son because a devise although the Estates are severall and is of the same effect as if her Estate had bin devised to another with the Remainder to her Son and agreement or assent shall not be apportioned as attornment by Tenant for life to the Grantee of the Reversion for life extends to him in Remainder So notice given by Tenant for life to the Lord shall serve to him in Remainder in Fee to compell the Lord to avow upon him after the death of the Tenant for life So Rent accepted by an Infant at full age of his Lessee for yeares hath made good the Remiander over An Intruder cannot gain such Possession against the King upon which he may maintain an Action of Trespasse because the King may punish him 19. E. 4.2 and be shall not be doubly punished but against the Lessee of the King one may gain such Possession that he may punish a Stranger trespassor yet he shall not gain no Estate from the Crowne for the Freehold which irremoveablely rests in the Crowne And the King shall not alleadge Intrusion with a continuando but divers dayes vicibus because he gaineth not any Possession by wrong scilicet by the Intiusion against the King Walsinghams Case H. 15. El. in the Excheq Intrusion TEnant in tayle of the Kings gift maketh a Feoffurent in fee to a stranger and after is attainted of Treason and executed having issue and after this attainder is confirmed by Parliament with severall rights and interests of Strangers And it was adjudged that the Feoffee continuing his estate by the Feoffment after the attainder shall be an Intruder and this Judgement was afterwards affirmed in a Writ of Error brought in the Exchequr Chamber But the contrary was adjudged in the Common Pleas 17. El. between Conway and Moulton that tenant in tayl shall not forfeit any thing First That the Feoffment of tenant in tayl had not discontinued nor devested the estate of fee in Reversion out of the King because it is but a matter in Deed which is tortious otherwise it is of a rightfull matter of Record as a Recovery upon a good title or rightfull matter in Deed as a Remitter or Condition performed As Alienee of tenant in tayle of the gist of a common person infeoffs the King by Deed inrolled which regives to the first tenant in tayle which dyes the issue euters it is a Remitter and therefore the Reversion in fee is devested out of the King and restored to the first doner because a former right matter in Deed and in Law concurr together So Lessee for life to have fee if he doth such an act after the Lessor grants by Deed inrolled the Reversion to the King the Lessee for life performes the Condition which is older then the title of the King this older title matter in Deed and operation in Law thereupon shall take the Reversion out of the King without other Suit or Circumstance because bound with the Condition and the fee simple ought to vest in him at the same instant that he performes the Condition or never But no tortious act as Disseisen Intrusion c. may take the Reversion out of the King Secondly That by the Feoffment he hath not given the fee determinable because he had it not nor an estate for life of the Feoffee but onely an estate for his owne life and so the Reversion in tayle continues in him which shall be forfeit by the Attainder and by consequence the estate of the Feoffee determines by the death of the Feoffor but the Feoffee hath an estate for the life of the Feoffor discendable and his heire shall be a speciall occupant of this estate in base fee simple Thirdly That the King shall have the estate tayle in point of Reverter for that he had the pure fee before and two fees of one thing cannot be together in one person otherwise in severall persons and then the King shall have the Land discharged of the estate tayle and by consequence of all estates charges and incumbrances derived out of it as Leases warranted by the Statute and then the laving in the Statute for a thing before determined is void as of a Lease voidable made by such tenant in tayle which the issue hath made good by the acceptance of the rent and after of the estate tayle Escheated for Treason or is determined for default of issue So that the King hath in point of Reverter there the Release shall be void and he hath nothing by the saving of the Statute Adjudged in Austins Case otherwise it is when the King hath it in point of forfeiture as if the Reversion be to a stranger fol. 559. b. What Livery and Seisen is and the validity of it fol. 554. a. Estate tayle shall not be in abeyance nor any thing which another cannot have for abeyance is onely for the benefit of a stranger because it cannot vest immediately 556. a. 562. a. Estates in fee are three First Pure fee Secondly Fee determinable thirdly Base fee which shall be in one when the pure fee is in another fol. 557. a. An estate tayle shall not be to anothers use fol. 555. a. yet if tenant in tayle bargain and sels the Land by Deed inrolled the Bargainee shall have see executed by the Statute of 27. H. 8. which cannot be except the use shall be raised first out of the estate taile and so the estate tayle shall be to another use fol. 557. b. A Disseisor or Intruder upon the possession of tenant in tayle of the Kings gift gaines not except the estate for life of tenant in tayle and therefore if he dye seised the issue in tayle shall enter upon this discent as I beleeve fol. 558. a. The Father maketh a Lease for life to his Son the Remainder for life to her which shall be his Wife at the time of his death this is a good Remainder and shall be in abeyance untill the Wife be knowne fol. 562. a. Saving in a Statute contrary to the Explanation is voide Puton and Hides Case and Austins Case of a Lease and the Duke of Norfolks Case fol. 564. a. The possession shall be awarded upon a Bill of Intrusion which is but Trespas in its nature 561. a. Tenant in tayle grants his estate there waste is dispunishable during the life of tenant in tayle because it is not but onely a priviledge annexed to it Estates passe to the Grantee and amount to words of dispunishable of waste and not because he hath a greater estate then for the life of tenant in tayle So 42. H. 3.21 waste dispunishable in tenant for life because the Lestor released all his right that he had in the same Land and that he or his heires would not demand any right in the same nor claime nor challenge for the terme of the life of the tenant for that it amounts unto a Lease without impeachmeat of waste fol. 556. A Writ of Error abated by the death of the Lord Chancellour because his Christian name and Sir-name and Keeper of the great Seale were put into the Writ fol. 564. b. FINIS
H. 8. c. 34. to enter for a Condition broken 2. The tender of the Rent on the Feast day is not requisite nor until the last instant of the 40. day 3. Notwithstanding that the Rent be apppointed to be paid out of the Land at the Feast day and not the 40. day by express words yet it shall be so intended by relation to the place last named 4. No demand here is requisite because that the Land which is Debtor is absent the contrary is upon a general reservation and if a Rent seck payable in a forreign County be demanded and denled there it is not a disseisen by Plowden contrary upon the Land The place which was once charged with the payment in the hands of the Lessor remains chargeable in the hands of any other because he hath this as a Liberty and Authority imposed upon it by the Lessor and such Liberty is saved by the Statute of suppression of Monasteries and therefore the Lessor nor the Lessee are not Trespassers by their coming there to tender and receive the Rent Rosse against Pope ROss acknowledged a reconusance to Pope after Levies a Fine to him of patcel of his Land 5. E. 6. In Chancery upon an Audita quetela and afterwards Pope sues Execution and takes the body of the said Rosse and he brings an audita querala in the Chancery and adjudged that it lieth not 1. For that the Land is not debter but the person and the Land is onely charged in respect of the person and not otherwise until Execution sued 2. For that the purchase was before Execution sued otherwise it had been if sued afterwards for then the Land was charged in facto and not chargeable And if any part be discharged by act in Law as discent or act of the party as Surrender Feoffment c. also it shall be discharged because the duty is personall and entire 3. Because that the Conusor shall not have contribution against the Feoffees but they shall have against him and here the Conusee shall not have Execution against his Feoffees for that they may not have contribution against him Wimbish against Willoughby Assize directed Coronatoribus in Lincoin upon the surmise of the Plantiff that the Sheriff was his Cosen and shewed also Tr. 6. E. 6. Assice against L. Wall That one of the Coroners was servant to the Defendant and adjudged good 1. For the speedy expedition of the Assize and the mischlef of the Plaintiff if it should be abated by the exception of the Defendant and no mischief to him and here the venire facias is awarded the first day as in a precipe 2. Coroners in Lincoln shall be intended Coroners of Lincoln for that they are the words of the King In the Argument of this case see first where a Writ Original shall be directed to the Coroners where not Secondly and when other Judicial process Thirdly an exposition of the words in and de in Writs Grants or c. Fourthly what words are sufficlent to make a Grant of a Rent charge Fifthly some matters touching challenges and where they shall be Traversed c. Partridge against Strange and Croker IN Debt the Plaintiff counts upon the Statute of 32. H. 8. cap. 9. H. 6. 7 E. 6. In the Common Leath Of buying and selling of pretenced Titles and Rights and alleadge this to be done 28. April 32. H. 8. where in truth it was not done this day and that the Defendants have made a Lease for years of a house and nine acres of Land pertaining to it whereof they nor their ancestors nor any by which the claim were in possession Reversion or Remainder nor took the Profits for one intire year before c. and holden 1. That the Statute need not to be specially recited and pleaded because it is general but for that it is misrecited it is not good by the Court sol 84. and yet is surplusage and it shall prejudice the party in some cases sol 29. as debt by I. S. Parson of D. it is a good Traverse because he is not Parson or that there is not such a village called D. 2. When the Term shall not be certainly pleaded for that it is Conveyance of the Action and is not material here and he which pleads it is a stranger as an Indictment of the death of a certain man unknown or the stealing of the goods of a certain man unknown 3. That a Lease for years or a grant of parcell of the Right is within the Statute because the Statute speaketh of any right and is not intended only of an entire right and that the entire value of the Land shall be forfeit by such Lease per Curiam fol. 87. That this Lease made by one in possession is out of the Statute for that it is not averred to be a pretenced right by Hales and Montague fol. 87. against Cook For they mean that he which hath possession one day or however may make a Lease or Feoffment bona fide and shall be forth of the Statute although that he hath not possession or taketh the profits one whole year without averment that it is made for maintenance and the Statute shall be intended onely of those which makes Leases c. having but a right and not the possession as Montague held a promise by him which is out of possession to depart with the Land when he shall attain the possession is within the danger of the Statute fol 88. And if the Issue in Tail at full age marry a woman discontinuee of his father and maketh a Lease for years this is within the Statute for that he Leases his ancient right So by Morgun if the heir release to the Abator and afterwards claiming by discent maketh a Lease for years this may be averred a pretenced right and then is within the danger of the Statute fol. 86 and a right is within the Statute which comprehends all rights Pretenced right is where one hath the possession and another which is out of possession claims this or sues for it by Mont. f. 88. Morgan Serjeant for the Defendant He which voucheth a Record and vary in the year or Term haith failed of his Record So the Statute here no Act without the consent of the King when all assent it shall have relation to the first day of the Parliament and from that time is an Act of Parliament unless it be otherwise appointed when it shall first take effect An act made in the first or second Session relates not but to the first day of the same Session Misrecital shall prejudice the party in some cases as Debt by I. S Parson of D. where there is no such Village D. a good Traverse and abates the Writ yet the naming of him Parson surplusage So here because it recites a Statute certain made such a day where it was not although that the day is surplusage it hath made the matter vitious although it
are absolute viz. if for one hour onely it sufficeth and there he may alien without danger of the Statute and here no offence is shewed to be made against the Statute Pollards Assise of Freshforce 7. E. 6. In the Guild-Hall London in the Hustings in time of Tent. AN Assise of Freshforce upon a plaint of Intrusion or of Novell Diseisen was brought by John Pollard Esquire and Mary his wife in the Hustings of the Guild-Hall London against Bartholomew Jekell Ralph Foxley and Anne his wife and eleven others 10. of them appear by Baily and plead nultiel in rerum natura as one named in the Writ this shall abate but for him onely and shall stand good for the others It was adjudged so in the quare impedit against the Bishop of Carlile many others where the death of one of the Defendants was pleaded by abatement for speed in avoiding of delays therein For voucher lyeth not in it unless the party himself be present in Court and Protection lyeth not because excepted in an Assise therefore it sufficeth if Tenant and Disseisor relinquish and the Land is the chief and Original cause of the Action otherwise in Trespass for there the person is chief and the death of one shall abate the whole Writ by 29. Ass fol. 62. adjudged but the contrary was held 44. E. 3.18 47. E. 3.18 The Parson of Honylanes Case AN Assise of Freshforce against Moore 7. F. 6. Panel Parson against Moore the Mercers of London and a Corporation The Corporation may not appear by Baily without Warrant for that it is to defend their wrong otherwise it is to justifie a Trespass which is but a personall thing And although the Assise Pone per vadios salvos plegios predict Defend vel Ballivum suum si ipse inventus non fuerit generally yet he shall be intended a Lawfull Baily by Warrant And the Defendant pleaded that the Plaintiff hath entred after the last continuance and Issue taken thereupon the Jury gave a speciall Verdict That he entred for to see the antiquity of the buildings at the request of the Defendant which had invited him to dinner and adjudged no entry to abate the Writ for that if he were a stranger he should not be a Trespasser by this because of the request because he had not any intent to enter and continue in possession The Jury may give a speciall Verdict and find the matter at large upon every issue by equity of the Statute of Westminster 2. cap. 30. if this tends to prove the part of the Issue onely per curiam Woodland against Mantle and Redsole THe Lord incroacheth services of another nature and avow for this 5. 6. E. 6. Replevin The Tenure shall be Traversed and not the Seisen otherwise it is if he encroach more of the same nature as where he holdeth by 12. d. to encroach 2. s. c. There the seisen shall be Traversed for the quality of the Tenure is Traversable and not the quantity But to avoid the incroachment of the quantity the Tenant is put to a Writ of Customs and Services or contra formam Feoffamenti and this is an Estoppell between true Lord and Tenant onely in Replevin and the Tenant may make Rescous if he Distrains for this incroachment And the Lord may not make Title in Assise for this incroachment And also this encroachment is intendable onely between true Lord and true Tenant and not Donor and Donee Lessor and Lessee for there they ought to avow upon the Reservation which the Tenants may Traverse notwithstanding the encroachment by Plowden The Lord may Seise or Distrain for Heriot Service adjudged because he hath property in this by the death of his Tenant and the certainty thereof appeareth by 6. E. 3 277. Matters of the Crown at Salop. IF one be present and abet a Murtherer he is principall as well as he that kils the man 1. Mar. at the Sessions in Salop. and shall be indicted although that the Murtherer flies and be not attainted because both are principals in the first and same degree And he which abets is not onely principall in the second degree but if one be Indicted as accessary to two he shall not be arraigned with the abettor untill he which flies is also attainted and adjudged which agreeth with 40. Ass 25.7 H. 4.29 and 36. b. And if the abettor be found guilty by one Verdict and the Murtherer by another Verdict is acquitted now Judgement shall be respited against the abettor for the Court will give more credit to the Verdict which was charged directly upon the principal act then another which is charged implicitely and oblique 1 Mar at the same Sessions FIve were Indicted of Murther of a Servant of Doctor Ellis's and one venire facias awarded against all and they severed in peremptory Challenges yet the Jurors which were challenged shall be drawn against all upon the Challenge of one although that the others challenge him not but allow him 1. Adjudged for that the venire facias is intire that the Court in discretion at the prayer of the Attorney of the King may sever the Jury and Tales thereupon 2. They may make one Jury serve severally against every of them by himself 3. The evidence given against the prisoners prove That the Servant was killed upon malice prepenced to Doctor Ellis himself which was in company at the time of the Murther And the Court resolved That this Malice to the Master extends to the Servant and all others which defend the Master and resist the malice of the Murtherers 4. Resolved also That if two are fighting of malice prepenced and a stranger which hath no malice takes part with the one and kils the other this is manslaughter in him and Murther in the other 5. Resolved if one be indicted of Murther and found guilty of Manslaughter and acquitted of the Murther yet Judgement shall be given against him that he shall be hanged for that the death of a man which is the substance is found although that the circumstance is not yet he was reprieved by the discretion of the Justices Fulmerston against Steward M. 1. 2. P. Mar. in the kings Bench in trespass PLeading that the Masters and confreres of a Colledge was seized in fee is good without saying in the right of the Colledge for it shall be so intended for that they are named by the name of corporation otherwise it is if they were named by their particular names 2. If one plead a Lease of a Mannor with an exception made to the defendant and will avoid this for parcel of the Mannor because of another Lease made to the first Lessee within a year after the making of the Statute of 31. H. 8. ca. 13. he ought to aver in pleading that the exception extends not to this parcel For otherwise it shall so intend strongest against him that pleads it and then pass not
end and expiration of the first Term of years the Lessor maketh a Lease for life to the first Lessee for years during the first Term and the second Lessee Enters and upon an Ouster bringeth Ejectione firme and by the Court it well lyeth 1. By the Law by a Grant of the reversion of the Farm the Farm and all the Demeasnes of it pass because it is nomen collectivum and certain in its self and so it was adjudged in the case of Bridges That by the Demise of the Farm the reversion and rent incident to it passeth 2. That the word Reversion shall be intended land reverting in the premisses and the habendum and not the estate in reverter which hath his continuance but in respect of the Term and during it it is a Grant of the reversion habendum the farm or land or reversion after the particular estate ended are all one 3. That the second Lease for years commencing by any determination of the first Lease whether it be in Law or in Deed and the expiration refers to the Term and not to the years Term is an estate in or for years and is finished when the estate is finished and this may finish when the years remain If a man marry with a woman Termor and the woman dies her husband shall have the Term for notwithstanding that the marriage hath not divested this out of the woman during coverture yet by her death this is given to the husband by Act in Law because it is a thing in possession and not in Action The Law is the Common use in Letters Pleas and Judgements and the Common Law is but common use by Anthony Brown fol. 195. Stradling against Morgan EXceptions alleadged in arrest of Judgement 2 El. Exchequer debt upon not guilty pleaded by the Defendant and found against him 1. The Plantiff hath shewed in his Declaration That the Defendant was then receiver c. and saith not That the Mannors were the Queens then and therefore shall be intended more strong against him then it should be to a common person and by consequence the Defendant is Baily to a common person by the Court. 2. That no receiver or Baily accomptant of a common person shall be within the Statute of 7. E. 6. c. 1 but onely of the Queen by the Court. 3. That the Action was not maintainable and the matter well alleadged lieth in the Queens Courts at Westminster notwithstanding the Statute of 34. and 35. H. 8. for Wales for that they are in the Affirmative and not in the Negative 4. That by this Statute an Action of debt by original Writ lieth for the forfeiture in the Exchequer howbeit that the party hath not cause of priviledge there 5. The Plaintiff ought to make mention of the Statute of 38. H. 8. and 7. E. 6. in his count for that the one is founded upon the other 6. He ought to shew expresly in his Count That the Queen was seized and made him her Bedel 7. Jeofails remedies not mispleadings in counts adjudged in Moon and Cliffords case In Debt the Plaintiff counts That whereas he was Bedel and Collector of certain Mannors by vertue of Letters Pattents of H. 8. and had a Fee for it the Defendant being Receiver of the said Mannor in 3. and 4. P. and M. took extortion for the payment of his Fee viz. 4. d. for every pound against the form of the Statute of 7. E. 6. the Defendant pleads not guilty and found against him And yet judgement given against the Plaintiff because the Count was incertain to whom he was Receiver and shall be intended against him then done to a Common person and a Receiver of a Common person is not within 7. E. 6. yet within the words for the intent of the makers shall be observed in the exposition of Statutes and so acts general in words have been expounded to be but particular where the benefit hath been particular As the King shall not have Wardship of lands which discends to the youngest Son but of that which discends to the heir general 12. E. 4. Stamford fol. 8. yet the Tenant dyed seized of others in Fee because the Statute of Praerogativa regis cap. 2. intends where the land is holden of the King and a Common person discended to the same Heir where one is Heir to the Tenant And Praerogativa Regis cap. 3. intends not that Soccage in capite shall give to the King primer seisen of lands holden of a Common person yet the words are general before fol. 109. Stamford Prerogative fol. 13. So Marlebr cap. 4. intends where Signiory and Tenancie are in the same County and therefore the Lord may bring a Distress taken in one County to a Mannor in another County of which the land is holden 1. H. 6.3 30. E. 3.6 before fol. 18. So Glouc. cap. 1. giveth Damages to the Disseisee against him which is found Tenant after the Disseisor for that he is Tenant by his own agreement and therefore the Disseisee shall not recover Damages against him which agrees not to a Feoffment made to him and others by the Disseisor yet he is Tenant but not Tenant by his agreement Litl Remitter fol 153. so long 5. E. 4. fol. 142. if he hath view in a precipe and afterwards abates the Writ for false Latine or for some other cause apparent he shall again have another Writ because there the Court might have abated this without motion For W. 2. cap. 49. although general intends where the Tenant abates the Writ by exception not apparent by 25. E. 3. cap. 16. by non-tenure of parcel no Writ abateable but for the quantity intends if the thing demanded be several as Acres but all the Writ shall abate where the thing demanded is entire as a Mannor before fol. 109. and the intent of the Statute never was contrary to the Text. By W. 2. cap. 25. if one fail of a Record he shall be a Disseisor yet a woman Covert shall not be 11. H. 4.50 nor infant because excepted by the intent yee in words hath included all So extenders shall not pay presently according to the words of Acton Burnel which ought to answer presently c. but shall be debtors presently with the duty and chargeable with the payment and daies payable of the rent or Revenues receiveable So by Exposition it seems against the Text of the Statute and is not because the intent of the makers guides them to it Of the part of the Defendant it was argued That the Action shall be sued there in Wales where the receipt is alleadged although that Wales is united to England by 27. H. 8. because by the same Statute Wales is divided into 12. Counties and by 34. and 35. H. 8. four Justices are appointed for wales viz. one for every three Counties and hold plea of all things within their circuit and one seal appointed for every circuit and all Actions suable there by the words of
Title to his body accrued in respect of his signiory which is more ancient then the Apprentice 49. E. 3.3 the Kings Tenant in London Devises to his wife for life and dies without Heirs the devise is good as it seems by the Book and yet taketh not effect until after the death of the Kings Tenant and preferred before an Escheat to the King yet both their Titles comes at one instant but the Title of the Wife adjudged the elder because some part of it Commences in the life of the Devisor albeit it taketh effect after his death an Obligee is a Felo de se the Survivor shall have the Obligation by the better opinion 8. E. 4.4 Walsh Chomley Benlos and Carus for the Defendant A Dead man cannot have property for the Forfeiture shall have relation to the ill Act done in his Life when the goods were his otherwise the Forfeiture shall be to the prejudice of others which after his death ought to have the goods and the law hath respect to the Commencement of the Act as in 22. E. 3. and Stamford 19. one is Lunatick when he gives himself the mortal wound he forfeits nothing and it is not Felony if then he kils another yet is of Sane memory when he died of the wound So 33. Ass 7. Stamford 10. one kils his Master one year after he departed from his service upon malice conceived when he was his servant adjudged Treason Felonies done by others may be punished in their life time in person Goods Chattels and Lands A Felon of himself hath prevented the death by Execution and forfeiture of his Land which Land shall not Escheat without Attainder in Deed for favor of the Free-hold and inheritance and the only means to make him forfeit that which he may forteit viz. his Goods and Chattels is by inquest which ought to be equivalent to the Judgement given in his life because he took away the means of the Judgement which should have been given against him in his life as he should have if he had killed another and when Judgement by the Law cannot be given the Law supplies it otherwise as 3. E. 3. a Felon flies out of the Sanctuary and will not render himself but is killed he forfeits his Goods and the King hath the year day and waste and so an Inquest there shall be equivalent to the Judgement because he himself is the cause that it cannot be given against him by carus my horse strikes A. I sell him to another A. dies he shall be forfeit So the King shall have the Goods of a Villain which gives himself a mortal wound yet the Lord hath seised them after the wound and before the death of the Villain So the Attainder of the Husband in his life shall be a Forfeiture of the Term of his wife So this Act here and if once Title be given to the King Nullum tempus occurit Regi as in 50. E. 3. the Husband Joynt-Lessor for years with the wife receives money of one Attainted which by the Attainder belongeth to the King the Husband dies the wife her self holdeth it this found after the King hath the Term in Execution for his money as he should have had in the life of her Husband if it had been found then and now found by office shall relate to the life of the Husband Curia this is Murther here and not Homicide because upon malice prepenced and is an offence against nature the Law of God and King to kill a Subject and deprive him of one of his Mystical Members as Brooks terms it whereof he is the head and by the breaking of his peace and for the ill example given to others and therefore Felo de se Forfeits to the King all his Goods Debts and Chattels 8. E. 2.3 E. 3.301 362.22 E. 3. before f. 259. Stamford fol. 188. I. and Stamford Prerogative fol. 46. 8. H. 4.2 by Tillesâ—…y and ex consequenti cannot make Executors nor have Administors neither shall the Bishop have them because out of the Church is no cause of Forfeiture 19. H. 6.63 by Paston 8. E. 4.4 by Needham and Litl and 27. H. 8.9 by Montague and if he repents he is reconciled and hath the rights of the Church before his death yet he shall Forfeit those to the King for this offence But a Felo de se Forfeits not Lands his wives Dower nor Corrupts his bloud 3. E. 3. 22. E. 3. before fol. 259. because those cannot be without attainder in Deed. Appellee in Battail is killed he forfeits his land by Benlos and Brown because this killing is equivalent to Judgement and Execution but Weston held the contrary without express attainder by Judgement for to favor the inheritance and by Dier because the three Writs of Escheat for attainder are Register the 16. pro quo suspensus est utlagatus or abjuravit if the Appellor vanquish the Appellee in battail there his land shall Escheat because there Judgement shall be given after that he shall be hanged 8. E. 3. the husband adheres to the enemies of the King in Scotland and dies there 8. E. 3. fol. 388. or is killed in levying War against the King here he forfeits his Lands the Dower of his Wife and his bloud is corrupted for this is an attainder in Law 7. H. 4.46 by Markham and Stamford fol. 198. a. this which causeth the death ought to be said Feloniously done He that refuseth the trial of the Law forfeits Goods and Chattels as 3. E. 3. 13. H. 4.13 4. H. 7.18 Stamford fol. 183. C. he which flies for Felony Stamford Prerogativae fol. 46. A. he that challengeth without cause above 35.40 E. 3.42 20. E. 4.5 Stamford fol. 185. he that taketh Clergie if he be found guilty of Felonies which refuse the Judgement of Law 14. E. 4.17 he that stands mute of malice for those are the Acts of refusal of the Law And from the time of those which appear of Record the forfeiture shall have relation to the wound given against the party himself for the forfeiture against a stranger not for to be Felony because in the mean between the wound and death he suffers himself voluntarily to escape for if the escape should be Felony then that escape had been Felony at the time of the escape by Brown A. and B. Joynte-Tenants for years A. Grants to C. That if he paies 10. l. before Michaelmas then he shall have his Term yet he shall not have the Term because the condition precedes the Grant as 14. H. 8.22 by Brudnel until the 10. l. paid the Joyncture continues and it is not but a Communication but if A. Grant or Lease it from Michaelmas next coming during the Term to C. there C. shall have it against the Survivor for there the Title is granted in deed in the estate in his life So here this Act in his life gives Title to the King and the office by relation executes the Title then and the Survivor
Return of summons of the Exchequer because it concerneth the King himself there So 2. R. 3.4 2. H. 7.7 The Kings Grantee of Amerciaments of his Tenants shall not have the amerciament of his Tenant which holdeth of him and another because it is before other Tenants as well as my Tenant Charters of the King taken according to common intent and other things which have not common intent shall not pass from the King by his Charters And therefore 3. E. 3 the King Grants to an Abbot That he and his Successors shall be quit of repairing of Bridges Cawseys and Walls it discharges not him for repairing of such which he hath been used to repair by prescription as Lord of the Village but it is good otherwise of a Town to which the King hath Granted Murage Pannage or Pontage So 9. H. 6.56 before fol. 243. The Grantee of the King with Warranty shall not have in value without precise words but he may rebutt So 2. H. 7.6 The Grantee of the King of all Fines and Amerciaments in such a County he shall not have Amerciaments if the Sheriff Coroner or other great Officer is Amerced because Royal and a Grant shall enure for common things in intendment So 43. E. 3. ass pl. 15. The King Grants to his eldest Son the Dutchie of Cornwall cum omnibus Wardis Maritagiis c. And one which held of the Dutchie by Knights Service and which held also of one which was in Ward because of Ward by Knights Service dieth his Heir within age the Prince shall not have the Wardship of him but the King because a thing pertaining to the Crown passeth not without special words So the King maketh a County Palatine and giveth to another and Jura Regalia and that Pleas within the County shall be determined there yet he himself shall sue at Westminster his actions arising within the County Palatine as 3. E. 2. For an advowson in the County Palatine of Durham the King brings his Quare impedit in the Common Pleas the Defendant pleaded to the Jurisdiction of the Court and was compelled to answer So an Abbot by the Kings Grant made to him for the amortizing of Land or Tenements may not purchase an Advowson holden of the King in Capite and this case by Wray differs from the case in 41. ass pl. 19. before fol. 332. for there the Charter names the house but names not what Lands by which it cannot be intended that the King was mistaken in the Tenure and therefore it is good there and not for the cause of Ex gratia speciali So 19. E. 3. he might not appropriate an Advowson holden of the King by licence to appropriate So 1. H. 7 23 and 26. A sanctuary for Treason shall not be without speciall Words Ex merâ—… motu c. will not pass other things then the nature of the words contain And therefore the King Grants to a man and his Heirs males excerta scientia c. passeth not inheritance 28. H. 8. A Felon may not wage battail against the King because dangerous for the King Stamford fol. 180 and 182. nor against those of London in an appeal by the Kings Grant 20. E. 3. So if one takes the Kings goods wrongfully the King may seiz his goods until restitution and 8. R 2. if any take Toll of those of the Town of Lynn they may by the Kings Grant take withernam of those another time within their Jurisdiction And so the King conveys not from the Prerogative of his person to the person of another a fortiori he may here where the thing is not but Revenue or profit These words ad humilem Petitionem Comitis deminisheth the force of the Pattent by Catline by Plowden if Gold or Silver will not defray charges the King shall not have it because no mettal without them but because the party shewed it not as our case is the Queen shall have Judgement And this point was not put to the Judges to adjudge because that the Defendant confessed that it contained gold which is intended to be of good value because the best for the King Bret against Rigden A Man seized of 10. acres Soccage Devises all his Lands by writing Tr. 10. El in the Com Pl. Repl. and after purchases 12. acres Soccage and the Devisee dieth the Devisor saith to the Son of the Devisee That he shall be his Heir and have all the Land that his Father should have had if he had survived him and dies Adjudged that he shall not have the 12. acres 1. If the Devisee shall have the Land purchased by the Devisor after the making of his Will Manwood for the Defendant said That it shall be presumed that every one knows the Law in acts indifferent and that the Will is of no effect until the death of the party for ignorance of Law excuses no man and the date and writing of the Will is not effectual but the words of the Will shall be construed as they were spoken at the time of his death And therefore if a man Deviseth a Mannor in Fee a Tenancie escheateth and after the Devisor dieth the Devisee shall have the Tenancy because parcel of the Manor at the death of the Devisor when the Will taketh effect yet when the will made not A woman Deviseth Land and after takes husband which dies the Woman dies the Devise is good because she is discovert when it took effect as she was when she made her will and marriage cannot countermand it which was not of effect in her life Also because it intends no exception for the generality of the words As if she had Devised all her plate and after bought plate and died the Devisee should have all his plate at the time of her death for the ampleness of his words declares his intent to be benificially taken for the Devisee Lovelas and all the Justices for the Plaintiff to the contrary That Land purchased after the making of the Will cannot pass by the words nor intent of the Testator because he had not the 12. acres at the time of the writing and publication of the Testament it is no presumption that afterwards he would have and is as if he had died when he writ and published the Will and therefore cannot have an intent to give it and the death which is the Confirmation of the Will follows the first Acts thereof viz. the writing and publication of it for every Act founded upon discretion consists of 3. parts The first Inception which is writing of the Testament here The Second Progression which is the publishing of the Testament begun The Third is Consummation which is the self same and continues one through all these parts or otherwise the Act is void of discretion And by Lovelas it is proved That the Commencement is to be considered in Wills because if a woman Covert Devise Land by her Will and publish it and her husband dies and after she dies
was indicted before the said 15. of divers Treasons and express none in certain and ex illa causa and causis to proceed against him according to the Law whereupon he was arraigned and condemned thereupon accordingly and after the said attainder was confirmed by Act of Parliament which recites the said attainder and confirms it and besides ordains That the said attainted persons shall be attainted of high Treason c. And the attainder upon the indictment and the confirmation by Parliament were adjudged void 1. For that the Indictment taken before 15. is not an Indictment taken before 8. for the lesser number will not include the greater but the contrary and there may be two Indictments one taken before 15. and the other before 8. and for that the number is exprest there is certaintie what Indictment the Queen intended for misprision of time place and number shall make the thing void when they are limited for certainty and take away incertainty as of the time of 7. E. 3.26 one brings a Writ and Recites that it is contained in the Articles made in the time of King Edward Father of the King Edward the Third that no Sheriffe should put into Inquests c. and declare over according to the Statute the Writ was abated by Award for that the Articles that is to say Articuli super Chartas cap. 9. was made in the time of Edward the First and not in the time of King Edward the Second which was Father to King Edward the Third So E. 3.25 a Statute Merchant was made to pay 16. E. 3. and the party sued Execution and the Writ supposed the summe to be paid 14. E. 3. and by the suite the Feoffee was ousted and sued his Writ of Errour in the Kings Bench for the Kings Bench because it is the highest Court. shall revers Error upon suits in the Chancery according to the order of the Common Law So a defeasans which â—…tes a Statute to be made the 10. day of May where it was the first is void because time certain and that to which Acts are referred is materiall because there may be two Statutes the one the first the other the tenth day Misprision of the place as 38. H. 6.34 one pleads Letters Patents dated at Westminster where it did beare date at another place Naught because the place is materiall and is circumstance and witnesse of verity and certainty So by Commission to arraign one upon an Indictment at Dale in the County of C. where he was Indicted at another place in the same County there may not be arraigned by this authority for the reason aforesaid Misprision of number as 23. Assises placit 7. Writ of Redisseisâ—n abate because the Sheriffe tooke with him but one Coronor where Merton cap. 3. appoint two at the least So in a Precipe there ought to be twelve Summoners So 8. H. 7. pla ultima the number limited by the Act 3. H. 7. cap. 1. concerning the Star-Chamber ought to be observed So an accountant found in arrearages shall not be committed to Prison if there be not two Auditors because W. 2. cap. 12. saith auditorum So 2. E. 3.8 A Writ of Attaint supposed that the Verdict passed before 4. Justices and the Record proves that before 2. there is no Warrant to take this Attaint But 31. E. in the Booke of Assises pl. 1. a Procedendo supposed that the Assise was arraigned before 2. where it was before 3. good because no falsity there because the greater comprehends the lesse not on the contrary 2. By Anderson which was of Counsell for the Defendant and which in part confessed that the arraignment was not duly made yet said that it was not void but voidable See there the Office of Justices for Treason and their Authority for judgement given where the due circumstances of Law are not observed is not void but voidable by Error as 7. E. 4.3.11 H. 7.4 and 2. Mar. 1. Judgement given upon a Plea of Land 21. H. 6. and 21. E. 4.4 and 62. where a Fine levied without Originall is voidable by Error and by him and Lovelace this Writ of Error is taken away here because a thing defeasable confirmed by Parliament is made indefeasable The counsell of the Earle to the contrary clearly that the Authority given to the Mayor and the others by the second Commission is to proceed upon one Indictment and he proceeds upon another and so exceeds his Authority and therefore shall be void Also they are no Justices of the Treason expressed in it And there is not any such Indictment and no Treason in certain is expressed in their Commission But the Relation is generall to treasons contained in the Indictment where in truth there is not any such Indictment and so the relation of a thing incertain in it self to a thing which is not done the thing referred is void otherwise it is of a thing certain as before fol. 169. A Lease of all his Lands in D. which he hath by his Mother where 2. E. 4.27 before fol. 191. releases all his right in them and hath no Land there by the Mother but by purchase with his Father this Lease and Release are void for the cause aforesaid But otherwise it is where he leases and releaseth all his right in White acre in Dale which he hath by his Mother or hath by his Father or Purchase because the saying there which he hath by his Mother is surplusage because it was certain enough before all the parts of the Commission shall be considered together and fulfilled as of every other Deede As for the last part of the Letter of Atturney although as well to deliver seisen as to take by the words of the first part So here because they have authority to arraigne the Plaintiffe upon the Indictment onely taken before fifteen and he was arraigned by Indictment before eight of them all is void and Coram non Judice And it is not resemblable to the Cases put by Anderson fol. 349. because there they have authority upon the Cause and the Cause was within the Jurisdiction of the Court and the Order is misused in which Case the Acts shall not be void but voidable But where one is assigned to doe one thing and he doth another as here this other is meerly void and without Authotity as 9. E. 44. by Choke He who Arbitrates another thing then is committed to him makes such Arbitrement void Anderson and Lovelace for the Defendant the Plaintiffe shall be taken by this Statute to be attainted or at least concluded to say otherwise because the recitall of the Act is an Estoppell to all because every Subject is party and ptivy to an Act of Parliament and the Statute shall not be void to all intents And the Expounder ought not to make Exposition for to confound the Text by 27. H. 8. c. 10. A woman may refuse her Joincture if assigned after Marriage implies that if it were assigned before
their Husbands is contrary to the intent of the Statute and the intent ought to be thought on because the Purviewe extends not further then the intent of the makers of the Statute as the Wife infeoffs the Father of him with whom she intends to marry for to regive the Land to them after their intermarriage for lives or remainder in tayle to the Wife the Father doth so they have issue the Wife after the death of the Husband levies a Fine to other uses their issue may not enter yet it is with in the words of the Act of 11. H. 7. because the Father gave it to them But this cometh from the Wife her selfe by circumstance And the Father was but as an Instrument of it and therefore out of the intent of 11. H. 7. which restraineth the generalty of the letter of the Statute and maketh the Cases within the words out of the penalty of the Statute by the intent of the Makers As Infants and mad Men are excepted out of the Cases of Fellonies made by any Statute so neither those nor a Fem covert shall be concluded in the intent of the Statute which maketh them accessary which shall give them Meat Drink or other ayde to them which shall commit such an Act. So if a bargaine for Land be made before a Writ brought against him and the suite depending Livery and Seisen is made It is not Champarty 19. R. 2. because he ought to performe the bargaine made upon just consideration notwithstanding W. 2. Cap. 49. and Articul super Chart. Cap. 11. So a barr fee is within the letter but not the intent of the Statute of 32. H. 6. cap. 10. because appointed to the Sheriffe in the beginning by the order and discretion of the Court for his labour and attendance when the Prisoners are brought to their delivery 21. H. 7.16 So Wreck if a Man Dog or Car escapes alive shall be kept that the party may have his goods if he claimes within the yeare by W. 1. cap. 4. is intended of such things which will endure so long and not perish in the meane time as are Lemans Oringes c. So a rent granted by tenant in tayle for a release of right in other Lands is good 44. E. 3.21 because for the benefit of the estate tayle And W. 2. De donis c. intends not to restraine that which amends the estate tayle So Parsonages and Vicarages are within the words but out of the sense and intent of 1. E. 6. cap. 14. which inlargeth the words of the Statute and maketh that Cases within the like mischeife shall be within the Purview by equity as by the Book of entrys fol. 406. a man shall recover double damages for costs sustained with force by equity of 4. H. 4. cap. 8. which gives this for disseisen of the Land So that Executor which cometh first by distresse shall answer by equity of 9. E. 3. cap. 5. which speaketh of Executors by equity of Gloucester the Lessor shall have wast against the Lessee for half a yeare or for twenty weeks which pleads yeares So 1. E. 6. cap. 12. which takes away Clergy for stealing Horses takes it away also for one Horse because included in the Plurall Number and therefore Plowden disallows 2. E. 6. cap. 33. which taketh away Clergy for the stealing of one Horse as a superfluous Statute and was made in vaine And so 1. E. 6 cannot of Law but morall vertue which reforme the Law and the other equity is Quasi equality because in the like reason in the like Law Sobye against Molins TIthes shall be payd for the Boughs of Hornebeame H. 17. El. in the Kings Bench. Attachment upon prohibition Hasell Sallows Maple and such Trees which are not fit for building and so of the Trees themselves although that the Trees and Boughs are above the age of one and twenty yeares for they are not great Trees which are exempted and priviledged of Tithes by the Statute of 45. E. 3. cap. 3. or rather by the Common Law in affirmance of which this Statute was made as appeareth 50. E. 3.10 But Tithes shall not be payd for Ashes Oaks and Elmes Beech and such like Trees which are fit for building and of the age of twenty yeares nor for the Branches of them which are of the age of twenty yeares Quere if the Branches are within such age as the Timber trees which use to be lopped and lopt if Tithe shal be payd for them and it seemeth Tithes shall be payd of them by the Book The use at this day is upon suggestion to have a prohibition that the party shall be bound by Obligation or Recognisans to the King to preferr a Bill of attachment against the party which sues in the spirituall Court if he requires it and upon it to declare and joine issue or demurr upon the right of Tithes and award consultation which Plowden held vicious First for that the Defendant is not Actor and therefore may not have consultation upon such proceedings Secondly For that the Judgement upon the Attachment ought to be to acquit or attaint the party of the Contempt and not proceed upon the right of Tithes Thirdly For that the Plaintiffe cometh into the Court voluntarily Scilicet by his Recognisans to exhibit his Attachment where he ought to be brought in voluntarily by Process Fourthly Because the suggestion of the Attachment is false Fifthly For that if the Plaintiffe will not proceed the Defendant hath no remedy but a Recognisance forfeited to the King But Plowden held it to be the best course after the prohibition that the Defendant sues out a Scire facias against the Plaintiffe Quare consultatio concedi non debeat And upon this the Plaintiffe may declare and the matter shall be tryed and the Defendant may have consultation and then he will be an Actor Sanders and Archers Case ARcher gave Poison to Sanders to Poison his Wife H. 18. El. the Report of the opinions of Dyer Cheife Justice and Barham Justices of Assises in Warw. and Sanders gives this to his Wife in a roasted Apple which did eate part of it and gave the residue to their daughter being an Infant and after the Wife recovers and the Infant dyes and it was adjudged Murder in Sanders for which he was hanged but not in Archer for he was acquit to be no accessary to this Murder First For that Sanders had an evill intent of Murder at the beginning of his Act to kill his Wife and therefore the consequent of his Act by which the Daughter dyes shall be adjudged according to the commencement So if a man shoots at one and kills another or lyeth in waite to kill one and kills another otherwise it is where he hath no ill intent of killing any as to lay poyson to kill Rats and one eates of it and dyeth Secondly The consent of Archer to kill the Woman may not bee conjectured further then he gave it