thy ring be as a vessell to be vsed at any mans pleasure but as thy selfe not as a seruant to an other mans will but as a witnesse of thine owne Nomomath What if the Master doe promise â— Diuision vnto his Bailie or Attourney that if he can procure him the possession of the land in question he shall haue the halfe or some part of it for his rewarde Will your Lawes allow of such an assumpsit Codicgn Our Law doth not allow it But 1. That the bailie or attourney may not take halfe the land for purchasing or compassing the other half he may safelie take a speciall collaterall reward for that particular effect b Gazalup in ver procurat Canonolog So in our Law he that giueth part of the profites of a benefice to be admitted to the benefice is so far from being allowed 2. That the like matter is forbidden by the Canon Law that his fault is accompted to be enorme and indispensabile c 13. disti nerui For it is held to be simonie corrupt cheuisance if any valuable consideration be giuen in such regard pacto vel facto And he that buyeth so is called Simoniacus of Simon Magus and he that selleth so is called Gieziticus of Giezi d 1. q. 1. Studet Anglonomoph In our Law it is held that 3. The common Law agreeth with them there is no diuersitie where a man selleth land depending a writ petitorie of the same land or doe giue it depending the writ for in both cases there is Champertie e 8. E. 4. â—9 Nomomath I praie you let me know whether 7. Diuision anie persons be accomptable by the meere and sole operation and enforcement of Law Codicgn Yes there be two sortes of accomptes publike and priuate The publike 1. Two sortes of accomptants by the ciuill Law accomptes are such as are to be made by a publique officer who is charged with some speciall administration appertaining to the common weale ee L. officialis c. de epis et cler For the Presidents of Prouinces amongest the Romanes did customablie vse to make vp their accompts before they departed out of the Prouince to which accompt they were obliged by Law Therefore Cicero saith Illud certe factum est quod Lex iubebat vt apud duas ciuitates Laodicensem et Apamensem quoniam ita necesse erat rationes confectas et consolidatas deponeremus f Cicer. ad Rufum Priuate accomptes are such as belong to priuate men by the administration of their goodes or affaires as the proxies or bailifes of priuate men Canonolog The same difference doe we 2. Likewise by the common Law hold in matters of accompt g d. l. officialis ibid. Anglonomoph And by our Law there be 3. And also by the common Law some which be accomptable by Law some by a particular charge imposed vpon them or vndertaken of them And in the former case a writ of Accompt will lie though there be no priuitie infacto but onlie in Law Wherefore Mast Prisot said 33. H. 6. that the king might bring a writ of Accompt against one as his bailie who did occupie the land de son tort demesne of his owne wrong And the same Law is as he there affirmeth if a man occupie the manour of a common person de son tort demesne And according to Wangf opinion if a man seise an Infant as wardein in Socage and is not the prochein amy yet a writ of Accompt lieth against him but there he claimeth to the vse of the Infant h 33. H. 6. 2. per Prisot et Wangf And the same Law seemeth it to be to Mast. Brooke i Brook Accompt 8. where a man presumptuouslie and of his owne head vndertaketh to be my bailie a writ of Accompt will lie in such case But if he enter to his owne vse there it seemeth saith he that a writ of Accompt will not lie for there Ne vnques son Receiuor pur accompt render is a good plea. And 49. E. 3. a writ of Accompt was brought against the Lord by the tenant as occupier of the land which the tenant now plaintife holdeth of the defendant in Socage and the def said that the auncestor of the plaintife did hold the land of him by knights seruice wherfore he seised the land in warde k 49. E. 3. 10. By which case it appeareth that a writ of Accompt is admitted to lie against the occupier of the land without any priuitie in facto And 4. H. 7. it is held by Brian that if a man receiue my rent of my tenants without my assent yet I shall charge him for the possession and receit of the rent l 4. H. 7. 6. But a writ of Accompt will not lie against a disseisor because that cannot be without priuitie in Law or in facto as by assignement or as Warden or in like sort or by the pretence of the defendant of occupying to the vse of the plaintife m 2. Mar. Br. Accompt 89. Nomomath I will not presse you any further with mouing doubtes of Accompts but will now make transition to other matters that remaine to be discussed The fifth Dialogue Of Wast done in a mans Ground NOmomath The next matter that by order offereth it selfe to your conference is to treat of Wast done in a mans land And for my more perfit apprehension of the thinges concerning that point I will prescribe vnto you certaine particulars wherein you may imploy your trauell for my further instruction First of what things Wast may be committed 2. What thing properly your Lawes censure and determine to be wast 3. What punishment by your lawes is to be inflicted vpon these that commit wast You shall doe me great pleasure in vnfolding the secrecie of your knowledge hereof And first to begin 1. Diuision with the first let me know of what things wast may be committed Codicgnost Wast may be committed in suffering 1. Of what things wast may be committed by the ciuill Law the walles of houses or closes to fall a Gazalup verb. rudera So if there be a wood which is thick with great tymber trees which in Latin is called Saltus or which is but thinly set with slender trees wherin hunters may ride vp and downe which the Latinists do call Nemus spoile or hauock made in such woods may be accompted wast b C. de â—un pa. et Salluen li. 11. But 2. Cutting of wood in silua caedua by the ciuill Law is â—o wast to cut wood in silua caedua which is apt to be cut is no wast and therfore it is said apt to be cut because it groweth easilie again Neither doth wast seeme to be committed in silua pascua if brush-wood small wood or vnderwood be cut for the better pasturage of the beasts that go vpon the soyle Likewise wast may be
any wayne ouer such a bridge being fraught with carriage shall paie iiij d' and the partie causeth all the thinges in the wayne when he commeth to the bridge to be caried ouer the bridge on mens backes here is no defraudation of the Law But if he should giue iiij pence for the cariage ouer the bridge but not currant money now the Law should be defrauded e Io. in §. penult Insti de â—dop And when a man is preiudiced by the fraudulent dealing of an other man he may by our Law haue an action against him which is called actio doli an action of Deceit Canonolog Indeede the difference of Dolus is vsed likewise in our Law And we haue a rule of that which you haue tearmed dolum bonum 3. The same difference the common Law obserueth Frangenti fidem fides frangatur eidem f 23. q. 1. noli existimare C. de pac l. cum proponas in glo Accur And likewise an example of it vsed in our law namelie of Salomon who did vse such cunning betwixt the two harlots in searching out who was the true and naturall mother of the child But the deceit which of you hath ben tearmed dolus malus is in our Law nomen reatus which it doth punish as being done against the Law for qui peccat non peccat de legis authoritate g 23. q. 4. qui peccat Anglonomoph That deceit which of ye both 4. Dolus malus punishable at the common Law by an action vpon the case or a writ of Deceit hath been tearmed dolus malus doth not in our Law escape punishment but for the more strong inhibiting and repressing of it it doth afforde a double remedie against such as endammage others by deceit namelie either a writ of Deceit or an Action vpon the case For if a man plaie with an other at dice and he hath false dice with which he plaieth and winneth the other mans money he that loseth his money in such sort may haue an Action vpon the case for this deceit And in other like cases an Action vpon the case or a writ of Deceit will lie at the pleasure and election of the plaintife And if I present one to a Church whereof I am Patron to the Ordinarie and one T. disturbeth me wherefore an other man purchaseth a Quare impedit in my name retournable in the Common place I not knowing thereof against the said T. and after causeth the writ to be abated or me to be nonsuit in the action I may haue a writ of Deceit against him h 5. 5. E. 3. Quare impedit 37. 20. H. 6. 20. Fitzh nat bro. 96. A. And in euery case an action vpon the case is maintenable against him which sueth an originall in the name of the plaintife against his will i 7. H. 6. 45. So if a man forge a statute merchant in my name sue a Capias therupon whereby I am arrested and had in execution I may haue a writ of Deceit against him that forged it k 19. H. 6. 44. 58. 34. H. 6. 19. Fitzh Nat. be 96. B. So if the Warden of an Infant vouch one by couin who is not sufficient or pleadeth some bad plea wheras he might haue pleaded a better plea the Infant shall haue a writ of Deceit against him and shall recouer the full value in dammages l 9. E. 4. 34. And 11. H. 6. a writ of Deceit was brought against an Attourney for acknowledging a satisfaction whereas his master was not in truth satisfied m 11. H. 6. 34. And in a Praecipe quod reddat if the Shirife retorne the tenant of the land to be summoned whereas in truth he was neuer summoned whereupon the tenant loseth by default vpon the Graund cape retourned Now the tenant may haue a writ of Deceit against him that recouered and against the Shirife for his false retourne n Fitzh Nat. bre 97. C. But the writ of Deceit in this case doth not determine the right of the land but doth only defeat the iudgement o 35. H. 6. 44. 18. E. 4. 11. 33. H. 6. 43. 41. E. 3. 2. 43. E. 3. 31. 50 E. 3. 18. And 5. E. 4. is that no dammages in this case shall be recouered against the Shirife but he shall be onelie fined p 5. E. 4. 49. And if a man recouer in a writ of Wast by default whereas the defendant was neuer summoned the defendant in this case may haue a writ of Deceit q 20. E. 3. Disceit 5. 29. E. 3. 54. 48. E. 3. 59. 19. E. 2. Disceit 56. 19. E. 3. Disceit 3. And if a man bargaine with an other and assume vpon consideration to enfeoffe him of certaine land and he enfeoffeth an other he to whom the assumpsit was made may haue a writ of Deceit r 20. H. 6. 36. 16. E. 4. 9. Fitzh Nat. br 98. F. or an Action vpon the case at his pleasure Å¿ 3. H. 7. 14. 2. H 7. 11. And if one sell to an other a Horse which he knoweth to haue a secreat disease in his bodie or selleth certaine quarters of Graine which is full of grauell a writ of Deceit lieth t 20. H. 6. 36. So 13. H. 4. a writ of Deceit was brought for selling a certaine quantitie of wooll and warranting it to be 50. sackes whereas it wanted of that measure the defendant pleaded in barre that it was weyed before the sale and that the seruants of the plaintife being his factors did accepr it and caried it beyond the sea whereupon the plaintife demurred u 13. H. 4. 1. And if a man lose his land by default in a Praecipe quod reddat whereas he was neuer summoned and die his heire may haue an action of Deceit and shall haue restitution of the land uu 8. H. 6. 5. per Rolfe 15. E. 3. Disceit 43. 18. R. 2. Disceit 50. Fitzh Nat. bre 98. Q. And 1. E. 3. in the booke of Assises it is said that if a recouerie in such case be had against the father by default whereas in truth the father was dead at the time of the recouerie the heire may auoide this by writ of Disceit or Error a 1. Ass p. 16. And whereas there be two tenants for life the remainder to the heires of one of them and they both lose by default being not summoned and the tenant for life dieth the suruiuor shall haue a writ of Disceit for the whole Otherwise it had been if the recouerie had been against the tenant for life onelie by default b 8. E. 3. Disceit 7. Nomomath You haue sufficientlie discussed 7. Diuision the point of deceit Now I would craue your opinions of an other matter Suppose that a man by slaunderous and opprobrious speeches is impeached and his good name impaired this being but a verball iniurie whether doe your Lawes inflict punishment vpon such
committed in cutting down trees which grow sparsim here there in the land which is demised to farme for this is wast in the land it selfe because Arborum non est seperatum corpus afundo But this word Arbor extendeth by our Law very far for it may be affirmed of Vines which notwithstanding by reason of the tendernes of them may seeme to obteine a middle nature betwixt a tree and an hearbe Likewise to iuie though that doe rather cleaue to trees then participate the nature of trees And the name of Arbor doth extende to reedes and to willowes But the cutting of some trees that is the lopping or pruning of them may be more auaileable for their growth so that onelie their cutting downe and not their cutting only shall be adiudged to be Wast Such trees are named of vs Arbores caeduae which may grow againe either by the same stocke or by some other impes which may be grafted vpon them Such are the Cherie tree the ashe the medlar tree the oake the laurell the alder tree and the poplar tree c ff Arbo furtim caesa l. 1. et l. vitem et in gl ff de arbo ceden l. 1. §. arbo But the cutting down of such trees may well be called wast and is punishable by our Law And to open the sluces of the riuer Nilus is sharpelie punished cc C. de Nili agge non rumpen l. vnica Canonolog Our Law doth not in any of these things varie from yours Anglonomoph Of all these things vnlesse it be reedes iuy the like things which do more approch to the nature of weedes then of trees we hold in our Law that wast may be cōmitted Nomomath Well then I pray you shew what may properly be tearmed Wast by your Law Anglonomoph and for that purpose consider well of the points of the former speech of Codicgnostes who hath shewed promiscue both of what things wast may be committed and what may be said to be Wast Anglonomoph I will by your pacience seuerally conferre the parcels of his discourse with the determination of our law concerning that which may properly be said to bee waste for the other point will be thereby manifest as he hath before pronounced by their law Waste may bee committed in the decay or demolishment 3 The cōmon law agreeth with the ciuil that wast may be in the decay of an house of an house this likewise is waste by our law therefore in an action of waste 42. E. 3. the declaration was that the tenant had done wast in certain tenements demised vnto him by the predecessor of the plaintife for tearme of life and the wast was assigned to bee in a chamber a furnace and a graunge and the defendant said that there was no chamber at the time of the lease made but by the opinion of Cand. hee ought to haue said nor at any time after wherefore so hee did d 42. E. 3. 22. But the termor is not bound to repayre houses which were ruinous at the time of the lease made vnto him e 12. H. 4. fol. 5 10. H. 7. 3. 12 H. 8. 1. 7. H. 6. 40. And if all the house in such case do happen to fall saue onely the postes and the termor abateth the postes this is not waste because waste must be assigned in a house or some like tenement so it is if a house newly edified be abated which house was neuer couered ee 40. Assis pl. 22. and therefore may not properly bee said to bee a house as I take it by the ciuill law for a house according to the ciuill law doeth consist of foundation wall and couer f Spi. egeli verb. aedes domus And 38. E. 3. waste was assigned in a graunge which was worth but 4. S. and because it was of so small value that none would hold it nor maintaine it it was held to bee no waste g 38. E. 3. 7. Yet M. Fitzh citeth a case out of 34. E. 3. that if waste be done by the warden to the value of 20. pence this shal be adiudged waste and the plaintife shall recouer gg Fitz. N. B. 60. c. And the booke 14. H. 4. is that if a man cutte trees but to the value of three shillings 4. pence This shall be adiudged waste h 14. H. 4. 11. But a wall or pale which hath beene couered with thatch or timber if the tenant suffer it to be discouered this shal be said to be waste i 44. E. 3. 44. 10. H. 7. 21. 22. H. 6. B. 16. H. 7. per Fin. waste 131. But if a house become ruinous for default of some couering at the time of the death of the auncestor and after the tenant suffereth the house to be more ruinous the heire may haue an action of wast for the late ruine which happened after the death of the auncestor k 2. Mari. Br. wast 117. Neither is it sufficient in barre of a writ of waste of a house that the defendant hath built a new house in lieu of that which is fallen but the defendant must say that it is as much in length and as much in latitude as the other was or at least hee must say that it is as profitable but when a house is ruinous and decayed at the time of the lease of it made and it afterwarde falleth and the defendant buildeth a newe it is not necessarie that hee should make an other house of equall longitude or latitude l 22. H. 6. 18. And the necessitie of building a house ought to come in question as if the lessee haue great need of a stable and if no house be built vpon the land at the time of the lease the lessee may not cutte trees to make an house m 11. H. 4. 32. But if waste bee made by the kinges enemies or by tempest the tenant shall not therefore bee punished by a writte of Waste n 43. E. 3. 6. Yet in such case a speciall couenant will binde the tenant And therefore it was adiudged 15. Elizab. that whereas the termor did couenant and agree pro se executoribus to repayre and maintaine the houses and to finde principall timber which is decayed by the default of him or his executors and dyeth and the house is burnt in defaulte of the executors that a writte of couenaunt in this case woulde lye agaynst the executors and that dammages shoulde bee recouered de bonis testatoris and not condicionally if there were none such of their owne goodes and yet this happened by casualtie o 15. Eliz. 324. Dy. But the reason thereof is giuen in an other place Modus conuentio vincant legem p 28. H. 8. 19. Dy. And 29. Henrici octaui the lessee of a meadowe did couenaunt and agree to keepe and maintaine the bankes in good repaire and the saide bankes were drowned ouerflowed by high waters or sodaine floud
I substitute the one of them to the other that is if the one die the other shall haue all and the mother nothing at all t Gazalup verb. substitutio brem loqua Anglonomoph I haue noted in your wordes Codign two thinges which haue no small coherence and agreement with matters of our Law First in that by will according to your Law an entrie may be limitted to a straunger 2. In that ye hold that he which defeateth the estate of him that breaketh the condition shall defeat his whole estate and shal entirely claime the possession Which two assertions I shall seuerally prooue by cases of Law beginning with the first A man seised in fee of landes deuisable 3. By Will according to the common Law an entrie may be limitted to a stranger did deuise them to one for terme of his life and that he should be a Chapplein and that he should chaunt for his soule all his life time and that after his decease the tenements should remaine to the Cominaltie of a certaine village to finde a chappleine perpetuall for the same tenements and he died and the deuisee entred and held the landes sixe yeares and was no chappleine and the heire of the deuisour outed him and he brought an Assise And it seemed to the Court that the limitation that he should be a chappleine was no condition and that the heire could not enter for then the remainder should be defeated which may not be because by the intent a perpetuall chappleine ought to found u 29. Ass pla 17. Whereby it appeareth that they in the remainder were to take aduantage in this case of the breach of the thing that was to be done and not the heire So in Fitz Iames his case the clause of entrie was limitted to him in the remainder for breach of the condition by the particular tenant for it was helde that the limitation might determine the estate and that being determined he in the remainder might enter uu 13. et 14. Elizab. Com̄ 403. Newyses case Also 34. E. 3. the case was that a man had issue a sonne and a daughter and deuised land deuisable to one for life vpon condition that if the sonne should disturbe the tenant for life that the land should remaine to the daughter and the heires of her bodie the father dieth the sonne disturbeth the tenant for life who dieth the daughter brought a Formedon and it was allowed a 34. E. 3. Formedon pla vlt. But yet the aduantage of 4. The aduantage of entrie limitted to a stranger is in the late reports doubted of entrie by vertue of the limitation is not in other late reportes so cleare but hath been greatlie doubted of Stubes being Cestuy que vse deuised to his wife certaine land during her life ita quòd non faceret vastum the remainder to his yonger sonne in taile and died after the Statute of 27. of ioyning the possession to the vse is made the woman dieth the question was who should enter for the condition broken the heire the feoffees or he in the remainder b 3. Mar. 117. Dy. And an other case was equally doubtfull Wilford was bound in an Obligation without daie of payment limitted and deuised his land to his executors vppon condition that if they did not paie the said summe according to the obligation that the deuise should be voide and that then A. should haue the land to him and to his heires vppon condition that hee paied the money Wilford died A. died the executors are requested to pay the money and they would not pay it the question of the booke left vndecided is whether the heire of A. may enter into the land and paie the money c 3. Mar. 128. Dy. In like maner land in Gauelkind was deuised to the eldest sonne vpon condition that he should paie 100. li. to the wife of the deuisour he fayled of the payment it was questioned by Manwood whether the yonger sonne might enter into the moitie as by an implied limitation d 15. Eliz. 317. Dy. But touching such entries by force of some speciall limitation or condition Mast. Frowike giueth a good rule 21. H. 7. that an estate of inheritance can not cease by vertue of a condition broken onelie but there ought to be also an entrie But otherwise it is of a particular estate and the reason is because such an estate may be determined by word as by surrender and by the same reason it may cease by the wordes of the condition e 21. H. 7. 12. per Frowike Now that the 5. That the entrie for the condition broken defeateth the whole estate whole estate of the feoffee or donee is defeated by the breach of the condition and the entrie of the partie may be prooued by diuerse authorities in our Law and that there can be no fraction of the condition 14. Elizab. all the Iustices agreed And so was iudgement giuen in Winters case that by the graunt of the reuersion of part of the landes with which a condition runneth the condition is wholie confounded because it is a thing penall and entire and may not be apportioned nor diuided f 14. Elizab. 308. Dy. And 33. of Henrie the eight according to Mast. Brookes report it was helde for Law that if a man giue land in taile or lease it for life rendring rent with a condition for default of payment to reenter now if he lease part of the land to the donour or lessour or if the donour or lessour enter into part of the land he cannot enter for rent behind after but the condition is wholie suspended because a condition cannot be apportioned or diuided Therefore some scruple may with good reason be made of the case 16. Elizab. in my Lord Dyers reportes A man leased land for yeares vppon condition that the lessee should not alien the land to anie person without the assent of the lessour nor any part of the land the lessour giueth licence to alien part and the lessee alieneth the residue without licence it was adiudged that the lessour may enter notwithstanding the dispensation of the condition ex parte g 16. Elizab. 334. Dy. Howsoeuer 5. Edw. 6. be to the same purpose that a man enfeoffed two vppon condition to make backe a lease for life to the feoffour the remainder in fee to a straunger the one of them onelie maketh estate accordingly And by the opinion of manie this is good for a moitie by the dispensation of the partie who might take aduantage of the condition by his acceptance of estate h 5. Ed. 6. 69. Dy. For 23. Elizab. the case was such A man was bound in an hundred pound to giue to the obligee the moitie of all the fishes taken by his water-mille he tooke twentie one fishes and gaue tenne to the obligee and an action of Dette was brought vpon the obligation and the plaintife recouered
because he did not giue vnto him the moitie of the other fishe This was adiudged in the Kinges Bench. But now suppose that the condition doth extende onelie to some particular estates whether shall the other estates depending bee totallie defeated by the breach of the condition And surelie our Law is that the breach of the condition shall defeat no estate but onelie that whereunto it is annexed For the case was 3. Mar. that a man deuised land to his wife vppon condition that shee should bring vp his eldest sonne the remainder to the second sonne The elder sonne entreth for the condition broken hee shall onelie defeate the estate of the wife And if the tenant for life and hee in the remainder ioine in a feoffement vppon condition that if such an acte be not done that the tenant for life shall reenter this doth not defeate the entire estate of the feoffee i 3. Mar. 125. Dy. And if a gift of land be made in taile the remainder to the right heires of the donee vppon condition that if hee alien in fee then the donour may enter if the donour enter for the condition broken the estate taile is onelie defeated k 11. H. 7. 6. 13. H. 7. 23. 10. H. 7. 11. So if a man lease land for life by deede indented the remainder ouer in fee rendring a rent with clause of reentrie for non payment by the tenant for life and to reteigne the land during his life If hee enter for the condition broken he shall haue the land onlie during the life of the tenant for life l 29. Ass pla 17. Nomomath I giue yee great thankes for the vnwearied continuance of your paines and though I bee in questioning at a non-plus yet I see your inuention and memorie are not grauelled nor dryed vp parched as it were with summers drought I praie you therefore let vs still conuerse together vnder one roofe within my walles there is no Sinon no Dauus no Momus but chast learning cabboned with frugall contentment that if God doe still vouchsafe the Moone-diall of this darksome life with the reflexe of his intellectuall illumined influence this triple-wheeled clocke may still be kept in motion by the diuine agilitie of his Lawfauouring spirit A TABLE OF THE Sections or Diuisions of the principall pointes matters and questions which are handled in euerie Dialogue The Diuisions and principall contents of the first Dialogue of Prohibitions and Consultations The 1. Diuision 1. THe originall of tithes is inquired of 2. The councell of Constance is said to haue condemned Wicklife for holding tithes to bee pure almes The 2. Diuision 1 The originall of tithes is demonstrated to be by the law of God 2. God his deputies for the receipt of tithes are set downe 3. The heathens which knew not God had great regard of of paying tithes 4. Lucullus is specially commended for the paying of tithes 5. Camillus is likewise commended for his diligence in procuring tenth to be payed 6. The Romanes carefull in paying first fruits 3. Diuision 1 Whether Parsons ought to haue no more liuing then tithes 2. It is denyed by the Canonist that they ought to haue no more liuing 4. Diuision 1 A lay man by the Canon-law may prescribe in paying a speciall portion in lieu of tithes 2. The ciuill lawe agreeth thereunto 3. By the common lawe a man may prescribe in paying a temporall recompence in lieu of tithe 5. Diuision 1 Two sortes of tithes are set downe by the Canonist some feudall some ecclesiasticall 2. The Church onely holdeth conusaunce of the right of tithes by the Cannon lawe 3. The king of Fraunce his edict touching tithes is sette downe 4 That by the Canon law where the question of tithes is facti and not iuris the examination thereof may belong to a laye iudge 5. Where the suite of tithes is betwixt clergie men though it bee meerely possessorie yet it be longeth to an ecclesiasticall iudge by the Canon law 6. Diuision 1 The nature of feudall tithes is opened by the Canonist 2 Charles Martle is accused of Church-pillage 3. The Canonist telleth a strange tale of Charles Martle 4. It is thought of Nomomathes to bee but a fable 5. One of the ancient statutes of England is compared with the aforesaid edict of the king of Fraunce 6. The common law agreeth with the Canon in the attributing of the decision of the right of tithes to the spirituall iudge 7. Where one parson may sue a spoliation against the other in the spirituall court 8. The executors may bee sued in the spirituall court 9. Of what trees tithes may bee demaunded by the statute of 45. E. 3. 10. That the rent payed for tithes vpon a lease for yeares is a laye chattell 7. Diuision 1 A precept issueth with a monition vnder payne of excommunication for the due satisfaction of tithes 8. Diuision 8 The degrees which the Canon law obserueth in punishing offences in the clergie 2. Two sorts of excommunication sette downe by the Canonist 3 The compulsorie statutes of England for payment of tithes are mentioned by the barrister 4. Impropriate tithes at the common law are compared with feudall tithes 9. Diuision 1 The Ordinarie ex officio may cite men to pay tythes 10. Diuision 1 Two sortes of heretickes formatus and suspectus 2. In what cause the wife and children of heretickes shall enioy their landes 3. Heretickes by the ciuill law not punishable by fire 4. The Canonist poasteth the punishment of heretickes to the common law 5. The professor of common law bandeth backe againe the punishment of heretikes to the Canon law 11. Diuision 1 What thinges may bee tearmed Church-land by the ciuill law 2. Of Churchyards the spirituall Court shall hold iurisdiction by the common lawe 3. The right of gleabe lande is triable by the common law 4. Lands deuised not subiect to the iurisdiction of the ecclesiasticall Court 5. Suites for chattels real must be in the spirituall court 12. Diuision 1 That ius patronatus by the Canon law is determinable in the ecclesiasticall court and that it passeth by the word ecclesia 2. The diuers significations of the word ecclesia at the common lawe 3. The interest of the Parson patron and Ordinarie in the Church is shewed 4. What thinges doe make a patron by the Canon law 5. Ius patronatus is one of the proper obiects of the common law 6. That an aduowson lieth in tenure 13. Diuision 1 Punishment pro laesione fidei concerning a temporall acte is not to be adiudged in the ecclesiastical Court 2. Periurie in an ecclesiasticall court punishable in an eclesiasticall court 3. Lindwoods authoritie touching punishment pro laesione fidei in temporall matters at the ecclesiasticall law is not admitted 4 The barrister disproueth the generall citations of Bishoppes ad Sacramenta praestanda by the common lawe 5. Nomomath encountreth him in this point 6. The ciuill law agreeth with the Canon in matter
§ Sed natural instit de iu. na as I haue sufficiently shewed in my Direction to the study of the Law Cap. 7. 8. but onely of such thinges as belong to them by the Ciuill law yet by the opinion of the later Ciuilians this is helde to bee no law but that the Princes haue for speciall causes free disposall of their landes and goods as Decius fully proueth k Deci. Cons 209. in casu 2. 69. consultus 390. quoniam 519. visis 557. accurate and this later opinion seemeth to bee more reasonable and more consonant to the truth for first though the distinction of demesnes and the propertie of goods be parcel of the law of nations yet the meanes wherby they are acquired are prescribed by the ciuill and common lawe so that they are not altogether parcell of the law of nations l Bal. â—a in l. omnes C. Si con ius vel vtilitat pub Againe the right of demesne and property is not alike in all nations m Herodot li. 4. Strab. lib. 11. Arist lib. 2. polit Tacit. de mor. Germa Caes lib. 4. 6. de bel Gal. but is moderated and ordered by the lawes of particular coÌ„mon weales But suppose that the king wil take away from any of his subiectes the right and power of vsing and pursuing an action for the recouery of their lands goods chattels or dammages Surely this is permitted by no law but by the ciuill n l. 2. C. de prec imp off and common law expressely prohibited for the king cannot grant to any person that he shal not be impleaded or sued in this or that action though his highnesse may graunt that I. S. for trespasses or any thing done wrongfully in his mannor of Dale shal hold conisance of pleas within the same mannor yet in this case he doth not take away the action of the partie but doth onely restreine him to bring his actioÌ„ in a certain place o 8. H. 6. 19. But here it may be obiected that a king or absolute monarch may p li. vlt. C. de consul without cause seise the lands goods of his subiects for it is plaine that a king hath more power ouer his subiectes then the father hath ouer his children but by the ciuil law the father may take away the goods of his children when hee will q l. placet 79. D. de acquir haere l. acquirit 10. D. de acquir re do therefore the king may take away c. To this reason grounded vpon the ciuill lawe I do thus answere that by the law of nations kinges haue not such an indefinite power ouer their subiects as fathers by the ciuill law haue ouer their children for by the law of nations kinges were chosen and ordeined at the first for the safegard and protection of the lands goods persons of their subiects so that they may not without cause bereaue them of their goods and therefore there is a good rule in the ciuill law that in priuatorum agris nihil ne publico quidem consilio cum ipsorum iniuria capi ius est r l. Venditor 13. D. de com praed And to that purpose Cicero speaketh well Videndum erit ei qui rempub administrabit vt suum quisque teneat neque de bonis priuatorum publice diminutio fiat and for this cause God did appoint a certain portion of land to euery tribe of the Israelites Å¿ Deutero 17 and by reason of a priuate title Naboth would not sell or chaunge his vineyard with Achab t 1. Reg. 21. and in the inauguration of the king of Hungarie this was exacted of him by oath vt iura regni integra conseruaret u C. in tellect 33. ex tr de iureiuran And in the ciuill law it is said Qui pleno iure Dominus est alienandi dissipandi disperdendi ius habet a l. 7. cod de relig l. sed etsi l. 25. §. consuluit D. de haeâ—ed petit And againe suae quisque rei arbiter ac moderator est b l. in remandat 21. C. de mand So that it is euident that without cause the propertie which subiectes haue in goodes and landes may not bee altered by their prince And therefore wittily sayeth D. Gentilis that they which argue to the contrarie do not dispute or drawe their arguments ex castis fontibus Philosophiae aut ex ipsis iurisprudentiae riuis sed escholis sophistarum hallucinati sunt Theologi adulati sunt iurisconsulti qui omnia principibus licere asceuerarunt c Alberic Gentil Dec. 1. disput 2. disput I would not be mistaken in this Chapter sithence I hold an indifferent course betwixt prince and people neither consenting to them which say that princes may seise the lands and goods of their subiects without cause nor to them which thinke that they may not seyse their lands and goods for any cause but my resolution is and the summe of this discourse is if it bee diligently and impartially obserued that princes may lawfully claime and take to their owne vse the lands and goods of their subiects for the causes abouesaid and prescribed by lawe and not otherwise and by this word Princes I meane none but absolute Monarches for the law of nations alloweth this prerogatiue to none other And therfore I do greatly like of that saying of Hipocrates vrged in the ciuill law Lex est rerum omnium domina quia scilicet ciuitatis cuiusque ciuium singuloruÌ„ patrimonium constituit definit tuetur Lex sola dominiuÌ„ rerum confert sola dominij acquirendi modos constituit citra quos acquiri nullius rei dominium potest f §. 2. de bon posses apud Vlpi eo tit reg 19. This foundation being laid I hope my assertion may firmely stande that the law of England in giuing to the Queene the lands and goods of subiects for some peculiar causes is iust and reasonable as when a true man is pursued as a felon and he flieth and waiueth his owne goods these are forfeited as if they had beene goods stolne g 29. E. 3. 29. 37. H. 8. Br. Estray 9. Stam. fol. 186. a. And so if a man be outlawed of felony or treason he shall forfeyt all the landes tenements which he had at the time of the felony or treason coÌ„mitted or at any time after as well as if he had beene attainted by verdict h 28. H. 6. 5. howsoeuer M. Parkins holdeth opinion that attaynder by outlawrie shall haue relation to the exigent as to the landes and tenements so that a feoffement of land or a graunt of rent made before the exigent awarded by him that is attainted in such manner is good in his conceit but he saith that as to an attainder by verdict that it shal haue relation to the time of the felony done according to the supposall of the inditement as to
betwixt the laps and the kinges presentment q Ibid. fol. 21. It is answered by some that the ordinarie may present one who shall be remouable at the kings will and some thinke that he shal sequester the profites of the benefice to serue the cure but in some case the King may not surcease his time as if the tenant for terme of life do forfeit his estate to the king if he be not seised during his life hee may not afterward seise it qq 8. H. 5. Trauers 47. but in this case the reason is because hee can haue no other estate then he which forfeiteth and he which commeth in of the estate of an other can haue no greater right then he had for if a man haue land in the right of his wife or in the right of a Church hee can not haue it otherwise then the Church or the wife hath it r 18. E. 3. 20. so if there be Lord and tenant and the tenant alieneth in mortmaine and the Lorde entreth yet hee shall haue onely such right in the land as he hath in the seigniorie notwithstanding that the statute do say Quod proximus dominus intrabit retinebit in feodo ſ 39. E. 3. 38. 50. E. 3. 21. l. 5. E. 4. 61. For this is grounded vpon naturall reason and naturalia sunt immutabilia and the princely prescription must bee maintained bona fide Wherefore the Duke of Sauoy which had the Cittie of Nice in pledge of the French King did vniustly withhold that Cittie frō the king being the lawful owner then because hee had inueterate possession in the same for by the ciuil law a man may not prescribe in a pledge t l. 9. C. de pl. act Deci. 3. consi 108. and Iouius is likewise angrie against the king of Fraunce himselfe for keeping Perpinianum in the like sort Parum sincera fide saith he veteris pacti conditionem multis cauillationibus inuoluebat u Iou. lib. 1. for it is true that Cephalus saith in quaestione valde dubitabili non est praescriptio x Ceph cons 102. But surely bonafides is requisite in such matters of prescription except it be apparāt that the will of God is for the prescription Wherefore Bellarmin confesseth that the Turke doth lawfully possesse such thinges as hee hath taken from vs because God his will is that for our sins we should be cast out of the land wherein we and our ancestors inhabited a Bellar. 5. contr But he doth not possesse them bonafide because hee can not by any speciall meane conuey them particularly to himselfe for as Doctor Gentilis hath well obserued An Turcae opinio latrocinantis cogitat de iusta voluntate Dei b Alb. Gentil lib. de iu. bel 1. 22. Aratus the Sicyonian was so strong and peremptorie for the title of prescription that hee did not thinke it conuenient to remoue or take away from the vsurpers any thing that they haue violently taken from the owner if they haue had possession during the space of fiftie yeares onely c Cicer. 2. de offic Prescription hath alwayes beene of force to hinder these that had right to pursue their clayme Wherefore Demosthenes sayth well Hee that hath helde an other mans landes or goodes a long time should not please himself therewith but impute it to fortune which hath hindred the lawfull owners d Demosth ad maca Is any thing more to bee laughed at then that which is said of some interpreters of the law who are not to bee laughed at that the kingdome of Spaine may now be claimed by the Romane Emperour by reason of his ancient imperiall right whereas it is manifest that sithence the time of the ancient Romane Emperours it hath beene a long time possest of the Saracens a long time of the Spaniards The fifth Chapter That by the consent of all nations consent principally maketh a lawfull mariage IF a man should examine the seueral rites circumstances and ceremonies of the diuers people of the worlde in the knitting and celebrating of mariage he might as well number and obserue the diuerse-couloured spottes of the Chamaeleon for euery nation hath had in this by some fatall lotte both their custome and chaunge of custome I will onely endeuor to proue that which is conteined in my assertion that by the consent of all nations c. The definition of thinges is alway the best proofe therefore it is good to beginne this discourse with the definition of mariage Mariage is the lawfull coniunction of man and woman conteining an indiuiduall societie of life and the participation of diuine and humane right a 30. q. c. nullam where it is said a lawfull coniunction nothing els is meant but a free consent executed by the contract which as it is the beginning of the definition so it is the ground of the mariage and these wordes conteining an indiuiduall societie of life do signifie that they shall continue foreuer together as long as they liue Howbeit the rule of the common Law do in this sauour of the irregular Religion Post contractum matrimonij ante carnalem copulam possit alter altero inuito religionem intrare b Gazalup in verb. nuptiae And for the further proofe that the ground of mariage is consent there be three thinges by the Canon Law required to mariage c Codi ap C. vlti c. 27. q. 2. Fides Proles and Sacramentum Fidelitie which is put in the first place is the hart of mariage and it springeth of consent and therefore if a man do contract with a woman in this sort Contraho tecum si te pro quaestu adulter andum exposueris this is no contract of mariage because it is contra bonum fidei which consisteth in this that neither of the maried couple shall break the bond of mariage but shall faithfully and vnitedly obserue it Likewise Progenie is an other thing that mariage requireth and therefore it can not be a good contract of mariage if it be made in this forme Contraho tecum si generationem prolis euites or si venenum sterilitatis accipias because mariage was instituted of God for the solace of man and the multiplication of mankind by children Thirdly a solemne promise is requisite in mariage and therefore if a man do contract with a woman donec ditiorem vel pulchriorem habeat faeminam this is no good league of mariage because it is contrarie to the oath of an indiuiduall societie And so if any man in a foreine land sucking as yet the smoak of the Popes Tobaccho be a votarie to Religion and a bondslaue to his cloyster for England the Lord be praised is at this day as free from Monkes as it is from wolues Three things are required at his handes namely chastitie obedience and the abdication of propertie as well in landes as in goodes d Gazalup in verb. matrimon But that
But he may not in any case distreine for Tythe for there is not any land in demesne vpon which the distresse may bee made k 11. H. 4. 40. But if in such case debate happen betwixt Parson and Vicar so that the right of Tythes is to be tried the suit is to be mainteined in the spirituall Court l 35. H. 6. 39. 47. Nomomath But what if Tythes be not duelie paied what punishments are there to be inflicted by your Lawes Canonol In the demaunding Tythes if iudgement be giuen for the demaundant there 7. Diuision â— A Precept issueth with a monition vnder paine of excommunication for the due satisfaction of Tithes must a precept issue with a monition vnder paine of excommunication if he doe not within a certaine number of dayes pay or satisfie the demaundant so much Tythe And the Law is that against such as be stubborne Brachium seculare inuocari potest m Gl in verb. praemonit in cle 2. de iud c. postulaâ—sti de homâ—ci Codicgn We haue nothing in our Law contrarie to this Nomomath I pray you shew me Canonol the qualitie and force of Excommunication that I may be better satisfied Canonol The Canon Law doth obserue eight 8. Diuision 1. The degrees which the Canon Law obserueth in punishing offences in the Clergie degrees in proceeding to the correction or punishment of them of the Clergie in punishing any offence whatsoeuer The first is a monition vt desistant n c. vni de vit et hone cler lib. 6. The second excoÌ„munication si non paeniteant o c. cler arma de vi et hon cler 3. A suspension of their benefice si differant p c. praeterea de vsu 4. The depriuatioÌ„ of their benefice si perseuerent q c. cum delic in sin de accusa 5. A suspension of their orders or degrees si obstinatè conteÌ„dant r c. cum non ab homi de in si 6. A thrusting or intruding of theÌ„ into a Monastery or Religious house si indurati existant 7. Perpetuall imprisonment si incorrigibiles existant Å¿ d. c. cum non ab homine 8. A solemne degradation in the preseÌ„ce of teÌ„poral officers t c. non de verb. in si And this order of punishment is alwaies obserued vnlesse the crime be so great heynous and scandalous that this solemnitie is omitted and then there is a summarie and immediate proceeding to degradation and to the deliuering of the party vp to the secular power But there be two sorts of Excommunication the lesser is not penall but medicinall is proporcionable 2. Sortes of Excommunication are set downe by the Canonist to that lesser thunderbolt which the Poet describeth Est aliud leuius fumen cui dextra Cyclopum Sauitiae flammaque minus minus addidit irae tt Ouid. in Metamorph. It doth rather in some small proportion terrifie then in any great measure hurt Yet here a distinction is to be vsed for either the sentence of the lesser excommunication is pronounced ab homine and then it is medicinable or els it is pronounced a Canone as when a man is ipso facto excommunicate for then it is penall u c. medicinalis de se exco lib. 6. But the sentence of the great excommunication doth anathematize and is alwaies penall a d. c. medici All these things may be thus resolued either an ecclesiastical person doth coÌ„mit some small offence and then he is deposed not depriued but for a time suspended b c. cum delic de accus But if he coÌ„mit grieuous offeÌ„ces then he may be deposed c d. c. cum non ab homi But if he commit faults most grieuous such as by the Ciuill law he shall suffer death for then he may be condemned ad perpetuaÌ„ carcerem to haue imprisonment during his life d c. l. de here lib. 6. Excommunication is tearmed in our Law mucro Episcopi and therfore it is said in the Canon law foelici mucrone Episcopi sacerdotum piacula resecentur e 16. q. 2. c. visis in si But the vtmost punishmeÌ„t of a lay man for not paying of Tithes or other misdemeanour punishable by the Canon Law is excommunication onely after which issueth a writ of Excommunicato capiendo at the Common Law Anglo It is true but we haue compulsarie Statutes 3. The compulsorie Statutes of payment of Tithes are mentioned by the Barrister made for the paimeÌ„t of Tithes As namely the Statute of 27. H. 8. ca. 20. which is That if the Ordinary of the diocese c. do for any conteÌ„pt contumacy disobedience c. of the party not paying his lawfull Tythe make information or request to any of the Kinges most honorable Counsell or to the Iustices of the peace of the shire c. to order or reforme any such person c. that then he or the Kinges said honorable Counsell or such two Iustices of peace whereof one to be of the Quorum to vvhom such information or request shall be made shall haue full power and authoritie to attache the said person c. and to commit him to vvarde there to remaine vvithout baile or mainprise till he haue found sufficient suertie c. to giue due obedience to the proceedings decrees and sentences of the ecclesiasticall Court c. And the like Statute was made 32. H. 8. cap. 7. And by the Statute of 2. Ed. 6. cap. 13. it is prouided That if any person carie avvay his Corne or Hay or his other prediall Tythes before the Tythe thereof be set forth Or vvillingly vvithdraw his Tythes of the same c. that then vpon due proofe thereof made before the spirituall Iudge c. the partie so carying away vvithdrawing c. shall pay the double value of the Tythe so taken lost vvithdrawen c. beside the costes and charges of the suit c. And as to these Tythes which Canonol hath aboue called feudall which wee call impropriate 4. Impropriate Tythes at the common Law are compared with feudall tythes it is ordeined by the Statute of 32. H. 8. c. 7. that they may bee demaunded by a Praecipe quod reddâ—t Codign Our lawe in all the matters abouesaid consenteth with the Canon-lawe Nomomath But what if a man will not pay his Tythes in the time of vacation of a benefice Anglonomoph Then the Ordinarie ex officio 9. Deuision may cite him to paie them f Registr 51. Fitzherb nat bre 52. G. 10. The Ordinarie ex officio may cite men to pay Tithes Canonol That seemeth not to be repugnant to our Law g Goodal lib. de lib. Eccles Codign Nor to ours Nomomath Now that you haue proceeded so farre in matters of iurisdiction I pray you let me mooue you for other doubtes concerning the same point Whether is the crime of
Heresie subiect to the censure of the Canon Law onelie or to the iurisdiction of all your Lawes I pray you shew me how and how 10. Diuision farre forth it is punishable Canonolog There be two thinges which make Heresie First it must respect and concerne the Articles of our Faith Secondly there must be a stubborne and pertinacious affirmation for there must be error in ratione and pertinacia in voluntate h Cle. 1. §. porro de sum trini for where there is error but not obstinacie there the partie can 1. Two Sorts of Heretikes formatus and suspectus not be said to be formatus but suspectus haereticus and then he holdeth the error inquisitiue but not adhaesiue But he that is formatus haereticus is thus punished in our Law he is excommunicated he is bereaued of all ecclesiasticall promotion he is deliuered vp to the secular power and all his goodes and landes be confiscated and taken away from him i c. ad abolend de haeretic c. Excommunicamus de haeret et c. secundū leges eo tit lib. 6. But in two cases their landes are reserued and left to their children First if they reueale their fathers heresie k c. Vergent in sen de haeret c. vt inquisit de haere lib. 6. 2. If they haue been so long in possession 2. In what case the wife and children of Heretikes shall enioy their landes that they may prescribe l c. vt officium de haere lib. 6. But the dowrie of the wife of an Heretike is not forfeited vnlesse she do marie him knowing of the heresie m c. de creu eo tit lib. 6. Codicgn Our Law agreeth to that which you haue said And further prescribeth an other punishment which you haue not mencioned against such offendors for it saith that they shall be burnt aliue n l. quisquis C. ad l. Iul. maiest Et c. vt inquisitionis de haeretic lib. 6. Nomomath Yet I haue read in a learned Ciuilian that in the whole bodie of the ciuill 3. Heretikes by the ciuill Law not punishable by fire Law it is not recorded that Heretikes should be put to death by fire and therefore he is somewhat bold with the Canonistes and calleth them igniuomos canonistas o Alber. Gentil lib. lecti 2. Codign Indeed our Law as to that point is wholie grounded vpon the Canon oo c. ad abolend de haeretic Canonolog It is not grounded vpon the Canon for we referre the matter wholie and finallie to the secular Magistrate as your writ de Haeretico comburendo Anglonomoph doth testifie Anglonomoph Indeed in our Realme in auncient 4. The Canonist poasteth the punishment of Heretikes to the cōmon Law time he that was to be burnt for Heresie was first to be conuicted of the same before the Bishop of the diocese c. and ought to abiure it And if he did after relapse into it againe and were thereof condemned in the said Dioces then he should be sent to the secular power to doe with him whatsoeuer should please the king ooo Fitzherb nat bre 269. But afterward by the Statute of 15. of king Henry the eight p 15. H. 8. cap. 14. it was ordeined that he who had once abiured heresie and was relapsed 5. The professor of the common Law bandeth back againe the punishment of Heretikes to the Canon Law and was conuicted hereof before his Ordinarie that notwithstanding the Ordinarie ought not to commit him to the laie power without the kinges writ first purchased herevpon to burne him Nomomath Then I perceiue the whole act both of adiudging to the fire and of sending the partie to receiue that punishment dependeth now wholie vpon the Canon Law and the sentence of the Bishop framing the style of his iudgement according to the Canon Law Canonol The secular power putteth him to death but we are discharged of it Nomom Nay verily no more then Nabuchadnezer can be acquited of exposing the life of Daniell to hazard for he might as well haue excused himselfe and said that he did not meane to kill him but did onelie commit him to the curtesie of the lyons And as he did not personally put him into the caue within the grate so neither do ye personally thrust these which you tearme Heretikes into the fire nor bind thē vnto the stake Nabuchadnezers punishment I haue reade of which was grieuous and horrible But I doe not reade of the admittance of such excuse And when the Iudge of Iudges shall examine such firie proceedings it will be in vaine to excuse themselues by the fire and the chaine and the stake or by the Shirife and the Bailifes if the Iudgement haue been wrongfull and vniust It will be like the excuse that Phillip king of Macedonia made when he was charged with the expugnation and ouerthrow of the Citie of Chius Nequè ego Chium expugnaui sed Prusiam socium amicum expugnantem adiuui q Liuius lib. 32. for so Prusias might haue said that he did it not but onelie encouraged his men to do it So Brutus and Cassius might be excused from killing themselues because they did non inflict the wound but did will and commaunde others to doe it r Flor. lib. 4. histor After as bad a sort Dido cleareth her selfe of her death though not any waie to be cleared Praebuit Aeneas et causam mortis et ensem Ipsa sua Dido concidit vsa manu rr Ouid. Fastor 3. But I will insist no more of this matter Now 11. Diuision resolue me whether any Church-land be demaundable at the Spirituall Law Codicgn Religious houses and landes belonging 1. What things may be tearmed Church-land by the Ciuill Law vnto them deputed to holie vse are comprehended in our Law vnder the name of Church-land or lyuing And all landes which belong to Oratories or priuate Chappels annexed to the particular houses of laie men by the authority of the Diocesan and the landes belonging to them are comprised vnder the name Church-land or Church liuing ſ C. de epis cler in lib. Orpha Likewise that plott or parcell of ground in which a dead man is buried or wherein his head or any part of him is buried becommeth consecrate and religious and therefore cannot be morgaged nor pledged t ff de reli sump fune C. quae res oblig poss l. 1. and of such landes our lawe taketh notice and holdeth full iurisdiction Canonol But in strict reason such things do belong to the iurisdiction of the spirituall court u 42. Disti oratorium Anglonomoph These matters are diuersly taken in our law for in action of trespasse conceiued by the Vicar against the Parson for the breaking of his close and for his lambes taken away whereas the close supposed was the Churchyard parcell of the vicarage of the 2 Of Church-yards the spirituall court
shall hold iurisdiction by the common law plaintife it was held by the better opinion that in this case wherein the close supposed in the writte is admitted by both parties to bee a churcyard the spirituall Court onely should hold iurisdiction a 13. R. 2. iurisdict 19. And an assise likewise was brought of a house against a Parson who pleaded in bar that he was Parson of P. and that the house demanded was parcel of his said church from time out of mind and that there was sepulture of deade persons there wherefore Perseis opinion was that the court temporall ought not to holde plea in this case b 44. Ass pl. 8. but if 3 The right of gleabe land is triable by the common law the Parson of A. and the Parson of B. do contend in suite for a parcell of lande the one claiming it to bee his gleabe the other his it hath beene held in this case that the spirituall court shall not hold iurisdiction c 19. H. 6. 20. And Bracton likewise affirmeth that a thing giuen in frankalmoigne remaineth laye fee d Bract. li. 5. c. 16. and by 4 Lands deuised not subiect to the iurisdiction of the ecclesiasticall court our lawe a prohibition lyeth for chaunteries chappels prebendes and vicarages e Fitzh N. B. 40. G. 35. b. and if a man deuise lands or tenements deuisable the partie to whome the deuise is made shall not sue in court spirituall and if he doe the other shall haue a prohibition and therefore as Bracton saith the deuisee may enter without the 5 Suites for chattels reall must be in the spiritual court licence of the executor f Bracton vbi supr Perk. tit deuis but if a deuise bee made of goods and chattels reall as of a lease for tearme of yeares or of a warde there the suite must be in the spirituall court g Fitzh N. B. 43. G. and if a termor of certaine land doe deuise his croppe and dye the spirituall court shall hold plea for this croppe h 8. H. 3. prohibit 19. and if a man deuise corne or other goods to a man and a straunger will not suffer the executor to performe the testament in this point they may sue the stranger hereupon in the spirituall court but if a man take goods deuised out of the possession of the executors the law is otherwise for then they shal haue an action of trespasse at the common lawe i 4. H. 3. prohibit 28. but if a man sue another in the spirituall court for a rent reserued vpon a lease of tithes or offerings a prohibition wil lie in such case because it is a laye rent k 44. E. 3. 32 Nomomath Let me now know Canonol whē 12. Diuision a man graunteth to one ius patronatus of the church of Dale if this title bee controuersed in question whether shall the ecclesiasticall court or temporall hold iurisdiction Canonolog Surely I thinke it is determinable 1 That ius patronatus by the Canon law is determinable in the ecclesiasticall court and that it passeth by the word ecclesia in the ecclesiastical court because the right of patronage may passe by the word ecclesia as if a man said vnto me dono tibi ecclesiam S. Petri in Dale the aduowson of the church doeth passe l c. quod autem de iur patronat Anglonomop The word ecclesia is otherwise taken in our law for it is most commonly vsed for a place wherein baptisme and the sepulture of mens bodies is celebrated m 34. E. 1. quar impedit 187. And M. Fitzherbert saith that by this word ecclesia is meant onely a parsonage n Fitzh N. B. 32. G. and therefore if a presentment bemade to a chappell as to a church by the name of this word ecclesia this doth change and metamorphize the nature of it and maketh 2 The diuers significations of the word ecclesia at the common law it presently a Church o 17. E. 3. 58. 47. E. 3. 5. 21 13. H. 4. Briefe 870. and because by this word church is meant a church parochial therfore if a man haue an oratory or chappel within his mannor of Dale and he giueth part of the demesnes of the said mannor to a Chapleine for life to sing there yet hee hath not by this made it a Church but it remaineth still an oratorie and his freehold for here was no effectuall operation of lawe to force such a chaunge p 36. E. 3. 13. But if a writte bee brought of a Church in Dale and in Dale there bee both a Church and a Chappell yet the writte shall stand good for the reason aboue shewed q 20. E. 3. Brief 684. 13. H. 6. 4. 9. E. 3. 451. 22. E. 3. 2. 8. H. 6. 33. and sometime it signifieth the Church which consisteth of stones walles and roofe r 8. H. 5. 4. Rolf. and sometimes the demesnes and profits of the benefice ſ 45. E. 3. 4. but verie seldome if at any time it is vsed for ius patronatus But if as you say the patronage shold passe by these words dono ecclesiam in all reasonable vnderstanding the patronage is to be distinguished frō the Church or benefice And therefore Pollard 12. H. 8. t 12. H. 8. 7. Prior. de Hunting c. doth well 3 The interest of the patron parson and ordinarie in the church is shewed distinguish the interest of the parson patron ordinarie as in a seuerall thing the parson saith hee hath a spirituall possession in the church the ordinarie hath charge of the church to see the cure serued the patron ius presentandi to the church which being well weied doth clearely bewray the imbecilitie in consequence of your proposed argument Canonol neither can you by any solide reason of law entitle the spirituall court to iurisdiction in this case as I shall hereafter shewe Nomomath What say you of this matter Codign Codign Wee rely wholy for these matters vpon the Canon law which in these pointes is verie pregnant and copious Canonolog It is so in deed but by that lawe ius patronatus is meerely spirituall and not temporall as Anglonomoph would perswade for it is wholly after a spirituall manner carried ordered for though the patronage do arise of three things the foundation the edifying and 4 What things do make a patron by the Canon lawe the endowment u 26. q. 7. filijs ca. quicunque 18. q. 2. Abbat according to the ancient saying patronum faciunt dos aedificatio fundus yet it is no temporall thing because though a man bee condemned and his goods bee confiscated yet hee shall not lose his right of presenting x Gl. est in ver subiect § rursus in fi c. pastor al. in Cle. de re iudi neyther is this repugnant that to a Church parochiall hee may present to a Church
collegiate the lawe is that though his assent goe not to the election of the partie who is to be the gouernor yet our law commandeth that after the election it should bee registred a c. nobis de iur patronat Yet it seemeth to be spirituall because if a laye patron doe present one and after will varie and present another nowe it is left to the arbiterment of the Ordinarie which of them hee will admit b 2. dist c. ecclesiastic et c. quod autem de iur patronat and hee which is so refused by the Bishop hath no remedie against the second presentee but he may haue remedie against the Bishop for his vniust refusall or wrongfull delay and his remedie in this case is a duplex querela against an inferior Ordinarie and this must be handled in the spirituall court c Pastoralis co tit Anglonomoph Yea but the reason of that is giuen in our lawe because the right of patronage shall not come in debate d Regist 55. Canonol This is petere principium but let me proceed There is such a mutuall correspondence betwixt the patron the Church that they may not bee seuered either in gouernment or in iurisdiction for though the patron hath aliquid honoris as we said because he is to haue the first place in the procession e 16. q. 7. piae mentis yet hee hath also aliquid oneris for he is bound by our lawe to defend the Church from all oppressions f 17. q. 7. filiis and in that regard if he fall into pouertie he is to be mainteined de bonis ecclesiae g Praealleg c. filijs Anglonomoph These circumstances do not inferre the conclusion which you labour for It shall appeare to you Canonologus by our law and by verie strong reason that the right of patronage 5 Ius patronatus is one of the proper obiects of the common law or the aduowson of the Church is one of the proper obiects of the common law First it is a rule with vs that if a man be sued in the spirituall court for a laye fee a prohibition will lye that is for lands and tenementes as M. Fitzh well expoundeth it h Fitzh N. B. 40. I. Now that an aduowson is a tenement lyeth in tenure may 6 That an aduowson lyeth in tenure by seuerall authorities be auouched and therfore a tenure ought as well to bee found by office of an aduowosn as of a mannor i 14. H. 7. 28. â— Bri. 17. E. 3. 10. and a lease for yeares may be made of an aduowson and if the lessee alien in fee this is a disseisin to the lessor k 7. E. 3. 11. and 15. H. 7. all the Iustices agree that an aduowson lyeth in tenure l 15. H. 7 8. And for that cause if one hold and aduowson of the king and graunt it to another without licence the grauntee shall pay a fine m 21. E. 3. 31. 20. E. 3. Estoppel 187. And generally vpon any surmise that a man is sued in the spirituall court for a temporall thing a prohibition will lie n Fitzh 43. h. Now the aduowson is temporall though the admission institutioÌ„ be spiritual Nomomath Let me aske you further this question 13. Diuision if a man sweare to me that he will make me a feofement of certaine land before such a day and he doth it not whether may I sue him in the spirituall court pro laesione fidei Anglonomoph No for if you do a prohibition 1 Punishment pro laesione fidei concerning a temporall acte is not to be adiudged in the ecclesiasticall court will lie by our law because the acte which is to be done is a temporal acte is to be tried by the commoÌ„ law o 38. H. 6. 29. Fitzh 43. D. 2. H. 4. 15. 24. E. 1 Br. praemuni 16. D. S. lib. 2. c. 24. and if men be sworne to giue true euidence to a iurie and they doe so whereupon certain persons be endited of some misdemeanor if they which be endited do sue them that gaue euidence against them in the spirituall Court for this diffamation doone with an oath they may make a prohibition p Fitzh N. B. 42. F. 11. H. 4. 88. prohib 12. but if any periurie be committed in a spirituall 2 Periurie in an ecclesiasticall court punishable in an ecclesiasticall court court there the spirituall court shall haue iurisdiction q Stat. de circumspect agat 13. E. 1. 5. Elizab c. 23. c. 9. but the Ordinarie in temporall cases maye punishe the partie which hath committed periurie ex officio though not at the suite of the partie r 20. E. 4. 10. and if a woman haue title to sue a Cui in vita and she maketh oath to the tenant of the land that she will not sue any cui in vita against him if after she sue a Cui in vita and thereupon the tenant sueth her in the spirituall court pro laesione fidei shee may haue a prohibition because the oath toucheth a temporall thing namely land Å¿ Fitzh N. B. 42. â— 4. H. 3. prohibit 19. Bracton lib. 5. c. 2. And if a man sweare to one that hee will pay to him twentie pound which he oweth him at a certaine day and at the day hee fayleth of the paiment hee may not now be sued in the spirituall court for the periurie because an action of debt lyeth at the commoÌ„ law for the principal t 22. E. 4. 11. H. 4. 88. prohib 12. But 34. H. 6 it is saide that if a man buy an horse for fiue pounde soluend such a day and sweareth to make paiment at the day but when the day is come fayleth of payment an action of debt lyeth at the common lawe and an other at the spirituall lawe pro laesione fidei and a writ of prohibition lyeth not because they be two distinct thinges u 34. H. 6. 30 Br. prohib 2. yet 2. H. 4. is that a prohibition lyeth in such case x 2. H. 4. 10. Canonolog But Lindwood sheweth that a libell may be so framed that no Prohibition will lie in your last recited case as namelie the libell may be That the partie hath damnablie broken his oath pretending that he was not bound by it a Lindw in capit aeter sanctio verb. periur Anglonomoph That is but a weake support 3. Linwoods authoritie touching punishment pro lâ—sione fidei in temporall matters at the ecclesiasticall Law is not admitted of the spirituall iurisdiction for it is one thing to be punished for periurie an other for his irreligious pretence And surelie I take it to be agreeable to all Lawes that pretenses and intents are not punishable but onelie in crimine laesae Maiestatis And a man may sue a Prohibition directed to the Shirife that he shall not permit nor suffer the Queenes lay
subiectes to come to anie place at the Citation of Bishops ad faciend'aliquas recognitiones vel sacramenta praestanda nisi solùm in causis matrimonialibus et testamentarijs And M. Fitzherb thinketh that 4. The Barrister disproueth the general citations of Bishops ad sacramenta prestanda by the common Law these generall Citations which Bishops make to cite men to appeare before them pro salute animae without mentioning any speciall cause is against Law b Fitzh nat bre 41. A. Nomomath Why may they not vse such generall Citations as well as a Iustice of peace 5. Nomomathes encountreth him in this point by your Law may make a precept to bring one before him to aunsweare to such things as shall be obiected against him without shewing any speciall cause c Crompt Iust p. 131. et 132. And if by your Law they can receiue no oath but onelie in matters Matrimoniall and Testamentarie then it must needs be intended that though their processe be generall ad sacramenta praestanda yet it is specially meant of Matrimoniall or Testamentarie causes For I remember a good rule in the Canon Law to this purpose Quando constat de lege sufficit generalis allegatio d 28. q. 1. sicut enim in si But what saie you to this matter of oathes Codicgnostes Codicgn Our Law differeth little or nothing 6. The Ciuill Law agreeth with the Canon in matter of Oathes from the Canon law in the discourse of oathes And as the Canonistes wee make two sortes of Oathes Conuentionale and Iudiciale Conuentionale or Promissorium is when we sweare de futuro that we will giue some thing or do some thing c e Bartol in l. si quis ff de si dâ—nstrum Iudiciale is when the Iudge for the triall of the truth of a controuersie and the infourming of his owne conscience vrgeth the partie to take an oath f ff eo tit l. ius iurand Of both these riseth an action triable wel enough by the Canon Law for in this matter the Canon is the sterne and motiue of our iudgements and therefore we hold the rule of the Canon Law firmely Praestans et recipiens iuramentum contra Canones punitur g Gl. verb. paena capi grauis de censi Nomomath Well I will trouble you no further about questioning of things belonging to seuerall iurisdictions but will now passe to inquire somewhat of such thinges whereof an Action of the case will lie The second Dialogue Of Actions vpon the Case NOnomath I haue some time meruailed Codicgn wherefore an Action vpon the case which you tearme actionem iniuriarum should not haue a speciall name aswell as other actions when as at the Common Law euery action beside this hath his speciall name As an action of Dette of Accompt of Wast of Detinue of Couenant c. And in your Law there is 1. Diuision Actio ex stipulatu actio empti actio depositi actio de pauperie c. I pray you therefore let me know the reason hereof Codicgn What is more ebbing and flowing then mans inuention for some things it hath wordes too many for some it wanteth names Therefore Iuuenal when he sought for an apt name for that age which ensued the fower famous ages being this last age of the world and worse theÌ„ the yron age he nameth it by giuing it no name for his inueÌ„tion could not find out any proper appellation and thus resolueth quorum sceleri non inuenit ipsa Nomen et a nullo posuit natura metallo And because our sage Maisters of the Law could not deuise as manie seuerall names as there be seuerall iniuries for what Dictionarie could conteine so many names and because the name of the signe should be ample and large enough for the thing named or signified 1. The reason is shewed wherefore actio iniuriarum hath so generall a name at the ciuill Law therefore they deuised that actio iniuriarum might serue for all wrongs for which they could not frame particular names Anglonomoph Indeede as D. Stephens his water was fit for manie diseases and yet had neuer any speciall name but was generallie 2. The Barrister compareth an Action vpon the case at the common Law to D. Stephens his water tearmed Doctor Stephens his water so likewise an Action vpon the case stretcheth as a remedy against manie offences Yet it hath no other name then an Action vpon the case And it is therefore so tearmed because euerie mans case must be in that action speciallie and at large set downe for in that action the writ ought to comprehend the speciall matter as well as the declaration a 7. H. 6. 47. Wherfore in an Action vpon the case brought against one who was reteined to buie a Manor for the plaintife which he after purchased for himselfe in deceit of the plaintife and the plaintife did not shew of whom the Manor should be bought in the writ but onelie in the declaration the writ was abated b 16. H. 6. Action sur le case 44. 48. E. 3. 6. Brief 627. 33. H. 6. 26. 11. H. 6. 2. 22. H. 6. 53. Nomomath I pray you satisfie me in this If 2. Diuision a man be enterteined or lodged in an Inne and some of his goodes be taken from him out of the Inne by a straunger whether may he haue an Action vpon the case against the Inne-keeper Anglonomoph Doubtles he may if it were a common Inne in which hee was lodged c 2. H. 4. 7. 5. Mar. 158. Dyer And if the partie so preiudiced doe bring an 1. An Action vpon the case lieth against the keeper of a coÌ„mon Inne if goodes be imbeasiled Action vpon the case against the hoast it is no plea for him to saie that the plaintife did not deliuer any goodes vnto him or that the plaintife himselfe had the key of the chamber And an Elegit hath been awarded in such case of the land which the defendant had the daie of the iudgement giuen and not the daie of the writ brought And a Capias ad satisfaciendum lieth not because it was a laches and no wrong d 42. E. 3. 11. And therefore the wordes of the writ be pro defectu ipsius B. e Fitzh nat bre 94. B. But the opinion of Hill is 11. H. 4. that if the Inne-keeper in such case doe notifie vnto the guest that he can not attende vpon him and notwithstanding he will needes be harboured there at his perill the Inne-keeper is discharged f 11. H. 4. 45. per Hill And 22. H. 6. the difference 2. If a stranger lodge with me by my consent and do imbeasill goodes the Inne-keeper shall not be charged is taken that if a man doe lodge in chamber with me by my consent meerlie and not by the appointment of the hoast and he robbeth me the hoast shall not be charged Otherwise is it
slaunder and diffamation which blemisheth the good name of others it detesteth and vtterly disfauoureth condemneth punisheth as a stepdame vnto rancor violent speeches the abortiue children of malice Wherefore an action vpon the case will lye at our law for calling the plaintife theefe Å¿ 27. H. 8. 22. and for calling the pr a false and periured man t 28. H. 8. Br. Acti sur le case 3. 30. H. 8. Br. Acti sur le case 104. so an action vpon the case lyeth for calling the pr false iustice of peace u 4. E. 6. Br. Acti sur le case 112. But to publish one for his villaine who in truth is his villain is no slander nor actionable x 2. E. 4. 5. nor to publish one to be a bastard who is in deed a bastard if the defendant doe make title to the bastardes lande and did therefore tearme him bastard that the matter might bee produced into question and triall y 25. Eliz. Baâ—isters case Nomomath Enough of this wee will passe now to other matters The third Dialogue Of Dettes NOmomath I pray you let me know 1 Diuision Codicgnostes all the waies meanes wherby one man may become indebted to another so that remedie may be had by processe of law for the debt Codign A dette may grow by writing or especialtie 1 Dette may grow by writing or especialtie as when the dettor confesseth himselfe to bee obliged and bound to his creditor and such bond or obligation may be by deede indented sub eadem forma verborum by mutuall deliuerie it becommeth the deed of them both a l. seruuÌ„ filij § eum qui chirographum ff de leg 1. Such a kind of writing wee call instrumentum 2 An obligation may be by deed indented at the ciuill law priuatum because it is done in the name and by the hand of a priuate man not in the name of any king or prince and this kind of instrument ought to haue the subscription of three witnesses b C. de proba l. but there is a priuate instrument of more solemnity which is called of 3 What instrumentum garraÌ„tigiae is at the ciuill law vs instrumentum garrantigiae an instrument of warrantie vpon which a man shall haue present execution as if it do specifie that one man is indebted to another this being presently exhibited in place of iudgement the iudge ought presently to awarde execution c ff de re iudi and such writings obligatorie if they haue any razure in them in any materiall place are of no credit in law d c. ex liter in glo 2. de fid instrument and there bee in our law three sorts of bonds Naturalis Ciuilis Praetoria Naturalis 4 Three sortes of bonds by the ciuill law is when as by mutuall contract one of the parties becommeth mutually bounde to the other Ciuilis is that which is made in forme of law whereof we haue aboue spoken wherein one of the parties confesseth and acknowledgeth himselfe to bee indebted to the other in a certaine summe of money and bindeth himselfe for the payment of the saide summe Praetoria which is deuised and conceiued of the Pretor and Iudge in precise termes specifijng the debt e Insti de obli in prin Likewise debt may accrue 5 Dette may grow by way of contract vnto one by way of contract which is nothing els but the coÌ„sent of 2. persons for a thing to be done or giuen by the one to the other and it is on both sides obligatorious f de pac l. 1. §. 1. for if two doe consent in this true proposition Titius est homo or in this false assertion Titius est Asinus yet this is no contract because non vtrobique obligat f Gazalup verb. pactum for if the wordes or acte be obligatorie then the contract is obligatorie as contrariwise if the words or acte tend to acquittance then the contract is nothing els but an acquittall as if the creditor doe redeliuer the writing obligatorie vnto his dettor this is an acquittance in lawe for otherwise the redeliuerie should worke nothing g ff de pac l. labeo but if the creditor should redeliuer a pledge vnto the dettor this will not amount to any acquitall or release of the dette because the redeliuerie in that case may haue an other effect namely the vse of the pledge for a certaine time h l. sequent ff eo ti And if the instrument or especialtie of the dette be come to the hands of the dettor the law will intend prima facie that it was redeliuered by the cteditor in lieu of an acquittance i l. si chirograph ff de pig but this must be limited with this restreint if the dettor be a meere stranger in facto vnto the creditor but if he be his seruant or one of his familie conuersing in house with him then the intendment will bee otherwise for then the law will presume that he might easily come by the bond without the priuitie of the creditor k l. vnica §. ille C. de lati li. tol Canonol I haue not at any time obserued any thing in our lawe which maketh head against 6 The canon law agreeth with the ciuill in matters of bonds or dettes these determinations of lawe by you mentioned Anglonomoph Our law with some of these assertions fully agreeth and from some flatly disagreeth as I meane to manifest by examining 7 Dette may grow by contract by the common law in order the particulars of Codicgnostes his speech Dettes with vs may grow many waies and euerie way an action of dette will lye for it may grow by contract as Codicgnost hath auowched For if the husband sell trees growing vpon the land of his wife and the wife dieth before they be cut downe yet the husband may maintaine an action of dette so it is of a vendition by the tenant in taile so where a man hath a horse by wrong and selleth him to another for a certaine summe of money and before the deliuerie of the horse he dyeth or the owner taketh him away yet an action of dette lyeth vpon the vendition l 18. E. 4. 6. So if a man sell ten acres of land to another for ten pound and after he will make no assurance of the land yet he may maintain an action of dette for the money and the other is put to his action vpon the case but if it bee agreed that the assurance shall be made before a certaine day and the ten pound to be payed vpon the perfecting of the assurance then the lawe is otherwise For if hee make not the assurance before the day but after hee shall not haue an action of dette for the ten pound m 22. H. 6. 50. ê‘ Newt But if a tailor doe make a garment for mee if we bee
in this consorteth with the ciuill law for it is a good plea for the executor to say that hee had fully administred before he had notice of the writte of the plaintife g 7. H. 4. â—0 Plowd com 277. for though hee doe pay debtes vpon contractes the writte depending against him vppon a bonde whereas hee had no notice of the suite he shall not bee in such case charged h 2. H. 4. 21. And 3. H. 6. in an action of debt vpon an obligation of twentie pound brought against executors they pleaded riens enter maines that they had nothing in their hands and it was founde by verdict that they had tenne pound in their handes wherefore the plaintife had iudgement to recouer so much as was found of the goods of the deade and the dammages of the goodes of the executors for their false plea i 3. H. 6. 4. But in Dauises Case in the Commentaries it was otherwise ruled that nothing should bee put in execution vpon such a plea but onely the goodes of the dead k Dauis C. com 440. But in a Fieri facias vpon a recouerie against executors the Sheriffe returned a deuastauerunt wherefore the Court did graunt a writte to haue execution of the goods of the dead and if there were no such goods then of the goods of the executors l 11. H. 4. 70. And 4. E. 3. in an action of dette brought against the executors it was found that they had fully administred and the opinion was that the Iurors should set downe in certaine how much they had administred because they shall not bee charged but onely according to that which is found by inquest m 40. E. 3. Statha tit executors But it was said 34. H. 6. that when the executors doe plead fully administred but onely for so much their plea is found the plaintife shall haue iudgement to recouer all his dette but he shall not haue execution but onely of the goods in their hands n 34. H. 6. stath tit Execut. But it is good to bee considered what may properly bee saide assets in the handes of the 9 What may properly be said to be assets in the hands of the executors executors if the executors doe merchaundize with the goodes of the testator the increasall of them shall bee assets in their hands and shall charge them and they cannot plead that they haue fully administred when they haue such assets o 11. H. 6. 35. per Bal. And if executors doe sell the goodes of the testator and doe buy them againe they remayne in their handes as assets because they were the same goods which were the testators p 18. H. 6. 4. But then it seemeth that the money which they had for the sale of the goodes was wasted by them and not conuerted to the vse of the testator for otherwise there is no reason but that they should haue a propertie in them to their owne vse for if the executors pay the debtes of the testator of their owne goodes they may retaine the goodes of the testator to the value in their handes to their owne vse q 6. H. 8. 2. Dy. But it was held by M. Fitzherbert 27. H. 6. that where a man is indebted 40. pound to one and 30. li. to another dieth and hath but 40. li. and his executors or administrators agree with the creditor of 40. li. for 10. li. and haue an acquittance of the 40. li. yet the thirtie pounds which remaineth in their hands shall bee assets r 27. H. 8. 6. per Fitzh And so a gage being ransomed shall bee assets in their handes but according to M. Frowikes opinion it shall not bee assets if it were ransomed with their owne money Å¿ 20. H. 7. 2. But as M. Brooke noteth wel abridging the case abouesaid of 20. H. 7. the money which commeth in lieu of a pledge being gaged to their testator shall bee assets in their handes So it hath beene adiudged that if a man make a feoffement vpon condition that the feoffee shall sell the lande and distribute the money to the vse of the testator whereupon he selleth the land and the feoffor maketh him his executor the money taken for the land sold shall be adiudged assets in his hands t 2. H. 4. 21. Executors 51. 3. H. 6. 3. So if the executors pleade fully administred and it is found for them and after certaine goodes of the testator come to their handes wherefore he which brought the first action of dette bringeth the same against them againe this action is well maintenable u 7. E. 4. 8. per Littlet Danby Nomomath You haue satisfied mee for this point Anglonomoph Now I pray you Codicgnost strayne your endeuour a little to resolue me vpon point of execution to be sued vpon these dettes I haue reade that in ancient time it was a law amongst the Romans that if a man greatly indebted were not able to discharge the dette his bodie was mangled and cut in 1 The rigorous law of the Romanes in their execution for dette peeces and the greatest portion of it giuen to his greatest creditor a lesser to him to whom he did owe lesse and so pro rata x Paul Manut lib. de legi Roma which lawe beside the monstrousnesse of it in such a common weale was verie inhumane for the creditors might if they would in their furie by this law cast the members and partes of the bodies of their debtors to dogges and other brutish beastes so that that the Romanes had not so much care of their Senators gentlemen and citizens as the friendes of Diogenes had of him For when the Cynicke laye vpon his death-bed his friends which were then about him asked him in curteous manner where he wold be buried he thinking perhaps that a man was nothing but a mind answeared them that he would bee buried in the dunghill and they replyed that that would be verie inconuenient for the dogges would then rake him vp and deuoure him Then said he lay some staues by mee to beate away the dogges but they told him that hee could haue no sence in his bodie after his death then quoth he what neede I feare the dogges This was but the glaunce of Diogenes who made more accompt of his scoffe then his state But others more ciuill doe thinke it a great losse shame and indignitie that a mans bodie should not be buried wherefore Lucan sharpely inueyeth 2 The execution of the Romanes greatly to bee reproued because it did depriue men of buriall against Caesar Tu cui dant paenas inhumato funere gentes a Luca. lib. 7. And it is the iudgement of all antiquitie that without verie heynous fault the partes of a mans bodie should not bee debarred from sepulture Romulus though hee had caused to be slaine his brother Rhemus and after his death did continue his fury
goodes Canonolog In this we dissent not from you Nomomath Let me know Anglonomoph what maner of execution ye vse for dette at the common Law Anglonomoph The execution is foure-fold 5. A fourefold execution for dette by the common Law either of goodes onely by Fieri facias or of the moitie of landes by Elegit or vpon all the landes by an Extendi facias vpon the reconusance of a statute or of the bodie by Capias ad satisfaciendum euery of which by your pacience I will explane by cases and examples or by shewing their originall A Fieri facias issued out of the Eschequer for the king against 6. The execution of goodes by Fieri facias is opened a Parson for money due to the king out of an Abbey to which the Church of the Parson was charged in xx markes and for two markes behind a Fieri facias issued to the Shirife in these wordes Fieri fac de bonis et catallis spiritualibus et temporalibus prouenientibus de Rectoria de R. and the Shirife by his bailie tooke two bookes in the Church and sold them for the kings dette l 8. H. 5. 4. And wheras A. did recouer dammages in a speciall assise before speciall Iustices and brought an action of Dette for the dammages it was resolued that the defendant was dettor of recorde and therefore ought to be discharged by matter of recorde and for that cause the Fieri facias is ita quod habeas denarios hic to the intent that the payment of the money to the plaintife may be of recorde and the defendant discharged by recorde m 11. H. 4. 58. Execution by Elegit is warranted by the Statute of Westminster 2. cap. 18. which saith Si quis recuperet debitum aut damna sit in electione querentis an habere velit Fieri facias de terris catallis it should seeme to be meant de bonis catallis vel quòd Vicecomes liberet it seemeth to be better et quòd Vicecomes liberet ei omnia catalla debitoris exceptis bobus et affris carucae suae medietatem it seemeth more agreeable to the purpose vel medietatem terrae suae quousquè debitum fuerit leuatum per rationabile pretium et extentam The execution vpon 8. Execution vpon statute merchant is opened Statute merchant may appeare by this case A man had execution out of statute merchant and the Shirife returned an Extent of the lands of the reconusor in this maner sciz that he had sent to the baylie of the fraunchise c. who had retourne of writs to extende the landes which were within the fraunchise and so he did and that which was within the bayliwicke of the Shirife namelie in guildable himselfe caused to be extended by parcels and at the end he put the summe of the value and after the summe he put the charges as rents and other charges which were due out of the said landes and amongest other charges he retourned that the land was charged to the reconusee with xx li. yearely for euer And the Iustices cast all the charges of the landes and the value and they did perceiue that the charges passed the value by xl s' and after it was shewed that the Shirife had sent to an other Baylife of an other fraunchise in which the partie had lands and of these landes he made the third extent so that by that extent the value passed the charges by tenne shillinges wherefore execution was awarded n 29. E. 3. 1. And 9. E. 3. one sued a writ to take the bodie of him who had made a statute merchant to him and the Shirife retourned that he was dead wherefore he praied a writ to the Shirife to deliuer vnto him all the lands which he had the day of the reconusance or at any time after and he had it o 9. E. 3. 24. Execution by Capias 8. Execution by Capias ad satisfaciendum is shewed and imprisonment is after this manner Dammages were recouered against I. in a writ of Trespas in the kinges bench in the time of king Henry the fourth and after in the time of king Henry the fifth he was condemned in London at the suit of an other and put in Newgate and he at whose suit he was condemned in the kings bench had a Capias ad satisfaciendum to the Shirifes of L. which did send the bodie and did certifie that he was condemned at manie mens suites in London and now he that sued the Capias came into the Court and did acknowledge agreement to be made and the defendant was readie to make a fine to the king and praied to be deliuered But because he was condemned in the time of an other king and the Iustices which be now haue not knowledge of the persons which were parties to the pleas in the time of an other king as the Law doth intende and likewise because if he be acquited heere he must be sent backe into London because hee is condemned there and thirdlie because by couin betwixt him which acknowledgeth agreement and the defendant he may defraud him at whose suit he is condemned of his execution for if he be deliuered the other is without remedie therefore a Scire facias was awarded p 8. H. 5. 7. The like Law is in an execution vpon an Action of Dette and in an acquitall the fine to the king being excepted Nomomath Well I will trouble you no further about questions of Dette Now let vs passe according to the platforme of the conference to examine doubtes touching Accomptes The fourth Dialogue Of Accomptes NOmomath Suppose Codicgnostes 1. Diuision that I deliuer vnto you my horse or hauke to sell him for fyue poundes and to deliuer me either the fiue poundes or redeliuer the thing againe Shall you not be accomptable to me in this regarde Codicgn Yes truelie and that by an action 1. In what case a man is accomptable at the Giuill Law per actionem aestimatoriam which we call Actionem aestimatoriam because it is conceyued vppon the speciall and prescript wordes of the valuation of the thing a ff de aestima ac in rubro et l. 1. et Insti de actio §. actionum Anglonomoph So by our Law we haue a 2. The difference of a speciall bailie and generall bailie at the common Law speciall bailie and a generall bailie A speciall bailie is he which is bailie after a speciall maner and to a speciall purpose For if a man deliuer an Obligation to an other to receiue so much money as he can get of that which is contained in the bond if he receiue no money vpon the bond a writ of Accompt lyeth not but a writ of Detinue for the bond But it seemeth that if hee receiue a lesse summe then a writ of Accompt will lie But if he receiue the verie summe conteined in the bond then a writ of Accompt will
stretcheth verie farre in our law for it may extend to the procheinamy the next friend by whom an infant or one within age shall sue an action or to the warden of the infant by whome the infant shall be defendant in an action c 13. E. 3. Attorney 76. 40. E. 3. 16. And an infant was receiued to sue a writte of error by his warden d 27. Assi pl. 53. Fitz. N. B. 27. H. And an infant shall not remoue hir warden nor disauow his next freind which sueth an action for him e 34. Assis pl. 5. 27. Assis pl. 53. But by a writte out of the Chauncerie the infant may remoue his warden or the Court by their discretion may remoue him f Fitzh N. B. 27. M. 27. Assis pl. 53. But as to the making of an Attourney we haue this rule in our lawe Nemo potest facere Atturnatum nisi habeat proprietatem in re ideo custos non potest facere Atturnatum quia non habet proprietatem g 13. E. 1. Attourney 103. In a writte of Attaint the defendant made an Atturney in the Chauncerie by a common writte de Attornato faciendo the tenor whereof was ad lucrandum perdendum in loquela quae est coram Iustitiarijs per breue nostrum inter I. S. petentem I. N. tenentem de placito terrae c. but the warrant of the plaintifs attourney must be thus ad conuincendum 12. Iur. de placito terrae c. per viginti quatuor c. h 2. E. 3. Garrant dattour 21. But the power authoritie of the attourney is by the iudgement determined and carried backe to the master Wherefore it was saide 4. E. 3. that after iudgement the attourney was not receiued to release the dammages nor to acknowledge satisfaction i 4. E. 3. Attourney 18. 34 E. 3. 95. 34. H. 6 51. 1. E. 2. Garrant 22. contrarie to the booke of 33. H. 6. k But there is great difference betwixt a bailie a deputie for though a bailie haue a larger scope of authoritie and power then an atturney or sollicitor yet he hath but an authority but a deputie hath an imperfect interest mixt with an authoritie which by cases accomodated to this purpose shall be euident The bailie of a mannor cannot lease the lands of his Lord but onely at the will of the Lorde for I doe not take the booke of 2. E. 4. to be law that the bailie may lease lands to hold at his owne will yet that booke giueth an action of debt if a rent bee reserued vpon the lease to the Lorde not to the bailie l 2. E. 4. 4. but 8. E. 4. is the better law in my opinion where it is helde that the baily of a mannor cannot make any lease of the mannor nor of any parcell of it without speciall commaundement of the Lord to doe it m 8. E. 4. 13. But if he cut downe trees or kill any beastes going vpon the land of the manour without lawfull cause an action of the case will lie against him n 2. E. 4. 13. And 19. E. 3. it was held that by no vsage in the world a Bailie or Steward of a manour could lease the freehold o 19. E. 3. Feoff 68. But it is held by Catesby 8. E. 4. that the Lord may giue power in expresse wordes to his bailie to lease land and if the bailie hauing receiued such authoritie doe lease an acre of land vnto a stranger and doth not giue to the Lord notice thereof if the Lord enter into this acre the lessee may punish him by an action of Trespas and yet he had no notice thereof but the reason is because he had before giuen such a power to the bailie p 8. E. 4. 1. et 9. Dutch de Suffolkes c. per Catesb And therefore I thinke that the book of 2. R. 3. which is that the bailie hath power to lease land and to improoue it is to be intended by speciall warrant and authoritie of the Lord committed vnto him But it seemeth that of himselfe he may sell trees if there be great abundance and may repaire houses with them but he cannot reedifie houses with them if they be falne q 2. R 3. 14. 12. H. 7. 25 But that a deputie hath an interest conioined with an authoritie in the thing which is deputed vnto him may be thus prooued 11. Elizab. it was cleerely resolued that two daughters being heires to the Constable of England might make their sufficient Deputie to exercise the office for them and after mariage that the husband of the elder onelie might performe the office r 11. Elizab. 285. Dy. And 39. H. 6. it was agreed by all the Iustices that if a man haue an office and maketh a deputie which misuseth the office the grauntee or inheritour of the office shall forfait it for the deputie is sub officiario and the officer remaineth officer vntill the forfaiture Å¿ 39. H. 6. 32. And these wordes that the deputie is sub officiario are so in my conceit to be vnderstood as the lessee at will is vnder the lessor in case of a demise of land But there may be a forfaiture in the one case and not in the other because in the office deputed there is a speciall authoritie mixt with a speciall interest And Quaere whether for the dette of the deputie the office may not be extended whilest it is in the deputies handes Codign Surelie it seemeth that the deputie 4. That by the ciuil Law contrarie to the common Law there is no maner of interest in a deputie hath no interest at all in the office and that may appeare by the obseruation of auncient times For if a man may compare greater things with lesse the Quaestor of a Prouince was a deputie to the President or Gouernour of a prouince in his absence but yet their power was diuerse and the interest was not assigned but resembled as Caesar doth rightlie distinguish them Aliae sunt legati partes aliae imperatoris alter omnia agere ad praescriptum alter libere ad summam rerum consulere debet t Caes lib. 3. de bello ciuil The office of a Deputie or Lieutenant and the office of a Gouernour or Commaundour are diuerse the one of them that is the deputie doth all thinges by the prescript of his commaundour the other freelie prouideth for the maine and principall consequence of thinges And briefely and substancially he thus describeth the duetie of a Deputie Officium legati fiduciariam operam obtinere u Caes lib. 2. de bel ciui And that a deputie is but as a minister to the principall officer may appeare by Ciceroes precept to his brother Sit annulus tuus non vt vas aliquod sed tanquam ipse tu non minister alienae voluntatis sed testis tuae a Cicer. ad Q. fratr Let not
yet the lessee is bounde to repayre and maintayne them because of his couenaunt but according to the opinion of Fitzh and Shelley because the decay of the bankes was the acte of God he ought to haue conuenient time to repaire them q 29. H. 8. 33. Dy. 35. H. 8. 56. Dy. Now I will shew how and in what cases the cutting of wood trees is wast by our law It is cleare by our law that the tenant may cut trees for the amendment of houses 5 The tenant by the commō law may cut trees for the reparation of houses and the reparation of them but if the houses be decaied by the default of the tenant the cutting of trees to amend them is waste r 44. E. 3. 21. 44. 11. H. 4. 32. but the lessee may not in any sort cut apple trees for the amendment of houses ſ Temps E. 1. waste 122. And 7. H. 6. it is said that he shal not meddle with great timberwoode without the assent of his lessor otherwise it is of seasonable wood which is but of the age of ten yeres or therabout t 7. H. 6. 38. But the cutting of dead wood is not waste u Fitzh N. B. 59. M. And the termor hath house-wood hedge-wood and firewoode belonging to his tearme of common right and he may cut wood for that purpose x 21. H. 6. 50. But if hee cutte wood to burne where there is dead wood sufficient this is waste a 20. E. 3. waste 32. And it is not waste to cut seasonable wood which hath vsed to be cut euerie twentie yeares or within 6 The commō law agreeth with the ciuill in the cutting of Silua caedua that time b 7. H. 6. 40. 11 H. 6. 1. And the cutting of thornes is no wast because they are not fit for timber c 46. E. 3. 17. Neither is the cutting of willowes waste vnlesse they lie about the site of the mannor d 40. E. 3. 15. 10. H. 7. 2. 12. H. 8. 1. 12. E. 4. 1. And the termor may cutte vnder-woode growing vnder the great trees and the high wood but if there bee no high wood or great trees there he can not cut at all e 40. E. 3. 25. 10. H. 7. 2. And whereas Codicgnost hath said that the lopping pruning of some 7 The common law agreeth with the ciuill in tollerating the lopping of trees which may be auailable for their growth trees may be more auailable for their growth therefore the cutting of them is not wast because they may grow by the same stocke or by some other imps grafted vpon it In verie truth our lawe runneth with this streame For as I haue shewed before to cutte seasonable wood is no waste but if certaine sprowtes or braunches doe grow vpon the stocke the cutting of these sprowtes or braunches or the destroying of them is wast f 5. E. 4. 102. 9. H. 6. 42. 11. H. 6. 1. 22. H. 6. 14 And plantes which can not be conueniently sold neither beare any fruite yet because of the possibilitie of the fructifying of them if they bee cutte downe this is waste g 20. E. 3. waste 32. Nomomath Well I pray you satisfie mee in this If a man ought to keepe certaine bankes in repaire whereby the land adioyning and which he hath in farme may be better kept yeeld more profite and hee doth not repaire these bankes but suffereth the sea to ouerflow them and so to make the lande a great deale worse whether is this by your law accompted waste Anglonomophilax according as Codicgnostes hath shewed of opening the sluces of Nilus Anglonomoph By our law if such bankes be not repaired whereby the land demised that is adioyning is ouerflowed made vnapt for 1 That both by the ciuill law and common law where land is empeired by the inundation of water this is wast 3 Diuision present profite this in our lawe is accompted waste h 20. H. 6. 1. Nomomath Well now I pray you resolue me in this whether is it lawfull for the termor to digge in the land demtsed for water mines or treasure hid or this shal be accompted wast if hee doe it without the permission of the lessor Anglonomoph He that commeth to land or to any other thing by an other mans graunt or 1 That by the common law he that commeth to land by an other mans graunt ought to vse it according to the graunt demise can not vse the lande or that which is graunted further then the graunt or demise being reasonably construed will permit Therefore if a man be seised of a stagne or pond stored with fish and he sell and the fish in the pond to a straunger the grantee may not digge the land c. to make a trench because he may take the fish with nettes or other engines i Perk. tit Graunts 23. But if a man grant to me licence to make a trench from such a fountaine in his land to my mannor of Dale and that I may put a conduit-pipe in the land to conuay the water to my mannor if after the pipe bee stopped I may dig in the land to amend the pipe k 13. H. 8. 15. because that is as it were implied in the graunt but if a man plough vp meadowes demised vnto him this is waste l 20 H. 6. 1. 16. H. 7. wast 131. Fitzh N. B. 59. N. So if the termor doe alter woode into arable this is wast or arable into meadow this is wast For this is preiudiciall to the inheritance for the euidence concerning the lande serueth to proue an other thing m 29. H. 8. 35. Dy. Maleuerers C. And so it is if land bee ouerflowed for default of repayring bankes n 20. H. 6. 1. but of this I haue lately spoken and therefore will rather apply other cases to the opening and explaning the reason hereof The digging in the lande demised for claye or for 2 The digging for clay or cole in the land demised is wast by the common law stone or for coales shall bee said to bee waste o 2. H. 7. 14. 22. H. 6. 21. 9. H. 6. 42. 17. E. 3. 7. for the reason abouesaid and likewise because the soile by that meane becommeth worse p 22. H. 6. 18. according to M. Fortescues report 20. H. 6. if the particular tenant haue not kept the water from the ground so that it is made waste by the growing of rushes and other weedes this hath bin adiuged to be wast and the wordes of the writ were Quòd permisit aquam terram illam inundare 3 The suffering of the ground to become rushie or weedie by the common law is waste ita quòd deuenit iuncosa q 20. H. 6. 1. per Fortesc But 33. E. 3. the defendant iustified in a writte of waste because hee did cutte downe
more heires then one yet Titius shall haue but fiue pounds because of the collectiue word quisquis e L. ab omnibus in princip ff de leg 1. et l. si quis in fundi vocabul in fi eo ti But if the Testator doe say Quicunque primò ingressus fuerit Castrum habebit centum solidos and two doe enter the Castle together they shall euery of them haue fiue poundes because of the distributiue word quicunque which may be verified either in one or moe doing the same act at one time because primus est qui alium ante se non habet f L. qui filium §. 1. ff de leg 1. And if the Testator saie Quilibet haeredum meorum det Titio decem solidos Titius shall haue as many tenne shillinges as theire be heires g L. si pluribus et ibi no. gl ff de leg 2. which prooueth that by our Law the seuerall heires are not accompted as one heire Canonolog Our Law holdeth not the contrarie Nomomath You haue good reason for it But I pray you resolue me Anglonomoph are these which you call Parceners reputed in your Law as one heire to all intents Anglonomoph Yea to all intentes in regard 5. That by the common Law parceners are reputed as one heire as to the discent of landes of the discent though as to the making of particion it accompteth them as seuerall persons gg Fitzh nat bre 197. A. For a Nuper obisâ— ought to be brought by that Coparcener who is deforced from the 6. Parceners in regard of the particion are accompted as seuerall persons tenements against all the other Coparceners which do deforce her although some of them haue nothing in the tenancie h 32. E. 3. Nuper obijt 7. 9. Ass pla 8. For seuerall tenancie or nontenure is no plea in a Nuper obijt because of the priuitie of bloud i 7. E. 3. 16. 9. E. 3. Nuper obijt 8. 8. H. 6. 8. Nomomath Whether shall a writ de Particione 2. Diuision facienda be vsed against Iointenants or tenants in common as well as against Parceners or some other remedie shall be vsed against them Anglonomoph Before the Statute of 31. H. 1. The statute of 31. H. 8. giueth a writ de Particione facienda as well to Iointenants and tenants in common as to parceners 8. Iointenants and Tenants in common were not compelable by writ to make particion of landes and tenements which they vndiuidedly held But by that Statute a writ de Particione facienda may be sued against them as against Parceners k 31. H. 8. c. 1. Rastall Particion 3. But by the common Law Iointenants may make particion by mutuall assent without deede l 47. E. 3. 22. 19. Ass pla 1. And by such particion the iointure is seuered m 30. Ass pla 8. 2. The three seueral actions against Parceners Iointenants and tenants in common at the Ciuill Law Codicgn By our Law seuerall remedies are vsed against these which be both of one bloud or one familie which you haue tearmed Parceners as an action de familia herciscunda and an other maner of action against such as come to the land by ioint title though not by one discent which you haue tearmed Iointenants namely an action which is called of vs Actio pro socio and an other against these which come not in by ioint title but yet claime vnder these which came to the land by ioint title as by your Law are Tenants in common against whom or betwixt whom for the effecting of particion an action lieth at our Law which we call Actionem de communi diuidundo Canonolog To this our Law is not contradictorie Nomomath Let me now vnderstand in 3. Diuision what sort particion of landes or tenements and other thinges is made by your Lawes Anglonomoph Of landes and tenements the 1. Diuers kinds of partion at the common Law particion by our Law is to haue a seuerall part or portion as to haue a third part if there be 1. A particion to haue a third part or a fowerth part three Coparceners or a fowerth part if there be fower c. And if there be two Coparceners and one of them releaseth to the other 2. A particion by way of release with warrantie this hath been helde to be a good particion in Law n 44. E. 3. Counterplee de vouch 22. 34. E. 1. Partition 17. And particion of landes is sometime made by the graunt of 3. Particion by the graunt of a thing de nouo a thing de nouo as if an hundred shillinges of rent be graunted by one of the Coparceners to two of her sisters for equalitie of particion o 2 H. 6. 14. So when land entailed is deuided betwixt Parceners and a rent is reserued vpon 4. Particion by way of reseruation the particion for equalitie the rent reserued shall be in taile and of the same condition whereof the land was at the time of the particion made p 2. H. 7 5. 15 H. 7. 14. But a particion of a Mill is by taking the third part or the fowerth part of 5. Particion by taking the 3. part or the 4. part of the profites the profites as the case requireth q 11. E. 3. Briefe 478. And 45. Ed. 3. it was ruled that Milles Douecots and the like could not be actuallie locallie and as I may saie artuatim as it were by iointes diuided But if a woman ought to bee endowed of the third part of such thinges the third part of the profites ought to bee assigned vnto her r 45. E. 3. Dower 50. Yet 47. Edw. 3. the case was that two Iointenants were of a Mill and they agreed to repaire the Mill the one of them of the one side and the other on the other side in perpetuum and after the Mill was leased to farme and they tooke the rent seuerallie according to the moities and the Inquest said that their meaning was that the particion should bee good against them and their heires Å¿ 47. E. 3. lib. Ass pla 22. But Quaere whether the Shirife by writ de Particione facienda may make any such particion Likewise particion may be of a reuersion that one of the parceners shall haue the reuersion of three acres and the other the reuersion of other three acres and it may be without deede t Fitzh nat bre 62. D. 28. H. 6. 2. And so particion may bee made of a waie u 21. E. 3. 2. And also of a seigniourie uu 27. E. 3. 29. But of an aduowson the particion is to present by tourne x 38. H. 6. 9. 42. Eliz. 87. Corbets case per Iust Walmesley Co. Canonolog Our Law agreeth fully with 6 A difference in the Ciuill law where a thing that hath partes cohâ—rentes is diuided and where it
l. legatum ff de annu lega because the worde vntill doeth signifie in this case a limitation And though there ought to be a multiplcation of paiments yet there is a limitation ad tempus nubēdi that afterward the paiment shall not be due but if a mā deuise to his daughter his lands which he bought of Cornelius vntill she marie this signifieth not a yerely legacie because subiect a materia non patitur vt sit multiplicabile But it onely signifieth an extinction of the legacie whē the mariage is accomplished For if a man deuise his land in Dale to A. vntill he be Shirife of London as soone as he is Shirife of London the legacie is determined and immediatlie reuerteth to the heire ſ L. fi C. de leg For as it is in the power of the Testatour to make the legacie begin at a certaine time so likewise it is in his power to make it end at a certaine time Nomomath You haue put good and perspicuous diuersities betwixt a condition and a limitation I pray you Anglonomoph shew what your Law determineth of this difference Anglonomoph The verie same difference is 3. A difference betwixt a limitation and condition at the common Law in our Law which by cases shall be explaned A man graunteth to an other his manour of B. so that he paie 10. li. yearely to the lessour during the life of the lessour and if the said rent be behind that then it shall be lawfull for the lessour to distraine for it in the lessees manour of S. the lessour hath a franktenement in the rent sub modo depending vpon the will of the lessee and the lessour and there is a limitation implied by Law though not verbally expressed t 3. E. 3. 15. Assise 172. So if a man make a Lease to one for life paying the first six yeares 3. quarters of corne and if he will hold it longer a C. s. the word If in this case maketh but a limitation u 15. E. 3. Execution 63. So if a rent of 5. pound be graunted to I. as long as the grauntour his heires or assignes shall hold the manour of W. this was adiudged to be a freehold in the grauntee but yet with a limitation uu 10. Ass pla 8. Br. Estates 31. as long as the grauntour should hold the manour of W. So if a man graunt a common in his land in Dale when he putteth in his beastes or graunteth an estouer of Wood when he commeth to his manour of D. the grauntee hath a freehold but qualified with certaine limitations a 17. Ass pla 7. So it is if the king graunt an office to I. S. donec bene fideliter se gesserit b 3. Ass pla 9. et 6. So if land be leased to one quamdiu se bene gesserit c 37. H. 6. 29. So if a man deuise his land to his eldest sonne in taile with seuerall remainders in taile and that the partie morgaging incumbring entangling or aliening the land shall be clearelie discharged excluded and dismissed touching the intaile and the conueyance of the intaile shal be of no force vnto him this is not a condition but a limitation for if it were a condition the right heire might enter for the breach and defeat all the meane remainders in taile which is not consonant to the intent of the Deuisour d 13. et 14. Eliz. Com̄ Newyses c. 403. And whereas you haue said that a man by way of limitation may deuise money to be paied out of his chest or coffer and if there be no money in the chest or coffer there is no money due our Law dealeth 4. The common Law is more ample and large then the Ciuil law in matter of limitation more amplie and beneficially in like cases For if a man graunt to me an annuitie of x. li. to receiue out of his coffers if he haue neither coffers nor money in thē yet his person shal be charged with the annuitie e Fitzh Nat. bre 152. A. 9. H. 6. 17. because the graunt it selfe induceth a charge vpon the grauntour Yet an annuitie may be graunted with a limitation as if an annuity be granted to take at euery time as often as the grauntour shall come to his manour of S. or as often as the grauntee shall come to the house of the grauntour f 14. E. 4. 4. So if I graunt an annuitie of x. li. out of my land in Dale and I haue no land in Dale this graunt is not void but my person shall be charged g 9. H. 6. 53. per Newt et Cot. Nomom Pause here Anglonom What is Canonologus drowsie or entred into some dreame Canonolog I was neither drowsie nor dreaming but the eies of my mind were somewhat closed and shut as the hares be when she watcheth for the houndes for if I could haue taken any aduantage of the speeches of my two companions I would not haue been so long silent But in truth our Law in the matters of condition before handled hath no other oracle but the Ciuil Law if hereafter there happen any variance I will not conceal it from you Nomomath Let me then aske you this question 3. Diuision Codicgn A man deuiseth to R. x. li. and if he wast or spend it then he deuiseth vnto him x. li againe Suppose that he do spende twentie pound whether may he afterward demaunde 10. li. because the deuise is indefinite Codicgnost The deuise is not indefinite 1. Rursus or the word againe signifieth once againe by the Ciuill Law for this word againe signifieth as much as once againe according to the rule of our Law Rursus verificari potest in vna vice h l. fidei commiss §. si quis ff de leg 3. Otherwise it might be that the executor should be charged to the full value of all the goodes of the Testatour For if the deuisee were an Acolastus though the executor were by the executorship a Craesus yet all would not serue Anglonomoph Your reason is good but yet I would not be peremptorie in this matter for it is not in our Law so cleere For two Iudges were opposed against other two in the like case There is a Prouiso in a Lease that 2. How farre forth a word of restraint is to be extended at the common Law neither the lessee nor his assignes shall not alien to any without the assent of the lessour but onely to the wife or the children of the lessor and the lessee alieneth to one of the sonnes of the lessour It was left ambiguous whether the restraint were now determined i Mar. 152. Dy. Nomomath Let this be the case I am bound to paie you twentie pound if your ship come 4. Diuision from Russia and after the ensealing and deliuerie of the bond we make this condition that the twentie pound which I did before owe
vnto you vpon the aforesaid condition I shall now owe vnto you absolutelie and without condition whether in this case is the agreement of any force to defeat the condition Codicgn By our Law it is of force to ouerthrow 1. An agreement by word may defeat a condition in writing at the ciuill Law the condition for it is a renewing of the bond as we tearme it and so the later bond shall preiudice and swallow vp the former k ff de nous et C. eo ti Anglonomoph Our Law holdeth the contrarie 2. The common Law is quite contrarie to the aforesaid assertion of the Ciuill Law and the reason is this because it is an inconuenience in reason that an especialtie sealed and solempnlie deliuered should be auoyded by the bare agreement of the parties which is but a meere matter in facto l 1. H. 7. 14. Dones case per Dauers Yet in some cases it is not inconuenient that an obligation should be auoided by a matter in fasto where there is a strong and peremptorie operation in Law As if a man be bound to a feme sole and afterward he marieth her Or if a man be bound to a villaine and after he purchaseth the manour to which the villeine is regardant the mariage the purchase may be pleaded in auoidance of the especialtie So in an auoydance of a statute merchant it is a good plea to saie that part of the land is purchased by the reconusee So in a writ of Annuitie it is a good plea to saie that he hath paied it in a foreine countie So if a man by deede graunt a rent if the grauntee surrender the rent with the especialtie this is a good auoydance of the especialtie m 1. H. 7. Dones case per Keble But where a man was bound to paie xx nobles at a certaine day and if he failed that then he would loose x. li. paiable at the same day an action of Dette was brought for the x. pound and it was allowed n 26. E. 3. 71. for here there were two seuerall bandes one of them consequent vppon the other but not abolishing the other And if a defeasance vpon a statute marchant be that the payment of the money should be made at Bristowe and the conusee receiued it at an other place this is a good discharge of the statute for now the Law hath discharged it o 46. E. 3. 4. But one matter of recorde may be auoided by an other Therefore the case was 20. E. 3. in a writ of Accompt the defendant said that the plaintife by a deede which he shewed forth did graunt that if the defendant did make a reconusance vpon statute marchant such a daie at Canterburie to the plaintife that the writ of accompt should be held as voide This was admitted by the Court to be a good agreement to auoide the writ of annuitie as soone as the statute is deliuered to the plaintife p 20. E. 3. Accompt 79. Nomomath I would know Codicgn what your Law doth determine of impossible conditions whether it doth vtterlie reiect them or what force and effect it assigneth vnto them Codicgn Impossibilitie our Law maketh 1. Three sortes of impossibilities at the Ciuill Law three-fold iuris facti et naturae Iuris as when there is a repugnancie in the condition so that the Law doth wholie frustrate and disanull the condition or els it is directlie contrarie to the Law As if a man should contract with a 2. What impossibilitas iuru is at the Ciuill Law woman si prolem euitauerit or si adulteram se praestiterit the one of these being against the Law of nature the other against the Law of God both of them are by our Law made voide q C. fi de condi appo And indeed there is a repugnancie betwixt the contract and the condition mariage being a thing instituted and ordeined for the procreation of children and the auoyding of fornication Impossibilitas facti is when 3. What impossibilitas facti is at the Ciuill Law there is great difficultie in the thing that is to be done and it is not possible to bee easilie done howbeit it is not absolutelie impossible to be done this impossibilitie of the condition doth frustrate the act precedent As if I say that Stichus my villeine shall be free if he will giue a thousand pound for his freedome this though it be not impossible yet it is verie difficult for a villein to performe because of the difficultie the Law will imagine that I did but trifle by this forme of enfranchisement and so Stichus shall gaine nothing by it r L. cum haere §. 1. ff de sta li. So it is if a man being at Yorke bee bound to paie to an other at London x. pound before sunne-set this though it be not impossible in it selfe because a Pegasus or poast-horse may help the matter yet because it can not with any facilitie be pefourmed within so short time our Law holdeth the condition to be voide ſ Insti de verb. obli §. loca Impossible by nature that is said to be which is 4. Impossibilitas naturae by the Ciuil Law repugnant to naturall reason and contrarie to the course of nature As if I giue a horse to one vppon condition that he shall touch heauen with one of his fingers or that he shall extinguish fire with oyle or that he shall build a village in the cloudes t Ioan. ad reg Nemo li. be reg iur Nomomath These differences haue been well opened by Codicgnostes Now I will request you Anglonomoph to explane and illustrate them by cases Anglonomoph I will particularlie speake of 5. Which be conditions against Law by the censure of the common Law them all And first of Conditions against Law If estates in land be made vppon conditions contrarie to Law the estates be good and the conditions voide But then the estates must not begin neither take effect by force of the condition neither depende vpon such conditions as to the existence of them But if a man seised of land doe enfeoffe a straunger vppon condition that if the feoffour doe kill I. S. one of the Queenes subiectes it shall be lawfull for him to reenter the estate is good and the condition voide u 4. H. 7. 4. 2. H. 4. 9. So it is if one enfeoffe an other vpon condition that if the feoffour doe burne the houses of I. S. it shall bee lawfull for him to reenter uu Perk. Condic 139. for such conditions are impossible to bee good by Law But if a lease for life be made or a lease for yeares of land vpon condition that if the lessee kill I. S. within such a day that then he shall haue and hold the land to him and to his heyres foreuer notwithstanding that the lessee do kill I. S. within the day yet his estate
not meant that in regard of fiue pounde receiued of Titius I doe make him my heire or executor but the words are conditionally meant if the testator doe receiue 5. li. of Titius c h l. a testatore ff de condi demon So if I deuise to one xx li. pro docendo talem discipulum this pro doth signifie a condition because by common vsage prius docendus est discipulus quà m soluendū salarium magistro i l. nec semel ff qu. di le ce So if I doe contract with a woman in this sort I promise vnto you A. that you shal be my wife donec terra ponatur super oculos meos these words are not generally to bee vnderstood for so the partie may lay earth vpon his eyes and slip the collar and breake promise but they must be vnderstood according to common intendement that she shall be his wife vntill his carkasse bee couered with earth that is vntill he be buried so it is if he should haue said Donec oculi os mihi claudantur k c. ex literis 1. de spon Angl. Our law many times taketh the words 2 The commō law taketh conditions many times strictly of a condition strictly to preserue an estate A lease was made to one vpon conditiō that the lessee shal not alien to A. the lessee alieneth to B. who alieneth to A. the cōditiō is not brokē for a condition which goeth to defeat an estate must be taken strictly l 31. H. 8. 45. Dy. And 28. H. 8. the case was thus A lease for yeares was made by indenture the lessee did couenant and grant that if he his executors or assignes did alien that it shold be lawful to the lessor to reenter after he made his wife his executrix and dyed the woman tooke an other husband which aliened The first question was whether the wordes of the couenant abouesaid did make a cōdition And if it were a condition the 2. question was whether there were any breach of condition in the case Some held that there was no breach of condition because the husband was possessed of the tearme by acte of law is not an assignee no more then a tenant by the curtesie is or the land of a villaine But Browne and Shelley held that the husband was an assignee in law and that the land was subiect to the cōdition into whose hands soeuer it did come m 28. H. 8. 6. Dy. But lately in Ridgeleys case the condition was extēded by equity for the safegard of the party The case was thus A man was bound to another in a c. l. that he shold discharge the obligee saue him harmeles of all suits incumbrances against I. S. and after the said I. S. sued the obligee proceeded vnto iudgement wherefore the obligee brought an action of det vpon the obligation and the defendant pleaded non damnificatus est And Beamond Sergeant did maintayne the plea in his argument because that hee was not damnified in the eye of law vntill the goodes or the lande or the person of the plaintife were actually charged For before that time he was onely chargeable but not charged Sergeant Harris argued to the cōtrarie for he said that he was chargeable to the execution of the partie so not saued harmelesse two sorts of damages were held by Iustice Walmesley the one executorie the other executed executorie which a man may in future time sustayne Executed as if the land or the person shoulde bee in present execution And if the disseisee make a release to the disseisor and a straunger cancelleth the deede of release the disseisor may haue an action of trespasse against him and yet the disseisor doth continue possession and is not as yet actually damnified And Iustices saide that the land of the party was in some sort charged for none in such case would buy the land of the partie but onely vnder the value because of the iudgement executorie n 33. Eliz. Ridgeleys c. But wee haue a rule in our law that when a condition is to bee performed to a straunger it is to bee performed most strictly and if the condition bee performed at an other place this is not sufficient o 36. H. 6. 8. And 21. H. 6. it is said that if a man be bound that he or his feoffees of the mannor of W. shal graunt to the obligee 20. s. rent for tearme of life and he hath three feoffees two of the feoffees cannot graunt this rent p 21. H. 6. 19. But 7. E. 4. it was affirmed in the kings bench that if a man were bound to make one a sure sufficient and lawfull estate in certaine land by the aduise of I. S. if he make an estate according to the aduise of I. S. be it it sufficient or not or lawfull or not he is excused of his bond and a like matter was in the common place the same terme and they were of the same opinion q 7. E. 4. 13. Nomomath I wold gladly be satisfied in this when a man maketh one his heire or executor 7 Diuision and if hee refuse to performe any thing that is comprised in his will then he willeth that I. S. shall bee his heire or executor and shall performe his will and shal seise his goods and enter into his lands post haereditatē aditam though the heyre or executor haue intermedled with the will and haue performed some thinges according to the intent of it Now if the Testatour die and the heire or executor haue perfourmed some thinges of the will but refuseth to perfourme other some and hath seised the goodes and entered into the landes of the partie deceased Whether may I. S. enter vpon him for the condition broken and defeat his whole interest in the landes or goodes or shall he still reteine part of the landes and goodes because he hath perfourmed part of the will Codicgn I. S. or the substitute of the Testatour 1. There may be a substitution of one heire after an other or of one executor after an other at the Ciuill Law is now by the will and breach of the the condition become directly the heire or executor to the Testatour And all the authoritie or interest of the fomer heire or executor is vtterlie determined frustrated and defeated r Insti de vulga substi §. quo casu 2 The heire at the ciuill Law must succedere in vniuersum ius defuncti for the authoritie or interest of the heire or executor by our Law may not be apporcioned but he must succedere in vniuersum ius defuncti ſ ff de verb. signif l. nihil aliud est haereditas et l. bonor eo tit And there is an other substitution in our Law which we call a reciprocall substitution and it is thus The Testatour saith I doe make S. and T. my sonnes within age my heires and
by the Canon Law 3. The common Law agreeth with them 7. Diuision 1 Two sortes of Accomptants by the Ciuill Law 2. Likewise by the Canon Law 3. And also by the common Law The diuisions and principall contents of the fifth Dialogue of Wast done in a mans ground 1. Diuision 1. OF what thinges Wast may be committed by the Ciuill Law 2. Cutting of Wood in Sylua caedua by the ciuill Law is no Wast 3. The common Law agreeth with the ciuill that Wast may be in the decaie of an house 4. A speciall couenant will binde the partie to repaire houses and walles battered downe by violence vnresistable by the common Law 5. The tenant by the common Law may cut Trees for the reparation of houses 6. The common Law agreeth with the Ciuill in the cutting of silua caedua 7. The common Law agreeth with the Ciuill in tollerating the lopping of Trees which may be auaileable for their groweth 2. Diuision 1 That both by the Ciuill and common Law where land is empeired by the inundation of water this is wast 3. Diuision 1 That by the common Law he that commeth to land by an other mans graunt ought to vse it according to the graunt 2. The digging for coale or claie in the land demised is Wast by the common Law 3. The suffering of the ground to become rushie or weedie by the common Law is Wast 4. That the Ciuill Law agreeth with the common Law in suffering one to amend conduit-pypes in an other mans ground 3. Diuision 1 The punishment of Wast by the Ciuill Law 2. The punishment of Wast by the common law The diuisions and principall contents of the sixth Dialogue of Parceners 1. Diuision 1. TWo sortes of Parceners Parceners by the common Law and Parceners by Custome 2. Who be Parceners by the common Law 3. Who be Parceners by the Custome 4. That by the ciuill Law where 3. heires are instituted they are not reputed as one heire 5. That by the common Law Parceners are reputed as one heire as to the discent of the land 6. Parceners in regard of the particion are accepted as seuerall persons 2. Diuision 1 The Statute of 31. H. 8. giueth a writ de Partitione facienda as well to Iointenants and Tenants in common as to parceners 2. The three seuerall actions against Parceners Iointenants and Tenants in common by the Ciuill Law 3. Diuision 1 Diuerse kindes of Particion at the common Law First A particion to haue a third part or a 4. part 2. A particion by way of release 3. Particion by the graunt of a thing de nouo 4. Particion by way of reseruation 5. Particion by taking the third part or the fourth part of the profites 6. A difference in the Ciuill Law where a thing that hath partes cohaerentes is diuided and where a thing that hath partes distantes The diuisions and principall contents of the seauenth Dialogue of Conditions 1. Diuision 1. SI doth not alwaie signifie a condition in the Ciuill Law 2. Sometime it signifieth an vncertaine cause 3. Sometime it signifieth a certaine cause 4. Sometime an vncertaine euent 5. Sometime a condition 6. Si doth signifieth an vncertaine cause at the common Law 7. Si signifieth a certain cause at the common Law 8. Likewise an vncertaine euent by the common Law 9. Likewise a condition 2. Diuision 1 The word Nisi or vnlesse doth sometimes signifie a condition at the Ciuill Law 2. How a modification or limitation of a graunt is made 3. A difference betwixt a limitation and a condition at the common Law 4. The common Law is more ample and large-handed then the Ciuill Law in matters of limitation 3. Diuision 1 Rursus or the word againe signifieth once againe by the Ciuill Law 2. How farre forth a word of restraint is to be extended by the common Law 4. Diuision 1 An agreement by word may defeat a matter in writing by the ciuill Law 2. The common Law is quite contrarie to the aforesaid assertion of the uill Law 5. Diuision 1 Three sortes of impossibilities at the Ciuill Law 2. What impossibilitas iuris is at the Ciuill Law 3. What impossibilitas facti is at the Ciuill Law 4. Impossibilitas naturae by the Ciuill Law 5. Which be conditions against Law by the censure of the Canon Law 6. What conditions impossible in fact are at the common Law 6. Diuision 1 Conditions by the ciuill law are taken according to equitie 2. The common lawe taketh conditions many times strictly 7. Diuision 7 There may bee a substitution conditionall of one heire after another or one executor after an other at the ciuill law 2. The heire at the ciuill law must succedere in vniuersum ius defuncti 3. By will according to the common law an entre may be limited to a straunger 4. The aduantage of entry limited to a stranger is in the late reports doubted of 5. That the entry for the condition broken defeateth the whole estate Errata Faultes Page Corrections  nations fol. 2. a. matrons There want these words fol. 4. a. There bee two sorts of tithes ecclesiasticall and feudall stande fol. 6. b. sue There want these wordes fol. 10. a. or Darius linea 22. Tertorike 17. b. Teutonike  harde 38. a. pore fate 59. b. foote puerpercie 60. a. puerperie lande 69. b. Lord. FINIS THE PANDECTES OF the law of Nations CONTAYNING seuerall discourses of the questions points and matters of Law wherein the Nations of the world doe consent and accord Giuing great light to the vnderstanding and opening of the principall obiects questions rules and cases of the Ciuill Law and Common law of this Realme of England Compiled by WILLIAM FVLBECKE Opinionum commenta delet dies Nationum iudicia confirmat LONDON Imprinted by Thomas Wight 1602. To the curteous Reader CVrteous Reader when Sulpitius returning out of Asâ—a sailed from Aegina to Megara he began to cast his eye and bend his contemplation to the regions round about him behind him was Aegina before him Megara on the right hand Piraeus on the left hand Corinth which had bene in ancient time verie flourishing Cities but were now ruinated prostrated and buried in dust that wise Romane whose eye did alwaies ayme at some conuenient marke and whose mind made perfect vse of her selected obiect when he saw these carkasses of townes considered his owne estate which was far more brittle I likewise wandring in my thoughts through the paradise of learning amongst many delightfull apparitions espied foure excellent lawes the first was the canon-law to which for the grauity I bowed the second the Ciuil which for the wisedom I admired the third the Common law to which I did my homage the fourth the law of Nations which I submissiuely reuerenced yet the hew and state of her seemed to bee much chaunged and the iniquitie of crabbed times had set the print of her metamorphosis vppon her Her other three sisters did condole with her
not vsuall in law which now we handle must likewise be cassierd Yet in speaking of time we may not forget to handle the circumstances of time as they be accommodated to the Law and to the actions of men As namely of a long time a short time a late time an auncient time a certaine time an vncertaine time a continuall time a conuenient time time past time present and time future But first to speake of the yeare Annus according to the Etymologie learnedly searched out by Varro is nothing els but a circuit for as the little circles are called annuli ringes so the great circles or compasses of time are called Anni yeares f Var. lib. 5. de lingu lat The yeare is a time wherein the Sunne perfitteth his course and that is accomplished in the space of three hundred three scoore and fiue dayes and sixe howres almost And this hath our Law well obserued as may appeare by these verses Ter centum ter viginti cum quinque diebus Sex horas neque plus integer annus habet g 18. Elizab. 345. Dyer by which accompt if you subtract the howers and halfe dayes the quarter of the yeare will fall out as it is in our Law set downe to be nintie and one dayes and the halfe yeare a hundred eightie and two dayes h Ibidem which was almost fully signified by Ianus his image in Rome in whose right hand was the number of three hundred and in his left hand fiftie and fiue i Macrob. lib. 1. Stur ca. 9. Others haue made the same difference betwixt the yeare and moneth which the Merchants of some Countries make betwixt the ounce and the pound deliuering their conceit in this verse Vnciaque in libra pars est quae mensis in anno And though it be a common receiued opinion that the Romanes at the first and a long time after the foundation of their Citie did accompt but tenne monethes for the yeare so that Ouid quarrelleth with Romulus his Astronomy in this maner k Ouid. lib. 1. fastor Scilicet arma magis quà m sydera Romule noras Yet if the course circumduction of their yeare be well obserued it will appeare to haue conteined the full space of twelue monethes as may appeare by Plinie l Plin. lib. 2. ca. 9. Macrobius m Macrob. 1. Satur. ca. 12. et lib. 1. in som Scip. c. 6. and Plutarch n Plut. in Num. And this was likewise the yeare of other Nations The Romanes did begin their vulgar yeare at the beginning of Winter as appeareth by Ouid Bruma noui prima est veterisquè nouissima solis Which course seemeth to bee agreeable to the course of nature because then the sunne beginneth to returne vnto vs and therefore wee may rightly deriue the beginning of his circuite from thence The yeare is diuided into the Spring Summer Haruest Winter The Romaines did accompt the spring that space of time which was betwixt the Calends of March the Calends of May o Liuy lib. 34. but the most common currant entrance of the spring in the reputation of all the nations of the world was when the plants or herbage of the earth began to waxe greene and therefore it is rightly tearmed ver a virendo as sommer is called aestas ab aestu and then is said to begin when heate beginneth p Tacit. de mor. Germ. The name of Autumne nor the thing it selfe as Tacitus reporteh was not knowne to the Germaines in his time and diuers countries haue made diuers limitations of the spring and therefore if it bee agreed betwixt Titius and Seius that the beasts of Titius shal pasture in the groūds of Seius all the spring time the time shall be limited according to the dimension of the spring-tide in that countrey where the bargaine was made and so it may be said of the other times and seasons of the yeare and if the occupation of a mans ground be granted to Titius Seius Caius and Sempronius so that Titius shall haue the occupation of the land in the spring time Seius in sommer Caius in winter Sempronius in haruest if the interest of any of the same come in question the Iudge had need be well aduised of the certaintie and the peculiar difference of these times according to the customarie obseruation of the countrey in which the grant was made that he may suū cuique tribuere and giue no erroneous iudgement Some make a bipartite diuision of the yeare into winter and sommer without mentioning the spring and haruest defining the sommer to begin at the Equinoctiall of the spring and to end at the Equinoctiall of haruest q Vlp. in l. 1. § aestat de ag co et aest so that sommer and winter are diuided by sixe monethes then I put case that land is demised to one to haue and to hold during the space of the whole sommer whether may the lessee put in his beastes in the spring time and it seemeth that the spring is to be excluded notwithstanding the diuision aforesaid for the sommer being named aestus ab aestu the spring can haue no part in the sommer for the spring is meane betwixt heat and colde and therefore the said diuision seemeth to bee vnproper for proprie non dicitur quod non dicitur secundùm quod sonat r Baldus in l. vlt. c. de haer instit and in Swetia other nations lying vnder the Northerne Poale this diuision can take no place but if a man deuise the dwelling of his house euerie sommer to Sempronius there it may seeme that the spring shal not bee omitted because our dwelling is diuided into the sommer winter dwelling but if a man deuise his ground with all his sommer instrumēts of husbandrie it seemeth that the spring is in this case to be excluded because there be other instruments of husbandrie vsed in the sommer time thē such as be vsed in the spring winter or haruest But the imperiall lawes doe extend sommer from the Calendes of April to the Calendes of October the residue of the yeare they allot to winter and this diuision I will not denie to be grounded vpon good reason if we respect the yeare in generall not in particular for in the spring time the Sunne mounting to the toppe of one of the lines of the Equinoctial circle he commeth by degrees nearer vnto vs and so maketh summer but in haruest he transcēdeth the other line of the Aequator and so being farre remoued from vs causeth winter and therefore not amisse by the cause of heat and cold are the times of heate and cold distinguished The moneth had his name of the Moone which in the Greeke tongue is called Mene and the reason of the name is because the moneth is measured by the circumuolution of the Moone as Plato ſ Plat. in Cratil Varro Cicero and others haue expounded it Some doe assigne to the
t Varro lib. 5. de lingua Lat. Cicer. lib. 2. de natur de or moneth twentie seauen dayes and eight howers others twentie nine dayes and twelue howers they doe measure by the motion of the Moone from poynt to poynt in the Circle that is when it is reuolued from one point to the same point These do set downe for the moneth that course of the Moone in which it doth tend reciprocally to the Sunne from which it newly digressed The Athenians did obserue the later order of the moneth froÌ„ whom though the Romanes did in circumstance agree yet in substance they accorded for their twelue monethes did not exceed that number of daies which doth coÌ„sist of the twelue lunarie monethes so that it is apparant that both these nations as all other follow the Moone in this businesse and for the more perfit obseruation of this course Sosigenes the Aegiptian perswaded and moued Caesar somewhat to alter the monethes and by consequence the yeare u Plut. in vit Caesar neither is this abhorrent from commen vse for let the case be that A. promiseth to B. that hee will for some consideration pay vnto B. the next moneth 20. li. and the assumpsit is made the eyght day of March whether may A. haue the space of the whole moneth of Aprill to pay the money in or hee must needes paye it before the eight day of Aprill next ensuing accompting the moneth from the eight daye of March Surely by commoÌ„ intendement he hath the whole moneth of Aprill to pay it in for the common people making more accompt of the Calender then of the Calendes doe set downe for a moneth as they find in the calender not as curious wits may measure by the calendes or by like proportion x L. 4. § Sti. si haered de statut Et stat August lib. 1. emend c. 2. The name of day in Latine dies Varro deriueth a deo or dio both which tend to one purpose In this discourse my endeuour is rather to open the natures then the names of things The day is thus defined by Plato in his booke De definitionibus if that booke be his Dies est ab ortibus ad occasus so that how many risings settings there are of the Sunne so many dayes he maketh Aristotle more exquisitly Dies est motus Solis supra nostrum horizontem a Aristotle Topic. 5. Two kinds of daies are most in vse the ciuill day and the naturall day the ciuill day it is therefore tearmed because diuers cities and countries made great diuersities of daies to which they did allot seuerall compasse of time The Romains did deduce the day from midnight to midnight u Plinie lib. 2. c. 77. next following placing the day as it were betwixt two nightes as in the beginning of the world night was before the day and night followed it but the day of the Vmbrians was from midday to midday of the Athenians from Sun sett to Sunne-set of the Babilonians from the ryse of Sunne to Sunne rysing the naturall day is that which consisteth of 24. howers being the space wherein the Sunne is rowled about by the motion of the whole bodie of the heauen from a certaine poynt to the same point The Astronomers make the beginning of this day at noone day or midday as the Vmbrians because to all inhabitants of nations continuing still in their regions the sun commeth alwayes at that time to their Meridian and to that circle which is caried through the toppes and poales of the heauen and euery region hath his meridian of one sort though they haue diuers meridians in number in particular but the rising falling of the sunne is not in any region alway of one sort because the points are chaunged and we see the sun diuersly to rise fall so that the Vmbrians may seeme in this to haue done rightly the Athenians and Babilonians not rightly the Romaines most rightely who haue not as the other nations contrary to the order of nature placed the night in the middest of the day but haue made the night as the two extremes of the day therefore haue placed part of the night in the beginning of the day and part in the end of which consideration our law may seeme to haue takeÌ„ regard in that the forepart of the night it assigneth to the day going before the later part to the day following which may euidently appeare by the inditements of burglary b Crompt I. P. tit indictamenta in sin lib. fol. 224. but the reason of the Romane constitution is learnedly deliuered by Plutarche c Plut. in quaest Roman qu. 83. at midnight saith he when the day of the Romains doth begin the sunne is in that region in the lowest point of the heauen from which it beginneth to tende and to returne to vs and to ascend to our Hemispheare wherefore rightly doth the day beginne then when the sunne that is the cause of the day doth moue toward vs therefore this constitution of the Romanes must needs seeme more probable then that of the Vmbrians because the beginning of a thing is rather to bee referred to that time when the thing groweth to existence then when it declineth and beginneth to leaue his existence so that the opinion seemeth to be good 11. Elizab. in my Lord Dyer his reports that whereas the case was that a lease was made to one of land the eight day of May to haue to hold for twentie one yeares thence next after ensuing the lessee entred the eight day and his entrie seemed lawfull and that he did not enter as a disseisor for by the word thence the first instance of the day in which the demise was made is to be intended and not the next day ensuing the date d 11. Eliz. 2â—6 Dyer so that I cannot see vpon what reason in the accompting of the sixe monethes according to the statute of 27. H. 8. of enrolments the day of the date of the deede of bargaine sale shall not be accompted for any e 5. Eliz. 2â—â— Dyer but the vulgar and common sort of men of all countries doe accompt the day from light to darkenesse which order the Canonistes do obserue f Comment ad l. Titius § Luci. de lib. post the night as Plato defineth it g Plat. in lib. de definit according to common admittance is nothing els but darkenesse Euentide is immediately after Sunset twilight is a doubtful time equally consisting of light and darknesse which is alwaies after euentide For as betwixt knowledge and ignorance there bee two meanes namely doubting and opinion so betwixt day night there is euentide twilight IgnoraÌ„ce is like to night doubting like to twilight opinioÌ„ is like to euentide because as opinion knoweth after a sort but knoweth not truely surely because it is not grounded vpon certain reason so euentide is after a
lands and tenementes and so it is of an attainder by confession i Parkins Graunts 6. But M. Stamford being better aduised saith that as soone as any of the offences aforesaid are committed hee is restrained to make a gift or any other alienation of his lande and if he doe it shall presently bee made void by his attainder and it is not materiall whether the attainder be by outlawrie or verdict and this is agreeable to the booke of 38. E. 3. fol. 37. k Stamford fol. lib. 3. 31. â— but he saith that the forfeiture of the goods by attainder by outlawrie shall haue relation to the exigent and forfeiture by attainder by verdict shall haue relation to the verdict l Stamford 192. The third Chapter That the worthinesse of blood hath beene principally respected of all nations THe diuision of inheritances in stirpes in capita hath made great diuision in diuerse common weales yet in all of them the worthinesse of bloud hath beene regarded By the Romane law the sonne of the elder sonne who is dead shall equally succeede in the inheritance with the second sonne And whereas in Germanie there was a contention betwixt the vncles and nephewes of the right of inheritances and for the deciding of it the Emperour Otto the first did cause a Parliament or generall assemblie of estates to be held for the disceptation and deciding of this doubt When after much busines and argument no determination could be had the matter was ordeined to be tried by single combate an vsuall thing in these daies for it was about the yeare of the incarnation of our Sauiour nine hundred fortie and two a Witichindus lib. 2. histor 2. Sigebert in chronic Ottonis 1. and a formall triall referred to God when mans wit was at a nonplus But in this case that part ouercame which did accompt the sonnes of elder sonnes as sonnes and therefore it was ratified by Law that they should equally diuide the inheritance with their vncles Amongest other nations diuers contentions haue risen about this matter for when Eunomus the King of the Lacedemonians had two sonnes Polydectes the elder and Lycurgus the yonger and Polydectes deceased leauing no sonne lyuing at the time of his death and therefore Eunomus being dead the septer of that kingdome came to the handes of Lycurgus afterward when Polydectes his widow had brought forth a sonne Lycurgus did willingly and readilie yeeld to him the septer b Plut. in vit Lycurg Iustin lib. hist 3. Which act of Lycurgus agreeth fully with our Law whereby it is ruled that if a man haue a sonne and a daughter and the sonne purchaseth land and dyeth and the daughter entreth and after the father begetteth an other sonne of the same wife this sonne shall haue the land c 19. H. 6. 6. So if a man enfeoffe an other vpon condition and the condition is broken and the feoffor dyeth without issue his wife priuement enseint and the brother of the feoffor entreth for the condition broken and after a sonne is borne he shall auoide the possession of his vncle may lawfully claime the inheritance d 9. H. 7. 25. And it is likewise said that after two or more discents the heire afterward borne claiming by discent may enter into the land but he shall not haue a writ of Accompt for the mesne profites nor any writ of Wast e 9. H. 6. 23. But in cases of purchase the Law taketh a difference and therfore it is said 5. E. 4. by Billing that if a man deuise land to a man and his heire and the deuisee dieth hauing issue a daughter his wife being priuement enseint with a sonne who is afterward borne the daughter shal reteine the land in perpetuum which the Court graunted f 5. E. 4. 6. And 9. H. 6. it is said that if a remainder cannot veste in any at the time when it falleth it shall not veste in him that is borne afterward where an other hath entred before g 9. H. 6. 23. 2. Eliz. 190. pla 18. But to retourne to the examination of this matter by historie Pausanias reporteth that Cleomenes the king of the Lacedaemonians being dead a controuersie sprung betwixt Areus the sonne of Acoratus the eldest sonne of Cleomenes who died before his father and Cleonymus the second sonne the vncle of Areus but by Senate-decree the kingdome was adiudged to Areus h Pausan lib. 3. And Polydore Virgill reporteth that king Edward the third being deceased Richard the second the sonne of his eldest sonne obteined the kingdome and was preferred before Iohn Edmund and Thomas the sonnes of king Edward i Polyd. virg in hist reg Angl. Paulus Aemilius an excellent writer of the matters of Fraunce likewise telleth that when Hanno had inuaded the kingdome and expulsed Erkenbalde the sonne of his elder brother this matter was brought into question in the ende Hanno was constrayned to laie aside armes and to stande to the iudgement of the Peeres who adiudged that Erkenbalde should haue the same power and interest in the kingdome which his father might haue had if he had suruiued k Paul Aemil. in tit Carol. Crass Neither will I denie that examples may be produced on the contrarie part as namelie the contention betwixt Artemenes and Xerxes for the kingdome of Persia for it is deliuered by Herodotus l Herodot lib. 7. Iustin m Iustinus lib. 11. Plutarch n Plut. in Artaxerx that a controuersie beeing raysed in the kingdome of Persia betwixt Artabazanes as Herodotus Artemenes as Iustinus calleth him and Xerxes the sonnes of Darius Hystaspes about the succession in the Monarchie of Persia Demaratus was at the same time there who was driuen and expulsed out of the kingdome of Sparta and he signified vnto them that the Law and custome of the Spartanes was that the sonne that was borne after the father had attained to the kingdome was to be preferred before the elder brother who was borne before for which cause the kingdome was adiudged to Xerxes the yonger sonne who was borne of Darius being king whereas the other was begotten of him being a priuate man But this iudgement was after reuersed For when after the death of Darius the same controuersie was handled betwixt Arsica begotten of Darius being a priuate man and Cyrus being borne of him after his aduauncement to the kingdome and Parysatis the mother did in the behalf of Cyrus vrge and reuiue the controuersie betwixt Xerxes and his brother the Persians notwithstanding the former iudgement did now adiudge the kingdome to Arsica o Plut. in vit Artaxerx Neither am I moued though in the contention for the Dukedome of Millayne betwixt Lodwike and Galeatius bretheren whereof the one was borne before his father obteined the Dukedome the other after the contrarie were determined for Law p Guicciard lib. 1. histor For by the most examples of euery
common weale and by the continuall practise of nations most ciuill which onely course I obserue in this discourse the right of Primogeniture or elder-brothership is fenced supported and defended against this last decree of the Millanasses and that first of the Persians For Herod the king of the Iewes did preferre in the succession of his kingdome Antipater who was borne before he was king before Alexander and Aristobulus begotten after he was king q Ioseph lib. antiquit 16. And many yeares after in Hungarie Bela their king being dead Geysa being borne when he was a priuate man was inuested with the Crowne r Fl. Blondus Decad. 2. lib. 6. Micha Ritius lib. de regi Hungar. 2. and before that Otto the first could be setled in the Empire of Rome his brother Henry made a quarrell to it because he was borne when his father was Emperor But the matter discending to armes and battaile victorie did adiudge the Empire to Otto ſ Sigebert in Chron. Wherefore two or more contrarie examples are not in this case to be regarded As that of Genzericus the king of the Vandales who made his testament in this forme or rather this Law in forme of his testament Si Rex moritur qui ei genere proximus et natu maximus erit regni haeres esto for Procopius noteth his great age when he made this Law and it may be that others will note him for his dotage if he did amisse for his discretion if he did it to preuent a daunger t Procop. lib. de bel Vandal 3. So when Charles the king of Sicely died he had two sonnes Charles Martell and Robert Martellus died liuing his father but leauing a sonne whereupon the Lawyers had plentiful matter of disputation offered vnto them whether the sonnes sonne should be preferred before the vncle in the possession of his graundfather but by the Popes meanes Robert obteyned the kingdome But the Emperour Fredericke reuersed this sentence and the Pope cancelled his rescriptr. But D. Bartolus giueth this reason of the Popes doinges because the kingdome of Sicilia was one of the fees of the Church of Rome so that it did not belong to Robert by any lawfull succession but by the graunt and inuestiture of the Lord of the fee x Barto in Arth. post fratr C. de legit haered Neither is it materiall that the Nomades Barbarians did preferre the yonger bretherne before the children of the elder bretherne as Strabo reporteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Strabo lib. 16. yet I will graunt that in the succession of regall dignities the worthines of bloud is lesse to bee respected then in the succession of common inheritances because in that case the commoditie of the subiectes and the abilitie of them that are to succeede is politikelie to bee respected And therefore diuers Ciuilians doe with vnited consent pronounce that the good estate of the kingdome and subiectes the profite peace and safetie of the same is more to be heeded quà m sanguinis series the course of bloud b Luc. de Pen. in 5. nepot C. qui num lib. 10. et in l. 1. C. de lyro lib. 12. Bald. in c. 1. de feud March And Roboam preferred Abias his yonger sonne before his elder bretherne in the succession of his kingdome c 2 paralip 11 And Salomon the yonger brother d 2. Reg. 1. was preferred before his elder bretherne But this must be done warilie and by the warrant of a good conscience otherwise it can neyther please God nor profite man least a king doe by his choise preiudice his subiectes as Micipsa did by the adoption of Iugurtha e Salust in bel Iugurth But the reasons are manie and forceable wherefore the worthines of bloude shall in the course and conueiance of inheritances bee principally respected First Ius quod personae inest per modum substantiae est ab ea inseparabile et in nullo alio subiecto potest verificari f Arg. l. for did C. de excus mun lib. 10. But ius primogeniturae is in the eldest sonne or in his issue per modum substantiae therefore it is inseparable from him and cannot extende to any other Secondly the aucthoritie of Vlpian prooueth it affirming that hee is a patritian who is borne before his father was made a Senator as well as he who is borne after that hee is possessed of the Senatorie calling g l. Senator S. D. de Senat. Thirdly it is apparant by manie places in the feudall Law that sonnes and nephewes may succeede in the fees and inheritances of Dukes Marquesses and Earles and so it is of the inferiour and vulgar sort of men And it is well said of D. Hotoman Ius sanguinis quod in legitimis successionibus spectatur ipso natiuitatis tempore quaesitum est Fourthly it should bee against all Lawes proximitatis graduum that they which are in a more remote degree the worthines of consanguinitie should be preferred before them that are in a neerer degree Fifthly because Primogenitura is an inseparable incident to the eldest sonne and whatsoeuer is claymed by this must bee claymed by the person of the eldest sonne and none can succeede in the place of the first begotten as first begotten because there cannot be two first begotten But no Law more respecteth the worthines of bloud then the common Law which preferreth the brother before the sister in case of discent the elder brother before the yonger whereas the middle brother purchaseth land the sister before the vncle and the vncle before the cosin h Littlet tit Fee simple and all these particular prerogatiues of kinred Mast. Littleton windeth vp as it were in one clew when he saith that when a man purchaseth land in fee simple and dieth without issue euery one that is his next cosin collaterall for default of issue may inherite and therefore it was well and wisely agreed by the Iustices decimo quinto Elizab. in Cleeres case that in a collaterall discent from any which purchaseth landes and tenements and dyeth without issue the heires of the part of the father and which are of the bloud of the auncestors males in the lineall ascension by the father in the same degree as the brother of the graundfather of the fathers side and his issues be they male or female shall be preferred before the brother of the graundmother of the father side and his issues And so the brother of the great graundfather of the fathers side namely the brother of the father of the father of the father of the purchasour and his issues bee they male or female shall bee preferred before the mother of the great grandmother namely the brother of the mother of the father of the father of the purchasor and his issues For the female sexe is more base then the male in lawe And it was likewise agreede that if the purchasor dyed without issue and hath not any heire of the