1 Rolls Abr. p. 425. Q. 1. A Condition to perform Covenants in a Lease one was That he should enjoy such Lands let to him quietly without interruption and the Plaintiff in his Replication sheweth in facto that the Defendant the 20th of March 30 Eliz. had disturbed him and in that assigned the Breach the Defendant by Rejoynder sheweth that in the Indenture there was a Proviso that if he paid 10 l. the 31 of March 30 Eliz. that the Indenture and all therein contained should be void and alledged he paid 10 l. at the day but this was after the disturbance supposed and the Plaintiff demurs Judgment pro Quer. for by the Covenant broken before the Condition performed the Obligation was forfeited and it s not material that the Covenants became void before the Action brought but by Wray if the Proviso had been that upon the payment of the 10 l. as well the Obligation as the Indenture should be void â—lâ— for then the Bond was void before the Action brought so where a Parson made a Lease for years in which were divers Covenants and after he became non resident by which the Indenture became void yet he may maintain an Action of Covenant for a Covenant broken before his non Residency Cro. Eliz. p. 244. Hill and Pilkington Dyer 57. Bylones Case The Condition was If the Obligee his Heirs and Assigns shall and may lawfully hold and enjoy a Mesuage c. without the let c. of the Obligor or his Heirs or of every other Person discharged or upon reasonable request saved harmless by the said Obligor from all former Gifts c. the Defendant pleads no request was made to save him harmless Judgment pro Quer. because the Defendant hath not answered to all the the Conditions viz. to enjoying of the Land and there were two Conditions viz. the enjoying and saving harmless Moor n. 756. Creswell and Holmes Debt to perform Covenants in a Lease one was for quiet enjoyment against all claiming Title the Plaintiff assigns for Breach that a Stranger entred but saith not habens titulum Hales habens titulum at that time would have done Dyers Case is another entred claiming an Interest but that is not enough for he may claim under the Lessee himself If the Covenant had been to save him harmless against all lawful and unlawful Titles yet it must appear that he that entred did not claim under the Lessee himself Mod. Rep. 101. 3 Keble 246. Norman and Foster Hob. 34. Tisdale and Essex Moor 861. The Condition was if neither J. S. nor J. B. nor J. G. did not disturb the Plaintiff in his possession of such Lands by indirect means but by due course of Law The Defendant pleads that neither J. S. nor J. B. nor J. G. did disturb the Plaintiff by any indirect means but by due course of Law Q. if Plea good 2 Leon. 197. Dighton and Clark K. was seized and leased for years to J. H. Husband of Isabel and J. H. being so possessed by his Will devised that the said Isabel should have the use and occupation of the said Lands for all the years of the said Term as she should live and remain sole and if she died or married that then his Son should have the residue of the said Term not expired J. H. died Isabel entred to whom the said Kidwilly conveyed by Feoffment the said Lands in Fee and covenanted that the said Lands from thence should be clearly exonerated de omnibus prioribus barganiis titulis juribus omnibus aliis oneribus quibuscunque Isabel married and the Son entred Per Cur. this possibility which was in the Son at the time of the Feoffment though it was not actual yet the Land was not discharged of all former Rights Titles and Charges by the Marriage of the said Isabel it s become an actual Charge and the Term is not extinct by the acceptance of the Feoffment 1 Leon. p. 92. n. 120. Hamington and Rydear I am bound in a Statute and afterwards sell my Land with Covenant prout supra here the Land is not charged but if the Condition in the Defeasance be broken so as the Conusee extends now the Covenant is broken 1 Leon. p. 93. ibid. On Covenant to enjoy absque legali molestatione of the Defendant the Defendant pleads performance the Plaintiff replies by entry of the Defendant Lessor which is intended tortious and and so no breach for which cause the Defendant demurs Per Moreton Entry and lawful Entry are all one as to the Lessor and Rainsford conceived a general Entry no Breach the general Covenant being restrained by special Covenant against any lawful let 2 Keb. 717. Lee and Dalfton Debt on Bond to perform Covenants one of which was That the Plaintiff should not be interrupted in his possession of certain Lands by any Person that had lawful Title and particularly that he should not be interrupted by one Thomas Antony by vertue of any such Title the Defendant pleads performance the Plaintiff replies 1 No. 20 Car. The Defendant made the Lease to the Plaintiff and 3 No. he entred and that 17 Aug. 20 Car. before the Defendant made a Lease to Antony for years yet to come who 20 Aug. 20 Car. entred the Defendant pleads the Lease to Antony was on Condition of re-entry for non-payment of Rent and that before the Lease made to the Plaintiff the Rent was behind legitâ— demandat secundum formam Indenturae and he re-entred and made the Lease to the Plaintiff upon general Demurrer per Cur. the Demand was not sufficiently alledged for he ought to set forth when and where it was made that the Court might know if it were legal but for a â—w in the Plaintiffs Replication because he alledged his Entry after the Lease made to Antony so that it appears not he was interrupted by him the Opinion of the Court was against the Plaintiff Allen p 19. Colman and Painter Debt on Bond conditioned that if the Obligee his Executors and Assigns from the time of the Obligation may enjoy such Land c. The Defendant pleads that post obligationem until the day of the Bill the Plaintiff had enjoyed that Land Plaintiff demurs 1. Because the Defendant doth not say a die confectionis scripti obligatorii semper post non allocatur a Bar is good to common intent and it shall be taken he always enjoyed it unless the contrary be shewn which must come on the Plaintiffs part 2. Because he does not plead the Plaintiff and his Assigns enjoyed it non allocatur for it shall not be intended the Plaintiff made an Assignment unless he himself had shewn it Judgment pro Def. but it was moved to have the Plaintiff discontinue his Suit for otherwise he should be barred of his Debt whereas he had good cause of Action and the Court adjourned it till next Term that in the interim he might discontinue Cro. Car. 195. Harlow and Wright The Plaintiff
good against the Heir tho the Executors have Assets he may have his Election 1 Anderson p. 7. Sir Ed. Capels Case Debt lies against the Heir of an Heir upon Obligation of the Ancestor to the 10th degree Noy 56. Dennyes Case The Obligee shall have a joint Action against all the Sons in Gavel-kind 11 H. 7.12 b. Debt against three Heirs in Gavel-kind the Defendant pleads C. one of the Heirs is within Age. The Heir of an Heir shall be chargable with an Obligation simul cum the immediate Heir and such Heir shall have his Age Moor n. 194. Hawtree and Auger 1 Anderson p. 10. n. 22. id Case If a Man bind himself and his Heirs in an Obligation and leaves Land at Common Law and Gavel-kind the Creditors must sue all the Heirs and if there be Land on the part of the Father and on the part of the Mother and both have Land by descent he shall have several Actions and Execution shall cease till he may take it against both so that the Construction of Law is stricter where the Heir is charged with Warranty real than when he is charged with a Chattel Hob. p. 25. Riens per descent pleaded and what shall be Assets J. S. by Will deviseth his Land to his Heir at 24. and if he die without Heir of his Body before 24. the Remainder over he attains 24. a Fee-simple descends for no Tail shall arise before his said Age which Tail shall never take effect 2 Leon. p. 11. Hind and Sir John Lion id Case 3 Leon. p. 70. The Father bound in Obligation and deviseth his Lands to his Wife till his Son comes to 21 years of Age the remainder to his Son in Fee and dies the Son shall be adjudged in by descent 2 Leon. 123. fol. 101. Bashpooles Case 3 Leon. p. 118. The Ancestor was seised in Fee and by his Will deviseth them to the Defendant being his Son and Heir and to his Heirs on Condition to pay his Debts within a year and if he failed his Executors shall sell he entred and paid no Debts the Executors after entred and sold It s not Assets in Heirs hands for though the Heir hath a Fee yet he hath it as a Purchaser being clogg'd with such a Condition Cro. M. 5 Car. p. 161. Gilpins Case Two things requisite to bind an Heir 1. Lien express 2. Lands by descent In Debt against an Heir he is charged as Heir and the Writ is in the debet and detinet and it s not in auter droit but taken as his proper Debt from 18 Ed. 2. till 7 H. 4. If the Executor had Assets the Heir was not chargeable but now the Law is changed in that Point if the Heir sell the Land before the Writ purchased he is discharged of the Debt in regard he is not to wait the Action of the Obligee Trusts descending shall be Assets by the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries so Lands of special Occupancy vid. Stat. The Defendant pleads his Father was seized in Fee and covenanted with J.S. c. to stand seized to the use of himself for Life the Remainder to the Defendant in Tail c. the Father had caused a Deed to be engrossed and delivered the Deed to a Scrivener to the use of J. D. and M. so as J. D. would agree to it J.D. died never having notice of the Deed Per Cur. the Father never covenanted because the Agreement of J. D. was a Condition precedent to the essence of the Deed and so no Deed to raise the Uses contra the Defendant Moor n. 426. Degoâ— and Rowes Case id Case 1 Leon. 152. n. 211. The Heir pleads riens per descent special Verdict find the Father was scised in Fee and enfeoft J. S. of the Mannor of P. excepted and reserved to the Feoffor for life two Acres only the Lands in question and after limited all to the Feoffees to the use of the Defendant in Tail Per Cur. the Lands do descend to the Son the Exception being void 2 Keb. p. 667 â—19 Wilson and Armorer Upon riens per descent pleaded special Verdict find M. seised in Fee de Saliva Anglice a Salt-pan died and his Son entred and was seised and the Defendant entred as Heir per possession fratris this is Assets by descent and such Heir per possession ' is chargable to the Debt of the Ancestor 3 Keb. Tr. 28 Car. 2. f. 659. Clinch and Butler The Heir pleads riens per descent the Defendant had levied a Fine but because no Deed of Uses was produced at Trial the Use was to the Conusor and his Heirs and so the Heir in by descent Mod. Rep. p. 2. Riens per descent pleaded Feoffment pleaded at the Trial it appeared to be fraudulent it need not be pleaded but may well be given in Evidence 5 Rep. 60. Gooches Case Debt vers l'Heir he may plead in Bar a Release made by the Obligee to the Executors and though the Deed belongs to another yet he must shew it forth for both of them are privy to the Testator Co. Lit. 232. a. Upon riens per descent pleaded it was found he had Assets in the Cinque-ports Judgment was general against the Defendants and as to the Moleties of the Lands in the Cinque-Ports the Plaintiff 〈◊〉 have a Certiorari to remove the Records into Chancery and thence by Mittimus to send to the Constable to make Execution 1 Anderson n. 65. p. 28. Hicker and Harrison vers Tirrel 3 Leon. p. 3. The Heir pleads riens per descent the Plaintiff replies he sued a former Writ vers l'heir and the Defendant was outlawed which was reversed and he freshly brought this Writ by journeys accompts and avers he had Assets the day of the first Writ purchased Hob. p. 248. Spray and Sherrat Cro. Jac. 589. id Case cited Debt vers l'heir the Defendant pleads his Ancestor died Intestate and that one J. S. had administred and had given the Plaintiff a Bond in full satisfaction of the former upon Issue joined it was found pro Def. If the Obligor had given this Bond it had not discharged the former but being given by the Administrator so that the Plaintiffs security is bettered and the Administrator chargable de bonis propriis it s a good discharge Mod. Rep. 225. Blith and Hill He pleads riens per descent but 20 Acres in D. in Com. Warwic The Plaintiff replies more by descent in S. viz. so many Acres and found pro Def. and a discontinuance in the Record of the Plea from Term P. to Term M. assigned for Error and per Cur. its Error and not deins Stat. 18 Eliz. because the Judgment was not founded on the Verdict but upon the Confession of the Defendant of Assets Yelv. p. 169. Hill 7 Jac. B. R. Molineux Case The Heir pleads the Obligor died Intestate and J. S. administred and he had given the Plaintiff another Bond in full satisfaction of the former vide Mod. Rep.
not stay to wait for performance perhaps then he may stay as long as he lives but as on Bonds of Abritrament on breach of either Party hath remedy 2 Keble 674. Modern Rep. 64. Siderfin 464. Humlock and Blacklow In Debt for performance of Covenants they must be set out in Latin Allen p. 87. Of Assignment of a Breach on Bonds of Covenant IF Breach be assigned after the Action brought its ill the Defendant demands Oyer of the Obligation and it was for performance of Covenants the Plaintiff replies and assigns a Breach in non-payment of the Rent the 20th day of June 17 Car. and the Bill was filed Trin. 17 Car. which Term ended the 14th of June therefore ill Siderfin 307. Champions Case Bond of Covenants to perform the Indenture of a demise the Plaintiff declares he made the Lease the 28th of May to the Defendant and that postea scil 27th of the same month of May the Defendant broke the Covenant Demur because the breach is set forth before the Lease began and so no cause of Action but by Bacon where the postea scil are repugnant as here they are the postea shall be good to signifie the time of the Covenant broken and the scil shall be void Stiles p. 45. Anonymus If an Obligation conditioned for payment of Mony become payable hanging the Action this had made the Action good otherwise where it is conditioned for performance of Covenants and there is a Breach pendent the Action Q. Siderfin in Champions Case p. 308. The Plaintiff must assign a Breach to intitle himself except in some Cases vide infra on a Bond of Covenants that the Defendant should not deliver possession to any but the Lessor or such Persons as should lawfully recover the Defendant pleaded he did not deliver but to such Persons as lawfully recovered it the Plaintiff demurs Judgment pro Quer. Per Twisden on affirmative Covenants general pleading of performance is sufficient and so on negative for its sufficient for the Defendant to plead an excuse and the Plaintiff must assign a breach to entitle himself 1 Keble 380 413. Nicholas and Pullen One Covenant was That J. B. her Heirs c. should perform Covenants in a Deed Poll whereof one was That if I. died before the Plaintiff had satisfaction on Judgment assigned then the Administrators de bonis non of H. B. should farther secure that Assignment the Defendant pleaded performance generally the Plaintiff replies such a day I. died and sets not forth any Breach Judgment pro Defendente 2 Keble 288 301. Trussâ— and Mading The Plaintiff is not bound to alledge a special Breach when the Defendants Plea contains speciall Matter A Condition to perform Covenants in an Indenture one was That I. the Defendant should permit Guy the Plaintiff from time to time to come and see if the House leased by Guy and K. his Wife were in repair I. pleads in Bar that I. B. and K. his Wife were Tenants in Tail of the House and had Issue that I. B. died K. married Guy the Plaintiff and they two make a Lease to him for 20 years and that W. the Issue in Tail such a day entred before which entry the Condition was not broken Guy replies That William came with him upon the Land to see if Reparations c. and traverses the entry of William in manner and form prout and Issue joined upon the Traverse c. and found pro Quer. and Judgment it was assigned for Error that there was not any breach of Covenant in I. assigned and so had shewn no cause of Action but per Cur he need not in this Case for the special Plea of the Defendant had disabled the Plaintiff that he could not assign any breach of Covenant but of necessity ought to answer to the special Matter alledged It s not like the Case of Arbitrament in Debt on Bond to perform Award the Defendant pleads nul â—iel Award then the Plaintiff in his Replication ought to set forth Award and assign his Breach because the Defendants Plea 〈◊〉 general but if in such Case the Defendant should plead a Release of all Demands after the Arbitrament by which he offers a special point in Issue there it sufficeth if the Plaintiff answer to the Release without assigning any Breach Yelv. p. 78. Hob. cont â— Brownl p 89. Jeffry and Guy 2 Keb. 46 74. â—arch and â—lackaâ— The Condition was That wherâ— Ed. Tailor had bargained c. to the Plaintiff a Close c. and whereas the said Ed. T. hath already â—ort gaged to J. S. divers Lands in G. whereby the said Close is either mortgaged or supposed to be mortgaged c. if therefore the said Close of Pasture at the day mentioned in the said Indenture of a Mortgage be redeemed and set free c. the Defendant pleads the Close was not mortgaged to J. S. sic dicit quod clausum praed c. fuit redempt liberat exonerat c. the Plaintiff replies That the said Close was mortgaged to the said J. S. and upon this Issue joined and found pro Quer. and 't was moved in Arrest of Judgment that the Replication was not good for he ought to have replied quod pignoratum fuit to the said Smith and is not redeemed for it might be redeemed before the day Per Cur. it s a good Replication 1. The Defendant hath offered a particular point in Issue that it was not mortgaged and the Plaintiff answers it when he saith it was mortgaged and need not alledge that it was not redeemed for there shall never be intended any redemption because the Defendant pleads it was not mortgaged as J. S. is bound to marry the Daughter of J. D. upon Easter-day next in Debt on this Obligation if J. S. pleads in Bar that the Daughter of J. D. died before Easter-day it s a good Plea and its a good Replication that the Daughter was living on Easter-day without saying farther that he had not married her because a special Plea in Bar is always answered with a special Replication in the Point alledged 2. Because the Mortgage is supposed to be made between a Stranger and the Defendant to whose Acts of Redemption c. the Plaintiff is not privy and cannot have conusance or notice of theire Acts its excellent Learning which hath made me more at large recite it Yelv. M. 44 and 45 Eliz. R. R. fol. 24. Baily and Tailor Cro. Eliz. p. 899. mesme Case the difference is such pleading after Verdict should be good but not if demurred to as the Condition was the Defendant should render account of all such Goods of A. as came to his hands or pay his part for them The Defendant pleads nothing came to his hands The Plaintiff replies a silver Bowl came to hands Demurrer Ill Replication for he should have said and had not paid for it Siderfin 340. 1 Keb. 275. Hayman and Gerrard Though in Obligations put in Suit for
the Plaintiff demurs Judgment was given for the Plaintiff upon this point Because the Defeasance was pleaded to be made after the Obligation and if it would avoid the Obligation it should be made at the same time quod mirum Sandâ—s 2 Rep. 47. I should rather have conceived the Reason of their Opinion for the Plaintiff to have been for that it was an Obligation with a Condition and the Condition is it self a Defeasance and that a Defeasance upon a Defeasance is improper and confused but qu. â—e â—c ratione B. acknowledges a Statute to S. There was a Defeasance That if his Lands in the County of S. should be extended the Statute should be void Per Cur. the Defeasance is good and not repugnant because it s by another Deed but the Condition of a Bond not to sue the Obligation is void 〈◊〉 n. 1035. Trot and Spurling What amounts to a Defeasance and what not THat the Bond shall not be sued before such a Feast if he be sued it shall be void 21 H. 7. 23 30. The Defendant pleads in Bar That the Plaintiff by his Deed indented after the making of the Obligation grants to the Defendant that he will not prosecute or molest the Defendant by force of the said Obligation before the Feast of c. and demurs Per Cur. it s no Bar but a Covenant and if it were that he will not sue him at all that may be pleaded in Bar to avoid circuity of Action 1 Anderson p. 307. Dowse and Jeoffreys An Obligation from A. of 20 l. to T. B. with Condition if he paid T. B. 40 s. at such a day then it should lose its force and after B. was bound to A. in another Obligation which was indorsed on performance of Conditions specified in an Indenture and after the end of the Conditions endorsed on the last Obligation were these words Provided always that where the said A. is bound to the said B. in a Bond of 20 l. the said B. shall not sue for the Sum comprised in the said Obligation until the Condition specified in the said Indenture mentioned in this present Obligation be performed after A. sued the first Bond and B. pleaded this matter and averred that the Conditions in the Indenture are not yet performed Per Englefield and Shelly This is not a good Plea the Condition to defeat another Obligation is impertinent and the first Obligationâ— had an Indorsement on it which shall serve for the Defeasance of it 26 H. 8. fol. 9. Several Bonds were sealed for the payment of Monies and after by Indenture the Plaintiff did agree with the Defendant that if the Defendant should pay to Elizabeth the Daughter 500 l. and shall perform the other things c. that all the Obligations shall be void and be delivered up its was agreed this was a good Defeasance of the Obligation but for other Faults in the Plea Judgment pro Quer. Bridgmans Rep. 116. Lee and Wood. Memor I William I. do owe and am indebted to E. H. 10 l. for the payment whereof I bind my self c. In witness c. Memor That the said W. I. be not compelled to pay the said 10 l. until he recover 30 l. upon an Obligation against A. B. Per Coke That which comes after in witness is not part of the Deed but shall have its force as a Defeasance but then the Defendant must plead it 2 Brownl Rep. 98. Hammond and Jethro Per Coke A Man without a Defeasance may plead that the Statute was acknowledged for payment of a lesser Sum 1 Brownl 51. in Broksbys Case The Statute was defeasanced on this Condition If R. E. observe perform and accomplish the last Will and Testament of Sir J. E. his Father and pay and content all the Bequests and Legacies according to the true intent and meaning of the said last Will. Sir J. E. deviseth Land in Capite in Fee after his death R. E. enters into a third part of the said Lands by the major-part of the Judges the Statute is not forfeit Jones p. 267. Sir Rowl Egertons Case in Chancery If the Defeasances on a Statute be by Indenture and vary the words of the Defeasance are the Act and Words of the Conusee only and not of any other and if his part of the Indenture vary from that part delivered to the Conusor in that that it varies its utterly void 2 Anderson p. â—8 Hollingsworth and Wheeler Cro. El. 532. Hollingworth and Ascue H. in Aud. Querela upon a Statute surmiseth that there was an Indenture of Defeasance if he paâ— yearly for six years 50 l. to one J. B. at the Feast at St. Michaelmas at such a place c. the Statute should be void and avers that it was to J. B's use and that he tendred at every of the said Feasts 50 l. at the place and that J. B. was not there to receive it Per Cur. 1. Though J. B. was a Stranger to the Recognizance yet forasmuch as it is averred to be made to his use he ought at his peril to be ready at the place every day to receive it otherwise the Recognizance is not forfeit when the other doth tender it 2. Though he saith not nec aliquis alius ex parte sua was there to receive it its good for it ought to come on the other part if any were there to receive it 3. He saith at one of the days he was ready and offered to pay it and J. B. was not there ad exigendâ— recipienil so the copulative made the demand material which needed not yet the surmise was good for the matter is whether he tendred or not Câ—o. Jac. 13 14. Phillips versus Rice ap Hugh Cro. Eliz. 754. vide this Case well reported Yelv. p. 38. by the Name of Hughs and Phillips A Defeasance unless made the same day of a Statute and delivered uno flatu cannot be pleaded in Bar 1 Keb. 111. Sir Rich. Bellison Qu. In the next place I shall shew several sorts of Bonds as a Bond sued against the Heir Arbitrament Bonds Apprentices Bonds Bonds for the Good Behaviour c. Debt on Bond against the Heir HOW an Heir shall be charged on the Obligation of his Father at the end of Popham Jones p. 87 155. Bowyer and Rovil vide Siderfin p. 342. It must be brought in the debet detinet Lach. p. 203. Anonymus The Bill was on the File debet detinet but the Declaration on the Roll was detinet only which could not be amended after Verdict but leave was given to the Court to declare upon the old Bill being within three Terms he may declare because the Debt else had been lost because the Heir after the Bill entred had aliened the Term ibid Debt against an Heir in the detinet only is aided after a Verdict by the Statute 16 and 17 Car. 2. cap. 8. but not otherwise 2 Keble 259 290. Siderfin p. 342. Comber and Waltoe It s
do not restrain the Condition to the last part only to wit of the two Obligations but do extend to the Recognizance per the first words The Condition of this Obligation is such and per the word also in the last Clause 1 Rolls Abr. 409. Ingoldsby and Steward For the Matter and Substance of the Condition What Conditions are good and what not A Condition to do any lawful or possible thing is good as to make a Release perform Covenants not to play at Cards and Dice not to be Surety c. But when the matter or thing to be done by the Condition is unlawful or impossible or the Condition it self is repugnant insensible or uncertain the Condition is void and in some Cases the Obligation also Conditions against Law are void Against the Law of God of Nature to do a thing that is malum in â—se as to kill a Man or do any other Felony c. in such Cases the Condition and Obligation are both void Co. Lit. 206. Conditions against Common Law Statute Law Note This difference between a Bond made void by Common Law and a Bond made void by Statute Law If a Bond be made void by Statute Law it s void in the whole as upon the Statute 23 H. 6. If a Sheriff take a Bond for a thing against that Law and also for a due Debt the whole Bond is void for the Letter of the Statute is so 2 Rolls Rep. 116. But the Common Law doth divide and having made void that that is against Law le ts the rest stand Carters Rep. fol. 230. in Pearson and Humes Case A Bond to perform Covenants one is void and the other good the Bond is good for those that are agreeable to Law as in Sir Daniel Nortons Case Hob. p. 14. Cro. Eliz. p. 529. 2 Anderson 116. Lee and Coleshill 3 Rep. 82 83. Lee and Coleshill cited in Twines Case If the Condition be to do a thing contrary to Law the Obligation is void 2 H. 4.9 Co. Lit. 206. b. But here is another Diversity A Condition to a do a thing against the Law of God of Nature a malum in se or against Law and Justice in such Cases the Obligation and Condition are both void as for unlawful Maintenance for a Sheriff not to execute Process and the like But when the thing to be done or not to be done by the Condition is not malum in se but against some Ground of the Law as that a Man shall make a Feoffment to his Wife or is but malum prohibitum only as that a Man shall erect a College contrary to the Statute of 31 Eliz. or a Man is bound to alien certain Lands to a Religious House or repugnant to the Estate as Feoffee of Land shall not alien or take the Profits or that Tenant in Tail shall not suffer a Recovery c. In these Cases the Conditions are only void and the Obligations remain single and yet Equity will relieve against them yet if a Feoffment be made of Land on Condition to kill J. S. the Condition is void but the Feoffment is good for the state of the Land is setled and executed in the Feoffee and cannot be taken back but by the performance of the Condition which is void If a Man make a Feoffment in Fee on Condition that he shall not alien this Condition is repugnant and against Law and the state of the Feoffee absolute but if the Feoffee be bound in a Bond that the Feoffee or his Heirs shall not alien or take the profits this is good for he may notwithstanding alien or take the profits if he will forfeit his Bond Co. Lit. fol. 206. a. b. A Man is bound to do a thing unlawful at present which in time may be made lawful as a Feoffment of a Strangers Lands or of the Lands of an Alien c. in these Cases he is bound to do it and at his peril he must obtain Power to do them Lit. Rep. 86. Condition was That if the Defendant shall procure one J. S. to make reasonable Recompence to the Plaintiff for certain Beasts which he wrongfully took from the Plaintiff that then c. the Defendant saith de facto J. S. had stollen the Beasts and was indicted and so the Condition being against Law the Obligation was void Per Cur. where the Condition shall be said against Law and therefore the Obligation void the same ought to be intended where the Condition is expresly against the Law in express words and not for Matter out of the Condition as it is here Judgment pro quer 1 Leon. Case 99. Brook and King Conditions against Common Law Besides what hath been said before in general take some few Cases of Conditions against Common Law Maintenance A Condition to maintain any Suit unlawfully though no Act be done for if it be unlawful to be done the Bond is void The Condition is If J. S. the principal and J. H. and J. M. do pay c. all such Sums which are due and shall be due in such Suits The Under-Sheriff makes a Bond to the High-Sheriff that he shall not return Venire Fac. not intermeddle with Executions until he be acquainted it is naught and against Law 1 Brownl Rep. 64 65. Hobart p. 14. Norton and Sims That the Under-Sheriff shall not execute any Process of Execution without special Warrant and Assent of the Sheriff the Bond is void 2 Brownl Rep. p. 280 Chamberlain and Goldsmith 1 Rolls Abridg. p. 417. Norton and Sims A Bond to save J.S. harmless from such aâ— Appeal of Robbery as B. had against him is void 18 E. 4.28 A Condition to renounce an Administration is good 25 E. 4.30 A Condition that he should not molest or hurt the Obligee in his Lands or Goods ratione alicuâ— rei cujuscunque it shall be intended he shall not hurt tortiously but not to restrain him from prosecuting the Obligee for Felony or other just cause and so not against Law Crook Eliz. fo 705. Dolson and Crew Conditions against Statute-Law Against the Stat. 32 H. 8. Of Leuses made is Aliens DEbt upon Bond to perform Covenants in an Indenture which was to pay Rent The Defendant pleads Stat. 32 H. 8. which maltes Leases to Alien Artificers void and saith that the Defendant was an Alien born at Paris and avâ—s the three points of the Statute 1. That the House was a Mansion House at the time 2. That â—e viz. the Defendant was an Alien 3. That â—e was an Artificer The Plaintiff replies the Defendant was an Alien Artificer demurr Per Cur. the Replication not double but because he â—ad not said the place where he was born in Enâ—land it was ill Siderfin p. 357. Freeman and King The Form of the Plea Vid. 1 Saunders 5. Jevens â—nd Harwich Vid. Keble Against Stat. 5 6 E. 6. c. 16. Of buying of Offices THE Office of Armourer is within that Statute Stiles Rep. f. 29. Hill and Farmer The
that otherwise his Election shall be taken away by the Act of God and the Condition is for the advantage of the Obligor and shall be taken beneficially for him One was bound that if after Marriage he and his Wife sold the Lands of the Wife if then he did in his Life time purchase to his said Wife and her Heirs Lands of such Value or else do and shall leave to her as Executrix or by Legacy or other good Assurance as much Mony c. He married her and she dyed and he survived her he is excused from the Bond 5 Rep. 22. Laughter's Case Crook Eliz. 398. mesme Case But if a Condition consist of two parts whereof one was not possible at the making of the Condition to be performed he ought to perform the other as if the Condition be to enfeoff J. S. or his Heirs when he comes to such a place he is bound to enfeoff J. S. when he comes for that the other is not possible for he may not have an Heir during his Life and so he had not any Election 21 E. 3.29 cited in Laughter's Case If the Condition of an Obligation be to enfeoff two before such a day and one dies before the day yet he ought to enfeoff the other 1 Rolls Abr. tit Condition p. 451. Horn and May. Vid. contra Expressement Bendl. p. 8. n. 31. Dyer 347. pl. 10.15 H. 7.13 5 Rep. 22 c. If the Condition be to enfeoff J. S. within a certain time if J. S. dies before the time be past the Obligation is discharged 1 Rolls Abr. 451. I am bound to enfeoff the Obligee at such a day and before the said day I dye my Executors shall not be charged with it for the Condition is become impossible by the Act of God for the Land descended to the Heir 2 Leon. p. 155. Kingwel and Chapman 2. By the Act of the Law If a Man be bound in a Recognisance for the appearance of another in a Scire-Fac he shall not avoid this Recognisance by saying that he which ought to appear was imprisoned at the day 1 Rolls Abr. p. 452. 2 Leon. p. 189. Wood and Avery If a Man be obliged to repair an House or build a Mill he is excused if the Obligee will not suffer him to do it or if a Stranger by the Command of the Obligee disturb him and will not suffer him 1 Rolls Abr. 453.3.4.5 A Condition that the Son of the Obligor shall serve the Obligee seven years if he tender the Son and the Obligee refuse it is no Forfeiture 22 E. 4.26 2 E. 4.2 So if he take him and after within the Term command him to go from him Vid. ibid. 1 Rolls Abr. 455. If the thing to be performed by the Condition may not be performed without the presence of the Obligee there his absence shall excuse the performance 12 H. 4.23 b. cited 1 Rolls Abr. 457. As if the Condition be to make a Feoffinent to the Obligee Aliter if it be to enter into a Statute to the Obligee for that may be performed in his absence A Condition to enfeoff the Obligee though the Obligee disseise him of the Land yet this shall not excuse the performance of the Condition for he may re-enter and perform it but if he keep it with force till after the day of performance it shall excuse 1 Rolls Abr. 453 454. Frances's Case 8 Rep. 92. If the Obligor by his own Act hath made the Condition impossible it is a Forfeiture 4 H. 7. 3 4. Vid. Keilway p. 60. Abbot of Glassenbury's Case Where a Refusal of one of the Obligors shall be a Refusal of both Two are bound in a Statute with Defeasance that they two shall make such assurance as shall be devised c. If an Assurance be devised and tendered to one and he refuse to seal this the Condition is broken by both for he need not make Request to both at one time 1 Rolls Abridgâ— 454.13 The Condition is to pay 20 l. to the c. or before such a day render the Body of a Stranger c. so as the Plaintiff may declare against him the Defendant pleads before the day the Stranger died a good Plea though the Obligor undertakes for a third person which differs from Laughter's Case Payment or Tender are to be at the same time therefore a discharge of one a discharge of both Contra if the Acts were to be done at different days The Condition was to run a race or pay by a day and adjudged that the Defendant was discharged by the death of the Horse 3 Keb. 738 761 770. Warner and White If one is bound to pay 20 l. before the 1st day of May or to marry A. S. before the 1st of Aug. if he do not pay the 20 l. before the 1st of May and A. S. dies before August so that it is become impossible yet the Obligation is forselted Quaere He hath undertaken to do one and it was in his power Crook Eliz. p. 864. More 's Case 3. By the Act of the Obligee If A. be bound to B. that J. S. shall marry Jane G. by such a day and before the day B. himself marry with Jane G. hereby the Obligation is discharged and B. shall never take advantage of it Co. Lit. 206. aâ—b If the Obligee be party to an Act that hinders the performance of the Condition it shall excuse 4 H. 7.4 b. One is bound to stand to the award of c. he may countermand the Arbitrators but then he forfeits his Bond because the Obligor by his own Act hath made the Condition of the Obligation which was endorsed for the benefit of the Obligor to save him from the penalty of the Obligation impossible to be performed and by consequence his Obligation is become single and without the benefit or help of any Condition because he hath disabled himself to perform the Condition If one be bound in an Obligation with a Condition that the Obligor shall give leave to the Obligee for the time of seven years to carry Wood c. though he give him leave yet if he countermand it or discharge the Obligee the Obligation is forfeited 8 Rep. 82. b. Viniors Case Refusal at the day shall save the penalty 1 Rolls Abridg. 448. Vid. Tender and Refusal Shep. Touchston p. 393. One is obliged to another to the use of a third person to deliver a Chest to the said third person who refused to receive it upon the tender at day the Obligation is saved it being to the use of the third person and he shall not take advantage of his own act Carne and Savery cited in Huish and Phillip's Case Crook Eliz. 754. A Bond is delivered to J. S. to my use and when it is tendered to me I refuse hereby it is become void and cannot afterwards be made good so if an Obligation be made to my Wife and I disagree to it 5 Rep. 119. Whelpdale's Case
should be advised The Defendant pleads he made Estate in Lands of such a vaâ— c. he must shew what Estate was advised and what Land that so there may be an Issue 28 H. 8.1 b. A Condition to make such an Estate to the Plaintiff as his Counsel shall advise and saith Coâ—câ—lium non dedit advisamentum It was a Quaâ— whether he ought not to say concilium nullâ— dedit advisumentum But it is now setled a good Plea 11 H. 7.23 a. 6 H. 7.4 and need not â—ledge what persons were of his Counsel and that they gave no advise for the Plea is in the negative but if he plead his Counsel gave to him such advice he ought to plead what persons were of his Counsel Then the Replication was that J. W. was of the Plaintiffs Counsel and no more and he made such advice c. which advisement the Plaintiff notified to the Defendant Issue on the Advice 6 H. 7.4 The Defendant by protestation saith that the Plaintiffs Counsel made not any devise and pro placito that he was not required The Plaintiff saith J. S. his Counsel devised a Release and that he required the Defendant to seal it and he refused The Defendant rejoyns he did not refuse it is a departure and the Issue is a Jeofall 28 H. â— Dyer 31. b. The Condition is to make such assurance of this Mannor of D. as the Counsel of the other shall advise and the Counsel deviseth that he shall be bound in a certain Obligation that the other shall enjoy the Mannor peaceably He is not bound to perform this for this is not any assurance within the intent of the Covenant 1 Rolls Abridg. p. 423. part 1. But if a Man be bound to do such Acts for the assurance of the Mannor of D. as the Counsel of the other shall devise and the Counsel adviseth that he shall make an Obligation or Statute that the other shall enjoy this he ought to perform this 1 Rolls Abr. 431. per Poph. To make such assurances of c. as Counsel of c. shall devise and the Defendant by advice of Counsel demanded a Release with Warranty Per Cur. this is not any assurance but a means to recover in value 2 Leon. p. 130. Wyâ— and Throgmorton If a Man covenant to make such assurance as the Counsel of the Covenatee shall devise of an Annuity of 30 l. and of 300 l. in Mony If the Counsel devise he shall make an Obligation to pay the Annuity and the 300 l. at certain days he is not bound to perform it the Obligation being no assurance of the Annuity 1 Rolls Rep. 423. If A. Covenant to make such assurance for the payment of 100 l. to R. as his Counsel shall devise and his Counsel deviseth that A. shall make an Obligation of 1000 l. for the payment of an 100 l. he ought to perform this Otherwise if it had been to make such reason his assurance as the Counsel of the Covenantee shall devise 1 Rollâ— Abr. p. 423. A Conclusion to seal such assurance of Copy-hold as should be devised The Plaintiff devised that the Defendant should seal a Letter of Attorny made to one to surrender the Copyhold for him and also seal a Bond for quiet enjoyment The Defendant may refuse for he is not bound to seal the Obligation and after Verdict Judgment was arrested 1 Brownl p. 93. Stamford and Cookes A. covenants with B. to make such reasonable assurance to B. in Fee of such Land reserving to A. and his Heirs 20 s. Rent per annum as the Counsel of B. shall advise and after B. tenders to A. a Deed poll by which A. shall enfeoff B. of Land in Fee reserving the said Rent to A. in Fee this is not any such reasonable assurance to bind A. to seal it for this is a Rent Seck and the Deed belongs to the Feoffee and then A. without the Deed may not have any Remedy for the Rent 1 Rolls Abr. 423. Guppage and Ascaâ— It ought to have been a Feoffment by Indenture rendring Rent Id. ibid. Sect. 7. If the Condition be to make such assurance in Law of certain Lands to the Obligee as by the Counsel of the Obligee upon Request shall be advised and after J. S. was of the Counsel of the Obligee and gives his advice to the Obligee that the Obligor shall make a certain assurance and the Obligee gives notice to the Obligor of the said advice and requires him to perform it he ought to perform it for its more convenient that the Counsel should give the advice to the Obligee than to the Obligor for that the Obligor knows not whether he be his Counsel in this matter 5 Rep. Higgenbotham's Case A Covenant is to make a Lease on such Covenants as the Plaintiff or his Counsel shall advise the Plaintiff must tender this Lease 3 Keble 183. Twiford and Buckly If the Condition be to assure certain Lands to such a person which the Obligee shall name and after he assures this to the Obligee himself it is a good performance though it be not alledged that the Obligee named himself for this acceptance is a nomination of himself 1 Rolls Abridg. p. 424. Husego and Wild. At whose Costs IF the assurances are to be made at the costs of him to whom they ought to be made he may require the assurance to be made by parcels Aliter when the Covenantor is to be at the charges yet there if the party require an assurance of parcel the Covenantor must do it but then he is discharged from making any assurance of that which remains Crook Eliz. p. 681. Washington's Case A Condition to make a sufficient Lease to the Obligee before such a day the same to be made at the costs of the Obligee It is a good Plea that the Plaintiff did not tender the Costs to him and if then that he was ready More n. 72. That the Covenantor at the Costs of the Covenantee would assure such Lands before such a day the Covenantor is to make the assurance what he pleaseth and ought to give notice what assurance he will make and his readiness that the other may know what costs he is to tender Crook Eliz. f. 517. Halling and Connard Who to do the first Act as Notice Request Tender Vid. infra Deseasance of a Statute that if E. M. and his Wife before such a day should make such good assurance of an House to W. with such Covenants as he should accept and signifie under his hand to be reasonable or should pay to him such a day 350 l. then the Statute should be void E. M. in Audita Querela furmiseth that he and his Wife were always ready to have made the assurance and that the Conisee had not signified what assurance he would accept nor required any and yet he had sued Execution Demurrer adjudged for the Defendant For he is not bound to devise any assurance but it is at
his Election to accept the Estate tendred or the Mony and there cannot be an acceptance but where there is a tender on the other part Therefore the Conisor ought to have devised the Estate and procured the Conisee to accept thereof otherwise he ought to pay the Mony Crook Eliz. p. 718. Mills and Wood. A Covenant to make a Lease on such Covenants as the Plaintiff or his Counsel shall advise the Plaintiff must tender the Lease 3 Keble 183. Twiford and Buckly The Covenant is to make a Lease for three Lives before Michaelmas the Defendant pleads that none of the Lives were named by the Plaintiff The Plaintiff demurs Judgment was for the Defendant the Plaintiff must name them 3 Keble 183 203. Twiford and Buckly The Defendant pleads the Condition was if the Defendant make an Estate to the Plaintiff of certain Land before such a day in Fee by Feoffment Fine or otherwise as his Counsel learned in the Law shall advise The Plea was Concilium non dedit advisamentum The Defendant is not bound to request his Counsel to make advice and the advisement doth not come on the part of the Plaintiff but on the part of the Defendant This is not like the Case of Obligors being bound to pay to the Obligee 10 l. or enfeoff him of the Mannor of S. he ought to make tender of the Monies and in the other Case he oughâ— to tender that he will make a Feoffment because all comes from the Defendant 6 H. 7.4 as in this Case The Plaintiff replies J. S. was of his Counsel and no more and he made such advice which advisement the Plaintiff notified to the Defendant so it is good ibid. If I am bound to make you such an assurance as J. S. shall devise I am bound at my peril to procure notice but if I am bounden to make such assurance as your Counsel shall advise there notice ought to be given to me 1 Leon. p. 105. Case 141. in Atkinsons Case A Condition to perform Covenants Breach assigned whereas the Covenantor covenanted with the Covenantee that he at the costs of the Covenantee would assure such Lands unto him before such a day that the day was past and no assurance tendred by the Covenantor not costs by the Covenantee Per Cur. the Covenantor is to make the assurance and to give notice what assurance he will make and his readiness that the other may know what Costs to tender Crook Eliz. 517. Hallings and Connard The Covenantor ought to do the first act viz. notifie the Covenantee what manner of Estate he will make so that the Covenantee may know what Sum of Mony to tender and it is all one whether the Covenant be general or particular as to make a Feoffment c. and so if nothing were done before the day the Obligation is forfeited 5 Rep. mesme Case 22. b. The Obligor having election what manner of assurance he will make ought first to give notice to the Obligee that he will make such assurance More n. 595. mesme Case W. covenants for himself his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns within seven years upon Request to convey to the Plaintiff a Copyhold Estate for life W. dies a Request must be made to his Executors though W. was seised in Fee the Executors are bound to see it done 2 Bulstr 158. Thursdens Case A Condition to perform Articles one was the Defendant covenanted before such a Feast to make to the Plaintiff and his Wife a Demise of c. Hebendum immediately after the death of E. F. for 30 years if E. W. to this assent then Habend after the death of E. F. for 21 years The Defendant pleads E. W. denied his assent and farther that the Plaintiff did not require the Defendant to make him the Lease for 21 years Demurrer and Judgment pro Quer. For the Plaintiff need not make Request but the Defendant at his peril ought to have made the Lease for 21 years before the Feast 1 Anders n. 124. f. 49. Henry Cage versus Tho. Furtho The Condition is if the Obligor make all reasonable Acts c. which shall be for assurance c. to be required by the Obligee before such a day c. a general Request is sufficient Aliter if the assurance were to be advised by the Obligee or his Counsel there he must shew he had required such a particular assurance as Fine c. and as to this the Case was thus The Condition was if the Defendant before M. do make acknowledg and suffer c. all and every such reasonable Acts and things whatsoever they be for the good and lawful assuring and sure making of the Mannor of D. to J. S. and his Heirs that then c. The Defendant pleads that before M. the Plaintiff rationabiliter non requisivit le def ad faciend c. aliqua rationabilia actum acta quae forent pro bona legitima assurantia del mannor de D. c. The Plaintiff replies that such a day before M. he requested the Defendant quod ipse conveiret assuraret manerium de D. al J. S. c. secundum tenorem conditionis And Issue found pro Quer. Moved in arrest of Judgment that there was no sufficient Breach for that the Plaintiff ought to have required an assurance in certain viz. Fine or Feoffment but per Cur. the Condition is broken for by the Condition the Defendant is to do all and every act whatsoever c. so that if the Plaintiff request a Fine Recovery Feoffment Bargain and Sale the Defendant ought to do all but not to make any Obligation or Recognisance for the enjoying the Mannor for that is but collateral Security and not any Assurance Then when the Plaintiff requests the Defendant to convey the Mannor in the generality the Defendant ought at his peril to do this by some kind of Assurance and if upon this Request the Defendant makes a Feoffment of the Mannor yet if after this the Plaintiff request a Fine he ought to acknowledge a Fine also and so upon every several Request Yelv. p. 44. 1 Brownl p. 84. More n. 889. Pudsey and Newsam The Condition was to make an Estate of Inheritance to the Obligee at such a day and place The Defendant pleads he was ready at the day and place to make it c. The Plaintiff demurs Per Cur. ill Plea he ought to have shewed that he gave notice what Estate of Inheritance he would make him Stiles p. 61. Allen p. 24. Brook and Brook 5 Rep. 22. If a Man be bound to make a Conveyance of certain Lands if a Warranty or Covenant be put into the Deed he is not bound to seal it 1 Rolls Abr. p. 424. sect 13. The Condition is to make such Assurance to the Obligee as the Obligee shall devise and after the Obligee deviseth an Indenture and tenders this to him and he requires time to shew it to his Counsel he must seal
it presently for the Covenant is peremptory 1 Anders p. 122. Case 117. Andrews and Eddon 1 Rolls Abr. 424. Wotton and Crook 2 Rep. Mansers Case The Condition is that he shall make a good absolute perfect Assurance in Fee of Copyhold Lands and after he renders this upon Condition of payment of Mony it is not any performance for the Assurance ought to be absolute so if it were to make farther Assurance if he make Assurance on Condition it is not a performance 1 Rolls Abr. 425. Risbon and Gayre It must not only be an absolute but an effectual Conveyance If a Man be bound to surrender a Copyhold to the use of A. and his Heirs on consideration of Mony if he surrender into the Tenants hands he must get it presented for it must be an effectual Surrender as if a Man be bound to make a Feoffment to me upon Request if I request him him to make a Deed of Feoffment with Letter of Attorny to B. to make Livery to me and he doth so this is a good inception yet if Livery be not made it is a Forfeiture of the Condition 1 Rolls Abridg. p. 425. Shan and Belby A Condition to make assurance of Lands to the Obligee and his Heirs and the Obligee dies yet he must make assurance to the Heir for the copulative shall be taken as a disjunctive 1 Rolls Abr. p. 450. Horn and May. Dubitat in Jones p. 181. Eaton and Laughter For it was the intent the Heir should take by descent and not by purchase A Condition to enfeoff two before such a day and one dies before the day yet he ought to enfeoff the other 1 Rolls Abr. 451. Horn and May. 5 Rep. 22. a. Benl n. 31. contra A Condition to give and grant to him his Heirs and Assigns The Defendant pleads he hath been ready to give and grant ill Plea for he must plead that he did it Aliter if the words had been as Counsel should advise 1 Brownl Kep 75. Chapman and Pescod Condition to enfeoff Lands of such an yearly value The Defendant pleads he enfeoft him of the Mannor of D. in Com. W. and of the Mannor of S. in the County of S. Cave Replication for it cannot be tryed 11 H. 7.14 One is obliged to assure 20 Acres of Land the Acres shall be accounted according to the Estimation of the Country where the Lands lie and not according to the measure limited in the Statute Cro. Eliz. p. 665. Some and Taylor One by Indenture bargains and sells to the Obligee all his Lands in D. and covenants that he will make farther assurance of all his Lands the Breach assigned was because he did not make farther assurance of those Lands and it appears by the pleading that the Bargainor had enfeofâ— the Bargainee before all his Lands there so as he had not any Lands at the time of the Bargain and Sale and if he then had not then the Breach is not well assigned and so held tota Curia But if one enfeoffs another of his Lands and afterwards bargains and sells them by name and covenants to make assurance he is bound to make assurance accordingly Crook Eliz. p. 833. Laâ— and Hodges The Condition was whereas the Defendant had granted an Annuity to the Plaintiff that the Defendant should make farther assurance to the Plaintiff for the enjoying thereof within one Month when he should be thereunto required the Month shall begin from the time of the Request Stileâ— p. 242. Wentworth's Case A Man by Deed indented bargained and sold Lands to another in Fee and covenanted by the same Deed to make him a good and sufficient Estate in the said Lands before Christmas next and afterwards before Christmas the Bargainoâ— acknowledged the Deed and the same is enrolled per tot Cur. by the Act the Covenant was not performed for he ought have levied a Fine or made a Feoffment c. 3. Leon. p. 1. Anonymus Condition of Covenant for quiet Enjoyment D. was bound to H. on Condition that H. and his Heirs might enjoy certain Copyhold Lands surrendred to him The Defendant pleads the Surrender and that the Plaintiff entred and might have enjoyed the Lands The Plaintiff replies that after his Entry one G. entred upon him and ousted him Per Cur. Replication ill because he did not shew he was evicted out of the Land by lawful Title for else he had his Remedy against the wrong doer Vaugh. p. 121 122. Hammonds Case The Defendant leased to the Plaintiff an House by the words of Demise and Grant which words import a Covenant in Law and the Lessor covenanteth that the Lessee shall enjoy the House during the term without Eviction by the Lessor or any claiming under him which express Covenant was narrower than the other and gave Bond to perform Covenants The Plaintiff grants his term over to a Stranger The Plaintiff assigned for Breach that one S. entred upon the Assignee and upon Ejectment recovered against the Assignee Debt was brought upon this Bond per Cur. by this Covenant in Law the Assignee shall have a Writ of Covenant and for this breaking the Covenant in Law the Obligation was forfeited but because the Plaintiff did not shew that S. had an ancient Title for otherwise the Covenant in Law was not broken therefore Judgment against the Plaintiff 4 Co. Rep. 80. b. Nokes Case Cro. El. p. 674. id Case If I. covenanteth with B. to enter into a Bond to him for enjoyment of such Lands and do not express what Sum he shall be bound in such a Sum as amounteth to the value of the Land 5 Rep. 78. a. in Samons Case The Defendant pleads performance of Covenants the Plaintiff alledgeth a Breach upon this Covenant that the Lessee should enjoy the Land without any lawful interruption or disturbance of the Lessor or his Executors and shews that the Executors entred upon him and ousted him and shews not any interruption for a just cause and adjudged good 1 Brownl 80. Ratcliffs Case Debt on Bond to perform Covenants the Covenant was for quiet enjoyment without let trouble or interruption c. the Plaintiff assigned his Breach that he forbad his Tenant to pay his Rent Per Cur. it s no Breach unless there were some other Act 1 Brownl p. 81 Witchcot and Liveseys Case Vide Moor n. 156. Broughton and Conrey Where the Defendant is not bound to warrant peaceable possession to the Vendee but only for Acts by himself done or to be done The Condition was If the Defendant warrant and defend an Ox-Gang of Land to the Plaintiff against J. S. and all others that then c. Resolved that the word defend shall be taken as a Defence against lawful Titles and not against Trespasses And per Anderson one Covenants to make a Lease of all his Lands in D. and in D. he hath as well Copyhold as Freehold Lands he is not by this Covenant to make a Lease of his Copyhold Land for
hands Et hoc paratus c. the Plaintiff replies a Silver Bowl belonging to the said W. N. at his death came to the Defendants hands such a day and place Et hoc paratus est verificare the Defendant demurs Per Cur. the Replication is ill for the Plaintiff hath not shewed a Breach for he ought to shaâ—e the Defendant had 〈◊〉 made a dividend or paid the proportion 1 Sanderâ— 100. Heymaâ— and Gerrard Conditions concerning Wills and Legaciâ— A Condition to suffer his Wife to make her Will vide antea A Condition to observe perform fullfil and keep the Will of M. D. in all Points and Articles according to the true intent and meaning thereof that then c. and D. M. by his Will bequeathed to the Poor of such a Town 10 l. and to J. S. 3 l. The Defendant pleads he had paid the 10 l. to the Poor and as to the 33 l. he is and always was ready to pay the same to the said J. S. if he had demanded it a good Plea for this Obligation the Condition of which being general to perform the Will hath not altered the nature of the payment of the Legacy but the same remains payable in such manner as before upon request 1 Leon. p. 17. Fringe and Lewis A Condition to find J. S. till he come to the Age of 21 years sufficient Meat Drink and Apparel he pleads he had found sufficient Meat Drink and Apparel all the time at W. it s good though he alledge it generally and Issue was taken upon the Apparel for he durst not take Issue upon all the things for the doubleness 12 H. 7.14 A Condition to have free ingress egress and regress he pleads he had ingress â—egress and regress and saith not frank male Bar Latch 47. Climson and Pool A Condition to have all the Debts and that the Defendant should not release any in a certain Schedule mentioned the Defendant pleads performance generally but doth not set forth the Schedule he should have shewed what were the Debts mentioned and then have averred performance de omnibus singulis quod non relaxâ—vit Qu. 1 Keble 680. Barcroft and Doughty A Condition If the Defendant should make composition with one E. for Lands c. then he should pay the Plaintiff 30 l. The Defendant pleads he made no composition the Plaintiff replies that the said E. did grant unto the Defendant a Rent-charge of 5 Marks in Fee in satisfaction of his Title c. which the Defendant did accept c. and so he made composition the Defendant protestando E. non concessit c. pro placito c. that the Defendant did not accept it in satisfaction c. a good Plea it s no composition without consent which depends upon the acceptance Hob. p. 178. Earle and Tuck A. bound to stand to and observe such order and decree as the Kings Counsel of the Court of Requests should make and that the Defendant did not observe it the Defendant pleads that the King and his Councel did not make the Decree no Plea Marsh Rep. 78. Smithson and Simpson Expositions and Constructions of a Condition I shall now shew how Conditions are to be expounded and construed by some special Rules and Cases and what shall be intended a good performance Et vide supra sparsim sub multis titulis Sometimes Conditions must be performed according to the very Words and Circumstances A Condition to stand to the Award of J. S. so as the said Award be made in Writing indented under his Hand and Seal the Award shall not bind if it be not indented though it be under Hand and Seal 1 Rolls Abr. 409. Holmes and Hoâ— Vid infra plus tit Pleadings Where a Man is to plead according to the express Words of the Condition If the Condition be performed in substance it is good though it differ in words Where one is bound to deliver the Testament of the Testator if he pleads he hath delivered Literas Testamentarias it is good 7 E. 4.3 When the Condition is to make a Feoffment Lease and Release is a good performance 17 E. â— 3 Though this be a collateral Condition yet it is well performed for it amount in Law to a Feoffement Co. Lit. 207. a. If the Covenant be to grant the Reversion of the Tenant for Life or Years and he enters upon the Lessee and makes a Feoffment and the Lessee re-enters the Condition is performed for the Effect is performed 1 Rolls Abr. 426. The Condition is to give Licence to the Obligee to carry Trees c. and he gives him Licence the Condition is performed though a Stranger who has Right disturbs him for this extends but to the person of the Obligor by these words 18 E. 4. 20. b. Aliter if the words had been he shall have Licence But it must be performed in substance exactly and not in shew for the performance of a Condition ought to be true full and effectual according to Goodal's Case 10 Rep. And not illusory Lit. Rep. 130. Brockhams Case A Condition is to retract such a Suit a Discontinuance of this is no performance because it differs in substance for a Retraxit is a Bar in another Action and so is not a Discontinuance 20 E. 4.8 Aliter in Case of an Award as if it be awarded he shall withdraw his Suit Discontinuance is a good performance of the Award for the intent of the Arbitrator was not that he should make a legal Retraxit but prosecute the Suit no farther 21 E. 4.38 Improper words shall not vitiate a Condition words by which the intention of the parties may appear are sufficient to make the Condition of a Bond. A Condition to stand to an Award ita quod the Award be made on or before c. but if the Arbitrators shall not agree upon the Award that then they shall choose and elect an indifferent Man and they shall stand to his final end c. Per Cur. the Condition is good enough though not so properly expressed And that the Defendant had forfeited his Obligation for Non-performance of the Award of the Umpire and though such construction will prejudice the Defendant and Conditions being for the benefit of the Defendant shall be construed favourably yet the Law may not be altered But no intention of the parties shall be construed contrary to the express words 39 H. 6.10 a. The Condition was that if the Defendant do not pay so much Mony the Obligation shall be void it was naught though the intention was he should pay the Mony 1 Sanders 66. Bâ—er and Wigg The Condition was to appear c. and the Conclusion was then the Condition of this Obligation shall be void and so no words to make the Obligation void but per Cur. It is a good Condition though these words â—id been omitted 2 Sanders p. 78. Maleverer and Hawksby Conditions construed according to Intent NO intention of the parties shall
221 225. Blith and Hill Declaration IN the Declaration is omitted ad eandem solation faciend obligo me haeredes meos it was amended Cro. Jac. 147. Forger and Sales Alit if one declare in debet detinet where it ought to be in the detinet only ibid. Winch p. 20. If I declare on Obligation against a collateral Heir the Declaration must be special as Debt against the Brother and Heir the Defendant pleads riens per descent from his said Brother but he had Assets by descent from the Son of his Brother but he must be charged by special Declaration and so Judgment pro Def. Cro. Car. 151. Hill 4 Car. 1. Jenkes Case Judgment and Execution DET port en Lichfield against the Heir he pleads riens c. the Plaintiff replies Assets but shews not in what place whether within the Jurisdiction Judgment was erroneous yet per Dodderidge If the Jury find the Assets to be deins Jurisdiction its sufficient though not so alledged Q. if Costs and Damages shall be given to the Plaintiff on such Judgment 2 Rolls Rep. p. 48. Brown and Carrington In all Courts he must shew the place of Assets Q. Cro. Jac. 502. id Case Co. Rep. 6.46 Dowdales Case Det vers l'heir pendant le Action another Action was brought against the same Heir upon another Obligation of the Ancestor Judgment is given for the Plaintiffs in both Actions but the Plaintiff in the second Action obtains Judgment first he for whom the first Judgment was given shall be first satisfied but if the Heir after the first Action brought had aliened and the Plaintiff in the second Action commenced his Suit after such Alienation had obtained Judgment before the first Plaintiff in that case the Plaintiff in the first 〈◊〉 on should be satisfied and he in the second Action not at all Mod. Rep. 253. Anonymus In Det vers l'heir by Bill after riens per dâ—sm pleaded tempore exhibitionis Bills the Defendant excepted at the Trial because the Bill was not shewed and the Plaintiff was non-suit Per Câ— the Bill is confest and need not be shewed 1 Kâ—b p. 793. Rogers and Rogers The Heir shall put in Bail on a Writ of Error per Stat. 16 Car. 2. c. 2 Keb. 320. Coâ—ber and Walton Det vers tres Co-heirs two confess Assets the other pleads to Issue and is non-suited it s a Non-suit against them all though the two have confest and so the Plaintiff lost his Debt there being â—n Alienation before a new Original Siderfin p. 378 Blacks Case He ought to confess the Assets that truly descend to him otherwise his own Land shall be charged with the Debt Plow 440. Pepyes Case Dyer â— Henninghams Case Dyer 344. Qu. if upon â—il dicit or non sum informatus Judgment shall be general but in Sc. fac sur Recognizance of the Ancestor against the Heir he pleads riens per descent which is false here Judgment shall be special for he is not charged as Heir but as Terre-Tenant at the end of Popham 1 Car. B. R. 153. Bowyer and Ricots After Imparlance one is estopt to say that he is not Heir being charged in Debt as Son and Heir so to say he is a Bastard 35 H. 6. 36 37. The Heir pleads riens per descent besides one Acre if the Plaintiff please he may have Execution of that one Acre or if the Plaintiff plead that he hath Assets beyond that Acre and it be found that he hath ten Acres more the Plaintiff shall have Execution of the Land only and not of his Person Where the Heir pleads he hath nothing by descent generally and it s found against him the Land and all other Land that he hath and his Body are â—iable to judgment by Ca. sa Fi. fat or Elegit â—1 Brownl Rep. 254. Qu. what difference between a false Plea and nil dicit 2 Keb. 343. Riens per descent after the death of the Ancestor Prist Such Issue shall be good in a Formedon for if he have Assets at any time he shall be charged and barred of his Formedon intirely in this Case it must be riens jour de brevâ— purchase nec unâ—pâ—is 10 H. 7.8 b. In Det vers 4 Co-heirs on several Issues on riens per descent Assets was found as to one only Judgment given against her that had Assets quod reâ—uperes debitum damâ— sua generally 〈◊〉 de hunis propriis 2 Keb. p. 588. Cary and Brickmâ—r versus Lock On nil dicit the Heirs own Lands and Goods shall be charged i. e. a general Judgment The Heir pleads Lands set out for Portions besides a Reversion of which he hath nothing replies a third part descended Judgment special 1 Keb. 156. Cudmoâ— and Lâ—wis Judgment against the Heir upon nil dicit shall be general and shall extend to his own Lands as well as to those which specially descend Poph. 154. Bowyers Case Mâ—or n. 657. Barâ—r and Borâ—e Capias lies too against the Heir in Case of a false Plea 2 Leon. p. 11. Sir John Lyons Case The Defendant confesseth he hath a seck Reversion beyond which he had no Assets the Plaintiff said he had ouster and were at Issue the Plaintiff comes and prays leave to wave this Issue and to have Judgment of the Reversion quod fuit concessum quando accideret 1 Rolls Rep. 57. Anonymus The Jury find the Defendant had divers Lands in Fee by descent and shews not what yet Judgment good for upon his false Plea Judgment shall be given generally against him if he have any Assets and so the quantity of the Assets is not material but otherwise in Case of Executors for there they must find the value of the Assets for he must there recover according to the Assets found 1 Rolls Rep. 234. Evet and Sucliff M. 13 Jac. 1. B.R. The Judgment and Execution shall be general unless the Heir acknowledgeth the Action and shews that he hath so much by descent Cro. M. 41 and 42 El. 692. Barker and Bourne If the Heir pleads riens per descent and it be a faux Plea it shall be a general Judgment against him and no Writ of Enquiry need to be to enquire what Lands he hath and need have no special Judgment for the Judgment ought to be that the Defendants Body and Goods shall be liable and half his Lands Stiles p. 287 288. Allery and Holden If the Jury find he hath Lands by descent and name them and Judgment accordingly its erroneous Stiles p. 327. Subgrave and Bosvil Cro. Jac. p. 236. Molineux Case Armourer versus Willis 2 Keb. 642 643 667 719. What Bail the Heir shall put in 3 Keb. 803. Lawrence and Blith Bonds of Arbitrament I Shall not here run into the Learning of Awards which is a curious and large Title in our Law and of which Mr. March hath composed a very Methodical Treatise but take notice of some few select Cases which respect the Nature of such
was If Tenant in Tail of the Mannor of D. be bound in a Recognizance to J. S. which Recognizance after comes to the King by the Attaindâ— of J. S. of High-Treason and after Tenant in Tail dies and the Issue in Tail alien the Lands bona fide whether the King may extend the Lands in the Hands of the Alience It was resolved That if Tenant in Tail become indebted to the King by Judgment Recognizance Obligation or other Specialty and dies before any Process or Extent and the Issue in Tail alien the Land bona fide this Land shall not be extended by force of this Statute And also that in this Case in as much as the Debt was originally due to a Subject it is not within the Act to charge the Lands in the possession or seisin of the Heir in Tail or of his Alience for this Act extends only to Debts immediately due to the King originally and not to those which accrew to him by way of Assignment Outlawry Attainder Forfeiture Gift of the Party or any other collateral way 7 Rep. 21. Lord Andersons Case The Statute of 7 Jac. makes Assignments of Debts void other than such as grow originally to the Kings Debtor bona fide it restrains Assignments of Debts which are not due to the Debtors themselves but assigned to or by them to other Persons The purport of this Law was That no Debtor of the Kings should procure another Mans Debt to be assigned which was a common practice but a Man may assign his own Debt tho not to his own Use for what he may himself release and discharge by the same Reason he may assign as B. was bound to C. in a Stat. of 2000 l. C. dies Intestate his Wife administers and marries F. F. with others became bound to the King in 6000 l. F. and his Wife by Deed enrolled in Cur. Ward assign the Statute to the King by payment of the 6000 l. the Assignment was good Hob. p. 253. Brediman and Coles Cro. Hill 16 Jac. p. 524. id Case A Duty which is not naturally a Debt but by circumstance only as Debt upon Bond for performance of Covenants or to save harmless may be assigned over to the King for Debt yet a present Extent shall not issue but a Scire Fac. 2 Leon. p. 55. Beaumounts Case Debt against one as Executor and upon fully administred pleaded it was found pro Quer. who assigned the same to the King 2 Leon. p. 67. Noons Case M. indebted to S. by a Note in writing per me but not sealed such a Debt may be assigned to the Queen 3 Leon. 234. March An Obligation may be assigned to the King sans Deed enrolled 3 Leon. p. 234. South and Marsh 21 H. 7.19 Where the King sues for a Debt assigned to him the Obligor cannot plead nil debet for by the Assignment it s become matter of Record ibid. An Obligation forfeited to the King by the Statute 28 Eliz. c. 8.1 Q. if the King may grant before Seisure 2. There are two Obligees and one forfeits Q. if the King shall have all the Bond 1 Rolls Rep. p. 7 12. Jac. B. R. Cullan and Bets. In Assignment of a Bond to the King the â—ead shall only be liable from the time of the Assignment but in Assignment of a Recognizance or Statute the King shall have the Land at the time of the Judgment rendred Lit. Rep. p. 125. Roy versus Hanton By the grant of bona catalla an Obligation passeth i. e. Paper and Wax yet the Grantee may not have Action upon this for that is not transferable Lit. Rep. 87. Dyer 25 H. 8.5 If a Debt be assigned to the King in this Case no priority of Execution 1 Brownl 37. A Condition to save harmless for assigning a Bond vide the Form Bridgmans Presidens Clark was indebted to A. by Bond and after delivers to Andrews certain Hogsheads of Wine to satisfie the said Debt and afterward Clarks Obligation is assigned to the Queen for A's Debt Per Cur. the property of the Goods by the delivery of them to Andrews before the Assignment was altered 2 Leon. 89. Bridget Clarks Case A. was indebted to B. who was indebted to the Queen B. assigned his Debt to the Queen by all the Barons Process shall be awarded out of the Exchequer to enquire what Goods A. had at the time of the Assignment and not what he had tempore scripti praedict fact 3 Leon. 196. Obligation Of Creditors in respect of Statute of Bankrupts and Assignments OSborn and Bradshaw were Sureties pro Churchman and had Counterbonds to save harmless the Sureties paid the Mony and afterwards Churchman became a Bankrupt Resolved that they were Creditors within the Statute 13 Eliz. Cro. Jac. 127. Osburn versus Churchman If an Obligation be taken in the Name of another to the use of a Bankrupt the Commissioners may well assign that unless the other party hath of his own Mony satisfied Debts due by the Bankrupt Noy p. 142. Caâ—â—hman's Case Debt sur Obligation assigned by Commissioners of Bankrupts and doth not shew the Obligation he need not because he comes in by act of Law and hath no means to obtain the Obligation As Tenant per Statute Merchant or Dower shall have advantage of a Rent Charge sans shewing the Deed. Cro. Jac. p. â—9 Gray and Fâ—â—lder R. is indebted to S. and B. joyntly S. becomes a Bankrupt and the Commissioners assign the Obligation to B. Q. 1 Keb. p. 167. Roylston and Ratcliff If I am bound to J. S. and he before Bankrupcy assigns the Bond this is liable to the after Bankrupcy of J. S. being only suable in his Name 2 Keb. 331. Backwell versus Litcott In Debt sur Bond the Defendant pleads before Action brought the Plaintiff became a Banrupt Per Cur. it 's an ill Plea and until an Assignment made the Debtor is defenceless and payment before Commission sued out is good enough and so it is before his Debt be assigned 3 Keb. 316. Andrews and Spicer In Debt sur Obligat the Defendant pleads that it was in trust for Holt who was a Bankrupt virtute Commission ' c. this Debt was assigned to Ashly and Penning aliis Creditoribus The Plaintiff replies It was not assigned The Defendant demurs specially for doubleness The Court conceived the Bankrupcy traversable as well as the Assignment yet the Issue is well enough 3 Keb. 737. Jones and Bolton Condition to give account to the Creditors c. 1 Keb. 815 843. Selby versus Walker The Disposition by Commissioners of Bankrupts saves the forfeiture of the Obligation 2 Keb. 202. in Robin's Case I shall here subjoyn some things respecting Matters of Tort as Forgery Detinue c. of Obligations Forgery IF a Man forge a Bond in my Name I can have no Action of the Case yet but if I am sued I may tho' I may avoid it by Plea But if it were a Recognizance or Fine I shall
must be barred Stiles p. 93. Anonymus If an Obligation be made the 17th day of November Anno 12 Jac. And the Condition is to pay 5 l. the 21st day of November ensuing and 5 l. the 20th day of December next after the first 5 l. ought to be paid the 21 Nov. 12 Jac. for it refers to the day and not to the month 1 Rolls Abr. 442. Price and Coa If a Condition be to pay 10 s. when A. comes to his House and 10 s. at the Feast of St. Michael and then at the Feast of St. Andrew then next ensuing 10 s. these last Sums ought to be paid at the said next Feasts or Time and not at the next Feasts after A. comes to his House ibid. If a Condition be to pay so much citra such a Feast it ought to be paid on the Eve of the said Feast and not on the Feast day the same Law is If it be paid infra Festum or ante Festum but if it be to be paid in Festo it must be on the Feast day 1 Rolls Abr. Tit. Condition p. 442. Condition of an Obligation upon an Adventure to New-found Land to pay so much Mony within 40 days next after the Ship shall make her first return and arrival this Voyage from New-found Land into the Port of Dartmouth or into any Harbor Creek or Part of England where she shall first unlade her Goods and after the Ship doth return to Plimouth where she unlades her Goods the Obligor is to pay the Monies within 40 days after the arrival of the Ship and shall not have 40 days after the unlading of the Goods for this is not for Fraight but for an Adventure and the unlading of the Goods is only mentioned to describe the Haven where the Arrival shall be and not to put a limitation of payment of the Monies to have 40 days after the discharge but perhaps it might be some doubt if the unlading was not within 40 days the Plaintiff saith He paid not the Mony within 40 days after the Arrival of the Ship and avers that the Ship was unladen of the Goods but no time alledged of the unlading and per Cur. if it were not unladen with 40 days it ought to came on the other part to shew this 1 Rolls Abr. Tit. Condition 442. Leet and Cholwick Stiles p. 30. id Case The Condition was to pay at or before the 29th of September next at such a place if the Obligor tender the Mony the 28th of September at the place and the Obligee is not there it s a void Tender for the Tender is to be the last day but if the Obligor meet the Obligee at the place before the day and then he tenders it this is sufficient and Obligee ought to receive it Cro. El. p. 14. Hawly and Simpson A Bill Obligatory to render and pay 1188 Florens which then amounted to 33 l. 12 s. to he paid id solutionem Festi Purification ' called Candlemass day next ensuing the Plaintiff in his Declaration avers that praedictae solutiones dicti Festi Purification next after the making of the Bill were according to the use of Merchants the 20th day of February the Defendant pleads non est factum and found against him in Arrest resolved that payment among Merchants is known to be on the 20th of February and the Judges ought to take notice of it and the rather because the Defendant by his Plea confesseth the Declaration to be true in that Averment 1 Brownl Rep. 102. Pearson and Pentes The Condition is to pay Anno Dom. 1599. in and upon the 13th of Octob. next after the date hereof at D. where the 13th of Octob. next after the date is long time before 1599. let this shall be paid in 1599. and not before for that is first expressed 1 Rolls Abr. 444. Crook Eliz. p. 420. Hankinson and Kile The Condition if he paid 15 l. at the Feast of St. Michael next following and on the Feast of the Annunciation 15 l. and so yearly upon the said Feasts until H was advanced to a Benefice that then c. The Defendant pleads he was presented to a Benefice before the first Feast of St. Michael it is no Plea for the Advancement dischargeth not the two first Summons due at the said Feasts The limitation until he be advanced goes only to the other subsequent Payments Crook Eliz. p. 549. 2 Anders 65. Countess of Warwick versus the Bishop of Coventry A Condition to deliver 20 Quarters of Corn on the 29th day of February next following and that Month had but 28 days per Cur. he is not bound to deliver the Corn till such a year comes when February hath 29 days and that is Leap-year 1 Leon. 101. Anonymus A Condition to pay 20 l. at the Feast of our Lady without limiting in certain what Lady-day whether Conception Nativity or Annunciation per Cur. it shall be intended such a Lady-day which should next happen and follow the date of the Bond 3 Leon. p. 7. Anonymus Quaere An Obligation dated 15 May The Condition was to pay 20 l. the 11th day of May next ensuing this shall be intented the next 11th day of May the same May when the Obligation was made and not in the next Month of May 2 Rolls Abr. 255. Crook Jac. 646. Prescot's Case A Condition to pay 60 l. on the 25th of June 12 Jac. The Defendent pleads he paid it the 20th of June 12 Jac. The Plaintiff replies he did not pay it the said 20th of June Issue and Verdict pro Quer. it is Error the Issue is taken debors the matter of the Condition and so an ill Plea and void Issue and not aided by the Statute of 32 H. 8. for it may be the Obligation was not forfeited notwithstanding this Verdict Crook Jac. 435. Holmes and Brocket The Defendant demanded Oyer which was to pay mony the 31st day of September where in truth there are not so many days in September and he pleads solvit ad diem upon which they were at Issue and found for the Plaintiff and Judgment For the Condition being impossible the Obligation was due presently and it was an Issue upon an insufficient Bar which being found for the Plaintiff it is helpt by the Statute as in Nichols's Case in Payment pleaded in Bar upon a single Obligation Jones Rep. p. 140. Jiggen and Purchass The Bond was dated in March and the Condition was for payment super vicesimum octavum diem Martii prox sequentem per Cur. it shall be understood of the currant Month had it been sequentis perhaps aliter cited in Modern Rep. p. 112. One had put himself an Apprentice to Sell for seven years and Sell bound himself to pay to his Apprentice his Executors or Assigns 10 l. at the time of the end or determination of his Apprentiship the Apprentice serves six years and then dyes per Cur. the Obligation is discharged Tho per Cook if
one lease Land to another for seven years if the Lessee should so long live and the Lessor obligeth himself to pay 10 l. at the end of his Term and he dies within seven years the Mony was presently due upon his death 1 Brownl Rep. fo 97. Cheney and Sell. The Condition is that the Obligor before such a day shall make a Lease to the Obligee for 31 years if A. B. will assent to this and if he will not assent then for 21 years the Obligor must make the one Lease or the other before the day though A. B. might assent at any time before the day Dyer 347. a. If a Condition be to stand to the award of J. S. and he awards him to pay 10 l. at such a day this is a good performance if he pay this before the day and the other accept it for Payment before contains Payment at the day Berry and Perrin 1 Rolls Abridg. tit Condition p. 440. 30 Ed. 3.32 b. So if the Condition be to pay so much to a Stranger and he pay it before the day ibid. So if the Condition be that a Stranger shall enfeoff a Stranger such a day and he enfeoff him before the day this is a good performance ibid. So if the Condition be to enfeoff a Stranger after the death of J. S. if he enfeoffs him during the Life of J. S. this is a good performance for that it continues a good Feoffment after his death 9 H. 7.17 20. If the Condition be to make an assurance within a Month after the date of the Obligation he is not bound by any request to do this at any certain time but he may perform this at any time within the Month Perpoint and Thimbleby 1 Rolls Abr. tit Condition 441. But if the Condition be to make farther assurance within a Month upon Request of the Obligee if the Obligee request within the Month and he refuse though he be ready afterwards within the Month to do it yet the Obligation is forfeited inasmuch as the time of the Month is limited to the Request mesme Case ibid. The Condition of an Obligation is If the Obligor do at all times hereafter within the space of one Month when he shall be required make such farther Act and Acts Assurance and Assurances as the Obligee shall by his Counsel demand c. then c. If the Obligee do not demand any farther Assurance within the Month after the making of the Obligation yet the Obligor is bound to make farther Assurance within a Month after Request made after the Month passed after the making the Obligation for that the first words at all times hereafter are without limit and the other words within one Month when he shall be required refer to the Request and it is not like the common Covenant to make farther assurance within seven years for Usage hath interpreted this that he shall not be farther troubled after seven years H. 1650. Wentworth and Wentworth 1 Rolls Abr. 441. The Latitat is ret die Lunae prox post Sanct. Trin. which was the 10th of July the Sheriff arrests him the 10th of July and takes Bond the same date with Condition to appear coram Dom. R. die Lunae prox post crast Trin. it seems he ought to appear the same day and not that day twelve month 1 Rolls Abr. 444. May and Hooper If A. be bound 1 May with a Condition to pay to B. 10 l. at the Feast of St. Michael without saying more this shall be intended the Feast of St. Michael next ensuing 1 Rolls Abridg. 444. Lewknor and Smalwood Payment or Performance where no time is limited Presently or within convenient time IN the Condition of a Bond for payment of Mony no time is limited it is to be paid presently this is within convenient time So in other Conditions which concern the doing of transitory Acts as delivery of Charters c. Aliter of local Acts Vid. puis 6 Rep. 30. b. Bothies Case Co. Lit. 208. a. 38 E. 3.12 Crook Eliz. p. 798. Nose and Bacon Popham p. 198. Sir Rob. Brown's Case If the Condition be to pay a certain Sum to a Stranger without limiting any time this ought to be within a convenient time 1 Rolls Abr. tit Condition fo 437. the Bishop of Rochester's Case The Condition was if the Defendant did sell the Tithes in R. that he should pay the Plaintiff such a Sum of Mony but if he sold them not then he should deliver an Obligation to the Plaintiff for the payment of an express Sum at a certain day Moved in Arrest that he had not convenient time and it appeared not by the Record that he had but per Cur. there was convenient time between the date of the Bond and bringing the Action especially a second thing being to be performed Stiles p. 11. Williamson and Henly If the Condition be to make a Retraxit of a Suit he ought to do this within a convenient time So if it be to acknowledg satisfaction in such a Court 6 Rep. 30 Bothies Case 1 Rolls Abr. 436. If the Condition be to perform the award of J. S. who awards the Obligor to pay 10 l. without limiting any time he ought to pay this within time convenient 22 E. 4.25 A Covenant to make farther assurance at all time and times and the Covenantee adviseth he shall levy a Fine he shall have convenient time to do it for the words at all times shall have a reasonable Construction 1 Rols Abridg. 441 Perpoint and Thimbleby A Condition to make an Obligation to the Obligee by the advise of J. S. of 40 l. immediately yet he shall have reasonable time to do this 18 E. 4.21 Where by the Condition a thing is to be performed upon demand yet he shall have reasonable time to perform this after demand 15 E. 4.30 During the Lives of the Parties not before Request WHere by the Condition the Act to be done to the Obligee is of its own nature local as to make a Feoffment c. there the Obligor no time being limited hath time during his Life to perform it if the Obligee doth not hasten the same by Request for this is collateral and not like to payment of Mony Crook Eliz. 798. Nose and Bacon Yet when the Obligor may do that that is local in the absence of the Obligee as to acknowledge satisfaction in the Court of Kings Bench there he must do it in time convenient Co. Lit. 208. a. 6 Rep. 30. b. Bothes Case The Condition is to do such Acts c. for the better assurance c. to B. that shall be devised by B. or his Counsel c. B. deviseth a Release A. not being lettered desires to shew it to Counsel before he seal it he shall not be allowed reasonable time to shew it he having taken it upon him to do it Co. 2 Rep. Manser's Case p. 1. 1 Rolls Abr. 440. If the Condition be pay without limiting any time