make a Lease for years the second of May and the Dean and Chapter confirme it the first of May this is a good Lease after the Bishops death by Catlin and Southcote Wray How can a Lease be confirmed before it be made Catlin and Southcote The assent before is a good confirmation after Hil. 40 Eliz. AN Obligation wanted these words In cujus rei Testimonium and yet adjudged to be good 7 H. 7.14 Dyer 19 A. It was said by Catlin in the Star Chamber that if an Infant being a Feme Covert or other Infant does levy a Fine by grant and render to her or him in taile or for life and the Husband dye the Wife shall not have a Writ of Error because she is Tenant of the land and she cannot have a Writ of Error against her selfe so that she is without remedy so in the case of the other Infant Cardell Master of the Rolls in the case between Stinkley and Chamberlain said that when Executors had Goods of their Testator to dispose of to pious uses they cannot forfeit them for that they have them not to their own use but their power is subject to the controlement of the Ordinary and the Ordinary may make distribution of them to pious uses And it was said at the Bar that the Ordinary might make the Executors account before him and to punish them according to the Law of the Church if they spoile the Goods but cannot compell them to imploy them to pious uses Hil. 28 Eliz. IN an Action of Slander the words were Thou art an arrant Whore and hadst the French Pox. It was moved in Arrest of Iudgment that the words were not actionable because part of them relate to the time past but by the Court adjudged that the action is well brought because it is a discredit to the woman and thereby others will shun her company Trin. 31 Eliz. Inter Winter and Loveday IN this Case which was put by Coke it was agreed that a stranger as Cornwall in this Case was could not tender the money to be paid upon the Mortgage for it ought to be one who hath interest in the land and so was it in the 28 H. 8. between Whaydon and Ashford where the Mother ought to have made the tender for her Son within age and because it did not appear within the Verdict what age the Infant was whether he was of the age of fourteen years or more so that his Mother could be Guardian to him by reason of his Nurture or not It was awarded that she could not make a loyall tender In an Assumpsit for a hundred pounds the case was That the Defendant in consideration of a French Crown given him by the Plaintiff did assume and promise that if he did not such an act before such a time that then c. It was moved by Godfrey that the Plaintiff can onely recover so much as he is damnified by the French Crown and the like case was before the Chancellor where a Gentlewoman took the death of her Husband so heavily that she said she would never marry againe and her Son comforted her and said God will provide a new Husband and said that he would give her ten pounds to pay a hundred when she should marry which money she accepted of and then the Son brought an Assumpsit for the hundred pounds within half a year after she married And the matter was brought into the Chancery And the Master of the Rolls awarded ten pounds onely and said he would give never a penny more because it was unreasonable to bar a Gentlewoman from marriage The Lord Rich was seised of Hadley Park and of all the Tythes thereof and payed for the Tythes but one Buck in the Summer and a Doe in the Winter for thirty years past The Park was disparked and turned into arrable land and the Parson would not receive this Fee Buck and Doe but would have tythe Corne and thereupon brought him into the Spirituall Court and he brought a Prohibition And Carus and Catlin said that he need not pay other Tythes but Buck and Doe for although they be not tythable yet may they be paid by composition and he may not take them but they are to be delivered to him and in like manner Partridges and Pheasants in a Garden are not tythable yet may they be paid in lieu of Tythes and shall be brought dead to the Parson and although there be no Park yet may he give a Buck out of another Park and perhaps it may be made a Park agen Mich. 13 and 14 Eliz. NOte it was said by Dyer that an Adminiscrator durante Minoritate cannot bring an Action of debt for he is but as a Servant or Bailiff in such cases A Devise was made to the Major Chamberlaine and Governors of the Hospitall of Saint Bartholmews whereas they were Incorporate by another name yet the Devise held good by Dyer Weston and Manwood for it shall be taken according to the intent of the Devisor And Weston said that a Devise to A.B. a mans eldest Son is good although his name be not B. because the other words do make a sufficient certainty It was said That by the Grant Panagium Hoggs may eat the grasse but if a man grant his Acrons the Grantee must gather them and where Panagium is granted the Grantee may put in his Hoggs into the place granted If Tenant for years hold over his terme he is Tenant at sufferance and his descent shall not take away entrie But if Tenant for terme of anothers life holds over his terme he is an Intruder and his descent shall take away entrie Quod fuit concessum per Dyer A Court-Baron may be holden at any place within the Mannor but not out of the Mannor and so a Leete may be held in any place within the Liberty and Franchise and although no Court hath time out of mind been holden within the Mannor yet it is not thereby lost for it is incident to a Mannor of common right Coke L. 4.26.6.27 A. Mich. 14 and 15 Eliz. AN account was brought by Tottenham against Bedingfeild who pleaded Ne unques son Baily pur account render Gawdy prayed the opinion of the Court if the Action would lye And the Case was thus The Plaintiff had a Lease of a Parsonage and the Defendant not being Lessee nor claiming any interest took the Tythes being set forth and carried them away If the Lessor may have an account against such Trespassor was the question Manwood Iustice An Account will not lye because there is no privity and wrongs are alwaies without privity yet I will grant that if H. receive my Rents I may have an account against him for my assent to have him receive it makes a privity and when he hath received the Rent he hath not committed any wrong against me because it is not my money till it is paid and therefore in this case I may resort to my Tenant and compell him
expounded as they are commonly taken and not to go to any strict construction of the words as Heirs in the Latine is used also for goods by the Civill Law but we use it only for lands and so Libra in Latine signifies a Weight and yet if I am bound in Vigint Libris if I forfeit my Bond I must pay money and not Lead or the like And so the word Puer is somtimes taken for a servant Claudite jam rivos pueri c. and the same reason that it may be intended for a Daughter may be for a Servant also Gawdy I suppose the Son shall have it and not the Daughter for although Pueri was taken for Male and Female yet now it is taken for Male in any Modern Author but to omit curiosity of words we ought to consider rather the intent of the parties and there are many circumstances to prove that he intended this to his Son and not to his Daughter for he made it for setling his Inheritance and it shall not be supposed that he intended his Daughter should have it Also where the case may be taken two waies the most usuall shall be intended as in case of a reservation of a Rent at Michaelmas that shall be intended at the chiefest Feast also in this case it shall be intended that he would advance the most worthy of his blood and therefore to that purpose the conveyance shall be expounded for if there be two I. S. and I give land to I.S. it shall be intended to my next Neighbour but if one be my Cosin although he dwells forty miles from me yet he shal have the land And to this Southcote accorded 31 Eliz. in B. R. Hone against Clerk A Woman Lessee for life takes Husband who by Indenture makes a Feoffment of the land to I.S. for these words Sciant per Servantes Richardum How Katherin uxor ejus dedisse I.S. unum messuagium habendum praedict I.S. heredibus suis ad solum opus usum of the said I.S. and his Heirs during the life of Katherine The question was if this was a forfeiture because the wife was Tenant for life and the Attorney argued that it was for the words Pro termino vitae Katherin are referred to the use only and not to the estate for by these words habendum to him and his Heirs the estate is limited and therefore it is a forfeiture but after comes the limitation of the use ad usum I.S. and his Heirs during the life of the woman and after the death of the woman the use remaines in the Feoffor and he cited the Lord Sturtons case in the beginning of the Queens Raign The Lord Sturton gave land to Clerk and his Heirs to the use of Clerk and the Heirs of his body and adjudged that it was not an estate in taile for the limitation of the estate was before in the Premises Coke on the contrary and said that those words For life of the wife are to be referred to the limitation of the Estate for if a double sense be in words such sense shall be taken as shall avoid all wrong and therefore it shall not be so expounded as that the Grant shall not take effect and that a forfeiture shall ensue 4 Ed. 2. and see a notable case for exposition of words and for relation of words and sentences 34 Ed. 3. Avowry 58.28 H. 8. Dyer Gawdy It is a forfeiture Clench said he would advise but afterwards it was adjudged a forfeiture for as Wray said the estate given was forfeit Mich. 36 37 Eliz. Bagnall against Porter in B. R. Rot. 353. A Man by Indenture bargains and sells his land and if the Bargainor pay 100 l. at such a day that then he shall be seised to the use of the Bargainor and his heirs and did assume to make such assurance for the security of the land as should be advised by the Councell of the Bargainor and the Bargainee bound himself in a Recognizance to performe the said Covenants And in debt upon the Recognizance it was shewn that the Bargainor paid the money at the day and had tendred to the Bargainee a Deed in which was comprised an acquittance of payment of the money and also a release of all his right and the Bargainee refused to seale it Coke was of clear opinion that he ought to have sealed it for it is necessary to have the Deed to mention payment of the money for otherwise the Bargainee and his heirs may claim the land for default of payment Gawdy of the same opinion and cited 19 Ed. 4. Popham The case is not so clear for if he had tendered an acquittance only there is no doubt but the Bargainee might refuse to seale it and by the same reason he may refuse when it is joyned to a thing that he is bound not to do viz. to seal the release but at last the matter was referred to Arbitration Hillar 37 Eliz. COke demanded this question A man having two Daughters his Heires does demise his Land to them in Fee What estate had they by this Demise For if a man deviseth Land to his eldest Son it is voyd and he is in by descent That it was holden by the Court that they shall hold by the Devise because that he gives another estate to them then descended for by the descent each of them had a distinct moyety but by the Devise they are Joyn-renants and the survivor shall have all And Fenner sayd If a man had Land in Burrow-English and Guildable Lands and devised all his Land to his two Sons and dyes both of them shall take joyntly and the younger shall not have a distinct moiety in the Burrow-English nor the elder in the Guildable Land but they are both Joyn-tenants Pasch 37 Eliz. Carrell against Read in B. R. Rot. 270. A Lease for years was made of divers Fenny grounds in Cambridge ss and the Lessee covenanted to defend the ground for being surrounded with water and to drain the water out of other lands that were demised to him in the said County And upon an Action of Covenant for not performing the Defendant pleaded that the Plaintiff had entred in the land demised And adjudged no plea by the Court because the Covenant was not in respect that the Lessee should enjoy the land nor was it a Covenant abhering to the land but to a collaterall thing but if it had been in respect of enjoying the land there it is a good plea to say that the Plaintiff had entred but where the thing to be done is collaterall it is otherwise and also if he did plead such plea yet it is not a bar unlesse he holds him out of possession Coke lib. 3.221 4 Ed. 3.29 the Lord shall not have a Cessavit after entry in parcel 10 Ed. 4.11.35 H. 6. Bar 162.19 Ed. 4.2 Trin. 37 Eliz. in B. R. Rot. 1076. Dogrell against Perks IN an Action of Covenant The Defendant pleaded
was peritus in legibus Angliae and that he was retained to he of Councel and adjudged no good plea for he should alledge that he was Student for a certain time and was elected by the Benchers to be a Barrester And Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff Michaelm 41 42 Eliz. Swan against Gateland Rot. 3267 or 3667. IN a ravishment of Ward the Plaintiff demurred that T. B. was seized of land in socage and dyed and J B his son is of the age of two years and that the Guardianship belongs to him because he is next friend 〈◊〉 parâ—… maâ—…s J.B. viz. the brother of E.B. the infants mother The Defendant pleaded that E.B. the infants mother was his mother also and that he was begotten by one Gateland on the said E.B. and the said Gatelaâ—e dyed and the said E.B. did marry the said T.B. and had issue the infant and so concluded quod erat propinquior am cus absque hoc that the Plaintiff is propinquior amicus and upon this was a Demurr Hern for the Plaintiff The question is whether the uncle shall be Guardian in socage or the brother of the half blood and he said the uncle should have the Wardship because there is a more natural affection between the uncle and the infant than between the infant and the brother of the half blood and if there be not love he cannot be the procheme amy although in judgement of Law he be the next of kin 31 Ed. 3. Gawdy 157. In a Writ of Ward the Plaintiff declared that he was next of kin of the Plaintiff the mother of the infant and it was pleaded against him that the infants mother was alive but he replyed that the mother had made a Charter of Feoffment to the disherison of the infant and that she was attaint of Treason And in 15 Eliz. the brother who claimed the Wardship of his younger brother was also within age and therefore it was ruled that the uncle should have the Wardship because alterum â—…quâ—r regeâ—… qui seâ—psum nequit And 5 Ed. 6. the brother of the half blood is next of kin to whom administration shall be given before the mother for the Statute of 27 H. 8.15 sayes that the next of kin shall have it and the brother of the half blood is the next of â—in but Guardianship shall be given by the Law to the nearest friend and that is the uncle Williams contr For although the brother be but oâ— the half blood yet he shall have the Wardship for the brother is the next of kin to whom the inheritance cannot descend and the 31 Ed. 1. does not gainsay this for the mother was denyed the Wardship because she was attaint of Treason for the Law will not suffer that the infant shall be in Ward to any who may be suspected to do wrong to the infants land or to his person and therefore he shall not be in Ward to any that may inherit him for there is a suspicion that he may kill the infant And 5 Ed. 6. Brook Administration 47. it is agreed that the brother of the half blood is next of kin and that is the cause of the nearness of love and it cannot be intended that there should not be love between persons so nearly allyed And 30 Assi 47. a remainder was limited propinquioribus de sanguine and there it is agreed that the brother is next of blood Warburton contr The uncle shall have the Wardship for two causes for there is not such natural love between two brothers of the half blood as is between the uncle and the infant of the whole blood Also the Statute sayes that he shall be in custody parentum haeredis and therefore he ought to be in custody of those who are of most antient degree who are the parents but one brother cannot be parent to the other Walmesley contr For the brother is the procheine amy and so hath it been ruled in the time of the Lord Dyer in 7 Eliz. in C. B. for he ought to be in Ward to him that is next of blood and most remote in succession And the 5 Ed. 6. proves that he is next of kin and such nearness must needs procure love and although it sometimes happens that there is not such love yet this cannot alter the Law that alwayes intends amity and although the Statute of Mariebirdge speaks of parents that is intended of such as are of full age and of sound memory for if he be not then some other that is the next of kin shall have the Wardship and he told Warburton that he would shew him a report of such a Case where it was ruled accordingly before the Lord Dyer Hillar 43 Eliz. Peck against Charnell in C. B. Rot. 1703. IN an Ejectment upon a special Verdict the Case was this John Burly seized in Fee of land doth devise it to his wife for life the remainder to William Burly in tail the remainder to his next heir-male being of his sirname in Fee and dyes and then his wife does intermarry with William Burly who had the remainder in Tail and then they levyed a Fine come ceo c. to J.S. and by the same Fine J.S. rendred to the wife for life the remainder to the husband in Fee and then a common recovery was had against the husband and wife and that was to the uses contained in the Fine then the wife dyes and the husband dyes without issue and the right heir male of the sirname of the Devisor enters and makes a Lease to the Plaintiff who being outed by the Lessee of William Burly brought the Action Williams Here are two points first if this be a discontinuance â—y the wife secondly if the recovery barrs him in the remainder And as to the first point when woman tenant for life and he in the remainder in Tail being her husband do joyn in a Fine this shall not be a discontinuance of the estate Tail for by Littleton discontinuance cannot be by way of grant although it be in case of a Fine but ought to be by Livery And as to the second point Knivetons Case Bâ— 252. is express in the point that notwithstanding the common recovery yet the entry of him in the remainder is legal for as to the point of recovery a base Fee doth pass to the Conusee of the Fine which is rendred back again to the woman for life and her husband in Fee and by the Common Law there was no remedy for him in the reversion against a recovery had against Tenant for life 7 H. 7.12 5 Ed. 4.2 untill the Statute of Westminster the 2. which gives to him a Writ of ad terminum qui praeteriit and by the Statute of the 23 of H. 8. he may enter but now the question is whether this recovery will bar him in the remainder of his entry because the recovery was of another estate and not against his Tenant for life But I conceive
Estoppell otherwise if it were by Deed. Vid. 1 H. 7.12 Mich. 32 33 Eliz. Marshes Case in B. R. Rot. 1011. MArsh and his wife brought a Writ of Errour as Executors to Nicholson to reverse an Outlawry upon an Indictment of Felony pronounc'd against the Testator Altham of Grayes-Inne The sole point was whether the Executors may have a Writ of Errour and I hold that they may for if there be no heir it is great reason that the Executors should have it for otherwise the erroneous judgement cannot be at all reverst and every one shall have a Writ of Errour that is damaged by the erroneous judgement and Executors have right to the personal estate to have Errour For if a man recovers damages in a Writ of Cosenage and the land also and dyes his heir shall have Execution for the land and the Executors Execution for the damages by the 19 Ed. 4.5 43 Eâ— 3. 13 Ed. 4.2 If a man does recover my villain by a false Verdict the heir shall have an attaint for the villany and the Executors for the damages and a Writ of Errour shall be given to him to whom the right of the thing lost doth descend as it was adjudged in the Case of Sir Arthur Henningham and he cited two presidents in the point 1 Tâ—…ity 11 H. 8. Rot. 3. where an Administrator brought a Writ of Errour to reverse a Iudgement given in an exigent Vid. 2 Rep. 41. a. Cook contr In Natura Brevium 21 M. he sayes an Executor shall have a Writ of Errour upon a Iudgement given in Debt against the Testator and the heir shall have Error to reverse Outlawry in Felony and to restore him in his blood and he said that it was part of the punishment in Felony to have the blood corrupted sic filius portat iniquitatem patris and by reason of the attainder he cannot inherit any Ancestor wherefore he having the damage it is reason that he should reverse it And although Executors shall have a Writ of Errour for Chattels personal yet they shall not have one when they are mixt with things real 5 H. 7.15.18 Ed. 4. If Writings be in a Box the heir shall have the Box because real things are more regarded than personal Nevertheless in this Case the Writ of Errour is in a real Action for the Law sayes that it is in the same nature as in original action whereupon it is brought as if Errour be brought to reverse a Iudgement given in a personal action the Writ of Errour is personal and so in like manner is it real if the first action be real 47 Ed. 3.35 35 H. 6.19 23. and although the first action be mixt yet the Law does rather respect the reality 30 H. 6. Barr. 59. where two brought an assize and one did release and there it was said that although this were a mixt action yet it shall be according to the most worthy and that is the reality and 16 Assi 14. divers Disseisors being barr'd in an assize did bring a Writ of attaint for the damages and summons and severance was suffered for damages were joyned with the reality and Stanford 184. If a man be indicted before a Coroner quod fugam fecit if he after reverse the Indictment yet he shall have his goods for de minimis non curat Lex But note that the Iustices said that the fugam fecit was the cause of forfeiture of the goods and not the Felony And as to the presidents he agreed to the Case of the 18 H. 7. for an Executor shall have a Writ of Errour to reverse Iudgement given in an exigent for there nothing but the goods are forfeit 30 H. 6. Forfeiture 31. and for the president in 11 H. 8. it cannot be proved that the Outlawry was for Felony Vid. Rep. fol. 3. 33 Eliz. Lilly against Taylor in B. R. Rot. 467. MArsh seized of the land in question did devise this to Rose Lilly for life and if she fortun'd to marry and after her decease should have any heirs of her body lawfully begotten then that heir should have the land and the heirs of the body of such heir and for default of such issue the land shall revert to Philip Marsh his son and his heirs and the question was if the husband of Rose shall be Tenant by the curtesy or not and so if Rose had estate Tail or for life onely Godfrey She hath estate but for life and he cited a Case adjudged in Benlowes Reports 40 Eliz. where lands are devised to A for life and after his decease to the male children of his body and it was adjudged that the male children have an estate Tail by purchase and nothing by descent and so A had nothing but for life Gawdy agreed for she hath but for life and when she dyes her issue shall have it Popham agreed if the words were that if she had issue that he should have it But Clench held that she had an estate in Tail executed and that her husband shall be Tenant by the curtesy Fenner The issue is as a Purchaser for the Devisor intended that Rose should not have a greater estate than for life And also it was agreed by all the Iustices that a Devise to a man and his heir shall be accounted a Foe-simple for that the word heir is collective and so is the 29 Assi where land was given to a man and to the heir of his body uno haeredi ejusdem haeredis this is an estate Tail Popham He shall be Tenant by the curtesy and he agreed that heir of the body was a good name of purchase but if a Frank-tenement be limited to his Ancestor and by the same Deed it is also limited to his heir the heir shall be in by descent But Fenner on the contrary Pasch 38 Eliz. Bolton against Bolton Rot. 882. 582. TEnant for life being impleaded doth pray in aid of him in the Reversion who joyn and lose c. and the Tenant for life brings a Writ of Errour and the Record is removed and he in the remainder brings a Writ of Errour also De Recordo quod coram vobis residet and the question was upon which Writ of Errour the Iudgement should be reverst and it was objected that if it should be reverst by the Tenant for life that he in the remainder should be restored But Gawdy Fenner and Clench contr Who held that it should be reverst at his suit who first brings the Writ as in case of Interpleader it shall be alwayes upon the first Writ And notwithstanding the removing of the Record by the Tenant for life at the next term the Court said it was at their discretion to reverse this at suit of anâ— of the parties as they pleased and because they observed some indirect practices by him in the remainder it was reverst at suit of Tenant for life Pasch 5 Jacob. Sir Henry Dimmocks Case in the
opinion he relied upon the intention of the Donors which ought to be observed For if the Habendum does crosse the Premisses it shall be void but a Remainder is good for the benefit of a stranger but a Rent cannot be reserved upon such a Gift during the foure degrees but after the Reversion is good if he do attorne to the Gâ—…ntee of the Reveâ—sion Windham Frank-marriage is not an Estate in taile for there wants the word Heires Coke lib. 1.103 So a Gift to a man semini suo 10 Ass 26. and after Meade â—greeâ— with Windham although the grounds of Frank-marriage were not observed yet that it was good for although there be no Tenure between the Donor and Donee yet is it a good Frank-marriage Dyer It is no good Frank-marriage because the usuall words are not observed and if the word Liberum be omitted it is not Frank-marriage neither is it good given to a man but it must be to a woman for a man cannot give land to a woman Causa matrimonii praelocuti And in this case the party ought to be of the blood of the Donor who by possibility may be inheritable to him and there ought to be a Tenure between them and an acquittall and if any faile it is no Frank-marriage and he said further that if it once takes effect as Frank-marriage and then the Donor grants the Reversion or the Reversion discends to the Donees yet it shall not be destroyed but shall remaine as an Estate in taile and not for life because it once took effect in the Donees and their issues and if land be given to a man in Frank-marriage the remainder in taile yet this shall not destroy the Frank-marriage and the Donee shall hold of the Donor and not of him in the remainder And if one give land in Frank-marriage the remainders to the Donees in taile yet is this a good Frank-marriage and if the Donor grants over his Services yet doth the Frank-marriage continue although the Donees attorn for they are incident to the Reversion and therefore the Grant is void but if the Reversion be granted the Services will passe and he concluded that the Husband had all and the Wife nothing because no Estate to her is mentioned in the Premisses and he could not construe the words to be the intent of the Donor for here is an expresse limitation of the fee to the Husband and his Heirs which cannot be controlled by intendment And after 25 Eliz. It was adjudged to be no Frank-marriage nor gift in taile but a Fee-simple And the Iustices said that the ancient Books were that where it took not effect as a Frank-marriage it should be in especiall taile yet those at this time are not Law But they agreed that this at one time took effect as Frank-marriage and by matter ex post facto may be made an Estate in taile Mich. 30 Eliz. Gibbs Case GIbbs brought an Action of Trover against Basil for a Gelding the Case was One Porter stole this Gelding from the Plaintiff and sold him to the Defendant in open Market by the name of Lister and it was entred so in the Toll Book that Lister sold him The question was if this alteration of his name shall make any alteration of the property although the sale was in open Market Windham and Rhodes Iustices held this no good sale to bar the Plaintiff and grounded their opinion on the Statute of the 2 and 3 Phil. and Mar. cap. 7. which provides that no property of stollen Goods shall be altered that are sold unlesse the name and surname of the parties to the sale be written in the Toll-book And Shuttleworth moved that it should be in the Market and walked there for an houre together which is not set forth by the Defendant in his Bar but the Iustices said that such speciall plea need not to be but shall be intended Rouses Case IT was moved in this Case that if Tenant for terme Dauter vie does continue and hold in his Estate after the death of Cestuy que vie If he be a Disseisor and whether in pleading the plea ought to be seised and not possest Shuttleworth He was legally in at first and therefore cannot be a Disseisor 15 Ed. 4.41 A Freehold could not be gained where he came in by the agreement of the party and 12 Ass 22. Where the Husband and Wife were seised of a Freehold and after were divorced by Suit on the womans part whereby the woman is to have all the land yet if the Husband continue possession and dies seised this discent shall not take away entry because he was no Disseisor Gawdy He is Tenant at sufferance and no Disseisor and there it was moved that if Tenant at sufferance or a Disseisor makes Copies of Copyhold Lands if they be good or voidable And note that Wilde took here a diversity between a Termor that holds over and a Tenant at sufferance for in case of a Tenant at sufferance there is no Freehold taken from the Lessor which the continuance of possession doth not take from him but where the Tenant holds over his terme there the Freehold is disturbed and therefore there is a disseisin But at that present it seemed to the Iudges that there was no diversity But the next terme Godfrey moved that if Tenant for anothers life held over his Estate he had Feesimple and he granted that it was otherwise in some cases for if he claim to be Tenant at the Will of the Lessor he shall not gaine a Fee-simple For Littleton in his Chapter of Releases 108. saith that Tenant at sufferance is where a man in his own wrong doth convey Lands and Tenements at the will of him that hath the Freehold and such Occupyer claimeth nothing but at Will But in this case the Tenant claimes otherwise then at Will of the Lessor he does not claim any thing but at the Will of the Lessor as in the case of Littleton but claimes to hold over against the Will of the Lessor which is no Tenant at sufferance and 10 Ed. 4. If a man makes a Lease at Will and the Lessor dies and he continues possession and claims fee the Heire shall have a Mortdancester and 18 Ed. 4.25 If Cestuy que use dies and the Tenant continues in and the Tenant is impleaded the Lessor shall not be received and the reason is because there is no reversion in him but the Tenant hath it and 22 Ed. 4.38 by Hussey Iustice If a Termor holds over his Terme there an Estate in fee is confest to be in him by matter of Law but it is a deubt whether he be a Disseisor or not but it seemeth not for a Trespasse doth not lye against him before Regresse and in the 7 H. 4.43 If a Guardian holds the possession at the full age of the Heir or Tenant for years after his terme expired the Estate shall be judged in Fee And in our case he hath
not claimed to hold at Will for he hath done contrary for he hath made Copies By all the Iustices if Tenant at will or for years or at sufferance make a Lease for years this is a Disseisin and a Tenant at will doth thereby gaine a Freehold and thereby doth claim a greater Estate then he ought and so it is in this case 2. Admitting him to be Tenant at sufferance the question is if he may grant Copies and if whether they be good and it seems he may for no trespasse lies against him because he is Dominus pro tempore and it is not like a Copy made by an Abator or Disseisor for it hath been adjudged that Copies made by them are void but in this case his act of making Copies agrees with the Custome as in Grisbrooks case If an Administrator sells Goods and paies debts with the money and after he who is Executor proves the Will he shall never avoid this sale for that it was done according to the Will which the Executors were compelled to do So in the 12 H. 6. If a Baily cuts Trees and repaires an ancient Pale this is good and 6 R. 2. if he paies quit-rents it is good Coke He comes in by right and therefore is Tenant at sufferance and like this case is Dyer 35 H. 8.57 Lord Zouches case where Cestuy que use for life the remainder over in taile made a Lease for the terme of the life of the Lessee and dies and the Lessee continues his Estate And the opinions of the Iustices of both Benches were that he is but Tenant at sufferance Popham If a Mannor be devised to one and the Devisee enters and makes Copies and then the Devise is found to be void yet the Copies of Surrender made by such Devisee are good but contrary where new or voluntary Copies are made by him 7 Eliz. and in the Lord Arundells case a Feoffment in fee was made of a Mannor upon condition the Feoffee upon Condition grants voluntary Copies those are good Atkins on the contrary And he made a difference between a Tenant at will and a Tenant at sufferance for a Tenant at will shall have aid but so shall not the other as in the 2 H. 4. and a Release to one is good to the other not c. and when he holds over he doth assume an Interest which shall not be thought wrongfull for he is neither Abator nor Disseisor and therefore Dominus and therefore the Copies made by him are good 4 H. 7.3 Tenant at sufferance may justifie for Damage-feasant And all the Iustices held for the Plaintiff and that he that made the Copy was but Tenant at sufferance and not Disseisor and that he had no Fee And the Iudgment was to be entred unlesse the Defendant shewed better matter Trin 28 Eliz. Rot. 329. Smiths Case SMith assumed upon himselfe that when I. N was indebted to I.D. in an Obligation of forty pounds that if I.D. would not implead the said I.N. that then if the money were not paid at such a day that then he viz. the said Smith would pay the money Vpon which Assumpsit after the day I.D. brought his Action on the case and did set forth in his Declaration that he did not implead I.N. and it was moved by Kingsmill that he could not have this Action untill I.N. be dead for so long as he lives I.D. hath time to implead him As if a man promiseth another that he will be named in his Action that he hath against a third person and if the third person payes not the money at such a day then he will he cannot sue unlesse he shewes he hath discharged the other of the Obligation Clench It is implied that he will never implead him Shuttleworth Iustice not so for if hereafter he sue him contrary to his promise then the other who made the Assumpsit shall have his Action on the case and recover to the value of the sunâ—m in the Bond. And after the case was moved again and the Plaintiff brought the Obligation in Court and thereupon the Obligation was entred so that now the Plaintiff could not implead I. N in posterum for which Iudgment was entred for the Plaintiff 29 Eliz. Cosens Case COsen the Father had issue three Sons John George and Thomas John the eldest died in the life-time of his Father his Wife Enseint with a Daughter the Father makes a Devise in these words That if it shall please God to take to his mercy my Son Richard before he shall have issue of his body so that my Lands shall descend to my Son George before he shall be of the age of one and twenty years then my Overseers shall haue my Land untill George come to the age of one and twenty years If Richard who is yet living had an Estate in taile by these words was the question And all the Iustices agreed that it was a plain implication to make an Estate-taile in Richard the second Son 13 H. 7.17 29 Eliz. in C. B. Warrens Case WIlliam Warren brought an Action of Debt for forty pounds and in his Declaration confessed satisfaction of twenty pounds and hereupon a Writ of Error was brought in the Kings Bench and the Iudgment reversed For by his Declaration he had abated his owne Writ and he ought to have Iudgment according to his Writ and not to his Count. And Error was brought upon the Outlawry for if the first Record was reversed the Outlawry thereupon is reversed 4 and 5 Phil. Mar. BEnlowes Serieant moved this case a man seised of Lands and Teâ—ements in London devises them by these words I will and bequeath unto my Wife Alice my livelyhood in London for terme of her life By this Will the lands in London passe to the Wife by this word Livelyhood Nota for Brook Iustice said that it was in ancient time used in divers places of this Realm and had been taken for an Inheritance To which Dyer agreed Case of Slander BRook said that if a man speak many slanderous words of another he who is slandred may have an Action on the case for any one of these words and may omit the others But if a man write many slanderous things of another in a Letter to a friend an action upon the case will not lye for it shall not be intended that it is done to the intent to have it published Mich. 1 and 2 Eliz. N. Arch-bishop of York and I.B. Executors of the last Will and Testament of Thomas Duke of Norfolk did bring a Writ of Ravishment de Guard and then he was deprived by his own consent The question is if the Writ shall abate Benlowes It shall abate for if a Dean and Parson of a Church bring an Action for such a Custome and then resigne the Writ shall abate because it is their own Act. Dyer The Writ shall not abate for the Action is not brought in their own persons but in their Testators and
that it was enacted by the Major of London and common Councel that if any Citizen takes the Son of an Alien to be his Apprentice that the Covenants and Obligations shall be void and he shewed that he was the Son of an Alien and became an Apprentice to the Plaintiff who is a Citizen and made the Covenants with him for his Apprentiship And demanded Iudgment And it was held no Bar for notwithstanding the Act the Covenant is good for it is the Act of the Defendant although the Act of the Common Councell be against it but the said Act may inflict punishment on any Citizen that breakes it And Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff Trin. 41 Eliz. in B. R. Knotts against Everstead LEssee for life the remainder for life the remainder in taile he in the reversion who had the fee does enter and enfooffs the Lessee for years and adjudged that by this Feoffment Nihil operatur Popham said that he who hath a term cannot license another that hath nothing in the land to make a Feoffment for he who hath the Freehold wants nothing but possession to make a good Livery but in this case he who makes the Livery had not the Freehold and therefore the license is void But Tanfeild said that if Lessee for life gives leave to a stranger to make Livery it is void but if he consent that the stranger shall make a Feoffment it shall amount to a Disseisin and the Feoffment is good Which was denied by the Court. And Clench said if a Lessee for ten years makes a Lease for one year to him in reversion there he in the reversion who hath the land for a year may make a Feoffment to the Lessee for ten years and it is good Trin. 41 Eliz. Moyle against Mayle MOyle brought an Action of Waste against Mayle and declared that he had leased to him a Mannor and a Warren and that he had destroyed a Cony-borough and subverted it and assigned otherwastes in cutting down certain Thornes Williams The Action of waste will well lye and said that a Warren consisted or two things of a place of Game and of liberty and to prove that a waste did lye for a liberty he cited the Statute of Magna Charta Cap. 5. in which a Warren is intended also the Statute of Marlebridge cap. 24. and the Statute Articuli super Chartas cap. 18. by which Statutes it is evident that a waste does lie for Warrens and a Warren is more then a liberty for a Writ lies Quare warrenam suam intravit and by the 12 H. 8. if Lessee of a Warren does break the Pale it is a waste also if Lessee of a Pigeon-house stop the holes so that the Pigeons cannot build a waste doth lye as it hath been adjudged Also if Lessee of a Hop yard ploweth it up and sowes Graine there it is waste as it hath been adjudged Also the breaking a Weare is waste and so of the Banks of a Fish-pond so that the water and fish run out To all which cases the Court agreed except to the principal For the Court held it was not waste to destroy Cony-boroughs for wast will not lye for Conies because a man hath not inheritance in them and a man can have no property in them but only possession and although by a speciall Law Keepers are to preserve the land they keep in the same plight they found it yet thiâ— does not bind every Lessee of land Walmsley The subversion of Cony-boroughs is not waste and it was usuall to have a waste against those who made holes in land but not against those who stop them up because therby the land is made better And it was said that to dig for stones was a waste unlesse in an ancient Quarry although the Lessee fill it up againe And Walmsley said that in Lancashire it is waste to dig Marle unlesse it be imployed upon the land And said it was not waste to cut thornes unlesse they be in a Wood stubbed and digged up by the roots but if they grow upon the land then they may be stubbed and it is no waste But to cut down Thorne-trees that have stood sixty or a hundred years it is waste Hil. 32 Eliz. in B. R. Sir George Farmer against Brook IN an Action of the Case the Plaintiff claimeth such a Custome in the Town of B. that he and his Ancestors had a bake-house within the Town to bake white bread and houshold-bread and that he had served all the Town with bread that no other could use the Trade without his license and that the Defendant had used the Trade without his license upon which the Defendant demuâ—'d Morgan This is a good Prescription and it is reason that a Prescription should bind a stranger vide 11 H. 6.13 A. prescribed to have a Market and that none should sel but in a Stall which A. had made and was to pay for the Stall and held there a good Prescription And the Arch-bishop of Yorks Case in the Register 186. is a good case A man prescribed that he had a Mill and he found a horse to carry the Corn thither and that therfore they ought to grind there and because they did not he brough his Action on the case Buckley contra It cannot be intended to have any commencement by any Tenure 11 H 4. A. procured a Patent that none should sell any thing in London without paying him a penny adjudged not good and the case of the Arch-bishop was good because he had it ratione dominii tenuri And adjudged the principall case that the action will not lye 23 Eliz. in C. B. Farrington against Charnock KIng Henry the 8 granted Turbariam suam in D. at Farrington rendring rent sur 21. years and then the Lessee imployed part of it in arable land and relinquisht part of it in Turbary and then Q. Mary grants Totam illam TurbariaÌ„ before demised to Farrington and adjudged that that passed only which was Turbary and the other part that was converted into Tillage did not passe Mich. 18 Eliz. in B. R. SIr Arthur Henningham brought an Action of Error against Francis Windham to reverse a common recovery had against Henry Henningham his brother and the Error assigned was that there was no warrant of Attorney of the Record And it was agreed by the Bar and Bench and adjudged error But the great point was if the Plaintiff could have a writ of Error The Case was Henry the Father had Henry his Son and three Daughters by one Venter and the Plaintiff by another Venter and died seised of the land intailed to him and the Heirs Males of his body Henry enters and makes a Feoffment the Feoffee is impleaded and voucheth Henry who looseth by default in the recovery and dies without issue and whether the Daughters which are Heirs generall or the Plaintiff which is Heir in tail shall have the Error Gawdy and Baker for the Defendant who said
that the Estate-tail was not barred Dyer The Estate tail is barred and made a difference where the Fine is defeated by entry by reason of the Estate-tail and where it is defeated by entry by reason of another estate-tail as in 40 Eliz. Tenant in tail discontinues and disseiseth the Discontinuee and levies a Fine to a stranger and retakes an Estate in Fee before the Proclamations passe the Discontinuee enters and then the Tenant in tail dies seised and adjudged that the Issue is not remitted for the Statute 32 H. 8. saies That a Fine levied of lands any way intailed by the party that levies the Fine shall bind him and so it is not materiall whether he were seised by force of the estate-Estate-tail or by reason of another Estate or whether he have no Estate And all the Iustices were of opinion that the Estate was barred for although the discontinue had avoided the Fine by the possession yet the Estate-tail remains concluded and the same shall not enter by force of the Estate-tail but by force of the Fee which he had by discontinuance Popham Avoidance of a Fine at this day differs much from avoidance of a Fine at the Common Law for it appears by the 16 Ed 3. that if a Fine at the Common Law be defeated by one who hath right it is defeated against all but at this day the Law is contrary for if a man be disseised and the Disseisor die seised his Heir within age and he is disseised by a stranger who levies a Fine and then five years passe the Heire shall avoid this by his nonage yet the first Disseisee is bound for ever for the Infant shall not avoid the Fine against all but only to restore the possession And therefore it was adjudged in the Lord Sturtons Case 24 Eliz. where Lands were given to him and his Wife and the Heires of him and he died and his Issue entred and levied a Fine to a stranger and before the Proclamations passed the Mother enters it was adjudged that the Issue was barred for the Wife shall not avoid this but for her own Estate And so if a stranger enters to the use of him who hath right this shall not avoid the Fine Fenner did agree to this and said that it had been so adjudged but all the Iustices agreed that the Estate-taile being barred the entry shall go to the benefit of him who hath most right to the possession and that is the discontinue and therefore the Plaintiff in the Formedon hath good Title to the Land but onely to the Fee and not to the Intaile for that is barred by the Fine 28 Eliz. in C. B. Rot. 2130. Gibson against Mutess IN a Replevin the Case was John Winchfeild was seised of Lands in Fee and by his Will did devise all his Lands and Tenements to Anthony Winchfeild and his Heires and before his death made a Deed of Feoffment of the same Lands and when he sealed the Feoffment he asked If this Feoffment will not hurt this last Will if it will not I will seal it And then he sealed it and made a Letter of Attorney to make Livery in any of the said Lands the Attorney made Livery but not of the Lands which were in question and then the Testator died And the question was if the Devisee or Heire of the Devisor should have the Land And it was said in behalf of the Heire that if the Testator had said It shall not be my Will then it is a Revocation Quod curia concessit But it was the opoinion of the Court that it appears that it was the intent of the Testator that his Will should stand and if it be not a Feoffment it is not a Revocation in Law although that the Attorney made a Livery in part so that the Feoffment was perfect in part yet as concerning the Land in question whereof no Livery was made the Will is good and the Iury found accordingly that the Land does not descend to the Heire Fenner cited a Case of Serjeant Jeffereys where it was adjudged that where one had made his Will and being demanded if he will make his Will doth say he will not that this is no Revocation Sir Wolston Dixy against Alderman Spencer 20 Eliz. in C. B. IN a Writ of Errour brought upon a Iudgement given in an Assize of Fresh-force in London The case was Sir Wolston Dixy brought an Action of Debt for rent arrear against Spencer upon a Lease for years made to him by one Bacchus who afterwards granted the reversion to Dixy and the Tenant attorned and for rent arrear Dixy brought an action c. The Defendant pleaded in Bar that before the Grant made to Dixy the said Bacchus granted it to him by parole according to the custome of London whereupon he demanded Iudgement if c. and the Plea was entred on Record and hanging the suit Dâ—xy brought an assize of fresh force in London and all this matter was here pleaded and it was adjudged a forfeiture of the Land and hereupon Spencer brought a Writ of Errour and assigned this for errour that it was no forfeiture Shuttleworth It is no forfeiture untill a Trial be had whether the reversion be granted or not as in wast the Defendant pleads that the Plaintiff had granted over his estate this is no forfeiture and in the 26 Eliz. in a Quid Juris clamat the Defendant pleaded that he had an estate Tail and when he came to have it tryed he acknowledged he had an estate but for life and that was no forfeiture But the Court said they could remember no such Case Walmesley It was so adjudged and I can shew you the names of the parties Periam Justice If there be such a Case we would doubt of it for there are Authorities to the contrary as the 8 Eliz. and 6 Rich. 2. Anderson If the Defendant in a Trespass prayes in aid of an estranger this is a forfeiture and if it be counter-pleaded it is a forfeiture and the denial alters not the Case Walmesley The Books in 15 Ed. 2. Judgement 237. and 15 Ed. 1. that Iudgement in a Quid Juris clamat shall be given before the forfeiture Andâ—rson In my opinion he may take advantage before Iudgement as well as after if the Plea be upon Record And so was the opinion of the Court. The Dutchess of Suffolks Case Pasch 4 5 Ph. Mary in C. B. IN a Quare impedit against the Bishop of Exeter the Writ was ad respondendum Andrew Stoke Dennisae Franciscae de Suffolk Uxori eâ—uâ— Benlowes demanded Iudgement of the Writ c. because she lost her name of dignity by marriage with a base man as it was adjudged 7 Ed. 6. Dyer 79. where Madam Powes and her husband brought a Writ of Dower and the Writ abated because she called her self Dame Powes whereas she had lost her dignity by marrying with her husband Stanford agreed for Mulier nobilis si
Statute sayes that the lands devised shall be devised into three parts and that is to be understood of such an estate as may be divided but so cannot a Seigniory For put the case that the Lord held by a Hauke the whole Mannor shall descend and cannot be divided and so de catalla Fellonum Fenner contra For it seems to me that the seignory passeth and so it shall be if he held but a mesualty 7 Ed. 4. A man held by Frankalmoigne he shall say infra feodum suum and in reputation amongst men a seigniory is a Mannor for if a man makes a feoffment of a Mannor with livery where he hath no Mannor yet shall it passe 7 E. 3. Where a Mannor passeth by the name of Knights Fee And as to the intirenes of the seigniory it is easily answered for although the rent were entire yet it may be severed for a Rent Charge is entire yet a proportionment may be made thereof 44 Ed. 3. To which the Court agreed that the Rent without doubt might be severed Walmesley For the Plaintiff the Question is if the Rent passeth by the name of a Mannor to the Devisees If a Grandmother deviseth land to her daughter J.S. Whereas she is her daughters daughter yet this is good because in common speaking she is so called but here the words are not apt nor used in common speaking viz. That Rent should be taken for a Mannor and therefore it is voyd as a gift to the right heirs of J.S. who is attaint 19 H. 8. And he concluded with this difference that where the words have any affinity or likelihood to the Mannor then it will passe by the name of a Mannor As if a man deviseth his house and land by the name of a Mannor it shall passe But here being but a service it is otherwise Gawdy cont For if it the Rent passe not nothing shall passe which is a hard construction on a Will For 21 Rich. 2. Devise 27. a Devise Ecclesiae sancti Andreae is a good devise to the Parson of the Church And in Brett and Rigdens Casea man devised a Mannor in which he had nothing and after purchased the Mannor the devise is good And in 26 H. 6. feoffment 12. Land will not passe by deed by the name of a house but land will passe by the name of a Carue and a Carue by the name of a Mannor and I hold that the Rent in this case will passe by the name of the Mannor for a Mannor does consist of Demesnes services and rent may be called a Mannor aswell as a Carue and and the King gives it by the name of a Mannor to the Devisor and that is the reason that the Devisor calls it a Mannor And if you grant to me an Advowson by the name of the Church and Rectory and I devise the Rectory the Advowson and the Church will passe by the name of Rectory And in Plouden 194. A man did let his house and great demesnes rendring Rent and did devise to another all his Farme there the Devisee shall have all the Rent and the Reversion also Michaelm 29. 30. Bishop of Lincolnes Case Rot. 1528. 2200. IN a quare impedit brought by the King against the Bishop of Lincoln and Leigh the Incumbent The Case was The Bishop had an Advowson in gross and presented J.S. who took a second Benefice with cure whereby the first became void and continued so untill Lapse fallen to the Queen and after the title of Lapse fallen to the Queen the Bishop presented one J. who was inducted and by reason of Recusancy to pay Tythes was deprived and by the Statute 26 H. 8. the Church became void ipso facto whereupon the Bishop presented one Leigh within six months and now the Queen would present Fenner This Case is the same with Bosherulls lately adjudged But the Court said that here was a privation for Recusancy and therefore it would make a difference And afterwards Pasch 30 Eliz. Walmesley For the Queen said That if a Lapse be fallen to the Ordinary if the Patron doth present before the Bishop hath Collated he ought to receive his Clerk but where it is divolved to the King the Patron by no means can defeate the King but he may remove his Clerke at his pleasure but if such Incumbent be present after such Lapse and die then the title of the King is gone and his time passed by the act of God but in our Case the avoydance which does oust the King from his Lapse is avoidance by reason of Recusancy to pay Tithes which is the proper act of the Incumbent as is a resignation and no such avoydance being by the act of the party himself shall oust the King of his Presentation for in the 2 H. 9. In annuitie against an Abbot who resigns the Writ shall not abate for then the Plaintiff shall never have a good Writ So in our case if the King be outed of his Lapse by such devises he shall never have a Lapse for every one will usurp upon the Kings Lapse and will presently resign or misdemesn himself whereby to avoid the Lapse And in the 18 Ed. 4. the 19. By Pigot A writ brought against a Prior shall not abate although the Prior be not deposed for it is his own fault Fenner This Lapse is given the King by his prerogative but on this Condition that he take it in due time for so is the nature of things lapsed for if after a title accrued to the King he suffer usurpation and the Incumbent die his Lapse is lost for the nature of the Lapse is such that it must be taken at its time and where the title of the King is limited to a time there he shall not have his prerogative for a prerogative cannot alter estates As if the King grant a seigniory in gross rendring Rent and the Tenant to the Lord dies without heir whereby the tenant escheates the seigniory is extinct and the Rent of the King is gone aswell as it is in the case of a Common person And so if the King have a Rent feck for life out of my land if I die he cannot distreine in my land for the arrerages as he may in my life time And so where the Statute gives Annum diem vastum to the King yet he shall not have it after the death of the Tenant for life so if the King reserve a Rent upon a Lease to an Estranger and the stranger enters in respect of the land whereby his entire rent is suspended now the condition as to the King also is suspended during that time for the nature thereof is to be attendant upon the rent 22 H. 3. If a man grant a Rent upon condition to cease during the minority of his heir and after this Rent comes to the King and the Grantee dies the Rent shall cease during the minority of his heir so that by all these cases the
21. years that is good and the Executor shall have it as in right of his Testator But where a man makes a Lease for years or life the remainder after his death for 40. years to his Executors the Executors shall have it as purchasors for this word remainder divides it from the Testator and makes the Executors purchasors Walmesley Glanvill and Kingsmill cont And their chief reason was from the intent of the parties and their intent was that the Lessee should have an estate during life for it is to him for 89. years if he so long live and because by common intendment he cannot survive those years their intent was that his Executors should have it after his death and that the certainty of the time might be known it was limited for 40. years And W lmsley said that the Administrator could not have this by purchase for when a man takes by purchase he must be named by an apt name of purchase by which he may be known as if there be tenant for life the remainder to the right heirs males of J.S. and J.S. hath issue two sons and the eldest hath issue a daughter and J.S. dies this daughter shall never take any estate because she is not heir male she hath no name of purchase and therefore here the Administrator cannot take by purchase for the Administrator comes in by the ordinary and therefore cannot be an assignee And at last Iudgment was given That the Administrator should hold it as a thing vested in the Intestate Michaelm 41 42 Eliza. VVhite against Gerish in C. B. Rot. 366. IN a Replevin the Defendant avowd for Rent The case was this Two persons did joyne in leavying a fine to J. S in Fee â—ur coâ—…ns de droit come ceo c. J.S. by the same Fine renders the Lands to one of the Conusors in taile reserving Rent and further would quod tenementa preâ—…cta remanerent to the other who is the avovee Walmesley The Rent shall passe as if a man grants land for life and also grants quod tenementa predicta remaneâ—unt to another these words Quod tenementa predicta do make a grant of the reversion and also these renders are as severall Fines and so it shall be taken as a grant in Taile rendring Rent and after a grant of the reversion Glanvill accorded Warburton If a man makes a gift in Taile rendring rent the remainder over in Fee the Donor shall have the Rent and not he in the remainder Walmesley That is true in a grant but not in a Fine Anderson If a man makes a gift in Taile rendring rent and at the same instant grants the Reversion and the Deeds are delivered accordingly this shall passe as a reversion And after it was adjudged to be a grant of the reversion and that the rent passeth Crawleys Case IN Replevin the case was thus A Rent is granted to two during the life of J.S. to the use of J.S. the grantee dieth and if the Rent were determined was the Question Walmsley The rent remains to J.S. for the grantees have an estate during the life of J.S. and by the Statute of the 27. l. 8. the use is raised and conjoynd with the possession whereby the Rent it self is carryed to J.S. whereby J.S. hath an absolute estate for his life and the life of the grantees is not materiall as if Rent be granted to two for the life of J.S. if he does not grant over the rent their lives are not materiall And if they grant over and dse the Rent shall not cease but the grantee shall have it during the life of J.S. And here the Statute 27 l. 8. vests this in cestuy que vie otherwise if it were before the Statute of use quod fuit concessum per curiam Pasch 41 Eliz. Shaw against Sherwood Rot. 2504. THe Executors of Shaw brought an Action of Debt for 20 l. upon a Bill and the Bill was thus I William Shaw have received of Thomas Pret 40 l. to the use of Robert Shaw and Elizâ—beth Shaw equally to be divided which said sum I acknowledge my self to have received to the use aforesaid and the same to re deliver again at such time as shall be most fit for the profit and commodity of the said Robert Shaw and Eâ—…zabeth Walmesley Two points are here First if this be a Debt to cestuy que use or to him who gave it Secondly if it be divided so that each of them shall have an Action for 20 l. And as to the first he held that it was a debt to him for whose use the money was delivered and as to the second that they shall have a debt as of several debts by reason of these words equally to be divided Kâ—…gâ—…m Here is no Obligation for the words are not obligatory but onely an acknowledgement of the receipt Glanyâ—ll accorded Walmesley When he acknowledged the receipt to both their uses without question such Receiver is a Debtor And agreed by the Court that admitting it was a Debt that then it shall be a divided Debt and not joynt Quod nota Lane against Cotton IN Debt upon a Bond on condition to pay 20 l. within a month after the Obligee had a son that did or could speak the Lords Pâ—…er in English that he could be understood the Plaintiff pleaded that he had a son qui loqui potuiâ— praecationem Domini uâ—intelligâ— potuerit and the Defendant demurr'd because it was pleaded that he had a son qui loqui potui for that is a secret ability that cannot be known Kingsmill The plea is good and shall be tryed as in case of a Writ of non comâ—…s mentis Glanvill accorded for it may be proved by the testimony of those who have heard him speak and if he ever spoke it it is good evidence that he had ability to speak Walmesley contr Because it is a secret thing it cannot be tryed Kingsmill A man is bound in a Bond to give me 20 l. when the River of Varâ— is novigable it is a good plea to say that the River is navigable without saying that some have navigated upon it Herâ— Serjeant cited a Case adjudged in a Quare impedit by the Patron against the Bishop who had pleaded that the Parishioners were Welshmen and that they could not understand English and that the Clerk he presented could not understand Welsh and the Patron pleaded that the Clerk could speak Welsh and upon Demurr it was adjudged a good issue and that such matter might be tryed Anderson The issue is good and it is at the election of the party to plead quod loqui potuit vel loquutus est And if I am obliged to you to give you a 100 l. when I am able to go to Pauls this may â—e tryed although in facto I never went to Pauls and if I am able I shall pay the money And he cited Broughtons Case where in Maintenance the Defendant pleaded that he
the 32 H. 8. And the Court held that an Assignee of part of the reversion might take advantage of the condition or covenants so that he hath part of the reversion of all the thing demised And Cook Chief Iustice said that the opinion of Mourson 14 Eliz. 309. a. is good Law Pasch 36 Eliz. Butler against Archer IF two Ioyntenants be of land holden by Herriot service and one dies the other shall not pay Herriot service for there is no change of the tenant but the survivor continues tenant of the whole land But if a man seised of land in Fee makes a feofment to the use of himself and his wife and the heires of their two bodyes begotten the remainder to the right heires of the husband and the husband dyes a Herriot shall be paid for the ancient use of the reversion was never out of the husband Michaelm 29 30 Elizab. Stephens Case in C. B. IN an Ejectment the Case was Sir William Beale made a Lease by Indenture to William Pile and Philip his wife et primogenito proli Habendum to them and the longer liver of them successively during their lives and then the husband and wife had issue a daughter And it was holden by three of the Iustices that the daughter had no estate for that she was not in esse at the time of the grant Michaelm 30 31. Eliz. Lewin against Mandy in C. B. Rot. 2529. IN a Replevin the Defendant avowed for 20 l. Rent which was pleaded to be granted by Lovelace and Rutland by Fine to Stukeley and his heires who being seized thereof did recite that he with 7 others were Plaintiffs in a Writ of Covenant against Lovelace and Rutland upon which a Fine was levyed by which Fine the said Lovelace and Rutland amongst other things did grant a rent of 20 l. out of the Mannor of D. and other Lands to the said Stukely who granted it to Hoveden under whom the Defendant claymes in Taile The Question was if this were a good grant because there are many misrecitalls in the Indenture for whereas he recited that in the Writ of Covenant for the fine Lovelace and Rutland were Defendants in truth they were Plaintiffs and Stukely and the others Defendants and whereas he recited that the said grant was made to him it was made to him and his heires also he said that the said Rent Charge amongst other things was granted whereas nothing but the 20 l. Rent was granted and that only out of the Mannor of D. and not out of other Lands Anderson If a man recites that he hath a Rent of 10 l. of the grant of J.S. whereas he hath this of the grant of J.D. yet is the grant good And at last it was adjudged that the grant was good Note that Fenner at this time said that it had been resolved by Anderson and Gawdy and other Iustices very lately That if the Kings Tenant dies his heir within age yet the heir at full age before livery sued may bargain and sell by Deed inrolled or make a Lease for years and it is good but if he makes a feofment or leavie a fine â—ur conusance de droit come ceo c. this is voyd because it cannot be without intrusion upon the King Trinit 39 Eliz. Oldfeild against VVilmore in C. B Rot. 2715. IN Debt upon a Bond to performe the award of J.S. who did award that the Defendant should pay 10 l. or cause two strangers to be bound for the payment thereof the Defendant pleaded performance the Plaintiff replyed that he had not payed the money and the Defendant demurred Walmesley for the Plaintiff For although the award be in the disjunctive yet forasmuch as it is voyd as to one part now upon the matter it is single and on the non payment of the ten pound is forfeit 17 Ed. 4.5 Windham and Rhodes held that the Plaintiff should have pleaded so much of the award as was for it is a thing intire and the Law will adjudge that one is only to be done because the other is contrary to the Law Anderson and Peryam The plea is good for a man shall not be compelled to shew a voyd matter and although the Defendant had caused the two strangers to be bound the obligation is broken for as to this arbitrement it is meerely voyd and at another day the Plaintiff had judgment Goodridge against VVarburton IN an Ejectment The Iury gave a speciall verdict that Francis was seised of the land in Tayle and suffered a Recovery to the use of him and his heirs and afterwards did devise the same lands to his wife Margery untill his daughter Prudence came to the age of 19. years and then that Prudence should have the Land to her and the heirs of her body upon condition to pay twelve pound per annum to the said Margaret during her life in recompence of her dower and if she failed of payment then Margaret should enter and hold the Land during her life and afterwards it shall go to Prudence as before And after this John Francis the heire did reverse this recovery by a Writ of Errour and entred upon Margaret and she brought her Writ of Dower and was indowed of the third part and then she levyed a Fine of that third part to the said John Francis and he infeoft Tyndall who made the Lease to Goldsing and then Margaret marryed Warburton and Prudence came to the age of 19. years the Rent of twelve pound is not payd and Warburton and his wife entred and Goldsing brought this action VValmesley By the recovery of the third part in the Writ of Dower the Rent of twelve pound which was in recompence thereof is gone For at the Common Law if a woman recover in Dower she hath waived that which was assigned to her in lien of her Dower as in case of Dower ad ostium Ecclesiae and 10 Edw. 4. If the husband discontinues the Land of his wise and she brings a Writ of Dower she is concluded to have a Cui in vita Shuttleworth cont By this recovery the estate taile is revived yet as this case it is is not materiall for because he entred without a sult he is a Disseisor and that was agreed by all at the Bar and the Bench. And he cited 26 H. 8. 3d. 4th H. 7.11 And I conceive that the Dower will not conclude her of the twelve pound per annum for it is not a Rent and the title to have the Land for her Ioynture for non-payment the Rent was not in esse at the time of the recovery of her Dower but afterwards as if a Lease he made to a woman who marries the Lessor who dies within the terme and the wise enters this shall not conclude her Dower after the Lease is expired by the eleventh of H. 4. Also the twelve pound is not appointed to be issuing out of the Land and so it cannot be a Ioynture and therefore
in purchasing the Inheritance by which the Terme is extinct shall bar the possibility which Reynald the Son hath to come upon the womans marriage 3. That a Lessee for years being in possession may take a Feoffment although it be by Deed and may take Livery after the delivery of the Deed and shall be deemed to be in by force of the Feoffment as in this case is pleaded although that the Lessee may take the Deed by way of confirmation and then the Livery is but Surplusage and void 4. It was resolved that this possibility which was in Reynald the Son to have the residue of the terme upon the inter-marriage which at the time of the Feoffment and of the Fine was but Dormant shall be accounted a former charge and before the Covenant because of the will which was before the Covenant and shall awake and have relation before the marriage As if Tenant in tail of a Rent purchaseth the Land out of which the Rent issueth and makes a Feoffment and covenants that the Land at that time is discharged of all former charges although this charge is not in esse but is in suspence as it is said 3 H. 7.12 yet if the Tenant in tail dye his Issue may distrain for this Rent and then is the Covenant broke for now it shall be accounted a former charge before the Feoffment Mich. 29 and 30 Eliz. in Com. Ban. Bretts Case Debt on â— Bond. BRett brought an action of Debt on a Bond against Averden and the Condition of the Bond was to stand to the Arbitrement of J.S. who did award that the Defendant should pay ten pounds to Brett and no time was limited to pay it The Defendant confest the Arbitrement but pleaded in Bar that the Plaintiff hath not required him to pay the money And the Plaintiff hereupon demurred Adjudged by the Court that it is no good plea for the Defendant at his perill ought to pay the money and the Plaintiff need not make any request wherfore Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff Trin. 29 Eliz. in Com. Ban. Bucknells Case Action for Robbery on the Statute of Winchestster BUcknell was robbed in a Hundred within the County of Bucks and thereupon brought his Action upon the Statute of Winchester because the Theeves were not taken And Not guilty being pleaded by the Inhabitants the Iury gave this speciall Verdict viz. That he was robbed the same day alleadged in the Declaration but in another place and within another Parish then that he hath alledged in the Declaration but that both the Parishes were within the said Hundred Vpon which they prayed the Iudgment of the Court whether the Inhabitants were guilty Adjudged by the Court for the Plaintiff for it is not materiall in what Parish he was robbed so it were within the same Hundred Hil. 30 Eliz. in Com. Banc. Rot. 904. Spittles Case Replevin SPittle brought a Replevin against Davis the Case was this Turk being seised of Land in Fee did devise parcell thereof to his youngest Son Proviso and it is his intent that if any of his Sons or any of their Issues shall alien or demise any of the said Lands devised before they shall attain the age of thirty years that then the other shall have the Estate and does not limit any Estate And then the eldest Son made a Lease before his age of thirty years and the youngest Son enters and afterwards and before the age of thirty years he aliens the Land he entred into by reason of the limitation the elder Brother re-enters and demised to Spittle the Plaintiff for three years who put a Horse into the ground and Davis by the commandment of the younger brother entred and took the Horse Damage-feasant and Spittle brought a Replevin And upon the whose matter there was a Remainder It was resolved 1. That this is a limitation and that the Estate shall be to such use as by the Will is directed untill there be an Alienation and upon Alienation the Land shall go to the other Brother 2. When the youngest Brother hath once entred for the Alienation then is the Land discharged of all Limitations for otherwise the Land shall go and come to one and the other upon every Alienation ad infinitum wherefore all the Iudges agreed that after the one Brother hath entred by reason of the limitation the Land is then for ever discharged of the Limitation made by the Will And Iudgment was given accordingly Michaells Case Debt on a Bond THomas Michaell brought an Action of Debt on a Bond against Stockworth and Andrews the Iury gave this speciall Verdict That the said Stockworth and Andrews did seale a Bond and delivered it to the Plaintiff as their Deed and after Issue joyned and before the Nisi prius the Seale of Andrews was taken from the Bond. Shuttleworth The Plaintiff shall be barred for it is one entire Deed and the Seale of one is wanting And admit in case it goes against us the Iudgment be reversed by Writ of Error the Plaintiff can have no Action on such Bond But it was adjudged to be a good Bond and Iudgment for the Plaintiff See the like case in Dyer Trin. 36 H. 8.59 A. Hillari 33 Eliz. in Com. Ban. Rot. 1315. Richmonds Case Debt for rent RIchmond brought an Action of Debt against Butcher the case was A man makes a Lease for years reserving Rent to him and his Executors and Assignes and during the terme the Lessor dies and his Heire who hath the Reversion brings an Action of Debt And it was urged that the Rent was incident to the Reversion and the Heire having the Reversion shall have the Rent also as incident to it as the case is in the 27 H. 8.16 If H. makes a Lease for years rendring Rent without saying any more words the Heire shall have this part because it shall go along with the Reversion So in the fifth of Edw. 4.4 If two Ioynt-tenants make a Lease for years rendring Rent to one of them yet the other shall have the Rent also although no mention were made of him so in the 7 H. 4.223 By the Court If I make a Feoffment in Fee rendring a Rent to me my Heires may distraine And if I grant over this Rent my Assignees in this case may distraine and avow so in this case an Action will lye for the Heire although he be not mentioned But adjudged to the contrary by the Court for when H. passeth Lands from himself the Law gives him liverty to passe them in such way and manner as he himself will and this liberty ought to take effect according to the expresse words for the Law will not extend the words further for the intent shall appeare by the words and then it cannot be here intended that his will was that his Heire shall have the Rent because the words are not sufficient to give it to his Heirs And therefore note a diversity when
Replevin against Edmund Brach and others the Defendant made Conulance as Baily to John Levison and said that long time before the taking c. one William Coup was seised of a house and eight acres of Meadow c. whereof the place is parcell in his Demesne as of Fee and did demise the same to Richard Coup for one and twenty years reserving Rent and the Lessee died and the Land came to his Wife as his Executrix who married Roger Owseley and that William Coup did levy a Fine of the Premisses to Stephen Noke and others to the use of Stephen and his Heires and after Stephen entred and outed the Termor and infeoffed John Leveson and his Heires and then the Termor re-enters claiming his Terme and for Rent arreare the Defendant made Counsans as aforesaid and it was adjudged against the Defendant because this entry and Feoffment by Noke to Leveson and the re-entry of the Termor is no Attornment and this varies from Littleberries case where the Lessor entred and made a Feoffment and the Lessee re-entred for Noke the Lessor had not any Attornment and can have no Distresse and his Feoffee cannot be in better case then he himself And if the first Feoffee makes Feoffment to B. who enfeoffs C. and the Lessee re-enters that is Attornment but to the first Feoffee and not the other for he may be misconusant of it because he was outed by the Lessor but note Iudgment was not given till Trin. 36 Eliz. Pasch 36 Eliz. in C. B. Owens Case EDward Owen brought an Action of Waste against Peerce for land in ancient Demesne the Defendant made defence and pleaded to the Iurisdiction of the Court because the land was ancient Demesne and the Defendant was ruled to plead over for it is but a personall Action and the Statute is a beneficiall Statute for the Common-wealth and by the opinion of all the Court except Walmsley does extent to ancient Demesne 40 Ed. 3.4 Ancient Demesne is a good plea in Replevin 2 H. 7.17.21 Ed. 4.3 it is no good plea in an action upon the Statute or Glocester Mich. 33 and 34 Eliz. in C. B. Rot. 2122. Sir Edward Cleeres Case SIr Edward Cleere brought a Quare Impedit against the Bishop of Norwich Edward Peacock and Robert Hinston Clerk to present to an Addowson holden in Capite Anderson A Devise of an Addowson in grosse is void because it is of annuall value whereof the King shall have the third part But Owen Beaumont and Walmsley held the contrary and so it it was adjudged See the Case of the Earle of Huntington against the Lord of Montjoy of a Devise of Liberties of Cramford which were not of any annuall value and yet the opinion of Wray and Anderson Iustices was certified to some of the Councell being Arbitrators that the Devise was not good Trin. 36 Eliz. in C. B. Rot. 2145. Brownes Case ANthony Brown brought an Action of Trespasse against Richard Pease the Case was this John Warren was seised in fee of the Mannor of Warners and of the Mannor of Cherchall and demised his Mannor of Warners to the youngest Son of Richard Foster his Cosin in fee. at which time Richard the Father had issue George Foster and John Foster And he demised his Mannor of Cherchall in haec verba I will my Mannor of Cherchall to Margery Water for her life and if she die and then any of my Cosin Fosters Sons then living then I will my foresaid Mannor of Cherchall unto him that shall have my Manner of Warners and after the Devisor died without issue and the Reversion of the Mannor of Cherchall discended to Henry Warner as Brother and Heire of the Devisor And after the said Henry Warner by Deed Inrolled did bargain and sell the Mannor of Cherchall to Anthony Browne who devised it to the Plaintiff And then George Foster dies without issue and the Mannor of Warners does discend to Iohn Foster his Brother and Heire who enters and enfeoffs the Lord Rich and after marriage the Tenant for life of the Mannor of Cherchall dies and the Plaintiff enters and the Defendant enters upon him as Servant to Iohn Foster whereupon the Plaintiff brought this Action And Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff because that the words and the intent of the Devise was that the Mannors of Warners and Cherchall should go together and therefore the Mannor of Warners was sold before the death of Margery by John Foster and after the death of Margery John can take nothing by the Devise Mich. 29 and 30 Eliz. Rot. 2325. or 2929. Hambletons Case JOhn Hambleton had issued foure Sons John the eldest Robert the second Richard the third and Thomas the fourth and devised to each of them a parcell of land to them and the Heirs Males of their body begotten and if it happen that any of their Heirs dye without issue Male of his body lawfully begotten then the Survivor to be each others Heire If these words make a Remainder or are void was the question And it was adjudged against the Plaintiff for the Court held that all those that survived were Ioynt-tenants and one Ioynt-Tenant cannot have a Trespasse against the other for by the intent of the Will it appears that the Survivors should have that part and the survivority of each other Heire each Survivor that is all that survive shall be each others Heire and so the remainder should be to every one of them 29 Eliz. Fenners Case argued before the Lord Mayor of London at Guildhall IN this Case it was adjudged that if a man Covenants that his Son then within age and infra annos nubiles before such a day shall marry the Daughter of I.S. and he does marry her accordingly and after at the age of consent he disagrees to the marriage yet is the Covenant performed for it is a marriage and such a one as the Covenantee would have untill the disagreement vide 7 H. 6.12 Dyer 143.313 369. 25 Eliz. Webbe against Potter IN an Ejectione firmae by Webbe against Potter the Case was Harris gave Land in Frank-marriage to one White and the Deed was Dedi concessi Iohan. White in liberum maritagium Iohannae filiae meae habend dictae Ioannae heredibus in perpetuum tenend de capitalibus Dominis feodi illius with Warranty to Iohn White and his Heires Periam The usuall words in Frank-marriage shall not be destroyed for the words of Frank-marriage are Liberum maritagium cum Ioanna filia mea in the Ablative case and although here it be in the Dative case it is good And of the same opinion were all the Iudges Also a Gift in Frank-marriage made after the Espousals was held good by all the Iustices 2 H. 3. Donor 199.4 Ed 3.8 Dyer 262 B. And a Gift in Frank-marriage before the Statute was a Fee-simple but now speciall taile and if it be not a Frank-marriage he shall have an Estate for life and to prove this his
therefore the Action shall continue And if a man be outlawed he may bring an Action as Executor and the Writ shall not abate Browne If I make I.S. my Attorney and he the Warrant of Attorney still continuing is made a Knight yet is not the Warrant of Attorney determined although the word Knight which is now part of his name be not in the Warrant therefore in this case the Writ is good Mich. 7 Eliz. NOte it was said by Browne that if H. does let the Cite of his Mannor with all his Lands to the said Mannor appurtenant hereby all the Demesne lands do passe but if it were with all the Lands appertaining to the said Cite nothing passeth but the Mannor-place Pasch 6 Eliz. A Man seised of the Mannor of Dale doth let the same with all the Members and Appurtenances to the same to have and to hold all the members of the said Mannor to the Lessee for terme of years Walsh and Weston were of opinion that this was a Lease for years of the Mannor onely and that the limitation of the word Members being after the Habendum was void But Dyer and Browne were of the contrary opinion And Browne said that when the Habendum is used by way of limitation it shall not be void As if he let his Mannor of Dale to have and to hold one acre parcell thereof for a terme of years the Lease is void for all but if there had been no Habendum but the Lease for years had been limited in the Premisses of the Lease that is good enough And if the Lease had been Habendum every part thereof that had been a good Lease of the Mannor for all the parts comprehend all the Mannor And Dyer said that the word Members shall be taken for the Townes and Hamblets wherein the Mannor hath Iurisdiction Note it was said by Dyer that if partition be made by the Sheriff although the Writ be not returned yet it is good enough and none of the parties shall except against it and so was the better opinion concerning the Estate of Culpeper and Navall in the County of Kent Sutton brought a Writ of Ravishment of a Ward against Robinson wherein it was resolved by Dyer Carus Weston and Benlowes That if the Tenant enfeoff his Lord and others all the Seigniory is extinct also if the Tenant does infeoff the Lord but of a Moyety yet is all the Seigniory extinct And Dyer said that if the Tenant does infeoff the Lord and a stranger to the use of another and his Heires and makes Livery to the stranger this is no extinguishment of the Seigniory but if the Livery were made to the Lord it is otherwise and yet is the possession instantly carried away to the stranger by the Statute of 2 H. 7.13 A man seised of lands devises the same to his Wife to dispose and imploy them for her self and her Son according to her will and pleasure Dyer Weston and Walson held that the Wife had a Fee-simple by the Intendment of the Will and the Estate is conditionall for ea intentione will make a Condition in a Devise but not in Grant vide Dyer 2â— 6 A woman Tenant in taile makes a Lease for one and thirty years and after takes a Husband who have issue the Husband being Tenant by the Curtesie surrenders the Heirs doth oust the Lessee and the Lessee brings an Ejectment And it was held that the Surrender was good and that the Privity was sufficient Mich. 40 Eliz. IN an Action of the Case for calling one Bastard Dyer and Walsh said an Action would lye but Browne on the contrary because it shall be tried in the Spirituall Court And Dyer said That at Barwick Assises a Formedon in the Discender was brought and one said that his Father by whom he claimed was a Bastard and thereupon he brought an Action against him for those words and recovered Catlin said That if Lands be given to a man and to the Heires he shall engender on the body of an English woman and he marries a French woman and she dies and then he marries an English woman that now this is a good Estate in special taile Pasch 7 Eliz. THe Prior and Monks of the Charter-house before the dissolution made a Lease for foure years reserving the ancient rent of twenty five Quarters of Wheat per annum and then the house was surrendered into the hands of King Henry the eighth and then the Lord Chancellor did let the said rent of twenty five Quarters of Wheat to I.S. for foure and twenty years And it came into question between I.S. and the Termor if this was warranted by the 27 H 8.28 Harper and Portrell it is not for the Statute is that they may make Leases of any Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments for one and twenty years c. and this Wheat is neither Land Tenement nor Hereditament but a Chattell and shall be demanded in an Action of debt But the opinion of all the Court was that the Lease was good and they did agree that it was directly within the word Hereditaments for it may discend or escheat and the wife shall be endowed thereof Also upon a Lease of Corne a Rent may be referved for a man may reserve a Rent upon a Lease of a Rent and the Rent is not parcell of the Reversion but onely incident thereunto and the Lessor hath the same inheritance therein as he hath in the Reversion Trin. 7 Eliz. AN assurance was made to a woman to the intent it should be for her Ioynture but it was not so expressed in the Deed. And the opinion of the Court was that it might be averred that it was for a Ioynture and that such averment was not traversable and so was it in the case between the Queen and Dame Beaumont Winter brought an Action of the Case against Barnam for these words viz. Thou Murtherer Dyer and Walsh said that the Action would lye for there are some words that cannot be qualified as Murtherer Theef Extortioner false Knave and in such Case an Action will lye but contrary where such words are spoken in a jesting way Note by Dyer that the Lord Fitz-James late Lord chief Iustice of England did devise his land to Nicholas Fitz-James in taile with divers remainders over and in the same devise he devised divers Iewels and peeces of Plate viz. the use of them to the said Nicholas Fitz-James and the Heires Males of his body In this case it was the opinion of the Court that the said Nicholas had no property in the said plate but onely the use and occupation And the same Law where the Devise was that his Wife should inhabit in one of his houses which he had for terme of years during her life because the Wife takes no interest in the terme but onely an occupation and usage out of which the Executors cannot eject her during her life but Walsh held the contrary Hil. 8 Eliz. IF a Bishop
that the Action might be against the Husband onely because that the woman could not convert them to his own use during the Coverture but onely to the Husbands use And the opinion of the Court was that the Writ was good against them both and that the conversion was in nature of a Trespasse and so the Action would well lye Mich. 32. and 33 Eliz. Kent against Wichall IN a Trespasse Quare clausum fregit herbam conculcavit the Defendant pleaded that he tendied sufficient amends to the Plaintiff and he refused the same and demanded Iudgment c. And upon a Demurrer the opinion of the Court was that this is no plea in Trespasse but in a Replevin it is a good plea Sed non dierunt causam diversitatis 21 H. 7.30.9 H. 7.22 F.N.B. 69. G. 31 H. 4.17 Drew demanded of the Court that whereas Edmund Leusage had bound himself in an Obligation by the name of Edward Leusage if this was good or not and it seemed to the Court Quod non est factum and Anderson and Walmesley said expresly that it was void 34 H. 6.19 6. Dyer 279 21 H. 7.8 Sir John Arrundell and his Wife brought a Quare Impedit against the Bishop of Glocester and others who pleaded in Bar that William Sturton was seised of a Mannor to which the Advowson was appendant and bound himself in a Statute-merchant of two hundred pounds to one Long and the Statute was extended and conveyed the interest of the Statute to one of the Defendants and then the Church became void And by the Court the Advowson may be extended and if it become void during the Conusees Estate the Conusee may present Note it was said by the Iustices of the Common Pleas that if a man promise another that he shall have a Lease in his land for eight years or it is agreed amongst themselves that one shall have a Lease of the others land for eight yeares that is no lease of the land but onely a Contract and Agreement but if one promise another that he shall have his land for eight years or openly agree that one shall have the others land for eight years this is a good lease for eight years by force of the agreement A. came before the Major of Lincolne and acknowledged a Statute-merchant and the Seal of the Major was not put to it and it was adjudged that the Statute was not good but a man may sue upon it as an Obligation because the Seal of the party is to it Pasch 36 Eliz. IN a Waste the Case was that a Lessee for yeares purchased Trees growing upon the land and had liberty to cut them within eighty yeares and after the said Lessee purchased the inheritance of the land and devised it to his Wife for life the Remainder to the Plaintiff in see and made his Wife Executrix and died who after married with the Defendant who cuts the Trees whereupon the Action is brought And by opinion of all the Court the Action was maintainable for although the Trees were once Chattels yet by the purchase of the Inheritance they were united to the land and Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff accordingly Pasch 36 Eliz. UPon an Exigent the Sheriff returned that after Divine Service he made proclamation and did not say that there was no Sermon and therefore the Iudges held that the return was not good for by the Statute if there be a Sermon in the Church the Sheriff shall make his proclamations after the Sermon and if there be no Sermon then after Divine Service and because it did not appeare whether there were any Sermon or not the opinion of the Court was ut supra It was said that a man shall not aver against a Postea in the Kings Bench or the Common Pleas to say that it was contrary to the Verdict nor shall he be received to say that the Iudges gave a Iudgment and the Clarks have entred it contrary to their Iudgment but otherwise is it in Court Barons or other base Courts not Courts of Record 10 Ed. 3.40 35 and 36 Eliz. Newman against Beaumond IF the Ordinary grants the Administration of the Goods of B. to A. and after grants the Administration to R. this second Grant is an appeale of the first without any further sentence of repeale for the Administrator is but a servant to the Ordinary whom he may charge at any time In an Action of Debt on a Bond bearing date the nineth of July the Defendant pleaed a Release of all Actions the same day usque diem dati ejusdem scripti and it was adjudged that the Obligation was not discharged because the Release does exclude the nineth day on which it was made Mich. 37 and 38 Eliz. Rot. 211. Holman against Collins HOlman brought a Writ of Error against Collins upon a Iudgment given in the Court of Plymmouth in the County of Devon the case was Collins was possessed of a peece of Ordnance and in Consideration that he would tender this to Holman for to put into his Ship which was then going to Sea and that Collins would stand to the hazard of losing it The said Holman did assume upon himself and did promise to give Collins certain Goods which he should gain by the Voyage and after the said Ship did return laden with certain Goods and for non-satisfaction the said Collins brought his Action on the Assumpsit and had Judgment to recover And Crook assigned these Errors 1. That the Stile of the Court was not good for it was Curia Dominae Reginae Burgi praedict tent coram Majori de Plymmouth without saying secundum consuetudinem villae praedict and he who is Iudge of the Court ought to be either by Patent or Prescription and then for not expressing the stile of the Court nor by what authority they held their Court it is error and he cited the case in the Lord Dyer 262. and a Iudgment 30 Eliz. Rot. 32. given in the very point Another Error was that no day was prefixed for the Defendant to appear but generally ad proximam curiam which is Error although it be held every munday And for these Errors Iudgment was reversed Trin. 28 Eliz. Rot. 948. Mercer against Sparks MErcer had Iudgment to recover against Sparks in the Common Pleas upon an Action of the Case for words and Sparks brought a Writ of Error in the Kings Bench and assigned for Error that the Plaintiff did not expresse in the Declaration that the Defendant spake the words malitiose but it was adjudged that it was no Error because the words themselves were malicious and slanderous wherefore Iudgment was affirmed Savacres Case IT was adjudged in the Common Pleas that if a Baron or others mentioned in the Statute of 21 H 8. take divers Chaplaines which have many benefices and after they discharge their Chaplaines from their Service they shall retain their Benefices during their lives and if the Baron takes others to be his
was no apparance unlesse there were a Record But the Case in Court was ut supra Hil. 30. Eliz. IN an Ejectment by Dorothy Michell against Edmund Dunton the Case was A woman makes a Lease for years rendring Rent with a Covenant that the Lessee should repaire the house with other Covenants and then devised the same lands to the same Lessee for divers years more yeilding the like rent and under such Covenants as were in the first Lease the Remainder over in fee and dies and then the first Lease for years does expire and the Lessee continues in by force of the second Lease by vesture of the devise and repaires not the houses so that if the first Lease had been in being he had broke the Covenant If this shall be such condition as he in the remainder may enter was the question Shuttleworth It is a Condition for he cannot have a Covenant and then it shall be intended that iâ— is conditionall But by all the Court There appears no such intent for it appears that he holds under like Covenants Anderson The nature of a Covenant is to have an Action but not an entry and therefore there shall be no entry Shuttleworth To what end then serves these words under like Covenants Periam They are void And at last it was resolved by all the Iustices that the Will expressing that the first Lessee should have the Land observing the first Covenants it shall not be now taken to be a Condition by any intent that may be collected out of the Will for a Covenant and Condition are of severall natures the one giving Action the other entry and here the intent of the Will was that although the Covenants were not performed yet the Lessee should not forfeit his terme but is onely bound to such paine as he was at the beginning and that was to render damages in an Action of Covenant And Iudgment was given that the Plaintiff should be barred Mich 29 and 30 Eliz. Rot. 2449. THe Earle of Kent brought an Action of Debt upon a Bond against William Bryan which was indorsed with a Condition That if the Defendant did permit the Plaintiff his Executors or Assignes not onely to thresh Corn in the Defendants Barn but also to carry it away from time to time and at all times hereafter convenient with free egresse and regresse or else to pay eight pounds upon request c. that then c. And in truth the Defendant permitted the Corn to lye there two years in which time the Mise and Rats had devoured a great part of it and then the Defendant thresht it and the Earle therefore brought this Action And upon Demur it seemed to Walmsley that there was no forfeiture of the Bond because the Earl took not the Corn away in convenient time for convenient time is such as shall prejudice no person Quod fuit negatum per Justitiar and here is great prejudice to the Detendant because the Plaintiff did not carry away the Corn And he put many cases where things ought to be done in convenient time as in the 21 Ed. 4. where an Arbitrement ought to be performed in convenient time But the opinion of the Court was that he might come in covenient time although he comes long after and the words are not within convenient time Windham said That if the words had been within convenient time it would have made a difference Anderson If the words of the Condition had been that he should suffer the Plaintiff in time convenient to come and thresh and take away his Corn then perhaps he ought to send within a year according to Walmsleys saying but the words here are at all convenient times and that day that the Servant came was a convenient day to thresh and carry away and the words At all convenient times shall be construed that at any time when it pleaseth the Earl he may come unlesse it be night or Sabboth day and if the word convenient had not been mentioned then by the words from time to time and at all times after then the Earl may come at any time either in the day or night and that a hundred years after as he pleaseth and then the word convenient does restrain him that he cannot come but in the working daies but does not restrain any time in which he shall come but onely in conveniency of time which is at times of labouring and watching And so was the opinion of the Court ut supra An Action of Debt was brought upon a Lease for years the Defendant pleaded Nihil debet per patriam and did intend to give in evidence an entry of the Plaintiff before any Rent behind And by the Court he could not do it for it is contrary to the issue Hil. 30 Eliz. Rot. 904. Between Spittle and Davis IN a Replevin the case was One Turk seised of lands in fee devised parcell thereof to his eldest Son in taile and the other parcell to his youngest Son in fee. Provided and his intent was that if any of his Sons or any of their Issues do alien or demise any of the said lands before any of them comes to the age of thirty years that then the other shall have the Estate and does not limit what Estate and then one of the Sons makes a Lease for years before such age whereupon the other enters and before he comes to the age of thirty years he aliens that part into which he made entry and the other brother being the eldest enters and makes a Lease to Spittle the Plaintiff for three years and Davies by commandment of the younger brother enters and takes the house Damage-feasant and Spittle brought a Replevin And upon Demur it seemed to the Court that this was a limitation and by vertue of the Will the Estate devised to them untill they aliened and upon the alienation to go to the other upon such alienation the land is discharged of all limitations for otherwise the land upon one alienation shall go to one and upon another alienation shall go back again and so to and fro ad infinitum vide Dyer 14. 29. And afterwards all the Iudges agreed that after one brother had entred into the land by reason of the alienation that land was discharged forever of the limitation by the Will And Iudgment was given accordingly Trin. 27 Eliz. Rot. 190. Carter against Lowe IN an Ejectment the Case was A Termor devised his terme to I.S. and made his Wife Executrix and died the Woman enters and proves the Will and takes Husband who takes a Lease of the Lessor and after the Devisee enters and grants all his Estate to the Husband and wife and herein two questions were moved 1. If by this acceptance of the new Lease by the Husband the term which the woman had to another use viz. to the use of the Testator shall be deemed a surrender And the opinion of the Court was clearly without argument that it
that the Plaintiff could not have the Error but the Daughters who were the Heirs to Henry for an Action alwaies discends according to the right of land and it seems that the Heir in Burrow English shall have Error or Attaint and not the Heir at the Common Law which was agreed by all on both sides but it was said that this varies much from the present case for two reasons One because he came in as Vouchee which is to recover a Fee-simple and he shall render a Fee-simple in value which is discendable to the Heirs at the Common Law Secondly he hath no Estate-tail Bromley Solicitor and Plowden contra and laid this ground that in all cases where a recovery is had against one by erroneous processe or false verdict he which is grieved shall have redresse of it although he be not party or privy to the first Iudgment and therefore at the Common Law if a Recovery be had against Tenant for life he in the Reversion shall have Error of Attaint after his death and now by the Statute of R 2. in his life so in a Precipe if the Tenant vouches and the Vouchee looseth by default the Tenant shall have Error for the Iudgment was against him and he looseth his term and in the 44 Ed 4.6 in a Trespasse of Battery against two one pleads and it is found against him and the plea of the other not determined damages by the principall Verdict is given against them both which if they be excessive the other shall have an Attaint And Bromley said there could not be a case put but where he that hath the losse by the recovery should have also the remedy and Baker cited 9. H. 7.24.6 that if a Recovery be had against a man that hath land on the part of the Mother and he dies without issue the Heir of the part of the Father shall have the Error But Bromley and Plowden denied this case and that 3 H 4.9 it was adjudged to the contrary And Wray said to Baker that he ought not much to rely on that case for it was not Law and said that if Tenant for life makes a Feoffment and a Recovery is had against the Feoffee the first Lessor shall not avoid this Bromley there is no use for he may enter by forfeiture but in our case of whatsoever estate it be at the time of the recovery the right of the Estate-tail is bound and therefore it is reason that the Heir in tail shall avoid it Jeffrey of the same opinion and cited 17. Ass A Conusor makes a Feoffment and then execution is sued against the Feoffee by erroneous processe the Feoffee shall have the Writ of Error although he be not party to the first Record but the reason is because of his interest in the land And Bromley and Plowden said further that notwithstanding the Feoffee recovers against the Vouchee and the Vouchee recover over the land yet this recovery shall go to the estate-Estate-tail And Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff Trin. 32 Eliz. in B. R. TRussell was attainted of Felony by Outlawry and after an Execution is sued against him at the suit of a common person and he is taken by force thereof and after he takes a Habeas Corpus out of the Kings Bench and Coke prayed that he might be discharged of this execution for where a man is attaint of Felony he hath neither Goods nor Lands and his body is at the Kings disposall and so is not subject to the execution of a common person 4 Ed. 4. But Harris Serjeant and Glanvill on the contrary For although he be attaint of Felony yet may he be in execution for his own offence shall not aid him and so was it in Crofs case in the Common Pleas where a man being attaint of Felony was taken in execution at the suit of a common person and he escaped out of Prison and an escape was brought against the Sheriffs of London and a Recovery against him And at last by advise of the Court because he was indebted to many persons and to discharge himself from his Creditors intended to have a pardon for his life and so deceive them therefore he was committed to the Marshalsey upon this execution Trin. 42 Eliz. Malloy against Jennings Rot. 1037. IN a Replevin the Case was A man seised of land in fee is bound in a Recognizance of 100 l. and then bargains and sells all his land to the Plaintiff and then the Recognizance is forfeit and the Conuzee sues out a Scire facias against the Conuzor before the Deed was inrolled and had Iudgment to have Execution And the question was if the Bargainor was a sufficient Tenant against whom the Execution was sued Williams Serjeant The Bargainor was Tenant at the time of the Scire facias before inrolement and although it was inrolled after shall have relation to the first livery to prevent any grant or charge And if an Action be brought against an Executor as in his own wrong and the Suit depending he takes Letters of Administration this shall not abate the Writ So in our case the Bargainor was seised of the land when the Scrie facias was brought and if a man makes a Lease for life rendring Rent and then the Lessor bargains and sells the Reversion and before the Inrolement the Rent is behind and the Bargainer demands the Rent which was not paid and then the Deed is inrolled yet he cannot enter for the forfeiture which I have seen adjudged in the 28 H. 8. Dyer Disseisee of one acre makes a Release to the Disseisor of all his lands and delivers it as an Escroll to be delivered to the Disseisor and then he disseiseth him of another acre and then the Deed is delivered to the Disseisor yet the right in the second acre shall not passe And he much rolled on Sir Richard Brochets case 26 Eliz. who made a Recognizance to Morgan upon condition to convey unto him all his lands whereof he was seised the first day of May and it hapned that one Corbet had sold him land by Indenture the 24. day of April but the Deed was not inrolled untill the 24. day of May after And the question was if the Conuzor was bound to convey these lands or not and adjudged that he was not for inasmuch as the Deed was not inrolled the ffrst day of May he was not seised and great mischief would ensue if the Law should be otherwise for no man will know against whom to bring his Action for a Bargain and Sale before Inrolement may be done secretly Herne Serjeant The Bargainee is seised before Inrolement and by the Statute of 5 Eliz. which wills that none shall convert land used to tillage unlesse he puts other land to tillage within six months yet none will say that it is a breach of the Statute although Pasture be presently converted to tillage and he cited Chilburns cafe 6 Eliz. Dyer 229. that proves that
before the Inrolement land passeth to the Bargainee and the Bargainee hath a Freehold in him before the Inrolement and whereof his wife shall be endowed and if the Bargainor levies a Fine or acknowledge of Statute the Bargainee shall avoid them and deased the case of Morgan cited by the other side and cited the case of 6 Ed 6. where were two Ioynt-tenants and one of them bargained and sold his Moyety and then the other Ioyntenant died and then the Deed was inrolled there nothing passed but a Moyety but it seems in that case that by the Bargain and Sale the Ioynture is severed before the Inrolement so that there is no Survivorship but the Book speaks not of it and if a Bargainee be of lands held of the King without license of a alienation there the forfeiture to the King shall relate to the first delivery of the Deed. Warberton contra Before the Inrolement there is but a commencement of the Bargain and before all circumstances in the Deed mentioned are performed it is no Bargain and I hold the Deed shall have relation to the delivery to prevent all Charges Contracts but as to strangers it shall not have such relation If Tenant for life bargains and sells his land to another and his Heirs and then makes a Feoffment in fee to another before inrolement this is no forfeiture Anderson A release made to a Bargainee before inrolement is void then if this Scire facias be well brought no Act of the Bargainee shall avoid it Walmsley If there be a Bargainee and before the Inrolement the Bargainor enfeoffs him he is in by the Feoffment and not by the Bargain which proves that no estate is really in the Bargainee before Inrolement Kingsmill The reason of that is because it is out of the Statute for the Bargain and Sale was onely delivered and he said that the wife of the Bargainee in such case shall be indowed But the Court denied that and all agreed that the wife of the Bargainee before Inrolement shall not be indowed Kingsmill said that it was a usuall course in a Recovery to make the Bargainee Tenant of the Precipe And it was said by all the Iustices that if Tenant for life be impleaded the Bargainee of the Reversion after Inrolement shal be received and yet if hanging the Writ he purchase the Reversion he shall not And after many arguments it was adjudged that the Scire facias was not well awarded And Iudgment given for the Plaintiff 37 Eliz. in C. B. Day against Austin IN a Trespasse the Defendant justified the taking of a Furnace fixt to the earth because the Sheriff upon an intent sold it to him And by the Court it was held a good discharge for if a stranger takes my Horse and sells him a Trespasse will not lye against the Vendee but a Detinue But if one sells my Horse and a stranger takes him he is a Trespassor Walmesley and Beaumond Although such Furnace be fixed by the Termor yet he may take it away within the term but the Sheriff cannot attach it and the Termor may pull down a Wall made by him and it is not waste And at another day the case was recited to be thus The Lessee made a Furnace for the use of a Dyer and fixed it to the wall of his house and the Lessee being condemned in debt the Sheriff came to the Furnace and put his hands upon it and delivered it to the Defendant and the Lessee brought a Trespasse Glanvill A Furnace may be delivered in execution and the house never the worse but otherwise of the doors because the Lessee cannot be without them 42 Ed. 3.6 it is not waste to take away a Furnace 21 H. 6.26 said there that the Heir shall have such Furnace but this does not prove that it is not a Chattell but the cause wherefore the Heir shall have it it is because it is annext to the land as in the case of writings which are meer Chattels Beaumound It is doubly fixt to the land and to the wall and it is clear that the Sheriff cannot take it from the wall Dyer The diversity is when the Furnace is fixt to the middle of the house and when to the wall for the Termor may take it from the middle of the house but not from the wall for the wall is worse for taking it away and therefore it is waste And to this Owen agreed Pasch 35 Eliz. in B. R. Rotheram against Crawley Rot. 332. IN debt upon a Bond the case was Divers questions were made between the Plaintiff Lord and the Defendant Tenant concerning Relief whereupon they referred themselves to the Arbitrement of I.S. who did award that the Plaintiff should make a Release to the Defendant which was done of all Actions Duties and Amercements and then upon this Action brought by the Plaintiff for a collatterall thing the Release was pleaded in Bar. Coke Attorney The Plaintiff shall not be barred by this Release for Deeds ought to be expounded according to the intent of the parties and the intent of the party was to release no Duty but the Relief which was only in question this word Duties being interposed between Reliefs and Amercements shall be intended Duties of such nature as Reliefs and Amercements and no otherwise as it is in Dyer 23 Eliz. A man grants and to farm lets such land with wood this is no grant of the wood and yet there are words sufficient to passe the wood but being conjoyned with the words And to farm let it shall be expounded that it was not intended to have it be an absolute Grant But adjudged that it was a good Bar and Iudgment was given accordingly Hil. 37 Eliz. Goodway against Michell GOodway brought a trespasse against divers persons Quare clausum fregerunt duas Ramas perches of hedge fregerunt The Defendant by way of justification said that the place was in the Parish of Hadnam in Ely and that all the Parishioners time out of mind have used to have passage through the said Close in Rogation week to make their Perambulation of the Parish because that the Plaintiff hindred the Defendants as Parishioners Ramas sepes fregerunt whereupon the Plaintiff demurred Sperling The justification is not good for although Parishioners may justifie the having a way over my ground yet they cannot break the Hedges Also they have broken two Perches and two Gates which is excessive for a foot-path 15 H. 9.10.6 A Commoner cannot break all the hedge upon the land where he hath Common Savile cont All the Parishioners ought to go their Perambulation and being a great number they may well enough justifie for they are not compelled to keep the foot-path 6 Ed. 2. F.N.B. 185. b. Parishioners may pull down a wall that hinders them in their way to the Church and in the book of Entries there is a President where the Vicar and Parishiones did justifie an entry for
dissolved Williams But that is saved by the 3â— H. 8 for Annuities are exprest in the saving Anderson But this is an Annuity or Rent with which the land is charged Beaumond If it be any thing wherewith the land is charged it is saved but the person is only charged with this Annuity Walmsley But the 21 H. 7. is that an Annuity out of a Parsonage is not a meer personall charge but chargeth the Parson only in respect of the land And the Court would consider on the case Pasch 38 Eliz. in B. R. The Case of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich THe Case was A Church in which there had been a Parson and a Vicar time out of mind and the Parson used to have the great Tythes and the Vicar the small and for the space of forty years last past it was proved that the Parson had Tythes paid him out of a feild of twenty acres of Corne and now the feild is sowed with Saffron and the Vicar sued for the Tythes of Saffron in the Court Christian and the Parson had a Prohibition Coke I conceive the Parson shall have the Tythes for by the Statute of 2 H. 6. it is enacted that Tythes shall be paid as hath been used the last forty years and this hath been alwaies tythable to the Parson and although the ground be otherwise imployed yet the Parson shall have the Tythes and so was it in Norfolk in the Case of a Park where the Parson proscribed Pro modo decimandi to be paid three shillings fours pence for all Tythes rising out of the said Park and although the Park was after converted to arable yet no other Tythes shall be paid Popham It hath been adjudged otherwise in Wroths Case of the Inner Temple in the Exchequer But the Law is clearly as hath been said and the difference is when the Prescription is to pay so much money for all Tythes or when the Prescription is to pay a shoulder of every Buck or a Doe at Christmas for there if the Park be disparkt Tythes shall be paid for Tythes are not due for Venison and therefore they are not Tythes in Specie And I conceive that Tythes of Saffron-heads shall be comprehended under small Tythes and although the Tythes of this Feild have been paid to the Parson yet it being converted to another use whereof no grosse Tythes do come the Vicar shall have the tythes and so if arable land be converted into an Orchard the Wicar shall have tythe of the Apples and so if the Orchard be changed to arable the Parson shall have tythes Quod Fenner concessit 36 Eliz. Higham against Deff IN a Trespasse the Case was That a Vicaridge by composition was indowed of the third part Omnium Bladorum decimarum of the Mannor of D. If he shall have tythes of the Freeholders of the Mannor was the question Johnson He shall not have them for a Mannor consisteth of two things viz. of Demesns and Services the Freeholders are neither parcel of the Demesnes nor the Services and therefore no parcell of the Mannor and this is proved in 12 Ass 40. a Rent-charge was granted out of a Mannor the Tenancy escheats it shall not be charged with the Rent Tanfeild contra For this word Mannor does extend to the Precincts of the Mannor and not to the Demesnes and Services onely and therefore if a Venire facias be awarded De viceneto Manerii de D. the Freeholders shall be returned also a survey of a Mannor shall be as well of the Freehold lands as of the Demesnes and if the King grants a Leet within the Mannor of D. all the Freeholders are bound to appear Fenner Grants ought not to be restrained to their strict words but are to be construed according to the intent of the parties Trin. 38 Eliz. in B. R. Ewer against Henden Rot. 339. IN an Ejectment the Iury found that I.S. being seised of a Capitall Messuage in the County of Oxford and also of a house and land in Walter in the County of Hartford makes a Lease for years of his house and land in the County of Hartford and then by Will does demise his house in the County of Oxon Together with all other his Lands Meadowes Pastures with all and singular their Appurtenances in Walter in the County of Hartford to John Ewer and whether the house in Walter in the County of Hartford does passe or not was the question Tanfeild The houses shall passe for if a man builds a house upon Black acre and makes a Feoffment of the acre the house shall passe and so if a man does devise una jugata terrae of Copyhold Land the house of the Copyhold does passe also for so is the common phrase in the Country and so if a man be rated in a 100 l. subsidy that does include houses and by the grant of a Tenement the house passeth but if a man demand a house in a Precipe there the house ought to be named Whistler contra It is true that if a man generally does devise his Land the houses passe but in this case the Devisee hath particularized his Land his Meadow and his Pasture and if he intended to have passed his houses he would have mentioned them as well as his Lande Fenner I am of the same opinion for this speciall numbring of particulars does exclude the generall intendment and if the Devisor had a Wood there that would dot passe by these words Popham contra For if a man sells all his Lands in D. his houses and woods passe by this word Lands and so was it agreed in a case which was referred to Dyer and Wray chief Justice and there reason was because that a Warrant of Attorney in a Precipe of a House Woods and Land is onely of Land which proves that land does comprehend all of them and therefore I conceive if a man does devise or bargain and sell all his lands in D. the Rents there shall passe for they were issuing out of the land But if a man be seised of three houses and three acres and he deviseth all his land in D. and one of his houses the other houses will not passe for his expresse meaning is apparant but here the words are in generall as to the lands in Walter and therefore the houses do passe But afterwards it was adjudged that the house did not passe for by the particular mentioning of all his Lands Meadowes and Pastures the house is excluded Pasch 4 Eliz. Hunt against King IN a Writ of Error upon a Iudgment given in the Common Pleas in a Formedon brought there the Case was Tenant in tail enfeoffs his Son and then disseiseth his Son and levies a Fine to a stranger and before the Proclamations passe the Son enters and makes a Feoffment to a stranger the Father dies and the Son dies and the Issue brings a Formedon The question was Whether by the entry of the Son the Fine was so defeated
this is voyd And after viz. 31 Eliz. It seemed to all the Iustices that the consideration was not good and therefore the contract voyd But if goods he delivered to an Infant to be re-delivered if Afterwards his Executor assumeth to re-deliver them this is good Gawdy in the 13 H. 6. If a man be indebted in a simple Contract and dye and his Executors assume to pay the debt it is good but â—his seems to be contrary to the Law for it is contrary to that which hath been lately adjudged in the Common Pleas. And Egerton cited a Caâ—e 10 H 6. where an Infant brought an Action of Trespass and submitted himself to an arbitrement this shall binde him at his full age and this was agreed by the Court but differs much from the Case at Bar for when an Infant commits a Trespass he is chargeable in an Action of Trespass and shall lose damages but it is not so here Wherefore Iudgement was given that the Plaintiff should be barred Mich. 30 Eliz. Stanton against Chamberlain Rot. IN an Action of Debt upon a Bond upon non est factum pleaded the Iury found that the Defendant sealed the Bond and cast it on the Table and the Plaintiff came and took up the Bond and carried it away without saying any thing and if this shall amount to a Delivery by the Defendant to the Plaintiff was the question And it was resolved by all the Iustices that if the Iury had found that he had sealed the Bond and cast it on the table towards the Plaintiff to the intent that the Plaintiff should take it as his Deed who took the Bond and went away that had been a good delivery or that the Plaintiff after the sealing and casting on the table had taken it by the commandment or consent of the Defendant but because it is found that the Defendant onely sealed it and cast it on the table and the Plaintiff took it and went away with it this is not a sufficient delivery for it may be that he sealed it to the intent to reserve it to himself untill other things were agreed and then if the Plaintiff take it and go away with it without the Defendants consent that will not make it the Descendants Deed. But it was said that it might be accounted to be the Defendants Deed because it is found that he sealed it and cast it on the table and the Plaintiff took it c. and it is not found that the Defendant said any thing and therefore because he did not say any thing it will amount to his consent Nam qui tacet consentire videtur But to this it was answered that it is not found that the Defendant was present when the Plaintiff took it and if the Defendant had sealed and cast the Bond on the Table when the Plaintiff was not there and then the Defendant went away and then the Plaintiff came and took it away then clearly it is not the Deed of the Defendant Hill 31 Eliz. Beron against Goodyne IN an Ejectment the Case was the King was seized of lands in Fee and a stranger intruded and the King grants this land to J. S. in Fee and the Intruder continues possession and dyes seized The question was if this descent shall take away the entry of I.S. Johnson It shall not for none will affirm that an Intruder shall gain any thing out of the King but that the land shall pass to the Patentee and the continuance of the Intruder in possession and his dying seized shall not take away the entry for he cannot be a Disseisor because he gained no estate at the beginning as if a Guardian continues possession after the heir is of full age he is no Disseisor nor shall gain any estate And 10 Ed. 3.2 where a tenant of the King dyes his heir within age and a stranger enters and after the heir is of full age dyes seized this shall not take away the entry of the heir Cook contr By his continuance of possession he shall be accounted a Disseisor and the Free-hold out of the Patentee for another estate he cannot have for tenant at sufferance be is not for he comes in at first by a title as in the 12 Assi The Dona's in Frank-marriage are divorced and the husband continues the possession and so where a Lessee continues possession after the death of the tenant for life these are tenants at sufferance and the Patentee hath a Free-hold in Law which is taken away by descent and denyed there was any such case as was vouched in the 10 Ed. 3. but compared the case to the 21 Ed. 3.2 where a Fine was levyed per conusans de droit come ceo c. if before the Conusee enters a stranger enters and dyes seized the entry of the Conusee is barr'd So is it where an Advowson is granted to J.S. and his heirs and a stranger usurps the Grantee hath no remedy And if a man deviseth land to J.S. and before he enters a stranger doth enter and dyes seized the entry of the Disseisee is taken away and so it is in our case But a further day was given Cook to shew cause why Iudgement should not be given against him Hillar 31 Eliz. Suttons Case in C. B. Rot. 533. IN an Ejectment the Iury gave a special Verdict that the Defendant nihil habens in terra did make a Lease thereof to the Plaintiff by Indenture according as the Plaintiff had declared and then the Defendant entred on the Plaintiff and whether this entry be good was the question Walmesley for the Defendant Iurors are sworn ad veritatem dicendum and therefore they shall not enquire of Estoppels because it is not in evidence But the whole Court was against him who held that the Iury might finde a matter that is not shewed in evidence for by Anderson in an Assize they may finde a Release although it be not given in evidence and he and Periam held that the Plaintiff ought to have Iudgement for that there was a good Lease between the parties and if Rent were reserved an Action of Debt would lye Windham contr For it is onely an Estoppell between the parties but the Court is at liberty and are not estopped when the truth appears to them and it is a Maxim in Law that he who hath nothing in the land cannot make a Lease and then the Plaintiff hath no cause of Action And afterwards viz. 32 Eliz. Anderson and Periam were expresly for the Plaintiff for whereas it hath been said that it was a Lease by Estoppell they held it was not so for that in Debt the Rent should be recovered And Anderson said If I levy a Fine of your land to you for years if you be put out I shall have an Assize but Windham was of opinion with Walmesley wherefore Periam said we will have the opinion of the other Iustices in the Exchequer Chamber wherefore c. Trinit 30 Eliz.
himself to infeof the Obligee of all the Land which he hath by descent of his Father there he may plead that he hath no Land from his Father for all may be Released although the Releasor hath no right but a feofment cannot be made of land which a man hath not Pasch 38 Elizab. Holcombe against Rawlins in B. R. Rot. 401. IN a trespass Quare Clausum fregit with a continuando from the 31 Elizab. to the 36. the Defendant pleaded that J.S. was seised in Fee and made a Lease to him c. The Plaintiff replyed that long time before J.S. was seised he himself was seised untill the said J.S. did disseise him and J.S. being so seised did make the Lease to the Defendant for years whereupon the Plaintiff reentred Tanfield It appears by the Plaintiffs Replication that the Defendant was in under the title of J.S. viz. the Lessee of the Disseisor of the Plaintif and therefore he cannot be a Trespassor to the Plaintiff notwithstanding his regress 34 H. 6 30. 37 H. 6 35. 2 Edw. 4 17. 13 H. 7.15 Atkinson contra At the Common Law the Disseisee being out of possession shall not recover any damages but only against the Disseisor and not against any other that comes to the land afterwards and for this cause the Statute of Glocesteâ— was made But at the Common Law when the Disseisee re-enters he is remitted as if he had not been out of possession at all and he shall have a trespass against the meane occupiers as in the 4 H. 7. A man was restored to his land by Parliament as if he had never been out of possession at all and he shall have a trespass against the occupiers that are in by title aswell as here he had against the Kings Patentee Gâ—wdy If a Disseisor be disseised and the first disseisee enter he shall have a trespass against the second Disseisor And Popham and Fenner agreed but Clench cont But at last adjudged for the Plaintiff vid. Cook 11. Rep. fol. 57. Lyfords Case to the contrary Pasch 37. Eliza. VViseman against Baldwin in B. R. Rot. 341. IN a writ of errour to reverse a judgment given in the Common Pleas the Case was thus Râ—chard Baldwin did demise his land in Taile upon condition that the Devisee should pay to J.S. 20. l. and if he failed of the payment that then the land should remain to J.S. and his heires for ever and whether this be a Condition in Law that the heir shall take advantage of or a limitation of the estate so that J.S. shall take advantage was the Question Gawdy It is a limitation and not a condition as is apparent in Dyer Wilfoâ—ds Case 7.128 and Pewis and Scholasticas Case in the Comentaries and there is great diversity between an estate in Law and a devise in which the intent of the Devisor is to be observed and here if this shall be taken for a condition the intent of the Devisor is defrauded Clench agreed For this should be as a new devise to J.S. and not as a remainder as a devise to a Monk the remainder to J.S. the remainder is not good as a remainder but as a new devise Fenner of the same opinion and said it had been so adjudged in this Court in an Attournies Case of Devonshire and also in Sir Edward Cleeres Case Gawdy The received opinion of all learned Lawyers hath been such as hath been said viz. that to the end the intent of the Devisor should be observed it shall be a limitation Then I put this Case A man deviseth his Land to J.S. upon condition and for non-payment be devises that his Executors shall sell the Land if J.S. faile of the payment it is cleere that the Executors may sell the Land Godfrey I agree because the Executors have nothing devised to them but only an authority given them by the Will to sell Gawdy But when the Executors have sold the Vendee is in by the Devisor and then it is no other than a devise to one in Fee on condition of payment c. and if he fail then to another And the three Iustices agreed but because the Chief Iustice was absent it was adjourned to another day at which time Fenner said that he had spoken with â—…wen one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas who said he never agreed to the Iudgment but in case of a perpetuity And therefore the Iudgment in the Common Pleas was reverst The Earl of Lincolne against Fisher THe Steward of the Leete being in Court did say in Fisher who was resident within the precinct of the Leet that he must be sworn for the Queen to make presentments at the said Court. To which Fisher replyed in saying I ought to be sworn you lie For which Fisher was fined at the Court 20 l. And the Earl who had the Leet brought his action for the same Yelverton The action will not lie for he is not finable for such words for they are no disturbance to the Court nor hindrance of Iustice for this word you lie in ancient speaking is no more than to say you do not say true Gawdy agreed that the action would not lie But Fenner Clench and Popham cont For this is a misdemeanor for which the defendant is finable for every Leet is the Queens Court and a Court of Iustice to which respect and reverence ought to he given and these words are in great contempt to the Court and the authority thereof which is supreme And Posito that he should here say to the Iudge of a Court when he delivered his opinion in any Case Mr. Iudge you lie without question he may be fined and imprisoned and as it is of a Iudge here so is it of a Iudge of any inferiour Court because it is a Court of Iustice And Popham said That if any misdemeaned himself in the Leet in any outragious manner the Steward may commit him And Gawâ—y changed his opinion Wherefore the Plaintiff had judgement to recover Pasch 36. Eliz. Allens Case A Scire facias issued out in the name of the Queen to shew cause why execution of a debt which is come to the Queen by the attainder of J.S. should not be had The Defendant pleaded that the Queen had granted over this debt by the name of a debt which came to her by the attainder of J.S. and all actions demands c. upon which the Plaintiff demurr'd And the question was if the Patentee might sue for this in the name of the Queen without speciall words And two presidents were cited that he may 1 Pasch 30 Eliz. rot 191. in the Exchequer where Greene to whom a debt was due was attainted and the Queen granted over this debt and all actions and demands and a â—câ—re facias was sued for him in the name of the Queen also in the 32 Elâ—z rot 219. Mabb of London was indebted by bond and the debt came to the Qu. by
propertie To which it was answered that if the ancient stock of Sheepe were still it had been godd but it was not and therefore the grant is voyd Walmesley Although the first stock was changed yet the new stock does supply it and is in place thereof and shall be in the same condition as the other stock is and therefore the Lessor shall have propertie in it But the whole Court was against him for they said that the increase of the stock of Sheepe should be to the Lessee and the Lessor shall never have them at the end of the terme but they agreed that if the lease were of the stock with Lambs Calves and Piggs there the increase belongs to the Lessor And all the Court took this difference sc when a lease is made of dead goods and when of living for when the lease is of dead goods and any thing is added to them for reparations or otherwise the Lessor shall have this addition at the end of the terme because it belongs to the principle but in case of a stock of Cattle which hath an increase as Calves and Lambs there these things are severed from the principle and Lessor shall never have them for then the Lessor shall have the Rent and the Lessee shall have no profit Trinit 29 VViseman against Rolfe in in C. B. Rot. 1454. IN a Writ of right the Case was thus A man selfed of Land in Fee makes his will and gives to D. his wife such Land for life the remainder to T. his son and heires of his body and also gives to T. his son his Land in B. and also his Land in C. and also he gives his Land called Odyum to the seed of his son habendum all the demised premisses to his T. son and the heires males of his body The Question was it T. should have an estate in Taile in B. and C. or if the last words shall relate only to that which was last named Fenner for the Plaintiff For the last Clause is a new Clause and shall not be preferred to the first for it begins with a verbe viz. I give my Land called Odyum and therefore the limitation afterward shall be referred only to this And 10 H. 7.8 There was a grant by Dedi custodiam Parci Arbores vento prostrat The Grantee shall have the trees by this Clause and 14 Eliz. A man deviseth thus I give my Mannour of C. to my second son Item I give my Mannor of S. to my second son to have and to hold to him and to his heirs And by Dyer Welsh and Weston he had an estate but for life but Brown cont for if a Lease be made to A. B. and C. successively it is adjudged that they are Ioyntenants but if it be to them as they are named they shall have it one after the other and if a devise be to one and his heirs and after to another for life the Law will conster that the estate for life is to procede for that words of Relation in Wills shall be taken stricttly as if a devise be to A. and his heirs of his body and he does devise other land in Forma praedicta this shall be but for life Walmesley cont and said that this limitation did go to all whereof no limitation was made before for the rules of reason are uncertain and therefore such matters shall be expounded according to the best sense that may be and here the sense is most naturall to refer it to all and the word all imports this and the Case of the fourth of Elizabeth under favour accords with this viz. that the Devisee shall have Fee in both But if the Devise had been I devise D. to my son Thomas and also to him and his heirs the Mannor of S. there he shall have D. but for life And if a man devise to his 4. sons A. B. C. and D. to have to the persons last named to them and their heirs there all shall have Fee 19 Ed. 4. In a precipe of a house and an acre of land in three severall Towns and that the Defendant Ibidem ingressus est and did not say into the house and land and yet it was held good Periam and Rhodes He shall have an estate Taile in all and the relation shall be to all Anderson doubted at first but agreed afterwards and Iudgement was given accordingly 32 33 Eliz. Mathewson against Trott in C. B. Rot. 1904. UPon a speciall verduit the Case was this A man seised of land in soccage devised it to his yonger son and died seised the elder son enters and dies seised and his heir enters and the yonger son enters upon him the Question was if his entry be taken away by this descent VValmesley It is not and he compar'd this case to a title of entry for a condition broken or a Conusee of a Fine upon grant and render c. in which Cases no descent shall take away entry Anderson The Devisee hath interest presently and the land does not descend for the devise prevents the descent and the Freehold is presently in the Devisee and the Statute 32 H. 8. which gives power to Devise lands does make a Title in the Devisee as a Title of entry for condition of Mortmaine and the Devisee shall not have an ex gravi querela upon this Statute but he must enter Walmesley The Devisee hath not a Freehold presently for if it were so the Devisee at the Common Law ought not to sue an Ex gravi Querela but certainly if the freehold be in the Devisee his entry is taken away And afterwards Iudgment was given by Anderson that descent does not take away the entry of the Devisee but delivered no reason for it Hillar 33 Eliz. Mosgrave against Agden Rot. 2529. IN an action of the Case on a Trover and conversion of six barrells of Butter The count was that they came to the hands of the Defendant and after the trover they were impared and decayed ratione negligentis custodiae And the Court held cleerly that the action would not lie for he who finds goods is not bound to preserve them from putrefaction but it was agreed that if the goods were used and by usage made worse the action would lie 44 Eliz. Ayer against Joyner in C. B. Rot. 2529. IN a second Deliverance it was said by the Court that if Lessee for years does assign over his terme and yet continues possession that he hath but a naked possession and no interest nor estate but the estate and interest does remain in the grantee so that he may grant it over And Walmesley said that if the Lessee makes waste the Lessor may have an action of waste against him and there is a casâ— that if a man makes a Lease and the Lessee waves the possession and a stranger commits waste the Lessor shall have an action of waste against the Lessee but the principall question
Court of Wards TEnant of the King by Knights service bargains and sells his land to Sir Henry Dimmock and his heirs and Sir Henry Dimmock dyes his heir within age and then the Deed is inrolled the question was if the King should have premier seisin Trist The King shall not because Sir Henry did not dye within his homage but the land was in the Bargainor as if there be a Bargainee of the reversion and the Tenant makes waste the Bargainee shall not have waste unless the Deed be introlled before the waste committed 3 Jacobi Bellingham against Alsop Bargainee before inrolment sells the land over and it was adjudged that the second bargain was voyd 10 Eliz. Mockets case Disseisee releaseth to the Bargainee of the Disseisor before inrolment and adjudged voyd 5 Eliz. in Pophams Case it was said that the Statute of inrolments had altered the Common Law for now by the delivery of the Deed no use is raised untill it be inrolled But all the Iustices held that the heir should be in Ward and pray premier seisin if he were of full age for the Statute sayes that no use shall be unless the Deed be inrolled but if it be inrolled it passeth ab initio and then the Bargainee shall be Tenant ab initio But it was also agreed by all the Iustices that the wife of Sir Henry shall not be indowed and that Rent paid to the Bargainor at the Rent-day incurr'd after the bargain is good and the Bargainee hath no remedy because it is a thing executed Trinit 12 Jacobi Cuddington against VVilkin in C. B. Rot. 924. IN an Action of the Case for calling the Plaintiff Thief the Defendant justified because the Plaintiff had stollen Sheep 37 Eliz. the Plaintiff replyed protestando that he had not stollen Sheep and pleaded the General Pardon 7 Jacobi upon which the Defendant demurred and adjudged for the Plaintiff for the Pardon had so purged and abolished the Offence that now he was no Thief 1 Ed. 3. Corone 15. 2 Ed. 3. Corone 81. 1 Assi 3. So if one call another Villain after he is infranchised And in one Baxters Case in Banco Regis it was adjudged that where a man was accused for Perjury and acquitted by Trial if he be afterwards called perjur'd he shall have his Action on the Case And Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff Seaman against Cuppledick IN a Trespass of Assault and Battery the Defendant justified in defence of his servant scil that the Plaintiff had assaulted his servant and would have beaten him c. and the Plaintiff demurr'd Yelverton The bar is good for the master may defend his servant or otherwise he may lose his service 19 H. 6.60 a. Crook Iustice The Lord may justifie in defence of his villain for he is his inheritance Williams contr The master cannot justifie but the servant may Justifie in defence of his master for he owes duty to his master 9 Ed. 4.48 Yelverton The master may maintain a plea personal for his servant 21 H. 7. and shall have an Action for beating his servant and also a man may justifie in defence of his cattle Cook A man may use force in defence of his goods if another will take them and so if a man will strike your cattle you may justifie in defence of them and so a man may defend his son or servant but he cannot break the peace for them but if another does assault the servant the Master may defend him and strike the other if he will not let him alone Williams It hath been adiudged in Banhams Case that a man cannot justifie a batterie in Defence of his soil a fortiori he cannot in defence of his servant vid. 19 H. 6.31 9 Ed. 4.48 Trinit 12. Jacob. Drury against VValler IN an action on the Case upon a trover and conversion of 200 l. delivered by the Plaintiff to the Defendant and upon not guilty pleaded the Question was if denyall by the Defendant to pay it upon request would beare this action And the case of Isaac was urged who brought an action of Trover c. for 200 l. in a bag and by verdict it was found that demand was made thereof and a deniall to pay it And by Dodderidge it was a Conversion Crooke accorded but Haughton doubted the case And Man Prothonotarie said that he remembred a president in the Case where it was resolved that in such case deniall of a horse was a conversion Haughton I remember an action of Trover was brought for a Trunk and it was ruled there that if one hath Timber in my land and he demands liberty to carry it off my Land and I deny it this is not a sufficient conversion Dodridge there is great difference in the Cases for a Horse or money cannot be known if they be used but Timber may Et adjournatur Michaelm 8 Jacobi Alfo and Dennis against Henning in B. R. Rot. 969. IN an action of Covenant the Case was thus Thomas Tavener by Indenture primo Jacobi did demise land to one Salisburie for 7. years and by the same Indenture Salisburie did Covenant grant condescend and agree with Taverner his heirs and assignes that he his Executors and Administrators should pay to Taverner his heirs and assigne 75 l. per annum And after Taverner demised the same land to Mary Taverner for life and he demised the reversion for 40. years to the Plaintiff if he so long lived and the tenant attorned and for rent due at the Feast of St Michaell he brought his action of Covenant And the first question was if this were a sum in gross because the Lessee covenanted to pay this as a Rent And resolved by Cook Chief Iustice and the Court that this is a good reservation of Rent for it is by Indenture and their intention was to have it as a Rent and the words of the Indenture shall be accounted to be his who may most properly speak them 26 H. 8.2 10 Eliz. 275. 22 H. 6.58 28 H. 8.6 And the Case between Whitchett and Fox in Replevin this terme where a man made a Lease for 99. years rendring rent and the Lessee covenanted by the same deed with the Lessor that he would not alien without his assent upon paine of forfeiture and after he aliened and the Lessor entred And it was held by the Court that this was a condition although the Plaintiff did covenant for being by Indenture they shall be the words of both and the words sub paena â—orisfacturae are the words of the Lessor The second point was if the assignee for 40 years may have a Covenant and it was held he might for it is for payment of rent and if the Lessee covenants to do any thing upon the land as to build or repaire a house there a covenant will lie for the assignee by the common Law but if it do not by the Common Law yet it is cleere that it will lie by the Statue of
the wife is at large to have the twelve pound and her Dower also But the Court held that she could not have her joynture for by the recovery of the Dower her joynture is barred for the Rent was given her in recompence of her Dower so that it cannot be intended that she shall have Rent Dower also wherefore it was adjudged that her entry on the Land was not good 30 31 Eliz. The King against the Bishop of Canterbury and Hudson Rot. 1832. IN a Quare impedit Hudson the Incumbent did plead that King Edw. the 4th did grant the Rape of Hastings Et bona catalla Fellonum Fugitivorum ategat of all Residents and non-residents within the said Rape to the Earl of Huntington And pleaded that John Ashborne was seized of the Mannor of Ashborne and of the advowson appending to it and held the same of the Earl of Huntington as of his Rape of Hastings and that the said John Ashborn was outlawed during which the Incumbent of the said Church dyed and the Earl presented the said Hudson Shut I conceive this avoydance does not belong to the Earl by reason of this grant for by the same Patent libertie is given to the said Earl his heirs to put himself into possession and of such things as he cannot put himself into possession they will not passe and here this is a thing in action which by these words will not passe 19 H. 6.42 by the grant de Catalla Fellonum obligations do not passe VValmesley Stanford in his prerogative saith that by the words Bona catalla the King shall have the presentation to the Church of him that is outlawed or Attaint and by the same reason he may grant it by such a name and although the party cannot seise such a thing yet it shall passe 39 H. 3.35 Rent for years shall passe by the grant of bona Catalla Periam It will passe by these words for it is an ancient grant for in that time the Patents of the King were not so specially penned as now they are Anderson I conceive the avoydance will not passe by thse words for within this word bona moveables are contained both dead and living and Avoydance is no Chattell nor right of Chattell Quod Peryam negavit c. Mich. 37 38 Eliz. Townsend against VVhales IN an Ejectment the Iury found that J.S. was seized of land in possession and also in reversion for terme of life and made a Devise by these words That his Executors take the profit of all his Lands and tenements Free and Copy for ten years for the payment of his debts and Legacies and after the end of the said ten years that all the aforesaid lands and tenements with their appurtenances should be sold by his Executors or one of them and the silver to be bestowed in the performance of his Will or by the Executors of his Executors or any of them and then one of the Executors dyed within the ten years and the two surviving Executors did grant all aswell in possession as in reversion to House who made a Lease to the Plaintiff And two points were resolved 1. That the Executors may grant the reversion 34 H. 6. for by these words Free and Copy his intent appears that all should be granted 2. That although one of the Executors died yet the other two Executors may sell Anderson If such bevise had been at the Common Law and one Executor had refused the two others could not sell but if one die the survidors may sell the land for there the authority doth survive Which difference the other Iustices agreed to And at another day Anderson said there was difference where the Devise is that Executors should sell his and the money divided between them there if one die the others shall not sell but otherwise here because the money is the performance of his will Walmesley The sale by the two Executors is good for it is said the Executors or any of them c. And Beaumond agreed Wherefore judgment was given for the Plaintiff Note that there were two verdicts in this case and the first only found that the Executors shoull sell after the ten years and that one dyed and the other two did sell within the ten years and the opinion of the Court was that the sale was voyd but in the 39 and 40 Eliz. all the whole will was found and Iudgment given ut supra The Earle of Rutlands Case Roger Earl of Rudand and John Maners and others Executors to John late Earl of Rudand Executor to Edward Earl of Rutland brought an action on the case against Isabell Countess of Rutland And Declared for divers Iewells and goods c. that came to the hands of John Earl of Rudand as Executor to the said Edward and the said John the 10th of July 29 Eliz. did casually loose them which after came to the hands of the Defendant licet saepius requisita she would not deliver them to the said John in his life time nor to the said Plaintiffs after his death but knowing the goods did belong to the Plaintiffs in D. in the County of Notingham converted them to her proper use And a verdict for the Plaintiff And it was moved often in arrest of Iudgment but all the Iustices agreed that the action of Trover and converversion would lie by the Executors upon the Satute of the 4 Ed. 3. upon a conversion in vita Testatoris and so hath it been adjudged in the Kings Bench and although the Statute mentions onely a Writ of trespass that is only put for example Also they all agreed that the sole cause of action to the Conversion for it there were no conversion they shall be put to their Detinue therefore the great doubt did arise because the day and time of the conversion was not shewed for perhaps it was after the Writ and before the Declaration And also if it was in vita Testatoris they should have this action by the 4th of Ed. 3d. But at length Walmesley said That all Iustices of the Common Pleas and of Serjeants Inne in Fleet-street besides Peryam Chief Baron were of opinion that Iudgment should be given for the Plaintiffs for that some of them held that the day of the Conversion is not materiall to be shewn and others that of necessity as this case is it shall be intended that the conversion was in the Plaintiffs time wherefore Iudgment was entredfor the Plaintiffs but a Writ of Errour was brought and the Case much debated Michaelm 38 39 Eliz. Carew against Warren in C. B. Rot. 1945. GUnter Tenant in Tasle of Lands in antient Demesn made a Lease for 60. years to J.S. and for security thereof levied a Fine to Lee and Loveland who rendred to Gunter in Fee who devised the reversion to his wife for life the remainder in Fee and dyed And then the Lord of Andover which is an ancient Mannor by an
and pleading By the Lessee of an Intrudor 16 Where a Lease must be pleaded hic in curia praelat 16 By the Obligor on a bond to save harmless plea that he was not taken in execution c. 19 Where ancient Demesne is a good plea 24 Where in an Avowry a man shall plead for Frank-tenement 51 Difference in plea between appeal of Mayhem and Murther 59 Where a man shall be bound to set forth Seisin of him who made the Devise and where not 103 Prescription For a Common 4 5 To buy and sell c. 6 7 Who shall prescribe to a way and who not 72 Presentation Where the King shall be limited in time to present by Lapse and where not 2.89.90 Where Recusancy of the incumbent shall cast the Lapse on the King 5 Where the King shall not lose his Presentment by Lapse though he do not present in time 5 The Church how void for Symony 87 Prohibition vid. Writs Promise vid. Assumption Proviso vid. Condition Property Where the property of stollen Goods shall be altered according to the Statute of 2 and 3. Phil. Mar. 27 A man outlawed hath property in his goods 116 What property the Constable shall be said to have of Felons goods 120 Quare Impedit IN what cases it lies and what not 99 Releases DIfference of a Release to Tenant at sufferance and Tenant at wil 29 Of a Bond the Release bearing date the same day not good 50 Of the avoydance of a Church why void 86 Remainder Lease for years with Remainder to the said persons where good and where not 38 39 Seniori puero whether a Female shall take 64 Reparations Notice to the Astignee of a Lease to repair not good 114 Rents Where the Confirmation to the Assignee of the Lessee of part of the land shall extinguish the Rent of the whole 10 Where an entry for breach of the Condition in part of the Land shall extinguish the Rent for the whole 10 Rent granted out of Land not chargeable therewith how good 111 Where the Tenant of the Freehold shall be charged with the Rent-charge and where the Termor 117 Reservation Rent reserved to his Executors or Assignees where good and where not 9 10 Reserved at Michaelmas what time of Michaelmas shall be intended 64 Resignation Of a Benefice without presentation or on Condition 12 The Nature of a Resignation 12 Sheriff WHere an action of debt lies against him for an escape though the Capias be not returned 43 No escape against the Sheriff when especiall bails are requested 98 Where a man shall aver or traverse against the return of a Sheriff 132 Slander and slanderous words vide Actions Calsing one Bastard 92 Calling one Whore and that she had the French-pox 34 For saying Thou Murtherer good 33 By him in remainder for saying the immediate Tenant was alive 33 For the word Cousener 47 Thief and thou hast forged a Deed 47 For pilfering 56 Thou hast stollen half an acre of Corn innuendo Corn sowed 57 He was disproved before the Justices 58 He was perjured and I will prove him so 62 Statutes Mistaking the Parish on an action for Robbery on the Statute of Winchester 7 Lease for years not within the Statute of Quia emptores 10 Lease on the Statuce of 27 H. 8.28.32 Who are within the Statute of Monasteries 31 H. 8.56 Lease for one year within the penalty of the Statute of buying of Tythes 57 21 H. 8. for Noblemens Chaplains 51 In the 8. of H. 6. how to plead the entry 93 Exposition of the Statute 5 Ed. 6.14.135 Where a man shall plead Contra formam statuti though there be more Statutes of the same matter 135 Traverse by Executors on the 4. of Ed. 3. good 156 Surrender By the Husband Lessee for years of his wives estate how good 32 What and how may things belong to a Surrender 97 Tenure NO Tenure between Donor and Donee in Frankmarriage 26 Tenant at jufferance Will D'auter vie c Where such Tenants holding over shall gain a Feesimple or make a Disseisin and where not 27.28 Tenant at sufferance shall justifie Damage-feasant 29 Difference where a Tenant at sufferance holds over and where a Tenant at Will 35 Tythes Where Tythes by composition shall be paid according to agreement although they be not tyâ—hable 34 35 Where they shall be paid of the Glebe land 39 By the Parsons release of all Demands Tythes are not released 40 Where altering the Crop of the Land shall alter the Tythes from grosse to small Tythes 74 Where a discharge to pay Tythes without Deed is good and where not 103 Tryall Where the tryall shall be on the land though the cause or matter were on the Sea 54 Vses and Cestui que use USe to the husband and wife habendum to the husband for three years 48 How Cestui que itse shall be said to be seised before entry 86 Wardship WHere the husband alone shall have a writ of Ravishment of Ward without the wife 82 83 Whether the brother of the half blood or the Uncle of the whole blood shal have the Wardship in Socage 128 Warranty The exposition of the word To warrant Land 100 Two Joynt-tenants with Warranty make partition the Warranty is gone 104. Otherwise of a Feoffment 104 Warren VVhat it is and whereof it consists 66 Of VVaste committed there 66 VVarren in a Common is good and the Commoners cannot kill the Conies Damage-feasant 184 Waste VVhere a man shall have but one action of waste on severall Leases and where not 11 The form of entring Judgment in a writ of waste 12 For taking Fish out of a Pool 19 VVaste in the house for not scouring a Ditch 43 In Pigeon houses Hop-grounds and Fish ponds 66 VVhere the Lease is ruinous at the entry of the Lessee and falls down afterwards the Lessee is excused and where not 93 Way How extinguisht by unity of possession 127 Wills and Testaments Executors Administrators and Legacies VVhere a man deviseth that his wife shal have the occupation and profits during her widowhood 6 7 Where a Devise shall be intended within the word Demise 14 VVhere a Devise shal be taken as a Demise for breach of a Condition 14 VVhere a Devise of severall parcels of Land to several persons and the Survivors to be each others heir what Estate passeth 25 VVhere an Administrator paies debts and there a Will is found yet the payment good 28 VVhere a Devise shall make an Estate tail by implication 29 30 VVhat passeth by this word Livelyhood in a Will according to the custome of London 30 VVhere Ex intentione shall make a Condition in a Devise 32 VVhere an uncertain Devise shall be construed good as to a certain intent 35 Legatees refusing to prove the Will shall lose their Legacies 44 Devise of a Tenant in Borough-english to his two Sons 65 Devise to his two Daughters his Heirs 65 Devise of all Lands Meadows and Pastures whether the house passeth 75 VVill made and the party sayes he will not make his VVill no Revocation 76 VVhat passeth by the Devise of a Mannor 88 89 Devise of Jewels what shall remain to the Heir and will not pass by the VVill 124 Writs VVhere a Scire facias lies and where not 3 VVhere certainty in a writ of Ejectment is requisite and where not and difference between such writ and a writ of Novel Disseisin 18 19 Quod ei deforceat how it will lye in waste 102 FINIS