shall not have it from him because once attached in him as the Kings Villain and his wife are Joynt-Tenants for years the Villain dies his wife hath the Lease by Survivor this found by office takes away the interest of the wife as the entry of the King should in the life of the Villain and upon Cesser thereof the Kings Title once vested is not taken away because Nullum tempus occurit Regi by Dier by Weston where Titles of the King and of others concur in one instant the King shall be preferred as Land discends to a villain his Lord enters after this found the Ideot of the King shall have the Land and laches of entry shall not prejudice the King yet both Titles at once in the Lord because born Villain to the King because born Ideot by relation of office to it So if the husband be intituled to be Tenant by the courtesie and his wife after this found Ideot this takes away the Title from the Husband for ever for the Heir shall be in ward therefore if holden of the King or shall have it out of the Kings hands if not holden because the Title of the King to the Free-hold of the Land by the custody of it during the life of the wife shall take away by relation of the Office the Title of the husband which before the Office was found was vested in the husband Fish against Brocket TEnant in Tail Levies a Fine with Proclamations M. 4. 5. El. in the K. Beâ—ch Error whereof the one was recorded to be made the seventh day of June which day was Sunday and dies the issue brings Error and Reverses all the Proclamations but the Fine remains good at the Common Law and shall be a Discontinuance adiudged and this Proclamation could not be made as it is Recorded because it is no day in Court and the Fine and Proclamations are several Records and might have been avoided by Plea Sir Iohn Ratcliffs Case IF an Infant be made Knight in the life of his Ancestor P. 6. El. in the C. of Wards and the Ancestor dies he shall not be in Ward for his body for by this degree he is admitted to be able to do Knights Service and the wardship is due in respect of imbecility to do it he shall not pay the value of his marriage but his land shall be in Ward by the Statute of Magna Charta c. 4. so if he be made Knight being in Ward or before the same Law is if he be made Knight when he is in Ward 2. E. 6. Brook Gard 42. and 72. at the Common Law an Infant made Knight shall be out of Wardship for land and body Say against Smith and Fuller LEase for 10. years by indenture from Michaelmas last past the Lessee Grants P. 6. El. in C. P. Repleviâ— That he will pay 1000. Tiles to the Lessor or a summ in gross at the end of the Term the Lessor grants That if the Lessee pays the said 1000. Tiles at the end of every 10. years from thenceforth next ensuing That then he shall have a perpetual Demise and Grant of the premisses from ten years to ten years continually and inconsequently beyond the memory of man and adjudged good except onely for the first ten years for the incertainty of the begining continuance and ending of the other ten years For the second ten years begins not until the condition which is precedent to it be performed for this cannot ever be performed for all the ten years that ever shall be precedes the payment and the payment precedes the Lease and so the Condition impossible Also he cannot pay the same Tiles that he hath paid at first Also the payment at a day after the Term ends is good because that the Lease Commences from M. and so M. day is not part of the Term. Every contract to make good a Lease for years ought to have certainty of begining continuance and ending of the Term all which ought to be known at the begining of the Lease and if any of them fails it is not a good Lease because it wants certainty by Brown a Lease Conditional is good untill the Condition broken because the Estate precedes and the Condition is subsequent A condition to have a Lease gains not the thing until it be performed as the needle precedes the threads as he ought to marry my daughter before the time limited otherwise he shall not have the 100. l. which I promised So 7. E. 3.308 before fol. 25. if he will hold over eight years to him and his Heirs shall pay twenty pounds yearly Debt lyeth for the Lessor for the Rent within eight years because the Lessee hath but a Term for the Condition precedes the Fee-simple by Litl fol. 81. Lessee for five years upon Condition That if he doth such a thing within two years he shall have Fee but no law by Dier because he hath not Fee until the Act done Referrence to time certain is as much as express nomination of the time contained in the reference as a Lease for ten years and so from ten to ten during an hundred years a good Lease for an hundred years 29. H. 8. So I make a Lease until I. S. shall be imprisoned by the Statute of W. 1. cap. 20. So I make a Lease for years rendring 5. l. yearly and after I grant the Rent and Reversion to B. until he hath received of the Rent 20. l. it is all one as if I had granted the Reversion for 4 years because he shall receive 20. l. in 4. years and so the referrence contains such certainty from the time of the Lease certainly limited for the number of years may commence or determine upon incertainty very well as a Lease for 20. years after that the Lessee shall do such an Act good So for 20. years if the Coverture between I. S. and his wife so long continue good So 4. E 6 before fol. 6. and 13. 14 H. 8 11. A Lease for so many years as I. S. shall name and he names so many years in my life good for so many years that my Executor shall name not because he cannot name in my life and so it is not a Lease in my life and the certainty ought to be known in my life But a lease untill I. S. who hath Execution of a Statute Merchant until he is satisfied thereof no good Lease because Terminus contains certainty and there it is uncertain how long the Lease will endure So a Lease for three years and so from three years to three years during the life of I. S. is good for six years onely because those onely certain and the end of the number of years intended ought to be known at the begining So a person Leases for five years and so from 5. years to 5. years during his life is good for 10. years onely yet he continues person above ten years Dier said That he knew it Adjudged
be a general because the not referring to the science of the Judges as he doth if he saith generally contra formam Stat. c. a Statute hath no words in vain Whiddon for the Plaintiff A general Statute shall not be recited as 27. H. 8. of Conveyance of the possession to the Use So the demandant may Demur without recital of the Statute of W. 2. c. 36. If the Tenant vouches out of the line So an Executor of an Executor shall have account without recital of the Statute of 25 E. 3. cap. 5. So 5. H. 7.17 Information for Liveries good without reciting of the Statute Misrecital of the surplusage shall not make the mattor bad as 21. H. 6.1 by Newton one as an Executor shall not bring an action of Debt upon a Contract made with himself he shall not shew the Testament for that the naming of him Executor is surplusage So 33. H. 6.19 by Danby in Detinue against two as Executors They shall not plead that another is Executor with them because they are not charged as Executors But Detinue is cause of Action and the naming of them Executors is surplusage A man shall not aver that which by the Statute is made apparent as the Lord shew that he entred into the Land within the year because his Tenant aliened to the Dean and Chapter he shall not aver that it is Mortmain because it appeareth now nor here that it is a pretenced right because he counts that the Defendant nor his Ancestors c. were not in possession the space of a year before the Lease and then is pretenced Conveyance to the Action as the Lease is here shall not be pleaded So certainty is the substance it self as appeareth 34. H. 6.4 by Prisot in decies lantum If the Plaintiff sheweth such part of the Record as conveys him to his Action it is sufficient without shewing all But a Writ judicial ought to recite the Record certainly out of which it issueth because the Record is the substance and effect there and not only the Conveyance a stranger to the Deed or thing as the Plaintiff here is to the Lease that he pleads shall not shew the certainty of it as 35. H. 6.8 after fol. 148.13 H. 7.19 By Fineux au ancient Major in Trespass justifie the taking of goods because the Plantiff was out-lawed without shewing Pattent because he is now as a stranger to them for it belongeth to the successor and not to him So a Wife shall have Dower for a Rent Charge granted to the husband without shewing the Deed. So 7. H. 6.1 by Strange Lessee in Debt against him for Rent reserved may say That the Estate of his Lessor was upon Condition for which broken such a one had entred before the Rent arear Judgement if Action without shewing what condition Sanders to the same intent The Statute here although penall yet because it is beneficial for the Common Wealth viz. for to avoid maintenance subordination of witnesses c. Things taken out of the Works thereof taken by equity and the words obscurely expounded most strong for the Common wealth and words are but the image of the Statute and the life thereof in the minds of the makers and Expositors of it and which approach nearest to their minds are the true Expositors and words should be inclinable to the mind So W. 3. cap. 2. Fines upon Lands intailed ipso jure sit millus viz. as to right to be bound but as to the possession is a discontinuance before fol. 57. and after fol. 137. So the heir may demand the heritage of his Mother aliened by his Father if he onely Levied the Fine Yet Gloucester cap. 3. saith Whereof no Fine is Levied intends lawfull Fines by the Father and Mother before fol. 57. So a Statute Marchant wills that it shall be delivered to the Conusee Yet 21. E. 3.21 shall be delivered to the extendors because prised too high it shall he delivered to the praisors for the price after f. 172. So if the Plaintiff be nonsuit in a second deliverance the Defendant shall recover Dammages by the equity of 7. H. 8.4 Return irreplevisable shall be awarded and so by this means the Plaintiff is barred and so the intent of the makers directs the words and equity of Statutes Lessee for years hath a right Estate and Title to Enter right because by Bracton he hath jus utendi fruendi in alieno libero Tenemento an Estate because a Remainder in Fee is good upon a Lease for years and a Remainder is not good without an estate precedent Title because 7. H. 7.11 a Termor may falsifie a faint Recovery against his Lessor by the Common Law So 9. H. 6.64 by Strange I grant to B. That if my Tenant for life dies living my self that he shall have for 10. years B. may maintain because he hath colour yet he hath nothing and is in doubt if he shall have it for 10. years or not Then if the Leffee for years hath such interest that by the Common Law he may maintain there is no need of a remedy for all other the Statutes before avoid maintenance the suit depending for the Staute of 32. H. 8. is made for the avoidance in medling with other mens matters before any suit or after Account shall not abate for default of form if it hath substance 36. E. 3. cap. ultimo After fol. 190. If one be found guilty of an offence which is pardoned by Parliament Judges ought not to proceed to judgement yet it is not pleaded because they are bound to take notice of it for it appeareth to them by judicial knowledge 26. H. 8 7. by Fitz. H. But if A. kill B. in the presence of the Justices and C. is found guilty of it 7. H. 4.41 by Tirwit and Gascoin the Justice ought to respite judgement because he knoweth the contrary but not to acquit C. because he cannot judge of his own knowledge 22. E. 4.47 where it was granted by Parliament That A. should have a Writ with Proclamation out of the Chancery against one G. to answer divers trespasses which were contained in the Act of Patliament and the Writ was abated by award because it did not mention those Trespasses in certainty because a private Act and there not recitall or misrecital shall hurt And as to the cerainty of the Term he shall not shew it because he is a stranger to it As the Defendant shall plead Joyntenancie of the Plaintiff without shewing of whose gift All the Court say That Declarations ought to have certainty So that the Defendant may know to what thing he ought to answer after fol. 193. and 3. H. 7.12 So 3. E. 4.21 In Debt for a sallary against a Successor declares That he was retained with his Predecessor and shews not who retained him because a stranger may retain him the County shall abate by the better opinion for the incertainty good by Brook Laborers 39. and the truth is That
naturall body so may he purchase As 34. H. 6.34 and by pleading there H. 6. seized in fee of an Advowson in gross conveyed it from H. 5. to him who granted it to the plantiff good without shewing in jure Coronae or how and there if the King hath Land parcel of the Crown and parcell by purchase and dies having a son and daughter by one venter and a son by another who enters and dies without issue the daughter shall have the Land purchased and the son the other So purchased Lands by the King shall go to the naturall body So 35. H. 6.28 by Moyle after fol. 247. Land in Gavel-kind given to the King and his heirs the eldest son being King shall not have all because it vests in his naturall body but perquisites of a villaine the King hath jure Coronae as 41. E. 3.21 if a Bishop who hath a villain in the right of his Church enter he shall hold it in his body politick and shall be in the right of his Church because the signiory was for a thing in respect or by reason of another shal be in the same degree and right as the principal was at the Common Law That an estate of inheritance viz. Fee-simple was by the Common Law before the Statute First absolute when a gift was made to a man and his Heirs Secondly conditional when to him and the Heirs of his body for that formedon in Reverter at the Common Law if the Donee dies without issue in Remainder not for a remainder cannot depend upon a Fee Conditional until this Statute and before this Statute the Donee might alien after issue had so bar the issue because they construed the having of issue to be a performance of the Condition which was implied in the words and in the intent of the Donee and after issue to be as an absolute Fee because he had such heirs which were limited But if before the Statute the Donee had issue he might alien and good then here 4 E. 3. and 30. E. 1. which was contrary to the will of the Donor for which the Statute was made and then Fines were of great regard yet by this Statute ipso jure sit nullus viz. as to the right issue or Donors the Kings prerogatives are great yet the Common Law so admeasures them that they take not away any of the inheritances of the subject and therefore the King shall pay Toll though not for things bought yet Toll Traverse he shall because it is for going over another Soil because it toucheth the inheritance to permit a way over his Soil without paying any thing 46. E. 3. 23. H. 3. 35. H. 6. 26 28 29. So for to wave a Demurrer or issue yet may not change one issue into another Term because then it would be infinite which should be to the disinheritance of another 13. E. 4.8 Statutes general made in preservation of inheritances or for the publick good binds the King without naming as W. 2. c. 5. of usurpations but by 35. H. 6. good is not so clear if an infant upon whom the King usurps hath by purchase as well as discent So Merton cap. 5. That ordains that the Kings Ward shall not pay usury viz. That the Rent shall not be doubled during the Nonage of the Heir and therefore in 35. H. 6.60 by Needham if the King gives land rendring Rent yearly at Easter and if he fail to pay at the day That he shall double the Rent the Grantee dies his Heir within age he shall not double the Rent against the King So Merton cap. 6. That a man shall make his Attorney for to follow his suit to the King if it be his Lord or at the Court of another he shall do it So the Statute of 5. H. 5. of additions L. 5. E. 4.32 of one Law which belongeth to a common person the King may not defend the Common right but that every one shall have advantage but every general Statute shall not bind the King without naming of him As Magna Charta cap. 12. Communia placita c. nor such which have an intent onely between subjects and to repress disorder between them those here which concerneth salvation of inheritance or publick utility of the Realm So the Statute of gifts Conditional binds the King because by Justice and Act of Parliament the King hath submitted his will to the Donor The King as Walsh saith hath in him First power to do Secondly Justice to enforce him to do it this is as to others Thirdly Mercie to stay him from doing this is of things touching himself And because after this Statute the King may not say that the estate is Fee-simple Conditional as it was before the Act the case of the Tenant in Tail attainted of Treason was alleadged in proof of it 37. H. 8.7 7. H. 4.32 which proves that the King shall be bound by the said Statute So by 26. H. 8. cap. 13. because it is some estate of inheritance also the Tenant of the King in Capite gives in Tail Tenendum de capitali domino the King shall not have Wardship of the issue in Tail 4. H. 6.19 because it is not now Fee Conditional as before the Statute and therefore he is not immediate Tenant to the King 4. H. 7.16 The King may receive the Services of the Donor by his hands 27. H. 8.26 after fol 249. the King may take the Donor or the Tenant in Tail for his Tenant before Licence or after but once chosen shall not resort Also 8. H. 4.9 Tenant in Tail of a Signioty aliens it in Mortmain for default the Signiory revolts to the King the King seises the Land after escheat the issue in Tail hath the land by petition against the King and therefore is not Fee-Conditionall as to the King but binds the King although in these cases the King claims in the right of the Crown yet here it is very remote from the prerogative because here it remains vested in the natural body of H. 7. For the Plaintiff it was said That the Prerogative of the natural body of the King because of the union of the politick as the attainder of H. 7. discharge ipso facto as soon as he came to the Crown 1. H. 7.4 So R. 3. being Feoffee to uses when he was King the use was gone because the King in his body politique may not be seised to an use of another 5. E. 4.7 and therefore it was enacted 1. R. 3. cap. 5. Rastal Uses 3. That the Land should be in Fee to him to whom the Use was 43 E. 3.22 Franchises extinct by purchase of the King yet to him and his Heirs of a Mannor to which they were appendant So the King in his natural body and another purchase or if the purchase is before that he is King they are not Joint-Tenants but Tenants in common Fitz-nabr f. 32. G. because no body politick may hold in Joincture So 44. E.
woad that he may do his pleasure then the King shall have an action upon the agreement and if he doth not weigh it is the folly of the Collector Griffith the Kings Sollicitor Agreement or concord executed with satisfaction in deed or with accord or means for recovery of recompence is a good bar in Trespass Executory is not howbeit it is the mutual assent of the parties because it giveth neither recompence action nor remedy whereby to obtain recompence and therefore it is not but a void communication and nudum pactum as in 20. H. 6. In Trespass the Defendant pleads concord between them That he shall pay 20. s. to the Plantiff at a day to come it is not a bar because it is not satisfaction nor recompence for it because he shall not have debt after the day so 9. E. 4.19 in Trepsass upon 5. R. 2. Defendant pleads accord That the Plantiff should re-re-enter and have the land and that the Defendant deliver to the Plantiff all the Evidences concerning the land and said that the Plantiff had entred and that he had delivered all the evidences unto him It is no bar for it intends the proper evidences of the Plantiff and so no satisfaction of the wrong but if it conveys to him Title to the evidence then it is a good bar so in 15. H. 6. in Trespass against him by the Plantiff he pleads That they agree that if the Defendant doth his endeavor for to agree them for a Trespass by the Plantiff to S. That then c. and saith That he did his endeavor so that they are accorded it is no plea because no satisfaction but if he saith That he hath accorded them at his own costs it is a good bar Gawdy the elder for the Defendant Arbitrement which is Executory 9. E. 4.51 Fitz. H. 4. Br. 3. accord is a good bar in Trespass because he may have debt at the day appointed for the payment of the summ agreed to be paid in recompence and so the Trespass is converted into another thing viz. Debt by the Arbitrators which are judges of it and so accord countervails satisfaction in facto otherwise it is of a concord executory 6. H. 7.11 because the pleading of the concord confesseth a wrong and it is not reason that the Plantiff in an action thereupon should be barred without satisfaction And so shall the King be satisfied here Also in concord the wrong to be recompenced precede the agreement but here the agreement precedes the wrong supposed and cometh not after the wrong as in concord and therefore this case may not be resembled to the case before of accord Incertaintie at the beginning which may be reduced to certaintie by matter ex post facto countervaileth certaintie ab initio as a man leaseth all his Acres in D. paying for every one 12. d. it is a good reservation because when the Acres are measured the Rent shall be certain so a gift of two Acres of the one for Life and of the other in Fee by the Feoffment of the one he shall have Fee in this ab initio so Lessee of white-acre and Black-acre for life the remainder of the one in Fee to a stranger and the Lessor licences him for to cut Trees in White-acre now he shall be adjudged to have the remainder of this Acre ab initio so the thing which at the commencement was incertain is made certain So in Wheelers case 14. H. 8.17 So a Lease for so many years as I. S. shall name is good when he shall name the years So 17. E. 4.1 A. bargains that B. shall have his wheat when he hath viewed it if he please paying 4. s. the Acre good contract if he paies when he carrieth it away yet the quantity and summ incertain at the first so here when the Collector hath weighed the woad And therefore this conditional agreement doth countervail an agreement certain at the beginning And where acts ought to be performed strictly yet in divers cases the performance of the intent and not the words good for it countervaileth the performance of the words So here But performance of the words and not of the intent is not good as Lit. fol. 182. of conditions upon a Feoffment for to give again to I. S. and his wife in special Tail and they die and the Feoffees make an estate to their issue and the heirs of his father and mother good because the intent of the condition is performed So 17. E. 4.3 Obligation upon condition to infeoff I. S. and he Lease for years and Release in Fee it is a good performance and a good Feoffment and yet the words of a condition shall be performed as strictly as a Statute Bradshaw the Kings Attorney The mutual assent of the parties upon a thing incertain is in Law but a vain communication before the certainty known as in 37. H. 6.8 A man promises in marriage with his daughter so much as I. S. shall arbitrate The party which shall marry his daughter shall not have it if he marry her until I. S. hath made his award and appointed it for before that it is reduced into certainty it is but a vain communication So in 20. H. 6. A man Leases to A. for so many years as B. shall name he cannot enter into the land before that B. hath named the number of years And the witness of the Defendant which saith That he found suerties and hath not shewed who or what as he ought is wanting both in the name and ability of the sureties which the Court ought to adjudge of as in 22. E. 4.40 A man that was bound to shew a sufficient discharge of an annuity pleaded that he had offered to shew it to him and he refused to see it and held no good plea. Agreement according to the Statute in issue shall be intended general viz. certain and special viz. incertain in evidence proves not the issue neither is it pursuant to the issue as in 31. H. 6. Upon non est factum pleaded in debt witnesses say That it was delivered at another place then it did bear date whereupon the Defendant demurred and the Plantiff was barred because this proved not it to be his Deed for the delivery shall be intended where it was dated and the witnesses prove the contrary and so the evidence warrants not the issue so in 18. H. 6.16 One deed of Lease for life without Livery given in evidence shall not maintain upon Free-hold pleaded the issue so in 14. E. 3. Upon traverse of a gift in Tail the witnesses prove that another made the gift and awarded that the Plaintiff should be barred so if he had pleaded the general agreement in bar and special in the rejoinder it is a departure as in 6. H. 7.8 In Trespass the Defendant pleaded a descent to him and the Plaintiff said That after the Defendant infeoffed him and the Denfendant said That it was upon condition and for breach
D. bringeth an Action of Debt against him and the Abbot his Sovereign the Writ shall abate because he is named Prior whereas he is but one of the Monks where he may not be Debitor But it had been good if the Prior had been omitted and Debt is maintainable without contract between them or privity in possibility upon the escape As 1. H. 7. 8. against the Clark of Hamper upon a Liberate delivered to him when the Comisor hath assets Admitting that it lies not by the Common Law yet it lies by equity of the Statute of Westminster the 2. ch 11. which giveth in Action against the Gaoler which suffers an Accomptant to escape and by the equity of the Statute of 1. R. 12. which gives an Action against the Warden of the Fleet upon an escape for it shall extend to all other Gaolers by equity for although it be penal against the Warden yet it is benificial to many others As 13. E. 1. circumspecte agatis extends to all other Bishops as well as Norwich So the Statute of 9. E. 3. 5. That the Executor which first cometh by distress shall answer 3. H. 6. 14. extends to an Administrator and 9. H. 6. 19. Debt upon an escape of one in Execution was maintainable against the Major of the Staple who in excuse of himself saith That he was imprisoned by force of a plaint and not in Execution the words of R. 2. prohibites the Warden of the Fleet onely to suffer any in Execution to go out of Prison by Baston Mainprise or Bail and by equity all other Gaolers yet these in London use it and it is not an escape in them because they may prescribe against the equity and words of Statutes which is contrary to their Customs and Prescriptions for that their Customs as Prescriptions are confirmed by Statute and contrary to the Statute of Silva cedua and keeping gof Leets at other times then the Statute appoints and so let them in execution to go by Baston within their liberty But others shall be bound by equity of the said Statute and because this Statute extends to others by equity in this point of escape it shall extend also to an Action to charge other Officers as to matters of escape A prisoner marry the Warden of the Fleet this is an escape and he is at liberty for he cannot be under his Wifes Custody So if the Office discends to an Heir which is a prisoner there he shall be adjudged at Liberty although he lieth in fetters because he cannot be his own keeper in prison Baitons case 44. and Ridgwaies case 3. 52. by which it appeareth that the cause here is to be understood of voluntary escapes in the Gaoler for if the prisoner escape to his own wrong the Plaintiff shall have a new Capias ad satisfaciendnm if the Writ of Capias upon which he is not imprisoned be not returned or shall be in Execution to the Plaintiff again if he be re-taken by the Sheriff before an Action brought against him upon the escape Wimbish against Talbois THe Husband makes a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself 4. E. 6. In the Common Pleas. and his Wife in special Tail the Remainder to the Husband in general Tail the Remainder to him in Fee 27. H. 8. of Uses was made the Husband and Wife entred the Husband dies the Wife suffers a recovery by Confession the first day which is not executed and the Issue in Tail enters for the forfeiture by the Statute of 11. H. 7. c. 10. and the opinion of the Court. 1. That the entry is lawfull and this forfeiture is within the words of the Statute although that the wife had not any estate in the Land in use yet shee had the use in the Land which is all one and this is an Hereditament which will make Possessio fratris by 5. E. 4. and was appointed by the Act of the Husband and was an inheritance and purchase in him and so within the words of the first branch of the Stat. of 11. H. 7. 2. Admitting that it should be out of the words of the first branch because it speaks of gifts to the Husband and wife by any seised to his use and Feoffees are Donees by the Stat. of 27. H. 8. of Uses by 6. E. 6. Formedon 40. 3. Admitting that it be forth of the words of the first branch yet it is within the equity because it is a benificial law and in advancement of justice and suppression of fraud 4. That a remedy by Covin upon a false or true cause is within the Statute although no execution be sued for the Covin is a Condition in Law annexed to an estate which Condition is broken although that Execution is not sued the Statute is general of Recoveries by Covin and includes all recoveries this Condition annexed to the use shall transfer to the possession by the Stat. of 27. H. 8. 5. That he which entred by such forfeiture shall be seised in Tail or Fee as shee should be if the Wife were dead and this in course of discent and not purchase paramount contrary to Hales and that a Son born may enter upon the Daughter which hath entred for such forfeiture contrary of a purchase and that the entry for the forfeiture is maintainable presently in the life of the Wife which maketh it and he which enters may aver generally in pleading That he is that person which ought to take benefit of the forfeiture by all the Justices contrary to Montague Cook Sergeant to the Defendant which saith That the Replication is not good because it shews not how he is Heir in special but hath averred That he is the same person to which c. general abatement for it is issuable and when such Statutes gives entry generally to one yet if he will take advantage of it he shall shew how he is the same person and shall not say generally that he is the same person as upon 6. R. 2. cap. 6. which will enter by assent to the Ravisher 5. E. 4. 6. ought to shew how he is next Heir yet the Stat. is general so for prayee to be received upon default of Tenant for life by W. 2. cap. 3. ought to shew how he came to the Reversion So he which will Intitle himself upon 7. E. 1. for entry upon Mortmain how he is Lord. As to the Obligation That because the Defendant in Bar in saying whose heir he is hath affirmed the Plaintiff to be heir and therefore in the Replication hath conveyed himself to his entry as Heir special and so the Replication ill for default of certainty Secondly for that the Plaintiff hath not shewed that execution was had of the said recovery against the Defendant Thirdly Exception because he hath not evered the Covin specially for otherwise it is not intendable in Recoveries because they are alwaies intended true and upon good cause and therefore the Wife at the Common Law
a Recovery as a Fine is without Attornment for the habere facias seisinam recites cum A recuperavit seisinam suam c. because the Husband raised the use First it is his purchase and so within the words of the Statute and if not yet it shall be within the equity and nevertheless it is penal Sanders for the Defendant The Statute here is penal because it goeth in avoidance of Estates and abridges power and therefore not equitable And for this Statute of W. 2. cap. 14. before fol. 17. expectet emptor for Warranty because he vouches an Infant and yet it is adjudged 18. E. 4.16 If he maketh a Feoffment over this Feoffee shall vouch because penall against one shall not extend to another So by 32. H. 8. cap. 33. The dying seised of a disseisor without peaceable possession before for five years shall not take away the Entry of the disseisee yet if one Abator die seised within five years this discent shall take away the Entry And so if Tenant for life be disseised and the disseisor die within five years and the Tenant for Life dieth he in Reversion or Remainder may not Enter because he was no Disseisor to them and to the discent they had no Title to Enter but the Tenant for Life and taken strictly because it abridgeth the Liberty given by the Common-Law By inheritance is understood Land by dicent as it is proved by a case in 7. H. 4.5 and a cui in vita abated because it was quam clamat esse jus Hereditatem suam whereas it was his own purchase And by 4. H. 5. cap. 3. which speaketh of Lands by purchase or by discent and the disjunctive prove the difference between the words Purchase intends Land by gift or purchase which is by Title Disseisen is not purchase because without Title Now because the Plaintiff hath in the Replication said That the Grandfather of the Defendant was seised in Fee for to prove the Defendant to be within the first Branch the Plaintiff ought to shew here how the Husband of the Defendant came to the Possession for the manner of coming to the Land is Issuable because it may be by Discent Purchase or Disseisen And a Joincture made by a Disseisor to his wife is out of the Statute Recovery without Execution is not a discontinuance Harris Serjeant argues to the same intent And he taketh also that Covin cannot be where the Title is good except that wrong be done by him which hath the Title and this ought to be shewed for here in respect that the Title is confessed to be good in this That it is not traversed nor confessed and avoided this Recovery may not be averred to be by Covin for this avernment is repugnant in it self and it cannot stand together to say that she did right by Covin And as to the Statute he taketh the case here to be out of the words of the Statute And note thou that he argued to all the other points moved to the same purpose that they were arguod before Molineux Justice It is a vain thing to aver this specially which is apparant as the Covin and therefore when the Tenant infeoffes his Son within age by Collusion the Lord shall seise him for a Ward without shewing this Collusion specially So if the Husband will confess an Action the Wife shall have Dower by the Common Law proved by recital W. 2. cap. 4. For it is intendable by the Law to be Covin apparant but it was doubted if the Recovery had been by Default but here the Action had been tryed by the Verdict of 12. men the cause of the Covin ought to have been shewed because the Law giveth credence to it As 5. H. 7.20 Upon an Attaint no Supersedeas shall be granted because the Law presumes the Verdict to be true untill the Reversal be tryed upon Error in Deed or Record so that the Law hath an indifferent judgement of it viz. to be true or false And so the Covin averred in the avoidance of the trial by Verdict shall be shewed certainly for the credence given to the Verdict Also Covin upon a good Title is prohibited because the Statute of 11. H. 7. is generall And so Covin generally averred here without falsifying of the Title is good as 4. H. 7. cap. 20. saith That if a Recovery be pleaded in Bar of a popular Action the Plaintiff may aver it was by Covin generally by the Warrant of the Statute As to the second exception the Stat. expounds it self to be intended of a Recovery without execution Every Fee-simple is an inheritance and then she had an use in the inheritance of her Husband and held that the Wife held the inheritance of her Husband that is to say his Land in use joyntly with her Husband and so within the words of the Statute and if not it shall be within the equity and intent of the Statute and he took without question that the Heir in Tail might enter presently and our the Wife which is Defendant and so held the Plaintiff should recover Hales Justice to the same intent And first to the Covin the Replication is good without shewing cause of it And the Statute is for frail inconstant women and will not make them Judges if the Title of Action be good or not 18. R. 2. cap. 17. gives receipt to him in Reversion where the Tenant for Life is impleaded by Covin of the demandants that the Tenements shall be recoverred and he in Reversion because it speaks generally of Covin 2. H. 6.14 and 11. H. 4.3 For this cause there it sufficeth to say That Tenant for Life pleaded faintly and pray to be received without shewing cause otherwise it is of Covin at the Common Law and 11. H. 7. would have limited the pain to fained recoveries expresly if it had intended so much And the Statute prohibits the Covin onely be the Title good or faint for faint Recoverie by Covin the issue in Tail may falsifie before Warranty made 20. years after the Disseisen yet it commenceth by Disseisen by the intent As if the Father Disseiseth the Son to the intent to make a Feoffment with Warranty to Bar his Wife Recovers against one which outs the Tenant by Covin yet she had not good Title of Dower is a Disseiseress and Covin is apparent here because he never took view voucher essoin or other delays which he might The Statute saith That the Recovery shall be void whereby it is not intended that it shall be executed and shall not be intended to be by Disseisen without shewing The words of 11. H. 7. explain the intent That such Wives who have Lands in use or use in Lands are within the Statute Recovery against Tenant in Tail was good onely for his life before this Stat. and therefore comprises use here because the Stat. shall not be made in vain for Tail in use may do as great prejudice as Tail in possession and so the
will not claim nor enter into the said land in bar that he entred not nor claimed the Plaintiff replies that he claims he ought to say how viz. That he came to the Land and claimed and entred So in 5. E. 4 6. in Replication the Plaintiff ought to shew how he is next of bloud to the Woman ravished with consent to the ravishment So for Mortmain how he is Ld. So for receipt how he came to the reversion by special conveyance to the things which the Statutes give by general words as here Titles alwaies ought to be certain because he that makes Title is by this an Actor and an Actor ought to plead certainly by Hales fol. 51. b. If a Wife which hath a Joyncture by her Husband suffers a faint recovery contrary to 11. H. 7. if the Daughter enter the Son born after shall not out her during the life of the Wife By Montogue he may enter presently and save because the Statute saith he shall enjoy it according to his Title therein and the Title is Tail which is devolved to the Son and after f. 1â—… But the Daughter because prima de sanguine â—…ring because the Wife assents to the Ravisher shall hold against the Son born afterwards and there it is Fee-simple In 5. E. 4.6 So 9. H. 7.25 the Daughter shall hold the Remainder appointed to the right Heirs against a Son born afterwards because it is vested in the Daughter as a purchaser because it is Fee-simple to which the Son afterwards born hath not right for the Land was never in any of his Ancestors before Et possessio fratris de feodo simplici facit c. of Fee-Tail not but it discends to the youngest Son of the half bloud So a Bastard eign-abate in Fee-simple Land and dies without interruption and his issue enter he shall hold against the Mulier puisne 39. E. 3.38 Of Land entailed it is otherwise so it is a great difference between Fee-simple and Fee-Tail and according to the Proverb One shall beat the Bush and another shall have the Bird. As 9. H. 7.24 and 25. A man hath Lands by the Mother and aliens upon Condition and dies without issue the Heir of the part of the Father enters for the Condition broken the Heir on the part of the Mother outs him 14. H. 8.18 by Portman if a Remainder in Tail be once executed the issue in formedon shall declare upon the Gift immediately for all passes at one time and upon one Livery But in 20. Ass Ph. ultima it was shewed of a Reversion after Seisen or making Title by grant of the Reversion he which makes Title is alwaies Actor and ought to plead certainly So 2. H. 6.14 A Patentee sheweth his Letters Patents if he maketh Title by them Words alwaies if they are ambiguous and obscure in Statutes have been expounded according to the intent of the makers as W. 2. cap. 3. speaks when a man amiserit per defaltam is expounded when the Husband and Wife lose by default because the Law alwaies was that the Wife may enter if the Husband alone lose by default So W. 2. cap. 1. Et si finis super hujusmodi tenementa imposterum levetur ipse in re sit nullus The Words seem to make a Fine void but yet it is not void but is a discontinuance and void as to bar the right of Tail So the Statute of Gloucester cap. 3. saith Whereof no Fine is levied intends by husband and Wife for they may well levy the marriages of Women and their Estates and advancement by this are greatly favoured in our Law for 14. H. 8.7 The Wife shall recover her Land given causa matrimonii praelocuti if the Feoffee will not marry her So shall have all Free-hold after Divorce So a Wife shall have a Cui ante divortium to recover the land lost by the Husband and Wife by default before the Divorce So 11. H. 7. intends to punish women if they will recompence this favor of the Law with wrong to the disinherison of Heirs here the Wife hath an Estate in the use and by his inhereditament and the Land and Use also is the inheritance of the Husband and therefore within the words of the Statute because an Use is an Hereditament For 5. E. 4.7 possessio fratris of an Use good for the Sister also if she hath the value of 40. s. in Use 15. H. 7.13.5 E. 4 7. and by Litl 108. he shall be sworn in Assizes by the Common Law and Statute of Pernors of Profits and other Statutes have admitted an Use for an Hereditament and the Land and use also is the inheritance of the Husband for an inheritance is such an Estate as the Heir may inherit as he may here and every Fee and Tail by purchase or discent is inheritance by Littleton and Britton contains many errors As to the Case of cui in vita in 7. H. 4. before fol. 47. by those of the Chancery and also by the Register Original 232. is the one the other quam clamat esse jus hereditat c. The Feoffees here were seised to the use of the husband and every of them hath an entire Use for between Husband and Wife are no moieties and after the execution of the possession to the Use By 27. H. 8. The Parliament made the Conveyance of the Land from one to another and the Feoffees are Donors for when a Gift is made by Parliament every one by it is privy and assents to it yet the thing shall pass from him which hath most right and most Authority to give it As in 21. H. 7.32 He to whose Use and the Feoffee joyn in a Feoffment it shall be said the Feoffment of the Feoffee for they have most Authority for to give this So Tenant for Life and he in a Reversion joyns in a Feoffment it shall be adjudged the Livery of the Tenant for Life So if one seised in Fee and another which hath nothing joyns in a Feoffment it shall be said the Feoffment of him which hath right and the confirmation of the other So here it shall be said the Gift by Parliament of the Feoffees and the assent and confirmation of all others For if any other shall be adjudged the Donor the Parliament should do wrong to the Feoffees in taking the thing from them And an Act of Parliament will not prejudice any man as 19. H. 6.62 the Rector of Edington had an exemption from Tythes by the Kings Grant he afterwards agrees to the Act which granted Tythes to the King and so was one of the Grantors yet shall not take benefit by this but shall be discharged For the Common Law saith That none shall be damnified by such general Act made by the Parliament and therefore W. 2. cap. 1. Gifts upon Condition shall not take away right Pattent in London but that remains to this day with protestation to sue in the nature of a Formedon in
imbesseling of a Habcas Corpora upon a Formedon between the Plaintiff and another holden good whithout shewing the Original and certainty of the Land and all the Record in certain because the Record is but a conveyance to the suit of Deceit and therefore for this cause cannot be gainsaid as to say Nultiel Record But where a Record is pleaded in Bar all shall be shewed certainly and is Traversable there in Conclusion or general Demurrer as petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the Action one shall have advantage of all defaults and of every thing mentioned in the Record and of every point that the Law gives him In Conclusion speciall of defaults onely alleadged in certain as here petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the action there if it be void for another cause then this which is mentioned he shall not have benefit of this of a thing void ab initio as the Obligation here because void by Statute so in avoidance of a Deed That he was not a man lettered and that it was read to him in another form So 24. H. 8. 28. because delivered as an Escrow upon Condition the Conclusion shall be so not his Deed because the matter proves that it was never his Deed of a thing voidable where it was void after because once is was a Deed the Conclusion shall be Judgement if Action because the duty is now extinct as 1. H. 7. 15. by release 35. H. 6. 18. for nonage 7. E. 4. 5. by dures When the Conclusion is nought and the matter in Law good Officium Judicis est for to give Verdict against the Plaintiff if it appeareth that he had not cause of Action howbeit that the Defendant hath lost the advantage thereof as it is here So 7. E. 4. 31. Trespass against B. and C. B. pleads not guilty C. pleads the gift of B. found guilty and found for C. no judgement for the Plaintiff because found against him So. appeal of a woman for the death of her father 10. E. 4. 7. because she shall not have an appeal of the death of any man except her husband or Trespass against the Lord by distress where nothing is in arear because the Statute is Non ideo puacatur dominus abate ex officio although the Defendant accepts the Writ good for the Plaintiff shall be barted by the Court ex officio and shall not have judgement although the Defendant admits his Title or by his Conclusion hath concluded himself of his advantage if it appeareth that he had no Title 1. The first branch is commanding and authorising the Sheriff to let to Bail persons manipernable by the Common Law viz. persons taken by Writ Bill or Warrant upon an Action personall or indictment of Trespass for it was indifferent if they were guilty or not made in affirmance of the Common Law 2. The second Branch viz. The exception was also made in the affirmance of the Common Law before for such persons which were in by condemnation execution Capias ut legat c. were not bailable before 3. The third is onely the purview which relates to the second branch as well as to the first for before refers to all this spoken of before as well the thing excepted as otherwise as a Lease for years of a Mannor except a Close rendring Rent the Lessee binds himself to perform all Covenants Grants and Agreements expressed or recited in the Indenture and after disturbs the Lessor of a thing excepted he hath forfeletd the Obligation because it is an Agreement for when he excepted the Close the other was contented with it and that the Lessor should occupy it and recited goes to the exception as to the rest 45. E. 3. 4. contained and recited goes to every Covenant in the Indenture An Act done Colore officii is extortion as if an Officer takes more for Fees then he ought And an Obligation taken of a prisoner for meat and drink is void because it is colore officii for he nor the Plaintiff are not bound to give him sustenance as he which distrains is not bound to give although he be in for Felony because 7. H. 4. 47. his goods are his untill he be attainted by the Common Law which is confirmed by 1. R. 3. c. 3. Rastal Forfeiture fol. 15. and if he dies for want of sustenance it is his own fault because that by presumption his ill demeanor bringeth him to such imprisonment The Statute of R. 3. restrains the Sheriff and other Officers to take Obligations of their prisoners except the Warden of the Fleet and the Kings Pallace at Westminster A Sheriff lets to mainprise one taken by Capias upon an indictment of Trespass which for the surety of the Sheriff makes an obligation to a stranger to keep his day is 7. E. 4. 5. held to be void because taken to another and not to the Sheriff onely according to the Statute Also there it is held if the Obligation hath not the Conditions expressed in the Statute That it is not the Deed of the party ex quo sequitur that he ought to conclude not his Deed keeping without dammage shall be intended by the generalty for all things Treasons Felonies Accounts and for all times if another thing is added by the Statute to be given it shall make all void as if a Condition be made according to the Statute and hath another thing not according to the Obligation is void So to add other words in a Formedon or Writ of Waste which are given by Statute all is void So to alien all the Land when he hath licence for part the licence is void in all by the Statute of 32. H. 8. because he hath exceeded the Authority thereby given to him The Statute saith That the Sheriff shall let persons mentioned therein to bail upon reasonable surety of sufficient persons in the plural number and because there is but one surety here the Obligation is void Also because the Statute saith That if it shall be taken in any other manner then is contained in the Statute if shall be void Also here by Plowden yet taken by one at large by the words of the first branch and those aid then third branch every person which extends to those at large nor for any person in their Ward which extends only to prisoners Kidwelly against Brand. LEease for years rendring 40. s. Rent by the year at H. out of the Land at the Feast of M. and if the Rent be behind H. 4. 5. E 6. In the Common Pleas. and not paid by the space of 40. daies after the said Feast then it shall be lawfull for him c. for to re-re-enter the Reversion is granted for Life the Grantee cometh to the Land 40. dales after M. to demand the Rent aforesaid but demanded it not and for not payment re-entred and adjudged lawfull 1. A Grantee for Life of a Reversio is an assignee within the Statute of 32.
H. 8. c. 34. to enter for a Condition broken 2. The tender of the Rent on the Feast day is not requisite nor until the last instant of the 40. day 3. Notwithstanding that the Rent be apppointed to be paid out of the Land at the Feast day and not the 40. day by express words yet it shall be so intended by relation to the place last named 4. No demand here is requisite because that the Land which is Debtor is absent the contrary is upon a general reservation and if a Rent seck payable in a forreign County be demanded and denled there it is not a disseisen by Plowden contrary upon the Land The place which was once charged with the payment in the hands of the Lessor remains chargeable in the hands of any other because he hath this as a Liberty and Authority imposed upon it by the Lessor and such Liberty is saved by the Statute of suppression of Monasteries and therefore the Lessor nor the Lessee are not Trespassers by their coming there to tender and receive the Rent Rosse against Pope ROss acknowledged a reconusance to Pope after Levies a Fine to him of patcel of his Land 5. E. 6. In Chancery upon an Audita quetela and afterwards Pope sues Execution and takes the body of the said Rosse and he brings an audita querala in the Chancery and adjudged that it lieth not 1. For that the Land is not debter but the person and the Land is onely charged in respect of the person and not otherwise until Execution sued 2. For that the purchase was before Execution sued otherwise it had been if sued afterwards for then the Land was charged in facto and not chargeable And if any part be discharged by act in Law as discent or act of the party as Surrender Feoffment c. also it shall be discharged because the duty is personall and entire 3. Because that the Conusor shall not have contribution against the Feoffees but they shall have against him and here the Conusee shall not have Execution against his Feoffees for that they may not have contribution against him Wimbish against Willoughby Assize directed Coronatoribus in Lincoin upon the surmise of the Plantiff that the Sheriff was his Cosen and shewed also Tr. 6. E. 6. Assice against L. Wall That one of the Coroners was servant to the Defendant and adjudged good 1. For the speedy expedition of the Assize and the mischlef of the Plaintiff if it should be abated by the exception of the Defendant and no mischief to him and here the venire facias is awarded the first day as in a precipe 2. Coroners in Lincoln shall be intended Coroners of Lincoln for that they are the words of the King In the Argument of this case see first where a Writ Original shall be directed to the Coroners where not Secondly and when other Judicial process Thirdly an exposition of the words in and de in Writs Grants or c. Fourthly what words are sufficlent to make a Grant of a Rent charge Fifthly some matters touching challenges and where they shall be Traversed c. Partridge against Strange and Croker IN Debt the Plaintiff counts upon the Statute of 32. H. 8. cap. 9. H. 6. 7 E. 6. In the Common Leath Of buying and selling of pretenced Titles and Rights and alleadge this to be done 28. April 32. H. 8. where in truth it was not done this day and that the Defendants have made a Lease for years of a house and nine acres of Land pertaining to it whereof they nor their ancestors nor any by which the claim were in possession Reversion or Remainder nor took the Profits for one intire year before c. and holden 1. That the Statute need not to be specially recited and pleaded because it is general but for that it is misrecited it is not good by the Court sol 84. and yet is surplusage and it shall prejudice the party in some cases sol 29. as debt by I. S. Parson of D. it is a good Traverse because he is not Parson or that there is not such a village called D. 2. When the Term shall not be certainly pleaded for that it is Conveyance of the Action and is not material here and he which pleads it is a stranger as an Indictment of the death of a certain man unknown or the stealing of the goods of a certain man unknown 3. That a Lease for years or a grant of parcell of the Right is within the Statute because the Statute speaketh of any right and is not intended only of an entire right and that the entire value of the Land shall be forfeit by such Lease per Curiam fol. 87. That this Lease made by one in possession is out of the Statute for that it is not averred to be a pretenced right by Hales and Montague fol. 87. against Cook For they mean that he which hath possession one day or however may make a Lease or Feoffment bona fide and shall be forth of the Statute although that he hath not possession or taketh the profits one whole year without averment that it is made for maintenance and the Statute shall be intended onely of those which makes Leases c. having but a right and not the possession as Montague held a promise by him which is out of possession to depart with the Land when he shall attain the possession is within the danger of the Statute fol 88. And if the Issue in Tail at full age marry a woman discontinuee of his father and maketh a Lease for years this is within the Statute for that he Leases his ancient right So by Morgun if the heir release to the Abator and afterwards claiming by discent maketh a Lease for years this may be averred a pretenced right and then is within the danger of the Statute fol. 86 and a right is within the Statute which comprehends all rights Pretenced right is where one hath the possession and another which is out of possession claims this or sues for it by Mont. f. 88. Morgan Serjeant for the Defendant He which voucheth a Record and vary in the year or Term haith failed of his Record So the Statute here no Act without the consent of the King when all assent it shall have relation to the first day of the Parliament and from that time is an Act of Parliament unless it be otherwise appointed when it shall first take effect An act made in the first or second Session relates not but to the first day of the same Session Misrecital shall prejudice the party in some cases as Debt by I. S Parson of D. where there is no such Village D. a good Traverse and abates the Writ yet the naming of him Parson surplusage So here because it recites a Statute certain made such a day where it was not although that the day is surplusage it hath made the matter vitious although it
Litl fol. 108. before fol. 140. two Tenants in Common grant 20. s. it shall enure as several Grants 34. ass fol. 11. Grants totum piscariam salvo stagno molendini sui yet the piscarie passes not for the stagno shall be excepted and not the piscarie because he hath a Reversion in the Propriety of the land and possession of the Ter-Tenancy The nature of an habendum is to give in large or qualifie Malitiosa juris interpretatio herere in verbis c. the words are but witnesses to the contract reversion includes land by all Brown Justice To the same intent of the Abbot and Covent and of Smith and his wife was to have the land pass as a Lease after the paticular estate ended and not otherwise and from that hour that their intent was to have the word reversion enure that way it seemed to him That the Law would warrant it for the land is included in the reversion for if it was not a man by Granting of a reversion could not have the Land in possession after the particular estate ended And a Feoffment of a Carue habendum the Mannor of D. is good if the Carue maketh the Mannor And if land is parcel of an Office it shall pass by the Grant of the office Much more he said tending to the effect to make the Lease good and so the Plaintiff shall recover Brook Chief Justice to the contrary Estate in lands includes land it self land is a generall word and contains Grantor and reversion particular words containing a Decree where one estate onely intent shall be inclined and ruled by the Law and not otherwise and intent nevertheless in certainty of words as 9. H. 6.35 Renuntiavit communium and not to whom void before fol. 122. 13. E. 3. Husband and Wife Tenants for life grant reversion of the Land that he holdeth by Homage Fealty and Castle gard the Lord grants all Services Castle gard passeth not because he granted not the Castle But in Testaments the intent shall be onely observed and rule the Law because the Teastator had not time by presumption to ordain all things according to the Law In conclusion he agreed that Judgement should be given for the Plaintiff Hill against Grange A Man maketh a Lease for years of a Messuage and an hundred acres of land appertaining to it 3. Mar in Common Pleas in Trespass c. by Deed indented the 6. of August rendring rent yearly payable at our Lady day and Michaelmas or 10 days after with clause of re-entry and after Grants the reversion and the Grantee the last instant of the 10. day after Michaelmas demands the rent and enters for not payment and it was adjudged that the entry was good for these reasons 1. Land may not appertain to a Messuage because both are things corporate simply otherwise of Advowsons waies c. which are things incorporate but things Corporate or Incorporate may pertain or be parcel of a thing compounded as a Mannor Castle Knights Fees Honors Forrests Monasterie Rectorie fol. 170. a. But here the land passes as appurtenant but by the intent and phrase of the parties as they have said usually occupied or let c. 2. The rent shall be paid at the first Feast of M. for otherwise it cannot be annual notwithstanding the other feast be first named 10. E. 3. the Abbot of Osneys case 3. The demand of the rent the last instant is good 4. That the Gantee of a Common person is an Assignee to have benefit of a Condition or Covenant fol. 173. a. and shall not be intended of the Pattentee of the King 5. That the Pattentee of the Heir and Successors of E. 6. shall take benefit of the Condition by equity of the said Stat. and not by the words Things of distinct and several natures the one is not parcel of or appendant to the other as 8. H. 7.1 by Keeble a Warren cannot be pertaining to a Leet nor a Leet to a Hundred nor one Office to another nor land to other land to a thing Compounded they may as a Mannor Knights Fee Honor Monastery Castle and a Village or to words general as are Oxgang a yard land a hide of land which contains land meadow pasture wood c. Messuage is a single word consisting of a thing special and not Compound nor a general word for that 27. H. 6.2 Land not parcel or appendant to a house and by demand of a Messuage in precipe land shall not be recovered and therefore pass not by the Grant of a House by the Serjeants on the part of the Plaintiff 23. H. 8. and 31 H. 3. by Feoffment of a Messuage with the appurtenances Land passes not a Mannor and things made appertaining to it are made by usage and continuance So 2. H. 7.28 land belonging to a Forrest and Warden of the Fleet and the house of the Master of the Rolls and divers farms to the Guardians of the Castle of Colchester and one Office to another as the custos brevium giveth one of the Offices of prothonatories and use and continuance is cause of it A man Leases a Messuage and land rendring rent be ought to demand the rent at the Messuage because most worthy Perk. 166. Meadow appertains to land 3. E. 3. by the Serjeants on the part of the Defendant Norwood against Read Action upon the case upon assumpsit made by the Testator 5. Mar â—…n K. Bench. lieth against the Executors adjudged For that the Testator could not gage his Law otherwise it is where he might gage his Law for the ignorance that the Law imputes of it to Executors and therefore there they ought to Demur but if they plead in Bar which is found against them they have lost the benefit of the Law and take Conusance of it whereof otherwise their ignorance shall excuse them 39. H. 6.19 12. H. 8.11 27. H. 8.23 Woodward against the Lord Darcie IF the Debtor make the Debtee his Executor and leaves him assets to satisfie the debt 5. Mar. Reso by the Judges of both Courts and dies the Debtee may pay himself by way of retainer by the Court 12. H. 4 21. according And in such case the Action is not utterly exstinct by the Administration for that the Law intends that he is satisfied by retainer before and so a thing in Action altered to a thing in possession by Act in Law for satisfaction of the party which hath no other remedy but if he hath not sufficient assets for to satisfie the debt the administration there extinguishes not the Action because that he cannot retain for parcel and have his Action against the Heir for the residue but ought to do the one for the other at his peril Wrotesly against Adams A Lease for 80. years of a Farm Tr i El. in Com. Pleas. Ej. firme the Lessor granted the Reversion of the Farm to a stranger to have and to hold the Farm for 60. years after the
cannot do any thing without Record And so Acts that the King doth touching things which he hath in his body naturall require the same circumstances and order as things which he hath in his politique body by the union thereof for the thing possessed changeth not from the person of the King but the person nor doth the possession change the cause of a thing possessed Henry the 4. which was Duke of Lancaster held his Dutchie annexed to the Crown as parcel of it by the assumption of the Crown and because his Title to the Crown was defeasable and because he would preserve the Dutchie to his Heirs if he should be removed from the Crown he severed it from the Crown by a Statute made 1. H. 4. as it was before onely in course of inheritance of the Land and of the Government of it viz. for the manner of Conveyance as it was before in the hands of the Duke as by Livery and Attornment but not severed from the Crown for the prerogatives of his person as 10. H. 4. 7. H. 4. the King had a scire facias against the Lord Le strange with a non omittas for the Dutchieland So 3. H. 6. Rot. 112. the Committee of a Ward hath aid before issue and a procedendo with a Clause of not going to judgement Rege inconsulto So the person of the King for Dutchie land taken to be higher then a Duke because he shall not have aid untill after issue of the Duke for that he is a Common person and shall make a Lease by the name of KING because it drowns the name of DUKE in his Realm therefore Officers finding that he held of the King as of the Dutchie and not as of the Duke of and by 3. H. 5. all Charters of the Dutchie land shall be sealed with the Dutchie Seal or should be void to the end that all possessions of it should be distinct used and known from the possessions of the Crown for the policie aforesaid because he was the Lineal heir to the Dutchie and as the Dutchie was in the hands of H. 4. so in like manner it was in H. 5. and H. 6. But E. 4. because he was lawfull inheritor to the Crown annexed the Dutchie of Lancaster and made it to be forfeit to the Crown and so he altered the course of inheritance of it out of the natural body into the politick body of the King and his Successors but not in the manner of Government name c. but separates it from other possessions of the Crown in conveyance of it by another Seal and other means viz. by Livery and Attornment which are used for the possessions thereof as 21. E. 4.60 Land of the Dutchie in the County Palatine passe by Pattent out of it by Livery because there he hath it as Duke and by the Statute of 1. H. 7. the Dutchie was severed from the Crown and made inheritable to the natural capacity of the King as it was in H. 5. because H. 7. discended of the House of Lancaster so is it in E. 6. the Queen made a Feoffment of the Dutchie Land forth of the County Palatine to be holden in Capite the Feoffee shall hold in Capite of the Crown and not as of the Dutchie for that the King is not Duke within his Realm but may be when he is out of the Realm Willion against the Lord Berkly A Fine was levied to two and to the Heirs of one 4. Eliz. in C.P. in an Ej. firme with Grant and Render to the Conusor in Tail the Remainder to King Henry the seventh and to the Heirs Males of his body ingendred remainder to the right Heirs of the Conusor the Conusor dies without issue and after H. 7. entred and died seised and H. 8. gave the land to the Queen his Wife for her life and died E. 6. Granted the reversion to one and his Heirs and dyed without issue the right Heir of the Conusor entred and his entry adjudged lawfull So the King shall be in a worse condition then a common person for a common person may bind the inheritance by a common Recovery suffered by him otherwise of the King by W. 2. cap. 1. after fol. 244. a. 1. That the Writ of Ejectione firme that wanteth words bona Cattalla ibidem inventa cepit asportavit is good if the truth of the matter be so and proces of utlarie lieth in this writ by the Common Law fol. 228. 2. The Entry of King Henry the seventh is lawfull without office for that the Law casts the Freehold upon him otherwise it is where he taketh an estate by Office as Ward Perquisites of villains c. and the right Heir may enter without Office or Ouster le main by the same reason fol. 229. a. 3. Where the parties agree upon the matter in deed and conclude upon the matter in Law thereupon Nilrefert but the Court shall adjudge according to the Law fol. 230. 4 Recitall of one part of a generall Statute is good enough otherwise it is of a particular Seatute fol. 232. a. 5. Omission of the date or place of Letters Patents is not materiall in pleading not Averment fol. 231. 6. A feoffment pleaded without entry of the Feoffee is good because it is included in the liverry fol. 232. b 7. The fee vests by the guift before the Statute of W. 2 and is made more perfect by the means of the issue fol. 233 a. 8. The pleading that H. 7. had issue and died without issue is repugnant of his own shewing otherwise it is where it cometh on the part of the defendant fol. 233. 9. The pleading that one enter untill that the Lessor entred upon him and made the Lease is not good there without saying that he custed him and made the Lease The King shall be bound by the Statute of W. 2. of gifts conditional for that it is in preservation of an inheritance in benefit of the publike good and restitution of the intent of the donor and the exposition that the donee might alien after issue before the Statute of Gifts conditional hath been a common error As to the matter in Law it was said by the Sergeants of Counsel with the defendant that the capacity that the King hath in his naturall body after that he is King Remains and the State Royall confounds not this capacity as 45. ass pl. 6. Henry the third gave the Mannor to the Earl of Cornwall in tayle who exchanged it by a deed for another Mannor and died without issue and warranty and assets discended upon Edward the first his heir he is barred and therefore the assignee of the party to the exchange had restitution out of the hands E. 3. who had seised it and so by this warranty and assets which discended upon the naturall body of the King was a Bar to the reversion that he demanded in his body politike And as a King may take as heir by discent in his
Ouster during the coverture because by this he continues all his estate but that part of the State taken from him by the disseisin by the Eiectione Firme And the stranger may have Eiectione Firme for his Moity as two oyntenants for life and to the heires of one of them looses by default the one shall have right and the other a Quod ci deforceat and the Moity of the terme is not suspended for then it shall not survive Parson Patron and Ordinary make a Lease for yeares of Gleeb-land the Parson dyes the Lessee is made Parson and dyes his Executors shall not have the residue of the terme because the terme was extinct by the freehold of the Land which the Parson had in him because both in his owne right and to his owne use yet in severall capacities But by Dier it shall not be extinct because he hath the terme in his owne right and in Capacity of his naturall body and the Inheritance as Parson which is another Capacity But where the Lessor hath the terme of yeares as Executor to the Lessee it is not extinct but the terme when the Lessor dyes shall be revived Bracebridge against Clouse A Man seized in Fee of a Mannor maketh a Lease of forty Acres parcell of the Mannor for forty yeares if the Lessee shall live so long and after by Poll makes a Lease of the sayd forty Acres to J. S. for seventy yeares J. S. grants his terme to the Wife of the Lessor and a stranger the Husband makes a Feoffment in fee by Indenture of the Mannor and moreover grants by it all his other Lands and Tenements in the same Village to the Feoffee and his heires and this Feoffment was to the use of the Feoffor and his heires and dyed his Wife dies the first Lessee for yeares dyed within the forty yeares the stranger entred into the whole forty Acres and upon an Ouster by the heire of the Lessor brought E. Firme And adjudged that he shall recover for his owne moity and shall be barred for the moity of the Wife 1. That the Lease for seventy yeares is good for so many years which are to come of it after the death of the first Lessee yet is without Deed for that the Lessor in respect of his Reversion in fee may contract with another for any estate to be derived out of the Reversion and shall take effect then and not stay untill the forty yeares are extinct be effluction of time for the Condition if he shall live so long is a limitation which determines the estate otherwise it is of a Collaterall Condition for although that the terme be finished by it or by surrender or forfeiture the second terme shall not commence untill the terme be incurred for that hee had not power to contract for the possession during the first terme in respect of any such possibility of the breach of Condition surrender forfeiture c. As upon a Lease for life for the incertainty of the determination of the estate by his death and for the possibility which was at the time of the Contract that the Lease shall be executed before the death of Tenant for life by his surrender forfeiture c. As the Lessor maketh a Lease for life and after maketh a Lease to another for one and twenty yeares to commence presently Tenant for life dyes or surrenders the second Lease shall commence presently But if one make a Lease for forty yeares by word defeasible upon Condition to be performed by the Lessor and incontinently makes a new Lease for forty yeares by word this is void yet the first Lease is avoided by performance of the Condition or is surrendered because there is no possibility that it will be executed in respect of the Collaterall Condition But if the second Lease be by Indenture it is good by Estoppell And if it be by Deed Poll with Attornement the Reversion will passe 2. By the first Lease of forty yeares the forty Acres were severed from the Mannor for a time for that the Lease was executed by entry but the Reversion and Francktenement is parcell of the Mannor but the Lease for seventy yeares not nor may be executed by entry during the first Lease but is executory after this determined then of this Lease for seventy yeares the Lessor hath not any Reversion then this is not severed from the Mannor but continues parcell of it because it is executory and not executed by entry and then when the Lessor maketh a Feoffment of the Mannor the Reversion which depends upon the Lease for forty yeares passe as parcell of the Mannor which Reversion may be parcell of a thing in possession But not contrary discharge the moity of the terme for seventy yeares which is extinct by the Livery that gave the possession otherwise it were if the terme had beene executed at the time of the Livery except the Husband made Livery in this Land leased for the Land is severed by the Lease and here the execution of the possession to the use in an instant shall not revive the terme which was extinct before by the Livery Lessee for yeares before entry hath not possession so that a Release to him before entry is not good but he hath onely an Interest and right which is grantable or forfeitable before entry the Lessor shall not have Rent untill he hath waved the possession or the Lessee enters because presently the Lessor is adjudged occupier 28. H. 8.14 3. The grant of all his Lands and Tenements shall passe the terme because it is his Land for the time and for that hee had not any other Land there or otherwise the words would be void and therefore the opinion of Brook was denyed to be Law 7. E. 6. which is contrary but if he had other Lands there then it may be that the terme will not passe 4. He had Judgement for one Moity and was barred for the other where he demanded the whole which is not good bâ— Plowden but should have been barred for all if exception had been taken to it for that he might have had a better Writ for the Moity Vernon against Manners CHallenge of the Array because the Sheriffe which made it is Cosen to the Tenant in the ninth degree M. 14. 15. El. in the Kings Bench. Adjudged good he can shew how he is Cosen 21. E. 4.75 And notwithstanding the Tenant be seized in right of his Wife to whom the Sheriffe is not inheritable for by reason of Cosenage it shall be intended favourable and although that he cannot inherite the Land demanded yet he may inherite other Land as he ire to the Tenant Smith against Stapleton LEase for life to Husband and Wife P. 15. El. in the Kings Bench. Replevin Remainder in tayle to N. T. their Son a stranger levies a Fine Sur Conusans de droit come ceo que il ad de son done aâ— N.T. the Son which grants and renders the
Land to him for fifty foure yeares rendring Rent hath issue and dyes before any Proclamation made and after the Proclamations passe and after the Husband and Wife dyes Adjudged that the Lease is good against the issue of N. in tayle by reason of the Rent otherwise it were if the Rent had not been reserved First The Lease had not been voyd against N. T. the Father himselfe if he had survived the Husband and Wife if it were by words notwithstanding it be a present contract because it depends upon an estate for life which is uncertaine when it shall determine otherwise it is if the first had been a Lease for yeares which containe certainty there the second Lease shall be voyd for the first terme except that it be by Deed poll with Attournment in which case it shall enure by way of a grant of the Reversion if the party will use it so or by Indenture or Fine which are matters of Estoppell Secondly The Lease is but voidable against the issue because of the Rent which is a recompence otherwise it is of a charge for it shall be voyd by the Remitter and inasmuch as this contingent Lease is not avoided but continues during the Proclamations the Statute of 32. H. 8. maketh this a barr against the issue during the terme Thirdly A Lease by word made by the Husband and Wife is the Lease of the Husband onely and not of the Wife possession without title is sufficient to make an Advowry for dammage feasant protection pleaded for part and Inter alia good by the Rule of the Court A Fine pleaded by way De finalie Concordia facta fuil and not that he levied a Fine and also pleaded that it was acknowledged in the Kings Court without saying in the Common pleas is good and 22. H. 6.13 A Fine is a Record although it be not ingrossed and shall be executed Fourthly How and in what degree this Lease passe at the beginning by the Fine The estate of N. not altered by the Fine of a stranger which had not any right or Estate in the Land but is Estopped for his life to say otherwise but that he receives fee simple by the Fine Leases by word by Deed Poll by Indenture are to be considered how they shall enure As if a Lease be made by words without Deed of Lands by one that hath see simple for one and twenty years to commence presently rendring a rent and after the same day maketh a new Lease by Paroll to another for the same terme or for a lessor terme the second Lease is void although that the first Lessee surrenders or forfeits because at the time of the first Lease he hath not but a Reversion and no interest in him to contract for the possession And he that will by contract make another possessor of the thing ought to be proprietor of the same himself As if one sells a Horse upon condition that the Vendee shall pay him forty shillings at Easter and after he sells the Horse to a stranger and after the first Vendee payes not the forty shillings at Easter and the Vendor reseiseth the Horse the second Vendee shall not have the Horse because the Vendor had him not at the time of the sale the Condition only inables him not to contract for the property and possession which he then had not but if the Lessee for one and twenty years be and the Lessor the same day grant the Reversion by Deed for twenty one years to commence presently it is good with Attournment and he shall have the Reversion during the first Lease and the Rent as incident thereunto because it is another thing then the possession So a Lease by word for years to commence after the first year is good because it is of another thing then the first Lessee had because the second Lessee is to have the possession after the first possession and interest expired A man leases for one and twenty years in possession and presently maks a Lease of it for one and thirty years by word this is good for the last ten years and Executory for it for a Lease for years is Executory and severall for every yeare and day and is as to execution as severall contracts And therefore such contract may be good in part and void in part So if he Leases for 21. years to commence 10. years after and he maketh a Lease for 31. years to commence presently it is good for the first 10. years and void for the last 21. years for that he had contracted before and was certain although that the first Lease were forfeited or surrendred otherwise it is if the first Lease had bin incertain as a Lease for life there the second Lease had bin good after the Tenants life not during his life although he surrendred or forfeited unlesse it had bin by Fine or Indenture because Estoppels if the second Lease for the same years be by Deed Poll there the reversion with the rent pass by Attornment by the demise of the land by the name of Land if the possession cannot as a Reversion upon an Estate for life passeth by bargaine and sale of the land by Deed inrolled and the Grantee may use his Deed as he pleaseth and therefore may use it as a Grant of a Reversion with attornment otherwise it is if it be by word because the Reversion for years cannot be granted by word But if Lessee for years will use a Leas Poll as a present Leas where he hath not attornment the Leas is void although the first surrendred or forfeited as it is if it were by word because a contract by Deed Poll passeth not that which another then injoyes But if the second Lease were by Fine or Indenture and the first surrendred or forfeited it is good for if one leases land to me which he hath not at the time by Fine or Indenture and after purchase it or it desends to him I may enter and occupy by Estoppell and I shall be compelled by Estoppell to pay the Rent because every one is concluded to say but that the land passeth in possession for fourty five yeares by Estoppell and shall be good in estate to have the other yeares because they are not incurred in the life time of the Tenants for life for if the Lease for fourtie five yeares had been by word and the particular Tenant for life had died the Lessee should have it against the Lessor If the estate given by the Fine is defeated the Fine shall be void although the Proclamations passe after for the Fine is the Principall and the Proclamations but accessary to the Fine as Tenants in taile disseised levies a Fine to the disseisor Sur conusans de droit or sur release and dies there the issue if he enters before all the Proclamations are passed is remitted and is not harred for that 32. H. 8. which saith that Fines after Proclamations bars tayle intends of Fines remaining
away from another by wrong Title is where a man hath cause to have the thing which another hath and hath not Action Condition is a possibilitie to have Title Action is a suite given by the Law Interest is part of the Estate of the Land as a Lease for yeares or execution by Statute fol. 484. 6. The answer to the third Objection The Lessee ought not to shew in pleading that he is not excepted in the Statute for that he gains not any new thing but will retain the old and also because the Statute is to his disadvantage but that he shall take benefit of a Statute shewing it 7. For answer to the fourth Objection it was said that admitting that the Fee here shall be forfeited to the King without Office yet the Condition shall draw it out of him without Petition or Monstrans de droit by some but Quere thereof for otherwise it shall not vest at the time of the death of the Lord Lovell it shall not vest at all for it is appointed to him as if the Lessee here had entered into Religion and the Lessor without being attainted had died without issue after the Lessee is deraigned he shall not have the Fee because it may not vest in him at the time of the Condition performed So if he was disseised at that time And so here for to avoid the inconveniency by the operation of the Law or former agreement a thing shall be devested out of tho King at the instant of the Condition performed without any such circumstance As Tenant in Taile discontinues the Discontinuee infeoffs the King by Deed inrolled the King Leases to the Tenant in Taile for life with the Remainder to his Issue for life the Lessee dies the Issue is remitted by the remainder falling to him and the Fee devests out of the King without any circumstance And so a Remitter shall defeat the Estate of the King and an Office of the King shall defeat the Remitter fol. 488. as 3. E. 4.25 in the Earle of Northumberlands Case by relation or if the Disseisee enters after the Attainder of his Disseisor Possession of the King by Office shall not be removed without Petition but if he enter before his Disseisor be attainted he shall be removed without Petition because the Title of the King there is more antient and the Office shall have relation to the Attainder onely for the profits although it relate to the time of the Treason for to avoid mean Acts and Incumbrances So Tenant in Capite maketh a Lease for life rendring Rent with clause of Re-entry for not payment and dies his Heire within age enters for the Rent arere An Office is found the entry of the Heire for the Condition broken is avoyded by Lovelace for the possession of the Heire by force of which he entered is utterly defeated by Relation which intitles the King to the Grant And so the entry of the Heire for a thing not due to him shall be adjudged Tortius by relation So if Trespasse 19. E. 4.2 where for things coming of the Land as Grasse c. Office avoids the punishment against those which doe the wrongs and takes it away by relation of the Office which Intitles the King because of the Escheat before the Trespasse an Action once good But for the entry into the Land or breaking his Fences which ariseth not from the Revenue of the Land the Action is not gone by the Office If an Office virtute Commissionis be pleaded he ought to shew the authority given by it and the execution thereof accordingly because persons appointed by Commission have not any other then what is appointed to them by the Commission otherwise it is of an Inquisition taken virtute Officii before the Escheator Sheriffe Steward of a Leete c. for that their authority appeareth to the Court judicially because it is known by the Law for that they are Officers of the Common Law A Remainder ought to vest when it is appointed otherwise it shall never vest The Kings Pardon shall not excuse any man for the repairing of a Bridge which ought to do it because it shall not take away the Interest that the Subjects take therein So a man pledgeth a Jewell for ten pound and after is attainted the King shall have it without paying of the ten pound So 13. R. 2. the Earle of Kent had return of certain Cattell in Replegiari and the Proprietor of them is attainted the Earle shall keep them against the King untill he be satisfied of the thing because the Prerogative will not give any prejudice to another Ludford against Gretton A Warrant to make Letters Patents M. 18. 19. El. in the Kings Bench Trespas was directed by H. 8. to the Chancellor which entered not the day of the Receit of the Watrant in the Record according to the Purview of the Statute of 18. H. 6. cap. 1. And yet the Letters Patents made thereupon were adjudged good For that the Purviewe of the Statute maketh Letters Patents void onely for the variance between the date of the Patent and the day of the entery of the Warrant And the Court held three manner of Patents good upon the Statute 1. If no Warrant be made at all it is good by the Common Law and not void by the Statute because there is not any variance 2. If there be a Warrant and the day of the delivery of the Warrant be not entered as in the Principall Case 3. If the day of the delivery of the Warrant be entered and the Patent dated after the day of the delivery for this variance is out of the mischief of the Purview which was in antedating of Patents before the delivery of the Warrant and not after dating and yet is within the words but out of the intent of the Act. Records shall have Relation to their date and cannot be averred contrary to the date not to vary from it because it tends to the discredit of an Officer of Record Deeds relates to the Livery and date in Deeds concludes not any to aver the contrary Grendon against the Bishop of Lincolne HENRY the eighth being seised of an Advowson in the right of his Crown P. 19. El. in the Common Pleas. Quare Impedit presents J. S. and dies E. 6. by his Letters Patents grants the advowson to the Dean and Chapter of L. and their Successors in Fee and also grants to them License and Liberty virtute authoritatis sue Regiae supremae Ecclesiae qua fungimur that they shall retain the said Advowson and all the Profits thereof for ever to their proper uses whensoever the said Church shall become void And after the death of the said Incombent the said King E. 6. present his Clerk to the said Church which was Admitted Instituted and Inducted and adjudged no usurpation which shall put the Dean and Chapter out of possession If the Plaintiffe alledge matter effectuall as discent c.
and the Defendant shew a matter in Law which upon the Law discussed proves the said matter alledged by Plaintiste true or false there he ought not to take a traverse for then the Jury shall try this matter in Law which properly belongeth to the Court to discusse Per Curiam 1. Appropriation of an Advowson ought alwayes to be made to a body Politicke or Corporation Spirituall being Patron of the said Advowson and such Parson onely is capable of an Appropriation and no other and by the Law such Parson in Parsonee may not grant over his Incumbency no more then an Incumbent of a Parsonage presentable at this day nor any other shall have it because it is appropriate to his Parson 3. E. 3.1 The Case of the Templers that by their dissolution the Appropriation was dissolved And yet was first ordained when such Parsons by incroachment and sufferance were made Parsons in Parsonees which could not say Service nor Administer the Sacraments as Deane and Chapter Nuns Abottesles c. which was a thing horrible by the Lord Dyer 2. Every Appropriation shall be made by the King for the losse which he may have otherwise as King by reason of the Tenure and by the or dinary Supreame or Inferiour for the interest that they ought to have in seeing the Cure served by the Patron to whom the Appropriation shall be made and those three are Actors in the Play as Dyer said But here the Appropriation made by the King which is also Supreame ordinary by the Statute of 25. Hen. 8. which transfers to him the Authority of the Pope is good As the Deane of Wells Assigne to the King good by the Court because he is Supreame ordinary by the Statute of 25. Hen. 8. in Sir John Pollards Case against Waldron and here the King doth three things First he grants the Advowson Secondly he maketh the Appropriation as Supreame Ordinary Thirdly he giveth his consent as King fol. 501. if time of Lapps be devolved to the King hee shall present as Supreame Patron in respect that the Advowson is holden of him mediately or immediately If the Appropriation be made without License of the King be the Advowson holden of him or of a common Parson the King shall seise the Advowson and shall have the Presentments untill hee be satisfied of the Fine by his Prerogative and as in the name of a distresse 21. E. 3.5 And there it is said That the Appropriation is not Mortmaine because it is not any transmutation of the possession nor Substraction of Services but the Tenure remaineth as it was before 3. The Appropriation may be made by words future when the Church is full although that the Incumbent hath the Fee and Inheritance of the Church and none shall medle with it which is his in his life but otherwise it is of present words and the proper time to appropriate it is when the Church is void because then it may be executed presently But the Patron cannot present when it is full by future words scilicet that he shall be incumbent when the Church shall be void For that he hath not Title to Present before the avoydance If the King presents to an Advowson and appropriate the Church to a Deane and Chapter which maketh a Lease for yeares in the life of the Incumbent this is a voide Lease after the death of the Incumbent by Plowden for that at the time of the making of it they had nothing in the Rectory and the Appropriation was not executed untill after the avoydance 4. An Usurpation may not be upon a Parson in Parsonee for that he is perpetuall Incumbent and two Incumbents cannot be in one Church 38. H. 14.39 H. 6.21 and 27. and there cannot be ousted by wrong nor have right of Advowson for he is not out of Possession and if one presents to such an Advowson Appropriate and the Clerk is admitted Instituted and Inducted by six moneths yet the Church is not become Presentative nor by any other Act except onely where the Parson in Parsonee himselfe presents for there volemi non sit injuria by Manwood and Dyer the dissolution of the Corporation to which the Advowson is Appropriate is a disappropriation of the Advowson and the Lord of whom it is holden may Present If a Deane and Chapter seised of a Mannor to which an Advowson is Appendent and the Church is Appropriate to them and after they make a Feoffement of the Mannor with the Appurtenances this disappropriates the Advowson for by some it passeth Appendent by the common Law because the Appropriation destroyes not the Appendency But now by the Statute which maketh lay Persons capable of Parsonages Appropriate they are severed from Mannors by the intent of the Act and by the grant of the Parsonage Appropriate which now may be granted to a common Parson and the Advowson shall passe Foure answers to the foure exceptions of the Plea First The first exception is because the Patent is not pleaded with a Non obstante of the Statute of Mortmaine and therefore not good by Dyer But Plowden held the contrary for that the Grant is good untill Office found and then hee may well pleade a licence for that time also the Patent is Excerta scientia which countervailes the clause of Non obstante for that implies that the King was knowing of the Law for ignorance indeed may be allowed in the King ignorance in Law not So if the King grant Lands to his Villain the Land passeth untill Office but it is no infranchisement because if he was his Villain or not is a forrain matter and not apparent to the King And the Kings Grant shall not enure to two intents where one is forraine matter The clause of Non obstante is requisite in a Patent to be Sheriffe for life 2. H. 7. because the Statute saith by precise words That he shall not be Sheriffe above one yeare So a Patent to a Murtherer for pardon and that he shall not finde sureties for his good behaviour ought to have a Non obstante 10. E. 3. because this Statute avoided the Patent by precise words without such surety But the Statute of Mortmaine doth not so here but giveth entry or seisure for a paine admitting the Grant to be good The second exception was that the Patent made not them Parson by expresse words by Dyer The second exception was answered by Plowden who said because the words amounted to as much and for that the Kings appeared to be so that it should not be void because Ex gratia mero motu The third exception made by Dyer was that they did not plead that they entred But Plowden answered that because the Patent granted them power to retaine c. And also they pleaded that they were seised which implies an entrie and in the Common Pleas use upon possession executory shall say seised onely without saying that he entred and was seised The fourth exception that was made
first and after of the Land in sense and so by exposition the words shall be altered and so marshaled that the intent may take effect So a termor deviseth all his terme to his Son neverthelesse his Will is that his Wife shall have it for her life holden a good devise to both by conversion of the words So a Remainder to the Church of Saint Andrew in Holborne good by devise 21. R. 2. although the Devisee is not capable because the Testator intended that the Parson shall have it Cestuy que use at this day devise that his Feoffees shall be seised to the use of one A. in fee this is a good devise of the Land Adjudged in the Case of Lingen yet after 27. H. 8. he cannot have Feoffees to his use because the intent was that he should have the Land So the Executor shall not sell the Land according to the devise but take the profits for two years to his owne use the heire may enter because the intent of the Testator maketh this a Condition 38. Ass 31. Incertainty in Contracts reduceable to certainty by contingent standeth good As if I lease to one habendum from the death of J. untill such a Feast which shall be in the year 1620. good if J. dye before that otherwise it is void Two properties of a terme as where Lessee for yeares which grants over his terme enters for not payment of Rent and retaineth untill he be paid his Arrerages thereof So of a Conusee of a Statute which hath the Land extended so upon a Lease for yeares of a Mill except the Profits to the Lessor for his life and adjudged a good Exception And if the Lessor enters he hath a property incertain and the Lessee another 39. H. 6.37.8 So it is of Sheepe letten for to compester or a Chain of Gold pledged 5. H. 71. they have one Property and the owner another Cestuy que use devise the Profits and Issues of his Lands fol. 509. b Cestui que use before the Statute of 27. H. 8. Devise his Land and after the Statute publishes his Testament of new the Land passeth by the Statute of 32. H. 8. See fol. 514. yet he was once countermanded by the Statute Cestuy que use devises that his Feoffees shall stand seized to the use of himselfe for life with remainder over this is a good Declaration of the use during his life yet the Will cannot take effect untill his death Quere of this Case fol. 508. b. Bransbie against Grantham AN Executor having a Terme P. 20. El. in the Kings Bench E. firme as Executor devises the Terme to a stranger and maketh his Sonne Executor and dies the stranger enters into the Land by the Assent and Consent of the Executor And after the Executor enters And adjudged that his Entry was lawfull and the devise voide And by consequence the assent given to a voide thing shall be also void and shall not enure as a new grant but onely and assent to the thing devised 1. Because that the Executor cannot devise any thing which he hath as Executor 2. For that the Executor hath the Terme here to the use of the Testator and no man can make a devise of any thing except that he hath it to his owne use And therefore the Husband cannot devise the Terme of his Wife And then when the Executor dies his Executor hath it by Title before the devise as Executor of the first Testator and the property that the Devisor had as Executor is determined hy the determination of his Office of Executorship which is ended by his death and the last Executor hath it by Relation as immediate Executor of the first Testator So an Executor cannot devise the goods of his Testator and therefore the goods of the first Testator in the hands of the last Executor shall not be taken in execution for the debt of the last Testator because the last Executor hath them as immediate Executor to the first Testator and to his use as if they never had been in the last Testator by Relation Hare against Bickley A Prebendary after Admission and Institution and before Induction and Installation grants an Annuity for him and his Successors The Bishop confirmes it and after the Prebendary is Installed and on the same day of the Installation the Dean and Chapter conconfirmes also and after the Prebendary dieth and the Grantee bringeth a Writ of Annuity against the Successor of the Prebend and Adjudged that it lyeth not because the Grant before Induction was voide Induction giveth to the Probendary the possession Temporall and Freehold and the Confirmation is nothing without the Possession And therefore without Induction a man shall not have a Writ of Right nor Spoliation Trespasse nor Assise otherwise it is of a Quare Impedit For in the first he alledges Esplees but not in the last 26. H. 8.3 But by the Admission and Institution he hath care of Soules and is inabled to administer the Sacraments c. And the Arch-Deacon shall make Induction to the Parson and Vicar but shall not make Installation to a Prebendary but the Deane and Chapter shall doe it No Plenarty against the King before Induction for that it is corporall seisen and possession 38. E. 3.10 So the King confirmes to the Collatee of a Bishop before he is inducted the Confirmation is voide 11. H. 4.7.1 H. 5.1 He which hath the Nomination is Patron and he that presents is his servant Induction is triable by the Countrey So if Parson or not and it shall be tried where the Church is 21. E. 4.7 and 33. A woman recovers in Dower she cannot enter but ought to have seisen delivered to her by the Sheriffe as a Copyholder ought to be admitted by the Lord of the Mannor if it discends to him before he shall have seisen in judgement of Law So a Prebendary Parson or Vicar before he is Inducted or Installed hath not seisen nor is full Incumbent for to charge the Possessions of the Prebond Parsonage or Vicaridge Crosse against Howell THe Cookes of London were interrupted in 22. E. 4. Tr. 20. El. in the Kings Bench E. firme by the name of two Masters and Governors of the Communalty of the Mystery of the Cookes of London and in the 21. H. 8. they bargain and sell certain Land by the name of A B C and D. Master and Wardens of the Craft or Mystery of the Cookes of London to R. D. for money without naming his Heires and the Barganee enters and levies a Fine with Proclamations and five yeares passe And adjudged that the Corporation shall be bound by the Fine and Nonclaime and therefore the entry and delivery of the Deede of their Lease to the Plaintiffe as their Deed by him which had their Letter of Attorney so to doe is meerly void 1. The bargain and sale was made for the variance of the Indenture from their name of Corporation for they were
incorporate Masters and the Indenture is Master And in the Indenture foure are named and their Charter Warrants but two Masters Also the Charter is Masters or Governors and the Indenture Masters and Guardians So it varies in Guardians for Governors and in et for or and the words Craft and mystery are surplusage and therefore void words and do not prejudice the Deed but for the other variance the Deed was adjudged void And therefore the bargainee by his entry is a disseisor 2. The Fine with Proclamations and five yeares barres this Corporation and all other Corporations as Major and Communalty Deane and Chapter Colledges c. Which have absolute Estates in their owne right and their Successors for ever by equity of the Statute of 4. H. 7. Notwithstanding that the Statute speakes onely of Men and their Heires for that this Statute is taken largely for possessions of Lands by the Fine and strictly against the ancient right if they be remisse in their claime for five yeares and the Act ought to remedy all the mischief otherwise it is of Corporations which have not any absolute Estate without others as Bishop Deane Parson Vicar and Prebendary c. But every one of them shall be barred by Nonclaim by five years and every Successor shall have new five years So every Officer who hath Land appertaining to his Office as a Parker Forrester Keeper of a Gaole c. shall be barred of Nonclaime after a Fine levied by his disseisor and five year past after Proclamations his Successor not if he doe not also permit 5. yeares Passe in his time 3. A Corporation cannot be seised to another use but onely a Naturall body because they are not imprisonable to be compelled to perform the confidence and a body Naturall shall not be imprisoned for the offence of their body Corporate which is another body 4. A bargain and sale without words Heires shall give a Fee simple But upon those two Points the Court was not resolved because that the other two made an end of the Case An authority given by a Corporation to enter into Land and claime it to their use and after to make a Lease of it in their name is good fol. 535. b. Paramor against Yardley A Termer devises all his Terme to his Sonne H. 21. El. in the Kingâ— Bench. Trespasse and besides saith that his will and intent was that his Wife should have the Occupation and Profits of the Land during the Minority of his Sonne to the intent that she with the Profits of it shall educate his children and see his Will performed and made his Wife his Executrix and dies the Wife proves the Testament and educates his Infants accordingly after sells the Terme to one to whom the Testator was indebted having then sufficient of the Goods and Chattells of the Testator to pay all his debts besides the said Lease and after she dies the Sonne at his full age enters and his Entry was adjudged lawfull and his grant to the Plaintiffe good 1. Because that the devise to the Wife is good during the Minority of the Sonne and by the exposition of the Court shall be intended to precede the devise to the Sonne in sense and intent and the devise to the Sonne to succeed 540 5â—…1 a. 2. For that the devise of the Profits and Occupation of the Land is a devise of the Land it self for that is the benefit and fruit of the Land otherwise it is of the use of a Chattell personall as of a Looking-glasse Mappe Globe or Booke for there the use is a distinct thing from the property fol. 541. b. and 541. a. 3. For that the Terme shall be executed in the Wife as a Legacy certain untill she disagrees to it because it is more for her benefit and she may not have an occasion against her self as another may otherwise it is of a Legacy certain 1. The Common Law to make the intent of the Parties take effect puts order to words contained in deeds without order as the Releafe of the Disseisor and Disseisee to the Lessâ—e for yeares of the Disseisor shall be first or the Disseisor and after the Disseisee otherwise it wonteth previty between him and the Lessee So Tenant for life Houses for yeares and he and him in Reversion consâ—…mes the Estate of Lessee for yeares habendum in Fee The Law adjudgeth the Estate of the Tenant first to passe for to make previtie upon which Release that of him in the Reversion may enure to enlarge the Estate So a Termor for thirty yeares and his Lessee in Possession for ten yeares by himselfe may not surrender for want of previty And therefore his surrender shall be taken to succeed the other Land is devised to one in Fee after a Rent out of it to another in Fee good So fol. 523. because it shall be taken first devised although it be subsequent in words As the Will repeales the first so the last part of the Will repeales to the first part of the Will which is contrary to it because he had such Intent last As a devise of Land to one in Fee in the premises and in the end of the Will to another in Fee But here is not any such contrariety 2. By grant of the Lease land passeth during the Terme because the Lease contains the Land it selfe and time in it words equivalent to words usuall shall have the sense and force of words usuall as 5. H. 7.1 Licence to enter and occupy Land for one moneth is a Lease and so shall be pleaded So that Land shall return redibit or discend or to a stranger after the death of Tenant for life shall be pleaded as a Remainder So a grant of the nomination of the Advowson is in substence a grant of the Advowson because the profit of it rests in the Nomination So here words of Nomination and Profits of the Lease is as much as the Lease it selfe for the time and not of distinct Profits to take also because the Executor here hath not remedy at the Common Law for the Profits if she be ousted of it and for this Legacy she hath no remedy in the Spirituall Court because she cannot sue her selfe there also the Estate it selfe of the Terme shall be in the Wife because the Sonne shall not have it untill fuâ—l age and then might drown his Profit if she hath but profit to loose 3. Alteration made by Operation of Law where the Party hath not any against whom to bring in his action which is equivalent to a Suite and Execution given to a Stranger as of a Remitter So a Debtor of twenty pound is made Executor he may pay himselfe by way of Retainer and hath property in the debt it selfe presently because he cannot sue himselfe and the Law giveth to him the like advantage as a Suite should be which performes the charge of the thing thereby he claimes the commodity annexed to the charge as to keep