not properly upon this Statute for the death of a Bankrupt is not provided for by this Statute but plainly by the Statute of primo Ja. the last Clause and I think that even for the debt of such a Wife it shall be sold after his death and although I put it that a Feoffment is made to him by the Son which cannot work by way of Livery because he was Tenant in tail yet if the Donor will enfeoffe the Donee by Deed this will work to the increasing of his Estate by way of confirmation 7 H. 6. 5. If the Inheritance of the Feme shall be sold She hath power to forfeit it by Attainder or by Cessavit and by this Statute they may sell all the Bankrupts Lands lawfully that is by any lawful course of Conveyance depart with all 6. The Commission shall be in force against her after the death of her Husband for if her Husbands death shall not help his Heir a Fortiori it shall not help her that lives Also as the credit of the one was the credit of the other for who would trust a Woman whose Husband was known to be of no credit so the offence of the one is the offence of the other and the gains of the one the gains of the other 7. But if this Man and Woman be both Aliens then neither of them are within this Statute but another course must be taken with them by the Statute of H. 8. cap. The Woman was born upon the Coasts of Flanders and the Man in the Port of Diep and I hold them both born in the Kings Dominions for him that was born in the Port I mean in a Ship lying at that Port Town there is small question but it is within the Kings Dominions It is said of King H. 2. That he was the greatest King that ever was in England for he had all the Land and Sea under his Dominion from the Orcades to the Pireneian Mountains which sever France and Spain England and Scotland he had by the Norman Conquest they and Normandy were laid together by Hen. 1 Anjou Tourain and Main were the Inheritance of his Father the first Plantagenet Poytiers and Aquitaine he had by his Wife Britainy held of him as of his Dukedom of Britainy so as all the Sea Coast even from Calis to St. Sebastians in Spain was his so that the French King had no way nor passage to the Sea nor Jurisdiction in the Sea It is true that by the Attainder of King John for the murthering of Prince Arthur a great part of all this was seized by the King of France and in the end by R. 2. H. 6. and Queen Mary all the Land was lost but the Sea was never lost witness the Isles of Alderney which stand within three Miles of France and Gersey and Garnsey which the French to this day could never conquer and yet they speak French and indeed are all that is left to the King of England that was any part of the Dakedom of Normandy But the Coasts of Flanders is more doubtful for Flanders was never in the Jurisdiction of the King of England but yet they were never Masters of the Sea The Lord Admirals Jurisdiction that he claims is at this day as well of the German Ocean as in the Straights and we say the Dutchmen do us wrong to Fish in these Seas 8. But admit the Woman is an Alien yet I take it if her Husband be an Englishman they shall be both Bankrupts within the Statute he as I said by the Law and she by Law and Custom for as the Custom will allow her to be a sole Merchant if her Husband he a Citizen altho' she be an Alien so likewise shall her Estate be subject 9. But if he be an Alien yet all will be one for his Goods but his I ands are the Kings for if he will Trade and Traffiâ—ue by his Wife and her Credit being English and having Land and so have and enjoy the Priviledges and Benefits of a Subject by his Wives legitimation her Land and the Custom of the City there it is no reason but that he should be subject to such Laws as other Subjects are So as if the Wife be an Alien and the Husband a Subject or the Husband an Alien and the Wife a Subject they are clearly in both cases within the Statute for Goods but my Case is for Lands and in my Case I hold them both born within the Kings Dominions 10. But the greatest Question in my Case and a thing never yet put in uâ—e or questioned is if a Bankrupt is Tenant in tail if by the sale of the Commissioners the issue in tail shall be barred they shall for the words of this Statute and of the Statute of 26 H. 8. are all one The words of 26. are If any parsons shall be attainted of any High Treason by course of the Common Laws they shall forfeit to the Kings Majesty their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments wherein they have any Estate of Inheritance Our Statute is That the Commissioners by Deed enrolled may sell the offenders Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as well Free as Copy c. in neither of these Statutes are intailed Lands mentioned But we see in Walsingham's Case Plowd and in Dowghties Case and in common experience that an Estate tail is forfeited by 26 H. 8.13 But you will say in 26 H. 8. there be words more to carry it than in your Statute for that saith any Estate of Inheritance and an Estate tail is an Estate of Inheritance but our Statute hath words which tant amount for ours is of all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which he or she may lawfully depart withal and Tenant in tail may lawfully by fine cut off his issue And it is set down for Law that a gift in tail with condition that the Donee shall not levy a Fine is unlawful a void and repugnant condition for it is said in Mary Portington's Case there be three incidents to Estate tails at the Common Law by Statutes and by Custom By the Statute of 32 H. 8. cap. 28. to levy fines and no condition can take away that from an Estate that is incident to the Estate as it is put of Dower Tenant by the courtesie 11. The last is upon my conclusion admit that the issue in tail could avoid the Lease whether the Vendee hath the same priviledge If Tenant in tail make a Lease not warranted and dies and the issue levy a fine before entry 33 H. 8. Dier The Conizee shall not avoid the Lease 8 E. 3. p. 22. The same is if he accept the Rent or confirm the Lease before entry The Lord Bedford's Case Cook lib. 7. The Kings Gardian shall avoid The King hath the Temporalities of a Bishop he shall avoid and all this is for the benefit of the Heir or Successor and so in our case it is for the benefit of the Bankrupt for in the end they must
lewdness of the Breaker therefore and that my endeavours may tend more for your Learning and mine than for our Delights Now my Law is this 1. Who shall be said a Merchant or other Person seeking his Trade of Living by Buying and Selling within this Statute An Adventurer in the East-India Voyage is within this Statute To Newfound-Land for Plantation or Discovery is not An Adventurer in the Virginia Voyage is not One of the Muscovia Company Adventurer to Green-Land and Discovery is not A Clothier or any Manual Occupation which is within the Statute of 5. Eliz. of Labourers A Grasier is no Mechanick A Gentleman goeth beyond Seas and giveth his Bills of Exchange to be paid here by his Bayly or Steward who accepts it and after that protesteth no Merchant Goldsmith Hammer-man Goldsmith-Shopkeeper the same of Jewellers A Feme-Covert sole Merchant in London the Husband is Out-lawed the Commissioners sell the Land of the Husband who dies the Wife brings Dower London 11. Ash She is Sister to the Elder Brother and after another Brother is Born Heir to the Elder There is a difference between a Smith and an Ironmonger A Feme-Covert sole Merchant an Obligation is made to the Husband and Wife and they are Divorced and she is a Bankrupt An Inn-keeper is within A Courtier takes a Lease of the King of the Preemption of Tinn if he shall be within the Statute during his Term. One hath a Monopoly of the sole making and selling of Glasses or Cards he is not within but any who hath the sole Importing or Exporting of any Commodity is within A Merchant gives over his Trade and seven Years after becomes non solvent for Money he owed while he was a Merchant he shall be a Bankrupt Jo. Quarles But if it were for new Debts contrary Hickmough's Case But if he were indebted and gives over his Trade and his Debts are continued at Interest and the Bonds from time to time renewed he is no Bankrupt by John Stone Where one shall Sue for his Debt before it is due If an Assign shall have a Re-extent If an Assign shall have a Writ of Errour See Davies Reading 2. Who shall be said a Subject Born within this Realm or any of the King's Dominions or a Denizen One Naturallized by Act of Parliament The Son of an Embassador of Venice born here and after Sworn to his King One is made Denizen so that he is only a Purchaser for his Life One Born upon the Sea upon the Coasts of Holland One Born in the Port of Diep The Bishop of Sodor Born in the Isle of Man A Denizen upon condition that he shall not depart the Realm and he for Debt departeth One made Denizen of Ireland by the Charter of Ireland 11. H. 8. Kelloway fol. 202. A difference between the Isle of Man and Wight c. A Pewterer goes beyond Sea and there useth his Trade he shall lose his Priviledge and the benefit of an English-man saith the Statute of 25. Hen. 8. cap. 9. One hath a Prisoner in Execution for Debt and becometh a Bankrupt if he escape if the Assigns may have an Action of Escape Quere If the Bankrupt release to the Prisoner if such a Debt may be Assigned for his Body is a Pledge 3. What shall be said a Departing from his House or out of the Realm A Merchant keeps his Ship for fear of Arresting which Ship is by Pyrates or Tempest driven beyond Sea A Merchant departs the Realm to Merchandize and having loss by Tempest he returneth not upon a Privy Seal if the King or his Creditors shall have his Goods A Commoner keeping his House A Merchant indebted leaveth off to Merchandize and after keepeth his House One keepeth his Ship or his Mill or being Church-warden keeps himself in any part of the Church One that hath no House but an Upper-Chamber One that is a Keeper of a Castle of the Kings One that hath no House but Sojourns now in one place and after in another Absenteth himself A Capias de Excommunicato Capiendo is awarded against a Merchant who absents himself for fear of being thereby Arrested no absence within the Statute generally An Attachment out of Chancery is awarded against a Bankrupt for not payment of Money decreed if he absent himself he is a Bankrupt Contrary if it were for not making a Conveyance Taking of Sanctuary Parries Case before the Bishop of Ely Feb. 1. 1616. A Recusant Convict grants an Advowson for 21 Years and dies the Church becomes void The Question is if his Heir or the Lessee shall present upon the Statute of 3. Jacobi 4. Sufferance of himself to be Arrested or Imprisoned for six Months by 1 Jacobi Outlawed Outlawed without Proclamation An Outlary reversed by Errour and Averment a difference One outlawed for Felony committed after he is a Bankrupt if the King by the Outlary or the Creditors shall be preferred for the Goods One outlawed in Ireland 5. Yeilding himself to Prison Imprisoned by 1 Jac. for a Fine in the Star-Chamber by Exchequer Process For a Fine before the High Commissioners For a Debt recovered in the Admirals Court. His Goods being Attached or Sequestred A Merchant Farmer of a Rectory the Parson serveth not the Cure 6. What Authority the Commissioners have upon the Body of the Bankrupt A Merchant confesseth himself to be the Villane of I. S. who taketh his Goods A Merchant enters into Religion after Bankrupting or before his Executors c. A Bankrupt is made a Clerk 7. What Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of a Bankrupt which is Free-hold may be sold which he hath in his own right or purchased joyntly with his Wife or Children or shall be said to descend or come to him before or after he is become a Bankrupt Sale of Lands in Tayl. If such a sale may prejudice him in remainder or it shall be construed a Feoffment of Record as a Fine is One hath Land in right of his Wife if it may be sold to one to have during the Goverture A Merchant makes a Feoffment to one upon condition to pay Money if the Commissioners may transfer this power to perform the condition to any A Merchant maketh a Feoffment upon condition that the Feoffee shall pay the Money and it is not paid if the Commissioners may give Authority to any to enter for the condition broken Land is devised to a Merchant or a Remainder or an use is limited to him if he can waive after he is a Bankrupt Rentseck whereof there is no Seisure shall be sold A Barony Earldom or Baronetship are Hereditaments and yet shall not be sold A Villane shall be sold but if the Bankrupt Infranchise him Quere If he shall be sold again The Office of Warden of the Fleet or Gaolor of Inheritance and all other Offices of Inheritance shall be sold contrary of Offices of Trust which are but for Life A Monopoly granted to one and his Assigns shall not be sold Land
Poor to be made a Minister and to be presented A. dies B. is Instituted and Inducted and after that is Inducted to another Benefice and recovers Glebe to the first of 20 l. value per Annum and after he is non solvent and renders himself a Prisoner to the Admiral for a trespass in Ireland the Parishioners detain their Tythes B. Is a Bankrupt within this Division and the Assignee of the Commissioners shall have debt for the Tythes and the Farm in Ireland 5. Tenant in tail is attainted of Treason and pardoned the King grants and restores to him the Land in tail the Donor Releases Tenant in tail suffers a recovery to the use of B. a Merchant and hath issue and dies the release is Inrolled B. is made Steward of the Tower of London the issue in tail enters B. is non solvent and keeps himself in the Tower B. Is a Bankrupt within this Division and the Commissioners shall sell the Land 1. If the gift is within the Statute of 34 H. 8. cap. 20. 2. If the reversion be good to the King without Inrollment 3. If the Inrollment shall Relate 4. If the Tower is comprehended within the Statute or the Equity re vera 6. A. Feme sole Tenant in tail makes a Lease for thirty years to B. a Merchant indebted to C. and D. she marries E. hath issue F. A. and E. levy a Fine to G. which is reversed for nonage of the Wife B. lies in Prison for six months in execution for the debt of C. and in that time becomes indebted to the Gaoler for Victuals the Wife dies E. enters claiming as Tenant by the Curtesie and surrenders to the issue D. assignes his debt to the King a Commission is awarded all this is found by writ of Prerogative and that B. had nothing B. Is a Bankrupt within the Statute but the King shall have the Term and neither C. nor D. shall be relieved 9. Tenant in tail makes a Lease for thirty years and enters into Religion the issue accepts the rent and dies having issue the Father is deraigned the Lessee being a Merchant at Constantinople becomes indebted to English Merchants there and turns Turk the Father dies the issue of the issue enters The Lessee is a Bankrupt within this Division and the Term shall be sold Cases upon the fourth Division What Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of a Bankrupt the Commissioners may sell THE King grants the Mannor of S. to A. and his Heirs to be holden by the service to be a Justice of the Peace within the Mannor A. Bargains and sells to B. and C. his Wife and to D. and after A. grants the services to I. S. a Tenant to B. B. and C. are divorced causa Praecontractus of C. with I. S. D. is a Bankrupt a Commission is awarded I. S. attorns D. enters and manumits a villain D. is imprisoned in his House and is felo de se his Heir within age enters I. S. dies without Heir B. and C. intermarry the Deed is inrolled office is found The Commissioners may sell all the Land and the Goods of the Bankrupt except the Villain 1. The King grants Land to be holden by the service to be a Justice of the Peace What Tenure this is 2. A Bargain and Sale to Baron and Feme and a Stranger and the Baron and Feme are divorced before Inrollment how they shall take 3. One sells a Mannor and before Inrollment the Bargainor grants the services of I. S. to one of the Vendees and he attorns If the Inrollment shall be good for the rest to others 4. Bargainee of Land holden in Capite enters and dies before Inrollment If his Heir within age shall be in Ward Vpon the Statute 1. A Bankrupt hath a Seigniory a Commission is awarded the Bankrupt dies a Tenancy Escheats If the Seigniory or the Tenancy shall be sold 2. Tenant in Capite is a Bankrupt and dies his Heir within age and in Ward If the Land can be sold 3. A Bankrupt hath a villain and manumits him If the Commissioners can after sell him 4. A Bankrupt is felo de se If the Goods shall be sold notwithstanding the interest of the Almoner The King grants a Mannor to A. to be holden by the service to be a Justice of Peace within the Manner the Question is what Tenure that is if grand serjeanty Petit serjeanty Tenure by Knights service in Capite or Tenure by Soccage in Capite Neither at the Common Law nor at any time before the Statute of Quia Emptores terarum there was no Officer in this Common-wealth called by the name of a Justice of Peace and therefore there can be no Authority of any ancient tenure of that nature But there were divers Officers who by virtue of their Offices and as incident to their Office were Conservators of the Peace as Sheriffs Coroners Constables and all the Justices of the Kings Bench. 17 ass 5. A Sheriff or Coroner may take an Appeal a fortiori in the Kings Bench for there Scot saith That they are the Soveraign Coroners of the Land But till 18 E. 3. cap. 2. the name of a Justice of Peace was not known But whether such a tenure may be created at this day is a Question and I think it may for the King is not bound by the Statute of Quia Emptor as it is plain by the Books of Com. 240. Bark Case He at this day may create new tenures and Marrow in his Book of a Justice of Peace saith That if the King grant a man Land to be holden by being a Conservator of the Peace he is a Conservator by tenure but he doth not determine what Tenure it is Mr. Lambert vouches a Record at Chester that one Urianus de Sancto Petro that held medietatem serjanciae pacis and this he calls it Tenure in Capite but rather as an Executioner than as a Judge It is thus material to the end of the Case what Tenure this is that if it be Knights service then here 's a Wardship and then it will be a question whether the Kings interest will prevent the authority of the Commissioners if in Soccage in capite then that point is cleared Some would have this to be grand Serjeanty because it is to be performed in person and that person is to represent the Kings person and if by Littleton it be grand Serjeanty to be a Chamberlain of the Exchequer who is but a Keeper as it were of the Kings money it is grand Serjanty much more to be a Keeper of the Kings Peace Others would have it Soccage in Capite for it is a Tenure must go with the Land and so to a person uncapable of the Office as in this case to an Infant or to a Woman who cannot be a Justice of Peace And this is an Office which cannot be transferred no more than as it is in Kelloway in his cases incerti temporis fol. 151. If the Office of a Sheriff
opinion that after the death of her Husband she shall be in bondage again quod Burton negavit but if she marry the Lord then by all she is infranchised for ever Britton fol. 78. She is infranchised for ever Natura brevi B. 78. G. I will conclude with the first authority by Fitzherbert Brittons opinion seems reasonable if she divorce not her self or acknowledge not her self in Court of Record in favour of Liberty and because she and her Husband are but one person in Law and of the same condition with him There be divers things favoured in Law as Womens dowers the King Lords Holy Church ancient Records Devises Infants Purchasors and possessions But next life Liberty of all things is most favoured 18 E. 4.6 No amercement lies against the Sheriffs return yet in a writ of Libertate probanda if the Sheriff returns that he hath no wrît of nativo habendo depending before him one may offer the contrary in favorem libertatis Quia propensiores esse debemus ad liberandum quam ad obligandum It hath been made a Question upon the Statute 39 Eliz. that appoints the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Accomptants to be sold which they had at the time when they fell into Arearages whether if the Accomptant shall manumit a villain he shall be nevertheless sold and the best opinion of him that read upon the Statute in this place was that his liberty could not be revoked for here were neither Lands Tenements nor Hereditaments and so here 27 Assizar Enfranchisement for a time by act in Law but if the Lord will manumit his villain for a day by his voluntary grant he is at liberty for ever The Tenant dies without heir the Question is this A Lord is a Bankrupt and dies a Tenancy escheats if the Seigniory or the Tenancy shall be sold I take it as I have concluded the Tenancy that is the Land shall be sold first see the words of the statute Primo Jacobi The Commissioners may proceed in the execution of the Commission in such sort as they might have done if the party Offender were alive this makes an end of the question for if he were alive and the Tenancy escheated the Land should be sold And therefore I shall not need to put you Cases at Common Law where the Tenancy escheating shall be bound to that where the Land was tyed 6 H. 4.1 Tenant in tail discontinues and dies and leaves a Seigniory to descend to the issue in tail a Tenancy escheats in a Formedon by the issue the Tenancy shall he Assets 14 H. 8 4. Fitzherbert cestui que use of a Seigniory a Tenancy escheats the Feoffee shall hold the Land to the use of the Feoffer 46 E. 3.4 Tenant in tail of a Seigniorty a Tenancy escheats Tenant in tail discontinues and dies without issue the Donor shall have a Formedon of the Land 3. A Commission is awarded D. is felo de se the Question a Commission is awarded and the Bankrupt becomes felo de se Office is found if the Almoner shall have his goods or the Commissioners may sell them for the Lord Almoner hath all the goods and chattels of Felons of themselves and all Deodands as appears by our Books and his Charter which I have seen 6 E. 6. Dier fol. 77. The King leases Richmond fee with all Deodands and after grants to the Almoner the term expires the grant to the Almoner void because the other lease was not recited 2. Mar. Dier fol. 107. The King grants to the Archbishop of Canter Deodands in D. and to the Almoner all in general Hales is felo de se Plow Dame Hales the Bishop is attainted the King shall have the Lease It is true as it appears in Dame Hales case That when two titles come together that is the Kings and a subjects the Kings shall be preferrd As if a villain be a fool natural the King not the Lord shall have him If a villain be felo de se the King not the Lord shall have his goods Then a Bankrupt is felo de se shall the King or the Creditors have his goods I think the Creditors For if the Bankrupt in life had no authority to dispose them as it is in Tibnabams Ca. much less shall he dispose of them by his death And admit the Almoners Patent were before the Statute of primo of the King yet both the King and the Almoner by Act of Parliament have given away their title to the Creditors 4. I have already argued that the heir of the Bankrupt is in by descent now the Case is he is within age and an office is found and that the Land is held of the King in capite the Question and the hardest question in my Case is whether after an office of all this matter found the Commissioners may sell And I think they may For this office finding the whole matter notwithstanding a tenure in capite a dying seised of the Tenant and the minority of an heir is found yet nothing vests in the King For when an Act of Parliament shall appoint the Land to go another way and the course taken according to the Statute is found in the Office the King his Officers in the Law shall consider of all the whole matter in Concreto and not in abstracto and shall challenge nothing for the King which belongs not to him as is seen by a Devise made by Tenant in capite according to the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Wills 5. The Commissioners imprison the Bankrupt in his own House Two questions first whether the Commissioners may imprison him by the Statute of 13. which gives them authority to dispose of his body as they shall see good in their discretions when as the Statute of primo appoints an imprisonment upon a special cause of refusal as if there were no Law general to imprison him in divers cases expressa nocent Vide my Moote Book I think they may It is true that Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant but this is not a contrary Law but a strengthning and a confirmation of the former Law in a particular nor doth it revoke the former no otherwise than that where by the Statute of 27 H. 8. Leases shall be under the Dutchy Seal This doth not take away the Authority of the Great Seal but that Grants may pass under the Great Seal since the Statute And for sureness now a days they put many times both Seals to them 2. Question is whether this Imprisonment in his own House be such a Dealing in the Commission by the Commissioners as is intended by the Statute of primo That his dying afterwards shall not alter the Case For if it be a lawful Imprisonment then here is a Dealing if not contrary for Ea possimus quae jure possimus for as it is said by Herle for a Maxime that all Leets Hundreds and in 2 E. 3. all Ports and Cities are the Kings and the Lords
have but the use and profits of them under the King so it is said all Gaoles are the Kings Prisons and none others of the Land for life and member belongs to him only and the Lords have only the regard and that is the reason that in all Corporations in their Charters they always have a Grant and liberty to have a Prison Auditors by the Statute of W. 2. cap. 11. may send the Baily found in Arrearages to Prison by the Book it must be to the next Gaol though it be in another County otherwise an Action of false Imprisonment lies So our Commissioners must be careful to pursue their Commission but because the Statute saith they may dispose of his body at their discretions therefore to stay him in his own House or in one of theirs till he be further examined I think it not amiss although I have heard that some Commissioners have been blamed for not sending him to the Gaol 1. A. makes a Feoffment in Fee to B. by livery within the view B. Covenants with C. to stand seised to the use of D. his Son A. enters and makes a Feoffment to B. D. enters and makes a Lease for years to E. a Merchant upon condition to have in Fee E. is a Bankrupt C. disagrees to the Contract E. becomes a Recusant Convict and hath not Lands sufficient to pay 20 l. a Month the Commissioners sell the Land the King seizes the Term the condition is performed The Vendee shall have the fee-simple Points 1. IF livery within the view may be countermanded by livery in fact 2. If the Feoffee to whom livery is made within view before entry Covenants to stand seized to another use and after enters if the Covenant good that is if by his entry he by relation is in from the time of the Livery 3. If a covenants with B. to stand seised to the use of C. and C. enters and B. disagrees to the Covenant if the Land shall revert to A. 4. If a Bankrupt hath a Lease for years upon condition to have fee if the Commissioners may sell the Land with the possibility 5. A Bankrupt hath a Term and is a Recusant convict if the King or the Creditors shall have the Term 2. The King Lord Mesn and Tenant of Borough English Land the Tenant by License of the King to create Tenures devises the Land to A. in fee to hold of his Heirs by Knights service A. is attainted of Felony and devises the Land to his eldest Son a Merchant Bankrupt the Mesn enters the younger Son reverses the Attainder the eldest waives the Devise The Commissioners may sell all the Land Points 1. IF the King may grant to the Tenant of another to create new Tenures in prejudice of the Mesn as to Escheats 2. If Tenure in Borough English which is always Soccage may be altered into Tenure in Knights service 3. If it may be altered as to the Custom to descend to the youngest 4. If it may be altered as to the Tenure but not as to the Custom if the youngest Son shall be in Ward 5. Upon the Statute of Wills 32 H. 8. Lord and Tenant the Tenant is attainted and Devises his Land and dies the Heir reverses the Attainder before entry of the Lord if the Devise is good 6. One Devises Land to a Merchant and he becomes a Bankrupt and waives the Devise if the Commissioners may sell the Land 3. A Merchant makes a Lease for Life to an Infant the remainder to the King for Life of A. B. enters and dies seised the Deed is Inrolled A. dies the Infant enters the Lessor in consideration of marriage covenants to stand seised to the use of himself and his Wife and their Heirs the Infant at full age makes a Feoffment the Heir of the Disseisor enters the Lessor is a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell Lessor dies the Feme waives This is a good Sale of all the Land in Possession and Reversion Points 1. WHether the Inrollment doth not relate to avoid the descent 2. Whether the Entry of the Infant reduce the reversion 3. Whether the Sale not being good against the Wife is made good by her waiver Vide ante the Principal Case 5. One grants a Rent Charge to a Physician and his Heirs pro Consilio impenso impendendo the Physician is his own Apothecary and becomes non solvent for Drugs and Simples which he used in his Art a Commission is awarded the Physician keeps his House for fear of Arrests the Physician brings a Writ of Annuity and recovers by erroneous Judgement the Commissioners sell the Rent the Recoveree reverseth the Judgment the Physician dies This Sale of the Commissioners was good for this Rent but not to take effect during the Life of the Physician Points 1. IF an Annuity in Fee be granted pro Consilio may be sold 2. Whether he have any Election after he is Bankrupt 3. Whether the bringing of this Annuity which is reversed be an Election 6. One makes a Gift in Tail rendring Rent and dies the Rent is arrear a Disseisor enters and levies a Fine five years past the Heir of the Donor is a Bankrupt The Commissioners shall sell the Rent and the Arrearages Three Points upon the Statute 1. UPon the Statute of Fines the Second and Third upon the Statutes of Limitations and Bankrupts 1. Upon the Statute of Fines that is if Fines of the Land shall be a Bar for the Rent 2. And 3. Upon the Statute of Limitations If Commissioners may sell when the Party was concluded by the Statute of Limitations 6 Jacobi Banco Regis Executors notwithstanding no Seisin in their Testator by fifty years shall destrain by the the Statute of 32 H. 8. 7. A. and B. Tenants in Common of the Mannor of D. and Jointenants of the Mannor of S. They by Deed Poll bargain and sell Common of Pasture within the Mannors for a Cow to C. and his Wife and to the Heirs of their two bodies begotten C. the Husband grants the Common to E. in Fee the Wife dies without issue E. is a Bankrupt E. had Common for a Cow but it is neither Land Tenement nor Hereditament which may be sold by the Commissioners 8. The King grants to I. S. that he only for his life shall have the Importation of Steel he assigns his Patent to I. N. a Merchant I. N. becomes non solvent and after acknowledges himself to be a Villain regardent to the Honour of Hampton-Court a Commission is awarded I. N. Is a Bankrupt and the Commissioners may sell all his Lands and Goods but not the Monopoly 9. A. and B. Jointenants Covenant for natural affection to stand seised to the use of C. for life C. enters and B. dies C. dies the Heir of B. makes a Gift in Mortmain the Lord before entry bargains and sells the Seigniory to I. S. who enters and makes a Gift in Tail the remainder to I. N. a Merchant Tenant in Tail is
Escheated shall be sold but Quere if it Escheat after the Commission and Death of the Bankrupt One bargains and sells a Seigniory to a Bankrupt and after Commission the Bankrupt dies and the Deed is Inrolled after the Commission The Bankrupt having Land holden in Capite dies his Heir within Age and Office is found if they can sell The same if his Heir be an Ideot or a Lunatick A Bankrupt becomes Lunatick an Office is found A Bankrupt is Tenant in Tail the remainder in the King if it can be sold but for the Life of the Tenant in Tail Tenant in Tail grants all his Estate and becomes a Bankrupt the Land shall not be sold Tenant in Tail of a Rent is disseised thereof and dies his Issue is a Bankrupt and brings a Formedon yet the Rent shall be sold Two joynt Tenants the one is a Bankrupt and dies if his part shall be sold not because the Survivor is not in by him Tenant in Tail the remainder to an Alien Tenant in Tail is a Bankrupt and suffers a Recovery the Land is sold Tenant in Tail dies without Issue an Office is found if the Land shall be sold for the King 8. What Copyholds they may sell and what agreement made with the Lord is good The Lord sells the Freehold of one sole Copyholder to A. the Copyholder becomes a Bankrupt if the Commissioners can sell Copyholder in Tail with a remainder where no Recoveries or where Recoveries are remedied against the Lord who will not compound A Copyholder by License of the Lord makes a Lease for One and Twenty Years the Copyhold Escheats Quere if the Lease is good against the Lord. A Feme by Custom is to have a Widows Estate the Bankrupt makes such a Lease if the Feme shall avoid it A Bankrupt Copyholder makes a Feoffment the Lord enters the Commissioners sell the Vendee tenders a competent Fine the Lord refuseth to admit him the Vendee enters the Lord brings Trespass it lieth not A Bankrupt makes waste the Commissioners sell the Lord enters for a Forfeiture A Copyholder surrenders into the hands of two Tenants he to whose use is a Bankrupt the Lord dissolves the Mannor 9. What Fees Annuities Offices Goods Chattels and Debts the Commissioners may sell A Merchant acknowledgeth himself to be the Villane of I. S. the Commissioners may Assign his Debts Quere of his Goods A Lease for Years provided that he shall not alien the Commissioners sell if it be a Forfeiture 10. What Uses Interests Rights or Titles of a Bankrupt the Commissioners may sell A Bankrupt hath an Advowson the Church becomes void the Commissioners sell the Vendee presents if this be Symony A Bankrupt prefents one who is privy to his Bankrouting who is Indicted the Commissioners sell their Vendee brings a Quare impedit within six Months A Bankrupt hath a Warranty what use the Vendee shall have of it A Bankrupt hath the next avoidans the Commissioners present one for Money paid to the Creditors The Disseisor dies seized after five Years the Disseisee becomes a Bankrupt A Woman hath a Rent charge she takes a Husband a Bankrupt who Distrains and Rescous is made if the Commissioners can sell all the Rent which shall be due during the Coverture 1 E. 3. fol. 5. Pl. 23. The Commissioners sell a Rent or Reversion if good without Attornment A Bankrupt loses by erroneous Judgment if this right to bring a Writ of Errour may be transferred by the Commissioners The same of an Entry for condition broken or performance of a condition A Bankrupt becomes Lunatick the Commissioners sell an Office is found 11. What Deed Inrolled in one of Her Majesties Courts of Record shall be good The Deed is not acknowledged before any of the Masters of the Chancery by the Commissioners The Deed is not Inrolled within six Months the Statute of Inrolements saith by Bargain and Sale only I. S. By prescription holdeth Plea in his Mannor above Forty Shillings the Deed is there Inrolled after Sale and before Inrolment the Bankrupt takes a Wife and die if she shall be endowed the Deed is inrolled in the Mayors Court in London no question of the Hustings 12. What shall be said a just Debt and how the Statute shall make an apportionment between the Creditors what is their duty to do and what remedy they have for their Portions and who shall be said a Creditor and who shall be relieved A Merchant indebted as Surety or Bail for a Gentleman but not for himself If one may Sue for a Legacy before the Commissioners How a Debt doubtful shall be tried before the Commissioners For Money decreed to him in the Chancery or Star-Chamber One Creditor sole Sues a Commission and keeps it with him secretly until the last day within four Months and then the Commissioners sell the Land and pay all to this Creditor the others never having notice thereof what remedy for them The Commissioners sell all the Land and distribute all but this is not full satisfaction after other Land descends to the Bankrupt if they can make another sale and new distribution The four Months are past and part of the Estate distributed new Creditors come in if they shall be admitted to have contribution of the rest which is not yet distributed and if such new Creditors shall have allowance ratably with the other Creditors according to the Remnant of their Debts or according to all paid or not paid A Bankrupt becomes indebted to one who had notice that he is a Bankrupt if he shall be admitted a Creditor One hath a Debt which is not yet due yet he shall be relieved with rateable respect of abatement for the time 13. What Act or Conveyance made by a Bankrupt before or after he is a Bankrupt shall be good He takes a Wife after he is a Bankrupt if she shall be indowed of Land which he had before He takes a Wife after he is a Bankrupt and Land descends to him if she shall be indowed A Bankrupt Disseisor the Commissioners sell and before the Deed is inrolled the Disseisor releases to the Bankrupt A Bankrupt presents one who is private to his intent who is indicted the Commissioners sell the Vendee brings a Quare impedit A Bankrupt becomes a Clerk-Convict and hath Goods within a Liberty A Bankrupt after Commission awarded becomes felo de se A Conveyance to the use of a Daughter a Widow formerly advanced A Merchant Tenant in Knight-service his Heir within Age makes a Feoffment by collusion the Lord after becomes a Bankrupt this is no fraud against the Creditors but yet the Land shall be sold for though it be fraud between the Lord and the Tenant yet there is a Trust between the Feoffor and Feoffee 14. What Declaration or Account the Commissioners shall make to the Bankrupt and whether the Proviso be a Condition and what remedy the Bankrupt hath for to cause them to account The Commissioners all
die after the sale of the Lands and distribution what remedy hath the Bankrupt for the rest against the Executors of the Commissioners or against the Survivor of them After the Sale and before distribution all the Commissioners die but two what shall be done A new Commission shall be awarded to other Commissioners not to them and they shall be called before the new Commissioners as they who have the Estate of the Bankrupt in their hands 15. What shall be said a concealment of the Estate of a Bankrupt or of his Person or a fraudulent claim or demand or detaining of his Estate and what remedy for the Forfeiture or Fine 16. What damage is it to be out of the Kings Protection by this Statute 17. Who shall be said a Creditor within this Statute A sole Creditor if he can sue the Commission A Mortgage of Lands or Goods if they can sell them Conusee of a Statute-Merchant or Recognizance The Plaintiff who hath the Body of the Defendant in Execution upon a Judgment at the Common Law He who hath the Bankrupt in Execution upon a Statute-Merchant A Merchant is taken in Execution and after becomes indebted to A. and remains six Months in Execution and so is a Bankrupt if A. shall be a Creditor that is if he be a Bankrupt from the beginning of his Imprisonment by relation or only after the six Months A Merchant is imprisoned for Debt the Gaoler Credits him for Victuals for a Year if he shall be a Creditor for part for all or for none A Bankrupt is Convicted for keeping of Inmates or erecting Cottages the Statute gives an Action of Debt to the Lord of the Leet he is no Creditor 18. What Conveyance the Commissioners may make after the Death of the Bankrupt A Feme Covert sole Merchant within Age the Baron and Feme levy a Fine of the Land of the Feme a Commission is awarded the Fine is reversed for Non-age of the Feme with a Cessation of Execution during the Life of the Baron they have Issue the Feme dies the Commissioners sell the Issue enters The First Division Who shall be said to be a Merchant or other Person using or exercising the Trade of Merchandizes by way of Bargaining Exchange Bartry Chevisance or otherwise in gross or by Retail or seek his or their Trade of Living by Buying and Selling. 1. A Makes a Lease for Years to B. and grants the reversion to C. in Tail B. attorn and enters A. grants the reversion of C. to D. being a Denizen of Ireland C. commits Treason and attorns D. becomes an Adventurer to the East Indies C. is attainted D. is Non solvent and having no House keeps himself on Ship-board C. Dies without Issue a Commission is awarded and after supers the Commissioners sells the Land by Deed Inrolled in the Mayor's Court in London D. is a Bankrupt within the Statute and the Sale by the Commissioners is good 2. Tenant for Years of an Inn makes a Feoffment in Fee to Baron and Feme an Alien makes livery within the view to the Feme who enters the Baron is made King the Lessor being an Adventurer of Virginia Releases to the King by Deed Inrolled an Office is found the Queen waives the Lessor enters and keeps the Inn and being Non-solvent is made Keeper of a Castle in the Isle of Man where he was Born and there remains The Lessor is a Bankrupt within this Division of the Statute and the Commissioners may sell the Land 3. A Disseisor makes a Lease for Life to a Feme sole the remainder to the right Heirs of I. S. she makes a Feoffment in Fee upon condition and enters for the condition broken and grants a Rend charge to A. a Goldsmith of London Naturalized by Parliament the Disseisee Releases to the Feme she Marries A. the Disseisor enters and makes a Feoffment to a Stranger I. S. dies the Feme hath Issue and dies A. enters and being Non-solvent surrenders to the Issue and departeth the Realm to Merchandize the Commissioners sell the Rent the right Heir of I. S. enters A. is a Bankrupt within this Division of the Statute and the Vendee may presently Distrain for the Rent 4. R. Tenant in tail makes a Gift in tail to M. hath Issue and dies M. makes a Feoffment to C. and dies without Issue his Wife the Issue of R. enters a Son is Born who enters the Feoffee enters and being a Grasier buyes lean Cattel and feeds them upon the Land and Sells them when they are fat and sells his own House and after being Non-solvent keeps his Neighbours House C. is no Bankrupt within this Statute and the Issue of R. recovers the Land by Formedon and the Son Born hath no right 5. A Man hath Issue A. and B. two Daughters they Disseise I. S. and infeoff their Father A. Marries C. and by his leave becomes a Sempster in the Exchange London the Father dies I. S. releases to the Husband B. brings a Neuper Obiit against A. and C. C. makes default after default A. is received and being indebted to divers Creditors disclaims in the Blood the Husband keeps the House The Husband is a Bankrupt within this Statute and the Moiety of the Land is liable to the sale of the Commissioners during the Coverture 6. One makes a Lease for Years to A. the remainder to B. for the Life of A. the remainder to the right Heirs of A. B. dies A. having Issue a Daughter his Wife with Child with a Son devises the Land to I. S. for the Life of M. for payment of his Debts and makes I. S. his Executor and dies I. S. enters the Daughter being a Feme Covert sole Merchant in London enters M. dies the Daughter is Non solvent and elopes the Son born enters The Daughter is a Bankrupt within this Statute and the Commissioners may sell the Land 7. One devises his Land to A. B. and C. baeredibus A. paying 10 li. they enter and A. being an Exchanger enters into Religion B. releases to C. the Bills of A. are protested C. dies the Creditors of A. brings Action against his Executors and before Judgment A. is deraigned the Commissioners sell all the Land A. is a Bankrupt within this Statute but the sale is good only for a third part 8. M. and F. joyn Tenants of a Horse Mortgage him to E. a Feme sole who intermarries with M. F. being a Horsecourser performs the condition and takes the Horse E. by commandment 〈◊〉 her Husband Steals the Horse M. and E. are Divorced causa praecontractus M. dies E. is indicted for Felony the Horsecourser becomes a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell the Horse F. is a Bankrupt within the Statute and the sale is good 9. The King makes a Lease for Years rendring Rent of the Pre-emption of Tynn in Cornwall to I. S. one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber who becomes indebted to divers Persons for Tynn bought of
I consent to it I am a Disseisor Tenant for Years enfeoffes two and the Lessor releases to one of them if he shall hold his Companion out 27 E. 3. cap. 9. gives an Ass of novel dissm to Tenant by Statute Staple against him that outs him as against a Disseisor yet he hath no Free-hold for 1 E. 3. a quid juris clamat lies against him although he be but Disseisor fictitius yet at the election of the Disseisee he is a Disseisor in Law as 7 E. 4. the Vouchee is but tenens fictitius yet a release is good to him If Tenant for Years infeoff two and the Lessor brings assise against one he shall not plead that his Companion is also Tenant not named for by the Statute of 3 E. 1. de Conjunctim feofatis he must slew of whose Feoffment which if he do he overthrows his own Estate and must plead himself was a Disseisor which the Law will never allow for 1 E. 4. fol. 7. no man shall be suffered to say that he himself was a Disseisor Coke Beverlies Case 4. Rep. To stultifie himself Herl 5 E. 3. non sanae memoriae inblenisht himself 35. Ass 10. It is true that in respect of themselves they are in by Feoffment and Title in respect of the Lessor they are Disseisors then the question is who shall be in election and who shall interpret how this release shall work the Lessor or the Lessee or the third Person It is probable to say the Lessor for cujus est dare c. and H. 7. If one Man be to pay two Sums at one time and place and pay but one it is in election and interpretation of the Payer and not the Receiver which sum was meant to be payed It may be said the release c. for the Party to whom a Deed is made if it inure to two intents shall c. as 7 H. 6. a Feoffment may be used as a confirmation 15 Eliz. D. release and grant of a Rent But I conclude the third Person shall take benefit c. First for the reason that in t se c. But they are Disseisors not at Common Law but by Statute for the Benefit of the Lessor of which Statute he may take benefit if he please or waive it 3 E. 4. 21 H. 7.32 19 Eliz. D. Alien and Denizen challenge medietatem linguae so here he hath his election to make him a Disseisor by bringing his Ass or a Tenant in by Title by the release Baron and Feme Disseisors and a release to a Baron whether shall this inure to the Feme for they are seised not by parts but by intireties it shall go all to the Husband for flagitiosae rei nulla est societas it is feodum princip commiatem latronum The question hath been if a Feme sole be a Disseisor and marry whether the Husband be a Disseisor or not 6 E. 3.42 he is not for in a Writ of Entry sur disseisin against him and his Wife he had the view but in our case I take it that if no other thing had happened between the Disseisin and the Release the Husband should have had all The Husband is made King the question is Baron and Feme are Disseisors the Baron is made King the Disseisee releases to the King what is wrought First when Baron and Feme are Joyntenants by Disseisin by Title or by Disseisin all is one and the Husband made King whether do they remain Joyn tenants or else they are Tenants in Common Or else hath the King all Or the Queen all I hold them to be Tenants in Common although this case can be matched or compared with no case of the Law wherein the alteration of the Persons only shall change the Estate of the Parties without making of any new conveyance of the Land 32 H. 8. Brook Deraign 22 H. 6.2 A Feoffment to an Abbot and I. S. they are Tenants in Common but a Feoffment to A. and B. and A. is made an Abbot all shall survive to B. So if a Feoffment to A. and B. and A. acknowledgeth himself Villain to I. S. this alters nothing till I. S. enter but whatsoever the King hath before he is King or whatsoever descends to him or he purchases after he is King he holdeth all in jure coronae suae Angliae Caluins Case ex parte matris Barkley's Case Gavelkind Lancaster Partition in t sorores Queen Eliz. Queen Mary Queen Katharine Ferdinando's Daughters So as the King's possession alters the very nature of the Land and so makes him and his Wife Tenants in Common And that it makes her as it were a Feme sole I need vouch no authorities who all know it in Experience 18 E. 3. fol. The Queen alone brought a Quare impedit 49 E. 3.4 Cavendish the King may give Lands or Goods to the Queen 9 H. 6.13 Margery Parkers Case 14 H. 4.67 Sci. Fac. by the Duke of Suffolk against the Queen to repeal the Patent whereby the King had granted to the Queen the Land of the Duke's Father Tirwhite In all times a Precipe hath been brought against the Queen for she hath always been a Person exempt notwithstanding the Coverture so both their Persons being changed c. it is as if the King were Dead Then have I driven it to this pass that the release can work but to a Moiety the question being whether it work for all or for a Moiety or none that it should work for none If a Feoffment be made to the Wife and before agreement or disagreement the Baron is made King I say he comes too late now to agree or disagree no otherwise then if he had died Then the question is this One makes a Disseisin to the use of I. S. and he is made King can he now agree to the Disseisin The rule is The King cannot be a Disseisor it is true that in times past he might 20 H. 3. Ass 431. Non habet ingressum nisi per Disseisinam quam Dominus Rex facit quaerenti dum fuit infra aetatene in Custodia Comitis de S. and the Tenant saith Non habet ingressum per Disseisinam quam Rex fecit sed habet ingressum per judicium curiae c. But at this day the Law is altered 22 E. 3.37 23 E. 3. Entry 11. If the King Disseise one and makes a Feoffment the Disseisee shall have a Writ of Entry neither in the per nor in the post quam Dominus Rex fecit See the Book 1. H. 4. cap 8. It was doubted what remedy one should have but the Statute is That if the King enter and grant the Land of another if the Grantee enter the Tenant shall have an Assise and trebble Damages against the Grantee And by the same reason he may not agree to a Disseisin done before for till agreement the Disseisor was Tenant and nothing in the King as 2 H. 7.16 15 E. 4.15 If you will say nothing
of Wight is parcel of Hamp-shire and Wales and Ireland are parcel of the Realm for Writs of Errour lie c. And I think it is very true Hollinshead description of Britain fol. 16. b. that the Isle of Man was then no parcel of the Realm for the first mention thereof in any Chronicles is the same year that England was Conquered by the Normans for when Harold had at Stainford-Bridge Conquered another Harold that was King of Norway one Gordard the King's Son of Ireland fled to the Isle of Man in time Conquered it and made himself Lord and Landlord of all the Isle So as to this day there is not a Free-holder in that Island but all are Tenants to the King of that Country It is about thirty miles long and fifteen miles broad it is not governed by any written Laws or Courts of Record but all their Controversies are ended by Arbitrators whom they call Deemsters When King John Conquered Ireland he sent Forces into Man and wasted it all but seated no Government there 1240. One Harold of the Norway Line was received and was invested in the Kingdom of Man by the King of Norway and yet afterwards he was made Knight by the King of England 1250. Or thereabouts in King Ed. 1. time Alexander King of Scots having Conquered all the Islands either by Strength or for Money amongst the rest brought the Isle of Man under his Dominion the old King's Daughter sued to Edw. 1. as to the Supream Head of Scotland the Answer Sequatur coram Justiciariis de Banco Regis ut Justicia Edw. 2. granted it to Piers Gaveston but in Anno 1393. William of Mountacute by strength won it from the Scots as Thomas of Walsingham saith and sold it to William Scroop he was attainted and so it came to Hen. 4. The King of England he granted it to Henry Peircy to hold it by carrying before the King Lancaster's Sword but presently he was attainted and the King granted it to Sir John Stanley and so it came to the Earl of Derby Seman's Case 5. Reports A Man's House is his Castle and his Castle is his House Points upon the first Case 1. IF Tenant for years may attorn before Entry 21 H. 7. One makes a Lease for years and before the Lessee enter the Lessor releases to him the release is void One bargains and sells his Land to another and before the Deed is inrolled he attorns to the grant of the reversion and after the Deed is inrolled and the Bargainee enters 21 H. 7.28 H. 8. Dyer Debt for Rent lies before entry of the Lessee Litt. Lord and Tenant the Tenant makes a Lease for life the Lord grants the Seigniory to the Tenant for life in Fee the Tenant ought to attorn yet he shall not hold of the Tenant for life during his life 28 H. 8. Brook Tenant for twenty years makes a Lease for ten years Tenant for ten years attorns it is good 20 H. 6 7. A Seigniory is granted by Deed to one for life the remainder in Fee Tenant for life dies before attornment c. contrary if it were by Fine 11 H. 4.18 One who hath nothing in the Land must attorn as Tenant in Dower who hath assigned her Estate 2. The reversion of Tenant in tail is granted he commits Treason and attorns and is attainted 12 E. 4.3 Tenant in tail shall not be compelled to attorn but 15 E. 4.13 if he attorn voluntarily it is good Nor Tenant in tail after possibility c. 46. E. 3.13 39 E. 3.20 3 H. 6.12 5 H. 5. Attornment 17. One makes a gift in tail rendring Rent the Donor by Fine grants the Rent the Tenant in tail must attorn 8 H. 5.10 Tenant for life grants his Estate upon condition the Lessor grants the reversion Tenant for life attorns and after performs the condition yet the Attornment is void But all the question is upon the relation of the Office and this shall not vacate the Attornment for it shall not relate for the mean profits of the Land Sir VVilliam Fleetwood's Case Cook lib. 8. by the same reason if Rent were reserved it were well paid and well received and sufficient to invest the reversion in the Grantee 3. Adventurer to the East-Indies is within the Statute 4. Gardian of a Ship is within the Statute The Chancellor hath authority to award a Commission but not to grant Supers And therefore death of the King or a new Commission leaving out the old Commission may be but no Supers If the King present to a Benefice above 20 l. the Chancellor cannot make a revocation but as well in our Case as in that Case by Warrant under the Signet Privy Seal or Seal Manual the Chancellor may award Supers 6. Denizen of Ireland Points upon the Third Case 1. TEnant for life the remainder to the right Heir of I. S. makes a Feoffment in Fee upon condition and enters for the condition broken who shall enter for the forfeiture The Feoffer shall not enter for all is out of him by the Feoffment and he hath nothing but a possibility The right Heir of I. S. shall not enter for his remainder is destroyed The first Question is upon the Statute of W. 2. cap. 25. Whether if Lessee for years make a Feoffment by Livery within the view the Feoffer or Feoffee or both of them or neither be Disseisors 2. Upon Baron and Feme whether a Feoffment without Deed to the Baron and Feme and Livery only to the Feme invests any thing in the Husband 3. Upon the matter admit they are both Disseisors whether the release made to the Husband shall exclude the Wife it shall but in this Case where Tenant for years enfeoffes two and the Lessor releases to one he shall not hold out his Companion 4. Baron and Feme are Joynt-Tenants of a term and the Baron is made King what is become of the term and so of Freehold Whether the King shall have all or the Queen all or they remain Joynt-Tenants or Tenants in Common they are Tenants in Common 5. A Feme commits a Disseisin to the use of her and her Husband and the Husband is made King and the Disseisee releases to the King what is wrought if he can agree to the Disseisin being King 6. A Feme Covert Alien purchaseth the Husband is made King and Office is found 7. A Feme Covert purchaseth the Husband is made King if he can waive Points upon the Statute 1. IF one born in the Isle of Man is within the Statute 2. If Adventuring to Virginia is Merchandizing 3. If an Inn-keeper be within the Statute 4. If going to the Isle of Man be a Departing 5. If keeping of a Castle be a keeping of his House The Second Division Who shall be said a Subject born of this Realm or of any of the late Queens Dominions or Denizen 1. A. and B. Disseise C. who in consideration that A. at his request hath
Commissioners and Sale the Vendee shall avoid a Lease which Tenant in tail a Bankrupt might have avoided 1. If one may release to the use of another or if an use can be raised upon a release and it may for three reasons A Release may be upon condition for there the case was put in Libro and consequently to an use But by 43 Ass 12. the condition and the release ought to be both in one Deed. 17 Ass 2. 31 Ass 32. 2. Secondly it is a good proof that a release to a Disseisor may be to an use when a Disselsm may be to an use as 34 Ass 12. 37 Ass 8. 1 H. 5.4 15 E. 4.15 All is in the Disseisor until agreement And 2 H. 7.16 If one disseise another to the use of a third the first is Tenant until agreement but after all is in him to whose use although not to be punished for the force 3. My third Argument is taken out of the Book of 17 E. 3.5 where it is said That if the Disseisee take homage of the Disseisor he shall never have an Assise for now they be Lord and Tenant when at first the Disseisor was in the post and destroyed the Disseisees Estate and held of the Lord Paramount So I hold that if before the Statute of Quia Emptores Terrarum the Disseisee had released to the Disseisor the Disseisor must have held of him although it is true that since that Statute a release of all his right in the Land releases his Seigniory as 34 Ass But Temp. E. 1. Ass 423. In a Writ of Entry in the Post of Disseisin made by A. to the Demandants Grandfather which A. infeoffed the Grandfather of the Tenant the Tenant answered after A. infeoffed my Grandfather your Grandfather confirmed and released to my Grandfather reserving homage and my Grandfather did homage to yours and my Father to your Father c. But he relied upon the Deed a Tenure was reserved upon the confirmation in which Case a release makes a degree See my Moot Book fol. 121. Then if an use may be raised out of the possession of a Disseisor if a condition out of a release and a tenure out of a confirmation by the same reasons an use may be raised or declared by release 2. Two Disseisors and they intermarry it may seem they are mutually and respectively in by title for if the Husband make a Feoffment of his moiety yet he hath title to be Tenant by the Courtesie of her part and she hath title of Dower to his part after the Feoffment which is in severance of the Joynture Kelloway's Case Incerti Temp. fol. 129. This Case is well debated which was A. Feme sole and A. Joynt-Tenants she marries B. A. releases to B. whether this shall inure to the Husband only or to the Wife Keble saith That it shall inure to the Baron sole for before marriage he might have infeoffed the Baron and it is no reason that he should be hindred to convey the Land to none but the Feme by release and by the release he shall be Tenant in Common with himself in right of his Wife But by others the Law is contrary for he might have infeoffed others as well as have released to the Baron also a release to one shall be in many cases to the benefit of another as a Release to Tenant for Life c. 9 Eliz. Dyer 263. This Case seems to make against me Baron and Feme and I. S. were Joynt-Purchasers I. S. released to the Baron nothing went to the Wife but I say that cannot be for the Baron and Feme being seised by intireties the release could not make them hold the Land by several moieties 16 H. 9. Fitz. Herb. Release 45. Nor do I agree that Case for there the Case was that a Woman was Tenant for life and she takes Husband the Lessor releaseth to the Husband and his heirs by Paston he had the reversion for the Free-hold of the Husband was in right of his Wife and the release to him conjoyns that right but I agree well that the Fee-simple shall be in the Husband c. 19 H. 6.35 One makes a Feoffment upon condition that he shall make a Feoffment over if he doth it not the Feoffer may enter but if one makes a Feoffment in Fee upon condition that the Feoffee shall make a gift in tail and he doth it the Feoffee and not the Feoffor shall have the reversion So here 3. If marriage of a poor Maid be a good consideration to raise an use it is good to carry the Fee-simple to the Husband and the intail to the Wife Before the Statute of Quia Emptores Terrarum one might have created a Tenure in performance of a charitable use as to make or repair a Bridge or to keep a Castle 34 H. 8. Brook p. 51. 6 E. 3.13 One holds by three pence to aid the Sheriff and good and another by four pence of the Wapentake Fine and good because for to discharge the publick contribution 12 H. 7.18 Keeping of a Beacon whereby the Country may be warned when the Enemies come 11 H. 7.12 The same for finding a Chaplain chanting in such a place And by the same reason that a Tenure may be created an use may and the same consideration For before Qui Emptores Terrarum If one had made a Feoffment in Fee without declaring an use it was to the use of the Feoffee for the Law created a Tenure which was a sufficient consideration but after no use to the Feoffee but to the Feoffor if neither Tenure created nor use declared and for that a lease for life or for years or in tail is to the use of the Lessee or Donee for the Law will create a Tenure of him in reversion So here is a good consideration to raise the use of the Fee to the Husband and the Estate tail to the Wife is good without other consideration than that Tenant in tail must hold of him in reversion 24 H. 8. Brook 4. Lands are given to a Feme and her Heirs Females and she hath Issue a Son and a Daughter and dies if the Husband shall be a Tenant by the Courtesie He shall Cook lib. 8. Pains Case is reported as if before that Case the Law had been doubtful whether the Husband should be Tenant by the Courtesie when the Wife Tenant in tail had Issue which dyed and so she dyed without Issue For the Estate was determined and this was the reason that Leases for life or years are not good against the Lessor for Cessante Statu primitivo c. yet one may be Tenant in Dower without Issue and therefore the Estate tail will continue to some purposes 21 Edw. 3. Dower after a Dying seised without Issue 21 H. 3. Dower 198. Tenant by the Courtesie may be although the Issue dye before the Wife 16 E. 3. Aid 129. One may be Tenant by the Courtesie of the moiety of
Gavelkind without Issue by the Custome there Reppes Case the Child was ripped out of his Mothers Belly and so after the death of the Feme the Baron could not be Tenant by the Courtesie But this Question rises upon the Case put in Pains Case Lands are given to a Feme and her Heirs Males and she hath Issue a Daughter and dies the Husband shall not be Tenant by the Courtesie for although a Man shall be Tenant by the Courtesie notwithstanding the Estate tail be spent yet his Estate must begin by an Heir heritable to the Estate Here in our Case the Son was the Heir and by him the Father would have been Tenant by the Courtesie to all other his Wifes Lands but not to this But although a Female cannot be Heir that hath a Brother yet since the Statute of Donis and by the Equity of that a Daughter may be Heir by Cook in Shelley's Case notwithstanding that he had also a Son fol. 103. and so here he may be Tenant by the Courtesie for this Land by the Daughter and of other Land by the Son if the Wife had been Tenant in tail of other Lands to her and her Heirs Males 5. Tenant by the Courtesie is and Tenant in tail in reversion makes a lease to commence presently hath Issue and dies Tenant by the Courtesie dies if his Issue shall avoid the Lease This Question is grounded upon the words of the Statute of 32 H. 8. which gives power to Tenant iâ— tail to make Leases Provided always that this Act c. shall not extend to any Leases to be made of any Mannors c. being in the hands of any Farmer or Farmers by vertue of any old Lease unless the same old Lease be expired surrendred or ended within one year after the making of the new Lease and upon this Clause hath risen many Questions as Tenant in tail makes a Lease for Forty years not warranted and Ten years after makes a Lease for Twenty One years to another warranted Within a year Tenant for Forty years surrenders Tenant in Dower surrenders to the Issue in tail upon condition Tenant in tail makes a Lease c. Tenant in Dower enters for the condition and dies and Tenant in tail dies if the Issue may enter Tenant in tail makes a good Lease for One and Twenty years Tenant for years surrenders upon condition Tenant in tail makes another Lease for One and Twenty years or three lives the first Tenant in tail enters for the condition broken By Philips the second Lease is good Cook contra in Elmers Case lib. 5. And my Question is whether Tenant by the Courtesie be within those words Farmers c. and he is not Foster in his Reading upon this Statute vouched one Richards Case That Tenant by the Courtesie was no such Farmer Points upon the Statute 1. IF a Feme Covert sole Merchant by the Custom of London shall be within the first Branch or Division of this Statute which is using the Trade of Merchandizing or getting their living by c. she is That there is such a Custom in London and mentioned and allowed in our Books Custom Br. 43. Ley Br. 74. 1 E 4. fol. 6. An Action being brought in C. B. for ones Board in London he would wage his Law not And the difference put between Customs which go with the Lands as Gavelkind Borough English c. and Customs of Courts good within the Town but not here but a recovery by such Custom may well be pleaded here in this Case Littleton Billing saith A Feme Covert sole Merchant by the Custom of London shall be impleaded sole here 35 H. 6. fol. 28. The Question was Whether the property of the Kings Jewells could be altered or forfeited because they were pawned and forfeited in London By Needham in the Exchequer Chamber upon an Information Custom Brook 5. and Pledges 28. 21 H. 7.17 Departure Brook 10. in case of a Departure because he had intituled himself by a new matter that is by a Custom which he might have pleaded 9 E. 4.35 A Feme removed by Habeas Corpus objected by Pigot that she and her Husband were both arrested for the Femes debt because a sole Merchant and prayed that she might be remanded for they have no remedy here this had been allowed and granted to him had not the Woman come in charged with a Reddidit So upon an Exigent The Customs of London have been confirmed by Parliament 1 E. 37. R. 2. and admit that she could not be sole sued here as in the Courts of London yet if a Contract made by her shall bind the Husband by the Custom the Husband shall be sued here and it shall be said the Contract of the Husband as 21 H. 7. 2. The Husband shall be bound by the Contract of his Wife if he command before or agree after and it shall be accounted his folly to suffer his Wife and so they be both Bankrupts To put cases how the Husband shall be prejudiced by the Act of his Wife 49 E. 3.25 The Husband shall not be charged with the debt of the Wife which she owed before marriage after her death but if an Action during the Coverture were brought against the Baron and Feme and Judgment were had against them and she dies the Husband shall be charged 20 H. 6.22 If the Wife buy any thing by the Husbands commandment or that by his allowance comes to his use he shall be charged 9 E. 4.24 Debt against Baron and Feme the Baron appeareth the Feme makes default the default of the Wife is the default of the Husband Nat. Brevium 120. G. A man shall be charged by the Contract of his Servant or his Wife if he gives them Authority otherwise not 12 H. 7.24 The Baron shall pay Mony in the Spiritual-Court which was charged for corporal punishment of the Wife for a slander And so it is at our Law for all Slanders and Batteries as we see every day 20 H. 7. Kello 61. A Feme Disseisor takes Husband who occupies the Land without notice or cognizance of the Husband yet he shall pay damages I conclude her Merchandizes are his by the Common Law and by the Custom 3. For all the Reasons aforesaid the Outlawry of the Husband shall make him a Bankrupt by the Statute and shall make the Wife a Bankrupt by the Custom and the Statute Which is plain against all using Trade of Merchandizing and getting their living by Buying and Selling and that if he be non solvent as he must needs be by his Outlawry then she must be non solvent but whether the Creditors by the Commission shall have the Goods or the King by his Outlawry That is a Question that comes not within the compass of this Case but I shall move that some other time 4. But I put the Husband to be dead before the Commission and whether his Goods or Lands shall be sold afterwards is a Question but
or Coroner be granted to one it cannot be granted over for such an Officer ought immediately to attend on the King without any mean for the office of a Sheriff as Sir John Davies saith well c. for life and I am of opinion that if this grant had been made before primo of E. 3. it had been a Tenure by grand Serjanty for then the Tenant could not alien without license upon pain of forfeiture But now it is otherwise so as I am of opinion that this grant being now made and in fee it was a tenure by grand Serjeancy for life in the first Patentee and his Patent was his Commission But when he doth alien or die it will be a soccage in Capite And yet if it should turn to be a Tenure by Knights service in Capite yet I shall maintain the case at latter end that the Commissioners may sell the land notwithstanding that the heir of the Bankrupt is within age and in Ward 2. A Bargain and Sale to Baron and Feme and a stranger and before inrollment they are divorced the Question is how they shall take as three several Jointenants or each shall have a third part or whether the husband and wife shall be jointenants for either of them a quarter part and the stranger a jointenant with them for a half part 35 Ass 15. It is plain that if one make a feofment to the husband and wife and a third person the Husband and Wife as one person take the one Moiety and th' other person the other Moiety vide Librum 7 H. 4. fol. 17. That they that be divorced the divorce will change and alter their estates as if Lands be given in tayl speciall to an Husband and Wife and then they are divorced the estate tayl is turned to a freehold and they are made jointenants by dividable Moieties whereas before they held by intireties and yet if they marry afterwards again they are Tenants in tayl again 3. 39 H. 6.43 The difference is taken between a feoffment before coverture and after for if it be before and then they intermarry if the Husband alien all and die the Feme shall have a Cui in vita but for a Moiety contrary if it be after marriage Copledikes Case 3. rep Baron and Feme jointenants the Baron suffers a recovery of all and dies it shall be good for nothing against the Wife But there have been many Questions raised how they shall take when a Conveyance is commenced before coverture and finished after or as our Case is when the Conveyance is commenced during coverture and finished after Divorce as if a reversion be granted to a man and Feme sole and they intermarry and the tenant attorns they shall take by entireties because by the Book of 48 E. 3. The Attornment shall not relate and yet if a Feoffment of a Mannor be made to a man Feme sole and they intermarry and then the Tenants attorn they shall be in of the whole Mannor by Moieties because in that case the Attornment will relate as it is proved by Longes Case which was Pa. 31 Eliz. Rot. 20 24. One made a Feoffment of a Mannor to which an Advowson was appendent the Church became void and the Tenants attorned it was adjudged that in this case the Attornment should relate and that the Feoffee not the Feoffer should present But in our Case here be two relations together the Relation of the Divorce and Relation of the Inrollment I have shewed that the Relation of the Divorce shall change their Estates and the Relation of the Inrollment will give it them as they were to take at the time of the ensealing of the Indent 6 E. 6. Bro. 6 E. 6. two Jointenants and one Bargains and sells all the Land and before Inrollment the other dies yet no more shall pass than the Party had at the time of the ensealing of the Deed. Surely the Deed relates to make them in by Intireties and the Divorce to make them Jointenants but shall this Relation of the Divorce change or alter the Estate of the third person And I take it this nothing at all concerns the Stranger nor shall it alter his Estate but it shall be as a matter of estopel binding the Baron and Feme but not to be respected of estrangers and this is proved by the writ of Cui ante divorcium for there the Feoffment of the Husband stood as a discontinuance till it was defeated Lex non oberit tertio extraneo prodesse alteri nemo tenetur sed obesse vetatur 48 E. 3.38 Tenant for Life the remainder for Life the remainder in Fee the first Tenant for life makes waste he in remainder in fee releases to him in remainder for life this shall not make him who was the first Tenant for life to be punishable in waste 43 E. 3.17 An appeal is brought against two as Principals and an exigent is awarded now the King is interested in their Goods they appear the Plantiff declares against one of them as principal and against the other as accessary the second desires to have restitution of his Goods he shall not for alteration of the plaint by and between the Plantiff and Defendant shall not by relation of any matter ex post facto prejudice the King or a third parties interest But before this Divorce A. grants the services to I. S. a Tenant to B. the Husband here ariseth three Questions at once 1. If one bargain to two and afterwards levies a Fine or Feoffment to one of them whether it be not such a disagreement to the former Contract as by that bargain the other shall have all and the Feoffee nothing and I think the other shall have all and the Feoffee or Conizee nothing 2. Whether if one bargain for a Mannor and before Inrollment the Bargainor grants by Fine or Feoffment parcel of the Mannor to the Vendee whether this destroys not the bargain for all It doth 3. There is Husband and wife and the Husband purchases by bargain and sale to him and his Wife and their Heirs and before Inrollment the Husband takes a Fine or a Feoffment of all and then the Deed is inrolled what shall the Wife have I think she shall have nothing For the first and for all these questions we must agree upon this ground which is set down in Hinds Ca. Coke li. 4. That if a man buy Lands by bargain and sale and before Inrollment he accepts of a Fine or a Feoffment he is in by the fine and the Inrollment is of no force The next rule is That if Lands be conveyed to two and the one will disagree in Court of Record or disclaim in the tenancy all vests in the other 17 E. 3. fo 6. a Placito 18. A gift in tail was made to the Husband and Wife and they had issue and the Baron died the Wife disagreed all descended to the issue 10 E. 4. fol. 13. The Tenant infeoffs
the Lord and a stranger the Lord disagrees the stranger shall have all 20 E. 4. Fitz. Nuper obiit 14. If the Defendant in a Nuper obiit disclaim in the Blood the other Coparcener shall have all by descent and a Mordancester of all 22 H. 6.44 A Precipe against two if one disclaim all vests in the other So here in as much as the use passed by the contract if one of them will waive that contract and take himself to another bargain then the first contract will stand good for all to the other and the Inrollment for all shall relate to the use of the other and shall be paramount to the fine and destroy the Conveyance by the fine as it is in Pophams Case 5 Eliz. 2. But then comes in the next question this fine was but of part of the thing bargained and sold and therefore it will not destroy the contract for all but only for part that is for a Moiety of the services I take it that this contract being entire being destroyed in part is void for all Qui partem individui facit nihil facit I will example it with other Cases 34 H. 6.21 It is a good plea in an action of debt for rent that the Lessor entered before the day of payment for the contract was entire and therefore the rent not apportionable 22 Ass 53. Lease for life rendring rent for Land part in Franchises and part in Guildable in an Assise brought at Common Law for the rent Conizance shall not be granted for the rent is entire and the Kings Court shall be preferred contrary to Thorp as it is in 46 E. 3.8 But if the Land is in question conizance shall be granted for so much as lies in Franchises 9 E. 4.1 One is to lease a Chamber and find the Lessee his board for 6 s. a Week in an Action of Debt for the Money non demisit cameram is a good Plea for destroy the contract in part it is destroyed in all for it is entire 30 H. 8 Litle Broke I sell my Horse and another man 's for 20 l. to be paid at a day to come and before the day the other man recovers his Horse against the Vendee yet the Vendor shall have an action for all the money So here the Consideration of the money raises the use that 's an entire Sum and if you will have that the Demeasnes shall pass by the contract for the use and the services or part of the services shall pass by the grant what a confusion would that be and how much of the Consideration went for the one and what for the other I might that way maintain my conclusion that the whole Mannor passes to D. 9 E. 4. Choke A Mannor consists of Demeasnes and Services sever them and the Mannor is destroyed and in Sr. Rol. Heiwards Case none shall take by fraction of Estates 3. The third question being that the Husband purchases Lands by Bargain and Sale to him and his Wife and before the Deed is inrolled the Husband takes a Fine or a Feoffment of the Land to him and his heirs and then the Deed is inrolled what shall the Wife have and I say as I said she shall have nothing 3 H. 7.9 It is plain that if Lands be conveyed to a Feme Covert if her Husband disagree the Feofment made to her is made void and it shall return to the Feoffer But if a Feofment be made to I. S. and a Feme Covert and her Husband disagrees all vests in I. S. Rutland's Case li. 5. Cook is that the Husband by Indenture limits Lands to the use of his Wife but before the fine levyed by other Indentures he limited the same to other uses so in that case before the assurance is perfected the Husband by whose means and bargain making this use was to rise to the Wife before this Assurance finished makes a new bargain for himself and the Wife if he disagree can take nothing Kenn's C. Cook lib. 7. It is the Husband hath the power to contract for the use although it be of the Wives Lands 4. The next matter that I intend a question upon the Statute of Inrollments is supposing this Land is held in Capite Lands held in Capite are bargained and sold to a man and before the deed is inrolled the Bargainee dies his heir within age whether here be such a dying seised and a descent as his Son shall be in ward and I think it is There be divers Cases where the heir shall be in ward and yet the Ancestour dyed not seised 48 E. 3.8 If there be Lord and Tenant and the Tenant is disseised and dies his heirs within age the Lord may seise c. 20 H. 6. Tenant in tail aliens and dies his heir within age his heir shall be in Ward to the Donor 33 H. 6.5 Tenant for life the remainder in fee he in remainder dies his heir shall not be in ward for the remainder but if the Tenant for life die then by matter ex post facto he shall be 11 H. 4.61 By Hank and Norton If the heir recover in a writ of ayel on Cocinage he shall be in Ward If the Father lose by error or false verdict If the Son reverse the Judgment by error or attaint he shall be in ward If the Father recover and dies before entry or execution and the Son sue execution he shall be in guard Points upon the Statute Swinburn Fol. 175. I will that my villain be manumitted when my Son comes to age my Son dies before the age the villain shall be at Liberty when the Son would have been of age D. Enters and manumits a villain The Question is a man hath a Mannor to which be villains regardant he becomes a Bankrupt manumits the the villain Commission is agarded if the Commissioners may sell the villain and I have concluded they cannot For the villain being once at liberty in this case is infranchised for ever I grant that in divers cases a villain may be infranchised pro tempore and yet be a villain again 13 E. 4.2 As if Tenant in tail will enfeof his villain of the Mannor the issue shall have a Formedon and reduce both the Mannor and the villain 33 H. 6.13 Enfranchment by Tenant for years or for life is good but for their time And it is much controverted whether if a nieff marry a Freeman she be not for ever enfranchised Old Nat. Brevi fol. 6. If her Husband die she shall be a nieff again 33 E. 3. Statham Vil. She shall be neiff again even to her own Son when her Lord and Husband dies But as the Law saith there is nothing more respected than life and liberty So I am of opinion and I have authority for it that if she be once married either to her Lord or another Freeman she is at liberty for ever 31 E. 1. Fitz. vill 46. It is first questioned and some there are of
in Chancery Feme Tenant for life of a Copy-hold the Lord grants the Reversion to three the Baron Surrenders to one of them who first dies there the Lord would have kept the Land as occupant during the Husbands life 9 Eliz. Dyer 267. But it was decreed that if the Husband and Wife would surrender to the Surviving Lessees in reversion the Lord must admit them or else avoid the possession So if the Lord will not admit the party to whose use the party shall have the Lands if a man surrender to the use of his last Will and Testament the Lord shall not have the Land but the Tenant during his life 3. But before I go any further let us consider of this Lease it is by a Surrender upon Condition and he in reversion surrenders to anothers use and the Condition is broken My Question is whether he in reversion shall enter for the Condition by the Common Law he cannot then may he enter by the Statute of 32 H. 8. Cap. 34. of Conditions there be divers Statutes which reach Copy-holds though they be not named Heydons Case lib. 3. Copy-holders are Lessees within the Statute 32 H. 8. of Monasteries The Statute of Cui in vita Receipt quod ei defortiat Coke li. 4. Kite per Wray Copy-hold estate is within the Statute of Champertie and Maintenance 32 H. 8. Cap. 9. Dean and Chapter of Worcesters Case Coke li. 6. Copy hold is within the Statute of 13. Eli of Leases by spiritual persons Lands usually let c. Lillingstones Case adjudged 27. Eliz. That if the Lord infeoff the Copy-holder to anothers use that the Copy-hold is saved by the Proviso in the Statute of 27. H. 8. Margaret Podgers Case A Copy-holder is bound by Fine and 5. years The general rule is layed down in Heydons Case That all Statutes that may be for the good of the Copy-holder shall extend to them therefore I am of opinion that such a Grantee shall enter for non-payment of rent or for doing of waste as the words of the Statute are For it is for the good of the Copy-holders that their Farmers be bound to pay their Rents keep their Tenements in repair I should make small question of this if the Lease were made by license for then it is a plain lease at Common Law and an Ejectione firme will lie But here the Lessee comes in by the Lords admittance but that is answered by my Lord Cook when he is once admitted he is in immediately from the Surrender and in the Per. 4. But this Condition is for waste and it is broken whether is there a forfeiture to him in reversion or a forfeiture to the Lord of the estate in fee simple It is to the Lessor not to the Lord wherein I fall again upon the difference when it is by License and when by Surrender for I take him to be as if he had a particular estate with a remainder over In Podgers Case fo 107. Si cop pour vie sit semble al case del Duke of Norff. Points upon the Statute A Merchant being a sufficient man departs the Realm and beyond the Seas becomes non solvent and so refuses to return although he be served with a privy Seal to return Here be two Questions First whether he be a Bankrupt for not returning For he is not within the Compass of the Statute of departing the Realm The next Question is admitting him to be a Bankrupt Whether the King shall have his Goods as the goods of a Fugitive or else whether they shall go to satisfy the Creditors For the first I think he is a Bankrupt and although he be not within the compass of these words depart the Realm yet it is plain he is within these words absents himself for although his departure was no offence either to the King or his Creditors For Merchants both by the Common Law and notwithstanding the Statutes of 5 R. 2. Cap. 2. or the Statutes of 13 Eliz. might depart the Realm without license except the King as it is in Natura Brevium fol. 85. had made proclamation to the Contrary Yet the King not only by the Statute but by the Common Law as he may forbid a man to depart so he may send for him at his pleasure to return And that is proved by the express Book of 2 3 Phil. and Mary Dyer fol. 128. Where it is said That if he be commanded to return either by the privy Seal or the great Seal and refuse his Lands and his Chattels shall be siesed into the Kings hands and for that a President was found in the Exchequer where in Anno 19 E. 2. It was William de Brittains case although it is true as I said the first departure is no offence according to the Book of 13 Eliz. D. fol. 296. But then admitting he is a Bankrupt and admitting that by his refusal to return he hath forfeited all his Goods and Lands to the King The Question is whether the King or the Creditors shall be preferred And I take it the Creditors shall be preferred Yet He agree the rule is that when a title falls to the King and a Common person both at once the King shall be preferred Dame Hales Villain and Ideot Priority and Posteriority 5 E. 3. But I rely upon a Case which was ruled upon a Trial by my Lord Cok. 12. Jac. in t Newman and Martin ou Martin fuit adjudge Bankrupt because he was beyond the Seas c. 2. Points upon the Statute One hath the freehold and another hath the Copy-hold of one onely acre severed from the Mannor this is plain as it is in my Lord Cokes 4. reports in Case This Copy-hold by no means can be transferred from one to another But now our question is Whether this Copy may be sold by Commissioners I say Parliamentum potest omnia By Act of Parliament it may be sold And here the very words of the Parliament are That the Commissioners may sell his Copy-hold estate The Law was taken before Corbets case was first argued That it was impossible to cut off perpetuities yet there were divers before that were cut off by Act of Parliament and they all that argued for the perpetuites agreed that by Act of Parliament it might be done By the Common Law a thing in action cannot be transferred as a debt upon an Obligation Yet by the Statute of Bankrupt Jacobi primo we see it is done every day But it will be objected that the Statute goes on and saith That the Vendee shall compound with the Lord for the Fine and be admitted Now if there can be no admittance then no sale and it shall be intended such Copy-hold whereof admittance may be And in Dr. Bonhams case divers cases are put where divers Acts of Parliament are void and divers others construed directly contrary to the words But out of that Case I will prove this to be good for first this Act saith The
grant his Estate upon condition and the reversion is granted and he attorns and then enters for the Condition yet the attornment is void But yet the Law will respect such a possibility as 5 E. 3. fol. 36. Lands were given to the Baron and Feme the Baron dies the Feme makes a Lease for her own life the Lessee is impleaded in a Cui in vita and he vouches the Feme and she prays in aid of the heir of the Husband and well and yet the Feme had nothing If I bargain and sell Lands to one for life and then I grant the reversion and the Barganee attorns and then the Deed is Inrolled this Reversion is well granted and this is a good Attornment But it may be objected that the Land is not in the Conizee upon the extent for if it be extended at too high a rate he may return it upon the extendors for so are the Books of 44 E. 3. 2 H. 4.17 21 E. 3.21 15 H. 7.16 and divers others Books But I make this an Argument for my self for that shews it is out of the Conizor and if the Land were in the extendors hands no doubt but the reversion might be granted and by the Book of 1 E. 3.8 in a quid juris clamat they shall be forced to attorne 2 But admit that such a grant of reversion may be made yet no grant of a reversion can be good without Attornment of the particular Tenant and here your Conizee the Tenant attorns before his time that is before he hath possession by the Liberate and so the case of 8 H. 5. fol. 10. comes full against you To that I answer That the Tenant by Statute is esteemed in point of Attornment as Tenant for term of years for so the Case of 1 E. 3. fol. 8. esteems him And I make small Question but that if a man make a Lease for years and before the Lessee enter the Lessor grants the reversion and the Lessee attorns This is a good Attornment for it matters not whether ever the Lessee entered or not for the Land was in him to give grant or forfeit and 21 H. 7. fol. 27. after such a Lease If the Lessee will not enter yet if the Lessor waive the possession and a rent day accrews the Lessor may have an action of debt against the Lessee without ever making any averment that the Lessee entred So in our Case although the Conizee cannot enter of himself but by the Livery of the Sheriff yet he is not in by the Sheriff but by the Law in the Post And it is not very absurd to say he is in by and under and from the Conizor for if the Conizor had Covenanted that any to whom he after the Recognizance had conveyed the Land should have enjoyed it against all claiming from by and under him and the Conizee had sued execution the Covenant had been broken 3. Then allowing that this first grant of the reversion is good to C. in Tail Then the next question is that C. commits Treason and A. grants the reversion of C. in Fee to D. and C. Attornes Whether this be a good Attorment Whether if C. comes afterwards to be attainted for the Treason and an Office being found hath relation to intitle the King to the Land from the time of the Treason committed that is Whether this Office shall not relate to make C. no Tenant of the Land from the Time of the Treason committed I will agree it will relate to avoid all charges and incumbrances made by C. but yet the Attornment is good for that I will put but one Case that comes full home to the point which is Sir Miles Fleetwood's Case in my Lord Cooks 8. Report which is that the Attainder and Office relate to intitle the King to the Land from the time of the Treason committed but not to Chattels sold or to the mean profits of Lands received so as for the mean time C. was Tenant and might take the Profits and the Rents paid to him by the Tenants were well paid then a fortiore might he do and execute all instrumental Acts as if he had been Lord of a Mannor and a Copyholder after the Treason and before Attainder had surrendred to the use of another who had been admitted the surrender and admittance had been good and so consequently the Attornment for by the Attornment he parts with nothing of his own only he is a means to profit another mans grant of that which was never his 4. The next Question is That the Tenant in Tail commits Treason suffers a Recovery to the use of himself and then it attainted whether the King shall have the Fee-simple or else whether the Office shall not relate to make the Recovery void and whether he in Reversion who by intention of Law had recovered other Land in value shall have any benefit against the King by the Kings priviledge which he hath to avoid this Recovery It is plain that if this Recovery had been to the use of a Stranger the King by Office should avoid it and consequently he in Remainder would have been remitted The difference of the relation of an Office to intitle the King to Goods but from the Attainder and to Lands from the time of the offence committed are these 42 E. 3.26 33 E. 3. Fitz. Forfeiture 30 31 H. 6.5 temp H. 8. Bro. fo 42. I take it that if the King in this Case had taken the benefit of the Statute of 33 H. 8. c. 20. which gives the King all the Lands which a person attainted hath at the time of his Attainder though there be no Office sound then the King might have seized the Land and the party had had no remedy But now an Office being found the King is in by the Office which discovers the whole matter of Record and the party hath the benefit thereby And thereby it appears that C. was by the offence and the relation of the Attainder disabled to make any Conveyance or disposition of his Land That a Common Recovery is a Conveyance vide Coke li. primo Pelhams Case So this Grant of the reversion to D. is good and not pulled out by the Recovery But it is granted to one that is an Alien born but made a Denizen of Ireland whether now the King be not intitled to the reversion in Fee as the Lands of an Alien I take it that he that is free of Ireland is free of England it is true that one which was born in Scotland ante c. and these that were born in times past in Aquitain or in Normandy were Aliens born because these Countries were brought with the Kings of England as their former inheritance but Ireland was conquered by H. 2. and inhabited and planted with Englishmen and upon the matter made part of the demeasnes of the Crown of England as other Islands are as the Wight and Jernesey Virginia and Greenland and therefore the Kings of
England did not call themselves Kings of Ireland but Lords of Ireland and the Parliaments of England bound them till 2 H. 7. and they are governed by the Laws of England And if a Denizen of Ireland bring an Action in Ireland and it be adjudged against him there he may have a Writ of Error in the Kings Bench here and reverse it and it is no Plea of the Defendant here to plead in abatement of the Writ of Error that the Plaintiff is an Alien which shews that if he be free of Ireland he is free of England as all born in Ireland are Authorities that Ireland is subject to the Laws of England and that their errors are to be corrected here viz. 15 E. 3. Fitz. Record 17. and error 72.34 As 7. 5 E. 2. Fitz. Error 89. Natura Brevium fol. 22. E. See Case de post nati 2 R. 3.12 Kelway 11 H. â— fol. 202. read this case 6. She is married to a Londoner being an Alien It may be questioned whether an Alien be capable of the freedom of London or not and I say he is but there be private orders that none shall be admitted or made free but if de facto he be made free then free he is till he be disfranchised 7. That the Wife of a Freeman of London may by the custom be a sole Merchant 1 E. 4. fol. 6. â—5 H. 6.28 9 E. 4.35 21 H. 7.17 Points upon the Statute 1. WHether such a Feme covert sole Merchant can be a Bankrupt I think she may for 〈◊〉 by the custom she may buy and sell and â—â—e and be sued then she is within the words of the Statute which is getting her living by buying and selling for otherwise the Statute would be deluded and the Londoners Wives only shall buy and sell and trade 2. Whether a Denizen of Ireland be within this Statute Besides the former Arguments see the words of the Statute which are c. But you must intend that she was made Denizen of Ireland by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England and not of that of Ireland Note an old difference 3. Whether the Wife can be a Bankrupt within this Statute when the Husband because he is an Alien cannot be within the same As if an Alien marry an English woman and they with others rebel the Woman is a Rebel and a Traitor and if she be taken in the Wars she shall be executed in cold blood but the Husband is but as an Enemy and by the Law of Arms may be ransomed 4. But he is afterwards naturalized whether he be within the Equity of the Statute because he is not within the words But tantamount amplifie this with cases of tantamount and of qui potest majus minus potest si unico vincentem te à majori unico te 5. If a Feme Covert sole Merchant elopeing shall be a Bankrupt the difference will be when shee lopes carrying her Goods with her so as she leaves her Husband non solvent and when she leaves him sufficient for if such a Woman be indebted no doubt but the Creditor may sue her by the Custom in the Courts of the City or else he may sue the Husband alone at the Common Law But if he be non solvent her absenting of her self will make them both Bankrupt her as a Merchant by Custom and him to his folly to suffer her 6. Whether her Land shall be sold it shall foâ— it may be it was the credit of her land that procured her to be trusted 7. And it shall be sold after her death by the Statute of primo Jacobi of Bankrupts 8. Whether his Estate which he hath as Tenant by the courtesie shall be sold for the Estate of Dower of a Bankrupts Wife shall never be sold But I answer here the Land shall be sold and he shall not be Tenant by the courtesie First note in many cases where there shall be Dower but yet no tenancy by the courtesie as Payne's Case Lands are given to a Feme and to the Heirs Males of her body and she hath issue a Daughter and dies the Husband shall not be Tenant by the courtesie the same it is if the issue be ripped out of his Mothers belly after her death But here the Husband is particeps Criminis and a Bankrupt and his interest shall be sold for his debt for so were all the debts of his Wives making and his Wife traded in his right and for him if he so please and the Reversion shall be sold for the payment of the same debts for they were hers The first Division Who shall be said a Merchant or other person seeking his or her living by buying and selling 1. AN Inn keeper is indebted and absents him-himself he is a Bankrupt 2. A Feme Covert sole Merchant in London the Baron is outlawed the Feme is a Bankrupt 3. A Feme Covert sole Merchant in London elopes the Husband is non solvent the Feme is Bankrupt and her Land shall be sold 4. An Officer of the Court takes a Lease of the King of the sole Preemption of Tyn he is a Bankrupt for all debts he makes during his Term. 5. Such a Lessee pays not his Debts in seven years after his Lease expires and after he leaves off buying and selling of Tyn yet he is a Bankrupt But if his Creditors give him longer time after he hath given over and cancel their old Assurances and take new he is no Bankrupt 6. A Grasier that hireth Grounds and buys Cattle and feeds them and sells them again is a Bankrupt but if he grase his own Free-hold contrary 7. A Clothier that sets poor People a Work but himself doth nothing but buy Wooll and sell Cloth is a Bankrupt But if he work himself and keep Looms and Servants contrary 8. An Ironmonger in London is a Bankrupt but a Lock-Smith contrary 9. A Goldsmith Hammer-man is not a Bankrupt but a Goldsmith Shoop-keeper is a Bankrupt 10. A Gentleman Adventurer in Virginia is not but to the East-Indies is a Bankrupt 11. An Adventurer into Greenland is not a Bankrupt into Muscovia is a Bankrupt No Adventurers for Discovery and Plantation are within the Statute although they carry with them trifles to exchange and truck with the Savages for their end is not Merchandizing 12. A Nobleman hath granted to him the sole importing of Cards or Glasses is a Bankrupt but a Monopolist that hath granted to him the sole making contrary 13. A Tailor that useth to make apparel to Noblemen or Ladies and to buy the stuffs for them and sets higher prizes in Bills then the stuffs cost is a Tromper and a Deceiver but not a Bankrupt 14. But a Tailor in London whom we call a Salesman that keeps Shop of Apparel to sell ready made is a Bankrupt he is like a Clothier 15. No Handicrafts-man that is in the compass of the Statute of 5 Eliz. is a Bankrupt although he buy his Materials
Kings debt before sale but if they had sold before the process awarded the Sale would have been good 11. A Merchant is imprisoned and becomes debtor to A. six months past A. shall have relief for he is not a Bankrupt by relation 12. A Bankrupt is committed to prison by Commissioners because he will not answer interrogatories the Jaylor gives him credit for victuals he shall not be relieved although he come in before distribution or any man that trusts him after 13. A Bankrupt is indicted and convicted of erecting of Cottages and entertaining of Inmates contrary to the Statue of Eliz. 31. Cap. 7. which gives 10 s. a moneth forfeiture to the Lord of the Leet where the offence was committed and an Action of debt for the money he shall not be relieved for this debt because no Creditor 14. A Merchant is bound as Surety for a Gentleman and neither of them will pay but for fear of Arrest the Merchant keeps his house the Creditors shall be relieved Denhams Case 15. An Executor becomes Bankrupt a Legatee shall be relieved 16. A Decree is made in Chancery that a Merchant shall pay 20. l. to I. S. as a debt due in equity I. S. shall be relieved 17. But it is decreed in Star Chamber that a Merchant for a wrong done to I. S. shall pay him 20. l. and the Merchant becomes a Bankrupt I. S. shall not be relieved 18. One hath a debt not yet due he shall be presently relieved with a rateable part of abatement for the time 19. Four Moneths are past and distribution made and other goods and Lands come or descend to the Bankrupt the Creditors shall have no relief of them The eighth Division What Conveyances made by a Bankrupt before or after he is Bankrupt shall be good or fraudulent and void 1. A Merchant to defraud his Creditors conveys his Lands to the Crown with a secret hope that some friend of his a Courtier shall get them again this Conveyance is void for the King shall never be made an instrument of deceit 18 E. 3. 2. A Bankrupt takes a Feme after he is a Bankrupt she shall not be indowed but if Lands afterwards descend to him of that she shall be indowed 3. A Bankrupt is disseisor Commissioners sell the Land and before the deed be Inrolled the disseisee 〈◊〉 to the Bankrupt the Vendee shall have the 〈◊〉 his release Quaestio difficilis 4. A Bankrupt to defraud his Creditors by Coven with a Lord of a Liberty becomes a Clerk convict yet the Commissioners shall sell 5. Lord and Tenant the Tenant makes a Feoffmen to deceive the Lord of the Wardship of his heir within age the Tenant becomes a Bankrupt the Land shall be sold for although the Conveyance were fraudulent against none but the Lord yet there was a Trust between the Feoffor and the Feoffee 6. A Conveyance made by a Merchant in Marriage with his daughter is good But if he make such a Marriage and Conveyance of purpose to defraud his Creditors with an intent that his daughter shall rather have his goods than his Creditors the Land shall be sold The ninth Division What shall be said to be a Concealment of a Bankrupts Goods Lands Estate or person 1. THe Bankrupts Wife refuses to be examined no remedy 2. The Bankrupts Wife is examined but refuseth to discover either her Husbands estate or his person she shall not be committed 3. A Merchant bona fide sells Land to I. S. and afterwards becomes Bankrupt I. S. may choose to shew his Evidence The tenth Division What Declaration or Accompt the Commissioners shall make to the Creditors of a Bankrupt and what remedy is there for the same 1. IF the Bankrupt die yet his Executors shall have an action against the Commissioners but if all the Commissioners die their Executors nor the Executors of the Survivor are not accomptable 2. If after seizure and before distribution all the Commissioners but one die he cannot proceed alone but a new Commission shall be awarded and the new Commissioners shall call the old to accompt 3. If the Commissioners will not pay a Creditor his rateable part he hath his Action of debt The eleventh Division What authority the Commissioners have over the body of the Bankrupt The twelfth Division What danger it is to be out of the Kings protection by the force of this Statute FINIS