makes a lease for life and the disseisee releases all his right to the tenantfor life the tenant for life dyeth the husband dyeth having issue c. the heire enters the wife enters upon him and continueth possession by 60. yeares the heire of the husband may claime the Land or enter and retaine Because by the discontinuance the reversion was to the husband alone and therefore the release to tenant for life enureth to the estate of the Land and of him in the reversion Tit. Release Litt. 119. A man hath issue bastard reigne and mulier puisne and dyeth the bastard entreth and indoweth the wife of the father and dyeth and the tenant in dowre dyeth the issue of the bastard enters and continueth possession by 60. yeares the mulier cannot claime nor enter nor retaine Because that although the bastard doth not die seised as of a reversion yet the mulier cannot enter as heire of his auncestor after 60. years because that is a claime in Law A man seised hath issue two daughters the one a bastard reigne and the other a mulier puisne and dyeth the daughters enter and are impleaded and vouch an estranger who enters into the warranty and leeseth the demandant recovers and they over in value the mulier ousts the bastard and continueth possession 60. yeares the bastard may enter and retaine Because the Vouchee is a conclusion A villaine takes a wife and purchaseth Land to him and his wife in see the Lord enters the bastard dyeth the Lord continueth seisin 60. yeares passe after the death of the husband the wife may enter and retaine the Land Because there are no moities betweene husband and wife of a purchase during covertures A feme seised in fee sels the Land after the Statute by Deed indented and after is ravished and consents to the ravishor his son enters and after the Deed is inrolled within sixe moneths the vendee enters and is seised by 60. yeares the son may make claime or enter or retaine Because it was perfectly vested as where a daughter takes a perquisite or remainder and after a sonne is borne A man marrieth with his Neife and Land is given them in fee the husband dyeth without issue the heire enters the wife ousts him by a continuant by 60. yeares the heire may enter and retaine Because the marriage is not an enfranchisement and then by the death of the husband this is a purchase by the villaine because by Natura Brevium shee shall not have Dowre A man seised in right of his wife aliens in see upon a condition the husband dyeth the condition is broken the heire of the husband enters and continueth 60. yeares the wife may enter and retaine Because the entry of the heire purgeth the discontinuance 4. H. 6. A man hath issue two daughters the one a bastard and the other a mulier and holds of the King and dyeth seised the daughters enter and sue livery andafter the mulier ousts the bastard and continueth by 60. yeares the bastard may enter and retaine the avowry and if she be ousted she may have a Writ of Right Because the Livery is an Estoppell and a discent between privities shall not take away an entry and the bastard is privy by Estoppell A man is disseised of a messuage and dyeth the heire suffers 60. yeares to passe and after commeth to the doore to set his foot to enter the disseisor stands in the doore with a Sword by which the other dares not enter and afterwards in the same manner the disseisor dyeth seised and his heire enters this claime shall not serve the heire of the disseisee A feme covert is disseised the disseisor dyeth seised his heire enters the husband and wife dyeth the 60. yeares passe the heire of the wife cannot enter nor retaine Because this is a claime upon the seisin of the auncestor A man sels his Land by Indenture and after disclaimes in an avowry by which the Lord recovers by a Writ of Right sur disclaimer and enters and afterwards the vendor inrolls the Deed within the 6. moneths the vendee enters the sixe moneths passe the Lord may enter and retaine and if he be ousted he may have a Writ of Right and in all these Cases they claime of their proper seisin and not of the seisin of their auncestor or predecessor Two parceners bring a sur cui in vita the one is nonsuited summoned and severed the other recovers the moity and both enter and afterwards he which recovered ousteth the other and continueth by 60. yeares yet the other may enter with her sister and retaine and if she be ousted she may have a Writ of Right 19. H. 6. f. 4. A feme grants a reversion by deed in fee and takes the grantee to husband and after the tenant Attornes the husband dyeth his heire enters the wife ousteth him and continueth seisin by 60. yeares the heire of the husband may enter and retaine and if he be ousted he may have a Writ of Right Because the Attornment is good contrary if the graunt were to havebeen persons because then that will not passe by the Attornment for to prejudice the husband A feme sole makes a feoffement upon a condition that the feoffee shall re-enfeoffe him when he shall be required by him and takes a husband and makes request the feoffee refuseth by commandement of the husband the husband dyes and after the feoffee dyeth seised and his heire enters and continueth possession by 60. yeares the wife may enter and retaine and if shee be ousted she may have a Writ of Right Because her entry was changeable by the refusall by reason of the first condition notwithstanding the discent where it is upon condition 35. E. 3.11 and the request is good Tenant in tayle discontinueth and hath issue a daughter and dyeth the 60. yeares passe c. the daughter takes a husband the feoffee makes an estate to the husband and wife for the life of I. N. the husband dyeth I. N. dyeth the discontinued enters upon the wife she may enter and retaine Because she is remitted quaere because she cannot have an action by reason of the time past and then out of the case of remitter yet it seemeth that the issue in tayle which is outlawed and hath a release may be remitted A man is disseised and releaseth all his right to the disseisor upon condition that the disseisor shall enfeoffe him of other Land within a moneth the time expires no feoffement made the 60. yeares passe the disseisee may re-enter retain and if he be ousted he may have a Writ of Right by reason of the condition Tenant in tayle discontinueth the 60. yeares passe the issue in tayle disseâ—seth the discontinued and the discontinued hath issue within age and dyeth the heire in tayle dyeth seised his heire enters during the infancy of the heire of the discontinued the heire of the discontinued cannot enter nor retaine by reason
reversion may fanxesie the recovery in another point which was not tryed as to say that another had title to the seigniory and not the avowant and so the seisin void In a Mortdauncestor the Tenant traverseth the seisin the Jury finde that the grandfather dyed seised and that afterwards the father of the demandant dies before that any stranger enters and afterdies and the Tenant abates this is good proofe of seisin but yet it shall not serve but this triall shall binde the demandant c. Because the Stat. speakes of an actuall seisin and this is a seisin in Law Lord measne and tenant the Tenant traverseth the seisin in an avowry against the measne which is tryed for him and afterward forejudgeth the measne there the Lord may distraine and make avowry and shall not be bound by the said triall Because he avoweth for his seigniory and he is not heire to the measne A woman seignioresse measne and tenant the measne is bound to acquittall she takes a husband the tenant releaseth to the woman and his heires acquit the husband and wife have issue the wife dies the tenant brings a Writ of measne against the husband contrary to his acquittall by prescript in the wife and her auncestors the husband traverseth the seisin which is found against him and hee dies the heire shall not bee bound by this tryall in another Writ of measne Because he hath a release to plead and hath the menalty as heire to his mother and not as heire of his father and may falsifie ut supra And this action is not to recover Land Tenements nor Hereditaments but goeth by way of discharge Tenant for life the reversion to another in fee is impleaded by a praecipe c. and traverseth the seisin which is found against him upon a faint title by covin and the demaundant recovers the Tenant for life surrenders he in the reversion shall be bound by this triall viz. during the life of the Tenant which surrenders and not afterwards notwithstanding the Statute of 32. of Recoveries by covin as where Tenant for life grants a rent and surrenders c. And Nota that he in the reversion may falsifie in a title in another point which was not tryed but he which may have an attaint cannot falsifie in the same point which was tryed and he in the reversion may have an attaint and error by the Statute of R. 2. and this recovery is as a purchase A Segniory is given to two and to the Aires of one he which hath the fee dies hee which survives distraines and makes an avowry the tenant traverseth the seisin which is found for him the Defendant dies and the heire of the other distraines and makes an avowry upon the same seisin he shall not be bound by the first triall Because the first judgement is not to be barred of the seigniory but onely to recover dammages and also hee is not heire to him which was party to the trial but to another which had the fee yet he had a reversion at the time c. And he in the reversion and those which may have error or attaint are bound by the common Law and shall not falsifie the point which was tried by verdict contrary in other points and contrary of them which cannot have error nor attaint note the difference by many books and by the Statute of 9. R. 2. c. 3. A feme Covert brought a Writ of Aile after Ascens c. the tenant traverseth the seisin which is found for him and after the husband and wife die and the heire brings a Writ of cosenage he shall be bound by this tryall Because albeit the barre be at liberty yet it is contrary of the wife An Infant brings a precipe by Attourny as a man of full age the tenant said that he is an infant judgement if he shall be by Attourney and yet the Court admits him by Attourney the tenant traverseth the seisin which is found for him the demandant and his heires shall bee bound by this triall for ever Because this is not errour and an infant is not excepted in the Statute Lord and tenant the tenant is disseised the Lord brings a Writ of Customes and services against the desseisor who traverseth the seisin which is found against the Lord the desseisee reenters the Lord distraines him makes an avowry upon the first seisin the disseise shall have advantage to barre him by the first tryal Because he made plede per que estate and bind the Lord because the judgement was given against the Lord and so he barred A man seized in right of his wife makea feoffment in fee the husband dies the feoffee is impleaded and traverseth the seisin which is found for him the wife brings a cui in vita and recovers the demandant in the first precipe brings another precipe against the woman she shall have advantage of the first triall Because the demaundant was once barred and so his right extinguished A man makes a feoffment in fee upon condition the feoffee is impleaded after Ascention c. and traverseth the seisin which is found for him the feoffor enters after the condition broken the demaundant brings a new Writ against him the feoffor shall have advantage of the first tryall for the reason aforesaid Avowry by the Lord upon the tenant for x. s. rent and alleageth seisin within 50. yeares the plantife alleageth a confirmation by the deed of the father of the Lord 60. yeares past tenend. by iiii d for all rents and services besides fealty this is a good barre notwitstanding this Statute Because the Statute saith onely that a man shall not have a writ nor makea prescription title nor claime beyond that limitation but it doth not speak of bars in defence of possession and therfore it seemeth that the eldest barre shall be tryed by the intention of that Statute because the words of the preamble are that the eldest seisin shall not be disturbed Avowry for Rent upon this limitation the Plaintiffe pleads a Release of all actions made 51. yeares past by the Avowant to the Plaintiffe this is a good Plea and shall be tried notwithstanding this Statute Tit. bar in Fitz. 8. H. 6.10 27 E. 3. ibid. that it is a good barre Lord and tenant of 3. Acres of Land by fealty and two shillings the Lord distraines in the Acre and avoweth for xii d the Plaintiffe saith that 60. yeares past he leased the other Acre to the Lord for 60. yeares which are yet induring judgement if hee shall avow for any thing in the other Acre during the terme this is a good Plea and shall bee tryed notwithstanding that it be out of the limitation Because a suspention of part is a suspention of all contrarie of an extinguishmentof part because there may be an apportionment in that case A Mortdancester of a seisin within 50. yeares the tenant said that the demaundant himselfe leased for terme of
THE READING Of that famous Lawyer Sr. Robert Brook Kt. Upon the Statute of LIMITATIONS 32. H. 8. Cap. 2. London Printed for Hen. Twyford and are to be sold at his Shop in Vine-Court in the Middle-Temple 1647. THE WORDS OF THE STATUTE OF 32. Hen. 8. Cap. 2. of Limitations NO person shall sue have or maintaine any writ of right or make any prescription title or claime to or for any Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Annuities Commons Pensions Portions Corodies or other Hereditaments of the possession of his or their Ancestors or predecessors and declare and alleadge any further seisin or possession ofhis or their ancestor or predecessor but onely of the seisin or possession of his Ancestor or predecessor which hath beene or now is or shall bee seised of the said Mannors Lands c. or other Hereditaments within sixtie yeares next before the teste of the same writ or next before the said prescription title or claime so sued commenced brought made or had No person or persons shall sue have or maintaine any Assesse of Morduncestor Cosinage Ayel writ of entrie upon dissease done to any of his Ancestors or predecessors or any other action possessory upon the possession of any of his Ancestors or predecessors for any Mannors Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments of any further seisin or possession of his or their Ancestor or predecessor but onely of the seisin or possession of his or their Ancestor or predecessor which was or hereafter shall be seised of the same Mannors Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments within 50. yeares next before the teste of the originall of the same writ to bee brought No person nor persons shall sue have or maintaine any action for any Mannors Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments of or upon his or their owne seisin above 30. yeares next before the teste of the originall of the same writ to be brought c. Nor shall make any avowry or cognisance for any Rent suite or service and alleadge any seisin of any suite or service in the same avowry or cognisance in the possession of his or their Ancestors or predecessor or predecessors or inhis owne possession or in the possession of any other whose estate he shall pretend or claime to have above fiftie yeares next before the making of the said Avowry or cognisance All formedous in reverter formedous in remainder and Scire facias upon fines of any Mannors Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments shall bee sued and taken within fiftie yeares next after the title and cause of action fallend and at no time after the said fiftie yeares passed If any person or persons doe at any time sue any of the said actions or writs for any Mannors Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments or make any avowry cognisance prescription title or claime of or for any rent suite service or other Hereditaments and cannot prove that he or they orhis or their Ancestors or predecessors were in actuall possession or seisin of or in the same Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and at any time within the yeares before limited in this act and in manner and forme aforesaid if the same be traversed or denied by the partie person or defendant then after such tryall therein had all every such person and persons and their heires shall from thenceforth be utterly barred for ever of all and every the said writs actions avowries cognisance prescription title and claime hereafter to be sued had or made of and for the same Mannors Lands c. or other the premisses or any part of the same Provided alwayes that every person and persons which now have any of the said actions writs avowries Scire facias Com. cognisance title claim or prescription depending or that shall hereafter bring any of the said actions or make any of the said avowries prescription title c. at any time before the Feast of the Ascention of our Lord 1546. shall alleadge the seisin of his or their ancestors or predecessors and his owne possession and seisin and have also all other like advantage to all intents and purposes in the same writs actions avowries cognisances and prescriptions titles and clayme as he or they might have had at any time before the making of this Statute Provided also that if any person being within the age of 21. yeares covert baron or in prison or out of this Realme of England nor having cause to sue or bring any of the said writs actions or to make any avowries cognisances prescriptions titles or claymes that such person or persons may sue commence or bring any of the said writs or actions or make any of the said avowries cognisances prescriptions titles or claime at any time within six yeares next after such person nor being within age shall accomplish the age of 21. yeares or within six yeares next after such person now being in prison shall bee enlarged or never being out of the Realme come into the Realme And that every such person in their said actions writs avowries cognisances prescriptions title or clayme to be made c. within the said six yeares shall alleadge within the said six yeares the seisin of his or their Ancestors or predecessors or of his owne possession or of the possession of those whose estate hee shall thenclayme And also within the same six yeares shall have all and every such advantages in the same as he or they might have had before the making of this act Provided also that if it happen the said person now being within age convert baron in prison or out of this Realme having cause to sue or bring any of the said writs avowries cognisances descriptions c. to die within age or during condition c. or to decease within six yeares next after such person shall attaine his full age or be at large c. and no determination or judgement had of such titles actions or rights to them so accrued then the next heire to such person or persons shall have and enjoy such liberty and advantage to sue c. within six yeares next after the death of such person or persons now imprisoned c. insuch manner as the same infant after his full age or the said woman covert after c. should or might have had within six yeares then next ensuing by vertue of the provision last before rehearsed Provided also that if any person before Ascension 1546. sue or commence any of the said writs c. or make any avowry c. and the same happen by the death of any of the sayd parties to bee abated before judgement or determination thereof then the same person or persons being demandants or avowants or making such title prescription c. being then alive and if not then the next heire of such person so deceased may pursue his action and make his avowry c. upon the same matter within one yeare next after such action or suite abated and shall enjoy all such
a bar at large the plaintife makes title for that the same defendant in the life of his father sold the land c. to the plaintife by Indenture and delivers to him the Deed and afterwards the father dyeth within the 6. moneths and the defendant enrols the Deed within the 6. moneths by which the plaintife enters and was seised and disseised c. this is no good title upon this statute Because a man may confesse and avoid a Deed enrolled as to say that he had nothing at that time c. butnot by Infancie Ideocie Non sanae memoriae or the like and the Deed takes its perfection by the livery and not by the inrolment for if one make a grant when he hath nothing the land and he hath before attornement this doth not make the grant good and the Indenture is not an estoppell because where a man releaseth to I. N. being in full seisin yet he may say that he had nothing at the time of the grant c. And the same law is it of a lease by Indenture in the time of his father and by 12 H. 4. f. 12. a man may confesse and avoid a deed inrolled In an Assise the tenant makes a barre at large the plaintife makes title because that I.N. was seised in fee and leaseth to W. X. and T.S. for terme of life and after grants his reversion which he had depending upon the estate of T. S. to the plaintife the tenants attorne and dye and the plaintife enters and was seised and disseised and all is within 20 yeeres this is not a good title upon this statute Because the Grantor shall not have such a reversion Mayor and Comminalty by their name of Corporation and not by their proper name may make title after this Statute by 80. yeares past Because that is of their own possession and not of the seisin of their ancestour nor predecessour And the same law of Deane and Chapter but contrary of Bishop and Parson upon a seisin of his Predecessour because that is expresly within the words of the Statute Nota. DIVISIO 2da OR The second dayes Reading or Lecture Where a man shall prescribe according to the ancient forme and where not and what prescriptions shaâ— be good upon this limitation anâ—… what not A Man may prescribe thâ—â— he and his ancestors 〈◊〉 predecessors or thoâ—â— whose estate c. werâ— seised from the time thâ—â— contrary whereof c. as before thâ—â— Statute yet he shall not alledge or declare in the record of a seisin within 6â—… yeeres before the confession of the prescription yet it seemeth that he shall take advantage in evidence of the prescription of an ancient seisin before 60. yeeres with a seisin alledged within 60. yeeres without elder commencement And therefore the prescription as it seemeth ought to be elder but he cannot alledge nor declare in the record but within 60. yeeres but may enforce it in evidence at large quod nota And by the generall ancient forme of prescription it shall be intended meant as a prescription of which part of the seisin is within 60. yeares according to this Statute In a Quod permittat the plaintife prescribes in him and those whose estate he hath in the Manour of D. for common appointment from the time of King Rich. the first he may doe it well notwithstanding this statute Because the Statute doth not extend to a prescription by whose estate c. but to a prescription in him his ancestors and predecessors A Quo Warranto the plaintife prescribes in him and his ancestors for toll traverse from the time c. to have a peny for every load of stuffe carryed overmy land to his Mannour c. this is a good prescription Because this is to goe overthwart my land but through toll is to goe over the way through my land and therefore contrary there and the prescription shall serve as a new title by the usage afterwards Assise of common the plaintife made title to common appendant in the Mannour of the defendant the defendant prescribes that he c. and all his ancestors whose heire he is c. have used from the time of Rich. the first to put forth of their Commons such cattle which were not levant and couchant upon the same lands to which c. and for that that those cattle were not levant c. he put them forth c. this is a good prescription Because it is not to recover any thing but to discharge onely In a Quo Warranto c. the plaintife prescribes in him and his ancestors Lords of the Manour of D. from the time c. to take a peny for every load of through toll of those which carry through his Mannour this is a good prescription For the reasons before alledged and because it is contrary to common right In a Quo warranto the party prescribed in him and his ancestors Lords of the Mannor of D. to have cognisance of pleas and to hold plea in the Court of the Mannour aforesaid from the time of c. this is a good prescription Because he cannot prescribe in the grant of pleas Assise of land the def. disclaimes in the survey and prescribes that he and his ancestors seised of the Mannor of D. have used from the time of R. 1. c. that when such a gutter which conduceth water to such a house was ruinous to enter into this land and to repaire it and that he therefore entred to repaire this is a good prescription notwithstanding this Statute Because he is not to recover anything but to have easement because the Statute doth not speake but only of prescription to lands tenements commons rents portions pensions and hereditaments A quod permittat of common theplantife made title by prescription from the time of R. 1. c. the defendant said that he c. have been within age successively de tempore c judgement c. this shall not avoid the prescription Because this is a Law as a condition or recovery A man hath had a Faire and one Market by prescription from the time of R. 1. c. which is seised into the Kings hands 60. yeeres past by non-claime in a Quo Warranto before this Statute c. he shall never have the liberties again by prescription nor otherwise Because he might replevie them within 50. yeeres A man which had a Leet and Warren and Wreck by the Kings grant made no claime to the same before the Justices in Eyre 62. yeeres past by which his liberties are seised into the Kings hands and yet he and his heires continually used the same afterwards and in a Quo Warranto his heire made title to that by prescription according to this limitation he shall not have his liberties by this prescription A man hath had catalla felonum fugitivorum from the time of R. 1. c. and hath had allowance in Eyre and afterwards makes his
sworne before the Constable and Portreeve and not in the Leet this is no good prescription by the opinion of the Court 2 H. 4. Abbe and his predecessours have been seised of a rent by prescription out of the mannour of D. de tempore c. the Abbey is changed into a Deane and Chapter where they shall not prescribe in them and their predecessours de tempore c. upon this Statute Because they ought to prescribe part in the Abbe and his predecessours and then shew the alteration and prescribe by the name of Dean and Chapter c. 7 Ed. 4. Replevin the def. prescribes to have 10. pound for every daughter of every villain which is married in his mannour of D. de tempore c. and for to distraine the goods of the father for the same c. and for marriage of such a daughter of I.N. his villein he avoweth this is no good prescription upon this Statute Because he may take all their goods at the Common Law In an Assise the tenant said that hee leased to W.H. for life who aliened to the plantife in fee for which he entered the plantife said that it had beene used de tempore c. which in the Village of Dale ubi c. that whatsoever estate a man made that nothing should passe but onely his own estate and the rest to be void this is a good prescription upon this Statute Because a thing which may be intended to have a lawfull beginning as by grant or reasonable usage it is good as to have for every poll 4. pence of the cattell distrained or to kill the distresse which he takes dammage fesant or to have of every one which breakes his pound this is no good prescription against a stranger but against his owne tenants it is because it may begin by assent In a replevin the defendant said that the tenant held 4. acres of him by fealty and two shillings rent for which rent c. his auncestors have used de tempore c. to distraine this is no good prescription upon this Statute Because where the Common Law will serve he shall not prescribe A man prescribes in an Avowry that he c. have been seised of Cōmon without number in the place c. by 40. years before the making of the prescription this is no good prescription Because the Statute doth not warrant it albeit it speak of seisin within 60. yeeres The third DIVISION or LECTURE Where he that hath cause of action entry title or right and suffers this limitation to passe may have remedy afterwards and what remedy and where not As also where the laches of one shall prejudice another and where not and where a may may make a claime after 60. yeares and where not A Man sels his land by Indenture after the Statute and before the inrolment the vendor is atainted of felony committed after the bargain and before the inrolment and after thedeed is enrolled within six moneths the Lord enters for Escheate the vendee doth Ouster him and declares of a seisin by 60. yeares the Lord may re-enter and retaine notwithstanding the Statute Because that the Land is not vested in the Vendee untill enrollment and a matter of Record shall not have relation beyond the reste and measne acts vested shall not be devested And it seemeth that this Statute of Limitations doth not take away the right nor entry of none of his owne proper seisin but only his action prescription title and claime of the seisin of his auncestors and predecessors and if the vendor die before inrollment the Lord shall have the Ward A man seised of a Mannor and villain regardant in the right of his wife the villain purchaseth Lands the husband enters and dyeth his heire enters the wife may enter 61. yeares afterwards and retaine notwithstanding the Statute Because the husband shall not have the Land purchased in right of thewife and the wife was seised with him contrary of a termor or tenant for life which are seised jure proprio A man made a feoffement upon condition on the part of the feoffee the condition is broken the feoffee dyeth seised his heire enters the 60. yeares passe the feoffor may enter and retaine notwithstanding this Statute Because the Land is bound with a condition and if it be by deed it may be pleaded by Littleton tamen cave that he bring no action after his entrie because it seemeth that if he be driven to make title that then he is gone And the like seemeth if he be driven to plead that by way of bar but upon a generall issue hee may give it in evidence A feme disseiseres taketh a husband the disseisee releaseth to the husband and his heires all his right the husband dyeth the heire of the husband entereth the 60. yeares passe the wife may enter and retaine Because this release shall enure to the wife for albeit that the wife was itby wrong the husband was in by title and therefore that enures according to the estate and perfects the estate of the wife as a release to three feoffees of a disseisor where there are foure feoffees that enures to the rest but contrary of a rel. to one of the disseisors An infant seised of land takes a wife which hath issue a sonne the husband being then of the age of 8. yeares and after had another son the husband being of the age of 18. yeares the husband dyeth the youngest son enters and the eldest son enters upon him and continueth possession by 60. yeares yet the yongest may enter and retaine Because the eldest is bastard by reason of the age of the father 29. E. 3.54 38 and that such bastardy shall be tryed by Assise by speciall pleading A man seised of Lands hath 2. daughters and dyeth I. S. abateth and the eldest son makes claime a furlong disjunct from the land because he dareth not enter and after dies without issue 60. yeares after there the other sistermay enter and retaine Because the claime of one is an entry for the other and one assise shall serve for the entrer 38. E. 3.23 but such claime shall be within the view of the Land for otherwise it shall not stand for an entry upon tryall c. because the issue was taken 4. H. 4. And the Stat saith that a man shall not declare nor alleage any farther seisin of his Ancestor or Predecessor then within 60. yeares c. A man makes a feoffement in fee to I. N. upon condition that he shall deliver xx yards or c. of Wooll at Roan in France the feoffee doth not deliver it the feoffee enters and declares by 60. yeares the feoffee may claime or enter and retaine Because the condition is voide to bee performed beyond Sea which cannot be tryed here 10. H. 6. and therefore the entry of the feoffor was a disseisin vide 7. H. 6.14 A feme disseiseres takes a husband the husband
2. s. and sute of Court the Lord brings a Cessavit against both and hath execution and distraines in the other moity and makes an avowry for sute upon a seisin within 50. yeares according to this Statute this avowry is not good Because by this recovery and execution the entire sute is gone because he cannot be contributory to himselfe contrary of a rent because that shall be apportioned note the difference Lord and Tenant by fealty and foure shillings rent the Lord releases the rent to the tenant and to the heires of his body the tenant dies without issue the Lord distraines his next heire and makes an avowry upon this limitation for rent due after the death of the Tenant the avowry well lyeth Because a release for one houre to tenant in fee-simple as to the title of the Land is good for ever and yet contrary of a rent Fitz Voucher 120.13 E. 3.92 because that was his estate in the rent and so is it there adiudged Lords measne and tenant every one holds of each other by iiii d the Lord releaseth to the Tenant all his right in the Land and after the measne distraines and avowes for iiii d upon the tenant upon this limitation the avowry doth not lie Because by the release the moity is extinct Lord and Tenant by fealty and iiii d rent the rent is behinde the Lord disseiseth the Tenant of the same Land and continueth possession by a yeare and after the tenant recovers by an Assise the Lord distraines and makes an avowry for arrerages due before the disseisin upon this limitation this is a good avowry 8. E. 3.37 Because all is received by the recovery and nothing shall be recompted but that which is before the unity A man hath issue a son and a daughter by one Venter and a son by another and is seised of two acres of Land and grants x. s. rent charge in fee out of one to the son the son dies without issue and after the father dyes the daughters enter and make partition and the acre charged is allotted to the youngest the eldest daughter distraines his sister and makes an avowry upon this limitation for 5. s. this is goods Because nothing is extinct but the moity of the rent for nothing is descended of the Land to the eldest daughter but the moity of the land but the entire rent is descended to him 34. E. 3. Quintons Case A man makes one Steward of his Mannor and gives x. li. fee to him with distresse officio suo exequendo with manger and boyer for terme of life and the Steward leaseth the fee and the manger and boyer to the Lord of the Mannor for foure yeares rendring to him 12 li per annum with clause of distressein the Mannor by deed indented the Steward doth not keep the Courts and afterwards distraines for the 12 li and makes an avowry upon this limitation the avowry doth not lie Because it is extinct by the nonfeasance of the services c. 20. E. 4.12 because when the Rent comes by reason of the Land there a lease to the Lord is a suspension but contrary where it commeth ratione personae per Curiam Tenant in taile aliens in fee with warranty and leaveth assets and dieth the issue is barred in a formedon the donor destraines and avowes upon the heire in taile of the seisin within 50. yeares the avowry is good upon the Statute Because this is nothing to the doner The fifth Lecture Of Formedons Whereas the Statute is that Formedons in reversion shall be brought within 50. yeares after title and cause of action accrued It is to be seen to whom action shall be said sufficiently accrued to take advantage of the Statute and from what time the 50. yeares shall be accounted è contra A Man lets Land to one for life the remainder to his own wife in tayle and dyeth the Tenant for life dies and I. N. enters Action is not accrued to the wife to have a formedon in remainder within the 50. yeares Because a gift immediat to his ownewife is not good but contrary of a feoffement to an use or a demise but if he in the remainder be not capable at the time of the livery hee shall never bee as in the case of Rikhill A man lets for life the remainder of I. N. in fee I. N. enters in religion the lessee for life dies the brother of I.N. enters and commits felony and is attainted the Lord enters for an Escheate I.N. is deraigned before 30. H. 8. no action of formedon in the remainder is accrued to him Because it was executed before in his heire and the forfeiture for felony is executed also and religious persons shall not be capable by the Statute of 31. H. 8. A man leaseth for life the remainder to Deane and Chapter and to the heires of the Deane the Tenant for life dies I. N. enters the Deane and Chapter which then were die and others are chosen action is accrued to the heire of the Deane by a formedon in the remainder but not of all Because he had but a moity only A man leaseth for life the remainder in taile the tenant for life alieneth in fee no formedon in remainder is accrued to him in the remainder Because tenant for life is yet living and during his life a formedon lyeth not Lord measne and tenant the measne graunts his menasltie for terme of life the remainder over in taile the remainder over in fee the tenant attornes the terr tenant brings a Writ of measne against the measne for terme of life and forejudges him the measne for life dyeth a formedon is not accrued to him in the remainder Because the tenant of the Lord paramount by the forejudger and all the remainders is but the same seigniory because that albeit forejudger doth not lie against tenant for terme of life nor against tenant in tayle nor a feme covert yet the judgement is not void but error and the action doth not lie untill judgement reversed and in remainder by equity of the Statute which speakes of reversions 9. R. 2. cap. 3. A man gives Land for terme of life the remainder in fee the tenant for life is disseised the Lord brings a Writ of Right the Lord disclaimes against the disseisor and recovers upon the disclaimer the tenant for terme of life dyeth the Lord enters action is accrued to him in the remainder by a formedon in remainder Because that he in the remainder is not bound A man gives in tayle to I. N. who leaseth for life and enters and dies without issue 60. yeares before Ascension 1546. the tenant for life dyes 26. yeares after he in the reversion may have a formed on in reverter post I. N. habit religionis assumpsit Because the Register warrants or formedon in discender and reverter but quaere of a remainder and the action doth not fall untill after the death of tenant for life and
the Stat. of 31. doth not make them capable which are expelled out of a house dissolved A woman sells her land to two by Indenture to have to one for terme of life and to another in tayle the remainder in fee and delivers the deed and after takes a husband and after he and the wife within the 6. moneths cause that to bee enrolled and acknowledge it to be the deed of the wife the tenant for life dies the husband holds possession a formedon in remainder is not accrued to him in the remainder By reason of the husbands interest A man seised of a rent grants that to another to him and his heires or to the heires of his body the remainder in fee provided that if the grantee die his heires females within age that the rent shall cease during their nonage the grauntee hath issue two daughters one within age and the other of full age and dyeth without issue male I. N. haps the rent action is accrued by a formedon in remainder to him in the reversion in fee Because one is of full age and therefore the rent shall not cease A man disseised of two Acres by the Bishop of L. and after releases to the Bishop and his successors the Bishop gives in tayle and dyeth the tenant in tayle dies without issue a formedon in reverteraccrues to the successor of the Bishop and not to his heire Because where he was a disseisor of the fee at the first to him and his heires the release enures to an entry and feoffement Land in Gavelkinde is given to one in tayle who take a wife and dies without issue the wife holds all in dowre by custome and dyeth xx yeares after the death of the husband I. N. enters he in the reversion brings a formedon in reverter 60. yeares after the death of the husband and after this Statute the action is well brought by this branch of the Statute Because the action is not accrued untill after the death of the wife and so is it taken within 40. yeares after her death A man of non sane memory made a feoffement in fee and after is made Bishop of R. the feoffeâ— enfeoffes the Bishop to him and his successors which gives in tayle the tenant in tayle dies without issue the Bishop dies a formedon in reverter is accrued to the heire of the Bishop and not to his successor Because by the refeoffement the Bishop was remitted for his entry was congeable A man gives in tayle the remainder in fee the Lord brings a restraint against the tenant in tayle and he appeares and leaseth and dies without issue a formedon in remainder shall not accrue to him in the remainder within the 50. yeares Because the Land is lost by iudgement by Statute Law of W. 2.21 A man leaseth for life the remainder in tayle to another the remainder in fee to the first Tenant by a Fine the Tenant for life dies and he in the remainder in tayle dies without issue I. N enters action is accrued by Scire facias within the 50. yeares to the heire of the tenant for life notwithstanding the seisin of his Father Because the fee was not executed 38. E. 3.21 A man leaseth for life upon condition that if the leasee hath issue in his life that the Land shall remaine over to W. N. it fee the leasor recovers against their leasee by a Writ of Waste and hath execution the leasee hath issue and dyethno action of formedon is accrued to W. N. Because the fee remaines in the leasor untill the tenant hath issue and then the recovery defeates the first Livery A man gives to husband and wife in speciall taile by Fine the wife dyes without issue the husband leaseth his estate to him in the reversion upon a condition and for the condition broken he re-enters and dyeth a stranger enters action is accrued to him in the reversion within the 50. yeares by Scire facias Because the execution of the estate is defeated by the entry by the condition and he in the reversion may well have an action 38. E. 3.19 A man leaseth for life the remainder in tayle to I. N. the tenant for life is disseised an ancestor collaterall of the Tenant in tayle releaseth with warranty and dyes without issue the tenant for life re-enters upon the disseisor and dyeth the disseisor re-enters a formedon in the remainder is not accrued to him in the remainder Because the entry of tenant for lifeshall not remaine the remainder which was bound by the discent of the collaterall warranty before the entry c. 44. E. 3. Lord and Tenant the Tenant dies without heire I. N. enters and leaseth to the Lord for terme of another mans life the reversion over in tayle cesty que vy dyeth a formedon in remainder is accrued to him in the remainder Because the Lord cannot be remitted because he had no right of entry but a title and he had disclosed his intent to the contrary A man levyeth a Fine of a Mannor for terme of life the remainder over in fee and after a tenant of the Mannor dyeth without heire the conusor enters in the Land and hath the Mannor the tenant for life dyeth he in the remainder shall have a Scire facias of the Mannor within the 50. yeares and recover the Land escheated against him which enters c. And here it shall be by the name of a Mannor because now this is parcell of the Mannor because it is come instead of the services yet if he enter in this parcell only it seemeth that a Scire facias will not lie of that A man demiseth Land to I. N. for life upon condition to be Chaplaine and to pray for the soule of the demisor the remainder to another in tayle the demisor dyeth I. N. taketh the profits by 6. yeares and is no priest the heire of the devisor enters I. N. dyeth a formedon in reversion is accrued to him in the remainder within the 50. yeares Because the entry by the condition which depends only upon one estate doth not defeat the remainder which was not tyed to the condition but contrary where there was no remainder Note the diversity A man leaseth to I. N. and E. his wife for life the remainder over in fee I. N. dyeth and it is enacted by Parliament that all estates made to the said I. N. shall be void and the wife 12. yeares after Act of Parliament dyeth he in the remainder 60. yeares after the Act may have a formedon in remainder by this branch of the Statute Because the estate of the wife nor the remainder are not void by the limit action not accruing untill after the death of the wife and it is brought within 48. yeares c. 5. H. 7.30 A man leaseth for life the remainder over in fee the tenant for life leeseth by erroneous judgement and dyeth and he in the reversion twelve yeares after the death of tenant for
life to him 52. years past by his deed c. judgement c. and this is a good bar and shall be tryed notwithstanding the Statute c. and this notwithstanding that it was in the life of the auncester and without answering to the dying seised Because the Writ and Declaration is but a supposall and the barre is matter in fait A fine is levyed of land which is ancient demeane and after I. H. brings a Writ of right close in the Court of ancient demeasne and recovers the land upon issue upon the seisin against the tenant in taile which dyeth his issue shall be bound by this tryall Because it is not void but voidable because it is impleadable there by a part right patent and it is but one writ brought for another An Assise the tenant saith that the great Grandfather of this plaintiffe infeoffed W.N. who infeoffed the tenant 32. yeares past iudgement c. this barre shall be tryed notwithstanding this Statute and notwithstanding that the Plaintiffe had dyed Because that this matter in fayt and the writ and plaint is but a supposall Cessavit supposing the tenure by fealty and two shillings rent the tenant said that J.M. whose estate the demaundant had in the signiory after the ancient limitation and before the Stat of Westm. 2. enfeoffed the prior of D. to hold in frankaliens to hold by all services by the deed which he shewed c. whose estate he had in the land to hold quite for all services judgement c. this is a good barre notwithstanding the seisin afterwards and shall be tried notwithstanding the Statute 31. E. 3. Fitz Cessavit 22. Avowry for suit of Court to every two Courts and at the third to goe free and alleaged seisin the Plaintiffe said that he and two others held joyntly 3. acres of land of the defendant by suit of Court Vnde c. 60. years past the defendant brought a Cessavit against them and he another after and the third made a default after default wherefore the defendant reiceived a third part had execution in severalty judgement c. this is a good baâ—… and it shall be tryed notwithstanding thatthis is out of the limitation Because the Lord cannot take the suit and be contrary to the suit Assise of lands in D. they are at issue upon the seisin the assisse finde for the Plaintiffe and thereby he recovereth the tenant dieth and his heire brings a precipe against the Plaintiffe in the assise of land in D. the Plaintiffe in the assise pleades the first recovery of the same lands in D. and averreth that all is one and the same land the demaundant shall not be bound by the first tryall 14. E. 3. p. 9. A man recovers in a precipe in the Common pleas land in the Cinque-ports upon issue upon the seisin the tenant dyeth his heire brings an action in the Cinque-ports of the same land he shall be bound by the first tryall 9. H. 7.12 In the County Palatine a Commission in Ayre issued and after another Commission in Ayre issued who repealed the first and I.N. recovered land upon issue upon the seisin before the first Commissioners the tenant dyes his heire shall be bound by this seisin in an action brought before the last Commissioners Because the first Commission is notdetermined before Proclamation or notice given to the first Commissioners 34. E. 3. p. 1. A man recovers in banco land which is in Lancaster upon issue upon the seisin the tenant which lost brought another action against the demandant at Lancaster he shall not be bound by the first triall 9. H. 7.12 Because it was coram non judice breve Rs. non currit A man leaseth for life a man brings a precipe quod red of Rent against the tenant for life by covin and recovers upon issue upon the seisin the tenant for life dyeth he in the reversion shall not be bound by this tryall Because a feint recovery shall bee avoyded by the Statute of 32. H. 8. and by this Statute the party and his heires shall be bound and he it the reversion is not heire A Cessavit by tenant in tayle they are at issue upon tryall of the seisin which is found for the tenant who hath judgement the demandant dyeth his issue shal not be barred by this tryall to make an avowry or to have another Cessavit afterwards Because this is none of the actions which is spoken of in the Statute and also the judgement is that hee shall be barred of the land and not of the seigniory and upon a new Cessavit the heire may averre a Cesser and the issue was upon a Cesser in the seignory and the Statute speakes of a seisin of the thing demaunded which is the land and not the seigniory Dowre they are at issue that the husband was never seised which is found against the demandant by which shee is barred her sonne and heire of her and her husband brings a Mortdancester against the same tenant he shall not be barred by the first tryall Because the first judgement was onely of Dowre and not of title and the heire claimes as heire and not as heire to the mother Lord mesne and tenant the tenant holds by fealty and sixpence and the mesne by homage fealty escuage andtwelve pence the measne makes an avowry upon the tenant for fealty sixpence and alleageth seisin of the fealty and rent in his father which is found and tried against him and iudgement given by this tryall the Lord may distraine the tenant and make avowry for homage fealty and 12 d. Because the Statute saith that by the tryall the measne and his heires shall be barred of all avowries and claimes therefore the menalty is gone and the tenant shall hold of the Lord which is his owne act as a Release Foreiudger and the like and claime extends to all interrests tamen quere because it seemeth that hee shall not be barred but onely in the action in which the tryall is Lord and tenant the Lord avoweth the Plaintiffe traverseth the seisin which is found for him and he hath iudgement and recovers dammages the Lord cannot bring a precipe quod reddat of the same rent against the Plaintiffe Because the Statute saith that that shall be a barre of all avowries andclaimes after yet it seemeth that the the law is contrary and that he shall be barred onely in his action Juris utrum passeth against the person upon the tryall of a seisin his successor shall be barred by this tryall Because within the equity of the Statute The seventh Lecture What Infants Feme Coverts and the like shall have actions and shall be aided by this Statute c. TWo joyntenants have cause of a Writ of entry upon the ancient limitation tempore statuti whereas one was imprisoned tempore statuti and after he which was imprisoned dieth the other shall not have an action within sixe moneths upon
to have another Action within another sixe yeeres Because the issue was true but now the issue in tayle may confesse and avoid this iudgement 12. E. 4. He which was imprisoned at the time of the Statute had cause of Attaint upon the antient limitation and brings that within the 6. yeeres and after is non-suited at the first day and dieth this is no determination against the heir but that he may have an attaint within another 6. yeeres Because the non-suit is not peremptory but where it is taken after 32. E. 3. A Quere in P. the Plaintife declares the defendant makes his bar the Plaintife is nonsuit this is a good determination against the Plaintife so that he shallnot have another Quere in P. Because the non-suit after appearance is peremptory 19. E. 4. A man that was beyond sea at the time of the Statute brings a writ of right close after Ascention c. and within the sixe yeeres upon the antient limitation in Auntient Demeane where the Lord had confirmed the state of the tenant before by Deed indented to hold by lesser services the tenant pleads a plea which is found for him the demandant is barred by iudgement and dieth within the sixe yeeres this is a good determination of the Action for ever so that the heir shall not have an Action within other sixe yeeres Because a Confirmation doth not make a Frank Fee because no alteration of possession contrary of a Fine or feoffment Two Parteners one releaseth to the other One brought a Precipe against both hee who released made default the other appears and prayes the view and will not take the intire tenancy the Demandant records the moietie of him which did not appeare by default and afteris non-suit and had execution of the moiety hee which lost is imprisoned at the time of the Statute and brings an Assise after Ascention c. and within the 6. yeares against him which recorded upon the antient limitation and dies within the sixe yeeres this iudgement aforesaid is not a determination against the heir to bring a writ of Entry in the quibus or another Action within other 6. yeeres 22. E. 6. Because a Recovery against him who had nothing is of no validity c. nor shall not binde him A man which was an infant at the time of the Statute makes a plaint of Mordauncestor without an original before the Iustices of Assise upon the antient limitation after Ascention c. and within the 6. yeers the tenant pleads in bar which is found for him and had iudgement against the Plaintife the Plaintife dies within the 6. yeeres this iudgement is no determination against the heir to oust him of an Action within 6. other yeares For it is void and coram non judice otherwise if the triall had been in banco A man which was imprisoned at the time of the Statute brings a Cui in vita in banco upon the antient limitation after Ascention c. and within the 6. yeeres the tenant appears and pleads and barres the Demandant by demurre by which iudgement is given this iudgement shall be a determination against the heir to bring another action Because it is not voide but error because this court had authoritie contrary of Iustices of Assise without a writ and patent of Assise for the others have a generall commission A man which was beyond sea at the time of the Statute brings an Ass after Ascention 1546. upon the antient limitation and within the 6. yeeres which remained c. one of the Justices dieth and the Plaintife is associated to the other Iustice and iudgement is given against the Plaintife at the next Sessions upon issue tried and he dies within the 6. yeeres this is a determination against the heir for ever so that he shall never have action within the 6. yeers nor otherwise Because now it is not error by reason of the Statute of Ieofayles and it may be that there were two persons notwithstanding the wards of the Record He which was an Infant tempore statuti brings a formedon after Ascention and within the 6. yeeres after upon the antient limitation against tenant for life who disclaimeth the demandant hath iudgement and enters and the tenant for life dieth he in the reversion enters upon the demandant and the demandant dies within the 6. yeers this Iudgem and execution thereupon is not a determination against the heir in tayle but that he may have another action against him in the reversion within the other sixe yeeres Because upon the disclaymer the iudgment is no other but that the writ shall abaâ—e and the demandant to enter in at his perill which doth not binde him in the reversion contrary of a Recovery against tenant for life note the difference 36. H. 6. f. 30. A man leaseth land for another manslife and grants the reversion over the tenant Aff. and aliens in fee hee in the reversion is beyond sea tempore statuti c. and there dies his heire shall not have a writ of Entrie ad terminum qui preteriit within the 6. yeeres Because it doth not lie but for the first lessor and his heirs A Parson of a parish was imprisoned tempore statuti and brings a Imcis utrum after Ascention c. upon the antient limitation within the 6. yeeres which was adiudged against him upon a demurrer upon a plea pleaded to the writ and he dies within the 6. yeers this is no determination against the successor but that he may have another action within the 6. yeeres notwithstanding that the statute speaks of heirs only Because he is within the equitie of the Statute A Commission of Eyre issueth in the County of D. one which was an infant tempore statuti brings an Assise before them after Ascention c. upon the antient limitation within the 6. yeeres and depending that the Court of Kings bench commeth into the same County andproclaimes the peace and after the Tenant barres the Plaintife by demur upon the title the Plaintife dieth within the 6. yeers this is no good iudgement against the heir to bring an Action within another 6. yeeres Because the iudgement is voide by the comming of the Kings Bench and making of Proclamation or error at the least A Stativo habendo brought by a man which was beyond sea at the time of the Statute and after Ascention c. and upon the antient limitation within the sixe yeares the Plaintife declares and is non-suited and iudgement is given upon that and the Plaintife dieth within the sixe yeeres this is a determination against the heir so that he shall have no other action within other sixe yeeres Because the non-suit is peremptory in favorem libertatis He which was an infant tempore statuti brought a Cessavit upon the antient limitation after Ascention c. and within the sixe yeeres the Tenant pleads false Latine to the writ by which the writ abates by iudgement upon demurrer