be given by Deed with all the Woods and within the Deep there is a Letter of Atturny to make Livery if Livery be not made yet his Executors shall have the Wood. But if Livery be made then the Wood shall go along with the Land If A. requires another orgives him authority without Deed to write seal and deliver a Grant of a Rent Charge out of the Land of the Grantor in the name of the Grantor which is done the Grant is good for if I make a Grant and command one to deliver it it will be good without Deed. So if I by Paroll deliver it him as an Escrowle to be delivered as my Deed upon Condition to be performed that is good But an Authority to make Livery must be by Deed. Neither shall a Woman aver the Assent of the Father for Dower Ex Assensu patris without Deed. Neither can the Lessor Authorize the Lessee to commit Wast without Deed. If an Infant delivers a Deed which bares date two years after and at the end of the two years he is of full age he shall not be Estopped to shew the delivery before the date no more than a Fem Covert otherwise every Infant may be deluded Debt LEssee for forty years makes a Lease for ten years rendring a Rent the first Lessee surrenders the Lessor brings Debt against the second Lessee Quaere A man shall not have Debt for Releif or Escuage granted unto him for it is mixt in the Realty but his Executors shall but he must distrein So the Lord shall not have an Action of Debt for Ayd pur file marier or pur fair fits Chivalier But if he dies before it be levied the Tenant shall be discharged of it An Action of Debt shall not be brought against the Heir and his Brother in Borough English where the Eldest hath nothing by descent as it shall be against the Heirs in Gavel Kind for there he may have a joint judgement against all and not against the Eldest in the other case for he hath nothing upon which it may be levied Quod nota An Action of Debt brought by Executors shall be in the Detinet only although it be for Arrears of Rent incurred after the death of the Testator So it shall be against a man acccomptable to the Testator A Seignory is granted for years the Rent is Arrear and the Tenant dies the years expire if the Grantee shall have an an Action of Debt against the Heir because it was due in the time of his Father and also some was due in his own time or if he shall have an Action of Debt against the Executors for that which was due in the Testators life time or is without Remedy Some say that the Heir shall not be charged in Debt if the Father die not oblige himself and his Heirs expressely and the Executors shall not be charged for they were not chargeable by the death of the Testator for at that time the Grantee could not have an Action of Debt but his remedy was by distresse for then the years were not expired and so no remedy 9 H. 7. 17. a. Co. 4. 49. An Annuity is granted for the life of A. the Grantee releases all Actions of Annuity he shall not have an Action of Debt for the Arrerages although that A. dies afterwards Devastavit vide Executor Devise A Woman hath Issue a Son and by another Husband hath Issue another Son the second Husband devises Land to the Wife for life the Remainder to the next of the blood of the Wife The youngest Son shall take in Remainder although it be true that one is not nearer of blood to the Mother than the other and the Eldest is of the most worthy blood yet he is not neerest and so it is uncertain who should take according to the letter of the Will yet the Intent which is always to be considered in Wills shall be construed in Favour of the youngest because he was Issue of the Devisor Pasc 5. Eliz. A great Case was argued in the Exchequer There were three Brothers the second brother purchased Land and devised it to his Son in tail and if he died without Issue that then it should remain to the next of the Kindred of the Lineage of the Father the Eldest Son was then dead having a Son it was adjudged that the Son of the Eldest should have the Land for he is next of the Lineage For Lineage shall be taken in a Lineall descent which is the most worthy Line Dy. 333. pl. 29. A Devise to the next of Blood the Son of the Eldest Brother shall have it before the younger Brother If Land be devised upon Condition or rendring a Rent that is void for it cannot be good in either case except the Reservor might take advantage of it and the Heir cannot have that which his Ancestor could not And if a man devise Land with Warranty that is void because the Father was not bound But to some there seems a Diversity for in the last case there is a Charge to the Heir and in the first it is for his advantage If the Lord devises Land to his Villein this is an Infranchisment against the Heir and yet he was the Villein of the Heir when the Devise took Effect A man having three Daughters devises to themâ— hundred pound a piece for their marriage Portions and if any of them die before their Marriage then the other should have her Portion by Survivor one dies in the life of the Father the other shall have three hundred pound after the death of the Father and yet nothing survived for she had nothing in possession yet they shall take it by the intent of the Devisor for when he says that if any of them die before their Marriage that the other shall have her Portion this makes it in nature of a Remainder and then though the first Devisee does die in the life of the Testator yet he in Remainder shall take the Estate per Manwood Dy. 127. P. 59. As a Devise to a Monk the Remainder to another the Remainder is good A. Devises Land upon Condition and if the Condition be broke that his Executors shall sell the Land the Devise as to the Executors is void for the Heir must enter for the Condition broken and then he shall hold it discharged of all Conditions A. Devises twenty pound to B. when he arrives at the age of six and twenty years and if he dies before he Devises it to C. B. releases to the Executors of A. before he attain◠〈◊〉 age of six and twenty years if it shall be a Bar Quaere If A. Devises twenty pound yearly for twenty years the Devisee hath no Remedy for his not Isâ—uing out of any Land for he can not take it as a Legacy and an Anâ—â—â—â—y does not lie against Executors for the Testator was never charged A Jointure cannot be made by Devise for Land was not then Devisable and the Wife
shall have two Hawks Lord Mesne and Tenant the Tenant makes a Gift in tail the remainder in Fee the remainder Escheats upon whom the Lord shall avow and of whom the Donee shall hold is the question So if the Tenant makes a Gift in tail to the Mesne the remainder in Fee or makes a Gift in tail to a stranger the remainder in Fee to the Mesne how the Tenure shall be now is the Question But in the first case if the Mesne had released to him in remainder or to the Donee in tail it seems the Donee ought to avow upon the Donee in tail and that the Donee shall hold immediately of the Lord Paramount after the release Quaere if there be any difference The Tenant who holds by Homage and ten shillings Rent makes a Lease for life the remainder in tail not speaking of any reservation the Tenant for life although he doth not hold by Homage yet he shall hold by Fcalty and ten shillings Rent being both the Estates now are but one But a Gift had been made in tail the remainder for life after the Estate tail determined the Tenant for life shall not hold by the same services as the Donee held Causa patet If there be two Jointenants and to the Heirs of one of them who hold ut supra make a Gift in tail the Donee shall hold of them both by the like Services and yet the Freehold is no cause of the tenure Quaere for some say that he that hath the Fee shall have the whole Tenure for the Inheritance passeth only from him If Tenant for life and he in reversion make a Gift in tail Quaere how he shall hold If a Lease be made for life the remainder in Frankmarriage some think the Tenant for life shall hold by Fealty only untill the fourth degree be past If there be Lord and Tenant by Fealty and twenty shillings and the Tenant gives in Frankmarriage to hold of him and his Heirs by Fealty only until the fourth degree be past and after by twenty shillings and Chivalry in that case after the fourth degree be past he shall not have the twenty shillings nor the Chivalry for though he reserved but Fealty until the fourth degree be past yet it is an intire reservation presently and the services are in him although they be not to be performed untill the fourth degree be past and Seisin of the Fealty shall be a Seisin of the rest and therefore the reservation being entire that is the reason that it is void for all because all cannot be reserved upon the Gift in Frankmarriage Testament IF a man makes severall Wills of severall dates and dies and the Executor of the last Will refuseth before the Ordinary yet the first Will is clearly defeated and yet the refusal is peremptory but it is not so if there be two Executors and one refuseth before the Ordinary If a Fem sole makes her Will and then marries and he dies Quaere if the Will be revoked Villain IF the Lord deviseth Land to his Villain he shall be enfranchised against the Heir and yet he was a Villain to the Heir at the same time the devise took effect but being the Lord had a power to enfranchise him he shall be enfranchised As if one delivers an Escrowl of Enfranchisement to be delivered seven years after the Lord dies and then the Deed is delivered to the Villain it is a good enfranchisement If a man makes a Lease for life the remainder to the right Heirs of A. who hath Issue a Son who is a Villain by Confession to the Feoffor and the Feoffor dies and A. dies and the Tenant for life dies the Son of A. enters he shall be enfranchized and yet he was not enfranchized in the life of the Feoffor but now he shall be said in by him So if a man devise that his Executors shall sell his Land and they sell it to the Villain of the Testator he shall be enfranchised against the Heir for he comes in in the Per by the Testator If a Fem be endowed of a Villain in grosse and the Tenant in Dower and the Heir enter together into Land purchased by the Villain Quaere in whom the Freehold shall be So if he had been a Villain to an Abbe and a Secular man for his body is intire to every of them And if the Grantee for life of a Villain and he in reversion of a Villain enter together into Land of the Villain it seems that Tenant for life shall gain all but some think that he in reversion shall disable him in an Action If Executors have a Villain that the Testator had and enter into Land purchased by the Villain it shall be Assetts notwithstanding they have a Fee as Land in Fee descended to the Heir shall be assetts to a Chattle viz. a Debt to a Stranger And the reason why they shall have it to the use of the Testator is because they had it in auter droit and so it shall be a Perquisite unto the same right So if a Guardian in Socage of a Mannor to which a Villain is regardant enters into Land purchased by the Villain it shall be to the use of the Infant So if a Bishop enters into Land purchased by a Villain which he hath in right of his Church the Land shall be to the same use so is 42 E. 3. 24. But if one hath a Villain for years in his own right he shall have a Fee in the Land purchased by the Villain It was said if a man be intitled to be Tenant by the Curtesie of a Villain and enters into Land purchased by him he shall be seised of the Land to his own use and not in right of his Wife because he hath the Villain in his own right but Quaere if he were not intitled to be Tenant by Curtesie If the Lord of a Villain gives Land by Fine to the Villain which is Land of Ancient Demesne the Lord reverseth the Fine by Disceit some think the Manumission is destroyed for it doth not appear upon Record otherwise if he enfeoffs his Villain upon Condition and enters for the breach And if a Villain acknowledges an Action brought by Baron Fem that is no Enfranchisement against the Fem for it is but an Enfranchisement in Law upon which she is not examined The Tenant enfeoffs the Villain of the Lord and a Stranger upon Collusion the matter is how the Lord may obtain the Ward without Dammages For if he brings a Writ of Ward the Villain shall be manumitted and if he enters upon the Villain he avoids the Collusion for ever and shall retain the Land but then he shall be Tenant in Common with the other and so he can have no Writ of Ward for the other Moity If Tenant in tail of a Mannor to which a Villain is regardant makes a Lease for one and twenty years to the Villain rendring a Rent according to the statute and
begin c. and before the time the Baron dies and the Fem makes a Feoffment the Feoffee shall not avoid it So if an Infant makes a Lease ut supra and before the time he being within age or at full age makes a Feoffment the Feoffee shall never avoid the Lease c. But many are of a contrary opinion for they say that an Infant or Issue in tail by their own or the Acts of their Ancestors shall never be prejudiced by any thing that is Executory for if he shall not avoid it by his possession before the commencement of the Term he hath no means to Avoid it c. before c. But it is cleer enough that if Tenant in tail dies after he hath discontinued and the Discontinue makes a Lease for yeares to begin ut supra and dies the Heir in tail being his Heir who enters and he enters and makes a Feoffment there the Lease is avoided because the Issue is remitted and hath another Estate than the Discontinuee had and not any privity of that Estate which is avoided If an Infant delivers a Writing as an Esorowle to be delivered as his Deed when he arrives at his full age and receives the Money of the Party to whose use the Deed was to be delivered yet he shall avoid the Deed. If Husband and Wife make a Lease or grant a Rent Charge in Fee out of the Wives Land and then they joyn in a Fine to A. he shall not avoid the Lease or Charge because they are executed but otherwise of things executory as a Statute c. before Execution Avowry LAnd is given to one Habendum a Moity to him and his Heirs and the other Moity to him and the Heirs of his body the Remainder to his Right Heirs the Land is holden by two pence the Donee dies without Issue and his brother enters severall Avowries must be made upon him one for one penny and another for the other But if Land be given the one Moity in tail the other in Fee there shall be but one Avowry for that inures as a joint Gift but in the first case it did inure severally at the Beginning If there be three Jointenants and one Releases to one of his Companions and he to whom the Release was made hath the part of the other by Survivor yet for a third part one Avowry shall be made upon him In the principal case the Fee simple was never severed if it had the Donee should hold each Moity by two pence a peice and the Avowry shall be made upon the collateral Heir for two pence in one Moity A. makes a Gift in tail of one Acre which he holds in Socage and of another which he holds in Chivalry saying nothing the Donor shall make severall Avowries although he hath but one Reversion for the Law makes the Avowry in respect of the tenure over and the severall Acres must severally escheat If a Disseisor makes a Lease for life and dies it seems the Lord is compellable to Avow upon the Heir of the Disseisor But if he had made a Gift in tail and the Donee dies and his Issue enters there he shall not Avow upon the Donor If one Parcener makes a Lease for life yet the Lord shall Avow upon them both but if one Jointenant makes a Lease for life the Lord must make severall Avowries upon them for the Jointure is severed If there be two Fem Parceners Mesnes and one marries the Tenant yet the Avowry of the Lord is not severed But if there had been two Jointenants it had been otherwise for by the Marriage the Moity of the Mesnalty is suspended and cannot be in Jointure with the other Moity which is not in Esse And if one holds a Mannor of another and makes a Feoffment of all except one Acre now the Fee of the Acre is disappendant from the Mannor and the Lord ought to make two severall Avowries Authority IF I devisethat my Executors shall sel my Land and one sells one Moity and another the other this is not warranted by the Authority for it was to be jointly executed As a Letter of Atturny to two to make Livery it ought to be performed jointly But if the Land had been devised to them then such a Sale had been good for they had an Interest and the intent was performed If one makes two Atturnies conjunctim or the King makes two Commissioners of Oyer Terminer if one dies the Authority of the other is determined 35 Ass p. 1. Two Jointenants make a Feoffment with a Letter of Atturny to deliver Seisin and the one delivers Seisin in person this is a Countermand of the whole Livery for the Authority was not severall for either of them but joint for both and therefore being countermanded for one it shall be void against the other Barr. IF the Plaintiffe be Barr'd in an Entry sur Disseisin yet he shall have a Cessavit if he had cause to have it at that time for it is another Title If the Heir brings a Formedon in Descender and is nonsuite Quaere if he shall enter because he had Title of Entry for a Condition broke If a Woman hath cause of Dower of one and the same Acre as Wife to A. and B. If she be barred of it as Wife to A. yet she shall have it as Wife to B. If Baron Fem make a Feoffment upon Condition if the Wife be barr'd in her Cui in vita yet she may enter for the Condition broken 27 E. 3.55 56. P. 72 Bargaine Saile A Bargains and Sells Land to B. and after they both grant a Rent Charge to C. and then the Deed is inrolled the Rent is gone for it is the grant of A. and the Inrolment hath relation to the Delivery which avoids the grant though it was the Confirmation of B. for he had nothing at that time The Issue in tail within age takes from the Discontinuee a Bargaine and Sale He shall not be remitted for he is in by reason of the Possession conveyed to the Vse and so he must have it in the same Degree as he had the Vse And so if he were within age at the time of the Bargain Sale and the other dies and after the Deed is Inrolled he shall not be Remitted If the Bishop makes a grant to the K. in fee confirm'd by the Dean and Chapter and the Deed of the Bishop is Inrolled and the other not it shall bind the Successor for it is but as an Assent and not a Confirmation Baron Fem. IF a Fem Lessee for life marries and she and her Husband make a Lease for life rendring a Rent and the Fem avowes for the Rent after the death of her Husband the Lessor may enter for by her Avowry she hath agreed by matter of Record and so it had been if she had entred for a Condition made by her and her Husband If A. infeoffes his Wife and a Stranger it
the other for life and A. grants both over viz. the one in Fee and the other for his own life If the second Feoffee shall have Election If A. had committed wast in both or had made a Feoffment of both the Lessor might have entred into which he had pleased If I give two Acres the one in Fee the other for life and the Donee dies without Heir Quaere if the Lord shall have Election If a Lease be made of two Acres the Remainder of one to A. and of the other to B. and makes no certain description of either He who first enters after the death of Tenant for life shall have the Election If a Lease be made of two Acres Habendum the one in Fee and the other for life reserving a Rent Quaere how the Lord shall avow But his Executor hath no Remedy by the statute of 31 H. 8. If A. grants to another one of his horses the Grantee dies before his Election his Executor shall choose but yet there was no property in the Grantee before Election If two Acres are granted the one in tail and the other in Fee the Heir of the Donee shall make his Election If twenty shillings or a Robe is yearly granted at the Feast of Easter at the day or before the day the Grantee hath Election If it had been by Obligation the Obligor shall have the Election after the day But if one grants to another twenty loads of wood or twenty Oaks yearly at the day or after the Election is in the Grantee for it lies in Prender so that there is a a Difference betwixt a thing in Payment and in Prender 13 E. 4. 4. If a Lease for life be made reserving a Rent or a Robe at the day it is in Election of the Lessee but after in the Lessors A Reversion is granted to one for life and before Atturnment it is granted to him in Fee the Grantee may choose his Estate If an Acre is given Habendum in Fee or in tail the Donee shall choose If one be bound or Covenants to infeoffe B. of the Mannor of D. or S. the Obligor c. hath the Election for he is the first Agent But if I give my black horse or white Horse there the Donee hath the Election for there he is the first Agent But otherwise if the words had been that I should deliver also If I infeoffe A. and B. and warrant the Land to the one or the other there is no Election given to either and therefore void But if one be bound to me to pay to A. or B. there the Obligor hath the Election for he is the first Agent but in the other case it ought first to be demanded A. gives two Acres Habend the one for life the other in Fee reserving a Rent or a Robe and does not distinguish which he shall have for life and which in Fee B. makes a Feoffment of both the Rent is behind A. distrains in one only and makes an Avowry for the Robe in that Acre Quere bien If a Rent be issuing out of two Acres the Tenant grants one to another the Grantee may choose in which he will distrain for all A. disseises B. of twenty Acres in C. B. brings a writ of Entry sur Disseisin in ten Acres and recovers and comes upon the Land and enters into one Acre in the name of all he recovered and thereof presently infeoffs D. who enters into the other nine Acres A. brings an Assize for those nine Acres and it is maintainable for by the entry of B. into one Acre in the name of all he recovered nothing vested in him but that Acre for it was a determination of his Election which nine Acres he would have for it was incertain and then nothing passed by the Feoffment but that one Acre for the Feoffee being a stranger shall not make Election which runs in Privity Emblements A Woman hath Title to have dower of three Acres and after the Heir sows one of the Acres and she hath that Acre assigned to her in dower Quaere if she shal have the Emblements for no folly can be imputed to the Heir for the possession was cast upon him by the Law and when he did sow the Land it was uncertain to him whether ever the wife would recover her dower neither could he guesse which Acre would be assigned her in dower and the Heir shall take advantage of this incertainty As if the Condition be performed by the Mortgagor yet the Mortgagee shall have the Emblements If a man devise that his Executors shall sell his Land and before the sale the Heir sows the Land and then the Executors sell it yet the Heir shall have the Emblements 36 H. 6. 36. If the Heir sows the Land and is disseised before severance and the Disseisor endows the wife of the Father Some think the Heir shall not have the Emblements for she is supposed to be in in the Post by the Disseisor Quaere Entry GRandfather Father and Son The Father disseiseth the Grandfather and dies the Son endows the Mother the Grandfather dies the Son may enter upon the Mother for he hath a new Right descended to him from the Grandfather for the Grandfather might have entred upon the Mother so shall his Heir But if there be Great Grandfather Grandfather Father and Son and the Grandfather disseises the Great Grandfather and the Father dies and the Son endows the wife of the Father and the Great Grandfather dies the Son shall not out the Tenant in Dower for the Great Grandfather could not enter by reason of the descent no more can his Heir If a disseisor makes a Lease for life the Remainder in Fee and the disseisee purchaseth the Remainder and grants it over he cannot enter upon the Lessee for life for then he should defear his own Grant A Feoffment is made upon Condition to re-infeoffe the Feoffee makes a Feoffment to his use If the Feoffor may enter without Request If A. makes a Feoffment reserving a Rent and if it be behind a Re-entry after he releaseth the Rent when he hath Title or Entry he cannot enter after or if he granted the Rent over after his Title of Entry The Eldest Son cannot enter where the Reversion is descended to the youngest by the Custom A Seignory is granted in tail the Tenant aliens in mortmain the Grantee dies within the year without Issue the donor shall enter as well as he in Remainder for there is a Privity of Estate If two Acres descend to A. and a stranger abates into one and A. enters into the other in the name of both that shall not gain the possession of the other But otherwise if he had entred into that Acre wherein the Abatement was in the name of both Tenant for life of a Seignory a Tenancy Escheats a stranger intrudes Tenant for life dies before Entry he in Reversion may enter as upon the Disseisor of his Tenant
if the Issue in tail recovers against the Discontinuee and after is attainted of Felony his Issue shall enter or sue Execution for he is privy in Estate Tenant in tail recovers in value by Voucher of the donor and is attainted of Felony his Issue shall not have Execution If the Son hath the Land of the Father and of another in Execution upon a Statute and the Land descend from the Father to the Son the whole Execution is discharged In Judgement for debt the party shall not have Execution but of that Land only which he had at the time of the Judgement and not at the time of the purchase of the Writ But in debt against the Heir if he aliens hanging the Writ it shall be liable to the Execution although the alienation was before the judgement for the Action was conceived against him in consideration of the land but in the first case it was in respect of the person The Conisor of a Statute is in Execution and his Land also the Conisee releases to him all debts the Execution is discharged by this Release for the debt was in being until it was levied of the profits but though the Execution be discharged by the party yet until it be discharged in fact if the Goaler had suffered him to go at large he could not have said but that he was in Execution Executors IF a Lease for years be made reserving a Rent upon Condition of Re-entry for not payment If the Executor breaks the Condition so that the Lessor re-enters it is a Devastavit in them otherwise if the Condition were performable on the part of the Lessor Br. Extinguishment 54. for every voluntary act of the Executor by which the Goods of the Testator are consumed without any benefit to the Testator is a Devastavit But if an Executor having such a term as Executor purchaseth the Reversion that is not a Devastavit for the Term as to Assetts is in being still If a man Mortgages his Term and dies and his Executors do not redeem it some think it is a Devastavit If they have Assetts in their hands wherewith to redeem it and the Term be better than the price of the Redemption so if an Executor sells a term under the value by which the Creditors lose their Debts this some think is a Devastavit But if a man be possest of a term and devises it to his Executors to be sold Meliori modo quo possunt for payment of his Debts they sell it under the value that is no Devastavit for it may be it was the best price they could get If Husband and Wife make a Lease of the Wives Land reserving a Rent the Husband distreins and avows and has a Return and dies the Cattle are discharged for the Executors cannot have them for they are but as a Pledge and being the Executors cannot pretend any Right to the duty they cannot detain the Pledge for the Wife is to have the Duty Vide 33 H. 6. 48. If a Rent Charge be granted in Fee the Grantee dies without Heir the Executors shall not have an Action of Debt for the Arrerages But if the Grantee had brought a writ of Annuity and Recovered then the Executors should have an Action of Debt for the arrerages for if the Inheritance of a Rent determins the Arrerages are extinct otherwise of an Annuity If a Grant be made of a Robe or twenty shillings and the Grantee dies before Election his Executors cannot demand the Arrears The Executors of a Grantee for years of a Rent Charge shall have Election either to have an Action of Debt or Annuity If a man be bound in twenty pound and his Executors have but ten pound an Action of Debt lies against the Heir for all 〈◊〉 if he chooseth the Executor he cannot sue the Heir for the Remnant If an Obligor in twenty pound hath Goods to the value of ten pounds only and makes the Obligee his Executor he shall retain that as parcell of the Duty and for the rest bring his Action against the Heir for it is by the act of the Law that the duty is apporcioned If A. by Deed gives the Mannor of D. with all the Woods to B. if Livery be not made the Executors shall have the Woods If there be two Wills and the Executor of the last refuseth before the Ordinary yet the first is revoked by the intent of the Testator If the Executor Releases a duty of the Testator this is so much an Administration so that he cannot after refuse but yet if he doth after avoid the Release he may refuse A Lease for life is made rendring a Rent at Mich and the Annunc the Land is sowen at Mich and the Lessee dies if the Executors shall have the Land untill the Corn be ripe if they ought to pay the Rent Some think the Lessor may have an Action upon the case for the Executors have the profits of the Land c. and no fault in the Lessor As if a gift in tail be made Reserving thirty Shillings and the Donee dies without Issue and the Wife is endowed she shall pay ten shilshillings and yet the Estate is determined but she claims under the Estate of the Husband A man makes a Lease for life reserving a Rent upon Condition that if the Rent be behind that the Lessor shall enter and retain untill he be satisfied of the Arrears he enters and dies his Executors shall not retain for the Arrears were not Chattles at the beginning and therefore they shall not â—etain the Land as a Gage as they shall do for the double value for that was a Chattle at the beginning But in the first case the Arrears are given to the Executors by the Statute of 32 H. 8. Yet being the Arrears were no Chattles at the first and so not due to them by their own nature therefore they shall not retain As in 15 E. 4. 10. In Rescous there it is said if the Defendant in a Replevin avows for a Rent due to him and his Wife and upon that he hath a Return and dies the Tenant shall have his Cattle back again without any Agreement because the Executors could not have the distresse being they could not have the Rent but the Wife was to have it If an Executor delivers a Legacy upon Condition it is no good delivery The Debtee and another are Executors to the Debtor the Debtee recovers against the other and after Administers with the other and then sues Execution by Scire facias If the other shall have an Audita Querela and in whose name it shall be sued or if the property shall be altered in the Recoveror or if Execution be discharged but some think that Execution cannot be stopt but the Recoveror shall have it to the use of the Testator Vide Condition Debt Extinguishment THe Tenant holds ten Acres by ten pence and makes a Feofment of one the Lord grants the Rent reserving the
Assets in the Heir in a Formedon or Debt for the remainder was never in the Mother for it commenced after her death But if a Rent Charge be granted to I. to commence after his death 't is otherwise for the Heir takes it by descent If Executors have a Villains in right of their Testator and enter into Land purchased by him it shall be Assetts although they have a Fee as Land descended to the Heir shall be Assetts to a Chattle viz. to a Debt of a Stranger The Grantor of a Rent Charge in taile einfeoffes the Grantee of the Land who makes a gift in tail of the Land rendring so much of the Services as he payâ— over to the Lord Paramount it seems that these Services shall be Assetts in the Heir for they are particularly reserved for the Land Assignee IF a Feoffment be made with Warranty to the Feoffee his Heirs and Assigns if he makes a Feoffment over and the second Feoffee re-enfeoffes the first Feoffee he shall vouch for he may be Assignee of his Father being he does not claim as Heir And the Lord by Escheat or Mortmain or of a Villaine or who enters for a Consent to a Ravisher shall not be said Assignees and yet they shall Rebutt If Tenant in tail be with Warranty to him his Heirs and Assignes his Feoffee in Fee shall not be said Assignee for he hath no part of the Estate tail If Land be given to One and his Assignes for ever and it is ganted to him and his Assignes that they shall have twenty Load of Wood yearly for ever Tenant for life grants over his Estate and dies the Assignee shall not have the Wood because his Estate is now determined Attainder A. Dyes leaving two Daughters the one is attainted of Fellony a Lease is made the remainder to the right Heirs of A. the other shall not take the Daughter that was attainted being living for one is not Heir alone but if the Father dies seised of Land a moity shall escheat If the Mesne grants the Mesnalty upon condition that if the Grantee pays a certain sum of Money to the Grantor that he shall have Fee and before the Day the Grantor is attainted of Felony and executed yet the Grantee shall have Fee for the Condition is become impossible to be performed by the act of the Grantor But if a Jointenant makes a Lease for five yeares upon Condition that if the Lessee does such an Act he shall have it for twenty years and before the day the Lessor dies now the Condition is void by the Surviver If a man grants a Rent Charge to begin at a day to come and before the day the Grantor is attainted of Felony yet the charge is good If a Remainder be limited to the right Heirs of A. who hath a Daughter and dies who enters and after a Son is born and attainted yet the Remainder shall not be devested out of the Daughter The Son endowes his Wife Ex Assensu Patris the Son is attainted of Felony it seems that the Wife should not retain her Dower for 't is the Dower of the Son for she claimes it from the Son and if she brings a writ of Dower of it Ne unques accouple in loyall Matrimony is a good Plea and if there had been a disseisin of it a Collateral Warranty shall be no bar to the Wife for she pretends no Title to it but by the death of her Husband and then the Warranty descends before her Title for if it descends after her Title it shall be a good bar And if she after her Dower so assigned be attainted of Felony and after hath her Charter of pardon for her life and after the Husband dies she shall retain her Dower for her Interest in it commenced after her Pardon And yet by her Attainder she forfeited all her Inheritance Free hold and Chattles Real If an Attainted person be enfeoffed to the use of another the possession cannot vest in the other but must escheat but he which is Attainted may be an Atturny Grandfather Father and Son the Father is Attainted of Treason and dies and after the Grandfather dies seised of Land the Lord of whom the Land is holden shall have it by Escheat and not the King For the Father had it not at the time of Attainder And being that the Grandfather dyed without Heir the Land shall Escheat So it is if the Father be Attainted of Treason and the Grandfather dies leaving the Father The Issue in tail is Attainted of Felony and is pardoned and his Father dies and a Stranger having cause of Action against whom he shall bring his Action is the Question Some say that the Donor hath the Free-hold in Law as if Tenant in tail dies leaving his Wife Enseint Others say there is none against whom the Action may be brought as if Tenant for Life grants over his Estate to B. who dies now before Entry there is none against whom the Action may be brought Tenant in tail makes a Feoffment within Age and is Attainted of Felony his Issue shall not enter for he is disabled in blood to take advantage of the Infancy because the Infant had no Heir A. Covenants upon a Marriage to stand seised to the Vse of another and before the Marriage the Covenantee is Attainted of Felony yet upon the Marriage the Vse will rise as a Lease for life with a Condition of Accruer if the Lessor be Attainted yet the Estate shall enlarge Tenant is tail is disseised and releaseth to the Disseisor with Warranty and then is Attainted of Felony and hath a Pardon and dies this is a Discontinuance for if he had purchased Land after his Pardon it should descend to his Heir then the Warranty being in Esse at the time of his death there is no Impediment but that it should descend But if Tenant in tail who hath a Warranty annexed to his Estate be Attainted of Felony and Executed his Issue shall not Inherit the Voucher by reason of the Warranty although he hath the Land for the Warranty is our of the Statute de Donis c. which speaks of Lands and Tenements But some think that by the Equity of the Statute it is preserved as well as Charters 21 H. 6. 2. p. Markham 9 H. 6. 60. Cott. p. Charters Tenant in tail makes a Lease not warranted by the Statute and dies the Issue accepts the Rent and is Attainted of Treason if the King shall avoid it Quaere If the Grandfather be Tenant in tail and the Father is Attainted of Treason and Executed yet the Son shall Inherit as Heir to the Grandfather If A. commits Felony and the Lord grants his Seignory and after A. makes a Feoffment upon Condition and is Attainted and hath a Charter of Pardon and after re-enters for breach of the Condition and dies If an Occupant shall have the Land the Issue or the Lord is the Question Atturnment TEnant in tail
and in common and not jointly But if the Discontinuee enfeoffs the Issue in tail within age and another and makes Livery to the Infant in the name of both though the Infant be remitted for a moity yet the other moity vests in the other and they are Tenants in common for their Capacities are not several but they take severally by the operation of the Law Cessavit IF the Tenant ceases for twenty years a Cessavit cannot be maintained but for the two last years before the Writ And therefore if the Tenant ceases for two years and marries and the Lord recovers in a Cessavit and the Tenant dies the Wife shall be endowed against the Lord for the Cessavit cannot be maintained for the Cesser before the coverture and so the Title of Action shall not have Relation c. but is grounded upon the Cesser two yeares before the Writ purchased and part of it was during the Coverture and then the Cesser of the Husband during the Coverture shall not prejudice the Wife of her Dower But Quaere if the case be not â—alsly put for it should rather have been that the Baron ceases one year before the Coverture and another year after and then the Cessavit is brought Cessante Causa c. THe Seignoress seises the Body and Land of the Tenant and after marries the Villain ingross of the heir and they commit wast the Heir brings an Action of Wast 't is cleer that his body is out of Ward and being that the Land is in Ward because an Infant cannot perform Knight Service and so the cause is executory and in consideration that the Signory remains and now the Signory during the Coverture by the intermarriage with the Villain is determined in the Tenancy and so the Freehold and Inheritance of the Seignory is merged in the Tenancy by Act in Law notwithstanding that the possession of the Seignory is suspended by reason of the chattle in the Tenancy viz. the Wardship of the Land because that the Husband shall be Tenant by the Curtesy and may be granted over notwithstanding the suspension by reason of the Chattle in the Tenancy by the same reason it shall be a Release in Law to the Lord of the Villein by Act in Law and therefore the land shal be out of Ward for Cessante c. If the Lord of a Villain gives Land in ancient Demesne to the Villain and afterward the Lord reverses the Fine by disceit the Manumission is gone for the conveyance by the Fine which was the cause of the Manumission being vacated the Effect falls to the ground Common v. Apporcionment Condition A Having two Sons makes a Gift in tail to the Eldest the Remainder in see to the Youngest on condition that the Eldest shall not make a Feoffment with warranty to the intent to bar him in Remainder and if he does that then the yongest and his Heirs shall enter the Eldest makes a Feoffment with Warranty the Father dies and the Eldest dies without Issue the yongest may enter for the entry given to the youngest is void and then the Heirs of the Feoffor are to enter then the Father having cause to enter and he being dead the Condition is in suspence in the Eldest and revived by his death v. 41. E. 3. 21. and given to the youngest for the Condition was not extinguished by the Feoffment and the Warranty does not bind Titles of Entry But if the Feofment had been after the death of the Father then the Condition had been extinct If I am Lessee for the life of C. and grant my estate to D. upon Condition that if D. dies living C. that it shall be lawful for me to re-enter Quaere if this Condition be sufficient for me to enter upon an Occupant The Mesne grants the Mesnalty upon Condition that if the Grantee pays c by such a day that then he shall have Fee before the day the Grantor to whom the money was to be paid is attainted yet the Grantee may perform the Condition and enjoy the Fee A Lease for life is made upon Condition that if the Lessor grants the Reversion the Lessee shall have it in Fee The Lessor grants the Reversion by Fine to one for life the Grantee shall have it for life and the Lessee shall have it after the death of the Grantee and not before But if the Condition had been that if the Lessee pays twenty pounds c. there he shall devest the possession out of the Grantee Note the diversity If the Husband having a Lease for twenty yeares in right of his Wife grants two years upon Condition that the Grantee shall not grant over his term and if he does that he his Executors and Assigns may re-enter the Husband dies the Lessee grants over his term the Executors of the Husband cannot enter for it is a Condition annext to the Reversion and if they do enter they defeat the Wives Reversion The Eldest Son cannot enter where the Reversion descends to the youngest Son by Borough English or speciall tail Nor the Heir on the part of the Father where the Land goes to the Heir on the part of the Mother nor the Executor of one Jointenant where the Testator made a Lease upon such a Condition and died for then he should devest the Reversion out of the other which cannot be And in the principall case the Wife cannot enter for she is not privy to the Condition neither doth she claim under the Estate of the Husband As if one Jointenant grants his part for yeares upon such a Condition the Survivor cannot take advantage of it But if the Husband had granted over all the years upon such a Condition or the Father had made Feofment of the Land in Borough English he should enter for he claims by the Father Some think the Condition is extinct as if a man makes a Lease for years upon Condition ut supra and dies having a Son and a Daughter by one Venter and a Son by another the Eldest takes the Rent and dies now the Sister shall have the Reversion and the Condition is gone for she is not Heir And a Rent is incident to a Reversion and passes by the Grant of it but so doth not a Condition A Feoffment is made upon Condition to re-infeoffe the Feoffee charges the Land the Grantee brings a Writ of Annuity and Recovers the Feoffor enters 44 E. 3. 9. If A. be bound to pay ten pound to B. and he releases ten pound which he ought him yet this is no performance for there ought to be a payment in Fact And therefore if one be bound to Release a Rent Charge which he hath out of the Mannor of D. and he purchases an Acre now the Rent is extinct and yet the Condition is not performed But If I am bound to enfranchise my Villaine and I bring an Action against him the Condition is performed So if I am bound to discharge an Obligation
granted to commence after the death of the Grantee the Heir shall take it by Descent A. makes a Feossment upon Condition and if it be broke that it shall be lawfull for him to reenter during his life he shall enter by expresse Reservation and after his death his Heir shall enter by the provision of the Law If an Encroachment of Services be made upon the Husband if the Wife be endowed she shall not be contributory but the Heir cannot avoid it A Seignory is granted for years the Rent being behind the Tenant dies the years expire if the Grantee shall have Debt against the Heir of the Tenant for the Rent due before and after the death of the Tenant Some say the Heir shall not be charged unless the Tenant had bound himself and his Heirs by express words and it shall not be esteemed the proper debt of the Heir If A. hath a Daughter who hath a Son a Remainder is limited to the right Heirs females of the body of A. the Son shall take the Remainder for he is a purchaser but he shall not have the land by descent which was given to A. and the Heirs females of his body 20 H. 6. 43. P. Newton Lessee for life the remainder to the right Heirs of A. who hath a Son who dies without issue the land shall descend to the Heirs on the part of the Father for the Son takes by purchase and as Heir to A. so that the Heir of A. must take it If land be given to a man and to his Heirs on the part of his Mother begotten and his Mother is dead and he dies without issue the Heir on the part of his Father shall take Quaere If a man makes a Gift in tail of Land on the part of his Mother reserving a Rent and dies without Issue the Heir on the part of the Mother shall have the Rent as incident to the Reversion If a man binds himself and his Heirs in twenty pounds and dies and his Executors have ten pounds onely an Action of Debt lies against the Heir for all for if the Creditor makes choice of the Executor he cannot have any remedy against the Heir for the rest If the Obligor makes the Obligee his Executor and leaves ten pound and the Debt was twenty he may detain that and bring an Action of Debt against the Heir for the rest for it is a apporcioned by the Act in Law If Land be given to one and the Heirs males of his body the Remainder to the Heirs Females of his body the Daughter of the Son shall not have the Land If Land be given to one and the Heirs males of his body and to the Heirs females of his body if he hath Issue male and female they shall take by Moities by descent severally If a Woman hath three Sons by severall Husbands and Land is given to her and to the Heirs of her body by the first and second Husband begotten the two Sons shall take severally by Moities and yet the Mother had an Estate A. having two Daughters one is attainted of Felony a Remainder is limited to the Heirs of A. the other shall take nothing If a Remainder be limited to the Heirs of B. who hath a Son who is attainted the Remainder is void and the Fee rests in Lessor Land is given to A. for life the Remainder to B. for life the Remainder to the Heirs of A. who dies B. enters and dies a Stranger abates the Heir of A. shall have a Writ of Right upon the possession of A. and if Land be given to C. and D. and to the Heirs of C. who dies and a Recovery is had against D. and he dies the Heir of C. shall have a Writ of Right of all the Land A. binds himself and his Heirs in twenty pounds and dies the Executors have Assetts the Obligee releaseth to the Heir all Actions of Debt the Executors pay the Assetts to other Creditors The Obligee may have an Action of Debt against the Heir for at the time of the Release he was not intitled to have an Action against him but if the Executors or the Heir had no Assetts at the time of the Release and after the Heir recovers Assetts the Release will bar him If A. makes a Feoffment of Land which he hath on the part of his Mother to the use of himself and his Heirs it shall be to the use of the Heirs on the part of his Father if he dies without Issue A Fem sole hath a Rent Seck and marries the Tenant of the Land grants to the Husband and his Heirs to distrain for the Rent the Husband and Wife die without Issue the distress is extinct for the Heirs of the Husband are onely privy to distrain A Condition does descend upon the Heir at Common Law Incertainty IF one inseoffs another of twenty Acres viz. of one to the use of A. and does not shew of which Acre A. takes nothing by the Feoffment for the possession cannot be executed for it was not certain which are passed to A. and A. cannot have Election for he is not privy If a Reversion be granted to one and after to another and the Tenant atturns to both neither of them shall take for the incertainty If Land be given to a Man and a Woman upon Condition that which of them first marries shall have in Fee and they intermarry neither of them shall have Fee If the Reversion be granted of black Acre or of white Acre if Atturnment be good Quaere for the incertainty A. gives two Acres to B. Habend the one for life the other in Fee without Deed rendring a Robe or a Rent and doth not shew which he shall have for life A. lets two Acres rendring a Rent on Condition to be performed by the Lessee that he shall have Fee in one Acre not shewing which and makes Livery of both Quaere Infant IF an Infant inseoffs two and at his full age releaseth to one it inures to both If an Infant be forejudged he is bound for ever but if he makes a Feoffment of a Mannor and the Feoffee is forejudged yet the Infant may enter into the Mannor and distrain for the Mesnalty the reason is because in the first case he was party to the Record and in the last case the Forejudger was against the Feoffee who had a deseasible Title A Recovery in Wast against an Infant will bind him but so it will not against his Grantee for he had a Title to defeat his Estate so in a Cessavit Conditions and Forfeitures that will bind a Fem Covert will bind an Infant If an Infant makes Livery within view he shall not have an Assize if the Feoffee enters for it is more than a Livery in Law If an Infant Disseisor makes a Feoffment and a Dissent is cast and the Disseisee releaseth to the Heir yet the Infant shall have a Dum fuit infra aetatem for he demands the
same advantages which the Wife should have But if the Land had been in Execution then it had been unavoidable because it had been executed If Tenant for life and he in reversion levy a Fine it shall be lyable to the statute of Tenant for life during his life only and never shall be lyable to the Statute of him in reversion for though the words of the Fine be joint yet he may avoid it by shewing the truth of the matter So in the principall case he may shew that the Estate of the Husband was during the Coverture only If the Grantee of a Rent Charge dies without Heir the Land shall be bound with a Statute Merchant entred into by him for though it be determined yet the determination shall not have relation for if the Tenant be bound in a statute and dies without Heir it shall be extended against the Lord by Escheat And if one manumits a Villain a Statute in which he was bound shall be executed upon him if the Writ of Execution did issue out against him before Land whereof a man hath onely Seisin in Law shall be lyable to a Statute The Conisor of a Statute is in Execution and his Land also the Conisee releaseth to him all his Debts the Execution it discharged for the Debt remains untill it be levied of the profits If the Son be Tenant in tail the remainder to the Father in Fee the Father is bound in a Statute and dies and the remainder descends upon the Son he aliens in Fee or suffers a Common recovery the Land is lyable to the Execution presently As if the Lord had recovered in a Cessavit against Tenant in tail with a remainder over being charged the Land in the Lords hand shall be lyable to the Statute of him in Remainder presently as it shall be to the Grant of a Rent by him though as a remainder it was not lyable Surrender LEssee for forty years makes a Lease for ten years rendring a Rent the first Lessee surrenders and the Lessor brings Debt against the second Lessee Quaere If Lessee for years makes livery as Atturny to the lessor it was ruled in 34 Eliz. in C B. to be no surrender Tenant for life cannot surrender to him in Remainder for years for he hath a Freehold in possession which cannot drown in a Chattle If a lease be made to commence at Easter and before Easter the lessee takes another lease to begin presently If that be a Surrender Some think it is A lease is made for ten years and after another lease is made to begin after the first lease determined the first lessee Surrenders the second lessee may enter otherwise if the Reversion had been granted for ten years A lessee cannot make an Actual surrender before Entry If a lease be made for years the remainder for years the remainder to the first Lessee in Fee he in remainder may surrender to him and yet he hath nothing in possession So if there be lessee for years the remainder for years and the Fee descends to the first Termor he in remainder may surrender If A. makes a Lease for years to B. to begin at Michaelmas and before the day he enfeoffs B. B. dies before the day and his Son enters if the Executor may enter upon the Heir is the question Tail A dies leaving Issue two Daughters Land is given by Deed in tail to the youngest and to the Heirs of the body of the Father begotten and she hath Issue and dies and the Issue brings a Formedon against the Eldest Daughter the question is what Estate the Daughter took Tenant in tail in Vse the remainder unto his right Heirs enters upon the Feoffees and makes a Feoffment and takes back an Estate in tail the remainder to his right Heirs and after the Stat. of 27 H. 8. is made and he dies how the Issue may avoid the second Estate tail and take the first is the question It seems he cannot take the first Estate in Tail by no means for when he entered upon the Feoffees and made a Feoffment then the remainder in Fee was not in him yet by his Feoffment a Fee simple passed not determinable by his death but defeasible by the Entry of the Feoffees then the Fee simple must needs pass being he had the Vse to his right Heirs then when the Stat. of 27 H. 8. was made the Vse not being in Esse but the right of an Vse the possession is executed according to the right of the Vse and then when he dies there is no Remitter to the Estate for that was not in Esse A Gift in tail is made with Warranty accordingly the Donee releaseth the Warranty to the Donor and after the reversion is granted and the Donee atturns If the Issue in tail be impleaded he shall not vouch for the release hath extinguished the Warranty for ever for the Statute speaks of Tenements and a Warranty is no Tenement but a Covenant reall which is extinguished by the Release As if an Annuity be granted in tail a Release of the Donor extinguisheth it If Tenant in tail makes a Lease to begin at Easter reserving a Rent and dies and the Issue in tail enters and makes a Feoffment before Eastar the Feoffee cannot avoid the lease for the lease was not avoided by the Entry of the Issue A lease is made for years the remainder in tail he in Remainder grants it over in Fee the Lessee atturns the years expire the Grantee enters and dies seised Tenant in tail dies his Issue may enter for the Grant was not but for the life of Tenant in tail and then he did not die seised in Fee if the dying seised had been after the death of Tenant in tail it should not have taken away his Entry Tamen Quaere But if the Issue of the Issue of the Grantee had entered and died seised there his Entry had been taken away and if Tenant in tail enfeoffs the Donor who dies seised by most that Dissent will take away the Entry of the Issue Tenant in tail makes a Feoffment and dies the Feoffee makes a lease for life and grants the Reversion to the Issue he shall not have a Formedon against Tenant for life for he hath assented to the reversion But if Tenant in tail makes a lease Pur auter vye and dies notwithstanding the Dissent in Fee of the reversion the Issue shall have a Formedon for the Reversion is waived by using the Action If Donee in tail to him and his Heirs males the Remainder to him and the Heirs Females of his body makes a Lease for years reserving a Rent and dies without Issue Males if the Heir Female accepts the Rent she shall be bound for the Lease was derived out of both their Estates and she comes in by descent but if the Heir male had made a Lease and died without Issue the Heir Female cannot make that good by acceptance If Tenant in tail of a