to make it actually void For if the words are pursued strictly then it shall be void immediately against the Bishop himself Then the Successor in lieu of a benefit shall take an advantage of the Statute For he cannot make Leases but of things usually demised 32 Eliz. Sale and Sale against the Bishop of Coventry in a Quare impedit It was adjudged That a Quare impedit well lies by an Executor for disturbance made to the Testator And also that a Lease for years is good notwithstanding the Statute The Statute does not intend the benefit of the Lessee but of the Successor himself And the Successor had his Election to accept the Rent or the Land And if it should be voyd his Election is gone Tallengers and Dentons Case 4. Jac. A Lease is made by the Bishop of Carlisle of the Tithes which is out of the Statute And there it is void against the Successor For that that he hath no remedy for the Rent reserved upon it And that point is so adjudged upon the Statute of the 13 Eliz. Walters Case before resolved that a Lease made by Dean and Chapter not warranted by the Statute is but voydable against the Successor Pas 6 Iac. rot 1041. Wheeler and Danbies Case Robert Bishop of Glocester 30 Eliz. makes a Lease to Iasper habendum a die datus to him for life the remainder to William rendring the ancient Rent The first Lessee dies the Successor having notice of it and that divers Rents were behinde commanded his Bayliff that he should receive the Rents The Bayliff enters them and receives Rent of that Lessee the Bishop having notice of it And these points were resolved First the Iury finding a Lease a die datus might be intended good for that the Entry was made after the day yet the Iury finding a thing impossible does not conclude the Iudges Secondly that a Lease in remainder is not warranted by the Statute 1 Eliz. Thirdly that the Lease was but voydable by the Successor for the Statute was made for the benefit of the Successor but the grand Question was of the manner of acceptance and resolved Fourthly that the acceptance binds the Bishop and the Authority given to the Bayliff and also his receipt For it differs where the Bayliff of his own accord receives Rent Dyer And they also say that that was to perfect an estate setled And it differs from an Attournment which is to perfect an estate setled For there notice is requisite c. Gammons Case again HEndon said that a Scire facias does not lie upon that record because an action of debt well lies For no president can be shewn that a Iudgement given in an inferiour Court may be executed so For first that Court shall not make an Instrument to execute Iudgement given in another Court It is seen that an Attaint lies of false Iudgement given in an inferiour Court Take the Case in 14 H. 4.4 And so if issue be joyned in an inferiour Court without custom It shall not be removed to be tryed so And so it is our Case c. Secondly the Statutes do not give them power viz. 26 H. 8. 34 H. 8. makes the matter clear that it cannot be Error in an Assize before the Iustices of Assize will not lye in this Court. For Iudges Itinerant are superior And those Iudges are appointed by Act of Parliament and so the Iudges also in Wales are by Act of Parliament And having power a Oyer et terminer It is not found that after Iudgement a Certiorari had been received to remove the Record out of an Inferiour Court And the mischief would be if Iudgement should be given for 20. l. it should be executory through all the Realm where they have but a special Iurisdiction And also the tenor of the Record is only removed and execution cannot be out of the tenor of the Record Dyer 369. Plow 52. Richardson The question is whether when the Record is so removed whether it shall be idle If Iudgement be given in an Inferiour Court which holds Plea by prescription or by grant and removed by Writ of Error if the Iudgement be affirmed we may award Execution 16 Iac. There is an express president of a Iudgement in an Inferiour Court and a Scire facias is granted so And also a Scire facias is granted in lieu of an action of debt For by the Common Law he might not have a Scire facias after the year but an action of debt And by the Common Law debt lies in that Case Harvey and Crook Iustices said that Court shall not be an Instrument to execute Iudgement in an inferiour Court which they cannot And also the Land of the Defendant shall be lyable to an execution in any place in England where before only the Land within the place was lyable And also the purchaser could never finde out what executions might be upon the Land Richardson said that the mischief would be great on both sides For otherwise what Iudgement was given The Defendant would remove his goods out of the Iurisdiction of the Court and then the Plaintiff had no remedy but by new original And Crook Iustice If a man brings an action in a Court he ought to examine what the end of that will be For it is a president a man ought to respect things in their end For it is his own folly to commence an action where he cannot have execution For that he may commence his action and have execution in any place in England And although that a forrain Plea in an Inferiour Court may be tryed so yet it is by Act of Parliament viz. 6 E. 1. 12. which proves by the Common Law there was no remedy Tithes of Pidgeons and Acorns A Parson Libels in the Spiritual Court for Tithes of Pidgeons and Acorns And the Defendant prayed a prohibition Because the Pidgeons were spent in his own house and the Acorns dropt from the Tree and his Hogs eat them And it was said by the Court Acorns are Tithable 11 Rep. 49. But then they ought to be gathered and also sold And a prohibition was clearly granted Thomas Wilcocks Case MOre of the Case of the Vniversity of Oxford Thomas Wilcocks Mr. of Arts in St. Mary Hall in Oxford was sued in the Chancellors Court there by Anne wife of Ralph Bradwell and Christian her daughter For calling the wife Bawd and old Bawd and the daughter Whor. and scurvey pockey-faced whore And they procured two Sentences against Wilcocks and upon them he had two prohibitions And Davenport moved for a Procedendo for that that by their Charter which was confirmed by Parliament The Chancellor or his Deputy shall have Conusans of all causes personal where one of the parties is a Scholar And the Charter was shewed in Court which was to this purpose That they shall hold Pleas c. or Secundum morem Universitatis or Secundum legem terre And the custom was to proceed according to
found for the Plaintiff and Finch Recorder moved in arrest of Iudgement first for that they assigne the wast in a Park where the wast is in Land c. Secondly Because that that Action did not lye for them both alike for if the Grandfather and he in the remainder in tayle had joyned in a Lease yet they could not joyne in wast The Books are If Tenant for life and he in the remainder joyn in a Lease they may also joyn with wast 21 H. 8 14. Although 19 H. 7. be put otherwise And 2 H. 5. Sir William Langfords Case Two joynt Tenants to the Heirs of one of them and they make a Lease for life And it was adjudged that they might joyn in wast for the Tenant for life had a reversion for life and had not made any Forfeiture If the Grandfather and he in remainder had joyned in a Lease and afterwards in wast it had been naught for the lease came out of the first root And it was resolved Tr. 2 Jac. Kings Bench Poole and Browses Case That one in remainder cannot have wast where there is an intermediate Estate for life Yelverton and Hutton did not believe the Case of 2 Jac. Crook If there be Tenant for life with such a power c. of Lands held in capite he may make Leases for life without Licence of Alienation and well proves this cause Yelverton and Hutton For the wast being assigned in a Park it is good for a Park is Land Sed adjournatur Hodges against Franklin TRover and Conversion is brought by Hodges against Franklin The Defendant pleads sale of the Goods in Marlborough which is a Market overt and the Bar was well pleaded and an Exception was taken For that that it is not said that Toll was payed It was said by Hutton That there are divers places where no Toll is to be paid upon sale in Market And yet the property is changed and Iudgement accordingly Grimston against an Inn-keeper IN an Action upon the Case it was said at the Bar and not gain-sayed That they ought to say in the Declaration Trasiens hospitavit for if he board or sojourn for a certain space in an Inne and his Goods are stollen the Action upon that is not maintainable And for omission although the Verdict was given for the Plaintiff Iudgement was given Quod nihil capiat per billam upon fault of the Declaration and he paid no Costs Wilkins against Thomas IT was said by the whole Court That a consideration is not traversable upon an Assumpsit but they ought to plead the generall issue and the Consideration ought to be given in Evidence Ireland against Higgins IReland brought an Action upon the Case against Higgins for a Greyhound and counts that he was possessed ut de bonis suis propriis and by Trover came to the Defendant and in consideration thereof promised to re-deliver him It seemed to Yelverton that the Action would not lye and the force of his Argument was that a Grey-hound was de fera natura in which there is no property sed ratione fundi live Deer and Coneys and vouchd 3 H. 6. 56. 18 E. 4. 24. 10 H. 7. 19. for a Hawk for Hares are but for pleasure but Hawks are Merchandable This difference in 12 H. 8. is allowed so long as a Dogge is in the possession of a man an Action of Trespasse lyes detinue or replevin But no Action if he was out of his possession and so had not a property then there is no consideration which is the foundation of an Action Hutton to the contrary and said the whole argument consisted upon false grounds as that a Dogge is ferae naturae Which if it were so he agreed the difference in 12 H. 8. But he intended that a Dogge is not ferae naturae for at first all Beasts were ferae naturae but now by the industry of man they are corrected and their savagenesse abated and they are now domesticae and familiar with a man as Horses and a tame Deer if it be taken an Action lyes Rogers of Norwich recovered Damages pro molosso suo interfecto And 12 H. 8. So of a Hound called a Blood-hound And a Dogge is for profit as well as for pleasure For a Dogge preserves the substance of a man in killing the Vermine as Foxes And now is not an Horse for the pleasure of a man for a man may goe on foot if he will and an Horse is meat for a man no more than a Dogge Therefore an Action may lye for the one as for the other And for a Hawk he ought to shew that it was reclaimed for they are intended ferae naturae One justifies in 24 Eliz 30. for a Battery because he would have taken away his Dogge from him A Repleavin was brought for a Ferret and Nets and a Ferret is more ferae nat than a Dogge Seale brought 25 Eliz. Trespass for taking away his Blood-hound and there it was said to be well laid And then now if he has a property the consideration is good enough to ground an Assumpsit It is adjudged that a feme dowable The heir promises to endow her before such a day and the Action is maintainable upon that by the Court Intraturudic pro quer if no other matter were shewed by such a day Jenkins Case HE brought an Action upon a promise to the Plaintiff That if he marryed her with the assent of her Father she would give him 20. l. Adjudged a good consideration by the Court. 3 Car. rot 414 Sir Edward Peito against Pemberton SIr Edward Peito is Plaintiff against Pemberton in a Replevin and the Defendant was known as Bayliff to H. Peito and said that H. Peito the Grandfather had granted a Rent for life to H. Peito the Son to commence after his death The Plaintiff confesses the grant but sayes that after the death of Peito the Grandfather these Lands out of which the Rent issued descended to Peito the father who made a Lease for a thousand years to the Grantee and dyes The Avowant confesses the Lease but sayes that before the last day of payment he surrendred to the Plaintiff Vpon which there was a Demurer and the question was whether the surrender of the Lease would revive the rent Harvey If he had assigned the Lease to a stranger the rent had been suspended 5 H. 5. One grants a rent charge who had a reversion upon a Lease for life to commence immediately there the question was when the Lease was surrendred whether the rent now became in esse because that the Lease which privileged the Land from distresse is now determined in the hands of the Grantor himself Crook If the Grantor had granted reversion to a stranger and the surrender had been to him It was clear that the suspension had been for the term Hutton If a man seised of a rent in Fee takes a Lease of Lands out of which c. for years and dyes the
Rent 5 R. 2. Annuity 21. Debitum Judex non leperat Then when it does not appear that the Action lyes for the 15. s. for the half year and the Iury assessed Damages intirely it is voyd as 10 Rep. 130. Osborns Case And it appears that by his computation of time it is not a year and an half from the time of the Assumpsit made Richardson said That it is not secundum ratum for then he might divide the Rent and no day is limited for the payment of it for if a Lease be made for two years or at will paying annually at Michaelmas 30. s. and the Lease is determined after half of the year although that it be by the Lessee himself he cannot make any Rent But Yelverton said that that is not a Rent but a collaterall sum And debt does not lye for that And in the Declaration it is said Quod permisit ipsum reentrare and does not say what time which was nought by all but Hutton And it ought to be also that he did de facto re-enter Hutton said There being it is said So long as you shall occupy the Land you shall pay annually c. That he may demand half of the year But the whole Court against him and so Pro hoc tempore judgement was stayed Grange and his Wife against Dixon A Lease was made by Baron and Feme and another Feme and the Lessee Covenants by the same Indenture to find sufficient mans meat and horse meat to the Baron and Feme and to the other Feme or to their Servants at their coming to London at his house in Southwark The Baron and Feme dye and the other Feme takes an husband The Opinion of the Iustices was that he was not bound to find sustenance for the husband but only for the wife or for her servants and not for both at one and the same time because the Covenant was in the disjunctive But it was doubted if he shall find them Victualls for one meal only at their coming or for all the time of their staying there Johnson against Williams and Uxor IT wad said If an Obligation be made by a Feme sole and afterwards she takes an husband and an Action of debt be brought upon that Obligation against the Baron and Feme and they deny the Deed the Baron shall be taken for the Fine as well as the wife for the wife had nothing whereof to pay the Fine And so in Trespasse against Baron and Feme dum sola fuit and they are both found guilty both shall be taken for the Fine which the Prothonotaryes agreed Jeakill against Linne IN a Writ of Covenant the Plaintiff counts upon an Indenture of Lease of the Parsonage of Dale by which the Defendant Covenanted to pay him the Rent the which he had not payed And the Defendant said that before any day of payment of the said Rent incurred one A. Ordinary of the same place sequestred the said Parsonage for non payment of the first fruits Iudgement If an Action c. And by the Court that is not a Plea for he does not shew that any Act was done by the Plaintiff himself in his default Nor he does not confesse and avoid the interest of the Lessor as to say that the Lessor was a disseisor and made a Lease to him after that the disseisee re-entred and so he might confesse and avoid the Lease notwithstanding the Deed indented But he cannot say that the Lessor had nothing at the time of the Lease made And if the Defendant had been bound in an Obligation for the payment of the said Rent in debt brought upon that that should not have been a Plea for he had bound himself to pay the said Rent And the occupation is not materiall where the Lease is for years or for life But otherwise of a Lease at will Davies against Fortescue IF a man it was said be seised of a Mannor whereof there are divers Copy-holders admittable for life or for years and he Leases the Mannor to another for term of life the Lessor may make a Demise by Copy in reversion to commence after the death of the first Copy-holders and that is good enough But the custome of some Mannors is to the contrary and that is allowed Doyly an Infants Case A Man seised of Lands makes a Feoffment in Fee by Deed indented rendring a Rent with a clause of Distresse and afterwards he is bound in a Statute and the day is incurred Vpon which an Execution is awarded to the Conusee and upon the Extent the Sheriff returns that the party was dead and that he had extended the said Rent And the heir of the Conusor being within age because the Rent was extended during his nonage brought an Audita querela and Hutton said That it is maintainable enough because there is an Exception in the Writ of Extent That if Land be descended to any Infant that the Sheriff shall surcease to extend And although that Writ issued against the party himself who made the Conisance yet when it appears by the return of the Sheriff that he is dead the Infant shall be aided by an Audita querela or otherwise the Extent shall be void which is made upon the possession of the Infant Jeffryes Case IN a Formedon the Plaintiff counts of a gift to his Father and to his heirs of his body ingendred during the life of I. S. and makes the descent to him during the life of I. S. And Yelverton seemed that the Writ is good enough for a Tayle may be made so determinable as well as a Fee simple And if a man Warrant Lands to the Feoffee and his heirs against him and his heirs during the life of I. S. That he had a Fee simple in the Warranty determinable upon the life of I. S. So here Warberlyes Case IN a Writ De valore maritagii it was moved by Henden If the Lord shall recover his Damages according to the value of the Land held of him only or according to all his Lands held also of others And Hutton and Crook said that the value of the Marriage shall be accounted as well in respect of the lands held of him as of other lands held of other Lords by Posteriority or in Soccage for there the woman by the Marriage to him shall be more advanced And the better the advancement is the better is the Marriage of the heir and the person more to be esteemed Norbery against Watkins ONe Devises the Mannor of S. to two and their heirs betwéen them to be equally divided so that they shall have part and portion alike If by that they have a Ioynt-tenancy or a Tenancy in common was the Question because there was an Act to be done for making the division And if the words had béen equally to be divided by I. S. it had béen clear that they had béen Ioynt-Tenants But Harvey said That upon such a gift made to them if the
it shall be lawfull to the Lessor to reenter without any demand of the Rent The Rent is in arrear by 40 daies after the Feast of Saint Michael and no demand of the Rent made by the Lessor Whereupon the Lessor entred If that Entry were lawfull was the Question And by Hutton it is not For a demand of the Rent is given by the Common law between Lessor and Lessée And notwithstanding the words without any demand it remains as it was before And is not altered by them But if the Rent had béen reserved payable at another place than upon the Land There the Lessor may enter without any demand But where no place is limitted but upon the Land otherwise it is Richardson to the contrary For when he had covenanted that he might enter without any demand The Lessée had dispensed with the Common law by his own Covenant As the Lessor might by his Covenant when he makes a Lease Sans impeachment dl waste He had dispenced with the Common law which gives the Action of Waste Harvey of the same opinion If a Man leases Lands for years with a Clause That if the Rent be in Arrear by forty daies after the day of payment That the term shall cease If the Rent be in arrear by the said forty daies after the day of payment The Lessor may enter without request Conyers's Case ONe Thompson makes a Lease for forty years to Conyers by Indenture and in the same Indenture covenants and grants to the Lessee That he shall take convenient House-boot Fire-boot and Cart-boot in toto bosco suo vocato S. wood within the Parish of S. And those Woods are not parcel of the Land leased but other Lands Atthow I would fain know your opinion if that Grant of Estovers out of an other place than was the Lease be good Also what Estate the Grantée of House-boot and Fire-boot shall have by that For the words are from time to time and hath limited no time in certain And lastly If the Lessée be excluded to have House-boot and Fire-boot in the Land leased or if he shall have in both places Also if the Executors by that Grant to the Lessee shall have House-boot and Fire boot And it was agreed by Hutton and Harvey That that Grant was good and that the Grantee shall have it during the Term. And that that grant does not restrain him But that he shall have house-boot and fire-boot in the land leased also Atthowe If there be no great Timber upon the land leased and the houses are in decay if the Lessor ought to find and allow to the Lessée sufficient Timber for the making the reparations or if the Lessée at his own costs ought to find the Timber for the reparations of the house Hutton said That the great Timber shall be at the costs of the Lessor if no Timber be upon the land leased nor no default be in the Lessee in suffering the great timber to go to decay or to putrifie And it was agréed if the Lessor cut a tree and carry it out of the Land That the Lessee may have an Action of Trespass And if Stranger cut a tree the lessee shall have an action of Trespass and recover treble dammages As the lessor should recover against him in an action of waste Wakemans Case A Man seised of a Mannor parcell demesn and parcell in service devises by his Testament to his wife during her life all the demesn lands also by the same Testament he devises to her all the services of chief Rents for 15 years And moreover by the same Testament he devises the same Mannor to another after the death of his wife And it was agreed by all the Iustices That the devise shall not take effect for no part of the Mannor as to the stranger untill after the death of the wife And that the heir after the 15 years passed during the life of the wife shall have the services and chief Rents Jenkins against Dawson IN a Formedon the Demandant makes his Conveyance in the Writ by the gift of I. S. who gave it to ◠D. er haeredibus de corp suo legitime procreat And shewes in the Writ that he was heir to the Son and heir of I. D. Son and heir of W. D. the Donee And Hitcham demanded Iudgement of the Writ for this Cause And the Court said that the Writ was not good for he ought not to make mention in the Writ of every heir as he does here But he ought to make himself heir to him who dyed last seised of the Estate Tayl as his Father or other Ancestor Also that word procreat ought not to be in the Writ but Exeuntibus But the Court thought that it might be amended And Harvey said If false Latin be in the Writ it shall be amended as if in a Formedon the Writ be Consanguineus where it should have béen Consanguineo Hutton and all the other Iustices said that that might be amended by the Statute Saulkells Case IN an Attaint the grand Iury appeared and the petit Iury and the parties also and one Rudstone Master of the Servant in the Attaint came to the Bar and there spoke in the matter as if he had been of counsell with his Servant Crawley said to him Are you a party to this Suteor for what cause do you speak at the Bar And he answered that he had done this for his Servant And if he had done any thing against the Law he knew not so much before Hutton You may if you did owe any mony to your Servant for his wages give to his Counsel so much as is behind of it and that is not maintenance Or you may go with your Servant to retein Counsel for him So that your Servant pay for his Counsel But that that you have done is apparent maintenance And the Kings Sergeant prayed That he may be awarded to the Fleet and pay a Fine And Hutton upon advise sent him to the Fleet. Wiggons against Darcy DArcy was in Execution upon a Statute Merchant and his Body and Goods were taken And the Conisee agreed that the Conisor should go at large and he went at large Atthowe moved If that were a discharge of the Execution or not And Richardson said it was For his imprisonment is for his Execution And if he release his imprisonment he releases his Execution And so if two men be in Execution for one Debt and the Plaintiff releases to one of them That is a release to both And so if one had two acres in Execution and the Plaintiff release the Execution of one of them It enures to both Harvey on the contrary opinion Yet I will agree That if a man be one time in Execution The Plaintiff shall not another time have an Execution For after a cap. ad satisfac an Elegit does not lye But in the Case where the Conisee does release the imprisonment only and not the Execution for it is
not but a liberty given by the Conisee to the Conisor to be at large That does not release the Execution Dolbins Case IN a Replevin the parties were at Issue and the Plaintiff sued a Venire f. c. returnable such a day at which day the Sheriff does not return the Writ Wherefore the Avowant by Ward prayed a Venire fac with a proviso for him And it was granted by the whole Court Fossams Case A Man after the Statute of 27 H. 8. makes a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for term of his life and after his decease to the use of I. S. and his Heirs The Feoffor does waste And I. S. brought his Action of Waste And now if his Writ shall be general or special was the Demur in Iudgement And Hutton and the other Iustices were clearly of opinion That the Plaintiff ought to have a special Writ And so it was adjudged afterwards Doswell against Iames. IN Debt brought upon an Obligation Iames shews that the Obligation was endorsed with a Condition to perform all the Covenants comprised in an Indenture and he pleads that all the Covenants were fulfilled And does not shew in certainty the Covenants nor how they were performed And Hitcham said that the Plea was not good For there is a Diversity when one pleads in the Affirmative and when in the Negative For if in the Affirmative he shews in the certainty how the Condition or Covenants were performed And there is no diversity in my opinion between the Conditions which were upon the dorsed Obligation and the Covenants in the Indenture And it is to be thought that he who knows more of the Truth should shew it in his Plea And therefore he who pleads the Affirmative shews how the Conditions are performed Because it lyes much in his knowledge Whether he hath performed them or not But where he pleads in the Negative otherwise it is For there he is not to shew the certainty And yet I will agree that if one brings an Action of Debt upon an Obligation indorsed with a Condition The Defendant may plead the Conditions performed generally But otherwise it is of Covenants in an Indenture And in an Obligation with a Condition endorsed if he pleads the Conditions performed and he shews what thing he hath done If it be in the Affirmative he ought to shew the certainty of it also So that for that cause the Plea will not avayl Also it is incertain and doubtfull to the Iury. For if in that Case we are at Issue upon such a general Plea Although it shall be tryed by the Iury Yet it would be strange to enquire of such general things Wherefore c. Gerrard against Boden AN Annuity was brought by Gerrard against the Parson of B. And the Plaintiff counts That the said Parson granted an Annuity of 40 l. pro bono consilio suo imposter impenso for term of life of the said Parson And for 30 l. of arrerages this Action was brought Finch thought the Count not to be good And first it is to be considered If that Annuity might be assigned and granted over or not And as I think it cannot For an Annuity is not but as a sum of mony to be paid to the Grantee by the Grantor And not at all to the realty if the Land be not charged by express words in the same Deed. And to prove it If a man grant an Annuity to me and my Heirs without naming of my Heirs If the Annuity be denied it is gone Because my Person is only charged with the Annuity and not the Land So if a man grants to you the Stewardship of his Mannor of D. and to your Heirs you cannot grant that over And so of a Bayliwick But peradventure it may be said That an Annuity may be granted over in this Case Because in the Habendum It is said to the Assignees of the Grantee But that is nothing to the purpose as I think For I take a difference when a thing comes in the Habendum of a Deed which declares the Premises of the Deed For there it shall be taken effectuall but otherwise not As if Lands be given to a man and his Heirs habendum sibi haered de corpore suo procreat That is a good tayl But if a thing comes in the Habend which is repugnant to the Premises of the Deed and to the matter of the thing which is given by the Deed Then the Habend is void for that parcel As in the Case at Bar it is meerly contrary to the nature of the Annuity to be assigned over to another And there is no remedy given for it but an Action and it is Common learning that a thing in Action cannot be assigned over unless it be by the grant of the King Also by their Declaration they have acknowledged it to be no more than a chose in action Then a Rent seck for which he had not any other remedy but an Action after Seisin For he said that he was seised in his Demesn as of Franktenement of the Rent aforesaid Then it ought to be a Rent-seck For of no other Rent can a man be seised in his Demesn because they lye in prend As of Advowsons common for years and of Estovers And I will not agree that difference put by Littleton in his Book to this purpose For of such things which lye in manual occupation or receipt A man shall not say that he was seised in his Demesn as of a Rent Because it lyes in the prend Pasc 4 Car. Com. Hanc And in the 21 E. 4. The Case is doubtfull And Crawley of the same opinion Hitcham of the contrary And at another day Hutton said that the parties were agreed Hitcham We desire to have your opinion notwithstanding for our learning Hutton said We are agreed that the Annuity may be granted over and it is not so much in the personalty as hath been argued by Finch And in some Books it is said that a Release of personal Actions is not a Plea in a Writ of Annuity Groves against Osborn THe Case was thus A man makes a Lease for life the Remainder for life upon Condition that if the second Lessee for life dye in the life of the first Lessee That the Remainder in fee shall be to another And it was said That that Remainder might commence upon that Condition well enough It was said by Atthowe That where a Remainder depends upon a determination of another Estate So that none shall take any Estate by the Remainder upon Condition then the Remainder is good As if a man give Lands to A. for life upon Condition that if I. S. pay me 40 s. before such a day That the Remainder shall be to him That is a good Remainder But when an Estate is to be defeated by a Remainder depending upon that Then the Remainder is not good As if I lease Lands for life upon Condition That if the Rent be in
up a Chamber but that was the knavery of the Inne-keeper he being then in contention with an Inn-keeper in the Parish and that in divine service he thrust open the door of Wrights seat and said that he and his wife would sit there in disturbance of divine service And for that a prohibition was prayed and granted for the high Commission cannot punish non-residency nor breaking the seat in divine service And the other were things for which he shall be bound to his good behaviour and the complaint ought to be to the Ordinary c. Hall and Blundells Case before DAvenport said This Parson being presented by Simony is disabled to this Church for ever and cannot he presented to this Church again although another avoidance As it was adjudged in the Lord Windsors case But it was said by Richardson if he had said absque hoc that he was in ex praesentatione of Sir George it had béen good Which was granted Henden Two exceptions had béen taken First that the Incumbent does not shew what estate or interest the King had to present him which does not need if the King brought a Quare impedit then it is a good answer to say That he is in of his presenting But if it be brought by a Stranger then he ought to shew the title in his presentment And he alleged the Statute of 25 E. 3. Which inables the Incumbent to plead by writ of the Law 41 Eliz. There was a Quare Impedit brought for the Church of Danel A presentation was pleaded by the King without making a title and it was admitted good And in many cases it is more safe not to make a title Secondly Because that he pleaded a presentation by the King he is disabled As to that he said that before he be convicted of Symony he may be presented But by Crook in Sathers Case That if he be presented before conviction yet it is a void presentment And it was so agréed by the Court and they resolved the plea was naught because he enswers nothing to the Symony for the protestation is not any Answer Wherefore judgement was given for the Plaintiff Denne against Burrough DEnne against Burrough alias Spark in a prohibition it was agréed by Yelverton and Crook the other Iustices being absent If a man makes his will and makes his wife Executrix and devises the residue of his goods after debts and legacies payed to his Executrix His wife dies before probate that now because that the Executor had election to have them and dies before he did so All the Goods belong to the Administrator of the first Testator But otherwise by Henden If there was a Legacy of a particular thing Quaere what difference Newton against Sutton RIchard Newton and Iames Elliot against Sutton in debt upon an Obligation to perform Covenants in an Indenture There was a Covenant that the Defendant ought to do such an act thing or things as the Plaintiff or his Council learned should devise for the better assurance of certain Lands by himself to the Plaintiff and said that a Counsellor advised him to have a Fine And upon the Declaration there was a Demurrer And upon the opening the Case Crook and Yelverton being only present agreed That it ought to have been pleaded that a writ of Covenant was shewn and the tender of the note of the Fine is not sufficient But the breaking of the Covenant ought to be laid after the Dedimus potestatem sued by the Plaintiff And upon their advise the action discontinued without costs Sacheverills Case before ATthowe said that the action lies For a Lease made by Tenant for life is a Lease derived out of all the Estates and not as a Lease made in Remainder But he who made the Lease had a Reversion in possibility of a Reversion and for that he might joyn with him who had the Inheritance in that Action 27 H. 8. Tenant for life and he in Reversion joyn in a Lease for life And Tenant for life the place wasted and he that had the inheritance the treble dammages And in this Case had but a possibility of the Reversion and yet for that possibility they joyn in waste And it is all one whether there is but a possibility of reversion or a reversion If Tenant for life and he in remainder in fee make a Lease for years they joyn in waste and the reversion does not hinder Because that the Lease is derived out of both And the Lessee shall make attendance first to one and then to the other 13 H. 7. 17. And if it be upon such a Lease or Covenant which is not collateral but goes with the Land the Tenant for life shall have the benefit of them during his life and the other after But if one makes a Lease for life rendring a Rent and grants the Reversion to one for life the Remainder to another in fee Where the lease issues out of the whole reversion Yet the division by reversion being by the party himself they shall joyn in an action 22 H. 6. 24 b. Tenant in fee makes a Lease for life and their grants the reversion to A. and B. and the Heirs of B Waste is committed and they joyn in waste And yet this Statute which comes to our Case is made after the Lease And in this case if he who had the Inheritance his Son and the Survivor should joyn in waste For the Law makes the division of the reversion If Baron seised in right of his wife and they joyn in a Lease for years or for life rendring a Rent the wife dies the Husband being intitled to be Tenant by the courtesie it is now his Lease and he shall have the Rent And the Book séems that he and the Heir shall have an Action of Waste For the Law makes that division If Tenant in fée makes a Lease for years and takes a wife and dies and the Feme recovers Dower That Lease is not dispunishable with the devision by the Act of Law and that Lease is derived out of all the Estates and it is all one as if they had all joyned Admitting that the words were that the said Henry had Authority to make Leases for lives And that that makes it as effectual and as good as if all had joyned Then it will be agreed that it is the Lease of all As if I give Authority to make a Lease of my Land It is my Lease and ought to be made in my name and so the Authority is good against all those And if the Covenants had not béen collateral Iacinth shall have benefit of them For although they are not parties to the Lease yet the Law makes them so And as they shall have those benefits which grow by the Reversion so they shall have the waste also It will be objected this Lease by Henry is derived out of the first Fine and the Conusees shall stand seised to that use I agree if it be meerly without
upon twenty matters Crook Admitting that all the offence was committed after the pardon yet you may suggest it to be before Henden and Bramston That so it was Pas 50 Eliz. In one Prat and Husseys Ease One that had a benefice took another but was not inducted Yet that was the irregularity upon which he was deprived and a prohibition was prayed upon the general pardon And it was concluded That if the libel contained that the irregularity was before any pardon and it appears also that it continued after yet a prohibition shall be granted Crook the offence is layed 1621 1622 1623 c. in one or every of them Now for a prohibition there are two clauses in our case Although it be that the offence was before and part after pardon yet we ought to grant a prohibition for that which was before is involved 5 Iac. Conveys case He and his wife after the death of Sir Blunt were sued before the high Commissioners for that that his wife committed Adultery with Sir Richard Blunt and he himself was the Pander And a prohibition was granted for two causes The one for that Adultery was not inquirable there the other because it was pardoned And although the word Adultery be in their Commission yet that does not give them Iurisdiction They cannot meddle with Alimony was one Condiths case upon the Canons in 1 Iac. Which gives to the Parson jurisdiction to appoint the Clark of the Church There was a custom there that the Parish should appoint it and several Clarks being appointed they set several Psalmes in the Church to the disturbance of it And a prohibition was granted to the high Commissioners for medling with it Richardson objected divers things with much earnestness but so apparently contrary to Law that I have omitted it Yelverton said she ought not to put in security to obey the sentence For if it be averred that all was before the pardon then there was no cause of sentence and if no sentence then the prohibition ought to be for all Crook The sentence is to pay a fine and to make submission and to be imprisoned until she found security to obey the sentence That is void Richardson said That they had not any means to make the party to pay the fine and if she would pay it presently she might be discharged But by the other Iustices the High Commissioners cannot demand the sine But they may Estreat it into the Exchequer At another day it was said Sir Wil. Chamcer before the high Commissioners was by sentence fined and imprisoned and by the opinion of all the Iudges of England They may proceed by fine and imprisonment and his case was for Adultery Hutton 44 Eliz. It was resolved that they cannot impose a fine but for Heresies Schisms and Errours c. Richardson The words of the Statute are that the high Commissioners may proceed according to the tenour and effect of the Letters Patents of the King Yelverton The sentence is the fine and the penance and there is the end of the sentence and when it is said she shall be imprisoned until c. That is no part of the sentence If it was that she should pay a fine do pennance and should be imprisoned three months Then all should be the Sentence Richardson said that they may procéed against other things than Heresies and Schismes upon that Statute de primo For there are the words Abuses Contempts Offences and Enormities Hutton The words in that Statute shall have exposition according to the meaning of the first intent It was that they had Authority to punish the Bishops and Prelates for Errors and Schisms and the change of Religion For that that they did not regard the power of the Ordinary But they had incroached many other things And if those words include any thing they might punish anything whereof the Gcclesiastical Court had Authority As working upon Saints daies But there was a Case of one that was sentenced there for such a Cause And the Fine estreated And upon Argument in the Exchequer their proceedings adjudged void Richardson The word Enormity contains a thing of lesser nature For quicquid est contra regulam et normam Juris is Enormity And therefore in Trespass quare clausum fregit et alia enormia ei intulit But Yelverton The word ought to be intended of a grand offence For so in common acceptance it imports Harvey The Fine being pardoned all is pardoned Richardson said that they should procéed by excommunication and not by fine and imprisonment No more at this time was said in this Case Humlocks Case A Man makes a Lease for 21 years reserving 20 l. rent per annum payable at two daies and if he fayl of payment that it shall be lawfull to the Lessor to enter At the day of payment the Lessor came and demanded the Rent by these words I demand my half years rent And it was moved by Atthowe If that demand was sufficient for the Lessor Hutton and Yelverton seemed that it was sufficient For the thing that he demanded is enough certain and known Crook on the contrary For although it appears by the circumstances how much of the Rent he demanded Yet the words are not so plain as they ought to be For if a man makes a Lease for years reserving such a Rent as the antient Farmor was wont to pay from time to time to this day When the Lessor comes upon the Land and says to the Lessee Pay me my Rent that is not sufficient or good because it is not certain in Terms And yet it appears by the circumstances And when a man pleads a demand He shall shew the Lease and the Rent reserved and shall say That he demanded redditum praedictum And as I remember it was adjudged very lately That such a Demand shall be certain Hutton I hold a difference between such things which lye in notice of the person to whom the demand is made and where not For in a praecipe quod reddat if there be a recovery by default and the Tenant brings a desceit and by examination of the Summoners it appears That they came to the Land and summoned him in the Land but they do not shew to him at what day he ought to appear So the Lessee knows well enough that the Rent ought to be paid for it is certain by the Lease to which he is party and privy But Crook said in the Case that Hutton put If the Summoners had read the Writ upon the Land and had summoned him to appear at a day comprised in the Writ It had been certain enough And so in this Case if he had read the Indenture upon the Land and after demanded the Rent as afore it had been Without question it appears to me it should be good enough And so in our Case also Leech against Watkins IN Debt upon an Obligation The Condition was that if the Obligor and his Heirs did or suffered
open Pound if they dye the Distreyn is chargeable 75 A demand before a Distress if the Demand is out of the Land if not then see 86 Where Damages shall not be mitigated 93 Where a Demand ought to be certain and where not 109 On a Devastavit a Writ de bonis propriis issues 110 If a Debtee mary Debtor what becomes of the Debt see 120 In what Cases A must declare tam pro domino rege quam pro seipso 122 Double delay not allowed 126 E DElay in arrear of Error not hinder Execution 17 If a Sheriff remove his Prosoner out of the County without command It is Escape 34 Where he permits him to go for his pleasure Escapes lies ibid. Ne unque Executor found against him upon a Scire fac shall be only de bonis testat 48 Eject firm lies against Tenant at Will if he leases for years 73 If the Conisee permits the Conisor being in execution to go at large be an Escape 79 Excommunication to strike in the Church 86 If an Executor dies before probate the Goods belong to the Administrator of the first Testator 105 A Rent upon Condition reserved to the Executors goes to the Administrator 115 If a devise be void if no Executor be made 118 Ejectments do not lie of a Mannor 146 In Ejectment he ought to shew the certain quantity of Land 176 Antient Demesn is a good Plea in Ejectments 177 F A Franktenement cannot pass from a day to come 29 Feoffment to the use of a Stranger ought to be tendered to him 56 Denyal of the Rent a Forfeiture 6 A Subject may have a Forest but not a Justice Seat 60 No Clergy for Felony committed upon the high way otherwise upon the foot way 75 In a Formedon he ought to make himself heir to him who died seised last of the E-Estate tayl 78 Felony to take Pidgeons out of a Dove-coat 149 Fieri Facias no Bar to the Capias although part of the debt be satisfied 159 I INdictment quassavit for incertainty 35 Upon a Judgement if the Money be paid to the Attorney it is good but otherwise of a Scrivener 48 Inne-Keeper ought to say in his Action transiens hospitavit 49 If Land be descended to an Infant the Sheriff shall surcease his extent 54 59 Iudgement had against an Infant may be reversed 65 Judgement reversed for want of Pledge 59 Imparlance roll may be amended 143 Infans habeat eandem actionem possessoriam qualiter antecessor 160 An issue mistaken cannot be amended 164 K IF the King enters upon any Tenant a Petition of right lies 29 The King cannot take a man in execution out of Prison to his wars causa vid. 57. L VVHether a Lease to two be determined by the death of one 85 Whether a Grant of Estovers out of another place than was the Lease be good 78 Libell for the Seat in a Church 94 Where upon a Lease the Heir shall be estopped and where not 91 Libell for Tithes of two pecks of Apples 100 M VVHat things go to the making of a Feme sole Merchant 9 Where inter-mariage is but a suspension of a promise 12 An action brought in consideration of a mariage 50 How a Lord shall recover in a Writ de valore maritagii 55 O FOr what Causes an Outlawry may be reversed 93 P IN Partition no dammages are to be recovered 34 Prescription for Sallery of a Vicar is tryable at Common law 33 Prohibition where the thing might be tryed and proved at Common law 15 Where Prohibitions shall be granted and where not 19 27 28 49 50 51 60 68 69. Parson cannot discontinue 88 Prohibition upon words 94 A Protestando is no Answer 104 Symony a good suggestion for a Prohibition 116 Whether a Prohibition may be without alleging a Custom 117 Per minas pleaded 121 R VVHether the word Successive so makes a Limitation of a Remainder good matter and Cases thereupon 22 23 24 25 26 If a Feme sole Executrix of a Term mary him in reversion and dies the Term is not drowned 36 Release of Actions and Sutes substantive bars Debt 15 Nul tiel Record replyed where Recusancy convict is pleaded by the Defendant the Record must be shewn 18 Where a Reversion passes without Attornment 73 Where one Request may serve for several Debts 84 Whether on a Rescous the Action shall be brought by the Plaintiff against the Rescousor or against the Sheriff 95 Where no averment against a Record 107 Where a Feme shall be remitted and what makes a Remitter 110 No Rescous can be of Goods 145 Arrerages for rent upon an Estate for life cannot be forfeit for Outlawry 164 S TO grant a Supersedias there must be execution erronice emanavit alleged 30 Surrender determines the Interest of all parties but a Stranger 51 In Case of Symony the Statute makes the Church void 51 No fee due to the Sheriff for the executing of a cap. utlagat 52 That he might arrest the Kings Servant upon this Writ ibid. Quicquid plantatur solo cedit solo 57 T TRover and conversion brought for a load of wheat 22 A discharge of Tithes by the Parson for years runs with the Land and not with the person 31 Where toll ought to be pleaded in Trover and conversion 49 Trespass against Baron et feme dum sola fuit both shall be taken 53 If Part and Portion a like make joint tenancy or tenancy in Common 55 Trespass brought by Baron and Feme they must not say ad damnum ipsorum otherwise of Jointenants 2 Tithes of Fish due meerly by Custom 13 Tithes where due by the Common law of the Land no Prohibition ibid. Tithes of Limekills 14 The word Equally makes Tenancy in Common 64 No Trespass lies against a Disseisors Lessee 66 Where Tithes of young Cattel 85 93 Tithes for hedging Wood. 18 A Term evicted on Elegit is grantable upon a Statute Merchant or Staple not tithes for milk of Calves 100 No Composition for tithes for life without Deed. 107 No tithes for Estovers burnt in an House 110 V A Special Verdict may be amended according to the notes given to the Clark 52 A Verdict finding matter repugnant or which cannot come in question binds not the Court. 4 If a Scrivener not the party reserve more than just interest no Usury 11 Where the Visne and the return differ it is not good 83 If Defendant dies between Verdict and Iudgement Iudgement will be stayed 90 Whether Beer Brewers are within the Statute and intent of Victuallers 101 W VVAste committed by a Stranger the Lessee dies no remedy against the Seranger 97 Tenant for life and he in remainder may join in Waste 105 The Warden of the Fleet nor Westminster never may take Obligations for Dyet 146 REPORTS AND CASES TAKEN In the third fourth fifth sixth and seventh years of the Reign of the late King Charles c. Ralph Marsh against John Culpepper RAlph Marsh brought an action upon the
good and it shall be intended that the Parson is alwaies resident in his Parsonage as a Surrender or an Attournment shall be intended upon the Land and it is not requisite to name any place And it seemed to Harvey that the Arbitrement was good although that all the Parishioners had not submitted to it Because that these were bound for them 18 E. 4. 22. 1â—… 1. And Iudgement was afterwards in the next Term given for the Plaintiff Iohn Paston against William Manne IOhn Paston brought an Ejectione firm against Manne and a special verdict was given to this effect scilicet Edward Paston was seised of the Mannor of Bingham parcel whereof was the Land in question grantable by Copy And he by his Deed indented in consideration of a Mariage to be had between Tho. Paston his Son and the Daughter of I. S. covenanted with I.S. to stand seis'd of the Mannor to the use of his Son for life and after to Mary the wife for life the remainder to the first Son between them in tail with divers remainders over The Mariage was solemnised and they found moreover that there was a Custome that the Lord might have liberty of fould course for 100 Sheep throughout all the Copiholdland lying in the East and North field the Customary places and Lands in these Fields not being inclosed from the Feast of St. Michael to the Feast of the Annunciation if the grain was carried in by that time Or otherwise from the time of the carrying in to the Annunciation if it be not sowed with seed again and that those 15 acres in question be in the Corn-field And that Thomas Paston granted that Copihold to the Defendant in Fee and that in 14 Iacobi the Defendant enclosed the Land without Licence of the Lord and if Licence was obtained then he ought to have paid a Fine which the Lord would have assest And if any of the Tenents inclose without Licence they find that they have used to be punisht and pay those penalties which the Lord would assess And they also found that that incloser by the Copiholder was with a Ditch of six foot in breadth and 3 foot in depth and that the land which he digged out was but to make a Bank upon the Land upon which a hedge of quick thorn was set and that four gaps were left in the inclosure of nine feet in breadth And they found that the Defendant did not at any time compound for a Fine And then they find that the Copiholders which before this inclosed without Licence were amerced and commanded upon a pain before a certain day to throw up their inclosures And now for this inclosure Thomas enters for a forfeiture and dies his Wife makes a Lease of it and the Defendant ejects the Lessee Atthowe held that he had forfeited his Copihold for that inclosure is against the Custome of the Mannor which is found For the Custome is the life and soul of a Copihold as it is in the 4 Rep. 31. Brownes Case The breaking of that is a forfeiture and make the Copiholder have an Estate at will meerly whereas before he had an Estate not meerly at the will of the said Lord but secundum volunt domini And so by the inclosure the Lord cannot have his fould course and so the custome is broken 42 Ed. 3. 25. For not doing the services the Lord may enter and have the Emblements If a Copiholder makes a feoffment it is a disseisin for which there may be an Assise of novel disseisin de libero tenement of Lands whereof the profits or of the Rent issuing out of the Land there is a forfeiture And Littleton said that a rescous Replevin Enclosure and denying the Rent is a Disseisin And what is a Disseisin of a Freehold is a forfeiture of the Copihold Rescous by a Copiholder is a forfeiture for all the books say that a denial of a rent is a forfeiture And it is held that if a Copiholder brings a replevin it is a forfeiture and the Lord may enter presently But if he avow then perchance he hath dispensed with it And an inclosure is more strong than a denial 11 E. 3. Assise 88. cited in Taverners Case 4 Rep. The heir cannot have an Assise before entry but if the Defendant menaces him or stops up the way it is a Disseisin 14 Ass plac 19. 8 E. 2. As 374. A stopping up of the way is a disseisin but if he can go another way he can have nusance 29 Ass 49. But it will be objected that the Lord had another remedy for he might have an Action of the Case And for that not enter for a forfeiture But an Action of the Case does not restore him to the Freehold but give dammages only And if an Assise be brought it affirms the Disseisin and makes forfeiture and that agrees Taverners Case That where several Copiholds were granted by one Copy a rent denied of one forfeits that and not the others But admit it is a forfeiture if the leaving the Gaps dispence with it And it seem'd that not for he loses the profit of the Fould-course for 500 Sheep would tear their fleeces by such a narrow passage and the inclosure is an impediment to hinder their spreading in their feeding And so every one also may inclose and leave gaps and the Lord perhaps compell'd to put and remove the Shéep ten times in one day and so the Sheep worse at night than in the morning c. Secondly if the Lord had given Licence then he would have had a Fine but he would so be his own Carver And the Lord had no remedy for a Fine upon admittance after Surrender 4 Rep. 46. He had no remedy there by Action of debt nor by Action of the Case without promise to the Admittance c. Lord grants a Copihold Escheat he ought to improve his Fine before or he hath no remedy for he is not compelled to grant the Copihold again and therefore he shall have what Fine he will And it is not found also who may inclose paying his Fine A Lord admits a Copiholder for life with remainders the admittance of Tenent for life was the admittance of the remainder but he shall have his Antefine 4 Rep 23. And if they may inclose paying a Fine then the Lord had an Estate at the will of the Tenents Thirdly when it is found that the Lord amerced and commanded upon pain c. that is no mitigation or dispensation of the forfeiture For ruinous Houses pull'd down is a forfeiture without Custome to the contrary Because no waste lies against a Copiholder as against Lessee for years And yet the Lord in favour may amerce such a Copiholder if he will and that is no dispensaition but an affirmation of the forfeiture And so because the Lords were conscionable and would not take the forfeiture that does not prove that it is a Dispensation Fourthly the making of the gap and hedge of
to be void by the same reason Greenwood and Tilers Case He had much insisted upon that yet in the enlargement of the Case this point was resolved That if the Livery was by Attourney it should be void and the reason there was That although that the deed was void yet the Livery made in person ought to be good But the Deed can never by Livery be made good which was void to that purpose And it had been said and objected that it might be done in person and therefore by Attourney I agree that by that Livery an Estate passes but not by the Deed. But the Livery makes it pass out of the Interest that the Lessor had But by that reason that such a Lease shall be good where Livery is by the Lessor himself will not stand with our Case And divers Cases declare this difference 23 E. 3. 31 32. A Deed of Feoffment is made by Mawbry where he had nothing in the Land and after purchases and makes Livery Secundum formam Chart. That estate passes but not by the Deed. But if Livery had been there made by Attourney it had not been good If a Feme Covert or a Monk makes such a Charter of Feoffment and after Coverture or deraignment Makes livery then by Attorny such livery then cannot be good For he cannot exceed his authority which was to make good his first Deed. 22 H. 6 32. A feoffment of a Mannor by Deed of two acres all pass not by deed but by livery but if by Attorny otherwise it is Livery according to deed where there is not any by Attorny is void Kelway 64. A lease made by Baron and Feme may be pleaded without Deed. Coparceners agregate cannot make a Lease without Deed But a Bishop or a single Corporation may and it shall be good against him but not against his Successor Dyer 19. 17 E. 4. 17. Littleton said Where an Estate passes by Deed then the Livery is but a Ceremony And in the Chapter of Conditions he in the remainder shall be bound by Condition in the Deed. Because that he took by that So that by your reasons you would make that acknowledgement and inrollment by the Grantor himself to be a Ceremony and yet nothing pass And the rule in Magdalen College Cases If you will have a thing by Deed to be nought no subsequent Act can make it good And then the lease is made to three and the Grant of Attorny to deliver seisin to 3. and he delivers seisin but to one although that the others take in remainder Yet he ought not to take upon him the cognisance of law but pursue his authority A lease is made for years the remainder in fée and a Warrant of Attorney to deliver seisin to him in the remainder And the Attorny delivers seisin to the Tenent for years It is not good And yet in Law it ought to be made to him 11 H. 7. 13. A feoffment and a letter of Attorny to deliver seisin to two and he does it but to one That is a disseisin and absolutely void by the Statute Dyer 177. Hill 39. Eliz com banc rot 941. Iohnson against Morris and Edmunds IOhnson brought a Trespass against Morris and Edmunds quare clausum fregit et herbam suis depastus est c. The Defendant said that all the time of the Trespass he was seised of the Mannor of Amner And that they and all their Predecessors had a Sheep-walk in the place assigned c. and for all the year but when it was sowed for all the sheep leavant and couchant upon the Mannor c. The Plaintiff replies that the Defendant such a day put 200 sheep within that Land and that those sheep were levant and couchaut upon the Chauntry fold Whereupon the Defendant demurred Crowley Iustice The Declarations are general of sheep without expressing the number and for that the Iustification is good in the generalty and now when the replication is of 200 sheep and does not say alias it is naught Hutton It is not directly put that the Chauntry land is parcel of the Mannor and then we cannot so intend it and yet by the Demurrer it is confessed Richarson It is not sufficient to say that they were levant and couchant upon the Chauntry fold without saying absque hoc that they were parcel of the Mannor And it is incertain whether there were other sheep and we by Imagination cannot intend it c. Harvey and Hutton The Replication is good For that that in the Replication he now declares of what sheep he complain'd before And he does not agree the sheep which the Defendant hath justified but he mistakes his Iustification For he brings his action for another thing As the Trespass is made quare clausum fregit The Defendant justifies for a way and the Plaintiff says that he went out of the way It is a good replication And a new Assignment of the Sheep is contained in the Replication the Declaration being general And although that he did not say directly that the sheep are other Yet put all the parts of the Replication together and it will appear that they are other But Richardson and Crook on the contrary The Replication is not a confession and avoidance nor traverse of the bar if it had been said Ducent alias oves But then the Declaration had been avoided and the Defendant might plead not guilty to them And although it was said levant and couchant upon the Chauntry fold yet it is but an argument and express allegation in bar cannot be answered by arguments For a prescription is for Ewes and the Trespass quare oves c. generally The Defendant alleges his prescription and avows that they were oves matrices And the Plaintiff replies that they were oves verveces That is not good without a traverse absque hoc that they were oves matrices And the Case put before of Iustification by way was agreed For there it was confessed and avoided by Replication And also that Case alleged by Hutton to be adjudged A Battery is alleged to be done the first of May. The Defendant justifies deson assault dem the same day The Plaintiff replies that that Battery was four hours after the other Battery And it was traversed and well which was ordered by the Court that an alias should be added in the Replication c. Fawnes Case FAwne an Attorney in this Court had arrested divers persons by Process without original in Actions of debt And where the King ought to have for every hundred pounds in the Obligation 10 s. for a Fine if the sum exceeded 50 l. And when the original is sued the said Fawne took the mony to himself of the Clyents And the Cursiter complains to the Chancellor and be informs the Court. And it was said by Richardson because he had taken his oath which every Attorny ought to take That he shall do no falsity And also we by our Oath bound to punish such
Executor shall have the Land and yet the heir cannot have the rent Harvey In this Court it was the case of one Asham who had a purpose to enclose a Common and one Tenant was refractory wherefore Asham made him a Lease of the soil in which he had Common and afterwards he surrenders it again And it was agreed that the Common was suspended during the term Crook A Lease for years is by the contract of both parties and the surrender may revive the rent but by the surrender the arrearages shall not be revived And suppose that the surrender was by Indenture and a recitall of the grant that is a grant and then it is expresse that by the surrender their intent was that the rent should be revived 3 H. 6. A surrender determines the interest of all parties but of a stranger But it is determined to themselves to all intents and purposes Crook It was one Cooks Case against Bullick intrat 45 Eliz. rot 845. Com. ban It was there adjudged and this diversity was taken If one devise Lands in Fee and after makes a Lease for years of the same Lands to the Devisee to commence after his death it is a countermand of his will if the Lease was to commence presently it is no countermand and the reason is In the first case both cannot stand in Fee the Devise and the Lease But when the Lease commences immediately he may outlive the Lease And this Case is put upon the intents of the parties But Henden This Case is also adjudged If two Tenants in Common are and one grants a Rent charge the Beasts of the other are not distreinable But if a Tenant in Common takes a Lease for years of another his Cattel are discharged again But Yelverton and Hutton doubted that Case and so it was adjourned to be argued c. Thomsons Case THompson libells for delapidations against the Executors of his predecessor and Henden moved for a Prohibition for that that Thompson is not incumbent for his presentment was by the King ratione minoritatis of one Chichley and the King had not any such Title to present for where the King mistakes his Title his Presentment is voyd and he is no Incumbent 6 Rep. 26. Greens Case And Sir Thomas Gawdys Case where the King presented jure praerogat when he had another Title and the present Action was adjudged voyd and whether he is incumbent or not that shall be tryed But by the Court a Prohibition was denyed because that he was now incumbent And the Iudges would not take notice of the ill Presentment of the King But in case of Symony the Statute makes the Church voyd and then the Iudges may take notice of that and grant a Prohibition if the Parson sues for Tythes But if a quare impedit be brought and appears that the King had not cause of Presentment then a Prohibition may be granted which also was granted by all the other Iustices Richard Youngs Case RIchard Young was Demandant in a Formedon and admitted by Prochein amy and the Warrant was allowed by a Iudge and it was certified and entred in Gulstons Office in the Roll of Remembrance but it was not entred in the Roll as the course in the Common Bench is and after Iudgement is given for the Plaintiff And for that Formeden the Defendant brought a Writ of Errour and removed the Record and assigned it for Errour And before in nullo est erratum pleaded And Davenport moved that it might be mended for he said that there was a difference between that Court and the Kings Bench as it is in the 4 Rep. 43. Rawlins Case for the Entry of the Roll was Richard Young came et obtulit se per atturnat suum where it should have been proximum amicum And the Entry in the Remembrance Roll was That he was admitted per Gardianum Richardson said that all the Books are That an infant ought to sue by Prochein amy and defend by his Guardian and so is a Demandant But the Court agreed That that should be amended according to the Certificate As a speciall Verdict should be amended according to the Notes given to the Clerk And Davenport said that he would venture it although it was by Guardian for he held it all one if it were by Guardian or by Prochein Amy. See afterwards more of this The Vicar of Cheshams Case THe Earl of Devonshire had a Mannor in the Parish of Chesham in Buckinghamshire which extended to Latmos where there is a Chapell of Ease and the Vicar of Chesham Libells for Tithes against one of the Tenants of the Mannor And Henden moved for a Prohibition for that that the Earl prescribed that he and all his Tenants should be acquitted of all the Tythes of Land within Latmos paying 10. s. per. ann to the Chaplin of Latmos And he said that such a Prescription is good as it was adjudged in Bowles Case And a Prohibition was granted Wildshieres Case IT was agreed by the whole Court That for Executing of a Capias utlagatum or for a Warrant to Execute it or for a return of it no Fee is due to the Sheriff c. It was afterwards agreed upon an Habeas corpus sued by Wiltshiere who was imprisoned being under-Sheriff by the Lord Chamberlain for arresting Sir George Hastings Servant to the King upon a Cap. utlagat That he may well doe it upon the Servant of the King for it is the Sute of the King himself and he is sworn to serve it and there is no cause of the Commitment returned but only a recitall of the Commitment unless he was released by the Lord. And the Iudges took exception to that and said that it ought to be unless he can be released by the Law and said if no cause be returned they ought to dismisse the Prisoner And they ordered the Keeper to inform the Lord Chamberleiâ— and that their Opinion was and so was the Opinion of all the Iudges of England That he who procured the Commitment of the under Sheriff ought to pay all the Charges and Expences Quod nota Wentworth against Abraham THe Lord Wentworth brought an Action upon the Case against Abraham upon an Assumpsit and declares that the Defendant 1 die Maii Anno Dom. 1625. in consideration that the Plaintiff would permit the Defendant to re-enter in a Messuage and Croft in which the Defendant had dwelt before promised that he would pay to him 30. s. yearly during the time that he should enjoy it And that he permisit ipsum reentrare and that he should enjoy it a year and an half which ended at Michaelmas 1626. And for that he would not pay 45. s. he c. And upon non Assumpsit pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff And it was moved by Davenport in Arrest of Iudgement for that that the Assize is to pay 30. s. Annuatim then before the Action be determined nothing is due and the Plaintiff cannot divide the
the Feoffees shall make an Estate of the same lands to all his Sons except H. And if all his Sons dye without issue that then the remainder shall be to an Estranger Hutton said That because H. was not excepted in the last clause that he had an Estate Tayl. The Maior and Commonalty of Winchesters Case THe Bishop of Winchester grants to the Maior and Commonalty of the same City That they might Edifie in the vacant places of the same City and inhabit there And that Grant was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter and the Opinion of Hutton was That notwithstanding that Grant the soil is to the Bishop and by consequence the Houses Quia quioquid plantatur solo cedit solo And that grant does not enure but as a Covenant or Licence and not otherwise One Tomkins Case IT was said by the way That if a man be in Execution for the Debt of another man in the Fleet the King cannot take him into his Protection into his Wars out of Prison untill the Debt be paid because that he is in Execution for the said Debt and the letting him out of Prison is to let him out of the Execution which the Law will not suffer But if he was in Execution in the Fleet or other Prison for the Debt of the King there he may discharge him and take him into his Protection or into his wars for he may well discharge his own Debt Skore and Randalls Case THe Case was thus A Lease was made to Robert Chichester for 99 years to him his Executors Assigns or Administrators if Robert Chichester or John Bellew or James Bellew or any of them shall so long live yielding and paying therefore yearly and every year unto the said Randall his Heirs and Assigns the sum of 40. s. at the four most usuall Feasts and also yielding at or upon the death of Chichester Bellew or Bellew his or their best Beast in the name of an Herriot or 40. s. c. Provided that if Bellew or Bellew dye in the life of Chichester no Herriot to be paid after their deaths A Distress is taken upon Skore the Assign of Chichester for his own Beast Ashly The Question is whether his or their refer to Chichester Bellew or Bellew only or may refer to Executors and Assigns of Chichester the Lessée And so whether the Beasts of the Assignée may be taken for an Herriot And it séemed to him not for that that a Reservation ought to be taken strictly 27 H. 8. Comment 171. 21 H. 8. Dyer 45. So that if the words are words of Reservation or of Declaration which he will favour they shall not be extended further than the words c. Bing contrary And he conceived that the Lessee or his Executors before Assignment ought to pay the Herriot and afterwards the Assignee for he who took the benefit ought to sustein the burthen Sic transit res cum onere and none took the benefit but the Assignee or his Executors And that is so strange an intendment that in the Habend it is not named who shall yield or pay but it is intended he who had the land and that Herriot comes in in the render of the Rent and render does suppose a Prender And it is coupled with the reservation of Rent and it may be granted that the Tenant shall pay the Rent And then it immediately followes And also his or their best c. which then ought to be the Beast of him in possession Secondly The other Exposition should be impossible to be performed for none shall be charged but those that are either privy in contract or Estate and the Executors of Chichester are not privy to any and Bellewes are the persons only named by the limitation of the Estate and not any wayes privy It may be said that the Tenant shall pay the Beast of Chichester and so his Beast But no man may give the Beast of another And if it be said That he may buy him then the Property should be altered and it would be his own Beast Yielding his or their Beast It cannot be intended that Bellew or Bellew might yield but the Lease is granted to him his Executors or Assigns then his or their Lessee or their Executors or Assigns And you cannot have a forraign intendment of Bellew or Bellew Then the Exposition is good that the Herriot ought to goe with the Estate Hutton That Reservation is not of a thing that agrees with the Rent but it is of a collaterall matter and it is of a thing against common right and for that it ought to be taken strictly and to be the Beast of him that dyed for if it had been Yielding the best Beast of a stranger it had been good but thâ—…e is Election of the Herriot or of 40. s. Then by Assignment one part is become impossible for the Assignee cannot pay the Beast of Chichester but the Fourty shillings he may pay And because the Distress may be taken for the 40. s. therefore the Avowry is naught Richardson If Chichester dye Tenant then his Beast shall be paid And his Executors if the interest come to them shall cause that it be paid for Chichester made the Contract and that goes to his Executors but not to the Assigns And for the 40. s. that is demandable against the Executors of Chichester Yelverton The case is doubtfull but I incline that the Avowry is not good for the words in the Reservation of the Heriot are speciall If it had been said And also yielding after his and their death his or their best Beast There it would be the Beast of the Lessee his Executors or Assigns But also he had sever'd it from the Rent and had taken out of the course of the Estate for otherwise it concurred and went with the Rent But also he had made it collaterall for it is to be paid after the death of the stranger For his or their cannot be carried but to the persons named by the limitation And the Proviso explains that that it should not be payed after the death of the Assignee But if it had been rendring the best Beast after the death of the stranger It should be payed by him that had the Inheritance But he held for the 40. s. that the Executors shall not pay it Perryman against Bowden PErryman brought a Replevin against Bowden and Brown who made a Recognisance in the name of Bedle. And the Case was thus A rent is granted payable at Michaelmas and the Annunciation And if it be in arrear by 40 daies after any day of payment upon the demand at such a place he might distrain And it is not shewed that he demanded it And for that a demurrer Atthowe it is not requisite to shew a demand for the distress it self is a demand And it was adjudged in this Court If a Rent be granted and that he may without demand distreyn and good without demand And the words if it be
demanded are material Because it is demandable in a Collateral place out of the Land charged Crook Grant of a rent and that I pay it at Michaelmas allwaies if it be demanded at my House there ought to be a demand And suppose it was to be demanded in such a place upon the Land I conceive the demand ought to be made accordingly Yelverton A Lease was made rendring a rent payable at such a day upon Condition that if the rent be not paid at such a day without demand That the Lessor may reenter And adjudged that no demand is now requisite For modus et conventio vincunt legem c. Sed adjurnatur Wolfes Case before THe Plaintiff was an Attorney who sued by attachment of Privilege And now the Court would not permit the amendment Because there was a material Error for it is to the disadvantage of the King For if the party be non-sute or a verdict passes against him the King shall have a Fine for false clamour and may recover them against the pledges But now where it is the Act of the Court or of the Clark or Attorny and not the party himself there may be amendment As warrant of Attorney may be entred after the Record removed And although that pledges were entred upon the Issue roll where it ought to have been upon the Imparlance roll But not on the contrary For the Issue roll is the inferiour Harvey If a Sute be by Bill as an Attorney being Defendant there are alwaies pledges entred in the Bill But if by Attachment also as so Then the Declaration is the Original Crook 12 Eliz. Dyer There Iudgement was reversed for want of Pledges And although that Case was before the Statute of 8 Eliz. yet that Statute does not ayd substantial Errors And in one Husseys Case in the Kings Bench That was adjudged for Error Wilknsons Case CRew moved that two were bound in a Statute and one dies his Heir within age That the extent shall demur Because that usura recurrit contra haeredem infra aetatem existentem And he cited 17 Ass 24. by Mawbrey And so it was agréed by the Court. And Richardson said That in that respect the Statute is an ill assurance Quod nota Waddingtons Case AYlâ—ff moved for a Prohibition for one Waddington for that that he was executor and was sued in the Councell of York upon an Obliligation for the payment of a Legacy And he alleges that a Lease which was put in the Inventory was aliened to him by the Testator in his life time And so the Question will be whether that should be Assets which ought to be tryed at the Common law And therefore prayed a Prohibition Richardson said The Councel of York have power of all Obligations And therefore having Iurisdiction of the principal they have Iurisdiction of the accessary Davenport It is seen that they may proceed upon an Obligation of all sums If they procéed Suo genere as in the Court of Equity But if a thing tryable at Common law as Assets or not Assets come they cannot proceed c. Richardson If a Sute be there for a Legacy and payment be pleaded they may try that But if they meddle in matter of Title then a Prohibition shall be granted Hutton There hath been many motions upon these Ecclesiastical Obligations for Prohibitions and allwaies they were denied And so it was in this Case Comins Case IN one Comins Case it was agreed by the Court That a Subiect may have a Forest But cannot have a Iustice Seat But he may have a Swanmark Court and the other Courts and a Commission to execute them Then a Forest in the hands of a Subject shall pay Tithes And it was agreed that in the hands of the King it is privileged And by Henden Davenport and Atthowe Sergeants It is only his personall privilege which extends to the Lessee of the King But not to the Feoffee And it was agréed That where the right of tithes comes in Question between a Parson and the Vicar who are both Ecclesiastical persons It shall be tryed by the Ecclesiastical Court But Richardson said the Books make a doubt Where it is between the Servant of the Vicar and the Parson But it seemed to him to be all one Margery Rivets Case before RIchardson Hutton and Harvey said That the Devastavit ought to be to Margery for Necessity sake For it cannot be intended otherwise For none can satisfie the Debt but Margery And the intention of the Replication was to charge her de bonis prop. for waste and no other can be intended to waste And the Case put of I. S. so being seised feoffavit There it is good without praedict I. S. But for the thing it ought to be Feoffavit inde 21 H. 7. There if W. S. be named again It shall be intended the same W. S. if there be not quidam I. S. and then otherwise and also it is much mended by the Replication For there it is ipsa Margareta non devastavit But Crook and Yelverton on the contrary according to their reasons before that no Issue is joyned And then the Statute does not ayd it For there is not any Nominative Case to which it may referre If it had been quo die Margery habens bona devastavit had been good But being bona habuit no Grammarian can make Construction of it And the Replication or Declaration ought to be certain to all intents 27 H. 6. 3. Wrotesleys Case In an information of Tithes It was said That the Defendant cognoscens him to be in sute being ruled that Congnoscens is not positively an affirmation but it ought to be cognovit And Iudgement was had upon it and yet after for that fault reversed 1 R. 3. There the Case was After verdict was entred that the Iury appeared et electi triati dicunt super sacramentum suum There it was reversed because it was not lurati and yet that was implyed by sacramentum strongly But Implications ought not to be allowed in Replicatious then we should introduce so many incertainties But by Crook Iudgement shall be given against the Plaintiff upon his own Replication For that that the waste is supposed after the Son came at full age and then the Administration that determines And Iudgement was given for the Defendant Roberts and others ROberts and others in East Greenwich were cited in the Spiritual Court to pay mony that the Wardens had expended in reparation of the Church And the Inhabitants alleged That the tax was made by the Church-wardens themselves without calling the Free-holders and also that the monys were expended in the re-edifying of Seats which belonged to their several Houses And they never assented that they should be pulled down And now that allegation was not allowed but sentence was given against them And then they appealed to the Arches where this allegation was also rejected And for that he prayed a Prohibition And the Court agreed That the
said Goe not to such a one c. it is actionable without question Slander of one in his Trade will bear an action And so all being connexed alike it ought to be intended that he killed him in respect of his skill In Cases of Defamation Sir George Hasting's Case Thou didst lye in wait to kill me with a Pistoll were actionable So if one touch another in respect of his skill in that that he professes it will maintain an action c. And Yelverton to the same purpose for there is a difference between a Profession and a particular Calling As if words are spoken of one that is a Iustice of Peace he ought to shew that he was then a Iustice of Peace for he is removable and may be changed every Quarter Sessions But as to a Calling the Calling of every man is his Free hold 43 E. 3. Grant of an Annuity to one pro consilio and he professes Divinity Physick and Law there the grant is pro consilio generally for Physick if that be his usuall Profession And it is intended that a man alwayes dyes in his Calling If he said to I. S. Thou art a murtherer it shall not be intended of Hares for the Iudges are not to search so far for construction Loquendum ut vulgus intelligendum et sapiens If one sayes of a Merchant Put not your Son to him for hee 'l starve him to death These words are actionable for that that it comes within the compasse of the disgrace of his Profession And so of a School-master Put not your Son to him for hee 'l come away as very a dunce as he went Harvey If one sayes of a Iudge He is a corrupt Iudge it cannot be meant of his body to be corrupt but it shall be intended of his Profession Peitoes Case before HEnden for the Defendant the Case is thus A Rent is granted for life out of Lands which descend to the Heir and he makes a Lease of parcell of the Land to the Grantee for years who surrenders the term Whether the Rent shall revive or suspend during the term And it was said by him it shall revive First For that that it is the act of him who is lyable to the Rent to accept the surrender And there is a difference where there is a determination barely by the act of the party there it shall not be revived For the first 21 H. 7. 9. Tenant in Tayl of a Rent is infeoffed of Land and he makes a Feoffment of Land with a warranty to B. with Voucher as of land discharged of that Rent And so it is 19 H. 6. 55. Ascue put this Case Grantee of a rent in Fee and Donee in Tayl of Land infeoffs the Grantee who grants that over and afterwards the issue in Tayl recovers in a Formedon yet the rent shall not be revived But if it had been the joynt act of the parties as so by surrender it should have been revived First It is clear that if a Chattell personall be suspended by Sute it shall be gone for ever As if a Feme marries the Obligor 11 H. 7. 25. unless suspension be in anothers right if it be by the act of the party there it shall be revived As if a Feme Executrix marry with the Obligor and he dyes the suspension is determined and they are revived against the Executors 7 H. 6. 2. In one Gascoines Case Lessee surrenders to the Lessor upon condition the rent be suspended but if the Lessor enter for conditions broken the Rent is revived Which in effect is our case A rent is granted to the Daughter and the land descends to her and her other Sister who make partition The Rent is revived for it is the joynt act of both parties Plow 15. If a man had a Rent and disseises the Tenant of the land and after the Disseisee re-enters Where there is a revivor of the land there is a revivor of the Rent for the disseisin was the cause of the suspension and that now is gone Secondly Because that when the Lessee for years surrenders the term is determined to all purposes and the Lessor is in of his Estate is Fee and there is a diversity of surrender in respect of a stranger for to a stranger it may have Essence after surrender But as to himself it is otherwise extinct And he cannot say that it had any Essence 5 H. 5. 12. But in respect of a stranger it ha's continuance as if an Executor surrenders yet it shall be assets And all acts done upon Lessee for ltfe before surrender shall have a continuance after And so he prayed Iudgement for the Avowant But more after Wakeman against Hawkins IT was said That if an Executor was sued in this Court by Originall he shall not put in Bayl. But if he be arrested in an inferiour Court and removed by Habeas corpus he ought to put in Bayl. Stamford and Coopers Case STamford and Coopers Case was thus I. S. acknowledges a Statute to Cooper the 22 January and afterwards he confesses a Iudgement to Stamford the 23 of January next ensuing the Statute And it is extended And Stamford brought a Scire fac against Cooper to wit now because he ought not to have the land by Elegit And the Question was whether the Iudgement by relation shall defeat the Statute And it was resolved That the Iudgement shall have relation to the Essoin day which is the 20 day of Ianuary for that is the first day of the term legally and the fourth day after is the first day of the Term open Dyer 361. Pla. 10. A Release was pleaded after the last continuance and it bore date the 21 of Ianuary which was after the day of Essoin de Octab. Hil. And for that nought because that it came late for it ought to have been after the last continuance and before the last day c. 33 H 6. 45. Nisi prius was taken after the day of the return and before the fourth day after and adjudged nought because that the day of the return which is the Utas is the first day of the term and the fourth day after but a day of Grace and that is the difference If a man be obliged to pay money the first day of the Term he shall not pay it but upon the fourth day after for that is the first day in all common acceptance But in all legall proceedings the first day is the Essoin day And so it was adjudged 16 Eliz. And in the Kings Bench it was in one Williams Case A Iudgement was given the 20 of Ianuary and a Release of all Errours the 21 Ianuary and adjudged that that bars the Iudgement given the 20 Ianuary although it was not entred the fourth day after A Iustice in the Kings Bench examined an Infant upon inspection the Essoin day and found him to be under age and would not permit him to confess a Iudgement although that he would
have come to full age the fourth day after The Court agreed that one may be non-suited the Essoyn day and if he confess an Action that day it shall be good And thereupon Iudgement was given that by the relation the Statute should be avoided c. Crookes Case A Feme sole leases at the will of the Lessor and after the Feme takes an husband If by the taking of the Baron the will of the Feme be determined and it was thought not Fenne against Thomas Hil. 3 Car. Com. Banc. A Man inhabiting in the most remote part of England was arrosted eight times by Latitat and no Declaration is put in Banco Reg. And the Counsell prayed Costs for the Defendant The Prothonotary said that he shall not have Costs unless he come in person But Richardson said on the contrary and he shall have Costs for it appears that he had been put to travell and a day given to shew cause why the Costs shall not be given Spark against Spark SPark brought an Ejectione firmae against Spark for lands in Hawkschurch in the County of Dorset The Case was a Copy was leased for a year except one day and that was found in the Verdict to be warranted by the Custome The sole Question is if an Ejectione firmae lyes And by Hutton If Tenant at will makes a Lease for years an Ejectione firma lyes but if it be a Copy-hold for years an Ejectione firmae will not be maintained Deakins's Case IT was said at the Bar and not gain-sayed If a man perjure himself against two the one by himself cannot have an Action upon the Statute but they ought to joyn for he is not the only party grieved Bentons Case A Man Leases for life and afterwards Leases for years to commence after the death of the Lessee for life rendring Rent the Reversion is granted Tenant for life dyes Lessee for years does not attourn And it seemed That the reversion passes without Attournment And he shall have Debt or shall Avow Williams against Thirkill AN â—…ion of Debt was brought by Williams against Thirkill Executor of I. S. who pleads a Receipt against him of 300. l. over and above which non c. The Plaintiff replies that the receipt was by Covin And so they are at issue and it was found for the Plaintiff and judgement was entred de bonis Testatoris And it was said by the by in this Case That Debt by Paroll may be forgiven or discharged by Paroll Ploughman a Constables Case PLoughman a Constable suffers one who was arrested pro quadam felonia antea fact to Escape And because it is not shewed what Felony it was and when it was done for it may be it was done before the Generall Pardon the party was discharged Hobsons Case VPon an Indictment of Forcible Entry Quod ingress est unum Messuag inde existens liberum Tenement I. S. And because he does not say Adtunc existens and without that it cannot refer to the present time scilicet of the Indictment He was discharged Sir Thomas Holt against Sir Thomas Sandbach SIr Thomas Holt brought Trespass against Sir Thomas Sandbach quare vi armis Because whereas the Plaintiff had used time out of mind c. to have a Water-course by the Land of the Defendant So that the water run through the Land of the Defendant to the Land of the Plaintiff The Defendant he said had vi armis made a certain Bank in his own Land so that the water could not have his direct course as it was wont to have Harvey It séems to me that the Action does not lye For a man cannot have an action of Trespass against me vi armis for doing of a thing in my own Soyl. But Trespass vi armis lyes against a Stranger who comes upon the Land and takes away my Cattell And such like things but not in this Case But he may have an Assise of Nusance As in Case where one makes an House joyning to my House So that it darkens my House by the erection of a new House I may have an Assise of Nusance against him who does it But Crook was on the contrary But it séemed to Richardson that he shall have Trespass on his Case but not vi armis And to that which hath been said That if one build a House to the nusance of another upon his own Land That he to whom the nusance is done may have an Assise of Nusance that is true And also if he will he may pull and beat down such an House so built to his Nusance if he can do if upon his own Land But he cannot come upon the Land of the other where the Nusance is done to beat it down per que c. Hutton of the same opinion By which it was awarded that the Writ shall abate And he put to his Action upon the Case Hitcham moved a Case to the Iustices One I. by Indenture covenants with an other that he should pay him annually during his life 20 l. at the Feast of St. Michael or within 20 daies after 10 l. and at the Feast of our Lady or within 20 daies after 10 l. The Grantée before the 20 daies passe and after the Feast of our Lady dies If the Executors of the Grantee shall have the Rent or not And the Iustices Hutton being absent said That it was a good Case And said that the Executors shall not have it Because it is not at all due untill the 20th day be past Fawkners Case A Lease was made to one for 40 years the Lessee makes his Testament and by that devises it the term to I. S. for term of his life if he shall live untill the said term be expired And if he dies before the years expire then the remainder of the years to F. for term of his life and if he die before the term be expired the remainder of the years to the Churchwardens of S. I. If the remainder to the said Church shall be good or not was the Question Because that the Wardens of the Church are not coporate so that they may take by that Grant Hutton and Harvy said that the Remainder was not good to them And said that the first Remainder was not good Peters against Field A Bill obligatory was shewed to the Court in Debt brought upon it And in the end of the Bill were these words In witnesse whereof I have hereunto set my hand and he had writ his name and put to his Seal also And because no mention was made in the Bill of no Seal to be put to the Bill It was moved to the Iustices If the Bill be good or not And it was agreed by the whole Court that the Bill was good enough Tomlinsons Case A Parson makes a Lease for 21 years The Patron and Ordinary confirm his Estate for 7 years the Parson dies The Question is Whether that confirmation made the Lease good for 21 years or but for 7 years And it seemed to Hutton that the Lease was confirmed but for 7 years But Richardson was of the contrary opinion and took a difference where they confirm the Estate and where they confirm the Land for
arrear that the Remainder shall be to a Stranger that Remainder is not good Hutton said that in my opinion my Brother Atthow spoke well and so it was affirmed Bateman against Ford. AN action of the Case was brought against Ford who had called the Plaintiff Thief and that he had stollen from him a yard of Velvet and a yard of Damask The Defendant said that he said that the Plaintiff had taken and bribed from him as much mony as he had for a yard of Velvet and Damask and justifies Hitcham said that the Iustification is not good For the words that he justifies do not amount to so much as to affirm a Felony in the Plaintiff where the Plaintiff counts that the Defendant slandered him of a Felony Hutton said What difference is there when you say that I have bribed your Horse and when you say that I have robbed you of your Horse Henden one may take Goods and yet it is not felony Termino Pasc Anno 4. Car. Regis Com. Banc. Norris against Isham IN an Eject firm by Norris against Isham These things happened in Evidence to the Iury. First it was cited by Richardson and Hutton to be Hurtltons Case That an Eject firm cannot be of a Mannor Because that there cannot be an Ejectment of the Services But if they do express further a quantity of acres it is sufficient It was said by Crook Iustice and not denyed That if a Lease is made of 5 acres to try a Title in an â—…eject firm And of the 3 acres he will make a lease But in the other a he will not If the livery be in the 3 acres the other 2 does not pass Part of the Evidence was That the Countess of Salisbury being seised of the Lands in Question makes a Lease of them by words of Demise Bargain and Sale to Iudge Crook for a Month to begin the 29 September habendum a datu and it was deliveted the 3 of September And the same day he bargains and sells the Reversion Davenport Because that no Entry appears by the Lessees by vertue of the Demise he submitted to the Court If there was any such Reversion in the Grantor he bring in possession And this difference was a greed That if one demises Lands for years and Grants the Reversion before Entry of the Lessée The Grant is void As it is in Saffins Case Cook 5. 12. 46. But if a man bargain and sell for years and grants the Reversion before Entry of the Lessee it is good For the Statute transfers the Possession to the use As if a man bargain and sells in fee or for life and the Deed is inrolled The Bargainee is in possession of the Frank-tenement And so it is of a Lease for years which is a Chattell And by Crook In the Court of Wards that very point was resolved Davenport Also there are words of Demise and Bargain and Sale before which the Lessee had his Election to take by which he would As Sir Rowland Heyards Case is But by Hutton and it was not denyed He should be in by the Bargain and Sale before Election For that is more for his advantage Further the Evidence was That George Earl of Salisbury made a Lease of those Lands which were a Mannor And makes a Conveyance from himself for life with divers Remainders and then to the use of the Daughter or Daughters of the said George And the heirs males of thrir bodies the remainder to the heirs of the body of the said George c. and had 3 Daughters to whom the Remainder The first dyed without Issue the 2 d. dyed having Issue male the 3 d. bargains sells all her half part and pur part to Edw. Earl of Salisbury Who now being seised of a third part of the Estate of Inheritance and of the other two parts for his life and the lives of the 3 Daughters suffers a common recovery by the name of the moyety of the Mannor And the doubt was what passed Richardson By that there is not passed but the moyety of the third part Hutton Crook and Yeiverton were on the contrary opinion and said that by that All the third part passed also Yelverton If a man be seised of the mannor of Dale and buys half for life of another in fee and makes a Feoffment of the half of the Mannor The moyety which he had in Fee shall pass And there shall be a forfeiture for no part Which was agreed by the Court. If a man be seised of the third part and grants the moyety perhaps the moyety of the third part only passes But he is seised of all Richardson There are several Estates and moyety goes to that Estate which he had in the Mannor For when I grant more than I can grant that which passes passes Crook I had the third part of a Mannor and grant the moyety of the Mannor all my third part passes But in the Bargain and Sale the words were part et pur part Which as it was passed all And also the Covenant to the Lessor The Recovery was of the half part pur part And by Hutton Crook Yelverton All was intended to be recovered And then the word Moyety carries that tresbien Richardson That Indentures of Covenant much mends the Case Another Question upon the Evidence was Whether when a Bargain and sale is made of Lands And the Bargainee before inrollment makes a Lease for years and afterwards it is enrolled If the Lease now be good Richardson and Yelverton It shall be that although it be after acknowledgement and before inrollment yet it is naught And by Yelverton and Crook it was so adjudged in Bellingham and Hortons Case That if one sells in fee and before inrollment the Bargainee bargains and sells to another And afterwards comes an Inrollment That second Bargain and sale is void And an other Question was Pasc 4. Car. Com. Banc. If one makes a Lease for years by Indenture of Lands which he had not If the Iury be estopped to find that no Lease And by Richardson If the finding that no Lease be subject to an attaint But they should find the special matter And then the Iudges would judge that a good Lease And Sergeant Barkley cited Rawlins's Case Coo. 4. 43. to that purpose Crook and Hutton against him And Crook said That it was adjudged in London in Samms case That that is not an Estoppel to the Iury. Which was affirmed by Hutton And that they may find the special matter And then the Iudges ought to find that it is not a good Lease And Hutton said That there is a difference between a special Verdict and pleading in that case For in speciall pleading and Verdict is confost by all parties That he had not any thing in the Lease And then the Iudges gave Iudgment accordingly The King against Clough IN the case of a Quare impedit by the King against Clough before Richardson shewed how the Quare
charged be to the value of 40 l. per an that will be a good condition and the Obligation shall be forfeit If the condition was that the Land was then of such a value it was presently a breach of the Condition The second matter was whether the breach was well assigned or not And Richards Yelvert held that the breach is not well assigned There are two things in the Covenant one of the Estate another of the value Here may be a breach to be assigned upon the Estate but then it ought to be general For the grant out of all his lands and tenements in Watchfield is not a conclusion to him who had lands and tenements in Watchfield then the Obligation is forfeited As if one be obliged to make a Feofment to I. S. of all his lands which he had by descent in D. If he had no lands there it is not a forfeiture So here But if the rent was granted out of particular land as out of the Mannor of D. There the grantor is included to say but that he was seised of the Mannor of D. which was granted As to this diversity the word praedictis had relation to lands and tenements in Watchfield for no lands were named But the material thing is the value c. And if praedict goes to all the Lands then the breach goes to more than the Covenant and then it is not met with But admit that it goes to all yet it is all one For the intention of the parties was that the value of 40 l. joynture per annum shall be mentioned But the Plaintiff does not mention the value And it is sure that the word praedict may goe to all the lands in Watchfield or to lands of 40 l. And if the Defendant had rejoyned he might have rejoyned generally scil That he was seised of lands in Watchfield in Fee simple and he is not forced to shew his particular estate in the lands And admitting they had gone to tryal upon that issue what might the Iurors find And if they had found the value it is nothing to the breach That is more than was in their charge and so void But Hutton and Harvey on the contrary and said that the breach is well assigned And Hutton took this difference That if the Covenant was that he was seised of such particular lands of such value The breach ought to be assigned in particular also but where it is that he was seised of lands of such a value the breach is now well assign'd here it is a recital of lands of the value of 40 l. per an to that predict has relation And it does not appear to us if he had more lands in Watchfield than of 40 l. per an But these things were agreed by all First that the antient pleading in the time of H. 6. is now changed and the general pleading of all Covenants in the Indenture in form although that the affirmative is good And the Plaintiff ought to shew the particular Covenant broken c. Secondly in the principal Case if the Plaintiff had replyed that he was not seised of lands and tenements in Watchfield in Fee-simple without praedict or deque fuit seise de nullis terris vel tenementis praedictis in Watchfield of the value of 40 l. in modo forma secundum formam conventionis is a good assignment of the breach And the Defendant forced to shew the particulars The Plaintiff discontinued the principal sute and begins again but that he might not doe without the license of the Court as they said Because that they might agree afterwards to give Iudgement Taylors Case TAylor was Plaintiff against Waterford in debt upon an Obligation and the Defendant demanded Oyer of the Condition quae legitur ei in haec verba If the Defendant should pay such costs as should be assist at the Assizes without shewing for what the Obligation should be void And the Plaintiff replies that post confectionem Obligationis Pasch .. 4 Car. Com. Banc. the aforesaid words were written upon the Obligation and the truth is that they were endorsed upon the Obligation by memorandum after the Delivery And Atthowe moved that the Plaintiff might not reply in that manner because that when Oyer of the condition was demanded that was entred for a condition and so was admitted by the Plaintiff And for that he is concluded to say the contrary But Serjeant Davenport replyed on the contrary And said first that the words of themselves will not make a condition It is Litletons case That some words doe not make a condition without a conclusion as what is contingent 39 H. 6. And admit that the words will make a condition yet they were written after delivery 3 H. 8. Kellways reports Hutton If there be an Obligation made of 20 l. if it be written upon the back of the Obligation before the sealing and delivery The intent of this Bond is to pay 10 l. for such costs That is no good condition Which Iustice Harvey only being present agreed And if any thing may be part of the condition it ought to be written before the sealing and delivery But it is no condition if it be written after And by them here is no conclusion but that the Plaintiff may plead that the words were written after sealing and delivery Termino Pasch Anno 5. Car. Regis Com. Banc. Mericke against King IN evidence to the Iury he who had purchased the land in question It was said by the Court he shall not be a witness if he claim under the same title Richardson said that the conveyance may be proved by other circumstances And the same reason was also agreed by the Court That if a Feoffment be made of a Mannor to uses that if the tenants have notice of the feoffment that although they have not notice of the particular uses their attornment to the Feoffees is good For the Feoffees have all the estate And Harvey said that so it was agreed in one Andernes's case Sir Richard Moors Case IT was said in evidence to the Iury. The case was that a man prescribes to have common in 100 acres and shews that he put his cattel in 3 acres without saying that those thrée acres are parcel of the 100 yet good And Hitcham said that so it was adjudged in this Court. And Richardson said it was an Huntingtonshire case Where a man alleged a custom to put his Horses c. And the custom was for Horses and Cows And adjudged good Hutton said there can be no exception to the Witness who is Cozen to the party to hinder his evidence in our law To which all agréed Clotworthy against Clotworthy THe case between Tenkely and Clotworthy was cited One grants an Annuity for him and his heirs to be paid annually at two usual feasts for 30 years which was to begin after the death of the grantor And it was agreed by all Richardson being absent that
by the Court that where a Servant of a Bayliff of a Franchise was sworn to serve a Process and by deputation from the Bayliff he ought not to have served a Process but to such a sum And he serves a Process of a greater sum without any warrant and after levies the money and parts with it That the Bayliff shall be chargeable Quod nota Beare against Hodge BEare was Plaintiff against Hodge for taking of his Cattel The Defendent was known as Bayliff to Thomas Wise who was seised of twenty acres c. whereof the Land in question was parcel in Fee And that it was Leased to Harris for 99. years if he and his two sons should so long live and rendring a Rent at the four usual Terms in the year and the best beast at the death of every one of the three in the name of an Herriot or 5. l. at the election of the Lessor And now for Rent arrear at Michaelmas and for an Heriot after the death of Harris he avowed c. The Plaintiff confesses the Lease and reservation and as to the Heriot he demurred But for the Rent he said that he tendered the Rent upon the Land toward the latter time of Michaelmas day and that none was there to receive it And that afterwards he tendered it to the Lessor himself out of the Land and he refused it And that after that time no demand was made but that he after the tender alwaies was and yet is Tenent c. and brings the mony into Court And upon that he demurred Henden said The Avowant may distrein without any new demand and that Case had been adjudged in this Court before For although that the Rent be tendered yet it remains due notwithstanding and then he is able to distrain 15 Iac. in this Court rot 710. Crowley brought a Replevin against Kingsmill who avowed For that the Plaintiff held of him by Fealty and 10 s. rent And for the Rent he distreyned the Plaintiff And that at the day he tendered the rent upon the land none was there to receive it as it is said c. And upon debate it was adjudged that he may distrein without demand 7 rep 29. Maunds case you may see that a Rent-seek shall not be distreined after tender without demand For if by his demand he is intituled to his Action then there ought to be a new Demand 21 E 4. 17. 7 E 4. 40. 20 H. 6.1 cited in Pilkintons Case If you will be excus'd of the Distress there ought to be a tender of the Arrerages at the time of the Distress Richardson Hutton and Harvey all agree That the Distress is good to have the Rent but not to recover Dammages because he does not all he might do And Richardson said That 2 H. 6. 10 H. 6. 20 E. 4. 10 E. 4. and the Case in the Assise and the whole current of Books was to the same purpose Harvey Iustice said that if a tender be upon an Obligation at the day he saves the penalty but if another Demand be afterwards and he refuses to pay he cannot plead unque prist And Iustice Crook cited a Case in the Kings Bench 16 Eliz. betwéen Cropp and Hambleton where a Rent upon a Lease was reserved to be paid at Michaelmas And if by forty daies after c. And in the mean time after the first and before the last the Lessee tenders to the Lessor himself And adjudged that it saves the Forfeiture For it is for his ease that he ought to tender upon the Land And by the same reason also when he hath tendered it to the Person himself and said that it is uncore prist and will demur upon that and not take advantage of his non-tender at the Distress the Dammages are saved But Yelverton was against that For it is agréed that a Distress is locall so then we cannot sever Dammages when the Law hath coupled them and made incident to the Distress Sed adjournatur c. Tithes ONe libells for Tithes of Fish which is due meerly by Custome And the Defendant pleads that time out of mind c. they have paid no Tithes of that And Henden Sergeant moved for a Prohibition And Richardson replyed and said it is méerly a Customary Tithe as Rabbits c. Whereof no Tithes are due by the law of the Land and a Prohibition shall not be granted But all the other Iustices affirmed that there shall be a Prohibition granted because that the Custome ought to be tryed by the Common law and they make a difference betwéen modus decimandi which is also Customary and where there is a Tithe precedent due and that modus converts it into another Duty There no Prohibition shall be granted But it shall be tryed in the spiritual Court whether there be such a modus decimandi or not And that Case in the Custome makes the Duty it self But he alleged the modus to be for two pence and the Parson for thrée pence shall be tryed by the Common law And they said that so was the opinion in the grand Case of lead ore And Hutton said that so it was determined in the Case of one Berry for tithes of Limekills which are as Minerals and are not tithable by the Commmon law But when the Custome is tryed then they in the Ecclasiastical Court may proceed upon it Hartop and Tucke against Dalby HArtop and Tucke brought a Quare impedit against Dalby as Incumbent and the Issue betwéen them was Whether the Church of Essenden was appendent to the Mannor of Essenden or in gross And the Plaintiff to prove the Appendancy gave in evidence that H. 6. seised of the Mannor and Advowson grants to Margaret his Wife the said Mannor habendum una cum advocatione for her Ioynture c. It was said that if the advowson was in gross it could not pass so not named in the Premises But of an advowson appendent otherwise it is As it was agréed in 38 H. 6. 36. Abbess of Syons Case which was granted by the whole Court. Henden to disprove that evidence alleged That the Advowson being made any time in gross It can never be appendent again And he shewed also how H. 3. was seised of that Mannor with the Advowson and that he granted the Mannor to I. S. for life excepta advocatione By which Grant it seem'd to him that it became in gross And said that the Iudgement of the Case in 38 H. 8. 38. was for that cause and that they did not ever find it contradicted And so totis viribus be maintained that to be in gross But all the Iustices were against him And that that is not but a disappendency pro quodam tempore And so was the better opinions in 38 H. 6. as the Case is in Dyer 33 H. 8. 48. 6. of a Villain If the King grants the Demesus of a Mannor for life After the death of the Lessée it is a Mannor again And if
an advowson appendent be granted for life After the Lessee it becomes an Appendent again And so if a Mannor with the Advowson descend to two Copartners And the Advowson is allotted to one and the Mannor to the other If there the Sister who hath the Advowson die without Issue it is then appendant and yet there was a severance in perpetuity And Yelverton went to the Iustices of the Kings Bench to have their opinions And they all agreed that it was but a temporal disappendency during the life without doubt Bramston said the Mannor is granted and the Advowson by E. 6. to the Lord Saint Iohn to be held by several tenures The Mannor in Chivalry and the Advowson in soccage which is a strong presumpsion that the Advowson was in gross But the Iustices agreed that there may be several Services and yet the Mannor and the Advowson nor severed And a Mannor may be granted parcel to be held by one Tenure and parcel to be held by an other Tenure and yet remain intire And afterwards verdict was given for the Plaintiff c. Viner and his Wife against Lawson VIner and his Wife libells against Lawson in the Councell of York for a promise to pay 600 l. to the Wife for her Mariage And suggested that they could not precisely prove it by one witness that they might have remedy at the Common Law But Lawson denyed the promise upon his Oath and yet they proceeded and Lawson prayed a prohibition and it was granted For if it may be proved by some witnesses then it is tryable by an Action of the Case c. And so the Iurisdiction of the Common Law is ousted Abrees Case MOre of the Case which you saw before c. Henden argued that that release is but special and that it extends only to errors And first for that the intention of the parties is principally to be regarded And ex praecedentibus consequentibus optima fit interpretatio The precedent clause is only a release of errors and then the consequent suits And in the last clause release all Actions and suits of error before Secondly a release is particular and may be by inference of other words have a general sense yet particular construction shall be made Nisi impediatur sententia or intentio partium For that also Suits in the middle of the clause shall have relation to the other words And to that purpose is 28 H. 8. Dyer 19. A Grant to the Lessee that he shall have the Rues for hedges by the assignment of the Bayliff of the Lessor and for necessary fuel to burn And the opinion of the Court was that he should have the fewel also by assignment 9 E. 4. 43. 6. A man submits himself to the Arbitrament of I.S. de omnibus actionibus personalibus sectis querelis And it was ruled that that word personal refers to all And the Case in question is the very Case as that in reason 10 H. 7. 8. A man grants the Custody of his Park and all the Windfalls c. And it seemed there that the grant of Windfalls is absolute for that that the intent cannot be otherwise Pasc 36 Eliz. banc Roy. Betwéen Pidgeon and Gibson Norff. The Case upon the special verdict was in Trespass and Pidgeon the Father makes a feoffment to his younger son by which he grants thus Omnia illa messuagia mea tenementa in East Bockham that late were Patris mei and since in the Tenure of N. D. and C. And it was adjudged that that land did not pass by that Feoffment For where particular words are in the end the middle shall never be taken general And so also 8. rep 150. Althams Case There it was resolved that where it had particular words there all shall be of the same nature c. Thirdly expende circumstantias intentio nihil intelligetur which may be intended also in Suits more than in actibus For will you have Action particular and Suits general And so the intention appears in the first word Errors and the subsequent are but declaratory And although that Suits is lastly put in the second Clause yet there it is not but a surplusage And that which is not released by the first Suit cannot be by the second For it is not but a repetition of that which was before Richardson the words are All Writs Actions and Suits by error Without question it shall be intended but errors Or if it be so And all Actions and Suits of error It cannot extend but to errors Hutton In that release there is not any word of debt and therefore it seemed that the intention was not to release other actions but errors And it was adjudged in this Court in a Writ of Annuity A release was pleaded that the Plaintiff acquitted him of one payment for half of the year and released to him all Actions Suits and Demands And adjudged that that release does not bar him but of the arrearages of a year A Quid juris clamat IN a Quid juris clamat The Tenant was adjudged to Attourne And the question was whether he might Attourne without being sworn in Court to do fealty to his Lessor And Brownlow chief Prothonotary said That all the Presidents are that he shall Attourne and do fealty by which the Tenant was sworn to do fealty and the fealty was taken for an Authority Beare and Hodges Case MOre of Beare and Hodges Case you may see before Davenport said that a man cannot distrein upon an actual demand which ought to be to the person upon the Land And for that the distress is tortious and damages by the Common Law are given to him who made the Replevin But to the Avowant damages are only given by the statute of 7. H. 8. cap. 4. 21 H. 8. 19. Now the Rent is not in question for it was taken to pay it but the dammages and the Tenant had done all that he can and it is not reason that he pay any damages And the diversity between a Replevin and debt for Rent after such a tender That a local tender excuses the damages appears H. 4.4 Tidthorps Case 38. E. 3. 13. Debt An Obligation is indorsed to pay the money at Easter and he tenders it at the day to the Obligee who refuses it because he lives at another place And now because that no place was named for the payment the tender was good and shall excuse him without any other demand of the damages Littleton said that a tender of Homage excuses until a new demand 21 E. 4.4 And there a difference seemed to some between fealty and homage But Bryan said that a tender of fealty also until a new request to his person excuses damages because that fealty may be done by Attourney 22 H. 6.31 7 E. 4.4 puts the case of Rent to the same intent Cook Littleton 7. 28. Maunds Case The third resolution is a ground for our Case There it is said if Terre-tenant
the Civil Law And it was resolved First that the King by his Charter deprives the subject of his Liberty and Priviledge of Tryal As he cannot by his Letters Patents alter the nature of Gavelkinde Land but by prescription he may alter it in particular places As 9 H. 6. 44. In corpus cum causa to the Chancellor of Oxford was certified that the prisoner Pro extensione detentus fuit convictus And an exception was taken for that that he should have been indicted and convicted and it was answered that it was Mos Universitatis And by Hutton Iustice That custom was to be intended to be by prescription But so the Charter is confirmed by Act of Parliament it is as good Secondly that there is a good cause of action in the Chancellors Court. For Wilcocks who is one of the parties is a Scholar and the Charter was only made for the ease of Scholars that their Studies might not be interrupted by Sutes in other Courts But then he ought to be a Scholar resident in the Vniversity at the time of the Sute commenced there And he ought to be only one of the parties And for that if another be joyned with him he shall not have the priviledge or benefit of the Charter as it is 14 H. 4. 21. and by Richardson chief Iustice that is not a priviledge which may be waved for every person may Recusare jura introducta pro se But that it was an exempt Iurisdiction and differs where the priviledge goes to the person As if a Clerk in his Court will sue in another Court or suffer himself to be sued that is a Waver of the Priviledge Thirdly that a Proeedendo shall not be granted for that the Charter is not pleaded for the Iudges give Iudgement of the Record and the cause of their Iudgement ought to appear by pleading of the Record And also a prohibition is granted where by Demurrer or by Pleading and not by verbal surmise there ought to be a discharge And in the case of a prohibition It is not like the Case of 35 H. 6. 24. Where Conusans is one time allowed by Charter shewn and another Record there should be allowed without demand without other shewing But Yelverton Iustice to the contrary That it might be remanded upon pleading of the Charter And he said that there was a difference where the suggestion was upon matter of Fact as prescription c. Where an issue may be taken there it ought to be pleaded in writing which appears fully by the mean of the Court and not by suggestion Fourthly it was resolved that a prohibition may be granted in case where the Court cannot give other remedy for the ease of the Subject who is the party as it was adjudged in the Court of Requests Vpon the custom of London concerning Orphans a prohibition was granted and yet no remedy at Common Law was afterwards to be expected Trin 5. Car. Fawkner against Bellingham FAwkner against Bellingham in a Replevin The Avowry was for that that the Defendant was Lord of a Mannor and of Lands which were Chauntry Lands and held of him by Rent and other Services And after coming to the Crown by the Statute of 10 E. 6. cap. 14. Who granted it then over by Letters Patents c. And now the Lord distreins for Rent and avows that he had not seisin within fourty years And whether seisin was requisite for him who made the Conusans was the sole question in the Argument First for that that it is a new Rent created by the Statute of 1 E. 6. For when that Land is granted to the King by Parliament yet the King hath operation upon it and may dispose of it Secondly that the Land passed from the Priest and others by their assent confirming it And it is a Grant of the Seigniory by the Lord himself unless the saving hinder it But so by the Grant the Rent is extinguished And the saving is so a creation of a new Rent 1. rep 47. Altomeoods Case And there is diversity between a Rent-service viz. where the Tenant grants Land to the King and he grants that over He cannot distrein upon the Patentee for it is distinct from a Rent charge Stamford prerogat 75. Mich. 20. E. 3. 17. And so it is ordered by the Statute de Religione when he enters by Mortmain that he ought to revive the Services Stam. 27. If the King enters upon my Tenant there a Petition of Right lies Dyer 313. 10. rep 47. By the saving in the Statute of Wills c. A primer Seisin is given to the King de novo where he ought to have it before And then being a new Rent no Seisin is requisite Secondly the second reason is for that there is a new remedy and then no matter whether it be old Rent or new Rent Finchden A Rent granted out of White-acre and a distress out of Black-acre the Rent yet remains and there is one thing part of the Rent another of the remedy Because the Rent is only altered in quality Dyer 31. There our Case directly Now the Statute of Limitations is a Statute for the good of the Common wealth to settle inheritances and possessions And it should be expounded liberally Then if a scruple be of the Act it ought to be expounded benignly And so it is of all other Statutes which settle possessions Always shall be expounded favourably for the ease and benefit of the Tenant and Lord. And for that adjudged That a Copy-hold and Leases for years are within that Statute And the Statute of 32 H. 8. 11. rep 71. binds both King and Realm because it is for the publick good Owen against Price before BRamston argued for the Defendant I agree that Lease to be a Lease in remainder and I admit also that that Lease is warranted by the Statute 10 Eliz. For that that he is not punishable of waste And the case admits two questions whether it be a void Lease at Common Law And First In respect of the limitation Secondly there is not any Livery in the Case Wherefore first of all it had been said a Frank Tenement cannot pass from a day to come in case of a Grant 38 H. 6. 34. 8 H 7. Claytons Case 5. rep It had been agreed that a Livery made the first day by himself or by his Attorney should not be good And moreover if by his Attourney after the day if his Grant may be granted the same day it is not good And then I hold that the date of the Grant of Attourney is not material Trin. 43 Eliz. rot 402. Conibar It was resolved in such a Case as that is That the Livery is not good And the reason was that the Livery had not relation to the Deed which was void in Law Bucklers and Binsluns Case The release was made 1 May as this and executed by Attourney and by Attourney authorised the same day the second of May. And it was adjudged
the Replication cannot be taken by intendment and it cannot be amended For it is not vitium scriptoris nor is it so much as ipsa devastavit But if it had béen said that praedict Margery had Goods in her hands sexto Decembris et devastavit then it should have béen good Crook She said that she delivered Goods to another Administrator and then he replies that before that time devastavit It cannot be intended that any other Devastavit but the Wife And Hutton said that that séemed to him to be good But Yelverton replyed that it did not séem to him to be good and it cannot be intended Margery The Replication is the Title of the Plaintiff As upon a scire facias without a precedent Iudgement For the Duty of the Plaintiff is when the Defendant had confessed himself to be subject to his Charge one time As in debt upon Arbitrement and the other pleads no arbitrament made And in point of arbitrement to pay mony It is not sufficient for the Plaintiff to say That the mony was not paid at the day But he ought to affirm that the Defendant had paid it c. And so there also Margery is not named affirmatively in all the Replication For if her name had begun any sentence then she might be intended And although it be now after verdict yet the verdict will not help So it was adjourn'd for the present Robert Barret against Margaret Barret his Mother RObert Barret brought an action of debt against his Mother for an Obligation made to him the Condition whereof was thus That she shall perform all that part of her Husbands Will that of her part is to be performed and observed concerning the Goods c. And that she shall use occupy and enjoy all the Lands and Tenements to her demised according to the true intent and meaning of the Will The Defendant recites the Will which was that her Husband gave her one Messuage and Land for her life Excepting all the Timber Trees and Wood. And further will'd That she make no waste nor estrepment in the Houses Lands or Timber-trees nor her Assigns nor any other for her And further will'd That if she shall happen to do any such waste That then she shall pay to Robert Barret the double value of that to which the waste shall come or amount unto Being indifferently valued by two chosen by themselves And furthermore he willed That there ought to be forty load of Wood per annum taken for fewel upon the Land demised of such Trées which have been used to be lopped for 30 years before And so she pleaded that she performed the Covenant in all c. And the Plaintiff replies that the Defendant had decouped a Grove of Wood containing by estimation one moyety of an acre and 6 Elmes and 20 Beeches and Sallows and Maples and Thorns being of the age of 33 years Whereupon the Defendant demurred But Atthow argued for the Defendant and he said That there is not any breach of the Obligation alleged all Timber-trees are excepted And because when she cuts them there is no waste but a trespass to Robert And the Will is That she shall not do waste For if she had entred into other Lands and cut Trees out of the Lands of the demise that had not been a Forfeiture of the Obligation But it shall be objected That then that clause had been void if his intention shall not be construed of waste to be done in the Trees Then the second breach is not well assigned For the words are If she does waste that she pay the double value And then although that waste be done You ought to allege that she did not pay the double value for if she had paid it her Obligation is saved But Hitcham the Kings Sergeant on the contrary The breach is well assigned The Case rests upon the words of the Obligation and the intention of the Will and then the Intention will appear That she cannot commit waste in the Trees although it be excepted And I conceive it is within the words for it is that she occupy and enjoy the Lands demised as aforesaid Now if I grant my Land I ought to demise my Trees also And if I be obliged not to commit Estrepment in my Land If I pull down a House it is a forfeiture of the Obligation For if Tenent at will pulls down no waste lies against him But he shall be punisht by an action of the Case for it is destruction and waste at the Common law In any of the Houses Lands or Timber trees And what Timber trees may be meant But those are excepted when all are excepted Dyer 323. Pl. 29. After the Statute of 23 H. 8. Nothing was left in the Feoffees al use One would stand seised with his Feoffees to the use of I. S. And adjudged that that is a good demise of the Land Ed. 6. conveys the Manor of Framingham in fee farm and afterwards grants the Fee farm and the Grantee demises his Mannor of Framingham the Fée farm passed for that that it was usually called by that name And Thorntons Case 3 El. He gives all his Land that he purchased of I. S. And he did not purchase any of I. S. but I. S had conveyed it to I. D. of whom he had purchased And adjudged good Sir Edward Cleeres Case Co. lib. 6. 17. So there it ought to be of such waste as he in his apprehension esteemed to be waste But it may be objected that she did not pay the double value But I conceive That if you will that that be paid yet the Will is broken For if you will by one clause that she commits not waste and by another if she do that she pays the double value and she does not pay it she breaks two clauses That ought to be pleaded by you If the Statute prohibit a thing and if he offend against it that he shall pay c. I say that he may be indicted upon the very Prohibition So that you would shew this in excuse of Waste But I conceive that it is not excused upon the Statute of H 6. Richardson chief Iustice All the Obligation goes to the intention of the Will which may be collected by circumstances out of the Will And then the sir Elmes are meerly the others not the Sallows Maples Beeches and Thorns by which the intention is broken Now the Law will not allow that to be waste which is not any ways prejudicial to the Inheritance So when the Husband said she shall not commit waste It was not his intention to restrain her from that which the Law allows Thorns in some Counties are adjudged waste where Trees are scant But a Grove ordinarily is Vnder-wood And then if she committed waste the Husband took upon him to impose the penalty And although that she enter into an Obligation yet it is that she is restrained by the Will of her Husband and he intended it for a
the evidence of the party or by others by his procurement in the same manner As it was in an appeal upon a fresh sute at the Common-law It was said by all That although the custome was of Burgage lands in soccage Yet if the Lands came by gift or otherwise to tenure in Chief or service of Chivalry That that now changes not the Custome which alwaies goes with the Land and not with the tenure As the Lands in Gavelkind by the Custome are soccage tenure Yet if they are changed to service of Chivalry the Custome is not altered But that all the heirs shall inherit It was agreed by all That if sir persons compass and imagine to levy war against the King And there is an agreement betwéen them that two shall do such an act in such a Country and the other two another act in such a County And so divers acts by divers in several Counties for to assemble the people against the King And after two do the Act according to their purpose and assemble the people and the other do nothing Yet the Act done by two upon the agreement is Treason in all But otherwise it is if there had been only a compassing c. and not any agreement and afterwards one of them does the act unknowing to the others there it is not Treason but in those that doe the fact and not in the others As it happened in the Case betwéen the King and an other Wilkins against Thomas IT was adjudged upon good advise That if an Infant he impleaded by any precipe of his Lands And loses by defending Now he shall have a Writ of Error And because that he was within age at the time of the Iudgement it shall be reversed And the Infant shall be restored to all that he lost As it happened in the Case of John Ware against Anderson and others in the County of York lost while they were infra aetatem Where it appeared that they appeared by their Guardian admitted to them by the Court to the Grand cape and that they were within age But there was an inspection by Nurses and Friends and they were found not to be within age John Symons against Thomas Symons NOte it was said by all the Iustices That if the Disseisee enter upon the Feoffee or Lessee of the Disseisor That he shall not have an Action of the Trespass for the same Trespass against the Feoffee or Lessee Because that they come in by a Title And at Common law before the Statute of Gloc. No dammages for mean occupation against the Feoffee or Lessee Bromleys Case IF a man steal goods and be arraigned upon an Indictment of felony and the goods are valued to 6 s. and the Iury upon their verdict say That he is guilty of the said goods but that the value was but 6 d. That is a good verdict And the Iustices shall vanish him as for patty Larcenny In the same manner it is If a man be arraigned for willfull murther and the Iury find it but Manslaughter That is a good verdict by all the Iustices Pease against Thompson A Man seised of Lands in see makes a feoffment from that day to divers to the use of his Wife for her life and after to the use of the heirs of the body of the Feoffor The Feme dies and the Feoffor makes a Lease for years and dies Now her Issue shall not avoid that Lease because a man cannot have Heirs in his life So that at the time of the death of the Feme there was none to take by the remainder And for that the Feoffor had the fee the Lease is good and shall bind the Heir As if a Lease be made for life the Remainder to the right Heirs of I. S. and I. S. dies in the life of the Lessee then the remainder is good otherwise not but it shall revert But otherwise it shall be peradventure in such a Case in a demise Hillary 3 Car. Com. Banc. Skore against Randall SKore brought Debt against Randall and recovered and had execution by Elegit and it was found by the Inquisition that the Defendant was seised of the moyety of a Messuage and Lands for life and other Lands in right of his Wife And the Sheriff returns that virtute brevis et deliberat feci meditatem omnium praemissorum cum pertinentiis c. Nec non duo pomaria nec non unum clausum vocat c. And that he had delivered the moyety of the Lands in right of his Wife and his Chattells and recites them and that Elegit was filed And the Question was whether he might have a new Elegit Because that the Sheriff ought to have delivered to him the moyety of the moyetic of the Lands held in Ioint-tenancy So that the Tenent by Elegit might be Tenant in Common for a fourth part with the Ioynt tenants as it was agreed But also by that Delivery he had but in effect the eighth part For the other Ioynt-tenants may occupy the Land delivered with him in Common Richardson said For part of the Lands and goods in right of his Wife the return is good And being filed he cannot have a new Election For if part shall be evicted you cannot have a new Extent upon the Estate But if it had been in the Genitive Case Duorum pomorariorum c. it had been good But it was granted by the Court That the Plaintiff makes a surmise that the Sheriff male se gessit in the Execution of that Elegit and then he may have a new Elegit at his peril c. Edward Thomas against John Morgan et al. EDward Thomas brought an Ejectione firmae against Morgan Kemmis and others and upon Not guilty pleaded a speciall Verdict was given to this effect for Morgan and Kemmis for the other some were dead before issue and the other not guilty and they found a Iudgement dated 12 Sept. 23 Eliz. and deliver'd the 15 Iunii next ensuing Which was between the then Bishop of St. Davids of the one part and Richard Thomas of the other part And it was in consideration of a Marriage to be had between him and the Daughter of the Bishop That before the end of Hillary Term next ensuing he would levy a Fine of all those Lands and all the other lands in Mountmouth and that should be to Thomas Morgan and Roger Sise of Lincoln-Inne And that he suffered a recovery with double voucher to the uses in the Indenture But the words are that the Conusees should stand seised to the use And by Atthowe the Recovery is idle for the uses shall be executed and then there shall be no Tenant to the Precipe viz. That of all the Lands mentioned in the Indenture Morgain and Sise shall stand seised to the only uses hereafter c. that is to say They shall be seised of in part of the Lands and Tenements that is so much thereof as shall amount to the clear value of
the Issue Ganfords Case ONe Ganford was bound in an Obligation of 200 l. to Char. Rogers to pay him 100 l. But that was in trust to the use of Mary Watkins during her life and after to George Powell Powell cannot release that bond neither in Law nor Equity during the life of the Wife For then it destroys the use to the Wife As it was agreed But if it was to her benefit solely The Release is good in Equity Woolmerstons Case ONe libells against Woolmerston for the herbage of young Cattel â—…cil for a penny for every one And Hitcham moved for a Prohibition And said that he ought not to have Tithes If they are young Beasts brought up for the Cart or Plough And so it hath been adjudged As if a Parson prescribe to have Tithes for hedgeing stuff he cannot Because that he preserves the Land out of which he had Tithes And then a Parson libells for Tithes of an Orchard for that that it was a young Orchard And the Custome of the place was to pay 4 d. for an Orchard Hitcham said There is not any such difference between old and new Orchards For if the Custome be that he shall pay 4 d. for every Orchard It will reach to the new Orchard And then he libells for a Harth-penny for the Wood burnt in his House Hutton said the Harth-penny c. is more doubtfull For it is a Custome in the North parts to give an Harth-penny for Estovers burnt For which he prescribes to be free of every thing which comes to the Fire And in some parts by the Custome they had pasturage for the Tenth Beast or the tenth part of the Gains which is barrain for the time But he and Yelverton who only were present That no Tithes are due for them without Custome Hitcham they also will have Tithes for a thing before it comes to perfection which would be tithable afterwards But I agrée If he sells them before they come to perfection then the Parson will have tithes But by Hutton and Yelverton There may be a Custom to have every year a penny for them Sed adjournatur c. Viner against Eaton VIner against Eaton Where a Sute was betwéen them in the Spritual Court for striking in the Church which by the second branch of the Statute of 5 E. 6. cap. 4. It is excommunication ipso facto By which he surmised him incidisse in poenam excommunicationis And being granted if c. And Ashley shew'd cause why it should not issue viz. There ought to be a Declaration in the Christian Court of the Excommunication before any may prohibit him the Church Richardson said That their procéedings are not contrary to the Statute But stood with the Statute And it was said by Yelverton It is seen that there ought to be a Declaration in the Spiritual Court But the difference is where it is officium Judicii or ad instantiam partis they will give costs which ought not to be Hutton and Richardson If the party will not follow it none will take notice of it And they proceed to give costs Then a Hrohibition may be granted And if he be a Minister he ought to be suspended for an offence against that Statute And it ought to be first declared and so to excommunication And that cannot be pleaded if it be not under Seal Dyer 275. And after all these were agreed by the Court and no Prohibition was granted Fox against Vaughan and Hall SIr Charles Fox was Plaintiff in a Replevin against Sir George Vaughan and Iacob Hall for taking of his Beasts in Rustock The Defendant was known as Bayliff of Tho. Vaughan at the day quod William Vaughan was seised of the place quo c. And being seised the 9th of Maii 10 Iac. by Indenture granted to Thomas Vaughan a Rent of twenty Nobles per annum out of the place in quo c. to commence after the death of Anne Vaugham for life payable at the Feasts of St. Michael and the Annunciation And if the Rent be in Arrear at any day of payment or fourteen daies after the demand at a place out of the Land scil his Capital Messuage in Orleton Then it should be lawfull for him to distrein And he shews that twenty Marks were in arrear And that 22 Iac. 22 Octob. He demands it at Orleton c. And the Plea in Bar was That the Grantor was not compos mentis at the time Vpon which Issue was taken But it appeared upon the evidence that at the time of the Grant Gaudebat lucido intervallo Whereupon it was found for the Defendant And Sergeant Barkley moved in arrest of Iudgement For that the Demand appears to be after the 14 daies And he took a difference where the Demand ought to be made upon the Land But there it may be demanded at any time And the Distress it self is a Demand As it was adjudged 20 Iac. in Skinners Case But otherwise it ought to be out of the Land Henden objected because the Issue was joyned That cannot be shewed Richardson Although there was Issue joyned Yet it appears that you cannot distreyn without demand if there be not actual demand of the Distress alleged It is illegal And for the matter he cited Maunds Case 7 Rep. 28. And he doubted if such a difference would hold Berkley This difference was taken by me before cited But lecto recordo the Demand is not ex tunc petito But if it be in arrear and required at the Capital Messuage upon which he demanded it does not refer to any place Richardson If there be a nomine poenae then it ought to be demanded strictly at a day And when it is to be demanded upon the Land it may be at any time For that that Littleton sayes That a Tenant is intended alwaies present upon the Land But when the Demand is to be made at an other day it is only to give notice and so it is demandable upon the Land Hutton by that exposition if he does not hit the demand upon the day he shall lose his Rent Richardson He had lost his Distress by that day only but not his Rent For if he demand it after upon the Land he may have an Assise Hutton you would make that partly a Rent-seck and partly a Rent-charge Harvey If the Rent be not gone but that he may have an assise Richardson It is a Rent-charge generally by the clause of the distress And for that he may have an Assise which is a remedy for a Rent-charge as well as a Distress Hutton If you may make it a Rent-seck you have lost the Rent-charge for ever If a Grantee of a Rent-charge or Rent-seck brought an annuity Richardson If he proceed to Declaration he had lost the Rent-charge Et adjournatur Note It was said if one comming upon an Attachment in any Court And the other does not put in Interogatories against him He shall be dimissed with costs and may
payment of 72 l. And he alleges that the Defendant did not become bound in the Statute but that he himself delivered possession as soon as he could And upon non-assumpsit pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff And Atthowe moved in Arrest of Iudgement It is not a good consideration or promise He said that there was a Colloquium and an Agreement and in Consideration thereof c. That is not a good Consideration And the second Consideration that he delivered c. tam citius quam potuit It is not good for it is uncertain For it may be a year or two years or a day after And the other promise to pay 8 l. in the hundred deferendo diem And there is not any deferring the day for it is not shewn that it is due before and that he shall be bound in a Statute and that no sum is expressed which is uncertain Richardson There is a good Consideration and a good promise There was an Agreement touching the sale of a Banck and an acre of Land and take all alike and that perfects the Agreement And it is plain that the Agreement was for 72 l. and the delivery of the possession or making of assurance is not any Consideration But the promise is all the Consideration And he might have omitted the averment of the delivery of the possession But there is a cross and mutual promise upon which the Action might lye As many times it had been adjudged in this Court and in the Kings Bench. And for the words tam citius quam potuit the Law appoints the time scilicet so soon as he can go remove his goods things out of the House c. As in Case where one sels goods for mony the Vendee shall have for telling the mony And so here at the most till request be made And although it is not expressed in what sum he shall be bound by the Statute Yet it appears that it is for the payment of 72 l. And then the sum ought to be double in which he is bound As if one arbitrate that he pay 72 l. and enters into an Obligation for the payment of it That shall be in the double sum In which Case he said that he could shew several Iudgements of it Crook If one promise to me divers things some of which are certain It is good But also for the time of the delivery there the Law adjudges of that And the sum of the Statute shall be double as it had been said But for the Case of the Arbitrament it is adjudged contrary as 5 Salmons Case And admit that it be uncertain It is a reciprocal Assumpsit and an Action will lye upon that Hutton If a promise to enter into an Obligation there ought to be a reasonable sum as the Case requires for it And in this Case it being in a Statute which is more penal than an Obligation I conceive the same sum of 72 l. will serve And for the time of the delivery of the possession It ought to be in convenient time or upon request As 2 H. 6. And the Law adjudges of the inconveniences of time And although that he fails in the sum of his promises the end of his promise is good enough and the other is not concluded by that Action But he might allege other considerations in actions brought by him Yelverton There is but one promise against another And the sum in the Statute ought to be the same sum As the Case where an Annuity is granted of 20 l. untill the Grantee be advanced to a benefice That ought to be a benefice of the same value But I doubt whether it should be double Harvey It is there by way of promise And then one promise is the consideration of another and there is no breach for it ought to be upon request And then the Action being brought upon that side the request cannot be alleged and one promise good against another Then be the sum what it will ought the Defendant to be bound single or double The Assumpsit not being performed all agreed that the Action well lies A Verdict against an Infant NOte that it was said If a verdict pass against an Infant and the Defendant dies after verdict and it is shewn Iudgement shall not be given against him For the Court does not give Iudgement against a dead man and that is matter apparent and the other is doubtfull matter Fortescue against Jobson A Man seised of certain Lands hath Issue two Sons and devises one part of his Land to the eldest Son and his Heirs and the residue to the youngest Son and his Heirs And if both dye without Issue that then it shall be sold by his Executors and dyes The eldest Son dies without Issue And the opinion of Hutton That the Executors could not sell any part before that both are dead For the youngest Son hath an Estate tayl in Remainder in the part of his eldest Brother So that the Executors cannot sell it And if they do sell it yet that shall not prejudice the younger Brother So long as he hath Heirs of his Body Richardson said That although that the eldest Son aliens and after dies without Issue That the Exâ—…cutors may make sale For that that no interest was given to them But only an Authority to sell the Lands Dicksons Case A Writ de partitione fac against two the one appears and grants the Partition the other makes default Hutton said a Writ shall issue to the Sheriff to make Partition but cesset executio untill the other comes For Partition cannot be by Writ but between the whole Otherwise it is of Partition by agreement Rothwells Case IF a Man makes a Lease for life and the Lessee for life makes a Lease for years And afterwards purchases the reversion and dies within the Term yet the Lease for years is determined And the Heir in reversion may oust him and avoid But if one will make a Lease for years where he had nothing and afterwards purchases the Land and the Lessor dies If that be by Deed indented The Heir shall be estopped to avoid it By Hutton Crook and Richardson Sir Charles Foxes Case THe Case of Sir Charles Fox was now moved again by Henden It was objected that there ought to be an express demand at the day or otherwise he ought not to distreyn But first it appears that he had a good Title to the Rent then there being a verdict found he ought to have Iudgement upon the Statute But not admit that Yet the Demand is good for the words are legitime petit and no time expressed And although the Demand is after the day yet it is sufficient for all the arrerages for the words are tunc et ibidem but c. And the Difference is between the Demand which intitles to the Action and to the thing it self Maunds Case 7 Rep. 20. 40 Eliz. between Stanley and Read Where it was agreed That the day
of the Demand cannot be made parcel of the Issue 31 Eliz. rot 1137. Com. Banc. Dennis Varneys Case There the Book was agreed If it be to be demanded generally it may be at any time if it be tunc petit otherwise For otherwise it would be a Rent-charge at one time and a Rent-seck at another And the Distress it self is the Demand As it is in Lucas Case If one be obliged to pay mony upon Demand The Action brought is a sufficient demand And Barkley Sergeant He shews in the Avowry that such a one was seised of 20 acres and grants a Rent out of them and others by the name of all his Lands in Rustock and Ollerton For that he said that Ollerton is not charged Because that it is not pleaded that he was seised of that But the whole Court on the contrary And that it is an usual manner of pleading And that it shall be intended that he was seised of Ollerton First the words are per scriptum c. he granted a Rent and then he pleads that per scriptum suum he gave a power to distreyn And then it shall be taken that it was not made by any other Deed and the Distress given by the second Deed shall not make the Rent a Rent-charge And he cited Buts Case Then if it be a Rent-seck and the Distress gives a nomine paenoe There ought to be an actual Demand and that upon the day as it appears by Maunds Case And Pilkintons Case 5 Rep. 5 Eliz. Dyer If it was a Rent-charge the Distress it self serves for a Demand As it was many times adjudged Secondly The words are If the Rent be in arrear any day of payment or 14 daies after The last instant of the 14th day is the legal time for demand of it And the words existent legitime petit ought to refer to the daies expressed immediately before As 39 H. 6. A man obliges that his Feoffees shall do such an Act si quisuerunt Those words shall have reference to the Feoffées And Dockwrays Case If a Man be obliged that his Children which he now hath so also existent Being words of the Present tence refer to the days now mentioned and otherwise there would be a great inconvenience For it cannot be intended the same tenant to be alwaies upon the Land Barrows Case 20 Eliz. A Feoffment upon Condition to re-enfeoff upon demand at such a place It cannot be demanded without notice to the Feossée For that that he shall not be compelled to be there alwaies expecting And the same inconvenience alwaies would follow If the demand should not be upon the day of payment by which c. Richardson If the Rent had béen granted out of 20 acres in Rustock and then he had granted by another Déed that he should destreyn in other Lands being in the same County or not and is the same That that is but a Rent-seck 10 Assise 21 Ass And the Distress is not but a penalty And if that Rent is granted by one Deed and the distress upon the Land by another Deed If it be not delivered at the same time then there shall be a Rent-charge and there shall be also a Rent-seck And when also it is said that ulterius he grants per scriptum suum and does not say praedict It shall be intended another Deed then without averment that it was delivered at the same time It shall be intended at another time But admit that it be a Rent-charge and that it issue out of Ollerton where the demand of it was Yet he ought to maintain that actually In Maunds Case The distress is a sufficient demand For it is not but to inable him to destreyn and that is where the demand is limitted generally But if a Rent be granted and if it be demanded of the person of the Gruntor he may destreyn Then there may be an actual demand that was adjudged As in the Court 15 Jac. Com. Banc. Iackson and Langfords Case and in one Armerys Case And in another upon the same point So if you will grant a Rent-charge demandable at a special and particular place If it was at another place than the Land charged Without doubt there ought to be an actual demand So if it be upon a special place from the Land charged or demanded for the distress ought to be pursued as the Grant is And that is upon such a demand But where it is restrained by the words of the Grant And the same Law is where you will limit the time of the demand If the Rent be granted payable at such a day and grants over that ad tunc being demanded there a legal and general demand will not serve But there ought to be an actual demand And also it is as much although not in express words for the sence and meaning carries it If it be arrear at such a day existent petit The demand ought to be at the day mentioned before If I be bound in Obligation the Condition to pay mony at such a day being demanded There ought to be a demand at the day of payment or there shall not be a forfeiture And now then there is not a demand at the time so no cause of distress And although the Verdict be found if it be collateral matter yet it will not help For when it appears upon the whole matter that there is not any Title to distreyn the Tryall will not help it And so Iudgement shall be given for the Plaintiff Hutton Harvy and Yelverton agreed That if it was a Rent-seck and the distress a penalty there ought to be an actuall demand at the time limited But in case of a Rent-charge although the demand is limited to be made upon parcell Yet they all held that a generall demand will serve And that shall be at any place at any time For Harvey said There is no oddes whether it is limited to be demanded generally or to be demanded upon Dale If it be material it ought to be observed in the one Case as well as in the other Stanleys Case IN one Stanleys Case in an Action of Battery Sir Thomas Crew moved for mitigating the dammages Where the Iudgement was given upon a non sum informatus and afterwards a Writ of enquiry of dammages But the Court said That in such Cases they never will alter the dammages And Crook said that he was once of Councel in an Action of Trespass pedibus ambulando in the Kings Bench in such a Case upon a Writ of enquiry of dammages 10 l. was given That he could never have a mitigation by the Court c. Outlary NOte it was said That an Outlary in the same term for error may be reversed in the Common Bench Or in any term if it be void upon any Statute As for want of Proclamations c. And an Outlary was reversed for that the Writ was praecipimus tibi where it should have been vobis to the Sheriffs of London
to be done every such assurance as the Council of the Obligee should devise when he should be thereunto required And it was shewn by Ward That the Obligee made such a request scil That the Obligor and his wife should levy a Fine If that Request were sufficient was the Question Hutton I think that the Request is not sufficient Because it is not pursuant according to the Obligation Richardson I think although the request be void for the wife and that she is not bound to make an assurance Yet the Obligor is bound to do it For against him the Request is good enough Thompson against Thompson IT was said by Hutton In debt against Executors if the Plaintiff had Iudgement against the Defendant and sued a levare fac de bonis Testatoris If the Sheriff upon that return a Devastavit the better form is upon that to award a scire fac against the Executor before that a fieri fac shall issue of their own goods For that writ of Execution is warranted by the first Iudgement which was but of the Goods of the deceased But now if there be issued a fieri fac de bonis testat si habuerint et si devastaverint de bonis propriis Then I will agree that upon that shall issue a Capias against the Executors ad satisfacieudum Dixson and his Wife against Blyth IN this Case a Question was demanded by Atthowe If a man seised in right of his wife leases for life the Remainder over in Fee And afterwards he and his wife recover the same Land in a Writ of Entry in the post against the Lessee for life If the Wife by that shall be remitted Hutton seemed that she shall be remitted As well as where a Feoffment is made to Baron and Feme For that Recovery countervails a Feoffment and no laches shall be adjudged in the Wife For the purchase of the Writ shall be adjudged the Act of the Husband only and not the Act of the Wife But it is good to be advised of that for peradventure she shall be estopped by the Record Bromefields Case IT was agreed by all the Iustices That if Tenant in tayl by Indenture upon consideration of mariage covenant with an other that certain persons should be seised to his use for term of his life and after his decease to the use of his Son and Heir apparent That by that Covenant there is not any use changed unless only during the life of Tenant in tayl Nortons Case before FInch Recorder said de comuni jure for Estovers burnt in an house tithes ought not to be paid by the Common law there was not any tithes paid for wood And although the Statute of 25 E. 3. gives a prohibition for timber yet Underwoods were discharged of tithes See Doctor and Student 171. It is express that Estovers are not tithable because they are not renewing every year and it is parcel of the Inheritance for to destroy all the underwoods is waste And there is another case put where tithes of wood had not by the custom been paid neither ought they to be paid in law or conscience But that is not to be intended the conscience of every particular man Dawleys Case was resolved for the Wilde of Sussex and Michaelmas 13 Iac. Banc. Roy. in the case of Porter and Dike for the Wilde of Kent of the same prescription resolved to he good And so is the common experience that a whole County may prescribe so And the reason is for that that by the Common Law it was not due but by the consideration of Winchelsey Linwood 104. It was ordained to be paid For then the prelates imputed a great pestilence that then was for the negligence of paying tithes and appointed tithes of wood And the Commons were desirous to have the Statute of silva c. otherwise explained than the Clergy declares it For they say that they ought not to pay tithes of any wood that is of the growth of 10 years Hutton Wood is tithable in their nature and then there may be a custom to discharge them And the case of Harthpenny cannot be answered for if he sues for the penny a prohibition shall not be granted quod concessum fuit Crook and Yelverton But of things not tithable tithes of them cannot be sued without alleging a custom Crooke It is known that Harthpenny is good by prescription This Case is when there is not land belonging to the house so that the Parson is not answered for his tithes another way But when there are ten servants kept for the maintaining it Then by the Law of the land it appears that tithe ought not to be paid although custom had been alleged it is nothing to the purpose as if a custom is alleged to pay 4 d. for every acre in discharge of tithes and the verdict finds 3 d. no consultation shall be granted And so for wood to fence the ground or dry cattel to manure the ground Although custom be alleged there in discharge of it and found against the party yet no consultation shall be granted Hutton the herbage of barren Cattel is tithable because there is a custom which discharges those which are for the Cart. And he said that the Custom only makes that legem terrae And he cited Doctor Graunts Case He libels for tithe of an house and the party brought a prohibition and alleged modus decimandi c. And it was alleged in arrest of Iudgement as houses were not tithable de communi jure and yet a consultation was granted And there Cook put this case which I do not remember in the printed book that one libelled for tithes of trees and custom alleged and there was found no such custom in discharge yet it was ruled that no custom was granted Browne against Hancocke BRowne brought an action upon the case upon an assumpsit against Hancocke and declares that whereas the 10. of May 16 Iac. there were some controversies between Charls Nichols and the Brother of the Defendant concerning arrerages of rent and it was desired that Nichols would part with his term And 19 l. and a cloak and a gelding were offered to the lessee for his term which he refused Afterwards the Defendant in consideration that the Plaintiff would labour with Charles Nichols to take the offer and make an end between them Assumed that whatsoever the Plaintiff undertook for the Defendant he would perform and also save him harmlesse for any thing that he should doe in that businesse and then he said that he procured Charles Nichols to assign his term and to accept the cloak and gelding which the Defendant did not perform and allso that the Plaintiff covenanted with Charles Nichols to perform the agreement and obliged himself to that in 50 l. And that afterwards Charles Nichols filed a bill of debt for the money whereupon he compelled him to pay it and upon non assumpsit pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff and
three things were moved in arrest of Iudgement which Serjeant Barkely answered There was a covenant to enter into an obligation at Michaelmas and the Plaintiff shews that he entred before So he does not perform the consideration which he conceived to be a good performance For if a man be bound to doe an act or pay money at Michaelmas a payment before is good H. 7. 17. 2. pasc It is shewn that an action of Covenant was brought after And they say that upon his shewing covenant does not lie but debt but he said that the Plaintiff had his election here to have debt or covenant As in the Lord Cromwels case the words covenanted provided and agreed give advantage of a condition or covenant If a covenant had been sor 30 l. then debt only lyes But here it is to perform an agreement Thirdly that it appears within the declaration that the action of the case was 6 years before the action brought And so by the Statute of 21. Jac. the action does not lye I agree if the cause was 6 years before yet the breach was within the 6 years and that is the cause of action 6. rep 43. In a covenant there is the deed and the breach of the covenant and that is the cause of the action And therefore being matter in Deed an accord with satisfaction is a good plea to it 13. E. 4. Attaint is grounded upon matter of record but the false oath is the cause of it For that there also accord is a good plea So in our case the non performance by default was not at the time limitted which was before the 6 years but no action was brought against the Plaintiff untill within the six years And then he is not damnifyed untill within the six years 5 Rep. 24. Richardson For the two first exceptions he agreed with Barkley as to the third he said that there can be no action before the breach of the promise or covenant But the breach here is before the six years for the non performance of the agreement is a breach and a breach is a damnificationn In one Boughtons case the non payment is a damnification But all the question here was whether that ought to be pleaded but I conceive that it need not for by the Statute-law the action is taken away And it being a general law the court ought ex officio to taken notice of it For in that after verdict if it appears that there is no cause of action although the verdict be found for the Plaintiff he shall never have Iudgement And upon the matter that latches in time amounts to a release in law the proviso cannot ayd you For every man shall be intended without those disabilities for that that he would shew that he would have advantage of it And Crook of the same opinion for the reasons given before and said that although the Statute took away the Common law yet it is good law and done for the ease of the subject and for that shall be favoured as the Statute of limitations in all cases But he said the non performance was not a damnification before the action brought As if I be bound as for surety for A. who is bound to save me harmlesse Although he does not pay it at the day There is not a breach before the arrest or Iudgement For by the Iudgement the lands and goods are liable But for the arrest his body is troubled for that now the Scriveners put in such obligations that they save harmlesse the party and pay the money at the day But for the other matters in all he agreed and cited Richardson and Burroughs Case Where a payment before the day was adjudged a payment at the day Yelverton That is not found that there is any sufficient notice given to the Defendant by the Plaintiff of the agreement made which he ought to have And he agréed in omnibus with Richardson and said that Scriveners use things ex abundanti Richardson It is said habuit notitiam in the Declaration but does not say by whom Yet after verdict it shall be intended a good notice And although that Nichols had given the notice it is sufficient If there be a Lease for years upon condition that he doe not assign the other accepts the rent of the Afsignee before notice He shall not be bound by that acceptance before notice But if notice may be proved either by the Plaintiff or by any although it be by a meer stranger It is sufficient Yelverton denied that for he said That none but privies can give the notice of it as the case is Et adjournatur Denne and Sparks Case before RIchardson If a will be of lands and goods and that was the occasion of this will the revocation is only tryable at the Common Law But when the will is of goods only the occasion of it shall be tryed only in the Spiritual Court For it is incident to the probate of the will quod fuit concessum And he said that in the case before if the will be not revoked the devise is good at the time and the administration shall be granted as of his goods for the Law will not change the property of the residue after debts and legacies paid Crooke The case here is that the Testator makes his will of his lands and goods and devises the residue of his goods ut supra to his wise his Executrix who dies before probate Denne sues to be administrator as the goods of the first Testator and alleges revocation which because that his Proctor did not goe and swear that in fide Magistri sentence was given against him Vpon that he appeals in which there was the same Obligation and affirmed by the Oath of his Proctor Yet sentence was given against him And a prohibition ought to be granted for three reasons First For that the Will is of Lands and Goods and the occasion of that tryable here Secondly they offer injustice in giving the allegation Thirdly The Wife here dying before the probate the administration ought to be granted as of the goods of the Testator and not as of the wife And also they here would inforce Denne if he had the administration to take it cum testamento annex Which shall be an admittance by him that there was not any revocation Richardson for the first reason he agréed that the revocation shall be tryed by the common law But the goods here are only in question and all the usage and practice is that a prohibition shall be granted with a quoad the lands For the second That they will not allow the allegation If they will not pursue their rules and order of Iustice That is not a cause of a Prohibition but appeal for the third It is fit that there shall be an election if debts and Legacies are owing But it doth not appear here that there are any debts or Legacies to be paid but after Harvey agréed with Crook
Iurisdiction of this Court it ought not to be received without Oath c. But if in Covenant or debt for money to be paid at another place he pleads payment accordingly or the Covenants performed in the place limited which was out of the Iurisdiction it ought to be received without Oath quod not Double delay BY the course of the Court double delay cannot be allowed as if the Defendant in debt plead that the Plaintiff is a Recusant convicted and had a special imparlance afterwards the Plaintiff conforms The Defendant cannot plead Outlawry in the Plaintiff Iohn Felton's Case MEmorand quod Thursday 29 die Novembr 1628. Iohn Felton was arraigned in the Kings Bench for the murther of George Duke of Buckingham And the Iustices of the Common Bench demanded of the Serjeants of the King who were present in the Kings Bench what was done with Felton And Ashley answered That he had confessed the fact and that the ordinary sentence of death was given against him But they marvelled that for so notorious offence the sentence was not that he should be hanged in chains Yelverton That any other sentence than the ordinary sentence cannot be given But after that he is dead his body was at the disposition of the King which was not denyed by the other Iustices Turner against Hodges TUrner brought Trespasse quare clausum fregit against Hodges The Defendant said that loco in quo c. is Copyhold and that the Lord Dudley is seised of the Mannor of Sedgley and granted the Copyhold in Fee to Roger Turner and he makes a Lease to the Defendant Hodges for a year The Plaintiff replies that there is custom within that Mannor If a Copyholder makes a lease without licence of the Lord for a year and dies within the term it shall be void against the heir And upon the issue of Nul tiel record it was found for the Plaintiff And Atthowe prayed Iudgement and shews that the custom is good and not contrary to reason 4 rep 26. It was resolved that lessee of a Copyhold without licence for a year may maintain an Eject firm for his term is warranted by the Law by force of the general custom of the Realm But that ought to be intended by the custom within every Mannor within the Realm Whatsoever a Copiholder does is by Custom The Case here is that it shall be void by the death of the Lessor which is an Act of God That was that if Copiholder made a Lease for years and afterwards aliens that to be void against the Alienee would be unreasonable 39 Eliz. There was a Case referred to the Iudges out of Chancery which was debated in Sergeants Inne Littleton 59 b. Armesstrong Lord of a Mannor prescribes that a Copiholder upon the change of every Lord should pay a Fine But by all the Iudges it was ruled a void Custom For the Lord might change his Mannor every day But if it had béen That after the death of the Lord he should have a Fine That is a good custom For it is the act of God So in our Case the custom is void against his Heir which is by the act of God In some Cases a custom alters the nature of a Free-hold land 5 Rep. 84. Perrymans Case A Feoffment shall not be good untill it be presented in the Court of the Mannor a good custom If a free-hold estate may be controlled by a custom a multo fortiori a Copi-hold estate Barkley argued on the other side Although it be found for the Plaintiff Yet if the custome be void a void custome is no custome And for that it is said in the Earl of Lecesters case That a void custome cannot be confirmed by Act of Parliament And that is a void custome We ought to consider the nature of a Copyhold Inheritance By the Common law it is but an Estate at will But the Common law so takes notice to establish it by a custome That there may be possessio Fratris of it and he may have Trespass against his Lord. If Tenant at will be out-lawed his Estate is determined But Copyhold is not determined or forfeited by Out-lawry As it was adjudged 44 Eliz. So that the Law takes notice of it as of an other Estate of Inheritance Where an Heir after his death may enter as Heir at Common law and have Trespass because that it descends At Common law he had power to make a Lease for a year For it is not the custome of the Mannor that he may make such a Lease For then it is pleaded If a Copiholder makes a Lease for divers years without alleging a custome or Licence of the Lord he cannot maintain an Ejectione firm against his Lord but perhaps against a Stranger It may be then if it be the very Law if he may make a Lease for one year if this custome be good It will be contrary to the very liberty of the Estate 19 Eliz. Dyer Solomons Case Custom that Tenant in Fee-simple shall not make a Lease for more than 5 years is void So Littleton says That a Condition that the Feoffee should not alien was void And a Condition that Tenant in tayl should not suffer a Common recovery is void Because that it restrains that Liberty which is annexed to the Estate And for the difference between the Father and the Heir in our Case there is not any difference For the Heir is all one with Father and in loco patris For he might have Trespass by discent of a Copihold Sir William Herberts Case And then if the Father shall be bound by the Lease so shall the Heir Richardson said That Iudgement ought to be given for the Plaintiff Copihold as it is created by Custome so in all it is guided by Custome For at the Common law a Copiholder could not make a Lease for a year But because that it is a general custome of all Mannors in England For it is not but a meer Estate at will by the Common law Then this custome is not against the Liberty of the Estate For a Custome inables that the Lease and a Custome ought to destroy it upon a Contingency as here by the death of the Father For that the Lord may know his Tenant And therefore the Case is reasonable and not to be compared to the case of a Freehold in Dyer A Freehold may be restrained by Custom And yet a Freeholder may be restrained by custome As antient demesn which he passes by the delivery of a Turf or a pair of Gloves and it is not convenient for it is at the peril of him who takes the Lease Copyholder makes a Lease for a year But if he dye within the year his Heir within age it shall be void against the Lord. So that the Lord during the nonage shall have the Copihold to hold for his Services is a good Custome And so in our Case Hutton agreed That at the Common law it might be restrained by custome
W. who died seised of the Lands which descended to his Vncle who was the Defendant Crawley Two things are required to maintain the action Whether the Defendant be heir Secondly who held lands by descent from the Obligor now is heir at Common law And now the heir by the Mannor shall be charged in debt as well as the Heir at Common law Dyer 228. All Brothers in Gavelkind shall be charged 11 H. 7. 12. The heir of the party of the mother shall be charged and so shall Bastardeign 4 E. 3. 14. Heir by Borrough-English And in this Case R. is not heir but by the Mannor Yet he shall be charged 32 Eliz. Dyer 368. by 4 the Iustices And the Defendant here had Lands by descent from the Obligor by which he shall be charged which was agreed by the whole Court But by Richardson It is not sufficient that he be heir in Blood and heir by the Mannor But he ought to have also Land to him by descent from the Obligor But here the Plea is that the Land descended to him immediately And for that you ought to have pleaded that the Obligor died and Lands descended to W. his Son and Heir who died without issue seised of the said Land which descended to R. his Vncle as Brother and heir to the Obligor Quod fuit concessum per totam Curiam Grays Case HEnden shewed cause that a prohibition should not be granted to the Ecclesiastical Court where the case was That one Brother had taken administration and the other would have distribution of the goods of the intestate And said that issues might enforce distribution of it And it is grounded upon Magna Charta cap. 18. Where there is a saving to the wife and the issues their reasonable part And upon the same reason that there may be a division between the issues so there may be between the Brothers but more remote degrees have no distribution And it is hard that one Brother shall have the whole estate and the others nothing And the Ordinary here is the most indifferent man to make distribution Hutton if the eldest son had lands descended to him and the youngest took Administration It is reason that the eldest shall have distribution And by him and Harvey a Writ de rationabile parte bonorum lies only where there is a custom And they said if it should be admitted that the Ordinary should distribute to the Brothers by the same reason he may to more remote degrees And he declared their opinions that many terms before they were against those distributions But they said That now the Ordinary would have an Obligation before they granted a Prohibition and they coloured their Obligation with the Statute of 31 E. 3. cap. 11. That an Administrator shall be count able to the Ordinary And Harvey said that be knew where a man that was rich died and the Ordinary had 600 l. to pious uses before he would grant administration But he said that in the time of Sir Iohn Bennet such an Obligation was questioned and they would not endure the tryal of it Hutton said that now for that that they could not distribute they might invent a new way scil divide the Administration As if the Estate be 400 l. they might grant Administration of the Goods of the value of 100 l. to the other But by him and Harvey That is illegally granted Doctor Wood and Greenwoods Case DOctor Wood libels against Greenwood in the Ecclesiastical Court for tithes of Wool Wood and Apples c. And he shews that he was Vicar there and that the 8 E. 1. there was a composition that the Parson should have the tithes of Grain and Hay praeterea the Viccar should have Alteraginum And for that that those tithes did not belong to the Viccar he prayed a prohibition And Henden objected that the Parishioner ought to set forth his tith and not dispute the Title of the Parson or Viccar But the Viccar ought to come in the Spiritual Court pro interesse suo but notwithstanding that and notwithstanding the Viccar refuses to claim those tithes that always within memory they have been paid to the Parson yet a prohibition was granted And in the end upon this Composition power is reserved to th◠Ordinary if any doubt or obscurity be in the composition to expound or determine it And if he please to encrease the part of the Viccar And there was not power of diminution As by Hutton It is also usual in such compositions And they say that the word Alteraginum shal be expounded according to the use As if wood had always been paid to the Viccar by vertue of this word so it shall continue otherwise if not And so it had been ruled in the Eschequer And upon that president it was ruled accordingly in this Court And by them wood is minuta decima as in the case of St. Albans it was ruled Sir Richard Dorrel against Blagrave SIr Richard Dorrell was Plaintiff in action of debt upon an Obligation of 400 l. against Blagrave who demanded oyer of the condition which was that if Blagrave fulfilled and kept all Covenants and agreements in an Indenture c. between him and the Plaintiff which on his part is to be performed and kept Then the Defendant pleads that he had performed all the Covenants on his part to be performed c. And the Plaintiff shews that Blagrave the elder by his Indenture granted a rent of 20 l. per annum to one that he intended to marry for her joynture which was to commence after his death And that it was out of all his lands in Watchfield And afterwards by the same Indenture he Covenants that he was seised of a good and perfect estate in Fee simple of lands and tenements in Watchfield to the value of 40 l. per annum And he assigns for breach that Blagrave was not seised of an Estate in Fée of the lands and tenements aforesaid in Watchfield Whereupon the Defendant demurred And Heidley moved two questions First that admitting the breach here well assigned yet the obligation is not forfeited And then when the Defendant is bound that he perform all Covenants on his part to be performed and not to the Covenants broken As if Lessee for years rendring a rent at Michaelmas and the Annunciation covenant to pay the rent at a day and afterwards he fail and then a Stranger is bound that he perform all Covenants c. That extends to the failer of payment which is past here in our case And by the whole Court not allowed For by such means all assurances of England should be deluded And now in this case the Indenture and the Obligation shall be sealed and delivered at the same time But if the Obligation had been sealed afterwards at another day yet it was allowed For by Richardson Suppose that the Condition of the Obligation recites the grant c. And the condition is that if the land
agreed clearly that a Covenant to stand seised of as much as should be worth 20 l. per annum is méerly void And so by the Court it was lately adjudged Flower against Vaughan FLower sued Vaughan for tithes of hay which grew upon Land that was heath ground and for tithes of Pidgeons And by Richardson If it was mere waste ground and yeeld nothing it is excused by the Statute of payment of tithes for 7 years But if sheep were kept upon it or if it yeeld any profit which yeeld tithes then tithe ought to be payed As the case in Dyer And for the Pidgeons which were consumed in the house of the Owner he said that for Fish in a Pond Conies Deer it is clear that no tithes of them ought to be paid of right wherefore then of Pidgeons Felony to take Pidgeons out of a Dove-coat quod nemo dedixit and a day was given to shew wherefore a Prohibition should not be granted And the Court agreed that it was Felony to take Pidgeons out of a Dovecoat And afterwards a Prohibition was granted but principally that the Pidgeons were spent by the Owner But by Henden they shall be tithable if they were sold Clotworthy against Clotworthy IN Debt upon Obligation against the Defendant as Heir to Clotworthy scil son of Clotworthy without shewing his Christian name And Iudgement was given against the Defendant upon default and upon that Error brought and that assigned for error and after in nullo est erratum pleaded But Henden moved that it might be amended and he cited one Wosters and Westlys Case Hil. 19. Iac. rot 673. where in a Declaration in Debt upon an Obligation there was omitted obligo me haeredes and after was amended And he said that in this Case the Plea roll was without Commission of the Christian name then by the Court the Plea roll may be amended by the Imparlance roll but not è converso And the Case of the Obligation is the misprision of the Clark But here there was want of instructions Dennes Case IN Dennes Case of the Inner Temple issue was joyned in a Prohibition whether the Will was revoked or not and for a year the Plaintiff does not prosecute nor continue it upon the Iury roll And by the Court now it is in our discretion to permit it to be continued or not which the Prothonotaries agréed Mosses Case IN one Mosses Case in an Assumpsit for debt which was out of the 6 years limited by the Statute of 21 Iac. part within the time If the Iury found for the Plaintiff and taxed dammages severally The Plaintiff recovered for that that is within the time and not for that that was without But if dammages are intirely taxt the Plaintiff cannot have Iudgement of some part Which was granted by the Court. And by Richardson where an Action is brought upon an Assumpsit in Law and the Request is put in which is not more than the Law had done the Request there is not material But where a Request is collateral as in Pecks case there it is material Hutton said that in Pecks Case it was agréed by the whole Court that a Request was material but they conceived that the postea requisitus was sufficient For which afterwards it was reversed in the Kings Bench. Richardson said if one sells an Horse for money to be paid upon Request and no Request is shewn he can never have Iudgment which was not denied Boydens Case BOyden Executer of Boyden brought a scire facias to execute Iudgment given against Butler for the Testator which was directed to the Sheriff upon nihil habet returned testatum a scire fac is directed to the Sheriff of S. who returns Ployden terretenant of the Mannor which Butler was seised of at the time of the Iudgement Ployden appears and demands Oyer of the scire fac and of the return and pleads that long time before A. B. and C. were seised of the Mannor in fee and before the first return makes a feoffment to the use of one Francis Boyden for life who makes a Lease to the Defendant for 80 years And because that Francis Boyden aforesaid is not returned terretenant demanded Iudgement of the writs aforesaid Bramston said that the conclusion here to the writ is naught for a writ shall never be abated where we cannot have a better The matter here is the return of the Sheriff that Mr. Ployden is terretenant to which he makes no answer but by Argument And in all Cases where a special non tenure is pleaded it is used to be a Traverse upon which issue may be taken 8 E. 4. 19. 7 H. 6.16.17 But in our case no issue was taken and here all the matter alleged may be found c. For the matter although general non tenure is no plea yet a special non tenure may be pleaded 7 H. 6. 17. 25. 8 H. 6. 32. In real actions non tenure of a Franktenement is good But here a Chattel is only in question 2ly he may plead non tenure of Franktenement where the Lessee shall be concluded and bound But here here Edw. Boyden is not bound Crawly said that the plea is good and for the matter the difference is between the general and the special non tenure The general non tenure is no plea but in a praecipe quod reddat as it is But a special non tenure is a good plea in a scire facias nomina praecipe 31 H. 6. non tenure 21 Statham scire fac The Plaintiff in a scire fac does not demand Land but execution Yelverton In Holland and Lees Case in the Kings Bench this point It was adjudged that the Writ shall abate Richardson This Writ is a judicial Writ and by that Plea a better Writ given you For where before it was against the Terre-tenants generally he might have now a particular scire fac against Francis Boyden and both waies are good either to demand Iudgement of the Writ or Iudgement of the Court if execution ought to be against him quod concessum per totam curiam And agreed also by the Prothonotaries that a special scire facias might issue against Francis Boyden Turner against Disbury TUrner against Disbury in Trespass Where the Writ was quare domum clausum fregit but the Declaration was quare domum clausum canem molossum cepit which was found for the Defendant And it was moved by Hitcham for the Plaintiff in arrest of Iudgement to prevent costs for it That there is not a material difference between the Original and the Declaration For that that there is more in the Declaration than in the Original And then here is no Original to warrant part of the Declaration But this variance was between the Original it self which remained with the custos brevium and the Declaration For the Original as it was recited in the Declaration according to the usage in this Court agreed with the Declaration
himself from all rights as concerning himself yet the Donor shall by force of this Statute which at the Common law he could not And if the Donor will release all his right in the Land to the Donee after a discontinuance by Feoffment his release though it will extinguish no right to the very Land yet it will extinguish Rents which proves that the Donee by his Feoffment cannot dismiss himself of all his right but that by the Statute of West his alienation is disabled as to that but that the Donor may avow for the Rent But wheresoever Tenant in tayl suffers a Recovery or levies a Fine the Rents together with the entayl ceases And the answer as to that is imperfect to resemble it to the Case of tenant in see simple doth alien and yet the Lord may avow upon him for the Cases have no resemblance for as Littleton well distinguisheth when Tenant in fee hath departed with his whole Estate he is no more Tenant to the Lord to avow upon though the Lord if he Will may avow upon him for the arrerages and if the Lord after future alienation release to him all his rights in the Land the Release is void to release the Rents and Services in all which it differs materially from the other Case and it is an equall proportion of the Law That when the Lord aliens his signory the Tenant is to he acquainted that all Arrearages may be paid that he may have no after-reckonings for after notice and the Arrerages paid the avowrie vanisheth Now for the Heir in tayl claiming from his Ancestor after his Feoffment by descent from him thereby allowing a right to remain in him against his Feoffment The Case is more difficult because during the Feoffor there can be no motion of that right neither by the Feoffor who hath hard himself nor his Issue because his Right is not yet come yet let me put this Case upon the Statute 11 H. 7. upon the opinion of Mountague Chief Iustice If Tenant in tayl Iointress make a Feoffment the person to whom the land doth belong after her death may enter and hold it according to his right Now till such Entry there is a discontinuance but when the Issue enters he is an Heir intayl et quasi eins per discent But now generally when Tenant in tayl hath made a Feoffment and dies the Heir shall bring a Formedon in the Discender and shall count that descendere debet from that Ancestor that made the discontinuance performam doni and therefore the Writ saith discendit jus it is as much devenit jus It is true that regularly a Feoffment bars all former rights and future rights yet respect to be had to Estrangers Albanies Case 2 Rep. Archers Case 1 Rep. 66. 9 H. 7. And therefore in Archers Case Lands were demised to one fore life remainder to his first Heir male Tenant for life made a Feoffment in fee and died his next Heir was barred of his right for ever by the Feoffment A man seised of Land by right of his Wife makes a feoffment in fee and then the Estate is made back to the Wife she is thereby remitted and her Husband shall never be Tenant by the Courtesie and therefore well resolved if Tenant in tayl discontinue and levy fine with Proclamations is no bar to the Estate tayl Now this Case is irregular because it standeth by Act of Parliament which is able to make the same Act good to one purpose or person and void or voidable to another as the Statute of Ecclesiastical persons and binds the party but is void or voidable against the Successors and shall nevertheless when they enter be in by succession And that there is still a right remaining in the Tenant in tayl appears in that he hath still in him a power to bind it more finally and totally by fine and recovery if he pursue them rightly and therefore note Cuppledikes Case If Tenant in tayl with divers remainders over make a Feoffment and Feoffee vouch not the Feoffee Tenant in tayl in possession but the first in Remainder by the Statute the Feoffees are not bound but are remitted and Maunsells Case there is cited where one recovery is a bar to 3 several Intayls with double voucher And this is called jus extinguendi which he could not extinguish and discharge if not in him and in his power and therefore there is no cause to frame Abeyances needless and in vain but the Law allows not nor admits not but in Cases of necessity as in the vacancy of Bishops Parsons and other Ecclesiastical persons or the like Remainders to right Heirs upon Freehold abeyances are not allowed but where the original Estate required them or where the consequences of Estates and Cases do require them As for the first in Case of single Corporations Bishops Deans and Parsons which must dye and a vacancy of freehold or a Remainder to the right Heirs of I. S. yet living Or Secondly in Case of congruity as if a man gives a Warranty and die his Heir in ventre sa mere may not be vouched but if there be Heir he may be vouched and a Vouchee may take and plead a Release quasi tenens or may lease a Fine to the Defendant of the Land in Question But for Estates that of their own nature and origination creation are perfect and intire as this Estate entayl is the Law permits not vain affected abeyance or fictions by the voluntary Act of the party as this to no good which should preserve a right to serve the Heir and to defraud the King which was one of the principal reasons for the making the Statute 27 of H. 8. for the transferring of uses into possession Vses being but a kind of abeyance and shift to kéep the profits to the use and defraud the King and Lords of their Escheats and them that had a right to know against whom to bring their Actions Littleton was confounded in himself when he made an abeyance of totum statum suum and yet made an Estate for life which is condemned in Walsinghams Case by the Iudges Again though fictions take place amongst common person the King is not bound by fictions and therefore the King is not bound by his remainders by recompence feigned upon a common recovery warrant collateral binds not the King but warranty with real and actual Assets nor the King is not bound by Estoppels of his own recitall certa scientia as it is in Altenwoods Case And I hold plainly that as the Land in possession is distinctly and literally given to the King so the right is as literally directly and plainly given to the King by discharge of that ancient right whereof formerly it was bound for when the Statute saith that the King should have the Lands saving the right of all persons other than the Offenders and their Heirs and such as claim to their use it is plain that the eye of the Statute was not
only upon the Land in possession but also the rights to the same the one in point of Giving The other in point of renouncing The Land in possession could be but in one that is in the Offenders and so it was given but the rights to the same Lands might be in sundry persons in the Offendor or in his Heirs or in Strangers Now when the Statute saith the King shall have the Land without saving the Rights of the Offendors or his Heirs or any claiming to their use Tenant in tayl discontinues and after disseiseth his Discontinuee and is attainted of Treason he forfeits his Estate gained by the Disseisin and also his right of Entayl for he cannot take benefit of his ancient Right against the King by force of the Statute of 26 H. 8. and 32 of H. 8. and this agrees with the reason and the rule in the Marquess of Winchesters Case for if the Traytor have right to a Strangers land that shall not be given to the King for the quiet of the Stranger being Possessor for the quiet of his possesion but such right shall be given to the King being Possessor for the quiet of his possession and the word Hereditament in the Statute 26 H. 8. are both sufficient and fit to carry such right in such Cases and no man will dispute but they are sufficient to save naked rights to the Lands of strangers therfore it is not for the count of words but because it is alleged it was not meant so it was said in Digbies Case and so hath Antiquity expounded it for the good of the Subject against the King and against the letter of the Law But can any man imagine that the Parliament that gave the Land to the King should leave a right in the Traytor in the same Land to defeaf him again of it since the Statute gives the right and the Land and this gives a forfeiture of all rights belonging to the Person attainted of Treason and their Heirs for the benefit of the Kings forfeiture is of so great importance that if it be not taken as large as I take it it is an avoiding of all the Statute even that 33 H. 8. cap. 20. for though they have the word Rights in both Statutes even that of 33. doth not include the right of Action to the Lands of Estrangers by an Equity against the Letter So for this time the Case was abruptly broken off by reason the King had sent for all the Iudges of every Bench. Springall against Tuttersbury IN Springall and Tuttersburies Case It was agreed by the Court If a verdict be given at a nisi prius and the Plaintiff or Defendant die after the beginning of the Term yet Iudgement shall be entred for that relates to the first day of the term Overalls Case ONe Overall was sued in London and for that that he was of the Common Bench a Writ of Privilege issued which is a Supersedeas and staid the Sute wholly and not removed the Cause And if the Plaintiff had cause of Action he ought to sue here And then by the course of the Court a Clark shall not put in bayl Foxes Case THe Lord Keeper in the Star-chamber cited one and Butchers Case to be adjudged 38 Eliz. An Vnder-Sheriff makes his Deputy for all matters except Executions and restrained him from medling with them And it was adjudged a void Exception So if it be agreed and covenanted between them that the Deputy should not meddle with matters of such a value It is a void Covenant And that was agreed by Richardson to be good Law Hil. 5 Car. Com. Banc. Overalls Case IT was agreed at another day in Overalls case by all the Clarks and Prothonotaries of the Court that the Course always was that if an Atturney or Clark be sued here by bill of Privilege he needs not put in bail But if he be sued by original and taken by a Capias as he may be if the Plaintiff wil Then he ought to put in bail quod nota MEmorandum that on Sunday morning in the next term ensuing which was the 24. day of Ianuary Sir Henry Yelverton puisne Iudge of the Common Bench dyed who before had been Attourney general to King Iames and afterwards incurring the displeasure of the King was displaced and censured in the Star-chamber and then he became afterwards a practicer again at the bar from whence he was advanced by King Charls to be a Iudge He was a man of profound knowledge and eloquence and for his life of great integrity and piety and his death was universally bewailed Termino Hill 5 Car. Com. Banc. Honora Cason against the Executor of her Husband HOnora Cason sues Edward Cason Executor of her Husband and declares by bill original in nature of debt pro rationabili parte bonorum in the Court of Mayor and Aldermen of London and alleges the custom of London to be That when the Citizens and Fréemen of London die their goods and chattels above the debts and necessary funeral expences ought to be divided into three parts and that the wife of the testator ought to have the one part and the Executors the second part to discharge Legacies and dispose at their discretion And the children of the Testator male or female which were not sufficiently provided for in the life of the Father to have notwithstanding the Legacies in the will the third part And the custom is that the Plaintiff in this action ought to bring into the Court an inventory and sue before the Mayor and Aldermen And that she had here brought an Inventory which amounted to 18000 l. so that her third part was 6000 l and demanded it of the Executor who unjustly detained c. And it was removed to the Common bench by writ of Privilege And now Hitcham Serjeant moved for a procedendo And the Court séemed to be of the opinion to grant it Because that the custom is that the sute ought to be before the Mayor and Aldermen and then if they retain the action here the custom would be overthrown But they agreed that a rationabile parte bonorum may be remanded here and that they may proceed upon it in this Court And that there be divers presidents to this purpose And they agreed that a rationabile parte bonorum is the original writ by the Common Law and not grounded upon the Statute of Magna Charta But that it does not lie but where such a custom is which custom they ought to extend to all the Province of York beyond Trent Richardson chief Iustice said that in the principal case The Plaintiff in London might have declared without alleging the custom As it is in 2 H. 4. Because that the custom is well known But otherwise Where custom ought to be shewed and where not where an action is upon the custom in a place where the custom does not extend There it ought to be shewn And afterwards at another