out of Repair Secondly The whole is Sequestred whereas it ought to have been but in proportion to the Charge of Repairing and should be certainly expressed what it required Thirdly The Sequestration is to remain by the Sentence until the Judge should take further Order Whereas it ought to have been but until the Repairs had been done These Exceptions the Court held fatal and therefore gave no Opinion as to the Matter in Law but did incline that there could be no Sequestration for being made Lay Fee the Impropriation was out of their Jurisdiction and it was now only against the Person as against a Layman for not Repairing the Church And they said in case of Dilapidations the whole ought not to be Sequestred but to leave a proportion to the Parson for his Livelyhood Anonymus IN an Ejectment upon a Special Verdict the sole Point was Whether a Lease for a year upon no other Consideration than reserving a Pepper Corn if it be demanded shall work as a Bargain and Sale and so to make the Lessee capable of a Release And it was Resolved that it should and that the Reservation made a sufficient Consideration to raise an Use as by Bargain and Sale Vid. 10 Co. in Sutton's Hospitals Case Rozer versus Rozer AN Indebitatus Assumpsit pro parcell ' Corii ad specialem instantiam requisitionem of the Defendant sold and delivered to J.S. Et sic inde Indebitat ' existens the Defendant promised to pay Vpon Non assumpsit pleaded and a Verdict for the Plaintiff it was moved in Arrest of Judgment that there is no Promise laid and no Reason to presume a Promise when 't is the very ground of the Action tho' after a Verdict And admitting there were a Promise yet it being Collateral it did not make a Debt but should have been brought as an Action upon the Case Mo. 702. and Dyer 230. And hereupon Judgment was stayed Tho' as I hear in the King Bench about two years since between Danbey and Kent they held such a Case well enough after a Verdict Quaere Termino Sanctae Trinitatis Anno 33 Car. II. In Communi Banco Page versus Kirke IN an Action of Trespass upon Not Guilty at the Assizes in Suffolk a Verdict was found for the Plaintiff and 10 s Damages and 40 s Costs and Judgment entred accordingly And an Action of Debt was brought upon the Judgment and the Defendant pleaded Specially the Statute 22 23 of Car. II. ca. 9. against Recovering more Costs than Damages where the Damages are under 40 s in Trespass unless certified by the Judge that the Title was chiefly in question the Words of the Statute being If any more Costs in such Action shall be awarded the Judgment shall be void To which the Plaintiff Demurred and the Plea was held Insufficient because the Verdict was for 40 s Costs and not Costs increased by an Award of the Court. 2. If the Judgment were Erroneous yet it was hard to make it avoidable by Plea notwithstanding that the Words of the Statute are Shall be void Termino Sanctae Michaelis Anno 33 Car. II. In Communi Banco Onslowes Case HE brought an Action against a Bayliff being the chief Magistrate of a Corporation for that although he were chosen one of the Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the Corporation by the greater Number c. yet the Bayliff to disappoint him of sitting and to bring trouble c. upon him did return another Person in the Indentures together with him to his Damage c. Vpon Not Guilty pleaded and a Verdict for the Plaintiff it was moved in Arrest of Iudgment that the Action would not lie And of that Opinion were the whole Court viz. North Chief Iustice Wyndham Charlton and Levins for they said they had no Iurisdiction of this Matter the principal part thereof being a Retorn in Parliament No Action before the Statute H. 6. c. did lie against a Sheriff or chief Officer of a Corporation for a False-retorn and the Courts at Westminster must not enlarge their Iurisdiction in these matters further than those Acts give them That there were no Presidents of any Actions at the Common Law save Nevils Case in the late times and Sir Samuel Bernardistons Case both which miscarried In the Long Parliament there were a great many double Retorns but no Actions had been brought which is a great Argument that no such Action lies as Littleton argues upon the Statute of Merton of disparaging an Heir Termino Paschae Anno 35 Car. II. In Communi Banco The Lord Conwallis's Case THE Case was Isaac Pennington a Copyholder of the Mannor whereof my Lord Conwallis is now feised committed Treason in the matter of the Murder of King Charles the First and then about Anno 1655. surrendred into the hands of the Lord of the Mannor his Copyhold Lands to the use of some of his Children who were admitted In 1659. the Mannor was aliened to the Lord Conwallis then came the Act of Attainder 12 Car. 2. whereby Tychburn with other Regicides were attainted and thereby it was Enacted That all their Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Possessions Rights Conditions Interests Offices Annuities and all other Hereditaments Leases for Years Chattels Real and other things of that nature whatsoever they be shall stand forfeited to the King c. Provided that no Conveyance Assurance Grant Bargain Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants and Surrenders by Copy of Court Roll c. made to any Person or Persons other than the Wife or Wives Child or Children Heir or Heirs of such Person or Persons c. After which Attainder c. the Lord of the Mannor caused the Lands to be seised and brought an Ejectment The First Point Was whether in Case of Treason or Felony the Lord can seise before Conviction or Attainder And the Court seemed to be of Opinion that no Seisure could be till Attainder without Special Custom but they agreed the presentment of the Homage was not necessary to precede a Seisure or to entitle the Lord to take the advantage of a Forfeiture but in case of a Capital Crime it would be unreasonable and inconvenient to permit the same to be tried or controverted in a Civil Action before the Conviction appeared upon Record Secondly Whether this were such a Forfeiture as the Lord was bound to take notice thereof for if no notice then the acceptance of the Surrender c. would not preclude him from taking advantage of the Forfeiture And the Court inclined that the Lord should be presumed to take notice in this Case as he shall in the Case of Failer of Suit of Court Non-paiment of Rent c. Vide 2 Cro. Matthews and Whetton 233. Thirdly Whether the Mannor being conveyed away before the Attainder shall purge the Forfeiture Iustice Levins said That although no advantage of this Forfeiture can be taken till Attainder yet after Attainder it has relation and
Circumstance that Special Matter or Circumstance must be shewn to the Court by him that would have the advantage of the Prescription for the Negative cannot be averred on the other side And it cannot be helped by supposing there may be Trees Mines or Park but it ought to be shewn for every thing that depends upon supposition may as well not be as be and to allow a Prescription upon such a supposal would be to bind up a party by it tho' the thing be not and Pasturage may well be supposed the whole profit of Pasture Ground for it is so in fact in many places and has its name because it is fed all the year But Where it is fed but part of the year and mowed or plowed the rest it is called Arable or Meadow The main Objection that I conceive they can make to this is That the Sole Pasturage or Vesture lies in Grant and the Owner may exclude himself wholly by Grant and so he may be excluded by Prescription or Custom and this they ground upon Co. Litt. 4 b. where it is said if a Man Grants to another and his Heirs vesturam terrae and makes Livery secundum formam Chartae yet the Freehold of the Soil shall not pass by which it is implied that the Vesture shall If this Book be to be understood of the Vesture at all times of the year where no other profits remain to the Lord I shall crave leave to object against it from the same Page where it is agréed that if it were profits the Soil would pass Methinks it should be the same in reason where the Vesture is all the profits and Vesture shall be intended all the profits I shall cite some Authorities which are not inconsiderable to Warrant this Opinion I have in a Manuscript Report of Cases in King James's time a Case betwixt Collins and the Bishop of Oxford It was Paschae 19. Jacobi upon a Tryal at Bar in the Kings Bench. The Case was that 1 Ed. 6. the King erects the Bishoprick of Oxford and gave to the Bishop and his Successors in t ' al' primam vesturam of a Meadow called Horse Meadow John Bridge Bishop of Oxford leased it for three Lives rendring Rent and dies his Successors before restitution of the Temporalties accepted the Rent of the Lessee and afterwards entred upon him Vpon this Case the first question was what passed by the Grant of prima vestura My Report says That it was agreed by all the Justices that by a Grant of Vestura Terrae by a common Person the Soil will pass and then there must be a Livery of consequence but they held a Grant of prima vestura was but like a Grant of prima tonsura and being for no certain time is but an Interest in the first cutting or taking of the Grass But they all agreed that if a Man Grants primam vesturam from such a day to such a day certain the Grantee shall have the Soil and Mow it or Feed it as he pleases Kelway 118. If a Man Grants vesturam Terrae for term of Life to another it is a Grant of the Land for Life for saith the Book the vesture is the profit of the Land and it is all one to have the profit as to have the Land it self Littleton puts the Case if a Man Grants the Vesture of Land to another and his Heirs without Livery no Estate passeth But the Book of my Lord Cokes difference betwixt the Vesture of the Land and the profits of the Land seems to be mistaken and in reason they are the same for I take it generally speaking Vesture shall be intended all the profits and if there be special profits as Mines opened or Waters c. which may qualifie the word and retain the Soil to the Owner it must be shewn And as it is for Vesture of Land so I conceive where it appears in Pleading that the Ground is Pasture Pasturage or Sole Feeding will signifie all the profits for Pasture is properly that which is wholly for Feeding and where the Sole Pasture is claimed the Owner cannot claim or take any other profit Temps E. 1. tit Partition 21. Two Men agree to make partition of Pasture Ground in this manner That one shall have totam pasturam from such a time to such a time and the other for the residue of the year this is a partition of the Soil it self which shews Pasture is to be intended the whole profits of Pasture Ground in that case the quo jure could not be maintained for the party had not barely a Liberty but the Soil it self If several Men have Profits upon the same Land alternis vicibus the Law most commonly determines the right of the Soil to be in him that has the most considerable Profits As for Example If one has the Summer Feeding of Pasture or the first Tonsure of Meadow or the Sowing and Reaping of Corn upon Arable and an other Man has the Feeding separately at other times of the year the Law saith that the Soil is in him that has the Summer profits and Corn because it is the greater Profits and the other hath but a Profit a prender Now suppose that two Men have interchangeably the sole Feeding of Pasture at such times that the interest of one is in all respects equal to that of the other there nothing can determin the Soil to be in one more than the other and therefore it shall be in one for his time and in the other for his time But where one has the sole feeding of Pasture at all times in the year and it has been so time out of mind and there is nothing but Pasture what can the other have to shew the Soil to be in him and why should it not be said to be in him that has the Feeding or whole Profits It seems very absurd that a Man should be allowed to be Owner of the Soil and yet it may be has no badge of Ownership by Perception of Profits If the Mans Estate be displaced so as to be put to a Writ of Right how should he lay the Esplees And as to this Consideration there may be difference betwixt a Grand and Vsage for a Grant beginning within time of Memory the Ownership of the Soil was once fully manifested until he had divested himself of all but that but upon Vsage time out of mind nothing can be said why one Man should have the Soil more than another if it be not in him that hath all the Profits I must end this Point also with this Observation That if there is no Case in all the Books of a Sole Pasture at all times of the year but in F. N. tit Prescription 51 and 55 and Hutton 45. It is made a Profit a prender and the most considerable Proâ—â—ts are left to the Owner My fourth Reason upon which I hold this Prescription is void is because it is a new invention framed to overthrow
See Rent IF part of a Debt upon Bond be received and an Acquittance given before the Action it is a Bar only of so much as was received but if after the Action brought it seems it may be pleaded in bar to the Whole 135 Whether an Action of Debt may be brought upon a Judgment pending a Writ of Error and whether the Defendant in such Action ought to Demur or plead Specially 261 A Consideration creates a Debt tho' that Debt be not reduced to a certain Sum as in the case of a Quantum meruit 282 Debt secured is Payment in Law 358 Devise See Tail Vse Of implicit Devises and where Lands shall pass by Implication in a Will and where not 56 57 A Reversion shall pass in a Will by the Words All my Hereditaments 286 Whether Money in the Court of Orphans be devisable 340 If Money be devised to one to be paid at his Age of 21 years if the Party dies before it shall go to his Executors but if Money be bequeathed to one at his Age of 21 years and he dies before the Money is lost 242 366 Where a Sum of Money is devised to a Child at such an Age it shall have the Interest in the mean time rather than the Executor shall swallow it especially when no Maintenance is otherwise provided 346 Devise to J.S. at the Age of 21 and if J.S. dies before 21 then to A A. dies after J. S. dies under 21 the Administrator of A. shall have it 347 If Lands be devised for payment of Debts and Legacies the Personal Estate shall notwithstanding as far as it will go by apply'd to the payment of Debts c. and the Land only make up the Residue 349 Where an Administrator shall have an Estate devised to an Infant and where not 355 356 A Sum of Money devised to be raised out of the Profits of his Lands the Profits will not amount to the Sum the Land may be sold 357 Diversity where a Child's Portion is devised out of Personal Estate and where to be raised out of Land 366 367 Distress Whether a Drover's Cattel put into a Ground belonging to a Common-Inn upon the Road to London may be distrained for Rent due from the Innkeeper 50 Leave given to mend the Conisans upon a Distress after a Demurrer paying Costs 142 A Distress may not be sever'd as Horses out of a Cart and therefore in some Cases a Distress of great Value may be taken for a small matter because not severable 183 Where one holds a Third part of certain Land and another two Third parts of the same Land undivided he who hath the One part cannot distrain the Cartel which were put in by Licence of him who hath the two Parts 228 283 E Ecclesiastical Court See Marriage WHether the Ecclesiastical Court may proceed against Conventicles or whether they be punishable only at the Common Law 41. They may 44 The legal Method of Proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts 42 43 The Proceeding ex Officio 43 A Suit may be tryed in the Ecclesiastical Court upon a Prescription to Repair the Chancel so also for a Modus Decimandi 239 Ecclesiastical Persons A Curate incapable of taking an Estate devised in Succession for want of being Incorporate but the Heir of the Devisee shall hold the Estate in Trust for the Curate for the time being 349 Ejectment In Ejectment the Declaration of Michaelmass Term and the Demise laid 30 of October after the Term began 174 Elegit See Execution Enrolment A Deed where the Grant is exprest to be in Consideration of Natural Affection as well as Money need not be Enrolled but the Land will pass by way of Covenant to stand seised 150 Error See Debt Essoine Where several Tenants in a Real Action may be Essoigned severally 57 Regularly Proceedings in an Essoine in Dower 117 Estate What Words shall create a Tenancy in Common 265 266 Evidence See Action on the Case Chancery Exchange Bills of Exchange have the same Effect between others as between Merchants and a Gentleman shall not avoid the Effect by pleading He is no Merchant 295 310 The Custom of Bills of Exchange 307 310 Execution How the Sheriff ought to behave himself in Executing a Fieri facias 94 95 Whether Money paid for Goods taken upon a Fieri facias is properly paid to the use of the Sheriff or Plaintiff ibid. A Fieri facias was executed after the Party was dead upon the Goods in the hands of the Executor but Teste before tho' not delivered to the Sheriff till after This was a good Execution at the Common Law but quaere since the Statute of 29 Car. 2. cap. 3. 218 An Extent upon an Elegit being satisfied by perception of Profits he in Reversion may enter 336 Executor See Award Rent Waver And Executor may detain for a Debt due upon a simple Contract against a Debt grounded upon a Devastavit 40 Whether the Executor of a Bishop may bring an Action of Covenant for breach of a Real Covenant relating to Lands of the Bishoprick 56 Where a Woman disposes of Goods as Executrix in her own wrong if she takes Administration afterwards tho' before the Writ brought this will not hinder the Plaintiff from charging her as Executrix in her own wrong 180 An Executor in his own wrong cannot retain ibid. The Mother Executrix shall not discount for Maintenance and Education out of the Money left by the Father for the Mother ought to maintain the Child But Money paid for binding him Apprentice may be discounted 353 After an Executor assents to a Legacy he shall never bring it back again to pay Debts Secus where he is sued and pays by Decree in Chancery there the Legatee shall refund 358 Where an Executor pays a Debt upon a Simple Contract there shall be no refunding to a Creditor of a higher nature Vid. Legacy 360 Money decreed in Chancery to the Executor of an Administrator do bonis non and not the second Administrator de bonis non where no Debts appeared of the first Intestate 362 Minority as to Executorship determines at the Age of 17 and then a Personal Estate devised to such Executor vests in him 368 Exposition of Words Faldagium 139 The force of these Words in forma praedicta 215 F Fieri facias See Execution Fine WHere and how a Fine levied by a Feme-Covert shall be set aside and where the Commissioner who took it may be fined by the Court 30 A Fine acknowledged before the Revolution and Writ of Covenant sued out after allowed good 47 48 A Right to an Estate by Extent barr'd by a Fine and Non-claim 329. So also the Right to a Term for years ibid. Secus where a Statute is assigned in Trust to wait upon the Inheritance 330 Fine Customary What Customary Fine between Lord and Tenant shall be allow'd good upon Alienation 134 135 Forfeiture See Office Generally where a Statute gives a Forfeiture and not said to
whom the King shall have it unless there be a particular person grieved 188 189 267 268 A Forfeiture shall not bind in Equity where a thing may be done afterwards or Composition made for it 352 G Gaming See Assumpsit DIce Play not unlawful in it self tho' prohibited by several Statutes to certain persons and in certain places 175 Grant A Deed having no Execution to make it work as a Grant shall operate as a Covenant to stand seized 261. and by the Statute of Vses 266 Where Land is granted by Deed-Pool in Consideration of Natural Affection without Enrolment or Attornment whether it shall operate as a Covenant to stand seized or be void 318 H Habeas Corpus NO Habeas Corpus to be moved for in the Common Pleas unless it concerns a Civil Cause yet the contrary permitted in the case of an Attorney of that Court 24 Half-Blood The Half-Blood shall have equal Share with the Whole-Blood in Distribution upon the Statute of 22 23 Car. 2. c. 10. 317 Heir See Mortgage Heirs is Nomen collectivum and is sometimes so taken when 't is only Heir in the Singular Number 313 Heir and not Executor shall have the Surplusage of Lands leased for payment of Debts 359 I Infant INfants not foreclosed in Chancery till they come of Age 351 Intent No Exception to Vnum Vasum Vini Hispanici that is not said what the Vessel was made of for it is intended to be made of Wood 67 The Name of a Grantor omitted in an Indenrure supplied by Intendment 142 Racks in a Stable shall be intended to be fixt and need not to be shewn to be so in Pleading 214 Every Agreement must have some reasonable Construction that may may be consistent with the Intent of the Parties and therefore if a man agrees with another that he shall make a Drain through his Ground he shall not make it through the parties Stables or Buildings in case there are other places proper 278 In a Special Verdict nothing shall be intended that is not found 330 Imprisonment See Pleading Impropriation Whether a Rectory Impropriate being made a Lay-Fee can be sequestred by the Court Christian for not Repairing the Chancel 35 Ireland See Naturalization Of its Conquest and the Introducing the Laws of England there 4 The Power of an Act of Parliament in Ireland 5 K King See Forfeiture ALlegiance due to the Natural and not the Politick Person of the King 3 In case of things which are Nullius in Bonis where no visible Right appears the Law gives them to the King as Derelict Lands Treasure Trove Extra-parochial Tythes c. So where the Right is equal between the King and the Subject the Kings Title hath the Preference 268 The King is the Fountain of Justice and that as well Ecclesiastical as Civil and may by the Ancient Law of the Realm visit reform and correct Abuses in the Jurisdiction Spiritual 268 In what Cases Forfeitures are vested in the King before Office found and where not 270 L Law A Thing for which there is neither Practical Custom Judicial Precedent or Act of Parliament to warrant may well be judged to be against Law 7 The clearest way how to understand any Law is to consider what was the Judgment of those People among whom and the Times in which it was practical 17 To excite the People to the disobedience of a Law of a Publick Nature is the highest Offence under High Treason 23 Lease What Lease capable of a Release to work a Bargain and Sale 35 For 99 years if two Persons shall so long live determines upon the death of either 74 Legacy See Executor Legatees are to have their Proportion where the Assets fall short 358 Legatees shall refund against Creditors and if the Ecclesiastical Court give Sentence for a Legacy a Prohibition lies unless they take Security to refund 358 360 Licence See Distress Limitation See Original Mortgage Suit to recover a Depositum in Trust for a Feme Covert not barr'd by the Statute of Limitations 345 London Of the Custom of London relating to Orphans Money 340 341 M Market WHere a Market is granted to the Damage of another the Patent may be repeal'd in a Scire facias notwithstanding a Writ of Ad quod Damnum had been executed for the Return of that Writ was not conclusive 344 Marriage Whether a Man may marry his Great Uncle's Widow 9. He may 18 20 The four Statutes relating to Marriage expounded 11 infr Tho' the Stat. 32 H. 8. c. 38. allows all persons to Marry that are without the Levitical Degrees yet persons Pre-contracted or under a perpetual Impotence are prohibited to Marry 15 To Marry his Brother's Wife prohibited by the Statute tho' not by the Levitical Law 17. So of his Wives Sister ibid. Marriages in the ascending and descending Line prohibited without limit not so between Collaterals and the Reasons 18 The Ecclesiastical Courts have Conizance to punish persons Marrying within the Levitical Degrees but not to determine what is within the Levitical Degrees and what not 22 Agreements to settle in Consideration of Marriage favoured in Chancery 353 354 357 Marriage restrictions how to be observed 365 Mine If a Man opens a Mine in his own Land he may dig and follow the Vein under another Man's Ground 342 But if the Owner did there also he may stop his further progress ibid. Mortgage Where Lands are Mortgaged thrice over the third Mortgagee may buy in the first Incumbrance to protect his own Mortgage and he hath both Law and Equity for him 338 He shall hold the Land against the second Mortgagee until be be satisfied both the Money he paid the first Mortgagee and also his own which he lent upon the last Mortgage ibid. But where only Part of the Lands are mortgaged to the first and the whole to the second and after to the third here if the third buys in the first Title it shall protect only that part that is in the first Mortgage 339 A Purchaser or Mortgagee coming in upon a Valuable Consideration without Notice and purchasing in a precedent Incumbrance it shall protect his Estate tho' he purchased in the Incumbrance after Notice of a second Mortgage ibid. Mortgages not relievable in Chancery after 20 years for the Stat. 21 Jac. 1. c. 16. limits the time of Entry to that number of years and 't is best to square the Rules of Equity as near the Rules of Reason and Law as may be 340 Upon a Mortgage in Fee the Redemption Money shall be paid to the Executor and not to the Heir 348 351 Where by a Devise of all his Lands Lands in Mortgage pass 351 Where a man 's own Covenant shall restrain him from his Equity of Redemption and where it shall not 365 Murder Husband kills a Man in the act of Adultery with his Wife Manslaughter and not Murder the Provocation being exceeding great Vide the First Part of these Reports 158 N Naturalization WHether
constant Practice Secondly There was no good Trial for there is an Award of a Venire facias but no Writ certified But this was also Over-ruled for it is the Course of the Assizes not to make out any Writ Thirdly Issue is joyned by the Clerk of Assize which the Court said ought to be for he is Attorney General there Parker versus Welby THe Plaintiff brought an Action upon the Case against the Defendant and Declared that he Sued out a Latitat against a third Person directed to the Defendant being Sheriff who thereupon Arrested him and after let him go at large And then he Returned a Cepi Corpus paratum habuit ubi revera he had not his Body at the Day To this Declaration the Defendant Demurred supposing that no Action would lye for this False Return for the Statute of 23 H. 6. obliges the Sheriff to let to Bail and if he hath not the Body at the Day he is to be amerced But the Court were of Opinion for the Plaintiff For it shall be intended that he let him go without Bail and if he did not he ought to have pleaded the Statute of 23 H. 6. which is a Private Law And at the Common Law a man could not be let at large in such case without a Homine Replegiando Or else he might have pleaded Not Guilty and given the Statute in Evidence And so it is Adjudged in Layton and Gardiner's Case 3 Cro. 460. So Moor placito 996. 2 Cro. 352. and 3 Cro. 624. Where the Defendant pleaded That he let to Bail according to the Statute and the Plaintiff was barred Twisden cited a Case in this Court Paschae 21 Car. 1. Rot. 616. between Franklyn and Andrews where the Plaintiff Declared as in this Case And the Defendant pleaded the Statute and that he let him at large upon Sureties and traversed absque hoc that he returned his Writ Aliter aut alio modo To which the Plaintiff Demurred It was Resolved First That the Sheriff could Return nothing but Cepi Corpus And he was then amerced because he offered to make a Special Return Secondly That where the Sheriff let the parties out to the Bail and he made such Return that it was no False Return and therefore he should not have traversed Absque hoc that he Returned Aliter vel alio modo As in Maintenance where the Defendant Iustifies for that the party could not speak English and therefore he went with him to instruct his Counsel He shall traverse Absque hoc that he maintained Aliter because that he maintained Would not do tho' it be justifiable So in that case the Court ordered it to be Entred upon the Roll that Judgment was given for the Plaintiff quia Traversia fuit mala So here they Ordered it to be Entred because the Defendant did not plead the Statute of 23 H. 6. Hocking versus Matthews AN Action upon the Case was brought for Maliciously Impleading and causing him to be Excommunicated in the Ecclesiastical Court whereby he was taken upon an Excom ' Cap ' and Imprisoned until he got himself absolved The Defendant pleaded Not Guilty and found against him And it was afterwards moved in Arrest of Judgment that the Declaration was not good for no Action will lye for suing a man in the Spiritual Court tho' without cause no more than in Suing in the Temporal Courts For Fitz. N. B. is That a man shall not be punished for bringing the Kings Writs So Hob. Waterer and Freeman's Case And it hath been lately held that no Action will lye for an Indictment of Trespass tho' falso but an Action of the Case will lye for suing in Court Christian for a Temporal Cause But the Court in this Cause gave Judgment for the Plaintiff For tho' in an Action between party and party in the Ecclesiastical Court where if the matter goes for the Defendant he shall have his Costs no Action will lye if the Court hath Iurisdiction Yet where there is a Citation ex Officio and that is prosecuted malicously without ground the Party shall have his Action for in such Suit he can have no Costs And so is Carlion and Mills's Case Adjudged 1 Cro. 291. And this shall be so intended after the Verdict or otherwise the Defendant should have shewed it to be otherwise and Iustified And Rainsford said without Cause shall be understood without any Libel or Legal Proceedings against him Anonymus IN Debt upon an Obligation to perform an Award which was to pay the Rent mentioned in such an Indenture He that pleads performance of this Award needs not set forth the Indenture but refer generally to it But if it be to be paid in such manner and at such times as is expressed in the Indenture then it must be set forth at large The like of an Award of payment of Money given by a Will Wilson versus Armorer THe Case was Argued again this Term by Coleman for the Plaintiff who Argued that the Exception takes the two Closes wholly out of the Grant and that no modification can be annexed to it 3 Cro. 657. and Moor Pl. 747. A Lease was made for certain Lands excepting a Close and Covenants were for quiet Enjoyment of the Premisses The Lessee disturbed the Plaintiffs possession in the Close excepted yet he could not bring a Writ of Co-venant for by the Exception it is as much as if it had been never mentioned and in this Case the Livery being secundum formam Chartae could not work upon these Closes The Case of Hodge and Crosse cited in Hob. 171. was this A man gave Lands to another Habendum to him and his Heirs after the death of the Feoffor and Livery secundum formam Chartae Resolved a void Feoffment and relyed upon the Case in 1 Anderson 129. as full in the Point A Lease of an House excepting a Chamber pro usu suo proprio occupatione It was held that he might assign Weston ê contra This Exception is altogether void for it cannot be for the Life of the Feoffor only Bro. tit Reservation 13. and it shall not except the whole Fee against the Intention of the Parties for then the Ill wording of his Exception should give him above twice as much as otherwise be should have had and it is but one entire Sentence and taking it altogether it must have an effect which the Law doth not admit and is therefore to be wholly rejected As where a man grants his Term after his death the Grant is void Otherwise where he grants his Term habendum after his death for there the last Sentence is rejected Hob. 171. The Case of the Exception of the Chamber is not alike for excepting it for his own use are apt words to give him power to dispose of it at his pleasure Keeling Rainsford and Moreton held the Exception good for the entire Fee Twisden That it was wholly void because one Sentence Plus Postea Sympson versus Quinley
Defendant pleaded that the place Where was the Freehold of Sir Thomas Hooke and that by his Command he entred The Plaintiff traverseth That it was the Freehold of Sir T.H. And thereupon this Special Verdict was found That Nicholas Heale was seised in Fee and that 16 Dec. 1640. he made a Deed to Jane Heale Enrolled within six Months by which the said Nicholas did for and in Consideration of Natural Love augmentation of her Portion and preferment of her in Marriage and other good and valuable Considerations give grant bargain sell alien enfeoff and confirm unto the said Jane Heale and her Heirs Then they found there was a Covenant that the said Jane Heale should after due Execution c. quietly enjoy c. and also a special Clause of Warranty And that the Deed was Enrolled within six Months and that there was no other Consideration of making the Indenture than what was expressed And if it were sufficient to convey the Premisses to the said Jane they found for the Plaintiff if not for the Defendant And it was Argued by Winnington for the Plaintiff He agreed that it could not take the effect as a Bargain and Sale because no Money was paid but Argued that the Deed should enure as a Covenant to stand seized It is a Ground in the Law that the intention of the parties ought to guide the raising of Uses and the Construction how they shall enure Co. Lit. 49. Rolls 2d part 789. and to give the effect the words shall be disposed to other Construction than what otherwise they would import As if a man demises grants and to Farm-lets certain Lands in Consideration of Money and the Deed is Enrolled this is a good Bargain and Sale So if a man Covenants in Consideration of Money to stand seised to the use of his Son 8 Co. 93. Foxes Case 2 Rolls 789. it is said Nota per Cur ' if it appears that it was the Intent of him that made the Deed to pass the Estate according to Rules of Law it shall pass though there be not formal Words Again the Consideration expressed in this Deed is purely applicable to a Covenant to stand seised and a Deed shall enure upon the Consideration expressed rather than upon one that is implied As in Bedell's Case 7 Co. 40. If the Father in Consideration of 100 l paid Covenants to stand seised to the use of his Son and the Deed is not Enrolled nothing shall pass But where there are two Considerations expressed there the Vse may arise upon either As if the Father in Consideration of Blood and 100 l paid by the Son Covenants to stand seised c. and the Deed is not Enrolled yet the Vse shall arise as upon a Covenant to stand seised Pl. Com. 305. And so it was Adjudged between Watson and Dicks in the Common Pleas 1656. The Father by Deed in Consideration of Love and 100 l paid by the Son conveyed Land to him with a Letter of Attorney in the Deed to make Livery in that case the Son hath his election to take by the Enrolment or Livery which shall be first Executed 2 Rolls 787. pl. 25. But it hath been Objected here that there is a Clause of Warranty in the Deed which shews that the parties intended a Conveyance at the Common Law for if it enure by way of Covenant to stand seised the Warranty can have no effect but to Rebut Also there is a Covenant for quiet Enjoyment after Sealing and Delivery of the Deed and due Execution of the same which shews the parties had a prospect of Executing it by Livery c. To which he Answered That such remote Implications as those shall never make a Deed void against an express Consideration upon the which an Use may arise 'T is true if there had been a Letter of Attorney in the Deed it might have been void unless Livery had followed As if the Father by Deed grants Land to the Son and a Letter of Attorney in it to make Livery if none be made nothing passes Co. Lit. 49. a. The Authorities which have been cited on the other side are first Pitfields and Pierce's Case 2 Roll. 789. where the Father by Deed Poll in Consideration of Blood did give grant c. as in our Case to his Son Habend ' after his decease and a Proviso in it That the Son should pay a Rent during the Father's Life It was Adjudged That the Lands should not pass in that Case by way of Covenant to stand seised But in that Case the Conveyance was repugnant to the Rules of Law for that it was Habend ' the Land after the death of the Grantor and also repugnant in it self For notwithstanding that it reserves the Land to the Father during his Life yet it provides for a payment of Rent to him wherefore the Law would not help out a Deed so contradictory and repugnant by way of raising an Vse The other Case relied upon is between Foster and Foster Hill 13. of this King in this Court in Ejectment The Case was The Mother for divers good Considerations and 20 l paid did by a Deed which was Entituled Articles of Agreement demise grant bargain sell assign and set over to the Son and his Heirs for ever certain Lands the said Margery the Mother quietly enjoying the Premisses during her Life The Court Resolved that it should not amount to a Covenant to stand seised for they were but intended as Articles of Agreement and preparatory for a further Conveyance So the Case differs very much from ours as also that it reserves the Land to the Mother during her Life The Case also of Osborn and Bradshaw in 2 Cro. 127. hath been cited Where the Father in Consideration of Love which he hears to his Son and for Natural affection to him bargained and sold gave granted and confirmed Land to him and his Heirs the Deed was Enrolled It was held the Land should not pass unless Money had been paid or the Estate executed This Case cannot be urged as any great Authority for it appears that the Son was in possession Therefore the Court Adjudged that the Deed should be a Confirmation and it being clear that way they had not much occasion to insist upon or debate the other Point And he relied upon Debb and Peplewell's Case as an Authority in the Point 2 Rolls 78. 6. where there was a Clause of Warranty in the Deed and an Enrolment within six Months as in the Case at Bar But they Resolved there If a Letter of Attorney had been in the Deed it should not have been construed a Covenant to stand seised and therefore he prayed Judgment for the Plaintiff Finch Attorney General contra The Lands here cannot pass by Bargain and Sale there being no Money paid which I find is admitted by the other side neither shall it amount to a Covenant to stand seised There are Five things necessary to raise an Use by way of Covenant
not to be removed out of Corporation Courts where they are held before an Utter Barrister so that 't is far better for the Corporation to have such an one their Recorder Twisden said The case of Bernardiston differed besides that he apprehended he had much of the favour of the times in it for he that was tried before him for having two Wives was arraigned before him not as Recorder of Colchester but as a Commissioner of the Gaol delivery neither was it returned That he was Summoned which was said not to be material because they could not have examined the matter It was returned also That he absented himself for nine Months but not set forth that any Court was held during that time or any occasion for it He said That Cholmley Recorder of Lincoln was turned out of his place for trying the Accessory before the Principal and altho' there be no Special Fact returned here yet it may be tried in an Action upon the Case The Court said They would look upon Bernardistons Case Et Adjornatur Anonymus A Prohibition shall not go to the Admiralty to stay a Suit there for Mariners Wages tho' the Contract were upon the Land For First It is more convenient for them to sue there because they may all joyn Again according to their Law if the Ship perish by the Mariners default they are to lose their Wages therefore in this special Case the Suit shall be suffred to proceed there Dier versus East WHere by the Statute of Ed. 6. It is ordained That striking in the Church-yard shall be Excommunication Ipso facto this tho' it takes away the necessity of any Sentence of Excommunication yet he that Strikes doth not stand Excommunicated until he be thereof convicted at Law and this transmitted to the Ordinary Theodore Morris's Case HE was indicted of Murther in Denbigh and obtained a Certiorari to remove it into this Court in order to have it tryed in an adjacent English County And it was moved whether by Law it might be The Statute of 26 H. 8. cap. 6. empowers the next English County to take Indictments of Treasons and Felonies committed in Wales and to try them but here the Indictment was taken in a Welsh County Herbets Case in Latch was cited who was indicted at Montgomery and tryed at Salop and Plowden Matters del corone avenants a Salop and Southley and Prices Case 3 Cro. is That the Statute doth not extend to a Tryal upon an Appeal In Chedleys Case a Certiorari was granted as here to remove an Indictment found in Anglesy which was afterwards tryed in the next English County 3 Cro. 331. And the Court held that so it might be here Large versus Cheshire HIll 22. and 23 Car. 2. Rot. 520. In Covenant the Plaintiff declared upon Articles of Agreement between him and the Defendant whereby the Defendant covenanted to pay him such a Sum the Plaintiff making to him a sufficient Estate in such Lands before the Feast of St. Thomas next ensuing the date of the Deed and then he saith that licet he the Plaintiff semper a tempore confectionis scripti paratus suit ad performand ' all the Agreements of his part usque ad diem Exhibitionis bille the Defendant had not paid the Money The Defendant pleaded quod ipse obtulit solvere the Money aforesaid apud Derby si le Plaintiff faceret ei bonum sufficient ' Statum de in Premissis c. The Plaintiff replied Protestando That the Defendant did not offer the Money pro placito that he the 21 of Decemb. apud Derby fecit sigillavit quandam Chartam Feoffamenti whereby he conveyed the Premisses to the Defendant and that he came to the Premisses an hour before Sun-set the same day paratus ad deliberand ' seisinam c. quod Desendens nec aliquis ex parte illius venit ad recipiend ' c. to which the Defendant demurred and adjudged for him It was held That these words ipso faciente bonum statum were a Condition precedent to the payment of the Money therefore the Plaintiff in his Declaration should have averred the performance of it particularly and not by such general words that he had done all on his part And it differs from the Case where in Assumpsit the Plaintiff declared That the Defendant in Consideration the Plaintiff should permit him to enjoy such Land for seven years that he would pay him pro quolibet anno 20 s and the Action was held well brought within the seven years for that it was Executory contract for every of the years according to the intention of the Parties It was resolved also That the Replication was insufficient for that the Plaintiff having Election to make what Conveyance he pleaded he ought to have given notice to the Defendant that he would execute this Charter of Feoffment by Livery for it might have béen by Enrollment But Hale said The time when in this Case was not necessary to be in the notice because the Charter was sealed and delivered upon the extream day limited by the Agreement so the Defendant knew it must be upon that day so for the place because it is a local thing and must be done upon the Land But because he had set forth no notice given to the Defendant that he would make Livery the Replication is insufficient as if a Man be bound to Levy a Fine he must shew whether he will do it in Court or by Dedimus and the Court said if the Defendant had refused to accept of Livery the Plaintiff might as well have brought the Action as if he had actually made it Sacheverel versus Frogate IN Covenant the Plaintiff declares That Jacinth Sacheverel was seized in Fee and demised to the Defendant certain Lands for 21 years rendring to him his Executors Administrators and Assigns 120 l Annually during the Term By force of which Lease the Defendant entred and that J. S. Devised the Reversion to the Plaintiff and died and for Non-payment of Rent accrued since his Death he brought the Action and to this Declaration the Defendant demurred And it was argued by Winnington That the Rent determined by the Death of the Lessor as where the Lessor reserves the Rent only to himself 1 E. 4. 18. 27 H. 8. 19. Dier 45. Com. 171. the Heir shall not have it for reservations are taken strongliest against the Lessor so where the reservation is to the Lessor his Executors and Assigns it continues but for his Life Co. Lit. 47. a. 'T is true Here is also added Durante Termino and in Mallories Case 5 Co. where the reservation was to the Abbot or his Successors during the Term it went to the Successor but that was because they expounded or as a Conjunctive for if Successor had béen left out I suppose it would have been resolved otherwise Richmond and Butchers Case 1 Cro. 217. is in point that the Heir shall not have it So 2 Rolls 451.
here to forbear to Sue generally but to stay a Suit against the Defendant whom he could not Sue To which it was answered That after a Verdict it shall be intended there was cause of Suit as Hob. 216. Bidwell and Cattons Case And Attorney brought an Assumpsit upon a Promise made to him in Consideration that he would stay the Prosecution of an Attachment of Priviledge and there held that it need not appear that there was cause of Suit for the Promise argues it and it will be presumed And here 't is a strong intendment that the Bond was made in Common Form which binds the Heirs But Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff for the Court said it might be intended that there was cause of Action if the contrary did not appear which it doth in this Case for the Bond cannot be intended otherwise than the Plaintiff himself hath expressed it which shews only that the Ancestor was bound And whereas it was said by the Plaintiff's Counsel that this would attaint the Jury they finding Assumpsit upon a void Promise Hale said there was no colour for that conceit The Plaintiff having proved his Promise and Consideration as 't was laid in the Declaration which is the only thing within their charge upon Non Assumpsit modo forma Bulmer versus Charles Pawlet Lord Saint John IN an Ejectment upon a Tryal at Bar this question arose upon the Evidence Tenant for Life Remainder in Tail to J. S. joyn in a Fine J.S. dies without Issue whether the Conusee should hold the Land for the Life of the Tenant for Life Serjeant Ellis pressed to have it found Specialy tho' it is resolved in Bredons Case that the Estate of the Conusee shall have Continuance but he said it was a strange Estate that should be both a Determinable Fee and an Estate pur auter vie and he cited 3 Cro. 285. Major and Talbots Case where in Covenant the Plaintiff sets forth that a Feme Tenant for Life Remainder in Fee to her Husband made a Lease to the Defendant for years wherein the Defendant covenanted with the Lessors their Heirs and Assigns to repair and they conveyed the Reversion to the Plaintiff and for default of Reparations the Plaintiff brought his Action as Assignee to the Husband And resolved to be well brought because the Wives Estate passed as drowned in the Fee The Court said Bredons Case was full in the point but the Reason there given Hale said made against the Resolution for 't is said that the Remainder in Tail passes first which if it does the Freehold must go by way of Surrender and so down but they shall rather be construed to pass insimul uno flatu Hob. 277 In Englishes Case it was resolved it Tenant for Life Remainder in Tail to an Infant joyn in a Fine if the Infant after Reverse the Fine yet the Conusee shall hold it for the Life of the Conusor 1 Co. in Bredons Case and he resembled it to the Case in 1 Inst a Man seized in the right of his Wife and entituled to be Tenant by the curtesie joyns in a Feoffment with his Wife the Heir of his Wife shall not avoid this during the Husbands Life Nevertheless he told Ellis That he would never deny a Special Verdict at the request of a Learned Man but it appearing that he Plaintiff had a good Title after the Life should fall the Defendant bought it of him and the Jury were discharged Sacheverel versus Frogate PAs 23 Car. 2. Rot. 590. In Covenant the Plaintiff declared That Jacinth Sacheverel seized in Fee demised to the Defendant certain Land for years reserving 120 l Rent And therein was a Covenant that the Defendant should yearly and every year during the said Term pay unto the Lessor his Executors Administrators and Assigns the said Rent and sets forth how that the Lessor devised the Reversion to the Plaintiff an for 120 l Rent since his decease he brought the Action The Defendant demanded Oyer of the Indenture wherein the Reservation of the Rent was yearly during the Term to the Lessor his Executors Administrators and Assigns and after a Covenant prout the Plaintiff declared and to this the Defendant demurred It was twice argued at the Bar and was now set down for the Resolution of the Court which Hale delivered with the Reasons He said they were all of Opinion for the Plaintiff For what interest a Man hath he hath it in a double capacity either as a Chattel and so transmissible to the Executors and Administrators or as an Inheritance and so in capacity of transmitting it to his Heir Then if Tenant in Fee makes a Lease and reserves the Rent to him and his Executors the Rent cannot go to them for there is no Testamentary Estate On the other side if Lessee for a 100 years should make a Lease for 40 years reserving Rent to him and his Heirs that would be void to the Heir Now a Reservation is but a Return of somewhat back in Retribution of what passes and therefore must be carried over to the Party which should have succeeded in the Estate if no Lease had béen made and that has béen always held where the Reservation is general So tho' it doth not properly create a Fee yet 't is a descendible Estate because it comes in lieu of what would have descended therefore Constructions of Reservations have been ever according to the Reason and Equity of the thing If two Joynt-teants make a Lease and reserve the Rent to one of them this is a good to both unless the Lease be by Indenture because of the Estoppel which is not in our Case for the Executors are Strangers to the Deed. 'T is true if A. and B. joyn in a Lease of Land wherein A. hath nothing reserving the Rent to A. by Indenture this is good by Estoppel to A. But in the Earl of Clare's Case it was resolved That where he and his Wife made a Lease reserving a Rent to himself and his Wife and his Heirs that he might bring Debt for the Rent and declare as of a Lease made by himself alone and the Reservation to himself for being in the Case of a Feme Covert there could be no Estoppel altho' she signed and sealed the Lease There was an Indenture of Demise from two Joynt tenants reserving 20 l Rent to them both one only sealed and delivered the Deed and he brought Debt for the Rent and declared of a Demise of the Moiety and a Reservation of 10 l Rent to him And resolved that he might Between Bond and Cartwright which see before and in the Common Pleas Pas 40. Eliz. Tenant in Tail made a Lease reserving a Rent to him and his Heirs It was resolved a good Lease to bind the Entail for the Rent shall go to the Heir in Tail along with the Reversion tho' the Reservation were to the Heirs generally For the Law uses all industry imaginable to conform
c. be indicted for not repairing of a Way within their Precinct they cannot plead Not guilty and give in Evidence that another by Prescription or Tenure ought to repair it for they are chargeable de communi Jure and if they would discharge themselves by laying it elsewhere it must be pleaded Error ERror to Reverse a Judgment in Debt upon a Bond given in Norwich Court where by the Custom the plea of the Defendant was quod non dedicit factum sed petit quod inquiratur de debito First It was moved to be Error for that the Venire was XII Men c. in figures Sed non allocatur for being in these letters XII and not in the figures 12. it was well enough Secondly It was ad triandum exi tum whereas there was no Issue joyned wherefore it ought to have been ad inquirend ' de debito c. Sed non allocatur for the Presidents are as the Case is here Thirdly The Condition of the Bond was to pay at Alborough and that ought to have been shewn to be within the Jurisdiction of the Court Sed non allocatur for the Plea here is not payment secund ' formam Conditionis but the Jury is to inquire by the custom of all manner of payments and discharges Fourthly In the Record it was continued over to several Courts and in the Court where the Judgment is given 't is said in Curia praedicta and so incertain which but notwithstanding these matters the Iudgment was affirmed Anonymus THe Case upon Evidence at a Tryal in Ejectment was this a Dean and Chapter having a right to certain Land but being out of Possession Sealed a Lease with a Letter of Attorney to deliver it upon the Land which was done accordingly and held to be a good Lease for tho' the putting the Seal of a Corporation aggregate to a Deed carries with it a delivery yet the Letter of Attorney to deliver it upon the Land shall suspend the operation of it while then Tenant for Life being in Debt to defraud his Creditors commits a Forfeiture to the end that he in Reversion may enter who is made privy to the contrivance The Opinion of Hale was that the Creditors should avoid this as well as any fraudulent Conveyance Anonymus IN an Ejectment upon a Tryal at Bar for Lands in antient Demesne there was shewn a Recovery in the Court of antient Demesne to cut off an Entail which had been suffered a long time since and the Possession had gone accordingly But there was now objected against it First That no sufficient Evidence of it appeared because the Recovery it self nor a Copy of it was shewn for in truth it was lost But the Court did admit other proof of it to be sufficient and said if a Record be lost it may be proved to a Jury by Testimony as the Decree in H. 8. time for Tythe in London is lost yet it hath been often allowed that there was one Secondly It appeared that a part of the Land was leased for Life and the Recovery with a single Voucher was suffered by him in Reversion and so no Tenant to the Praecipe for those Lands But in regard the Possession had followed it for so long time the Court said they would presume a Surrender as in an Appropriation of great Antiquity there has been presumed a Licence tho' none appeared Thirdly It was objected That the Tenant in Tail which suffered the Recovery having first accepted of a Fine sur Conusans de droit come ceo his Estate Tail was changed for he was estopped during his Life to say that he had any other Estate than Fee then he being made Tenant to the Praecipe the Recovery was not of the Estate Tail and so should not bind But the Court held clearly that the acceptance of this Fine made no alteration of his Estate If Tenant for Life accepts such a Fine 't is a Forfeiture because he admits the Reversion to be in a Stranger but it does not change his Estate so where two Joynt-tenants in Fee accept a Fine which is to the Heirs of one of them yet they continue Joynt-tenants in Fee as they were before Fourthly The Writ of Right Close did express the Land to lie in such a Mannor and a Praecipe that demands Land ought to mention the Vill in which they lie for a Praecipe of Land in Parochia or in Manerio is not good But this exception was disallowed by the Court for Hale said the Writ of Right Close is directed Ballivis Manerij c. quod plenum rectum teneant of the Land within the Precinct of the Mannor and it is not to be resembled to another Praecipe But if a Praecipe be faulty in that Point unless exception be taken to it in Abatement it cannot be assigned for Error but if it were Erroneous the Recovery would bind until reversed Note After Judgment quod computet tho' it be not the final Judgment yet no motion is to be admitted in Arrest of Judgment and after such Judgment a Scire facias lies against the Executor of the Defendant Note In an Action of Debt against the Lessee he may plead nil debet and give the expulsion in Evidence Anonymus IN an Assumpsit the consideration appeared to be that the Defendant promised to pay a Sum of Money which he owed this is no good consideration tho' after a Verdict unless it appeared that the Debt was become remediless by the Statute of Limitations but payment of a Debt without Suit is a good consideration Anonymus A Justice of the Peace brought an Action of Slander for that the Defendant said He was not worth a Groat and that he was gone to the Dogs and upon motion in Arrest of Judgment notwithstanding that it was urged to maintain it that the Statute of H. 6. requires that a Justice of Peace should have 40 l a year And therefore in regard an Estate was necessary to his Office that the Action would lie yet the Judgment was stayed for such words will not bear an Action unless the person of whom they are spoken lives by buying and selling Anonymus IT was returned upon Elegit that the Sheriff had delivered medietatem Terrar ' Tenementorum in extent and after the Filing and Entry of it upon the Record the Plaintiff moved to quash it because it was insufficient for the Sheriff ought upon such Execution to deliver the Possession by Metes and Bounds Wild held that it being entred upon the Record there was no avoiding of it but by Writ of Error But Hale held that in regard it appeared by the Record to be void it might be quashed as if upon an Ejectment to recover Possession upon such a return it appears upon the Evidence that there was more than the half the Land delivered this shall be avoided So if a Fieri facias be not warranted by the Judgment upon which it is awarded tho' the Sheriff shall be
of Wood he hath the effect of his Grant But Trees differ in value exceedingly from each other Bolton versus Cannon IN Debt against an Executor for Rent Arrere in his own time in the debet detinet The Defendant pleads that the Rent is more worth than the Land and that he tendred a Surrender before the time for which the Rent is demanded and that the Plaintiff refused to accept the Surrender and that he had fully administred and so demands Iudgment of the Action The Plaintiff replies that there was Rent Arrear to him and that therefore he was not bound to accept of the Surrender and to this the Defendant Demurrs The Court said First That an Executor that does intermeddle cannot wave a Lease or any other part of the Testators Estate for he cannot assume the Executorship for part and refuse for part Secondly That in case the Land be not more worth than the Rent it is a good Plea to an Action of Debt in the debet and detinet for he is to be charged in the detinet only tho' where the Rent is of less value he may be charged in the debet detinet for that which is accrued in his own time according to Hargraves Case 5 Co. Thirdly The doubt here is that the Defendant having waved the material part of his Plea viz. That the Rent exceeded the value of the Land and relied upon his tender of a Surrender which is nothing to the purpose whether Judgment can be here for him and that otherwise his Plea is double but because the Plaintiff hath not demurred to that but answered only to one part of it the Defendant might well Demurr upon the Replication because it does not answer all contained in the Plea for unless the party Demurrs for doubleness he is bound to answer all the matters alledged Et Adjornatur But being this Term moved again Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff because the Defendant relinquished the material part of his Bar and offered matter meerly frivolous Cartwright versus Pinkney TEnant for years Surrenders to the Lessor reserving a Rent the question was Whether it was a good Reservation And held that it was upon the Contract and that Debt lay after the first day was incurred wherein it was reserved to be paid for it was in the nature of a Rent and not of a Sum in Gross Ante Wilson and Pinckney Anonymus IN Trespass for Fishing in his several Fishery pisces cepit After a Verdict for the Plaintiff it was moved in Arrest of Judgment that the Plaintiff ought to have alledged what kind of Fishes and the number of them as in Playters Case 5 Co. is But for that it was said on the other side that at that time they were more strict in the certainty of pleading than since for now and indebitat ' Assumpsit for Work done or Goods sold is allowed without further certainty And that however the Oxford Act 15 Car. 2. here helped it for tho' this be none of the defects there enumerated yet the words of the Act being That Judgment shall not be arrested for any other exception that doth not alter the nature of the Action or Tryal of the Issue shall extend to this Case But the Court were of Opinion that none of the Acts had aided this Case in regard that there was not so much as the number of the Fishes expressed as if a Man should bring Trespass for taking of his Beasts and not say what But Hale said Trover for a Ship cum velis had been allowed because all made but one aggregate Body both the Ship and Sails But Trover pro velis would not be good Vid. 2 Cro. 435. Trespass quare clausum fregit Spinas cepit and 3 Cro. 553. Child and Greenhills Case Dr. Webb versus Batchelour al' IN Trespass for taking so many Cowes upon Not guilty a Special Verdict was found That an Act of this King for repairing of the High-ways appoints that such persons as keep Carts and Horses c. should send them at certain times to assist in the repairing of the Ways not having a reasonable excuse and that warning was given to the Parishioners of the Parish whereof the Plaintiff was Parson to send in their Carts and that the Plaintiff omitting to do it a Justice of Peace made a Warrant to the Defendant to distrain him according to the Authority given by the Act c. It was alledged for the Plaintiff First That Clergymen were not obliged by this Act for Ecclesiastical Persons have always had immunities from such charges as Pontage Murage c. and shall not be comprehended in the general words Parishioners Secondly That in regard the Act allows an excuse the Justice of the Peace ought to have caused the Plaintiff to have appeared before him to have seen whether he had an excuse before he could have made his Warrant and tho' the Officer that executes the Process of a Court of Record be indemnified where the proceeding is Erroneous yet 't is not so where the proceeding is not of Record as the 10 Co. in the case of the Marshalsey 3 Cro. 394. Nicholls versus Walker and Carter Where a Warrant was made by a Justice of the Peace to distrain for a Poors Rate Trespass was maintained against the Officer that executed the VVarrant because the Plaintiff was not chargeable as an Inhabitant of the Parish for whose Poor the Rate was made Curia contra 1. The Clergy are liable to all publick charges imposed by Act of Parliament and that hath been resolved as Hale said upon debate before all the Judges 2. The Officer that executes the VVarrant though unduely made for the cause alledged is not answerable for he is not to judge but to execute the matter it being within the Jurisdiction of the Justice of the Peace and 't is not like the Case in the 3 Cro. for there the Churchwardens And Overseers of one Parish distrained in another Parish which was out of the limits of their Authority but in 14 H. 8. 16. where a Justice of the Peace made a VVarrant to Arrest a Man for Felony which in those times was held beyond his power tho' otherwise since unless there had been some Indictment of Record yet 't is there held the Officer that executes such VVarrant is not punishable Wherefore Judgment was given here for the Defendants Termino Sanctae Michaelis Anno 27 Car. II. In Banco Regis Anonymus A Judgment was removed by Error into this Court and affirmed the Capias that is Awarded thereupon must mention it and not be general as upon a Judgment originally in this Court and if such a Writ issues out the Court will upon motion grant a Supersedeas and there needs no Writ of Error in Adjudicatione Executionis tho' it was taken out in a former Term. Anonymus LIbel was by the Churchwardens of c. in the Ecclesiastical Court for 1 l 6 s 8 d upon a Custom
Mandate is to intimate to him that the party is Instituted Secondly To oblige the Archdeacon to Induct under the penalty of an Ecclesiastical Censure But if it be granted that the Archdeacon's Authority in this matter is only derivative yet that being Executed by the Mandate quoad the Guardian of the Spiritualties what remains to be done remains only to the Archdeacon who shall finish what hath proceeded so far already If a Venire be awarded to the Coroners because of Kindred in the Sheriffs Family tho' a New Sheriff comes in before it be Returned yet the Coroner shall proceed in the Execution thereof The Sheriff seized Goods by a Scire facias and before they were sold a New Sheriff was made and then he sold them and it was Resolved that the Sale was good in the 2 Cro. 73. Ayre and Aden's Case Sed Nota The Court said that if the Did Sheriff had Returned That the Goods had remained in his hands pro defectu emptorum a Distringas should have gone to have them delivered to the New Sheriff and then a Venditioni exponas should have gone to the New Sheriff Vid. Yelv. 44. In the 2 Cro. 48. the Executors of the Bishop of Carlisle were admitted to proceed in a Suit commenced by the Testator in the Ecclesiastical Court because the Suit was well commenced and the Court were possessed of the Cause Where Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer have given Judgment and a New Commission granted which determines the Old yet the former Judgment may be Executed Bro. tit Commission 13. So by the Sitting of the Kings Bench the Commission at the Old Baily being in the same County is superseded and yet Execution is done in Term time But the Court said That was by the Statute of 2. E. 6. Again Induction is but a Formality and therefore shall not be so strictly Examined Where the Queen granted to two the Stewardship of a Mannor it was held that admission by one of them was sufficient Mo. 107. Noy's Reports Quaere that Case the Archdeacon having received a Mandate for Induction makes a Precept omnibus literatis infra Archidiaconatum to Induct and a Clerk who did not belong to the Archdeaconry made the Induction and this was held to be well enough Saunders contra The only Question is Whether the Archdeacon Inducts by his own Authority or derivative from the Bishop For if by the latter then the Induction cannot be good 'T is clear that the Archdeacon is but Minister Episcopi and in his Precept to those of the Clergy to Execute he does as a Sheriff doth who makes a Precept to his Bayliffs recites his Mandate If the Sheriff makes Execution after the Kings death if he hath no notice thereof he is excused in Trespass but the Execution shall be avoided It appears by the making of the Statute of 2. E. 6. of Executing Judgments given by Commissioners after such time as the Commission is expired is a great Doubt and yet there the thing was Executed in a great part But here 't is but one single Act whereof no part was done before the New Bishop was made In Sir Randolph Crew 's Case in the 3 Cro. 97. it appears that Commissioners to Examine Witnesses could not proceed after Notice of the Demise of the King But here 't is Objected That the Verdict finds that the Archdeacon had no Notice I Answer That the Consecration of a Bishop is a publick and notorious Act. And all the Court were of Opinion that the Induction was wholly void and gave Judgment for Woolly the Defendant and said It was a Ministerial Act in jure Episcopi and like a Letter of Attorney to deliver Seisin which cannot be Executed but in the Life of him that made it Ante. Quaere Whether this Judgment was not afterward Reverst in the Exchequer Chamber Ent versus Withers THe Case was Debt against an Executor upon a Bond of the Testator and it was brought in the Debet and Detinet suggesting a Devastavit in the Executor The Defendant Demurred For altho' such Action will lye if there has been a Judgment against the Executor yet no such Action has been upon a Bond and 't is hard upon such a Surmize to Charge the Executor in his own Right But on the other side it was said That this differs not in Reason from the Case of a Judgment and upon Nil debet the whole Matter shall be brought in question as Whether the Bond was Sealed c. And in a Case between Merchant and Driver tryed at Guild-Hall before my Lord Hale where it was brought as this because the Plaintiff could prove no actual Wasting as is necessary in this Case he was Nonsuited But Hale took no Exception to the Action But the Court said That they would extend these Actions no further than they had been already Resolved and they would not agree that an Executor should be held to Bail upon a surmize of a Devastavit and so Judgment was given for the Defendant Ante. Pierce versus Win. ERror out of the Grand Sessions of Wales The Case upon a Special Verdict was thus A Devise to one and to the Heirs Males of his Body with a Proviso That if he does attempt to Alien then immediately his Estate shall cease and another shall Enter The Devisee in Tail made a Feoffment and he in Remainder Entred and Judgment was given in the Grand Sessions for the Feoffee against him in the Remainder And the Errors were assigned in the Matter in Law And to maintain the Errors it was said That it must be agreed of all hands that a Tenant in Tail could not be restrained from Aliening by Fine or Recovery and also that in this Case a bare Attempt would be no breach according to Corbett's and Sir A. Mildmay's Case c. and also that a Tenant in Tail might be restrained to Alien by Feoffment or other Act which was torcious and would make a Discontinuance and here this Proviso imports as much and therefore the Feoffment will be a breach for that is an Attempt and more For First In Conveyances the Intention of the words of a Condition and the Substance is regarded and the Form of the words not so precisely followed As a Feoffment upon Condition That the Feoffee shall give the Land in Frank marriage with the Daughter of the Feoffor This cannot be strictly pursued yet the Feoffee must make a Gift as near as may be Co. 1 Inst 217. So upon Condition to give the Land to a Layman in Frankalmoign But this Rule holds especially in Wills where the Intent is chiefly looked at A Devise of all his Rents will pass Reversions upon Leases and tho' the words be here Proviso if he does attempt to alien 't is as much as to say Proviso if he doth alien c. Secondly Whether the Feoffment shall determine the Estate quasi by Limitation so that the Remainder man shall take immediately by Executory Devise and that
makes a Lease for the Life of the Lessee not warranted by the Statute and dies leaving B. in Remainder his Heir B. let ts for 99 years to commence after the death of the Tenant for Life reserving Rent and then the Tenant for Life surrenders to B. upon Condition and dies B. suffers a Recovery with single Voucher and dies the Lessee for years enters the Heir of B. distrains for the Rent and the Lessee brings a Replevin and upon an Avowry and Pleadings thereupon this Case was disclosed to the Court of Common Bench and Judgment given there for the Avowant and Error thereupon brought in this Court For the Plaintiff in the Error it was Argued That the Lease being derived out of a Reversion in Fee which was Created in A. upon the Discontinuance for Life and the New Fee vanishing by the Surrender of the Tenant for Life for it was urged he was in his Remitter altho' the taking of the Surrender was his own Act that the Lease for years by consequence was become void Again It was Objected against the Common Recovery that the Tenant in Tail and a Stranger which had nothing in the Estate were made Tenants to the Praecipe and therefore no good Recovery Again In case B. were not remitted after acceptance of the Surrender then he was Seised by force of the Tail and so no good Recovery being with single Voucher On the other side it was Argued to be no Remitter because the acceptance of the Surrender was his own Act and the Entry was taken away But admitting it were a Remitter because by the Surrender the Estate for Life which was the Discontinuance was gone and it was no more than a Discontinuance for Life For if Tenant in Tail letts for Life and after grants the Reversion in Fee if the Lessee for Life dies after the Death of the Tenant in Tail so that the Estate was not executed in the Grantee during the Life of the Tenant in Tail the Heir shall immediately Enter upon the Grantee of the Reversion Co. Litt. It seems also to be stronger against the Remitter in this case because 't is not Absolute but only Conditional However the Lease may be good by Estoppel for it appears to have been by Indenture and if the Lessor cannot avoid the Lease the Lessee shall without question be subject to the Rent But it was Objected against the Estoppel that here an Interest passes and the Lease was good for a time As if the Lessee for Ten years makes a Lease for Twenty years and afterwards purchaseth the Reversion it shall bind him for no more than Ten. To which Pemberton Chief Justice said The difference is where the party that makes the Estate has a legal Estate and where a Defeasible Estate only for in the latter a Lease may work by Estoppel tho' an Interest passed so long as the Estate out of which the Lease was derived remained undefeated As to the Recovery it was held clearly good altho' a Stranger that had nothing in the Land was made Tenant to the Praecipe with the Tenant in Tail for the Recompence in Value shall go to him that lost the Estate and being a Common Assurance 't is to be favourably Expounded Et Adjornatur Termino Sancti Hillarij Anno 33 34 Car. II. In Banco Regis Anonymus IN Error upon a Judgment in Ejectione Firmae in the Common Pleas where the Case was That the Bishop of London was seized injure Episcopatus of a Mannor of which the Lands in question were held and time out of mind were demised and demisable by Copy of Court Roll for Life in Possession and Reversion and J.S. being Copyholder for Life in Reversion after an Estate for Life in Ann Pitt and J.N. being seized of the Mannor by Disseisin J.S. at a Court holden for the Mannor in the name of J. N. surrendred into the Hands of the said J.N. the Disseisor Lord to the used of the said Lord. Afterwards the Bishop of London entred and avoided the Disseisin Ann Pitt died and an Ejectment was brought by J. S. And it was adjudged in the Common Bench that he had a good Title and now upon a Writ of Error in this Court the Matter in Law was insisted upon by Pollexfen for the Plaintiff in the Writ of Error That this Surrender to the Disseisor Lord to the Lords own use was good for all the Books agree a Copyholder may Surrender to a Disseisor of the Mannor to the use of a Stranger and why not to the Lords own use As if Lessee for years be ousted and he in Reversion disseised and the Lessee Releases to the Disseisor this extinguishes his Term. Here is a compleat Disseisin of the Mannor by Attornment of the Freeholders without which the Services cannot be gained and the Copyholders comeing to the Disseisors Court and by making Surrenders c. owning him for their Lords tantamounts Serjeant Maynard contra And he insisted that this Surrender was not good for the Disseisor had no Estate in this Land capable of a Surrender for the Copyholder for Life continuing in Possession and never having been ousted there could be no Disssesin of that And he endeavoured to distinguish it from a Surrender to a Disseisor Lord to the use of another for in such Surrenders the Lord is only an Instrument and does but as it were assent and until admittance the Estate is in the Surrenderer And he resembled it to the Attornment of a Tenant when è converso a Seigniory is granted and he put Cases upon Surrenders of Leases that they must be to one that hath the immediate Reversion as an under Lessee for part of the Term cannot Surrender to the first Lessor and he cited a Case of Lessee for years Remainder for Life Remainder in Fee to a Stranger he that had the Fee enfeoffed the Tenant for years by Deed and made Livery and the Conveyance held void for it could not work by Livery to the Tenant for years who was in Possession before and a Surrender it could not be because of the intermediate Estate for Life and it could not work as a Grant for want of Attornment He said it had been commonly received that a Common Recovery cannot be suffered where the Tail is expectant upon an Estate for Life not made Tenant to the Praecipe which he said was true in a Writ of Entry in the Post which are commonly used And the true reason is because such Writ supposes a Disseisin which cannot be when there is a Tenant for Life in Possession But as he said a Common Recovery in such case in a Writ of Right would be good Pemberton Chief Justice said his reason of Desseisin would overthrow Surrenders to the use of a Stranger for if the Possession of the Copyholder would preserve it from a Disseisin then was it pro tempore lopped off or severed from the Mannor and then no Surrender could be at all Et Adjornatur Berry
much for every Pound breach is a good Prescription to bind the Tenants but naught as to Strangers because as to the Tenants it might have a good beginning by way of Reservation but as to a Stranger it could have no Lawful beginning by way of Grant or Reservation or any way that can be imagined Now if we examine the Prescription in the Case in Question by these Rules we shall find First That the Thing prescribed for does not agree in the nature and quality nor is applicable to the Thing to which it is annexed The Thing prescribed for is an entire determinate Interest and the Thing to which it is annexed is several Estates that have no relation one to another the Usage of one can have no relation to the Usage of another I would put this Case In an Action of Trespass the Defendant Iustifies for Estovers certain or Pasture certain in this Mannor and that he is seised of a Messuage c. in Fee and that J. S. is seised of another Messuage c. in Fee and that he and J. S. and all they whose Estates they have in the said two Messuages have had ten Load of Wood c. or Feeding for 500 Beasts Or if two Lords of several Mannors in Fee joyn in prescribing for a certain Rent under Favour it were absurd and never was known or allowed for the Things to which c. being several the Usage of necessity must be several and the Prescriptions also must be several As for Example For one of them to prescribe for a Moiety c. The Reason why a man cannot prescribe to have Estovers of Wood to Land is because there can be no Usage to annex it for it cannot be used with it and in all Cases Prescription follows the nature of the Usage and therefore in the Case at Bar the Usage being several and the Estates several the Prescription ought to be several also It is impossible to raise such an Interest by a Grant at this day for if such a Grant were now made either the Grantees would be Joyntenants of this Interest and then there would be a Survivorship or else they would be Tenants in Common of it and their several Interests might be annexed to their several Estates by Purparties or Apportionment And so it would be in the nature of several Grants and there must be to several Prescriptions several Men that have had Land time out of mind yet cannot joyn in making Title but must make it severally As for Example If there be Three one of them must say That his Father was seised of a Third part that discended to him and so make a Title against a Stranger tho' there be a joynt Possession And if he be to make a Title against his Companions he may say That he and all those whose Estates they have in the other Two parts they cannot say That their three Fathers were seised of the Lands and shew the several Discents nor That they Two and all whose Estates they have in Two parts in Three to be divided have held in Common For the Title of the one concerns not the other they are upon Lines and Discents and Prescription is making of a Title as was said before and the Law is as strict in it or rather more strict than in making of a Title to Land Therefore several Men that have several Estates and no Relation one to another cannot joyn in making a Prescription for the Prescription of one does not concern the other Rastal's Entries 622. d. en Trespass c. Two Commoners to avoid prolixity and repetition do as near as they can joyn in a Prescription but being considered it is a several Prescription as much as if they had Iustified severally My Lord Coke's Rule on Littleton 197. a. That Tenants in Common may joyn in an Assize for an entire thing as an Hawk or an Horse for the necessity of the case It may be objected that there is the same necessity here I Answer That tho' in that case they joyn in the Demand and the Action yet they must make their Titles severally as they are they must Sue as they may Recover which cannot be half an Hawk or half an Horse but when they come to make their Titles in Pleading they must set them forth distinct there the possession is joynt and cannot be severed but in our case the possessions are several and one hath nothing to do with the other and the thing claimed is in its nature severable either by Moieties Purparties or Apportionment It may be Objected against my Rule That a Prescription must be as a Grant may at this day be made that 11 H. 7. 13 14. a man may prescribe against a great many as Tenants or a Commonalty without naming a party certain and such a Prescription cannot spring out of one Grant no more than this For if a great many may joyn in one Grant yet it is so many several Grants as to their several Interests and so it may be said there ought to be so many several Prescriptions I Answer The Rules are not alike For if 100 Men being a Generality as all the Tenants of the Mannor of Dale make the same king of Grant to J.S. or there be the same kind of Reservation and the thing claimed be annexable to the Estate of J. S. these all unite in the Grantee and his Estate and the Estate continues entire Time knits and unites it and an entire Prescription will serve being it will serve the Case But when a Grant is made from one to many that have several Estates their Estates are carried and discended several ways and Time and Usage makes them distinct and several and cannot be served by the same Prescription But the Prescription at Bar is worse upon my Second Reason for Prescription and Custom are of contrary Natures and incompatible and cannot give being to the same thing Prescription is a Title presuming a Grant to the Freeholders and a Lawful beginning The Copyholders claim by Custom because they are but Tenants at Will and not capable of a Grant their this must be raised from the Lord by parcels ' which being an Entire thing it cannot be For which soever should be raised first the rest must be left in the Lord who cannot have a Right of sole Pasturage in his own Soyl distinct from the Soyl. It may be Objected here That Custom and Prescription are not of such contrary Natures as I make them for in Day and Savage's Case in Hob. 85. the Pleadings were as a Custom of the City and the Court Adjudged it to be a Prescription which shews that Custom and Prescription differ not so much in the nature of the Thing as in the manner of the Pleading For Answer I need but observe the Nature of that Case The Officers of the City of London Iustified for a Duty of Wharfage claimed by the City The Plaintiff sets forth in his Replication That within
redd ' unius anni mediet ' redd ' unius anni per quem talia terrae vel tenementa sic alienat ' tent ' fuer ' in Manerio praed ' nomine finis pro alienatione and lays a Custom to distrain for the said Alienation Fine and then sets forth an alienation of the said Messuage and Premisses by the said Sir John Sabin to one Walter Tyndall in fee and shews that the said Walter Tyndall made another alienation in fee to one Christopher Yates and so sets forth that there were two Fines due upon the said alienations after the rate aforesaid amounting to 18 l 7 s and 7 d ob and that he as Bayliff of the said Dean and Chapter captionem praed ' bene cognoscit in praed ' loco in quo ut in parcell ' tenement ' praed ' To this the Plaintiff demurred and it was spoken to at the Bar the last Term and likewise this Term The main thing was that the Custom as it was laid was not good for the Alienation Fine is set forth to be due upon the Alienation of any parcel of Lands or Tenements held of the said Mannor to have a year and halfs Rent by which the Lands or Tenements so aliened were held so that if the 20th part of an Acre be aliened a Fine is to be paid and that of the whole Rent for every parcel is held at the time of the alienation by the whole Rent and no apportioning thereof can be but subsequent to the Alienation and this the whole Court held an unreasonable Custom and it is set forth it could not be otherwise understood than that a Fine should be due viz. a year and halfs Rent upon the Alienation of any part of the Lands held by such Rent The Court doubted also whether the Custom was good as to the claiming an Alienation Fine upon an Alienation for Life because by that the tenure of the Lands aliened is not altered for the Reversion is still held as before by the same Tenant Judicium pro Quer ' Colley versus Helyar IN an Action of Debt for 34 l the Plaintiff declared against the Defendant an Attorney of this Court praesente hic in Cur. in propria persona sua upon a Bond of 34 l The Defendant pleads in Bar quoad quinque libras sex solid tres denar of the aforesaid 34 l that the Plaintiff post confectionem Scripti Obligat ' praedict ' scilicet vicesimo c. anno c. ê‘ quoddam Scriptum suum acquietantiae cognovisset se accepisse habuisse de praed Defendente 5 l 6 s and 3 d in part solutionis majoris summae and pleaded a frivolous Plea as to the rest of the Mony to which the Plaintiff demurred And it was argued that the Acquittance under the Plaintiffs Hand and Seal for 5 l 6 s and 3 d part of the Mony due might have been pleaded in bar of the whole and that if the Defendant here had relied upon it it would have barred the Plaintiff of the whole Vide for that matter Hollingwoth and Whetston Sty 212. Allen 65. Beaton and Forrest Note there the payment was since the Action brought and pleaded in abatement where it was said that it could not be so pleaded without an Acquittance Vide Kelw. 20. 162. 3 H. 7. 3 B. receipt of parcel pending the Writ 7 Ed. 4. 15. a. But it seems clear by the Book of Edw. 4. 207. Mo. 886. Speak versus Richards That if part be received and an Acquittance given before the Action it is a Bar only of so much but it seems the Action must be brought for the whole Dickman versus Allen. Cantabr ' ss Case brought against the Defendant for not folding his Sheep upon the Plaintiffs Land according to Custom The Colledge of St. Mary and St. Nicholas seized in Fee jâ—re Collegii ABRAHAMUS ALLEN nuê‘ de Grancester in Com' praedicto Yeom ' attach ' fuit ad respondend ' Roberto Dickman Gen ' de placito transgr ' suê‘ Casum c. Et unde idem Robertus per Robertum Drake Attorn ' suum queritur quare cum Praepositus Scholares Collegii Regalis Beatae Mariae Sancti Nicholai in Cantabr ' in Com' praed ' seisit ' fuissent de uno Capitali Messuagio cum pertinen ' in Grancester in Com' praedicto ac de centum sexaginta acris terrae arrabil ' jacen ' in Communibus Campis de Grancester praedicta cum pertinen ' in dominico suo ut de feodo in jure Collegii sui praedicti iidemque Praepositus Scholares omnes ill quorum statum ipsi habuer ' de in tenementis praed ' cum pertinen ' a tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit habuer ' habere consuever ' ê“ se Firmariis Tenentibus suis eorundem A Custom for all the Tenants to sold their Landlords Land Tenementorum cum pertinen ' libertatem Faldagii Anglicê Foldage omnium Ovium Ovibus suis ê“priis Ovibus tenen ' occupatorum ê“ tempore existen ' quorundam Messuagiorum Terrarum in Villa de Coton in Com' praed ' qui a tempore cujus contrarii memoria hominum non existit respective usi fuer ' Common of Vicinage intercÌ„oiare causa vicinagii in quibusdam Communibus Campis de Grancester praed ' cum Ovibus suis in super praed ' Messuagiis terris suis in Coton praed ' Levant and Couchant levan ' cuban ' except ' suor ' depascen ' infra Communes Campos territoria de Grancester praedicta a vicesimo quinto die Martii usque primum diem Novembris quolibet anno suê‘ praedictas centum sexaginta acras terras arabil percipiend ' From such a day to such a day faldand ' tanquam ad tenementa praedicta cum pertinenciis pertinen ' praedictisque Praeposito Scholaribus Collegii praed ' de Tenementis praedictis cum pertinen ' The Principal and Scholars demise to the Plaintiff by Indenture in forma praedicta seisit ' existen ' Praepositus Scholares postea scilicet decimo nono die Octobris Anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo octogesimo primo apud Grancester praedictam quodam Johanne Coppleston Sacrae Theologiae Professor ' adtunc Praeposito Collegii praedicti existen ' ê‘ quandam Indenturam inter ipsos Praepositum Scholares ex una parte quendam Johannem Wittewronge Mil Barronet ' ex altera parte factam cujus alteram partem Sigillo cÌ„oi ipsorum Praepositi Scholarium signat ' idem Robertus Dickman hic in Cur ' profert cujus dat' est eisdem die anno dimiser ' ad firmam tradider ' eidem Johanni Wittewronge Tenementa praedicta cum pertinen ' Habendum habend ' occupand ' praefat ' Johanni Assign ' suis a tempore confectionis Indenturae illius usque plenum finem terminum viginti
part yet notwithstanding the Estate should continue in him The words of my Lord Coke 1 Inst 217. a are That it cannot stand with any Reason that a Freehold should remain in a man against his own Livery when there is a person able to take it There needs only a Capacity to take his Will to take is intended Why should it not seem as unreasonable that the Estate should remain in Simon Leach against his own Deed of Surrender For in case of a Surrender a Deed and sometimes Words without a Deed are as effectual as a Livery in case of a Feoffment Thirdly The third and principal Reason as I take it why the Law will not suffer the Operation of a Conveyance to be in suspence and to expect the Agreement of the party to whom 't was made is to prevent the Vncertainty of the Freehold This I take to be the great Reason why a Freehold cannot be granted in futuro because that it would be very hard and inconvenient that a man should be driven to bring his Praecipe or Real Action first against the Grantor and after he had proceeded in it a considerable time it should abate by the transferring the Freehold to a Stranger by reason of his Agrement to some Conveyance made before the Writ brought for otherwise there is nothing in the nature of the thing against Conveying a Freehold in futuro for a Rent de novo may be so granted because that being newly Created there can be no precedent Right to bring any Real Action for it Palmer 29 30. Now in this Case suppose a Praecipe had been brought against Simon Leach this should have proceeded and he could not have pleaded in Abatement till Sir Simon Leach ha assented and after a long progress in the Suit he might have pleaded that Sir Simon Leach assented puis darrein continuance and defeated all So that the same Inconvenience as to the bringing of Real Actions holds in Surrenders as in other Conveyances And to shew that it is not a slight matter but what the Law much considers and is very careful to have the Freehold fixed and will never suffer it to be in abeyance or under such uncertainty as a Stranger that demands Right should not know where to fix his Action A multitude of Cases might be cited but I will cite only a Case put 1 H. 6. 2. a. because it seems something of a singular nature Lord and Villain Mortgagor and Mortgagee may be both made Tenants But it will be said here that if a Praecipe had been brought against Sir Simon Leach might not he have pleaded his Disagreement and so abated the Writ of Nontenure 'T is true but that Inconvenience had been no more than in all other Cases a Plea of Nontenure and it must have abated immediately for he could not have abated it by any dissent after he had answered to the Writ Whereas I have shewn it in the other Case it may be after a long progress in the Suit Again It 's very improbable that he should dissent whereas on the other side an Assent is the likeliest thing in the world so the mischief to the Demandant is not near so great nor the hundredth part so probable Now I come to consider those Inconveniences that have been urged that would ensue if a Surrender should work immediately It has been said That a Tenant for Life might make such Deed of Surrender and continue in possession and suffer a Recovery and this might destroy a great many Recoveries and overthrow Marriage Settlements and defeat Charges and Securities upon his Estate after such Deed of Surrender These and a great many more such like Mischiefs may be instanced in Surrenders but they hold no less in any other Conveyance whereby a man may as has been shewed before divest himself of the Estate and yet continue the Possession and in this Case the Assent of the Surrendree tho' he doth not enter would as it is agreed of all hands vest the Estate in him Hutton 95. Br. tit Surrender 50. tho' he cannot have Trespass before Entry and that Assent might be kept as private and let in all the Mischiefs before mentioned as if no such Assent were necessary And this I think sufficient to Answer to the Inconveniences objected on that side Now let us see what Inconveniences and odd Consequences would follow in case a Surrender could not operate till the express Assent of the Surrendree then no Surrender could be to an Infant at least when under the age of Discretion for if it be a necessary Circumstance it cannot be dispensed with no more than Livery or Attornment So tho' an Infant of a year Old is capable to take an Estate because for his benefit he could not take a particular Estate upon which he had a Reversion immediately expectant because it must enure by Surrender If there be Joyntenants in Reversion a Surrender to one of them enures to both 1 Inst 192 214. a. so there as to one Moiety it operates without Assent or Notice Suppose Tenant for Life should make Livery upon a Grant of his Estate to him in Reversion and two others and the Livery is made to the other two in the absence and without the Notice of him in Reversion should the Livery not work immediately for a Third part of the Estate And if it doth it must enure as a Surrender for a Third part So is Bro. tit Surrender and 3 Co. 76. If Tenant for Life should by Lease and Release convey the Lands held by him for Life together with other Lands to him in Reversion who knows nothing of the Sealing of the Deed should this pass the other Lands presently and the Lands held for Life not till after an express Assent because as to those Lands it must work as a Surrender Plainly an express Assent is not necessary For if the Grantee enters this is sufficient I come in the last place to Answer those Arguments that have been made from the manner of putting the Case of Surrenders in the Book and the Form of pleading Surrenders Co. 1 Inst 337. b. First A Surrender is a yielding up of the Estate which drowns by mutual Agreement between them Tenant for Life by Agreement of him in Reversion surrenders to him he hath a Freehold before he enters And so Perkins in putting the Case of a Surrender mentions an Agreement and divers other Books have been cited to the same purpose To all which I Answer No doubt but an Agreement is necessary But the Question is Whether an Agreement is not intended where a Deed of Surrender is made in the absence of him in the Reversion whether the Law shall not suppose an Assent till a Disagreement appears Indeed if he were present ' he must agree or disagree immediately and so 't is in all other Conveyances The Cases put in Perkins Sect. 607 608 609. are all of Surrenders made to the Lessor in person for thus he puts
c. To this the Plaintiff Demurred First This is a Grant by Richard to Nicholas and so void without Attornment or Enrollment and being intended to Enure as a Grant shall not work as a Covenant to stand seised Secondly The Defendant hath pleaded it as a Grant and what he saith after in the Avowry to set forth how the Deed should work is vain and idle As to the first Point the Court held this Deed having no Execution to make it work as a Grant it shall operate as a Covenant to stand seised Mod. Rep. 178. Sanders and Savins Case A Grant of a Rent to his Kinsman for Life there being no atturnment it raised an use by way of Covenant but the pleading the Court held impertinent for instead of pleading of this Grant according to the effect of it in Law viz As a Covenant to stand seised He sets forth the matter in Law and haw it ought to be construed and because they would not countenance such vain and improper pleading the Case was adjourned Biddulph versus Dashwood IN an Action of Debt for 90 l The Plaintiff declared quod cum recuperasset coram Justiciariis de Banco apud Westm ' 90 l ê“ dam ' against the Defendant prout ê‘ Record process ' quae Dom ' Rex Regina coram eis causa Erroris in eisd ' corrigend ' Venire fac ' quae in Cur ' dicti Domini Regis Dom ' Reginae in pleno robore vigore remanent minime revocat ' plen ' apparet per quod actio accrevit c. To this the Defendant Demurred supposing that the Iudgment was suspended so far that an Action of Debt could not be brought upon it pending the Writ of Error But the Court held if the Defendant could insist upon this he ought not to have Demurred but to have pleaded Specially and demanded Iudgment if the Plaintiff should be answered pending the Writ of Error So Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff Termino Sancti Hillarij Anno 2 3 W. M. In Communi Banco Anonymus TRespass quare clausum fregit diversas petias Maheremij cepit c. Iudgment by default upon the Writ of Enquiry returned The Iudgment was stayed for the incertainty of the Declaration James Tregonwell Vid. Executrix of John Tregonwell against Sherwin IN an Action of Debt for Rent the Plaintiff declared in this manner That Frances Fen and John Tregonwell the 23 of Jan. 24. Car. 2. did Demise to the Defendant certain Lands for 21 years reserving 20 l per Annum to the said Frances during her Life and after her Decease to the said Tregonwell his Executors and Administrators and set forth Frances to be Dead and that the said Tregonwell being possessed of the Reversion of the Premisses pro Termino Annor ' adtunc adhuc ventur ' the 4 of May 30 Car. 2. made his Will and thereof made the Plaintiff his Executrix and died and that she took the Executrixship upon her and by vertue thereof became possessed of the said Reversion and for 30 l for a year and halfs Rent accruing after she brought the Action The Defendant pleaded an insufficient Plea and the Plaintiff Demurred And Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff upon the insufficiency of the Declaration for there is no good Title set forth to the Plaintiff for the Rent for t is not said that Tregonwell was at the time of the Lease possessed of the Lands pro Termino Annorum c. but that at the time of making his Will and that might be upon the creating of such Estate since and the Rent might not belong to the Reversion And tho' it was said his reserving the Rent to his Executors carried an intendment that he had a Term for years only yet that was held not to be sufficient and Iudgment was given for the Defendant Sir Lionel Walden versus Mitchell Hunt ' ss JOHANNES MITCHELL nuper de Huntington in Com' praed ' Maulster Attach ' fuit ad respondend ' Action for Words viz. Papist and Pensioner spoken of one who had been a Member of Parliament â—n the time of King Charles the Second Lionello Walden Mil ' de placito Transgr ' super Casum Et unde idem Lionellus per Robertum Clarke Attorn ' suum queritur quare cum praed ' Lionellus bonus verus pius fidelis honestus subditus ligeus domini Regis dominae Reginae nunc existit ac ut bonus verus pius fidelis honestus subditus ligeus eorundem domini Regis dominae Reginae nunc ê“genitorum suorum à tempore Nativitat ' suae hucusque se habuit gessit gubernavit bonorumque nominis famae conversaconis gesture tam in t ' quamplurimos venerabiles fideles subdit ' dictorum domini Regis dominae Reginae nunc ê“genitorum suorum quam omnes vicinos suos per tot ' tempus praed ' habit ' not ' reputat ' fuerat per tot ' tempus praed ' The Plaintiff a Protestant fuit adhuc existit verus professor Religionis Protestan ' Reformat ' per leges hujus regni Angliae stabilit ' ill ' sincere proficiend ' exercen ' Divina Servitia in Ecclesia in paroch ' sua seu aliqua Ecclesia capello aut alio usuali loco Communis precacon ' secundum usum Ecclesaie Anglicanae lect ' semper frequentans audiens Ecclesiae Romanae nunquam reconciliat ' And never a Professor of the Romish Religion fuit neque Religionem Romanam unquam profeffus fuit neque ad Missam unquam ivit Cumque praed ' Lionellus fuit extit un ' Burgens ' That he hath been a Member of Parliament sive Membr ' Parliamenti pro Villa de Huntingdon ' in Com' Hunt ' in Parliamento domini Caroli secundi nuper Regis Angi ' inchoat ' tent ' apud Westm ' in Com' Midd ' octavo die Maijanno regni sui decimo tertio ut hujusmodi Burgens ' sive Membr ' Parliamenti per tot ' idem Parliament ' usque dissolucon ' inde juste fidelit ' And did his Duty therein justly deservivit debitum fiduciae officij sui Burgens ' Membr ' ejusdem Parliamenti per tot ' idem tempus performavit Idemque Lionellus pro performacone fiduciae officij sui praedict ' Burgens ' sive Membr ' Parliamenti praedict ' alijs Causis diversa itenera ad Civitat ' London ' Westm ' à Villa Hunt ' praedict ' fecit performavit praed ' tamen Johan ' praemissorum non ignarus set machinans malitiose intendens eundem Lionellum non solum in bonis nomine fama credenc ' reputacone ' suis praedict ' multiplicit ' laedere detrahere penitus distruere verum etiam ipsum Lionellum infra poenas poenalitat ' contra Papistas subdit '
ipse paratus est verificare Quam quidem materiam praedicta Priscilla non dedic ' nec ad eam aliqualit ' respondit set verificacon ' illam admittere omnino recusavit ut prius per ' Judic ' quod praed ' Priscilla ab accone sua praed ' versus eum habend ' praecludatur c. Et quia Justic ' hic se advisare volunt de super pÌ„missis praed ' priusquam Judic ' inde reddant dies dat' est partibus praed ' hic usque à die Sancti Michaelis in tres Septimanas de audiendo inde Judicio suo eo quod idem Justic ' hic nondum inde c. Priscilla Web Widow versus Moore THe Plaintiff Declared in an Action upon the Case upon Five several Promises one whereof was upon a Quantum meruit for finding Meat and Drink for the Defendant at his Request The Defendant pleaded in Bar an Outlawry of the Plaintiff in this manner viz. Quod quidam S.C. al' scilicet Termino Sanctae Trinitat ' anno regni nuper Regis Jacobi secundi tertio implacitavit pÌ„d ' Priscillam in Cur ' dicti nuper Regis de Banco hic de placito trangres praedict ' quae Priscilla pro eo quod non venit in praedict ' Cur ' de B. praed ' praefat ' S. C. inde responsur ' secundum legem consuetud ' hujus regni Angl ' in Exigendo posita fuit ad utlagand ' in Com' Wiltes ' ea ratione postea scilicet quinto decimo die Maij anno regni dicti nuper Regis quarto in Com' Wiltes ' praed ' debito juris modo ad Sectam praed ' S. C. waviata fuit adhuc waviata existit prout per recordum processum inde eadem Cur ' dicti nuper de Banco praed retornat ' modo residens plen ' liquet Quae quidem Utlagaria adhuc in suis robore effectu remanet minime reversat ' seu annihilat ' hoc parat ' est verificare per Recordum illud unde pet ' Judicium si action ' c. And to this Plea the Plaintiff Demurred 1. For the Outlawry could not be pleaded in Bar to an Assumpsit upon a Quantum meruit for there is no certainty of Debt appearing till the thing comes to be valued and so cannot be forfeited It was doubted Whether Debt upon a Simple Contract was forfeited till 4 Co. Slade's Case But it was Resolved by the Court in this Case that the Outlawry was a good Plea in Bar for the Consideration created a Debt tho' that Debt was not reduced to a certain Sum. Markham and Pitt in 3 Leon. 205. Outlawry pleaded in Bar to Trover where it lies all in Damages But this Action arose upon a property of Goods which would have been forfeited 3 Leon. 197. where the King had granted all Forfeitures that accrued to him by the Outlawry of J. S. and the Grantee brought an Action But an Exception was taken to the pleading of the Outlawry for it ought to have been set forth that the Plaintiff did not appear upon the Exigent and upon that waviata fuit debito juris modo is too general Fitzherb Account 91. Traverse 31. Stamford 148. And of this the Court doubted and appointed to search Presidents of the Pleading Et Adjornatur Kempe versus Cory al' Quod vide ante ultimo Termino THe Case was now moved again and as to the Matter in Law it was held clear that where A. is seised of a Third part in Common and B. of the other two parts in Common with A. and A. let his Third part reserving Rent and B. puts in his Cattle or a Stranger by his License that such Cattle are not Distrainable for the Rent But the Doubt was because the Avowry was in loco in quo ut in super praedict ' tertiam partem c. Whether the Plaintiff should not have traversed the Taking in tertia parte tantum Vide the Case of Newman and Moor in Hob. 80. 103. And note there that the Traverse was held unnecessary And the Court held clearly that it would have been impertinent to make a Traverse in this Case for the Matter in the Avowry was confessed and avoided CASES Adjudged upon Writs of ERROR IN THE Exchequer Chamber Termino Sancti Michaelis Anno 1 W. M. BY Pollexfen Chief Justice Powell Justices Rokeby Justices Ventris Justices Atkyns Chief Baron Nevill Barons Lechmore Barons Turton Barons Willows versus Lydcot VPon a Writ of Error upon a Iudgment in Ejectment in B.R. which was brought for a Messuage in St. Martins in the Fields Vpon the General Issue pleaded and a Special Verdict found the Point was to this effect William Shelton was seised in Fee of the said Messuage and of dvers other Messuages situate in the said Parish of St. Martin and other Parishes and made his Will in Writing and thereby Devised his Houses in the other Parishes to divers Charitable Vses and then devised to one Edward Harris and Mary his Wife the Messuage in question for their Lives and then in the following Clause the better to enable his Wsfe to pay his Legacies he devised all his Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever within the Kingdom of England not above disposed of to have and to hold to her and her Assigns for ever and made her Executrix And the Verdict was found That Edward Harris and Mary his Wife were dead and that the Testator left sufficient to his Wife to pay his Legacies without the Reversion of the said Messuages devised to Harris and his Wife That the Lessor of the Plaintiff was Heir at Law to the Testator and that the Defendants claimed from Anne Wife of the Testator c. si super totam materiam c. And Judgment was given in the Kings Bench for the Plaintiff And upon a Writ of Error brought in the Exchequer-Chamber it was this Term Argued before the Justices and Barons and by the Opinion of them all the Judgment was Reversed For they held that there were words in the Devise to the Testators Wife that would carry the Reversion of this House as an Hereditament undisâ—oâ—d of Vide the Case of Whâ—eler and Walroon in Allen's Rep. 28. one having a Mannor and other Lands in Somerset-shire Devised the Mannor to A. for Six years and part of the other Lands to B. in Fee and then comes this Clause and the rest of my Lands in Somersetshire or elsewhere I give to my Brother and it was adjudged by the word Rest the Reversion of the Mannor passed as well as the Lands not Devised before A Case about 20 years ago was cited by the Counsel for the Defendant in the Writ of Error between Bowyer and Milbanke in a Borough where a Nuncupative Will would pass Lands by the Custom a man upon his Death-Bed being asked about his Will said I Give All to my Mother and repeated the
of the Crown so 11. and so it was held in the Case of the Earl of Essex in Queen Elizabeths Time and in the Lord Cobham's Case in the Reign of King James the First And the Chief Justice cited the Statute made 29 H. 6. cap. 1. upon the Rebellion of Jack Cade which Act sets forth that John Cade naming himself John Mortimer falsly and traiterously imagined the Death of the King and the destruction and subversion of this Realm in gathering together and levying of a great Number of the King's People and exciting them to Rise against the King c. against the Royal Crown and Dignity of the King was an Overt act of imagining the Death of the King and made and levied War falsly and trayterously against the King and his Highness c. So that it appears by that Act that it was the Iudgment of the Parliament That gathering Men together and exciting them to Rise against the King was an Overt Act of Imagining the Death of the King Vide Stamford's Pleas of the Crown fo 180. And according to this Opinion Judgment was given against Harding in the following Sessions and he was Executed thereupon NOta At an Adjourned Sessions held the 19th of May 2 Willielmi Mariae it appeared that one of the Kings Witnesses which was to be produced in an Indictment for Treason had been the day before Challenged to Fight by a Gentleman that it was said was a Member of the House of Commons he was by the Court bound in a Recognizance of 500 l to keep the Peace And because it appeared the Witness had accepted the Challenge he was bound in the like Sum. NOta Vpon an Appeal to the House of Lords Anno 2 Willielmi Mariae the sole Question was Whether upon the Statute of Distributions 22 23 Car. 2. the half Blood should have an equal share with the whole Blood of the Personal Estate And by the Advice of the two Chief Justices and some other of the Judges the Decree of the Lords was That the Half Blood should have an Equal share Samon versus Jones IN an Ejectment brought in the Court of Exchequer in the year of the Reign of the late King James the Second The Case upon a Special Verdict was to this effect William Lewis seised of a Reversion in Fee expectant upon an Estate for Life did by Deed Poll in Consideration of Natural love and affection which he had to his Wife and Robert Lewis his Son and Heir apparent begotten on the Body of his said Wife and to Ellen his Daughter give grant and confirm unto the said Robert Lewis the Son all those Lands c. the Reversion and Reversions Remainder and Remainders thereof To have and to hold to his Son and his Heirs to the Vses following viz. to the use of himself for Life and then mentioned several other Vses not necessary to be here mentioned as not material to the Point in question and then to the use of the Wife for Life and after to the use of Robert and the Heirs of his Body and for want of such Issue to the use of Ellen the Daughter and the Heirs of her Body c. William Lewis and his Wife died Robert the Son devised the Estate to the Lessor of the Plaintiff and died without Issue Ellen was in possession and claimed the Lands by this Deed in which thâ—re was a Warranty but no Execution of the said Deed further than the Sealing and Delivery was had either by Enrolment Attornment or otherwise So that the sole Question was Whether this Deed should operate as a Covenant to stand seised or be void And it was Adjudged to amount to a Covenant to stand seised in the Court of the Exchequer And upon a Writ of Error brought upon the Statute of Ed. 3. before the Commissioners of the Great Seal and others empowered by that Act to sit upon Writs of Error of Judgments given in the Court of Exchequer the said Judgment was Reversed by the Opinion of Holt Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and Pollexfen Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas And upon a Writ of Error before the Lords in Parliament brought upon the said last Judgment it was Argued for the Plaintiff in the VVrit of Error That this should enure as a Covenant to stand seised to the use of the Wife Son c. It appears by Bedell's Case in the 7 Co. and Foxe's Case in the 8 Co. that the words proper to a Conveyance are not necessary but ut res magis valeat a Conveyance may work as a Bargain and Sale tho' the words be not used so as a Covenant to stand seised tho' the word Covenant is not in the Deed and and Poplewell's Case were cited in 2 Roll. Abr. 786 787. A Feme in Consideration of a Marriage intended to be had between her and J. S. did give grant and confirm Lands to J.S. and his Heirs with a Clause of VVarranty in the Deed which was also Enrolled but no Livery was made It was Resolved to operate as a Covenant to stand seised Vide Osborn and Churchman's Case in the 2 Cro. 127. which seems contrary to that Case but the chiefest Case relied upon was that of Crossing and Scudamore Mod. Rep. 175. where a man by Indenture bargained sold enfeoffed and confirmed certain Lands to his Daughter and her Heirs and no Consideration of Natural Love or Money exprest This was Resolved 22 Car. 2. in B.R. to operate as a Covenant to stand seised and upon a Writ of Error in the Exchequer Chamber the Judgment was affirmed It was said on the other side for the Defendant That the Case at Bar differed from the Cases cited for here the Intention of the Deed is to transfer the Estate to the Son and that the Vses should arise out of such Estate so transferred In the Cases cited no Vses are limited upon the Estate purported or intended to be Conveyed but only an Intention appearing to convey an Estate to the Daughter in Crossing's Case and to the intended Husband in Poplewell's Case and seeing for want of due Execution in those Cases the Estate could not pass at Law it shall pass by raising of an Vse But the Case at Bar is much the same with the Case of Hore and Dix in Siderfin the 1st Part. 25. where one by Indenture between him and his Son of the one part and two Strangers of the other part in Consideration of Natural love did give grant and enfeoff the two Strangers to the use of himself for Life Remainder to the Son in Tail c. and no other Execution was three than the Sealing and Delivery of the Deed this was Resolved not to raise an Vse for the Vse was limited to rise out of the Seisin of the Strangers who took no Estate Vide Pitfield and Pierce's Case 15 Car. 1. Marche's Rep. 50. One gave granted and confirmed Lands to his Son after his Death this Deed had been
and that Isaack Knight his Executor took a Capias thereupon out of the Common-Pleas Now it being a Statute-Merchant it ought first to have been certified into the Chancery and from thence a Capias should be issued out Returnable in the Court of Common-Pleas And so the Statute of Acton Burnel 30 Ed. 3. Enacts and so is Fitz. N.B. 130. whereas here the Capias goes out of the Common Pleas and for ought appears was the first step towards the execution of this Statute for it doth not appear that it was ever certified or that the Court had any Record before them to award this Capias upon and so the Execution is quite in another manner than the Statute provides and in a new Case introduced by the Statute and therefore it seems to be void and if so then the Statute of Knight could not be assigned so as to pass the Interest of it to Edward Lewis and the Fines will have no effect upon it and indeed it puts it clean out-of the Case before us as if it had never been acknowledged and the Interest of that Statute must be still in the Executor of Knight But then admitting it to have been extended and consequently well assigned together with Gerrard's Statute to Edward Lewis if so I take it to be drowned in Gerrard's Extent As to that the Case is no more than this that after the Statute is extended there comes another Extent upon a puisne Statute for 't is found that Gerrard's Statute was extended after Knight's Statute whether the Estate by Extent upon the puisne Statute be in the nature of a Reversional Interest for if so then when the Interest of the first Extent and the latter comes into one person the first must be drowned for an Estate for years or other Chattel Interest will merge in a Chattel in Reversion that is immediately expectant And that is Hughes and Robotham's Case in the 1 Cro. 302. pl. 32. If a Lease for years be made and then the Reversion is granted for years with Attornment the Lessee may surrender to the Grantee and the Term will drown in the Reversion for years To which it is Objected That an Extent is rather in the nature of a Charge upon the Land than an Interest or Estate in the Land it self In the Case of Haydon and Vavasor versus Smith in Mo. 662. an Extent is thus described that it is onus reale inhaerens gremio liberi tenementi tout temps Executory as the words of that Book are If the Tenant by an Extent purchase the Inheritance of part of the Lands extended the whole falls So a release of the Debt will immediately determine the Extent and it has been compared to one that enters into Lands by virtue of a power to hold until the arrear of Rent is satisfied It is true an Extent is an Execution given by the Statute Law for the satisfaction of a Debt and therefore the release of the Debt must determine the Estate by Extent because the Foundation of it is removed and so if the Inheritance of part of the Land extended comes to the Conusee it destroys the whole Extent whereas if a Lessee for years purchaseth the Reversion of part the Lease holds for the rest But in case of an Extent if it should be so the Conusee would hold the residue of the Land longer because the Profits that should go in satisfaction of the Debt must be less and this would be to the wrong of him in the Reversion But in other respects an Extent makes an Estate in the Land and hath all the properties and Incidents of and to an Estate and doth in no sort resemble such an Interest as is only a Charge upon the Land An Interest by Extent is a new Species of an Estate introduced by Statute Law Our Books say that 't is an Estate treated in imitation of a Freehold and quasi a Freehold but no Book can be produced that says that 't is quasi an Estate The Statute of 27 Ed. 3. cap. 9. Enacts That he to whom the Debt is due shall have an Estate of Freehold in the Lands and the Statute of 13 Ed. 1. de Morcatoribus say That he shall have Seisin of all the Lands and Tenements When a Statute is extended it turns the Estate of the Conisor into a Reversion and so are the express words in Co. 1 Inst 250. b. and so the Objection That he does not hold by Fealty is answered and there are no Tenures that are to no purpose but he that enters by virtue of a power to hold till satisfied an Arrear of Rent he leaves the whole Estate in the Owner of the Land and not a Reversion only If a Lease for years be made reserving Rent and then the Lessor acknowledge a Statute which is extended the Conisee after the Extent shall have an Action of Debt for the Rent and distrain and avow for the Rent as in Bro. tit Stat. Merch. 44. and Noy fo 74. but he that enters by a Power to hold for an Arrear of Rent shall not He in Reversion may release to the Tenant by Extent which will drown the Interest and emerge his Estate according as it is limited in the Release Co. 1 Inst 270. b. 273. Tenant by Statute may forfeit by making a Feoffment Mo. 663. He is to Attorn to the grant of the Reversion 1 Roll. 293. and is liable to a Quid juris clamat 7 H. 4. 19. b. Tenant by Extent may surrender to him in Reversion 4 Co. 82. Corbet's Case therefore these Cases are to shew That an Extended Interest makes an Estate in the Lands as much as any Demise or Lease And I take it the consequence of that is That when an Estate by Extent is evicted by an Extent upon a prior Statute as Elwaies and Burroughs Extent was by the Extent of Knight's Statute or where the prior Statute is first extended and then a Statute of later date is extended as Gerrard's Statute is found to be extended after the Extent upon Knight's Statute In both these Cases the Extent upon the puisne Statute will be in the nature of a Reversional Interest A Reversion is every where thus described viz. An Estate to take effect in possession after another Estate determined 'T is not in nature of a future Interest as a Term for years limited to commence after the end of a former Term for such an one shall not have the Rent upon a former Lease as I have shewn before but he that extends upon a Lessee for years shall for the Liberate gives a present Interest to hold ut liberum tenementum but indeed cannot take effect in possession by reason of a prior Extent or by prior Title And this is the very case of a Reversion which is an actual present Interest tho' it be to take effect in possession after another Estate Now I conceive it will plainly follow from this That Knight's Statute is drowned in Gerrard's
to be done where there has been only a right of Action as in Sawle and Clerke's Case in Jones 211. and Cro. Car. where the Case as to this Point is to this effect A Remainder upon an Estate Tail was divested by the Fine of Tenant in Tail who had made an Estate for Life warranted by the Statute and died without Issue He in the Remainder was barred from bringing a Formedon in the life of the Tenant for Life within Five years after the Fine and had not a new Five years after the death of Tenant for Life tho' he could not Enter in the life of the Tenant for Life And the Reason given in Crook's Reports is because he had no other Right after the Death of the Tenant for Life than he had before and this plainly distinguisheth that and the Case at the Bar from the Cases that have been cited of June and Smye's Case in the 1 Cro. 219. and Laund and Tucker 254. for there the Fine was Levied by the particular Tenant which was a Forfeiture which he in Reversion might choose whether he would take advantage of and as the case might be it would be to his prejudice to take advantage of it where the particular Tenant has charged the Land and therefore if he would he should have Five years after the Estate determined to claim as of his Reversion which is another distinct Right from that of the Forfeiture And this was the standing difference that made the distinction where there should be a new Five years given to him in Reversion after the particular Estate determined and where not as we see in Margaret Podgers Case in the 9 Co. 106. If the Tenant for years were ousted and a Fine levied by the Disseisor he in the Reversion was bound by the first Five years Non-claim because tho' he could not enter as if the Estate for years had been determined or as in the Cases before of the Forfeiture yet he might have immediately brought an Assize with which Sawl and Clarke's Case exactly agrees and goes upon the same Reason As for Freeman's Case the Resolution goes wholly upon the Circumstances of Fraud appearing in the Case the principal of which was That the Lessee continued in possession and paid the Rent I confess they have gone a little further of late and now it is taken That he in Reversion shall have Five years after the Term is ended by effluction of Time tho' there were no Forfeiture incurred at the Levying of the Fine Nor no such plain Circumstances of Fraud as appears in Fermer's Case and the Case put before and cited out of Margaret Podgers Case is not held to be Law The contrary whereof is taken to have been Resolved in Folley and Tancred's Case in the 24 Car. 2. and I do not intend to shake the Authority of that Case but admit it to be good in Law yet I crave leave to observe That it is a Resolution carried beyond the words of the Statute for the Right is not pursued within Five years next after it first came For it is agreed in Fermer's Case fo 79. that there the Construction was against the Letter of the Statute and I must say it is a Construction by Equity which is a little extraordinary to weaken the force of a Statute which was made for the quieting of mens Possessions and to add force to Fines which were of so great regard in Law and especially to make a Construction by Equity contrary to the Reason of the Common Law which took no care of a future Right at all for he in the Reversion in case of a Fine Levied at the Common Law depended wholly upon the Entry or Claim of the particular Tenant and in default of that lost his Estate as in the 1 Inst 262. b. and in Plowden's Commentaries in Stowell's Case I say again I do not design by this to oppose any Case that hath been setled But I confess I should not have gone so far if I had not been led by Authority and am not willing to go a step further And now I shall endeavor to shew that this Case goes a great deal further and would be a greater strain upon the Statute than yet has been And First I Observe that upon all or most of the Cases of a Fine where there has been an Estate for Life or Years in being at the time of the Fine that the Possession has held still in the particular Tenant so that he in Reversion had no reason to suspect any Fine or other thing done upon the Estate there being no alteration of the Possession And this agrees somewhat with the Reason of the Common Law in case of a Fine Executory he that had Right was not bound to claim till there were an Execution of the Fine and Transmutation of the Possession thereupon as in Plowden's Commentaries 257. b. in Stowell's Case But here it is found that the Conusor and not the Conusees or the Tenants by Extent or either of them were in possession so that the Land being in the possession of a Wrong-doer they which had Right ought to have watched and might well suspect that Fines should be Levied to the prejudice of their respective Rights It is said in Fermer's Case If a meer Wrong-doer having got the Possession levieth a Fine on purpose to bind the Right this shall bind notwithstanding his unjust Design But the Differences that I chiefly rely upon to distinguish the Case before us from the Cases of Reversions upon Estates for Life and Years or the like particular Estates are these 1. That in those Estates there is either by an express Limitation of the Parties or an operation of Law a certain and particular Term or End of the Estate which until it happens it has not its proper determination which an Estate by Extent has not I know it is has been much insisted on that the natural and proper determination of an Extent is satisfaction by a perception of Profits according to the extended Value whereas I cannot see but a release of the Debt or satisfaction by a sudden Accident is as properly a determination of the Extent as if it were run out by perception of Profits according to the extended Value For when the first Extent is out of the way the second is immediately to take place or why this acknowledging Satisfactoin on Record should be the natural and proper determination of the Extent more than a Release of the Debt by the Conusee or destroying of it by a Fine which is an higher Record than the Statute or the Entry of Satisfaction acknowledged thereupon 2. To let him that has the Reversion upon an Estate by Extent have Five years to claim after the first Extent run out by perception of Profits or Satisfaction acknowledged is to let in a Claim after an Estate that no man can see to the end of For when it shall be satisfied by the Profits no man can tell and can
his Bill to have the Land Conveyed according to the Agreement above But for the Defendants it was much insisted upon that this being to settle the Lands in case Thomas should dye without Issue it should not be regarded in this Court for the Execution of a Trust of a Remainder or Reversion in Fee upon an Estate Tail shall not be compelled because it is subject to be destroyed by the Tenant in Tail as here Thomas might have done in case he had made a Settlement according to the import of that Writing who therefore could not have been compelled himself to have executed this Agreement But the Lord Chancellor Fynch Decreed the Land for the Plaintiff because it was proved that the Marriage with the Plaintiffs Wife was in expectation of the performance of this Agreement and he was obliged to have left the Land to the Plaintiff if he had had no Issue Termino Sanctae Trinitatis Anno 34 Car. II. In Cancellaria Collet versus Collet WIlliam Fox having three Daughters Mary Elizabeth and Martha the two latter being Married and the first a Widow by his Will devised in these Words Viz. I give unto Martha my Daughter the Sum of 400 l to be paid unto her by my Executors within one year next after my decease But I will and my desire is that Cornelius Collet the Husband of Martha upon the payment of the said 400 l shall give such Security as my Executors shall approve of that the said 400 l shall be laid out within 18 Months next after my decease and purchase an Estate of that value to be setled and assured upon her the said Martha and the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And in the Close of his Will were these words following Viz. I Will That after my Debts which I shall owe at the time of my Decease and my Funeral Expences and the Probat of this my Will be discharged then I do give all the rest of my Personal Estate Unbequeathed to purchase an Estate near of as good value as the same Personal Estate shall amount unto within one year next after my my decease Which said Estate so to be purchased I Will shall be setled and assured unto and upon my said three Daughters Mary Elizabeth and Martha and the Heirs of their respective Bodies lawfully begotten for ever or otherwise my said Daughter Mary and the Husbands of my said two other Daughters Elizabeth and Martha shall for such Moneys as they shall receive of my said Executors for the Overplus of my Personal Estate enter into one or more Bonds in the double Sum of Money as each part shall amount unto the same being to be divided into three parts unto my said Executors within 18 Months next after my decease to settle and assure such part or Sum of Money as each of them shall receive and have by this my Will for the Overplus of my Personal Estate unto and upon the Child and Children of my said Daughters Mary Elizabeth and Martha part and part alike Martha the Wife of Cornelius Collet died within six Months after the Testator leaving Issue only a Daughter who died within four Months after the Mother the other two Sisters surviving Cornelius Collet took out Letters of Administration both to Martha his Wife and likewise to his Daughter the Four hundred Pounds and likewise the Overplus of the Personal Estate being unpaid or disposed of Cornelius Collet preferred his Bill against the Executors and the surviving Sisters and thereby demanded the 400 l and likewise a third part of the Overplus which amounted unto 700 l And the Cause came to be heard before the Lord Chancellor upon Bill and Answer who Decreed the 400 l to the Plaintiff but as to the Surplus of the Estate the Bill was dismissed altho ' it was much insisted upon for the Plaintiff that he might have given Bond to secure the Surplus for his Child and so from the Child it would have come to him as Administrator But seeing that no Interest could vest in the Child till the Election were determined it not being material as to this Point whether the Executors or the Husband aâ— the Election the Father could not claim it as Administrator to the Child And then if the Money had been laid out in Land and the Settlement according to the direction of the Will the Husband would have had no benefit for there would have been a Ioynt Estate for Life in the Daughters with several Inheritances and no severance of the Ioynture by the Marriage and having Issue Co. Inst and so no Tenant by the Courtesie Therefore as to the Surplusage the Bill was Decreed to be dismissed Note As to the 400 l the Order of my Lord Chancellor was That Interest should be paid for it from the time of bringing the Bill Termino Sancti Michaelis Anno 34 Car. II. In Cancellaria West versus The Lord Delaware WEST Heir apparent of the Lord Delaware Exhibited his Bill against the said Lord setting forth That upon a Marriage agreed to be had between him and the Daughter of one Mr. Huddleston with whom he was to have 10000 l Portion The Lord his Father Articled to settle Lands of such yearly value for the Wives Ioynture for their maintenance and the Heirs of their Bodies c. That the Wife being now dead and without Issue and no Settlement made the Bill prayed an Execution of the Articles and a discovery of what Incumbrances there were upon the Lands to be setled To this the Lord Delaware Answered That he never intended to settle Lands but for the Wives Ioynture only and that the Plaintiff her Husband was not named in the Articles and so was Advised He need make no Settlement and upon that Reason the Plaintiff could not require him to discover Incumbrances An Exception being taken to the Answer for that it did not discover any thing touching Incumbrances it was Argued before my Lord and for the Defendant it was alledged That by the Course of the Court the time of the Discovery should be when the other Point was determined for if that be for the Defendant then no Discovery can be required but if otherwise that then the Defendant shall be put to answer Interrogatories as is usual in Cases of like nature And it cannot be Objected That the Estate may be charged with Incumbrances since the Bill because they will be of no avail On the other side it was said That this would create great delay for upon the discovery of Incumbrances other parties must be made to the Bill and therefore this Case differed from the Case of Account which concerns the Defendant himself only but the Question now is only for the making proper Parties The Court Ordered That a further Answer should be made Nota If a man deviseth that such a Sum of Money shall be paid out of the Profits of his Lands and the Profits will not amount to the Sum in such case the Land
of Priviledge fitting the Parliament 154 Prohibition A second Prohibition not grantable after a Consultation 47 Q Quantum meruit See Outlawry Que Estate See Corporation R Recovery A Deed Fine and Recovery do all make but one Assurance but each hath its several effect 31 Common Recoveries are Common Assurances and are not to be overthrown by nice Constructions 32 A Common Recovery stopt what shall be good Cause to stop it 90 Relation Of Relation its force and where it shall Operate 200 Remainder What shall be accounted a Contingent Remainder and what a Remainder vested 313 Rent Rent due if the thing let hath been really enjoy'd 68 A Rent cannot be reserved out of a thing Incorporeal 69 Every Quarters Rent is a several Debt and distinct Actions may be brought for each Quarters Rent Not so for part of the Money due upon Bond or Contract unless the Plaintiff shews that the rest is satisfied 129 A Debt for Rent payable by an Executor before Bonds because it savours of the Realty and is maintain'd in regard of the Profits of the Land received 184 Request Request where necessary to be set forth and where not 75 Rescous See Return Return If a Sheriff Return a Rescous it is not now Traversable tho' formerly it was 175 Reversion A Reversion is a present Interest tho' to take effect in possession after another Estate determined 328 Revocation What shall be a good Revocation in Equity 350 S Scire facias WHere one Ter-tenant is Return'd summon'd he may plead That there are other Ter-tenants tho' in another County 104. But he must not plead this by way of Abatement but demand Judgment si ipse ad breve praed in forma praed retorn ' respondere compelli debeat 105 The Record of a Scire facias naught in the Titleing not permitted to be amended 105 Scire facias in Chancery to Repeal a Patent 344 Settlement See Conveyance Marriage Mortgage A Voluntary Settlement avoided by a following Settlement in Joynture 363 Sheriff If a Sheriff of a City be in Contempt the Attachment shall go to the Coroners and not to the Mayor but if he be out of Office then it shall go to the succeeding Sheriff 216 Simony To sell an Advowson ea intentione that J.S. shall be presented Simony 39 In case of Simony the Presentation vests in the King without Office Quaere in other Cases 213 Statutes 13 E. 1. Stat. of Winton In an Action upon this Statute not necessary to set forth more in the Declaration than is pertinent to the Action 215 4. H. 7. cap. 24. Of Fines Of Claims after the coming in of Future Interests in the second Saving in this Act 333 21 Jac. 1. cap. 16. See Limitations 22 23 Car. 2. cap. 9. No more Costs than Damage explain'd 36 What Trespass within this Statute What not 48 29 Car. 2. cap. 3. A Promise by Letter a sufficient Promise in Writing within this Statute 361. This Statute does not extend to Trusts raised by Operation of Law 361 31 Car. 2. cap. 2. Where a Man commits a Capital Crime in Ireland he may be sent thither to be Tried thereupon notwithstanding that by this Act No Subject of this Realm shall be sent Prisoner to any Foreign parts 314 1 W. M. cap. 4. That Statute which saves time of Limitation does not alter the Form of Pleading but that shall be as it was before 185 197 Statute Recognizance See Fine What shall be esteemed a regular Extending of a Statute Merchant 326 Where the Interest of a former Statute shall drown'd in that of a latter being both Extended and assigned to the same person 326 327 328 The Extent of a Statute what it is and the Effect thereof 326 338 An Extent upon a Puisne Statute where Extended after a Prior Statute is in the nature of a Reversional Interest 328 When a former Statute is determin'd whether it be by release of the Debt by purchase of part of the Lands by being barr'd by Non-Claim upon a Fine Satisfaction acknowledged or any other means this lets in the Puisne Statute 332 An Extent begins by Record but it may end without Record for a Release by the Conizee after Extent determines it and he that hath a Puisne Statute may Enter 336 Cannot be assigned before Extent in Law 362 Surrender No Surrender of an Estate without Acceptance by the Surrenderee 199 Yet quaere for the Judgment was reverst in Parliament 208 That a Surrender divesteth the Estate immediately before express Assent of the Surrenderee 203 infr T Tail A Devise to one for Life Remainder to the Heir Males of his Body for ever this is an Estate-Tail in the Devisee 313 A Sum of Money cannot be Entailed 349 Tender Plea of a Tender without setting forth a Refusal not good otherwise if a place of Payment was appointed and the Party to Receive was not there 109 Tythes Whether Notice be necessary to be given to the Parson upon setting forth of Tythes 48 Traverse See Pleading Treason Whether Listing of Men to send beyond Seas to joyn the King's Enemies be Treason within the Clause of Levying War in the Stat. 25 Ed. 3. 316 Whether the indictment should not express in particular who those Enemies are or whether the General Words be not sufficient ibid. To List c. and an Intent to Depose the King is Treason within the Clause of Compassing the Death of the King 317 Trespass See Assent Whether a Suit in an Action of Trespass be a Breach of Covenant to hold and enjoy quietly 46 61 62 Where an Action of Trover will lye for Goods tho' an Action of Trespass would not for taking them 169 170 Trust See Chancery Limitation The force of the Word Trust in the Limitation of a Use 312 Where a Man buys Land in anothers Name and pays Money it will be a Trust for him who pays the Money tho' there be no Deed declaring the Trust 361 Trust executed in Chancery according to the Parties meaning 363 364 Tryal A New Tryal directed by the Lord Chancellor where the former Verdict has been complain'd of in a Bill before him the Complainant paying the Costs of the first Tryal 351 352 V Variance See Pleading Verdict See Baron and Feme A Mistake in an Indebitatus Assumpsit where good after Verdict 36 A Declaration tho' Inartificial is notwithstanding good after Verdict 174 Vill. Vill and Parish the Diversity and where Lands in One shall pass in the Other of the same Name 31 Vmpire Arbitrators and Umpire cannot lawfully have concurrent Authorities at the same time 115 Vse Where Money is paid to A. for the Use of B. in whom the Right and Interest vests 310 Lands may be Devised to the Use of another but if no Use be limited they will lodge in the Devisee for a Devise implies a Consideration 312 Vsury No Unlawful Usury if the Agreement be not Corrupt tho' the Wording of the Condition may be otherwise by Mistake
Mesne Process but an Action upon the Case only Vaughan Loyd IN an Audita Querela the Party appeared upon the Sciri Facias and demurred for that the Sciri Facias bore Date the 23 day of October and the Audita Querela the 3 of November after To which it was said that this fault in the Mesne Process is aided by Appearance but if an Original should bear Date upon a Sunday or the like the Appearance of the Party would not help it But on the other side it was said That the Party had no day in Court by the Audita Querela and this was a default in the first Process against him and compared it to a Sciri Facias upon a Judgment in which such a fault will not be cured by Appearance To which the Court agreed For there the Sciri Facias is the Foundation and quasi an Original and the Judgment is given upon it 2 Cro. 424. but here the Sciri Facias is only to bring in the Party to answer and in the nature of a Mesne Process and the Judgment is given upon the Audita Querela wherefore they disallowed the Demurrer Barnes versus Hughes DEbt tam pro Domino Rege quam pro seipso upon the Stat. of 5 Eliz. cap. 4. for exercising of the Trade of a Grocer in Salisbury not being bound Apprentice thereunto The Defendant pleads Nil debet and being tried by Nisi prius and a Verdict for the Plaintiff it was moved in Arrest of Judgment that this Action could not be brought in this Court for by the Stat. 21 Jac. cap. 4. It is Enacted that all offences against any penal Statute for which an Informer may lawfully ground any popular Action Bill Plaint Suit or Information before Justices of Assize Nisi prius or Gaol-delivery Justices of Oyer and Terminer or of the Peace in their General Quarter-Sessions shall be Commenced Sued c. before the said Justices they having power to hear and determine the same and not elsewhere which Negative words as it was said take away the Iurisdiction of this Court And whereas 31 Eliz. restrained not the Kings Attorney because it only made mention of Common Informers the Kings Attorney is expressely named in this Statute and the Cases in 2 Cro. 85. between Beane and Druge and Moyl and Taylours Case 2 Cro. 178. were quoted And the Statute would be to little purpose if it did not extend to Actions of Debt as well as Informations and Indictments But it was said on the other side That it could not extend to Actions of Debt for they could not be brought before Iustices of Assize or the other Iustices named in the Act and it shall only extend to such Suits as an Informer might lawfully Commence before them And it hath been resolved that this Act did give no new Iurisdiction as 1 Cro. 112 Farrington and Keymer's Case in an Information upon the Statute of 23 H. 8. cap. 4. for selling of Beer at an unlawful price which gives the forfeiture to be Recovered in Courts where no Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed in any Suit grounded upon it extends only to the Courts at Westminster as 6 Co. in Gregory's Case it was resolved That no Information for an offence against this Statute could be commenced before the Iustices of Assize or Peace at the Sessions notwithstanding the Act in 21 Jac. which ordains That Suits for offences against Penal Laws shall be before them and the rest there mentioned for the Act only extends to those offences for the which an Informer might lawfully ground any popular Action before them and it was never held that that Act gave any new Iurisdiction Now if this Action cannot be brought in this Court the Statute must Repeal a great part of the Remedies given by 5 Eliz. against this offence and only leave it to be punished by Indictments and Informations which certainly was never the intent of the Statute and would be very mischievous for if the Offender goes out of the Country after the offence committed he cannot be punished for the Iustices named in the Statute cannot award Process out of the County and therefore for that reason there should be remedy in a Court of General Jurisdiction and since 21 Jac. there have béen many Presidents of like Actions all which would be Reversed if that Act should take away Actions of Debt in this Court. And for these Reasons the Case being moved divers times the Court gave Iudgment for the Plaintiff Styl 340. Anonymus IN Debt upon an Obligation the Defendant pleads That he delivered it as an Escrow hoc paratus est verificare This Plea is vicious for he ought to shew to whom he delivered it and also he ought to conclude his Plea issint nient son fait Anonymus A Lease for Years is made to A. and then another Lease is made for Twenty years to commence after the Expiration of the former Lease if B. and C. shall so long live with a reservation of several things and reddend ' 3 l nom ' Hariotte after the death of B. or C. B. dies during the continuance of the first Lease The 3 l must be paid for it is not in the nature of a Rent but a Sum in gross Clipsham and Morris THe Plaintiff in an Assumpsit declared That J. S. being indebted unto him in 50 l gave him a Note directed to the Defendant requiring him to pay the Plaintiff the said Sum of 50 l then he saith That the Defendant upon view of the Note in Consideration that the Plaintiff would accept of his Promise for the Mony and stay a Fortnight for the same he did assume to pay him To which the Defendant demurs for the Insufficiency of the Consideration it being nothing of trouble or prejudice to the Plaintiff or benefit to the Defendant for he might Sue his Debtor in the mean time neither is it alledged that the Defendant was indebted to J. S. But if it had been in Consideration That the Plaintiff would accept of the Defendant for his Debtor that might have béen good for that is an implied Discharge of the other whom if he had sued the Defendant might have had an Action Roll's 1st Part 29. And for this Reason the Opinion of the Court was against the Plaintiff And this Point was said to be Adjudged between Newcomen and Lee in this Court Paschae 1650. Rot. 62. Styl 249. Anonymus A Man was Indicted for saying The Justices of the Peace had nothing to do with the Excise And it was quashed by the Opnion of the Court for such an Information could not make a man Criminal Nurstie versus Hall THe Grantee of a Reversion brings a Writ of Covenant against the Lessee for years for non-payment of Rent The Question was Whether it ought to be laid where the Lease is alledged to be made or where the Land lies It was said That the Statute of 32 H. 8. cap. 34. which
gives the Action of Covenant to the Assignee of the Reversion saith That they shall have such Actions in like manner as the Lessors should have had Now if it had been brought by the Lessor it had béen transitory and so in the Case of an Assignment by Commissioners of Bankrupt the Assignee of the Commissioners of Bankrupt shall bring Debt as the first Creditor should have done But it was said on the other Side That the Statute intended not to assign it as a bare Chose en Action but to knit it to the Reversion and where it saith The Assignee shall have Remedy in like manner that is the same Remedy in substance And in the case of the Bankrupt's Debt the Contract is only assigned And in the 42 Ed. 3. cap. 3. it is said That an Action of Covenant lay for the Assignee at the Common Law But because the Court was not full it was thought fit this Case should be Adjourned till the next Term. Note It was said in this Case the Word Reddendum makes a Covenant Day and Pitts A Prohibition was moved for to stay a Suit in the Spiritual Court upon a Suggestion that it was for calling one Old Thief and Old Whore and if there were any such Words spoken they were spoken at the same time Which Suggestion was not good for the Words ought to have been fully confest And it was said by the Court That this Matter ought to have been pleaded there and if they had not admitted the Plea then to move for a Prohibition and not before Gilman and Wright BUrgh moved against Wright Steward of Havering Court in Essex for refusing to admit Gilman an Attorney in this Court to Appear for a man in an Action sued against him there alledging That the Attorneys of the Courts of Westminster might Practise in any Inferiour Court neither had they a Prescription or Charter to have a certain Number of Attorneys of their own and to exclude others But because it was the general Vsage of those Inferiour Courts to admit none but their own Attorneys tho' the Court seemed to incline That they ought not by Law to refuse Others and it was said to be so Adjudged in the 15th of Car. 1. in one Darcie's Case yet they would be Advised until the next Term. Note One who is Subpoena'd for a Witness may have a Writ of Priviledge to protect him from Arrests in going and returning Anonymus A Prohibition was granted to the Court of the Marches of Wales for that Lands being discended to an Infant which were subject to a Trust they had not only enjoyned the possession of those Lands but of other Lands discended to him And it was said by the Court That they could not Sequester Lands at all for the performance of a Decree of their Court to pay Money For they can only agere in personam non in rem Termino Sanctae Paschae Anno 21 Car. II. In Banco Regis Anonymus THe Sheriff Returned Non est inventus to a Writ brought against his own Bayliff and delivered to him But the Court Amerced him Forty shillings and he was ordered to amend his Return Anonymus TRover and Conversion was brought against Baron and Feme for that they ad usum proprium converterunt disposuerunt and held not to be good because the Wife cannot Convert with her Husband Skinner and Gunter c. A Bill in the nature of Conspiracy was brought against Three for that they 2 Cro. 667. Hob. 205 266. Conspiratione inter eos habita caused the Plaintiff to be Arrested in London on purpose to vex him and have him Imprisoned knowing that he was not able to find Bail whereas they had no cause of Action The Defendants pleaded Not guilty and the Issue was found only against one of them It was moved in Arrest of Judgment That the Declaration was Insufficient because it was not declared that the first Action was determined as no Conspiracy lies upon an Indictment before Acquittal But the Court inclined to disallow this for here the ground of the Action is the caussess troubling of him to put in Bail But when a man is Indicted he lies under the scandal of the Crime until he is acquitted Another Exception was That this Bill being in the nature of a Writ of Conspiracy there being One only found Guilty the Action fails But it was said True it is so in case of Conspiracy to Indict One of Felony but here 't is rather in nature of an Action upon the Case and the Conspiracy alledged by way of aggravation Fitz. N.B. 116. Et Adjornatur Anonymus AN Indictment was removed hither the last Term out of Middlesex against Edward S. of Perjury and he was named Edward all along in the Indictment unto the Conclusion and then it was sic praedictus Johannes commisit perjurium The Court was moved that this might be amended and it was said Indidictments removed out of London have béen amended by the Original for they do not certifie that but only a Transcript and a Jury have been resummoned to amend an Indictment found in this Court and in this case if by Examination of the Clerk of the Peace it appeared the Indictment certified varied from the Original it might be amended sed Curia advisare vult Nota If a Venire Facias be returned and not filed a new one may be taken out Thomas Burgen's Case AN Indictment was brought against Thomas Burgen for selling Ale in Black Pots not marked and doth not conclude contra formam Statuti and held to be good enough for the Common-Law appoints just Measures and tho' the Statute adds this circumstance yet the Crime being at the Common-Law the conclusion is as it ought to be Where a Statute makes an offence more Penal as that which deprives one that Steals the value of Five shillings out of a dwelling house in the day time of his Clergy yet the conclusion of an Indictment in that case is not contra formam Statuti Nota Where one is sued by a name with an Alias the Addition must ever be expressed after the first name Clerke and Cheney IN Trespass for breaking of his Close the Defendant justifies by reason of a way from his House thorough the place where usque aâ—tam viam regiam in parochia de D. vocat London Road and Issue was joyned upon the way and found for the Plaintiff Vid. Hob. 189. it was moved in Arrest of Judgment that there was no Issue joyned for the incertainty of the terminus ad quem whether this way should lead and one that justifies for a way if he alledges the place from whence and to which and that it leads over the place where 't is sufficient tho' he mistake the other mean passages of it and tho' this be the Defendants own Plea yet he may take exceptions to it not being certain enough to make an Issue Sed non allocatur for in regard it is found