but a Term passed then in whom was it till I. S. was made King in right of the Woman and that it shall remain no otherwise than a Man that hath a Term in the right of his Wife and is made King she shall have all her Inheritance and all her Terms no otherwise than if he were Dead 3 H. 7.14 The Queen and her Sisters were vouched as Heirs to E. the 4. A Baron and Feme Alien a Feoffment is made to the Feme the Baron is made King if upon Office found the King shall have the Land He shall not have it For the Baron being made King she is made a Denizen by relation to the Marriage which was to prevent the relation of the Office no otherwise than H. 7. being made K. it had such relation that it drowned all former Offences Forfeitures and Attainders whatsoever 7 E. 4.31 The King grants a Farm to the Baily and Commonalty of S. they are made Farmers and a Corporation 2 H. 7. A Lord infeoffes his Villain he hath the Land and his Freedom Grondon's Case Commentaries the King grants Land to a Corporation this is a Grant and a Licence in Mortmain Coke lib. 5.15 Tenant for Life grants a Rent charge to him in the reversion and his Heirs who grants it to one and his Heirs this is a grant and a confirmation A Disseisor makes a Lease for Life the remainder to the Disseisee the Disseisee grants this remainder over this is a grant and a confirmation A Parson makes a Lease to the Patron who grants it over this is an Assignment and a Confirmation A Feoffment is made to Baron and Feme the Baron is made King if the Feme can waive 1. Whether she can waive or not as a Feme may after death of her Husband 2. In whom it shall vest 3. How the release should work then 4. Whether a Feme Convert Disseisor can waive She may no otherwise than if the Baron were Dead for she shall have all her own Land and all her own Leases but not her Goods And it is not of necessity that she expect his Death for if a Feoffment be made to Baron and Feme and they are Divorced the Feme may waive In whom it shall vest Whether in the King or not because in a sort here was a partition But the question will be upon the release whether that shall relate to extinguish all the right of the Disseisee in all the Land as if the Case were Disseisor makes a Feoffment to Baron and Feme and I. S. the Baron and I. S. make partition the Disseisee releases to I. S. this inures only upon his possession for the half the Baron dies and the Feme waives I. S. hath all by Survivour yet shall not the release go to all Also by the waiver it cannot go to the King for that were to make him a Disseisor by the waiver it cannot return to the Lessee contrary to his Livery nor to the Lessor then will not this amount to an occupancy But in this Case the Queen cannot waive but still in regard of the Lessor she remains a Disseisor for if a Feme Covert be a Disseisor and her Husband die she shall not waive the possession for so for years and days she might take the profits and yet in the end pay nothing which were unjust 41 E. 3. An Infant may be a Disseisor and cannot waive a descent It may be probably alledged that she might waive for being a Feme Covert she may alledge ignorance of the matter of fact that is whether her Feoffer had but an Estate for years or was seised in Fee-simple and we find in our Books that great wrongs have been excused by the ignorance of a Man in what wrong he did and waiving the thing wrongfully taken As 22. Ass 85. vid. lib. faux imprison Heire son frere prise per Scots 7 H. 6.27 One brought an Action of Trespass for taking his Swans the Defendant pleaded that he was Lord of such a Mannor and that in a River within his Mannor he found the Swans and took them for strays but after he had notice whose they were he waived the possession of them and let them go this was a good excuse both of the Trespass and Damage 21 H. 6.14 One brings Trespass Quare filium suum rapuit c. He answered you married my Sister and had by her this Son and you being out of the Country it was reported you were Dead whereupon I as next kin to your Son seized him but when I heard you were alive I sent him home again to his Nurse Thus rightly did he waive and avoid his wrong for want of true intelligence which in Law we call Notice But in all those Cases these wrongs were with intents to do right and the parties were of opinion they were in the right but our case is of a Disseisor which is always intended a wrong-doer But you will say this Woman is no Disseisor at Common Law her entry was not malum per se but malum prohibitum a Statute Disseisor and she being a Feme Covert is not bound by Statute But I say she is bound by the Statute for in all Statutes where a Feme Covert is not expresly excepted she is bound as the Statute of 13 H. 6. Disseisin 1. per Martin Baron and Feme may both be Disseisors 35. Ass 5. Baron and Feme Disseisors Assise against the Baron sole abated 15 E. 4.15 Disseisin is made to anothers use the Disseisor is Tenant untill agreement 21 E. 4.53 Tenant is issuing out of Land of the Wife the Husband and Wife make a Rescous they are both Disseisors That as I have argued the Lessor enters his entry is congeable for a Moiety that is the Queen's part Tenant in tail makes a Feoffment to a Feme Covert without Licence the Husband dies the Feme waives Points upon the Statute AN Adventurer into Virginia is not within the Statute for although from time to time we send Trifles thither to exchange with the Savages yet the main drift and cause of our Traffick thither is for Plantation and Discovery and not for Merchandizing I hold the same of Greenland but not of Muscovia 2. He that is an Inn-keeper is within the Statute for he buys and sells again retail Ireland's Case in Smithfield 3. He was born in the Isle of Man the Statute is born within her Majesties Dominions or Denizen and I should have made small question but that one born within the Isle of Man is born in her Majesties Dominions if it were not for the Book of 11. H. 8. Kell fol. 202. It was found by an Office that the Earl of Derby dyed seised of the Isle of Man the Countess came and prayed to be endowed to whom Brudnell ex assensu Brook Fitz. Herbert and all the Kings Counsel said That the Office was void because the Isle of Man is not parcel of the Realm but the Isle
grant his Estate upon condition and the reversion is granted and he attorns and then enters for the Condition yet the attornment is void But yet the Law will respect such a possibility as 5 E. 3. fol. 36. Lands were given to the Baron and Feme the Baron dies the Feme makes a Lease for her own life the Lessee is impleaded in a Cui in vita and he vouches the Feme and she prays in aid of the heir of the Husband and well and yet the Feme had nothing If I bargain and sell Lands to one for life and then I grant the reversion and the Barganee attorns and then the Deed is Inrolled this Reversion is well granted and this is a good Attornment But it may be objected that the Land is not in the Conizee upon the extent for if it be extended at too high a rate he may return it upon the extendors for so are the Books of 44 E. 3. 2 H. 4.17 21 E. 3.21 15 H. 7.16 and divers others Books But I make this an Argument for my self for that shews it is out of the Conizor and if the Land were in the extendors hands no doubt but the reversion might be granted and by the Book of 1 E. 3.8 in a quid juris clamat they shall be forced to attorne 2 But admit that such a grant of reversion may be made yet no grant of a reversion can be good without Attornment of the particular Tenant and here your Conizee the Tenant attorns before his time that is before he hath possession by the Liberate and so the case of 8 H. 5. fol. 10. comes full against you To that I answer That the Tenant by Statute is esteemed in point of Attornment as Tenant for term of years for so the Case of 1 E. 3. fol. 8. esteems him And I make small Question but that if a man make a Lease for years and before the Lessee enter the Lessor grants the reversion and the Lessee attorns This is a good Attornment for it matters not whether ever the Lessee entered or not for the Land was in him to give grant or forfeit and 21 H. 7. fol. 27. after such a Lease If the Lessee will not enter yet if the Lessor waive the possession and a rent day accrews the Lessor may have an action of debt against the Lessee without ever making any averment that the Lessee entred So in our Case although the Conizee cannot enter of himself but by the Livery of the Sheriff yet he is not in by the Sheriff but by the Law in the Post And it is not very absurd to say he is in by and under and from the Conizor for if the Conizor had Covenanted that any to whom he after the Recognizance had conveyed the Land should have enjoyed it against all claiming from by and under him and the Conizee had sued execution the Covenant had been broken 3. Then allowing that this first grant of the reversion is good to C. in Tail Then the next question is that C. commits Treason and A. grants the reversion of C. in Fee to D. and C. Attornes Whether this be a good Attorment Whether if C. comes afterwards to be attainted for the Treason and an Office being found hath relation to intitle the King to the Land from the time of the Treason committed that is Whether this Office shall not relate to make C. no Tenant of the Land from the Time of the Treason committed I will agree it will relate to avoid all charges and incumbrances made by C. but yet the Attornment is good for that I will put but one Case that comes full home to the point which is Sir Miles Fleetwood's Case in my Lord Cooks 8. Report which is that the Attainder and Office relate to intitle the King to the Land from the time of the Treason committed but not to Chattels sold or to the mean profits of Lands received so as for the mean time C. was Tenant and might take the Profits and the Rents paid to him by the Tenants were well paid then a fortiore might he do and execute all instrumental Acts as if he had been Lord of a Mannor and a Copyholder after the Treason and before Attainder had surrendred to the use of another who had been admitted the surrender and admittance had been good and so consequently the Attornment for by the Attornment he parts with nothing of his own only he is a means to profit another mans grant of that which was never his 4. The next Question is That the Tenant in Tail commits Treason suffers a Recovery to the use of himself and then it attainted whether the King shall have the Fee-simple or else whether the Office shall not relate to make the Recovery void and whether he in Reversion who by intention of Law had recovered other Land in value shall have any benefit against the King by the Kings priviledge which he hath to avoid this Recovery It is plain that if this Recovery had been to the use of a Stranger the King by Office should avoid it and consequently he in Remainder would have been remitted The difference of the relation of an Office to intitle the King to Goods but from the Attainder and to Lands from the time of the offence committed are these 42 E. 3.26 33 E. 3. Fitz. Forfeiture 30 31 H. 6.5 temp H. 8. Bro. fo 42. I take it that if the King in this Case had taken the benefit of the Statute of 33 H. 8. c. 20. which gives the King all the Lands which a person attainted hath at the time of his Attainder though there be no Office sound then the King might have seized the Land and the party had had no remedy But now an Office being found the King is in by the Office which discovers the whole matter of Record and the party hath the benefit thereby And thereby it appears that C. was by the offence and the relation of the Attainder disabled to make any Conveyance or disposition of his Land That a Common Recovery is a Conveyance vide Coke li. primo Pelhams Case So this Grant of the reversion to D. is good and not pulled out by the Recovery But it is granted to one that is an Alien born but made a Denizen of Ireland whether now the King be not intitled to the reversion in Fee as the Lands of an Alien I take it that he that is free of Ireland is free of England it is true that one which was born in Scotland ante c. and these that were born in times past in Aquitain or in Normandy were Aliens born because these Countries were brought with the Kings of England as their former inheritance but Ireland was conquered by H. 2. and inhabited and planted with Englishmen and upon the matter made part of the demeasnes of the Crown of England as other Islands are as the Wight and Jernesey Virginia and Greenland and therefore the Kings of
of Wight is parcel of Hamp-shire and Wales and Ireland are parcel of the Realm for Writs of Errour lie c. And I think it is very true Hollinshead description of Britain fol. 16. b. that the Isle of Man was then no parcel of the Realm for the first mention thereof in any Chronicles is the same year that England was Conquered by the Normans for when Harold had at Stainford-Bridge Conquered another Harold that was King of Norway one Gordard the King's Son of Ireland fled to the Isle of Man in time Conquered it and made himself Lord and Landlord of all the Isle So as to this day there is not a Free-holder in that Island but all are Tenants to the King of that Country It is about thirty miles long and fifteen miles broad it is not governed by any written Laws or Courts of Record but all their Controversies are ended by Arbitrators whom they call Deemsters When King John Conquered Ireland he sent Forces into Man and wasted it all but seated no Government there 1240. One Harold of the Norway Line was received and was invested in the Kingdom of Man by the King of Norway and yet afterwards he was made Knight by the King of England 1250. Or thereabouts in King Ed. 1. time Alexander King of Scots having Conquered all the Islands either by Strength or for Money amongst the rest brought the Isle of Man under his Dominion the old King's Daughter sued to Edw. 1. as to the Supream Head of Scotland the Answer Sequatur coram Justiciariis de Banco Regis ut Justicia Edw. 2. granted it to Piers Gaveston but in Anno 1393. William of Mountacute by strength won it from the Scots as Thomas of Walsingham saith and sold it to William Scroop he was attainted and so it came to Hen. 4. The King of England he granted it to Henry Peircy to hold it by carrying before the King Lancaster's Sword but presently he was attainted and the King granted it to Sir John Stanley and so it came to the Earl of Derby Seman's Case 5. Reports A Man's House is his Castle and his Castle is his House Points upon the first Case 1. IF Tenant for years may attorn before Entry 21 H. 7. One makes a Lease for years and before the Lessee enter the Lessor releases to him the release is void One bargains and sells his Land to another and before the Deed is inrolled he attorns to the grant of the reversion and after the Deed is inrolled and the Bargainee enters 21 H. 7.28 H. 8. Dyer Debt for Rent lies before entry of the Lessee Litt. Lord and Tenant the Tenant makes a Lease for life the Lord grants the Seigniory to the Tenant for life in Fee the Tenant ought to attorn yet he shall not hold of the Tenant for life during his life 28 H. 8. Brook Tenant for twenty years makes a Lease for ten years Tenant for ten years attorns it is good 20 H. 6 7. A Seigniory is granted by Deed to one for life the remainder in Fee Tenant for life dies before attornment c. contrary if it were by Fine 11 H. 4.18 One who hath nothing in the Land must attorn as Tenant in Dower who hath assigned her Estate 2. The reversion of Tenant in tail is granted he commits Treason and attorns and is attainted 12 E. 4.3 Tenant in tail shall not be compelled to attorn but 15 E. 4.13 if he attorn voluntarily it is good Nor Tenant in tail after possibility c. 46. E. 3.13 39 E. 3.20 3 H. 6.12 5 H. 5. Attornment 17. One makes a gift in tail rendring Rent the Donor by Fine grants the Rent the Tenant in tail must attorn 8 H. 5.10 Tenant for life grants his Estate upon condition the Lessor grants the reversion Tenant for life attorns and after performs the condition yet the Attornment is void But all the question is upon the relation of the Office and this shall not vacate the Attornment for it shall not relate for the mean profits of the Land Sir VVilliam Fleetwood's Case Cook lib. 8. by the same reason if Rent were reserved it were well paid and well received and sufficient to invest the reversion in the Grantee 3. Adventurer to the East-Indies is within the Statute 4. Gardian of a Ship is within the Statute The Chancellor hath authority to award a Commission but not to grant Supers And therefore death of the King or a new Commission leaving out the old Commission may be but no Supers If the King present to a Benefice above 20 l. the Chancellor cannot make a revocation but as well in our Case as in that Case by Warrant under the Signet Privy Seal or Seal Manual the Chancellor may award Supers 6. Denizen of Ireland Points upon the Third Case 1. TEnant for life the remainder to the right Heir of I. S. makes a Feoffment in Fee upon condition and enters for the condition broken who shall enter for the forfeiture The Feoffer shall not enter for all is out of him by the Feoffment and he hath nothing but a possibility The right Heir of I. S. shall not enter for his remainder is destroyed The first Question is upon the Statute of W. 2. cap. 25. Whether if Lessee for years make a Feoffment by Livery within the view the Feoffer or Feoffee or both of them or neither be Disseisors 2. Upon Baron and Feme whether a Feoffment without Deed to the Baron and Feme and Livery only to the Feme invests any thing in the Husband 3. Upon the matter admit they are both Disseisors whether the release made to the Husband shall exclude the Wife it shall but in this Case where Tenant for years enfeoffes two and the Lessor releases to one he shall not hold out his Companion 4. Baron and Feme are Joynt-Tenants of a term and the Baron is made King what is become of the term and so of Freehold Whether the King shall have all or the Queen all or they remain Joynt-Tenants or Tenants in Common they are Tenants in Common 5. A Feme commits a Disseisin to the use of her and her Husband and the Husband is made King and the Disseisee releases to the King what is wrought if he can agree to the Disseisin being King 6. A Feme Covert Alien purchaseth the Husband is made King and Office is found 7. A Feme Covert purchaseth the Husband is made King if he can waive Points upon the Statute 1. IF one born in the Isle of Man is within the Statute 2. If Adventuring to Virginia is Merchandizing 3. If an Inn-keeper be within the Statute 4. If going to the Isle of Man be a Departing 5. If keeping of a Castle be a keeping of his House The Second Division Who shall be said a Subject born of this Realm or of any of the late Queens Dominions or Denizen 1. A. and B. Disseise C. who in consideration that A. at his request hath
a day upon pain of 10. l. at the next Court he is presented because no reformation is made and there then the Tenant Traverses the Presentment that he is not guilty the Traverse is disallowed the Lord becomes a Bankrupt the Affeerors resuse to affeere the amerciament the Commissioners sell all the debts of the Bankrupt to A. A. Shall have an action of debt for this amerciament 6. A. sues execution of a Statute Merchant and the Conizors Land is extended at too high a value and refused by the Extendor and delivered to the Jurors B. defeats the execution by extending an elder Statute A. is a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell all his debts the elder Statute is satisfied the Jurors will not enter This is a good Sale of the possibility to extend and the Vendee shall have a Scire facias against the Tenant by the elder Statute and the terretenants and the Jurors to revive the former Execution 7. A. and B. Tenants is Common grant a rent of 10. l. per annum to C. who brings an Annuity against A. and recovers and after he distrains and Avows upon B. and becomes a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell the Annuity and the rent a fourth part of the Land descends to the Vendee The sale of the Annuity and also of the rent were good but he shall Avow upon B. but for 5. l. per annum 1. If he can bring an Annuity against one and distrain the other 2. How a Rent shall be apportioned when part of the Land descends to the Grantee 3. If a Rent charge be within this Statute because it is not within the words 8. A Mannor in Surry is giving to Baron and Feme and to the heirs of the Baron the Baron dies his heir being a Merchant claims the heirlooms the Executors of the Father claim them as Chatells the heir sells the Reversion and becomes a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell the heir-looms This a good sale but the Wife shall have the use of them during her life 9. One makes a Feoffment upon condition that the heir of the Feoffee shall infeoff I. S. the Feoffee grants a Rent charge the Feoffer enters for the Conditions and dies the Feoffee re enters and two Co-partners being the heirs of the Feoffor bring a Mortdauncester against the Feoffee and recover the Land and damages they have other Land in execution by Elegit for the damages the one dies the other is a Bankrupt The Commissioners shall sell all the Extent 10. A Disseisor makes a Lease for life to A. who makes a Lease for years to B. a Merchant stranger who is made Denizen upon Condition that he shall not depart the Realm the Disseisee confirms his estate Tenant for life dies the Disseisor enters B. being non solvent by License of the King with a Non obstante departs the Realm the Commissioners sell the term the Vendee enters upon the Disseisor The sale of this term is good 11. A. By Deed Poll demises the Land of B. to C. a Merchant who enters B. re-enters C. in an action of Covenant grounded upon the Deed recovers 10. l. damages against A. C. being indebted is committed to Prison by the High Commissioners for non payment of a Fine by them assessed and there he remains by six moneths the Commissioners assign the damages to D. who sues a Scire facias in his own name against A. and hath Judgement to have Execution A. brings a Writ of Error against C. of the first Judgement C. confesses the Error The Judgement is erroneous and yet the assignment of the damages is good and D. shall have Execution 12. A. Makes a Joynture to his Wife an Alien of part of his Land and dies she is made a Denizen and takes a Bankrupt to Husband the Commissioners sell the Joynture part of it is evicted by elder title she sues a Scire facias and recovers other Land in recompence an Office is found the Commissioners sell as well the Land recovered in value as the residue which was not evicted The sale of the Land recovered in value is good but not for the residue For New-Inn The Case THe Land of A. is extended for the debt of B. and A. grants the reversion to C. in Tail B. attornes and hath a Liberate A. grants the reversion of C. to D. a Feme sole Merchant Denizen of Ireland C. commits Treason and attorns and suffers a common recovery to the use of himself D. takes E. an Alien and Londoner to Husband C. is attainted D. continues sole Merchant E. is naturalized D. is indebted and elopes C. dies without issue E. enters and is non solvent a Commission is awarded and proclaimed D. hath issue and dies an Office is found the Term expires Conclusion The Land shall be sold by the Commissioners 1. When Land is extended and before a Liberate it is to be considered in whom the Land is 3 E. 6.68 It is said that goods extended are in the custody of the Law but yet not so out of the Conizors possession but that they may be extended for the Kings debt due by the Conizor 41 E. 3. Fitz Recognizance 38. Land was extended by the Sheriff and before Liberate the Lands were extended for the Kings debt and so process stayed 33 H. 8. Broke Recognizance 41. Liberate may be taken out seven years after the extent 41 E. 3. fol. 1. It is questioned whether the party or the King shall have the mean profits of Lands taken by cape grand till a petty cape Also it will be objected that a reversion will pass by words of possession but possession will not pass by words of reversion Frokmerton and Tracy 43 E. 3. and Smith and Stapleton But except we prove this reversion to be well granted we are at an end of our case for all the rest depends upon this point We say then that when Lands are extended it is plain they are out of the Conizor presently And although it seems that for the time they are in the Kings hands yet when the Liberate comes they are in the Conizee ab initio and by strong relation So as if a Mannor be extended to which an Advowson is appendent and the Church becomes void and Liberate sued the Conizee and neither the King nor the Conizer shall present So if Arrearages of Rents fall due between the extent and the Liberate the Conizee shall distrain and avow for them Wherein I will compare it to Longs Case that was in the Common Pleas Pasch 31 Eliz. Rot. 2024. one granted a Mannor to which an Advowson was appendent and made Livery the Church became void and afterwards the Tenants attorned the Grantee shall present and the Attornment shall relate to make the Grantee in from the time of the Feoffment And although it is said 8 H. 5. fo 10. that no man can attorn to a grant of a reversion that hath as yet nothing in possession but hopes or possibilities As if Tenant for life
Commissioners and Sale the Vendee shall avoid a Lease which Tenant in tail a Bankrupt might have avoided 1. If one may release to the use of another or if an use can be raised upon a release and it may for three reasons A Release may be upon condition for there the case was put in Libro and consequently to an use But by 43 Ass 12. the condition and the release ought to be both in one Deed. 17 Ass 2. 31 Ass 32. 2. Secondly it is a good proof that a release to a Disseisor may be to an use when a Disselsm may be to an use as 34 Ass 12. 37 Ass 8. 1 H. 5.4 15 E. 4.15 All is in the Disseisor until agreement And 2 H. 7.16 If one disseise another to the use of a third the first is Tenant until agreement but after all is in him to whose use although not to be punished for the force 3. My third Argument is taken out of the Book of 17 E. 3.5 where it is said That if the Disseisee take homage of the Disseisor he shall never have an Assise for now they be Lord and Tenant when at first the Disseisor was in the post and destroyed the Disseisees Estate and held of the Lord Paramount So I hold that if before the Statute of Quia Emptores Terrarum the Disseisee had released to the Disseisor the Disseisor must have held of him although it is true that since that Statute a release of all his right in the Land releases his Seigniory as 34 Ass But Temp. E. 1. Ass 423. In a Writ of Entry in the Post of Disseisin made by A. to the Demandants Grandfather which A. infeoffed the Grandfather of the Tenant the Tenant answered after A. infeoffed my Grandfather your Grandfather confirmed and released to my Grandfather reserving homage and my Grandfather did homage to yours and my Father to your Father c. But he relied upon the Deed a Tenure was reserved upon the confirmation in which Case a release makes a degree See my Moot Book fol. 121. Then if an use may be raised out of the possession of a Disseisor if a condition out of a release and a tenure out of a confirmation by the same reasons an use may be raised or declared by release 2. Two Disseisors and they intermarry it may seem they are mutually and respectively in by title for if the Husband make a Feoffment of his moiety yet he hath title to be Tenant by the Courtesie of her part and she hath title of Dower to his part after the Feoffment which is in severance of the Joynture Kelloway's Case Incerti Temp. fol. 129. This Case is well debated which was A. Feme sole and A. Joynt-Tenants she marries B. A. releases to B. whether this shall inure to the Husband only or to the Wife Keble saith That it shall inure to the Baron sole for before marriage he might have infeoffed the Baron and it is no reason that he should be hindred to convey the Land to none but the Feme by release and by the release he shall be Tenant in Common with himself in right of his Wife But by others the Law is contrary for he might have infeoffed others as well as have released to the Baron also a release to one shall be in many cases to the benefit of another as a Release to Tenant for Life c. 9 Eliz. Dyer 263. This Case seems to make against me Baron and Feme and I. S. were Joynt-Purchasers I. S. released to the Baron nothing went to the Wife but I say that cannot be for the Baron and Feme being seised by intireties the release could not make them hold the Land by several moieties 16 H. 9. Fitz. Herb. Release 45. Nor do I agree that Case for there the Case was that a Woman was Tenant for life and she takes Husband the Lessor releaseth to the Husband and his heirs by Paston he had the reversion for the Free-hold of the Husband was in right of his Wife and the release to him conjoyns that right but I agree well that the Fee-simple shall be in the Husband c. 19 H. 6.35 One makes a Feoffment upon condition that he shall make a Feoffment over if he doth it not the Feoffer may enter but if one makes a Feoffment in Fee upon condition that the Feoffee shall make a gift in tail and he doth it the Feoffee and not the Feoffor shall have the reversion So here 3. If marriage of a poor Maid be a good consideration to raise an use it is good to carry the Fee-simple to the Husband and the intail to the Wife Before the Statute of Quia Emptores Terrarum one might have created a Tenure in performance of a charitable use as to make or repair a Bridge or to keep a Castle 34 H. 8. Brook p. 51. 6 E. 3.13 One holds by three pence to aid the Sheriff and good and another by four pence of the Wapentake Fine and good because for to discharge the publick contribution 12 H. 7.18 Keeping of a Beacon whereby the Country may be warned when the Enemies come 11 H. 7.12 The same for finding a Chaplain chanting in such a place And by the same reason that a Tenure may be created an use may and the same consideration For before Qui Emptores Terrarum If one had made a Feoffment in Fee without declaring an use it was to the use of the Feoffee for the Law created a Tenure which was a sufficient consideration but after no use to the Feoffee but to the Feoffor if neither Tenure created nor use declared and for that a lease for life or for years or in tail is to the use of the Lessee or Donee for the Law will create a Tenure of him in reversion So here is a good consideration to raise the use of the Fee to the Husband and the Estate tail to the Wife is good without other consideration than that Tenant in tail must hold of him in reversion 24 H. 8. Brook 4. Lands are given to a Feme and her Heirs Females and she hath Issue a Son and a Daughter and dies if the Husband shall be a Tenant by the Courtesie He shall Cook lib. 8. Pains Case is reported as if before that Case the Law had been doubtful whether the Husband should be Tenant by the Courtesie when the Wife Tenant in tail had Issue which dyed and so she dyed without Issue For the Estate was determined and this was the reason that Leases for life or years are not good against the Lessor for Cessante Statu primitivo c. yet one may be Tenant in Dower without Issue and therefore the Estate tail will continue to some purposes 21 Edw. 3. Dower after a Dying seised without Issue 21 H. 3. Dower 198. Tenant by the Courtesie may be although the Issue dye before the Wife 16 E. 3. Aid 129. One may be Tenant by the Courtesie of the moiety of
Gavelkind without Issue by the Custome there Reppes Case the Child was ripped out of his Mothers Belly and so after the death of the Feme the Baron could not be Tenant by the Courtesie But this Question rises upon the Case put in Pains Case Lands are given to a Feme and her Heirs Males and she hath Issue a Daughter and dies the Husband shall not be Tenant by the Courtesie for although a Man shall be Tenant by the Courtesie notwithstanding the Estate tail be spent yet his Estate must begin by an Heir heritable to the Estate Here in our Case the Son was the Heir and by him the Father would have been Tenant by the Courtesie to all other his Wifes Lands but not to this But although a Female cannot be Heir that hath a Brother yet since the Statute of Donis and by the Equity of that a Daughter may be Heir by Cook in Shelley's Case notwithstanding that he had also a Son fol. 103. and so here he may be Tenant by the Courtesie for this Land by the Daughter and of other Land by the Son if the Wife had been Tenant in tail of other Lands to her and her Heirs Males 5. Tenant by the Courtesie is and Tenant in tail in reversion makes a lease to commence presently hath Issue and dies Tenant by the Courtesie dies if his Issue shall avoid the Lease This Question is grounded upon the words of the Statute of 32 H. 8. which gives power to Tenant iâ— tail to make Leases Provided always that this Act c. shall not extend to any Leases to be made of any Mannors c. being in the hands of any Farmer or Farmers by vertue of any old Lease unless the same old Lease be expired surrendred or ended within one year after the making of the new Lease and upon this Clause hath risen many Questions as Tenant in tail makes a Lease for Forty years not warranted and Ten years after makes a Lease for Twenty One years to another warranted Within a year Tenant for Forty years surrenders Tenant in Dower surrenders to the Issue in tail upon condition Tenant in tail makes a Lease c. Tenant in Dower enters for the condition and dies and Tenant in tail dies if the Issue may enter Tenant in tail makes a good Lease for One and Twenty years Tenant for years surrenders upon condition Tenant in tail makes another Lease for One and Twenty years or three lives the first Tenant in tail enters for the condition broken By Philips the second Lease is good Cook contra in Elmers Case lib. 5. And my Question is whether Tenant by the Courtesie be within those words Farmers c. and he is not Foster in his Reading upon this Statute vouched one Richards Case That Tenant by the Courtesie was no such Farmer Points upon the Statute 1. IF a Feme Covert sole Merchant by the Custom of London shall be within the first Branch or Division of this Statute which is using the Trade of Merchandizing or getting their living by c. she is That there is such a Custom in London and mentioned and allowed in our Books Custom Br. 43. Ley Br. 74. 1 E 4. fol. 6. An Action being brought in C. B. for ones Board in London he would wage his Law not And the difference put between Customs which go with the Lands as Gavelkind Borough English c. and Customs of Courts good within the Town but not here but a recovery by such Custom may well be pleaded here in this Case Littleton Billing saith A Feme Covert sole Merchant by the Custom of London shall be impleaded sole here 35 H. 6. fol. 28. The Question was Whether the property of the Kings Jewells could be altered or forfeited because they were pawned and forfeited in London By Needham in the Exchequer Chamber upon an Information Custom Brook 5. and Pledges 28. 21 H. 7.17 Departure Brook 10. in case of a Departure because he had intituled himself by a new matter that is by a Custom which he might have pleaded 9 E. 4.35 A Feme removed by Habeas Corpus objected by Pigot that she and her Husband were both arrested for the Femes debt because a sole Merchant and prayed that she might be remanded for they have no remedy here this had been allowed and granted to him had not the Woman come in charged with a Reddidit So upon an Exigent The Customs of London have been confirmed by Parliament 1 E. 37. R. 2. and admit that she could not be sole sued here as in the Courts of London yet if a Contract made by her shall bind the Husband by the Custom the Husband shall be sued here and it shall be said the Contract of the Husband as 21 H. 7. 2. The Husband shall be bound by the Contract of his Wife if he command before or agree after and it shall be accounted his folly to suffer his Wife and so they be both Bankrupts To put cases how the Husband shall be prejudiced by the Act of his Wife 49 E. 3.25 The Husband shall not be charged with the debt of the Wife which she owed before marriage after her death but if an Action during the Coverture were brought against the Baron and Feme and Judgment were had against them and she dies the Husband shall be charged 20 H. 6.22 If the Wife buy any thing by the Husbands commandment or that by his allowance comes to his use he shall be charged 9 E. 4.24 Debt against Baron and Feme the Baron appeareth the Feme makes default the default of the Wife is the default of the Husband Nat. Brevium 120. G. A man shall be charged by the Contract of his Servant or his Wife if he gives them Authority otherwise not 12 H. 7.24 The Baron shall pay Mony in the Spiritual-Court which was charged for corporal punishment of the Wife for a slander And so it is at our Law for all Slanders and Batteries as we see every day 20 H. 7. Kello 61. A Feme Disseisor takes Husband who occupies the Land without notice or cognizance of the Husband yet he shall pay damages I conclude her Merchandizes are his by the Common Law and by the Custom 3. For all the Reasons aforesaid the Outlawry of the Husband shall make him a Bankrupt by the Statute and shall make the Wife a Bankrupt by the Custom and the Statute Which is plain against all using Trade of Merchandizing and getting their living by Buying and Selling and that if he be non solvent as he must needs be by his Outlawry then she must be non solvent but whether the Creditors by the Commission shall have the Goods or the King by his Outlawry That is a Question that comes not within the compass of this Case but I shall move that some other time 4. But I put the Husband to be dead before the Commission and whether his Goods or Lands shall be sold afterwards is a Question but
Poor to be made a Minister and to be presented A. dies B. is Instituted and Inducted and after that is Inducted to another Benefice and recovers Glebe to the first of 20 l. value per Annum and after he is non solvent and renders himself a Prisoner to the Admiral for a trespass in Ireland the Parishioners detain their Tythes B. Is a Bankrupt within this Division and the Assignee of the Commissioners shall have debt for the Tythes and the Farm in Ireland 5. Tenant in tail is attainted of Treason and pardoned the King grants and restores to him the Land in tail the Donor Releases Tenant in tail suffers a recovery to the use of B. a Merchant and hath issue and dies the release is Inrolled B. is made Steward of the Tower of London the issue in tail enters B. is non solvent and keeps himself in the Tower B. Is a Bankrupt within this Division and the Commissioners shall sell the Land 1. If the gift is within the Statute of 34 H. 8. cap. 20. 2. If the reversion be good to the King without Inrollment 3. If the Inrollment shall Relate 4. If the Tower is comprehended within the Statute or the Equity re vera 6. A. Feme sole Tenant in tail makes a Lease for thirty years to B. a Merchant indebted to C. and D. she marries E. hath issue F. A. and E. levy a Fine to G. which is reversed for nonage of the Wife B. lies in Prison for six months in execution for the debt of C. and in that time becomes indebted to the Gaoler for Victuals the Wife dies E. enters claiming as Tenant by the Curtesie and surrenders to the issue D. assignes his debt to the King a Commission is awarded all this is found by writ of Prerogative and that B. had nothing B. Is a Bankrupt within the Statute but the King shall have the Term and neither C. nor D. shall be relieved 9. Tenant in tail makes a Lease for thirty years and enters into Religion the issue accepts the rent and dies having issue the Father is deraigned the Lessee being a Merchant at Constantinople becomes indebted to English Merchants there and turns Turk the Father dies the issue of the issue enters The Lessee is a Bankrupt within this Division and the Term shall be sold Cases upon the fourth Division What Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of a Bankrupt the Commissioners may sell THE King grants the Mannor of S. to A. and his Heirs to be holden by the service to be a Justice of the Peace within the Mannor A. Bargains and sells to B. and C. his Wife and to D. and after A. grants the services to I. S. a Tenant to B. B. and C. are divorced causa Praecontractus of C. with I. S. D. is a Bankrupt a Commission is awarded I. S. attorns D. enters and manumits a villain D. is imprisoned in his House and is felo de se his Heir within age enters I. S. dies without Heir B. and C. intermarry the Deed is inrolled office is found The Commissioners may sell all the Land and the Goods of the Bankrupt except the Villain 1. The King grants Land to be holden by the service to be a Justice of the Peace What Tenure this is 2. A Bargain and Sale to Baron and Feme and a Stranger and the Baron and Feme are divorced before Inrollment how they shall take 3. One sells a Mannor and before Inrollment the Bargainor grants the services of I. S. to one of the Vendees and he attorns If the Inrollment shall be good for the rest to others 4. Bargainee of Land holden in Capite enters and dies before Inrollment If his Heir within age shall be in Ward Vpon the Statute 1. A Bankrupt hath a Seigniory a Commission is awarded the Bankrupt dies a Tenancy Escheats If the Seigniory or the Tenancy shall be sold 2. Tenant in Capite is a Bankrupt and dies his Heir within age and in Ward If the Land can be sold 3. A Bankrupt hath a villain and manumits him If the Commissioners can after sell him 4. A Bankrupt is felo de se If the Goods shall be sold notwithstanding the interest of the Almoner The King grants a Mannor to A. to be holden by the service to be a Justice of Peace within the Manner the Question is what Tenure that is if grand serjeanty Petit serjeanty Tenure by Knights service in Capite or Tenure by Soccage in Capite Neither at the Common Law nor at any time before the Statute of Quia Emptores terarum there was no Officer in this Common-wealth called by the name of a Justice of Peace and therefore there can be no Authority of any ancient tenure of that nature But there were divers Officers who by virtue of their Offices and as incident to their Office were Conservators of the Peace as Sheriffs Coroners Constables and all the Justices of the Kings Bench. 17 ass 5. A Sheriff or Coroner may take an Appeal a fortiori in the Kings Bench for there Scot saith That they are the Soveraign Coroners of the Land But till 18 E. 3. cap. 2. the name of a Justice of Peace was not known But whether such a tenure may be created at this day is a Question and I think it may for the King is not bound by the Statute of Quia Emptor as it is plain by the Books of Com. 240. Bark Case He at this day may create new tenures and Marrow in his Book of a Justice of Peace saith That if the King grant a man Land to be holden by being a Conservator of the Peace he is a Conservator by tenure but he doth not determine what Tenure it is Mr. Lambert vouches a Record at Chester that one Urianus de Sancto Petro that held medietatem serjanciae pacis and this he calls it Tenure in Capite but rather as an Executioner than as a Judge It is thus material to the end of the Case what Tenure this is that if it be Knights service then here 's a Wardship and then it will be a question whether the Kings interest will prevent the authority of the Commissioners if in Soccage in capite then that point is cleared Some would have this to be grand Serjeanty because it is to be performed in person and that person is to represent the Kings person and if by Littleton it be grand Serjeanty to be a Chamberlain of the Exchequer who is but a Keeper as it were of the Kings money it is grand Serjanty much more to be a Keeper of the Kings Peace Others would have it Soccage in Capite for it is a Tenure must go with the Land and so to a person uncapable of the Office as in this case to an Infant or to a Woman who cannot be a Justice of Peace And this is an Office which cannot be transferred no more than as it is in Kelloway in his cases incerti temporis fol. 151. If the Office of a Sheriff
opinion that after the death of her Husband she shall be in bondage again quod Burton negavit but if she marry the Lord then by all she is infranchised for ever Britton fol. 78. She is infranchised for ever Natura brevi B. 78. G. I will conclude with the first authority by Fitzherbert Brittons opinion seems reasonable if she divorce not her self or acknowledge not her self in Court of Record in favour of Liberty and because she and her Husband are but one person in Law and of the same condition with him There be divers things favoured in Law as Womens dowers the King Lords Holy Church ancient Records Devises Infants Purchasors and possessions But next life Liberty of all things is most favoured 18 E. 4.6 No amercement lies against the Sheriffs return yet in a writ of Libertate probanda if the Sheriff returns that he hath no wrît of nativo habendo depending before him one may offer the contrary in favorem libertatis Quia propensiores esse debemus ad liberandum quam ad obligandum It hath been made a Question upon the Statute 39 Eliz. that appoints the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Accomptants to be sold which they had at the time when they fell into Arearages whether if the Accomptant shall manumit a villain he shall be nevertheless sold and the best opinion of him that read upon the Statute in this place was that his liberty could not be revoked for here were neither Lands Tenements nor Hereditaments and so here 27 Assizar Enfranchisement for a time by act in Law but if the Lord will manumit his villain for a day by his voluntary grant he is at liberty for ever The Tenant dies without heir the Question is this A Lord is a Bankrupt and dies a Tenancy escheats if the Seigniory or the Tenancy shall be sold I take it as I have concluded the Tenancy that is the Land shall be sold first see the words of the statute Primo Jacobi The Commissioners may proceed in the execution of the Commission in such sort as they might have done if the party Offender were alive this makes an end of the question for if he were alive and the Tenancy escheated the Land should be sold And therefore I shall not need to put you Cases at Common Law where the Tenancy escheating shall be bound to that where the Land was tyed 6 H. 4.1 Tenant in tail discontinues and dies and leaves a Seigniory to descend to the issue in tail a Tenancy escheats in a Formedon by the issue the Tenancy shall he Assets 14 H. 8 4. Fitzherbert cestui que use of a Seigniory a Tenancy escheats the Feoffee shall hold the Land to the use of the Feoffer 46 E. 3.4 Tenant in tail of a Seigniorty a Tenancy escheats Tenant in tail discontinues and dies without issue the Donor shall have a Formedon of the Land 3. A Commission is awarded D. is felo de se the Question a Commission is awarded and the Bankrupt becomes felo de se Office is found if the Almoner shall have his goods or the Commissioners may sell them for the Lord Almoner hath all the goods and chattels of Felons of themselves and all Deodands as appears by our Books and his Charter which I have seen 6 E. 6. Dier fol. 77. The King leases Richmond fee with all Deodands and after grants to the Almoner the term expires the grant to the Almoner void because the other lease was not recited 2. Mar. Dier fol. 107. The King grants to the Archbishop of Canter Deodands in D. and to the Almoner all in general Hales is felo de se Plow Dame Hales the Bishop is attainted the King shall have the Lease It is true as it appears in Dame Hales case That when two titles come together that is the Kings and a subjects the Kings shall be preferrd As if a villain be a fool natural the King not the Lord shall have him If a villain be felo de se the King not the Lord shall have his goods Then a Bankrupt is felo de se shall the King or the Creditors have his goods I think the Creditors For if the Bankrupt in life had no authority to dispose them as it is in Tibnabams Ca. much less shall he dispose of them by his death And admit the Almoners Patent were before the Statute of primo of the King yet both the King and the Almoner by Act of Parliament have given away their title to the Creditors 4. I have already argued that the heir of the Bankrupt is in by descent now the Case is he is within age and an office is found and that the Land is held of the King in capite the Question and the hardest question in my Case is whether after an office of all this matter found the Commissioners may sell And I think they may For this office finding the whole matter notwithstanding a tenure in capite a dying seised of the Tenant and the minority of an heir is found yet nothing vests in the King For when an Act of Parliament shall appoint the Land to go another way and the course taken according to the Statute is found in the Office the King his Officers in the Law shall consider of all the whole matter in Concreto and not in abstracto and shall challenge nothing for the King which belongs not to him as is seen by a Devise made by Tenant in capite according to the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Wills 5. The Commissioners imprison the Bankrupt in his own House Two questions first whether the Commissioners may imprison him by the Statute of 13. which gives them authority to dispose of his body as they shall see good in their discretions when as the Statute of primo appoints an imprisonment upon a special cause of refusal as if there were no Law general to imprison him in divers cases expressa nocent Vide my Moote Book I think they may It is true that Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant but this is not a contrary Law but a strengthning and a confirmation of the former Law in a particular nor doth it revoke the former no otherwise than that where by the Statute of 27 H. 8. Leases shall be under the Dutchy Seal This doth not take away the Authority of the Great Seal but that Grants may pass under the Great Seal since the Statute And for sureness now a days they put many times both Seals to them 2. Question is whether this Imprisonment in his own House be such a Dealing in the Commission by the Commissioners as is intended by the Statute of primo That his dying afterwards shall not alter the Case For if it be a lawful Imprisonment then here is a Dealing if not contrary for Ea possimus quae jure possimus for as it is said by Herle for a Maxime that all Leets Hundreds and in 2 E. 3. all Ports and Cities are the Kings and the Lords
have but the use and profits of them under the King so it is said all Gaoles are the Kings Prisons and none others of the Land for life and member belongs to him only and the Lords have only the regard and that is the reason that in all Corporations in their Charters they always have a Grant and liberty to have a Prison Auditors by the Statute of W. 2. cap. 11. may send the Baily found in Arrearages to Prison by the Book it must be to the next Gaol though it be in another County otherwise an Action of false Imprisonment lies So our Commissioners must be careful to pursue their Commission but because the Statute saith they may dispose of his body at their discretions therefore to stay him in his own House or in one of theirs till he be further examined I think it not amiss although I have heard that some Commissioners have been blamed for not sending him to the Gaol 1. A. makes a Feoffment in Fee to B. by livery within the view B. Covenants with C. to stand seised to the use of D. his Son A. enters and makes a Feoffment to B. D. enters and makes a Lease for years to E. a Merchant upon condition to have in Fee E. is a Bankrupt C. disagrees to the Contract E. becomes a Recusant Convict and hath not Lands sufficient to pay 20 l. a Month the Commissioners sell the Land the King seizes the Term the condition is performed The Vendee shall have the fee-simple Points 1. IF livery within the view may be countermanded by livery in fact 2. If the Feoffee to whom livery is made within view before entry Covenants to stand seized to another use and after enters if the Covenant good that is if by his entry he by relation is in from the time of the Livery 3. If a covenants with B. to stand seised to the use of C. and C. enters and B. disagrees to the Covenant if the Land shall revert to A. 4. If a Bankrupt hath a Lease for years upon condition to have fee if the Commissioners may sell the Land with the possibility 5. A Bankrupt hath a Term and is a Recusant convict if the King or the Creditors shall have the Term 2. The King Lord Mesn and Tenant of Borough English Land the Tenant by License of the King to create Tenures devises the Land to A. in fee to hold of his Heirs by Knights service A. is attainted of Felony and devises the Land to his eldest Son a Merchant Bankrupt the Mesn enters the younger Son reverses the Attainder the eldest waives the Devise The Commissioners may sell all the Land Points 1. IF the King may grant to the Tenant of another to create new Tenures in prejudice of the Mesn as to Escheats 2. If Tenure in Borough English which is always Soccage may be altered into Tenure in Knights service 3. If it may be altered as to the Custom to descend to the youngest 4. If it may be altered as to the Tenure but not as to the Custom if the youngest Son shall be in Ward 5. Upon the Statute of Wills 32 H. 8. Lord and Tenant the Tenant is attainted and Devises his Land and dies the Heir reverses the Attainder before entry of the Lord if the Devise is good 6. One Devises Land to a Merchant and he becomes a Bankrupt and waives the Devise if the Commissioners may sell the Land 3. A Merchant makes a Lease for Life to an Infant the remainder to the King for Life of A. B. enters and dies seised the Deed is Inrolled A. dies the Infant enters the Lessor in consideration of marriage covenants to stand seised to the use of himself and his Wife and their Heirs the Infant at full age makes a Feoffment the Heir of the Disseisor enters the Lessor is a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell Lessor dies the Feme waives This is a good Sale of all the Land in Possession and Reversion Points 1. WHether the Inrollment doth not relate to avoid the descent 2. Whether the Entry of the Infant reduce the reversion 3. Whether the Sale not being good against the Wife is made good by her waiver Vide ante the Principal Case 5. One grants a Rent Charge to a Physician and his Heirs pro Consilio impenso impendendo the Physician is his own Apothecary and becomes non solvent for Drugs and Simples which he used in his Art a Commission is awarded the Physician keeps his House for fear of Arrests the Physician brings a Writ of Annuity and recovers by erroneous Judgement the Commissioners sell the Rent the Recoveree reverseth the Judgment the Physician dies This Sale of the Commissioners was good for this Rent but not to take effect during the Life of the Physician Points 1. IF an Annuity in Fee be granted pro Consilio may be sold 2. Whether he have any Election after he is Bankrupt 3. Whether the bringing of this Annuity which is reversed be an Election 6. One makes a Gift in Tail rendring Rent and dies the Rent is arrear a Disseisor enters and levies a Fine five years past the Heir of the Donor is a Bankrupt The Commissioners shall sell the Rent and the Arrearages Three Points upon the Statute 1. UPon the Statute of Fines the Second and Third upon the Statutes of Limitations and Bankrupts 1. Upon the Statute of Fines that is if Fines of the Land shall be a Bar for the Rent 2. And 3. Upon the Statute of Limitations If Commissioners may sell when the Party was concluded by the Statute of Limitations 6 Jacobi Banco Regis Executors notwithstanding no Seisin in their Testator by fifty years shall destrain by the the Statute of 32 H. 8. 7. A. and B. Tenants in Common of the Mannor of D. and Jointenants of the Mannor of S. They by Deed Poll bargain and sell Common of Pasture within the Mannors for a Cow to C. and his Wife and to the Heirs of their two bodies begotten C. the Husband grants the Common to E. in Fee the Wife dies without issue E. is a Bankrupt E. had Common for a Cow but it is neither Land Tenement nor Hereditament which may be sold by the Commissioners 8. The King grants to I. S. that he only for his life shall have the Importation of Steel he assigns his Patent to I. N. a Merchant I. N. becomes non solvent and after acknowledges himself to be a Villain regardent to the Honour of Hampton-Court a Commission is awarded I. N. Is a Bankrupt and the Commissioners may sell all his Lands and Goods but not the Monopoly 9. A. and B. Jointenants Covenant for natural affection to stand seised to the use of C. for life C. enters and B. dies C. dies the Heir of B. makes a Gift in Mortmain the Lord before entry bargains and sells the Seigniory to I. S. who enters and makes a Gift in Tail the remainder to I. N. a Merchant Tenant in Tail is
in Chancery Feme Tenant for life of a Copy-hold the Lord grants the Reversion to three the Baron Surrenders to one of them who first dies there the Lord would have kept the Land as occupant during the Husbands life 9 Eliz. Dyer 267. But it was decreed that if the Husband and Wife would surrender to the Surviving Lessees in reversion the Lord must admit them or else avoid the possession So if the Lord will not admit the party to whose use the party shall have the Lands if a man surrender to the use of his last Will and Testament the Lord shall not have the Land but the Tenant during his life 3. But before I go any further let us consider of this Lease it is by a Surrender upon Condition and he in reversion surrenders to anothers use and the Condition is broken My Question is whether he in reversion shall enter for the Condition by the Common Law he cannot then may he enter by the Statute of 32 H. 8. Cap. 34. of Conditions there be divers Statutes which reach Copy-holds though they be not named Heydons Case lib. 3. Copy-holders are Lessees within the Statute 32 H. 8. of Monasteries The Statute of Cui in vita Receipt quod ei defortiat Coke li. 4. Kite per Wray Copy-hold estate is within the Statute of Champertie and Maintenance 32 H. 8. Cap. 9. Dean and Chapter of Worcesters Case Coke li. 6. Copy hold is within the Statute of 13. Eli of Leases by spiritual persons Lands usually let c. Lillingstones Case adjudged 27. Eliz. That if the Lord infeoff the Copy-holder to anothers use that the Copy-hold is saved by the Proviso in the Statute of 27. H. 8. Margaret Podgers Case A Copy-holder is bound by Fine and 5. years The general rule is layed down in Heydons Case That all Statutes that may be for the good of the Copy-holder shall extend to them therefore I am of opinion that such a Grantee shall enter for non-payment of rent or for doing of waste as the words of the Statute are For it is for the good of the Copy-holders that their Farmers be bound to pay their Rents keep their Tenements in repair I should make small question of this if the Lease were made by license for then it is a plain lease at Common Law and an Ejectione firme will lie But here the Lessee comes in by the Lords admittance but that is answered by my Lord Cook when he is once admitted he is in immediately from the Surrender and in the Per. 4. But this Condition is for waste and it is broken whether is there a forfeiture to him in reversion or a forfeiture to the Lord of the estate in fee simple It is to the Lessor not to the Lord wherein I fall again upon the difference when it is by License and when by Surrender for I take him to be as if he had a particular estate with a remainder over In Podgers Case fo 107. Si cop pour vie sit semble al case del Duke of Norff. Points upon the Statute A Merchant being a sufficient man departs the Realm and beyond the Seas becomes non solvent and so refuses to return although he be served with a privy Seal to return Here be two Questions First whether he be a Bankrupt for not returning For he is not within the Compass of the Statute of departing the Realm The next Question is admitting him to be a Bankrupt Whether the King shall have his Goods as the goods of a Fugitive or else whether they shall go to satisfy the Creditors For the first I think he is a Bankrupt and although he be not within the compass of these words depart the Realm yet it is plain he is within these words absents himself for although his departure was no offence either to the King or his Creditors For Merchants both by the Common Law and notwithstanding the Statutes of 5 R. 2. Cap. 2. or the Statutes of 13 Eliz. might depart the Realm without license except the King as it is in Natura Brevium fol. 85. had made proclamation to the Contrary Yet the King not only by the Statute but by the Common Law as he may forbid a man to depart so he may send for him at his pleasure to return And that is proved by the express Book of 2 3 Phil. and Mary Dyer fol. 128. Where it is said That if he be commanded to return either by the privy Seal or the great Seal and refuse his Lands and his Chattels shall be siesed into the Kings hands and for that a President was found in the Exchequer where in Anno 19 E. 2. It was William de Brittains case although it is true as I said the first departure is no offence according to the Book of 13 Eliz. D. fol. 296. But then admitting he is a Bankrupt and admitting that by his refusal to return he hath forfeited all his Goods and Lands to the King The Question is whether the King or the Creditors shall be preferred And I take it the Creditors shall be preferred Yet He agree the rule is that when a title falls to the King and a Common person both at once the King shall be preferred Dame Hales Villain and Ideot Priority and Posteriority 5 E. 3. But I rely upon a Case which was ruled upon a Trial by my Lord Cok. 12. Jac. in t Newman and Martin ou Martin fuit adjudge Bankrupt because he was beyond the Seas c. 2. Points upon the Statute One hath the freehold and another hath the Copy-hold of one onely acre severed from the Mannor this is plain as it is in my Lord Cokes 4. reports in Case This Copy-hold by no means can be transferred from one to another But now our question is Whether this Copy may be sold by Commissioners I say Parliamentum potest omnia By Act of Parliament it may be sold And here the very words of the Parliament are That the Commissioners may sell his Copy-hold estate The Law was taken before Corbets case was first argued That it was impossible to cut off perpetuities yet there were divers before that were cut off by Act of Parliament and they all that argued for the perpetuites agreed that by Act of Parliament it might be done By the Common Law a thing in action cannot be transferred as a debt upon an Obligation Yet by the Statute of Bankrupt Jacobi primo we see it is done every day But it will be objected that the Statute goes on and saith That the Vendee shall compound with the Lord for the Fine and be admitted Now if there can be no admittance then no sale and it shall be intended such Copy-hold whereof admittance may be And in Dr. Bonhams case divers cases are put where divers Acts of Parliament are void and divers others construed directly contrary to the words But out of that Case I will prove this to be good for first this Act saith The
Bankrupt becomes Lunatique and Office is found yet the Land shall be sold 12. A Bankrupt is Tenant in Tail the remainder in the King of the Provision of the King sale by the Commissioners shall not be good against the issue in Tail for the Bankrupt neither by Fine nor Recovery could lawfully part with it but for his life 13. A Bankrupt hath a Seigniory the Commissioners seize before assignment a Tenancy escheats the Tenancy shall be sold but if after seisure of the Seigniory and before the Escheat the Bankrupt dies the Commissioners shall not sell by this Statute but by the Statute of primo Jac. the Tenancy shall be sold 14. Two Joyntenants one is a Bankrupt the Commissioners seize a Moiety the Bankrupt dies no part shall be sold by this Statute but by primo Jacobi a moiety shall be sold for that Statute is that the Commissioners shall proceed as if he were living 15. A Merchant takes a Wife after he is a Bankrupt she shall not have Dower against the Vendee 16. A Feme Covert sole Merchant inheritrix in London is a Bankrupt her land shall be sold and her Husband shall not be Tenant by the courtesie 17. A Bankrupt commits Felony the Land shall not escheat but the Commissioners may sell it The fifth Division What Copy-hold Lands shall be sold and in what case Composition shall be made with the Lord and in what not 1. THe Lord sells the Freehold of one sole Copy-holder to A. the Copy-holder is a Bankrupt the Commissioners shall sell 2. The Lord is to be compounded with for the Admission by the Statute and in this Case here can be neither Surrender nor Admission yet by the equity of the Statute the Lord must be compounded with 3. Commissioners sell a Copy-hold the Vendee tenders to the Lord a competent Fine which the Lord refuses and will not admit the Vendee the Vendee may enter 4. If a Copy-hold be intailed to a Bankrupt in a Mannor where Recoveries are used to cut off intails Commissioners may sell but if no Custom be for Recoveries contray 5. A Copy hold is surrendered to the use of a Bankrupt who will not take it up or sue to be admitted because it shall not be liable to his Creditors the Commissioners shall sell it 6. A Copy-hold is surrendred to the use of a Bankrupt who will not be admitted the Commissioners shall sell but the Vendee shall pay two Fines 7. A Copy-holder where the Feme by Custom shall have Dower surrenders into the hands of two Tenants and dies the Feme marries a Bankrupt the surrendree is admitted the third part of the Feme shall be sold but no remedy for the damage betwixt the death of the Husband and the admittance 8. One surrenders Copy-hold to the use of a Bankrupt the Lord dissolves his Court yet the Commissioners shall sell The sixth Division What Annuities Fees Goods Chattels Debts c. Commissioners may sell 1. B. Hath a Lease for years made unto him upon condition that he shall not alien yet the Commissioners may sell and this is no forfeiture 2. B. hath the next advowson the Church is void the Commissioners sell the Presentation the Vendee shall present and no Symony 3. A Bankrupt purchases Land with warranty the Vendee of the Commissioners shall not vouch but he shall rebut 4. Commissioners sell a rent or reversion this is good without Attornment 5. A Bankrupt becomes Lunatique his goods shall be sold as before of Lands c. 6. Lord and Tenant the Lord is a Bankrupt the Tenant dies the Commissioners shall sell the money or debt due for relief 7. The same of a Herriot 8. The Lord is a Bankrupt the Tenant dies the Commissioners sell the Relief-money and the Herriot the Executors pay the Relief the heir shall not pay a Herriot 9. The King Leases the Aulnage of London for years the Lessee is a Bankrupt the Lease shall be sold 10. Lord of a Leet is a Bankrupt the Commissioners shall sell the Amercements past and the Vendee shall have an action of debt 11. A Lease for years is devised to A. if he live so long the remainder to one B. the Commissioners shall not sell the possibility 12. Land is extended and delivered to the Extenders because too high another defeats this Execution by extending of a former Statute the first is a Bankrupt the Commissioners shall sell the possibility 13. A Rent charge shall be sold yet it is not within the words 14. The same Law of a Common in gross 15. It is the Custom in Surrey that certain Heir-Looms shall go with the Land and not to the Executors the Land is intailed Tenent in Tail is a Bankrupt the Heir-Looms may be sold from the Land and the issue hath no remedy 16. Two Tenants in Common recover damages in trespass the one dies the other is a Bankrupt all the damages shall be sold 17. A Bankrupt recovers damages by an erroneous judgement the Commissioners assign them to the Creditors who recover them in execution the Judgement is reversed the sale was good but the Assignees or Vendees shall make restitution 18. A villain is a Merchant the Lord seizes all his goods and imprisons his person for six months he is a Bankrupt the Lord shall have his goods but his debts shall be sold 19. A Villain Merchant is a Bankrupt the Lord seizes his goods yet the Commissioners may sell 20. A Merchant by Outlary becomes a Bankrupt the Creditors shall have his goods and not the King 21. A Merchant Bankrupt commits Felony his Creditors and not the King shall have his goods 22 A Bankrupt is felo de se the Almoner shall have his goods notwithstanding this Statute but by primo Jacobi the Commissioners shall have them The seventh Division Who shall be said a Creditor that shall be relieved and and who not and what shall be said to be a just debt intended 1. ONe sole Creditor shall not by this Statute sue the Commission for it ought to be at the Sute of his Creditors 2. Merchant Mortgages his Lands the Mortgagee may choose to come in as a Creditor 3. A Merchant enters into a Statute or Recognizance the Conizee is a Creditor else he shall have neither Land nor money if he come not and contributes 4. A Merchant pledges goods and becomes Bankrupt the party need not come in 5. The plaintiff that hath the defendants body in execution shall not come in to be relieved 6. But he that hath a judgement for a debt may come in before execution 7. One that hath the Bankrupts body in execution upon a Statute Merchant may come in 8. One that recovers damages in Waste or Assise or trespass shall not be relieved 9. An Informer recovers money forfeited by a special Statute he shall not be relieved 10. A Bankrupt is indebted to the King Commissioners seize the Bankrupts goods process comes to the Sheriff he shall leavy the