abate For the Writ shall be brought by the Heir of the Survivor of the said two Daughters because they have that remainder as purchasors XXXIII Stuckly and Sir John Thynns Case Mich 9 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THo Stuckly Administrator of the Goods and Chattels of one Tho. Curties Alderman of London brought Debt upon an Obligation against Sir John Thynn and demanded of him 1000 l. Et modo ad hunc diem venerunt Tam praefatus Tho. Stucklie quam praedict Johannes Thynn Et super hoc dies datus est usque Oct. c. in statu quonunc c. salvis c. At which day the Defendant made default and thereupon the Plaintiff prayed his Iudgment against the Defendant But the Opinion of the Court was That he could not have it but was put to process over because Dies Datus is not so strong as a Continuance XXXIV Luke and Eves Case Pasch 10 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin by Luke against Eve The Defendant Avowed because that the Iury at such a Leet did present That the Plaintiff was a Resiant within the Precinct of the said Leet c. and that the Plaintiff was warned to appear there and notwithstanding that made default For which he was Amerced by the Steward there to 5 s. And so for that Amercement he avowed the taking c. The Plaintiff in bar of the Avowry pleaded That at the time of the said Leet holden he was not a Resiant within the Precinct of the said Leet Vpon which they were at Issue And it was found for the Avowant Whereupon Iudgment was given for the Avowant to have a Retorn XXXV Mich. 14 Eliz. Rott 1120. In the Common Pleas. THe Abbot and Covent of York Leased to J.S. certain Lands at Will and afterwards by Deed Indented under their Covent Seal reciting That whereas J.S. held of them certain Lands at Will they granted and demised that Land to the said J.S. to hold for life rendring the ancient Rent And by the same Indenture granted the Reversion of the same Land to a stranger for life It was holden by the Court clear That an Estate for life accrueth unto J.S. by way of Confirmation and the remainder unto the stranger depending upon the Estate created by the Confirmation XXXVI Sir Francis Carews Case Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. SIr Nicholas Carew seised of the Mannor of A. of which Mannor B. held certain Lands B. is disseissed by C. C. assures the same to Sir Nicholas Carew who is attainted of Treason by which Attainder the Mannor and Land cometh to King Henry 8th who thereof dieth seised and the same descends to King Edward the 6th who grants the same Mannor to the Lord Darcy who grants the same to Queen Mary who grants the same to Francis Carew Son of Nicholas Carew who by Fine assures the same to the Lord Darcy the Proclamations pass and the 5 years pass she who hath right to the Lands whereof the Desseisin was made being for all that time a Feme Covert And therefore the Fine did not bar her But because that the King was entituled to the Land by a double matter of Record and by the descent from Hen. the 8th to Ed. the 6th And also because a Seignory is reserved to the King upon the Grant made by King Edward the 6th to the Lord Darcy The Iustices were all of Opinion That the Entry of the Heir of the Disseisee was not lawful upon the Patentee of the Queen 2 Len. 122. but that she ought to be Relieved by way of Petition XXXVII Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Man brought an Action of Trespass against another for chasing of his Ewes being great with Lambs so as by such driving of them he lost his Lambs The Defendant justified because they were in his several Damage-feasans wherefore he took them and drove them to the Pound And it was holden by the whole Court to be no Plea for although that he might take yet he cannot drive them with peril c. XXXVIII Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. More Rep. 16 23. THe Case was A. made a Lease to B. for life and further grants unto him That it shall be lawful for him to take Fewel upon the premisses Proviso That he do not cut any great Trees It was holden by the Court That if the Lessee cutteth any great Trees that he shall be punished in Waste but in such case 1 Len. 117. the Lessor shall not re-enter because that Proviso is not a Condition but only a Declaration and Exposition of the Extent of the Grant of the Lessor in that behalf And it was holden also by the Court That Lessee for life or for years by the Common Law cannot take Fewel but of Bushes and small wood and not of Timber-Trees But if the Lessor in his Lease granteth Fireboot expresly if the Lessee cannot have sufficient Fewel as above c. he may take great Trees XXXIX Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Roll. 787. IN Trespass upon an Evidence given to the Iury at the Bar the Case appeared to be thus Land was given to A. in tail the remainder in Fee to his Sisters being his Heirs at the Common Law A. made a Deed in this manner viz. I the said A. have given granted and confirmed for a certain piece of Mony c. without the words of Bargained Sold And the Habendum was to the Feoffee with warranty against A. and his Heirs And a Letter of Attorny was to make Livery and Seisin And the Deed was in this manner To all Christian People c. And the Deed was enrolled within one month after the making of it And the Deed was Indented although that the words of the Deed were in the form of a Deed Poll And after 4 months after the delivery of the Deed the Attorny made Livery of Seisin A. died without Issue and the Sisters entred and the Feoffee ousted them of the Land and thereupon they brought an Action of Trespass And the Opinion of the whole Court was for the Plaintiff for here is not any Discontinuance for the Conveyance is by Bargain and Sale and not by Feoffment because the Livery comes too late after the Inrollment and then the Warranty shall not hurt them And although that in the Deed there be not any word of Indenture and also that the words are in the first person Yet in as much as the Parchment is Indented 2 Roll. 787. and both the parties have put their Seals to it it is sufficient Also It was clearly agreed by the Court That the words Give for Mony Grant for Mony Confirm for Mony Agree for Mony Covenant for Mony If the Deed be duly Inrolled that the Lands pass both by the Statute of Vses and by the Statute of Inrollments as well as upon the words of Bargain and Sale. And by Catline Wray and Whiddon the party ought to take by way
Pawnage of the Park of H. grants all his Goods and Chattels moveables and immoveables within the said Park It was holden by Weston and Dyer Iustices That the Lease of the Pawnage passeth by these words And it was said by Dyer If a Man hath a Lease for years of a House and grants all his Goods and Chattels being in the same House that as well the Lease of the House as the Goods within it pass by such a Grant. XLVII Pasch 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte It was said by Weston and Bendloes That a Retraxit cannot be before a Declaration which Leonard and Filmer Prothonotaries granted And Dyer said That it being before a Declaration it is but a Nonsuit and Wheatley and Filmer affirmed the same and therefore it was adjudged That such a Retraxit in the Court of Hustings before the Sheriff is no Plea in Bar. XLVIII Pasch 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Debt brought against Christmas who shewed forth a Protection Quia Profecturus with the Lord Hunsdon to Barwick Dyer doubted If the Protection did lie But said It should be rather Moraturus then Profecturus For a Protection Quia Profecturus to Calleis was never good but super victitation Calicii Harper contrary For Barwick is out of the Realm And he said That he was once of Counsel Where a Bill was exhibited in Parliament to make Hexham part of England and he said That in the time of the Queen that now is One Carre struck a Man who thereof died at Barwick and in an Appeal thereof brought here by the Wife Carre was dismissed XLIX Cranmers Case Hill. 14 Eliz. Rott 938. In the Common Pleas. Dyer 309 310. 2 Len. 5. 1 Len. 196. 1 And. 19. More Rep. 100. Office of Executors 118. 119. TThomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury having a Reversion in Fee of certain Lands upon a Lease for years granted the Reversion to the use of the Grantor himself for his life and after his decease to the use of the Executors and Assignees of the Grantor for 20 years next after the death of the Grantor and after to the use of Thomas his Son in tail and afterwards to the use of the Grantor in Fee The Grantor is attainted of Treason and the Queen gave the said Term of 20 years to the Wife of the Grantor who took to Husband Ed. White-Church who let the Land to A. Thomas the Son entred and leased the same Land to one Kirk who upon an Ouster brought Ejectione Firmae This Case was Argued by the Iustices Manwood the puisne Iustice conceived That the Plaintiff ought to be barred and that the Lessee of White-Church who claimed by the grant of the Queen the said Term of 20 years ought to hold the Land against the Son of the Grantor For the remainder limited to the Son is not yet begun in possession And he insisted much in his Argument upon this point That Vses limited upon any Conveyance are governed and directed according to the Rules of the Common Law As if a Feoffment in Fee be made unto the use of another for life the remainder to the use of the Lessee for life and the Heirs of his body c. now the party hath an estate tail executed in possession and that is according to the Rule of the Common Law. And he cited the Case of 40 E. 3. 20. Where Land was given by Fine to A.B. and C. and to the Heirs of the body of C. and for default of such Issue the remainder to the right Heirs of A. C. died without Issue B. dyed and afterwards A. died his Heir brought a Scire facias out of the said Fine And by Iudgment of the Court the Scire facias did not lie for the Fee was vested in the Father of the Demandant although that ex vi verbi the remainder was limited not to the Father but to his Heirs But where Vses are limited in other manner than according to the Rules of the Common Law there they shall not be ruled and governed by the Rules of the Common Law As if Lands be given to the use of one for life and to the use of such Lessees to whom the Tenant for life shall demise the same for years or life rendring Rent the remainder over to a stranger in tail and afterwards the Tenant for life makes a Lease for years or life and dieth such a Lease shall bind him in the remainder although that the Lessor had not but for life and be now dead for the Vse limited here to the Lessees which would be was limited contrary to the Rules of the Common Law. For by the Common Law such Leases made by Tenant for life are determined by his death And in this Case This Lease for 20 years after the death of the Grantor was limited according to the Rules of the Common Law and therefore it shall take effect accordingly as if it had passed in possession and not in use as if the Conveyance had been of the Land it self and that Land had been granted to the Grantor for 20 years after his death that Interest had been vested in him to sell forfeit or otherwise to dispose at his pleasure and shall not accrue to the Executors as a purchase 19 E. 2. Fitz. Covenant 25. Land was Leased to one for life and after his decease to his Executors and Assigns for 10 years the Lessee assigned the Term And by Herle it is a good Assignment For it is in the Election of the Lessee to Devise that Interest or to assign it in his life-time And see 39 E. 3. 25. A Lease was made to one for life and a year over 17 E. 3. 29. Lessee for life so as after his death the Land remain to his Executors for 8 years Lessee for life died He who had the Freehold of the Land was impleaded who rendred the Land and the Executors of the Lessee for life prayed to be received scil where as Executors do hold the Term which proves that they had the Term as Executors to the use of the Testator and so Assets therefore the same was before in the Lessee for life But by Dyer in his Argument That Case doth not prove it and certainâ—y it is not Assets For although the Executor have the same Term by purchase yet they have it as Executors for that is a good name of purchase which Harper concessit And Manwood argued further and he Cited 19 E. 3. Fitz. Covenant 24. Land was let for life and if the Lessee died within 12 years that his Executors should hold the same until the end of the 12 years The Lessee for life died and the Executors entred and the Executors of the Lessee for life brought Actions of Covenant which proved that the Executors had the Term as a Chatel vested in the Testator and not in their own Rights as Purchasors by the name of Executors See 22 Ass 37. Land demised to A. ad totam vitam suam
Plaintiff had acquitted and discharged him of the Reparations Vpon which the Plaintiff demurred in Law. Manwood The same is an Acquittal and Discharge of the Reparations as well for the time past as for the time to come by force of the said Covenant and amounts to as much as if he had Released the Covenant And it was moved If the Covenant being broken for want of Reparations If now that Acquital and Discharge or Release of the Covenant should take away the Action upon the Obligation which was once forfeited before And it was the Opinion of Manwood That it should not For if one be bound in an Obligation for the performance of Covenants and before the breach of any of them the Obligee releaseth the Covenants and afterwards one of the Covenants is broken the Obligation is not forfeited for there is not now any Covenant which may be broken and therefore the Obligation is discharged But if the Release had been after the Covenant broken otherwise all which Dyer and Mounson Concesserunt CVI. Mich. 20. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. HVsband and Wife seised in the right of his Wife of certain Customary Lands in Fee he and his Wife by Licence of the Lord make a Lease for years by Indenture rendring Rent have Issue two Daughters The Husband dieth The Wife takes another Husband and they have issue a Son and a Daughter The Husband and Wife die The Son is admitted to the Reversion and dieth without Issue It was holden by Manwood That this Reversion shall descend to all the Daughters notwithstanding the half-blood For the Estate for years which is made by Indenture by Licence of the Lord is a Demise and Lease according to the Order of the Common Law and according to the nature of the Devise the possession shall be adjudged which possession cannot be said possession of the Copyholder For his possession is Customary and the other is meer contrary therefore the possession of the one shall not be said the possession of the other and therefore there is no possessio fratris in this Case But if he had been Guardian by the Custom or this Lease had been made by surrender There the Sister of the half-blood should not inherit And Meade said That the Case of the Guardian had been so adjudged Mounson to the same intent And if the Copyhold descend to the Son he is not Copyholder before admittance 1 Len. 174 175. but he may take the profits and punish Trepass c. CVII Hinde and Lyons Case Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 11. Dyer 124. Ante 64. DEbt by Hinde against one as Son and Heir of Sir John Lyon who pleaded Nothing by descent but the third part of the Mannor of D. The Plaintiff replyed Assets And shewed for Assets That the Defendant had the entire Mannor of B. by descent Vpon which they were at Issue And it was given in Evidence to the Iury That the Mannor was holden by Knights-Service and that the said Sir John the Ancestor of the Defendant by his Will in writing devised the whole Mannor to his Wife until the Defendant his Son and Heir should come to the age of 24 years And that at the age of the Son of 24 years his Wife should hold the third part of the said Mannor for the Term of her life and his Son should have the residue And if his Son do die before he come to the age of 24 years without Heir of his body that the Land should remain over to J.S. the Remainder over to another The Devisor died the Son came to the age of 24 years Dyer and Mounson Iustices conceived That here was not any Estate tail and then for two parts he is not in by descent For no Estate tail shall rise unless that the Son dieth before his said age and therefore the Tayl never took effect and the Feesimple descends and remains in the Son if not that he dieth before the age of 24 years and then the whole vests with the Remainder over but now having attained the said age he hath a Fee and that by descent of the whole Mannor and then his Plea is false that but the third part descended And a general Iudgment shall be given against him as of his own debt And an Elegit shall issue forth of the moyety of all his Lands as well those which he hath by descent from the same Ancestor as of his other Lands And a Capias lieth also against him But Manwood Iustice conceived That if a general Iudgment be given against the Heir by default in such case a Capias doth not lie although in case of a false Plea it lieth But Dyer held the contrary And the Writ against the Heir is in the debet detinet which proves That in Law it is his own Debt And he said That he could shew a President where such an Action was maintainable against the Executor of the Heir CVIII Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Seised of Lands in Fee Devised them to his Wife for life and after her decease she to give the same to whom she will Latch 9,39 had issue two Daughters and died The Wife granted the Reversion to a stranger and committed Waste And the two Daughters brought an Action of Waste It was holden by the Iustices That by that Devise the Wife had but an Estate for life but she had gained authority to give the reversion by his Will to whom she pleased And such a Grantee should be in by A. and his Will For A. had given expresly to his Wife for life and therefore by Implication she should not have any further Estate But if an express Estate had not been appointed to the Wife by the other words an Estate in Feesimple had passed CIX Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Lessor Covenanted with his Lessee That the Lessee should enjoy the Lands demised without any lawful Eviction And afterwards upon a Suit depending in Chancery by a stranger against the Lessor for the Land demised The Chancellor made a Decree against the Lessor and that the stranger should have the Land. It was moved If that Decree were a lawfull Eviction by which the Covenant was broken It was holden by the Lord Dyer That the same was not any Eviction For although that in Conscience it be aequum that the said stranger have the possession yet the same is not by reason of any right paramount the title of the Lessor which was in the party for whom it was decreed CX The Marquess of Northamptons Case Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. PArre Marquess of Northampton took to Wife the Lady Bouchier the Heir of the Earl of Essex 1 Roll. 430. who levied a Fine of the Land of the said Lady Sur Conusans de droit c. with a Grant and render to them for life the Remainder to the right Heirs of the body of the Lady And afterwards by Act of
Parliament 35 H. 8. it was Enacted That the said Lady should hold part of her Inheritance and dispose of the same as a Feme sole and that the Marquess should have the Residue and that he might Lease the same by himself without his Wife for 21 years or less rendring the ancient Rent being Land which had been usually demised c. The Marquess Leased for 21 years and afterwards durante Termino praedict Leased the same Land to another for 21 years to begin after the determination of the first Lease It was moved in this Case That this last Lease was void and that for 3 Causes 1. Because the Marquess had but an Estate for life and then it could not be intended that the Statute did enable one who had but such an Estate determinable to make such a Lease which peradventure might not commence in his life-time 2. The Letter of the Statute is 21 years or under and the word Under strongly expounded the meaning of the Statute to be not to extend to such an Estate For here upon the matter is a Lease for 40 years 3. Because the Land demised is the Inheritance of the Wife And in this Case it was said That in the Case of one Heydon such a private Act was strictly construed which was That it was Enacted That all Copies for 3 Lives granted by the Lord Admiral of the Lands of his Wife should be good The Admiral granted Leases in Reversion for 3 Lives And it was holden That that Grant was not warranted by the Statute Dyer said The words are general Omnes dimissiones and therefore not to be restrained unto special Leases scil to Leases in possession Manwood said A Feme Covert by duresse joyns in a Lease with her Husband the same shall bind her CXI The Queen and Sir John Constables Case Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 5 Co. Constables Case A Quo Warranto was brought by the Queen against Sir John Constable who claimed certain Wreck in the County of York The Defendant pleaded That Edward Duke of Buck. was seised of such a Mannor to which he had Wreck appendant and that he was de alta proditione debito modo attinctus and that found before the Escheator And shewed further That the said Mannor descended to Queen Mary who granted the same to the Earl of Westmerland who granted the same to the Defendant Vpon which It was demurred And Exception was taken to the Plea because the Attainder is not fully and certainly pleaded It was argued by Plowden That the Attainder was certainly pleaded scil debito modo attinctus And it is shewed That the Wreck is appendant to the Mannor and then if the Defendant hath the Mannor he hath the Wreck also and if he hath the Mannor it is not material as to the Queen how he hath it for the Queen doth not claim the same but impeacheth the Defendant for using there such a Liberty But if the Heir of the said Duke had demanded the Mannor there against him the Attainder ought to have been pleaded certainly And it was said by him That the Interest of the Queen in the Sea extends unto the midst of the Sea betwixt England and Spain But the Queen hath the whole Iurisdiction of the Sea between England and France because she is Queen of England France c. And so it is of Ireland CXII Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant for life made a Feoffment of White-Acre of which he was seised for life and made a Letter of Attorny to deliver Livery and Seisin secundum formam Chartae before Livery the Tenant purchased the Fee and afterwards Livery was made It was resolved by the Court in this Case That all passed But if the Feoffment had been of all his Lands in D. and the Letter of Attorny accordingly and before Livery made the Feoffee had many Lands there If he purchased one Acre after the Livery should not extend to that Acre because the Authority was satisfied by the other Acre CXIII Banks and Thwaits Case Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case the Case was That A. had pawned an Indenture of Lease for years of a Messuage and Lands to Banks Thwaits intending to purchase the same required Banks to deliver him the said Lease and he would give Banks 10 l. whether he bought it or no at what time he would request the 10 l. Post 200. And Banks delivered the same to Thwaits accordingly Post 200. And afterwards brought an Action upon the Case and declared upon the whole matter and concluded Licet saepius requisitus c. without alledging a request express in certain and the day and place of it It was said by Cook That here the monies did not grow due before Request nor is payable before Request and therefore a Request ought to be made in facto And so he said It was ruled in this Court in an Action upon the Case betwixt Palmer and Burroughs and he said that the Mony was not due by the Promise but by the Request And it was the Opinion of the whole Court That although it be a duty Yet it is not a duty payable before Request And the Request makes a Title to the Action But if A. selleth to B. a Horse for 10 l. there is a Contract and a Request in facto need not be layed And the Opinion of the Court was also That upon this matter the Plaintiff could not have an Action of Debt for there is not any Contract for the thing is not sold but it is a Collateral promise grounded upon the delivery And by Clench Here the Request is traversable And afterwards Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff And it was said It was so ruled in Alderman Pullisons Case in the Exchequer Post 201. CXIV Segar and Boyntons Case Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 156. IN Trespass the Case was this King Henry the 8th Anno 27 of his Reign gave the Mannor of D. to Sir Edward Boynton Knight and to the Heirs Males of his body Sir Edward Boynton had Issue Andrew his eldest Son and C. the Defendant his younger Son and died Andrew Boynton Covenanted by Indenture with the Lord Seymore that the said Andrew Boynton would assure the said Mannor to the use of himself for life the Remainder to the said Lord and his Heirs The said Lord Seymore in recompence thereof should assure other Lands to the use of himself for life the remainder to the use of the said Andrew Boynton in tail who 37 H. 8. levyed a Fine of the said Mannor without proclamations to two strangers to the uses according to the said Agreement and before any Assurance made by the said Lord The said Lord was Attainted of Treason and all his Lands were forfeited to the King And afterwards the said Andrew Boynton made a Suggestion to Queen Mary of the whole matter and upon his humble Petition the said
hath not any estate in the later Acre for the cause aforesaid Afterwards It was moved What thing passed to the second Son by that Devise And the Lord Anderson conceived That the words in the Will Usually Occupied with it did amount to as much as Land let with it and then the 60 Acres were not let with it and therefore did not pass Windham Iustice held the contrary and he said Although they do not pass by the words Occupied with it yet it shall pass to the Son by the name of Jacks or the Lands appertaining to Jacks To which Anderson mutata opinione afterwards agreed CLXXXIV Wroth and the Countess of Sussex Case Pasch 28 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Co. 6. Rep. 33. 1 Len. 35. 4 Len. 61. THe Case was this In Anno 4 5 of King Philip and Queen Mary A private Act of Parliament was made by which it was Enacted That the Mannor of Burnham was assured to the Countess of Sussex for her Ioynture with a Proviso in the Act That it should be lawful for the Earl of Sussex to may a Lease or Leases for 21 years and afterwards a year before the first Lease was ended he made another Lease for 21 years and this second Lease was to begin and take effect from the end of the first Lease And if this second Lease were a good Lease within the intent and meaning of the Act was the Question Popham the Queens Attorny General said That it was not 1. Because it was a Lease to begin at a day to come And 2. Because it was made before the first Lease was ended But he said It may be Objected That the Act saith Lease or Leases It is not the sense of the Act that he might make Leases in the Reversion but the sense and meaning of the Makers of the Act was That he might make Leases in possession and not Leases in futuro for if it should be so then he might make a Lease for 21 years to begin after his death which should be a great prejudice to the Countess and against the meaning of the Act which was made for her advantage The Lord Treasurer and Sir Walter Mildmay Knight have a Commission from the Queen to make Leases of the Queens Lands for 21 years because the Queen would not be troubled It was holden That by virtue of that Commission they could not make any Leases but Leases in possession only But all other Leases which did exceed the Term of 21 years and in Reversion were to pass by the hands of the Queen and her Attorny General and not by them only by virtue of their said Commission And if I grant to one power before the Statute to make Leases of my Land for 21 years he cannot make any Lease but only Leases in possession and he cannot Lease upon Lease for by the same reason that he might make one Lease to begin in futuro by the same reason he might make 20 several Leases to begin in futuro and so frustrate the Intent of the Act. It was Marshall's Case upon the Statute of 1 Eliz. of Leases to be made by Bishops The Bishop of Canturbury made a Lease to him for one and twenty years and afterwards he made a Lease unto another for 21 years to begin at the end of the first Lease And it was holden That the second Lease was void But in the great Case which was in the Exchequer-Chamber upon this Point There the second Lease was in possession and to begin presently and to run on with the other Lease and therefore it was adjudged to be good because the Land was charged with more than 21 years in the whole And if the Earl had done so here it had been a good Lease Wray Iustice said That if the second Lease had been made but two or three years before the expiration of the first Lease that then it had been utterly void but being made but 2 or 3 days or months before the expiration of the first Lease he doubted If it should be void or not The Statute of 32 H. 8. makes Leases for 21 years to be good from the day of the date thereof And a Lease was made to begin at a day to come And yet it was holden by two of the Iustices in the Court of Common Pleas That it was a good Lease And by two other Iustices of the same Court it was holden the Lease was not good And Clench Iustice said That there was no difference If it be by one Deed or by two Deeds And therefore he held That if the Earl had made a Lease for 21 years and within a year another the same had been void if it were by one Deed or two Deeds for that he did exceed his authority And he said In the principal Case If there had not been a Proviso he could not have made a Lease and therefore the Proviso which gave a power to make a Lease for 21 years should be taken strictly There was a Case of the Lord Marquess of c. that it should be lawful for him to make Leases for 21 years by a Statute And he made another Lease to begin after the end or expiration of the first Lease and it was doubted Whether it were a good Lease or not because he had not made any Lease before But if both were made by force of the Statute all held That the second Lease was void At another day the Case was argued by Daniel for the Lease in Reversion to begin at a day to come And he said That in a Statute the words alone are not to be considered but also the meaning of the parties and they are not to be severed Also he said That a Statute-Law is to be expounded by the Common-Law And by the Common-Law If one giveth power unto another to make Leases of his Lands he might make Leases in Reversion because an Authority is to be taken most beneficially for them for whose cause it was given So that if a Man grant an authority to another to make Estates of his Lands by those general words he may make Leases for years or for life Gifts in tail Feoffments or any Estates whatsoever If one gives a Commission to another to make Leases for one and twenty years of his Lands he may make a Lease in Reversion and so it was holden in the Dutchy in the Case between Alcock and Hicks Also he said That this Lease was a good Lease by the Statute-Law For the Statute of Rich. 3. gives authority to Cestuy que Use that he may make Estates in Reversion The Statute of 27 H. 8. which gives authority to the Chief Officer of the Court of Surveyors to make Leases if it had stayed there he might have made Leases in Reversion Therefore the Statute goes further and saith Proviso That he shall not make a Lease in Reversion See 19 Eliz. Dyer 357. The Statute of 35 H. 8. of Leases to be made by the Husbands
not bind him to that nor did prescribe any time but left the same generally Yet it was the Opinion of the whole Court That he should have the Averment at the time of the Voucher or not at all So the Statute of 11 H 7. Cap. 20. If a Woman who hath a Ioynture for life or in tail suffereth a Recovery and afterwards the Issue in tail releaseth all his Right by Fine and dieth his Issue may enter for the assent ought to be by Voucher in the same Action or the like for if there be a mean instant between the Recovery and the Assent then any assent after is nothing to the purpose for the Recovery being once void by the Statute cannot be made good by an assent afterwards See Doctor and Student 54. And yet the Statute is Provided That the Statute shall not extend to any such Recovery c. if the next Heir be assenting to the same Recovery c. so as the same assent or agreement be of Record or inrolled And it doth not say That the Assent should be at one time or at another But to come to Leases upon Statutes Before the Statute of 2 E. 6. Cap. 8. If Leases had not been found by Offices the Lessees should have been ousted and put to their traverse But put Case that after that Statute a Lease made to begin at a day to come were not found by Office should it be helped by that Statute No truly And so it is holden in the Court of Wards at this day and the Lord Chief Iustice of England held so in his Reading at Lincolns-Inn The Statute of 1 Eliz. of Leases to be made by Bishops is That Leases other than for 21 years from the time that they begin that is when they may take effect as Deeds and not when they shall take effect to be executed For so they might make Leases infinite c. It was adjourned c. CLXXXV Lewen and Mody's Case Mich. 28 29 Eliz. Rot. 2494. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin brought by Lewen Doctor of the Civil Law against Mody who made Conusans as Bailiff to one Fowke and shewed That 14 Elizabeth the morrow of the Purification a Fine was levied between Lovelace and Rutland Plaintiffs and the said Fowke and other Deforceants by which Fine the said Deforceants acknowledged the said Mannor to be the right of the said Lovelace and Rutland come ceo c. And the said Lovelace and Rutland by the same Fine granted and rendred to the said Fowke a Rent of 20 l. per annum in Fee out of the said Mannor And for the Rent arrear c. And the Plaintiff in bar of the Conusans shewed That the said Fowke being seised of the said Rent granted the same to one Horden c. Vpon which Grant they were at Issue And the Iury found That the said Fowke being seised of the said Rent by Indenture reciting That whereas a Fine was levied between Fowke and 7 others Plaintiffs and Lovelace and Rutland Deforceants as the rest ut supra granted redditum praedict to Horden and further found that no other Fine was levied between the parties aforesaid but the said Fine and that the parties to the Fine were seised of the Mannor at the time of the Fine levied and of no other Land And if this Rent so described by the said Indenture should pass or not was the Question And it is to be observed That the Indenture of Grant between Fowke and Horden recited a Fine of the Mannor of Coleshall inter alia where the Iury have found That the Fine was levied of the said Mannor only And it was argued by Shuttleworth That the said Rent did not pass to Horden by the said Indenture for the Rent bescribed by the Indenture is not the Rent which was granted by the Fine And if I let Lands for years to A. and afterwards A. grants the Land which B. holds of me the Grantis void As 13 E. 3. Grants 63. Land is given to Husband and Wife for their lives And the Lessor grants the Reversion of the Land which the Husband holdeth for life nothing passeth Walmesley contrary The variance in the Fine shall not avoid the Grant For the Indenture of the Rent agrees with the Fine in the Term in the year of the Reign and in the name of the parties to the Fine in the quantity of the Rent and in the Land charged the only difference is in the phrase of Law Deforceant for Plaintiff and it is granted that that is but a matter of Circumstance and not of substance Snag Serjeant contrary And first he took Exception to the Verdict for this that a special Verdict is given upon a special Absque hoc And the Lord Anderson interrupted him That it was a clear Case That such a Verdict upon such an Issue might be found And so it was adjudged in the Case between Vavasour and Doleman Fenner argued as Walmesley The Grant agrees with the Fine in the points of greatest importance and one falsity shall not prejudice it where there are so many verities which may induce the Court to judge That the Rent granted by the Indenture is the Rent created by the Fine and in a Fine the substance is not Who was Deforceant who was Plaintiff but who was party to the Fine And that some of the parties to the Fine were seised of the Land of which the Fine is levied And if the Indenture had been Whereas such a Rent was granted by a Fine levied between A. and B. without shewing who was Plaintiff and who Deforceant it had been good enough And although that in this Case the Plaintiff and Deforceant are mis-set down yet the same shall not make the Grant void for utile per inutile non vitiatur So if I reciting The Original Grant was made to me by Indenture Tripartite between A. of the first part B. of the second part and my self of the third part whereas the Indenture it self is Between myself of the first part the same is not material c. For such a small mistaking shall not avoid the Grant. So if I by my Deed reciting That whereas I am possessed of certain Lands for Term of years of the Demise of Sir Christopher Hatton Knight Treasurer of England whereas in truth he is Chancellor that mistaking of the Dignity shall not prejudice the Grant. And it was Agreed by all the Iustices If the said Fine had been pleaded at it is recited in the Indenture mistaking the Plaintiff and Deforceant he who had so pleaded it had failed of his Record But in the Case at Bar the reciting who was Plaintiff who Defendant was matter of surplusage and therefore it shall not hurt the party As 23 Eliz. Dyer 376. A. seised of a House in D. which he purchased of Tho. Cotton he made a Feoffment thereof by these words A House in D. late Richard Cotton's And notwithstanding this variance it was good enough
of Estate of Freehold c. But in our Case the Office is confessed by the Traverse to be true although that the conveyance be not truly found And also Harris at the time of the Office found had not just title but his Interest came to him long time after the Office found Also the traverse is not good for he traverseth the matter of the Conveyance which is not traversable For if the Queen hath title non refert quo modo or by what Conveyance she hath it As to the matter in Law Tenant in tail in remainder is Attainted of Felony If the King during the life of the Tenant in tail shall have the Freehold And he conceived she should For it shall not be in abeyance and it cannot be in any other for when he is attainted he is dead as unto the King The chief Lord cannot have it For the Tenant for life is alive and also he in the remainder in Fee c. The Donor shall not have it for the Tenant is not naturally dead but civilly and the Land cannot revert before the Tenant in tail be naturally dead without Issue But if there were any other in whom the Freehold could vest then the King should not have the Freehold but only the profits So if the Tenant be attainted the Lord shall have the Land presently 3 E. 3. 4 E. 3. The Husband seised in the right of his Wife is attainted of Felony the King shall have but the profits because that the Freehold rests in the Wife and if the Lord entreth the Wife shall have an Assise And Tenant in tail may forfeit for his life as he may grant during his life See Old N.B. 99. If Tenant in tail for Life Dower or by the Curtesie be attaint of Felony the King shall have the Land during their lives and after their decease he in the Reversion shall sue to the King by Petition and shall have the Lands out of the Kings hands And there it is further said That the Lord by Escheat cannot have it for the party attainted was not his very Tenant but he in the Reversion for the term yet endures But now is to see If the Freehold be in the King without Office And I conceive that it is Where the King is entituled to an Action there the King ought to have an Office and a Scire facias upon it As where the King is entituled to a Cessavit Action of Waste c. 14 H. 7. 12. Where entry in the Case of a Common person is necessary there behoves to be an Office for the King. As where the Kings Villain purchaseth Lands or an Alien born c. so is it for a Condition broken Mortmain c. In some Cases an Office is only necessary to instruct the King how he shall charge the Officer for the profits which may be supplyed as well by Survey as by Office As if the King be to take by descent or as the Case is here And it is true That a person attainted of Felony may during his Attainder purchase Lands and yet he cannot keep it against the King. And it is clear That by the Common Law in such Cases the Land was in the King but not to grant For the Statute of 18 H. 6. was an Impediment to that But now that defect is supplyed by the Statute of 33 H. 8. So as now the King may grant without Office. See 26 Eliz. Cook 3 Part Dowty's Case And in our Case Office is not necessary to entitle the King but to explain his Title See 9 H 7. 2. The Lands of a Man attainted of High Treason are in the King without Office so where the Kings Tenant dieth without Heir or Tenant in tail of the gift of the King dieth without Issue See Br. Office before the Escheator 34. See 13 H. 4. 278. A Man Attainted of Treason the King before Office grants his Lands and Goods Things which lie in Grant as Advowsons Rents c. such things upon Attainder are in the King without Office. As to the General Pardon of 23 Eliz. He conceived That the same did not extend to this Case and that this Interest of the Queen by this Attainder did not pass by the Pardon out of the Queen So if the Queen had but a Right and title only Popham Attorny General By this Attainder the Estate of him in the Remainder in tail accrued to the Queen for the life of him in the Remainder For by our Law Felony is punished by the death of the Offendor and the loss of his Goods and Lands for the example of others therefore nothing is left in him Tenant for life is attainted of Felony The King pardons to him his life yet he shall have his Lands during his life for he himself cannot dispose of them for his life And so it is of Tenant in tail c. for he may forfeit all that which he hath and that is an Estate for his life which is the Freehold If Lands be given to one and his Heirs for the life of another and the Donee be attainted of Felony the King shall have the Land during the life of Cestuy que vie for the Heir cannot have it because the blood is corrupt and there is not any Occupancy in the Case For 17 E. 3. the Iustices would not accept a Fine of Lands for the life of another because an Occupant might be in the Case But for a Fine of Lands to one and his He is for the life of another they accepted a Fine for there is no mischief of Occupancy Land is given to A. for life the remainder to B. for life the remainder to the right Heirs of A. who is attainted of Felony A. dieth now the King hath a Fee executed And here in our Case If this Tenant for life had been dead no Praecipe would lie against him in the remainder being in possession but the party who had right was to sue to the King by Petition 4 E. 3. If one seised in the right of his Wife of Lands for life be attainted the King shall have exitus proficua But I conceive that Case is not Law For see F.N.B. 254. D. The Husband seised in the right of his Wife in Fee is Outlawed of Felony the King seiseth the Husband dieth Now shall issue forth a Diem Clausit extremum the words of which Writ are in such case Quia A. cujus terra Tenement quae ipse tenuit de jure haereditate N. uxoris suae adhuc superstites occasione cujusdam utlagariae in ipsum pro quadam felonia inde indictatus fuit c. in manu Domini H. Patris nostri extiterunt c. therefore the King hath not exitus tantum but also the Land it self See to the same purpose the Register 292. b. And see also now in the Book of Pleas of the Crown 186 187. which affirmeth That Tenant in tail being attainted of Felony shall forfeit the
to prevent all acts and charges made mean by the Vendor yet it shall not relate to vest the Estate from the time of the delivery of the Deed For the Vendee cannot punish a Trespass Mean And if the Vendee hath a Wife and the Vendee dieth before Enrollment and afterwards the Deed is enrolled she shall not be endowed but here shall be some descent to take away an Entry yet the Heir shall have his age But in our Case it is otherwise for by the Waiver the Ioynture was waived ab initio And he cited Carrs Case 29 Eliz. in the Court of Wards The King granted the Mannor of C. to George Owen in Fee tenend in Socage and rendring 94 l. per annum And afterwards granted 54 l. parcel of the said Rent to the Earl of Huntington in Fee to be holden by Knight-service in Capite and afterwards purchased the said Rent in Fee And afterwards of the same Mannor enfeoffed William Carr who devised the same for the payment of his Debts And it was holden That the devise was good against the Heir And the King was not entituled to Livery or Primer Seisin And therefore the Defendant was dismissed But peradventure the Queen shall have benefit of the Act. See Cook 3 Part 30 31. Butler and Baker's Case The King gives Lands unto A. in Fee to hold by Knights-service during his life and afterwards to hold in Socage He may devise the whole For at the time when the devise took effect he was Tenant in Socage Lands holden in Knight-service are given to J.S. in tail scil to the Heirs Males of his Body the Remainder to the right Heirs of J.S. J.S. deviseth these Lands and afterwards dieth without Issue Male the same is good for two parts yet during his life he had not an Estate in Fee in possession The Father disseiseth his Son and Heir apparent of an Acre of Land holden in Chief by Knight-service in Capite and afterwards purchaseth a Mannor holden in Socage and deviseth the said Mannor and dieth his Heir within age the Devise is good for the whole and the King shall not have Wardship of any part and that in respect of the Remitter and yet it is within the words Having sole Estate in Fee of Lands holden and within the Saving Tenant in tail of an Acre of Land holden of the King in Chief by Knight-service seised of two Acres in Fee holden ut supra makes a Lease for three Lives of the Acre entailed reserving the accustomed Rent and afterwards deviseth the other two Acres in Fee and afterwards dieth seised of the Reversion and Rent The same is a good devise of all the two Acres And here is an immediate descent of the third part for the same is within the words In Possession Reversion or Remainder or any Rent or Service incident to any Reversion or any Remainder See the Statute of 34 H. 8. A Man seised of three Acres of equal value holden by Knight-service in Capite assureth one to his Wife for her Ioynture by Act executed and deviseth another to a stranger And the third to his Wife also The King in this case shall have the third part of every Acre But if the stranger waiveth the devise the King shall have the Acre to him devised and the Wife shall retain the other two Acres and it shall not go in advantage of the Heir So if he deviseth the said three Arces severally to three several persons to each of them one Acre and the one Waives the devise in one Acre The devise of the other two is good Or otherwise the King shall have the third part of every Acre c. CCCLXVII Mich. 35 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 5 Co. 29. THe Case was An Enfant was made Executor And Admimistration was committed to another viz. A. durante minori aetate who brought an Action of Debt against the Debtor and recovered and had him in Execution and now the Executor came of full age It was moved What should be done in this Case and how the party should be discharged of the Execution for the authority of the Administrator is now determined and he cannot acknowledge satisfaction or make an acquittance Windham Although the authority of the Administrator be determined yet the Record and the Iudgment remain in force But peradventure you may have an Audita Querela But he conceived That an Administrator could not have such Action for that he is rather a Bailiff to the Enfant than an Administrator See Prince's Case 42 Eliz. Cook 5 Part 29. Which Rhodes concessit A. was bounden unto B. in an Obligation of 100 l. upon Condition to pay a lesser sum The Obligee made an Enfant his Executor and died Administration was committed durante minori aetate to C. to whom A. paid the Mony It was doubted If that payment was rightful or If the Mony ought to have been paid to both Windham Doth it appear within the Record That the Enfant was made Executor and that Administration was committed ut supra To which it was answered No. Then Windham said You may upon this matter have an Audita Querela In this Case It was said to be the Case of one Gore 33 Eliz. in the Exchequer in a Scire facias by an Assignee of a Bond against an Enfant Executor He pleaded That the Administration was committed to A. and his Wife during her minority And it was adjudged no Plea. CCCLXVIII Mich. 35 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte It was the Opinion of all the Iustices Jones Rep. 243. That if Lessee for 20 years makes a Lease for 10 years that he may grant the Reversion without Deed but in such case if there be a Rent reserved there ought to be a Deed and also an Attornment if the Rent will be had And it was agreed by them all That if there be Lessee for years and the Lessor granteth the Land to the Lessee and a stranger that the Reversion shall pass without Livery or Attornment and that by the Acceptance of the Deed by him who ought to Attorn But whether he shall take joyntly or in Common or whether in a moyety or in the whole the Iustices were of divers Opinions Ideo Quaere for it was not Resolved FINIS A TABLE of the principal Matters contained in the Third Part of LEONARD'S Reports A. ABatement of Writ Page 2 4 77 92 Ex Officio Curiae p. 93 Accompt p. 38 61 63 Damages given in it p. 150 Damages given in it not expresly but the Court shall give Quoddam Incrementum p. 192 Brought by the Grantee of the King against an Executor where maintainable where not p. 197 Generally brought where good p. 230 Acquittance Must be shewed upon payment of Debts by Executors p. 3 Action upon the Case For stopping of a way p. 13 Against one for proceeding to Judgment and awarding of Execution in an inferiour Court after an Habeas Corpus awarded p. 99 Where lieth
Appendant or in gross A. 323. A Curtilage and Garden are Appurtenant to a House and pass by or without the word Appurtenant C. 214. Apportionment If the Lessor grant part of the Land the Grantee shall have no Rent A. 252. C. 1. Upon devise of Lands rendring Rent part being Capite Lands A. 310. If a Rent reserved upon a Lease of a Warren may be apportioned C. 1. None of a relief because intire C. 13. If a condition of Re-entry upon several Reddend may be apportioned C. 124 to 127. Rent may be apportioned in the Kings Case which cannot in the Case of a common person C. 124 to 127. Arbitrement Debt lieth upon it although void until it so appear A. 73 170. In such Action the Plaintiff needs shew no more than makes for him A. 73. To find sufficient Sureties to pay c. void A. 140. Without Deed cannot dispose of a Free-hold A. 228. To do one thing or another one being void yet the award is good A. 304 305. C. 62. To pay Mony to a Stranger is good A. 316. C. 62. That one Party shall have a Term for years gives the interest of the Term contra where it is that the one shall permit the other c. B. 104. Award to become bound it is a good performance if the Bond be delivered to a Stranger and after tendred to the Plaintiff B. 111 181. To do an Act to a Stranger who will not accept thereof the Bond is not forfeit C. 62. To do an Act to a Stranger not void C. 62. 212. Award that the Defendant and a Stranger become bound is good as to the Defendant though void in part C. 226. Ayd Copy-holder shall have Ayd of his Lord in Trespass A. 4. Grantee of Tenant in tail after possibility shall have Ayd yet the Grantor should not A. 291. Tenant at Will shall have it but not Tenant at Sufferance B. 47. Verdict upon an Issue upon a Counter-plea of Ayd is peremptory to the Defendant B. 52. Alien If the Kings Confirmation of a Feoffment to an Alien do avail A. 47. If the Grant of an Office to him by the King be a denization C. 243. Assent and Consent If the Conuzee of a Statute c. taken by Capias be discharged by Assent of the Conusee his Lands are also discharged A. 230 231. Assets Mony received by Executors for Lands devised to be sold to pay Portions if it be Assets A. 87 224 225. B. 119. What other things shall be Assets A. 225. B. 7. Lease for life and after his death to his Executors for 10 years if this Term be Assets C. 21 22. If Mony received by the Heir for Redemption of a Mortgage be Assets to pay Debts C. 32. Executors by Award receive 50 l. and release a Bond of 100 l. the whole 100 l. is Assets C. 53. Assignee If Assignee of parcel may have covenant against Lessee for years A. 251 252. Who is a sufficient Assignee A. 252. Executors or Administrators A. 316. Assize Of a Rent rendred in Fee by Fine A. 254. The manner of adjorning and giving Judgment where the Disseisor pleads Foreign Pleas B. 41. Of fresh-force in London C. 169 170. Attachment Of Goods in a Carriers hands 189. A Debt by Judgment Stat. Recogn c. cannot be attached A. 29 30. No Mony taken in Execution A. 264. What is a good Plea for him in whose hands Mony is attached A. 321. If the Plaintiff shall recover costs against him in whose hands c. A. 321. Mony for which an Action is depending cannot be attached C. 210. One cannot attach Mony for a Debt before the Debt be due C. 236. Corn is not attachable C. 236. A Debt upon Record cannot be attached C. 240. Attainder A person attainted cannot be charged with Actions A. 326 327. If a person attainted may be put to answer in personal Actions A. 330. What is forfeited to the King by Attainder of Tenant for life or in Tail in Remainder B. 122 123 to 126. Differences of Attainder and Conviction B. 161. If one attainted of Robbery shall answer in criminal Cases C. 220. Attaint What Heir shall have it A. 261. Upon the Statute of 23. H. 8. 3. A. 279. If it lie where the Plaintiff might avoid the Judgment by Error A. 278. Attornment To whom and how it must be made A. 58. Quoad part is good for all A. 129 130 234. Upon a Lease for years in Reversion A. 171. C. 17. An Abator may Attorn A. 234. The definition thereof A. 234. By the first Lessee binds the Tenant in remainder for years or life A. 265. Good by the Tenants of the Land to him in remainder after the death of Tenant for life A. 265 To the surviving Grantee of a Reversion good A. 265. To the Grantee of the Reversion of a Mannor by Lessee for year of the Mannor passes the Mannor and binds the Tenants A. 265. After condition broken is good to vest the Estate by the breach of the Condition A 265. The Relation of an Attornment A. 265. B 222. Who is compellable by a Quid Juris clamat to attorn A. 290 291 B. 40. C. 241 242. No Attornment is necessary upon selling a Reversion of Copyhold A. 297. C. 197. In what cases necessary A. 318. C. 103. Lease of Demesnes by Grant of the Mannor the Reversion passeth not without Attorment B. 221 222. An Advowson appendant to a Mannor shall vest without Attornment of the Tenants B. 222. What Words or Consent amount to an Attornment C. 17. Lessor levies a Fine to the use of himself and his Heirs Lessee must Attorn C. 103 104. If it be necessary where the Grantee is in by Statute of Uses C. 104. It is necessary to pass Services of a Mannor C. 193. Tenant of the Land must attorn upon granting over a Rent-charge C. 252. Reversion of a Term a Lease of part of the Term being first made cannot pass the Term and Rent reserved upon the first Lease without Attornment but a Term without Rent reserved he may C. 279. Lessor grants the Reversion to Lessee and A. B. no other Attornment necessary C. 279. Attorny J.S. Praesens hic in Cur. in propria persona sua per A.B. Attorn suum how construed A. 9. Lessee for years cannot surrender by Attorny A. 36. How to make a Deed by Attorny Ibid. B. 192 200. May essoign for a Copyholder but not do services A. 104. To three conjunctim divisim to deliver Seisin A. 192 193. How Attorny must make Livery where the Lands lie in several Counties A. 306 307. In an Indenture C. 16. Audita Querela Upon a Statute Merchant the Suit shall be in the Kings Bench But upon Statute-staple in the Chancery A. 140 141 228. contr 303 304. Process therein is either Venire facias or Scire facias A. 140 141. Upon a Statute Staple upon payment of the Mony in the Court of C. B. quod nota the party is bailed A.
In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 27. THe Case was That the Bishop of Exeter leased certain Lands in the County of Devon for years rendring Rent payable in Exeter aforesaid with Clause of Re-entry and the Bishop of Exeter had a Palace in Exeter aforesaid It was the Opinion of the Iustices in this Case That the Rent ought to be demanded at the said Palace and not elsewhere And if that the Lessee come to the Common Gate of the said Palace and there tender the Rent it is a good tender without more be the Gate shut or open notwithstanding that the Bishop be within the Palace and that neither he nor any of his Servants be at the Gate for to receive it for the Lessee is not tyed to open the Gate of the Palace if it be shut nor to enter into the Palace if it be open X. Mich. 4 and 5 Phil. and Mary In the Common Pleas. COpyhold Land was surrendred to the use of the Wife for life the remainder to the use of the right Heirs of the Husband and Wife The Husband entred in the right of his Wife It was the Opinion of the Iustices in this Case That the remainder was executed for a Moyety presently in the Wife and the Husband of that was seised in the right his Wife and the Wife dying first that her Heir should have it 1 Roll. Lane and Pannel's Case But if the Husband had died first his Heir should have had one Moyety XI Joscelin and Sheltons Case Mich. 4 and 5 Phil. and Mary In the Common Pleas. More Rep. 13. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared That the Defendant in Consideration that the Son of the Plaintiff would marry the Daughter of the Defendant assumed and promised to pay to him 400 Marks in 7 years next ensuing by such portions And upon Non Assumpsit pleaded It was found for the Plaintiff It was Obiected in Arrest of Iudgment That one of the said 7 years was not incurred at the time of the Action brought c. and that appeared upon the Declaration so as the Plaintiff had not cause of Action for the whole Mony promised And for that cause the Writ was abated by the Court by award although it was after Verdict See Br. Title Action upon the Case 108. XII 2 and 3 Phil. and Mary In the Common Pleas. IN an Assise against 4. they were at Issue upon Nul Tenant del Franktenement nosme en le brief And it was found by the Assise That two of them were Disseisors and two Tenants And after Verdict and before Iudgment one of those who were found Tenants died And that was moved in Arrest of Iudgment But it was not allowed of by the Court Because the parties had not day in Court to plead it But it was said That after Iudgment given a Writ of Error lieth In the Time of Queen Elizabeth XIII Canons Case 1 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. UPon an Evidence to a Iury in the Common-Pleas 1 Roll. 839. Vpon an Issue there this Deed was given in Evidence viz. Sciant praesentes futuri Quod Ego Richardus Canon filius haeres Richandi Canon Dedi Concessi hac praesenti carta mea Confirmavi Willielmo Compton Militi Omnia Terr Tenementa c. ad usum mei praed Richardi Joannae uxoris meae pro termino vitae absque impetitione Vasti ac etiam rectorum haered mei praefat Richardi assignatorum meorum post decessum mei praefat Richardi Joannae uxoris meae Et si contingat me praefat Richardum obire sine exitu de Corpore meo procreato Tunc Volo quod omnia dict Terr Tenementa remaneant Tho. fratri meo rectis haeredibus de Corpore suo procreatis haeredib assignat eorum And it was the Opinion of the Iustices That a good Estate tail was by that Deed limited to the said Richard in use after the death of his Wife XIV Holt and Ropers Case 2 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin by Holt against Roper the Case was J. Abbot of W. Leased to T.M. Knight a Close of Land in B. for 44 years Post 242. 243. who thereof possessed was attainted of misprision of Treason and so forfeited to the King who seised the same The Abbot and his Covent surrendred 31 H. 8. the King Leased the same to Roper for 21 years and died King Ed. 6th in the fourth year of his Reign Leased the same to one Philips To have and to hold after the Term to T.M. ended for 21 years Roper surrendred to Queen Mary who Leased the same again to Roper for 30 years In this Case It was adjudged That the Lease made to Phillips was utterly void for that the King was deceived in his Grant For the Lease made to F.M. was long time before determined by extinguishment in the Person of the King who had it by forfeiture upon the Attainder of T.M. and the Statute of 1 E. 6. Cap. 8. shall not help that Lease notwithstanding the Non-recital or Mis-recital of Leases made before For here is not matter of recital but matter of Estate and Interest which is not well limited for the Commencement of it i. the Lease to Phillips For there is not any certainty of the Commencement of it For that Lease cannot begin after the Surrender of Roper for the words of the Limitation of the beginning of it cannot serve to such Construction XV. 2 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Term for years is devised to A. The Executors of the Devisor entred into the Land devised to the use of the Devisee It was the Opinion of the Court That the same was a sufficient possession to the Devisee XVI 3 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TWo Coparceners were of a Reversion the one of them granted his Interest in it by Fine to another It was holden in that Case That the Conusee should have a Quid juris clamat for a Moyety of the said Reversion XVII Mich. 4 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Lessor mortgaged his Reversion in Fee to the Lessee for years and at the day of Mortgage for payment of the Mony he paid the Mony It was holden in this Case That the Lease for years was not revived but utterly extinct XVIII Mich. 4 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. J.N. Cestuy que use in tail 14 H. 8. by Indenture between him on the one part and J.S. of the other part In Consideration of a Marriage between his Son and Heir apparent and Joan Daughter of the said J.S. to be had Covenanted with the said J.S. That neither he nor any of the Feoffees seised to his use have made or hereafter shall make any Estate Release Grant of Rent levy any Fine or do any other Incumbrance whatsoever of any of his Mannors Lands c. But that all the said Mannors c. shall immediately descend or remain to his said Son and the Heirs
of his Body after the decease of the said J.N. It was the clear Opinion of all the Iustices in this Case That by the said Indenture No use is changed in J N. nor any use raised to the said Son and Heir but that it is only a bare Covenant XIX Andrews and Glovers Case Trin. 4 Eliz. Rott 1622. IN Trespass by Andrews against Glover The Lady Mary Dacres being seised of the Mannor of Cowdam by her Indenture bargained and sold to the said Andrews all those her Woods More Rep. 15. Post 29. Winch. Rep. 5. Vnderwoods and Hedge-Rowes as have been accustomably used to be felled and sold standing growing being in upon and within the Mannor of Cowdam c. To have and to hold c. from the Feast of S. Michael last past during the natural life of the said Lady Mary And the said Andrews for himself his Heirs and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lady her Executors c. to content and pay or cause to be contented and paid to the said Lady her Executors c. yearly during the said Term 10 l. By force of which Grant he cuts down all and singular the Trees Woods and Vnderwoods in the aforesaid Mannor growing at the time of the making of the Indenture aforesaid And afterwards the said Lady by her servants felled all the other Woods and Vnderwoods growing in the same Mannor after the said felling made by the said Andrews Whereupon Andrews bringeth Trespass And the Opinion of the Court was clear That after the Bargainee had once felled that he should never after fell in the same place where the first felling was made by force of the said Grant notwithstanding the Rent yearly reserved and notwithstanding the words of the Grant viz. To have and to hold during the life of the said Dame Mary Wherefore the said Andrews durst not Demur c. XX. 6 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was A. is bounden to B. in an Obligation to pay to B. 20 l. at the Feast of our Lady without limiting in Certain what Lady-Day viz. the Conception Nativity or Annunciation And the Opinion of the whole Court was That the Deed should be construed to intend such Lady-Day which should next happen and follow the date of the said Obligation XXI Scarning and Cryers Case Mich. 7 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Rott 1851. IN a Second Deliverance by Scarning against Cryer the Defendant makes Conusans as Bailiff to J.S. and sheweth More Rep. 75 That the said J.S. and at the time of the taking c. was Lord of the Mannor of A. Within which Mannor there was this Custom time out of mind c. That the Tenants of that Mannor and other Resiants and Inhabitants within the said Mannor or the greater part of them at the Court-Baron of the said Mannor at the Mannor aforesaid holden were used and accustomed to make Laws and impose Pains as well upon the Resiants and Inhabitants within that Mannor and the Tenants of the said Mannor there being as upon every Occupier of any Tenements within the said Mannor for good government there to be had and kept and for the preservation of the Corn and Grass there growing And that the said J.S. and all those whose Estate c. distringere consueverunt pro omnibus poenis sic forisfact per Juratores Curiae praed ex assensu dictor Tenent Inhabitant residentium ibid. in forma praedict assessis impositis tam super quibuscunque tenent Maner praedict aut inhabitantibus aut residentibus infra Maner illud quam super occupatoribus aliquor Tenementor infra idem Maner ' And further said That at a Court-Baron there holden That Coram Sectatoribus ejusdem Curiae by the Homage of the said Court then charged to present with the assent of other Tenants and Inhabitants of the said Mannor it was Ordained and Established That no Tenant of the Mannor aforesaid nor any of the Resiants or Inhabitants within the said Mannor nor any Occupier of any Tenements within the said Mannor from thenceforth should keep his Cattel within the several Fields of that Mannor by By-herds nor should put any of their Oxen called Draught-Oxen there before the Feast of St. Peter upon pain Quod quilibet tenens residens c. should forfeit 20 s. And further said That the Plaintiff at the time c. Occupied and had such a Tenement within the said Mannor And that at such a Court afterwards holden viz. such a day It was presented that the Plaintiff Custodivit boves suos called Draught-Oxen within the several Fields by By-herds contrary to the Order aforesaid by which the penalty of 20 s. aforesaid was forfeited Notwithstanding the said pain de gratia Curiae illius per quosd A. E. afferratores Curiae illius ad hoc jurat assess afferrat fuit ad 6 s. 8 d. And further he said That the place in which the taking c. is within the Mannor aforesaid And that A. B. Steward of the said Mannor extraxit in scriptis extra Rotulis Curiae praed the said pain of 6 s. 8 d. and delivered the same to the Defendant Bailiff of the said Mannor to Collect and Receive by force of which he required the said 6 s. 8 d. of the Plaintiff and he refused to pay it and so avoweth the taking c. And upon this Conusans of the Defendant the Plaintiff did Demur in Law And Iudgment was given against the Conusans 1. Because he pleaded That it was presented Coram Sectatoribus and doth not shew their Names 2. The penalty appointed by the By-Law was 20 s. and he sheweth it was abridged to 6 s. 8 d. and so the penalty demanded and for which the Distress was taken is not maintained by the By-Law and a pain certain ought not to be altered 3. He sheweth that it was presented that the Plaintiff had kept his Draught-Oxen and he ought to have alledged the same in matter in fact that he did keep c. XXII Dedicots Case 7 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. DEdicot seised of certain Customary Lands Dyer 210 251. Hob. 285. surrendred the same into the hands of the Lord to the intent that the Lord should grant the same de Novo to the same Dedicot for life and afterwards to Jane his Wife during the Nonage of the Son and Heir of Dedicot and afterwards to the said Son and Heir in tail c. Dedicot died before any new Grant Afterwards the Lord granted the said Land to the Wife during the Nonage of the said Heir the remainder to the Heir in tail the Heir at that time being but of the age of 5 years so as the said Wife by force of the said Surrender and Admittance was to have the said Lands for 16 years The Wife took another Husband and died And it was the Opinion of Brown and Dyer Iustices That the Husband should have the Lands during the Nonage of
him any other surety for his Debt he is contented so to do And John Stampe offered to the said P. the said B. and C. and he accepted the same and at the request of the said John Stampe granted his Interest to them 2 Feb. 22 Eliz. P. having notice of the Grant before made to the said G. Vpon which G. enformed against P. upon the Statute of 32 H. 8. It was holden in this Case by Periam and Meade Iustice That P. was not within the penalty of the Statute For P. granted his Interest to B. and C. at the suit and at the request of John Stampe who was the Mortgager for assurance of his Debt which he ought to them And therefore it shall not be intended that that Grant was made for any maintenance or for any unlawful cause against the Statute And also John Stampe who granted unto P. had possession and received the Issues and Profits of the said Lands for a whole year before the Grant notwithstanding that he was not in possession by a whole year next before the day of the date of the Grant. Godb. 450. As if a Man be in possession or hath received the Issues and Profits for a whole year and afterwards a stranger enters upon him and hath the possession for the space of a Quarter of a year or half a year yet he who was in possession by a year before may grant his Interest without danger of the Statute c. CXX Pasch 24 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. NOte Per totam Curiam 2 Len. 35. A man made his Will in this manner scil I Will and Bequeath my Land to A. And the name of the Devisor is not in the whole Will Yet the Devise is good enough by Averment of the name of the Devisor And for proof that the same is his Will If one lying in extremis having an intent to devise his Lands by Word makes such devise but doth not command the same to be put in writing but another without the knowledge or Commandment of the Devisor putteth it in writing in the life-time of the Devisor the same is a good Devise For it is sufficient if the Devise be reduced into writing during the life of the Devisor CXXI Pepy's Case Pasch 25 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. WAste was brought by F. and his Wife against Pepy and declared That the said Pepy was seised and enfeoffed certain persons to the use of himself for life and afterwards to the use of the Wife of the Plaintiff and her Heirs The Defendant pleaded That the said Feoffment was to the use of himself and his Heirs in Fee c. absque hoc that it was to the uses as in the Count Vpon which they were at Issue And it was found by Verdict That the said Feoffment was to the uses contained in the Count but further found That the Estate of the Defendant by the Limitation of the use was priviledged with the impunity of Waste scil without Impeachment of Waste It was moved If upon that Verdict The Plaintiff should have Iudgment Anderson and Rhodes Iustices conceived That he should for that the matter in Issue is found for the Plaintiff and that is the Feoffment to uses contained in the Count and this impunity of Waste is a Forreign matter not within the Charge of the Iury and therefore the finding of the same is but matter of surplusage As if I plead a Feoffment of J. S. to which the other pleads That he did not enfeoff and the Iury find a Conditional Feoffment the Court shall not respect the finding of the Condition for it was not in Issue and no advantage shall be ever had of such a Liberty if it be not pleaded 30 H. 8. Dyer 41. In Dower the Tenant pleaded Ne unque seisi que Dower c. The Tenant pleaded That before the Coverture of the Demandant one A. was seised and gave the Land whereof Dower is demanded to the Husband of the Demandant in tail who made a Feoffment A stranger took the Demandant to Wife took back an Estate in Fee and died seised having Issue inheritable Now although upon the truth of the matter she is nâ—t Dowable de jure yet forasmuch as the parties were at Issue upon a point certain no forrein nor strange matter not in Question betwixt the parties shall be respected in the point of Iudgment But if the Defendant had pleaded it in Bar he might have foreclosed the Demandant of her Dower See 38 Ass 27. 47 E. 19. In a Praecipe quod reddat upon the default of the Tenant came one and shewed How that the Tenant who made default was but Tenant for life of the Lands in demand the Reversion in Fee to himself and prayed to be received The Demandant counterpleaded the Resceit Dicendo That the Tenant had Fee c. Vpon which Issue was taken And it was found That neither the Tenant nor he who prayed to be received had any thing in the Land. And in that Case The Court did not regard the matter which was superfluous in the Verdict For they were at Issue upon a point certain scil whether the Tenant was seised in Fee For it is confessed of the one side and of the other that he had an Estate for life and of that matter the Iury was not charged and they are not to enquire of that And so it is found against the Demandant by which the Resceit was granted See 7 H. 6. 20. The parties were at Issue upon a Dying seised which is found by Verdict but the Iury find further That the other party made continual Claim The said continual Claim shall not be respected in point of Iudgment because it was not pleaded in Avoidance of the Disceit c. Windham Iustice to the contrary because it appeareth to us upon the Verdict That the Plaintiff hath not cause of Action and therefore he shall not have Iudgment As in Detinue the Plaintiff declares upon a Baylment by his own hands The Defendant pleads Ne Detinue pas the Iury find the Detinue but upon Baylment by another hand In that case notwithstanding that the Detinue be found yet the Plaintiff shall not have Iudgment But Anderson Rhodes and Periam conceived That in the principal Case Iudgment should be given for the Plaintiff For in no case the party shall have advantage of that liberty of impunity of Waste if he doth not plead it And the Iurors are not to meddle with any matter which is not in issue and if they do It is but matter of surplusage and to no purpose and afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff See the Number Roll Pasch 25 Eliz. Rot. 602. CXXII Skipwith's Case Pasch 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Action of Trespass It was found by a special Verdict Godbolt 14 143. Co. of Copy-holds 94. That the Lands were Copy-hold Lands That the Custom of the Mannor was That Quaelibet Foemina Viro Co-operta poterit
That the Defendant should answer over CXXXVI Hering and Badlock's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 80. IN a Replevin the Defendant avowed for Damage-feasant and shewed That the Lady Jermingham was seised of such a Mannor whereof the place where c. and leased the same to the Defendant for years The Plaintiff said That long time before King Henry 8th was seised of the said Mannor and that the place where c. is parcel of the said Mannor Demised and Demiseable by Copy c. and that the said King by such a one his Steward demised and granted the said parcel to the Ancestor of the Plaintiff whose Heir he is by Copy in Fee c. And upon that there was a Demurrer because by this Bar to the Avowry the Lease set forth in the Avowry is not answered for the Plaintiff in Bar to the Avowry ought to have concluded and so was he seised by the Custom until the Avowant praetextu of the said Term for years entred c. And so it was adjudged CXXXVII Rosse's Case Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Ante 83. IN Trespass brought by Rosse for breaking of his Close and beating of his Servant and carrying away of his Goods Vpon Not guilty pleaded the Iury found this special matter scil That Sir Thomas Bromley Chancellor of England was seised of the Land where c. and leased the same to the Plaintiff and one A. which A. assigned his moyety to Cavendish by whose Commandment the Defendant entred It was moved That that Tenancy in Common betwixt the Plaintiff and him in whose right the Defendant justifies could not be given in Evidence and so it could not be found by Verdict but it ought to have been pleaded at the beginning But the whole Court were clear of another Opinion and that the same might be given in Evidence well enough It was further moved against the Verdict That the same did not extend to all the points in the Declaration but only to the breaking of the Close without enquiry of the battery c. And for that cause it was clearly holden by the Court That the Verdict was void And a Venire facias de novo was awarded CXXXVIII Gurney and Saers Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. AN Ejectione firmae was brought by Gurney against Saer who pleaded That Verney was seised and leased the same to Baker for 21 years 8 Eliz. Baker 14 Eliz. assigned his Interest to Rolls who 15 Eliz. leased the same to Topp for 10 years and afterwards Rolls granted the residue of his Term to A. Verney 16 Eliz. leased the same Land to Stephen Gurney for 21 years to begin after the determination surrender or forfeiture of the first Lease rendring Rent with Clause of Re-entry And afterwards Verney granted over the Reversion in Fee to Hampden To which Grant A. and Topp attorned Topp leased to B. at Will A. and Topp surrendred B. held himself in by force of the Tenancy at Will And the said Surrender was made privily and secretly without the notice of the said Stephen Gurney The Rent reserved upon the Lease made to Stephen Gurney is demanded as now begun by the said Surrender Hampden entred as for the Condition broken for the non-payment of the said Rent And the Lease made to the said Stephen Gurney was pleaded Quod praedictus Johannes Verney per Indenturam suam sigillo ipsius Stephani Gurney sigillat demisit c. And that was holden a material Exception For here upon the matter doth not appear any Lease made by Verney For here upon the pleading it appeareth That Verney had accepted a Deed of Gurney purporting a Demise by Verney to Gurney which Gurney had sealed but there did not appear any such Deed sealed by Verney and therefore no Lease ut supra And although a Condition may be pleaded by Indenture sealed with the seal of the other party yet a Conveyance cannot be pleaded by Deed as it is here unless sealed with the seal of the party Agent scil the Feoffor Grantor Lessor And for that cause Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff Another Exception was taken because that after the Grant of the Reversion by Verney to Hampden the surrender of A. and Topp is pleaded whereas A. ought not to surrender for his Estate was not a Reversion for years but a Lease in Reversion and a Lease for years to begin at a day to come which could not be surrendred See 4 H. 7. 10. But if A. had granted his Interest by way of Reversion where Attornment had been as one Releaseth to him the Reversion for years it is good contrary to him who hath a Lease in Reversion But as to that it was said by the Court That this surrender by A. was good enough for in as much as the Interest which A. had at the time of the surrender was in Rolls a Reversion after his Grant to Topp and there it remained and continued in its nature as to that point notwithstanding that by the Grant it passed in another manner than as a Reversion Another Exception was taken because that in the pleading of the Surrender it is not alledged That at the time of the Surrender Hampden was seised of the Reversion 7 E. 3. 3. He who claims by Cestuy que use ought to alledge the Seisin and Continuance of Seisin to the said use at the time of the Feoffment or Grant notwithstanding that Seisin was alledged before And 10 H. 7. 28. Hewbade's Avowry he there pleaded That A. was seised of a Mannor and thereof levied a Fine to B. that C. the Tenant upon whom the Avowry was made attorned c. And Exception taken because it is not shewed in the Avowry That B. the Conusee was seised of the Mannor at the time of the Attornment And it was holden a good Exception On the other side it was said and affirmed by the Court That in all Cases where an Inheritance is once alledged in a Man the Law shall presume the Continuance of it there until the contrary be shewed See 1 Eliz. the Case between Wrotesley and Adams Plow Com. 193. And 15 Eliz. between Smith and Stapleton Plow 431. Which Wray and Gawdy Iustices granted Ayliff Iustice to the contrary Another point was moved If upon this secret Surrender notice ought to have been given to Gurney who had an Interest for years to begin upon the said Surrender For some conceived That Gurney without notice given him of the said Surrender should not be prejudiced by the Condition aforesaid And of that Opinion clearly was Wray Chief Iustice Note In this Case That Saer the Defendant presently after the Iudgment entred cast in a Writ of Error into the Court and assigned an Error in fact scil That Gurney the Plaintiff in the first Action within age appeared by Attorny whereas he ought by Gardein or Prochein Amy. And it was the Opinion of the Iustices upon the first Motion
force of the first assurance by way of Bargain and the Relation is utterly gone So in our Case The Grant of the Queen mean between the Award of the Commission and the Retorn of it hath destroyed the force and effect of the Commission so as no appearance shall be had of it And he agreed That here are several Rents but the Condition is entire and admit that a Condition may be apportioned in some Cases yet in some Cases it cannot And the Statute of 32 H. 8. gives the Condition and the Reversion to which it is annexed to the King in such sort as it was in the Prior But the Condition in the Prior was not capable of Apportionment and therefore no more it shall be in the Case of the King. As where a Recognizance is acknowledged whicâ— cometh to the King by the Attainder of the Conusee Now if the King will sue Execution upon it he shall not have the whole Land of the Conusor in Execution but only the moyety by Elegit c. This Case afterward Trin. 28 Eliz. for Difficulty was adjourned into the Exchequer-Chamber and there argued before all the Iustices and Barons of the Exchequer And Shuttleworth Serjant argued for the Plaintiff And first he said Here are several Rents and so several Conditions especially when all the things demised are of such a Nature that they may yield a Distress but if any of the things demised cannot yield Distress then it shall be one entire Rent and shall issue out of the Residue c. Which see 17 Ass 10. An Assise was brought of 20 s. Rent and the said Rent was reserved upon a Lease for life made of 100 Acres of Lands and 15 Acres of Wood scil for the Land 10 s. and for the Woods 10 s. And by the Assise it was found the Disseisin in the Wood but not in the Land. Wherefore it was awarded That the Plaintiff should recover seisin of the 10 s. and for the residue that he should take nothing And although these words reddendo inde Trench unto all the things demised entirely yet this word viz. is a distributive and makes an Apportionment And the viz. is not contrary to the premisses scil to the reddendo inde As if I enfeoffe A. and B. of an Acre of Land Habendum the one moyety thereof to A. in Fee and the other moyety to B. in Fee this is good for it well stands with the premisses But if I enfeoffe A. and B. of two Acres of Lands Habendum the one Acre to A. and the other to B. the same Habendum is void because contrary to the premisses for each of them is excluded out of one Acre which was given to him in the premisses And in our Case If the Rent set forth in the Viz. had been greater or less than that which is reserved upon the Reddendo then the Viz. should be void for the contrariety and the Reddendo stand Walmesley contrary And that here is one entire Rent Which see to be so by the close of the Condition Si Redditus praedict ' aut aliqua inde parcella c. And the Lessor may distrain in any part of the Land demised for the whole Rent notwithstanding the Viz. And it was moved by Shuttleworth That admit the Rent and Condition be entire Yet now when the King grants the Reversion of one of the things demised in Fee to a stranger the Condition remains and not determined by the destruction of the Reversion as in the case of a Subject For the King hath divers Prerogatives by which he is exempted and protected from such Mischiefs and Inconveniences which happen to Subjects by their own Acts and their Laches and Folly which shall not be imputed to the King And the reason of Extinguishment of a Condition in such case in the case of a Common person is his own Folly that he will distrahere his Reversion And Folly shall never be imputed to the King And as the Case is here the King is not bound to take notice of a Condition made by a Common â—erson For it is not matter of Record and by this Grant of the King the Rent doth not pass for the Grant is only of the Reversion without any mention of the Rent And the King hath divers Prerogatives in a Condition As in the creating of a Condition 35 H. 6. 38. The Abbot of Sion's Case Ad effectum is a good Condition in the Case of the King by Prison And where the King grants Lands in Fee to one upon Condition That the Grantee shall not alien the same is a good condition So for a Rent-Seck the King may distrain And the King may reserve a Rent and a Condition to a stranger and if he doth reserve a Rent and a Condition to himself he may grant the same over to a Subject 2 H. 7. 8. And the Condition in the case of a Common person may be apportioned As if Lessee of two Acres upon Condition alien one of them in Fee and the Lessor entreth for the forfeiture or recovereth part in an Action of Waste c. but of a surrender it is otherwise Walmesley contrary The Condition is gone For a Condition in the hands of the King is of the same Nature as in the case of a common person impatient of any Division Partition or Apportionment As if the King hath a Rent out of 3 Acres of Land and afterwards purchaseth one of them the Rent is utterly gone and shall not be apportioned as well as in the Case of a common person So of a Common And as this Case is If the Condition doth remain then upon the breach of it the King shall enter into the whole for the words of the Condition are Wholly to re-enter and so he should defeat his own grant And he cited a Case adjudged at the Assizes at York The King gave Land in Fee-Farm rendring Rent with Clause of re-entry The King granteth the Rent over to a stranger And after the Rent is behind The King cannot re-enter nor the Grantee It was also moved If the Iurors of Middlesex might enquire of the usual Feast days in London Shuttleworth That they might do so See 5 H. 5. 23. Where a Commission issued out to enquire in the County of Surrey of Escheats words c. who found that A. held of the King in Chief and took to Wife one E. Cosen of A. within the Degrees they then knowing of it and had Issue betwixt them and afterwards they were Divorced in the County of Kent c. And Exception was taken to that Office Because the Enquest of Surry had found a Divorce in the County of Kent Another matter was Because the Iurors have found the breach of the Condition And before the Iurors had put their Hands and Seals to the Inquisition the Queen granted part of the things demised in his hands to Fortescue After which Grant the Inquisition was sealed and Retorned into the Exchequer If
the Plaintiff who said That the Extent by computation of time according to the value to which it was extended is not yet satisfied The Verdict hath found that the Extent continued until 22 Eliz. hut doth not say that it was then expired and ended And I conceive also that this Extent doth not evict the Interest of Sir Thomas Cotton or turn it into a possibility The extent is Quousque leventur denarii but yet a Limitation of time is in Law understood although by a Casualty such time may be abridged or extended Which see 15 H. 7. 16. by Fairfax Where a Man is bounden by Statute to pay 40 l. and the Conusee sueth Execution upon it and the Land extended is rated at 10 l. per annum now it shall be intended by a common intent that in 4 years the party may be satisfied and therefore after the 4 years the Conusor shall have a Scire facias so upon the matter it is a Lease for 4 years So 7 H. 7. 12. by Keble to the same purpose And 15 E. 4. 5. by Brian for the Law shall not intend a casualty without alledging of it for the same shall not be by imagination And therefore If the Conusor will have the Land within the Term he ought to alledge That the Conusee hath levied the duty by an extraordinary Casualty and shew it specially And so where the Conusor sueth a Scire facias and the Conusee will hold the Land over he ought expresly to surmise some extraordinary occasion wherefore he could not levy the duty upon the Land within the Term Which see by Brian 15 E. 4. 5. and 44 E. 3. The Conusee of a Statute after extent maketh a Lease for 3 years yet it may be that the duty shall be levied within one year but if it be so then a Scire facias shall issue forth against the Conusee and not against the Lessee for the Law intends that the whole estate of the Conusee is not granted but that he hath a Reversion in him but if he hath granted his whole estate then a Scire facias shall issue forth the Grantee So here although that this extent in our Case would continue by computation of time for some of the years of the Term granted to Sir Thomas Cotton yet it is intended that the extent did run out and was determined before the expiration of Sir Thomas Cotton's Term so as notwithstanding that Sir Thomas Cotton hath an Interest left in him which he may grant It will be Objected How can it be said an Estate for years when as he might hold over the years As to that such an Interest may be put off in divers Cases As 15 H. 7. A Man grants to another the third Avoidance of such a Church and dieth seised his Wife is endowed of the Church she shall have the third Avoidance and the Grantee shall have the 4th Avoidance and so per talem intervenientem occasionem the benefit shall be delayed and so here in our case And then the estate by Extent being prima facie certain so as it cannot by intendment surmount the Term of Sir Tho. Cotton as it appeareth upon the Extent the estate shall be taken to continue according to the extent of the years and then a certain Interest doth remain in Sir Thomas Cotton which he may grant over which is not a possibility but rather a Reversion So and to such purpose is the Case of 7 H. 5. 3 4. If the eldest Son entreth after the death of his Father and afterwards his Mother recovereth Dower that shall take away the possessio fratris but if the Son maketh a Lease for life and the Wife recovereth Dower against the Lessee there shall be possessio fratris for the Reversion doth remain in the Lessor notwithstanding the eviction of the estate for life And 7 H. 6. 2. there it is holden by Goddard and Strange That where the Term of the Wife was extended upon the Statute of the Husband who died the Wife shall have the residue of the Term and avoid the extent as to her Term which proves that all the Term is not drawn to the Conusee by the Extent but that an Interest doth remain in the Lessee notwithstanding that And see by Seton 29 Ass 64. If Lessee for life Leaseth to him in the Reversion for life yet he hath a Reversion in him And 31 Ass 6. A. is bound by Statute to B. and his Land extended by force of it C. recovers against B. in Debt and the Land extended by him upon the Statute 1 Roll. 887. is now extented by Elegit A. grants his Estate to the Conusee it is no surrender which proves that B. hath an Interest And so in our Case an Interest doth remain in Sir Thomas Cotton notwithstanding the Extent A. makes a Lease for years to begin at a day to come and before the day A. is disseised The Lessee notwithstanding this Disseisin may grant his Interest for he never was in possession and therefore it cannot be turned into a Right As to the second point If Robert Cotton may enter within the time of the Extent without a Scire facias and that rests upon this point If this Lease shall be subject to the Extent I conceive clearly that it shall not It hath been said That our Lease is not good But I conceive it without question that our Lease is good enough For it is made by the Husband and Wife and the Wife after the death of her Husband by Acceptance of the Rent might affirm the Lease But the Statute is the act of the Husband alone therefore the Conusee of the Fine shall not avoid the Lease for it is but voidable So the King grants Lands durante beneplacito and afterwards grants the Reversion over the Patentee shall not avoid the Estate But if this Lease had been made by the Husband only it had been void and then the Conusee of the Fine should avoid it as it was lately adjudged in Harvy and Thomas 's Case And I conceive That if Tenant in tail acknowledgeth a Statute and afterwards makes a Lease according to the Statute of 32 H. 8. and dieth the Lessee shall not hold the Land subject to the Statute for then the Rent should not be paid to the Issue in tail during the Statute which is against the Stat. of 32 H. 8. And see also 8 Eliz. Dyer 252. The Chaplain of a Donative Chappel Leased for 99 years which was confirmed by the Patron who was Tenant in tail of the Patronage which was appendant to a Mannor whereof he was seised in tail and afterwards he had Issue and died The Statute of Chauntries cometh after the death of the Incumbent the King shall avoid this Lease And in our Case after the Coverture the Conusee is in by the Wife and then he shall avoid the Statute extended upon it And if so then there needeth not any Scire facias as the
laid in a person in such sort as it may be laid and therefore in this Case forasmuch as the seisin cannot be shewed by the hands of the Inhabitants it ought to be layed in the Lord. See 4 H. 6. 29. Br. Avowry 71. In a Recordare the Defendant avowed because the King is seised of the Castle of C. in jure Ducatus sui Cornub. to which he had 20 s. Rent out of the Town of D. Solvend annuatim at Michaelmas of which Rent the King and all the Dukes of Cornwal aforesaid had been seised time out of memory c. by the hands of the Inhabitants of the same Town c. and the same was holden a good Avowry For although that seisin ought to be laid in some person certain by his hands yet in that case it is good enough For the seisin by one of the Inhabitants is the seisin of them all And in the principal Case by Periam and Walmesley It was agreed That the seisin here was well enough confessed For when the Plaintiff hath taken Issue That they have used to distrain all other matters are holden confessed because that the Plaintiff hath not saved them to him by protestation Which Rhodes granted Another Exception was taken to the Avowry because that the Leet by it is supposed to be holden in July therefore void which see Magna Charta 35. But it was holden by Anderson Windham and Rhodes That by reason of this Prescription the Court is well holden in July notwithstanding the said Statute of Magna Charta and it might be holden at what day he pleased For his Liberty and Election is not restrained by the said Statute and such is the common experience And note the words of the same Statute Ita quod quilibet habeat Libertates suas quas habuit vel habere consuevit tempore Regis H. avi nostri c. vel quod postea perquisivit c. And Rhodes conceived That the said Statute is to be intended of Turns only and not of Leets Which see 24 H. 8. Br. Leet 23. in the end of the Case But by Periam A Leet cannot be holden but according to the said Statute for to that purpose was the said Statute made But if a Leet hath been time out of mind c. holden at any other day than that which is limited by the Statute it is a good prescription and it is saved by the Statute The Prescription is That he and all c. have used to hold a Leet once in a year and hath not shewed when the said year begins for it may be that a Leet hath been holden there in this year before July and then this is a void Leet and so no Leet-Fee due and of that Opinion was Periam viz. That the Avowant ought to have shewed the beginning and end of the year viz. That he held the said Leet pro uno anno finito such a day for it may be he hath holden two Leets in one year But it was said by the other Iustices That that shall come on the other side for prima facie it shall be intended that it hath been but once holden in the same year until the contrary be shewed And Note by Anderson and Rhodes If the King grants to one a Leet to hold semel quolibet anno without saying At the Liberty of the Grantee the Grant is good and the Grantee may hold it at what day he pleaseth CCXXXII Putnam and Cook 's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 129.193 1 Cro. 52. IN Ejectione Firmae It was found That one Hawkins was seised of 3 Messuages in Bury in Fee and had Issue Robert his Son and Christien and Joan Daughters And Devised all his said Messuages to his Wife for life the remainder of one of the said Messuages to his Son Robert and his Heirs the remainder of another of his said Messuages to his Daughter Christien and her Heirs the remainder of the third to Joan and her Heirs And further willed That if any of his said Issues died without Issue of his body that then the other surviving should have totam illam partem c. between them equally to be divided The Devisor died The Wife of the Devisor died Joan died having Issue Robert died without Issue Christien entred into the whole Messuage of Robert and died and her Husband held in as Tenant by the Curtesie Cook The surviving Child shall have the whole and the Issue of Joan shall have nothing And he conceived That by this Devise they have an Estate in tail for the Fee is not vested in them for that it is incertain which of them shall survive but when one doth survive then he shall have the Fee for these words totam illam partem go to the whole Estate as well as to the whole Land. If I Devise my whole Land to J.S. he hath a Fee. And he conceived That the three had an Estate in tail with a Fee expectant each severally to the House limited to him Golding contrary Each of them hath an Estate tail in the House Devised to him and but an Estate for life expectant upon the death of the other without Issue for there are no words by which it might appear what Estate they shall have by the Survivor c. I grant the Case which Perkins denies but Littleton affirms scil A Devise of Lands to one in perpetuum for there the intent appeareth but where there are not words of Inheritance nor words amounting to so much then it shall be but an Estate for life And as to these words totam illam partem the same is all one as if he had Devised totam illam without partem Also he conceived That where one only survived no estate further vested for there ought to be two to take by the Survivorship for the words are aequaliter inter eos dividend And then if it cannot accrue by Survivor then it shall descend And if it had accrued by Survivor they should thereof have been Tenants in Common and not Ioynt-Tenants by reason of these words aequaliter dividend Clench Iustice The words totam illam partam go to the House and not to the Estate in it Shute to the same intent If both the Daughters had survived they should have Fee in the House of Robert but not by the Will but by descent in Coparcenery Also when two are dead the Son and one Daughter then it cannot be decided therefore the Will as to that is void and then the Common Law shall take place and put the Messuage to the Issue of one Daughter as to the Sister surviving Gawdy Iustice Here is but an Estate for life in the survivor It hath been Objected That then being but an Estate for life that Estate is drowned by the descent of the Feesimple so as now the Estate limited by the Will is void To which it may be answered That although now upon the matter it be void yet ab inition it
shall plead That he had not bought modo forma For if he hath bought of A.B. or J.S. the same is not material nor traversable Which Case Cook denyed to be Law. And he also conceived That the Information upon the Quo Warranto is not sufficient For by the same the Defendant is charged to hold a Court and it is not shewed what Court For it may be a Court of Pipowders Turn c. See 10 E. 4. 15 16. acc Shute Iustice The Quo Warranto contains two things in it self 1. A Claim And 2. An usurpation and here the Defendant hath answered but to the Vsurpation but saith nothing to the Claim And it hath been holden in this Court heretofore That he ought to answer to both And he said That it hath been holden in a Reading upon the Statute of Quo Warranto which is supposed to be the Reading of Iustice Frowick That a Quo Warranto doth not lie upon such Liberties which do not lie in Claim as Felons goods c. which lieth only in point of Charter CCXXXVI Venable's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was 1 Inst 351. a. Hughs Queries 13. A Lease was made to A. and B. for their lives the remainder to Tho. Venables in tail who 3 Eliz. was attainted of Felony 23 Eliz. there was a General Pardon Tho. Venables 24 Eliz. levied a Fine and suffered a Recovery to the use of Harris Serjeant Office is found Harris traversed the Office and thereupon was a Demurrer It was argued by Leake That Traverse did not lie in this Case 4 H. 7. 7 Where the King is entituled by double matter of Record the party shall not be admitted to his Traverse nor to his Monstrans de Droit but is put to his Petition Which see 3 E. 4. 23. in the Case of the Earl of Northumberland Where Tenant of the King is Attainted of Treason and the same is found by Office. See also 11 H. 4. in the Case of the Duke of Norfolk And the same is not helped by the Statute of 2 E. 6. Cap. 8. for the words are Untruly found by Office but here the Office is true By this Attainder Tho. Venables is utterly disabled to do any Act For by Bracton a Person attainted forisfacit Patriam Regnum Haereditatem suam 13 E. 4. One was attainted of Felony And before Office found the King granted over his Lands Also he is not helped by the General Pardon For before the General Pardon he had a special Pardon therefore the General Pardon nihil operatur as to him But by the Iustices the forfeiture doth remain until the General Pardon Harris to the contrary And he put the Case of Sir James Ormond 4 H. 7. 7. Where the King is entituled by matter of Record and the subject confesseth the title of the King and avoids it by as high matter as that is for the King Traverse in that case lieth and if the King be entituled by double matter of Record if the party avoids one of the said Records by another Record he shall be admitted to his Traverse And so here we have the Pardon which is a Record and that shall avoid the Record for the King And here the Pardon hath purged the forfeiture in respect of the Offence And he said That Tenant in tail being attainted of Felony shall not lose his Lands but the profits only for he hath his Interest by the Will of the Donor and it is a Confidence reposed in him and as Walsingham's Case is he cannot grant over his Estate And see in Wroth's Case Annuity granted pro Consilio impendendo cannot be granted over or forfeited for there is a Confidence See Empson's Case Dyer 2. and 29 Ass 60. If the Issue in tail be Outlawed of Felony in the life of his Father and gets his Pardon in the life of his Father after the death of his Father he may enter But by Thorp If the Issue in tail gets his Pardon after the death of his Father then the King shall have the profits of the Lands during the life of the Issue And the Case of Cardinal Pool was debated in the Parliament 27 Eliz. That he being Dean of Exeter was seised of Lands in the right of his Church and was attainted of Treason It was holden he should forfeit the profits of such Lands But admit That by this Attainder the Land be forfeited yet the party hath the Freehold until Office found See Nicholls Case Plow Com. And also the Case of the Dutchy in Plow Com. acc And here the Pardon hath dispensed with the forfeiture A Tenant of the King aliens in Mortmain before Office found the King pardons it it is good The Lord Poynings conveyed all his Lands to Sir Adrian Poynings who was an Alien and after made a Denizen and the King pardoned and released to him all his right in the said Lands without any words of grant and adjudged the same did bind the King And he said he had a good president 14 H. 7. Where a General Pardon before seisure into the hands of the King was allowed good contrary after a seisure without words of Grant. See Br. 29 H. 8. Br. Charter of Pardon 52. If a Man be attainted of Felony and the King pardons him all Felonies executiones eorundem and Outlawries c. and releases all forfeitures of Lands and Tenements and of Goods and Chattels the same will not serve but for life of Lands if no Office be found but it will not serve for the goods without words of restitution and grant for the King is entituled to them by the Outlawry without office But the King is not entituled to Land until Office be found See Ibid. 33 H. 8. 71. The Heir intrudes and before Office found the King pardons now the Heir is discharged as well of the Issues and profits as of the Intrusion it self But a Pardon given after the Office found is available for the Offence but not for the Issues and profits And he cited the Case of Cole in Plowden where a Pardon was granted mean between the stroak and the death See 35 H. 6. 1. 16 E. 4. 1. 8 Eliz. Dyer 249. Brereton's Case 11 Eliz. Dyer 284 285. Egerton Sollicitor contrary This Traverse is not good for he who traverseth hath not made title to himself as he ought upon which the Queen may take Issue for it is in the Election of the Queen to maintain her own title or to traverse the title of the party At the Common Law no Traverse lay but where Livery might be sued but that is helped by the Statute of 34 E. 3. but where the King is entituled by double matter of Record as in our Case he is no Traverse was allowed until 2 E. 6. Cap. 8. And in such Case two things are requisite 1. That the Office be untruly found 2. That the party who is to be admitted to his Traverse have just title or Interest
that the Queens Attorny said That it is true that Thomas Robinson was possessed but it is further said That Thomas granted it to Paramour and so the Interest of Thomas is confessed on both sides and therefore the Iury shall not be received to say the contrary But the Opinion of Manwood Chief Baron was That if the parties do admit a thing per nient dedire the Iury is not bound by it but where upon the pleading a special matter is confessed there the Iury shall be bound by it And afterwards the Issue was found against Robinson the Defendant CCLXXIII Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action of Debt by A. against B. upon an Obligation the Defendant pleaded tender of the Mony according to the Condition upon which the parties were at Issue And after the Defendant pleaded That after the Darrein Continuance the Debt now in demand was Attached in the Defendants hands according to the Custom of London for the debt of C. to whom the Plaintiff was endebted It was the Opinion of the Court That the Plea was insufficient for it is altogether contrary to the first Plea. And also the Court held That in an Action for the debt depending here in this Court the debt cannot be attached and the Court would not suffer a Demurrer to be joyned upon it but over-ruled the Case without any Argument For it was said by Wray Chief Iustice That it was against the Iurisdiction of the Court and the Priviledge of it CCLXXIV Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. NOte It was holden by the Court That if a Copyholder in Fee dieth seised and the Lord admits a stranger to the Land who entreth that he is but a Tenant at Will and not a Disseisor to the Copyholder who hath the Land by descent because he cometh in by the assent of the Lord c. CCLXXV Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. AN Ejectione firmae was brought de uno Cubiculo and Exception was taken to it But the Exception was disallowed The Declaration was special viz Leas unius Cubiculi per nomen unius Cubiculi being in such a House in the middle story of the said House And the Declaration was holden good enough and the word Cubiculum is a more apt word than the word Camera And such was the Opinion of Wray Chief Iustice And it was said That Ejectione firmae brought de una rooma had been adjudged good in this Court. CCLXXVI Johnson and Bellamy's Case Rot. 824. Mich. 30 31 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione firmae It was holden by Special Verdict 1 Cro. 122. That W. Graunt was seised of certain Lands and by his Will devised the same to Joan his Wife for life And further he willed That when Rich. his Brother should come to the age of 25 years that he should have the Land to him and the Heirs of his body lawfully begotten W. Graunt died having Issue of his body who was his Heir Rich. before he attained the age of 25 years levied a Fine of the said Lands with proclamations in the life and during the seisin of Joan to A. sic ut partes finis nihil habuerunt And If this Fine should bar the Estate in tail was the Question And the Iustices cited the Case of the Lord Zouch which was adjudged Mich. 29 Eliz. Where the Case was Tenant in tail discontinued to E. and afterwards levied a Fine to B. That although that partes finis nihil habuerunt yet the said Fine did bind the Estate tail But the Serjeants at the Bar argued That there was a difference between the Case cited and the Case at Bar For in the Case cited the Fine was pleaded in Bar but here it was not pleaded but found by Special Verdict To which it was said by the Court That the same is not any difference For the Fine by the Statute is not any matter of Estoppel or Conclusion but by the Statute binds and extincts the entail and the right of it And Fines are as sufficient to bind the right of the entail when they are found by Special Verdict as when they are pleaded in Bar. And Periam Iustice said A Collateral Warranty found by Special Verdict is of as great force as pleaded in Bar. And afterwards Iudgment was given That the Estate tail by that Fine was utterly barred and extinct CCLXXVII Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was A Man made a Lease for life rendring Rent at Michaelmas and further Leased the same to the Executors of the Lessee until Michaelmas after the death of the Lessee It was affirmed by Cook That in that Case it was adjudged That the word Until shall be construed to extend to the Term unto the end of the Feast of St. Michael and so the Rent then due payable by the Executors for without such Construction no Rent should be then due because the Term ended before Michaelmas CCLXXVIII Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. ONe was bounden to stand to the Award of two Arbitrators who awarded That the party should pay to a stranger or his Assigns 200 l. before such a day The stranger before the day died B. took Letters of Administration The Question was If the Obligee should pay the Mony to the Administrator or if the Obligation was discharged It was the Opinion of the whole Court That the Mony should be paid to the Administrator for he is an Assignee And by Gawdy If the word Assigns had been left out yet the payment ought to be made to the Administrator Which Cook granted CCLXXIX Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Defendant in Debt being ready at the Bar to wage his Law was examined by the Court upon the points of the Declaration and the cause of the Debt upon which it appeared that the Plaintiff and Defendant were reciprocally endebted the one to the other And accompting together they were agreed That each of them should be quit of the other It was the Opinion of Periam and Anderson Iustices That upon that matter the Defendant could not safely wage his Law For it is but an agreement which cannot be executed but by Release or Acquittance CCLXXX Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant in tail Covenanted with his Son to stand seised to the use of himself for life and afterwards to the use of his Son in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of the Father The Father levied a Fine with proclamations and died It was moved by Fenner If any Estate passed to the Son by that Covenant for it is not any discontinuance and so nothing passed but during his life and all the Estates which are to begin after his death are void Anderson Iustice The Estate passeth until c. And he cited the Case of one Pitts where it was adjudged That if Tenant in tail of an Advowson in gross grants the same in Fee and a Collateral Ancestor releaseth with warranty and dieth
thereupon But then the Question was If the Tenants should be put to plead the same in discharge or that the same should be discharged without pleading because it appeareth upon Record That he who aliened was but Tenant in tail in Remainder For there was an Office found of that which was pleaded by another in another Cause The Opinion of the Court was Where such matter appeareth of Record as by Office Livery c. there the party needs not to plead such matter in discharge for the pleading of it is to no other purpose but to satisfie the Court by the Record that the matter is so as the party hath alledged and therefore the Barons gave Order That the Process against the Tenants of the Lord Dacres should be stayed CCCXXXVI George Ap-Rice's Case Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer IN the Case of one George Ap-Rice The matter was Ante 121. That Tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct assigned over his Estate unto A. against whom he in the Reversion brought a Quid juris clamat and Iudgment was given that he should attorn and upon his refusal he was committed to Prison and divers Fines set upon him and estreated in the Exchequer It was moved That these Fines were imposed upon the party against Law. And the Opinion of the Court was That when Iudgment is given in a Quid juris clamat for the Plaintiff Distresse infinite shall be against the Defendant to bring him in to attorn and when he comes in if he refuse he shall be imprisoned until he attorn It was also holden by the Court That the Fines were not lawfully assessed and imposed upon him And it was said That it had been adjudged in a Court of Wales That the Assignee of Tenant in tail after possibility of issue should attorn upon which Iudgment a Writ of Error was brought in the Kings Bench and there upon good advise the said Iudgment was affirmed For although it be true That Tenant in tail after possibility shall not be compelled to attorn yet that is a priviledge which is annexed to his person and not to the Estate and by the assignment of the Estate the priviledge is destroyed CCCXXXVII Harris and Wing's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. More Rep. 4. 5. IN the Case between Harris and Wing The first point was That the Lease made by Queen Mary was void 1. Because a former Lease of Record was not recited in the Letters Patents of it The reason wherefore such recital ought to be is not as hath been alledged by Cook Quia circa solium Regis subsistunt justitia veritas and then when there is a former Lease in Esse the King makes a Lease in possession the same cannot stand together so as there is not Justitia Veritas but the very reason thereof is so high that he cannot take c. but by matter of Record and if that he mistaken it makes all void and therefore In Petitions of Right Ante 5 6. and Monstrans de Droit If the King be not enformed of all the Titles all is void And therefore in the Case between Sir Moyle Finch and Throgmorton which now depends in the Exchequer which was this The Queen made a Lease for years rendring Rent with a Proviso That if the Rent be behind That the Estate shall cease the Rent is behind the King granted the same over to Sir Tho. H. It was first moved If the same Lease should cease without Office. And it was holden by Popham and many other grave and learned Men upon a Conference That the said Lease should cease without Office for the Contract which is upon Record is determined and ceased by which the Estate which was created by the said Contract shall also cease without Office. But yet the Lessee continued in possession notwithstanding that and took the Profits but thereof after office found he rendred recompence to the Queen And it was holden there upon the said Conference That the Queen in her Grant to Sir T.H. of the said Estate which was now ceased ought to recite that Lease For the Tenant is in possession and could not be punished for his occupation before Office. So in the Case of the Vicarage of Yatton 17 Eliz. Dyer 339. The presentment being devolved to the Queen by Lapse the Ordinary collated A. and afterwards the Queen presented B. who brought a Quare impedit depending which A. proved another Presentment of the Queen without mention or recital of the first Presentment and the same was holden void For in that the first Presentment is not recited nor the pleasure of the Queen to revoke it and therefore it was in disceit of the Queen So the Case 18 Eliz. Dyer 352. An Abbot leased for 60 years the Lessee made a Lease for 80 years the Reversion came to the King the 60 years expired the second Lesse surrendred to the King ea intentione that the King would re-grant the same to him for 20 years remaining The King reciting the Indenture and Surrender ex certa scientia granted for 20 years It was holden by the Court That the Grant was void because the King was misenformed c. It hath been Objected That here needs no recital for that the Lease to be recited is ended eo instante that the new Lease beginneth Sed distinguenda sunt tempora aliud est facere aliud perficere the first Lease is ended when the new is perfected and the Great Seal put to it The second reason wherefore the Lease shall be void is because otherwise the Grant of the Queen shall enure to two Intents 1. To make a Lease 2. To accept a Surrender and how can the Queen accept a Surrender of an Estate of which she hath not notice for She is not enformed of it by any Record without which She cannot take notice of any thing See 7 E. 4. 30 31. Baggotts Assise The King granted an Office to an Alien the same shall not enure to make him a Denizen for then it shall enure to two intents c. The words of the Grant of Queen Mary are Omnia tenementa nostra and If by that a Reversion shall pass was the Question Certainly In verbis ambiguis Intentio sumenda est Then here in our Case by this Patent is other Land which should pass and the Reversion is nostra but in property not possession Wherefore here Nostra shall be restrained to that which is in possession Where there are general words in Grant of the King they ought to be served but if they can be served they shall be taken in a common and general sense but the words shall not be stretched But if they cannot be served then they shall not be void but the King shall be rather prejudiced and always the Grant of the King either may be served or taken to a common intent 2 H. 3. 4. Quaelibet Concessio Domini Regis capi debet stricte contra Dominum
Regem quando potest intelligi duabus viis As if two be joyntly endebted to the King and the King pardons to one of them Omnia debita the same shall not extend to joynt-Debts but to those Debts of which he is only Debtor 40 E. 3. The King granted to a Subject the Fines and Amercements hominum suorum All which hold of him by Homage may be said homines suos and also his Villeins are homines suos but because the general words may be served the said Grant shall be taken to extend to his Villeins only So in our Case the general words may be served with Lands in possession and shall not extend to Lands in Reversion At another day the Case was argued by Popham Attorny General and he conceived That by the Lease made 2 Mar. both the former Leases as well that which was made by Henry the eighth as that which was made in Reversion by the Bishop of Bath and Wells are gone Lessee form term of years to begin at a day to come accepts a new Lease in possession which is to continue until the future Interest shall commence the future Interest is gone and in Barkings Case 2 Eliz. It was holden by Dyer and Brown that where Lessee for two years accepts a new Lease to begin two years after this new Interest of a term determines the present Interest For as the Lessor cannot contract with a Stranger for the Interest of a Term which is to have continuance during a former Term by the same reason when the first Termor will accept an Interest of a Term from his Lessor to begin at any time during his former Estate this new Interest determines the first So if one hath an Interest of a Term to begin at a day to come and he before the beginning of that Interest accepts a Lease for life his first Interest is gone The words of the Patent are All her Interest Lands and Tenements in the Parish of St. Cutbert in Wells and parcel of the possession of the late Priory of R. and if these general words will carry Lands in Reversion where other Lands in possession pass c. was the Question General words shall have a special understanding if the special Construction may agree with the proper signification and sense of the general words as the Case 2 H. 3 4. before cited and yet in the Case of a common person all manner of Debts were released thereby for that it shall be taken strongest against the party Also he conceived That the Lands in Reversion should pass as well as the Lands in possession And he said All former Leases of Record needed not to be recited c. but such Leases only which are made by the King For Subjects may have Leases of Record as by Fine Deed enrolled c. but such Leases need not to be recited For such Leases may determine without matter of Record as Surrender Re-entry c. and then to compel the King or the party to search for such Leases which might be so determined by any Act in pais should be as absurd as to compel him to search by what means and for what matter in pais such Leases are determined And he conceived That this Lease needed not to be recited which was made by King Henry the 8th For after the said Lease made the King granted the Reversion to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and his Successors and during the time that the said Land was to the Bishop It might be that the Lease was determined by matter in suit in pais by Surrender Forfeiture c. and then notwithstanding that the King obtained the Reversion after and will make a new Lease if he should be driven to recite the former Lease whereas perhaps it is determined by an Act in pais it should be very inconvenient Also here if any recital should be in the Case how might the party interested know such former Leases but by search and how long ought the party search for his search ought to have an end Non excrescere in infinitum tempus And in our Case the most equal time for search is the beginning of the last Title of the King and no further that is from the present time till the time of the Title of the King begins and in this Case the Title of the King doth begin from his repurchase from the Bishop and if the Law be such then here nothing is to be recited for no Lease is mean between the re-purchase and the new Lease For no Lease made before the re-purchase need to be recited For admit That King Henry the 3d had made a Lease of a Mannor for 500 years and afterwards granted the Reversion to an Abbot and afterwards the Mannor by suppression came again to the King and he will Grant a new Lease of the same such Lease shall be good without any recital of the Lease made by King Henry the 3d for such Lease might have been determined in the hands of the Abbot by Surrender or other matter in fact So King Edw. the 2d made a Gift in Tail and afterwards granted the Reversion to another the Grantee disseised the Tenant in Tail One who was Heir to the Grantee was attainted of Treason the Grantee died by which the Land came again to the King who made a new Patent of the same without recital of the Gift in Tail and the Patent holden good for the Cause aforesaid And in some Cases there needs no recital of Leases As if the King makes a Lease for years rendring Rent to his Receivor and for default of payment that his Estate shall cease Now if at the day the Lessee tendreth the Rent and the Receivor will not accept of it and afterwards it is found by Office that the Rent was not paid by which the Lease should be void yet he may traverse the Office and afterwards the King Grants this Rent to a Stranger there he needs not to recite the Lease for it appeareth by the Office That the same is void and yet in truth the Lease was in Esse c. and so a Lease of Record in Esse in some Case needs not to be recited So if the King Lease for years to J.S. and he assigns his Interest over and afterwards Surrenders the same to the King Now if the King will make a new Grant of it he need not recite that Lease for the Surrender of it appeareth of Record and the Assignment of it is but matter in fait which cannot be known by any search So on the other side void Leases which are not in Esse shall be cited until it appear as in the Case of Throgmorton cited before by Egerton And in such Case where the Queen granted the same to Sir T.H. the Grant ought to be in possession and not in Reversion because then void for the King had not a Reversion Also this Lease ought not to be recited for the second Patent is granted to
although the date is not necessary to be recited yet here as this Case is the same ought to be truly recited For the Surrender of the said Estate which passeth by it is the Consideration of the new Grant then if the same be false the Patent is void for it was made by reason of that for there is a more ample Lease recited than in truth it is by ten days And so the Consideration scil the Surrender not so beneficial as the Queen expected also this new Patent doth contain in it self a Grant of such Lands as were demised formerly by Letters Patents dated 21 of May scil Omnia praemissa in forma praedict dimissa and nothing was demised in forma praedict scil by Patent bearing such date Ergo nothing passed by the later Patent For the Patent of 13 Eliz. is in consideration of a Surrender of a Lease made and bearing date 21 of May whereas no such Lease was and then no Surrender and then no Consideration Also here the Consideration is false for the Lessee who is supposed to have surrendred his Lease before the same Surrender assigned parcel of his Term to one Hagget and afterwards purchased a new Lease in consideration of the Surrender of the former and of his full Interest in it whereas he had not the whole Interest and so this false consideration destroys the whole Grant. For in all Cases where the considerations are real and savour of the Land or extend to such a real thing if it be false it destroys the Patent But where the consideration is personal as in consideration of Mony paid or for Service done although it be false yet the Patent may be good So here forasmuch as the consideration is real in respect of this Surrender and is false as appears before the Patent is void And as to this point there is not any difference between Consideration and Suggestion for if it be real and false the Patent is void contrary where personal But in some Cases where the Letters Patents are Ex certa scientia c. such falsity in the reality shall not hurt Which see 18 Eliz. Dyer 352. So the Case between Manxel and Turvil where Lessee for years his Lease being expired supposing that he had twenty years of his Lease not entred in consideration of such Interest took a Patent de novo the same was void So Owens Case Terril being Lessee for years of the Parsonage of P. in the County of Sommerset of the Grant of the King for certain years In consideration of his said Interest obtained a Grant of the Queen of Lands in Wales whereas in truth he had before assigned his Interest in the said Parsonage to another and it was adjudged That the said Grant of Lands in Wales was void for the Consideration was void and so the Consideration being real was false And in some Cases a Consideration personal if it be false shall destroy the Patent if it be future and executory as if the King Grants Lands to J.S. ea intentione that he shall pay to J.D. 10 l. Now if he do not pay it the Patent is void and the Estate given by it void also It hath been Objected by Godfrey That by this Surrender the Patent was cancelled and so the parcel of the Term which was assigned to Hagget was defeated and avoided forasmuch as the Original Letters Patents out of which the Estate of Hagget was derived are cancelled and so there is a good Surrender and then the Consideration is true especially forasmuch as Hagget being Assignee but of parcel of the Term cannot have a Constat by the Statute of 4 E. 6. As to that I conceive That the Assignee of part of the Interest may have a Constat by that Statute notwithstanding the Surrender of the Letters Patents and the cancelling of them and for that matter the difference is If the Roll remains a Constat may be although that the Patent be cancelled See Brook Patents 89. 32 H. 8. If a Vacat be entred upon the Roll then no Constat can be afterwards and therefore in Sydnies Case the Assignee could not have a Constat because there was a Vacat entred upon the Roll. But a Constat had before any Vacat entred upon the Roll such a Constat is good notwithstanding the Vacat afterwards And it doth not appear that any Vacat is entred upon the Roll so for any thing that appears Hagget may have a Constat and then his Interest is saved to him and then the Surrender is void and the Consideration false and although there be other Considerations in the Letters Patents which are true and good yet that shall not help the matter For if any part of the Consideration be false the Patent is void in all and so it was holden in Manxell's Case cited before and so be prayed Iudgment for the Plaintiff Egerton Sollicitor to the contrary Where the words ex certa scientia are not put in Letters Patents they shall be intended to be made at the suggestion of the Patentee and so the Grant shall be taken beneficially for the King and strictly against the Patentee But where such words are put in the Letters Patents there the Grant shall be taken beneficially for the Subject These words Ex speciali gratia imply the bounty of the King certa scientia excludes all ignorance and mero motu shew the voluntary and liberal benevolence of the King without suit of the party and where the words in such Letters Patents are general they shall be construed liberally for the Subject but with limits and bounds that nothing pass in such case but such things which are aptly signified by such special words as to pass two things where the meaning of the King was to pass but one And if the Patent be conceived utroque modo tam ex certa scientia c. as upon the suggestion of the party If the Suggestion be in any part false the whole Patent is void for the Suggestion extenuates the force of the other words Juris forensis est si quid falsis precibus obtentum acquirenti non proderit and to that purpose he cited the Case 18 Eliz. Dyer 352. before cited And he conceived That the Lease made by Queen Mary is utterly void 1. Because the first Lease of Record is not recited 2. If the same shall be good the Queen should accept a Surrender where she knew not of it and so the Patent should enure to divers Intents 3. This Lease is made by general words that is Of all the Lands in the Parish of St. Cuthberts For these general words may be well satisfied with the Lands which the King hath in possession and therefore they shall not extend to the Lands which are now in Question of which the Queen at the time of the Grant had but a Reversion and first I conceive That general words without any restraint or limitation will pass nothing As if the King pardons all
Demands or Grants Omnia terras tenementa sua But general words qualified with a restraint where the Limitations are effectual As if the King Grants Omnia terras tenementa sua in D. which he hath by the Attainder of J.S. or which were the possessions of such dissolved Monasteries such Grants are good And where the Case is That Queen Mary hath the Lands in possession of the annual value of 19 l. and other Land there in Reversion of the annual value of 6 l. and then she Grants Omnia terras tenementa nostra rendring 19 l. per annum I conceive That upon these words the Land in possession only passeth because that the said general words may be aptly served and satisfied with the Lands in possession if no other Lands pass And I agree That this word Nostra extends as well to the Lands in Reversion as to Lands in possession but most properly to Lands in possession for Land in Reversion cannot dici simpliciter Nostra but quodam modo tanquam terra revertens and not to take the natural profits of it for the Termor hath such properly that he shall have an Action of Trespass Quare clausum fregit But the intent and meaning of the Queen is to be regarded and that is the surest way to have right intelligence of the Grants of the King For here the Queen hath reserved but 19 l. Rent which is the proper and ancient Rent of the Lands in possession and if Lands in Reversion should also pass the Rent of which was 6 l. per annum then upon the whole Grant but 19 l. being reserved the Queen should lose 6 l. per annum of her ancient Rent which should be contrary to the intent and meaning of the Queen and the intent of the Grantor even in the Case of a Subject shall direct the construction of Grants As 9 H. 6. Br. Grants 5 by Babington A Man grants Common in his whole Lands he shall not have Common in his Orchards Gardens or Meadows for such was the meaning of the Grantor a fortiori in the Case of the King. It hath been argued That the former Lease ought not to be recited because that after the first Lease made by King Henry the 8th the Inheritance hath been in a Subject that is the Bishop of Bath and Wells but the same is not so For if the King makes a Lease for years and afterwards Grants the Reversion upon Condition which after is broken and so found by Office by which the Reversion is reduced to the King If now the King will make a new Lease he ought to recite the former Estate notwithstanding the mean grant of the Reversion or else such second Lease is void Another matter hath been Objected wherefore the former Lease ought not to be recited and that is because it is determined by surrender in Law before that the new Lease takes effect Sir the same is not so for the former Lease is in being as the Case betwixt Fulmerston and Steward 1 Mar. Plow Com. 106. upon the Statute of Monasteries 31 H. 8. See the words of the Statute whereof and wherein any Estate or Interest for years at the time of the making of any such Lease had his being or continuance And an Abbot made such a Lease to one who had a term for years of a former Grant although here be a Surrender yet this Case is within the said Statute and the said former Lease shall be said to have his being at the time of the making of the later Lease and the Surrender shall not be said so to preceed the making of the Lease but that the former Lease shall be said in Esse at the time of the making of the later Lease And in our Case it shall not be taken for any Surrender for then the Queen shall lose 6 l. of her ancient Rent and Revenue and always when the Title of the King and of the Subject concur the Title of the King shall be preferred as 43 E. 3. The King Lord Mesne and Tenant The Tenant pays his Rent at the day to the Mesne before Noon and then the same day before Night the Mesne dieth his Heir within age the King shall be paid the Rent again for here the Title of the King and the Subject concur together at one time and in that the King shall be preferred and so he prayed Iudgment for the Defendant And afterwards at another day the Iustices declared their Opinions and by Wray Chief Iustice We all agree That the first Lease ought to be recited and the reason which hath been urged against that point hath reduced us to be of that Opinion scil That the second Lease was made to the first Patentee and the King doth not make the recital but the party ought to inform the King of all former Estates of the said Lands and that he might well do for he is well knowing of them and although that the Reversion after the first Lease made hath been conveyed to a Subject the same is not material here forasmuch as the second Estate is made to him who had the first Estate and might know whether the first Estate were determined or not Also by the re-purchase the King is in Statu quo prius Gawdy Iustice although that the former Term be drowned by the taking of the second Lease yet it was in being at the time of the taking of it as it is holden by Bromley in the Case of Fulmerston and Steward It is determined by the second Lease and yet it was in being at the time of the making of it Fenner Iustice to the same intent Clench Iustice If the Grant of the Queen shall enure to two intents then the Queen should lose 6 l. per annum of her ancient Revenue It was agreed by all the Iustices That the general words in as much as they are restrained to a certainty would pass the thing si caetera essent paria contrary if they had remained in the generalty and afterwards Iudgment was given Quod querens nihil Capiat per Billam CCCXXXVIII Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 4 Len. 233. A Man 30 Eliz. made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life and afterwards to the use of his Son and his Heirs The Father and the Feoffees before issue for Mony by Deed granted and enfeoffed J.S. and his Heirs who hath not notice of the first use The Tenant for life hath issue and dieth the issue entreth Glanvil the use limited to the first Son is destroyed for without regress of the Feoffees it cannot rise and it is gone by their Livery See the Case in Plowden 349. and also he vouched the Case of the Earl of Kent where by the Release of the surviving Feoffee 2 Roll. 797. Plow 347. a Sleeping-Vse was destroyed and could not after be revived Harris the use may rise without entries of the Feoffees and he put a difference between an
the Rent by the Father to the Son is fraudulent and so shall be intended if the contrary be not shewed and averred And so it was of late adjudged in the Court of Wards Where a Man alieneth to his Son and Heir for Mony and Mony in truth is paid yet notwithstanding it shall be intended fraudulent unless the contrary be shewed and averred Hanham Serjeant This Grant shall enure first as the Grant of Tenant in tail and after the death of the Tenant in tail without Issue it shall be the Grant of him in the Remainder And to this purpose he put Newdegate's Case 7 Eliz. Dyer 234. Lessee for life and he in the Reversion Lease for years by Indenture That during the life of Lessee for life is his Demise only and the Confirmation of him in the Reversion but after the death of the Lessee for life it is the Lease and Demise of him in the Reversion and he shall have an Action of Waste ex dimissione sua propria without shewing the special matter in the Count. And if Tenant in tail granteth a Rent in Fee and he in the Reversion confirm the Grant it is good See Litt. 121. And he said That the Recoveror is in the Per for it was holden in Winter's Case That if a Man makes a Lease for years rendring Rent with clause of Re-entry and afterwards suffereth a Common Recovery That such a Recoveror is an Assignee within the Statute of 32 H. 8. to take benefit of a Condition and Recoveries are now common Conveyances And if Tenant for life be the Remainder over in Fee and Tenant for life grants a Rent-Charge and afterwards ceaseth and the Lord recovereth in a Cessavit he shall hold the Land charged And as to the Collusion it is not shewed in the pleading That the Grant was made by Collusion for if the Collusion be not apparent the Iustices without averment of it are not bounden to take Notice of it Cowper Serjeant Here are two several Grants and one Grant intire in the Letter may enure as several Grants as if two Tenants in Common grant a Rent of 10 s. here are several Grants and he shall have several Rents of 10 s. And if A. disseiseth B. of Black-Acre and C. disseiseth B. of White-Acre and afterwards by one Deed releaseth to A. and C. the same shall enure as several releases upon their several possessions And he in his Argument relied much upon the Collusion and this Grant shall be taken by the Iustices to be fraudulent for it was made 20 Eliz. and the Recovery was 21 Eliz. and in 27 Eliz. came the Statute Beamount Serjeant This Grant shall enure as several Grants i.e. as a Grant of Tenant in tail and afterwards as of him in the Reversion Two Ioynt-Tenants Enfants make a Feoffment They shall have several Writs of Dum fuit infra aetatem as upon several Feoffments 19 H. 6. 43. Two Coparceners take Husbands who discontinue and die their Wives shall have several Writs of Cui in vita and yet the Discontinuance was joynt And 15 H. 7. 14. If 3 Coparceners be and upon partition one of them granteth to the two others Rent of 20 s. per annum for equality of partition that Rent shall be in the nature of Coparceners and so shall descend and shall not go to the Survivour but by descent See 21 E. 3. 50. Also admit that it is the Confirmation of him in the Remainder yet after the death of the Tenant in tail without Issue now it is become the Grant of him in the Remainder And to that purpose he cited Newdegate's Case 7 Eliz. Dyer before cited But posito that it be the sole Grant of the Tenant in tail yet here is not any Covin apparent for Covin apparent ought to be averred and proved otherwise the Iudges of our Law cannot adjudge upon it for they cannot judge upon probabilities as the Iudges of the Civil Law do for so they should many times minister Injustice in the place of Iustice And that the same is not Covin apparent although it be made to his Son he vouched 19 H. 6. 30. and 47 E. 3. 16. Where such a Feoffment to re-enfeoff the Heir of the Feoffor when he cometh of full age is not in it self Covin apparent but it ought to be expresly averred And he cited also Warnford's Case 3 Eliz. Dyer 193. And also he cited 17 Eliz. Dyer 341. upon the Statute of 27 H. 8. of Monasteries Where there is a Proviso Forasmuch as some of the Chief Governours of such Religious Houses have lately fraudulently and craftily made Leases c. to the great decay and diminution of their Houses That all such Leases c. made within one year before the making of this Act shall be void c. And also there is a Proviso That such persons as have Leases whereupon the old Rent is reserved shall enjoy their Leases c. The Case was That an Abbot made a Lease for 60 years 47 days before the making of the said Act upon which the ancient Rent was not reserved It was holden there That although the Lease was within the words of the Statute because made within a year yet it shall not be intended Covinous without an express averment of it for it may be it was made bona fide See Librum Yelverton Serjeant This is a joynt Grant but yet it shall charge the several Estates when they come into possession Also he put this Case Cestuy que Use and the Feoffees after the Statute of 1 R. 3. and before 27 H. 8. joyn in a grant of a Rent It shall enure as several Grants in respect of their several authorities scil one by the Statute of 1 R. 3. and the other by the Common-Law And as to the Covin he conceived Tat it is Covin apparent and needed not to be averred and that appeareth by the suffering of the Common Recovery CCCXL Brokesby and Wickham's Case Hill. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Len. 167. 3 Cro. 173. Owen Rep. 85 86. A Quare Impedit was brought by Bartholomew Brokesby against the Bishop of Lincoln and Wickham Pasch 30 Eliz. Rot. 1815. The Case was That Robert Brokesby was seised of the Mannor of Sholby in Fee to which the Advowson was appendant and the Church being full granted to Humphrey Brokesby and the Plaintiff his two Sons the next Avoidance of the said Church Afterwards the Church became void Humphrey by Deed released all his right estate and interest which then he had of and in the Advowson of the Church aforesaid for the said Avoidance Bartholomew sole presented and the Defendants did disturb him The Bishop pleaded That he claimed nothing but as Ordinary Wickham pleaded a Lease made of the Mannor with the appurtenances by the said Bartholomew to one Starkey for years before the Grant made ut supra to Humphrey and Bartholomew which Starkey presented him Vpon which they were at Issue and found for
it and shall not be put to a Scire facias but if such a Writ be sued forth and not continued but discontinued by a year and a day he shall be put to a Scire facias for it is the negligence of the Plaintiff of not continuing it which within the year and day he may do without Order of the Court but not after the year by any Order of the Court c. CCCXLVI Evans Godfrey and Arnold's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was Evans and Godfrey were bail for one Kemp at the suit of Alice Arnold Kemp was condemned and a Capias ad satisfaciend awarded against the Sureties By which process Godfrey was taken and he suggested to the Plaintiff That Evans the other bail was sufficient to satisfie him but that he himself was not sufficient but utterly unable to do it Vpon which surmise the Plaintiff was content that Godfrey should go at liberty so as he did procure Evans to be arrested who did it accordingly And now Evans being arrested sued an Audita Querela upon that Escape of Godfrey and they were at Issue upon the Escape And afterwards It was espied That the Venire facias was to summon 12 in Actione Transgressionis super Casum whereas it should be in Audita Querela It was said by Kemp Secondary That the Venire facias upon every Original Writ in this Court as this Audita Querela is ought to contain in it the Issue But when the suit is upon a Bill then the words are ad recognoscend in Actione Transgressionis super Casum And afterwards by the Advice of the Court a Iuror was withdrawn by Assent and so the matter was stayed CCCXLVII Cheney's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer NOte by the Barons in this Case If Rent-Corn be reserved upon a Lease for years Roll. 591. and it is behind for 2 or 3 years That the Lessor may have Debt for the Corn and shall make his Declaration of so much Corn and the same shall be in the Detinet but yet he shall not have Iudgment to have Corn but so much Mony as the Corn was worth every several year being accounted Clark Baron doubted If he should recover the price of the Corn as Corn was at the time of the Contract or according to the price which it was at the time when it was payable or as it was at the time of the Action brought Manwood The Law is clear That the Lessee shall pay according to the price which was at the time of the payment and delivery limited by the Lease Clark A. is bound to deliver to the Obligee 10 Bushells of Wheat and no place is limited where the payment shall be made the Obligor is not bounden to seek the other party wheresoever as in case of paymene of Mony For the importableness of it shall excuse him Which Manwood granted CCCXLVIII Philip Fines and the Lord Dacre's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer THe Case was Tenant in tail of Lands 4 Len. 97. Ante 241. the Remainder in Chief levied a Fine without the Kings Licence And If the Tenants of the Lord Dacres should be chargeable by the Fine For the Case was that the Lord Dacres was Tenant in tail the Remainder in tail to Philip Fines was the Question It was holden by the Barons That the Tenants should be discharged But it was holden That if the Conusor had any other Land within England the Fine might be levied thereof But the Question was If the Tenants shall be put to plead in discharge of that which would be a great charge or should be discharged without plea because it appeareth by Record that he who aliened was but Tenant in tail in Remainder For there was an Office of it which was pleaded by another in another cause It was said Where such matter appeareth of Record as by Office Livery c. there he need not to plead such matter in discharge because the pleading of the same is to no other purpose but to satisfie the Court by a Record that the matter is so as the party in his discharge hath alledged And therefore In this Case the Barons gave Order That the Process against the Tenants of the Lord Dacres should be discharged CCCXLIX Hill. 32 Eliz. In the Court of Wards THe Case was A. gave Land to B. in tail rendring Rent B. suffered a Common Recovery with voucher unto the use of a stranger and his Heirs It was the Opinion of some That the Rent remained And it was resembled to Littleton's Case 231 232. Lord Mesne and Tenant The Lord purchaseth the Tenancy now the Mesnalty is extinct yet he who was the Mesne shall have the surplusage of the Rent of the Lord now Tenant of the Land as a Rent distrainable of common right And it was said by Heskith late Attorny of the Court of Wards That it was lately the Case of the Lord De la Ware That in such case notwithstanding such Common Recovery the Donor should have the Rent although that his Reversion was gone But Cook was of Opinion That the Rent was gone For the Rent was incident to the Reversion and there is not any question but that the Reversion is gone CCCL Gardiner and the Hundred of Reading's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. ANdrew Gardiner brought an Action upon the Statute of Winton of Hue and Cry against the Inhabitants of the Hundred of Reading in the County of Berks and declared of a Robbery committed by persons unknown on his House It was the clear Opinion of the whole Court That the Action would not lie For that this Offence is not properly a Robbery intended by the said Statute to be pursued but rather a Burglary And Robberies committed in the High-way only are relieved within this Statute And by Anderson Every Man is bounden to guard his House at his peril for his own safety CCCLI Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin The Defendant made Conusans as Bailiff to Greves and Rockwood and said That one A. was seised and 6 Eliz. enfeoffed certain persons in Fee to the use of his last Will By which he willed That his Feoffees should stand seised of the said Lands until Greves had levied of the profits thereof 100 l. And against this Conusans It was Objected That here is no Devise For A. at the time of the Devise had not any Feoffees But the Exception was disallowed by the Court. And they cited the Case 15 Eliz. Dyer 323. Lingen's Case A. made a Feoffment in Fee to his use and afterwards devised That his Feoffees should be seised to the use of his Daughter that the same was a good Devise of the Land. See 29 H. 8. Br. tit Devise 48. CCCLII. Hambleden and Hambleden's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Len. 166. 3 Cro. 163. 1 And. 38. NOte The Case of Hambleden and Hambleden For the principal Case see Mich. 31
nor his promotion can be properly called a Benefice A. 277. By-Laws Made by the Homage of a Court-Baron must be rationi legi consonan A. 190 C. 8 40 41 42 43. What By-Law is good in a Corporation C. 264 265. Made by the major part of Commoners binds all if it tend not to bind the Inheritance C. 265. C. Certainty WHat shall be sufficient Certainty to describe what Lands are granted though part of the descriptions be false A. 119. B. 226. C. 18 19 162 235. The like in describing the person of the Donee Devisee C. 48 49. Promise in consideration the Plaintiff would repair quandam partem domus is good C. 91. Certiorari To certifie a Warrant of Attorny A. 22. Granted at the request of the Defendant in error ex officio c. after a Nihil returned ibidem C. 107. If grantable after in nullo est erratum A. 176. B. 2 3. Cessavit Against the Tenant of the King B. 144. It is a good Bar to this Action that the Lord accepted the Services of the Alience of the Tenant C. 272. Challenge By a Bishop for that no Knight was retorned A. 5. To the Array for affinity whether principal challenge or not A. 88 89. No challenge to the Polls in a Writ a Right but at the time of the arrayment A. 303. The Statute 27 Eliz. cap. 6. A. 55. For want of Hundredors where there are many Hundreds in one Wapentake or Lathe B. 109. Of the Array for that the Sheriff married the Plaintiffs Cousin which the Plaintiff confessed C. 222. Chancery Ought not to give relief after Judgment B. 115. C. 18. Charge and Discharge If a Man marry an Inheritrix and hath Issue and then acknowledges a Statute and they sell the Land be Fine the Land shall not be charged for the Conuseels in by the Feme C. 254. Tenant for life granteth a Rent-Charge and cesseth after recovery in Cissavit the Lord shall hold the Land charged C. 255. Chattels A special property for a time in them A. 221. Are bound by the Teste of the execution A. 304. Chose en Action What is a Chose en Action A. 176. C. 196. The King may grant it and how and by what words A. 271. B. 56. C. 17 18 196. A void Church is a Chose en Action and one Grantee thereof cannot release it to his Companion A. 176. C. 256. Church-Warden Whether the Successor shall have Action for Trespass done in the Predecessors time A. 177. Cinque-Ports Issue triable there tryed by a Jury of the next County C. 3. How Execution of Lands must be made there C. 3. Clergy Not grantable for a second Felony if the first Conviction appear by Record A. 295. Collusion See Fraud Colour Defendant justifies by a gift of Goods which were then out of the Vendors possession if that being out of possession be a good Colour C. 266 267. Common Special Common at certain times when the Land is not sowed A. 73. Shall not be to any House built on a new Foundation B. 44 45. The Lord or his Tenant shall have no Common to Lands improved by the Statute of Merton cap. 4. B. 44. If a Commoner may kill Conies B. 201 202. May distrain a Strangers Beasts Damage Feas B. 201. If some Commoners let their Corn lie beyond the usual time the other Commoners may put in their Cattle B. 202 203. Commission and Commissioners The second Commission of the King repeals the first A. 270. Nisi prius out of the Exchequer by Commission 110. Commandment The Commander not punishable unless his Command be strictly pursued B 75. In what case traversable B. 215 216. Conditions Lease upon Condition that the Lessee shall not alien doth not bind an Administrator Secus of a Feme whose Baron alieneth A. 3. In a Feoffment of Lands held in Capite that the Feoffees shall not alien A. 8 12. What acts shall be defeated by entry for breach of it A. 8. That the Lessee shall not do voluntary waste what is a breach of it and who shall enter for the breach A. 67. The difference where the Condition is Quod dimissio vacua foret and where only a re-entry is given A. 61. B. 134 to 145. To pay 20 l. or to give Cows how tender is to be pleaded A. 68. contra 70. The difference in pleading to a Condition to discharge and to save harmless c. A. 72 324 325. Shall not be averred to be against Law unless it appear so A. 73. 203. To pay the 29 of February not payable until a Leap-Year happen A. 101. To make such assurance as J. S. and such as the Plaintiffs Council shall devise the diversity A. 105. To perform all agreements in Articles is broken by not performing or by the falshood of a recital A. 122. To pay Mony at the Feast of St. Thomas the later Feast is the day of payment A. 142. con C. 7. What makes a Condition what a Limitation A. 167 168 174 244 269 283 299. B. 38 114 138. C. 152 153. When an Estate which is to begin upon a precedent Condition impossible or possible shall commence A. 229. What Covenants shall amount to a Condition and defeat an Estate A. 246. That the Feoffee shall enfeoff J.S. in Fee or in Tail J. S. refuseth who shall have the Estate A. 266. That the Donees in tail shall not do any act to discontinue c. and what is a breach thereof A. 148 207 257 292 298. A true diversity between the nature of a Condition and a Limitation A. 299. To make reasonable assurance and to levy a fine the difference therein A. 304. Must be pleaded by him who will take advantage thereof A. 306. To pay Mony at a day and place certain it need not be found to be paid at the very day or place so it were paid before the day A. 311. The force of a Proviso coming after the Habendum to alter an Estate A. 318. To perform all Agreements in an Indenture obliges the Obligor to all things though contained in the Obligees Covenants A. 324. To defend the Plaintiff for the Title of such Lands what is a breach A. 325. That a Devisee shall not alien for a time is good and what Estates are a breach thereof B. 82 83. Where the word Proviso makes a Condition or an Exception or Limitation B. 128 129 138. C. 16 225 226. Condition that the Lessee shall not occupy for a time is void B. 132. Of what Condition in a Lease Grantee of the Reversion shall take advantage of B. 136 to 144. Devise to his Son towards his education in Learning is no Condition but the Devise is good though he be not so educated B. 154. Become unpossible to be performed by the act of the Law or of God B. 155. A. bound that B. shall pay before Mich. B. dies before the Bond is forfeit B. 155. To maintain and keep in good repair the Lessee cannot pull down and
rebuild B. 189. For saving harmless the Defendant must shew how he saved harmless B. 198. Difference where one is to do an act to a Stranger who refuses to accept it and where it is to be done to the Plaintiff who refuseth B. 222. If the words Yielding and Paying make a Condition C. 58. Provided that the Lessee shall not Grant the Land who devised the same to his Executor C. 67. To procure a Grant of the next Avoidandce so as the Plaintiff may present what is a breach C. 151. Upon a Condition to pay Corn the Obligor not bound to seek the Obligee if no place be appointed C. 260 261. Confirmation If one Chapter where there are two may confirm a Lease A. 234. What acceptance and by whom of Rent confirms the Lease of the Tenant A. 243. Tenant for life and he in remainder in Fee joyn in a Feoffment this is the Confirmation of him in remainder C. 10. Abbot and Covent Lease to J.S. at Will and after by Deed for life C. 15. Of a Dean and Chapter of a Bishops Lease in what time it must be made C. 17. Consideration in Assumpsit Assumpsit in cosideration the Defendant will prove such a thing c. when the proof is to be A. 93 94. Past and executed and yet continuing good to make a promise A. 102. B. 111. 224 225. That the Plaintiff will perform an Award the Defendant would perform it also good A. 102. To forbear a Suit in Chancery if good A. 114. B. 105. Of forbearance to sue the Execution of an Infant not good if the Debt were not due A. 114. B. 105. To stay a Suit in Court Christian good A. 118. In consideration of Goods delivered promised to pay the Debt due for them for if no sale no debt A. 157. If there be two if both must be found A. 173 300. B. 71 72. In consideration of the doing of an illegal Act A. 180. C. 208 236. To forbear a Suit ought to shew in what Court the Suit depended A. 180. In consideration of the Plaintiffs promise A. 180. B. 154. What is a good Consideration to make an Assumpsit A. 192 275 276 397. B. 29 30 C. 105 129. Not to execute a Fieri Facias upon Goods good though the Goods were not liable to the Execution A. 220 221. In Consideration the Obligor would pay the Mony the Obligee promised to deliver up his Bond quaere A. 238. Against the Wife of an Intestate in Consideration of forbearance not good unless she administers A. 240. In Consideration of the arrears of Rent-charge for life were unpaid good A. 293. If one of two Considerations be good and the other void yet the Action is maintainable A. 296 300. In Consideration the Plaintiff will assign his interest where he hath none at all B. 71. To forbear per Paululum tempus good C. 200. Where though the Consideration be past and executed being done at the Defendants request yet is good B. 111 224 225. C. 164 236. Ought to be matter of benefit to the Defendant C. 88. 129. Void Consideration per Stat. 23 H. 6. 10. being to let a Prisoner escape C. 208. Where there are two Considerations whereof one is void the whole is void C. 108. Copyhold and Copyholder Relieved by the Lord per Petition in a matter of equity A. 2. Where he shall do Fealty and have Aid of his Lord in Trespass c. and shall have an Ejectione Firme A. 4. How a person absent must make his surrender A. 36. If the Custom be to grant them in Fee it warrants a Grant for life A. 56. An Action in nature of a Dum fuit infra aetatem lies where an Infant surrenders A. 95. Where Statutes speak generally of Lands c. given to the King as forfeited Copyhold Lands are not intended A. 98 99. An Heir by descent may Lease or bring Trespass without any admittance A. 100. And also enter A. 174 175. C. 70. In pleading such Lease it need not be averred to be warranted by the Custom but must be challenged on the other part A. 100. An Heir within age not bound to tender his Fine while within age A. 100. Surrender to a Stranger for life remainder to the right Heirs of the Surrenderer the Heir is in by purchase Secus where an Estate is limitted to the Surrenderer himself A. 101. Surrender to the use of his right Heirs cannot vest during the Ancestors life A. 102. Lord sells and Copyholder releases the tenure is extinct A. 102. Release of a Copyholder to a Disseisor nihil operatur A. 102. What is a reasonable matter to excuse the Tenants not appearing at the Lords Court A. 104. To whom and where notice of a Court day must be given A. 104. Copyhold Estates may be entailed A. 174 175. Such Estate forfeited to the Lord and by him sold by Bill A. 191. Copyholder accepts a Lease of his Copyhold from the Lord this determines his customary Estate A. 170. What Steward may take Surrenders our of or in Court A. 227 228 288 289. Trespass lies by the Tenant against the Lord for cutting down Trees not being Timber A. 272. If the Lords agreement to avoid Admittance makes it good A. 289. A Court to admit Copyholders may be held out of the Mannor A. 289. The mis-entry of the day of holding the Court does not hurt the Copies but may be averred against A. 289 290. No Attornment necessary upon selling a Reversion of Copyhold Lands A. 297. If Tenant at will or sufferance may grant Copies B. 45 46 47. What Estates accepted by a Copyholder from the Lord does extinguish the customary Estate B. 72 73 208. Copyholders Estate not liable to a Rent-charge granted by the Lord B. 109. Secus of Demesnes grantable by Copy B. 153. C. 59. What refusal of a Copyholder to do his service pay his Rent or to make Presentments is a forfeiture of his Estate C. 108 109. What false Pleas Feoffments or Forgeries of Deeds is a forfeiture c. C. 108 109. He who disseiseth a Copyholder gains no Estate C. 221. No Escheat for want of an Heir until proclamation in Court C. 221. A Reversioner may surrender if no Custom to the contrary C. 239. Conspiracy If it lies if the Indictment were void A. 279. C. 140 141. Constable See False Imprison Iustification If he may imprison and how A. 327. Needs not dispute the legality of a Justices Warrant B. 84. May set one in Stocks for refusing to Watch C. 208 209. Continual Claim May be made though the Lands come to the hands of the King A. 191. What is a good Claim to avoid a Fine by the Statute of 4 H. 7. B. 53. Continuance Death of one Defendant after the Assises and before the Term cannot be pleaded for that the Defendant hath no day in Court to plead it C. 5. The difference between it and a dies datus silicet upon a dies datus and default thereupon
Lease cont of Lands proper to the Dean only B. 176. Debt For foreign Mony may be demanded either by Foreign or English Names A. 41. Upon a Recognizance in nature of a Statute A. 52. B. 14. Upon a void Award is good if the Defendant do not shew that part that makes it void A. 72 73. For a nomine poenae A. 110. For a pain set in a Court Leet A. 203 204 217 218. Upon the words Covenant and Grant lieth A. 208. Where it lies before the last day of payment A. 208. For the surplusage of an Account A. 219. Lies by an Administrator against an Executor for Arrearages of an Annuity A. 224 225. Lies upon a Recognizance made before the Mayor of London A. 284. If Debt lies by the Grantee of a Rent reserved by a Lease to which Grant the Lessee attorned A. 315. Under 40 s. in the Kings Bench for Costs in a Hundred Court A. 316. Against an Heir shall be in the Debet Detinet B. 11. Debt lies upon a Judgment or Recognizance although the Plaintiff have Judgment upon a Scire Facias B. 14. For Rent lies although in the Declaration it be alledged that he entred before the commencement of his Lease B. 98. Lies for the Grantee of Post-Fines and for a Nomine poenae by the Heir B. 179. cont A. 249 250. This Action lies not but where a certain sum is agreed on C. 161. Against Baron and Feme for a Debt of the Feme must be in the Debet Detinet C. 206. For Corn in the Detinâ—t and the Plaintiff shall recover the value of the Corn C. 260. Deed. Where the Habend ' may controul the Premisses A. 11 281 318. B. 105. What is a good delivery thereof what not A. 140 152. If a primo deliberat ' or non est factum may be pleaded of a Deed enrolled A. 183 184 C. 175 176. Where in the Premisses of the Deed two things are granted Habend ' the one for years what Estate the Grantee hath A. 281 282. Raisure of a Deed does not avoid it if it be in a part not prejudicial to the party who would avoid it A. 282. Indenture between A. of one part and B. and C. his Wife and their Children A. 287 288. Must be pleaded sealed and delivered or by words tantamount A. 310. In Indentures the intention of the parties may be argued Deeds Poll shall be taken strongest against the Grantor A. 318. B. 47 192. None can take by Indenture but those who are party to it A. 287 288. B. 1. C. 34. The effect and meaning of them regarded where the words are doubtful B. 17 219 151. Where a Deed may have quasi two deliveries B. 192. A Deed once perfectly executed as by enrolment c. cannot pass any thing by Livery C. 16 125. Actual indenting and both parties Seals mentioned to be put makes an Indenture C. 16. Where a Deed in the Premisses leaseth Lands to one Habendum to his Executors and Assigns for 40 years what Estate the Lessee hath C. 32 33 34. The date of a Deed not material C. 100. Demand See Request The King need not demand a Rent to avoid a Lease A. 12. B. 134. C. 125. A Legacy not payable without demand A. 17. Rent payable at Michaelmas or within the space of 12 days prox post aliquod festorum vel dierum when it is demandable A. 142. The difference of demand in a Writ De advocatione duarum partium Ecclesiae duabus partibus Advoc Ecclesiae A. 169. What is demandable in a Writ of Entry A. 169 170. Whether demand at one day for Rent due several days before be good A. 190 191 305. Whether a sum in gross must be demanded as Rent A. 269. The manner to make a demand of a Rent A. 305. He who demands Rent as Attorny need not tell his name nor shew his authority C. 224. Demurrer To Evidence in Ejectione Firme A. 269. All matters well pleaded are confessed by Demurrer C. 200. Upon Demurrer to a Challenge there neeeds no Serjeants hands C. 222. Departure What is what is not A. 32. Count of a Lease without Deed no Departure by Replication to say the Lease was made by Deed A. 156 204. C. 203. Ejec vers 5. One pleads to the Issue the others plead specially no Departure for the Plaintiff to deduce a Title to himself and say that he was seised until by the 4 disseised B. 199. First to make a Title by Common Law and reply a Custom to uphold it is a Departure C. 40. Devastavit What Sheriff may retorn it and what Sheriff is estopped to retorn it B. 67. C. 2. If Executors release a forfeited Bond of 100 l. and receive only 50 l. the whole is Assets C. 53. It is a personal Tort and the Executors of the Executors shall not be chargeable with the first Executors Devastavit C. 241. Devise See Legacy That Executors shall sell Lands who sell by Fine A. 31. C. 119. If such Executors may â—ell by parcels A. 34 60 260. The construction of an Habendum in a Devise A. 57 58. What shall be a Devise in tail for life or in see A. 57 58. B. 69. C. 55. That his Son and an Executor shall take the profits until another comes of Age gives the Son see A. 101. C. 55. To the discretion of the Devisee A. 156 224 283. B. 69. That Executors shall sell a Reversion who sell by Parol yet good and the Devisee is in by the Will A. 148. C. 119. To three Sons and if any die the Survivor to be his Heir how adjudged A. 166 258 259. C. 262. All my Lands and Tenements if it passeth a Reversion after a Lease for life A. 180 181. If by the Stat. of Wills an Estate pur auter vy may be devised A. 252. A Use may be raised by Devise and the Consideration is presumed by Law A. 254 257. If the Devisee die in the life of the Devisor the Heir of the Devisee shall take nothing A. 254. Of Capite Land and Soccage A 267. B. 41 42. C. 267. Vide the Statutes 32 34 H. 8. To A. if she do not Marry Remainder in tail A. 283. That if my Son A. die without Issue that then my Sons in Law shall sell how adj A. having a Son who dies without Issue A. 285 286. Feoffment to the Uses in his Will which deviseth that his Feoffees shall be seised to Uses a good Devise A. 313. That Lessee for years shall hold after the Devisors death for 30 years accounting the Remainder of the first Term how adj B. 33 34. Devise to A. may be helped by Averment B 35. C. 79. To the Father and his eldest Issue Male B. 35. Things individual cannot be devised within the Statute of Wills If part be Soccage and part Capite B. 41 42. That his Lands shall be sold for payment of his Debts the Executor shall sell 43 220. Devise that his
185. If a pain set in a Court-Baron may be mitigated by afferrors C. 8. The remedy for a Grantee of the King to recover a Post-Fine C. 56 234. Fine for alienation without Licence may be levied upon any Lands of the Vendor C. 241. Fine of Land. See more C. 74. Partes finis nihil habuer where Executors sell by vertue of a Devise that they shall sell A. 31. Not receiveable if made to two heredibus suis A. 62. A Fine levied of two parts of a Mannor sans dire in tres partes dividend good in a Fine but ill in a Writ A. 115. How to be pleaded upon the Statutes of 4 H. 7. 1 H. 3. 32 H. 8. A. 75 76 77 78. B. 36 37. Quod partes finis nihil habuer how and in what cases to be pleaded A. 78 83 185. B. 36 37. C. 37 119. Where it shall be reversed in part or in the whole A. 115. C. 120. Levied in Exeter City and reversed because it was de duobus Tenementis A. 188. Who shall be bound and how by a Fine and Non-claim after five years A. 212 213 214 259 260 261. B. 18 19 36 37. C. 10. What remainder and contingent Uses are barred by Fine A. 244. B. 18 19 36 37. C. 10. With render of a Rent in Fee and the Lands to the same persons for life how the Law construes this render A. 255. In pleading of it it is not necessary to say that the Conusor was seised A. 255. Dangerous to plead a Fine inter alia A. 255. By Baron and Feme Come ceo que il ad del done le Baron does not bar the Feme of Dower A. 285. Of Ancient Demesne Lands avoided by a Writ of Disceit A. 290. C. 220. For life without the word Heirs is not to be received for fear of occupancy B. 124. The force of a Fine without proclamation such Fine is not void but avoidable by Formedon B. 157. An Infant may declare the Uses and it binds B. 159. Where it must be pleaded and conclude Si actio and where by Estoppel B. 160. Forfeiture Baron and Feme makes a Feoffment of the Wives Joynture to one and his Heirs to the use of the Feoffee for the life of the Feme and adjudged a Forfeiture A. 125 126. Tenant for life forfeits his Estate by levying a Fine A. 40 212 214 262 264. If a remainder which is to vest upon a contingency may be forfeited before it vest A. 244 245. What distress or acceptance shall bar a Lessor to enter for a forfeiture for non-payment A. 262. If Bargain and Sale by Tenant for life be a forfeiture A. 246. It is no forfeiture B. 60 65. What Aid Prayers Vouchers Attornments and Pleadings by Tenant for life and years in real Actions is a forfeiture of his Estate B. 61 62 63 64 65 66. C. 169 170. If Tenant for life and the Reversioner joyn in a Fine and the Reversioner reverse the Fine for his Nonage yet he cannot enter for forfeiture B. 108. If Cestuy que vie die and the Tenant hold over if he be Tenant at Will Sufferance or a Disseisor C. 151 152. Form. Want of Traverse is but Form A. 44. Pleading to a Condition performance of Covenants generally is but form A. 311. Want of shewing a Deed is but Form B. 74. C. 193. Want of shewing a place is substance C. 200. What other matter is but Form C. 235. Formedon After the Tail spent the Plaintiff may suppose all to be dead without Issue A. 286. C. 103. Gavel-kind Land no Assets to bar a Formedon A. 315. In Reverter upon a Gift to the Heirs of the Body of Baron and Feme remainder to their Heirs B. 25. Upon a Gift in Tail remainder to Coparceners the Heir of the Survivor must bring a Formedon for that they claim as purchasers C. 14. Forrest Lex Forestae is but a private Law and must be pleaded B. 209 210. Fraud Fraud shall not be presumed but must be averred C. 255. G. Gardian GArdian in Soccage may grant the Ward though he cannot forfeit C. 190. Gardian in Soccage may enter for Condition broken and make Leases A. 322 323. The Court refused to appoint one for an Infant retorned Tenant in Dower unless in Court in person B 189. Gavel-kind Dower of such Lands is by custom a moiety quamdiu sola c. A. 133. Such Lands are not Assets to bar a Formedon A. 315. Grant. Of Estovers pro Easiamento A. B. heredum suor ' how construed A. 2. Lease at will 10 l. Rent The Lessor grants eundem reditum for life A. 151. Of the next avoidance does not give the then present avoidance A. 167. Of a Vicaridge does not pass the Presentation thereunto A. 191. If an Executor bona sua the Testators Goods pass A. 263. All my Goods and Chattels in such a Town a Lease of the Pawnage of a Park passes C. 19. All Wood upon such Land to be cut and carried away in 30 years does not grant any but what was then growing C. 29 30. A Grant cannot be but of a thing in esse C. 29 30. The force of the word Grant in a Lease C. 33. Grant of all Woods and Underwoods C. 59. Grant of a Rent-Charge to begin when J. S. dies without Issue who had Issue which died without Issue C. 103. All my now Goods and Chattels if the interest or possibility of a Term pass C. 153 to 158. Of the third avoidance c. the Wife is endowed of it the Grantee shall have the fourth C. 155. What interest of a Term or possibility may be granted C. 157 158. Of the Ear-grass of a Meadow C. 213. That the Grantee may take a Load of Hay yearly out of his Meadow the Grantee cannot take no Hay in one year and take two the next C. 226. What shall be sufficient certainty to describe what Lands are granted though part of the description be false A. 119. B. 226. C. 18 19 162 235. Grant of Common in all my Lands the Grantee shall have no Common in the Orchards Gardens c. C. 250. Divers good Cases where Grants of Tenant in Tail and he in Reversion or of Coparceners Joynt-Tenant and Tenant in Common shall be adjudged joynt or several Grants or the confirmation of one C. 254 255 256. Grant of the King and Patents Of a Mannor cum pertin Another Mannor which holds of it passes A. 26. Of an Acre in a great Field not specifying where is void Secus in the case of a common person A. 30. By his Grant Omnium bonorum catallorum Felonum what passes A. 99 201 202. B. 56. Shall be taken according to the true meaning A. 119 120. B. 80. Of a Chose en Action must be very strictly penned N. 271. C. 17 18 196 198. By the Statute of 31 H. 8. cap. 20. the King may grant Lands forfeited before Office B. 124. The force of a Non obstante in
shall vest the Estate by Livery and prevent the operation of Inrolment A. 6. C. 125. By Letter of Attorny cannot be made by parcels unless so limited A. 34. What is a good Livery what not A. 207. Where the particular Tenant and he in remainder joyn in a Livery how adjudged A. 262. How it must be made by Attorny of Land in several Counties or of a Mannor A. 306 307 308. Made to three where the Feoffment was to four is good in some cases B. 73. Feoffment by Tenant for life and before Livery made by Letter of Attorny the Feoffor purchaseth the Fee and then Livery is made the Fee passeth C. 73. But that shall not pass other Lands purchased by the Feoffor in the same Vill where the Feoffment was of all his Lands in D. C. 73. Livery ouster le main What Leases or Conveyances an Heir may do before Livery sued A. 157. London Scire facias there ad discutiendum debitum A. 52. Quo Warranto lies against the City if the Mayor use authority not agreeable to Law per Gawdy A 106 107. Upon a Recognizance taken before the Mayor by custom Debt lies not but in their own Courts A. 130 131. The custom that a Feme sole Merchant may sue without her Husband A. 130 131. The Statutes of 32 34 H. 8. of Wills how far they extend to Lands in L. A. 267. The Courts at Westminster take notice of their Customs A. 284. It had no Sheriffs in the 13th year of King Edw. the First Ibid. Debt lies in the Common Pleas upon a Recognizance there Ibid. Hustings may be holden every Week B. 14. Upon Indictment at the Sessions Error lies B. 107. The Custom there Quod concessit solvere debitum alterius B. 156. Custom that every Surety shall be chargeable pro rata B. 166 167. If an Action there by Custom be removed to Westm it shall be remanded B. 167. They ought not to be impleaded in real Actions but in their own Courts C. 147. Their Liberties seised and re-granted by King Richard the Second and re-granted for 10000 Marks C. 264. M. Maihem Cutting off any Finger is a Maihem A. 139. Maintenance See Stat. 32 H. 8. For desiring a Juror to appear and to do according to his Conscience done by a Stranger B. 134 135. Against a Counsellor at Law C. 237. Mannor Whether a Rent-Charge may be parcel of a Mannor A. 14. Extending into several Vills a Grant of the Mannor in one Vill how adjudged A. 26. Granted cum pertin another Mannor which holds of it passeth Ibid Where by Grant of part of the Services of Freeholders and Demesnes a Mannor will pass A. 26. B. 41 42. A Lease of a Mannor except all Casualties and Profits of Courts the Court is not excepted A. 118 119. How it may be dissolved and after become a Mannor again A. 204. A moiety thereof by what words conveyed A. 204. B. 42. Whether a Steward of a Mannor deputed by parol may take Surrenders extra curiam A. 228. If Lessee of a Mannor attorn to the Grantee of the Reversion the Mannor passes A. 265. B. 221 222. If the Tenants pay their Rent to a Disseisee they are discharged A. 265. The Service of a Tenant may be changed from one service to another A. 266. What will pass by Grant by name of a Mannor B. 41 42 43. By what name a Mannor may pass B. 47. A Mannor in two Vills is devised to the Heir and the Lands in the one Vill to A.B. he shall have that devised to him B. 190. Lease the Demesnes the Reversion passes not by grant of the Mannor without the Lessees Attornment B. 222. The Services pass not without Attornment C. 193. Market If a stoln Horse be sold by J. S. by the name of J.D. and so entred it alters no property A. 158. Mesne The form of the Count B. 86. If it be extinct by the Lords purchasing the Tenancy Monstrans de Droit Where it lies A. 195 B. 122. Or where only a Petition de Droâ—t B. 122. C. 15. Petition of Right for a Rent-Charge granted out of Lands which are since vested in the Crown C. 190 191. All the Estates must be truly set down else all is void after Judgment C. 242. Monstrans de Faits Upon pleading a Grant of a Reversion the Deed must be shewed A. 310. And upon pleading of an Estate in an Hundred B. 74. Mort vie If the Plaintiff die after Verdict within the time that the Court takes to consider of the Law the Court may if they will give Judgment as at the first day in Bank A. 187. If the Defendant die after the first Judgment in Trespass before the Writ of Inquiry retorned yet the Action does not abate A. 263. C. 68. If one of two Defendants in Assumpsit die before Judgment if Error B. 54. Murder To leave ones Child whereby it perishes by Famine A. 327. N. Name OF a Corporation ought to be strictly alledged as to the substance A. 134 162. C. 18 19. Joan and Jane all one Name A. 147. A Corporation makes a Lease by the same name in substance and sense but not in words yet good A. 159 160 161 162 163 215. B 97 165. C. 220. Garret King of Arms and the manner of his Creation A. 249. What are Names of Dignity and what of Office only Ibid. B. and Nether B. a Vill A. 272. Executor of Executor how named A. 275. If the word Heir be a good name of purchase A. 287 288. Where the names of the Heads of what Corporations must be shewed in pleading A. 307. The best way is to sue the Defendant as he is named in the Bond though his Name be otherwise A. 322. What is a Name of Dignity and must be put in the Writ what not B. 49 In pleading any matter done before Suiters of a Court-Baron if their Names must be shewed C. 8. Ne admittas Where it lieth A. 235. Negative pregnant Defendant pleads that he permitted J.S. to have ingress into all such Lands which lay fresh adjudged good A. 136. That J. G. did not disturb the Plaintiff but by due course of Law B 197. How to avoid the pleading of a Negative praeg by a Modo forma B 198. Nisi Prius If grantable per Proviso pro Def. upon an Information at the suit of the party B. 110. Nolle prosequi As to part before Verdict in a joynt Action if it discharge the whole B. 177. Nomine pene The Heir shall not have Debt for it reserved by his Ancestor B. 179. Nonsuit The Plaintiff may be Nonsuit after Demurrer A. 105. C. 28. No Nonsuit for part of a Writ or Bill B. 177. Non est factum Where the Defendant may plead it or the special matter A. 322. By this Plea the date of the Bond nor the sealing of it at another day than which the Plaintiff declares cannot prejudice the Plaintiff C. 100. Notice How
lies immediately upon a Recognizance in Chancery B. 84 to 89 220. If Debt lies upon it before or after Judgment upon the Scire facias B. 84 to 88 220. Debt brought upon a Recognizance but non constat where it was acknowledged C. 58. Record Of an Assise brought into the Common Bench by Error how to be remanded to the Judges of Assise for Error lies not in C. B. A. 55. Pleading of a Record in the same Court A. 63 65. Where and for whom Averment lieth against a Record A. 183 184. Removed by a vicious Writ of Error or before Judgment given the Record is still in the first Court B. 1 2. A Recordatur made per Car. of a Record mistaken B. 120. Recovery The form thereof where the Vouchee comes in by Attorny A. 86. Against an Infant per Gardianum A. 211. A Recovery by one Joynt-Tenant binds only his own moiety A. 270. The execution thereof necessary in some cases B. 48. By Estoppel B. 57. Recoveror is seised to the use of him who suffers it until other Uses are limited B. 63 64 66. See Stat. 21 H. 8. who may falsify a Recovery For what reasons Recoveries do dock remainders after an Estate tall B. 66. Recovery to the intent that the Recoverors shall make Estates if such Estates be not made in convenient time in whom the Freehold is B. 216 217 218. What issue is bound thereby per Stat. 32 H. 8. B. 224. Recouper If the Lessor covenant to repair the House and do not Lessee may do it and recouper out of his Rent A. 237. Recusant If Copyhold Lands were liable to seisure for Recusancy before the Stat. 35 Eliz. 2. A. 98 99. Within what time Action upon the Stat. 23 El. 1. must be brought A. 239. The Indictment needs not name the offender of a Parish but a Vill B. 167. Redisseisin Whether the Plaintiff may have it after Entry the Judgment therein A. 69. Relation Of a Participle of the present Tense without the word adtunc A. 61 172. Of an Attornment A. 265 266. B. 222. Of words in an Indictment B. 5. Of a Deed enrolled to vest Lands in the King B. 206 207. Of agreement to a Disseisin Feoffment c. B. 223. Release Where a Covenant in the same Deed shall release other part of the same Deed A. 117. C. 113. Of a chose en action nihil operatur A. 167. C. 256. If an Heir release to the Disseisor and after his Ancestor dies it does not bind the Heir B. 47 56 57. A promise may be released by Parol B. 76. See where a release to a Stranger may discharge a Bond C. 45. Release of Covenants before any broken discharges the Bond for performance C. 69. To what Tenant in possession it is available C. 152 153. One Grantee of a prochein avoidance cannot release to his Companion A. 167. C. 256. Relief The Heir of one Coparcener shall pay none because it is an intire thing C. 13. Remainder and Reversion In Fee after a Lease for life where not discontinued by a Fine levied by Tenant for life A. 40. Cannot vest in the right Heirs of one in the Feoffors life unless it begin first in the Feoffor A. 101 102. Where an Estate shall vest as a remainder where as a reversion A. 182. B. 33 34. A Reversion after an Estate for life passeth by Devise of all Lands and Tenements A. 180 181. When a Remainder limited upon an Estate which is void as a Gift to a Monk for life remainder over shall take effect A. 195 196 197. Lease for nine years determinable upon death of the Lessee and if he die within the Term the remainder of the Term to his Wife a void remainder A. 218. The difference between a remainder limited upon a contingency which may never happen and one that must and will happen A. 244. B. 82 83. Devise to J.S. haered to Uses in tail after the Estate tail spent The Devisor shall have the fee A. 254. If one of two Disseisees release to one of two Disseisors and the Tenant who released not do enter the Reversion is revested pro toto A. 264. If a remainder may be limited upon a Condition A. 283. Feoffment to J.S. primogenito filio suo If the Son be born after the Feoffment he shall take by remainder B 15. If the remainder of a Term for years be good B. 69. C. 110 111 197 199. Remainder executed by moieties upon a Gift to a Feme for life remainder to their Heirs C. 4. Grantee of a Reversion shall recover Damages only for breach of Covenant made since the Grant C. 51. What acts as Extents Grants c. do take a Reversion forth of him that had it C. 156. Remitter Where it shall be A. 6 7 37. C. 93 94. Tenant in tail creates a new intail upon condition which his issue breaks yet he is remitted after his Fathers death A. 91. Land given to Husband and Wife in tail before Marriage and the Baron aliens and takes back an Estate to him and his Wife for life both are remitted A. 115. C. 93 94. The Father enfeoffs the Heir who never agrees and dies the Heir is remitted B. 73. Father enfeoffs his younger Son who dies his Wife priviment enseint of a Son the elder Son enters he is remitted Quaere C. 2. If one may be remitted against a Warranty C. 10. Waived by the Wife who was Tenant in tail with her Husband her payment of Rent which was reserved upon a Devise C. 272. Rent What is a Rent what a sum in gross A. 137 138 269 333 334. C. 103. Rent reserved by a Lease for years becomes seck if it be granted over A. 315. Divers ways of suspending Rents and how they are revived 334. To what remainder or reversion it shall be incident B. 33 34. If a Rent may be divided to equal a devise of Soccage and Capite Lands B. 42 43. Shall follow the Reversion although reserved to Executors B. 214. Contrary to a sum reserved to Executors upon a Mortgage of Land C. 103. Rent payable at two Feasts is to be paid by equal portions C. 235. By destroying a Reversion a Rent which followed it is extinguished C. 261. Repleader None after Demurrer A. 79. After an unapt issue A. 90. Replevin and Avowry Avowry for Rent reserved upon a Feoffment in fee and for sult of Court A. 13. Bar by non Cepit and what is good evidence therein A. 42. By property in a Stranger Ibid. Where the Plaintiff or Avowant may vary from the number of the Cattle A. 43. Plaintiff cannot discontinue without leave of the Court A. 105. Avowry for Damage Feasant in Customary Lands leased to the Avowant A. 288. Avowry by the Stat. 21 H. 8. cap. 19. A. 301. Avowry for a Leet Fee B. 74. Bar to an Avowry made by a Bailiff that he took the Cattle de injuria c. and traverse that he took them as Baily B. 215.
B. 74. Of Merton cap. 4. of Improving Commons The Lord shall have no Common to the Land improved B. 44 45. De Bigamis cap. 3. A. 285. Westm. 1. cap. 3. Of false News A. 287. W. 1. c. 39. Of vouching out of the Line B. 149. Cap. 10. Of choosing Coroners does not oblige to choose Knights B. 160 161. Statutes of Westm 2. Cap. 5. of Essoins A. 143. De Donis cond A. 212 214. Cap. 45. of Scire facias A. 284. B. 88. Cap. 11. Of Escapes B. 9. Cap. 3. Of Resceit to a Wife and to those in Reversion B. 62. Cap. 18. which gives Elegit or Fieri facias B. 84 to 88. Cap. 40. which take away the parol demur for nonage of the Tenant in a Cui in vita B. 148. Cap. 12. Of enquiry of the Abettors of an Appeal C. 140. W. 3d. Quia Emptores terrarum B. 15 16 17. Artic. super Cart. 3. That the Coroner of Middl. and of the Verge shall take Inquisition If one Man be Coroner of both if it sufficeth B. 160. Edward the 3d. 4 E. 3. 7. de bonis testatoris asport A. 193 194 195. 25 E. 3. 7. Of bar in Quare Imp. A. 45. B. 85. 45 E 3. 3. Of Tithes de silva cedua B. 80. 25 E. 3. Which gives Execution by Cap. B. 85. 14 E. 3. Of vouching dead persons The demandant must counterplead before Sum. ad Warrant issue C. 134. Rich. the Second 2 R. 2. Of News A. 287. 13 R. 2. Of Resceit of him in reversion and remainder B. 62. Hen. 4th 1 H. 4. Concerning Dutchy Lands A. 12. 4 H. 4. That no Judgment be avoided but by Error or Attaint B. 116. Hen. 5th 2 H. 5. 3. Of Jurors Aliens The Allen needs not have 4 l. per annum A. 35. 1 H. 5. 5. Of Additions B. 183 186 200. Hen. 6th 8 H. 6. Forcible Entry treble Costs and Damages A. 282. B. 52. In such case he in Reversion is restored and his Lessee may enter A. 327. 18 H. 6. ca. 17. For selling Vessels of Wine which contained not the full measure B. 38 39. 18 H. 6. Which gives the traverse of an Office found who shall have such traverse B. 185 186. 23 H. 6. ca. 10. The Condition of the Bond being to appear and answer c. B. 78. The pleading upon it B. 107. Bond taken of one in Execution void B. 118 119. All Bonds taken of persons not bailable are void C. 208. A promise void by this Act grounded upon consideration the Sheriff let one Escape C. 208. Hen. 7th 4 H. 7. Of Fines how to be pleaded A. 77. The Statute is construed liberally to uphold the non-claim A. 100 213. Who shall be barred thereby A. 212 213. B. 36 37 157 158. C. 10 227. What is a good claim within this Statute B. 53. By a Woman by Writ of Dower C. 50 221. If a Woman be barred of her Dower by a Fine levied by her Husband and no Dower brought in five years C. 50 78. 11 H. 7. 20. Of Alienations by Women A. 261 262. B. 168. C. 78. 3 H. 7. Of Appeals B. 160 161. Hen. 8th 6 H. 8. 15. Of Recital in Patents A. 321. vid. tit Recital 21 H. 8. Of Farms taken by Parsons C. 122. 21 H 8. cap. 19. Of Avowries A. 201. 21 H. 8. 13. Of Pluralities A. 316. 21 H 8. 15. Of falsifying Recoveries B. 65. 23 H. 8. 3. Of Attaints who is pars gravata A. 279. 23 H. 8. 15. Of Costs A. 105. B. 9 10 52. Extends not to Actions given by Statutes C. 92. 26 H. 8. Of the Lands of persons attainted A. 21. 27 H. 8. Of Uses B. 14 258. B. 6 15. How Conveyances to uses before the Statute must be pleaded A. 14 258. This Statute vests the possession of a Term according to the Use as well as a Freehold B. 6 7. What Uses were before this Statute B. 15 16 17 18. The manner and reason of making this Statute B. 17. 28 H. 8. 15. Of the Jurisdiction of the Lord Admiral A. 106 270. 31 H. 8. cap. 20. Which enables the King to grant Lands forfeited without Office found B. 124. 31 H. 8. 13. Of discharge of Tithes of the Lands of the Abbies c. A. 231 232. 31 H. 8. Of Leases made by the Religious Houses shortly before their dissolution B. 55. C. 164 165. 32 H. 8. Of dissolving Abbies if a Unity of possession c. extinguish a Common C. 128. 32 H. 8. Of Partition if it gives that Action to a Corporation C. 162. 32 34 H. 8. Of Wills A. 252 267 113. What Estates may be devised thereby A. 252. B. 41 42 43. C. 105 274 275 276. Upon the clause that the Wife shall be endowed but of two parts 32 H. 8. B. 131. Of a Will made before the Statute C. 28 29. What is a good Will in writing C. 79. 32 H. 8. 37. Of Arrears of Rents in Fee to be recovered by Executors A. 302 303. Idem upon the clause for re-entry upon breach of a Condition B. 33 34. C. 104. 32 H 8. Of Fines and Recoveries by Tenants in tail A. 244. B. 36 37 57 62 63. Vide Stat. 14 El. cap. 18. B. 224. C. 10. 32 H. 8. 30. Of Jeofails A. 175 238. It helps not Issue joyned as to part of a Plea nothing being said as to the other part B. 195. 32 H. 8. c. 9. Of buying pretenced Titles A. 166 167 208. B. 39 48. C. 79 233. 32 H. 8. 28. Of Leases by Bishops A. 59. 32 H. 8. 7. Of the Spiritual Court A. 130. 32 H. 8. Of Leases by Tenant in tail A. 148. C. 156. Idem Of Leases by Tenant for life B. 46. 32 H. 8. 37. Of Arrears of Rent c. extends to Demesne Lands of a Mannor granted by Copy B. 153. C. 59 263. 33 H. 8. Of Offices found for the Lands of persons attainted A. 21. 33 H. 8. Of Recovery of Debts forfeited to the King B. 33. Same Statute of Debts due to the King what Gifts do avoid the Kings Title B. 90 91. 35 H. 8. Which gives the Husband liberty to make Leases if he may make Leases in Reversion C. 132. Edw. 6th 1 Ed. 6. Of dissolving Religious Houses A. 38. A Chauntry in reputation with the Statute C. 114. 2 E. 6. Of Murder done at Sea A. 270. 2 E. 6. 13. Of Prohibitions A. 286. B. 212 213. C. 257. 5 E. 6. Of Ingrossers of Victual B. 39. 8 E. 6. 4. Indictment upon it must be that he drew a Weapon to strike B. 188. 2 E. 6. 24. Of Appeals where the dead was stricken in one County and dies in another C. 140. 3 E. 6. 4. In what case one may have a Constat of Letters Patents C. 165. 2 E. 6. cap. 13. No remedy for the treble value of Tithes in Equity but at Law C. 204. Queen Mary 1 2. Of unlawful impounding Distresses B. 52. Queen Eliz. 1 Eliz. 1. Of the High
of Bargain and Sale and he hath not election to take the Land by way of Livery But when all is in one Deed and takes effect equally together in such case the Grantee hath Election but here in this Case the Bargain and Sale the Deed being Inrolled doth prevent the Livery and taketh his full effect before And by Wray and Catline If he in the Reversion upon a Lease for years grants his Reversion to his Lessee for years by words of Dedi Concessi Feoffavi and a Letter of Attorny is made to make Livery and Seisin the Donee cannot take by the Livery for that the Lessee hath the Reversion presently XL. Mich. 14 Eliz. IN an Ejectione Firmae the Case upon Evidence appeared to be thus The Bishop of Rochester Anno 4 E. 6. Leased to B. for years rendring Rent and afterwards granted the Reversion to C. for 99 years rendring the ancient Rent To have from the day of the Lease without impeachment of Waste which Grant was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter But B. did not Attorn And for default of Attornment It was holden by the whole Court That the Lease was void for it is made by way of grant of a Reversion and to pass as a Reversion But by Catline If the Bishop had granted the Reversion and also demised the Land for 99 years it should pass as a Lease to begin first after the former Lease determined And as to the Attornment it was given in Evidence That B. after the notice of the Grant to C. spake with C. to have a new Lease from him because he had in his Farm but 8 years to come but they could not agree upon the price And the Iustices were of Opinion That that was an Attornment because he had admitted the said C. to have power to make a new Lease unto him Also the said B. being in Company with one R. seeing the said C. coming towards him said to the said R. See my Landlord meaning the said C. Bromley Sollicitor That is no Attornment being spoken to a stranger Barham contrary because he was present And it was held by the whole Court to be a good Attornment But it was holden That if the Attornment was not before that the Bishop was translated to Winchester That the Lease should be void and although that the Confirmation of the Dean and Chapter was before the Attornment so as no Estate had vested in C. yet it is good enough for the assent of the Dean and Chapter is sufficient whether it be before or after by Catline Southcote and Whiddon Wray contrary XLI Mich. 14 Eliz. THe King seised of a Mannor to which an Advowson is appendant a Stranger presents and his Clerk is in by 6 months The King grants the Mannor with all Advowsons appendant to it to B. The Incumbent dieth The Grantee may present For the Advowson was always appendant and the Inheritance thereof passeth to the Grantee and is not made disappendant by the usurpation as in the case of a common person for the King cannot be put out of possession But the Patentee shall not have a Quare Imped of the first disturbance for that presentment doth not pass to him being a thing in Action without mention of it in his Grant. And if the Patentee bringeth a Quare Impedit of the second Avoydance he shall make his Title by the presentment of the King not making mention of the usurpation yet if the Bishop presenteth for Lapse in the case of a common person he ought to make mention of it for that is his Title to the Presentment c. XLII Humfrey and Humfrey's Case Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. BEtween Humfrey and Humfrey the Case was That the Defendant in Debt after Iudgment aliened his Land and the Plaintiff sued forth Execution upon the new Statute And the Court of the Request awarded him to the Fleet because that he sued forth Execution Whereupon the Iustices of the Common Pleas awarded a Habeas Corpus and discharged the Plaintiff It was said by Bendloes Serjeant That the Chancery after Iudgment could not enjoyn the party that he shall not sue forth Execution for if they do the party shall have his remedy as above XLIII Mich. 14 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. A Man seised of Copyhold Lands Deviseth a certain parcel of them to his Wife for life the remainder to his Brother and his Heirs And afterwards in the presence of 3 persons of the Court said to them I have made my Will and I have appointed all things in my Will as I will have it And afterwards he said And here I surrender all my Copyhold Lands into your hands accordingly And it was moved If all his Copyhold Lands should be to his Wife or by those which were specified in the Will. And the Opinion of the whole Court was That the Surrender is restrained by the Will so as no more passeth to the Wife upon the whole matter but that which is mentioned in the Will and the general words shall not enlarge the matter XLIV Hill. 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. LAnds were devised to the Mayor Chamberlain and Governors of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew in London whereas in truth they are Incorporated by another name yet the Devise is good by Weston and Dyer which Manwood also granted because it shall be taken according to the intent of the Devisor And it was said by Weston If Lands be devised to A. eldest Son of B. although that his name be W. yet the Devise to him is good because there is sufficient certainty c. XLV Pasch 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was A. seised of Lands deviseth the same to his Wife for life the remainder to his three younger Sons and to the Heirs of their bodies begotten equally to be divided amongst them by even portions and if one of them die then the other two which survive shall be next Heirs The Devisor dieth One of the Sons dieth and by Dyer and Weston Iustices The 3 Brothers were Tenants in Common in remainder But contrary it is where such a Devise is made between them To be divided by my Executors c. there they are Ioynt-Tenants until the division is made but here although the words are Equally to be divided the same is not intended of a Division in fact and possession but of the Interest and Title For if a Man bringeth a Praecipe quod reddat de una parte Manerii de D. in 7 parts to be divided it is not intended divided in Possession but divided in Interest and Title And it was said by the said Iustices That although one of the Brothers dieth the two surviving Brothers have his part by purchase and not by descent and they are Ioynt-Tenants of it And this was the Case of one Webster and Katherine his Wife the late Wife of John Bradbury XLVI Pasch 14 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was Lessee for years of the
See the Case 14 Eliz. in Dyer L. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Tottenham and Bedingfields Case Owen Rep. 35 83. IN an Accompt by Tottenham against Bedingfield who pleaded That he never was his Bailiff to render accompt the Case was That the Plaintiff was possessed of a Parsonage for Term of years and the Defendant not having any Interest nor claiming any Title in them took the Tythes being set forth and severed from the 9 parts and carried them away and sold them Vpon which the Plaintiff brought an Action of Accompt And by Manwood Iustice the Action doth not lie for here is not any privity for wrongs are always done without privity And yet I do agree That if one doth receive my Rents I may implead him in a Writ of Accompt and then by the bringing of my Action there is privity and although he hath received my Rent yet he hath not done any wrong to me for that it is not my Mony until it be paid unto me or unto another for my use and by my Commandment and therefore notwithstanding such his Receipt I may resort to the Tenant of the Land who ought to pay unto me the said Rent and compel him to pay it to me again and so in such case where no wrong is done unto me Hob. 32â— I may make a privity by my consent to have a Writ of Accompt But if one disseiseth me of my Land and taketh the profits thereof upon that no Action of Accompt lieth for it is meerly a wrong And in the principal case so soon as the Tythes were severed by the Parishioners there they were presently in the Plaintiff and therefore the Defendant by the taking of them was a wrong doer and no Action of Accompt for the same lieth against him And upon the like reason was the Case of Monox of London lately adjudged which was That one devised Land to another 1 Len. 266. and died and the Devisee entred and held the Land devised for the space of 20 years and afterwards for a certain cause the Devise was adjudged void and for that he to whom the Land descended brought an Action of Accompt against the Devisee And it was adjudged That the Action did not lie Harper contrary For here the Plaintiff may charge the Defendant as his Proctor and it shall be no Plea for the Defendant to say That he was not his Proctor no more than in an Accompt against one who holdeth as Gardian in Socage it is no plea for him to say that he is not Prochein Amy to the Plaintiff Dyer The Action doth not lie If an Accompt be brought against one as Receiver he ought to be charged with the Receipt of the Mony and an Accompt doth not lie where the party pretends to be Owner as against an Abater or Disseisor but if one claimeth as Bailiff he shall be charged and so it is of Gardian in Socage Latch 8. And it was agreed That if a Disseisor assign another to receive the Rents that the Disseisee cannot have an Accompt against such a Receivor LI. 15 Eliz. In the Court of Wards NOte That this Case was ruled in the Court of Wards That where Tenant of the King of Lands holden by Knights Service in chief made a Feoffment in Fee of the same Lands to the use of himself for life and afterwards to the use of his younger Son in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor and died his eldest Son within age That the Queen should have the Wardship of his body and of the third part of the Land and when the eldest Son comes of full age that the younger Son should sue Livery and pay Primer Seisin according to the rate and value of the whole Land viz. of the third part as in possession and of the two parts as a Reversioner For the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffee is in truth a Reversion for the Fee simple was never out of him because there is not any consideration as to that nor any Vse expressed And because Livery shall not be sued by parcels the younger Son shall not be suffered to sue Livery of the third part presently and respite the residue as to the two parts in Reversion until the Reversion fall but he shall sue Livery presently as well of the two parts in reversion as of the third part in possession and if the eldest Son had been of full age at the time of the death of his Father the younger Son should pay Primer Seisin as to the third part the whole value of it for one year as in possession and as to the two parts the moiety of the value of a year as of a Reversion LII Oliver Breers Case 15 Eliz. In the Court of Wards OLiver Breer who was Tenant in Chief by Knights Service made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life and afterwards to the use of A. his eldest Son and Heir for life and after to the use of the first begotten Son of the said A. in tail and afterwards to the use of the second Son of the said A. c. and for default of such issue to the use of the right Heirs of the Feoffor Oliver died the said A. his Son being of full age It was holden by the Council of the Court of Wards That he should pay for his first Primer Seisin a third part as in possession and two parts as a reversion See the Case before LIII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. NOte 1 Roll. 626 This Case was moved to the Iustices in the Court of the Kings Bench A Man had Issue two Daughters by divers Women and being seised of Lands in Fee he made his Will and by the same Devised That his Wife should have the moyety of his Lands for years and that his eldest Daughter at the day of her Marriage should enter into the other moyety his eldest Daughter married and died without Issue And the Question was Whether her Vncle should have that moyety or the fourth part of the whole Land. Catline conceived and said That when the Devise which was made to the eldest Daughter that she might enter after certain years is not the Inheritance in her presently and the other words void So he said here That it is not a purchase in the eldest Daughter but both the Daughters should enter in Common as one Heir to their Father until the Marriage and then the Inheritance which was once settled in them should not be removed Southcote Iustice said There are no words of Limitation of any Estate that the Daughter should have after the Marriage and therefore the Devise was void and if he had limited that the Daughter after Marriage should have it for life the Fee-simple is vested in her before and then she cannot have it for life And he said That if a Lease be made to the eldest Daughter for years by the Father and afterwards
the Land descends to her and her Sister as unto one moyety of the Land the Lease is determined but not as to the other moyety Whiddon Iustice Where a Devise is for the benefit of a stranger there the Heir shall take by the Devise and not by descent As if a Lease be made for years the remainder to the Heir there the Heir shall take the Land by the Devise Catline She hath it be Descent and not by the Devise But if he deviseth the Land to the Heir in tail with this That he shall pay a certain sum of Mony unto another there the Heir shall take by the Devise for the benefit which may accrue to the stranger and not by descent for otherwise the Will should not be performed But where the Estate of the Heir is altered by the Will nor any benefit doth accrue unto another after that the Lands come to the hands of the Heir in that case he shall have the Land by descent And so here in this case for as much as the Devise is That the Daughter shall enter they both being but one Heir to their Father shall have the Land by descent and the words of the Will That he shall enter into the moiety shall be void as if the Devise had been to the Heir for life there the same is void because the Fee-simple which descendeth to her doth drown the particular estate for life And therefore in the principal case here the Vncle shall have but the moyety of the moyety which is so devised and the other Sister shall have the other moyety of the Land and as to that moyety which is devised to the Wife for years the same shall enure according to the Common Law that the Vncle shall have the moyety of that and the other Sister the other moyety LIV. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THis Case was moved to the Court by Lovelace Serjeant A Man Covenants with another to make and execute an estate of such Lands as should descend to him from his Father and Grandfather by a certain day the same Lands to be of the clear yearly value of 40 Marks And the Question which he moved to the Iustices was That if the party had more Lands which came to him from his Grandfather and Father than did amount to the yearly value of 40 Marks If he was to make assurance of all the Lands or of so much thereof only as amounted to the value of 40 Marks And Manwood Iustice conceived That he should make assurance of Lands only which were of the value of 40 Marks per annum For the words such which do not go so largely as if he had said All my Lands which shall descend or to me be descended for then the yearly value were but a demonstration and all his Lands ought to be assured But here the Intent of the Indenture cannot be taken otherwise than to have but an Assurance of so much Land as if he had said Of such Lands and Tenements as were my Grandfathers and Fathers amounting to 40 Marks by the year for there by those words he shall have but 40 Marks by the year Lovelace It hath been taken That where the Queen made a Lease of all her Lands in such a Town amounting to the yearly value of 40 l. that that valuation is not a demonstration and shall not abridge the Grant precedent to have all in the Town which should be of the value of 40 l. but her Grant shall be taken and construed according to the words precedent Manwood The Common case of assurance upon a settlement of Marriage is That he shall stand seised of so much of his Land as shall be of the clear yearly value of 40 Marks If the marriage take effect The Question hath been If they to whom the assurance is made may enter into any part of the Land at their election and take that which is the best Land to the value of 40 Marks per annum and hold the same in severalty or if they shall be only Tenants in Common with the other And also it hath been a Question Whether they may choose one Acre in one place and another Acre in another place and so through the whole Land where they please because the Grant shall be taken strong against him that granteth But I conceive that it should be a hard case to make such Election of Acres But it was said by some Serjeant at the Bar That if a Man granteth to another to take 20 Trees in his Lands that the Grantee may cut down one Tree in one place and another in another place Manwood agreed that Case but of the other Case the Court doubted of it The principal case was adjourned LV. Vernon and Vernons Case Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte That in the Case of Dower between Vernon and Vernon and the Argument of it the Plaintiff would have been Nonsuit Dyer Iustice said It should be an ill President if a Nonsuit should be after Demurrer And therefore he said That for his part he would not agree that any Nonsuit should be upon it but he said he would be advised and take better Consideration of it If the Nonsuit should be awarded or not And afterwards at another day Manwood and Dyer took a difference where the Nonsuit is the same Term and where in another Term and said It is like unto the Case where a Man would Wage his Law and is present ready to do it that there the Plaintiff cannot be Nonsuit because it is in the same Term but he shall be barred But in another Term afterwards he might be Nonsuit if the Defendant take day over to wage his Law until another Term and so they said it should be in this case LVI Sir Peter Philpots Case Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THis Case was moved by Meade Serjeant to the Iustices of the Court of Common Pleas viz. That Sir Peter Philpot Knight seised in Fee of divers Mannors and Lands suffered a Recovery and made a Feoffment thereof unto divers persons To the use of himself for life the remainder to his right Heirs And after the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Wills He devised all his said Mannors and Land to his Wife for life and it was expressed in his Will That he could not devise all his Lands by reason of the Statute of 32 H. 8. that his Will was That his Wife should have so much which might be devised by the Laws of the Land And there was another Clause in the said Will That his Feoffees should stand seised of the same Mannors and Lands after the death of his Wife To the use of one Hurlock and others for years for the payment of his Debts and for the raising of Portions for the preferment of his Daughters in Marriage And further by his said Will he willed That if the Law would not bear it That Hurlock and the others should have the Interest Then he
willed that his Son should have all his Mannors and Lands and should pay his Debts and should give certain sums of Monies for the Marriage Portions of his Daughters And the Question which was moved to the Court was Whether the first part of his Will That is to say That Hurlock and the others should have his Lands c. were void or not by the later words of his Will Dyer Iustice said That the last words of the Will did well expound the meaning of the first words and that the Will should be performed as it might be And afterwards Harper said That upon this matter Hurlock and the others had had a Decree in the Court of Wards to have the whole Lands during the years and not two parts of the Lands only Dyer Iustice said That the Will of Sir Tho. Umpton which was made mean between the Statutes of 32 H. 8. and 34 H. 8. and which is excepted by the same Statute that it should not be construed in other form than according to the first Statute was Of all his Lands And upon a Demurrer argued It was adjudged That the Will was good of two parts although that by the Will it was not divided For where a Man hath a Warrant to do a thing and he doth it and more so as he exceeds his Warrant yet it is good for that part for which it is warranted and void for the rest As if a Man makes a Warrant of Attorny to make Livery and Seisin of the Mannor of Dale and he makes Livery of the Mannors of Dale and Sale it is good for the Mannor of Dale and void for the Mannor of Sale. The Case was in a Writ of Partition And afterwards the Record was removed by a Writ of Error supposing that this Court had Erred and the Iudgment was affirmed by three of the Iustices of the Kings Bench. But because there was a Discontinuance in the Record which was erronious for that the first Iudgment was reversed but not for any other cause And such was the meaning and intent of the Statute of 32 H. 8. before the making of the Statute of 34 H. 8. of Explanation of Wills. And therefore here in the principal Case it was holden That the Will was good for two parts both to the Wife and also to Hurlock and the others And it was holden That by the Intent of the Will that the Son was to pay such sums of Monies a Hurlock was to have paid so as the Will was not for the advantage of the Heir but to be construed according to the meaning of Philpot That if Hurlock could not have the Lands c. that then the Son should have them but with such charge as aforesaid and it was no Intent to subvert the first part of the Will if the same might stand with the Law. And so it was adjudged LVII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was this A Man makes a Lease for 30 years More Rep. 94 Post 55. Winch. Rep. 5. and bargains and sells the Woods in and upon the Premisses to the Lessee and that he might carry them off the Lands during the time of 30 years The Lessee cut down all the Woods and afterwards other Wood grew up from the Stocks and the Lessee cut them also within the Term and the Lessor brought an Action of Waste for cutting of the new Wood. And it was moved by Meade Hob. Rep. 132. Serjeant If the Action of Waste would lie or not Harper Iustice Is the Bargain de bosco subbosco growing in and upon the Premisses Meade No but all his Woods in and upon the Premisses Harper The Grant is in the present tense in praesenti so as he cannot have that which shall grow there after And if he would grant all his Woods which should grow in time to come the Grant should not be good because it is not of a thing in esse And if a Man will grant all his Wood growing upon Black-Acre and there be then no Wood he cannot have any thing although that afterwards Woods grow there and if his meaning had been That he should have the Wood which should there after grow he would have expressed the same in another form Mounson If a Man grants all his Hay growing upon his Land Hob. 132. shall he have that which is growing there after No truly And if he grant all the Wooll which is growing upon his Sheep shall he have more than that which groweth this year Meade No truly But if he had granted all the Wooll growing upon the Sheep for 20 years then the same is like to our case for he hath granted that he may carry the Wooll during the 30 years Harper The same is but a Liberty to fell the Trees which where growing at the time of the Sale and to carry them when he pleaseth and not to give other Trees or Wood which should there after grow LVIII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. LOvelace Serjeant moved this Case to the Court That an Assise was brought of the Office of Registership in the County of Devon And he shewed How that the Bishop of Exeter granted the Office and shewed the name of the Bishop And that after William Alley Bishop there granted the same Office after the death of the first Grantee to the Plaintiff And further he shewed That the Bishop might grant the Office ad Idoneam personam And because he doth not say in his Plaint That the person to whom it was granted is idonea persona I conceive that the Plaint is not good for if there be no such person which can exercise the Office he shall not have it For that is a Condition which is annexed to the Office that he be a fit person who shall take it And the Prothonotaries of this place ought to have skill in that which appertaineth to their Office For if such an Office should be given to a Courtier who hath not skill in that which appertaineth to the Office nor knowledge how to execute he shall not have it Also he said That he hath not shewed that the first Bishop is dead or that he hath resigned or whether that he be deprived and therefore it shall be intended that he continueth unless the contrary be shewed And then the Grant made by Alley to the Plaintiff cannot be good And for these causes and for others he prayed to know the Opinion of the Court. Dyer Iustice The matter is not before us and wherefore should we give our Opinions to serve the fancy of every person and to resolve the doubts of every Court But if the matter laid come before by Adjournment for difficulty because the Iustices of Assise are of divers Opinions or that they doubted of any thing upon such difficulty and adjournment we use to shew our Opinions and to take some pains to search our Books to Resolve the doubts but when we have not any thing before us
Bar for no person is named there Manwood If a Lease be made made to J.S. except Green-Close to J.D. who is a stranger the Exception is good and J.D. shall have it The Principal Case was Adjourned LXI The Lord Windsors Case Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. UPon an Evidence given to a Iury in the Kings Bench in an Ejectione Firmae the Case appeared to be thus That Sir Roger Lewknor Knight being seised in Fee of the Mannor of South Myms made an Indenture Anno 11. H. 8. by which Indenture he Leased the said Mannor to 20 persons to the use of Andrew Windsor afterwards Lord Windsor and Henry his Son and the Survivor of them as long as any of the said persons named in the said Indenture should live And further Covenanted by the same Indenture To stand seised of the said Mannor To the use of the said Andrew and Henry and the Survivor of them during the lives of any of the said Feoffees named in the same Indenture which Deed was made without Livery and Seisin and reserved upon it an yearly Rent and afterwards the Son died And in 22 H. 8. A Fine was levied by a stranger upon a Release to Andrew Lord Windsor And afterwards 34 of Henry 8 Andrew Lord Windsor made a Lease to one for years and died and made William and Edmond his Sons his Executors And afterwards William his eldest Son being Lord Windsor 2 3 Phil. Mary made a Lease of the same Land unto another to begin after the first Lease ended Which William died and the Lord Windsor that now is accepted the Rent and of late time agreed with one Vaughan who had married the Heir of Sir Roger Lewknor for the Reversion in Fee and afterwards the Lease made by Andrew Lord Windsor 34 H. 8. ended in the 4th year of the Reign of the Queen that now is Whereupon the second Lessee that is to say the Lessee of William Lord Windsor entred and being ousted he brought the Ejectione firmae And then and yet one of the 20 Feoffees of Sir Roger Lewknor is alive so as the Estate of Cestuy que Vie is not as yet determined And now the Question upon the first part of the Evidence is If this later Lease made by William Lord Windsor be a good Lease or not And who shall be said Occupant For when the Lord Andrew died then the Lessee as Catline said shall not be said in otherwise than according to his Lease when his occupation by Lease was lawful before And he who shall be said Occupant shall have a Freehold and if he should be Occupant he should be in by a new title Then we are to see If the Executors of the Lord which have the Rent and to whom the same is paid by the Lessee shall be said Occupant And he conceived That they should not although that they enter unless they claim the Freehold at the time of their entry for if they enter generally it shall be intended according to the Will as Executors and if he had granted his Estate to another there after his death the Grantee shall be said to be in by reason of his Grant and not as Occupant And so if he would devise his Estate the Devisee shall be in by reason of the Devise and not as Occupant Which Case of Devise Southcote denyed That he should not be in by reason of the Devise when his Estate determines with his death But if the Devisee entreth by force of the Devise he shall be in as an Occupant And also Southcote denyed that which had been said That the Lessee for years who holdeth the Lands after the death of Andrew Lord Windsor should not be an Occupant For as he said the Lessee being in possession after the death of the Lord Andrew should be said Occupant and no other for the Executors of the Lord could not be Occupant by the having of the Rent because they had not the possession of the Land for none shall be Occupant but he who is in possession Whiddon said That if the first Lease made by Andrew Lord Windsor was now in esse and that an Ejectione Firmae was brought upon that that the Lessee ought to aver That some of the Feoffees for whose lives c. were then living Southcote If a Praecipe quod reddat shall be brought against whom shall it be brought against him in the Reversion or against him in possession And if it shall be brought against the Tenant in possession then he ought to have the Freehold for it cannot be brought but against one who hath a Freehold at the least And then if the Lord William Windsor had nothing in the Land then how could he make this Lease to the Plaintiff that now is when the first Lessee continueth Occupant after the death of the Lord Andrew during the life of Cestuy que Vye And as to the Fine the Question did further arise If the Lord Andrew Windsor should have a Feesimple by that Fine For being levied as Catline said It cannot be to the first Vses because a Fine upon a Release cannot be intended to the use of any other but to him to whom it is levied unless an use be expressed in the Fine or by another Deed And upon a Fine levied upon a Release made unto Tenant life by a stranger the same is not a forfeiture of his Estate But if Tenant for life taketh a Fine Sur Conusans de droit come ceo c. the same is a forfeiture And although a Fine levied by those who have not any thing in the Lands be void Yet here it is not so and it ought to be pleaded specially and shewed that he had not anything in the Land at the time the Fine was levied as Anderson said And Catline said That this Fine was not without good advice for the Lord Brook and others who were learned in the Law were of Counsel with the Lord Windsor in the levying of this Fine so as the intent was to settle the Feesimple in himself by the Fine and not that the first Vses should stand after that And thereupon he put the Case of Putnam and Duncomb which hath much Resemblance to this Case which he argued when he was Serjeant and held the same Opinion as he holdeth now And therefore he said That although the Purchase was but of late time of Vaughan and his Wife yet the Fee was in the Lord Windsor before and this manner of purchase was to no other end but to discharge the Lands of Incumbrances as appeareth by the small sum which was paid the Land being of a great yearly value And as Vaughan confessed he took this sum of Mony because that his Council informed him that the Feesimple was in the Lord Windsor before and that otherwise he would not have sold it at such a price And he said That before that agreement the Lord Windsor told him that he had the Feesimple in himself
35. that he shall enjoy it against all persons but only against all persons who have Title and not against those who have not any Title because against them he may have his remedy And if a Man makes a Feoffment of his Lands with Warranty and covenants that it is discharged of all Rents 1 Roll. 434. 1 Inst 389. a. 1 Len. 29. there it shall not extend to Rent Services which are incident to the Lands of Common Right In 3 H. 7. 4. the Case was The Condition of an Obligation was That the Obligor should make Appropriation of the Church of Dale such a day to such a House at his Costs and Charges discharged of Incumbrances Roll. Tit. Conditions there although there was a Pension granted thereout to another it was holden That the Obligee was not bounden to discharge it of that Pension No more than if a Man be bounden to make a Feoffment of his Land there although that he charge the Land yet he shall not forfeit his Bond But if it were that he should make a Feoffment of his Land discharged c. it is otherwise but yet he shall not be bounden to discharge it of such things with which it is charged by the Law. Barham The words are precisely That he shall enjoy it without interruption of any person so as be he interrupted by one that hath Title or no Title the Plaintiff hath cause of Action Manwood What if the words were That he should enjoy it without Suit in Law Meade That shall be intended of a lawful Suit And in the principal case although the Contract be by words yet it is upon a good Consideration that is to say Of a Fine and Income and upon the payment of the Rent And therefore as Dyer said When Catesby the Son leased the Lands to Mountford the now Plaintiff and it appeared that his Father or a stranger made claim to it and thereupon he made the promise as before shall it be intended that he should hold and enjoy the Lands peaceably without interruption of them only who had Title And that he should not have his Remedy against the Defendant upon his promise if a stranger who had not Title did interrupt him Truly he shall have his remedy against him As if the Son had promised that he should enjoy it against his Father or else that in truth if it were the Land of the Father shall it not be intended that the Son did presume that his Father should not interrupt his Lessee And that he would so deal with his Father that he should not interrupt him and it may be that upon the presumption of the good will of his Father or that he had treated with him or compounded with him that for these or the like causes the Son made the promise aforesaid And if the Father had not any Right or Title to the Land should not the Lessee have his Action against the Defendant if the Father did interrupt him for this unlawful Interruption Truly Yes For by the words it is to be supposed That the Son would so deal with his Father that the Lessee should enjoy and hold the Lands without any manner of interruption Mounson You have well tasted the Opinion of the Court upon this matter before and now you hear our Opinions again Manwood As I said the other day Cannot an Hostler take upon him that the Goods of his Guests which are within his Inn shall be safe and charge himself further therewith than he is chargeable by the Custom of the Realm and to be chargeable against every one that taketh them away Truly I conceive he may Harper The common making of Assurance is That he shall enjoy them without any lawful Interruption 1 Roll. 429. And if the Law upon the general words of Enjoying without Interruption should be intended but of lawful Interruptions It were in vain to have this word Lawful in the Deed c. LXV Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. AN Action of Debt was brought against one upon an Obligation It was upon an Apprentice Bond The Condition of which was That if such a one did become the Apprentice of the Obligee and transport his Merchandises beyond the Seas and make a Retorn of them and maketh an Accompt unto the Obligee and payeth the Monies upon his Accompt within a certain time that then c. And afterwards the Obligee doth release by Deed to the Servant the Apprentice and not to the Obligor And in Debt brought against the Obligor he pleaded the Release And it was said by the Lord Dyer and by the whole Court That by the Release to the Servant the Obligation was saved if the Release were made before any forfeiture or that the Servant or Apprentice had broken any of the Conditions or any point according to the Covenants but if it was made after any of them was broken then such a Release to the Servant did not dispence with the Obligation which was made by the stranger because an Obligation once forfeited cannot be saved by any Act or Release made or done to a stranger LXVI Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Quare Impedit brought by the Patron against the Archbishop of York and the Incumbent Dyer 327. who was in by the Collation of the Archbishop after the death of the Incumbent of the Patron It was said by the Lord Dyer That of an Avoydance by Resignation or Deprivation the Patron shall have 6 months time after notice thereof given unto him to present his Clerk because it may be done secretly in the Chamber of the Ordinary and therefore in such case the Law is That the Bishop is to give notice of it to the Patron before he be bound to that knowledge of such a Presentment as it appeareth by the Case in 1 H. 7. 4. And Lowe the Prothonotary said That so is the Roll of the same year where the Issue was Whether the Patron had 6 months after the notice And then the Lord Dyer said to the Prothonotary Shew me the Roll at another day that I may compare it with my Book But if the Church become void by death of the Incumbent there the Patron is to take notice of it at his peril without any other notice thereof to be given him by the Ordinary And he said That if the Patron doth present his Clerk a Week before the 6 months be ended and the Ordinary doth refuse the Clerk for Inability because he is unlearned and then the six months pass before he presenteth another after the six months after the death of the Incumbent in such case the Bishop shall have the Collation of the Clerk because it was the folly of the Patron that he did not present his Clerk before so as the Ordinary might examine him and that thereupon if he be found to be unable that he might present another Clerk to the Ordinary within convenient time and for that cause is the 6
King and a Common Person was moved to the Court by Lovelace Serjeant Dyer Iustice I conceive That it is a good Purchase in Law as well in the Case of the King as in the Case of a Common Person And see to that purpose 39 E. 3. and in this Case If the King had granted the Land to John Holt without naming him Son the same had been a good Purchase But if the King had called him John the Son of Thomas without giving him a sirname there such a Purchase should not be good if he were a Bastard because he hath not Nomen Cognitum as where he hath a sirname and a Man cannot purchase by the Name of John only and then if he be called John the Son of Thomas when he is not his Son it cannot be good And such Case hath here lately been adjudged Where the Lord Powis gave certain Lands to Thomas Gray his Son by him begotten upon the Body of Jane Orwell and in truth the said Thomas was a Bastard of the said Lord Powis and the name of Jane was not Orwell but the Daughter of one Punt and the Mother of Jane who was first married to Punt betwixt whom Jane was begotten married with one Orwell and yet notwithstanding that wrong Name and that the said Thomas Gray was not the Son of the Lord Powis born of Jane Orwell but of one Jane Punt yet it was a good Purchase and Gift to Thomas Gray because it was his known Name Manwood As I take it the Letters Patents are Ex certa scientia ex mero motu and then the Kings Grant shall not be taken in such plight as the Grant of a Common Person void for incertainty because that the King takes notice of the Person of what degree he is and in the Kings Case where he takes knowledge by the words Ex certa scientia there all matter of uncertainty shall be avoided and made good but not matter which is not true And for uncertainty he said Where a thing may be taken two ways there without the words Ex certa scientia c. the best shall be taken for the King and strongest against the Patentee But by Dyer by the words Ex certa scientia c. that incertainty is saved and shall be taken strong for the Patentee and if it can any ways be taken for him then the Patent shall not be void and then when in the principal Case there is the word Son and the word Son may be taken two ways either for a base Son or a true Son there by the words Ex certa scientia the King taketh upon him to know in what manner he is Son and a base Son is a Son Quodam modo so as the Letters Patents shall not be false But where the King in his Letters Patents recites a thing which is false that shall not make the Patent good although the words be Ex certa scientia et mero motu LXX Mich. 15. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte It was agreed by the Court That if a Man in a Replevin pleadeth and they are at Issue and the Iury is charged and gone from the Bar and returns to give their verdict and the Plaintiff be non-suit their retorn irreplevisable shall not be awarded as in case if a verdict had been given But the party may have a Writ of second Deliverance as well as if he had been nonsuit before declaration or appearance LXXI Trin. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was The Husband levied a Fine of his Land and died and his Wife within the 5 years after the death of her Husband brought her Writ of Dower but did not pursue her Writ until 6 years were past and then she would have revived her Suit. And Meade Serjeant demanded the Opinion of the Iustices If the Wife should be barred of her Dower or not And by Manwood Iustice it was moved again If they at the Bar did agree That if a Fine be levied by the Husband and the Wife doth not make her claim within the 5 years if for that she shall be barred And he conceived That she should not be barred For he said That he who hath Title to the Land at the time of the Fine levied if he doth not sue within 5 years after his Title accrued should be barred But where the Title accrues after the Fine there he who hath Title shall not be barred by the 5 years but he may come 30 years after and make his Title and Claim But in the principal case he said That if the Fine had been levied after the death of the Husband there the Wife should be barred if she did not pursue her Right and Claim within 5 years And he agreed That if the 5 years be a Bar here that then by the Wives suffering of her Writ of Dower to be discontinued till after the 5 years were past that she should be barred because vigilantibus non dormientibus subveniunt Leges Harper said That the Discontinuance should be no Bar unto her For he said That if a gift be made to one in tail the Remainder over and Tenant in tail dieth without Issue and he in the Remainder brings a Formedon in the Remainder within 5 years and discontinueth it yet it is no Bar but that after the 5 years ended he may revive his Suit Which Manwood denyed And then Dyer came into the Court and the Case was moved to him And he said That the not prosecuting of the Action by the Wife should be a Bar unto her and that the Marriage which was before the Fine was the cause of Dower although she could not come to be endowed until after the death of her Husband And he said That the Wife could make no other to have her Dower but only by bringing of her Writ of Dower and therefore if she did surcease her time until the 5 years were past that her new claim by her new Writ would not revive the Ancient Claim and that therefore she should be barred For she could not enter into the Land to defeat the Fine And he said That as to the principal Case That it was adjudged Anno 4 H. 8. And it was also said by the Court That an Assignment of Dower made to the Wife in the Court of Wards was no sufficient claim of the Wife because she cannot have a Writ of Dower there and there by this surceasing of her demand of her Dower for the 5 years at the Common Law that she should be barred LXXII Trin. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was A Man made a Lease for years and the Lessee Covenanted to make Reparations The Lessor granted the Reversion to another and the Lessee for years made his Wife his Executrix and died It was holden in this Case by the Court That the Grantee of the Reversion should not recover damages but from the time of the Grant and not for any time before But yet the
shall be taken in Iudgment of Law That the Executors have Assets to the value of the whole 100 l. And although the Executors were compelled by the Award to make the release yet it was their own act to submit themselves to the Arbitrament LXXVIII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Court of Wards NOte It was Ruled by Kellaway and Wilbraham in the Court of Wards That where the Kings Tenant of Lands holden by Knight service in Capite made a Feoffment of the same Land to the use of himself for life and after to the use of his younger Son in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor and died the eldest Son within age That the Queen should have the Wardship of his body and of the third part of the Land and when the eldest cometh at full age the younger shall sue Livery and pay Primer Seisin according to the rate of the value of the whole Land viz. of the third part as in possession and of the two parts as a Reversion For the remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor is in truth a Reversion For the Feesimple was never out of him because there was not any Consideration as to that nor any use expressed And also because that Livery shall not be by parcels the younger Son shall not be suffered to sue Livery of the third part presently and respite the residue as to the two parts in Reversion until the Reversion fall but shall sue Livery presently as well of the two parts in reversion as of the third part in possession And if the eldest Son had been of full age at the time of the death of his Father the younger Son should pay Primer Seisin as to the third part of the full value of it for one year as in possession and as to the two other parts the moyety of the value of a year as a Reversion And at that time Breers Case was vouched which was Oliver Breers Tenant in Chief by Knights Service made a Feoffment in Fee to the use of himself for life and after to the use of A. his Son and Heir for life and after to the use of the first begotten Son of A. in tail and after to the use of the second Son of A. c. and for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the Feoffor Oliver died the said A. his Son being of full age It was ruled by the said Council of the said Court of Wards That he should pay for his Primer Seisin a third part of the Land in possession and two parts as a Reversion LXXIX Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Post 56. THe Case was A Man was seised of a Pasture in which was two great Groves and a Wood known by the name of a Wood And also in the same Pasture were certain Hedge-Rowes and Trees there growing Sparsim Leased the same by Indenture for years And by the same Indenture bargained and sold to the Lessee all Woods and Vnderwoods in and upon the Premisses And further That it should and might be lawful to the Lessee to cut down and carry away the same at all times during the Term. Harper Iustice The Hedge-Rowes did not pass by these words Hedge-Rowes sparsim Dyer The Hedge-Rowes shall pass for the Grant is general All Woods Mounson contrary For the words of the Grant may be supplyed by other words It was moved further If by these words the Lessee may cut them oftner than once And by Harper Manwood and Mounson He can cut them but once Dyer contrary And so it should be if the words had been Growing upon the Premisses And this word Growing although it sounds in the present Tense yet it shall be also taken in the future Tense if the word tunc had not been alledged for it is a word of restraint The Case which was argued in the Chancery 27 H. 8. where I was present was such The Prior of St. John of Jerusalem Leased a Commandry Provided That if the said Prior or any of his Brethren there being Commanders will dwell thereupon then the said Lease to be void It was doubted If that did extend to the Successors for the word Being is in the present Tense And yet it was holden by Fitzherbert That it should be taken in the future Tense and so extend to the Successors Otherwise if the words had been Nunc Being LXXX Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Man seised of Lands in Fee devised 1 Len. 101. That his Wife should take the profits of his Lands until Mary his Daughter and Heir came to the age of 16 years And if the said Mary died That J.S. should be her Heir Manwood The Daughter after she hath attained the age of 16 years shall have the Land in tail For Devises ought to be construed according to the intent of the Devisor so far forth as any certainty with reason may be collected but no intent shall be taken against all reason and certainty It is certain That the Daughter shall not have the Land in Fee for that shall descend to her without any Devise And these words If she dieth cannot be intended a Condition for it is certain she shall die But if the words had been That after the death of Mary J.S. should be his Heir in such case Mary had had but an Estate for life for there it is limited what Estate she should have And when it is said J.S. shall be his Heir it shall be meant his Collateral Heir so as the Estate tail remains in the Daughter Mounson and Harper to the contrary and that she shall have but for life And by Mounson If Mary had been a stranger to the Devise she should take nothing And this Case was put by Barham Serjeant A Man deviseth 100 l. to his youngest Daughter 100 l. to his middle Daughter and another 100 l. to his eldest Daughter and that all these sums shall be levied of the profits of his Lands It was holden by the better Opinion of the Court in this Case That the youngest Daughter should be first paid and then the middle and then the eldest Daughter and that was said to be Coniers Case LXXXI Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was The King granted to the Bishop of Salisbury That he should have Catalla felonum fugitivor ' and Fines and Amercements of all Tenants and Resiants within the Mannor of D. which Mannor the Bishop Leased for years and that the Lessee should have all profits and hereditaments within the same Mannor Manwood Iustice conceived That the Lessee should have the Post Fines For all things have a being somewhere although they be not visible As Rents Fines have their being in the Lands out of which they are issuing and that is in the Son of a Fine levied of the Land within the Mannor which is due by Land of him who ought to pay the Fine And this Fine is due be reason of the
Land therefore it is in the Land or within the Land i. e. the Mannor For the King may distrain for the Fine as well in the same Land as in the Land of him who ought to pay it Dyer doubted of it and said That the Bishop could not distrain in the Land for this Fine but should have it by allowance in the Exchequer upon the Estretes and if the party would not pay it the Lessee should have a Subpoena against him out of the Exchequer And some were of Opinion That the Lessee could not have this Fine 2 Len. 179. 4 Len. 234. for that they were not Hereditaments within the Mannor but rather in the Exchequer or Court where the Record is LXXXII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was A Man seised of a Pasture in which are two great Groves and a Wood known by the name of a Wood And also in the same Pasture there are certain Hedge-Rowes and Trees there growing Sparsim Leased the same by Indenture for years And by the same Indenture bargained and sold to the Lessee all Woods and Vnderwoods in and upon the Premisses And further That it shall and may be lawful to the Lessee to cut down and carry away all the same at all times during the Term. Harper The Hedge-Rowes do not pass by these words for they are not known by the name of Woods 14 H. 8. 2. contrary by Manwood For by such words Hedge-Rowes pass Mounson contrary For the words of the Grant may be supplyed by other Words Dyer The Hedge-Rowes shall pass for the Grant is general All Woods It was moved further If by those words the Lessee might cut them a second time or but once Harper Manwood and Mounson He may cut them but once Dyer contrary And so it should be if the words had been Growing upon the Premisses And this word Growing although it sounds in the present Tense yet it shall be also taken in the future Tense if not that the word tunc had been there for that is a word of Restraint The Case was argued in the Exchequer Chamber where I was present which was The Prior of St. John's Leased a Commandry Provided That if the said Prior or any of his Brethren there being Commanders will dwell thereupon then the said Lease to be void It was doubted If that Proviso did extend to the Successors for the word Being is in the present Tense And yet by the Opinion of Fitzherbert it shall be taken in the future Tense and so extend to the Successors Otherwise if the words had been Now being LXXXIII Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Made B. his Executor and died Vid. le stat 43 Eliz. cap. 8. Office of Executors 261. B. to the intent to defraud the Creditors refused to take upon him the Executorship but caused a stranger to take upon him Letters of Administration which stranger fraudulently gave the Goods of the Testator to B. Dyer If the gift be fraudulent then by the Statute of 13 Eliz. the gift is void and then B. by the Occupation of the Goods shall be charged as Executor of his own wrong Manwood I conceive there is a difference If one makes an Executor and another takes the Goods but doth no Act which concerns the Office of an Executor as paying of Debts he is not Executor of his own wrong but a Trespassor to him who is Executor in right but if he doth any Act which belongs to the Office of an Executor then he is Executor of his own wrong Dyer That Case hath been adjudged against you and although the Books of 9 E. 4. 22 H. 6. were vouched Yet Iudgment was given against the Opinion of Manwood It was the Case of one Stoke LXXXIV Jackson and Darcyes Case Mich. 16 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Writ de Partitione facienda between Jackson and Darcy the Case was Tenant in tail the remainder to the King levied a Fine had Issue and died In that case It was adjudged That the Issue was barred and yet the remainder which was in the King was not discontinued For by that Fine an Estate in Feesimple determinable upon the Estate tail did pass unto the Conusee LXXXV Strowds Case Hill. 17 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin the Case was That Lands holden of a Subject came to the possession of the King by the Statute of 1 E. 6. of Chauntries and the King granted the Lands over In that case It was holden That the Grantee shall hold the Lands of the King according to the Patent and not of the Ancient Lord But the Patentee shall pay the Rent by which the said Land was before holden as a Rent seck distrainable of Common Right to the Lord only and his Heirs scil to him of whom the said Lands were before holden LXXXVI Tresham and Robins Case Mich. 17 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. TResham brought an Action of Debt upon a Recognizance against Robins The Condition of which Recognizance was To stand to the Arbitrament of A. and B. who made Award That Robins should have the Land Yielding and paying 10 l. per annum And that Tresham in further assurance should levy a Fine to Robins of the same Land and upon that Robins should grant and render to Tresham which is done accordingly the Rent is behind Tresham brought Debt upon the Recognizance The Defendant pleaded the special matter with this per close Unde petit Judicium if the Plaintiff should have Execution against him And by the Opinion of the whole Court the Conclusion of the Plea is not good For here is not any Execution of the same Debt but an Original Action of Debt brought in which case he ought to have concluded Iudgment Si actio It was further moved If these words Yielding and paying make a Condition And it was agreed That the words do amount to as much as So as he pay the Rent And if a Man makes a Feoffment in Fee Reddendo salvendo 10 l. for years the same is a Condition But in the principal Case It is not a Condition For it is not knit to the Land by the Owner it self but by a stranger i. e. Arbitrator but it is a good Clause to make the same an Article of the Arbitrament which the parties are bound to perform upon pain of forfeiture of the Recognizance Which Wray concessit And that this Rent should not cease by Eviction of the Land. LXXXVII The Earl of Westmerlands Case Hill. 18. Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Earl of Westmerland seised of a Mannor whereof the Demesnes were usually let for three Lives by Copy 2 Len. 152. 2 Brownl 208. according to the Custom of the Mannor granted a Rent-charge to Sir William Cordell pro consilio impendendo for the term of his Life and afterwards conveyed the Mannor to Sir William Clifton in tail The Rent is behind Sir William Cordell dieth Sir William Clifton dieth
the Mannor descended to Sir John Clifton who granted a Copy-hold to Hempston The Executors of Sir William Cordell distrain for the Rent And it was agreed by the whole Court That the Copyholder should hold his Copy-hold charged Vide inde 10 Eliz. Dyer 270. Windham It hath been adjudged That the Wife of the Lord shall not be endowed against the Copyholder which Periam granted and shewed a reason thereof For the Title of Dower is not consummated before the death of the Husband so as the Title of the Copyholder was compleated before the Title of Dower But the Title of the Grantee of the Rent is consummated before the Dower Fenner conceived That the Executors could not distrain upon the Possession of the Copyholder and he argued That this Case is not within the Statute of 32 H. 8. For by the Preface of the said Statute he conceived That the Statute extended but to those Cases for which by the Common Law no remedy was provided but in this Case the Executors by the Common Law might have had an Action of Debt Ergo. But Periam and Windham held the contrary For this Statute intends a further remedy for that mischief viz. not only an Action of Debt but also Dissress and Avowry See the words of the Statute viz. distrain for the Arrearages c. Vpon the Lands c. which were charged with the payment of such Rents and chargeable to the distress of the Testator so long as the said Lands continue remain and be in the seisin or possession of the said Tenant in Demesne who ought immediately to have paid the said Rent so being behind to the said Testator or in the seisin or possession of any other person or persons claiming the said Lands only by and from the said Tenant by purchase gift or descent in like manner and form as their Testator might or ought to have done in his life time It was moved by Fenner That here the Land charged doth not continue in the seisin or possession of the Tenant And here Sir J. Clifton was issue in tail and therefore he doth not claim only by the Father but per formam Doni and therefore he is not lyable Ergo nor his Heir Shuttleworth contrary Sir J. Clifton was chargeable and he claims only from them who immediately ought to have paid the Rent And the Copyholder claims by purchase from Sir J. Clifton so he claims from Sir William Clifton the Tenant although he doth not claim immediately For if the Tenant ought to have paid it and he dieth and the Land descendeth to his Heir and the Heir maketh a Feoffment the Feoffee shall be charged within this Statute although he doth not claim immediately So where Land discharged descends from the Tenant who ought to have paid it and so from Heir to Heir The Statute of 1 R. 2. is That all Grants c. shall be good against the Donor c. his Heirs c. claiming the same only as Heirs to Cestuy que Use Yet if Cestuy que Use grants a Rent-charge and his Feoffees are disseised the Grant shall be good against the Disseisor and yet he doth not claim only by Cestuy que Use And although Sir J. Clifton be Tenant in tail and so claims per formam Doni yet forasmuch as the Estate tail comes under the Estate of him who grants the Rent he shall be subject to the charge And this Statute extends not only to him who claims by the Tenant but also to the Heir of him c. And by Windham and Rhodes The Copyholder doth not claim only by the Lord but he claims in also by the Custom but the Custom is not any part of his Title but only appoints the manner how he shall hold The possession here is continued in Sir J. Clifton for the possession of his Copyholder is his possession so as if the Copyholder be ousted Sir J. Clifton shall have an Assise And so the strict words of the Statute are observed for the seisin and possession continue in Sir J. Clifton who claims only by Sir William Clifton who was the Tenant in Demesne who ought to pay the Rent But Fenner said to that That the seisin and possession intended in the Statute was the very actual possession i. e. pedis dispositio and such a possession in which a distress might be taken and that could not be taken in a Freehold without actual possession LXXXVIII Owen and Sadlers Case Hill. 18 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 10 Co. 96. A Lease was made to A. for life the remainder to B. in tail the remainder to the right Heirs of B. who bargains and sells all his Estate or levies a Fine with Proclamations of it to D. A. commits Waste It was holden by the Court That D. shall not punish him in an Action of Waste for nothing passeth to him but during the life of the Grantor scil as to the remainder in tail in respect of which Estate the Action of Waste is only maintainable for although that the Feesimple passeth to the Grantee or Conusee yet in respect of that an Action of Waste is not maintainable until the Estate tail be spent LXXXIX Mich. 18 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe King seised of a Mannor 2 Cro. 53 123. Yel 90 91. 1 Cro. 240. 2 Roll. 371. Hob. Rep. 242. to which an Advowson is appendant A stranger presents and his Clerk is in by 6 months The King grants the Mannor with all Advowsons appendant to it to B. The Incumbent dieth In this case It was holden by the Court That the Grantee might present For the Advowson was always appendant and the Inheritance of the same passed to the Grantee for it was not made disappendant by the Vsurpation But the Patentee shall not have a Quare Impedit of the first disturbance for that presentment did not pass unto him being a thing in Action without mention of it in his Grant And if the Plaintiff brings a Quare Impedit of the second Avoydance he shall make his Title by the presentment of the King not making mention of the Vsurpation Yet if the Bishop present by Lapse in the case of a common person he ought to make mention of it XC Mich. 18 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Ejectione firmae upon an Evidence the Case was this The Bishop of Rochester 4 E. 6. Leased to B. for years rendring Rent and afterwards granted the Reversion to C. for 99 years rendring the ancient Rent Habendum from the day of the Lease without impeachment of Waste which Grant was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter but B. did not attorn And in default of Attornment It was holden by the whole Court That the Lease was void For it was made by way of grant of the Reversion and to pass as a Reversion But by Catline If the Bishop had granted the Reversion and also demised the Land for 99 years It should pass as a Lease to begin first after the
said That he promised to find meat drink and apparel for the Plaintiff and his Wife for 3 years absque hoc that he promised to find meat and drink for two servants and Pasture for two Geldings The Plaintiff Replicando said That the Defendant did promise to find c. for 3 years next following Vpon which they were at Issue and found for the Plaintiff It was moved in Arrest of Iudgment That here is no Issue joyned For the Plaintiff hath declared upon a promise to find c. for 3 years when the Plaintiff will that require The Defendant hath pleaded a promise to find apparel meat and drink for the Plaintiff and his Wife for 3 years absque hoc that he promised for two servants and two Geldings and now the Plaintiff Replicando saith That the Defendant assumed for 3 years next following so here is another Assumpsit in the Replication than that whereof the Plaintiff declared and so the Plaintiff hath not joyned Issue upon the Assumpsit traversed by the Defendant and so there is no Issue joyned for the Defendant denyeth the Assumpsit whereof the Plaintiff hath declared And the Plaintiff in his Replication hath affirmed another Assumpsit than that whereof he hath declared and that is not helped by the Statute of Jeofails For it is not a mis-joyning of Issue but a not joyning of Issues and that was holden by the Court to be a material Exception And the Lord Dyer conceived That here is a Departure for the Plaintiff in his Replication hath alledged another promise than that whereof he declared Another Exception was Because that the Plaintiff had not averred in facto that he had married the Daughter of the Defendant but by an Argument Implicative Licet but that Exception was disallowed For that the word Licet is not a bare Implicative but it is an express Averment And so it was said Plow 127. it had been ruled before See 2 Mar. Plow Com. 127 128. Buckley and Thomas Case C. Hill. 19 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Lease for years was upon Condition Dyer 45. 1 Roll. 214. 1 Len. 3. That the Lessee should not grant over the Land at Will or otherwise He devised the same to his Executors who accepted the same only as Executors and not as Devisees And yet it was the Opinion of the Iustices That the Condition was broken Because he had done as much as lay in him to have devised the Land. 2 Roll. 684. 1 Roll. 24. 9 Co. 94. Stiles Rep. 304 305 405. Hutton Rep. 27. Clayton Rep 85. 1 Len. 113. 1 Cro. 126. Owen 94. See 31 H. 8. 45. CI. Hodgson and Maynards Case Hill. 19 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. NOte It was said by the Iustices in this Case That if an Executor promiseth to pay a Debt when he hath not Assets no Action upon the Case lyeth against him upon such promise but contrary if he hath Assets And so it was holden That if the Heir hath nothing by descent an Action upon the Case will not lie against him upon such a promise made CII Mich. 20 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. Co. 3. Inst 1. Stat. 5. Eliz. 2 Len. 12. AN Action upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. of Perjury was brought by three and they declared That the Defendant being examined upon his Oath before Commissioners If a Surrender was made at such a Court of such a Mannor of a Copyhold to the use of A. and B. Two of the Defendants swore That no such Surrender was made c. Exception was taken to the Declaration because that the certainty of the Copyhold did not appear upon the Declaration For the Statute is That in that case the party grieved shall have remedy so as it ought to appear in what thing he is grieved Quod fuit concessum per totam Curiam Another Exception was taken because that the Action in such case is given to the party grieved And it appeareth upon the Declaration That the surrender in the Negative deposing of which the perjury is assigned was made to the use of two of the Plaintiffs only and then the third person is not a party grieved For he claims nothing by the surrender and therefore and because the two parties grieved have joyned with the third person not grieved It was the Opinion of Wray and Southcote Iustices That the Writ should abate CIII Mich. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Len. 263. NOte It was said by Dyer and Manwood Iustices If one be condemned in an Action upon the Case or Trespass upon Nihil dicit or Demurrer c. And a Writ issueth to enquire of the Damages and before the Retorn of the Writ the Defendant dyeth The Writ shall not abate for that For the Awarding of the said Writ is a Iudgment And Manwood said In a Writ of Accompt the Defendant is awarded to Accompt And the Defendant doth Accompt and is found in arrearages and dieth The Writ shall not abate but Iudgment shall be given That the Plaintiff shall recover and the Executor shall be charged with the Arrearages and yet Accompt doth not lie against them CIV Mich. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 52. 2 Len. 282. Post 92. IN an Action upon Escape the Plaintiff is Nonsuit It was holden by the Iustices That the Defendant in that case shall not have Costs by the Statute of 23 H. 8. Note The words in the Statute upon any Action upon the Statute for any offence or wrong personal supposed to be done immediately to the Plaintiff Notwithstanding this Action is Quodam modo an Action within the Statute scil by equity of the Statute of Westm 2. which give expresly against the Warden of the Fleet Yet properly it is not an Action upon the Statute for that in the Declaration in such Action no mention is made of the Statute Which see the Book of Entries 169 171. And also here there is not supposed any immediate personal Offence or Wrong to the Plaintiff and an Action upon the Case it is not For then the Writ ought to make mention of the Escape which it doth not here And yet at the Common Law before the Statute of Westm 2. An Action upon the Case lay upon an Escape And so by the opinion of Dyer Manwood Mounson Iustices Costs are not given in this case and Manwood said That upon Nonsuit in an Action upon the Statute of 8 H. 6. The Defendant shall not have Costs 1 Len. 282. For that the same is not a Personal Wrong For the Writ is Disseisivit which is a real tort CV Mich. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Debt upon an Obligation to perform certain Covenants in a pair of Indentures The Plaintiff assigned the breach in one of the Covenants scil That the Defendant should do all reparations of such a House demised to him And that he had not repaired but suffered the same to decay To which the Defendant said That the
Queen by her Letters Patents reciting the said Mischief c. et praemissa considerans et annuens Petitioni illius granted to him the Mannor aforesaid and further de ampliori gratia sua Released to the said Andrew Boynton all her Right Possession c. which came to her ratione attincturae praedict ' vel in manibus nostris existant vel existere deberent After which viz. 5 Eliz. Andrew Boynton levied a Fine to the Plaintiff with proclamations and died without Issue And the Defendant as Issue in tail entred Puckering Serjeant It is to see 1. If by the words of the Letters Patents of Queen Mary viz. de ampliori sua gratia c. the Reversion in Fee which the Queen had passed or not 2. Admitting that the Reversion did not pass Then if the Fine levied by Andrew Boynton 5 Eliz. to the Plaintiff the Reversion being in the Queen be a Bar to the Issue For when the first Fine was levied 37 H. 8. which was levied without proclamations the same shall not bind the Issue in tail neither as to the Right nor to the Entry for it is not any Discontinuance because the Reversion is in the King as of things which lie in Discontinuance Rent Common c. For such Fine is a Fine at the Common Law and not within the Statute of 4 H. 7. And such a Fine is void against the Issue But if such a Fine without proclamations be levied of a thing which lieth in Discontinuance then such a Fine is not void but voidable by a Formedon And therefore this Fine in the Case at Bar being levied without proclamations of Lands entailed whereof the Reversion is in the King at the time of the Fine levied shall not bind the Issue And by such Fine the Conusee hath which Fee was forfeited to the Queen by the Attainder of the Lord Seymore and that the Queen immediately restored to Andrew Boynton because the Lord Seymore had not according to Agreement betwixt them assured his Lands to the said Andrew Boynton in Recompence For the Indentures themselves were not sufficient to raise any use See acc 1 Mar. Dyer 96. As to the point he conceived That nothing passed of the Reversion For the Grant hath reference to the words All his Right Possession c. which came to her ratione attincturae and all the residue of the Grant ought to have reference to that to the ratione attincturae praedict which was the foundation of the whole grant And here the intent of the Queen was not to other intent but only to restore Andrew Boynton to the said Mannor and to his ancient Estate in it And nothing appears in the said Letters Patents by which it might appear that the Queen was apprised of her Reversion which she had by descent and therefore the same cannnot pass by general words If the King grants the Goods and Chattels of all those who have done any Trespass for which vitam amittere debent The Goods of him who is Attainted of Treason shall not be forfeited or granted by such general words 8 H. 4. 2. Vid. Roll. Tit. Prerogat The King grants omnia catalla Tenentium suorum qualitercunque damnatorum the same doth not extend to the Goods of him who is condemned for Treason See 22 Ass 49. So in our Case the Patent shall not serve to two Intents and not to pass two Interests by these general words and then nothing passeth but the Fee determinable which was conveyed to the Lord Seymore and forfeited by the Attainder Then it is to be considered How after the said Grant the said Andrew Seymore is seised And he conceived That he should be in of the said Fee determinable and not of an Estate in tail against his own Fine and then if he be not seised by force of the Tail at the time of the Fine levied 5 Eliz. the same Fine cannot bind the entail But admitting That at the time of the second Fine levied that he was in of an Estate in tail yet that Fine shall not bar the Issue For first This Fine cannot make any Discontinuance because that the Reversion in Fee is in the King which is not touched by the Fine See the Case of Saunders Where A. makes a Lease for years to begin at a day to come and afterwards levies a Fine to a stranger with proclamations and the 5 years pass and afterwards at the day of the beginning of the said Lease the Lessee enters his Entry is lawful and he shall not be bounden by the Nonclaim and so it was adjudged in Saunders and Starkies Case Vide inde Saffins Case 3 Jac. Cook 5 Part 123 124. After the making of the Statute of 4 H. 7. of Fines It was much doubted If the Issues of Common Tenants in tail should be bound by a Fine with proclamations because upon the death of their Ancestors they are as new Purchasors per formam Doni And therefore it was provided by 32 H. 8. That the said Statute of 4 H. 7. should extend to such Common entails but there was no doubt of an Estate tail of the gift of the King. And see Mich. 15 16 Eliz. Rot. 1474. between Jackson and Darcy in a Partitione facienda the Case was Tenant in tail the remainder to the King after the Statute of 32 H. 8. levied a Fine with proclamations and it was adjudged That the same should bind the Issues The Act of 32 H. 8. doth not extend but where the Reversion is in the King but no mention is there of a Remainder because that the words of the said Act are general of all Tenants in tail The makers of the Act perceiving That it might be doubted that the generality of the words might include all Estates tails of the gift of the King they restrained the words in a special manner as appeareth by the last Proviso of the same Act Nor to any Fines heretofore levied or hereafter to be levied by any person or persons of any Mannors c. before the levying of the said Fine given granted or assigned to the person or persons levying the said Fine or to any of his or their Ancestors in tail by Letters Patents or Act of Parliament the Reversion whereof at the time of the levying of such Fine was in the King And so such Estates are excepted And that in such Cases where such Fines are levied they shall be of such force as they should be if the said Act had not been made And therefore it seemed to the said Parliament That such Estate tails of the gift of the King were not bounden by the Statute of 4 H. 7. for otherwise the said Proviso or Exception had been frivolous Walmesley Serjeant to the contrary And he agreed That the first Fine was not any Discontinuance and yet he conceived it is not altogether void against the Issues before that they entred For no right remains in the Conusor against his Fine And also
Bench. WIlliam Absolon Master of the Savoy and the Chaplains there brought Debt against Anderton The Case was That the said Master and Chaplains leased Lands to the Defendant for certain years and afterwards he accepted of them an Indenture of Bargain and Sale to him and his Heirs by express words of Bargain and Sale without other words And one of the Masters of the Chancery within the 6 months came unto them into their Chapter-house and before him they acknowledged the said Indenture to be their Deed and prayed that it be enrolled which was done accordingly It was moved If that acknowledgment and Enrollment were good or not or if the Master and the Chaplains ought to have appointed one by their Warrant to be their Attorny to acknowledge the said Deed And it was also moved 1 Len. 184. If there needed any Enrollment at all of it because Anderton had then an Interest in the Land for years in which case it is to be considered If the words Barganizavi Vendidi shall be of such effect as the words Dedi Concessi And it was said by the Court That a Warrant of Attorny to acknowledge a Deed were a strange thing And it was agreed That the Indenture being once Inrolled it was not material by what means it was Inrolled but was good being done CXXV Savell and Badcocks Case Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. SAvell brought an Action of Trespass against Badcock and declared That Edw. Savell was seised of the Mannor of D. and leased the same for years to Henry Savell who died having made the Plaintiff his Executor who entred and was possessed until the first day of January at which time the Trespass was done The Defendant pleaded Not guilty And it was given in Evidence on the Plaintiffs part That the said Ed. Savell was seised and leased to the said Henry Savell for years who so possessed reciting the said Lease Demised the said Mannor to Sir William Cordell Master of the Rolls to have to him immediately after the decease of the said Henry for so many years of the said Term which at the time of his death should be unexpired if Dorothy the Wife of the said Henry should so long live Henry died Sir William Cordell entred Dorothy died within the Term the Plaintiff the Executor of Henry entred and was possessed until the first day of Januarii 23 Eliz. at which day the Trespass was done On the Defendants part it was given in Evidence That after the Grant to Sir William Cordell the said Henry and Edward joyned in a fine Sur Conusans de droit c. to a stranger who granted and rendred the Land to the said Henry and his Heirs who devised the same to the said Dorothy his Wife for life the remainder to Cordell Savell in tail the remainder over and died Dorothy entred and died Cordell Savell 22 Eliz. conveyed the Mannor by Fine to one Williamson who entred and afterwards and before the Trespass aforesaid viz. 14 January 23 Eliz. leased to the Defendant for years by force of which the Defendant entred And upon this Evidence there was a Demurrer in Law. And it was argued by Shuttleworth who was made Serjeant the last Term. And he said That the Demise made by Henry Savell is not in the inconveniency of the maxim that Henry by the said Grant should reserve a lesser Estate to himself than he had before For here by this Grant no present interest passeth by Sir William Cordell but the effect of the Grant rests upon a Contingency scil if he himself dieth within the Term c. until which time the whole interest of the Term doth remain in the said Henry Savell subject to the Contingency aforesaid and amounts to so much as if the said Henry had granted the same to Sir William Cordell if he himself should die within the Term in which Case it is a limitation when the said Grant shall take effect As if I grant unto you my Lease for so many years as J.S. shall name the same is a good Grant to take effect upon the naming of J.S. Then the Case being so When Henry Savell the Lessee and Edward Savell the Lessor joyn in a Fine ut supra now the possibility of the remnant of the Term which upon the death of Henry Savell and Dorothy his Wife within the Term might accrue to the Executors of the said Henry Savell is not extinct by the Fine but doth remain Quodam modo in Henry Savell to vest in his Executors if it should happen And here is not any conclusion by the Fine in this Case for Henry at the time of the Fine had not in him any Interest which is now claimed and so cannot be bound by the Fine For the Interest in respect of which the Plaintiff hath cause of Action begineth after the death of Henry who levied the Fine and first accrueth to his Executors and so shall not be touched by the Fine and therefore if such a Lessee for years granteth his Term to J.S. Proviso That if J.S. dieth within the Term that he himself shall have it again and afterwards the Grantor joyns with his Lessor in a Fine and afterwards within the Term J.S. dieth now the Grantor notwithstanding the Fine shall have the residue of the Term Then when the Conusee by the Fine regrants the Land to Henry in Fee that possibility to have after the death of the Donor cannot be drowned in the Fee simple for the reason aforesaid And then when Henry deviseth the same to his Wife that possibility doth pass to Dorothy because it was never in the Devisor and then when Dorothy dieth within the Term the Residue of the said Term shall accrue to the Plaintiff as Executor of Henry Cook contrary And he held The Grant to Sir William Cordell is utterly void And he agreed That Grants although in themselves they be uncertain yet if they may be reduced to certain they are good but here is no expectance of any certainty in the life of Henry for the Term limited to Sir William Cordell is not to begin till the death of Henry and is to end upon the death of Dorothy so as here is not any certain beginning nor certain end and here this Grant cannot be reduced to any Certainty during the life of the Grantor and so for that cause is void See Plow Com. 6 Eliz. Say and Fullers Case 273. by Weston Iustice If A. makes a Lease for so many years as J.S. shall name if J.S. in the life of A. name a certain number of years then the Lease is good but if the Lease had been for so many years as my Executors shall name that can never be made good in my life And upon that reason it is That an Attornment ought to be made in the life of the Grantor or else no Reversion shall pass So 33 E. 3. Entry 79. A Bishop aliens and after his death the Dean Chapter
he might be disseised But because the words of the Indictment were Expulit disseisivit which could not be true if the party expelled and disseised had not Freehold the Exception was disallowed Another Exception was taken to the Indictment For these words In unum tenementum intravit and this word Tenementum is too general and an uncertain word and therefore as to that the party was discharged But the Indictment was further In unum Tenementum decem acras terrae eidem pertinent And therefore as to the 10 Acres the party was enforced to Answer CL. Pasch 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Granted to B. a Rent-charge out of his Lands to begin when J.S. died without Issue of his body J.S. died having Issue which Issue died without Issue Dyer said The Grant shall not take effect For J.S. at the time of his death had Issue and therefore then the Grant shall not begin and if not then then not at all And by Manwood If the words had been To begin when J.S. is dead without Issue of his body then such a Grant should take effect when the Issue of J.S. dieth without Issue c. Dyer If the Donee in tail hath Issue and dieth without Issue The Formedon in Reverter shall suppose that the Donee himself died without Issue For there is an Interest and there is a difference betwixt an Interest and a Limitation For if I give Lands to A. and B. for the Term of their lives if any of them dieth the Survivor shall have the whole But if I give Lands to A. for the life of B. and C. now if B. or C. die all the Estate is determined because but a Limitation and B. and C. had not any Interest See Cook 5 Part Bradnell's Case CLI Pasch 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Enfeoffed B. upon Condition That if he pay 10. l. to the Feoffee his Executors or Assigns 4 Len. 232. 1 Len. 285 286. Hill. 12. Car. 2 B.R. Goodyer and Clarks Case within 3 yeares next ensuing that then it should be lawful for him and his Heirs to re-enter The Feoffee hath Issue two Sons whom he makes his Executors and dieth before the day of payment The Ordinary commits â—etters of Administration to J.S. during the minority of the Executors Manwood conceived That it is a most sure way for A. to pay the Monies to the Executors for they remain Executors notwithstanding the Administration committed to another For the Administrator in such case is but as Bailiff or Receivor to the Executors and shall be accomptable to them Which Harper and Dyer Concesserunt And Manwood said If in this Case the Monies be paid to one of the Executors it is sufficient and the same well paid but that Conditional Feoffments are as a Sum in gross and not in nature of a Debt Which the rest of the Iustices granted CLII. Pasch 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Seised of a Mannor seased the same for years rendring Rent with Clause of re-entry and afterwards levied a Fine Sur Conusans de Droit to the use of himself and his Heirs The Rent being demanded is behind Dyer A. cannot re-enter for although in right the Rent passeth without Attornment yet he is without remedy for it is without Attornment and it would be hard without Attornment to re-enter c. It was moved further If here the Conusor be Assignee within the Statute of 32 H. 8. Manwood The Reversion of a Termor is granted by Fine there wants privity for an Action of Debt Waste and Re-entry But if the Conusee dieth without Heir although that in right it was in the Conusee yet the Lord by Escheat shall make Avowry and yet the Conusee by whom he claimeth could not And in the Case at Bar the Conusee himself could not but the Conusor being Cestuy que use who is in by the Act of Law 1 Inst 309. shall avow and shall re-enter without Attornment For the Conusor is in by the Statute of 27 H. 8. Harper The Heir of the Conusee shall avow and re-enter before Attornment Dyer 13 H. 4. The Father leaseth for years rendring Rent with Clause of re-entry the Father demands the Rent which is not paid the Father dieth the Son cannot re-enter For the Rent doth not belong unto him And therefore in the Case at Bar the Conusee cannot avow for the Rent before Attornment therefore not re-enter CLIII Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IT is Enacted by the Statute of 5 Eliz. Cap. 8. That no person shall cut down any Oak Trees but between the first day of April and the last day of June but Timber imployed and bestowed in or about Buildings or Reparations of Houses c. And upon an Information upon that Statute the Defendant pleaded That he cut down the said Oak Trees and thereof made Laths to be bestowed in building and that he had sold them to J.S. who had imployed part of them in building and is imploying the residue in the same manner Windham The intent of the Defendant in cutting down the Oaks was not to have them imployed in building but to sell them Although it is not necessary for the satisfaction of that Statute that the Oaks presently after the cutting be imployed about building For if the Lessee of a Messuage who is to have House-bote seeing that his Messuage will want reparation cutteth down a Tree for such intent although there be not such urgent occasion at present that it ought to be presently repaired the same shall not be said Trespass for it is good Husbandry to have such Timber to be seasonable which cannot be without some reasonable time between the cutting down and the imployment Periam If at the time of the cutting the Vendor or Vendee had an intent to employ them about building it is good enough And it is a strong Case here because the Defendant imploys the Timber himself in Laths which is not of any use but for building and cannot be made but of Timber CLIV. Eve and Finch's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. PEter Eve and John Finch brought an Action of Trespass against Nathaniel Tracy and Margaret his Wife and upon the pleading the Case was that John Finch Father of J.F. the Plaintiff seised of the Mannor of St. Katherines held the same of the Queen by Knight service in Chief and was also seised of the Land where the Trespass was done being holden in Socage and so seised 6 Junij 20 Eliz. for the preferment of the said Margaret then his Wife enfeoffed of the said Mannor A. and B. unto the use of himself and the said Margaret and their Heirs And that the said John the Father had not any other Land but that before mentioned and that the said Mannor at the time of the said Feoffment and at the death of the said John the Father attingebat ad duas partes of all the Lands and Tenements of the said
John the Father in three parts to be divided And afterwards the Father by his Will devised the Lands holden in Socage unto his said Wife for life with divers Remainders over It was the Opinion of the Court in this Case that the Devise was utterly void by the Statute CLV Brett and Peagrims Case Pasch 26 Eliz. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared that whereas he himself and the Defendant submitted themselves to the Award of A.B. and C.D. and whereas the said Arbitrators upon the hearing of the Causes between them did intend and were resolved amongst other matters of their Award to award that two Obligations by which the Plaintiff was severally bounden to the Defendant for the payment of certain sums of Mony to the Defendant should be delivered by the Defendant to the Plaintiff to be cancelled The Defendant promised in Consideration that that Article of the delivery of the said two Obligations should be left out of the Award that he himself would gratis deliver them to the Plaintiff without any Coertion or direction of the Award and further declared that the said Article ad specialem instantiam ipsius Querentis was left out by the said Arbitrators out of their Award and notwithstanding that that the Defendant had not redelivered ut supra c. but had put the same in suit against the Plaintiff In this Case upon the matter ut supra c. it was adjudged for the Plaintiff CLVI Nich. Lee's Case Pasch 26. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Cro. 26. 1 Len. 285. 1 Inst 113. Dyer 177. 219. a. 2 Len. 220. NIch. Lee by his Will devised his Land to W. his second Son And if he do depart this World not having Issue then I Will my Sons-in-Law shall sell my Land. The Devisor at the time of the Devise having six Sons-in-Law died W. had Issue John and died John died without Issue one of the Sons-in-Law of the Devisor died the five surviving Sons-in-Law sold the Land. 1. It was clearly agreed by the whole Court that although the words of the Will be ut supra If W. my Son depart this World not having Issue c. And that W. hath Issue which dieth without Issue there although it cannot be said Literally that William did depart this World not having Issue yet the intent of the Devisor is not to be restrained to the Letter but Construction shall be made that whensoever W. dieth in Law upon the matter without Issue the same Land shall be subject to sale according to the Authority committed by the Devisor to his Sons-in-Law And now upon the matter W. is dead without Issue As in a Formedon in the Reverter or Remainder although the Donee in tail hath Issue yet if afterwards the Estate tail be spent the Writ shall suppose that the Donee died without Issue a fortiori in the case of a Devise such Construction shall be made As to the other point concerning the sale of the Land Wray demanded if the Sons-in-Law were named in the Will The Clerks answered they were not See 30 H. 8. Br. Devise 31 and 39 Ass 17. Fitz. title Executors 117. Such a sale is good in case of Executors See also 23 Eliz. Dyer 371. And see 4 and 5 Mar. Dyer Land devised in tail and if the Devisee shall die without Issue that then the Land shall be sold pro optimo valore by his Executors una cum assensu of A. if A. dieth before sale the power of the Executors is determined And afterwards it was clearly resolved by the whole Court that the sale by the manner aforesaid was good and Iudgment given accordingly CLVII Rag and Bowley's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. ERror was brought upon a Fine and the Error was assigned in the Proclamations Whereupon issued a Certiorari to the Custos Brevium who certified the Proclamations by which Certificate it appeared that two of the said Proclamations were made in one day upon which the Defendant prayed another Scire facias to the Chirographer in whose Office it appeared that all the Proclamations were well and duly made It was the Opinion of Wray Chief Iustice in this Case that the Defendant ought to have his preyer for the Chirographer maketh the Proclamations and he is the principal Officer as to them And the Custos Brevium hath but the abstract of the Proclamations and we may in discretion amend them upon the matter appearing But the other Iustices seemed to be of a contrary Opinion for that the Proclamations being once certified by the Custos Brevium who is the principal Officer we ought not afterwards to resort to the Chirographer who is the inferior Officer And afterwards the Clerks of the Common Pleas were examined of the matter aforesaid by the Iustices of the Kings Bench and they answered according to that which was said by Wray Chief Iustice Wherefore it was awarded by the Court that a new Certiorari be directed to the Chirographer who Certified the Proclamations to be well and duly made And thereupon the Court awarded that the Proclamations in the Office of the Custos Brevium should be amended according to the Proclamations in the Custody and the Office of the Chirographer Note In the same Case before the Writ brought a stranger had brought a Writ of Error against the same Defendant upon the same Fine upon which the transcript of the Fine and Proclamations are removed in Banco and after the Plaintiff is Non-suit Now another who hath Cause may have a Writ of Error quod coram vobis residet CLVIII Taverner and Cromwell's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. UPon an Evidence unto a Iury 3 Cro. 353. containing difficulty and matter in Law it was found viz. that the Bishop of Norwich 10 H. 8. was seised of the Mannor of Northelman in the right of his Bishoprick and at his Court holden within the same Mannor granted parcel of the Demesnes of the said Mannor to one Taverner and his Heirs where of the said Land in truth there was not any Demise by Copy before And so the said Land continued in Copy until 23 H. 8. at which time Taverner committed a forfeiture which being presented the Bishop seised the Land as forfeited and granted the same again by Copy to Taverner in Fee And so from thence it continued in Copy until 8 Eliz. which Interval between 23 H. 8. and 8 Eliz. amounted to 47 years It was the Opinion of the whole Court in this Case that the Continuance for 50 years is requisite to fasten a Customary Condition upon the Land against the Lord. It was also agreed by the Court that although the Original Commencement and that Customary Interest did commence 10 H. 8. ut supra from which time unto 8 Eliz. 60 years passed yet the seisure for a forfeiture which happened 23 H. 8. interrupted utterly the Continuance from the time which might by the Law have perfected the Customary Interest So
that now the time before the forfeiture ought not to be accounted in this Case But the Orginal beginning of the Copyhold shall be holden to be 23 H. 8. when the Grant de Novo by Copy was made between which time and 8 Eliz. is an interval but of 47 years within which time a Customary Interest cannot be attached upon the Land And then before sufficient time encurred c. the Lord may well enter upon such a Tenant at Will For as yet there is not any Custom begotten by sufficient time to bind him It was also agreed by the Iustices That if the Lord of a Mannor is seised of an ancient Copyhold for forfeiture or by reason of Escheat and Lett the same at Will without any Copy for divers years one after the other that that is not any Interruption of the Customary nature of the Land but that the Lord may grant it again by Copy As to other parcel of the Land It was given in Evidence That at a Court lately holden at Northelman It was presented by the Homage there That Taverner the Plaintiff being a Copy-holder of the said Mannor had forged a Customary of the said Mannor containing divers false Customs pretending them to be true Customs of the said Mannor and that he had forged and put a Seal to it about which this word viz. Northelman is engraven And that he had procured divers Copyholders of the said Mannor to set their seals to it and that he said unto them That that Customary should be put into the Church of Northelman amongst the Charters and Evidences of the said Church And that he had now made his Copyhold as good as his Freehold And If the said Offence committed by the Plaintiff ut supra be a forfeiture of his Copyhold was the Question It was argued by Popham who was of Counsel with the Plaintiff That without further matter it was not any forfeiture And yet he confessed It is a forgery against the first branch of that Statute of 5 Eliz. cap. 14. And so he said it was lately adjudged in the Star-Chamber But as to the point of Forfeiture he put this difference If the Lord demand his Services of his Copyholder there If the Copyholder upon debate between the Lord and himself sheweth forth such a forged Customary and Counterpleads the Demand of the Lord with it now it is a forfeiture for that the Inheritance of the Lord is thereby hazarded As if the Copyholder after the forfeiture keep it himself and doth not encounter his Lord in his demand with it in his services the same is not any forfeiture As if the Copyholder before any Rent be due saith That he will not pay any Rent to the Lord hereafter Or when a Court is to be holden That he will not after appear to do any Suit at the Court of his Lord c. But if his Rent being due he denyeth it Or when the Court is holden he saith That he will not do any Suit the same is a foreiture As it was lately adjudged in the Kings Bench in the Case between Sir Christopher Hatton and his Copyholders of his Mannor of Wellingborough So if a Copy-holder being with the other Copyholders charged upon Oath to enquire of the Articles of the Court-Baron and sufficient matter being given to them in Evidence to induce them to find a matter within their Charge and they or any of them obstinately refuse to find the same the same is a forfeiture of his Copyhold As it was adjudged in the Case of Sir Rich. Southwell Knight and Thurston Clench Iustice conceived That in the principal Case the Offence of the Plaintiff is not any forfeiture no more 1 Roll. 508. than if a Copyholder makes a Charter of Feoffment of his Customary Land and delivereth the same as his Deed to the party but doth not execute it by Livery the same is not any forfeiture It was argued by Gawdy Serjeant who was of Counsel with the Defendant to the contrary For he said That if a Copyholder will forge a Deed of Feoffment purporting That the Lord of the Mannor hath enfeoffed him of the said Customary Land notwithstanding that he keepeth such Charter himself without shewing it forth yet it is a Forfeiture At the length The Court wished the Iury to find the special matter and to refer the same to the Court Whether it was a Forfeiture or not In this Case another matter was moved viz. The Auncestor of the Plaintiff had purchased divers several Copyholds from several Copyholders by several Copies whereof he died seised Or committed several Offences by which he forfeited to the Lord all his Copyholds for which the Lord seised and granteth them again to his Auncestor wtih the Ancient Rent and to his Heirs Tenendum per antiqua servitia consueta c. And afterwards the same Copyholder commiteth Waste whether the same shall now trench to forfeit all the Copyhold Lands which were granted ut supra by one entire Copy Or only that which was before the seizure holden by the same Rent Et nihil ultra For these words Tenendum per antiqua servitia do not trench only to the Quantity of the Services but also to the Quality scil severally so as there shall be several Services as before As if A. be seised of Copyhold Land on the part of his Father and of other Copyhold Land on the part of his Mother and thereof dieth seised and his Son and Heir be admitted to it by one Copy and by one Admittance Now if that Son dieth without Issue the Copyholds shall descend severally the one to the Heir on the part of his Father and the other to the Heir on the part of his Mother c. And afterwards the Iury found the Special Verdict and the special matter ut supra c CLIX. Vincent Lee's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Exchequer 1 Inst 138. b. VIncent Lee seised of Lands in Fee had Issue 3 Sons F.G. and J and by his last Will in writing Devised That J. his Son should have the Land for the Term of 31 years without impeachment of Waste to the intent that he pay certain Debts and Legacies set down in his said Will The remainder after the said Term expired to the Heirs Males of the Body of the said J. begotten And further willed That if the said J. die within the Term aforesaid that then G. his Son shall have such Term c. and then also shall be Executor but made the said J. his present Executor and died J. entred by force of the Devise F. died without Issue by which the Feesimple descended upon J. who had Issue P. and died within the Term P. entred G. as Executor entred upon him and he re-entred upon which re-entry G. brought Trespass Pigott said That the Term by the descent of the Fee from F. to J. being the second Son of Vincent and Heir of F. is not extinct but only suspended It hath
been Objected that J. cannot be said to die within the Term because by the descent of the Fee the Term is extinct or suspended and so not in esse at the time of the death of J. therefore nothing did accrue to G. because J. did not die within the Term but that is but a Conceit for the intent of Vincent was that the Heir should not meddle with the Land Devised as Heir until the 31 years be expired and words During or Within the Term extend unto the time of the Term and not unto the Estate And although that the Term as to J. be extinct yet the right or possession of G. shall stand and shall be expectant upon the death of J. before the expiration of the said 31 years As A. leaseth for life to B. and afterwards granteth the Reversion with Warranty to C. who releaseth to B. in Fee who is impleaded in a Praecipe although now B. hath a Feesimple yet during his life he shall not recover in value And in the principal Case This further Interest limited to G. cannot be extinct or prevented See Plow Com. Welden and Elkingtons Case Beaumont contrary And that the Term is extinct because he hath the said Term in his own right and not as Executor but as a Man trusted with payment of Debts and Legacies But the same Term which J. had G. cannot have for some of the years are expired and the words of the Will are He shall have such Term but here the Term is utterly extinct As where a Rent Common or Way c. descendeth upon the Ter-Tenant 2 H. 4. A Prior had an Annuity out of a Parsonage and afterwards he purchaseth the Advowson which is afterwards appropriated to his House now the Annuity is extinct and although the Prior afterwards presenteth to the Advowson yet it is-not revived Br. Extinguishment 54. A Man hath a Lease for years as Executor and purchaseth the Inheritance his Term is extinct yet it is Assets c. And it is said in Bracebridges Case Plow Com. 419. 14 Eliz. that Parson Patron and Ordinary Lease for years the Glebe Lands of the Parsonage the Parson dieth the Lessee for years becomes Parson and dieth his Executors shall not have the residue of the said Term for the Term is extinct 1 Inst 338. b. 2 Roll. 472. although he had the Term in his own right and the Freehold in the right of his Church and so in several Capacities And it was holden by some that if the Term for years comes to the Lessor as Executor who dieth the Term is revived Manwood Chief Baron asked this Case of those who Argued A Lease is made for 21 years Proviso That the Lessee shall suffer the Lessor to enjoy the same or to take the profits thereof during the life of the Lessor or so long as the Lessor shall live if the same were a good Proviso or not Pigot Conceived that the Devise to G. was a new Devise and not dependant upon the first Devise to J. nor any parcel of it but this second Devise to G. did take away the absolute Devise to J. before and qualified it so as it determined with his death The words Such Estate shall be intended an Estate to G. to be granted from the death of the Testator Land is Devised to A. and his Heirs and he if dieth without Heir that it shall remain to another the same is no good Devise But a Devise to one and his Heirs and if J.S. dieth living the Devisee B. shall have it the same is good for it is a new Devise and an Estate created de Novo and doth not depend as a Remainder upon the first Devise or upon the first Estate devised as the Case is 29 Ass 17. Br. Condition 111. and Devise 16. So here are several Estates limited one to J. and another to G. which Estate of G. cannot be extinct by unity of possession in J. These words If he die within the Term shall be construed for Effluxion of the time of 31 years and not for the Termination of the Term. Cooper Serjeant to the contrary J. took this Term as purchasor and not as Executor for that no Term was in the Testator See 14 Eliz. Dyer 309. Granmer's Case G. shall have such Term and Interest as before I have willed unto J. Manwood Such Term that is to say The Residue of the Term. Now at another day the Barons delivered their Opinions that the Plaintiff should recover and that was now G. to whom the second Term was devised And by Manwood in Construction of Wills all the words of the Will are to be compared together so as there by not any repugnancy between all the parts of the Will or between any of them so that all may stand And the Intent of the Testator was That his Son J. should have the Lands for 31 years if he so long lived and if he died within the Term That G. his Son should have such Term. And he held That the same was in J. an Estate by Limitation and he could not sell it nor could it be extinct by Act in Law or of the Law. It was a Lease determinable by his death and so shall be the Lease of G. determinable upon his own death and G. upon the death of J. within the Term shall have the residue of the number of the years limited by the former Devise scil so many in number as were not expired in the life of J. who was first Executor to that special purpose Gent Baron to the same intent here he hath the same Term as Executor and it is not like a-Term devised which the party hath as Legatee but in our Case he hath only authority in this Lease as Executor and the Land was tied to the time and the Authority and when the same determines in his person then the Land departs from him to G. who was a special Executor to that purpose as J. was before And G. had not the same Term which J. had but such a Term. Clerk Baron acc And he said that the Will was further that if G. died before his Debts paid and his Will performed and the Iury finding all the special matter concluded that if the Term limited to J. be extinct then they find for the Defendant And he held clearly that J. had this Term of 21 years as Executor and that by the discent of the Inheritance to J. the Term as to himself was gone But as to Creditors and to the Legatees it shall be said in esse and be Assets in his hands And because that the Term as to that purpose shall be said in esse he died within the Term within the intent of the said Will. And this word Term is Vox polysema Terminus status Terminus temporis Terminus loci And in our Case the word Term hath reference to time and not to estate for the Testator did respect the time in which his Will might be performed
created by this Will but the Feesimple setled in them when they came at their lawful age and had Issue so as the residue of the Devise was void and Iudgment was given accordingly CLXVI Griffith and Agard's Case Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Disceit by Griffith against Agard and his Wife 1 Len. 290. For that a Fine was levied of a Messuage being Ancient Demesne by which it became Frank-Fee and the Fine was levied in the life of A. Griffith Grandfather of the Plaintiff Exception was taken to the Writ because it is brought by the Plaintiff as Cosen and Heir of A. G. his Grandfather And in the beginning of the Writ the words are Si Henricus Griffith fecerit te securum without saying Cousen and heir of A. G. fecerit te securum But the Exception was not allowed For afterwards in the Writ these words are Cujus haeres ipse est See the Register 238. that it is sufficient if there be in the body of the Writ these words Cujus haeres ipse est Another Exception was taken to the Declaration in that it is alledged that the Lands were De antiquo Dominico Dominae Reginae Angliae wereas it ought to have been De antiquo Dominico Dominae Coronae suae c. The Opinion of the Court was That it was good both ways See Book Entries 100. antiquo Dominco Coronae 58. de antiquo Dominico Domini Regis CLXVII Bashpool's Case Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 101. Stiles Rep. 148. THe Case was The Father was seised of Lands in Fee and bound himself in an Obligation and devised his Lands unto his Wife until his Son should come to the age of 21 years the Remainder to his Son in Fee and died and no other Land descended or came to the Son from the Father It was moved by Godfrey That the Heir in this case might elect to waive the Devise and to take the Land by Descent See 9 E. 4. 18. by Needham But it was the Opinion of Gawdy and Shute Iustices That the Son should be adjudged in by Descent and so bounden with the Debt CLXVIII Branthwait's Case Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. DEbt brought by J. D. against Branthwait upon an obligation the Condition of which was That whereas J. F. claimed to have a Lease for years of the Mannor of D. made and granted to him by one W. D. If the said Branthwait keep without damage the Plaintiff from all claim and Interest to be challenged by the said J. F. de tempore in tempus during the years c. and also deliver the said Lease to the Plantiff that then c. The Defendant pleaded That the said J. F. had not any such Lease and that after the making of the said Obligation untill the Action brought the Plaintiff was not damnified ratione dimissionis praedictae Exception was taken to the same because where the words of the Condition are Keep without damage the Plaintiff from all Claim and Interest And he hath pleaded That the Plaintiff was not damnified ratione dimissionis c. But the Exception was disallowed by the Court For if he were not damnified ratione dimissionis then he was not damnified by reason of any Claim or Interest Another Exception was taken Because he could not now say there was no such Lease For it is recited in the Obligation That J. F. claimed to have a Lease and therefore by this recital he is estopped c. And see where a Recital is an Estoppel 8 R. 2. Fitz. 2 Len. 11. tit Estoppel 283. 39 E. 3. 3. Fitz. Estoppel 112. 46 E. 3. 12. It was holden by the Court That it was a good Estoppel And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CLXIX Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. DEbt upon an Obligation The words of the Obligation were I am content to give to W. 10 l. at Michaelmas and 10 l. at our Lady day It was holden by the Court That it was a good Obligation And it did amount to as much as I promise to pay c. It was also holden by the Court That an Action of Covenant lay upon it as well as an Action of Debt at the Election of the Plantiff And it was holden That although the Action is for 40 l. and the Declaration is 20 l. and 20 l. at two several days yet it is good enough and the Declaration is well pursuant to it And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CLXX The Queen and Kettell's Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Queen brought a Writ de Valore Maritagii against Kettell and Counted of a Tenure in Chief The Defendant pleaded That pendant the Writ the Queen had granted to one Edmund Kettel Custodiam Maritagium of the said Defendant with whom he had Compounded It was holden by the whole Court to be no Plea for the Letters Patents were void because the Queen was deceived in her Grant for it appeareth by the Count that the Defendant before the Grant of the Queen was of full age And by the Letters Patents the Queen intended that he was within age and by the same granted Custodiam c. CLXXI. Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Seised of Land by his Will Devised 1 Len. 31. That his Executors should sell the Lands and died the Executors levied a Fine thereof to one F. taking Mony for it of F. The Question was If in title made by the Conusee to the said Lands by the Fine It be a good Plea against the same to say Quod partes Finis nihil habuerunt Anderson conceived That it was But by Windham and Periam upon Not guilty the Conusee may help himself by giving in Evidence the special matter in which Case the Conusee shall be adjudged in not by the Fine but by the Devise And Windham said That if A. Devise That his Executors shall sell a Reversion of certain Lands of â—hich he dieth seised and they sell the same without Deed the same is well enough for the Vendee is in by the Devise 1 Iust 113. a. and not by the Conveyance of the Executors Quod vide 17 H. 6. 23. And by Periam The Conusee may help himself in pleading As he who is in by the Feoffment or Grant of Cestuy que use by the Statute of 1 R. 3. CLXXII Lee and Loveday's Case Trin. 27 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant in tail leased for 60 years and afterwards levied a Fine to Lee and Loveday sur Conusans de Droit come ceo c. and their Heirs in Fee And afterwards the Lord of the Mannor of whom the Land was holden brought a Writ of Disceit and upon that a Scire facias against the Conusees supposing the Land to be Ancient Demesne The Defendants made default by which the Fine was annulled and now the Issue in tail entred upon the Lessee for years and he brought an Ejectione firme
to all Quietness seeking all means to disquiet his Neighbors and hath used himself as a Lawless person and having Process to serve upon one in the Parish viz. the Parson did keep the Process and would not serve it but on the Sabbath day in the time of Divine Service not having regard to her Majesties Laws or the Quiet of his Neighbours Vpon which Bill the Iustices to whom it was exhibited awarded Process against the Plaintiff to find Sureties for his good behaviour It was the Opinion of the Iustices That upon this matter an Action would not lie CLXXVII Mason's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. MAson Leased certain Lands to one R. for years and afterwards leased the same Lands to one Tinter for years Tinter Covenanted with the Defendant That if the said R. should sue the said Mason by reason of the later Lease that then he would discharge or keep harmless without damage the said Mason and also would pay to him all the Charges which he should sustain by reason of any suit to be brought against the said R. in respect of the said former Lease And Mason by the same Indenture Covenanted with Tinter That the said Land demised should continue to the said Tinter discharged of former Charges Bargains and Incumbrances And now upon the second Covenant Tinter brought an Action of Covenant and shewed That the said R. had sued him in an Action of Ejectione Firme upon the said first Lease and had recovered against him c. And Mason pleaded in Bar the said second Covenant intending that by that later Covenant the Plaintiff had notice of the said former Lease made unto R. so as the first Lease shall be excepted out of the Covenants of former Grants for otherwise there should be circuity of Action But the Opinion of the whole Court was to the contrary For the Covenant of Mason shall go to the discharge of the Land but the Covenant of Tinter only to the possession CLXXVIII Knight and Beeches Case Pasch 27 Eliz. Rott 1127. In the Common Pleas. 1 And. 173. Coke 5. Rep. 55. 1 Len. 12. 2 Len. 134. WIlliam Knight brought Ejectione Firme against William Beech. The Case was That the Prior of St. Johns of Jerusalem 29. H. 8. with the assent of his Covent leased by Indenture divers Houses in Clarken-well in the County of Middlesex for fifty years to one Cordel rendring Rent 5 l. 10 s. and 11 d. at four Feasts of the year usual in the City of London viz. for such a Messuage called The High-House 14 s. for another House 3 s. 11 d. for another House xx s. c. Et si contingat dictum annualem redditum 5 l. 10 s. 11 d. a retro fore in parte vel in toto ultra aut post aliquem terminum solutionis in quo solvi deberet per spatium trium mensium c. quod tunc ad omnia tempora deinceps ad libitum c. liceret dicto Priori Successoribus suis omni tali personae personis quam vel quas dictus Prior Successores sui nominarent appunctuarent sine scripto in omnia dicta tenementa totaliter re-entrare c. And afterwards 32 H. 8. the said Hospital of St. Johns was dissolved and the possessions of it granted to the said King and afterwards the said King 36 H. 8. gave the said House upon which the said Rent of 20 s. was reserved to one Audley c. in Fee And afterwards the now Queen being seised of the residue a Commission issued out of the Exchequer bearing Date 8 Maii 23 Eliz. Ad inquirendum Utrum the Defendant to whom the Interest of the said term did appertain perimple visset performasset omnes Provisiones fact reservat in super praedict Indenturam necne Office was found before the Grant and after 25 August following the said Queen by her Letters Patents gave the said House called The High-House to Fortescue the Lessor of the Plaintiff and afterwards Tres Mich. the Commission was retorned by which it was found all as aforesaid Et quod Termini Festi Solutionis in London are Michaelmas Christmas Annunciation and Mid-summer and that at the Feast of Michaelmas such Rent was behind for the space of three Months c. It was argued in this Case by Gawdy Serjeant on the part of the Plaintiff That here are several Rents for the entire Sum by the viz. is distributed into several Portions which make several Rents and to that purpose he cited Winter's Case 14 Eliz. Dyer 308. A Lease for years is made of the Mannors of A.B. and C. rendring for the Mannor of A. xx s. and for the Mannor of B. x s. and for the Mannor of D. x s. with a Condition for the Non-payment of the said Rents or any of them or any part or parcel of them within one Month c. then a Re-entry Here are several Rents And he conceived That a Condition in the Case of the King might be apportioned For a Rent-charge and a Condition are in the King in better Condition than in a Subject for the thing may distrain for a Rent-charge in all the Lands of him who is seised of the Land out of which such a Rent is issuing and if a Rent-seck be due to the King he may distrain for the same and the King shall never demand his Rent which he hath reserved with Clause of Re-entry and it appeareth in the Register That if before the Statute of Westm 3. the King purchaseth parcel of the Land holden of him the Rent shall be apportioned which was not in the Case of a Common person and there are in the Exchequer divers Presidents to that effect scil If A. be bounden in a Recognizance to B. and afterwards enfeoffeth the King of part of his Land and C. of the other part If B. be afterwards attainted of Treason so as the said Recognizance accrueth to the King that now notwithstanding that he hath part of the Land lyable to the Recognizance he shall have Execution of the residue And see F. N. B. 266. If after the Recognizance acknowledged the Conusor enfeoffeth of certain parcels of his Lands several persons and of the Residue enfeoffeth the King that Land which is assured to the King is discharged of the Execution but the residue shall be charged So that the possession of the King doth alter the Nature of the Rent Condition and Execution Fenner Serjant Contrary And he said That this Grant before Office retorned was not good for without Office the King cannot enter multo minus his Patentee and that the King by the Grant hath interrupted the Relation of the Office As if a Man by Indenture bargaineth and selleth his Lands and afterwards makes Livery to the Bargainee and afterwards the Deed is enrolled Now the party shall not be said to be in by the Bargain and Sale but by the Livery for the Livery hath interrupted the
of the Lands of their Wives By the general words of the Statute they might have made Leases in Reversion And therefore the Case there was That where the Husband had made a Lease of his Wives Lands for 21 years and afterwards he made another Lease for 21 years to begin after the Lease in esse It was conceived That such a Lease was good because in the Act there was no restraint of Leases in Reversion as there is in the Statute of 32 H. 8. In all Cases of Statutes which are with Provisoes the Law upon them shall be taken generally but in such Particulars only as are restrained by the Proviso and here in this Case the Proviso went to the Ancient Rent to be reserved and that the Countess should have remedy for the said Rent and therefore it shall be construed at large as unto all other points which are not restrained by the Proviso As if the Wife be within age and she and her Husband joyn in a Lease yet such a Lease shall be good by the Statute of 32 H. 8. because the Law is general and doth not restrain these imperfections expresly So if a Feoffment in Fee be made with warranty Proviso That he shall not vouch yet that restraint goes to the Voucher only and he is at large to Rebutt or to have a Warrantia Chartae A Lease is made for life Proviso That he shall not do voluntary Waste he is at large to do any other Waste Otherwise it would be if there were no Proviso and there a Proviso makes the precedent words to be expounded more liberally The Stat. of 33 H. 8. Cap. 39. of Surveyors which giveth authority to the Chief Officer to set or let for 21 years he might have made a Lease for 21 years if by the Proviso he had not been restrained and yet the words are put singularly But the words of this Act upon which the Case in Question doth arise are Lease or Leases and therefore it shall be expounded most liberally for the party Again he argued That as to the intent of the Statute that this Lease was within the meaning of it for the meaning is to be collected out of the words and shall not be drawn to any private construction or intent against the words which should be here if this Lease should be avoided For by such construction and exposition the Earl his Heirs Executors c. should be prejudiced and the Countess only should be benefited Also by this Act remedy is given to the Countess against such Lessees that she should have the Rent by Debt or Distress as if she had been party or privy therefore it is reason via versa that the Lessees have remedy against her for their Leases Also he said That the same remedy should be for them against the Countess as they had against the Earl himself if he had been alive and therefore they should have such remedy against the Countess as they had against the Earl. And further he said That the Statute is to be expounded according to the words where such an Exposition is not rigorous nor mischievous And private Laws are to be expounded by the letter and strictly as the Deed of the party shall be As 14 E 4. 1. Br. Parliament 61. A Particular Act was made That the Chancellor calling unto him one Iustice might award a Subpena between A. and B. and end the matter betwixt them And there by all the Iustices except Littleton He shall not award a general Subpena but a special Subpena making mention of the Act for he shall pursue the particular Act strictly But an Act which is for the common profit shall be expounded largely Also a Statute shall not be expounded largely or by Equity to overthrow an Estate As the Statute which gives That if the Woman doth consent to the Ravisher that the next Heir shall enter If the Daughter entreth and after a Son is born he shall not put out the Daughter because the Statute shall not be drawn to a private intent to the overthrow of the Estate before lawfully vested in the Daughter And so in the principal Case the Statute shall not be drawn to a private intent for the benefit of the Countess to overthrow the Lease for years And it is not like to the Case which hath been put That if he maketh a Lease for 20 years and so for 20 years that the same is not good by the Statute For I will agree That that is a Lease for 40 years Egerton Sollicitor contrary First as to the word Demise or Dimission it is nothing else but the letting of the Land and so Lease comes from Laiser a French word and such a Lease it self for he hath not left the Land. As if I say to you I Let you my Lands for 21 years When shall you have my Land Not at a day to come but presently If I sell you Land and Covenant that it is discharged of another Lease for 21 years and there is a Lease to Commence after the Lease for 21 years I have broken my Covenant If I be bounden to make you a Lease for 21 years and I say to you I make you a Lease to begin 200 years hence I have forfeited my Bond. If the Custom of the Mannor be that Dominus pro tempore may make a Lease for 21 years may he make a Lease to begin at a day to come Truly no if there be not a special Custom so to do If I give authority to my Steward to make Leases of my Lands for 21 years he cannot make a Lease to begin 100 years after As to the Case of the Dutchy there the Commission was That he might make Leases according to his discretion therefore there he might make what Lease he pleaseth As to the Statute which enableth Cestuy que Use of 1 R. 3. that Case is not like to our Case for that Act is All Feoffments Estates c. therefore he might make such Leases without doubt And if I devise That my Executors shall make Leases of my Lands for 21 years they cannot make Leases to begin at a day to come and if they do not make the Leases within convenient time the Heir shall enter and avoid their authority And Statute-Law shall have such an Exposition as that the precise time ought to be observed As the Statute of 14 E. 3. Rastal Voucher 8. If the Tenant voucheth to warranty a dead Man and the Demandants will aver That the Vouchee is dead or that there is no such their Averment shall be received without more delay Vpon this Statute the Case was 21 E. 3. Whereone was vouched to warranty and the Summoneas ad Warrantizandum issued and then came the Demandant and would have averred That the Vouchee was dead And the Tenant said That he ought to have averred that upon the voucher to warranty and that now he had surceased his time And the Demandant said That the Statute did
the 18th day Cook The Iudgment for the Queen upon an Information of Intrusion is Quod defendens de Intrusione transgressione Contemptu praedict convincatur c. And afterwards a Commission shall issue forth for to enquire of the Mean profits and there the Defendant may shew this matter in taking of the damages And if the Intrusion be at any time in the Information it is sufficient enough to have Iudgment upon it and in our Case the Continuance is laid 18 May. Egerton Sollicitor The Record warrants the Iudgment given upon it For possession laid in the Queen is sufficient to this Information And here Payn doth not answer the Queens title but traverseth the Intrusion And therefore he being found Intrudor by Verdict Iudgment ought to be given upon it For the Iury have found the Intrusion generally and specially 17 May. And that cannot be assigned for Error for it is part of the Verdict of which Error doth not lie but Attaint For if any Error was it was in the Iury and not in the Court. Which Manwood Concessit Tanfield As to the Case of Continuance of an Intrusion it is clear That every continuance ought to have a beginning for a thing which hath no beginning cannot be continued and here is not any beginning for the beginning which is laid in the Information is pretended to be 17 May and that cannot be causa qua supra Popham If an Information be brought of an Intrusion where in truth there is not any Record to prove it and the Iury find the Intrusion shall you have a Writ of Error upon it And every continuance of Intrusion is an Intrusion This Matter had been good Evidence to the Iury. Sed non habet locum hic c. CXCVI. Sir John Southwell's Case Hill. 28 Eliz. In the Exchequer SIr John Southwel of the County of Lanc. 7 July 2 Len. 132. 19 Eliz. made a Conveyance of all his Land to divers Feoffees and their Heirs upon Condition That they should find him and his Wife and so many persons in his House c. prefer his Daughters in Marriage pay his Debts c. And if there fell out at the years end upon Accompt made by the Feoffees any surplusage that then at the end of every such year they should answer such surplusage as should then remain in their hands unexpended of the Rents and Profits of his said Lands with Clause of Revocation c. Afterwards the said Conveyance being in force came the Statute of 23 Eliz. concerning Recusants Vpon which Statute the said Southwel was now Indicted And afterwards a Commission issued out of the Exchequer to the Sheriff of Lancast to enquire of the Lands of the saith Southwel And although against the said Conveyance it was given in Evidence That after that Conveyance the said Sir John Southwel had granted Trees out of the said Lands and had taken Fines and Incomes for Leases c. Yet the Iurors charged to enquire would not find That the said Sir John had any Lands c. And by special Commandment of the Queen it was referred out of the Exchequer to all the Iustices of England If the Lands of the said Sir John Southwel contained ut supra were subject to the said Statute and the penalties thereof And upon great deliberation had It was by them all Resolved and Agreed That notwithstanding that Conveyance the said Lands were lyable to the said Statute And as to the Iurors which against their Evidence given unto them for the Qeeen gav their Verdict ut supra process was awarded against them out of the said Court for to appear before the Lord Treasurer and the Barons of the Exchequer And for their said Contempt they were committed to the Fleet and each of them fined 20 l. CXCVII Hill. 28 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Writ of Entry Sur Disseisin The Tenant said That the House in demand is within the City of London and that the said City is antiqua Civitas And that King Hen. 3. Concessit civibus Civitatis praedict quod non implacitentur de Terris Tenementis suis c. extra muros Civitatis praedict And further said That he himself is Civis London c. and demanded Iudgment of the Writ Note in the pleading before the Tenant said illis rectum teneatur intra Civitatem praedictam secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis praedict And to this Plea Exception was taken because that the Tenant doth not shew before whom by their Custom they ought to be impleaded It was the Opinion of the whole Court That the Tenant ought to have shewed That the Citizens for their Lands ought to be impleaded in the Hustings c. And the general words in the plea scil Sed illis rectum teneatur intra Civitatem praedictam secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis praedict did not supply the defect aforesaid After It was awarded by the Court That the Tenant answer further c. CXCVIII. The Lord Anderson's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Lord Anderson Chief Iustice of the Common Pleas 1 Roll. 189. brought an Action of Trespass by Bill for breaking of his House in the City of Wor. against one A. Citizen of the said City Now came the Mayor and Communalty of the said City and shewed their Charter granted to them by King E. 6. and demanded Conusans of Pleas. And by the Award of the whole Court the Conusans shall not be granted because that the Priviledge of this Court whereof the Plaintiff is a principal Member is more antient than the Patent upon which the Conusans is demanded For the Iustices Clarks and Attornies of this Court ought to be here attending to do their Offices and Services as belongs unto them and shall not be impleaded or compelled to implead others elsewhere than in this Court. And this Priviledge was given to this Court upon the Original Erection of it And such was the Opinion of the whole Court. And as for the Conusans it was denyed CXCIX Cocket and Robston's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. ARthur Cocket Thomas Andrews and A. his Wife 2 Len. 118. Post 192. 230. 1 Len. 219. 1 Len. 302. brought an Action of Accompt against Robston and Declared That one Mountford by the hands of Jo. Wase had delivered 100l to the Defendant pro relevamine of the said Arthur and Anne The Defendant pleaded Ne unque Receiver pur accompt render Vpon which they were at Issue And Iudgment was given That the Defendant should accompt Who before Auditors assigned alledged That he had expended the said 100l in the Education of the said Arthur and Anne by the space of 8 years after the delivery of the said 100l Vpon which they were at Issue And upon Evidence it was shewed on the Plaintiffs part That heretofore the said Arthur brought a Writ of Accompt against the said Robston as Guardian in Socage for the Land of the said Arthur discended And upon the
here it is found That she clearly departed out of London but they have not found that she dwelt in the Country c. but only that she went to Melton but she ought to do doth before her Estate shall cease It was argued by Towse for the Plaintiff That the Defendant ought to be found guilty of the Ejectment For it is found That the Defendant entred before the Commandment of Anne but they have not found that Anne was alive Fenner Iustice the same is well enough and so it was holden 18 Eliz. in this Court for although her life be not found yet it shall be intended that she was alive For the Iury did not doubt of it and the Conclusion of the Verdict is That if it shall seem to the Court that his Entry is lawful Then the Defendant is not guilty So as the doubt of the Iury is only upon that point Which Wray concessit Gawdy Iustice If one Deviseth Land to one for life upon Condition That his Estate shall cease which is all one with the Case at Bar and after the breach of the Condition he continueth in possessions he is not Tenant for life but Tenant at sufferance Wray Chief Iustice Tenant for the life of another continues in possession after the death of Cestuy que vie he hath not any Freehold remaining in him for if he dieth nothing descends And so it was lately adjudged by all the Iustices of England upon a Conference had between them And the Book of 18 E. 4. is not Law. Which Gawdy Iustice concessit See 35 H. 8. 57. acc And he said That the same shall be as a Limitation by which the Estate shall cease without an Entry And here in this Case because they have not found That Anne had dwelt in the Country here is no breach of the Condition in the Case And afterwards by the Advice of the whole Court Iudgment was given for the Defendant Quod querens nihil Capiat per Billam CCV Cadee and Oliver's Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Ejectione Firmae by Cadee against Oliver 1 Cro. 152. Roll. Tit. Grant. 48. of a House in Holborn c. The Case was The Lord Mountjoy and the Lady Katherine his Wife seised of the said House and of other Lands in Fee in the right of the Wife 6 Eliz. acknowledged a Statute-Staple of 1200 l. to Sir Lyonel Ducket Afterwards 9 Eliz. the said Lord Mountjoy and his said Wife Leased the said House to Hoskins for 21 years And afterwards by Indenture 11 Eliz. they Leased the same to Sir Tho. Cotton for 99 years to begin at Michaelmas last past 12 Eliz. Sir Lyonel Ducket extended his Statute and the Land extended was delivered to him at 53 l. 7 s. per annum who held the same until 22 Eliz. Anno 23 Eliz. the Lord Mountjoy and his Wife levied a Fine to Perry to the use of Perry and his Heirs 27 Eliz. Sir Thomas Cotton not being upon the Land granted omnia tunc bona catalla sua to Robert Cotton his Son 28 Eliz. the Lady Mountjoy died Mich. 29 Eliz. the Lease to Hoskins expired Perry entred and Leased the House to Oliver the Defendant for 21 years And afterwards Robert Cotton entred and Leased the House c. to the Plaintiff It was first moved by Brantingham and argued by him If this Lease for 99 years which was made to begin after the Lease made to Hoskins should pass to Robert Cotton by the words aforesaid But the Court eased him from arguing of that point for it was holden That it passed notwithstanding the word tunc 1 Cro. 386. Another matter argued by him was because at the time of the Grant the Lands were in extent and so the said Sir Thomas Cotton had but a possibility If therefore the said Grant made during the Extent was good And he argued That it was for it is more than a bare possibility for it is an Interest vested And in some Cases a possibility may be granted As 19 H. 6. 2. The King granted to a Prior That when any Tenth is granted to the King by the Clergy his House shall be discharged of it c. And 19 E. 2. Avowry 224. The Lord grants to his Tenant That if he dieth his Heir within age that such Heir shall not be in Ward So 21 E. 4. 44. A Grant unto an Abbot to be discharged of the Collectorship of Tenths when it shall be granted by the Clergy It hath been Objected That the Term for 99 years is suspended therefore it cannot be granted during the suspension But the same is not so for a thing suspended may be granted As 15 Eliz. Dyer 319. Husband and Wife Ioynt-Tenants of Lands in Fee The Queen having a Rent out of it in Fee giveth the Rent to the Husband and his Heirs now the Husband Deviseth the said Rent and dieth the same is good a Devise notwithstanding the suspension And he cited the Cases 16 E. 3. Quid juris clamat 22. And 20 E. 3. ibid. 31. A Lease is made to one for life and if he dieth within 20 years that his Executors and Assigns shall hold the Land until the expiration of the 20 years the said Interest may be granted Which Wray Chief Iustice denyed See Gravenors Case 3 4 Ma. Dyer 150. such Interest is void It was further moved by him and argued If the Conusee of the Fine might avoid the Lease made to Sir Thomas Cotten And he said He could not for he is in under the Lessors So is 34 E. 1. Recovery in value 36. see the Case there And here although the Wife after the death of her Husband may affirm or disaffirm the Lease at her Election yet this Election is not transferred to the Conusee by the Fine but the Conusee shall be bound by the Fine See 33 H. 8. Dyer 51. As Tenant in tail makes a Lease for years not warranted by the Statute and dieth the Issue alieneth the Land by Fine before affirmation or disaffirmation of the Lease by acceptance or Entry the Conusee cannot avoid this Lease for the Liberty is not transferred Which Gawdy Iustice concessit And Election cannot be transferred over to the prejudice of another person As if a Rent de novo be granted to the Father in Fee who dieth before Election the Heir cannot make it an Annuity to defeat the Dower of the Wife quod Curia concessit It was also moved by Brantingham If the Lessee might enter upon the Conusee of the Statute after his Extent expired without suing forth a Scire facias But the Court discharged him from arguing that Point for that by the Death of the Lady Mountjoy the Extent was void and therefore the Feoffee or Conusee might avoid it by Entry And so Wray Chief Iustice said it had been adjudged in the Court of Common Pleas. At another day the Case was argued by Stephens on the part of
Issue in tail may enter upon the Conusee of a Statute acknowledged by his Father For if Execution had been sued against the Issue in tail it had been a Disseisin And see 2 R. 3. 7. That in such case the Wife or her Heirs may enter upon the Conusee And by Consequence the Conusee who is in by her c. Cook contrary I conceive that this Grant of this Lease by Sir Thomas Cotton to his Son is not good 2 Roll. 48 1 Cro. 15. 1 Inst 22. b. for it is but a possibility and no Interest I agree all the Cases which have been put before for Law but they cannot be applyed to this Case The Book in 7 H. 6. 2. is That if the Term of the Wife be extended upon the Statute of the Husband that the Wife shall have the residue after the death of the Husband but it doth not say that the Wife or her Husband may grant it during the Extent which is the matter now in Question And I conceive That Sir Thomas Cotton hath but a possibility For the Conusee upon the Extent hath but an incertain Interest And although it may be by some means reduced to a certainty in the Chancery where the Costs and Damages shall be assessed yet until it be reduced to a certainty it cannot be granted And therefore it is clear That if I have a Term for 8 years in Land and grant it unto another until he hath levied 100 l. and all his Costs of suit for it by this Grant all the Interest of the Term is in the Grantee and nothing is in me but a possibility 8 Co. Mannings Case And so it was holden in the Common Pleas by the Lord Anderson the day when he was made Chief Iustice there At which time this Case was put Lands of the yearly value of 20 l. are Leased to one until he hath levied 100 l. And the matter was What estate the Grantee hath And it was holden That if Livery be not made that he hath but an estate at Will for the profits of the Lands are incertain the one year more and the other year less And Bromley Lord Chancellor was then of the same Opinion Then if in case of a Lease it be so it shall also be so in case of an Extent and in both the Cases the whole Interest is out of the parties And 19 Eliz. the Case was in this Court That the Lessee for years devised his Term to his Executors for the payment of his Debts and Legacies and after the payment of them the residue of the years he devised to his Son The Executors enter which is an assent to the remainder he in the remainder grants his Interest And it was holden void because it was but a possibility and so incertain and although it might be reduced to a Certainty afterwards yet the same is not sufficient for it ought to be reduced to a certainty at the time of the grant And 17 Eliz. in this Court the Case was That Land was given to the Husband and Wife and to the Heirs of the Husband the Husband makes a Lease for years and dieth the Wife enters and entermarrieth with the Lessee And it was moved If the Interest of the Lessee by the entermarriage was extinct And it was holden That it was not for it was but a possibility and not an Interest quod fuit concessum per totam Curiam And if a possibility cannot be extinct then it cannot be granted And he denyed the Case put by Stephens Where a Man seised of Lands Leaseth the same for years to begin at a day to come and afterwards before the day the Lessor is disseised now during that Dissesin the Grantee cannot enter for his future Interest For the Feesimple being turned into a Right so also shall be the Interest And that is proved by Delamere's Case A Feoffment in Fee was made to the use of A. for life and afterwards to the use of C. for life and afterwards to the use of D. in Fee and afterwards A. enfeoffed a stranger who had notice of the use The same doth take away all the other uses and said Feoffee although he had notice of the use yet he shall not be seised to the first use for the estate out of which the first uses do arise is taken away and then also the uses And he said also That the Lease made to Sir Thomas Cotton is not good for it was made 11 Eliz. And it is found by Verdict That 10 Eliz. a Writ of Extent issued forth upon the Statute then was the Lands in the hands of c. during which time the Lord Mount joy and his Wife could not make the Lease aforesaid to the said Sir Thomas Cotton And as to that see 5 E. 3. Retorn of the Sheriff 99. See the Case of 3 E. 6. Dyer 67. Stringfellow's Case Then admitting the Lease to Sir Thomas Cotton yet the Lessee cannot put out the Conusee without a Scire facias for the Conusee is in by matter of Record Also here this Lease made by the Husband and Wife without any Rent reserved is utterly void and then the Conusee shall take advantage of it 9 H. 7. 24 18 E. 4. 2. And so was it ruled in the Case of Seniori puero in the case of an Enfant And see 7 Eliz. Dyer 239. Where the Provost of Wells being Parson impersonee of the Patronage of W. Leased the Tythe for 50 years rendring Rent which was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter but not by the Patron and Ordinary And afterwards by Act of Parliament the Provostry was united to the Deanery cum primo vacare contigerit The Provost died the Dean accepteth the Rent The same shall not bind the Church for the Lease is void as it is of a Parson or Prebend c. And so the Dean shall take advantage of it although not privy to it See 16 Eliz. Dyer 337. Lands given to a Parson and his Successors for to find Lights and he Leaseth the same for life The Rent is so imployed accordingly The Incumbent dieth The Successor accepteth the Rent the King grants it over The Patentee shall avoid the Lease as the Successor might have done before the Statute if he had not accepted the Rent but the acceptance before the Statute shall bind the Successor for that it was but a voidable Lease And the Case between Harvy and Thomas which hath been put on the other side serves to our purpose for there the Conusee shall avoid a Lease in Law which is void and here in the Principal Case the Lease is void for that no Rent is reserved upon it Wherefore c. It was adjourned CCVI. Beadle's Case Mich. 29 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was That A. Leased to B. certain Lands for 40 l. per annum 2 Len. 115. And a stranger Covenanted with A. That B. should pay him 40 l. for the Farm and Occupation
Len. 55. 1 Len. 333. The Abbot and Covent of D. 29 H. 8. makes a Lease of certain Lands for 3 Lives to begin after the death of one J.S. if they shall so long live And afterwards 30 H. 8. within a year before the Dissolution they make another Lease to JS If the first Lease in the life of J.S. be such an Estate and Interest which by vertue of the said Statute shall make the second Lease void was the Question For it was not in esse but a future Interest Manwood All the reason which hath been made for the second Lease is because the first Lease is but a possibility for J.S. by possibility may survive all the 3 Lives and so it shall never take effect But notwithstanding be it a possibility c. or otherwise It is such a thing as may be granted or forfeited and that during the life of the said J.S. And Note also the words of the Statute If any Abbot c. within one year next before the first day of the Parliament hath made or hereafter shall make any Lease or Grant for years life or lives of any Mannors c. whereof and in which any Estate or Interest for life or years at the time of the making of any such Lease or Grant then had his being or continuance or hereafter shall have his being or continuance and then was not determined c. shall be void c. And here is an Interest and that not determined at the time of the making of this Lease to J.S. And of that Opinion was the whole Court and all the Barons and divers other of the Iustices And therefore a Decree was made against that Lease c. CCXVII The Master and Chaplains of the Savoy's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Exchequer THe Master and Chaplains of the Savoy aliened a parcel of their possessions unto another in Fee and afterwards surrendred their Patents and a Vacat is made of the Enrollment of them It was now moved How the Alienee should be adjudged to make title to the said Lands claiming the same by the Letters Patents For the Clerks would not make a Constat of it For the Patents were cancelled and a Vacat made of the Enrolment And the Case of Sir Robert Sidney was vouched in which Case the Statute of 3 E. 6. was so expounded upon great advise taken by the Lord Chancellor who thereupon commanded That no Constat be made in such case Manwood If Tenant in tail by Letters Patents of the King surrendreth his Patent and cancelleth it and a Vacat be made of the Enrollment by that the Issue in tail shall be bound For no other person at the time of the cancelling hath Interest But in the Case at Bar a third person scil the Alienee hath an Interest And therefore he was of Opinion That he should have a Constat c. CCXVIII Inchely and Robinson's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione Firmae It was found by Verdict That King E. 6. was seised of the Mannor and Hundred of Fremmington 2 Len. 41. Owen Rep. 88. and granted the same by his Letters Patents to one Barnard in Fee rendring 130 l. per annum and also to be holden by Homage and Fealty And afterwards Queen Mary reciting the said Grant by King Ed. 6. and the Reservation upon it granted unto Gertrude Marchioness of Exeter the Mannor of Fremmington and the said Rent and Services and also the Mannor of Camfield and other Lands and Tenements Tenendum per vicesimam partem unius feodi Militis Gertrude being so seised Devised to the Lord Mountjoy the Mannor of Fremmington the Mannor of Camfield c. And also bequeathed divers sums of Monies to be levied of the premises And further found that the said Rent of 130 l. was the full third part of the yearly value of all the Lands and Tenements of the Devisor The Question was If by these words of the Devise of the Mannor of Fremmington the Rent and the Services pass i.e. the Rent Homage and Fealty reserved upon the Grant made by King Ed. 6. of the Mannor and Hundred of Fremmington And if the said Rent and Services are issuing out of the Mannor For if the Rent doth not pass then the same is descended to the Heir of the Marchioness and then being found the full third part of the value the King is fully answered and satisfied and then the residue of the Inheritance discharged and is settled in the Devisee And if the Rent doth not pass then is the Heir of the Marchioness entituled by the Statute to a third of the whole c. And Shuttleworth conceived That if the Marchioness had Devised by express words the said Rent and Services they could not pass For as to the Services they are things entire as Homage and Fealty they cannot pass by Devise in case where Partition is to follow for such things cannot receive any partition or division therefore not divideable For the Statute enables the Proprietary to give or devise two parts of his Inheritance in three parts to be divided As Catalla Felonum cannot be devised for the reason aforesaid Quod fuit Concessum per totam Curiam But as to the Rent the Court was clear That the same was deviseable by the said Statute and in respect of that the mischief of many distresses which the Common Law abhors is dispensed with and is now become distrainable of common right And as to the Devise he argued much upon the grounds of Devises and put a ground put by Fineux 15 H. 7. 12. Where every Will ought to be construed and taken according as the words purport or as it may be intended or implyed by the words What the intent of the Devisor was so as we ought to enquire the meaning of the Testator out of the words of the Will. And see also a good Case 19 H 8. 8 9. And he much relyed upon the Case of Bret and Rigden Plow Com. 343. See there the Case So in this Case for as much as such Intent of the Devisor doth not appear upon the words of the Will that this Rent shall pass It shall not pass for there is not any mention of any Rent in the whole Will. Fenner argued to the contrary and he argued much upon the favourable Construction which the Law gives to Wills. 14 H. 8. by Reversion for remainder e contra 17 E. 3. 8. A Man may make a Feoffment in Fee of a Mannor by the name of a Knights Fee a multo fortiori in the Cases of Devises And in our Case the Marchioness conceived That the Rent and Services reserved out of the Mannor of Fremmington was the Mannor of Fremmington and that the Law would give strength to that intent Walmesley conceived That the Rent did not pass by the name of the Mannor c. for this Rent noc in veritate nec in reputatione was ever taken for a Mannor
Land during his life And he conceived That this Estate of Tho. Venables was in the King without Office not to grant for he is restrained by the Statute of 18 H. 8. but it is in him so before Office that he who hath right ought to sue to the King by Petition if he will have the same Yet he conceived That before the said Statute of 18 H. 6. the King might grant it before Office as it appeareth by Thirning 13 H. 4. 278. which was before the Statute So if the Kings Tenant makes a Lease for years the remainder over to another in Fee who dyeth without Heir the said remainder is in the King without Office because a common person in such case cannot enter but a Claim is sufficient and therefore it shall be in the King without Office. As to the Pardon He conceived That it did not extend to this Estate For the same is a Freehold therefore not within the Pardon As if the Kings Tenant be attainted of Felony and the King pardons him all Offences and all which he may pardon these words will not go or extend to Freehold but only to personal matters and such punishments and pains which do concern Chattels But it may be Objected That in this Pardon title of Quare Impedit and Re-entries for Conditions are excepted and therefore if they had not been excepted they had been released by the Pardon And therefore this Pardon doth extend to Inheritances and Freeholds As to that I say That such Exceptions were not in use in the time of King Ed. 4. and such Inheritances and Freeholds were not taken to be within such Pardons And such Exceptions began 5 Eliz. And he said he had been of Counsel in such Cases where it had been taken That such Pardons did not extend to Freeholds As an Abbot was disseised and during the Disseisin the Abby was dissolved the King made such a Pardon the same did not transfer the Kings right And in this Case there are divers Exceptions of Goods and Chattels in many cases and therefore it cannot be intended that this Pardon doth extend to Freeholds And see the said Act of Pardon There the Queen gave and granted all Goods Chattels Debts Fines Issues Profits Amercements Forfeitures and Sums of Mony which word Forfeiture shall be intended personal forfeiture and not otherwise for it is coupled with things of such nature And as to the Traverse he conceived That it did not lie in this Case For the Office is not untrue in substance although it be void in Circumstances And also the King here is entituled by double matter of Record i. e. the Attainder and the Office. And he said That the Statutes of 34 36 E. 3. which gave Traverse are to be meant of Offices found virtute Officii and not virtute Brevis for then Escheators were very troublesome And 2 E. 6. doth not give traverse but where the Office is untruly found As if the Kings Tenant be disseised and the Disseisor be Attainted The Queen seiseth the Land Now the Disseisee hath no remedy by traverse upon the Statute of 2 E. 6. but is put to his Monstrans de Droit for that the Office is true But if I be the Kings Tenant and seised of Lands accordingly and it is found that J.S. was seised of my Land and attainted c. whereas in truth he had not any thing in my Land there Traverse lieth For the Office is false And so our Case for the Traverse is at the Common Law. And it is true that Venables was seised c. Cook to the contrary And he conceived That by the Attainder the Queen had gained but a Chattel And that notwithstanding this Forfeiture If Venables had been in possession a Praecipe should be brought against him And whereas it hath been said by Mr. Attorny That the Writs set down in the Register are the best Expositors of our Law the same is not so For the Register saith That Waste lieth notwithstanding a mean Remainder which is not now Law but it hath been clearly ruled to the contrary See acc 50 E. 3. The Register therefore and the Writs are subject to the Iudgments of our Law. And the Writ of Diem clausit extremum is not to the contrary For I confess that in such case Hob. Rep. 342. the Land shall be seised into the Kings hands but the King shall have but a Chattel in it It hath been argued He may grant therefore he may forfeit Nego Consequentiam For a Man seised in the right of his Wife may grant but not forfeit Gardian in Socage may grant but not forfeit The Husband may grant a Term for years which he hath in the right of his Wife but he cannot forfeit it A Woman enheritrix taketh Husband and afterwards is attainted of Felony the King pardons him they have Issue the Woman dieth the Husband shall be Tenant by the Curtesie which proveth that the King hath no Freehold by this Attainder Before the Statute of West 2. Tenant in tail post prolem suscitatam might forfeit the Land but now the Statute hath so incorporated the Estate tail to the Tenant in tail that it cannot be devested yea a Fine levied ipso jure est nullus although as to the possession it be a discontinuance And that is the reason wherefore Tenant in tail shall not be seised to another's use See Stamford 190. b. The Husband seised in the right of his Wife is attainted of Felony the King shall have the Issues of the Land of the Wife during the life of the Husband c. So if Tenant in tail be Attainted of Felony that is but a Chattel in the Lands of the Wife and also in the Lands of the Tenant in tail and if the possessions of a Bishop be seised into the Kings hands for a Contempt In such case the King hath possession and not only the profits The same Law of Lands of Tenant in tail or for life being attainted of Felony So seisure for alienation without Licence or of the possessions of Poor Aliens See Br. Reseisure 10. So where the seisure is for Idiocy And he conceived That nothing is in the King without Office. And as to the Case of 13 H. 4. 6. I confess it For all that time many and amongst them Lawyers and Iustices were attainted by Parliament And so was Sir John Salisbury whose Case it was and their Lands by Act of Parliament given expresly to the King and therefore I grant that their Lands were in the King without Office. Tenant in Fee of a Common Lord is attainted of Felony his Lands remain in him during his life till the entry of the Lord and where the King is Lord until Office be found but in the case of a Common person after the death of the person attainted it is in the Lord before Entry and in the Case of the King before Office for the Mischief of Abeyance And see the Lord Lovell's
Gravenor and Parker 3 4 Mar. Dyer 150. A Lease was made to A. for life by Indenture and by the said Indenture a Proviso was That if the Lessee died within the Term of 60 years then next ensuing that then his Executors should have it in right of the Lessee for so many of the years as should amount to the number of 60 years to be accounted from the date of the Indenture And it was holden That the secondary Interest to the Executor was void And that the words concerning the same went only in Covenant CCXLV The Lord Compton's Case Trin. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 211. Kellow 41. 4 Inst 85. NOte It was holden by the Lord Anderson Chief Iustice in this Case That if Cestuy que Use after the Statute of 1 R. 2. Leaseth for years and afterwards the Feoffees Release to the Lessee and his Heirs having notice of the Vse that that Release is to the first Vse But where the Feoffees are disseised and they Release to the Disseisor although that they have notice of the use yet the same is to the use of the Disseisor And no Subpoena lieth against the Disseisor See 11 E. 4. 8. CCXLVI Sir Thomas Gorge and Dalton's Case Trin. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. SIr Thomas Gorge and the Lady Helene his Wife brought a Quare Impedit against Francis Dalton Who pleaded That the Queen was seised of the Mannor of D. to which the Advowson c. was appendant and so seised the Church became void And that afterwards the Queen granted the said Mannor with the Advowson to J.S. who presented the Defendant It was the clear Opinion of the Court That by that Grant of the Queen the Advowson did not pass although that the King by his Prerogative may grant a thing in Action Quod vide Dyer 13 Eliz. 300. against F.N.B. 33 16 H 7. CCXLVII. Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A Copyholder with the leave of the Lord Leased for years 1 Len. 297. Hob. Rep. 177. and afterwards surrendred the Reversion with the Rent to the use of a stranger who was admitted accordingly It was moved If in this case there needed any Attornment either to settle the Reversion or to create a privity It was holden in this Case by Rhodes and Periam Iustices That the surrender and admittance ut supra are in the nature of an Inrollment and so amount to an Attornment or at the least do supply the want of it CCXLVIII Carter and Marten's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. TWo Men made an Obligation joyntly for Debt The principal in the Obligation made him who was surety only for him in the said Obligation for payment of the Mony his Executor who payed the Mony generally And whether it shall be said that he paid it as Executor or as an Obligor was a Quaere not resolved by the Court. CCXLIX Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Exchequer A. Was endebted to B. who was endebted to the Queen B. assigned his Debt unto the Queen By all the Barons Process shall be awarded out of the Exchequer to enquire what Goods A. had at the time of the Assignment and not what he had tempore Scripti praedict facti c. CCL Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer A. Was accomptable to J.S. and afterwards J.S. was Out-lawed in an Action personal A. died The Queen by her Letters Patents granted unto B. omnia bona catalla exitus proficua forisfactur advantagia quaecunque which came to her or accrued by reason of the Outlawry of the said J.S. And now B. brought an Action of Accompt against the Executors of the said A. as Executors of their own wrong The Defendants pleaded That they had Letters of Administration committed to them by the Ordinary and demanded Iudgment of the Writ The Plaintiff in maintenance of his Writ Replyed That the Defendants did Administer of their own wrong before that Administration was granted unto them Vpon which the Defendants did demur in Law. It was the Opinion of some of the Iustices That the wrong is urged by taking of Letters of Administration and now they are to be charged as Administrators only and not otherwise See 50 E. 3. 9. 20 H. 6. 1. And see the Case of the Cardinal of Canterbury 9 E. 4. 33. If one Administreth of his own wrong and afterwards takes Letters of Administration he shall be sued not as Executor but as Administrator See 21 H. 6. 8. But Gawdy Iustice conceived That the Defendants might be charged as Executors As to the Grant of the Queen of this Action of Accompt See Br. Pat. 98. 32 H. 8. that the King may grant a thing in action which is personal as debt and damages or the like Or a thing mixt as the Wardship of the body but not a thing real as an Action concerning Lands Rights Entries But it was agreed on all sides That if this Action had been granted specially it had been clearly good And it was Observed That in the principal Case the Accomptant was dead before the Grant so that his Executors were chargeable to the Queen to render an Accompt and the Queen was entituled to it It hath been Objected That this Action of Accompt came to the King by reason of his Prerogative Royal and in vertue thereof the Executors are accomptable to her and therefore the Queen cannot grant the same over to a Subject Certainly the same is not an Incident inseparable from the Crown nor a Flower of the Crown as the King cannot grant over to a Subject power to pardon Felons for that is proper and peculiar to the person of the King nor that a Subject may have a Court of Chancery And although this matter of Accompt is at the first i. e. at the time of the Grant uncertain yet by matter ex post facto it may be reduced to certainty i.e. by the Accompt and although the Accompt be not expresly named in the Letters Patents yet the words of the Grant ut supra do amount to as much And Gawdy Iustice conceived That this Accompt ought to be brought in the name of the Queen And all the Iustices were of Opinion That if the said A. had been living at the time of the said Grant of the Queen the Grant had not been good for then the Action against the Executors which is the matter of Prerogative had not been vested in the Queen CCLI Specot's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 5 Co. 57. HUmphry Specot and Elizabeth his Wife brought a Quare Impedit against the Bishop of Exceter c. of the Church of Tedcole in the County of Devon The Bishop pleaded That the Plaintiffs presented to him one John Holmes quem super Examinationem invenit Scismaticum inveterat ' and so non habilem to be instituted vel ad acceptandum aliquod Beneficium cum Cura Animarum for which he refused him and of such Refusal gave notice to
and it was assigned for Error because that in the Declaration it is alledged That the Wife Administred the Goods of the Intestate and did not shew that she was Administratrix c. and took Letters of Administration 2. It is not alledged That the Wife had Goods of the Testator at the time of the promise for otherwise she shall not be bound For it is but Nudum pactum for Executors or Administrators not having Assets shall not be charged And it was holden here That Request is not necessary for the debt was before the promise so as the Request is not any cause of the Action CCLIII Matthews's Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the King Bench. NOte That a Bill of Perjury upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. was sued by the Queen and the party because that the Defendant being one of the Homage c. did present with the rest of the Homagers That the Plaintiff had cut down certain Trees c. Whereas in truth he had not cut down any And it was holden by all the Iustices That for this matter the Bill did not lie upon this Statute For this branch of the Statute is to be intended of Perjury in Depositions only And by Tanfield A Bill doth not lie upon the Statute upon Perjury committed in an Answer to a Bill in Chancery See 41 Eliz. Flower 's Case CCLIV Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Co. Rep. Gatewards Case IN a Replevin The Defendant avowed for Damage Feasant The Plaintiff in bar of the Avowry shewed That every Inhabitant in every Messuage in the said Town had used to have Common in the place where c. Glanvile argued That the prescription was not good for want of Capacity in the party who pretends Interest for it is not certain but applyed to a Multitude and he put divers Cases in proof of it 22 H. 6. 21 H. 7. 1. Mar. Dyer 100. The King grants a Rent probis hominibus of Islington the same is void for they are not capable Harris I conceive That the Prescription is good And he granted That a confused Multitude cannot prescribe in a matter of Interest but in an Easement or discharge As in a Way to the Church and that by reason of Custom in the Land and not in the persons See 7 E. 4. 26. Where it is pleaded That all the Inhabitants within such a Town time out of mind c. have used to have Common there c. And for a Township to have a Way to the Church And good by Danby And by Littleton it ought to be pleaded by way of usage And 18 E. 4. 3. All the Inhabitants of such a Town may well prescribe And he cited Bracton 222 223. Communia quandocunque ex longo usu sive constitutione cum pacifica possessione continue non intermixta ex scientia negligentia patientia Dominor ' ita etiam amitti potest per negligentiam non usum And he vouched Britton fol. 144. Common is obtained by long sufferance and also it may be lost by long negligence c. CCLV. Pye and Grunway's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Trespass brought by Pye against Grunway and one B. The Plaintiff declared against Grunway only who pleaded not guilty And it was found for the Plaintiff And in Arrest of Iudgment it was moved That the Plaintiff in declaring against one only had falsified his own Writ To that it was said That at the uttermost it is but a discontinuance so but matter of form and so relieved by the Statute of 18 Eliz. But it was said by the Court that it may be That B. was outlawed at the Plaintiffs suit and then the proceedings is determined as against him And the Court demanded of the Clerks If the use of the Court be not so in such case to declare That Grunway simul cum B. utlagat ad sectam Querentis did the Trespass Who answered Not in this Action but in an Action of Debt it is otherwise And afterwards notwithstanding that Exception Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff CCLVI. Thorp and Wingfield's Case Trim. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Waste the Plaintiff declared upon a Lease for years generally and the truth of the Case was That the Plaintiff had made a Lease for years to one A. which Lease being in force for two years he Leased the same Lands for years as he hath declared to begin presently and the Waste which is assigned in the Declaration was done during the first Lease And now If the Defendant upon this matter might plead No waste done was the Question And it was said by the Court That such a plea should be perilous for the Defendant for it shall be found against him and if he pleadeth the special matter aforesaid scil The former Lease in esse at the time of the Waste committed after the expiration of which Lease no Waste was done If the second Lease be not by Indenture it should be a good Plea but if by Indenture then the Plaintiff would estop him by the Indenture to shew that the second Lease hath another beginning than the Indenture purports and then the Waste shall charge the Defendant And although the Plaintiff had not declared upon a Lease by Indenture yet if the Defendant pleaded the special matter aforesaid he by way of Replication shall estop the Defendant to plead any other beginning of the Term than the Letter of the Indenture doth purport and the same shall be no Departure for it is matter which strengtheneth the Declaration CCLVII Botham and the Lady Gresham's Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Prohibition by Botham and Couper 1 Len. 94. 1 Cro. 71. 1 Len. 128. Post 265. against the Lady Gresham who had impleaded them in the Spiritual Court for Tythe-Hay and made their Suggestion That time out of mind c. they had paid to the Vicar of the said Parish 4 d. for the Tythe of Hay of every Acre It was moved That upon that surmise a Prohibition ought not to be granted for that a Modus Decimandi shall never come in Question But the party ought to have pleaded the same matter in the Spiritual Court scil That the same doth appertain to the Vicar and not to the Parson and then if the Vicar sueth for the Tythe of the Hay the Modus Decimandi will come in Question and although that he hath averred in his surmise that the Tythe-Hay belongeth to the Vicar yet that is not material And afterwards a Consultation was awarded CCLVIII. Rush and Heighgate's Case 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer 2 Len. 121. Co. 4. Rep. Palmers Case PRocess was awarded out of the Exchequer against Rush for the levying of the sum of 200 l. which he owed to the Queen Vpon which It was found by Office That Rush 22 Junii 22 Eliz. was possessed of Lands for the Term of divers years then and yet to come And the Debt of the Queen began
his Brother and upon that matter he was endicted and exception was taken to the Endictment because it is not shewed in what thing he had disclosed their Counsel 2. It is said in Trinity Term 29 Eliz. he disclosed but it is not said what day of the month it was done 3. The Endictment is that he being sworn coram Justiciariis Dominae Reginae c. and it is not shewed in what Court he was sworn but generally at Westminster The Iustices were all of Opinion that it was a lewd part and that he should be fined for it but he was discharged from the Endictment CCLXVIII The Town of Green in Sussex's Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Town of Green in Sussex was amerced for the escape of a Felon and that Amercement was grounded upon an Inquisition taken before the Coroner by whom the Escape was found and it was moved for the Town that there is not any such Escape found for which the Town ought to be amerced For it is found that he who escaped 10 Die Januarij 30 Eliz. circa horam quartam post meridiem with a Pitchfork mortally struck one A. which A. of the said stroak died 8 hours in the Evening of the same day and that then the other escaped For which Escape being done in the night the Town by the Law ought not to be amerced for it is not Felony until the party dieth Which see 11 H. 4. and in Cole's Case 13 Eliz. Plow Com. 401. And therefore the Town nor any other was charged with the offendor before the party wag dead Wray It should be a hard thing that the Town should be amerced upon this matter for although the Town in discretion might have stayed the party yet it is not bounden to do it c. CCLXIX Bland and Riccard's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 1 Cro. 225. THe Case was that process of Attachment issued out of the Chancery against the Defendant by force of which he was taken by the Plaintiff being Vnder Sheriff who took Bond of him upon which Bond Debt was brought the Bond being for his appearance at the day contained in the Attachment It was the clear Opinion of the whole Court That the Bond was void for that the Defendant was not bailable upon the Attachment See the Case of Dive and Manningham 4 E. 6. Plowden 61 62. CCLXX. Fetherstone and Huttchinson's Case Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared That whereas one Hill had recovered in an Action of Debt against J.S. 10 l. upon which a Capias was awarded against J.S. that by force thereof he was Arrested and being under Arrest the Defendant in consideration that the Plaintiff would suffer the said J.S. to go at large circa negotia sua and to go to his own House and also in consideration of 2 d. paid to the Defendant he promised to pay to the Plaintiff the said 10 l. It was holden by the Court a void promise within the Statute of 23 H. 6. For the consideration to let a Prisoner go at large is not lawful or good and if part of the Consideration be not good the whole is naught and so it was adjudged CCLXXI. Stretton and Brown's Case Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN a false Imprisonment brought the Defendant justified because at the time he was Constable of D. and appointed the Plaintiff to watch and he refused by reason of which he set him in the Stocks upon which the Plaintiff did demur in Law because the Defendant had not alledged that the Plaintiff was an Inhabitant within the Town For the Constable cannot compel strangers which pass to watch And it was moved If for such a Cause the Constable might set one in the Stocks for it was said he ought to complain of his refusal to a Iustice of the Peace Also the Constable cannot appoint any to watch at his pleasure but only in his turn for otherwise the Constable might upon a private revenge vex his Neighbors See 22 E 4. 35. Wray Chief Iustice The Defendant ought to shew That the Plaintiff was Inhabitant in the Town and that it was his Turn to Watch and if such Inhabitant refuse to Watch in his Turn the Constable may set him in the Stocks CCLXXII Paramour and Tho. Robinson's Case Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer THe Case was George Robinson Lessee for years of the Mannor of Drayton-Basset the Reversion to the King devised his Term to his Wife as long as she should keep her self a Widow the remainder over if she married and died and made his Wife and William his Son his Executors the said William being within age And therefore Administration was committed to the Wife alone and she only proved the Will And afterwards the Wife granted all her Interest to the said William and died Cook Nothing passeth by the Grant for William had the Term before for every Executor hath an entire Interest Popham Contrary for at the time of that Grant the Son was within age and had not administred nor proved the Will therefore in effect the Wife was sole Executrix Egerton Sollicitor If during the sole Executorship of the Wife one committeth a Trespass upon the Land the Wife alone shall have the Action of Trespass without naming her Co-executor Which Cook denyed And he cited the Case 16 H. 7. 4. If two Executors be and one of them only is possessed of the Goods of the Testator and a stranger takes them out of his possession to whom the other Executor doth release and afterwards the Executor out of whose possession the Goods were taken brings an Action of Trespass against the Trespassor who pleads the Release of the other Executor It was holden a good Plea for the possession of the one was the possession of the other The Case was further That Tho. Robinson the Defendant in pleading had shewed That George Robinson was possessed and devised the same to his Wife who granted the same to William who devised the same to the Defendant On the other side it was shewed That Tho. Robinson the Defendant granted the said Term to Paramour the Plaintiff upon which they were at Issue And the Question now was If Tho. against his own pleading might give in Evidence That Thomas did not grant For if the gift by the Wife to William was void and he had the Term as Executor Then he could not Devise it And it was shewed also That Thomas granted it by Indenture to Paramour And now If against that Indenture he might give in Evidence such special matter was the doubt And If the party shall be concluded if the Iury shall be concluded ad dicendum veritatem And by Popham and Egerton As well the Iurors as the parties are concluded by the confession of the parties in the Record For here Thomas confesseth That William devised to him virtute cujus 2 Co. 4. he was possessed To
that the same is a good bar for ever CCLXXXI Ognell's Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Replevin against Ognel who avowed for Rent Clayton Rep. 91. the Plaintiff was Nonsuit the Question was Whether the Court might assess Damages without a Writ of Enquiry of Damages It was the Opinion That they might for they are not in respect of any local matter but they accrue to the Avowant for the delay in the non-payment of the Rent Contrary where Iudgment is given for the Plaintiff there the Court shall not assess the Damages for he ought to recover for the taking of his Cattel of which the Iudges cannot take notice and the Damages may be greater or less according to the value of the Cattel and the Circumstances of the taking and delaying of them CCLXXXII Hitchcock and Harvy's Case Mich. 30 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. HItchcock brought an Action of Trespass for breaking of his Close and spoyling of his Grass against Harvey and the Case was That A. was seised of the Land in which c. and granted to the Plaintiff proficuum of such a Mead called Tentry Mead post falcationem inde scil the Ear-grass And it was found by Verdict That Ear-grass is such Grass which is upon the Land after the mowing until the Feast of the Annunciation after It was moved If such a Grantee might have Trespass Quare Clausum fregit And it was the Opinion of the Court 1 Cro. 421. That he could not but for spoiling the Grass he might Clench Iustice If a Man be Outlawed in an Action personal The Queen hath the profits of the Land and lets the same to another He shall have an Action of Trespass Quare Clausum fregit Which Shute granted And afterwards because the Iury had given Damages entire as well for the breaking of the Close as for the spoyling of the Grass the Plaintiff could not recover the Damages CCLXXXIII Chard and Tuck's Case Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Cro. 41. 1 Cro. 15 16 114 170.130 Shep. Touch. 94. Bro. Tit. Judgment 83. IN an Ejectione firmae by Chard against Tuck It was found by special Verdict That A. was seised of a Messuage and of a Curtilage and of a Garden to the same belonging in Fee and that the Curtilage was on the back side of the said House and the Garden next beyond the said Curtilage the Garden being divided from the Curtilage by a Wall and a Door through the Wall into the Garden from the said Curtilage and no Way to either of them but through the House And it was further found That the said A. by his Will devised the said Messuage to B. The Question was If by that Devise the Curtilage and Garden did pass Vide inde Br. 23 H. 8. Feoffments 53. Where a Feoffment is made of such a Messuage cum pertinentiis they shall pass Curtilage is a member at the least an Appendix of a Messuage And by the clear Opinion of the whole Court in the Case at Bar It was Resolved That by this Devise the Curtilage and Garden did pass And it was said by Wray Chief Iustice It matters not Whether the Curtilage and Garden be before the House or behind it for in both Cases they shall pass CCLXXXIV Baxter's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer AN Information in the Exchequer was exhibited against Baxter of Cambridge upon the Statute of 7 E. 6. Cap. 5. of Wines and the selling of them against the purview of the said Statute To which the Defendant pleaded That King Rich. the second in the 5th year of his Reign Granted unto the Chancellor and his Deputy and the Scholers of the Vniversity of Cambridge Custodiam assisae panis vini Cervisiae correctionem punitionem eorundum 4 Inst 229. And that the Queen that now is confirmed the said Grant in the third year of her Reign by her Letters Patents which were after confirmed by Act of Parliament 13 Eliz. And so pleaded to the Iurisdiction of the Court. Vpon which It was demurred in Law. Harris argued for the Queen and said That the Defendant could not plead that matter to the Iurisdiction of the Court at that time for it is now too late for that he hath oftentimes imparled and that generally In which case the Court having general and ordinary Iurisdiction and Authority to hold plea of such matters shall have Conusans of them notwithstanding the matter which hath been shewed and set forth On the other side It hath been said Quod Assisa venit de assidendo that is to have the Assise as well in respect of the price as of the measure Which although it be admitted yet the same shall not help them For they of Cambridge have not Assisam ipsam but only Custodiam assisae i.e. that the Assise set down by the Queen and her Councel be well kept And that no other price or measure be used in the uttering of Wines Popham The Queens Attorny to the same intent The Statute of 51 H. 1. Ordains That when Wheat is at such a price in the Market then every penny Loaf is to weigh so much and so when Barley is at such a price then so much Beer shall be sold for a penny And that was the general Assize limited by the said Statute In these Cases the Vniversity cannot appoint another Assize than that which is set down by the said Statute but to take care that the said Statute be well executed in such Assise See the Statute of 31 E. 1. of Wines scil That Wines shall be sold according to the Assize of the King i. e. 12 d. the Gallon And in that matter the Vniversity hath Custodiam only i.e. the survey of the Assize and the execution of it and authority to punish the Offences against the said Statutes as well in the price as in the measure according to the said Statutes and not otherwise c. And as to the Statute of 7 E. 6. Cap. 5. By which it is provided That the said Statute shall not be prejudicial to any of the Inhabitants of Oxford or Cambridge or unto the Chancellor or Scholers there to impair their Liberties c. The same ought to be intended that the Liberties and Franchises which the Vniversities had before by the Grant ut supra c. i. e. to punish such Offences against the Assise according to the old Statutes For the said Statute of 7 E. 6. Cap. 5. being in the Affirmative doth not take away the punishment appointed by any other Statute but doth continue the same And a further penalty is appointed propter ulteriorem poenam And as to that which hath been said That by the said Grant of Rich. the 2d 3 Cro. 52 62 they have granted to them Cognitionem omnium Actionum personalium inter partem partem That will not help the Vniversity in this Case For the Informer by the Statute hath Liberty to
to the Bar because he hath not shewed that at that time of the cutting it was not Fawning time Poph. 158. 2 Cro. 637 679. for at the Fawning time his prescription doth not extend to it and that was holden to be a material Exception but because that the Plaintiff had replyed and upon his Replication the Defendant had demurred the Court would not resort to the Bar but gave Iudgment upon the Replication and therefore Nihil Capiat per breve CCXC. Brocas's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. BRocas Lord of a Mannor Covenanted with his Copyholder to assure to him and his Heirs the Freehold and Inheritance of his Copyhold And the said Copyholder in Consideration of the same performed Covenanted to pay such a sum It was the Opinion of the whole Court That the said Copyholder is not tyed to pay the said sum before the assurance made 1 Roll. 415. and the Covenant performed But if the words had been In Consideration of the said Covenant to be performed then he is bounden to pay the mony presently and to have his remedy over by Covenant CCXCI. Ireland and Higgius's Case Trin. 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared Owen Rep. 93. That he was possessed of a Greyhound ut de bonis suis propriis and that such a day he lost it and that it came to the hands of the Defendant by Trover and that the Defendant afterwards in Consideration thereof promised the Plaintiff to deliver the said Greyhound to the Plaintiff and shewed his request Ley The Action doth not lie For of those things which are ferae naturae the Plaintiff hath not any property but ratione fundi as of Deer c. And in Trespass for them he cannot say suos but only Quare claufum fregit lepores cepit without saying suos And to that purpose were cited 3 H. 6. 56. 18 E. 4. 14. 10 H. 7. 19. 22 H. 6. 12. 14 Eliz. Dyer 106. Sir John Spencer's Case And it was holden That the Action did not lie And if not for a Hawk much less for a Hound CCXCII Ognell and Trussell's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Star-Chamber A Bill was Exhibited in the Star-Chamber by Ognell of London against one Trussell of Warwickshire setting forth such matter That whereas the said Trussell had for good Consideration sold and assured unto the said Ognell a Mannor Now to gratifie a great person who earnestly desired the said Mannor he for effecting thereof practised by fraudulent means to avoid the said assurance and practised by other persons to be Indicted of a Robbery supposed to be committed before the said Assurance and compounded with the Lord of the Fee that if he be attainted so that by such Attainder the said Mannor should escheat to the said Lord That he upon request should reassure to the said Trussell the said Mannor in Fee after Pardon obtained which was promised to him by the said great Parsonage Vpon which Indictment Trussell was Arraigned and Convicted upon Evidence which he himself procured to be falsly given against him And all that was to extort the Land which was lawfully sold before And upon the Bill Trussell demurred in Law because he is a person attainted of Felony and so dead in Law and therefore shall not be put to answer Hatton Lord Chancellor It is not reason that he be put to Answer for Nemo tenetur seipsum prodere And thereupon the Bill was referred to Anderson and Periam Iustices to Consider If the Defendant should be put to answer or not Who certified unto the Court That although the Defendant be attainted ut supra and so quodam modo dead in Law to all intents yet in Criminal Causes he shall answer Wherefore it was ordered That he answer accordingly CCXCIII Cardinal and Arnold's Case Mich. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. CArdinal brought an Action upon the Case against Arnold and declared That the Dean and Chapter Ecclesiae Cathedralis Cantuar. per nomen Decani Capituli Ecclesiae Cathedral Metropolitan Christian Cantuar. Leased unto Seckford for years the Mannor of Hadley by force of which he was possessed And so possessed granted to the Plaintiff the Office of Stewardship of the said Mannor and the Defendant disturbed him The Defendant pleaded a Lease absque hoc that the said Seckford granted And it was found for the Plaintiff And it was moved in Arrest of Iudgment That that Lease being made in the manner aforesaid was void For the Declaration is That the Dean and Chapter Ecclesiae Cathedralis Cantuar where the Lease is made by the name ut supra Here are two several Names therefore two several Corporations therefore Decanus Capituli Ecclesiae Cathedralis Cantuariensis did not Lease But Decanus Capituli Ecclesiae Cathedralis Metrapolitan Christi did Lease CCXCIV. Anderson and Hayward's Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. A Copyholder of Inheritance of a Mannor in the hands of the King is ousted It was holden in such case That he hath not gained any Estate so as he may make a Lease for years upon which his Lessee may maintain an Ejectione firmae but he hath but a possession against all strangers And also in that Case It was holden That if a Copyholder dieth his Heir within age he is not bound to come at any Court during his Non-age to pray Admittance Or to tender his Fine Also that if the death of his Ancessor be not presented nor proclamation made he is not at any Mischief although he be of full age CCXCV. Brightman's Case Pasch 30 Eliz. In the Exchequer Chamber UPon a Writ of Error brought upon a Iudgment given in the King Bench The matter was A. Leased for 20 years to B. two Acres of Land rendring Rent with Condition of Re-entry who Leased one of the said Acres to C. for 10 years And afterwards granted the Reversion of the said Term in the said Acre to A. It was holden by the Iustices That the same was no present suspension of the said Condition because there was not any possession CCXCVI. Fitzhugh's Case Hill. 30 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Dower against Fitzhugh who pleaded in bar a Fine with proclamations and 5 years passed after the death of the Husband of whose seisin she demanded Dower To which the Demandant said That within the 5 years after the death of her Husband she brought a Writ of Dower against the now Tenant and delivered the same to the Sheriff c. but did not shew that the Writ was Returned upon which the Tenant did demur in Law. It was holden by Periam Iustice That the Fine is not avoided by such manner of Claim For the words of the Statute are So that they pursue their Claim or Title by way of Action or lawful Entry within the 5 years but here the Demandant hath not pursued c. therefore she shall not be Retained by the said Statute
the first Lessee and so by acceptance of this new Lease the first Lease is determined And now we are to see if the things in the former Grant are necessary to be recited the Estate in the Land and the Tenant not necessary The Reservation Condition Covenant and the Date The reason wherefore the Estate ought to be recited is to this purpose that the King might know and be enformed how far the Land is encumbred with other Estates c. but that reason is of no effect in our Case when the second Patent is made to the first Lessee for by the acceptance of the new Estate the first Interest is gone wherefore of that there needs no recital The second reason wherefore such former Lease ought to be recited is to the intent That the new Patentee may not have colour or countenance by reason of his Patent to do wrong to the first Patentee who hath the present possession by disturbing of him by Entry or Suit for all the truth of the matter appears in his own Letters Patents and the true Estate of the Tenant in possession But that reason hath not any force in our Case for the second Estate is made to him who hath the former Estate The reason wherefore the present Tenant ought to be mentioned in the second Letters Patents is so as the Queen may be ascertained what manner of person he is who is the present possessor for it may be he is such to whom the Queen hath given such Estate upon special favour for his good Service and in recompence thereof and that she will not disgrace the party so much as to give his Farm to another over his head which might be much to the discomfort and prejudice of him in possession which the Queen peradventure would not do if she had full intelligence of it but rather advantage him with it and not let it to any other person But in our Case here there is not any such matter of mischief But it is good to consider what Tenant ought to be specified in the Recital Assuredly the most sure way is the Patentee himself to whom the Lease was originally made although he be dead or hath assigned his Interest over For it may be dangerous to rely upon the Tenant who hath the possession for it may be that another hath the Interest although he hath the possession and then the recital is false wherefore it is best to say by way of recital Cum dimisimus c. And as to the Land the same also ought to be recited by the same name in such form and by the same words as it was granted before in the former Grant and yet if the name was mis-recited in the former Grant it ought not to be so in the second As if the King Grant the Mannor of Little-Court by the name of the Mannor of Litt-cote or the Mannor of Wellington by the name of the Mannor of Welton the same is good by the Statute But if a new Grant is to be made of the same in which the first Grant is to be recited now the former mis-recital shall not be put in ure but the very name but in this special manner that is where the King hath demised the Mannor of Little-cote by the name of the Mannor of Litt-cote c. So where a Mannor is known by two names and the Queen leaseth the same by one of the said Names and afterwards Grants the same by the other name The Recital ought to be That whereas the Queen hath demised the Mannor of D. by the name of the Mannor of S. c. And as to the recital of the Estate the Habendum in the first Patent ought to be recited and all that which preceeds the Reddendum for in that the Estate is fully contained But here in our Case such recitals are not necessary for it is impertinent to make recital of the same which is determined eo instante that the new Patent is made and that by reason of a matter precedent although that all be done eodem instanti and as to an Instant the same is not to be considered in Law as it is in Logick as a point of time and no parcel of time But in our Law things which are to be done in an instant have in consideration of law a priority of time in them As Lessee for life makes a Lease for years they both Surrender to him in the Reversion the same Surrender which is made in an instant shall in Law be understood to have degrees The Surrender of Lessee for years to the Tenant for life and then the Surrender of Tenant for life So in our Case the determination of the first Lease shall be first 1 E. 3. 6. The Tenant took the Seignioresse to Wife had Issue the Wife died the Husband shall not be Tenant by the Curtesie for although the Seigniory was in him at the time of the Marriage yet by priority in Law it ceased so as no seisin of the Seigniory was during the Coverture So in our Case eo instante that this new Patent is made the first Estate is determined yet in construction of Law the Surrender shall be said precedent and then the said Estate needs not to be recited For if there had been an express Surrender in fact there had not been any doubt that recital was not necessary Ergo neither in the Case of a Surrender in Law. As to that which hath been Objected That the Grant of the Queen cannot enure to two Intents scil to make a Surrender and also to make a new Lease The same Rule is true where both Intents enure and work against the King But whereas the one Intent serves and works for the benefit of the King it is otherwise As in our Case This Surrender is for the benefit of the King therefore it shall be taken c. as 6 H. 8. The King Grants Land to another durante beneplacito and afterwards the same Patentee purchaseth a new Estate from the King here needs not any recital of the former for the second Estate is made to the first Patentee and the first Estate is determined by the acceptance of the second 3 Eliz. The Case of the Earl of Arrundel was this The Lord John Gray being Lessee for years of a House called Hull-rake of the Lease of the Queen afterwards took a Grant from the Queen of the Custody of the same Messuage with a Fee for it and that was without recital of the former Lease and the Grant holden good and yet it did enure to two Intents to a Surrender of the Lease and a Grant of the Custody but both the Intents were not against the Queen for the Surrender was for Her benefit As to the Lease made 13 Eliz. it is utterly void for mis-reciting of the date of the former Lease made 2 Mar. for the very date of the said Lease was the 11th of May and in the Recital it is the 21 of May. For
the Plaintiff That the Grant was before the Lease It was holden by the Court That this Release was meerly void for here was not any Interest to be released but a power to present and an Authority annexed to the person And afterwards by the Award of the Court the Writ was abated See 11 Eliz. Dyer 253. CCCXLI Woodward and Bagg's Case Hill. 32 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. WOodward Libelled in the Spiritual Court against Bagg and Nelson for Tythes of certain Lands called Christen Hill. Roll. 63. 2 Len. 29. 3 Cro. 188. Owen Rep. 103. The Defendant sued a Prohibition and surmised That one Pretiman was seised of the said Land and in Consideration of 5 l. by him paid to the said Parson It was agreed betwixt them That the said Pretiman and his Assigns should be discharged of Tythes of the Land during his life and afterwards the said Pretiman leased the same to the Defendants upon which a Prohibition was granted And it was holden That the party need not to make proof thereof within 6 Months for it is not within the Statute because a Composition with the same Parson But now a Consultation was granted because the Agreement is shewed but no Deed of it which cannot be any discharge But if it had been for a time scil unica vice it had been good but for life not Also it is not an express grant of the Tythes but only a Covenant and Agreement that he shall be discharged upon which he may have an Action of Covenant but not a Prohibition It was said on the other side That although without Deed Tythes cannot pass in point of Interest yet by way of discharge they might Cook It was holden betwixt Pendleton and Green That upon such words of Covenant and Agreement the party should hold the Land discharged of Tythes which was denyed For if the Grantee of a Rent Charge will grant it to the Tenant of the Land the same without Deed is not good And there was very lately a Case between Westbede and Pepper Where it was agreed betwixt the Parson and one of his Parish That for 20 s. Rent by the year the Parishioner should be discharged of Tythes for 20 years if he so long lived And it was holden That no Prohibition should lie upon it a fortiori where the Estate is for life Gawdy In the Case of grant of Tythes for life a Deed is requisite but here it is noâ— but a Contract for Mony c. See 21 H 6. 43. Wray If it had been for years it had been good enough but here is not any Contract but only a discharge for life which cannot be during his life without Deed. And afterwards the Record was read which was That Concordatum aggreatum fuit between the parties pro omnibus decimis during the time that the one should be Parson and the other Occupier of the said Land That in Consideration of 5 l. the said Pretiman and his Assigns should hold the said Land discharged of Tythes Wray The same is no Contract but a Promise for he doth not grant any Tythes Afterwards a Consultation was awarded CCCXLII Sanderson and Ekins's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN Debt upon a Loan by Sanderson against Ekins who waged his Law and at the day being ready to wage his Law the Court examined him And upon examination it appeared That the Plaintiff and Defendant were reciprocally endebted the one to the other And upon Conference betwixt them before the Action brought there was an Accord betwixt them That the Plaintiff should give to the Defendant such a sum which he had done and that the one should go quit against the other And it was the clear Opinion of the whole Court That upon the matter the Defendant could not wage his Law for a Debt cannot be extinguished by word CCCXLIII The Dean and Chapter of Windsors Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer IN this Case It was moved If he who hath a Rectory impropriate 1 Len. 146. and by the Statute of 26 H. 8. is to pay an Annual Rent for the same in the name of a Tenth and thereby is discharged of all First-fruits and Tenths shall have the Priviledge of the Exchequer for he is to pay the same sum yearly And it was the Opinion of the Barons That he should not For so every one who is to pay any Tenths or First-fruits should draw other who have sued him into the Exchequer And so all Controversies concerning Tythes and Parsonages should be drawn thither which should be a great prejudice to the Spiritual Courts But Egerton Solicitor vouched a Case viz. Coniers's Case The King gave a Parsonage to a Priory in Frankalmoign and the Tythes thereof being withdrawn The Prior impleaded him who withdrew the Tythes in the Exchequer And it was holden That the Prior should have the Priviledge for the King is endangered to lose his Patronage or rather his Foundership if the Rectory be evicted Gent Baron The Kings Tenant in Chief or he who pays First-fruits or he who holds of the Queen in Fee-Farm shall not have in such respect the Priviledge here CCCXLIV Sledd's Case Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. SLedd of Great Melton in the County of Oxon 2 Len. 146. was assessed to 7 s. for a Fifteenth And upon refual to pay the same the Collector distrained the Beasts of Sledd and sold them Thereupon Sledd brought Trespass against him the in the Kings Bench. And the Collector exhibited a Bill against Sledd Who shewed by his Counsel That the Statute of 29 Eliz. which enacted this Fifteenth Provides That the said Fifteenth shall be levied of the moveable Goods Chattels and other things usual to such Fifteenths and Tenths to be Contributory and chargeable And shewed further That his Beasts distrained fuerunt tempore districtionis upon the Glebe-Land of a Parsonage presentative which he had in Lease which Glebe-Land is not chargeable usually to Fifteenths granted by the Temporalty nor the Cattel upon it It was the Opinion of the Iustices That although the Parson himself shall pay Tenths to the King yet the Lay-Farmor shall pay Fifteenths and his Cattel are distrainable for the same upon the glebe-Glebe-Lands of the Parsonage And therefore it was awarded That the Distress and the Sale were lawful CCCXLV. Sir Walter Water's Case Pasch 32 Eliz. In the Exchequer IT was moved in this Case 2 Len. 77. 4 Len. 44. That if one hath a Iudgment in Debt and upon the same within the year sueth forth a Capias ad satisfaciendum although that he doth not prosecute it by the space of 2 or 3 years yet when he pleaseth he may proceed upon it and shall not be put to a Scire facias And of that Opinion was Philips Manwood I grant That if one hath sued forth a Writ of Execution and the same be continued by Vicecomes non misit Breve for 2 or 3 years yet the Plaintiff may proceed upon
them Another Exception was Because it is not shewed What is their due Fee And that was conceived to be a good cause of Exception And if no Fee be due the same ought to appear in the Indictment And afterwards the Opinion of the Court was That they should be discharged CCCLXII Doughty and Prideaux's Case Hill. 33 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. Action upon the Case by Doughty against Prideaux 4 Len. 101 for these words Thou art a Wicked and perjured Fellow and art forsworn in the Court of Star-Chamber as appeareth by an Exemplification here under the Seal of this Court. The Defendant justified because of a Bill exhibited in the same Court by one Brooks against the now Plaintiff for conspiring with another to endict the said Brooks of certain Felonies And the Defendant now Plaintiff in his Answer to the said Bill denyed upon Oath the said Conspiracy And sentence was given in the said Court against the now Plaintiff ubi revera such a Conspiracy was The Plaintiff Replicando said That the said Brooks was Arraigned and Convicted upon the said Indictment and prayed his Clergy Whereupon it appeared because the said Brooks was not Legitimo modo acquietatus that the same could not be any Conspiracy in the now Plaintiff to procure the said Brooks to be Indicted Walmesley and Periam Iustices This Replication is not good For it may be that Brooks was acquitted and yet the Plaintiff did Conspire upon which a Writ of Conspiracy perhaps would not lie but an Action upon the Case without doubt For the Replication doth not prove That the Plaintiff did not Conspire but that the Plaintiff was not punishable for such Conspiracy c. CCCLXIII Pasch 33 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was An Abbot leased Lands to three Men for 80 years and in the end of the said Lease was a Clause That if they died within the said Term that then the Lessor might enter The possessions of the Abby came unto the King who granted the Reversion to J.S. who made a new Lease thereof to J.D. for 21 years to begin after the expiration determination or surrender of the said former Lease The 3 Lessees died within the Term If J.D. might now enter before J.S. hath entred was the Question And it was the Opinion of all the Iustices That he could not For it is in the Election of J.S. if he will take advantage of the Condition and defeat the Lease but that ought to be by Entry and none can make such Entry but the Lessor himself or by his express direction c. CCCLXIV Bond and Bayle's Case Pasch 33 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Len. 328. 1 Roll. 926. BOnd brought a Scire facias against Bayle's Administrator of one T.B. upon a Recovery against the Intestate in an Action of Debt The Defendant pleaded before the said Iudgment given The Testator acknowledged a Statute-Staple to one B. and that the same was not paid in the life-time of the Intestate nor ever after and that they had not Goods of the Intestate in their hands above to pay the said Statute Vpon which it was Demurred in Law. Crook argued That the Bar was not good for here no execution upon the Statute is pleaded and then the Iudgment and the Statute being things of as high nature that of which Execution is first sued shall be first satisfied And if this Action had been brought upon the Obligation the Plea had not been good For although that Brian saith 21 E. 4. That Recognizances shall be paid by Executors before Obligations yet that is to be intended when a Scire facias is to be sued upon it otherwise not See 12 E. 3. Fitz. tit Execution 73. In a Scire facias upon a Iudgment in Debt given against the Testator Enquiry was What Goods the Executors had at the day of the Garnishment And he said It was moved 20 Eliz. by Anderson in this Court In Debt upon an Obligation against an Executor The Defendants pleaded That the Testator was endebted to one A. and that they had not more than to satisfie the same And it was holden no plea unless they had pleaded further That a Scire facias was sued forth upon the same But Wray said That was not Law And there is a difference when the Iudgment is given against the Testator himself and where against the Executors For where Iudgment is given against the Executors the Iudgment which was first given shall be first executed But if two Iudgments be given against the Testator he who first sueth Execution against the Executors shall he first satisfied because they are things of an equal nature and before suit it is in the Election of the Executor to pay which of them he pleaseth See 9 E. 4. 12. As if two Men have Tallies out of the Exchequer he who first offers his to the Officer shall be first satisfied for before that it is in the Election of the Officer which of them he will pay And a Iudgment is a higher Record than a Statute for the Statute is not a Record but Debitum recordatum recognitum And therefore 19 H. 6. If the Release enrolled be lost the Enrollment of it is not of any effect And Pasch 20 Eliz. Our very case was moved in the Court of Common Pleas In a Sire facias upon a Iudgment given against the Testator the Executor pleaded That the Testator had acknowledged a Statute before not satisfied ultra which c. And it was holden no Plea For a Statute is but a private and poquet-Record as they then called it And 32 Eliz. Between Coney and Barkham the same Plea was pleaded and holden to be no plea. Also if this Plea should be allowed great Mischief would follow for then no Debts should be satisfied by Executors For it might be that the Statute was made for performance of Covenants which Covenants peradventure shall never be broken And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCCLXV Butler and Baker's Case Mich. 33 34 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. SEe the principal Case Reported in Cook 3 Part 25. Poph. 87. 1 And. 348. 3 Co. 25. The Argument of Egerton Solicitor General in the said Case under his own hand was as followeth viz. The disagreement by the Wife in pais is good by the Common Law. An Agreement may be by word Ergo a Disagreement If Husband and Wife Lease for years rendring Rent the Husband dieth the Wife accepteth of the Rent that Acceptance shall bind her 15 E. 4. 17. 3 H. 6. 48. 48 E. 3. 13. 16 E. 4. 8. 11 H. 7. 13. 9 H. 6. 44. 10 H. 6. 24. Tenant in tail makes a Lease for years not warranted by the Statute rendring Rent and dieth and afterwards the Issue accepteth the Rent the same shall bind him 21 H. 7. 38. 21 H. 6. 25. 14 H. 6. 26. 19 H. 6. 43. An Enfant Leaseth for years rendring Rent and at his full age accepts the
for procuring a Warrant from a Justice of Peace upon a surmise to arrest one upon suspition of stollen Goods p. 101 For stopping of a River whereby the Plaintiffs Lands are drowned though the Plaintiff had no Title in the Land at the time of the first stopping of it p. 174 Lieth not for the not delivery of a Greyhound upon an Assumpsit made thereof p. 219 For publishing a scandalous Bill p. 138 Either the Action or an Assise at the election of the party for a disturbance of him to take his Common p. 263 For Words p. 171 269 Action upon Statutes Brought upon the Statute of 2 Ma. the Defendant shall not have costs in it by the Statute of 23 H. 8. p. 92 Upon the Statute of 21 H. 8. of taking Lands to Farm by spiritual persons to what Leases it shall extend p. 122 A Bill in the Exchequer-Chamber lieth not to have the treble value upon the Statute of 2 E. 6 cap. 13. p. 204 Upon the Statute of Hue-and-Cry lieth not against the Hundred for a Robbery committed in the persons house p. 262 Advowsons Where by grant of Advowson the Rectory Appropriate doth not pass p. 111 Agreement Made by a Parson with a Parishioner in consideration of 20 s. per annum he shall be discharged of Tythes during the life of the Parson not good without Deed p. 257 Amendment Of the Proclamations upon a Fine levied p. 107 Amercement Of the Hundred for the escape of a Felon where not good p. 207 Annuity Pro consilio impendendo not grantable over p. 185 Appropriation and Disappropriation Of a Church must be by a judicial Act and not by a private Act of the party Apportionment Not of a Release p. 13 Arbitrament and Award To perform an Act to be done by a stranger not good p. 62 To pay Mony such a day to a stranger or his Assigns and he dies before the day it must be paid to his Administrator or his Assigns p. 212 Assumpsit Where and in what Case lieth against an Executor where not p. 69 Where the consideration is not good to ground an Action upon it p. 88 128 The Plaintiff declares upon one consideration and the Jury find that promise was upon that and another consideration the Plaintiff cannot have judgment p. 91 Declaration in it where not good because levied so general p. 91 For the performance of an Award where good p. 105 Where binds an Enfant though there be no present consideration p. 164 To forbear a Suit per paululum tempus no consideration in it p. 202 Within the Statute of 23 H. 8. of Sheriffs as well as an Obligation p. 228 Assignment Of a Debt to the King where good and how it shall retake p. 197 Upon an Assignment of a Debt to the King a Lease is found by Office the King not bound to set forth in the Inquisition the certainty of the Term p. 204 Attachment Cannot be by the Custom of London of a Debt which is depending in the Kings Courts of Record p. 210 236 244 Cannot be by the Custom before the Debt is due p. 236 Attornment what p. 17 Tenant by possibility of Issue extinct not compellable to Attornment p. 121 Upon a surrender of the Reversion and Rent by a Copyholder to the use of a stranger where it passeth without Attornment p. 197 The Lessor granteth the Reversion to the Lessee and to a stranger the Reversion passeth without Attornment p. 279 Averment That the Tenant was not seised where not good p 92 Not against a Deed enrolled p. 176 B. BAil Of an Enfant condemned and Execution for Debt where shall pay the Mony recovered p. 107 Bar In Avowry where not good p. 92 In Trespass where good where not p. 122 Recovery in one Action where a Bar in another p. 194 Outlawry pleaded in Bar after Imparlance where good p. 205 Bill Upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. for Perjury doth not lie upon a Perjury committed in an Answer in the Chancery p. 201 C. CErtificate Of the Ordinary of the inability of a Clerk refused by him he must certifie the particular cause of his refusal and a general Certificate is not good p. 199 Chancery After Judgment at Law cannot grant Injunctions p. 18 Chauntry What shall be said a Chauntry within the Statute of 2 E. 6. p. 115 Cinque-Ports Certiorari granted further to certifie a Record p. 3 Common Where obtained by long sufferance may be lost by long negligence p. 202 Common recovery Where not bar the issue in tail p. 143 Tenant in tail rendring rent suffers a common recovery of the Land if the Rent be gone p. 261 Condition Proviso where a Condition where not p. 16 Where broken where not p. 67 Where the words in a Will are viz. shall go about to sell his part shall for ever lose the same the words for ever shall be referred to perdere and not to vendere p. 181 None can enter for a Condition broken but the Lessor or one by his direction p. 269 Conspiracy Where it lieth upon an acquittal in an Appeal p. 140 Constable Cannot compel strangers who pass to Watch nor set them in the Stocks for refusing so to do p. 208 Constat Where must be made of a Patent enrolled vacated p. 165 Tenant in tail of the gift of the King surrenders his Letters Patents and a vacat is made of the enrolment it shall bind the issue in tail p. 165 Conusans of Pleas In a Writ of Right must shew before whom to be holden p. 148 Not grantable to an inferior Court against the priviledge of the Court of King-Bench p. 149 Of Pleas to the University of Camb. if they shall have Conusans upon an information upon the Statute of 7 E. 6. cap. 5. p. 214. 217 Copyhold and Copyholder For years shall go to Executors p. 9 Makes a Lease for years and afterwards surrenders the reversion and rent to a stranger who is admitted it passeth without attornment p. 197 The admittance by the Lord of a stranger to a Copyholder is no disseisin to the Copyholder for that an Estate at Will only passeth p. 210 Corporations Cannot stand seised to an use but may charge their Possessions with an use p. 176 Covenant To make Assurance how to be expounded p. 27 A. Covenanted to convey the Freehold to a Copyholder in consideration of a Covenant performed and the Copy-holder covenanted to pay such a sum he is bound to pay the sum before the Assurance made otherwise it was of a Covenant to be performed p. 219 Custom That the Lord of the Mannor might grants Copies in remainder only with the assent of the Tenants and not otherwise if good p. 227 Of the Mayor and Aldermen of London to make Acts and Ordinances to bind the Citizens and Free-men where good where not p. 264 D. DAmages Where Judgment is given for the Plaintiff and upon a Writ of Enquiry excessive damages are given by the Jury which Writ is
where shall be good where not p. 147 Of intrusion where there is no Record to prove it if the error lieth upon it p. 147 Issues joyned A not joyning in it is helped by the Statute of Jeofails not a mis-joyning in it p. 66 Upon a Plea which is tryed in a foreign County and found for the Plaintiff in what Court the Judgment shall be p. 137 Jure Patronatus Where the awarding of it is necessary where not p. 98 Jurors Where upon pain of Attaint they are to take notice of a transient thing done in another County p. 77 K. KING Not bound to take notice of a Condition made by a common person p. 126 Cannot take an interest in Land without matter of Record p. 155 L. LAchess In pleading where it shall turn to the prejudice of the Parties p. 63 Leases For certain years habendum to his Executors if good and what interest passeth and to whom it passeth p. 32 Power to make Leases not to extend to Leases to be made in reversion p. 132 Where Leases are void by the Statute of 31 H. 8. of Monasteries p. 164 Made by Dean and Chapter where void by the misrecital of their name of Corporation p. 220 Livery Of Lands in Ward not to be sued by parcels p. 25 M. MAintenance Where a Grant made shall be said to be for maintenance within the Statute of 32 H. 8. p. 79 Misnosmer Where shall not prejudice a Devise p. 19 N. NOnsuit If after a Demurrer p. 28 O. OBligation By what words good by what not p. 19 Where the word Quemlibet in an Obligation shall make it joynt and not several p. 206 Taken by one Blacksmith of another Blacksmith that he shall not exercise his Trade in such a Town void p. 207 To be good although not made after the usual form p. 223 May be assigned to the King without Deed enrolled p. 234 Office Trove Personal things are in the King without Office found p. 145 Where an Estate shall be setled in the King without Office found where not p. 186 187 188 Outlawry Where a Man is to annul an Outlawry his person shall not be disabled by another Outlawry p. 232 P. PArtition The Writ was Quare teneant Quatuor mille acras where it ought to be 4 Mille acrarum yet good p. 94 Where it is not necessary to shew and settle forth the Estate particularly in the Writ p. 231 Petition Where an Entry is not lawful upon the King without suing a Petition p. 15 Plenarty Returned by the Bishop where not good p. 138 Pleadings and Pleas Where not good for incertainty p. 8 A Conveyance cannot be pleaded unless it be sealed p. 94 Of Non Damnificatus generally where good p. 118 In a Writ of Right upon a Custom to hold a Court of the Plea must be shewed before whom the Plea is to be holden by the Customs p. 148 Of Letters Patents and not saying Sigillo Angliae sigillat not good p. 193 Of the general Issue in Wast viz. Null wast fait where dangerous p. 203 Of Outlawry in the Plaintiff after Imparlance in Trover and Conversion good p. 215 Praemunire Where the not prosecuting of it by the Attorny-General shall take away the suit of the Informer p. 139 Prescription Of every Inhabitant to have Common if good p. 202 Of what good and where and of what not p. 202 To have Estovers at liberty in cutting down Wood in a Forest unless in Fawning-time where good p. 218 Priviledge Of the Exchequer not granted to him who pays First-fruits and Tenths p. 258 Possibility Not allowed to the Kings servants in the Exchequer who is sued in B.R. p. 22 Not grantable or demiseable p. 157 Prohibition Not grantable upon a suggestion that Tythe had been paid to the Vicar c. and time out c. p. 203 Proviso Where a Condition where a Covenant where a Limitation p. 225 Q. QVo Warranto Of Liberty Plea in it what good what not p. 73 184 R. REcital The not recital of the names of the Occupiers of a Lease of Lands do not avoid the Demise thereof p. 235 Records A Deed acknowledged to the King and delivered to the Barons of the Exchequer is a Record though not mentioned p. 146 Of a Fine remaining with the Custos Brevium amended and made according to the Record made and remaining with the Chyrographers p. 183 Recusants Where Lands conveyed by a Recusant shall be subject to the Statute of 23 Eliz. concerning Recusants and the penalties thereof p. 148 Release To a Tenant at sufferance where not good p. 152 By the Feoffees of Cestuy que use to his Lessee for years how it shall enure p. 196 Receit By a Termor for years to save his Term Remitter p. 2 10 93 Rents Where upon a Fine levied of the Land the Rent passeth without Attornment p. 103 Payment of it upon an extent of it and of the reversion saves the danger of a Condition supposed to be broken p. 113 Where apportioned where not p. 125 126 Granted by Fine varyeth from the Indenture yet shall pass p. 136 Suspended yet grantable p. 154 Where it passeth by the name of a Mannor p 168 Reserved to be paid at two Feasts and not said by what portions the Lessee hath the liberty to pay it in what portions he pleaseth p 235 Repleader After Issue joyned where granted p. 90 Request Licet saepius requisitus good and where it must be special p. 73 206 S. SAle By an Enfant Executor of goods where binds him p. 144 Scire Facias Where it lyeth upon an Extent supposed to be satisfied p. 155 Where upon an Alienation of an Advowson without Licence by matter of Record not by matter of Fact p. 175 Statute Merchant and Staple Acknowledged when void by the death of the party p. 157 Surrender Of a Copyhold to uses p. 4 Cannot be of a Lease for years to begin at a day to come p. 95 Tenant for life remainder in Fee of a Copyhold he in the remainder may surrender in the life of the Tenant for life if there be no Custom to the contrary p. 259 T. TAil p. 87 Tender Of Rent how and where to be made p. 4 Tenancy In Common where must be pretended and not given in evidence p. 94 Traverse Where good where not p. 97 Trespass Quare clausum fregit not maintainable by him that hath but the Ear-grass after the first mowing p. 213 Tryal If Tythes lie in such a Parish or in such a Parish tryable at the Common Law p. 128 V. VAlue Of Lands what value shall be intended p. 114 Venire facias Where the place must be mentioned in it p. 171 172 Where from the place where from the Mannor p. 193 Upon every Original must contain the issue in it p. 269 Verdict Not good because too general p. 64 Not Good because it doth not extend to all the points of the Declaration p. 95 Given and found after a Supersedeas
no judgment can be given C. 14. Where as to part a Plea is pleaded which is tryable by Certificate or otherwise than by Jury if the other which is tryable by Jury be not continued the whole is not discontinued C. 268. Conuzance de Pleas. Not grantable if the Plaintiff be priviledged in the Courts at Westminister C. 149. Copulative Disjunctive Where a Copulative shall be taken as a Disjunctive e converse A. 74 244 251. Where a thing is to be done Copulative both the matters must be averred A. 251 252. Corporation Upon a grant to them of an Acre in a great Field how they must make election A. 30. Must acknowledge Deeds and levy Fines c. by Warrant of Attorny A. 184. Where the names of the Heads of what Corporations must be shewed in pleading A. 306 307. How they must make a Lease by Attorny where they are out of possession B. 97 98. Cannot be Feoffees to Uses B. 122. Leases by them must be made by their true name of Incorporation as to substance A. 159 to 163 215. B. 97 165. C. 220. Corpus cum Causa See Habeas Corpus Covenant To assure Lands the Covenantor is not bound to seal a Deed with Covenants A. 29. To repair upon warning Action lies by Grantee of the Reversion though the House was ruinous before his Title A. 62. That the Premisses should be exonerated De omnibus oneribus c. how broken A. 93. C. 44. That the Lessee shall take Fireboot super dicta premissa extends not to Lands excepted A. 117. To help and assist the Plaintiff in a Suit in the Defendants name and not to abate it the Defendant being a Feme Sole takes Husband yet is the Writ but abateable A. 168 169. Upon the words Dedi Concessi A. 179 278. B. 104. By Lessor to repair the Lessee in his default repairs if the Lessee may retain Rent for it A. 237. What Covenant makes a Condition and shall defeat an Estate A. 246. Upon the words absque impetitione denegatione Covenant lies if the party himself disturb A. 277. For quiet enjoyment from all claiming under the Covenantor the breach must say how he claimed A. 318. Performance of Covenants in the Disjunctive must be especially pleaded A. 311. Where it lies upon a Proviso A. 318. To make an Estate or repair a House how performance must be pleaded B. 38 39 53. To make assurance binds not to release with Warranty B. 130. One Covenants to assure such Lands as shall descend to him the same to be yearly worth 40 l. If all the Lands by descent are to be assured C. 27. That the Lessee shall enjoy without interruption of any If interruption by one who hath no Title be a breach C. 44. Covenant to leave the Houses in as good plight as he found them C. 44. If upon a Covenant to repair a Recovery be had the Lessor can sue no more C. 51. If one be interrupted by a Decree in Chancery that is no breach of a Covenant to enjoy without lawful Eviction C. 71. Who shall do the first act where the Covenant is reciprocal C. 219. B. 211 212. That he hath made no former Assurances but that the Land shall descend raises no Uses C. 7. Count. Where in a Quare Impedit the Writ may be general and the Count special A. 226 227. Where in a Writ of Entry Sur disseisin brought by Tenant in tail A. 231. How to Count where one of two Debtors or Trespassors are Utlawed C. 202. Countermand In what case the Bailor of Goods may Countermand the authority of the Bailee B. 31. Courts and Offices of the Court. The Common Bench cannot write to the Kings Bench for a Record A. 90. If upon pleading a Title be found or confest for the King the Court ex Officio must prosecute for the King A. 194 323. A Court to admit Copyholders may be held out of the Mannor A. 289. In what case the Kings Bench may hold Plea under 40 s. A. 316. What duty due by a Subject to the King gives the Subject priviledge in the Court of Exchequer B. 21. How and by what authority Nisi Prius are tryed out of the Exchequer B. 87. All the Courts except the Common Bench are variable as to the place and must be shewed where they sit B. 102 103. Courtesie of England In what case the Husband be where the Wives Estate is defeasible by condition A. 167 168. By custom of Mannor B. 109. If the Husband shall be Tenant by the Courtesie of the Seigniory of the Wife where he himself was Tenant C. 247. Court Christian Their Sentences there are good until revoked by other Sentence B. 169 to 172 176 177. Cui in vita What is a good Bar therein A. 53. Custom Of free Bench within a Mannor A. 1. That the Lord may seise for conviction of his Tenant of Felony A. 1. Where it shall be taken strictly A 1â—2 B. 109. Of Bristol that a Covenant shall bind by Parol is good A. 2. That a Copyholder may Lease for years ad pasturand non ad colend ' A. 16. What Customs are void being unreasonable A. 217. C. 81 82 226 227. What are good and reasonable A. 217 328. C. 227. That the Lord may take the profits during the Nonage of the Infant Tenant good A. 266. Customs of the Kings Courts are Laws B. 85 86. Custom alledged infra Regnum Angliae if good B. 114 115. A good Custom that Robbers at Sea shall share the Goods though one Ship did but stand by and look on B. 182. D. Damages INcreased by the Court super visum vulnerum A. 139. No costs upon discontinuance by original Stat. 32 H. 8. 15. A. 115. Intire assessed upon one promise to perform an Award of two matters whereof one void how adjudged A. 170 171. An Action upon the Stat. of 8 H. 6. of Forcible entry treble Costs and Damages A. 282. B. 52. If the Jury ought to assess any Damages in Account A. 302. In what Actions Costs by the Statute 32 H. 8. vide tit Stat. B. 9 52. C. 92. In account the Plaintiff hath Damages B. 118. The Plaintiff shall have Costs assessed but by one Jury though several Trials by several Juries B. 177. Grantee of a Reversion shall recover Damages in Covenant but for things done since the Grant C. 51. The first Jury which tries the first Issue may assess Damages for the whole Trespass C. 122. If the Plaintiff in Replevin be non-suited after Avowry for Rent the Court may assess Damages without a Writ of Enquiry C. 213. If joynt Damages be assessed for two Trespasses one of which lieth not the Plaintiff cannot have Judgment C. 213. Where the Court will abridge Damages C. 150. Dean and Chapter hujusmodi An Arch-Deacon Prebend what they are A. 13 205. What places have two Chapters and if Leases confirmed by one be good A. 234 235. The Chapter must be party to a
Executor shall sell who dies his Executor cannot sell B. 69. To the Heirs of the Body of his Eldest Son is void B. 70. I give my Lease to my Wife for life and then to my Children unpreferred B. 90. To the Heir in see is void and he is in by descent B. 101. C. 18. That his Executor shall pay a Debt this is no Legacy B. 119 120. Devise shall be taken according to the Common not Legal construction B. 120. C. 18 19. Devise of three Closes to three and if any die that the other shall have all his part to be divided between them B. 129. That A. shall pay yearly 10 l. out of a Mannor is a good Devise of the Mannor to A. B. 165. They shall be construed favourably but not against Law B. 165. If the Devisor be distrained and dies before re-entry nothing passeth B. 165. All his Lands called Jacks in the occupation of J S. what passes if not in the occupation of J.S. B. 226. Like Case C. 18 19 132. Of a Mannor to B. and of a third part thereof to C. they are joynt Tenants C. 11. Words in a Devise shall never be judged repugnant if by any rational Construction they may consist C. 11 28 29 Devise of Lands to his Wife for life and after that she may give them to whom she will C. 71. Lands called H. in two Vills A. and B. Devise of H. in A. for life remainder of Hayes Land to L. No Land passes in remainder but Lands in A. C. 77. To J. for thirty one years to pay Debts remainder after the Term expired to his Heirs Males and if he die within the Term that G. shall have it and be Executor J. dies his Issue enters G. evicts him C. 110. Devise that the eldest Son shall take the profits until the younger be of Age and the remainder to the younger Son the elder hath see conditional C. 216. Devise that his Feoffees to Uses shall be seised to other Uses who are accounted Feoffees C. 262. Diminution The manner of alledging it A. 22. With what time it must be alledged B. 3. Disceit Fine reversed by such a Writ because the Land is Ancient Demesne A. 290. C. 3 12 117 120. Not abated by death of one Defendant C. 3. Upon a Recovery in a Quare Impedit A. 293. The manner of proceeding therein A. 294. For an Infant against his Guardian who lost the Land by default in Dower B. 59. Where Estate of the Conusee remains after the Fine reversed C. 12 120. Whom it shall bind without summons C. 120. Discent Takes not away the entry of him who claims by Devise condition broken c. A. 210. B. 192. cont B. 147. Disclaimer He who hath disclaimed shall not have a Writ of Error C. 176. Discontinuance de Process c. Vide Continuance Discontinuance de Terre Remainder in fee after a Lease for life where not discontinued by Fine by the Tenant for life A. 40. B. 18 19. None of Copyholds A. 95. Nor upon a Covenant to stand seised made by Tenant in tail A. 110 111. By Feoffment of Tenant in tail A. 127. B. 18 19. Quid operatur if the Feoffees joyn in the Discontinuance B. 18 19. Lease for years by Cestuy que use pur vy is no Discontinuance but warranted by the Stat. of 32 H. 8. B. 46. None if the Reversion be in the King B. 157. C. 57. Nor by Bargain and Sale by Deed enrolled without Livery C. 16. Disseisin and Disseisor Where a Man shall be a Disseisor at the election of another A. 121. B. 9. If Tenant per auter vy hold over after the death of Custuy que vie if he be a Disseisor B. 45 46. The like if Tenant for years holds over B. 45 46. If the younger Brother enter if he be a Disseisor or Tenant at sufferance B. 48. If Disseisee may give licence to put in Cattle before Entry C. 144. He who Disseiseth a Copyholder gains no Estate C. 221. Disseisin to the use of Baron and Feme he only agrees the Estate vests in both but the Feme is no Disseisor C. 272. Distress Cannot distrain upon the Kings Lands A. 191. Where and who may distrein the Cattle of a Stranger though not Levant and Couchant where and who not B. 7. If one as Bailiff may say he takes a Distress for one cause and carry it away for another B. 196. Dower The Wife not Dowable if the Husband be attaint of Treason although pardoned A. 3. Of what age the Feme must be A. 53. Inquiry of Damages where the Baron died seised A. 56 92. In such an Inquiry the Jury may find above the value of the Dower A. 56. By Custom of Gavel-kind whether demandable as by Common Law A. 62 133. How a Grand-Cape in D. must be executed A. 92. Wife Dowable of a Seisin in Fee defeasible by a Condition A. 168. The Wife shall be endowed at Common Law where the King is to have Primer Seisin A. 285. If a conditional Estate be a good Joynture to bar Dower A. 311. Bar that the Heir granted to the Wife a Rent in satisfaction c. he ought to shew what Estate he had in the Land B. 10. An Infant cannot lose by default in Dower unless per Gardian B. 59 189. Notwithstanding what divorces the Wife shall be endowed B. 169 170. If the Wife shall be endowed where the Husband takes a Fine and renders back presently C 11. If she be barred by Fine and Non-claim if she brings her Writ within five years and desists prosecution six years after C. 50. Touts temps prist a render Dower where necessary to plead it or to give Judgment by default C. 50 52. If the Wise of the Lord shall be endowed of Demeine Lands grantable and granted by Copy by the Lord B. 153. C. 59. Of a Presentation to a Church C. 155. It is a good Bar in Dower that the Feme accepted Homage from the Tenant C. 272. Pleading of agreement to a Joynture made during Coverture C. 272. Divorce If it be causa frigiditatis in the Man who hath Issue by another if the first Marriage be good or the Divorce good until avoided by Sentence B. 169 170 171 172. The several kinds of Divorce B. 169. In pleading of Divorce the Judges name Coram quo must be precisely pleaded B. 170 171. Droit The form of a Writ of Right and what is demandable therein A. 169. B. 36. Whether it lies of an Office Stat. W. 2 cap. 25. A. 169. B. 36. The manner of arrayment of the twelve Recognitors by four Knights A. 303. Droit of an Advowson where it lies A. 316. No challenge to the Polls after the Array made A. 303. Where a Man hath no remedy but by this Writ B. 62 63 65. A Writ of Droit Close directed to the Bailiff and procceeded coram Sectatoribus good C. 63 64. In such Writ twelve Recognitors retorned suffice in an Inferior Court
Debt against the Debtors Executor A. 320. They may have Error of an Utlary in Felony against their Testator A. 325. Good resolutions for their pleading of Statutes Judgments c. A. 328. 329. What Debts must be first paid 328 329. Are liable to account to the King. B. 34. The manner of prosecuting a Devastavit in a forein County against an Executor B. 67. If they plead plene administravit specially by paying Debts upon Bonds they must shew how the Bonds are discharged B. 155. What intermeddling with the deceaseds Estate makes one Executor of his own wrong B. 224. Conditional if he pay all Debts owing to the Testator to the other Executor C. 3. If Executors enter or claim generally it shall be taken to be as Executors and not in any other capacity C. 36. It is said that a promise cannot be good to bind an Executor if he hath not Assets C. 67. Sale of Goods by an Infant Executor is good and binds him C. 143. One Obligor makes the Surety his Executor who pays the Mony generally Quaere C. 197. How he must be sued who being Executor of his own wrong takes Administration C. 197 198. One Executor cannot give the Goods of the Testator to the other for nothing passes by such Gift C. 209. Release of one Executor binds both C. 209. Executor of Executor not chargeable with a Devastavit made by the first Testator C. 241. Exemption A Juror sworn at the Bar notwithstanding he produced his Charter A. 207. Ex gravi querela In London in what case A. 267. Ex parte talis In what case it lieth B. 93. Exposition of Words Dedi Concessi in a Deed A. 29. Where the word Or in a Deed shall be copulative e converso A. 74 244. Of the word eundem in a Grant A. 15. Divisus dividend in an original Writ A. 169. Of Adtunc A. 172. I agree to surrender my Lands spoken by Tenant at will A. 178. Of the word Tenement in Grants A. 188. Of the word Covenant in a Bill of Debt A. 208. Uterque in Indictments A. 241. Quousque A. 244. Suus A. 271. Right A. 271. Factum implies sealing and delivering A. 310. Exponere ad culturam gives no Estate in the Land A. 315. In portum ad portum all one A. 335. Covenant with two quo ibet eorum B 47. In manner aforesaid is a Devise B. 69. By the word Licet may be made a good allegation B. 108. C. 67. A mile is accounted in Law 1000 paces and every pace 5 foot B. 113. Assurance to what Conveyances it doth relâ—te B. 130. Selion of Land is uncertain B. 162. Puer if it relates to both Sexes B. 217 218. Firma C. 12 13. Whether the word Mille may be joyned to a Genitive or Accusative Case C. 94. Tenementum is of an incertain signification C. 102. Of the word until as a Lease until Michaelmas includes the Feast day C. 211 Curtillage quid C. 214. Where a word in the singular number includes the plural C. 262. Immediate C. 273 274. Term of years C. 112. Extent If it be well executed though not retorned A. 280. Executed though not retorned in what case it is a good Execution B. 12 13. Lessee for years may pay the Rent to the Extendor C. 113. Scire facias to remove the Conusee C. 155. If the Conusee can in any case be removed without a Scire facias C. 155 to 158. What kâ—nd of Interest is left in the Conusor during the Extent C. 156 157. If an Extent be avoided by a Prior Statute the puisne Conusee may enter when the other is satisfied C. 239. If a Debt be assigned to the King he shall have all the Conusors Land C. 240. By the Statute of Acton Burnel the Extendors are to take the Lands if they appraise too high and must pay the Debt statim But when that statim means vi C. 274. Extinguishment Of Rent by Entry what act amounts thereto A. 110. Estate for life extinct by a Fee coming to the same person A. 174. A Prescription of non decimand in a spiritual Person is not extinguished by the Lands coming to lay hands A. 248. If a Remainder depending upon an Estate for life escheat the Seigniory is extinct presently A. 255. Where an Action once suspended is extinguished A. 172 320 330 331. Of a Use A. 257 259. A Rent granted in Fee and that it shall be suspended during the nonage of every Heir A. 266. Executor of the Debtee takes to Wife the Debtor how adjudged A. 320. Where personal things once suspended shall be revived B. 84. Lessor mortgages his Reversion to the Lessee in Fee the Term is utterly extinct C. 6. Where a Warrant is suspended and may be revived C. 10 11. A Term for years comes to the Lessor as Executor and he dies the Term is revived C. 210 111. If Unity of possession in the King of Abbey Lands extinguish a Common C. 128. If Devisee of a Term remainder over purchase the Fee the Term is not merged C. 92 93. Condition of re-entry is not suspended by assigning part of the Land for part of the Term C. 221. By destroying a Reversion a Rent depending thereon is extinct C. 261. A Mesnalty extinct by the Lords purchasing the Tenancy C. 261. Extortion Against whom it lies and the several Statutes against it A. 295. C. 268. It must be set sorth in the Judgment whether any Fee or no Fee was due C. 268. F. Faux Imprisonment See Iustification FFaux Imprisonment lies if a Capias be made out of the Courts at Westminster to a County Palatine B. 89. Faux Iudgment Lies upon a Justicies not Error B. 34. Upon a Writ of Right Close prosecuted in nature of an Assise C. 63. Fee-simple Where it may be created without the word B. 27. C. 216. Devise that the elder Son shall take the Profits until the younger come of Age is a Fee conditional in the eldest C. 216. Feoffment Vide Vses Good by the words Bargain and Sell with Livery A. 25. Fine and Amerciament Upon alienation without Licence A. 8. B. 55 56. In what case a Vill shall be amerced for the escape of a Felon A. 107. C. 207. If a Pain upon a Presentment must be afferred A. 203 204 217 242. In what case a Steward may Fine in a Court-Leer A. 217 242. Grantee of Post-Fines if he may distrain for them and sell the distress A. 249 250. The manner of pleading in Trespass where the Defendant-justifies for such Fine A. 249 250. By what words such Fines pass A. 249 250. If a Defendant make several defaults in one Suit he shall be several times amerced B. 4 5. Fine set in a Court for a contempt in not retorning of Cattle in a Replevin B. 174. Debt lies for a Post-Fine by the Kings Grantee B. 179. cont C. 56 234. A Defendant may be several times amerced for several defaults in one Suit B.
and when Notice must be given to a Patron of a Voidance A. 32. C. 46 47. Where necessary to perfect an Assumpsit A. 105 123. Where Notice of a Surrender of a Lease must be given to him who hath the subsequent Estate C. 96. Nusance See Action sur case Where an Action lieth for stopping of new made Lights where not A. 168. Action on the Case lies for it by Tenant of the Freehold although he may have an Assise C. 263. B. 184. A. 247. Con. C. 13. Where it lies for turning a Water-Course from a Mill new erected on an old Foundation A. 44 45. Every continuance thereof is a fresh Nusance B. 103. C. 174. The difference of exaltare erigere stagnum in such Actions B 180 181. It is enough to say obstupavit viam without shewing how C. 13. For stopping a Water Course so that the Plaintiffs Land was drowned C. 174. O. Obligation GOod without words Obligatory or In cujus rei testimonium A. 25. C. 119. To perform Covenants If the Deed be void the the Obligation is single A. 282. Obligation to pay Mony within a Mannor where J.S. hath bona felonum if the Obligee be attainted J.S. shall not have the Debt B. 56. What words in the Condition make the Obligation void by 23 H. 6. cap. 10. B. 78. With a Condition against the Law is void Cont. if the Condition be only impossible B. 189. Conditioned that one shall not use his Trade in such a Parish is void B. 210. One is bound for the faithful Service of an Apprentice A Release made to the Apprentice is a discharge of the Bond C. 45. Where a Bond is I am content to pay Debt or Covenant lies C. 119. What Bond is joynt what joynt and several C. 206. Bond taken of one not bailable is void per Stat. 23 H. 6. C. 208. Obligation in ten Pounds to be levied by the Obligee of the profits of a Baillwick yet the Obligee may bring Debt C. 223. Made in France may be sued here C. 232. Occupancy Who shall be a special Occupant A. 310. C. 36. He who disseiseth Tenant pur auter vy who dies is a dispensor still and no occupant B. 121. None shall be an occupant but he in possession C. 36. It it shall be of a Use pur auter vy C. 35. Offices and Officer If a Steward of a Court may be deputed by Parol without Deed A. 228. What other Officer may be so deputed Ibid. Of what Office an Assise lieth Ibid. Vicar General of the Spiritualty Chancellor of A. Bishop what A. 312. The Office of Marshal of the Kings Bench and Marshal of England and who hath the Grant of them A. 320 321. If an Office ministerial may be granted in Reversion by any but the King C. 31 32. Office for the King. What Lands or Chattels shall be in the King by Attainder without Office found A. 21. B. 122 to 126 135 to 139 206 207. Or by alienation without licence A. 40. B. 126 135. C. 175. Must be pleaded under the Great Seal A. 65. To what purposes an Office is good not finding who is Heir Ibid. Upon Extent of Lease for years must find the certainty of the Term. B. 121. C. 204. In what case it may be traversed B. 122 to 126 187. C. 185 to 191. What Lands shall revest in the King by a Condition of re-entry before Office found of the Condition broken B. 134 to 145. C. 125 127. What a Common cannot have but by re-entry the King shall not without Office found B. 137. Of what force an Office is which is found after the King hath granted away all the Estate B. 138 to 145. C. 125 126 127. Upon assignment of a Debt to the King the Office must find but Goods since the Assignment C. 197. The Ter-Tenant shall not render recompence to the King for the profits of the Lands before Office found C. 242. P. Pardon IN what case a general Pardon not to be regarded unless specially pleaded A. 300 301. B. 28. Where the Kings General Pardon will not avail without words of Giant B. 123 124. C. 186 187. Parson and Patron What a Vicar is A. 182. They and the Ordinary joyn in a Lease of the Gleab if this bind the Successor A. 234 235. What an Arch-deacoury is A. 316. Partition Between Tenants in Common and Joynt-Tenants where good where bad without Deed A. 103. The form of the second Judgment A. 280. B. 50. Against whom it must be brought A. 291. If it may be made of a Use B. 25 26 27. The pleading thereof B. 24. What part is void what only voidable B. 25 26. Form of the Writ and where it must shew de qua haereditate B. 118. C. 231. If it lies by a Corporation upon the Stat. 32 H. 8. C. 162. Patent See Grant of the King. Perjury See Stat. 5 Eliz. May be punished at Common Law though the Jury give a Verdict against the false Testimony C. 170 230. Petition of Right See Monstrans Plaint In all Inferior Courts there ought to be a Plaint entred before the Defendant be summoned A. 185 186 302. Pleading and Pleas. Vide Bar and Iustification Of a Lease at will it 's good to aver the life of the Lessor A. 14. Of an Averment that the Rent c. was parcel of a Mannor A. 15. Of a Fine and Non-claim not needful to aver Infra Regnum sanae memoriae c. A. 18 76. What things must be shewed by the Plaintiff to enable his Action or must be pleaded by the Defendant A. 18 76 131 306. B. 5. C. 40 41 42 43. Of a Recovery in an Affise in Bar to Trespass A. 24 193. That a Rectory was appropriated to a Colledge A. 38. The Election of a Bishop Ibid. Where Ne unques accouple c. shall be pleaded and where Non fuit uxor A. 53. B. 170 171. Of an Utlary to entitle the King A. 63. Where Nient damnify is a good Plea to an Award which was That the Defendant should discharge and save the Plaintiff harmless from a Bond A. 71. The performance of a Condition to convey the Defendant must shew by what Conveyance c. A. 72. Of a Fine with Proclamation upon the Statute of 4 H. 7. 1 H. 3. and 32 H. 8. A. 76 77 78. Of an Agreement to an Estate Legacy c. A. 129. What matter ought to be shewed by the party who pleads or to come in on the other side A. 18 76 100 131 306. B. 5. C. 40 to 43. Of performance of a negative Covenant A. 136. To two Bars there must be several Replications or Demurrers A. 139. Of a Bargain and Sale must alledge a Consideration A. 170. Where it is not necessary to shew the beginning of a particular Estate nor to aver the life of Tenant for life A. 66 139 176 255. B. 50 94 95. Of a Recovery in a real Action it must be shewed that the Tenant was
Tenant of Freehold Contra in an Assise A. 193. Of Nient comprise in a Recovery A. 184 185. Avowry for Damage Feasant in Copyhold Lands leased to the Avowant The Plaintiff pleads a prior Title to the Mannor in Fee and Ill for he ought to have said he was seised until the avowant entred praetextu of the Lease A. 288. B 80. In what case one may plead Not Guilty in Trespass A. 301. Of a Feoffment by two or a Bond made to two where one is dead A. 322. B. 220. Where one may plead nil debet or the special matter B. 10. To let for Rent of an Eviction by Title B. 10. Where one must plead non concessit or that nothing passed by the Deed B. 13 Where in pleading a place certain must be alledged Vide Lieu County Where to an Information for the King the Defendant cannot plead Not Guilty but must answer specially to the Tort B. 34. Of performance of Conditions to make a good Estate repair a House c. B. 39. Where de injuria sua propria is good Replication with and without a Traverse B. 81 102 103. If a Stranger be bound that the Lessee pay his Rent he may plead entry and expulsion B. 115. Where a Plea must conclude Judgment if Action or If he ought to answer B. 160. That he paid all Debts owing by him to J.S. he ought to shew what Debts C. 3. No pleading of a thing conveyed per nomen c. but by Deed C. 9 10. Plea vicious in Debt upon a Recognizance concluding Judicium si Executio c. C. 58. Of Entry into Religion Resignation and Divorce C. 199. No pleading to the Jurisdiction of the Court after a general Imparlance C. 214 215. One cannot plead an Attachment after Imparlance C. 232. Pledges The King and an Infant need find none B. 4 185 186. Pluralities If an Arch-deaconry make it A. 316. Posse Comitatus Cannot be but out of the Chief Court at Westui C 99. Possession Unity of Possession of 3 purparts of a Mannor does not make the whole liable to a charge granted out of two parts A. 85 86. Unity of Possession of Land and Tithes out of which c. does not extinguish the Tithes A. 248 331 332. Entry of the Brother in one County into the Demesnes of a Mannor extending into two Counties does not make a possessio fratris A. 265. If the possession of a Reversion after a Lease for years make a possessio fratris of Copyhold Lands C. 70. Whether Unity of possession of Lands and Common in the King of Abbey Lands extinguish the Common C. 128. If recovery of Dower against the Brother take away a possessio fratris C. 155 156. What possession makes a possessio fratris C. 273. Power to make Lease by Act of Parliament not pursued C. 72. Premunire Lies not for the party If the Kings Attorny release A. 292. For trying a Freehold without Jurisdiction Ibid. For proceeding in the Admiralty for a matter done upon the Land it must appear in the Libel to be done on the Lands else this Action lies not B. 183. Prerogative See King. That the King shall have a Fine upon alienation of his Tenant in Capite A. 8. The Court ex officio must preserve it A. 63 322. Where the King shall have Primer Seisin A. 65 66. Lands come to the King which are charged with a Rent no distress lies but a Petition of Right A. 191. One cannot cross the King his Title but he must intitle himself A. 202 294. To present a Clerk upon a Lapse vested in the Bishop whose See is after void A. 235. Where the King shall have Primer Seisin and Ward A. 253 284 285. To charge Executors Ad. Computand ' B. 34. The King needs not demand a Rent to entitle himself to a Re-entry A. 12. B. 134. C. 125. May distrain for a Rent-Seek C. 125. May reserve a Rent to a Stranger C. 127. Shall have account against Executors C. 198. The King shall not have his Prerogative to be first satisfied of a Debt which comes to him by Assignment if a Prior Extent be executed C. 239. Upon such Extent the King shall have the whole Land though the Conusee could have but a moiety C. 240. Prescription For Estovers within a Forest A. 2. Cannot be to take all the profits c. but may be to have Fold-course or the like A. 11 142. For Common when the Land is not sowed A. â—3 No Prescription though no memory to the contrary if the commencement be known A. 10â— B. 28. That none shall exercise the Trade of a Baker in a Market Town without the Plaintiffs Licence A. 142 143. Laid in Tenant for life and him in Remainder in tail and yet good A. 177. Where good to have Suitors to a Court and to take Toll c. A. 217 218. Void because unreasonable A. 232 314. C. 41 42 81 82. Good and reasonable A. 232 233 314. C. 41 42. Spiritual Persons may prescribe in non decimando A. 241 248. Though such Prescription be interrupted by the Land coming to Lay-hands yet it is not destroyed A. 248. What words apt to make a Prescription what not A. 273. None against a Statute B. 28. Not a good Prescription That every Inhabitant in a Town shall have Common B. 44 45. C. 200. In pleading a Prescription in a Vill it must be pleaded that the Vill is Antiqua c. B. 98. How to prescribe for a Way with Horses and Carriages C. 13. In pleading it it must be said that the Prescription was once executed not only quod potest c. C. 83. Presentment to a Church Before Induction the King may repeal his Presentation A. 156. B. 164. Presentee of the King by Lapse dies before Induction Videtur that the King may present again A. 156. Grant of the next Presentment made when the Church is void is also void A. 167. The difference between it and a Collation and the definition of them A. 226. If the Bishop die after Lapse devolved to him the King shall Present A. 235. What kind of Interest it is Ibid. If an Archdeaconry become void by the Deacon being made Bishop the King shall present and not the Patron C. 151. The King cannot revoke his Presentment but by express words and reciting the first C. 243. Primer Seisin The Heir shall pay a third part of the profits for Primer Seisin C. 25 54. Principal and Accessary If the Attainder against the Principal be reversed the Accessary is discharged A. 325. Priviledge A person who is priviledged by reason of an Action depending in the Common Bench is priviledged for the Goods of Strangers in his hands so that they cannot be attached A. 169 189. What duty to the King gives a Subject the priviledge to sue in the Exchequer B. 21. If both parties are previledged in the Courts at Westminster allocatur querenti B. 41. One priviledged after Judgment quod computet B.
68. Who shall have the priviledge of the Exchequer and who not B. 146. Where the priviledge of Attornies of the Courts in Westminster is preferred before a Custom of London B. 156 166 167. How the Warden of the Fleet must be sued in the Common Pleas B. 173. No priviledge by Writ out of the Exchequer for one of the Kings Houshold C. 223. Prohibition For that the party hath remedy by the Common Law A. 10. Prohibition as to part Quatenus non agatur c. A. 20. To the Spiritual Court upon suit there for a Legacy suggesting that the Testator was indebted to the Executor Ibid. Lies not upon surmise that Mony ought to be paid to the Parish Clark in lieu of Tithes A. 94. Lies not where the doubt is only Cui solvendae A. 94 128. C. 203. It seemeth the contrary C. 265 Lies not upon surmise that the Parson hath used to take the Corn growing upon every tenth Land for the Custom is unreasonable A. 99 100. Cont. B. 70. Attachment sur Prohibiton upon the Parsons Libelling de novo for the same cause A. 111. In Attachment sur Prohibition it is Error if the Count vary from the Suggestion A. 128. Upon a Suit in Court Christian for not bringing in an Inventory A. 129. For the Plaintiff in Court Christian to stay the adjudging of Costs there against him A. 130. Where Prohibition lies and upon what composition with the Owner or Rector A. 23 151. B. 29 73. C. 257. If the suggestion be apparently vicious the Court does over-rule it and not put the Defendant to demur A. 181. To stay a Suit for a Legacy given in satisfaction of Dower upon a mutual Agreement A. 235 236. Lies upon suggestion that the Lands are discharged as they were in the hands of a Prior c. A. 240 241 331 332. Consultation quoad part of a Legacy and quod non agatur de validitate facti A. 278. Lies against the Kings Farmor A. 286. Prohibition must be several if the Libels be several Ibid. The suggestion may be given into Court by Attorny Ibid. Lies upon surmise that there not being sufficient Herbage for the Cattle of the Plough the Owners have used to depasture in green Tares Tithe-free B. 27 28. Consultation granted to the Spiritual Court for calling one Witch and Inchantress B. 53. Lies upon surmise that the Owners have used to have the Hay on the Balks for cutting down the Corn B. 70. Lies upon surmise that the Lands where the Cistertians and the Plaintiff is immediate Farmer to the King B. 71. Upon refusal of a Plea in Court Christian B. 101. If the Spiritual Court call in question the right of Presentation Prohibition lies B. 168. If Prohibition lies upon surmise that the Parson who sues for Tithes is deprived B. 212 213. Prohibition granted for that the Spiritual Court refused to take a Plea that the Plaintiff there was not Incumbent C. 265. Proof Where an Act is to be done upon proof generally how it must be done and when A. 256. B. 215. What suggestions must be proved per Stat. 2 H. 6. B. 212 213. C. 257. Property What kind of property the Lessee hath in the Trees A. 49. What bailment shall alter the property of Goods what not B. 30 31. C. 38. If the property of a Deer be lost by his going forth of the Park B. 201. C. 219. What property one hath in a Greyhound Conies c. C. 219. Protection In Debt Quia in obsequio Regis A. 185. Quia profecturus with the Kings Officer into Scotland C. 20. Q. Quando duo Jura concurr in uno aequum est ac si essent in diversis If one Man be Coroner of Middlesex and of the Verge if he may take an Inquisition per Stat. Artic. super cart cap. 3. Where a thing is to be done by a Bishop and a Judge and one is both if c. B. 160. Quare Impedit See Stat. 25 E. 3. 7. Bar by a Bishop for Lapse A. 31. Against whom it must be brought A. 45. Brought by the Queen for that the Patron is Utlawed A. 139 201. If the King shall recover Damages post tempus Semestre per W. 2. cap. 5. A. 149 150. Where the Seisin in Gross Appendency or the Presentation are traversable A. 154. For Executors and the form thereof A. 205. Of what it lies Ibid. What Presentments shall put the King to his Droit de Advowson what not A. 226. C. 17 18. The difference between a Collection and Presentment as to making a Plenarty A. 226. Plenarty no Plea against the King Ibid. What is good cause for the Bishop to refuse a Clerk A. 230. What makes a disturbance in the Bishop A. 230. Tenant for life need not Count of a Presentment in the Tenant in Fee-simple Ibid. The Patron must not of necessity be named in the Writ B. 58. In what case a Jure Patronatus lies B. 168. If the Ordinary be not at leisure to examine the Clerk and the Clerk comes again ten days after and in the interim the Lapse incurs C. 46 47. Whosoever be admitted pendente placito unless by the Title of one paramount the Plaintiffs Title must be removed C. 138 139. If the Plaintiff claim to present by turn if he must shew how the Estate commenced C. 163 164. If the Bishop pleads that he claims nothing but as Ordinary if he must joyn in a Writ of Error C. 176. If the Ordinary refuse a Clerk he must make a certain retorn of the Cause C. 199 200. Quid Iuris clamat See Attornment If the Tenant may appear by Attorny or must do it in person A. 290 291. Attornment thereupon saving his Term for years B. 6. C. 22. What execution is awarded thereupon to force the Defendant to attorn B. 40. C. 241 242. Who are compellable thereby to attorn A. 290 291. B. 40. C. 241 242. For the Grantee of one Coparcener C. 6. Quo Warranto No plea thereto to say that a Stranger hath such Liberties B. 28 212. The King thereby gains nothing but only redresses an Injury C. 72. Of what Liberties it lies C. 184. How to plead non usurpavit Libertates Ibid. R. Ravishment de Gard. BY the Plaintiff as Prochein Amy A. 111. Recital Mis-recital in a Deed that leads the uses of a Fine C. 135 136. In Articles of Agreement that the Lessor was possessed by lawful Title binds to performance A. 122. Want thereof in the Lease of the King A. 12. Stat. 6 H. 8. 15. A. 12 321. C. 5 6 242 243 244 to 250. A void Lease or one expired needs not be recited in the Kings Grant C. 243 244. Recital in Patents ought to be very strict C. 246 247. No recital necessary where the second Patent determines the first C. 247. Recognizance Cannot be taken by any by prescription A. 131. Upon Recognizance by Custom in London Debt lies only in their own Courts A. 130 131. If a Capias