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A90794 An exact abridgment in English, of The commentaries, or reports of the learned and famous lawyer, Edmond Plowden, an apprentice of the common law. Concerning diverse cases and matters in law, and the arguments thereupon; in the times of the reignes of King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, King Philip, and Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, with the exceptions to the pleadings, and answers thereunto; the resolutions of the matters in law, and all other principall matters arising upon the same. By F.H. of the Inner Temple London, Esq; Plowden, Edmund, 1518-1585.; Hicks, Fabian. 1650 (1650) Wing P2609A; Thomason E1297_1; ESTC R208982 174,168 307

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imbesseling of a Habcas Corpora upon a Formedon between the Plaintiff and another holden good whithout shewing the Original and certainty of the Land and all the Record in certain because the Record is but a conveyance to the suit of Deceit and therefore for this cause cannot be gainsaid as to say Nultiel Record But where a Record is pleaded in Bar all shall be shewed certainly and is Traversable there in Conclusion or general Demurrer as petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the Action one shall have advantage of all defaults and of every thing mentioned in the Record and of every point that the Law gives him In Conclusion speciall of defaults onely alleadged in certain as here petit judicium if the Plaintiff shall maintain the action there if it be void for another cause then this which is mentioned he shall not have benefit of this of a thing void ab initio as the Obligation here because void by Statute so in avoidance of a Deed That he was not a man lettered and that it was read to him in another form So 24. H. 8. 28. because delivered as an Escrow upon Condition the Conclusion shall be so not his Deed because the matter proves that it was never his Deed of a thing voidable where it was void after because once is was a Deed the Conclusion shall be Judgement if Action because the duty is now extinct as 1. H. 7. 15. by release 35. H. 6. 18. for nonage 7. E. 4. 5. by dures When the Conclusion is nought and the matter in Law good Officium Judicis est for to give Verdict against the Plaintiff if it appeareth that he had not cause of Action howbeit that the Defendant hath lost the advantage thereof as it is here So 7. E. 4. 31. Trespass against B. and C. B. pleads not guilty C. pleads the gift of B. found guilty and found for C. no judgement for the Plaintiff because found against him So. appeal of a woman for the death of her father 10. E. 4. 7. because she shall not have an appeal of the death of any man except her husband or Trespass against the Lord by distress where nothing is in arear because the Statute is Non ideo puacatur dominus abate ex officio although the Defendant accepts the Writ good for the Plaintiff shall be barted by the Court ex officio and shall not have judgement although the Defendant admits his Title or by his Conclusion hath concluded himself of his advantage if it appeareth that he had no Title 1. The first branch is commanding and authorising the Sheriff to let to Bail persons manipernable by the Common Law viz. persons taken by Writ Bill or Warrant upon an Action personall or indictment of Trespass for it was indifferent if they were guilty or not made in affirmance of the Common Law 2. The second Branch viz. The exception was also made in the affirmance of the Common Law before for such persons which were in by condemnation execution Capias ut legat c. were not bailable before 3. The third is onely the purview which relates to the second branch as well as to the first for before refers to all this spoken of before as well the thing excepted as otherwise as a Lease for years of a Mannor except a Close rendring Rent the Lessee binds himself to perform all Covenants Grants and Agreements expressed or recited in the Indenture and after disturbs the Lessor of a thing excepted he hath forfeletd the Obligation because it is an Agreement for when he excepted the Close the other was contented with it and that the Lessor should occupy it and recited goes to the exception as to the rest 45. E. 3. 4. contained and recited goes to every Covenant in the Indenture An Act done Colore officii is extortion as if an Officer takes more for Fees then he ought And an Obligation taken of a prisoner for meat and drink is void because it is colore officii for he nor the Plaintiff are not bound to give him sustenance as he which distrains is not bound to give although he be in for Felony because 7. H. 4. 47. his goods are his untill he be attainted by the Common Law which is confirmed by 1. R. 3. c. 3. Rastal Forfeiture fol. 15. and if he dies for want of sustenance it is his own fault because that by presumption his ill demeanor bringeth him to such imprisonment The Statute of R. 3. restrains the Sheriff and other Officers to take Obligations of their prisoners except the Warden of the Fleet and the Kings Pallace at Westminster A Sheriff lets to mainprise one taken by Capias upon an indictment of Trespass which for the surety of the Sheriff makes an obligation to a stranger to keep his day is 7. E. 4. 5. held to be void because taken to another and not to the Sheriff onely according to the Statute Also there it is held if the Obligation hath not the Conditions expressed in the Statute That it is not the Deed of the party ex quo sequitur that he ought to conclude not his Deed keeping without dammage shall be intended by the generalty for all things Treasons Felonies Accounts and for all times if another thing is added by the Statute to be given it shall make all void as if a Condition be made according to the Statute and hath another thing not according to the Obligation is void So to add other words in a Formedon or Writ of Waste which are given by Statute all is void So to alien all the Land when he hath licence for part the licence is void in all by the Statute of 32. H. 8. because he hath exceeded the Authority thereby given to him The Statute saith That the Sheriff shall let persons mentioned therein to bail upon reasonable surety of sufficient persons in the plural number and because there is but one surety here the Obligation is void Also because the Statute saith That if it shall be taken in any other manner then is contained in the Statute if shall be void Also here by Plowden yet taken by one at large by the words of the first branch and those aid then third branch every person which extends to those at large nor for any person in their Ward which extends only to prisoners Kidwelly against Brand. LEease for years rendring 40. s. Rent by the year at H. out of the Land at the Feast of M. and if the Rent be behind H. 4. 5. E 6. In the Common Pleas. and not paid by the space of 40. daies after the said Feast then it shall be lawfull for him c. for to re-enter the Reversion is granted for Life the Grantee cometh to the Land 40. dales after M. to demand the Rent aforesaid but demanded it not and for not payment re-entred and adjudged lawfull 1. A Grantee for Life of a Reversio is an assignee within the Statute of 32.
intent So proviso That the Lessee make such a thing So here it shall enure as a Condition in whatsoever manner it be called it shall enure as a Determination of the Leasee because it was made at the time when the Lease began If the second Lease admit it be a Condition shall be good before re-entry or not Ramsey fol. 133. It is not good because after the Condition broken untill he enters he hath but a Title because he may not grant and the Lease continues and the possession also And therefore 22. E. 4.37 Lesser shall not have Trespass untill entry 14.3 Ass 11. Distress estop his entry because it affirms the continuance of his Term. Where a man may enter he ought to enter or not have the thing and where he cannot enter he ought to make claim before he shall have it As a Reversion granted upon Condition which is broken the Rent is extinct without Claim for that he may not have it by Claim by Stamford and Walsh it is good fol. 136. for that the first Lease for years commenced by words without entry it may be determined by words without entry Lease for life not 2. Mar. fol. 142. because Livery and Seisen which gave the State and Entry which ought to be avoided by entry upon Condition broken it is expressed here how the Lease shall be avoided viz. by entry and there if he enters not or doth an Act which excludes him to Enter as the making of an acquittance or distraining there the Lease is good But the words here are utterly extinct dissolving the Lease without Entry and no Act after shall make it good and the words of the entry here are surplusage and take away the effect of the first words As to 22. E. 4. The Lessor cannot punish him because the entry was first with his assent and when the Lease ended he was Tenant at sufferance but he may make a Lease to another and it determines his will by Gawdy it is not good Void here shall be expounded void by Entry as W. 2. cap. 1. before fol. 82. Finis ipsojure sit nullus viz. to the right yet it is a discontinuance So by 8. H. 6. cap. 10 Outlary shall be void in Indictment or Appeal if no Capias in the County where he dwelleth Common Law 19. H. 6.2 expounds it shall be void by Writ of Error he that hath a possession in Law may Lease before entry after fol. 142. after a stranger hath abated not because another hath possession in Deed. So a Lease by the Husband for years shall not be void of the Wives land after his death before entry of the Wife for possession ought to be defeated by possession and possession ought to be gained by entry Catline fol. 142. b. By the not payment the first Lease is determined without entry because it may be made by word without other circumstance otherwise of Free-hold and therefore may make a Lease but cannot have Trespass without entry as Heir before fol. 137. he may make a Lease before entry but cannot have Trespess before entry 11. H. 7.22 So a Lessee may grant his Term before it commence 22. E. 4.37 yet he shall not have Trespass before entry 37. H. 6.18 To shew two matters where both are effectual and answerable makes a double plea as 3. H. 6.32 Feoffment up-Condition to infeoff the Heir and averment of the Collusion in Wardship of the body So 20. H. 6.7 Seisen in his Ancestor and himself by avowing So 22. H. 6.37 Two continuall claims viz. by the predecessor and the Plaintiff for to avoid a discent So 19. E. 4.4 by Vavisor and Brian Two discents in Fee bars not two discents is not double in Tail because one answer viz. he gave not makes an end of all for if he cannot shew one thing without the other it is not double nor if the one is pursuant to the other as fully administred and so nothing in his hands for the last is but a conclusion of the former But the other Justices held the aforesaid two exceptions effectual for the causes aforesaid and that the Rejoynder was vicious wherefore they said That it was in vain to argue them and therefore in consideration of them onely without respect to the other matters rising upon the Rejoynder and before debate they awarded for the plaintiff Throgmorton against Tracie M. Mar in the Common Plaes second deliverance A Man makes a Lease for life and after Grants the Reversion of the Land habendum the land at Michaelmas after the determination of the first Lease for life for one and twenty years and adjudged a good Lease for years of the Reversion and of the Land Reverting and that the Habendum stood well with the premises because that the land is the degree and state of the Grantor was included in the premises by the word Reversion and the degree and estate excluded by the Habendum and the other part onely granted viz. The land Reverting and so was the intent of both the parties Reversion is compounded of the remnant of the estate which is left in the Lessor and of the land Reverting and carties with him the land to be afterwards happening in possession and the land is the substance of both and by the grant of this both pass So the Mannor which is compounded of Demeasnes and Services and of stegno aqua priscarie 4. E. 3. or gurgite which consists of water and land The Habendum which is not pursuant to the premises is void as a grant of a Mannor Habendum a Rent parcell of the Mannor because in the grant it was Rent service and in the Habendum it is Rent Seck So a Grant of Services Homage Fealty and rent Habendum the rent to the Grantee in Fee this habendum is void because in the grant the rent was contained as a rent Service but here it is rent Seck Grant of it after the death of I. S. void for the nature of a Grant is that the thing Granted ought to pass presently after fol. 155. for it is a thing in possession and is granted as a Reversion where no Reversion was of it If one maketh a Lease of land for years and after maketh a feoffment of the same without livery it passeth not the Reversion by Attornment Quere because the Grant of a thing which includes all interests in it shall make the Reversion to pass but the Reversion granted shall not make the possession to pass 38. H. 6.34 and after fol. 399. The King Grants a Mannor to which an Advowson is appendant for life the Advowson passeth not nor if he grant the Reversion Habondum cum advocatione it passeth not because in gross because it was not mentioned in the first Grant but the Reversion of an Advowson may be parcel or appendant of or to a Mannor in possession not possession of or to the Reversion of a Mannor the Habendum passes not a thing not parcel nor appendant
or appurtenant unless it be comprised in the premises The Office of the Habendum is for to limit the estate as a grant a Rent and stay there is for life Habendum for a year is for one year 7. E. 3.10 by Trew 7. Ass 1. Perkins fol. 22. The Habendum repugnant to the premises void and the estate before the Habendum shall stand 14. H. 8.13 by Pollard Perkins fol. 34. Contrary 13. H. 7.23 by Fineux a Grant to one and his Heirs Habendum for Life So to two Habendum to the one of them two for life the Remainder to the other for life because it severs the joyncture in the estate So a grant of two acres to two Habendum the one acre to one and the other to the other because it includes the interest of every one in one acre A Lease of land reserving the profits or two acres except one void because parcel of the thing granted Doctor and Student fol. 98. Reversion is a Tenement and ought to vest presently as a Reversion and not at a day to come otherwise it is of land Reverting without estate and agreed of land by the Serjeants for the Defendant Every Deed shall be construed most strongly against the Grantor and if it may be taken to any effect by any reasonable intendment it shall be and the intent of the parties shall be observed as here of using this word Reversion not in its proper signification for then it first ought to vest as in Reversion presently by Attornment and not at a day to come but as a demonstration certain of the land viz. all the land that they have in Reversion and that they will not have the land to pass in the degree of a Reversion but in degree of Demeasne And the Law will That when the intent appeareth incline the words not apt of their proper and common signification to the intent and one word shall have the sense of another as Litl fol. 121. Dedi concessi by the Disseisee shall enure as a confirmation So 17. E. 3.8 Mannor pass by the name of Fee de Chivalry So 10. E. 44. 5. H. 7.1 plead Demise by words of licence to occupie where one word includes in it one thing as here Reversion includes the land the thing included shall pass by the word as 11. R. 2. Piscary pass per a quam and 40. E. 3.45 Soil by Piscary and by Turbary 7. E. 3.342 So Soil and Wear by Gorss for 14. E. 3. Formedon lyeth de gurgite So 6 E. 3.183 By the name of one acre cornubiensi for Cornish acres contain so many A man Grants his Remainder of one acre to have and to hold the same Reversion of that acre good because the Law respects the intent of the matter and applies the words to it So a Gift in Tail reserving the first three daies a Rose and after 10. s. good because one rent in substance A man seised of two acres Leases one for years and after maketh a Feoffment of both Livery in this wherein he hath possession by Attornment the Reversion of the other passeth 7. E. 4.21 So 30. E. 1. Totum Molendinum suum the Reversion of the third of the Mill which was in Dower pass but Tenant for life ought to Attorn upon the Grant Brook grants f. 30. the Habendum explains and corrects the words of the premisses as here the words Reversion of the land to the land it self being the same substance So 7. E. 3.308 A Rent Granted out of a Man nor to take off one acre of the same Mannor nothing shall be charged but this acre in performance of the intent of the parties by the Serjeants for the Plaintiff Anthony Brown Serjeant for the Plaintiff Tenement compriseth a Reversion as 33. E. 3. the King licences to purchase Tenements in Mortmain he purchases a Reversion good Fitzh grants 402. and Cook Alienation fol. 55. is Advowson yet the word Tenement here agrees not with the premisses First because that in the mean time after the first Lease finished at Michaelmas the land is in possession and then it is not a Reversion because no particular estate and therefore may not yest as a reversion as 21. H. 7.11 before fol. 25. Remainder may not vest but during the particular estate and not at the ending of the first estate up on Condition broken So 10. E. 3. dower of a rent reserved upon an estate Tail good so long as the estate continues otherwise it is if the Tail be altered in Tail after possibility or Tenancy by the Courtesie for that the inheritance is determined and the rent is now in another degree 12. E. 3. and 10. H. 7.13 by Keeble if a rent be granted with a cessing during the nonage of the Heir the Wife shall have Dower and Execution shall be staid otherwise the Wife of the Son dying within age for that during the Cesser she had not possession Secondly because the Reversion cannot be granted at a day to come for then he shall have the particular estate in the mean time and shall be Lessor to himself and 38. H 6.38 a man cannot reserve the lesser estate giving the greater without alteration of the Lesser as in 8. H. 7.3 by Vavisor before fol. 152. A. hath rent in Fee and grants this to B. after the death of I.S. void because the Fee passeth presenly if ever and then he should have Franck-tenement of his own grant until I.S. dies And the Estate shall not be so devided without alteration of the whole Estate for a thing in esse cannot be granted to be in esse one time and to be insuspended or differ from the other but a new rent may be granted to commence at a day to come for there he shall not have the particular estate in the mean time because not in esse before after fol. 197. Time material shall void the thing in all viz. both the premisses and Habendum not e converso if it may not pass according to the limitation thereof because time parcel of the parties intent and if it may not pass as to the intent all is void As a man hath a Rent or Term and Grant it if he stay there good if he saies besides Habendum after the death of I. S all is void after fol. 250. So the Remainder void if the Termor enter without Livery Litl 12. But if the Term was to Commence at a day to come the Remainder over there it is void notwithstanding Livery because there is no estate present to which the Livery may be annexed so that the time of Commencement is materiall and Livery before its Commencement is void and Livery shall not destroy the time but the time the Livery and grant every act shall be taken strongest against the makers and most beneficial to him to whom it is made and he hath liberty in another sence to his advantage then the words purport prima facie for every Deed shall be construed
to some purpose and not to be void because it is made to some purpose as 21. H. 6.8 one may plead a Lease for years and a release as a Feoffment So 7 H. 6.7 and 22. H. 6.42 The Feoffment of a Joynt-Tenant as a confirmation So 9. H. 7.2 The King by Parliament confirms the estate of the Patentee dat conceditur he may use it as a Grant or confirmation So in 21. H. 7.23 Obligor may plead a Grant That it shall not be sued before M. in Bar or have a Covenant for it So here the party uses this as a Demise of the Land and not as a Grant of the Reversion for the Reyersion of the Land compriseth the Land as Litl fol. 106. after fol. 161. a release of all the land to him in Reversion is good So 5. H. 5.8 A Lease for years and after a grant of the rent this changes the reversion So Litl fol. 150. recovery of the land against Tenant for life will divest the reversion So 19. E 4.9 Writ of Covenant and the Concord is of the land to pass the reversion So Quid jur is clamat recites That the land was granted before the reversion was So before fol. 149. Formed on shall say de uno messuagio where the Reversion was granted in Tail So a Reversion in Fee Granted to a Termor he hath the intire Term presently in Possession for the reversion of the land comprises the land in substance one word will pass the thing by another word having the same sence yet varying in name because one same thing and intent of the party as 2. H. 6.4 before fol. 134. and afterwards f. 170. reverter for remainder So 3. H. 6.6 makes a Testament and commits Administration is an Executor So 20. H. 7.11 Retorn for revert by the Grant by Grant of the Church Advowson passes 14. E. 4.2 by Grant of the name of a Clerk a presentment passeth So before fol. 151. by Stagnum molendinum the Soil passes and the thing contained in the premises named in the Habendum by another name containing the same in substance is good So a Grant of the nomination of an advowson Habendum the advowson good So Manerium Habendum the services So mannor by Fine Habendum one acre of this in Fee he shall have the acre in Fee and the Mannor for life because it wanteth limitation of the estate in the residue of the Mannor So a Gift of a Mannor Habendum the reversion in Fee of one acre which is in Lease for life good Fee for the acre and for life in the Mannor because no estate is expressed in it So Litl fol. 120. confirms the estate of Lessee for life Habendum the land in Fee good because in the estate land was contained So a Joint-Tenant confirms to another Habendum the land to him and his Heirs the Fee will pass the Habendum may limit the estate to a stranger not named before in the premisses as 13. H. 7.17 a Devise to I. Habendum to him in Fee after the death of the Wife of the Devisor not named before hath an estate by implication of the intent of the party So 5. E. 3.17 a man gives land Habendum in Franck marriage with a Daughter So a Lease to A. Habendum to him for 20. years the remainder to B. in Fee good because the intent of the parties therefore a fortiori here the Habendum may explain the intent of the parties in the premisses Die● Serjeant for the Plaintiff A reversion is Jus sine possessio revertendi nomen verbale quasi terra revertens after the particular estate ended proved by W. 2. of Advowsons of Churches and prayer to recite the reversion if he shall overlive the Tenant for life and bringeth wast good 14. E. 2. Fines saith remanera and not revertera where a reversion was granted before fol. 157. a reversion granted in Tail Formedon in remainder lyeth because the entire estate is not given Fitzh nat br 118. D. 10. E. 2. the Heir grants the other two parts with a third part in Dower cum acciderit reversion of Dower pass 33. H. 8. cap. ultima the not making of Leases in reversion is expounded That they shall not make Leases beginning after the first ends ad firmum dimiserunt imply that the parties intend that it shall enure as a Lease of the Demeasne for properly a man may not be Farmor of a reversion not have an Ejectione firma of a reversion No Attornment needs upon a Lease for years because it is a Contract interpretationem apportet esse benignam ut res valeat as 30. E. 2. Discendera pro Remanera 6. E. 2. recipe pro re-entry So a gift to one for life post ejus decessum to 1. in Fee good remainder for the manifest intent an Habendum giveth an estate which was not given before and to a stranger not named before and alters the estate given in the premisses as a Confirmation to Husband and Wife or to Tenant for life remainder in Fee to another good Litl 129. So Habendum by moity Litl 66. makes Tenants in common 8. E. 3.427 by the better oppinion a gift to two Habendum to one for life and after his decease to another in Fee the one shall have the entire for life onely notwithstanding the Joyncture in the premisses Otherwise fol. 153. if it be comprised within the Grant good in the Habendum as a Grant De dispositione Ecclesiae habendum advocationem grants de Soil the Wood habendum the Wood defundo domus habendum domum Manerium habendum the advowson appendant good but a Grant of Common out of the land habendum the land or herbage of a Park habendum the Park and such like are not good because not comprised in the premisses Stamford Justice rules of Exposition First deeds shall be taken most beneficially for the Grantee Secondly they shall not be void where the words may be applyed to any intent Thirdly words shall be applyed viz. expounded to the intent of the parties and not otherwise The intent directs gifts rather then the words as 41. E. 3.6 16. H. 7.10 by Fineux Grantee of annuity pro consilio hath divers faculties yet the Councel shall be given in such a faculty as was intended 9. E. 4.22 one bound to pay Recepta recipienda shall not pay what he received not but that which he hath received because the intent is taken more forcibly then the words 7. E. 3.7 Lessee of of a house which may for his profit make houses there within may not pull down or make waste for the intent was not so Sanders Justice to the same intent with the Plaintiff Exposition of Deeds shall be reasonable without wrong to the Grantor as a Grant of Corrody Estovers and Common for all Beasts he shall not have with Goats and with the largest advantage to the Grantee as a Disseisor releases all his right to the Termor he hath for his life
Litl fol. 108. before fol. 140. two Tenants in Common grant 20. s. it shall enure as several Grants 34. ass fol. 11. Grants totum piscariam salvo stagno molendini sui yet the piscarie passes not for the stagno shall be excepted and not the piscarie because he hath a Reversion in the Propriety of the land and possession of the Ter-Tenancy The nature of an habendum is to give in large or qualifie Malitiosa juris interpretatio herere in verbis c. the words are but witnesses to the contract reversion includes land by all Brown Justice To the same intent of the Abbot and Covent and of Smith and his wife was to have the land pass as a Lease after the paticular estate ended and not otherwise and from that hour that their intent was to have the word reversion enure that way it seemed to him That the Law would warrant it for the land is included in the reversion for if it was not a man by Granting of a reversion could not have the Land in possession after the particular estate ended And a Feoffment of a Carue habendum the Mannor of D. is good if the Carue maketh the Mannor And if land is parcel of an Office it shall pass by the Grant of the office Much more he said tending to the effect to make the Lease good and so the Plaintiff shall recover Brook Chief Justice to the contrary Estate in lands includes land it self land is a generall word and contains Grantor and reversion particular words containing a Decree where one estate onely intent shall be inclined and ruled by the Law and not otherwise and intent nevertheless in certainty of words as 9. H. 6.35 Renuntiavit communium and not to whom void before fol. 122. 13. E. 3. Husband and Wife Tenants for life grant reversion of the Land that he holdeth by Homage Fealty and Castle gard the Lord grants all Services Castle gard passeth not because he granted not the Castle But in Testaments the intent shall be onely observed and rule the Law because the Teastator had not time by presumption to ordain all things according to the Law In conclusion he agreed that Judgement should be given for the Plaintiff Hill against Grange A Man maketh a Lease for years of a Messuage and an hundred acres of land appertaining to it 3. Mar in Common Pleas in Trespass c. by Deed indented the 6. of August rendring rent yearly payable at our Lady day and Michaelmas or 10 days after with clause of re-entry and after Grants the reversion and the Grantee the last instant of the 10. day after Michaelmas demands the rent and enters for not payment and it was adjudged that the entry was good for these reasons 1. Land may not appertain to a Messuage because both are things corporate simply otherwise of Advowsons waies c. which are things incorporate but things Corporate or Incorporate may pertain or be parcel of a thing compounded as a Mannor Castle Knights Fees Honors Forrests Monasterie Rectorie fol. 170. a. But here the land passes as appurtenant but by the intent and phrase of the parties as they have said usually occupied or let c. 2. The rent shall be paid at the first Feast of M. for otherwise it cannot be annual notwithstanding the other feast be first named 10. E. 3. the Abbot of Osneys case 3. The demand of the rent the last instant is good 4. That the Gantee of a Common person is an Assignee to have benefit of a Condition or Covenant fol. 173. a. and shall not be intended of the Pattentee of the King 5. That the Pattentee of the Heir and Successors of E. 6. shall take benefit of the Condition by equity of the said Stat. and not by the words Things of distinct and several natures the one is not parcel of or appendant to the other as 8. H. 7.1 by Keeble a Warren cannot be pertaining to a Leet nor a Leet to a Hundred nor one Office to another nor land to other land to a thing Compounded they may as a Mannor Knights Fee Honor Monastery Castle and a Village or to words general as are Oxgang a yard land a hide of land which contains land meadow pasture wood c. Messuage is a single word consisting of a thing special and not Compound nor a general word for that 27. H. 6.2 Land not parcel or appendant to a house and by demand of a Messuage in precipe land shall not be recovered and therefore pass not by the Grant of a House by the Serjeants on the part of the Plaintiff 23. H. 8. and 31 H. 3. by Feoffment of a Messuage with the appurtenances Land passes not a Mannor and things made appertaining to it are made by usage and continuance So 2. H. 7.28 land belonging to a Forrest and Warden of the Fleet and the house of the Master of the Rolls and divers farms to the Guardians of the Castle of Colchester and one Office to another as the custos brevium giveth one of the Offices of prothonatories and use and continuance is cause of it A man Leases a Messuage and land rendring rent be ought to demand the rent at the Messuage because most worthy Perk. 166. Meadow appertains to land 3. E. 3. by the Serjeants on the part of the Defendant Norwood against Read Action upon the case upon assumpsit made by the Testator 5. Mar ●…n K. Bench. lieth against the Executors adjudged For that the Testator could not gage his Law otherwise it is where he might gage his Law for the ignorance that the Law imputes of it to Executors and therefore there they ought to Demur but if they plead in Bar which is found against them they have lost the benefit of the Law and take Conusance of it whereof otherwise their ignorance shall excuse them 39. H. 6.19 12. H. 8.11 27. H. 8.23 Woodward against the Lord Darcie IF the Debtor make the Debtee his Executor and leaves him assets to satisfie the debt 5. Mar. Reso by the Judges of both Courts and dies the Debtee may pay himself by way of retainer by the Court 12. H. 4 21. according And in such case the Action is not utterly exstinct by the Administration for that the Law intends that he is satisfied by retainer before and so a thing in Action altered to a thing in possession by Act in Law for satisfaction of the party which hath no other remedy but if he hath not sufficient assets for to satisfie the debt the administration there extinguishes not the Action because that he cannot retain for parcel and have his Action against the Heir for the residue but ought to do the one for the other at his peril Wrotesly against Adams A Lease for 80. years of a Farm Tr i El. in Com. Pleas. Ej. firme the Lessor granted the Reversion of the Farm to a stranger to have and to hold the Farm for 60. years after the
cannot do any thing without Record And so Acts that the King doth touching things which he hath in his body naturall require the same circumstances and order as things which he hath in his politique body by the union thereof for the thing possessed changeth not from the person of the King but the person nor doth the possession change the cause of a thing possessed Henry the 4. which was Duke of Lancaster held his Dutchie annexed to the Crown as parcel of it by the assumption of the Crown and because his Title to the Crown was defeasable and because he would preserve the Dutchie to his Heirs if he should be removed from the Crown he severed it from the Crown by a Statute made 1. H. 4. as it was before onely in course of inheritance of the Land and of the Government of it viz. for the manner of Conveyance as it was before in the hands of the Duke as by Livery and Attornment but not severed from the Crown for the prerogatives of his person as 10. H. 4. 7. H. 4. the King had a scire facias against the Lord Le strange with a non omittas for the Dutchieland So 3. H. 6. Rot. 112. the Committee of a Ward hath aid before issue and a procedendo with a Clause of not going to judgement Rege inconsulto So the person of the King for Dutchie land taken to be higher then a Duke because he shall not have aid untill after issue of the Duke for that he is a Common person and shall make a Lease by the name of KING because it drowns the name of DUKE in his Realm therefore Officers finding that he held of the King as of the Dutchie and not as of the Duke of and by 3. H. 5. all Charters of the Dutchie land shall be sealed with the Dutchie Seal or should be void to the end that all possessions of it should be distinct used and known from the possessions of the Crown for the policie aforesaid because he was the Lineal heir to the Dutchie and as the Dutchie was in the hands of H. 4. so in like manner it was in H. 5. and H. 6. But E. 4. because he was lawfull inheritor to the Crown annexed the Dutchie of Lancaster and made it to be forfeit to the Crown and so he altered the course of inheritance of it out of the natural body into the politick body of the King and his Successors but not in the manner of Government name c. but separates it from other possessions of the Crown in conveyance of it by another Seal and other means viz. by Livery and Attornment which are used for the possessions thereof as 21. E. 4.60 Land of the Dutchie in the County Palatine passe by Pattent out of it by Livery because there he hath it as Duke and by the Statute of 1. H. 7. the Dutchie was severed from the Crown and made inheritable to the natural capacity of the King as it was in H. 5. because H. 7. discended of the House of Lancaster so is it in E. 6. the Queen made a Feoffment of the Dutchie Land forth of the County Palatine to be holden in Capite the Feoffee shall hold in Capite of the Crown and not as of the Dutchie for that the King is not Duke within his Realm but may be when he is out of the Realm Willion against the Lord Berkly A Fine was levied to two and to the Heirs of one 4. Eliz. in C.P. in an Ej. firme with Grant and Render to the Conusor in Tail the Remainder to King Henry the seventh and to the Heirs Males of his body ingendred remainder to the right Heirs of the Conusor the Conusor dies without issue and after H. 7. entred and died seised and H. 8. gave the land to the Queen his Wife for her life and died E. 6. Granted the reversion to one and his Heirs and dyed without issue the right Heir of the Conusor entred and his entry adjudged lawfull So the King shall be in a worse condition then a common person for a common person may bind the inheritance by a common Recovery suffered by him otherwise of the King by W. 2. cap. 1. after fol. 244. a. 1. That the Writ of Ejectione firme that wanteth words bona Cattalla ibidem inventa cepit asportavit is good if the truth of the matter be so and proces of utlarie lieth in this writ by the Common Law fol. 228. 2. The Entry of King Henry the seventh is lawfull without office for that the Law casts the Freehold upon him otherwise it is where he taketh an estate by Office as Ward Perquisites of villains c. and the right Heir may enter without Office or Ouster le main by the same reason fol. 229. a. 3. Where the parties agree upon the matter in deed and conclude upon the matter in Law thereupon Nilrefert but the Court shall adjudge according to the Law fol. 230. 4 Recitall of one part of a generall Statute is good enough otherwise it is of a particular Seatute fol. 232. a. 5. Omission of the date or place of Letters Patents is not materiall in pleading not Averment fol. 231. 6. A feoffment pleaded without entry of the Feoffee is good because it is included in the liverry fol. 232. b 7. The fee vests by the guift before the Statute of W. 2 and is made more perfect by the means of the issue fol. 233 a. 8. The pleading that H. 7. had issue and died without issue is repugnant of his own shewing otherwise it is where it cometh on the part of the defendant fol. 233. 9. The pleading that one enter untill that the Lessor entred upon him and made the Lease is not good there without saying that he custed him and made the Lease The King shall be bound by the Statute of W. 2. of gifts conditional for that it is in preservation of an inheritance in benefit of the publike good and restitution of the intent of the donor and the exposition that the donee might alien after issue before the Statute of Gifts conditional hath been a common error As to the matter in Law it was said by the Sergeants of Counsel with the defendant that the capacity that the King hath in his naturall body after that he is King Remains and the State Royall confounds not this capacity as 45. ass pl. 6. Henry the third gave the Mannor to the Earl of Cornwall in tayle who exchanged it by a deed for another Mannor and died without issue and warranty and assets discended upon Edward the first his heir he is barred and therefore the assignee of the party to the exchange had restitution out of the hands E. 3. who had seised it and so by this warranty and assets which discended upon the naturall body of the King was a Bar to the reversion that he demanded in his body politike And as a King may take as heir by discent in his
Extinguishment Also the Statute of 1. R. 3. extends to cestui que use in possession and not in Remainder or Reversion where they are derived out of one entire estate created by Feoffment for although that the uses are several yet the estate is entire which shall not be divided but he may make a Lease for years to commence after the particular estate determined which is Executory and divides not the estate but where the estate and uses also are several as a Lease for life to the use of one for life and the Reversion granted to another for life to the use of anther for life c. There he in Reversion may grant the Reversion by the Statute of 1. R. 3. for that it is in possession by reason of the severaltie of Estates Cestui que use by the Common Law cannot meddle with the Land for if he doth the Feoffee may punish him in Trespass And if the Feoffee will not permit Cestui que use for to receive the profits he hath no remedy but in the Court of Conscience for the land was so fully to the Feoffee by the Common Law as if no use had been of it And by the Statute of 1. R. 3. cap. 5. Cestui que use in possession onely may meddle with the Land for to make Feoffment Lease c. and the Feoffee is onely seized of the whole Fee to the use of Tenant for life or in Tail during his life or the estate Tail 4. H. 7.18 And the Feoffment of Cestui que use or in Tail or for life is warranted by the Statute of 1. R. 3. and pass the Fee until a Re-entry both by the letter and intent of the Statute for if a woman Covert was Cestui que use the husband might make a Feoffment and good during Coverture by the intent of the Law and the Statute which giveth to the husband during Coverture direction of the things of his wife and yet the claim of the Feoffees were not onely to his use but to the use of him and his wife 6. H. 7.3 So two joynt Cestui que uses in Fee the one maketh a Feoffment of the moity of the Land and good and binds the Feoffees yet were not onely seized to the use of him but by the intent of the Statute hath a moity of the Use presently and may give or Lease the moity of the Land where the estates are several and uses also every part granted by the Statute or several uses issuing out of one estate the several possessions of several uses may not divide the estate because there entire yet there Cestui que use in Remainder in Fee may make a Lease for years to Commence when his use shall be executed because then the lessor shall have interest in the possession and the Franck Tenement of the Feoffees shal not be taken away nor their estate will be divided but an estate for life or greater he in Remainder cannot make without the dividing of the estate or taking away of the Free-hold because it passeth presently and is not executory as a Lease for years is if the Feoffees to use makes a Feoffment upon Consideration or not to one which hath notice of the first use otherwise if Cestui que use maketh a Feoffment to such a person upon Consideration with notice or without Consideration and notice there all the first estate out of which all the uses do rise is taken from the Feoffees and a new estate is made by authority of the Statute the which new estate shall be to uses newly expressed or intended and not to the first use but by this all the ancient uses are discontinued the reason seemeth to be before that one use cannot be raised out of another The release of Cestui que use to the Disseisor of his Feoffees good and bars them of entry 14. H. 8.7 and 27. H. 8.29 a Disseisor infeoffs Cestui que use which infeoffs a stranger by this the right of the first feoffees is gone although that no use was in Cestui que use at the time of the Feoffment as if Cestui que use had released to the Disseisor But Plowden saith That the greater doubt will be here if the estate Tail was here determined if the first Feoffee might enter because the right of the use in fee was extinguished by the Feoffment of him in Remainder But here for that the particular estate in use continues which may not be defeated by him in Remainder this is good without doubt by some the entry of the first Feoffee shall gain the Fee-simple by the discharge of the use in Fee to himself for that it was extinct in the possession of the last Feoffee as of a rent which he in remainder had in the land before his feoffment this shall be extinguished in the Land by his Feoffment so of the use and by others the entry of the first Feoffee shall revive the use in Fee-simple to him in Remainder which was the Feoffor for that they could not have this at the time of the Feoffment made because not in esse but was discontinued at this time by Cestui que use in possession in Tail and by Plowden and Bromley he shall revive the use in Fee to the last Feoffee for that this passeth to him by the Livery and the first Feoffee hath nothing in the Land to his own use but onely to the use of the Feoffor And it was not his intent that the first Feoffee should have it to his own use but that the second Feoffee should have it and so by his re-entry he shall revive the use to the last Feoffee by the course of the Common Law for that the last feoffment was by the Common Law and not Warranted by the Statute of 1. R. 3. for the cause aforesaid but this point was left at large and if before R. 3. Cestui a que use disseises the Feoffees and infeoff others upon which the first Feoffees to use enter they shall be seised to the use of the last Feoffees because Cestui que use had given his interest to them and his intent appeareth that they shall have it and the first Feoffees shall not hold to their own use because it is a Collaterall thing annexed to the person touching the Land and not as a Rent issuing out of it And use is but confidence that the Feoffees to use shal do for the Feoffor as he would do if himself was seized and so it is a difference between a use and a Rent which Rent is only by reason of the Land but use also is annexed to the person Stowell against Zouch DIsseissor Levies a Fine with Proclamations the Disseissee dies after three years H. 11. El. in the common Pleas Entry sur Disseise● and within the five years his Heir being within age the five years incur after the Heir commeth of full age and within one year after his full age enters And adjudged that his Entry
Land to him for fifty foure yeares rendring Rent hath issue and dyes before any Proclamation made and after the Proclamations passe and after the Husband and Wife dyes Adjudged that the Lease is good against the issue of N. in tayle by reason of the Rent otherwise it were if the Rent had not been reserved First The Lease had not been voyd against N. T. the Father himselfe if he had survived the Husband and Wife if it were by words notwithstanding it be a present contract because it depends upon an estate for life which is uncertaine when it shall determine otherwise it is if the first had been a Lease for yeares which containe certainty there the second Lease shall be voyd for the first terme except that it be by Deed poll with Attournment in which case it shall enure by way of a grant of the Reversion if the party will use it so or by Indenture or Fine which are matters of Estoppell Secondly The Lease is but voidable against the issue because of the Rent which is a recompence otherwise it is of a charge for it shall be voyd by the Remitter and inasmuch as this contingent Lease is not avoided but continues during the Proclamations the Statute of 32. H. 8. maketh this a barr against the issue during the terme Thirdly A Lease by word made by the Husband and Wife is the Lease of the Husband onely and not of the Wife possession without title is sufficient to make an Advowry for dammage feasant protection pleaded for part and Inter alia good by the Rule of the Court A Fine pleaded by way De finalie Concordia facta fuil and not that he levied a Fine and also pleaded that it was acknowledged in the Kings Court without saying in the Common pleas is good and 22. H. 6.13 A Fine is a Record although it be not ingrossed and shall be executed Fourthly How and in what degree this Lease passe at the beginning by the Fine The estate of N. not altered by the Fine of a stranger which had not any right or Estate in the Land but is Estopped for his life to say otherwise but that he receives fee simple by the Fine Leases by word by Deed Poll by Indenture are to be considered how they shall enure As if a Lease be made by words without Deed of Lands by one that hath see simple for one and twenty years to commence presently rendring a rent and after the same day maketh a new Lease by Paroll to another for the same terme or for a lessor terme the second Lease is void although that the first Lessee surrenders or forfeits because at the time of the first Lease he hath not but a Reversion and no interest in him to contract for the possession And he that will by contract make another possessor of the thing ought to be proprietor of the same himself As if one sells a Horse upon condition that the Vendee shall pay him forty shillings at Easter and after he sells the Horse to a stranger and after the first Vendee payes not the forty shillings at Easter and the Vendor reseiseth the Horse the second Vendee shall not have the Horse because the Vendor had him not at the time of the sale the Condition only inables him not to contract for the property and possession which he then had not but if the Lessee for one and twenty years be and the Lessor the same day grant the Reversion by Deed for twenty one years to commence presently it is good with Attournment and he shall have the Reversion during the first Lease and the Rent as incident thereunto because it is another thing then the possession So a Lease by word for years to commence after the first year is good because it is of another thing then the first Lessee had because the second Lessee is to have the possession after the first possession and interest expired A man leases for one and twenty years in possession and presently maks a Lease of it for one and thirty years by word this is good for the last ten years and Executory for it for a Lease for years is Executory and severall for every yeare and day and is as to execution as severall contracts And therefore such contract may be good in part and void in part So if he Leases for 21. years to commence 10. years after and he maketh a Lease for 31. years to commence presently it is good for the first 10. years and void for the last 21. years for that he had contracted before and was certain although that the first Lease were forfeited or surrendred otherwise it is if the first Lease had bin incertain as a Lease for life there the second Lease had bin good after the Tenants life not during his life although he surrendred or forfeited unlesse it had bin by Fine or Indenture because Estoppels if the second Lease for the same years be by Deed Poll there the reversion with the rent pass by Attornment by the demise of the land by the name of Land if the possession cannot as a Reversion upon an Estate for life passeth by bargaine and sale of the land by Deed inrolled and the Grantee may use his Deed as he pleaseth and therefore may use it as a Grant of a Reversion with attornment otherwise it is if it be by word because the Reversion for years cannot be granted by word But if Lessee for years will use a Leas Poll as a present Leas where he hath not attornment the Leas is void although the first surrendred or forfeited as it is if it were by word because a contract by Deed Poll passeth not that which another then injoyes But if the second Lease were by Fine or Indenture and the first surrendred or forfeited it is good for if one leases land to me which he hath not at the time by Fine or Indenture and after purchase it or it desends to him I may enter and occupy by Estoppell and I shall be compelled by Estoppell to pay the Rent because every one is concluded to say but that the land passeth in possession for fourty five yeares by Estoppell and shall be good in estate to have the other yeares because they are not incurred in the life time of the Tenants for life for if the Lease for fourtie five yeares had been by word and the particular Tenant for life had died the Lessee should have it against the Lessor If the estate given by the Fine is defeated the Fine shall be void although the Proclamations passe after for the Fine is the Principall and the Proclamations but accessary to the Fine as Tenants in taile disseised levies a Fine to the disseisor Sur conusans de droit or sur release and dies there the issue if he enters before all the Proclamations are passed is remitted and is not harred for that 32. H. 8. which saith that Fines after Proclamations bars tayle intends of Fines remaining
thing shall be as this to which it is referred it As if a man make a Lease for so many yeers as I. S. hath in the mannor of D. there he shall have so many yeers as I. S. hath and shall take avermen that I. S. had so many issiut tale corodium quale I.S. nuper habuit So 11. H. 4. 20. H. 7. grant office taking such fee as I. S. which executed the same before had ought to be shewed what he had So 20. E. 3. the King granted to Litales liberties that the Town of N. had by shewing of the records or writings prove their liberties the grantee shall have the like Browning against Beeston LEase for yeers by Indenture by which the Lessee Covenants and grants to render and pay for that land 1 Mar in ba. Ray Trespass thirty seven pound yeerly at two feasts of the yeer naming them or within two moneths after at a certain place out of the Land and moreover Covenants grants if the said rent and farm of thirty seven pounds be areare and not paid at the time limited without any demand of the Lessor then the Lease shall be utterly void extinct and of no effect and that it shall be lawful for the lessor to re-enter and after the rent was not paid and before the entry the lessor maketh a new Lease and the first Lessee bringeth trespas against the second Lessee and he pleads the matter aforesaid and pleads the condition in this manner as in the Indenture is contained and saith not precisely that the Lessee had Covenanted as aforesaid And also said that the Rent was arear by the space of two moneths next after the said feast and adjudged for the plantiff for these two causes only 1. That the pleading of the Covenant which is contained in the Indenture that the first Lessee hath covenanted is not but a recitall and no express averment that he hath made such a Covenant in facio fol. 143. by Bromly 2. Because that the pleading of the Rent arear for two moneths varies from the Indenture which is after two moneths fol. 143. b. by all contrary to Catlin for he said that this is to be intended so if necessity Matters in Law are left at large but the better opinion was for the defendant If this Covenant and grant of the Lessee to pay thirty seven pounds yeerly be a reservation of the Rent or not and by Ramsey fol. 132 it is not 1. For that it is not issuing out of the Land by the way of Charge for pro terra implies a cause of the grant and is not words to Charge the Land 2. It is not a Rent service for default of words of reservation of the lessor as reddendum reservandum tenendum c. for this commences by words of the Lessee and which amounts not to a sum in gross because it goeth not with the revertion as he which hath Land on the part of the mother maketh a Lease for yeers by Indenture the Lessee Covenants and grants to pay to him and his heirs twenty shillings Rent the Lessor dies without issue the heir on the part of the mother shall have the revertion and on the part of the father the Rent for that it is a some in gross and not a Rent incedent to the revertion 3. It is not farm because it is not a Rent because they are all one 4. It is a void condition if it be a condition because it refers to the farm and Rent where there is not any such as a condition that the Feoffee shall infeoffe a Corporation which is not or his wife is voide because the first is impossible and the other against Law but the state because it is Precedent in defeasans of which they are made shall stand good Stamford and Walsh Justices fol. 134. It is a Rent first this Covenant and grant is equivalent to reservation and is by Indenture in which the words are the words of both and taken for the words of him which most aptly speaks them as a Rent upon a Feoffment Litl 47. is a grant of the Feoffee and in Judgment of Law shall dispose words which have substance formality and words there shall be taken indifferently For all parties assent and are privy to the speaking of them But words of a deed poll taken more available to the grantee 20. H. 7.8 by Brian and the Law expounds one word in the sence of another as 10. E. 31. 14. H. 8.2 21. E. 3.49 Reverter for Remainder So it taketh a word spoken by one for the word spoken by another and namely by Indenture and although it were not a Rent but a sum in gross yet it extends to it and to issue out of the Land for the Law because it is spetially alleadged the ground of payment of a sum to be for the Land and yeerly to be paid and the one is executory for the other For before fol. 71. if Land recovered by an elder title shall not pay which hath not the thing which ought to pay as 15. E. 4.4 if he may not have the ancient Pale he is excused to make a new so 9. E 4 10. if he will not give counsell the other shall stay the Annuity and 39. Assise 23. Rent for equality of partition charge the Land parted not mentioned because the Rent was granted and executory for the land So 2. H. 7 5. it shall discend to the heirs of the grantee without naming because it cometh in respect of the Land which should discend to the heir and when the ground of the matter appeareth the Law supplies the fault of the words because the Law respects the ground of the matter and consideration Gawdy It is not a rent fol. 136. in 39. H. 6.33 all the words shall be taken the words of one party viz. The first in the Indenture wherefore they are not the words of both because it estops not the other party and an estopple discends upon the Heir of him which is Heir at the Common Law because he is Son by the half venter neither Sister or Brother by the entire bloud and although they agree to have the same yet how viz. as a rent or not is not parcel of their agreement So it shall not be construed a rent because words may have a reasonable construction otherwise in 22. E. 4. in the case of the Prior of Bingham the Covenant was of a rent which shall be intended rent service the Fine saith not predictum redditum but was of five acres and was for the land and the Grantor was Tenant so holden there to be an annuity so here Morgan it is a rent f. 137. b. for the assent of the parties is the chief matter to be considered and not who speaks for the Lessor shall not have debt for the rent reserved unless it be a Contract and it is not a Contract without the assent of all and the words comming out of the mouth of
one shall be the words of all in the operation of the Law Catline To the same purpose because words equivalent to a Reservation for the Law takes words of substance and not usual equivalent and words of substance is usuall and the Law regards the effect and substance more then form the words and substance will supply the form rather then the intent of the parties shall be void as Lessor and Lessee for life makes a Feoffment it shall be the Feoffment of the Lessee and confirmation of the Lessor yet no word of Confirmation before fol. 59. And so if a Tenant for years and the Lessor make a Feoffment in Fee this shall be taken the Livery and Feoffment of the Lessor and surrender of the Lessee and yet there is nor any word of surrender of the Lessee but shall be so taken by the judgemen of Law So a rent granted by Tenants in common is severall because estates several yet words joynt after fol. 161.171 and Perkins fol. 22. so renuntiavit communiam 9 H. 6.35 after fol. 162. it is a a Lease because where words are equivalent in substance the Law will appoint how they shall enure and in Contracts it is not materiall who speaks the words if the other agree for the Law respects it and the words which prove the assent and have substance sufficient And therefore 21. H. 6. if the words of the Obligee make a Condition viz. the Obligee vult concedit if the Obligor steterit arbitrio yet usually they are the words of the Obligor for Condition Brooks cond fol. 58. abridge this contrary So an annuity pro consilio or a rent for Composition of Tythes 9. E. 4.16 enure as words Conditionall and a Covenant that the Farmor shall not be impeached for waste amounts 21. H. 6.47 to hold without impeachment of wast 17. E. 3.9 award assigns land of greater value then the Dower to the Widow and the second Husband who granted a rent by the same Deed to him with distress for the overplus and the Deed recites this the Wife Lessee after the death of her husband because the Grant to pay the rent for the overplus of the land a good reservation for otherwise he shall not be bound contrary before of a Grant for reasonable Dower and no mention made that the land was more worth then the Dower because without consideration there and is a Collateral thing and so words shall enure upon Acts between the parties concerning the principal matter and Collateral matter differ also the summ is certainly recited and the rent shall be this summ for the sentence stands good without words rent or farm where those words shall be adjudged void rather then the certainty expressed to be void as 4. E. 4.29 I. is obligee to B. Solvendum to I. yet good and the Count shall be to be paid to B. for the intent of the parties makes this good So a Grant of Remainder by the name of Reversion of the land a good Grant notwithstanding the mis-terming of the thing because the certainty of the land appeareth but by a Grant of all Reversions a Remainder doth not pass because the grant is in generalty and so certainty by special Terms and by general differs So where he saith if all rents shall be arear and where the said rent of 37. l. 3. s. 4 d. in certain So words containing generalty and incertainty and specialty and incertainty differ to pay 10 s. at Michaelmas 1599 and at the same Feast of S. Michaelmas next ensuing other 10. s. there the summ is taken the like for that it cannot be the same if it come after so one word taken for another supplies the intent of the parties 2. That the Covenant and Grant for not payment that the Lease shall be void is not a Condition by Ramsey fol. 133. because it is not spoken by him which gives the estate as if two Joynt-Tenants make a Lease upon Condition and that then one Lessee enters he shall not enter but into one moytie for that he gave no more and the words of one because the Law saith he speaketh only for his moytie shall not make this Condition to another which speaks not And also the Condition is subsequent in time of the Statute which was executed before for the Demise and habendum maketh the Lease contrary by Stamford and Walsh fol. 135. for that the parties are so agreed by Indenture and the one party and the other assents and therefore all one as if he had reserved the Conditional payment which is called Rent and is a Condition annexed for to avoid the Estate Litl fol. 70. So here because the summ certainly named be it a Rent or summ in gross for it is not requisite that the Lessor should speak but if the words of the Indenture had intendment to avoid the estate it sufficeth and the words shall be taken agreement of every party and not spoken by one party more then another as provisoes are or si contingal and all the words of a Deed shall take effect at one instant because the delivery is at one instant and it hath not several times proved by 10. ass 15. where several Deeds delivered at one and the same time the one being a Lease for years the other a Charter upon Condition to have Fee if disturbed before fol. 34. So 9. H. 6.35 Lease without Impeachment of Waste provided That he makes not voluntary waste in houses is Conditional and waste lieth because all made by one Deed if by two Covenants yet it is not spoken by the Lessor more then the Lessee but shall be taken as an agreement of both the parties Gawdie Justice to the contrary fol. 137. Defeasance of a thing Executory as an Obligation Recognisance or Warranty 43. Ass fol. 44. good of a thing executed not As 43. E. 3. Defeasance of a release unless delivered at one instant nor of a Lease executed by Morgan it is Conditional fol. 138. For Covenant lyeth not here because that Covenant lyeth of a thing to come and to be done by the person of some one and not of a thing to be executed in it self and therefore if the words enure not to the effect to determine the first Lease here they shall be void because it may not enure to another effect It is not a Condition by Brooks because it is not restrictive and compulsarie as are Ita quod non if the Lessee doth such an Act or if it happens or proviso but a proviso alwaies maketh not a Condition as in Dockwraies case 27. H. 8.15 because voluntary for Leessee without words compulsary of the Lessor Covenants and Grants That he will remove c. by Catlyn fol. 142. is a condition because it implies the intent of the parties to be Conditional yet it hath not the usual words as a Feoffment to pay 20. s. or instruct his Son in such an Art For it is a Condition because the parties purport such
and therefore shall not extend to the death of the daughter which is another distinct Act Otherwise it is if one had followed the other in one person As if I command you to rob J. S. and he resists and you kill him So if I command you to beat him and he dies of the battery So if I command you to burn the House of J. S. and you doe it and by the fire the House of J. D. is burnt I am accessary to both because the commandement reacheth to all the sequell thereof and is the cause of it and therefore I shall be partaker of what ensues this ill Act commanded by me otherwise it is if I command you to robb J S. as he is going to Sturbridge Faire and you rob his House in Cheapside for this is another manner of Fellony and there are severall Acts As if I command you to steale a white Horse and you steale a bay Horse or an Oxe or burne the House of J. whereas I commanded you to burne the House of B. there I am not accessary for that my assent may not be lyable to it because it is a thing distinct and contrary to my commandement directly But if I command you to kill J. and you kill him by another meane or Instrument another day or place then I command there I am accessary because the death is the principall matter and the others onely the manner and forme and the variance in the manner and forme of his commandement discharges not me to be accessary But if I countermand this before you kill I am not accessary for the minde of the accessary ought to continue to doe evill at the time of the act done If one be pardoned of Murder and the wife of the dead sue an appeale and a stranger receives him and gives him Meate and Drinke knowing of the Murder and Pardon he is accessary to the Fellony against the Wife although that he is not against the King because this Fellony is discharged against the King but remaines as to the Wife per Catlin But Popham held otherwise because that at the time of the receipt there is not any offence continuing against the Crowne and Dignity of the King for that he was pardoned before and one cannot be accessary without offence to the Crowne But Plowden held that if the Goaler suffer him to escape after the Pardon this is Fellony in him because he suffers a Fellon to escape for that he was in for Fellony for he was detained in Prison at the suite of the Wife appellant Nicholls against Nicholls THE Lord Lovell M. 17. 18. El. in trespas 18. E. 4. Lease for life to Thomas Wtright and moreover grants that if he dyes without issue that then the Lessee shall have fee And the Lord was attainted of high Treason by Parliament 1. H. 7. and all his Land forfeit to the King saving to every stranger such right title and interest which they had as if the Statute had not been ever made and after the Lord dyed without issue and in 11. El. an Office was found The question was whether the Lessee should have the Fee by the Condition and the saving And adjudged that he should have the Fee 1. That all the Fee Simple passeth not out of the Lord Lovell but continues alwayes in him untill the Condition which is precedent to the estate be performed 14. H. 8.17 Wheelers Case 10. Assi 15.6 R. 2. Plessingtons Case and 12. R. 2. That Action shall be brought against Lessee for years upon condition to have Fee and the Lessor together a Condition precedent shall have relation to the Livery for to avoid incumbrances for vesting the Fee which was at the time of the performance Husband and Wife may not take by Moities yet they shall vouch upon a Feoffment made to them before the Coverture because that although they were sole when the Warrant was made yet were Covert when the Recovery was So a Reversion is granted when they are sole and when they have intermarried the tenant attornes to them they have not distinct Moities because then the Reversion settles in them not to grant when sole and so time in which the thing vests is specially to be considered 2. That the estate in Fee appointed by the Condition nor Reversion because it commenceth at a day to come nor a Remainder because in its vesting it drowns the particular Estate but shall enure by way of inlargement of his Estate 3. That the Freehold in Deede or in Law but a right or Title onely is not vested by the word Forfeiture in this Statute without an Office to finde the certainty of the Land which the party attainted had as in 4. E. 4.22 the Lord Hungerfords Case for then the Statute of 33. H. 8. cap. 20. which now giveth Actuall possession to the King for Treason without Office should be made in vaine and goe to attainders hapning after this Statute of 33. not to those before as our Case is And if one be attainted of Treason the Freehold and Fee remaineth in him and shall not be in the King untill Office found by the course of the common Law for if he hath capacitie to take by new purchase so he shall retain the antient and shall be Tenant to the Precipe out when he dieth the Land cannot descend to his Heire because the blood is corrupted but it shall Escheat to the Lord if it be holden of a common person or to the King in the nature of a common Escheat if it be holden of him and not as an Escheat by Treason untill Office by Barham and Dier To the first Objection it was said That the Condition performed which is a reall agreement shall divest the state in Fee out of any stranger which hath the Reversion without privity as by grant Escheat c. For that the Land is charged with this agreement reall in whose hands soever it cometh and therefore the Fee shall vest in the Lessee by the performance of the Condition discharged of all incumbrances made after the Condition and the previty there is destroyed by the Act of the Lessor So 6. R. 2. Plessingtons Case where a man leases for yeares upon Condition performed to have Fee after levies a Fine the Lessee performes the Condition he shall have Fee of the Conusee but by Belknap there he shall have the moneys which the Lessee by his Condition ought to pay otherwise it is if the privity be destroyed by the Act of the Lessee as where the Lessee grants his Estate there the Fee shall not vest in him nor his assignee 4. fol. 483. 5. For answer to the second Objection it was said that the Condition shall be saved by the words which shall extend to all Conditions Rents Profits or other things out of or in Land and the saving of the right of him which hath not offended shall be taken beneficiall By some right is where a thing is taken
Court of a Steward is a disseisen of his Fee For the doing of matter of labour is a claime of the Commodity for his paines So an Executor which hath a Terme devised to him upon Condition that he pay 10 l. to a Stranger payes the 10 l. this is consent and execution of the Legacy So the educating of the Children here determines her Election that she taketh the Terme as a Legacy and her grant after reproves it not but argues her inconstancy If a Termer be indebted to one in a hundred pounds and maketh his Will and by it devise his Terme to his Sonne and leaves assets to pay the debt the Executor cannot sell the Terme to pay the debt but shall pay it with the assets that he hath in his hands Adjudged because he ought to perform all the Will scilicet Debts and Legacies if there are assets If the Executor disagree in Deed to a Legacy certain this shall be presently in the second Devisee of this bequest of a thing incertain to the Executor as of 20 l. and the Testator oweth 40 l. and dies having Plate Oxen Horses of every of them to the value of 20 l. this is not executed untill 40 l. paid for he may Alien which of them he will and the others have no remedy if there be no more assetts and may pay and carve to himself before any other as it is in 12. H. 4.21 because he is neerest to himself And therefore the Execution of the Terme devised here shall not be hindered by the not payment of the Legacies to others nor Lease given to his Executor ought to be sold and then in Legacies it is reason that Executor shall have preferment A gift to his Executor of all his goods for performance of his Will is no devise and a void gift because the Law giveth them without these words As if a Man devise in Fee his Land to his Son and Heire it is voyd because he shall have it without the devise by discent So for to prescribe for to distrain for Rent service voyd because he may distrain without prescription A devise of Fee tayle to his Heire is good because it is another Estate then he should have by discent So here the Estate devised to the Wife which is but percell of the Estate scilicet during the Nonage of the Heire is good because severed from that which the Law would have given to him and the Clause for educating his Children is not a thing Testamentory nor Legecy to the Children but is an intent annexed to the devise made to the Wife by which she by her entry hath the Estate devised to her as Legatory And the Execution to the Wife is also to the Son because a devise although the Estates are severall and is of the same effect as if her Estate had bin devised to another with the Remainder to her Son and agreement or assent shall not be apportioned as attornment by Tenant for life to the Grantee of the Reversion for life extends to him in Remainder So notice given by Tenant for life to the Lord shall serve to him in Remainder in Fee to compell the Lord to avow upon him after the death of the Tenant for life So Rent accepted by an Infant at full age of his Lessee for yeares hath made good the Remiander over An Intruder cannot gain such Possession against the King upon which he may maintain an Action of Trespasse because the King may punish him 19. E. 4.2 and be shall not be doubly punished but against the Lessee of the King one may gain such Possession that he may punish a Stranger trespassor yet he shall not gain no Estate from the Crowne for the Freehold which irremoveablely rests in the Crowne And the King shall not alleadge Intrusion with a continuando but divers dayes vicibus because he gaineth not any Possession by wrong scilicet by the Intiusion against the King Walsinghams Case H. 15. El. in the Excheq Intrusion TEnant in tayle of the Kings gift maketh a Feoffurent in fee to a stranger and after is attainted of Treason and executed having issue and after this attainder is confirmed by Parliament with severall rights and interests of Strangers And it was adjudged that the Feoffee continuing his estate by the Feoffment after the attainder shall be an Intruder and this Judgement was afterwards affirmed in a Writ of Error brought in the Exchequr Chamber But the contrary was adjudged in the Common Pleas 17. El. between Conway and Moulton that tenant in tayl shall not forfeit any thing First That the Feoffment of tenant in tayl had not discontinued nor devested the estate of fee in Reversion out of the King because it is but a matter in Deed which is tortious otherwise it is of a rightfull matter of Record as a Recovery upon a good title or rightfull matter in Deed as a Remitter or Condition performed As Alienee of tenant in tayle of the gist of a common person infeoffs the King by Deed inrolled which regives to the first tenant in tayle which dyes the issue euters it is a Remitter and therefore the Reversion in fee is devested out of the King and restored to the first doner because a former right matter in Deed and in Law concurr together So Lessee for life to have fee if he doth such an act after the Lessor grants by Deed inrolled the Reversion to the King the Lessee for life performes the Condition which is older then the title of the King this older title matter in Deed and operation in Law thereupon shall take the Reversion out of the King without other Suit or Circumstance because bound with the Condition and the fee simple ought to vest in him at the same instant that he performes the Condition or never But no tortious act as Disseisen Intrusion c. may take the Reversion out of the King Secondly That by the Feoffment he hath not given the fee determinable because he had it not nor an estate for life of the Feoffee but onely an estate for his owne life and so the Reversion in tayle continues in him which shall be forfeit by the Attainder and by consequence the estate of the Feoffee determines by the death of the Feoffor but the Feoffee hath an estate for the life of the Feoffor discendable and his heire shall be a speciall occupant of this estate in base fee simple Thirdly That the King shall have the estate tayle in point of Reverter for that he had the pure fee before and two fees of one thing cannot be together in one person otherwise in severall persons and then the King shall have the Land discharged of the estate tayle and by consequence of all estates charges and incumbrances derived out of it as Leases warranted by the Statute and then the laving in the Statute for a thing before determined is void as of a Lease voidable made by such tenant in tayle which the issue hath made good by the acceptance of the rent and after of the estate tayle Escheated for Treason or is determined for default of issue So that the King hath in point of Reverter there the Release shall be void and he hath nothing by the saving of the Statute Adjudged in Austins Case otherwise it is when the King hath it in point of forfeiture as if the Reversion be to a stranger fol. 559. b. What Livery and Seisen is and the validity of it fol. 554. a. Estate tayle shall not be in abeyance nor any thing which another cannot have for abeyance is onely for the benefit of a stranger because it cannot vest immediately 556. a. 562. a. Estates in fee are three First Pure fee Secondly Fee determinable thirdly Base fee which shall be in one when the pure fee is in another fol. 557. a. An estate tayle shall not be to anothers use fol. 555. a. yet if tenant in tayle bargain and sels the Land by Deed inrolled the Bargainee shall have see executed by the Statute of 27. H. 8. which cannot be except the use shall be raised first out of the estate taile and so the estate tayle shall be to another use fol. 557. b. A Disseisor or Intruder upon the possession of tenant in tayle of the Kings gift gaines not except the estate for life of tenant in tayle and therefore if he dye seised the issue in tayle shall enter upon this discent as I beleeve fol. 558. a. The Father maketh a Lease for life to his Son the Remainder for life to her which shall be his Wife at the time of his death this is a good Remainder and shall be in abeyance untill the Wife be knowne fol. 562. a. Saving in a Statute contrary to the Explanation is voide Puton and Hides Case and Austins Case of a Lease and the Duke of Norfolks Case fol. 564. a. The possession shall be awarded upon a Bill of Intrusion which is but Trespas in its nature 561. a. Tenant in tayle grants his estate there waste is dispunishable during the life of tenant in tayle because it is not but onely a priviledge annexed to it Estates passe to the Grantee and amount to words of dispunishable of waste and not because he hath a greater estate then for the life of tenant in tayle So 42. H. 3.21 waste dispunishable in tenant for life because the Lestor released all his right that he had in the same Land and that he or his heires would not demand any right in the same nor claime nor challenge for the terme of the life of the tenant for that it amounts unto a Lease without impeachmeat of waste fol. 556. A Writ of Error abated by the death of the Lord Chancellour because his Christian name and Sir-name and Keeper of the great Seale were put into the Writ fol. 564. b. FINIS
not because he had no recompence So in 17. E. 4.1 In Trespass for the taking of wheat the Defendant pleads That the Plaintiff sold it if he liked it upon view he should have it paying 40. d. and afterwards he saw it liked it and took it this is no good justification because he doth not alleadge payment so here So contracts conditional are good when they are performed but before performance they are onely communications Brook Recorder of London for the Defendant Where matters are to be tryed in the Civil Law there ought to be two witnesses here not necessary For where tryal is by twelve men because the Inquest may give a precise Verdict where there is no Testimony or Verdict or Evidence or Evidence be contrary to the Witnesses as in 14. H. 7.2 the Inquest acquit one indicted of murther he is arrained and acquit the Jury shall say who killed him although they have no witnesses and so witnesses are not necessary but where the matter is to be tryed by witnesses onely for if the witnesses were so necessary then it would ensue That the Jurors should not give their Verdict contrary to the witnesses where the Law is meerly contrary for when witnesses for tryal of the Fact joyn with the Jury if they cannot agree with the Jurors the Verdict of the 12. shall be taken and the witnesses rejected wherefore this point is clear enough And as to this which hath been said by Bradshaw That the deposition of Da. will make against us for that he saith That S. shewed to him that the entry was not made for more then 2000 Kintals Sir this saying is nothing to the purpose for if he cannot say something to prove the issue in which he cometh to depose then it is neither with us nor against us but it is of the same effect in Law as if he had said nothing or that he knew not of the matter and so this point is also clear enough And as to that which hath been moved also by Mr. Attorney That he ought to shew what rate in certain Sir this needs not here because it is expressed in the Statute 12. d. of every 20. s. and of general Statutes every one shall take notice And he argued and said That the agreement here shall be good and is within the intent of the Statute for in many Cases Gifts and Grants made will not be certain at the beginning and yet shall be good for that there is a mean to reduce them afterwards to certainty and yet the nature of Gifts and Grants is to be executed presently and every Gift is an agreement between the parties and so is every Grant and then if Gifts and Grants which are also agreements and the nature of which is to be executed properly at the time of the making of them it shall be good notwithstanding they are incertain at the beginning à fortiori Agreements Executory of things shall be good where they are incertain at the first and to prove that such Gifts and Grants shall be good notwithstanding their incertainty at the first there are many Cases and therefore if the King at this day grant over certain Lands which have come to his hands before and Grant over to the Grantee such Liberties Priviledges and Jurisdictions howbeit that the King knoweth not the certainty of the Liberties c. yet the Grant is good So in 9. H. 6.27 The King grants to the Dutches of York an Island with all Issues and Amerciaments c. there it is holden that the grant is good yet the King knew not what Issues or what Americiaments shall be afterwards forfeited but for that that when they shall be forfeit they will be certainly known and so hath a means to know the certainty of them this is the cause that the Grant shall be good And so in 5. E. 4. the King Granted to one called Garter the Office of the King of Heralds cum seodis prosicuis ah antiquo c. There this Grant purports a certainty of the Fees and Profits belonging to it and therefore good And so in 30. H. 6. The King Grants all such Lands as came to him by Attainder c. it is good although it comprehends no certainty And so if the King will pardon all Riots Pardon is good howbeit it comprehends no certainty 21. H. 6.43 A Parson grants to me his Tythe-wooll the next year or perquisites of his Court the Grants are good So Perkins 17. Feoffment of two Acres to hold the one for life the other in Fee without saying he shall have Fee if he lose both by default he may have Quod ei deforceat for the one and Writ of right for the other So if one grant a rent charge to another the Grantee may avow or have a Writ of annuity So in 9. E. 4.36 per. Litt. Grant 20. s. or a garment good because certain by the will of the Grantor So a Lease for so many years as I. S. shall name is good So Perkins Fol. 17. If I have a black and white Horses and I give one of them to I. S. this gift is good notwithstanding the incertainty by the election of the Donee And although it is not concluded who shall weigh and when yet it is good because there is an Officer in every Port which keeps a Beam and ought to weigh And although the Statute do speak of an agreement certain yet Law the reason aswaies exempts something out of the prohibition of the words of Statutes as 15. H. 7.2 by Keble a Prisoner which breaketh Prison by the words of the Statute is a Felon but if he break it when it is on fire not So 14. H. 7.29 Stamford 25. cap. 5. Jurors severed by a great Tempest shall not be Amerced and their Verdict good So W. 2. cap. 3. Gives not to a Fem Covert Receipt but where the wife is ready to answer yet the wife received by prayer in aid 20. H. 6.48 and there she is received where she is not ready to answer because otherwise she shall loose the recompence by warrantie So W. 2. cap. 1. say That Dones shall not alien yet 5. E. 2. is intended of their Issues so here for to avoid mischiefs c. Harris the Kings Serjeant to the contrary And he argued as the Kings Attorney did that is to say That the evidence which proves the agreement upon condition warrants not the issue which shall be intended a general agreement as if the Derendant in Trespass plead not guilty and give a licence in evidence or in formedon in discendre upon a gift in free marriage if the gift is traversed and a Deed is shewed of the gift in free Marriage the Remainder over in Fee or upon traverse of a Lease for years alleadged without Deed and the Deed is shewed in evidence this evidence warrants not the issue So here an agreement conditional maintains not the general agreement intended in issue the Collector could
by default against her and her husband had not any other remedy then a Writ of Right before the Statute of W. 2. cap. 3. which gives a Cui in vita and before W. 2. cap. 3. a faint Recovery against Tenant for life bound him in Remainder Litl Release 112. because the Law presumes the Title and case true So a Recovery upon a faint Title by a man of Religion was out of the penalty of the Statute of Religiosis untill W. 2. cap. 23. made a Recovery without Title in such plight as a Feoffment in Mortmain was for the truth supposed by the Law to be therein So here the Recovety is intended to be true and therefore the Plaintiff ought to shew matter if there be any to prove the contrary As in 11. H. 4.19 if the Tenant in a precipe vouch one of the Demandants he ought to shew cause because otherwise the Law will presume that he hath not cause against right So 15. E. 4.4 Contrary entry by Title general averment of Covin by the Plaintiff in Dower was not held good Matter in Law As to the matter in Law it seemeth here that the case is clear out of the words and penalty of the Statute of 11. H. 7. cap. 30. For although 27. H. 8. hath executed the Possession to the use yet this case remains here so as if 27. H. 8. had never been made and the Wife had continued Tenant in Tail in use and out of the words of the first branch because he hath an Estate Tail in the use in the land but hath not an Estate in the land in the use and the Statute speaks of an Estate in the Land and this Hereditament or use which is the matter and substance and the use it self which is the confidence of the thing differ But one may not have the state in Land and use also because suspended yet two may to the use of one of them as Husband and Wife to the use of the Wife and so it shall be intended here Also the first branch speaks of lands c. of Inheritance or purchase of the Husband but here the use is a new thing which Commenceth now and was not in being before and so is not the inheritance or purchase of the Husband and therefore out of the Statute as a Rent granted to one out of lands to the use of the Wife of the Grantor or if the Husband gives a signiory in Tail to the Wife for her Joyncture and the Tenancie Escheat and the Wife suffer a faint Recovery this is forth of the Statute So the Husband makes a Feoffment upon Condition to re-enfeoffee him and his Wife in Tail the Wife suffers a faint Recovery this is out of the Statute because the Feoffment of the Land from the Possession of the Husband and was her purchase and not the purchase of the Husband or his Inheritance for the Condition which is the cause of the gift is a new thing is not within the second branch because the Wife had nothing here of the gift of any of the Ancestors of the husband Nor the third branch because the wife had not possession by the Statute nor by the Feoffees to the use of him in Reversion but he in Reversion hath the present Title and so the Statute shall be intended and therefore he may enter presently If Tenant for Life suffer a faint Recovery but 11. H. 7. saith Enjoy according to their Title intends that he shall not Enter until after the death of his Ancestor because he hath no Title in the life of his Ancestor And therefore when the Wife assents to the Ravisher 6. R. 2. gives title of entry saying habeat titulum intrandi c. intends that he shall not have it in the life of the Ancestor And if the makers of the Statute of 11. H. 7. had intended that the issue in Tail should have entred presently they would have given to him Title by such like words as the Statute of 6. R. 2. hath but the end of the clause which saith That they shall enjoy according to their Title expresses that they intented not so For which causes it is probable that the Defendant is out of the penalty of the Statute and that the Plaintiff might not enter and so shall be Barred Whiddon Serjeant for the Plaintiff Because the Defendant hath said whose Heir he is he shall be taken that he is Heir special for a Plea which hath two intendments shall be taken most strongly against him which pleads it as 3. H. 7.2 in Trespass Release generally is no Plea because it may be taken to be delivered before the Trespass or after So 3. H. 7.8 and 9. and 26. H. 8. Entry to avoid Warranty Collaterall pleaded in Bar is no Plea because it may be intended after the discent for he may enter in the life of the Ancestor or after Also the Plaintiff need not shew how he is Heir because he was once seised by entry But if he had brought a formedon upon the Estate Tail he should because by way of Demand as 6. E. 4.1 Executor brought Trespass for a thing taken out of his Possession he shall not shew his Testament but if he Demands a thing whereof he had not ever possession he shall It is not needfull to shew Covin certainly which is a secret thing and the Law doth not enforce one to shew a thing when by intendment of Law it lieth not in his Conusance as 20. H. 7.7 A woman shall have Dower of a Rent Charge without shewing the Deed of the Grant because it belongeth not to her So the Lord shall have Covin generally for the Ward where his Tenant aliens and re-taketh for life the Remainder to his Heir being it lieth secretly in the breast as suspicion lieth for that he may justisie imprisonment for suspicion of Felony without shewing of the cause of his suspicion So 33. H. 6.5 In Trespass a man buys in a Market Overt the Plaintiff said That the said buying was by fraud between the Defendant and a stranger generally without shewing any thing speciall of the Covin and the Plea the e admitted good So in a Precipe against the Lord of ancient Demeasne and Tenant the Lord shall shew that he is Lord and this Action is brought against him by Covin generally So 9. E. 6.41 He which alleadges Covin ought to shew cause of the Covin and the cause is for that the Recovery or Title was tryed by Verdict because to say that it was by Covin shall not be intended true against a Verdict But Covin generally may be averred against a Recovery not gainsaying or default because this is cause of the Judgement and no Triall Wherefore in this case a man shall aver that this was by Covin generally And as to that which hath been said That execution ought to be shewed of the Recovery that needs not For the Statute speaketh only of the Recovery and without Execution it shall be
will not claim nor enter into the said land in bar that he entred not nor claimed the Plaintiff replies that he claims he ought to say how viz. That he came to the Land and claimed and entred So in 5. E. 4 6. in Replication the Plaintiff ought to shew how he is next of bloud to the Woman ravished with consent to the ravishment So for Mortmain how he is Ld. So for receipt how he came to the reversion by special conveyance to the things which the Statutes give by general words as here Titles alwaies ought to be certain because he that makes Title is by this an Actor and an Actor ought to plead certainly by Hales fol. 51. b. If a Wife which hath a Joyncture by her Husband suffers a faint recovery contrary to 11. H. 7. if the Daughter enter the Son born after shall not out her during the life of the Wife By Montogue he may enter presently and save because the Statute saith he shall enjoy it according to his Title therein and the Title is Tail which is devolved to the Son and after f. 1●… But the Daughter because prima de sanguine ●…ring because the Wife assents to the Ravisher shall hold against the Son born afterwards and there it is Fee-simple In 5. E. 4.6 So 9. H. 7.25 the Daughter shall hold the Remainder appointed to the right Heirs against a Son born afterwards because it is vested in the Daughter as a purchaser because it is Fee-simple to which the Son afterwards born hath not right for the Land was never in any of his Ancestors before Et possessio fratris de feodo simplici facit c. of Fee-Tail not but it discends to the youngest Son of the half bloud So a Bastard eign-abate in Fee-simple Land and dies without interruption and his issue enter he shall hold against the Mulier puisne 39. E. 3.38 Of Land entailed it is otherwise so it is a great difference between Fee-simple and Fee-Tail and according to the Proverb One shall beat the Bush and another shall have the Bird. As 9. H. 7.24 and 25. A man hath Lands by the Mother and aliens upon Condition and dies without issue the Heir of the part of the Father enters for the Condition broken the Heir on the part of the Mother outs him 14. H. 8.18 by Portman if a Remainder in Tail be once executed the issue in formedon shall declare upon the Gift immediately for all passes at one time and upon one Livery But in 20. Ass Ph. ultima it was shewed of a Reversion after Seisen or making Title by grant of the Reversion he which makes Title is alwaies Actor and ought to plead certainly So 2. H. 6.14 A Patentee sheweth his Letters Patents if he maketh Title by them Words alwaies if they are ambiguous and obscure in Statutes have been expounded according to the intent of the makers as W. 2. cap. 3. speaks when a man amiserit per defaltam is expounded when the Husband and Wife lose by default because the Law alwaies was that the Wife may enter if the Husband alone lose by default So W. 2. cap. 1. Et si finis super hujusmodi tenementa imposterum levetur ipse in re sit nullus The Words seem to make a Fine void but yet it is not void but is a discontinuance and void as to bar the right of Tail So the Statute of Gloucester cap. 3. saith Whereof no Fine is levied intends by husband and Wife for they may well levy the marriages of Women and their Estates and advancement by this are greatly favoured in our Law for 14. H. 8.7 The Wife shall recover her Land given causa matrimonii praelocuti if the Feoffee will not marry her So shall have all Free-hold after Divorce So a Wife shall have a Cui ante divortium to recover the land lost by the Husband and Wife by default before the Divorce So 11. H. 7. intends to punish women if they will recompence this favor of the Law with wrong to the disinherison of Heirs here the Wife hath an Estate in the use and by his inhereditament and the Land and Use also is the inheritance of the Husband and therefore within the words of the Statute because an Use is an Hereditament For 5. E. 4.7 possessio fratris of an Use good for the Sister also if she hath the value of 40. s. in Use 15. H. 7.13.5 E. 4 7. and by Litl 108. he shall be sworn in Assizes by the Common Law and Statute of Pernors of Profits and other Statutes have admitted an Use for an Hereditament and the Land and use also is the inheritance of the Husband for an inheritance is such an Estate as the Heir may inherit as he may here and every Fee and Tail by purchase or discent is inheritance by Littleton and Britton contains many errors As to the Case of cui in vita in 7. H. 4. before fol. 47. by those of the Chancery and also by the Register Original 232. is the one the other quam clamat esse jus hereditat c. The Feoffees here were seised to the use of the husband and every of them hath an entire Use for between Husband and Wife are no moieties and after the execution of the possession to the Use By 27. H. 8. The Parliament made the Conveyance of the Land from one to another and the Feoffees are Donors for when a Gift is made by Parliament every one by it is privy and assents to it yet the thing shall pass from him which hath most right and most Authority to give it As in 21. H. 7.32 He to whose Use and the Feoffee joyn in a Feoffment it shall be said the Feoffment of the Feoffee for they have most Authority for to give this So Tenant for Life and he in a Reversion joyns in a Feoffment it shall be adjudged the Livery of the Tenant for Life So if one seised in Fee and another which hath nothing joyns in a Feoffment it shall be said the Feoffment of him which hath right and the confirmation of the other So here it shall be said the Gift by Parliament of the Feoffees and the assent and confirmation of all others For if any other shall be adjudged the Donor the Parliament should do wrong to the Feoffees in taking the thing from them And an Act of Parliament will not prejudice any man as 19. H. 6.62 the Rector of Edington had an exemption from Tythes by the Kings Grant he afterwards agrees to the Act which granted Tythes to the King and so was one of the Grantors yet shall not take benefit by this but shall be discharged For the Common Law saith That none shall be damnified by such general Act made by the Parliament and therefore W. 2. cap. 1. Gifts upon Condition shall not take away right Pattent in London but that remains to this day with protestation to sue in the nature of a Formedon in
H. 8. c. 34. to enter for a Condition broken 2. The tender of the Rent on the Feast day is not requisite nor until the last instant of the 40. day 3. Notwithstanding that the Rent be apppointed to be paid out of the Land at the Feast day and not the 40. day by express words yet it shall be so intended by relation to the place last named 4. No demand here is requisite because that the Land which is Debtor is absent the contrary is upon a general reservation and if a Rent seck payable in a forreign County be demanded and denled there it is not a disseisen by Plowden contrary upon the Land The place which was once charged with the payment in the hands of the Lessor remains chargeable in the hands of any other because he hath this as a Liberty and Authority imposed upon it by the Lessor and such Liberty is saved by the Statute of suppression of Monasteries and therefore the Lessor nor the Lessee are not Trespassers by their coming there to tender and receive the Rent Rosse against Pope ROss acknowledged a reconusance to Pope after Levies a Fine to him of patcel of his Land 5. E. 6. In Chancery upon an Audita quetela and afterwards Pope sues Execution and takes the body of the said Rosse and he brings an audita querala in the Chancery and adjudged that it lieth not 1. For that the Land is not debter but the person and the Land is onely charged in respect of the person and not otherwise until Execution sued 2. For that the purchase was before Execution sued otherwise it had been if sued afterwards for then the Land was charged in facto and not chargeable And if any part be discharged by act in Law as discent or act of the party as Surrender Feoffment c. also it shall be discharged because the duty is personall and entire 3. Because that the Conusor shall not have contribution against the Feoffees but they shall have against him and here the Conusee shall not have Execution against his Feoffees for that they may not have contribution against him Wimbish against Willoughby Assize directed Coronatoribus in Lincoin upon the surmise of the Plantiff that the Sheriff was his Cosen and shewed also Tr. 6. E. 6. Assice against L. Wall That one of the Coroners was servant to the Defendant and adjudged good 1. For the speedy expedition of the Assize and the mischlef of the Plaintiff if it should be abated by the exception of the Defendant and no mischief to him and here the venire facias is awarded the first day as in a precipe 2. Coroners in Lincoln shall be intended Coroners of Lincoln for that they are the words of the King In the Argument of this case see first where a Writ Original shall be directed to the Coroners where not Secondly and when other Judicial process Thirdly an exposition of the words in and de in Writs Grants or c. Fourthly what words are sufficlent to make a Grant of a Rent charge Fifthly some matters touching challenges and where they shall be Traversed c. Partridge against Strange and Croker IN Debt the Plaintiff counts upon the Statute of 32. H. 8. cap. 9. H. 6. 7 E. 6. In the Common Leath Of buying and selling of pretenced Titles and Rights and alleadge this to be done 28. April 32. H. 8. where in truth it was not done this day and that the Defendants have made a Lease for years of a house and nine acres of Land pertaining to it whereof they nor their ancestors nor any by which the claim were in possession Reversion or Remainder nor took the Profits for one intire year before c. and holden 1. That the Statute need not to be specially recited and pleaded because it is general but for that it is misrecited it is not good by the Court sol 84. and yet is surplusage and it shall prejudice the party in some cases sol 29. as debt by I. S. Parson of D. it is a good Traverse because he is not Parson or that there is not such a village called D. 2. When the Term shall not be certainly pleaded for that it is Conveyance of the Action and is not material here and he which pleads it is a stranger as an Indictment of the death of a certain man unknown or the stealing of the goods of a certain man unknown 3. That a Lease for years or a grant of parcell of the Right is within the Statute because the Statute speaketh of any right and is not intended only of an entire right and that the entire value of the Land shall be forfeit by such Lease per Curiam fol. 87. That this Lease made by one in possession is out of the Statute for that it is not averred to be a pretenced right by Hales and Montague fol. 87. against Cook For they mean that he which hath possession one day or however may make a Lease or Feoffment bona fide and shall be forth of the Statute although that he hath not possession or taketh the profits one whole year without averment that it is made for maintenance and the Statute shall be intended onely of those which makes Leases c. having but a right and not the possession as Montague held a promise by him which is out of possession to depart with the Land when he shall attain the possession is within the danger of the Statute fol 88. And if the Issue in Tail at full age marry a woman discontinuee of his father and maketh a Lease for years this is within the Statute for that he Leases his ancient right So by Morgun if the heir release to the Abator and afterwards claiming by discent maketh a Lease for years this may be averred a pretenced right and then is within the danger of the Statute fol. 86 and a right is within the Statute which comprehends all rights Pretenced right is where one hath the possession and another which is out of possession claims this or sues for it by Mont. f. 88. Morgan Serjeant for the Defendant He which voucheth a Record and vary in the year or Term haith failed of his Record So the Statute here no Act without the consent of the King when all assent it shall have relation to the first day of the Parliament and from that time is an Act of Parliament unless it be otherwise appointed when it shall first take effect An act made in the first or second Session relates not but to the first day of the same Session Misrecital shall prejudice the party in some cases as Debt by I. S Parson of D. where there is no such Village D. a good Traverse and abates the Writ yet the naming of him Parson surplusage So here because it recites a Statute certain made such a day where it was not although that the day is surplusage it hath made the matter vitious although it
to the first nor cannot pass by the second Lease for that is severed for the time by 38. H. 6. fol. 38. That a thing in possession may not be parcel or appendant to a thing in Reversion as a Lease for life of a Mannor except the services of I. S. it is not parcel of the Mannor But is a signiory in gross and the Land shall be demanded at the common Law and not in the Court of the Lord by Bromely But here quere if the acceptance of the second Lease be a surrender of the first and the severance by the second Lease and then the severance by the exception is determined and so the Mannor passes entire as it was at the commencement 3. If the recitall of one part of the Statute which maketh for him which recites it be sufficent 4. If the pleading of a surrender or grant to the King by deed inrolled generally without shewing of the enrollment specially be good 5. The King is seised Jure Coronae of Lands coming to him by the dissolution of Monasteries the Tenant pleads a Lease for fifty yeers in Bar and after by his rejoynder pleads that the said Lease is made good for twenty one yeers by the Statute of 31. H. 8. this is a departure for that the state cometh after the Lease otherwise it is of a thing pleaded in affirmance of the Bar which precedes it 6. That the second Lease made by an Abbot within the yeer of the making of the Statute of 31. H. 8. to one which hath a Lease for yeers of it before without the reservation of the Ancient Rent then it shall be good for twenty one yeers only from the making of the second Lease per curiam Bromley The Lessee for yeers accepts of a new Lease within one yeer after the making of the Statute of 31. H. 8. cap. 13. Admitting this second Lease to be good by the same Statute yet it is a good surrender of the first Lease for that the second Lease was once good and shall be expounded to be viod by the Statute as to the King and after the Land comes to the Kings hands and not ab initio and so he shall not avoid the operation of the Common Law in the Surrender And by the Common Law the taking of a second Lease is a surrender of the first for both Estates may not be in one and the same person at one and the same time For if the Lessee for fourty yeers taketh a new Lease for twenty yeers upon condition that it shall be void if he doth not such an Act the condition broken avoids the second Lease But not with such relation that it shall take away the Surrender of fourty yeers because it was once executed absolutely So if a recovery is had of Land the which is afterwards reversed by error which avoids the recovery yet it doth not so avoid it that the Recoveror shall be punished by Trespas for the issues taken in the mean time two points upon the Statute here first the second Lease is not so void by the first branch of the Statute so that at the time of the second Lease made the first Lease hath his continuance but was determined and the Statute is in the copulative and then it is not determined by the making of the second Lease which then had his continuance then was not determined finished or expired according to the words of the Statute Secondly the second Lease for fifty yeers is abridged to one and twenty yeers by the second branch for contrary to equity it will destroy the former Lease and the second also And so that the same Lease exceeds not twenty one yeers express in the Statute extends to the terme abridged and not to the intire new term to make the clause conditional but to make the State abridged good for one and twenty yeers and shall be as a double repetition of the first clause only and be also a declaration of the State and expounded in the future tense that it shall not exceed twenty one yeers which is all one with the words for twenty one yeers as in a writ to the Shereist to seiz goods for the King Ita quod nullus adea manum apponat And in the Statute of Gifts conditionall Ita quod non habeat potestatem alienandi The word So is not conditional but maketh a plain declaration of the thing before by the words of the Statute sometimes expounded contrary to the text to make this agree with reason as by 25. E. 3. cap. 16. after fo 205. by the exception of non-tenure of parcel no Writ shall abate but for the quantity of non-tenure which is alledged expounded by 5. H. 7.7 where the thing demanded is severall as Acr●s for in a precipe of a Mannor if the Tenant pleads non-Tenure of parcel all the writ shall abate because an intire thing and there the demandant ought to have an exception in the writ because it is contrary to reason that a man shall demand the intire mannor against one which is not Tenant but of parcel of that which he endevors to recover So Praerogativa Regis is for the Tenure of him in Capite where the King shall have Primer seisen of all his other Lands yet 30. H. 8. and after fol. 204. for Soccage in Capite he shall not have because it is contrary to reason that such a small Tenure should be so greatly charged So W. 2. cap. 21. gives entry to the Heir yet he shal not have the arrerages in the life of his father old natura brevium 138. and this exposition is contrary to the text because the text is contrary to reason to give an action to the Heir for a thing in consideration of another thing not due to him So Glouc. cap. 3. for warranty with assets 21. H. 7.10 11. H. 4.21 the things taken by equity is expounded contrary to the principall Perveyance Instans est unum indivisibile in tempore quod non est tempus nec pars temporis ad quod tamen partes temporis copulantur Townsends Case A Woman Tenant in tayle taketh husband who maketh a Feoffment in 20. H. 8. to the use of himself and his wife for their lives the remainder over the wife is not temitted Adjudged 1. For that she cannot avoid the discontinuance by entry as she might after 32. H. 8. cap. 28. but hath an action viz. cui in vita given to her to recontinue the possession which she useth not but cometh to the possession by another mean she ought to take it in such order and with such appendances as the Law limits to such mean the mean which she useth here is 27. H. 8. and as the Statute appoints the possession to her she shall be adjudged in and not otherwise although she be a Fem Covert For Coverture or Infancy is not materiall here for it is not excepted in the Statute And the Statute of 27. H. 8. of
H. 6.25 Of vigor of an appeal pleaded against an excomunication the usuall form shall be observed and good as in debt when the defendant acknowledgeth himself to be bound c. So in forgery against one only quod falsa conspiratione habita good 11. H. 6.2 because the usuall form where a man may not have by common intendment precise notice of the certainty of a thing it sufficeth to alleadge this generally as 21. H. 6.9 9. H. 7.15 that executors have administred to B. without shewing what things good because he may not know that another hath administred and that he is not privy So 5. E. 4.8 Obleige to discharge the Sheriff of all things touching his office he said that he had discharged him generally good because for the infiniteness of it Talbot and Corbets case tempore H. 7. upon the same Statute 23. H. 6. where the issue was joyned that Corbet was chosen Knight for the Parliament and he was admitted to prove it c. So 2. E 4. 19. imprison to make an obligation to the defendant to others unknown without naming them good contrary in false imprisonment So 10. E. 4. 19. bound for to serve in all lawfull commands he said that he had served him lawfully untill such a day without shewing in what good So in 12. H 7.14 he had found him meat drink and apparel untill one and twentd yeers without shewing what good So monstraverunt homines without shewing the number because a great number for the Law compels not to shew the certainty of the thing which is not to be known or remembred Brook Chief Justice so 128. and in Parliament the most voices in the upper house shall be numbred by the Clerk of the house for every one there shall be severally demanded otherwise it is in the house of Commons for there the assent is tryed by voices sounding all at one time So in election of Coroners Sanders so 126. the County of Chester was alwayes parcel of the Realm of England yet Knights and Burgesses came not from thence untill the Statute of 34. 35. H. 8. ca. 13. Statute penall extends not further then the words and namely for to punish others as 21. H. 7.21 of malefactors in Parks extends not to Forrests So 13. H. 6. cap. 10. that Sheriffs shall not let their Counties extends not to him which Leases parcel of it 21. H. 7.36 the contrary was held 20. H. 7.12 and before fol. 87. So treble dammages for a forcible entry in an Assise or trespas extends not to entry in the nature of an Assise 7. H. 4. which limit order for the election of Knights extended not to the false return of the Sheriff untill 11. H. 4. was made if London inlarge the Ancient custome viz that a villen shall not be drawn out which hath remained there a yeer and a day because Ancient demeansne 7 H. 6.32 extends not to enlargment So England altered not the subjecton of Wales Rape is made fellony by W. 2. ca. 34. Abetters inquirable cap. 12. and at one time good 2. E. 2.22 E. 3. yet Chapter the 12. seeme to be intended of fellons before made and not by the same Statute Sanders justice the allegation alledged under the viz. is a plain precise and effectuall affirmation in deed proved by Rules in grammer the authority of Latine Authors by the Register 66.160 natura brevium 63.134 h. 135. b. and the opinion of the Doctors of the Civill Law 21. E. 4.49 and after so 143. by Catlin an Abbot in discharge to be collector saith inter Record of such a term continetum that R. 2. had granted to his predecessors that he nor his successors shall be collectors and naught for it may be contained amongst the Records and yet no Record escuage was first invented to suppress the Welch and Scots rebels against whom war was made by the King of England as against Rebels and not as against enemies for that they were subject to England H. 3. made E. 1. his eldest son Prince of Wales and so it hath continued to this time which Act of H. 3. was the first alteration of Wales King E. 1. made the Statute of Snowdon The third was the Statute of 27. H. 8. the welch may sue by quod ei deforceat in the nature of what action they will Statutes sometimes explaines the Common Law Merton cap. 2. quod vidua legare possunt bluda c. and late Statutes aided by equity Statutes made before so lineal warranty Bars not the issue in taile without assets by the equity of Glocester made long before after fol. 78. so Land delivered in execution by the Statute of Marchants 1● E. 1. yet it shall be delivered also to so high extendors although 13. E. 1. speaketh not of it by equity of Acton Burnel 11. E. 1. cap. 2. which giveth goods prised at two high prises in dammage and that the Connusee shall have them for the price because it intended to aide things in like degree although not in esse then Brown Justice to the same purpose and said that in things touching Grammer their predecessors have consulted with Grammarians and pursued their Rules as it appeareth in our books that the the Judges have said proximo antecedenti fiet Relatio the which sentence they might take out of Grammar and he argued that licet was a plain affirmative and that the matter contained under the licet is an affirmation with greater vehemency then it should be without the licet and that the licet augments the affirmation And he argued further that the generall words of the Statute of 27. enabled the plantiffe to take benefit of the penalty and in what he said agreed with Sanders in effect Brook chief Justice Gavel kind commenced by the Brittans by partition of England Scotland and Wales between the three sons of Brute continued by Bellinus Brennus Ferrex and Porrex and was altered in England by the conquest of the Saxons and the eldest son by their Law was inheritable But Gavel kind continued in Wales until 27. H. 8. for it was not conquered Priviledges within certain precincts or Dominions followed not the enlargement of the place So 38. H. 6.10 Liberties granted to the Bishop of Durham in feedis suis extends not to the purchase after So 21. H. 6. Warren is granted to B. in all his Lands in Dale and he purchaseth other Land in Dale he shall not have warren there So a grant of Conusans of Pleas of a thing parcel of the mannor of Dale tenancy Escheats afterwards he shall not have of it For the grant taketh execution of his precinct and circuit at the time of the making of it and the services shall be then parcel of the mannor and not the demeans which now escheat So grant wreck to B. in all his Lands it shall not extend to the Land of which he was then disseised because not his but the disseisors pro tempore Reference to another
end and expiration of the first Term of years the Lessor maketh a Lease for life to the first Lessee for years during the first Term and the second Lessee Enters and upon an Ouster bringeth Ejectione firme and by the Court it well lyeth 1. By the Law by a Grant of the reversion of the Farm the Farm and all the Demeasnes of it pass because it is nomen collectivum and certain in its self and so it was adjudged in the case of Bridges That by the Demise of the Farm the reversion and rent incident to it passeth 2. That the word Reversion shall be intended land reverting in the premisses and the habendum and not the estate in reverter which hath his continuance but in respect of the Term and during it it is a Grant of the reversion habendum the farm or land or reversion after the particular estate ended are all one 3. That the second Lease for years commencing by any determination of the first Lease whether it be in Law or in Deed and the expiration refers to the Term and not to the years Term is an estate in or for years and is finished when the estate is finished and this may finish when the years remain If a man marry with a woman Termor and the woman dies her husband shall have the Term for notwithstanding that the marriage hath not divested this out of the woman during coverture yet by her death this is given to the husband by Act in Law because it is a thing in possession and not in Action The Law is the Common use in Letters Pleas and Judgements and the Common Law is but common use by Anthony Brown fol. 195. Stradling against Morgan EXceptions alleadged in arrest of Judgement 2 El. Exchequer debt upon not guilty pleaded by the Defendant and found against him 1. The Plantiff hath shewed in his Declaration That the Defendant was then receiver c. and saith not That the Mannors were the Queens then and therefore shall be intended more strong against him then it should be to a common person and by consequence the Defendant is Baily to a common person by the Court. 2. That no receiver or Baily accomptant of a common person shall be within the Statute of 7. E. 6. c. 1 but onely of the Queen by the Court. 3. That the Action was not maintainable and the matter well alleadged lieth in the Queens Courts at Westminster notwithstanding the Statute of 34. and 35. H. 8. for Wales for that they are in the Affirmative and not in the Negative 4. That by this Statute an Action of debt by original Writ lieth for the forfeiture in the Exchequer howbeit that the party hath not cause of priviledge there 5. The Plaintiff ought to make mention of the Statute of 38. H. 8. and 7. E. 6. in his count for that the one is founded upon the other 6. He ought to shew expresly in his Count That the Queen was seized and made him her Bedel 7. Jeofails remedies not mispleadings in counts adjudged in Moon and Cliffords case In Debt the Plaintiff counts That whereas he was Bedel and Collector of certain Mannors by vertue of Letters Pattents of H. 8. and had a Fee for it the Defendant being Receiver of the said Mannor in 3. and 4. P. and M. took extortion for the payment of his Fee viz. 4. d. for every pound against the form of the Statute of 7. E. 6. the Defendant pleads not guilty and found against him And yet judgement given against the Plaintiff because the Count was incertain to whom he was Receiver and shall be intended against him then done to a Common person and a Receiver of a Common person is not within 7. E. 6. yet within the words for the intent of the makers shall be observed in the exposition of Statutes and so acts general in words have been expounded to be but particular where the benefit hath been particular As the King shall not have Wardship of lands which discends to the youngest Son but of that which discends to the heir general 12. E. 4. Stamford fol. 8. yet the Tenant dyed seized of others in Fee because the Statute of Praerogativa regis cap. 2. intends where the land is holden of the King and a Common person discended to the same Heir where one is Heir to the Tenant And Praerogativa Regis cap. 3. intends not that Soccage in capite shall give to the King primer seisen of lands holden of a Common person yet the words are general before fol. 109. Stamford Prerogative fol. 13. So Marlebr cap. 4. intends where Signiory and Tenancie are in the same County and therefore the Lord may bring a Distress taken in one County to a Mannor in another County of which the land is holden 1. H. 6.3 30. E. 3.6 before fol. 18. So Glouc. cap. 1. giveth Damages to the Disseisee against him which is found Tenant after the Disseisor for that he is Tenant by his own agreement and therefore the Disseisee shall not recover Damages against him which agrees not to a Feoffment made to him and others by the Disseisor yet he is Tenant but not Tenant by his agreement Litl Remitter fol 153. so long 5. E. 4. fol. 142. if he hath view in a precipe and afterwards abates the Writ for false Latine or for some other cause apparent he shall again have another Writ because there the Court might have abated this without motion For W. 2. cap. 49. although general intends where the Tenant abates the Writ by exception not apparent by 25. E. 3. cap. 16. by non-tenure of parcel no Writ abateable but for the quantity intends if the thing demanded be several as Acres but all the Writ shall abate where the thing demanded is entire as a Mannor before fol. 109. and the intent of the Statute never was contrary to the Text. By W. 2. cap. 25. if one fail of a Record he shall be a Disseisor yet a woman Covert shall not be 11. H. 4.50 nor infant because excepted by the intent yee in words hath included all So extenders shall not pay presently according to the words of Acton Burnel which ought to answer presently c. but shall be debtors presently with the duty and chargeable with the payment and daies payable of the rent or Revenues receiveable So by Exposition it seems against the Text of the Statute and is not because the intent of the makers guides them to it Of the part of the Defendant it was argued That the Action shall be sued there in Wales where the receipt is alleadged although that Wales is united to England by 27. H. 8. because by the same Statute Wales is divided into 12. Counties and by 34. and 35. H. 8. four Justices are appointed for wales viz. one for every three Counties and hold plea of all things within their circuit and one seal appointed for every circuit and all Actions suable there by the words of
naturall body so may he purchase As 34. H. 6.34 and by pleading there H. 6. seized in fee of an Advowson in gross conveyed it from H. 5. to him who granted it to the plantiff good without shewing in jure Coronae or how and there if the King hath Land parcel of the Crown and parcell by purchase and dies having a son and daughter by one venter and a son by another who enters and dies without issue the daughter shall have the Land purchased and the son the other So purchased Lands by the King shall go to the naturall body So 35. H. 6.28 by Moyle after fol. 247. Land in Gavel-kind given to the King and his heirs the eldest son being King shall not have all because it vests in his naturall body but perquisites of a villaine the King hath jure Coronae as 41. E. 3.21 if a Bishop who hath a villain in the right of his Church enter he shall hold it in his body politick and shall be in the right of his Church because the signiory was for a thing in respect or by reason of another shal be in the same degree and right as the principal was at the Common Law That an estate of inheritance viz. Fee-simple was by the Common Law before the Statute First absolute when a gift was made to a man and his Heirs Secondly conditional when to him and the Heirs of his body for that formedon in Reverter at the Common Law if the Donee dies without issue in Remainder not for a remainder cannot depend upon a Fee Conditional until this Statute and before this Statute the Donee might alien after issue had so bar the issue because they construed the having of issue to be a performance of the Condition which was implied in the words and in the intent of the Donee and after issue to be as an absolute Fee because he had such heirs which were limited But if before the Statute the Donee had issue he might alien and good then here 4 E. 3. and 30. E. 1. which was contrary to the will of the Donor for which the Statute was made and then Fines were of great regard yet by this Statute ipso jure sit nullus viz. as to the right issue or Donors the Kings prerogatives are great yet the Common Law so admeasures them that they take not away any of the inheritances of the subject and therefore the King shall pay Toll though not for things bought yet Toll Traverse he shall because it is for going over another Soil because it toucheth the inheritance to permit a way over his Soil without paying any thing 46. E. 3. 23. H. 3. 35. H. 6. 26 28 29. So for to wave a Demurrer or issue yet may not change one issue into another Term because then it would be infinite which should be to the disinheritance of another 13. E. 4.8 Statutes general made in preservation of inheritances or for the publick good binds the King without naming as W. 2. c. 5. of usurpations but by 35. H. 6. good is not so clear if an infant upon whom the King usurps hath by purchase as well as discent So Merton cap. 5. That ordains that the Kings Ward shall not pay usury viz. That the Rent shall not be doubled during the Nonage of the Heir and therefore in 35. H. 6.60 by Needham if the King gives land rendring Rent yearly at Easter and if he fail to pay at the day That he shall double the Rent the Grantee dies his Heir within age he shall not double the Rent against the King So Merton cap. 6. That a man shall make his Attorney for to follow his suit to the King if it be his Lord or at the Court of another he shall do it So the Statute of 5. H. 5. of additions L. 5. E. 4.32 of one Law which belongeth to a common person the King may not defend the Common right but that every one shall have advantage but every general Statute shall not bind the King without naming of him As Magna Charta cap. 12. Communia placita c. nor such which have an intent onely between subjects and to repress disorder between them those here which concerneth salvation of inheritance or publick utility of the Realm So the Statute of gifts Conditional binds the King because by Justice and Act of Parliament the King hath submitted his will to the Donor The King as Walsh saith hath in him First power to do Secondly Justice to enforce him to do it this is as to others Thirdly Mercie to stay him from doing this is of things touching himself And because after this Statute the King may not say that the estate is Fee-simple Conditional as it was before the Act the case of the Tenant in Tail attainted of Treason was alleadged in proof of it 37. H. 8.7 7. H. 4.32 which proves that the King shall be bound by the said Statute So by 26. H. 8. cap. 13. because it is some estate of inheritance also the Tenant of the King in Capite gives in Tail Tenendum de capitali domino the King shall not have Wardship of the issue in Tail 4. H. 6.19 because it is not now Fee Conditional as before the Statute and therefore he is not immediate Tenant to the King 4. H. 7.16 The King may receive the Services of the Donor by his hands 27. H. 8.26 after fol 249. the King may take the Donor or the Tenant in Tail for his Tenant before Licence or after but once chosen shall not resort Also 8. H. 4.9 Tenant in Tail of a Signioty aliens it in Mortmain for default the Signiory revolts to the King the King seises the Land after escheat the issue in Tail hath the land by petition against the King and therefore is not Fee-Conditionall as to the King but binds the King although in these cases the King claims in the right of the Crown yet here it is very remote from the prerogative because here it remains vested in the natural body of H. 7. For the Plaintiff it was said That the Prerogative of the natural body of the King because of the union of the politick as the attainder of H. 7. discharge ipso facto as soon as he came to the Crown 1. H. 7.4 So R. 3. being Feoffee to uses when he was King the use was gone because the King in his body politique may not be seised to an use of another 5. E. 4.7 and therefore it was enacted 1. R. 3. cap. 5. Rastal Uses 3. That the Land should be in Fee to him to whom the Use was 43 E. 3.22 Franchises extinct by purchase of the King yet to him and his Heirs of a Mannor to which they were appendant So the King in his natural body and another purchase or if the purchase is before that he is King they are not Joint-Tenants but Tenants in common Fitz-nabr f. 32. G. because no body politick may hold in Joincture So 44. E.
3.45 The King may distrain in all others lands for his arrearages where he hath the signiory in his body politick and by Bentos no entry shall be upon the purchaser in his natural body before he was King or after for Condition broken by him So 10. H. 4.47 The King hath a non omittas in his scirefacias for Dutchie land and good before fol. 216. Exception in intendment of the Act here as good as if it had been in words and Use is of naming of the King when he shall be restrained The King is favored in all exposiitons because it is intended that he will not assent to prejudice himself the liberty and interest that he hath at the Common Law is not taken away by the Statute if he is not named 12. H. 7.21 proves it because at the Common Law every Lord may distrain for all Services in every part of the Tenacie 10. H. 7.10 and after quia emptores terrar W. 3. cap. 2. the Lord shall have pro particula but not more yet the King after this Statute if his Tenant aliens part shall have all Services by the hands of the Feoffee or Feoffor Fitzh nat br fol. 235. A. and Westminstere 2. cap. 17. which gives the Wardship to the first Feoffor binds not the King for he shall have it albeit he held of him by posteriority And so Prerogativa Regis cap. 2. affirms the Common Law in this point The Statute de Religiosis 7. E. 1. For Mortmain binds not the King nor Marlebridge cap. 9. which Grans That the elder percener onely shall do the suit yet Fitzh nat br fol. 159. all shall do it to the King So the King may sue for debt in the Kings Bench contrary to Magna Charta cap. 11. But 1. H. 5. cap. 5. of additions binds the King because he is included in the word Indictment expresse which is onely the suit by Carus the King gives in Tail without expressing any service he shal hold in Capite 29. H. 8. for the King shall seize for his Fine if he aliens without licence 22. E. 3.58 Ass fol. 1. and it is not in Capite if he holds of the King by reason of a Reversion or Mannor and not of his person W. 2. cap. 3. gives receipt generally to him in Reversion yet 25. E. 3.48 the King shall not be received upon the default of his Tenant because then the demandant should count anew against the King but he ought to sue to him by Petition 14. H. 8.3 by Fineux the King shall not abase himself to stand to the defence as Tenant in suit as a Common person shall Weston Justice A gift in Tail before W. 2. implies a Condition in Law viz That it should revert to the Donor if the Donee did die without issue if the words had been expressed in the gift it had been surplusage and therefore there it is a condition in Law and not in Deed for a Condition in Deed may be broken during the estate given but a Condition in Law as this is cannot Conditions in Law are two the one finishes the estate as a Lease quam diu one shall be Abbot or live sole when he is removed to be Abbot or taketh Husband there the estate finisheth the other finisheth not the estate untill suit or entry as where the Lessee maketh waste or aliens or Tenant in Fee Cess or Disclaims W. 2. restrains the alienation of the Donee now after issue had if the Gift had been to Husband and Wife and to the Heirs of their bodies ingendred and the Wife had survived that her second Husband if he had issue by her should be Tenant by the courtesie now this is restrained where the estate of the Donee before the Statute was Fee-simple now by the intent of the makers of the Act the estate is diminished and made Fee-Tail and the Fee-simple is in the donor and a reversion made of it and now the Fee-simple may be given over in Remainder and so the estate is divided The King hath two capacitles and cometh to some things meerly as King as Treasure Trove and Escheats by Treason after fol. 322. and to some not as King as if Lands discend to him from any of his bodies Politick are by Pattents of the King as Dean and Chapter Major c. cannot purchase in succession by the word Heirs but onely by the name of Successors the body politick at Common Law as the King here by the one or the other the King purchases in his naturall body yet shall not take by Livery before f. 213. for it passes not by Livery but by Record and his Grantee thereof shall hold of him by Knights Service in Capite and none may distrain for Signiory or Rents in it nor have execution of it And 7. E. 4.17 The King may not be seised to anothers use in respect of the Conjunction of the body Royall to the body natural Prerogatives of the King are by the Common Law by Custom and by Statute by the Common Law the Kings Grant is taken most favorably for him otherwise it is of the Grant of a Common person As an Advowson passes not by Grant of a Mannor without mentioning 2 R. 3.4 8. H. 7.1 41. E. 3.4 and Prerogativa Regis cap. 15. is not but Common Law in this point the King may Grant a thing in action 2. H. 7.8 and 32. H 8. an Obligee Utlawed the King shall have the entire duty 8. E. 4.24 and 19. H. 6.47 So the entire Ox after fol. 323. the King Grantee of the next avoidance or of all presentments which shall happen within 20. years and a stranger presents to them all yet the King shall have them and present when he pleaseth otherwise fol. 249. by Anthony Brown Discent taketh not away the right of entry of the King 37. H. 6.27 The King may enter after his villain and alien when he pleaseth Litl s 40. The King Counts of two presentments it is not double 43. E. 3.14 or 12. Matters of Bar the other ought to answer to them and the King shall take issue upon which he pleaseth 16. H. 7.12 by the Court the King may Traverse a Title or maintain his Office if he will 3. H. 7.3 13 14. 2. H. 7.13 The King may amend his Declaration the same Term 13. E. 4.8 The King may wave his Demurrer and Traverse the Plea of the other 28. H. 6.2 The King shall have a Non omitas in his Writs notwithstanding any Liberty That none shal serve his proces but his Ministers before fol. 239. the King shall not answer in value without express words notwithstanding his warranty after f. 334. the King shal not demand rent 2. H. 7.8 The King makes a Lease rendring rent to a stranger good the stranger may distrain or have Debt when it is ended 35. H. 6.36 The King may distrain for a rent charge granted to him or for Rent Service in all the Lands of him
which ought to pay it 13. E. 4.6 The Title of the King appeareth yet he is not party the Court of Office shall adjudge for him Stamford cap. 29. fol. 96. Fitzh nat br 38. E. 31. 6. H. 7.12 and 11. H. 4.71 by customes the custom of London to retain a pledge cujuscunque fuerit until he pays binds not the King 35. H. 6.35 nonsale in market overt 35. H. 6.28 and Doctor and Student 40. nor Wreck Waise nor Stray binds not the King 35. H. 6.26 27. Custom that all distresses taken within his Mannor shall be impounded there binds not the King 21. E. 3 4. by Statutes which binds not the King where he is not named yet he shall take advantage of them As of the Stat of Waste of 9. R. 2. c. 3. of Error and attaint by him in reversion upon a recovery against Tenant for life And of W. 2. c. 7. fol. 140. If the King as Heir to his mother brings asur cui in vita the Plea shall not be delayed by the Nonage of the Heir the King not named is not restrained by Magna Charta cap. 10. upon which the Ne injuste vexes is founded for to avoid incroachment That if the King incroach more then he ought he hath no other remedy then by Petition The King bringeth a Quare impedit in the Common Pleas good notwithstanding Magna Charta quod communia placita c. 31. E. 3.18 E. 3.22 before fol. 240. Plenarty no Plea against the King 43. E. 3.14 Non obstante W. 2. cap. 5.32 H. 8. cap. 2. Of Limitations binds not the King The King may not suffer a Common Recovery for to Dock the Tail as a common person may because no precipe or Covenant lieth against him 12. H 7.12 by Constable So the King shall be in a worse condition then a subject or common person to bar the issue Anthony Brown Justice The name of King drowns the Sir-name of the King and includes it and his proper name also and this word of substance by it self may not be omitted in purchases Pattents or Writs Land given to Henry the seventh omitting King giveth nothing to him omitting his name of Baptism So a gift by him by these words in the Pattent Rex concessit That the name Politick of the King includes his natural name and when this name is conjoyned to his natural person it altereth the quality and degree of the person natural in the estimation of the Law So if that he be within age he shall be adjudged of full age and his attainder frustrate when he is King that the greater removes the Imperfection of the Lesser before fol. 138. the body politick hath the preheminence of the natural body as Land given to the King by the name of Baptism and of King also as to Henry the King and to his Heirs this shall go in succession as the Crown and if he dieth without issue the Heir of the part of his mother which hath the Crown shall have the Land also because this name King being the greater shall have the greater preheminence in the purchase and shall draw the land with him So that his brother of the half bloud being King shall have it yet here the King shall take in such body and in such estate and condition as the Donor limits and not otherwise So if a Gift had been made before the Statute to the King and the Heirs of his Body he had taken Fee Conditional as another Common person That if he dies without issue the Donor should enter without Office And if the King before the Stat. giveth to one and his Heirs of his body there the King shall not have the Reversion more then a Common person should have and there his Donee might alien after issue because the person of the King shall not rule the estate of the land but on the contrary for to make Remitter right and possession ought to discend to one person simul and semel 19. H. 6.59.58 and 45. before the Statute after Issue the Donee might do all acts of a full Fee because then he had full Fee and inheritance and not before 5 6 7 and 8. E. 3. And the words in the Statute hath given prius facia non extenditur intends not the Donees made by the Donors before the Statute but of alienations made by the Donees before the Statute and lawfully and after issue as a Lease for life and release of Tenant in Tail before the Statute good and barred the issue in Formedon after the Statute because it was not voidable neither before nor after the Act if it was according to the power that the Common Law permitted to them 44. E. 3. But the Statute extends as to Alienations after the Statute where the Gift was before So as to the Alienation before the Statute if it were not lawfull as a woman Tenant in Tail taketh Husband having issue they alien before the Statute the issue shall have a Formedon after the Statute that is a discontinuance to the wife because Covert and when she dies a right discends to the issue but if they have aliened by Fine it is good and bars the issue because there it is duly made in respect that she is examined 4. E. 2.12 H. 4.7 before the Statute the King might not Alien before issue had as a Common person might not because the King could not do wrong and his Prerogative could not alter his estate yet the person of the King might alter the course of the thing as purchase of the King shall discend to the eldest daughter onely but if land discend to the King another or Gavel kind to him and his brother the King shall have but the Moity but this Moity shall discend to his eldest Son onely because the quality of the person may alter the discent not the estate be it Fee or Tail So that the estate shall be in the King as in another before fol. 234. and before issue had the Donee could not alien after issue he might and this mischief and other Acts of the Donee the Common Law permitted to Bar issues and the Donor until remedied by the Statute So the Common Law permits other wrongs as Lessee to make waste So if one Joynt-Tenant takes all the profits of the land the other is without remedy at the Common Law Doctor and Student fol. 32. So if the King kill a man So disinheriting of another as here post prolem is a wrong suffered by the Common Law which otherwise the issue should have had and if the issue had not issue then the Donor before the Statute the Donor had not a Reversion yet the land reverted to him as land escheated to the Lord neither had he a Reversion after the Statute of W. 2. c. 1. Yet no word in the Act divides the Statute but the Construction of the Statute ex consequenti divides the estate for to execute the will of the Donor by the intent of
probat And by him the Ordinary ought not to suffer the Executor to refuse after he hath once medled with the Goods of the Testator for if before the probat he had released a Debt and after he proves the Will this hath made the release good Walsh probat maketh the Release of the Executor made before good because it is a consummation of the Will and refers to the death Dier Chief Justice If the Ordinary commit and after the Metropolitan commit to another because the intestate hath Goods of the value of 10 l. in diverse Dioces 10. H 7.18 this disproves the authority of the first Administrator and avoids his mean Acts and by Keeble the second Administrator shall have Trespass against the first for taking of the first Goods So 7. E. 4.12 Executor pleads that he hath proved the Testament the action of the Administrator depending against him a good Bar because the power of the Administrator disproved and mean acts avoided by Probat of the Testament and the Executor which is made not knowing of it if he agree after good seems to be 3. H. 7.14 The Ordinary ought to award Proces against the Executor to come in for to prove the Testament before he commits the Administration The Probat here disproves the Administration for ever and proves the Executor to be full Executor from the death of the Testator and is not like to the cases before fol. 239. because the mean time in which no Executor and this time the Ordinary hath authority The Seal of the Ordinary put to the administration is but matter in fact and no estopple and the executor shall not be inforced to sue in the spiritual Court to recall this but shall avoid it by Plea or by matter in fact as 44. E. 3.16 A. bringeth Debt against B. as administrator and sheweth certainly how his Deed was as he ought B. saith he and another are executors Judgement of the Writ and shew forth the Testament to prove it A. offers to aver that he died intestate B. saith to it he shall not be received contrary to the Testament proved and under Seal to take the Plaintiff from his averment but that he shall have it and try it by the Country also the taking of Letters of Administration discharges not a Suit against those which were executors of their own wrong before 21. H. 6.8 2. R. 3.20 So 34. H. 6.14 in debt by the Administrator the Defendant received to avoid Letters of Administration by saying the dead made an executor and taking issue upon it Chapman against Dalton A Man makes a Lease for 21. years by Indenture and Covenants with his Lessee Tr. 7. El. in the K. B. Covenant and his Executors to make a new Lease for 21. years after the expiration of the first to the Lessee and his Assignes the Lessee dies and the Executor of the Executor brings Covenant after the first Lease determined against the Lessor and adjudged good 1. That the executor is an Assignee in Law to whom the Lease ought to be made and so the executor of an executor by the Common Law 2. That the Lease ought to be made to the Lessee if he were alive or to his Assignes in Deed and if he die Assignee in Deed then to his executor and although that the Covenant be in the Copulative in the Letter yet it shall be expounded disjunctive in sense for to avoid absurdity or impossibility 3. Admitting that the word Assignee were void or omitted out of the deed yet this shall be made to the executor for that the intent was such which shall be performed where the words could not Baber and Wray argued for the Defendant as it is abridged by Ash fol. 50. Fleetwood and another apprentice for the Plaintiff Every Covenant and Grant shall be taken most strong against the Maker and most available to the other And if the words thereof have a double sense that which is for the benefit of the Grantee shall be taken then the word Assigned here shall be drawn to so effectuall sense for the avail of the Grantee And if the word Assignee as the Councel on the part of the Defendant would have it applied to a limitation viz. in the sense of an Habendum to him and his Assignes for 21. years it is void and conveys no benefit to the Grantee because if I Lease to A. for 21. years and his Assignes shall have this as largely as I do vest this Lease in him and his Assignes because the Law gives power to him to assign it to another Assignee hath two senses in the one it signifies the person to whom the thing granted or given shall be afterwards conveyed by him which hath the thing as the Lessor Grants to the Lessee for years That he or his Assignes shall have twenty Carts of Wood annually in such a Wood Assignee there hath the sense of the person to whom he shall Assign the Lease So one warrants Land to the Feoffee his Heirs and assignes there the second Feoffee shal vouch So I sell a Horse upon Condition That if I pay 40 s. to him or his Assignees that I shall have the horse again Assignee there is he to whom he grants the horse but such Assignee is not in our case because he hath not any estate first made and such a one is Assignee after the thing granted in the second it contains the person to whom the thing which is to be made and is not made shall be made as I am bound to make a Feoffment or give a horse to you or your Assignee there the Assignee is such a person which you shall name to me to receive and the Assignee in this sense is before the things done or granted and Assignes in this sense is in the first also But with this in the first sense we have not to do here there are Assignes in Deed and Law in Deed where you name such a one to whom I shall make the Feoffment or give the horse in Law where you name no man to receive then the Executor shall have it because the Law saith That they are your Assignes to such purpose and present your person as to receive any Chattels real or personal So 27. H. 8 2. Executor is an Assignee in Law to take a Rental where the Lessee bound himself to deliver it to the Lessor or his Assignes at the end of the Term a true rental and the Lessor made no Assignee he is an ill expounder which confounds the Text. And therefore here and the Copulative shall be taken for or the Disjunctive for otherwise the sense will be absurd that the Lessee if he had been alive at the end of the first Lease should not take a new Lease until he names his Asasignee or impossible as joyning his assignee in law with him because he cannot have an Executor in his life So in our Law a copulative is taken as a disjunctive and a disjunctive as a
copulative for to make words to stand with reason and with the intent of the parties as the Obligee shall pay 10. l. if he infeoff not him or his Heirs when he cometh to I. intends yet words disjunctive in sense That he shall infeoff him if he be living and if dead then his Heirs because he cannot have an Heir during his life so here a Covenant to make a Lease at a time to come to him and his Assignes Copulatively shall be taken disjunctively viz. to him if he be alive and to his Assignes if he be dead So 4. Mar. before 171. A. and B. Grants a Rent Charge of 20. s. out of all lands which they both have the Grantee shall have several 20. s. out of both their lands and yet the Grant was out of the lands which were to A. and B. 19. H 6.3 I release all actions which I have against A. and B. if he hath any actions against either of them they are gone So Arbitrators 2. R. 3.18 may make Arbitrement of actions joynt and several where one and two others submit themselves to their arbitrement because it literally couples them yet in sense goes to them severally And so in the Common case in Indenture of bargain and sale which Covenants to make a sure estate or deliver evidences to the Bargainee and his heirs within two moneths and he dies before he ought to make the estate to his Heirs because impossible to be performed literally viz. joyntly for in his life he cannot have Heirs that thing which another doth by my authority is my act As if I demise That I. S. shall sell my land or authorize my Steward to demise it or my Baily to sell my sheep which doth it so it is my alienation demise and sale by him So the second Executor shall be immediate Executor and in such degree to the first Testator as the first executor was as chosen by the first executor by force of the Authority given to him by the first Testator which intends the same or otherwise all contracts would be destroyed by the Common Law in a short time viz. after the death of the first executor because administrators could not have actions given to the intestate untill 31. E. 3. cap. 11. proved by 10. E. 3.2 the executor of an executor because executors have not those actions by the Common Law but by Statute and because by equity they were not to be extended to an executor of an executor but the action of Debt was put in the Act in 25. E. 3. cap. 5. not of necessity because the Law gave it to an executor of an executor before but for to take away the doubt that some had of it and so an executor of an executor may have all actions that the Common Law gives to the first executor and so may have actions of Covenant and if not they should have it by equity of the Statute of 25. E. 3. cap. 5. Admitting that the word Assignee was void or omitted out of the Covenant yet this Lease here shall be made to the executor for that the intent which is the chief thing to be considered in every agreement was such which shall be performed so near as may be or the words shall not be effectual and the chief effect of the agreement was the estate which should be made not the person to whom but if the Tenant bind himself and Covenant to do corporall service to the Lord he cannot to the Heir or executor because it must be done to the body of the Lord and if I perish the thing also perisheth The intent performed and not the words good as in the cases of Litl fol. 82. That the Feoffee shall re-infeoff the Feoffor and his Wife and the Heirs of their two bodies before fol. 6. And it is not requisite alwaies that in agreements every thing ought to be performed according to the words for if the Mortgagee accept of another thing in another place good Litl f. 79. So if the Obligee cometh not to the place at the day appointed to receive his summ he hath not lost it 7. E. 4.4 but 19. H. 8 12 if the Obligee sue for the penalty the Obligor ought to shew that he was ready at the day and place and say that he is yet ready So payment of a lesser summ at another place Perk. fol. 145. or before the day 10 H. 7.14 good So Litl fo 77. upon a Mortgage the Heir or Executor of the Feoffer shall pay at a day certain and Litl fol. 76. the Feoffee of the Feoffee pays at the day good because he hath interest in the Land So 17. E. 3. ass pl. 2. the Disseisor Grants by Indenture That if the Disseisee paies unto him 10. l. such a day that one release which the Disseisee hath made to him shall be void and before the day the Disseisor makes a Feoffment and at the day 10. l. was paid to the Feoffee Words performed and not the intent as it may be in some cases yet the agreement is not performed as 21. H 6.10 before fol. 23. one binds himself that his Feoffees of the mannor of D. shall Grant out of it 40. s. annual Rent to the Plaintiff he hath 3. Feoffees and two Grants it is nought because he intended that all should do it for there but two parts of the Mannor are charged So 3. H. 7.4 one bindes himself to infeoff me of the Mannor of Dale he infeoffs an other of parcel and afterwards me of the Mannor he hath performed the words but not the intent which was That I shall have all the Mannor as then it was So before fol. 21. and 23. si vellet inhabitare residens c. during the Term intends all the Term. So 10. E. 4.16 the words of a verdict true yet the verdict false because he brought Annuity as Abbot and prescribe so without naming of him parson where he had the annuity in right of his Parsonage as Parson Impersonee the new Lease here shall be in the Executor of the Executor to the use of the first Testator because the Title of Covenant cometh to him derived from the first Testator and that which is done in perfermance of the Covenant ought to be in him in such degree as the Covenant was in him So 11. H. 6.11 An Executor assignes Auditors to one which was an Accomptant to the Testator and he is found in arrearages the Executor shall have Debt in the Detinet onely because the Debt shall be in him as Executor and hath a respect to the foundation So 32 H. 8. and Doctor and Student 92. One hath a Villain for years as an executor the Villain purchaseth hands the executor enters it shall be to the use of the Testator and assets in his hands because the Villain which was the cause of it was to such use So here the Covenant which was the cause of the Lease cometh to the executors in right of the
Testator and to the same use shall the Lease The Court increases the costs here Osburn against Carden and Jay A Woman guardian in Soccage taketh husband they make a Lease for years of the Land to Commence at Michaelmas M. 7. 8. El. in K. Bench Tr. and before Michaelmas the Lessee maketh a Lease for a lesser Term of years the Husband dies the Wife enters and being outed bringeth Trespass and adjudged lawful For that the Lease is voidable by the Wife because she hath the Wardship to another use and by reason of Natural affection presumed by the Law to be the nearest friend for the proximity of bloud for that the Custody of him cometh not to the executor Litl fol. 27. The Custody cannot be given by the Husband or forfeited by Utlary or Attainder longer then during the life of the Guardian because no such Natural affection there 33. H. 6.55 But the husband hath interest in the Custody in the right of his Wife for to participate with his Wife in all matters of interest and Prerogatives because they are one person in Law but looseth his interest when his Wife dies because Cessante causa cessat effectus And although Doctor and Student saith fol. 13. That the Wife cannot avoid the Act of the Husband as to give Demise or sell Chattels real or personal which she hath to her own use yet here she may because she hath it in anothers right and the Wardship of the body which is the principal remains which shall be maintained with the profits of the Land and this is in effect the suit of the Ward by the woman Caril against Cuddington A Woman seised of 2. acres in Fee the one holden of the Queen by Knights Service onely M. 7. 8. El. in the Court of Ward the other in Soccage taketh husband she and her husband levies a Fine sur Conusans come ceo of both the Conusee Grants and Renders to the husband and Wife and the Heirs of their bodies Remainder in Fee to the right Heirs of the wife the Husband and wife die their issue within the age of 14. years the Grand-mother on the part of the Mother enters and the Grand-father on the part of the Father of the infant sues as next friend in the Court of Wards because that the Queen hath the Wardship of the acre holden by Knights Service and of the body and adjudged that the Grandfather on the part of the father shall have the wardship of the acre holden in Soccage as Guardian in Soccage and not the Grand-mother for that the Grand-mother by possibility may have the Land by discent after the estate Tail determined and the Grand-father cannot but they are in equal degrees as to the estate Tail the wife here is a purchaser by the Fine of the Fee-simple and the Law is all one of land only as if it were of the land and body also Sherington c. against Stratton ANdrew Bainton by Indenture Covenants and Grants with his brother Edward M. 7. 8. El. in K. B. Tr. for the affection that he hath That the Lands shall discend and come to the Heirs males of their own bodies and continue in the bloud and name of the Baintons and also for brotherly love and good will That he his Heirs and Assignes shall stand seized to the use of himself for his life and after to the use of Edward Bainton for his life and after to the Heirs Males of the body of Andrew and afterwards to the Heirs Males of the body of Edward and adjudged that every of the considerations by it self being grounded upon Nature is sufficient to raise the uses according to the Limitation although it were without Deed. And so Covenant and Grant That he will stand seized to another use by Indenture without any valuable or natural consideration is good enough for that the deed imports consideration in the Will of the Covenantor by Plowden Quere notwithstanding Fleetwood and Wray for the Plaintiff An use is a confidence annexed to the estate with which he departs An use may be created by the Common Law First by Transmutation of Possession as by Feoffment Fine or Recovery to the use intended Secondly without Transmutation of Possession by one Act done importing good consideration which shall make the land subject to the use as a bargain and sale or Covenant or Grant upon good consideration First by a new Act done of two parts 21. H. 7.18 and 6. E. 6. by bargain and sale viz. Land for mony or 36. H. 8. Covenant for marriage because advancement to the Daughter and comfort to her parents Secondly where of one part onely as Covenant for Natural affection from the Father to the Daughter or Brother to Brother and a desire to have the land continue in his name and posterty For a new thing to be done by both is not requisite by the Councel of the Defendant But long acquainiance ancient familiarity or that they have been Scholars in their youth no considerations to raise a use because they are not considerations of value or recompence as if I promise to pay to you 10. l. because you are my Brother or old acquaintance it is Nudum pactum and so note that a use was at the Common Law A new use cannot be Created without consideration but being created and in esse may be granted over without consideration as another Chattel and Doctor and Student fol. 99. may be devised 1. Bromley and another Aprrentice with the Defendant and they Grant that there are two waies by the Common Law to make a Use without Transmutation of possession viz. Bargain and Sale and Covenant upon Consideration proved by the words of 27. H. 8. cap. 10. and Consideration arising from the one part onely good and it is not requisite to have Consideration and a new thing done by both the parties First Consideration It is natural to engender and nourish after engendred or otherwise the first is without effect the Father shall have the Custody and Education of his Son for his natural affection to him Litl fol. 25.33 H. 6.55 and Trespass for taking away his Son Fitzh nat br fol. 143. and 3. E. 4.12 And the Son shall have an Appeal of the death of his Father before others for his earnest intent of revenge and his reciprocal love So a Feoffment to the Son a Suit depending is not Champerty 6. E 3. cap. 274. yet within the words of Articuli super Chartas cap. 2. because by all Laws the Son ought to aid his Father and so out of the intent of the Statute and there by Herle the Son may abet his Mother to bring an appeal of the death of her husband and shall not answer Damages And Litl 8. The Son and Heir apparent endowes his wife ex assensu patru●… good without Livery because the wife of his Son is as his own wife for the love that the Law presumes is between the Father
Sturgeons because they are the most excellent fishes that the sea or water renders So that the Treatise of Praerogativa Regis ca. 11. which saith Rex habebit Balneas Sturgiones is but a Declaration of the Common Law before Secondly for the necessity of defending his people and preserving the Common-wealth against forreign hostility Thirdly for the commodity of his Subjects That they by the Coin made thereof which the King onely may make may have between them mutual Commerce and Traffick because if the subject shall have gold or silver found in his own land he might convert it into Coyn for falsifying or counterfeiting money was Treason at the Common Law and for that cause a woman was burnt 23. ass pl. 2. Also it would be inconvenient That a subject which is proprietor in the land should have it for that he thereby would exceed the King in Treasure which would be perilous to his estate The second proofe was by presidents of three sortes First Commissions Grants and Demises by which the King hath Granted such Mines in others Lands viz. in Annis 32. E. 3.8 R. 2.5 H. 6. 15. E. 4. and primo H. 7. and in some of them the King gave licence to digg in another land without licence of the owner and where some of them saith habita licentia fodiendi which is intended land subject where they give amends for the digging or Assign part to the Lord of the Soil this is of courtesie and clemencie of the Prince and not of necessity Secondly Accounts of the Grantees of such Mines Thirdly Informations and Impleading of them which have disturbed the Grantees or Imported their Oar also the King may punish him which taketh Oar in another mans Soil And so Charters Accounts and Pleas against the takers of Gold and Silver in the Soil of another proves strongly those Mines to belong to the King by his Prerogative for the Records of every Court are the most effectual proofs of Law in matters Treated of in this Court and account lies not against an Executor by any except for the King Litl f. 28. The King may seise the Land of his Debtor which he hath by what means or whosoevers hands it cometh after the cause of the Debt Sir William Candish case in the Exchequer The 3. proofe is upon authorities of Law viz. The book called Exposition of Terms of the Law and the reading of Hescot of Charta Forestae and the Laws of St. Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror and so those Authorities and the said presidents and the reasons aforesaid for the excellency of the Metal and for the necessity of it and the publique good agreeing in one That the King shall have all Mines and Oars of Gold and Silver in Land is Treasure found Thesauri de terra taken for Gold and Silver in Land is Trea. sure Trove the use and continuance Ratifies this Prerogative by prescription although that it need not be contained in the Treatise of Praerogativa regis for the King the Common Law hath many which are not there recited as Tenant of the King aliens without Licence it was a forfeiture before the Statute of 1. E. 3. cap. 12. 9 E. 3.26 although it be to the preiudice of another Free-holder yet because the Law gives those Mines to the King it giveth to him all necessary means to have it by digging with all incidents thereunto for every Prerogative contains in it self prescription for it is in usage and as prescription and usage will give Title or interest to the King in the Free-hold of another as by Prerogative the King might enter into the woods of another and take Trees for to repair his Castles before the Statute of Magna Charta cap. 22. so he might Afforest another mans woods before the Statute of Forresta cap. 2. So 7. H. 3. he might break a Pond and take the fish for his provision So 27. ass pl. 49. The Lord might not take his Villain yet is his freehold and inheritance in the presence of the King for it is a Protection to him for the time So 13. E. 4.6 The King may distrain for his Rent Charge in all the other Lands of him which ought to pay it So the Prerogative of the King chargeth his other Freehold to the Kings distress The King shal have by his Prerogative Mines of Copper containing Gold or Silver in the Lands of another because they are as a thing entire by the Commixture magis dignum trabit ad se minus dignum as 41. E. 3.32 36. H. 6.26 and 3. H. 7.14 The Heir shall have the Charters with the Box if it be sealed so Carts to which Horses are tyed if it fall upon a man the King shall have all Stamford fol. 20. before 243. because as one thing they altogether occasion his death So the King shall have all the Obligations and Horses where one of the Joynt-Tenants is attainted because a thing entire proves that the King shall have all where Gold or Silver mixt with base mettal by Commissions 7. E. 3. and 17. R. 2. 7. H. 4. 17. H. 6.30 and 31. of H. 6. proved also by accounts for Silver and base Mettal no Mine of Copper void of Gold or Silver no Mine of Tin void of Silver and therefore those of Devon and Cornwal for digging in their Land and in other Land for Tin and to have this to their use derive their power from the Kings of this Realm made unto them and giving them such liberties as by Charter 33 E. 1 confirmed by R. 2. but the power given to them for to digg in anothers Land and to pull down houses of another was restrained by the Statute of 50. E. 3. Darby shire and other places prescribes to take lead of Mines steril which is without Gold or Silver without paying any thing On the part of the Earl against the Queen The thing of the most in value is worthiest where the Quantity of Copper exceeds the Quantity of Gold yet the lesse is the most precious Quantity for Quantity the Gold or Silver ought to be of more value then the charges of separating of it from the base Mettal cometh to otherwise this aliquid nihil est if he hath lost by it Wast of 2. d. is dispunishable because de minimis non curat Lex 9. H. 6.36 38. E. 3.7 by this reservation upon the said Demises it is intended a good quantity of Gold or Silver Also because the information sheweth not what value of Gold or Silver is to defray the charge which is incertain and bad because this is the Declaration of the King Also Commissions are not of great estimation but shew the obedience of Subjects and are made at their requests for whom they are granted and many of the said Commissions and Leases were limited That the Grantee should make to the owners of Lands in Cornwal used for the digging of Tin before the said Charter proves by the words themselves
viz. That for the amendment of our Stannaries c. and other words in the Charter and albeit the King had some profit of Tin or Lead in some places as a toll dish of Oar that was not in respect of the interest the King had but for the bearing of the Charges of Officers as he had of Merchants of some part of their Marchandizes for the searchers Controller and Waigher because he appointed Officers for that purpose By those of the Earls Councel it was said That if the Law were such that the Mines of Copper in the lands of Subjects shall be the Kings by his Prerogative yet here those Mines and Oar in question pass to the Earl by the Letters Pattents of King Philip and Queen Mary For as to the first Plea they take that the vain wherein the said five hundred thousand weight of Copper was digged could not be called a Mine at the time of the Letters Pattents granted nor pass by the name of Mines for that then the vein was closed and therefore pass by the grant of the Soil as parcel of it And in the second Plea the vein and Oar pass by the words Omnes singulas Mineras c. which admit no exception and shall be taken strictly against the King for those clauses viz. De gratia sua speciali which pretends great favour and bounty towards the Pattentee ex certa scientia which excludes any suggestion and the Great Seal is in witness of Truth and not impugnable in Credit if the King gives a Mannor that he hath by escheat or purchase as intirely as I.S. held it there the advowson pass Trinity 43. E. 3.22 and agreed here yet is not taken there but by implication That the King is knowing of his right and so the King here saith by express words The King Rents the first Grant by his Predecessor and saith Ex certa scientia as we are informed concludes not the King to say that such grant was made by Hussey 9. H. 72. The King Ex mero motu and Ex certa scientia pardons to B. Omnia debita computa it discharges a debt due by him as Sheriff because there is a general pardon 1. H. 7.13 Incertain Return and the King deceived because upon suggestion made the Charter void As three Kings usurp presentations and the King reciting one of the Usurpations restores the Patronage to him upon which the Usurpation was this is a void Charter but adjudged good because of Ex cetta scientia in which case the King shall not say he was deceived or ignorant 3. H. 7.6 So 22. E. 4.44 The King grants de De gratia sua speciali to the Abbot of Waltham to be discharged of the Collection of Tithes which shall be granted by the Clergie of England and Province of Canterbury Notwithstanding the Grant there adjudged good and that the Abbot shall be discharged So 36. H. 6.34 and 37. H. 6.31 A. Returned upon an Exigent quarto exactus where he was Outlawed after the King pardons him Ex mero motu and De speciali gratia all Misprisions Offences Contempts and Deceits there the Amerciament is released by the general words because the Law intends that the King is informed of the thing pardoned as by express words in special So 41. ass pl. 19. The King Grants De gratia speciali to S. That he may give the house whereof he was seized in Mortmain good yet recites not the Tenure in Burgage holden of the King and the house was holden of the King in Free-Burgage The third point argued by the Queens Councell First by the Kings Grant Ex mero motu certa scientia and gratia speciali Mines of Gold and Silver or other Mines Royal will not pass although that it appeareth that it was hidden at the time and appeareth afterwards otherwise of base Mines for those pass but not Mines Royal which are Collateral things to the Soil as are hidden Treasure which passeth not by the gift of the King nor Wreck Straies Waifs c. passe not nor do liberties pass by the Grant of a Mannor As the King gives a mannor within a Forrest which escheats to him yet the Donee may not cut his woods within it without licence of the Justice of the Forrest and the Mannor remains subject to the Pasture of Deer and wild beasts of the Forrest and so thing collateral to the Soil as are things of Prerogative and liberty pass not by the gift of the Soil So Livery to the Heir gives not Right The King assignes Dower to his Mother but the King shall assign it by his Prerogative without the Clause de salva to the wife her Dower by the King assignanda and upon this reason he put the case of 31. E. 3. Three Coperceners of an Advoson the one within age and in the Kings Ward which Grants the ward and Marriage of him and the Fees and Advowsons appertaining to the Ward The King shall have all viz. the presentment of the eldest and middle Sister by his Prerogative because entire and his Prerogative takes away the elder and middle Sisters to present And the King hath three presentments in the Wards right and it passeth by his Pattent but that to which the King is intituled by his Prerogative passeth not without express mention A Pattent Ex gratia speciali c. shall be taken favourably to the Pattentee viz. as to the thing expressed in the Pattent which the words shew to be intended to pass but this will not make another thing to pass not expressed or shewed to be intended by the words of the Pattent to pass The King had the secret Mine of Copper mixt with Gold and Silver in Land given by his ancestors to the Prior of Wenlock and there it passeth not by the Grant of the Soil Ex mero motu c. yet it was of the foundation of the King and Religious favored Fitzh nat br 332. Secondly by the Kings Grant De omnibus singulis Mineris ex certa scientia c. Mines Royal viz. of Gold and Silver or of base mettal containing in it Gold or Silver passes not because the King hath them Ratione Cornnae not of the land and because appropriate to his Crown passeth not without special words base Mines here as those which consist onely of base substance viz. Copper Tin Lead Iron or Coles and not having in them Gold or Silver and Patentees shall have things fit for Subjects yet the terms of the Pattent comprehend things annexd to the Crown or of great importance but they shall be construed to pass the things of the basest degree 22. ass pl. The King Grants to the master of S. Leonard Omnia catella tenentium suorum Feloniae qualiter cunque damnatorum and his Tenant kils the Kings Messenger there he shall not have them because intended of common Felonies So the Kings Grant of the Return of all manner of Writs the Grantee shall not have the
Return of summons of the Exchequer because it concerneth the King himself there So 2. R. 3.4 2. H. 7.7 The Kings Grantee of Amerciaments of his Tenants shall not have the amerciament of his Tenant which holdeth of him and another because it is before other Tenants as well as my Tenant Charters of the King taken according to common intent and other things which have not common intent shall not pass from the King by his Charters And therefore 3. E. 3 the King Grants to an Abbot That he and his Successors shall be quit of repairing of Bridges Cawseys and Walls it discharges not him for repairing of such which he hath been used to repair by prescription as Lord of the Village but it is good otherwise of a Town to which the King hath Granted Murage Pannage or Pontage So 9. H. 6.56 before fol. 243. The Grantee of the King with Warranty shall not have in value without precise words but he may rebutt So 2. H. 7.6 The Grantee of the King of all Fines and Amerciaments in such a County he shall not have Amerciaments if the Sheriff Coroner or other great Officer is Amerced because Royal and a Grant shall enure for common things in intendment So 43. E. 3. ass pl. 15. The King Grants to his eldest Son the Dutchie of Cornwall cum omnibus Wardis Maritagiis c. And one which held of the Dutchie by Knights Service and which held also of one which was in Ward because of Ward by Knights Service dieth his Heir within age the Prince shall not have the Wardship of him but the King because a thing pertaining to the Crown passeth not without special words So the King maketh a County Palatine and giveth to another and Jura Regalia and that Pleas within the County shall be determined there yet he himself shall sue at Westminster his actions arising within the County Palatine as 3. E. 2. For an advowson in the County Palatine of Durham the King brings his Quare impedit in the Common Pleas the Defendant pleaded to the Jurisdiction of the Court and was compelled to answer So an Abbot by the Kings Grant made to him for the amortizing of Land or Tenements may not purchase an Advowson holden of the King in Capite and this case by Wray differs from the case in 41. ass pl. 19. before fol. 332. for there the Charter names the house but names not what Lands by which it cannot be intended that the King was mistaken in the Tenure and therefore it is good there and not for the cause of Ex gratia speciali So 19. E. 3. he might not appropriate an Advowson holden of the King by licence to appropriate So 1. H. 7 23 and 26. A sanctuary for Treason shall not be without speciall Words Ex mer●… motu c. will not pass other things then the nature of the words contain And therefore the King Grants to a man and his Heirs males excerta scientia c. passeth not inheritance 28. H. 8. A Felon may not wage battail against the King because dangerous for the King Stamford fol. 180 and 182. nor against those of London in an appeal by the Kings Grant 20. E. 3. So if one takes the Kings goods wrongfully the King may seiz his goods until restitution and 8. R 2. if any take Toll of those of the Town of Lynn they may by the Kings Grant take withernam of those another time within their Jurisdiction And so the King conveys not from the Prerogative of his person to the person of another a fortiori he may here where the thing is not but Revenue or profit These words ad humilem Petitionem Comitis deminisheth the force of the Pattent by Catline by Plowden if Gold or Silver will not defray charges the King shall not have it because no mettal without them but because the party shewed it not as our case is the Queen shall have Judgement And this point was not put to the Judges to adjudge because that the Defendant confessed that it contained gold which is intended to be of good value because the best for the King Bret against Rigden A Man seized of 10. acres Soccage Devises all his Lands by writing Tr. 10. El in the Com Pl. Repl. and after purchases 12. acres Soccage and the Devisee dieth the Devisor saith to the Son of the Devisee That he shall be his Heir and have all the Land that his Father should have had if he had survived him and dies Adjudged that he shall not have the 12. acres 1. If the Devisee shall have the Land purchased by the Devisor after the making of his Will Manwood for the Defendant said That it shall be presumed that every one knows the Law in acts indifferent and that the Will is of no effect until the death of the party for ignorance of Law excuses no man and the date and writing of the Will is not effectual but the words of the Will shall be construed as they were spoken at the time of his death And therefore if a man Deviseth a Mannor in Fee a Tenancie escheateth and after the Devisor dieth the Devisee shall have the Tenancy because parcel of the Manor at the death of the Devisor when the Will taketh effect yet when the will made not A woman Deviseth Land and after takes husband which dies the Woman dies the Devise is good because she is discovert when it took effect as she was when she made her will and marriage cannot countermand it which was not of effect in her life Also because it intends no exception for the generality of the words As if she had Devised all her plate and after bought plate and died the Devisee should have all his plate at the time of her death for the ampleness of his words declares his intent to be benificially taken for the Devisee Lovelas and all the Justices for the Plaintiff to the contrary That Land purchased after the making of the Will cannot pass by the words nor intent of the Testator because he had not the 12. acres at the time of the writing and publication of the Testament it is no presumption that afterwards he would have and is as if he had died when he writ and published the Will and therefore cannot have an intent to give it and the death which is the Confirmation of the Will follows the first Acts thereof viz. the writing and publication of it for every Act founded upon discretion consists of 3. parts The first Inception which is writing of the Testament here The Second Progression which is the publishing of the Testament begun The Third is Consummation which is the self same and continues one through all these parts or otherwise the Act is void of discretion And by Lovelas it is proved That the Commencement is to be considered in Wills because if a woman Covert Devise Land by her Will and publish it and her husband dies and after she dies
So the Husband maketh a Feoffment of the Land of his Wife upon the condition which is broken the Feoffee levies a Fine the Husband dies in the fourth year after Proclamations having Issue by the Wife after the Wife dies and five years passe the Heir is barred to enter as Heir to the Father for the Condition but shall have five years from the death of his Father as Heir to his Mother for her right for the cause aforesaid by Saunders Ireland and Scotland are severall Realms But Scotland was holden of the Crown of England and was within the Fee and ●igniory of the Crown of England and he which is in any of the two Realms shall be said out of the Realm and shall be within the Exception of 4. H. 7. So Ideots Lunaticks and they which have the lethargy shall be comprehended in the words of Non-sane-memory as well as Mad-men For Zouch Peace which is the end of all Law described and the necessity and benefit thereof and those Laws which carrie most peace are the most estimable And the Statute which Ousts Nonclaim was to the universall trouble of all the Realm for the avoyding whereof and to make Fines to have their antient force the Act of 4. H. 7. was made and the Preamble of it is to be considered because it is a Key to open the minds of the Makers of the Act and the mischiefs that they intended to remedy and the preamble shews that the Makers of the Act were of Opinion that Fines ought to be of greater force for to avoid contention then they were before the Statute of Non-claim and now is used to the contrary viz. to the universall trouble of the Kings Subjects and therefore they were Enemies to former rights because that stirred up many Suits and made the Purview strongly against it Et lex si prospiciat majori parti retilis est All Infants are bound by the generall Purview which containeth them in the Exceptions As an Infant levies a Fine Proclamations pass he shall not have error yet within age for no Infant is excepted But he that is not Party to the Fine by Southcot and Walsh he is excepted out of the generall Purview in the intent of the Makers of the Act. And Stowell the Heir is not within the Purview nor Exception of the Statute for that he had not right at the time of the Fine levied but then the right rested in his Ancestor which was disseised for the Exception is always an exemption of that which is contained before in the generall words otherwise could not be excepted As a Feoffment of a Mannor except such an Acre which is not parcell of it or a Lease of all Lands of the part of the Father except Lands of the part of the Mother is a void exception because this exception was not in the Feoffment nor Demise or right or not right is not the matter but claim or Nonclaim within five years is the matter where a Fine is pleaded to conclude any And this Tried by issue by the one or the other maketh an end of the matter Catline a Writ of deceit by the Lord in ancient Demeasne made 20. years after Proclamation upon a Fine Levyed by his Tenant shall make void the Fine and the Tenant shall be restored to the land because he claims signiory and services out of the Land and no right to the Land when the Fine was levyed and therefore is out of the purview which extends not from whom he claims or had right in possession Reversion or Remainder to the thing comprised within the Fine when the Fine was Levyed upon matter rising before The first saving giveth five years after proclamation to those which have right and their Heirs with a Condition annexed to it viz. so that they pursue their Title Claim c. within five years after Proclamations and as the saving is general to all Heirs notwithstanding they have their imperfections of Nonage Insanity c. So is the Condition general and extends to all Heirs whatsoever they are and this was the cause of the Judgement for otherwise the saving shall be for all heirs and the So shall be of all Heirs within age and then the So is not so large as the saving And so the Heir within age is bound to the Condition of the first saving as well as he is saved in the same because general tranquillity is more favored then an Infant and no time shall be gained by exposition or equity beyond the words of the act where the Act as here to strains all men to a time certain for the common tranquillity of the people and Infants had been bound by the general purview of 32. H. 8. c. 2. if they had not been excepted there And therefore if one of the Terms limited by 4. H. 7. be adjourned because the Statute saith then next ensuing all the Proclamations before are void until the Statute of 1. Mar. cap. 7. Rastall Fines 12. because time limited by the act ought to be pursued and once attached in part ought to be continued So the 5. County upon Exigent ought to be the next to the fourth or it is discontinuance and Allocatur Comitatus shall not aid but is error And therefore an Infant at the Common law shall be bound to year and day otherwise f. 365. where by the Statute of 4. H. 7. The five years Commence in the father being of full age Non-claim within the time limited by the Common Law shall lose right and infancy there shall not aid the party as 7. H. 6.32 Nonclaim by the Lord of his villain by a year and day which hath fled into ancient Demeasne So 15. E. 4. 6. Nonclaim of liberties before Justices in Eire So wood of another within a Forrest of the Kings seised into the Kings hand shall be forfeited by Nonclaim within the year and day before fol. 57. So if a Bastard die seised and Mulier claims not So 2. H. 7.10 one shall lose his appeal of Murther if he bringeth it not within the year and day So by the custom of some Mannor one shall lose Copy-hold if he claims it not within a year and day after the death of his ancestor a fortiori time shall be peremptory where it is limited by the Statute for the common repose of the Realm which shall be more favored then the private profit of any single person be he Infant of non sane memory c. by Carus and Dier the right of a Mulier within age is bound by discent of the bastard because the Law in this case is a binding Law by Southcot and Sanders contrary because infancy shall excuse Laches of entry 31. ass 18. 22.36 ass 2. 33. E. 3. The second saving giveth new 5. years to other persons and hore Stowel is the same person which had five years with his ancestor by the first saving because the saving and the so is in the Copulative and the word
Marriage that she shall not refuse 9. H. 6.9 Recitall of an Indenture of defeasans concludes the party to deny the Deed. By the Counsell of the Plaintiffe the Act of Parliament cannot enure as a Confirmation of an Attainder and as a new Attainder also for then a man shall be twice convict of one Crime which shall be superfluous yet 1. H. 5.5 One attainted of Fellony may be arraigned of Treason because it is a higher offence and shall forfeit Lands of whomsoever holden if the Treason is committed before the Fellony but where offences are equall he shall not be twice attainted for one Deed shall not be a Confirmation and Grant of one same thing As the King recites by his Letters Patents that he hath made J. a Denison or hath manumissed him being his villain and confirm it and besides grants that he shall be a Denison or Free all this is but a confirmation because the Kings Patents shall not enure to two intents and therefore cannot plead the second Patent for his Legitimation or Manumission But the first Patent so 9. H. 7.2 before fol. 156. and 7. H. 7.14 The King grants Land by his Letters Patents and reciting them confirmes the Estate of the Patentee by the second Letters Patents by authority of Parliament and saith further that he gives and grants the same Land to the Patentee he shall plead the second by way of Confirmation because the Land pass by the first Patent not by the second if he doth not shew that the Land came again to the Kings hands after the first Patent But if the King grants Pasture for two Oxen in his Land and by the second Patent reciting his first Grant confirmes it and moreover giveth and granteth Pasture for two Oxen to the first Grantee there it shall enure as a Grant and confirmation also And the Grantee shall have Pasture for foure Oxen because they are severall things which are mentioned in the Confirmation and in the Grant And in the other Cases before it is one same thing mentioned in both and not severall Also the Statute recites none but persons therere cited to be attainted but the Plaintiffe was not attainted before for the reasons aforesaid therefore he is not attainted by the Statute as the King recites by name that such and such were Burgesses of L. and grants to the Burgesses before named to be quit of Toll c. that will take the benefit of it they ought to averre who is Burgess of L. And if the Plaintiffe be attainted by Act also and the Defendant will plead this so then his plea shall be double because he hath pleaded an attainder by the Common Law and also by the Statute But here it is not double because it is not a new attainder but a Confirmation And because he cannot plead the Confirmation without the thing that was Confirmed Also the Recitall and Confirmation by the Statute is not taken but pro ut And also the recitall being false shall be intended to be upon Information And therefore an averment lies against this recitall So a License to alien Lands holden of the King ut dicitur there he which hath the Lisence is not Estopped to say that it is holden of another then the King because the Tenure in Capite is not precisely affirmed but ut dicitur which taketh away all absolute affirmance 29. Ass 38. Also the Statute refers to an Attainder had before And so to a thing which is not inre● veritate for the cause aforesaid and therefore shall be void but if the things was before and wanteth force and effect then this shall be made good by the Statute and there the Act is good and hath power as to the thing 29. E. 3. 24. Grants Fitzh 100. The King reciting an Attainder by Parliament of one Mattravers by his Charter of Pardon reverseth the same and restores him and after this all is recited in another Parliament and Confirmed by the same Parliament and good for the Cause aforesaid So 38. H. 6.33 Parliament confirmes the first Letters Patents this enures according to the Effect and Purport of the first grant and shall not take away the Condition if any such be the King gives Land to J. S. the Parliament Confirmes it s a good grant And so when the Parliament Confirmes a thing which is defective it shall give power to it if it be Confirmed as here the Act shall be void to all purposes as 5. E. 4.40 and 41. If one Village hath Customes which is against the Law and Reason and no others and the Parliament Confirmes their Customes it is void because they had not Customes for things used meerly against the Law and Reason are not Customes notwithstanding such usage And if the branch of one Act recites another Act be it in the Commencement or Continuance it is void as 1. E. 6. c. 12 repeales all offences made Fellony after the Commencement of the reigne of H. 8. and by one branch in it this Statute excepts imb●sselling of goods by servants made Fellony in the seven and twentieth yeare of H. 8. commencing the 4. of February and continuing untill the 24. of Aprill whereas it finished the fourteenth of Aprill and so Statutes which misrecite things and are referred to them should be void and conclude no man And so here the Statute which recites that the Plaintiffe was attainted and confirmes it whereas indeed he was not attainted shall be void Coles Case IF one gives to another a mortall wound 13. Eli. whereof he languish the 12. of February and the Queen by a generall Pardon by Parliament Pardon all misdemeanors c. the 20. day of February and after the party dies Now this murther is Pardoned Adjudged for that the wound was a Misdemeanor and the cause of death and then by consequence all that which ensueth the Cause is also pardoned The end of the first Book Newis and his Wife against Larke and others A Man devise his Lands to his eldest Son in tayle M. 13. 14. El. in the Common Pleas. Remainder to his youngest Son in tayle the Remainder to the heires of his body the Remainder over in Fee and moreover his Will was that if any of his entaylees do wrong vex or molest any other of them for the sayd Lands or should Mortgage bargaine and sell c. the sayd Lands or otherwise incumber it other then to Lease it to them that from thenceforth every such person and his heires that shal so doe shall be excluded and dismissed touching the said intaile and that the conveyance of the intaile of the said Lands against him or them shall be of no force But that it shall descend and come to the party next in tayl to him as if such disorderous person had never bin mentioned in the sayd Testament And after the eldest Son levies a Fine and after he and the youngest Brother suffer a common Recovery and their Sister enter and by
the Court her entry is lawfull But the Writ was abated for that it was Coram Justiciariis predictis whereas there were no Justices named before 1. That the Fine and Recovery are such acts bargaines and incumbrances which make a forfeiture 2. The penaltie here inflicted for the forfeiture is a limitation which determines the estate Ipso facto without making any discondtinuance thereof by the Alienation and is not a condition by the intent of the Testator and hereby the determination of the est●…e the Fee and Frank-tenement is cast upon him in the next remainder that shall not alien without Entrie as upon an Escheat or dying without issue and hath the intent as if it were devised untill he shall alien The entry of Scholastica the wife of Newis becaus I. and F. C. her brothers levied a Fine suffered a common Recovery by the Court is lawfull But the Writ was abared for that it was coram Justic ' predict where no Justices were named before because the Fine and Recovery are such Acts Bargains and Incumbrances which make a forfeiture for that they give title and occasion to defeat the estates taile limitted to I. and F. C. For by the Fine with Proclamations the estate of I. is barrable and by the Recovery the Taile of him and F. is defeated and so within the words and the intent of the penaltie of the last Will of their Father H.C. Also the penaltie here inflicted for the forfeiture is not a condition by the intent of the Testator which will not that all the estates Tailes shall be defeated for entry for the condition broken by him in possession or any in remainder shall defeat all estates and put him which enters in of such an estate as he had before the condition made as 29. Ass pl. 7. Brooke Conditions inwords in a Will lik unto a condition shal not make a Condition because the intent of the party appears not to be to defeat all the state scilicet of him in remainder there also it is not a condition here because then he breaks it which enters for the condition But this is a limitation which determines the estate Ipso facto without making any discontinuance of it by the alienation and hereby the determination of the estate the Fee and Franck Tenement is cast upon him in the next remainder which aliened not without entry as upon an Escheator dying without issue and hath the intent as was devised quo usque he shall alien or incumber So land given to I. in tail so long as I.S. hath issue of his body which dieth without issue there it shall revest presently without entrie for words named in a Will if they are not apt shall be drawn to the intent and the Law submits it self to the Will as to the Parliament as Dyer termed it in matter order and form So a gift of Land so long as such a one is Abbot or during coverture is a limitation So Matrimonii prolocuti there the estate shall be defeated by the intent without expresse Condition in Deed Fitzh nra.br ' 201. E. A man devises to a woman in London upon condition that if she marrie the land shall remain to his sonne in taile with remainder over the woman marries the sonne shall have ex gravi querela by Fitzh by Dier he may enter So it shall be taken as a limitation yet it sounds as a Condition And by Dier a condition in deed in a conveyance made By Fitz-James 28. H. 8. was taken by limitation a fortiori where it is by last Will where the intent shall rule the words and the words not the intent and the intent shall be observed in the exposition of Wills and of the Testator in making of his Will hath a Power like to an Act of Parliament by Dier and the intent in a devise shall make Estates passe contrary to the Rules of the common Law in Deeds or other gifts as a Remainder is good without an Estate precedent So where the particular Tenant entailed disagrees see 34. E. 3. where it depends upon condition so upon a devise to the sonne after the death of his wife there she takes an estate for life although it be not given to her so 10. H. 7.20 Cestuy que vse devises that a woman his Executrix shall sell the land she sells it to her second husband good So a devise to a man and his heires males which hath issue a daughter who hath issue a sonne he shall inherit 28. H. 8. by Dier otherwise Bracebridge against Cooke LEssee for yeares grant his terme to the wife of the Lessor Tr. 14. El. in the Kings Bench in E Firme and a stranger the wife dies the stranger shall have the whol terme and land by survivor Adjudged 1. For that the interest of the husband by reason of the coverture severs not the Joincture● nor alters the possession of the terme or other chattells realls of the wife but is possessed of them in the right of his wife so that if a stranger outs them the wife ought to joyn with the husband in Ei firme and she shall have judgement as well as the husband and therefore if the husband charges it or if he devise the terme and dies the devise is void because he had the Estate in him at the time and before the time of his death But the property of Chattells personalls is devested out of the wife and vests in the husband because of the coverture and therefore if one gives goods to a Fem covert and a stranger the joyncture is presently severed by the Law and she and the stranger shall be Tenants in common 2. The immediate Fee and frank Tenement that the husband hath in his owne right shall not drown the terme which he hath in the right of his wife where she is sole Lessee nor the moitie of the terme where she is joint Lessee as here and the operation of the Law shall not do a thing contrary to equity and reason to the prejudice of another namely in Chattells Realls which are things of continuance because the husband by expresse act hath not given nor altered it as he may by making of a Feoffment of the land or new Leas c. But hath left it to the judgement of the Law The Law preserves the estate of the wife which estate as to the wife is disjoint from the Freehold and Fee-simple but a rent granted to the terrenant and a stranger the Tenant dies the other shall not have all because the Moity drownes in the land and therefore that was not in joyncture at the time of the death of him which first died and the other shall not have all as survivor But the rent here shall be apportioned because of the occupation that every one hath per my et tout of the profits But husband and wife here cannot joyn in E firme with the stranger But the Husband shall use his reall action upon an
Ouster during the coverture because by this he continues all his estate but that part of the State taken from him by the disseisin by the Eiectione Firme And the stranger may have Eiectione Firme for his Moity as two oyntenants for life and to the heires of one of them looses by default the one shall have right and the other a Quod ci deforceat and the Moity of the terme is not suspended for then it shall not survive Parson Patron and Ordinary make a Lease for yeares of Gleeb-land the Parson dyes the Lessee is made Parson and dyes his Executors shall not have the residue of the terme because the terme was extinct by the freehold of the Land which the Parson had in him because both in his owne right and to his owne use yet in severall capacities But by Dier it shall not be extinct because he hath the terme in his owne right and in Capacity of his naturall body and the Inheritance as Parson which is another Capacity But where the Lessor hath the terme of yeares as Executor to the Lessee it is not extinct but the terme when the Lessor dyes shall be revived Bracebridge against Clouse A Man seized in Fee of a Mannor maketh a Lease of forty Acres parcell of the Mannor for forty yeares if the Lessee shall live so long and after by Poll makes a Lease of the sayd forty Acres to J. S. for seventy yeares J. S. grants his terme to the Wife of the Lessor and a stranger the Husband makes a Feoffment in fee by Indenture of the Mannor and moreover grants by it all his other Lands and Tenements in the same Village to the Feoffee and his heires and this Feoffment was to the use of the Feoffor and his heires and dyed his Wife dies the first Lessee for yeares dyed within the forty yeares the stranger entred into the whole forty Acres and upon an Ouster by the heire of the Lessor brought E. Firme And adjudged that he shall recover for his owne moity and shall be barred for the moity of the Wife 1. That the Lease for seventy yeares is good for so many years which are to come of it after the death of the first Lessee yet is without Deed for that the Lessor in respect of his Reversion in fee may contract with another for any estate to be derived out of the Reversion and shall take effect then and not stay untill the forty yeares are extinct be effluction of time for the Condition if he shall live so long is a limitation which determines the estate otherwise it is of a Collaterall Condition for although that the terme be finished by it or by surrender or forfeiture the second terme shall not commence untill the terme be incurred for that hee had not power to contract for the possession during the first terme in respect of any such possibility of the breach of Condition surrender forfeiture c. As upon a Lease for life for the incertainty of the determination of the estate by his death and for the possibility which was at the time of the Contract that the Lease shall be executed before the death of Tenant for life by his surrender forfeiture c. As the Lessor maketh a Lease for life and after maketh a Lease to another for one and twenty yeares to commence presently Tenant for life dyes or surrenders the second Lease shall commence presently But if one make a Lease for forty yeares by word defeasible upon Condition to be performed by the Lessor and incontinently makes a new Lease for forty yeares by word this is void yet the first Lease is avoided by performance of the Condition or is surrendered because there is no possibility that it will be executed in respect of the Collaterall Condition But if the second Lease be by Indenture it is good by Estoppell And if it be by Deed Poll with Attornement the Reversion will passe 2. By the first Lease of forty yeares the forty Acres were severed from the Mannor for a time for that the Lease was executed by entry but the Reversion and Francktenement is parcell of the Mannor but the Lease for seventy yeares not nor may be executed by entry during the first Lease but is executory after this determined then of this Lease for seventy yeares the Lessor hath not any Reversion then this is not severed from the Mannor but continues parcell of it because it is executory and not executed by entry and then when the Lessor maketh a Feoffment of the Mannor the Reversion which depends upon the Lease for forty yeares passe as parcell of the Mannor which Reversion may be parcell of a thing in possession But not contrary discharge the moity of the terme for seventy yeares which is extinct by the Livery that gave the possession otherwise it were if the terme had beene executed at the time of the Livery except the Husband made Livery in this Land leased for the Land is severed by the Lease and here the execution of the possession to the use in an instant shall not revive the terme which was extinct before by the Livery Lessee for yeares before entry hath not possession so that a Release to him before entry is not good but he hath onely an Interest and right which is grantable or forfeitable before entry the Lessor shall not have Rent untill he hath waved the possession or the Lessee enters because presently the Lessor is adjudged occupier 28. H. 8.14 3. The grant of all his Lands and Tenements shall passe the terme because it is his Land for the time and for that hee had not any other Land there or otherwise the words would be void and therefore the opinion of Brook was denyed to be Law 7. E. 6. which is contrary but if he had other Lands there then it may be that the terme will not passe 4. He had Judgement for one Moity and was barred for the other where he demanded the whole which is not good b● Plowden but should have been barred for all if exception had been taken to it for that he might have had a better Writ for the Moity Vernon against Manners CHallenge of the Array because the Sheriffe which made it is Cosen to the Tenant in the ninth degree M. 14. 15. El. in the Kings Bench. Adjudged good he can shew how he is Cosen 21. E. 4.75 And notwithstanding the Tenant be seized in right of his Wife to whom the Sheriffe is not inheritable for by reason of Cosenage it shall be intended favourable and although that he cannot inherite the Land demanded yet he may inherite other Land as he ire to the Tenant Smith against Stapleton LEase for life to Husband and Wife P. 15. El. in the Kings Bench. Replevin Remainder in tayle to N. T. their Son a stranger levies a Fine Sur Conusans de droit come ceo que il ad de son done a● N.T. the Son which grants and renders the
in force until after the Proclamations that then it shall barr tayl because otherwise the Proclamations are in vain for to give notice of the Fine if the party cannot defeat the Fine before all the Proclamations ended by Entrie Claim or Action Tenant in tayle of land grants a Rent by the render of a Fine or grant the nomination of an Advowson by the Rendor or Tenant in tayle of a Rent disseises the Tenant of the land and levies a Fine of the land and Proclamations passe this is no barr to the issue because the Fine was not levied of the thing intayled by Thorneton but if Tenant in tayl of a Rent Advowson Tithes Common c. levies a Fine and dies and after the Proclamations passe the issue is barred by the Statute yet the Fine was not a discontinuance because things which lie in grant but there he may claim where entrie lieth not and good for to defeat the Fine and Proclamations and to save the tayle But if Proclamations passe a Formedon depending the issue is barred by this Statute of 32. H. 8. otherwise it is if one if one brings an Action within five yeares upon the Statute of 4. H. 7. and the five yeares incure hanging the Action because 32. H. 8. favours not estates tayle and is stricter against them then 4. H. 7. against a stranger because 4. H. 7. allowes benefit to a stranger to persue his Action within five yeares 32. H. 8. before the Proclamations incurred nor without recovery also Lease executory grante by the render of a Fine by tenant in tayle shall be good against his issue after Proclamations incurred after the death of the father If a man makes a Lease for 21 yeares or for life to one and presently maketh a Lease for one and twenty yeares of this to another by Indenture or by Fine rendring Rent the Lessor shall have an Action of debt for the Rent by reason of the Estoppell for every one is Estopped against the other to say that the possession passeth not but if the second Lessee enters and be expulsed by the first Lessee he may well plead this matter in Bar against the Lessor in an Action of debt And so rent by Estoppell avoyded by entry and expulsion Tenant in tayl maketh a Lease for fourty years to commence ten yeares after rendring Rent and the next day dies the issue enters and infeoffs I.S. within the ten years and after the ten years the Feoffee waves the possession and Lessee enters and payes the rent to the Feoffee which accepts it Now he hath made the Lease good for by the Feoffment the Lease was not avoided because it was an Act indifferent and Eligible and he could not make his Election before his time and then this Election affirms or disaffirms a voidable Lease And if one entry of the issue avoids not a Lease executory A forlior● a descent of the Remainder where entry fails shall not avoid it but a rent charge he shall because there the issue hath not Quid pro quo and to his disadvantage the entry of the issue and Feoffment over dischargeth the Rent charge granted by his Father 14. Ass pl. 4. So one Statute 9. E. 3. contrary but no Law by Plowden and Bromley for that the Remitter dischargeth the Execution as well as the Rent charge Trees sold by Tenant in tayl and not severed in his life the bargainee shall not have them 18. E. 4.6 If the Plaintiffe prayes not the Prothenotary to enter his judgement nor pay for it the judgement shall not be entered without the order of Court Davies against Pepys THe obligee may charge the Heire or Executor at his Election where they both have assets P. 15. El. in the common Pleas. Debt but not doubly for if he be satisfied by the one the other shall be discharged by Audita querela The King untill 33. H. 8. could not touch the Land or Heire of his debtor if he had goods sufficient by Magna Charta cap. 8. but other persons were left at large Advowson and other Lands were extended for this debt Debt upon an Obligation against one as Heire in the debet detinet adjudged good otherwise it is against Executors for Executors are debtors and have their assets in one anothers right scilicet in the right of the said Testator but the Heire hath the Land to him discended in his own right and so the property which he hath in the assets maketh the debt his proper debt And therefore if he dies his Executors shall be charged with the debt of his Father and not his Heire notwithstanding he hath the Land by discent for that he claimes it from his Father and not from his Grandfather which was debtor as it seemeth by the Booke of Entries fol. 171. title Debt Yet inquire by Plowdon And if the Heire cometh not in and confesse the action and the truth of the Asserts discended then he shall be charged as for his own debt by Capias ad satisfaciendum fieri facias or elegit So if he be condemned upon default nihil dicit false plea or demurrer as Greensmiths Case is 15. El. or upon nihil dicit as Killegrewes Case is 3. Eliz. or upon any other Plea or not pleading c. otherwise of Executors which are debtors but in anothers right there Execution shall be of the goods of the deceased onely and not of their proper goods and in debt against the Heire all the Land which he hath by discent shall be put in execution by the Common Law and in no other Case Wast by cleer Haddon against Brook IF a man purchase Lands and die without Issue and without Heire on the part of his Father P. 15. El. in the Common Pleas. the Heire of the the Mother of his Father shall inherit him and not the Heire on the part of his own Father Adjudged For the Heire on the part of the Grandmother on the part of his father which conveys by the Father which is a Male is more worthy of bloud then the Heire on the part of the mother of the Purchasor which conveyes immediately by a Female and not by a Male But if both agree in equall dignity of blood there the neerest Heire shall be preferred as the brother of the Grandmother of the part of the Mother of the Purchasor shall be preferred before the brother of the great Grandmother of the part of the Father for he is nearest and the dignitie of their blood as to the Purchasor is equall for Proximitie keepeth place on the part of the Females conjoyned by marriage to the Males from whence such blood is once derived by a Male to the Purchasor by the whole Court land purchased by the Father discends never resorting to the blood of the Mother of his Sonne because strangers to the blood of the Father 39. E. 3.29 No woman after the Wife of the Father purchasor shall have the Land when once discended because
it ought to touch this blood alwayes But then Heires of the Wife of the Father purchasor shall have it if others fail because Wives by the marriage after the purchase are of Aliance to the blood and not of the blood of the Purchasor otherwise it is of marriage which precedes the Purchase And so no marriage is to be regarded but that of the Father and Mother of the Purchasor and no marriage after shall make a man inheritable to this Land By the Court Wast assigned in digging of Gravell suffering Houses to bee uncovered whereby the Timber rotted and permitting a wall of stone to fall to ruine and a Meadow to lie continually overflowne and covered with water Sir Thomas Wrothes Case KIng Henry the eight granted and Annuitie of 20 l. to Sir Thomas Wroth for his life Tr. 15. El. in the Excheq Petition to be Usher of the Privy Chamber to the Prince Edward his Sonne without the words Pro nobis heredibus successoribus nostris And dies and after E. 6. dies The question was if the Annuity should be determined by it or if notwithstanding it the Annuity shall have his continuance And it was adjudged that the Annuity continues during his owne life and he shall have the arrerages 1. If the King reciting a thing executed which is not materiall as for the good service which he hath done grants an Annuity c. there the party in pleading shall not take averment of it by 21. E. 4.48 and 26. H. 8.1 But otherwise it is if the thing be materiall and executory as that he hath released there he ought to averre that he hath released it which is in benefit of the King 2. The not doing of the service here to the Prince shall cesse the Annuity as well as if the service had bin appointed to the grantor himself as an Annuity granted by the King to a Physician or Schoolmaster for to give Physick or teach a Stranger shall determine by not doing of it which is the cause of the grant and executory as the Annuitie it self is 3. The discent of the Crowne and State Royall to the Prince makes him King and alters the degree of his Person because another Majestie there and requires Officers of greater Honour to doe service to his politicke body And therefore by this Act of God the Law discharges Sir Thomas Wroth from his service and therefore without averment that he had served King Edward all his life time is not to purpose otherwise if the service be feaseable to his naturall body onely as Physick Surgery Musick Grammer c. for the naturall body alters not by assumption of the Royall estate from its infirmities 4. That the death of the King E. the 6. hath not determined the Annuity although that the service be discharged by the death of the Person to whom it is to be done For this discharge cometh by the Act of God otherwise it were if by the Act of the Party as if he had withdrawn himself from the Princes service when he was Prince So of an Annuity granted for life pro consilio impendendo to the Grantee which dyeth yet the Annuity remains but shall cesse by refusall of the Grantee for to give when he is required because his default and the Grantor hath not means by Law to compell him to give counsell 5. The Grantee of the Annuity is good although that it wanteth these words his Heirs and Successours for that it is granted in the body Politick and charges this body which never dies but alwayes hath continuance as a Grant of an Annuitie or Obligation made by the Abbot and Covent is good without successor because the Corporation charged which alwayes continues otherwise it is of a naturall body for there the Heire shall not be charged if he is not named and hath asserts as by Obligatton of his Father grant of Annuity or warranty because as the body naturall which grants is taken away by death so shall his charge be if the King without words heires and successors grant to one licence to Alien and die the Grantee cannot Alien in the time of another King 2. E. 3. and 3. E. 3.29 For that it is a licence onely otherwise of a licence which implies an interest as to an Abbot of a Purchasor in Mortmaine for there the King gives his Signiory upon the matter as it seemeth 2. H. 7.6 Inheritance of the King or a thing in which he is intituled of Common right as Lands Conusans of Pleas out of the Kings Courts or account by a Sheriffe shall not passe against the Heires and Successors of the King without speciall words Heires and Successors as the grant of a County Absque compoto nobis reddendo yet he shall account to the Successor because it is Executory of Common right to the Crowne otherwise of a thing newly created or a grant which is executed presently in the party yet the perception is Executory as a grant of a Faire Market Warren c. without words Heires and successors good Pension or Annuity granted by the King untill he be promoted by us are spoken in the politick body by which the Heire may promote and then the Pension is extinct by Sanders cheif Baron who said as Plowden reported was resolved by the Sages of the Law 1. Mar. that Patents without words pro nobis hered successoribus nostris granted for the corporall exercise of an Office or service are ordered to be good Eiston against Studd A Woman Tenant in fee P. 16. El. in the Common Pleas Eiect firme taketh Husband and the Husband and Wife levies a Fine Sur Conusans de droit come ceo the Conusee grants and renders the Land to the Husband and Wife and the heires of their bodies the remainder in fee to the right heires of the Wife the Husband hath issue by the Wife and dyes the Wife taketh a second Husband and they leavy a Fine to their owne uses for the terme of their lives without impeachment of wast the remainder to the Husband and his heires for sixty yeares Remainder in tayle to their issue the remainder in fee to the right heires of the Wife and the issue of the first Husband enters for the forfeiture made by this second Fine by the Statute of 11. H. 7. Cap. 20. And adjudged no forfeiture and yet is directly within the words but not within the intent for that the Joincture and advancement came not originally from the Husband or any of his Ancestors to the Wife but on the contrary from the Wife to the Husband yet the Land shall be chargable to Statutes and Recognisances which the Conusee had acknowledged before and to the dower of the Wife of the Conusee which grants and renders it But yet is not within the intent of the Statute because the advancement cometh not from the Husband nor his Ancestors and therefore to restraine Women to dispose of their inheritance after the death of
their Husbands is contrary to the intent of the Statute and the intent ought to be thought on because the Purviewe extends not further then the intent of the makers of the Statute as the Wife infeoffs the Father of him with whom she intends to marry for to regive the Land to them after their intermarriage for lives or remainder in tayle to the Wife the Father doth so they have issue the Wife after the death of the Husband levies a Fine to other uses their issue may not enter yet it is with in the words of the Act of 11. H. 7. because the Father gave it to them But this cometh from the Wife her selfe by circumstance And the Father was but as an Instrument of it and therefore out of the intent of 11. H. 7. which restraineth the generalty of the letter of the Statute and maketh the Cases within the words out of the penalty of the Statute by the intent of the Makers As Infants and mad Men are excepted out of the Cases of Fellonies made by any Statute so neither those nor a Fem covert shall be concluded in the intent of the Statute which maketh them accessary which shall give them Meat Drink or other ayde to them which shall commit such an Act. So if a bargaine for Land be made before a Writ brought against him and the suite depending Livery and Seisen is made It is not Champarty 19. R. 2. because he ought to performe the bargaine made upon just consideration notwithstanding W. 2. Cap. 49. and Articul super Chart. Cap. 11. So a barr fee is within the letter but not the intent of the Statute of 32. H. 6. cap. 10. because appointed to the Sheriffe in the beginning by the order and discretion of the Court for his labour and attendance when the Prisoners are brought to their delivery 21. H. 7.16 So Wreck if a Man Dog or Car escapes alive shall be kept that the party may have his goods if he claimes within the yeare by W. 1. cap. 4. is intended of such things which will endure so long and not perish in the meane time as are Lemans Oringes c. So a rent granted by tenant in tayle for a release of right in other Lands is good 44. E. 3.21 because for the benefit of the estate tayle And W. 2. De donis c. intends not to restraine that which amends the estate tayle So Parsonages and Vicarages are within the words but out of the sense and intent of 1. E. 6. cap. 14. which inlargeth the words of the Statute and maketh that Cases within the like mischeife shall be within the Purview by equity as by the Book of entrys fol. 406. a man shall recover double damages for costs sustained with force by equity of 4. H. 4. cap. 8. which gives this for disseisen of the Land So that Executor which cometh first by distresse shall answer by equity of 9. E. 3. cap. 5. which speaketh of Executors by equity of Gloucester the Lessor shall have wast against the Lessee for half a yeare or for twenty weeks which pleads yeares So 1. E. 6. cap. 12. which takes away Clergy for stealing Horses takes it away also for one Horse because included in the Plurall Number and therefore Plowden disallows 2. E. 6. cap. 33. which taketh away Clergy for the stealing of one Horse as a superfluous Statute and was made in vaine And so 1. E. 6 cannot of Law but morall vertue which reforme the Law and the other equity is Quasi equality because in the like reason in the like Law Sobye against Molins TIthes shall be payd for the Boughs of Hornebeame H. 17. El. in the Kings Bench. Attachment upon prohibition Hasell Sallows Maple and such Trees which are not fit for building and so of the Trees themselves although that the Trees and Boughs are above the age of one and twenty yeares for they are not great Trees which are exempted and priviledged of Tithes by the Statute of 45. E. 3. cap. 3. or rather by the Common Law in affirmance of which this Statute was made as appeareth 50. E. 3.10 But Tithes shall not be payd for Ashes Oaks and Elmes Beech and such like Trees which are fit for building and of the age of twenty yeares nor for the Branches of them which are of the age of twenty yeares Quere if the Branches are within such age as the Timber trees which use to be lopped and lopt if Tithe shal be payd for them and it seemeth Tithes shall be payd of them by the Book The use at this day is upon suggestion to have a prohibition that the party shall be bound by Obligation or Recognisans to the King to preferr a Bill of attachment against the party which sues in the spirituall Court if he requires it and upon it to declare and joine issue or demurr upon the right of Tithes and award consultation which Plowden held vicious First for that the Defendant is not Actor and therefore may not have consultation upon such proceedings Secondly For that the Judgement upon the Attachment ought to be to acquit or attaint the party of the Contempt and not proceed upon the right of Tithes Thirdly For that the Plaintiffe cometh into the Court voluntarily Scilicet by his Recognisans to exhibit his Attachment where he ought to be brought in voluntarily by Process Fourthly Because the suggestion of the Attachment is false Fifthly For that if the Plaintiffe will not proceed the Defendant hath no remedy but a Recognisance forfeited to the King But Plowden held it to be the best course after the prohibition that the Defendant sues out a Scire facias against the Plaintiffe Quare consultatio concedi non debeat And upon this the Plaintiffe may declare and the matter shall be tryed and the Defendant may have consultation and then he will be an Actor Sanders and Archers Case ARcher gave Poison to Sanders to Poison his Wife H. 18. El. the Report of the opinions of Dyer Cheife Justice and Barham Justices of Assises in Warw. and Sanders gives this to his Wife in a roasted Apple which did eate part of it and gave the residue to their daughter being an Infant and after the Wife recovers and the Infant dyes and it was adjudged Murder in Sanders for which he was hanged but not in Archer for he was acquit to be no accessary to this Murder First For that Sanders had an evill intent of Murder at the beginning of his Act to kill his Wife and therefore the consequent of his Act by which the Daughter dyes shall be adjudged according to the commencement So if a man shoots at one and kills another or lyeth in waite to kill one and kills another otherwise it is where he hath no ill intent of killing any as to lay poyson to kill Rats and one eates of it and dyeth Secondly The consent of Archer to kill the Woman may not bee conjectured further then he gave it
and the Defendant shew a matter in Law which upon the Law discussed proves the said matter alledged by Plaintiste true or false there he ought not to take a traverse for then the Jury shall try this matter in Law which properly belongeth to the Court to discusse Per Curiam 1. Appropriation of an Advowson ought alwayes to be made to a body Politicke or Corporation Spirituall being Patron of the said Advowson and such Parson onely is capable of an Appropriation and no other and by the Law such Parson in Parsonee may not grant over his Incumbency no more then an Incumbent of a Parsonage presentable at this day nor any other shall have it because it is appropriate to his Parson 3. E. 3.1 The Case of the Templers that by their dissolution the Appropriation was dissolved And yet was first ordained when such Parsons by incroachment and sufferance were made Parsons in Parsonees which could not say Service nor Administer the Sacraments as Deane and Chapter Nuns Abottesles c. which was a thing horrible by the Lord Dyer 2. Every Appropriation shall be made by the King for the losse which he may have otherwise as King by reason of the Tenure and by the or dinary Supreame or Inferiour for the interest that they ought to have in seeing the Cure served by the Patron to whom the Appropriation shall be made and those three are Actors in the Play as Dyer said But here the Appropriation made by the King which is also Supreame ordinary by the Statute of 25. Hen. 8. which transfers to him the Authority of the Pope is good As the Deane of Wells Assigne to the King good by the Court because he is Supreame ordinary by the Statute of 25. Hen. 8. in Sir John Pollards Case against Waldron and here the King doth three things First he grants the Advowson Secondly he maketh the Appropriation as Supreame Ordinary Thirdly he giveth his consent as King fol. 501. if time of Lapps be devolved to the King hee shall present as Supreame Patron in respect that the Advowson is holden of him mediately or immediately If the Appropriation be made without License of the King be the Advowson holden of him or of a common Parson the King shall seise the Advowson and shall have the Presentments untill hee be satisfied of the Fine by his Prerogative and as in the name of a distresse 21. E. 3.5 And there it is said That the Appropriation is not Mortmaine because it is not any transmutation of the possession nor Substraction of Services but the Tenure remaineth as it was before 3. The Appropriation may be made by words future when the Church is full although that the Incumbent hath the Fee and Inheritance of the Church and none shall medle with it which is his in his life but otherwise it is of present words and the proper time to appropriate it is when the Church is void because then it may be executed presently But the Patron cannot present when it is full by future words scilicet that he shall be incumbent when the Church shall be void For that he hath not Title to Present before the avoydance If the King presents to an Advowson and appropriate the Church to a Deane and Chapter which maketh a Lease for yeares in the life of the Incumbent this is a voide Lease after the death of the Incumbent by Plowden for that at the time of the making of it they had nothing in the Rectory and the Appropriation was not executed untill after the avoydance 4. An Usurpation may not be upon a Parson in Parsonee for that he is perpetuall Incumbent and two Incumbents cannot be in one Church 38. H. 14.39 H. 6.21 and 27. and there cannot be ousted by wrong nor have right of Advowson for he is not out of Possession and if one presents to such an Advowson Appropriate and the Clerk is admitted Instituted and Inducted by six moneths yet the Church is not become Presentative nor by any other Act except onely where the Parson in Parsonee himselfe presents for there volemi non sit injuria by Manwood and Dyer the dissolution of the Corporation to which the Advowson is Appropriate is a disappropriation of the Advowson and the Lord of whom it is holden may Present If a Deane and Chapter seised of a Mannor to which an Advowson is Appendent and the Church is Appropriate to them and after they make a Feoffement of the Mannor with the Appurtenances this disappropriates the Advowson for by some it passeth Appendent by the common Law because the Appropriation destroyes not the Appendency But now by the Statute which maketh lay Persons capable of Parsonages Appropriate they are severed from Mannors by the intent of the Act and by the grant of the Parsonage Appropriate which now may be granted to a common Parson and the Advowson shall passe Foure answers to the foure exceptions of the Plea First The first exception is because the Patent is not pleaded with a Non obstante of the Statute of Mortmaine and therefore not good by Dyer But Plowden held the contrary for that the Grant is good untill Office found and then hee may well pleade a licence for that time also the Patent is Excerta scientia which countervailes the clause of Non obstante for that implies that the King was knowing of the Law for ignorance indeed may be allowed in the King ignorance in Law not So if the King grant Lands to his Villain the Land passeth untill Office but it is no infranchisement because if he was his Villain or not is a forrain matter and not apparent to the King And the Kings Grant shall not enure to two intents where one is forraine matter The clause of Non obstante is requisite in a Patent to be Sheriffe for life 2. H. 7. because the Statute saith by precise words That he shall not be Sheriffe above one yeare So a Patent to a Murtherer for pardon and that he shall not finde sureties for his good behaviour ought to have a Non obstante 10. E. 3. because this Statute avoided the Patent by precise words without such surety But the Statute of Mortmaine doth not so here but giveth entry or seisure for a paine admitting the Grant to be good The second exception was that the Patent made not them Parson by expresse words by Dyer The second exception was answered by Plowden who said because the words amounted to as much and for that the Kings appeared to be so that it should not be void because Ex gratia mero motu The third exception made by Dyer was that they did not plead that they entred But Plowden answered that because the Patent granted them power to retaine c. And also they pleaded that they were seised which implies an entrie and in the Common Pleas use upon possession executory shall say seised onely without saying that he entred and was seised The fourth exception that was made
first and after of the Land in sense and so by exposition the words shall be altered and so marshaled that the intent may take effect So a termor deviseth all his terme to his Son neverthelesse his Will is that his Wife shall have it for her life holden a good devise to both by conversion of the words So a Remainder to the Church of Saint Andrew in Holborne good by devise 21. R. 2. although the Devisee is not capable because the Testator intended that the Parson shall have it Cestuy que use at this day devise that his Feoffees shall be seised to the use of one A. in fee this is a good devise of the Land Adjudged in the Case of Lingen yet after 27. H. 8. he cannot have Feoffees to his use because the intent was that he should have the Land So the Executor shall not sell the Land according to the devise but take the profits for two years to his owne use the heire may enter because the intent of the Testator maketh this a Condition 38. Ass 31. Incertainty in Contracts reduceable to certainty by contingent standeth good As if I lease to one habendum from the death of J. untill such a Feast which shall be in the year 1620. good if J. dye before that otherwise it is void Two properties of a terme as where Lessee for yeares which grants over his terme enters for not payment of Rent and retaineth untill he be paid his Arrerages thereof So of a Conusee of a Statute which hath the Land extended so upon a Lease for yeares of a Mill except the Profits to the Lessor for his life and adjudged a good Exception And if the Lessor enters he hath a property incertain and the Lessee another 39. H. 6.37.8 So it is of Sheepe letten for to compester or a Chain of Gold pledged 5. H. 71. they have one Property and the owner another Cestuy que use devise the Profits and Issues of his Lands fol. 509. b Cestui que use before the Statute of 27. H. 8. Devise his Land and after the Statute publishes his Testament of new the Land passeth by the Statute of 32. H. 8. See fol. 514. yet he was once countermanded by the Statute Cestuy que use devises that his Feoffees shall stand seized to the use of himselfe for life with remainder over this is a good Declaration of the use during his life yet the Will cannot take effect untill his death Quere of this Case fol. 508. b. Bransbie against Grantham AN Executor having a Terme P. 20. El. in the Kings Bench E. firme as Executor devises the Terme to a stranger and maketh his Sonne Executor and dies the stranger enters into the Land by the Assent and Consent of the Executor And after the Executor enters And adjudged that his Entry was lawfull and the devise voide And by consequence the assent given to a voide thing shall be also void and shall not enure as a new grant but onely and assent to the thing devised 1. Because that the Executor cannot devise any thing which he hath as Executor 2. For that the Executor hath the Terme here to the use of the Testator and no man can make a devise of any thing except that he hath it to his owne use And therefore the Husband cannot devise the Terme of his Wife And then when the Executor dies his Executor hath it by Title before the devise as Executor of the first Testator and the property that the Devisor had as Executor is determined hy the determination of his Office of Executorship which is ended by his death and the last Executor hath it by Relation as immediate Executor of the first Testator So an Executor cannot devise the goods of his Testator and therefore the goods of the first Testator in the hands of the last Executor shall not be taken in execution for the debt of the last Testator because the last Executor hath them as immediate Executor to the first Testator and to his use as if they never had been in the last Testator by Relation Hare against Bickley A Prebendary after Admission and Institution and before Induction and Installation grants an Annuity for him and his Successors The Bishop confirmes it and after the Prebendary is Installed and on the same day of the Installation the Dean and Chapter conconfirmes also and after the Prebendary dieth and the Grantee bringeth a Writ of Annuity against the Successor of the Prebend and Adjudged that it lyeth not because the Grant before Induction was voide Induction giveth to the Probendary the possession Temporall and Freehold and the Confirmation is nothing without the Possession And therefore without Induction a man shall not have a Writ of Right nor Spoliation Trespasse nor Assise otherwise it is of a Quare Impedit For in the first he alledges Esplees but not in the last 26. H. 8.3 But by the Admission and Institution he hath care of Soules and is inabled to administer the Sacraments c. And the Arch-Deacon shall make Induction to the Parson and Vicar but shall not make Installation to a Prebendary but the Deane and Chapter shall doe it No Plenarty against the King before Induction for that it is corporall seisen and possession 38. E. 3.10 So the King confirmes to the Collatee of a Bishop before he is inducted the Confirmation is voide 11. H. 4.7.1 H. 5.1 He which hath the Nomination is Patron and he that presents is his servant Induction is triable by the Countrey So if Parson or not and it shall be tried where the Church is 21. E. 4.7 and 33. A woman recovers in Dower she cannot enter but ought to have seisen delivered to her by the Sheriffe as a Copyholder ought to be admitted by the Lord of the Mannor if it discends to him before he shall have seisen in judgement of Law So a Prebendary Parson or Vicar before he is Inducted or Installed hath not seisen nor is full Incumbent for to charge the Possessions of the Prebond Parsonage or Vicaridge Crosse against Howell THe Cookes of London were interrupted in 22. E. 4. Tr. 20. El. in the Kings Bench E. firme by the name of two Masters and Governors of the Communalty of the Mystery of the Cookes of London and in the 21. H. 8. they bargain and sell certain Land by the name of A B C and D. Master and Wardens of the Craft or Mystery of the Cookes of London to R. D. for money without naming his Heires and the Barganee enters and levies a Fine with Proclamations and five yeares passe And adjudged that the Corporation shall be bound by the Fine and Nonclaime and therefore the entry and delivery of the Deede of their Lease to the Plaintiffe as their Deed by him which had their Letter of Attorney so to doe is meerly void 1. The bargain and sale was made for the variance of the Indenture from their name of Corporation for they were
incorporate Masters and the Indenture is Master And in the Indenture foure are named and their Charter Warrants but two Masters Also the Charter is Masters or Governors and the Indenture Masters and Guardians So it varies in Guardians for Governors and in et for or and the words Craft and mystery are surplusage and therefore void words and do not prejudice the Deed but for the other variance the Deed was adjudged void And therefore the bargainee by his entry is a disseisor 2. The Fine with Proclamations and five yeares barres this Corporation and all other Corporations as Major and Communalty Deane and Chapter Colledges c. Which have absolute Estates in their owne right and their Successors for ever by equity of the Statute of 4. H. 7. Notwithstanding that the Statute speakes onely of Men and their Heires for that this Statute is taken largely for possessions of Lands by the Fine and strictly against the ancient right if they be remisse in their claime for five yeares and the Act ought to remedy all the mischief otherwise it is of Corporations which have not any absolute Estate without others as Bishop Deane Parson Vicar and Prebendary c. But every one of them shall be barred by Nonclaim by five years and every Successor shall have new five years So every Officer who hath Land appertaining to his Office as a Parker Forrester Keeper of a Gaole c. shall be barred of Nonclaime after a Fine levied by his disseisor and five year past after Proclamations his Successor not if he doe not also permit 5. yeares Passe in his time 3. A Corporation cannot be seised to another use but onely a Naturall body because they are not imprisonable to be compelled to perform the confidence and a body Naturall shall not be imprisoned for the offence of their body Corporate which is another body 4. A bargain and sale without words Heires shall give a Fee simple But upon those two Points the Court was not resolved because that the other two made an end of the Case An authority given by a Corporation to enter into Land and claime it to their use and after to make a Lease of it in their name is good fol. 535. b. Paramor against Yardley A Termer devises all his Terme to his Sonne H. 21. El. in the King● Bench. Trespasse and besides saith that his will and intent was that his Wife should have the Occupation and Profits of the Land during the Minority of his Sonne to the intent that she with the Profits of it shall educate his children and see his Will performed and made his Wife his Executrix and dies the Wife proves the Testament and educates his Infants accordingly after sells the Terme to one to whom the Testator was indebted having then sufficient of the Goods and Chattells of the Testator to pay all his debts besides the said Lease and after she dies the Sonne at his full age enters and his Entry was adjudged lawfull and his grant to the Plaintiffe good 1. Because that the devise to the Wife is good during the Minority of the Sonne and by the exposition of the Court shall be intended to precede the devise to the Sonne in sense and intent and the devise to the Sonne to succeed 540 5●…1 a. 2. For that the devise of the Profits and Occupation of the Land is a devise of the Land it self for that is the benefit and fruit of the Land otherwise it is of the use of a Chattell personall as of a Looking-glasse Mappe Globe or Booke for there the use is a distinct thing from the property fol. 541. b. and 541. a. 3. For that the Terme shall be executed in the Wife as a Legacy certain untill she disagrees to it because it is more for her benefit and she may not have an occasion against her self as another may otherwise it is of a Legacy certain 1. The Common Law to make the intent of the Parties take effect puts order to words contained in deeds without order as the Releafe of the Disseisor and Disseisee to the Less●e for yeares of the Disseisor shall be first or the Disseisor and after the Disseisee otherwise it wonteth previty between him and the Lessee So Tenant for life Houses for yeares and he and him in Reversion cons●…mes the Estate of Lessee for yeares habendum in Fee The Law adjudgeth the Estate of the Tenant first to passe for to make previtie upon which Release that of him in the Reversion may enure to enlarge the Estate So a Termor for thirty yeares and his Lessee in Possession for ten yeares by himselfe may not surrender for want of previty And therefore his surrender shall be taken to succeed the other Land is devised to one in Fee after a Rent out of it to another in Fee good So fol. 523. because it shall be taken first devised although it be subsequent in words As the Will repeales the first so the last part of the Will repeales to the first part of the Will which is contrary to it because he had such Intent last As a devise of Land to one in Fee in the premises and in the end of the Will to another in Fee But here is not any such contrariety 2. By grant of the Lease land passeth during the Terme because the Lease contains the Land it selfe and time in it words equivalent to words usuall shall have the sense and force of words usuall as 5. H. 7.1 Licence to enter and occupy Land for one moneth is a Lease and so shall be pleaded So that Land shall return redibit or discend or to a stranger after the death of Tenant for life shall be pleaded as a Remainder So a grant of the nomination of the Advowson is in substence a grant of the Advowson because the profit of it rests in the Nomination So here words of Nomination and Profits of the Lease is as much as the Lease it selfe for the time and not of distinct Profits to take also because the Executor here hath not remedy at the Common Law for the Profits if she be ousted of it and for this Legacy she hath no remedy in the Spirituall Court because she cannot sue her selfe there also the Estate it selfe of the Terme shall be in the Wife because the Sonne shall not have it untill fu●l age and then might drown his Profit if she hath but profit to loose 3. Alteration made by Operation of Law where the Party hath not any against whom to bring in his action which is equivalent to a Suite and Execution given to a Stranger as of a Remitter So a Debtor of twenty pound is made Executor he may pay himselfe by way of Retainer and hath property in the debt it selfe presently because he cannot sue himselfe and the Law giveth to him the like advantage as a Suite should be which performes the charge of the thing thereby he claimes the commodity annexed to the charge as to keep