with a kisse greeted such as made the like protestation of obedience and loyaltie vnto him e Plutarth in Alexand. and long before that as it seemeth it was vsed in Iudaea for vpoÌ„ these words of the Psalme ee Psalm 2. r. 12. kisse the sonne our english glosse addeth by way of interpretation in signe of homage and Tremellius and Iunius in signe of fealty sithence these times this respectiue humiliation hath spred it selfe into other countries and territories for the Duke of Gelderland did conceiue an oath in these words to Charles King of Fraunce Ego deuenio vassallus ligeus Caroli regis Francorum pro ratione quinquaginta millium scutorum auri ante festum diui Rhemigij mihi soluendorum c. e Bodin lib. 1. de repub c. 9. Nomom I desire greatly to know the originall 3. Diuision and first blossoming of other seignories Anglonomoph The most common seignorie of 1. What a Manor is and whereof it coÌ„sisteth accompt which wee haue in our Law is a seignorie by reason of a Manor which may be thus defined A Manor it an inheritance of ancient continuance coÌ„sisting of demesnes and seruices perquisites casualties things appendant and regardant customes liberties c. Nomoma What do so many things concurre to make a Manor will not demesnes and seruices serue Anglono Yes demesnes seruices will suffice as material causes to make a Manor f 26. H. 8. 4. but it is a naked Manor which hath nothing els Nomom I would gladly heare somewhat of the commencement and first creation of a Mannor Anglonomo M. Parkins doth very well originally 2. The originall of a Manor describe it in this manner The originall of a Manor was when the King did giue a thousand acres of lande or a greater or lesse parcell to one of his subiectes and his heires to holde of him and his heyres and the donee edifieth a house vpon this lande as his mansion place and of 20. acres or lesse or greater parcell he doth enfeoffe a straunger before the Statute of Quia empto terrar to holde of him and of his heires as of the same house by the plowing of 10. acres of arable laÌ„d parcell of that which remaineth in his owne possession and enfeoffeth and other of an other parcell to hold of him by carying ordure to his arable land and enfeoffeth a third man of a third parcell to goe with him in the warre against the Scots and so by continuance of time saith he a Manor is made g Park Reseruat fol. 128. Sect. 670. Yet by his fauour somewhat els goeth to the making of a Manor namely suite of Court at his house or mansion place h 33. H. 8. Br. Comprise 31. Mannor 5. and this suit must be the suite of more freeholders then one so that some doubt may be made of M. Kitchins assertion wheÌ„ he saith that in some Manors there be no tenaÌ„ts but copiholders and yet in such Mannors be Court barons i Kitch Court Leete Baron tit Manerâ—um fol. 4. for if all the freeholds do eschete vnto the Lord beside one or if he purchase al but one the maÌ„nor is extinct for it can not be a maÌ„nor vnlesse there be a Court baron belonging to it and a Court baron must be helde before suitors and not before one suitor therfore one freehold can not make a mannor k Br. Ca. Sect. 210. 23. H. 8. Br. Court baron 22. in fi 33. H. 8. Br. Suit 17. Nomom You haue well delared vnto me the 4 Diuision beginnings of Seignories and mannors but haue there bene no lawes made for the strengthning preseruing of theÌ„ for me thinks they be good meanes to increase support the wealth puissance and florishing estate of the Realme Anglono Yes our law in this case hath not either sluÌ„berd or winked For in the ancieÌ„t Statute of Magna Charta it is prouided that Nullus liber homo Statutes made for the preseruation of seignoties and Mannors det de caetero amplius de terra sua vel veÌ„dat de caetero quà m vt de residuo terrae suae possit sufficienter fieri domino feodi seruitium ei debitum quod pertinet ad feoduÌ„ illud l Magna charta c. 31. which statute as M. StaÌ„ford auoucheth is but a confirmation of the CoÌ„mon law he a most diligent and exquisite searcher of the reasons of Lawe so that I may boldly speake of him that which I shall not say impudently vntruly Faelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas sifteth out the reason of this Lawe For saith he if one that held by Knights seruice might haue bene suffered to haue aliened the greatest part of his land he would haue aliened the same peraduenture to holde of him but in Socage or by some small rent and then hauing so little a liuelod lefte to himselfe how had he bene able to haue done the seruice of a Knight or man of warre or what should his Lord haue had in warde to haue found one to haue performed the seruice surely little or nothing m Stamf. praerog c. 7. tit Alienati sans licence But it seemeth doubtfull notwithstanding the Statute of Magna Chart. whether the tenaunt might alien his whole tenancie or not whereupon the Statute of Quia emptores terrarum was made which permitted euerie free man to sell his lands or tenements or any part therof at his pleasure to hold of the chief Lord by the same seruice that the feoffer held prouided alwaies that by any such sale there come no lands to mortmain This Statute as M. Stamford noteth remedieth the mischief which was before found in the wardship but not the other mischiefe touching the defence of the Realme for when one mans liuing is so dismembred neuer a one of the feoffees nor the feoffor is able to doe the seruice of a warrior for want of liuelode there being so little quantity of land in euery of their hands yea much more vnable sithence this statute is the feoffor then before for before when he gaue it to hold of himselfe he reserued somewhat in lieu of the land which went from him whereas now he can reserue nothing of common right n Stamf. ibid. And the land which he retaineth in his owne hands may perhaps be of small value Nomom What is the most generall and most common seruice of all 5. Diuision Anglonomoph Fealtie for that is incident to euery 1. Fealtie is the most generall seruice in the Common law 2. And in the Ciuill law tenure vnles it be tenure in frankalmoign o Littlet lib. 2 c. 3. Sect. 13. c. 5. Sect. 22. Codicgn So it is with vs for fealtie which of vs is called fidelitas is due to euerie Lord to whom any seruice is to be performed and euery â— That by the Ciuill law the Common law and the Canon law a
haue the thing solde but if the payment bee respited vnto a certaine day vpon the contract this is good ynough so that the money 2 That a contract is not good without money payed in hand or a certaine day of payment limited be payed within the time prefixed l 21. H. 7. 6. and 28. H. 8. it is positiuely set downe for Lawe that a contracte is not good without present payment vnlesse a certaine day of payment bee limited so that the one of them may haue an action of debt for the money the other a writ of Detinue for the wares m 28. H. 8. 30. Dyer An implied consideration is when the Law it selfe doth intende and enforce a consideration and therefore the Hoste of a common Inne may deteine a mans horse if he wil not pay him for his horse meate And so if a Taylor make a gowne for any man he may deteine the gowne till he be paied for his labour n 5. E. 4. 2. Nomomat Doth not the defect of forme in 8. Diuision 1 Whether the defect of forme doe destroy the contract a contract frustrate and defeate the contract Codign Yes for as the substanciall fourme in materiall things is necessary to the essence and constitution of such things o ff ad extiâ—b l. Iulian. §. l. falsi l. si is qui. §. quidem so in contractes a 2 That solempnitie and concurrence of circumstances is required in contracts by the Ciuil law certaine solemnitie and concurrence of circumstances is required for the perfiting of them as their naturall and proper forme p ff de verb. obligat ' l. sciend l. continuus in princip Eo l. §. si quis ita and without such ceremoniousnes the contract is of no force Anglonomo Our law likewise requireth forme either in pronouncing the wordes of the contract or els in obseruing some other circumstances belonging to the contract For the first if a man promise to another xx li. with his daughter in maryage if he marrie the daughter and the money be not paied he shall not haue any action of debt or action vpon the case at the Common Law but he must sue for this money in the Spirituall 3 That matrimoniall contracts if there be no assumpsit in them are to be decided by the ecclesiastical Law if there be an assumpsit by the common law Court. q Fitz. nat br 44. a 14. E. 4. 6. Reg. 46. 48. 15. H. 3 Prohibition 22. 16. H. 3. Prohi 24. For here is no good forme of contract and as Master Bracton sayeth Matrimonium est principale eiusdem iuris id est iurisdictionis esse debet accessorium r Bracton lib. 5. cap. 16. And therefore if a man by reason of matrimonie or testament doe acknowledge in a Spiritual Court that he ought to pay to one a hundreth markes or some other summe at a certaine day if the money bee not payed at the day accordingly he may be sued for this money in the Spirituall Court and no prohibition lyeth s Fitz. na br 41. b. but if in the former case he had promised one x. li. if he would marrie his daughter if he doe marry his daughter and the other will not pay the money hee may not sue him in the Spirituall Court for this money but at the Common Law t Fitz. na br 44. a et 22. Ass pla 70. p Tho. 16. H. 3. Prohibit 22. for now it goeth in fourme of contract as for the other matter where forme is required in obseruing some other circumstance in the contract that may appeare by this case if a felon sell a horse without couin in a market ouert this doth alter the propertie and the verie proprietary cannot haue restitution of the horse notwithstanding the statute of 21. H. 8. c. 11. but if he had solde him out of a market ouert the propertie had not bin altered u 33. H. 6. 5. 18. E. 4. 24. 7. H. 7. 12. Crompt Iust de Peace 172. Nomom I will trouble you no further in this matter but will proceede to inquire somewhat touching Gifts and Graunts The second Dialogue of Gifts and Graunts NOmomathes In handeling the learning 1. Diuision 1 What things may be giuen or graunted of Gifts and Graunts I think it most fit in the first place to be inquired what things may be giuen or graunted wherefore first I pray you satisfie me in this Codicgn A man may giue all such thinges as 2 That all things that lye in commerce and may be receiued may be giuen an other may receiue a l. in aedibus §. fi ff Eo tit for dare accipere sunt correlatiua and all such things may be receiued which lie in commerce Nomomat Then thinges consecrated and ecclesiasticall may not be aliened because they lye not in contract Canonologus Thinges ecclesiasticall though they 3 That things ecclesiasticall though they be not consecrate cannot regularly be graunted be not consecrate cannot regularly be giuen or graunted b Cap. 2. de donation Eod. tit de re ecclesi non alien in antiquis 6. Cle. in c. sine except cap. si quisquis 12. q. 2. in l. Iubemus cum suis authen C. de sacrosan eccle and I did vse this worde regularly because where such alienation may bring profit to the Church it shall be of force c In dict iur Anglonomo In our Lawe a writ of Contraformam alienationis lyeth where a man gaue landes or tenements to an Abobt or house of Religion before the Statute of Quia emptores terrarum to holde of him in frankalmoigne and after the 4 That if an Abbot did alien lands giuen in frankealmoigne to his house the donor might haue a writ of Contra formam collationis Abbot with the Couent did alien the same land in fee to another nowe he that gaue this lande or his heire may sue this writte of Contra formam collationis against the Abbot or his successor but not against the tenant of the lande but when he hath recouered the lande hee may sue a Scirefacias against the tenant of the freehold d Fitz. na br 210. f. and this writ of Contra formam collationis lyeth not though the Abbot doth alien in fee vnlesse the Abbot and the Couent doe alien in fee e 19. E. 3. Contra formam collationis 5. Fitz. nat br 211. c. and if an Abbot with the Couent doe alien an Aduowson in fee at the next auoydance the foundor or his heire may present to the aduowson because they cannot in such case sue a Contra formam collationis f 20. E. 3. Contra form collat 6 Nomom Let me know I pray you how many 2. Diuision kinds of Gifts there be Anglonomoph They be of diuerse sortes some 1 The diuerse kinds of giftes some being fre some compensatory are called
a lease of a house so that the lessee may make his profit of the houses within it the lessee cannot in this case take downe or demolishe the houses nor make wast in them for the intent was not so a 17. E. 3. 17. but if the King graunt to me visum franciplegij in omnibus terris meis feadis I cannot haue this in any landes and tenements which I shall afterwards purchase b 38. H. 6. 10. But 4 Howe the â— Queens grants and licences shal be construed and interpreted if the king graunt to a man that he and his heires shal be quit of taxe for their landes which they haue this is a good graunt though there be no taxe due at the time of the graunt c Ibid And so is the Law of Tenths and fifteenes d 19. H. 6. 62. 21. H. 6. 43. 21. E. 4. 45. and he to whom the King graunteth a licence may not vary from the proper sense the significancy of the words e 18. E. 2. Fines 124. And if the king before the dissolution of Monasteries had licenced an Abbot and his Couent to make a feoffement if the Abbot onely had made it the feoffement had beene voide f 21. H. 7. 8. And 3. Ed. 3. the King licenced one to leuie a fine of the mannour of Dale to the intent to maintayne two Chaplaines and hee woulde haue leuied the fine omitting the Chapleines but was not suffered g 3. E. 3. 5. and 30. Edward 3. the licence was to leuie a Fine of the Mannour of Dale and hee woulde haue leuied the Fine with a foreprise or exception of certaine acres parcell of the Mannour rendering rent but was not admitted to it because it coulde not stande with the licence which was that all the Manour should bee charged with the rent h 30. E. 3. 17. So if the Queene licence one to make a Feoffement by deede he cannot make it without deede i 21. H. 7. 8. per Frowike and this Lawe holdeth likewise in a common persons case for if hee that hath a warrant of Attourney to deliuer seisin absolutely doe deliuer-seisin vpon condition this is a disseisin to the feoffour k 12. Ass pâ— 24 And a graunt is not to bee fauoured contrarie to the euident perspicuous sense of the words 5 That a graunt is not to be fauoured contrary to the manifest sense of the words For if a man graunt to an other a loade of wood to take in his soyle euery yeare and the grauntee surceaseth the two first yeares and the third yeare hee taketh three loade hee is a wronge doer for two of them so if a man graunt to an other a common for three beastes yearely and hee taketh nothing the two first yeares he shal not haue common for three beastes the third yeare l 27. H. 6. 10. The aduowson of the Hospitall of Saint Katherins is appendant to the Mannour of B. the Hospitall being voide the Queene graunteth manerium ac omnes aduocationes cum pertinentijs the present presentment doth not passe m 13. Eliz 300. Dyer for it is fructus aduocationis and not the aduowson it selfe n 11. Elizab. 283. Dyer Codicgn The words of a graunt are to bee taken most strictly against the grauntor because nn Phil. Deci. in Comm. ad Regul iur he might haue expressed his meaning in more full large and manifest words Nomom Nowe resolue me whether a graunt 4. Diuision that is not good at the first may be made good by matter ex post facto Anglonomoph In no sorte for if there bee 1 That by the common law a graunt that is not good at the first may not be made good by matter ex post facto neither by the Câ—uil Law Lorde and three iointenauntes and the Lorde graunteth the seruices of one of them to a straunger this is a voyde graunt thoughe the same tenant doe attourne and suruiue his compaignions For no attournement can make an euill graunt to bee good o 5. E. 3. 34. and if a man lease lande to the husbande and wife duringe their liues and after graunteth the reuersion of the lande which the husbande holdeth for terme of life and then attournement is had the graunte is voide and the attournement also p 13. E. 3. Bro Iointen 63. And if a man be bound to a FemÌ„ sole and a straunger releaseth to the obligour and after maryeth the feme yet the release is not good q 15. E. 3. FeoffemÌ„t 63. So it is if in auncient time a Monke Fryer or Cannon professed which was no Soueraigne of an house had graunted to one an annuitie this was a void graunt though he had bin after dereigned or made Soueraigne of the same house or some other r 2. R. 3. 5. Codign As that which is lawfully done cannot be made void to all intents so that which is altogether void at the beginning cannot be strengthned by continuance of time rr Phili. Decr. Comment ad reg iur Nomom Let me aske you this question Anglonomoph 5. Diuision 1 Whether a tenant at wil may graunt ouer his estate whether may a tenant at will graunt ouer his estate or no especially if he in the reuersion doe after agree to it Anglonomoph I thinke not for it is not properly an estate because it wanteth certaintie Å¿ 27. H. 6. 3. but if my 2 That the estate of the tenant at will is in maner no estate tenant at will be outed by a straunger hee may reenter without my commandement for the entre of a stranger doth not determine my will t 11. E. 4. 3. and an other reason why he cannot grant his estate is because his estate dependeth as well vpon his owne will as the will of the lessor and if he lease ouer the land his will as to that intent is determined and by consequent his estate u 22. E. 4. 5. per Brian and his estate is such a non-estate in the eye of Law that he cannot haue ayd of his lessor w 12. E. 4. 5. and if the heire accept a rent reserued vpon a lease at will made by his father this cannot make the lease good because it was void before no more then his acceptance of a rent reserued vpon a lease for yeres which is determined by reentre can make that lease good x 14. H. 8. 11. Codicgn The estate of such a tenant is none at all in our law vnlesse he should set downe his will in certaine who demiseth y l. qui se patris C. vnde liberi Canonologus So it is likewise in our Law z C. de summa tri side cathol l. 1. Nomom I will not insiste any more vpon this matter but wil passe to the consideration of bargaines and sales The third Dialogue of Bargaines and Sales NOmomat I will
tenancie of whom fealtie is demaunded and he refuseth to perfourme it ſ C. vnico que fuit prima causa §. sed non est alia so that the Lorde doe demaunde fealtie at due times and allowed by Lawe because if he should demaund it euerie yere the vassalle should not loose his tenancie t §. si vastallus si de feud de funct ' §. licet vastallus c. domino guerrā in tit hic finit lex c. also the vassall looseth his tenancie if 2 Many causes of the tenants forfaiture in the ciuil Law being at full age he be not in expedition with his Lord or if he doe not depute some able person for the discharge of the duetie or if he doe not pay to his Lord stipendia militiae pro quantitate feodi when he is lawfully demaunded u de pace iuram firm §. fin and that is said to be a due quantitie of a knights see whē the vassall which goeth not in war nor sendeth a sufficient man doth yeelde the halfe part of the yerely value of his tenancy to the Lord. x C. Imperialem § firmiter de prohi feud alien p Freder Angonomo There be many conclusions in our 3 Some cause of forfaiture at the common Law Lawe aunswerable to that which you haue said for it hath bin affirmed that if a man holde his land of his Lord by homage and fealtie and he hath done homage and fealtie to his Lorde and the Lorde hath issue a sonne and dyeth and the seignorie discendeth to the sonne in this case the tenaunt which hath done homage to the father shal not do homage to the sonne because when a tenaunt hath once done homage to his Lorde hee is excused for tearme of lyfe to doe homage to any other heire of the Lord a Litt ' lib. 2. c. 7. sect 13. But if a man bee seised of a Mannour and an other man holdeth lande of him as of the foresayde Mannour by homage and hath done his homage vnto him and a straunger bringeth a Precipe quod reddat against the owner of the Mannour and recouereth the Mannour against him and sueth execution in this case the tenaunt shall agayne doe homage to him that recouered the Mannour though he haue done homage before because the estate of him who receiued the first homage is defeated by the recouerie and it lyeth not in the mouthe of the tenaunt to falsifye or defeate the recouerie which was against his Lorde b Litt ' ibid ' sect ' 17. And if if a tenaunt which ought by his tenure to doe homage to his Lorde come to his Lorde and say vnto him that hee is readie to doe him homage for the tenements which hee holdeth of him and the Lorde doth then refuse to receiue it after such refusall the Lord cannot distreigne the tenaunt for the homage before the Lorde require him to doe homage vnto him and he refuseth c Litt ' lib. 2. c. 7. sect ' 19. 20. and he that holdeth by Knights seruice of the King neede not goe to warre with him if hee will finde a sufficient person conueniently armed and fitte to goe with the King and this seemeth good reason For it may bee that hee that holdeth by such seruices doth languishe in sickenesse so that he cannot goe nor ryde And a Feme sole which holdeth by such seruices may not in such case goe in proper person and it hath beene said that Escuage shall not bee graunted vnlesse the King goe to warre himselfe in proper person and after such a voyage royall it hath beene likewise affirmed that by authoritie of Parliament Escuage shall be assessed and put in certaine how much euery one that holdeth by an entier fee of Knightes seruice which was not with the King by himselfe or by an other for him shall pay to his Lord of whom he holdeth by Escuage as if it be ordeigned by authoritie of Parliament that euery one which holdeth by an entier fee of Knights seruice that was not with the King nor any other c. for him shall pay to his Lord fortie shillinges then euery one that holdeth of his Lord by the moitie of a Knights fee shall pay to his Lorde fortie shillinges and he that holdeth by a fourth parte tenne shillinges and soe pro rata d Litt ' lib. 2. e. 3. sect ' 5. 6. 8. 7. E. 3. 29. Nomom Resolue me I pray you whether when 9. Diuision the tenant hath committed treason or felonie and thereof is conuicted and attainted he shal as to his tenancie incurre any preiudice Codicgn In such case either the offence is 1 Whether when the tenant hath cōmitted felony or treason and is attainted he shall suffer any preiudice in his tenancie 2 A diuersitie in the Ciuil law where the offence is committed against the person of the Lord and where against the person of a straunger committed against the person of his Lord and so he doth preiudice all these that are to succeede him in the land by order and course of Law depriuing them of the aduantage of inheritance e Cap. vnico §. denique in si in illis verbis si tamen fuerit paternumt it que fuit prima causa ben amitt or he hath offended against some other person and not against the person of the Lord then the children onely and such as were to take benefit by the person of the father as issuing from his bodie are repulsed from the inheritance f §. Si vassallus culpam si de feud◠defunct ' and then it goeth to them of the kinred which are nearer in degree g Gloss super verbo reuocabuntur in d. si vassallus culpam Anglonomoph By our Lawe where the tenant is outlawed of felonie it is in the Lords election to haue a writ of Escheate supposing that his tenant was outlawed of felony or that he dyed without heire for by the attainder the bloud is corrupted h 48 E. 3. 2. But it seemeth by Nicholses case 3 That by the common law by attainder of felonie or treason the bloud is corrupted and in the one case the land shall eschete to the king and in the other to the immediate Lord. that the partie attainted ought to bee dead before the lande can escheate for according to the opinion of Dyer and Barham in the Kinges case after the attainder and till Office be found the see simple shall bee in facto in the person attainted so long as he shall liue for as he hath a capacitie to take land of a new purchase so he hath power to hold his auncient possessions and he shall be tenant to euery Precipe and if he died before office found and the land be held of the King the lande shall goe to the King in nature of a common eschete i 18. Eliz. Com̄ 477. Nichols case but this is to be intended in
free gifts which proceede merely of a mans good will and beneuolence others may be called Compensatorie because they are giuen for some cause or consideration Gifts or graunts of the first kinde are such as I nowe shall recite out of our bookes First the Queene may graunt 2 What is wrought by the Queenes graunt ex mero motu to one lande ex mero motu and though her highnesse doe rehearse some consideration in the patent of her graunt which is not true as if the consideration bee that whereas the grauntee hath done her Maiestie good seruice on the Sea or beyond the Sea or in her Maiesties warres or in some other busines though the consideration be meerley supposed and not true and therefore no good consideration in Law yet the words ex mero motu do make the grant good g 26. H. 8. 1. per Fitz. and whereas the Queene ex certa scientia mero motu doth confirme a graunt supposing that a graunt was made before where in truth there was no such thing it is held that her highnes shall be concluded to say that no such graunt was made otherwise it had bin if this worde informamur had 3 What is wrought by her Maiesties graunt by words of Informamur bin vsed in reciting the graunt h 9. H. 7. 2. For if her highnesse graunt any thing vpon the false suggestion of the partie this graunt is voide because shee is deceiued in her graunt i 11. E. 4. 1. per Littlet ' and wee haue a rule Si suggestio non sit vera literae patentes sunt vacuae k 3. H. 7. 6. For when the graunt is made vpon the suggestion of the partie the wordes of the graunt shal be taken strictely but when it is ex mero motu it must be construed and interpreted according to the Kings intent and as fauorably for the grauntee as reason will permitte l 21. E. 4. 25. Abbe de Walthams case per Browne Genney and if a common person do without consideration giue to I. S. his goods indefinitly al his goods do passe and if a common person doe by deede enrolled enfeofee the Queene of his lands without any consideration the Queene shal be seised to her owne vse as hauing such prerogatiue in her person that she shall not bee seised to the vse of any other m 28. H. 8. 7. Dyer Bokenhams case per Knightley Gifts made vpon consideration may be explained by cases likewise drawne out of our bookes though in a common persons case the consideration which is mencioned be false yet the vse shall be to the feoffees as appeareth by Wilkeses case who reciting by his deede falsely 4 Whether vpon a false consideration expressed an vse shal be raised in a common persons case that in consideration of 700. li. payed he had enfeoffed A. and B. to haue and to holde to them and to their heires to the proper vse and behoofe of the said A. and B. in perpetuum afterwarde by Office it was founde that Wilkes was seised of the lande and that he helde in Capite and I. was founde to bee his heire and of full age yet it was helde that the heire should not be receiued to auerre the consideration false against the acknowledgement of his auncestor n 1. Eliz. 169. Dy. Wilk case and so it hath beene helde in Villiers his case that where money is the consideration expressed an other consideratioÌ„ shal not be auerred neither shal a Causa 5 That a consideration may be auerred which is not repugnant to the vse expressed matrimonij prelocuti be auerred where an other consideration is expressed but where no consideration is expressed there a consideration may be auerred or where the consideration auerred is not repugnant to the consideration expressed in the deed o 4. Mar. 146. Dy Villier case And though the consideration be not valuable yet it may bee a good consideration to raise or to alter an vse for in Sharingtons case it hath bin adiudged that the affection of the father for the prouision for the heires males which he may beget and the affection which he hath that the lande may remaine in his bloud and name be 6 That an vse may be altered by a consideration not valuable causes sufficient to make vses in the lande for as it is there said Naturae vis maxima Natura bis maxima p 8. Eliz. 298. ComÌ„ Sheringtons case And so betwixt brethren pro fraterno amore is a good consideration to raise an vse q 13. Eliz. 302. Dyer and a man leuied a fine to the vse of himselfe and such wife or wifes as he should marry and after hee tooke to wife A. she shal take in iointure being by way of vse otherwise it had beene by estate executed r 10. Eliz. 274 Dy. per Wray Mead Plowden Ownslaw 3. Eliz. 100. Dame Brayes case Conono By our law a man cannot giue any thing to the common weale without consideration but to a priuate person he may rr l. hoc iure in princi ff de donat Gl. in d l. hoc iure et l. Campanus ff de oper libert Ganonal By the Cannon Lawe nudum pactum doth binde the partie especially being confirmed by an othe much more a bare donation rrr c. 1. de pact Nomom As to the point of consideration wee 3. Diuision shall better perceiue the strength and properties 1 In what cases graunts shal be taken most beneficially for the grauntee therof when we enter into discourse of bargains and sales now let me knowe in what cases and how farre forth graunts shal be taken most beneficially for the grauntee Anglonomoph When a graunt is non-certaine 2 That a grant non certaine must be taken most strongly against the grauntor it must be taken most strongly against the grauntor for if a man graunt an annuitie out of certaine lande and he hath no lande at the â—ime of the graunt yet the graunt shal charge his person Å¿ 9. H. 6. 12. p Babingt and if a deede of graunt be good in parcell and 3 That a graÌ„t may be good in part and for parcel not for parcel not that which is for the aduantage of the grauntee shal be taken to be good as if a man graunt vnto me an annuity prouiso that it shall not charge his person the prouiso is voide and the graunt is good t 20. E. 4. 8. p Towns 14. H. 4. 30. p Hank And if an annuitie be graunted pro consilio impendendo though the grauntee be well skilled in diuerse sciences or faculties yet counsel shal be giuen in that facultie only which was intended at the time of the graunt u 41. E. 3. 6. Annuitâ—e 19. But in some cases the graunt must be construed according to a reasonable and indifferent intendment as if a man make
religious man ought to doe fealtie tenaÌ„t ought to do such seruice yea though he be a religious man and professed vnder rule p ca. vnico tit de natura feudi Et tit qualiter vassall iur deb sideli domi Et in ca. vnico tit quib mod feud amittatur Et in quib causis feudum amitt tit quae â—uit pri causa benef amit Canonolog But such a religious man may not say Ego deuenio homo vester nor humiliate himself to execute the rite of homage q C. venieÌ„s C. ex diligenti de Simon grauem de excess praelat cap. fin de re Iud Anglonomo By our Law he may do homage but may not say to his Lord ego deuenio homo vester because he hath professed himself to be onely God his man but he may say I doe vnto you homage and to you shal be faithfull and loyall r Littlet lib. 2. c. 1. Sect. 2. Nonoma Shewe me I pray you some speciall 6. Diuision kinds of these seruices that I may know them morefully and more distinctly Codicgn Seruices are diuersified according 1. The diuerse kindes of seruices in the ciuill Law and their definitions to the qualities of the persons to whom they are to be done if it be to bee done to an Emperour it is to be tearmed an Imperiall seruice if to a King a regall seruice Å¿ Cap. 1. de feud march ducatâ— in ca. 1. quis dicat dux comes marchio if to Religious persons Ecclesiasticall if to Lay men secular t Tit. de his qui feud dar pos tit Episcop vel Abbat but when it is to bee done to a lesser estate then to an Emperour or King as to a Duke Marquesse or Earle then it is called feudum honoratum sometime land is giuen by inferior persons meaner men without expressing any seruice and theÌ„ the Law intendeth that fealty onely is to be done this is called FrancuÌ„ or LiberuÌ„ u Ca. 1. de no. form fidel sometime it is giuen with reseruation of speciall seruice that is feudum non nobile a Ca. fâ— de capilan qui cur vendid somtime it is giueÌ„ in perpetuuÌ„ sometime but for tearme of life and then it is called Perpetuum vel temporale b De feud march in prin de alien feud in fine de feud guard castald But though by the oath of fealtie the vassalle be bound to serue his Lord in warre yet this is limited to such case where the warre is not notoriously vniust or vnlawfull for if it be otherwise though hee doe him no seruice in warre yet he shall not forfeite his tenement c In cap Domino guerram in prin in tit hic sini lex deinde c. neither is he bound to do his seruice to his Lord if his Lorde bee excommunicate or bannished vntill he haue obteined absolution or a recalling from bannishment but d D. cap. Domino guerraÌ„ in sin in a iust warre the vassalle is bound to helpe his Lorde against euery other person who is not the Lorde of the vassalle yea euen against his father brother or sonne Anglonomoph Seruices in our Law are of diuerse 2. The diuerse kindes of seruices in the Common law and their definitions sorts some being more noble and some lesse noble of these which are more noble some belong to the king and some both to the king to subiects of these that belong to the king some be domestical only as Petite Sergeancie some bellicall onely as Knights seruice in Capite some both domesticall bellicall as grand sergeancie some of the more noble seruices belong vnto subiects as well as to the king as knights seruice and homage these which be lesse noble may be diuided into two braÌ„ches for either they are ingenuous or seruile the ingenuous are of two sorts either performable by particular men or a certaine people as fealtie rent seruice the like which make socage tenure or els performable by a certaine people onely as burgage the seruile or base seruice is villenage Of all these seruices saue such only as haue bin before described I will speake somewhat seuerally briefly and in order Petite Sergeancie is where a man holdeth his land of the King paying yerely vnto him a Bow or a speare or a dagger or a launce or a spurre of golde c. e Littlet lib. 2. ca. 9. sect ' 1. Knights seruice in Capite is where a man holdeth his landes or tenements of the king as of his crowne immediatly ab antiquo by doing some warlike seruice Graund sergeancie is where a man holdeth his lands or tenements of the king as of his Crowne immediatly by doing some speciall seruice to the King in person as by carying his banner or launce or by being his marshall or sewer or caruer or butler c. f Litt ' li. 2. ca. 8. sect ' 1. 23. H. 3. Gard 148 of homage and fealtie hath beene spoken before Rent seruice is where the tenant holdeth his lande of his Lorde by a certaine rent for which if it be behinde at the day wherein it ought to be paied the Lord may distreigne for it of common right Burgage is where the tenants of an auncient borough doe holde landes within the Borough of the King or some other person as of his borough by a certaine rent g Litt ' lib. 2. c. 10. sect ' 1. 2. Villenage is where a man holdeth of his Lorde either by doing vnto him some partiticuler base seruice and such a one is called a tenant by villenage or by doing generally whatsoeuer base seruice his Lorde will commaund and impose vpon him such a tenant he is tearmed in our Law a villaine h Litt. lib. 2. c 11. sect ' 1. 2 This miserable estate of villenage had his beginning soone after the diluge and now by the consent of all nations it is ratified for the West Indians though they haue 3 The original of villenage and the nature thereof no knowledge of diuine or humane Lawes yet bondmen they haue and the Mahometistes make Christians their bondeslaues the Portugallians make villaines of the Mahometistes which they sell by companies as flockes of sheepe in the market i Bodin lib. 1. de repub c. 5. The Romains had power by their law to sel or kil their villains k Tacit. li. 14. but for mittigation of cruelty the Law Petronia was made whereby it was forbidden that none should put his villaine to death without cause which law was executed by Nero l Senec. lib. 3. de benefic after by Adrianus m Sparcian in Adrian but our law a more concionable fauorer of life hath restrained the hands of the Lord from the bloudshed of his villaine and from the mayming of him n Litâ— ' lib. 2. c. 11. sect ' 32. hauing regard to
helde by before of the Manor for the Queenes acte may not preiudice her tenant f 29. H. 8. Br. Ca. 113. but where a man holdeth of the Q. by reason of an other thing as namely by reason of a Manour this is no tenure in Capite g 3. Eliz. Com̄ 241. Wilgous case but if the King be seised of a Manour and giueth to a straunger an acre of the Manour to haue and to hold to him and to his heires of his body engendred without expressing any seruice the donee shall hold of the king by knights seruice in Capite h Ibid 240. per Car. and tenures likewise may be to hold of one as of his person or of his Manor by diuerse other seruices as if a man had made a feoffement of land before the statute or a gift in taile sithence the statute to holde of him by the making of a bridge ouer certaine land or by making a beacon in the lande giuen this is a good tenure for a man may holde of an other by doing seruice for a common good as well as for the priuate profit of the Lord as to repaire a bridge or a high way or by keeping such a Castle for the Lorde himselfe in this hath profit with others i 11. H. 7. 12. 12. H. 7. 18. p Finch 24. H. 8. Br. Cas 51. Nomom You haue taken some paines Anglonomoph 7. Diuision 1 Whether one within age be compellable by law to do all maner of seruice either by himselfe or some other in discribing the particuler kindes of tenures now I would here somewhat of Codicgn whether one within age be excused from personal seruice because his age is not fit to serue so that the seruiceage is suspēded vntil the maturity of his age or whether he shal be compelled to do his seruice by a substitute Codicgn To dissolue that question a difference is to be taken for either the Father of the heire which is within age died in the warlike seruice 2 A diuersitie in the Ciuill law whether the father of such an infant dyed in a iust warre or at home in his bedde vndertaken for the defence of his Lorde in a iust warre I meane that which is waged for the safetie of the common weale or els he dyed in his house by humane infirmitie without any bearing of armes in the first case he is not bound to doe any seruice either in his owne person or by any other person interposed during his minoritie because his father who died in the field is supposed in Lawe still to serue by the glorie of his valor k Instit de Excus tutor §. sed si in bello ff ad leg Aqu. l. qua actione §. si quis in colluctatione which the best and most learned of all Poets did well imagine who when he had placed Caesar in the middest of extreme troubles to comforte and encourage him representeth vnto him the ghost of Scaeua one that dyed a good while before but yet after many assaults and many woūds stoode out as a Conqueror l Lucan li. 10. which conceite of Lucan Tasso a moderne Italian writer a man of an excellent poeticall witte in the discriptyon of Guidoes funerall doth passionatelye though Popishely glaunce at m S. Torquat Tasso Canto 4. Gierusal liberat but if the father died not in warre nor in the expedition but by naturall death in his owne house then if the heire at the death of his Father bee in his pupillage he must perfourme that seruice by a substitute Anglonomoph But by our Lawe he shall be in 3 That by the common law the infant shal be in warde if his father died seised of land helde by knights seruice without any such diuersitie warde to the Lorde during his minoritie if hee holde his landes by Knightes seruice and the Lorde shall haue the profits of his lande that he may maintaine a sufficient man to doe him seruice in the warre whereas the heire by reason of his tender age cannot personally performe the seruice nor by the want of discretion prouide a conuenient person to accomplishe it n Litt ' lib. 2. c. c 4. sect ' 3. but if he be made a Knight within age then because the Lawe intendeth that he is fit to doe his seruice because knighthoode is bestowed in regarde of precedent merite or of some eminent prowesse and towardnes as may appeare by that saying of Scipio in the Senate ab annis septemdecim ad senectutem semper vos aetatem meam honoribus vestris anteistis ego vestros honores rebus gerendis precessi o Liuius li. 38. the Law is otherwise But 2. Ed. 6. in the case of Sir Anthony Browne of Surrey vicount Mountegue a difference was taken where the tenant by 4 A diuersitie in the commō law where the heire of the tenāt by knights seruice is within age and a knight at the time of his fathers death where not Knights seruice dieth seised his heire being within age and a Knight at the time of his death and when after his death he is made Knight during his minoritie for in the former case it was helde that he should be in warde notwithstanding his knighthoode p 2. E. 6. Br. Gard 42. 72. For otherwise the auncestor may procure his sonne within age to be made knight by collusion to the intent to defraude the Lord of his warde but this seemeth to be but a weake reason because knighthood is not by intendement of the law graunted vpon so sleight a cause but it seemeth to Master Brooke where the heire is in ward and is made knight being in warde this shall free him from wardship for the statute of Magna Chartaca 3. Postquam heres fuerit in custodia cum ad aetatem peruenerit scil 21. annorum habeat heredit atem suam sine releuio sine fine ita tamen quod si ipse dum infra aetatem fuerit fiat miles nihilominus terra sua remaneat in custodia dominorum vsque ad terminum supradictum this saieth q Br. ibid. Master Brooke verie probaly guyding his opinion by the premisses is onely to be intended where the heire is made Knight within age being in warde after the death of his auncestour and not where he is made knight in the life of the auncestour but admitte this to be meant of such an heire onely yet by no consequence can a man inferre hereof that if an heire within age bee made knight in his fathers life time he shal be in warde after the death of his father nay there is good authoritie for the contrarie r 6. Elizab. Comm̄ 268. Nomomat Let mee knowe I pray you what 8. Diuision penalties lye vpon the tenant if hee doe not his seruice Codicgn By our Lawe the vassalle is depriued 1 What penalties lye vpnon the tenant if he do not his seruice of his
liuerie onely transferreth the land otherwise it had beene if the word exchaunge had beene vsed in the deede and the estate which the parties are to haue in the land exchaunged ought to be equal 3. That the estates most be equall and Choke saith that both the things exchanged ought to be in esse at the time of the exchaunge and therefore an exchange of land for rent granted de nouo is not good but an exchaunge betwixt 4. That the things exchaūged must be in Esse a rent and a common which are in esse at the time of the exchaunge is good and so it is of land and rent c 9. E. 4. 21. p Brian Choke Nedham And according to his opinion an exchange of the right which the dissesee hath to the land wherof the disseisin is committed for an acre of land in which the disseisor hath right is no good exchaunge d 3. E. 4. 10. p Choke And where the worde exchaunge is mentioned though the conueyance be but an Indenture of couenants yet it shall amount to a good exchaunge for an Indenture of couenants was made betwixt a Prior and the Maister of Gunnell hall in Cambridge that the Maister should haue three acres of land to him and to his successors in perpetuall exchaunge for one chamber of two chambers to be assigned by the said Maister at his election to the said Prior and his successors this hath beene held to be a good exchaunge though it be by way of couenant e 9. E. 4. 38. And though it be auouched for lawe that if by a deed of composition it be agreed betwixt two that the one shall haue such landes in allowance of other lands belonging to him that this is a good exchaunge f 3. E. 3. 19. yet I doubt whether an exchange may be accōplished by such counteruaileable words but a man may 5. That an exchaunge is good though the one parte of it doe mure by way of extinguishment giue land in exchāge for a release which cannot mure but only by way of extinguishmēt though there be some authoritie against it g 7. E. 3. 37. therefore Nortons opiniō is iustly denied by Thorpe wheras he held that in euery exchaūge there must be a mutuall transmutation of the possession h 16. E. 3. Exchaunge 2. for if a man release to an other his estouer of wood which he is to take yeerely in his wood in exchaunge for land giuen to him in exchaunge for the same release this is a good exchange though the release take effect by way of extinguishmēt but it is as great a profite and aduauntage to the tenant to be discharged of the estouers as if so much had bene graunted vnto him out of an other mans wood i Park tit Exchaun 53. 31. E. 1. Exchange 16. and the Law well perceiueth the profite which a man may haue by way of extinguishment for if the father being tenant in taile doe alien the land entailed with warrantie and hath a rent charge in fee issuing out of the lande of his Sonne which doth discend vnto the sonne this is a good assets in value notwithstanding the extinguishment k 31. E. 3. Garrantie 29. Nomomath Whether may Ecclesiasticall benefices 2. Diuision promotions and liuings bee exchaunged or no. Canonolog The incumbents may not by their 1. That incūbents may not exchaunge their benefices by the Canon law sole authoritie chaunge their benefices but they may exchaunge them Interueniente authoritate Episcoporum ad quos pertinet collatio but there is a question in the glosse whether the Chapiter 2. That the Chapiter may warrant permutations sede vacāte in such benefices wherein they haue interest or authoritie may authorise such permutations sede vacante l C. quaesitū de rer permut glos in Clem vnica E. tit and it resolueth briefly that in such things wherein they haue a common collation either by reason of authoritie or by reason of interest and consent it may authorise exchanges sede vacante but in other cases not m Glos in d. Clem. vnic super verbo Conferantur Anglonomophylax The reason in our Lawe 3. That by the Common law Ecclesiasticall persons their patrons and ordinaries ioyning together can not make any good exchange of Ecclesiasticall benefices wherefore such ecclesiasticall persons nor their patrons and ordinaries though they all agree can not exchaunge the inheritances of spirituall liuings is because the statute strictly prouideth that no alienation be made in mortmaine for a thing which was amortised before may be again amortised and therefore if a religious person do appropriate a Church which is of his owne presentation without the kings licence it is forfeited though it were amortised before n 19. E. 3. Mortmain 8. and in such case where one Abbot did alien to an other the collusion was to bee enquired of as well as in the alienation of land made by a secular man to a religious corporation o 16. Assis pl. 1. for the wordes of the Statute of Mortmaine bee very 4. That the statute of Mortmain is most strict and pregnant in wordes strong and large against such purchasors which are thus Prouisum est quòd nullus religiosus emere vel sub colore donationis aut termini aut alterius tituli cuiuscunque ab aliquo recipere aut arte vel ingenio sibi appropriare praesumat per quod terrae tenementa huiusmodi ad manum mortuam quocunque modo deueniant p Statut. de religios 7. E. 1. Mortmain 3. and therefore the case was that a femme sole purchased lande in fee and tooke to husbād the villaine of a Bishop which he had in right of his Bishoprike and the Bishop entred and this was adiudged a mortmain for according to Wickinghams opiniō the words of the Statute of Mortmaine are quocunque modo otherwise it shall be if the tenant of the Bishop do die without heire q 41. E. 3. 21. but 19. Henr. 6. the contrarie is held to be Lawe but if the villaine himselfe purchase lande it is helde there that in such case a Bishop or an Abbot can not enter r 19. H. 6. 56. but Thorpes opinion is 41. E. 3. that though hee may not enter in the case aforesaid yet hee may reteigne the land against the villaine and the king may afterward ratifie his estate which is no more in plaine tearmes then that an estate so gained is voidable onely and not voide and as to the exchaunge of benefices betwixt parson and parson it is seuerely punished by edict of Parliament in our realme ſ 31. Eliz. Nomomathes I will not stay longer vpon the inquirie of exchaunges for you haue opened vnto mee the nature of them and how farre they extende in these few cases now let vs passe to a larger examination of the doubts and pointes of deuises and legacies The
Seuenth Dialogue Of Deuises and Legacies NOmomathes First I pray you tell 1. Diuision me whether this manner and custome of disposing by a mans last will and Testament hath bene in auncient time practised or no. Codicgn It is very auncient for it was one 1. The antiquity of willes of the Lawes of the twelfe Tables Vti legassit suae rei ita ius esto a L. verbis legis ff de verb. signif But before Solons time it was not lawfull for a man to deuise his goods Extra familiam to straungers and therefore when Solon did by Lawe established graunt this libertie to the Athenians it was plausibly receiued of them and accompted the best of all his Lawes b Plutarch in Solon But Plato in his writings straungely 2. Plato his exception against Solon his Law concerning willes howsoeuer diuinely conceited dispraiseth this Lawe and calleth the makers of it childish because by that meane a window is opened to deceite and to flatterie for hee saith that when men are at point of death they beginne to dote and their vnderstanding is broken and therefore it is very likely that euery man dying will dispose and appoint many thinges contrarie to the Lawe to the vsuall practise of them that liue to the example of their ancestors c Plat. lib. 11. de legib This sentence of Plato Iustinian an Emperour exquisitely busied in the compiling of Lawes because hee had rather erre with Plato then yeelde vnto the truth with Solon alloweth and frameth his Lawes accordingly d Authent de trient sem in l. Paulus ad Treb. and S. Ierom writeth that Solons Lawe was repealed in his time because Priestes which were commonly employed in the making of willes did greedily and odiously drawe to themselfes the inheritance of the dead dd L. 1. C. de sacr Eccles and an other reason may be added in defence of Platoes opinion because men in daunger of death are for the most parte too prodigall which Aristotle noted e Diogen Laerti in vit Aristotel and Tacitus pronounceth more peremptorily speaking of Otho f Tacit. lib. 2. lustor Pecunias distributt parce nec tanquam periturus hauing affirmed before Difficilius est temperare qua te non putes diu vsurum But Solons 3. Solons lawe is mainteined and defended against Plato Lawe leaneth to a more stable roote then that it may bee shaken by the weake blaste of such colourable reprehensions and Solon did make exceptions to his Lawe for hee made these testaments voide which were made by any in the extremitie of his disease or which a man was enforced to make by imprisonment or torment or by the perswasions and flatterie of his wife But surely the making of willes is necessarie g L. 3. D. qui test fa. pos and without it men can not effect the good education and bringing vp of their children nor be able of their proper goodes chattels and other mooueable substaunce to discharge their dettes and after their degrees set foorth and aduance their children and posteritie h 32. H. 8. c. 1. Willes 2. nor leaue their wife 's such comfortable support as in conscience they ought Nomomathes Lette mee know I pray you 2. Diuision what persons may be legataries or deuisees and who not Codicgnostes Euerie one that may bee made 1. Such as bee vncapable of inheritances goods may not be deuisees heires or executors by the Ciuill law 2. A difference in the Ciuill law betwixt the making of a deuisee and the making of an executor heire or executor may be a legatarie or deuisee but to thē which are vncapable by Law of inheritances or goods no deuise can be made neither can they be made heires or executors i C. de haered instit l. 1. but there is a difference betwixt the making of a deuisee and the making of an heire or executor because he that is to be made heire or executor must bee an able person in Lawe as well at the time of the making of the Testament as at the death of the testator and the vndertaking of the executorship or entre into the inheritaunce k ff de haered Insti l. si alienū §. de extraneis Iust de haer qual differ §. in extraneis but as to the deuisee it is sufficient if he be capable at the time of the death of the testator l ff de donat causa mort l. in mortis de condit demon l. eū qui. ff de iur fisc l. non intelligitur §. quando Anglonom By our Law to al such persons to whom a graunt may be made a deuise may bee 3. That by the Common law all persons to whom a graūt may be made a deuise may be made vnlesse it otherwise happen in some fewe cases made vnlesse it otherwise happē in some few cases and the deuise ought to be good effectual at the time of the death of the deuisor as if a mā seised of landes deuisable doe deuise the same to the fellowes of a colledge or the Priestes of a Chauntery and there is no such Colledge nor Chauntery at the time of the death of the deuisor after such a colledge or chauntery is made yet the deuise is void because deuises are purchases and when a man taketh lands or tenements 4. That the deuisee must be a person capable of the thing deuised by purchase hee must be an able person to take when it falleth to him by the purchase m Park 97. Sect. 505. 9. H. 6. 23. 2. Eliza. 119. Pl. 18. Dy. 13. Eli. 303. Pl. 49. Dy. 300. Pl. 39. 5. E. 4. 6. p Billing and the Cōminaltie of a guild which is not incorporate by the kings charter to purchase lands is not capable of lands and if a mā seised of lands deuiseable in fee do deuise the same land to A. for life to find a Chapleine chaunting in the Church of Dale the remainder to two of the best men of the Guilde or fraternitie of Whittawers in Londō to find a chaplaine c. if the Whittawers be not incorporate by the Kings charte◠enabled to purchase this remainder is void n Park 98. sect 510. 49. E. 3. 3. and if a rent be granted for life to I. S. the remainder in fee to him that shall first come to Powles the next daie in the morning this remainder is good though it be vpon condition if I. S. die not before the next daie and if one come to Powles the next daie in the morning if he which commeth thither then be not a person disabled to take by the graunt o 30. Assis pl. 47. Perk. 13. Sect. 56. so that whereas you say that by your Lawe it is 5. That by the Common law the deuisee ought to be capable at the time of the death of the deuisor sufficient
whether shall the deuisee haue the house Codicgn By our Lawe hee shall haue the 1 That if a man deuise a plott of grouÌ„d whereon a house is built the house also passeth house whether it were built before the Testament were made or after u l. seruum silij §. si are ae ff de l. si are ae ff de leg 2. and wee haue a rule in our Lawe Quidquid plantatur seritur vel inaedificatur omne solo cedit radices si tamen egit Anglonomoph It is so likewise in our Lawe 2 A house built vpon laÌ„d entailed after the gift shal be recouered in a Formedon for if a man giue lande in taile and the donee buildeth a house vpon it and dyeth without issue the donor if he be deforced from the land shall demaunde it in a Formedon per nomen mesuagij a 32. H. 8. 47. Dyer Nomomat Put case the Testatour deuiseth to 6. Diuision one a deede or instrument conteyninge a certaine debt whether doth he deuise the debt or noe b l. seruum silij § â—um qui chirographum de legat 1. Codicgn In that case the debt passeth h but 1 That by the ciuil law when an especialtie conteining a debt is deuised to one the debt it selfe passeth if tenne seuerall payments ought to bee made by the condition of a bonde as suppose tenne poundes is to be payd yerely by tenne seueral payments and fiue yeres be past and fiue payments made and the testator deuiseth the summe comprised in the condition to I. S. in this case the deuisee shal not recouer against the executor the whole summe conteigned in the condition but fiue pounds onely c d. l. seruum filij §. sed et si nomen Anglonomoph Master Perkins a man that writeth 2 Master Parkins his opinioÌ„ touching the deuising of an obligation is examined of diuerse Titles of our Law rather subtilly then soundely saieth that if twentie pounds be due to a man vpon an obligation or a contracte which ought to be payd at the feast of Easter and he euiseth it to a straunger this is a good deuise if the money bee afterward payd but if he had deuised the obligation or the counterpaine of the Indenture of couenants wherein the bond is conteined the deuisee shall not vse an action vpon the bonde in his owne name but he may giue or sell the obligation to the obligor or to a straunger d Perkins 101. sect ' 527. but howe bonds or things in action may passe directly from one to another by way of graunt or deuise I cannot yet perceiue by any authenticke opinion in our yere bookes for to say that the especialty or bonde conteyning the debt or duety doth passe vnto the deuisee though the debt doe not passe as namely the parchment ynke and waxe but not the summe conteigned is as if one shoulde imagine that a man roweth ouer Thames in body and yet remaineth at the Temple staires in soule for if the debt being the principall doe not passe I cannot vnderstand how the parchment or paper or the deede it selfe being the accessorie can passe for accessorium sequitur suum principale Nomom Resolue in this if a man deuise to an 7. Diuision other a horse a garment or the like and they perishe in the handes of the executour whether is the executor bounde by Law to make them good Codicgn In such case either the executor doth linger and delay the deliuery or giuing of the thing deuised to him to whom it was deuised and then I doubt not but he is bound to pay the 1 That by the Ciuil Law the executor is bound to make good the thing which perisheth through his default value of the thing which perisheth through his default or there is no default in him and then he is not to bee charged with the making of it good e l. cum heres §. si l. huiusmodi §. si cui homo ff de legat 1. and then the executor or heire may bee said to delay the administration of the legacye when he may speedily performe it and will not but if he be by the acte of a straunger hindered from executing the bequest as suppose he hath not the monie readie which is deuised or the deuise be that hee shall purchase an other mans lande with the money of the deuisor and assure 2 That in some cases the time of performing legacies is left to the discretion of the Iudges it to I. S. if he cannot easilie compasse this purchase doing his best endeuour the rigor of lawe is to be tempered in this case by discretion and respite must bee giuen by the arbitrage of the Iudge f l. si domus §. in pecunia ff de legat 1. Anglonomoph In our Law we haue many cases wherein they that are charged with the deliuery of a thing vpon some trust and confidence 3 That by the common law the executors are bound to performe the deuise in conuenient time reposed in them and the thing that should be deliuered perisheth through their default they are enforced by lawe to make full amendes for if a man be seised of lande deuisable in fee and deuiseth by his Testament that his executors shall sell his land and shall distribute the profits comming thereof to the vse of the poore and the deuisor dyeth if a straunger tender vnto them monie for the lande but not so much as the lande is worthe in their opinion and they to the intent they may sell it more deere differre the sale for two yeres space and take the profit themselues nowe the heire for their longe delaying may enter 4 A diuersitie betwixt an obligee and a deuisee and put them out of the land g 38. Ass pl. 3. 39. Ass pl. 3. but if a man be bound in xx li. to pay x. li. at the feast of Saint Michael the obligee refuseth the money when it is tendered in pollardes which afterward are embased the obligor shall beare the losse of the embasement because he must pleade vncore prist h 7. E. 6. 83. Dyer and yet the refusal was the default of the obligee Nomom Put case that a man deuiseth to one a 8. Diuision beadsteede whether shall the deuisee by force of this deuise haue the curtaines of the bed Codicgn The accessorie goeth alwaies with the 1 That things which are accâ—ssory doe passe with their principal principal and the curtaines therefore in this case shall passe with the bedsteade i l. liberorum §. sin ibi glo de legat ' 3. so if a man deuise to one his land or his house the arrerages due by the farmor or inhabitant from the death of the Testator are payable to the deuisee but not the arrerages before k l. praedijs §. 1. ff de legat 3. l. Nomen §. filio ex parte de
her executor shall haue the summe otherwise it had beene if the wordes of the deuise had bene to be paied at the daie of her mariage or at the age of 21. yeares and she dieth before t 36. H. 8. 59. Dy. and 16. Eliz. A man deuised laude to one so that he doe paie 10. li. and if not that it should remaine to his house prouided that the lands shall not be sold but shall goe to the next of bloud being male it was helde that this was an estate taile that these words shall goe to his house shal be construed to the eldest person of his familie and these wordes being male shall be construed in the future tense and in many cases an estate may be limited in a deuise by implication as if a man deuise lande to one and to his heires males in fee simple the remainder to the next heires males of the kinne there is an entailemeÌ„t both in the first estate and also in the remainder u 16. Eliz. 333. Dy. 2. Eli. 171. Dy. but where a deuise is contrarie to Law it is voide of effect for a man deuised land in London to the 3. That the Common law frustrateth these deuises which are repugnant to Lawe Prior Couent of S. Bartholmewes so that they pay to the Deane and Chapiter of Powles 10. li. yeerely and if they failed then their estate to cease and that the lande should remaine to the Deane and it was helde by Fitzh Baldwin Iustices that this was a void remainder because it could not be limited after an estate in fee and as of a condition the Deane Chapiter could not haue aduantage but the heire a 29. H. 8. 32. Dy. and so if a man deuise laÌ„d to one in fee that if he die without heire that then it shall remaine to an other in fee this is a voide remainder because one fee simple cannot depend vpon an other b 19. H. 8. 8. Nomom What if the testator doe deuise to his 16. Diuision wife certaine land whilest she should liue chastly and she marieth whether is her estate determined Canonolog I thinke it is not determined for 1. That by the Cannon lawe if land be deuised to a woman whilest she shall liue chastly mariage is not implicatiuely and absolutely prohibited though the words of the deuise do implie a coÌ„dition yet the condition is not broken because matrimonium est reshonesta and therefore not to be imagined to be within the intent of the condition c Authent de nupt in princ 28. quaest 1. ca. sic enim 33. q. 2. c. 2. l. 2. C. de indict viduit toll Nomoma Yet it seemeth that the condition faileth Quia coitus castitas opponuntur d D. authent de nup. §. quâ—a vero therefore it may seeme that she should lose the legacie as well by marying as by liuing incontinently Canonol But I thinke rather that she shal not lose the legacie because there was no condition expressed in the deuise that shee should not marrie and therefore she can not be said in marying to do against the will of her husband but yet it may seeme that if she had maried within a yeare after the death of the testator she had broke the condition e ff de iur patron l. adigere §. fi for doubtles otherwise Mulier secundò nubeus castitatem seruat f D. authen de nup. §. fin autem ideÌ„ Extra de diuor c. gaudeamus in fin l. mulier §. cum proponaretur ff ad Trebel 2. That the Ciuill law and Common law do fauour mariage Codicgn Our Lawe in such cases fauoureth matrimonie g ff de reg iur l. In ambiguis l. in testamentis eod and where there is no condition prohibitorie expressed the Law will not in such case intende it h In authent hoc locum C. de secund nupt Anglonomop In our Law we haue a case that King Edward the sixth graunted to his sister the Ladie Mary the mannor of D. as long as shee should continue vnmaried and this is admitted in our Law to be a good limitation but no condition as hath bene before surmised i 4. Mar. 1. 141. Dy. 37. H. 6. 29. 10. Assis pl. 8. 17. Assis pl. 7. 3. Assis pl. 9. 6. Nomom Let this be the case the husbaÌ„d deuiseth 17. Diuision to his wife the ê“fits of al his goods the question is whether the wife may take the profits by her sole authoritie or by the appointment of the iudge or by the administration of the executor 1. That there is a diuersitie in the Ciuill lawe where a man maketh his wife vsufructuariam of his goods and where he deuiseth them to her Codicgn In our law we take this difference where he maketh his wife by his will vsufructuariam of the goods and where he doth deuise vnto her his goods For where he maketh her vsufructuariam she may of her owne power take the profit and benefit of the goods and she needeth not to expect or attend the curtisie of the executor k L. si habitatio §. si vsus fuÌ„di l. fundi ff de vsu hab But if he deuise his goods or the profits of his goods or commaund and charge his heire or executor by his will that they allow sufficient maintenaunce to his wife out of his lands or goods now the woman is a deuisee and she must take that which is deuised by the haÌ„ds of the heire or executor or else sue for it by law l ff de vsufâ—uct legat l. patrimonij l. si quis Anglonomoph By our law the power and authoritie 2. That by the Common law the administration of the goods and chattels of the testator doth appertaine only to the executor of deliuering goods and chattels or putting the deuisee in possession belongeth onely to the executors who must see debts paide before legacies performed m 37. H. 6. 30. â— Prisot 2. H. 6 16. Perkins Testam 94. D. S. Dialog 2. 79. And therefore if a straunger take goods deuised to me out of the possession of the executors I cannot haue an action of trespasse for the taking For it is not like to a gift of goods which is presently executed and if a man deuise the â—ourth part of his goods to another the deuisee may not seise the fourth part but he must sue for it in the spiritual court n 27. H. 6. but if a man deuise a booke or some other thing to one for tearme of life the remainder to an other for euer if the executor deliuer the booke or the goods to the first deuisee the second deuisee may seise theÌ„ without liuerie of the executor for the possessioÌ„ of the first deuisee was the possessioÌ„ of theÌ„ both otherwise it is if the first deuisee hath the possessioÌ„ die
doct ' in l. quod â—eruus eod dict l. 1. §. est autem §. penult l. Lucius eod l. licâ—t in sin eod and in the one is the propertie in the other the trust Angonomoph To this our Law accordeth for 2 The nature and course of it at the common law if a man deliuer goods chattels to one to keepe and he will deliuer them he that deliuered them may haue a writ of Detinue against the other for these goods and chattels and so if a man deliuer goods or mony to an other in a bagge ensealed b Fitz. na br 138. A. or not ensealed c 18. H. 6. 20. or in a chest or coffer to deliuer to an other and hee to whom they are deliuered will not deliuer them ouer accordingly hee to whom they should bee deliuered may haue a writ of Detinue but if a man deliuer money to one being not in a bagge or coffer to redeliuer to him or to deliuer ouer to a straunger in such case neither he that deliuereth nor he to whom the money or goods are to bee deliuered shall haue a writte of Detinue for the money but a writte of Accompt because a writte of Detinue ought to be of a thing certaine as of money in a 3 A diuersitiâ— where a writ of Accompt of Detinue and of Trespas are to be brought concerning things deliuered at the coÌ„mon law bagge or of a horse or twentie kyne or such things in certaine d Fitz na br 138. A. 7. H. 4. 13. 13. E. 3. Detin 53. 6. E. 4. 11. 36. H. 6. 9. per WaÌ„gef Billing 5 Ma 152. Dy. 39. E. 3. 30. 46. E. 3. 16. if the bailie open the bagg in which money is deliuered the partie to whom the mony belongeth may haue a writ of Trespas or Detinue at his pleasure e 21. E. 4. 36. or if he doe burne or consume the things deliuered vnto him f 33. H. 6. 26. per Litt ' 20. H. 6. 17. So where a deed is deliuered to one to deliuer ouer vpon a condition to be performed to a straunger and hee deliuereth it without mencioning the condition a writ of Detinue will lye against the first Bailie and no other remedy may be had g 9. H. 6. 37. per Curiam and where I deliuer goods and a straunger taketh them out of the possession of the Bailie I may haue a writ of Detinue against the straunger or against my Bailie h 20. E. 4. 11. for my Bailie is chargable into whose haÌ„ds soeuer the goods do come but if he deliuer them ouer to an other that baily is not chargeable to me but onely for the possession i 12. E. 4. 12. Nomomat Suppose that a man enfeoffeth me 2. Diuision of certaine landes with warrantie who reteigneth all the deeds and euidences concerning the landes in his owne possession whether may these deedes after liuery made to me of the lands be said to bee my depositum in his handes as a thing which I haue left in his hands and whether will a writ of Detinue lye for them at the common law Codicgn They cannot be said to be deposita in 1 That a thing cannot be said to be a depositum at the ciuil law except it be deliuered to the partie his hands because a thing cannot be said to be deposituÌ„ except it be deliuered to the partie k l. 1. ff de pos ibi Doct ' and if these writings which you speake of do belong to the feoffor as I thinke they doe then they cannot be said to be deposita for wee haue a rule in our law that res propriae frustra deponuntur apud dominum cum ex deposito non obligetur and it is contra l quirem eod bonaÌ„ fidem that the owner should redeliuer his goods in which he hath a propertie to an other man m l. bona fides ff depos in sâ— Anglonomoph It is good to be considered to 2 That by the common law the feoffee of the land is to haue the charters when the feoffement is without warrantie otherwise it is when it is with warrantie whom these charters or deedes aboue mencioned doe belong The authority is very pregnant that if a man make a feoffement of his land to an other by deede the feoffee shall haue the charters concerning the land though the feoffor doe not expresly giue them to the feoffee n 18. E. 4. 14. 9. E. 4. 53. 39. E. 3. 22. 7. H. 4. 7. 34. H. 6. 1. And if a man make a lease for terme of yeares and after confirme the estate of the lessee in fee and he to whom the confirmation was made dyeth now his heire shall haue as well the deed of the lease for terme of yeares as well as the deed of confirmation because that deed maketh the confirmation good o 9. E. 4. 53. Fitz. nat br 138. K. and so where a gift is made to one for life the remainder to an other in taile if the donor release all his right to the tenant for life he in the remainder cannot haue a writte of Detinue for this release after the death of the tenaunt for terme of life p 9. H. 6. 54. But in the case which you haue proposed because the feoffement is with warrantie so that the feoffour is bounde to warrantie nowe the feoffee shall not haue the charters concerning the lande for so the feoffour might sayle of the maintenance of his warrantie and so if a man be enfeoffed with warrantie and after enfeoffeth an other with warrantie the heire of the feoffour may haue a writte of Detinue against a straunger in whose possession are any deedes or charters concerning the lande because he may haue aduauntage of this warrantie q Fitz. na br ibid ' L. but let the feoffement or gift bee made without warrantie it is cleare that the donee or feoffee may claime the charters concerning the inheritance de iure and therefore if a gift of lande be made to A. in taile the remainder to B. in fee and after A. dyeth without issue B. shall haue the deede r 3. H. 7. 15. so if laÌ„ds be giuen to two and the heires of one of them by deede now if the tenant for life die hee that hath the fee simple shall haue a writte of Detinue for the deede Å¿ Fitz. nat br 138. F. for the deede runneth with the land and is of the nature of the inheritance and therefore a repleuin lyeth not for such charters t 4. H. 7. 10. and it is saide by Newton 22. H. 6. that he in the remainder in taile shall not haue a writte of Detinue against the tenant for terme of life if he haue the deed specifying the remainder yet he cannot haue a Formed on in the remainder nor an action of Waste without shewing the deede u 22. H.
such as enter into suit ar not vtterly reiected of our law for as to the 2. first which concerne profit and necessitie our law doth rigorously exact them as to the other it is not against it for it doth not forbid nor hinder any man to be curteouse to an other but it being a science rather politike then morall doth more respect the Iustice of causes then the curteous gestures of men our law doth vrge men to deale well and honestly if they do otherwise it doth punish thē but curtesy is a free spontaneal ingenious quality to which no inforcement may be vsed but I wil first examine by your patience how farreforth our law regardeth the abilitie of the person which is to impleade an other and then by course will examine all the partes of your precedent speech inquiring by our bookes howe they may sort and be sutable to our law First it hath beene receiued of vs as a currant rule from all antiquitie that the desendant may 4 Disablemēts in the person of the plaintife at the comon Law plead outlawrie in disablement of the plaintife but if he doe imparle nowe he cannot plead outlawrie to the disablement of his person but yet he may well plead it in barre of the action n 32. H. 6. 32. 35. H. 6. 36. so in a writ brought by one as sonne and heire to I. S. after imparlance the tenant cannot pleade to the writte that hee is bastarde or that hee is not heire but he may verie well pleade it in barre of the action o 22. E. 4. 35. and so outlawrie is a good plea in barre of an action of debt for by the outlawrie of the plaintife the debt if it growe by especialtie is vested in the Queene otherwise it is of an action of debt vpon a contract p 16. E. 4. 4. for in that case the debtor might wage his lawe against the debtee who is outlawed and as it seemeth by 10. Hen. 7. the outlawrie goeth rather in barre of the action then to the writte for there it is sayde that where a man cannot pleade to the writte but by shewing of a matter in barre there he may shewe it and conclude to the writte for in an action of debt a man may pleade outlawrie in the plaintife and conclude to the person and yet the matter goeth in barre and he may pleade it also in barre q 10. H. 7. 11. and conclude to the action and after that a voucher is counterpleaded and the tenant put to an other aunswere hee may notwithstanding plead that the demaundant is outlawed r 21. E. 4. 64. but after voucher the tenant may not plead to the fourme of the writte ſ 5. E. 3. 223. and 32. Hen. 6. is verie playne that where a man pleadeth that the plaintife is an alien borne or a villaine or an outlawed person it is left to his choise whether he will conclude these special matters to the writte or to the action t 32. H. 6. 27. and though the defendant haue made an attourney in a repleuin yet he may afterward alleadge that the plaintife is his villaine u 29. E. 3. 24. So 21. R. 2. in Assise brought by the husbande and wife against diuerse persons the tenantes sayde that the wife of the plaintife was entred into religion in the house of B. and there was a Nun professed demaunded iudgment if she should be aunswered and the Assise was adiorned into the common place and a writte was sent to the Bishoppe to certifie who certified that she was professed wherefore the defendants praied that the husband and wife might be barred foreuer and it was helde by the whole Court that forsomuch as the pea did stretche onely to disable the wife of the plaintife and if the husbande and wife had purchase iointly that the baron should notwithstanding the disablement haue an Assise of the whole but otherwise it is if the husbande and wife bring an Assise and a feoffement or release of the husbande or the wife or of some auncestour of one of them bee pleaded in barre both of them shall be barred therefore in this case it was helde that the iudgement ought not to be that the husbande should be barred but by the aduise of the whole Court it was awarded that the husbande and the wife nihil capiant per breue suum sed essent in misericordia x 21. R. 2. Judgem̄t 263. and in the thirde yeare of Henry the sixth it was held a good plea to say that the demandant was an alien borne in Portugall which is out of the Kings legeance with conclusion sil serra respondu a 3. H. 6. 11. and therefore Master Theloall in his Digest of writtes well obserueth that an exception taken to a writ propter defectum nationis vel potius defectum subiectionis vel ligeantiae is peremptorie and that the action can not bee reuiued by peace or league subsequent and that the King may graunt lycence to aliens to impleade and likewise that such aliens as come into the Realme by the Kinges licence and safe conduite may vse personall actions by writte though they bee not made denizens and that denizens lawfully made by the Kinges graunt and such aliens borne which are within the expresse wordes of the statute of 25. of Edward the thirde may vse actions reall by originalll writte b Thelo Digest de briefes lib. 1. ca. 6. And where a man is excommunicated and hee sueth an action reall or personall the tenant or defendant may pleade that the plaintife is excommunicated and hereof he ought to shewe the Bishoppes letters vnder his seale testifying the excommunication and then he may demaunde iudgement whether he ought to bee aunswered c Litt ' lib. 2. ca. 11. sect ' 42. but if the demaundant or plaintife cannot denie this the writ shal not abate but the iudgement shal be that the tenant or def shall go quite without day because when the demandāt or plaintife hath purchased letters of absolution and they are shewed forth to the Court he may haue a resummons or reattachement vpon his originall according to the nature of his writte d Litt ' ibid. and whereas you say that it behoueth the plaintife to be sure that he haue a good cause of action least he pay the costes that now by statute is made common Law for by the statute of 23. H. 5 The statute of 23. H. 8. of giuing damages to the defendant is cōpared with the rule of the ciuil Law 8. it is enacted that if any person or persons commence or sue in any Court of Recorde or elsewhere in any other Court any action bille or plaint of trespasse vpon the statute of King Richarde the seconde made in the fifthe yeare of his raigne for Entries into landes or tenements where no entrie is giuen by the Law or any action bill or plaint
of debt or couenant vpon any especialtie made to the plaintife or plaintifes or vpon any contract supposed to be made between the plaintife or plaintifes and any person or persons or any action bill or plaint of detinue of any goods or chattels where the plaintife or plaintifes shall suppose that the propertie belongeth to them or any of them or any action bill or plaint of Accompt in the which the plaintife or plaintifes suppose the defendant or defendants to be their Bailife or Bailifes receiuer or receiuers of their Manor mease money or goods to yeeld accompt or any action bill or plaint vpon the case or vpon any statute for any offence or wronge personal immediatly supposed to be done to the plaintife or plaintifs and the plaintife or plaintifes in any such kind of action bill or plaint after appearance of the defendant or defendants be nonsuted or that any verdict happen to passe by lawfull trial against the plaintife or plaintifes in any such action bill or plaint that then the defendant or defendants in euerie such action bill or plaint shall haue iudgement to recouer his costes against euerie such plaintife or plaintifes e 23. H. 8. c. 15. Rast Dammages 6. Likewise whereas as you saie that the partie plaintife ought to be warie least hee 6. Suite must not be mainteined before an incompetent iudge according to the common law cause the defendant to appeare before an incoÌ„petent iudge that agreeth fullie with the common lawe for if a man doe sweare vnto me that he will enfeoffe me of such land before such a daie if he do not enfeoffe me I may not sue him in the Ecclesiasticall Court Pro laesione fidei because the acte which is to be done is a temporal acte and ought to be tried by the Common law and therefore if the partie be sued in the Ecclesiasticall Court for it he may haue a prohibition f Fitzh N. B. 43. D. so if a man deuise to one landes or tenements deuiseable the deuisee may not sue for these lands in the ecclesiasticall Court but if he make a deuise of goods or chattels reall as of an estate for tearme of yeares or of a warde for such he may 7. The seueral iurisdiction of diuerse courtes is described sue in that Court g Fitz. 161. F. and if a trespasse bee done vpon the gleabe of a beneficed person this must be tried at the Common lawe h 19. H. 6. 20. but if the termor of certaine land doe deuise his croppe and die the spiritual Court shal hold plea for this crop i 8. H. 3. Prohibit 19. but if a man sue in the spirituall Court for a rent reserued vpoÌ„ a lease for tithes or offerings a prohibition lieth for this is a lay rent k 44. E. 3. 32. and a man may sue a prohibition directed to the Sheriffe that the Sheriffe shall not permit nor suffer the Queenes lay people and subiects to come to any place at the citation of Bishops ad facienduÌ„ aliquas recognitiones vel sacramentuÌ„ praestanduÌ„ nisi in causis matrimonialibus testameÌ„tarijs l Fitzh N. B. 41. A. but if a testameÌ„t beare date at Cane in Normandie yet it may bee proued in England the executors may thereupon haue an action m 18. E. 2. Testam 6. a testameÌ„t shewed vnder the seale of the Ordinaire is not trauersable n 36. H. 6. 31. Paâ—k tit Testam furthermore if one which is of the Queenes houshold sue an other which is not of her Maiesties houshold in the court of Marshalsie the defendaÌ„t may plead to the iurisdictioÌ„ of the Court and if the Court wil not allow this exception he may haue a writ of Error and the iudgement giuen in the Marshalsie may bee reuersed in the Kings bench o 18. E. 4. 22. 19. E. 4. 2. 4. 7. in Scir fa. inter Prior. de Merton Prior. de Bingh per Littlet and if one of the Queenes houshold sue an other of the same houshold and the plaintife is put out of seruice depending the plea the other may shewe this and abate the writte but otherwise it is if the defendant be put out of seruice p Lib. de diuers des Courts fol. 102. b. and if a man be impleaded in the CoÌ„mon place for lands within the cinque portes the tenant may shewe to the Court that the lande is within the Cinque ports and by this plea the Court shall bee outed of iurisdiction but if the tenant do plead a plea in barre which is founde against him so that the demaundant hath iudgement to recouer the land this iudgement shall binde the tenant foreuer q Lib. de diuers des courts 107. and so it is of landes in auncient demesne if a writte bee brought for them in the Common place if the tenant appeare and plead in barre and take no exception to the iurisdiction and the plea is found against him so that the demaundant recouereth the tenant shall not reuerse this by a writte of Error because hee might haue taken in time exception to the iurisdiction of the Court and that should haue beene allowed r Ibidem but the lorde may reuerse this iudgement by a writ of disceite and make the land auncient demesne as it was before Å¿ Ibid. 16. E. 2. Continuall Claime 10. 11. H. 4. 86. 7. H. 4. 44. 8. H. 4. 24. 17. E. 3. 41. 26. E. 3. 33. now I come to the citation â— That the summons of the partie defendant is necessarily exacted by the common law or summons of the partie defendaunt which you haue prooued to bee necessarie by the Ciuill lawe and I will likewise prooue that it is by the Common lawe necessarilie exacted In a writte of Trespasse the Sheriffe returned Non est inuentus wherefore a Capias issued that the defendaunt might bee taken who afterwarde came into the Court and said that hee was sufficient and might haue beene summoned and prayed a writte to make the Sheriffe to come to aunswere to the King and to the partie for his false returne and hee had it t 31. E. 3. Processe 55. and in an attachment vpon a prohibition the Sheriffe returned Non est inuentus the plaintife prayed a Capias to an other Sheriffe in an other Countie but the Clarkes said that he ought not to haue any other processe then an attachment in the other Countie because it may bee that hee hath assets in the other Countie u 13. E. 3. Processe 34. by which hee may be summoned and so 11. H. 4. it is said that in an action of dette or trespasse a Capias will not lie against an Earle or any of like estate because it is to bee intended that they haue assets whereby they may bee summoned and brought to their answere x 11. H. 4. 15. per Hals and in a writte against P. and T.