retractetur l. ea quae §. quaed ff de cōtrahen emp. but if it bee a secrete fault then a distinction must be vsed for eyther it was in beginning and growing at the time of the sale so that it may easily be cured and yet not easily perceiued then the seller is not any way to be charged or els the secrete fault was some festered and inueterate disease and in such case the seller is to be charged n L. mortis C. de per com rei vend but if the thing that is sold be liquide and gustable and the buyer doth taste of it or if it be measurable and hee doth measure it as corne or if it be ponderable and he doth wey it as mettall or if he marke a beast which hee hath bought and the beast be afterward chaunged in all these cases the dammage resteth vpon 4. That whether the fault be Latens or Patens if the bargainor do warrant the thing sold to be without fault hee is bound by the warranty by the Ciuill law the buyer o L. 1. l. q◠si neque §. si ff de per com rei vend l. 2. C. eo but if the things aforesaid be not tasted measured weyed or marked but be sold at a venture as if a man sell all his wine or oyle in such a house and doth warrant it to be good and merchantable or if he warrant the beasts that he selleth to be sound the seller in such cases is punishable p l. si vna ff de per com rei vend but if he had not warrāted it then the lawe is otherwise q d. l. 1. §. 1. C. eo l. quod saepe §. in his ff eo Anglonomoph In these cases which you haue now put our Lawe as I take it differeth very little or nothing from yours for whereas you 5. That bargaines sales matters in writing and obligatory may be auoyded by alleaging that they were made or done per menasse or by duresse say that a bargaine or sale enforced by terror may be auoyded in our Lawe euen matters in writing obligatory may be for the same cause defeated and frustrated and if a man seised of an acre of lande doe giue it in taile by deed and maketh a letter of Attourney to deliuer seisin and al this is done by duresse of imprisonment and liuerie of seisin is made this is a disseisin to the donor and the deed of gift and liuerie may by Law be auoided r 41. E. 3. 9. 2. E. 4. 19. per Littl. Park tit Graunts Sect. 17. and if a man menasse me to kill me if I wil not grant to him an annuitie of xx s. for doubt of death I grant it vnto him this graunt is voidable ſ 11. R. 2. Duresse 13. But if a man grant an annuitie to an other by threatning him that he wil cary away his goods whereupō he granteth vnto him the annuitie this grāt is not voidable by reason of such menacing because he may haue an actiō to recouer the goods if they be takē away t 7. E. 4. 21. Park tit Grāts Sect. 18. but a threatning of battery is a good cause to auoid a deed u 4. E. 2. Duresse 9. and so is the threatning of imprisonment a good cause to auoid a bonde x 8. H. 6. 12. but otherwise it is of a threatning to burne my house a 39. H. 6. 51. and a duresse or menacing at one place shall auoid an obligation made at an other place b 38. H. 6. 13. ◠Moyle 33. H. 6 24. 2. H. 5. 10. as to that which you haue spoken of fraud deceite in bargaines and sales the warranting of a thing to be good and sound which is nought corrupt I could put many cases agreing with your assertiōs diuersities 6. That by the Common law a warrantie made vpō the concluding of a bargaine and sale doth binde otherwise it is if the warrantie be made after the bargaine concluded If a mā sell vnto one certaine cloth warrant it to be of such a length and it is not of that lēgth he which buieth the cloth may haue an actiō of disceit against him by vertue of the warrātie but if the warrantie be made at some other time after the bargain he may not haue a writ of disceite c Fitzh N. B. 98. K. if a ma sell to an other seeds warrant thē to be of a certaine coūtrie if they be not so a writ of disceit will lie otherwise it had bin if he had warrāted that they should haue growne or if he should warrant that the horse which he selleth should go 50. miles in a day and a writ of deceite lieth for selling corrupt victuale without warrātie but not for selling rottē sheepe though it be with warrātie the warrāting of a thing to 7. That the warranting of a thing which is euident to the sense is no cause to bring a writte of disceite by the Common law be black which is blew where the colours is euident to sense is no cause of bringing a writ of disceit but is merely void otherwise it is if the buyer be blind or the thing that is bought be absēt d 11. E. 4. 7. 13. H. 4. 1. if a man sell a horse which hath a disease in his body or if he sel certain quarters of corne which is ful of grauel a writ of disceite will lie without warrātie e 20. H. 6. 36. ◠Paston 11. H. 6. 22. if one sell to an other certaine tūnes of wine warrāt thē to be good they be corrupt the vendee may haue an actiō vpō the case against the vendor f Fitz. N. B. 94. the actiō wil lie without warrātie g 7. H. 4. 14. according to the opiniō of some but M. Fitz. saith that there ought to be a warrātie or els no actiō will lie for in such case his taste may be his iudge h Fitz. N. B. 94. C. but where it is with warrātie the writte must say that the defend at the time of the warrantie made knew that the wine which he sold was corrupted i 9. H. 6. 53. Nomom You haue spokē enough of this matter 5. Diuision now shew me whether by a bargain sale of of the profites of land the land it selfe do passe Anglono The grant or bargaine sale of the 1. That by the Common law the graunt or sale of the profits of land is the grant of the lād it self profits of the land is the grant of the lād it self k 45. Ed. 3. Grants 90. 4. Eliz. 219. Dy. if a mā do lease to one an acre of lād for life reseruing to himselfe the herbage this reseruation is void for he hath reserued the same thing in substance l 38. H. 6.
that the deuisee be capable at the time of the death of the testator so it is likewise by our law for though a man may not graunt nor giue lands to his wife during the couerture because they both are but one persoÌ„ in law yet by custome heretofore which the CoÌ„mon law did fauour and now by statute he might or may deuise his lands to his wife to haue in fee simple or otherwise because such deuise taketh not effect till the death of the deuisor p Littl. lib. 2. c. 10. Sect. 8. 27. Assis pl. 60. and then they are not one person q 24. H. 8. Br. Deuis 34. Nomom Now let me know what things may 3. Diuision be deuised Codicgn Whatsoeuer things the testator hath 1. That by the Ciuill law all such things may bee deuised as the testator hath in his owne right at the time of the deuise as in his owne right r ff de legat 2. l. vinum §. si reÌ„ tuam if he happen to deuise a thing which is not his owne but an other maÌ„s the executor is by our Lawe compelable to buy it and to giue it to the deuisee by vertue of the will or if the owner will not sell it hee ought to pay the very value and full estimation of it to the deuisee Å¿ ff de legat 3. l. dubium §. vlti and if lande bee bought by the deuisor for which he hath not payed any monie or not all the monie if he died and the deuisee will haue the land hee must pay the monie and so enioy the land t L. 39. §. IdeÌ„ Iulianus de legat 1. but if the deuisor haue solde lande and hath not receiued the monie and he deuiseth the lande so solde to I. S. the deuisee in this case shall not haue the lande solde but the monie that is to bee payed for it for an argument is rightly drawne ab augmento ad diminutionem u L. si ex toto eo tit so that this conclusion may bee made is the thing bought due to the deuisee then the deuisee ought to pay the monie is the thing not solde not due to the deuisee then hee must haue the monie that is to bee payed for it Anglonomoph In our Lawe the making of a testament 2. The three degrees of a testament by the Common law hath three partes Inception which is the writing of the testament Progression which is the publication of it Consummation which is the death of the partie and when after the deuise the deuisor purchaseth other lands it caÌ„not 3. A differeÌ„ oâ— in the CoÌ„mon law where a man deuiseth a thing wherof he is not seised particularly and by name and where not be intended by any possibilitie that hee would haue them to passe by the deuise for there is nothing conteined in the will which doth purport such intent but it was held in Brettes case that if a man deuise land in certaintie as the mannor of Dale or white acre and he hath no interest nor possession in them at the time of the making of the will and after the doth purchase it in such case it shall passe to the deuisee for then it shall be taken that his intent was to purchase it as it is said 39. Henr. 6. 13. and it was likewise sayd that the statutes of 32. and 34. Henr. 8. required that the deuisors should bee seised of the land deuised at the time of the deuise for the words be Euerie person hauing or which after this acte shall haue c. a 10. Eli. ComÌ„ Brets case per Louel touts les Iust Nomom I pray you let me know more particularly what things may be deuised Codicgn A thing may be deuised which is not 4 That things which are not in esse at the time of the deuise made may be deuised in rerum natura at the time of the deuise if afterwarde it may be as the corne which shall grow in such a soyle or the lambes which shall come of his flocke of sheepe in such a field b Instit de legat §. ea quoque res ff de legat 1. l. quod in rerum but if the testator doe deuise tenne quarter of corne comming of the corne which shall growe in such a soyle or two tunnes of wine of his grapes in such a vineyard or tenne lambes of such a flock though so much corne or wine or so many laÌ„bes doe not arise of the thinges abouesaid yet the heire or executor is compellable by law to make them good integraliter because he may seeme to haue mencioned the soile the vineyard and the flocke rather by way of demonstration then by way of condition c l. quid testamento in prin ff de leg 1. l. Paulo Callimacho §. Iullanus Seuerus ff de legat 3. l. Lucius ff de alim leg but if the testator doe deuise certaine goods or a certaine summe of money to I. S. and in his life time after recouerie of his health he giueth the goods or payeth the money to the said I. S. now without any alteration of the deuise in the will the executors shall bee discharged of perfourming the deuise after the death of the testator d l. Lucius Titius in testamento in prin ff de legat 2. gl in Clem. dudum de Sepultur Angonomoph It is said in our bookes that if a 5 That the deuise of tenaÌ„t for terme of life or tenant iâ— dower of corne growing at the time of their death is good man which hath estate for life or tenaunt in dower doe deuise their corne growing vpon the lande at the time of their death this is a good deuise and hee in the reuersion shall not haue the Corne e 4 H. 3. Deuis 26. But if a man seised of lande in fee as in right of his wâ—fe doe lease the same land for yeares to a straunger and the lessee soweth the lande and after the woman dyeth the corne being not ripe in this case the lessee may deuise the corne growing vppon the lande and yet this estate is determined and it was certaine but a thing non-certaine was the cause of the determination of it f 7. E. 3. 67. 7. E. 4. 17. Park 99. sect 513. 10. E. 3. 29. And if a man bee seysed of lande in the right of his wife and sowe it ad deuiseth the corne growing vpon the lande and dyeth before it bee seuered the deuisee shall haue it and not the wife but otherwise it is of hearbes or meadowe growing vpon the lande and not seuered at the time of the death of the deuisour g 7. Ass pl. 16. And if tenaunt in taile of lande lease the lande for life and the lessee soweth the lande with Corne and the tenaunt in tayle dyeth and the issue recouereth in a Formedon in discender before the
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
within yeares of discreâ—ion b l. 5. ff ad leg Falcid l. 12 de leg and the contract or couenant of such persons is not ratified by oath which by law are forbidden to contract c l. non dubiuÌ„ C. de legib as Monkes and Fryers and such like religious persons Canonologus Indeede such persons are said in our lawe to be mortui mundo dead to the world d 16. q. vltim c. si and they cannot liue without their Cloister no more then a fish without the water e 16. q. 1. plac and he can haue nothing priuate or proper to himselfe and therefore the rule of the Canon-law is Monachus habens aliquid de proprio sepeliri debet in sterquilinio f De sta mo c. 2. C. ad monaster Ca. 1. 2. de postula 16. q. 1. monach c. religios de procur in cler and he caÌ„ not be any mans aduocate in a cause or any mans proxie without the consent of his Abbot or Soueraigne and that must be to the vse and behoofe of his monasterie and the like law is of Friers h Cle. dud de sepul Cle. exâ—ri de parad de verbo sig Nomomathes But is there no differeÌ„ce in the Lawe betwixt the contracts of infants and the contracts of Monkes and Friers Codicgn Yes very great For Monkes and 3. Monkes are absolutely ê“hibited by the Ciuill lawe to make any coÌ„tract infants are disabled with a certaine qualification Friers are prohibited by Lawe to make any contract so that as I haue abouesaid their contract can not be good though it be coÌ„firmed by oath But infants are not ture prohibiti but inhabiles ex iuris dispositione and therfore their contracts may by oath be established i Authent sacramenta puberuÌ„ cum tota sua materia C. si aduer veÌ„dit in corpore vnde sumitur Anglonomoph As the former Lawes haue very greatly disabled Monkes and religious persons who are tied to a certaine rule so our Law hath very much diminished their ability as to their intermedling in secular matters In a Scire facias brought by a Prior against a parson out of a recouery had against his predecessor it was 4. That by the Common law Priors vnder the obedience of a Soueraigne and which weare datife and remoueable could not impleade or bee impleaded without their soueraigne vnlesse it were by speciall custome held that the defendant should not be estopped by the admittance of his predecessor in the first action to pleade in this Scire facias that the Priour was a Monke professed vnder the obedience c. and was datife and remoueable k 34. H. 6. 2. for though it haue beene helde that a Prior perpetuall may prescribe to implead and to be impleaded without his Soueraigne yet by common intent a Prior datife and remoueable at the will of the party shall haue no action by such vsage but if he wil haue any plea he must shew some special matter 39. E 3. 34. and it hath bene said that the knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem had their possessions seuerall 5. The same Lawe was of the knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem yet they could not vse an action without their Prior m 32. H. 6. 5 31. and a Prior which was presentable and had Couent and Common seale could not before the dissolution of Abbeys and Priories charge his house in perpetuum without the assent of the Patron and Ordinarie neyther could hee haue the Writte De aduocatione decimarum nor a iuris vtrum n 12. H. 4. Stath tit Charge and a writte was abated beyng brought against a Prioresse because the Prior of S. Iohnes was commaunder of the house whereof shee was Prioresse and because she was made Prioresse by him and was vnder his obedience and remoueable at his will notwithstanding that shee had Couent and Common seale and had her possessions seuerall and was wonte to Lease the lande for tearme of yeares o 12. R. 2. Nonabilitie 4. and if a contract bee made with an Abbotte and his Monke the writ that hath beene grouÌ„ded vpon this contract hath bene brought against the Abbot onely p 33. E. 3. Bâ—â— 913. 2. H. 4. 21. and so hath a writte of Detinue bene brought being coÌ„ceiued vpoÌ„ a deliuery of goods made to the Monke to the vse of the Abbot q Ibidem yet it hath bene thought that an action will lie against a Monke if he be not in subiection to some Soueraigne r 14. H. 4. 37. But it hath bene taken for a general learning with vs that Monkes Friers Canons professed the like could not grant any thing Å¿ 14. H. 8. 16. 2. R. 3. 5. 32. H. 6. 31. neither could they be grauÌ„tees of any thing t 5. H. 7. 25. 19. H. 6. 25. neither are they capable by way of deuise u Perk. tit Deuis sect 537 the coueÌ„t of an Abbey or Priorie can yeeld so little aduantage to the house in matter of purchase that if in former times land had beene giuen to an Abbot and to his couent this could not be good saue onely during the life of the Abbot for the want of this word successors a 11. H. 4. 84. â— Curi but touching the abilitie of infants in contractes and purchases the Lawe is diuerse according to the diuersitie of cases and if an infant do buy of any a coate or necessarie vestmeÌ„t for a certaine summe or if he make a couenant for his meate paying 12. d. a weeke according to M. Paston his opinion this couenant is void yea and if 6. The infants contract for his meate apparell and necessaries is good if he be of the age of fourtene yeres hee make a bonde for it the bonde likewise is void but Markeham thinketh the contrarie if the infant that is so bond be of the age of fourtene yeares b 21. H. 6. 31. 18. E. 4. 2. Perk. Grau 4. D. S. dial 2. fo 113. and by M. Brookes opinion this is the better Law c Br. Labourers 30. and if an infant lease land for tearme of yeares rendring a rent or doe sell a horse or 7. That which an infant doth without actual liuery may bee auoyded by action without entre oâ— seisure but that which he doth by actuall liuery can not be auoided without entre oâ— seisure any other thing he may chose to haue an action of dette for the rent reserued vpon the Lease or a writte of trespasse for the occupation of the lande and so he may haue an action of trespasse for the occupation of a thing sold by him and if an infant doe giue to one a horse without actuall deliuerie of the horse into his hands at the time of the gift and the donee taketh the Horse by reason of this gifte the infant may haue an action of Trespasse
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
but it is a question with vs if one deuise to his wife the third part of all his goods and chattels whether this shall be intended as they shall be after the legacies or debts paid or as they were at the time of the deuise d 30. H. 8. 59. Dyl But this doubt of later time hath receiued decision for where a man deuised the 2. That by the Common law if a man deuise the third parte of his goods to his wife it shal be so rated as they weare at the time of the death of the testator 3. That the Queene may graunt a thing in action moitie of his goods to his wife and died it was ruled that she shall haue the goods as they were at the time of the death of the testator if the testator be not indebted e 5. Mari. 164. and as for graunting things in action we haue this positiue grounde in law that the Queene may grant ouer her rent and condition of reentrie for the nonpaiment of it and her action or any thing that her highnes hath in action but contrariwise it is of a common person f 2. H. 7. 8. Nomom Now shew me of what thinges and 4. Diuision in what sorte iointenancie or tenancie in common may be Codicgn It may be of all such things as lie in 1. That iointenancie by the Ciuil law may be of all such things as lie in contract contract as lambe milke woll cheese and corne and whatsoeuer is gained by the labour of oxē or the harrowing of horses or the letting to gift of kine g L. si nō fuerint ff pro soc and by the nature of the contract when two are agreed to be tenants in common of the profites comming and rising of beasts the losse of the beastes perteyneth onely to him in whom the very propertie of the beastes be but the charge of the pasture and labour which is to be taken about thē belongeth onely to him who is admitted to be tenant in common for the profites 2. That the limitation of tenancie in cōmon is by the partie but the construction of it by the law The possession in cōmon of beasts doth cōtinue vntill they haue yong if the possessiō were limited at the first vntill they had yoong and if two be agreed to be tenants in common of all the profites of a certaine ground the tenancie in cōmon ceaseth not till all the profites be taken and therefore if two be agreed to be tenants in common from the Calends of March vntill such time as their fields are new to be tilled sowne they shal be tenants in common vnto the Calendes of Nouember because betwixt both the Calendes the fields may be tilled sowne or suppose that they haue contracted a tenancie in common of kine from the Calendes of Iuly vntill they haue yonge this tenancie in cōmon shall continue till the Calends of Aprill next ensuing because for the most part they are wont to calfe betwixt both the Calends h L. si conuenerit in princ ff pro socio Anglono A parson may grant to another the moitie of his tithes for years whether it be lamb wooll or corne yet he hath no possession of them because they are not yet in esse i 38. E. 3. 6. but yet he hath an interest in them may grant the moitie of them as wel as one may grant to another that it shall be lawfull for him to take euery yeere a Deare or a Hare or a Cony within his soile this is a good grant k 10. H. 7. 30. and by the same reason that he may grant his tithes he may grant the moitie of them and so make a tenancy in common Nomoma Suppose the case to be this that two 5. Diuision iointenants or tenants in common haue agreed to make a common wall about their ground or that they should plant a certain number of trees in their common soile and one of them alieneth his part whether is his assignee bound to performe the couenant 1. That an assignee in the Ciuill lawe is bound by the the couenant of his grauntor Codicgn In our law there be many authorities that he ought to performe the couenant l L. quaesit §. quod a Titio ff de praeca arg l. in hoc iudiciū §. penult ff de cōmun diuid ff de damn infect l. fluminū §. adducitur ff pro soc l. 1. demque Anglonomoph To that our law agreeth for if a man lease a house and land for yeares by deed indented and the lessee doth couenant that he 2. That by the Common law in such case the assignee is bound by the couenant and his assignees shall repaire the house and after the lessee granteth ouer his terme and the assignee doth not repaire it an action of couenāt lieth against the assignee for this is a couenant which runneth with the land m 25. H. 8. Br. couen 32. Deputie 16. and according to M. Brookes opinion it lieth also against the lessee after that he hath assigned ouer his terme if he bring seueral writs of couenāt against thē both there is no remedie till he haue had execution against one of them and then if he sue the other he may haue an Audit a querela n Br. Couen 32. Nomom I will content my selfe at this time with your instructions touching iointenants tenants in common will passe ouer to the examining of the course of exchaunges The sixth Dialogue of Exchaunges NOnomath What if two do deale together 1. Diuision after this sort the one of thē giueth a horse and x. s. for the horse of an other man whether is this a bargaine and sale or an exchaunge Codicgn In such case either it is intended and 1. That by thē Ciuill law cōtracts for a certaine price are not exchaunges vttered betwixt the parties that the one shal haue such a thing for a certaine price as namely that A. shall haue the horse of B. for ten pounds and B. taketh of A. sixe pounds and an other horse in full paiment and satisfactiō this is cleerely a bargaine and sale a L. tenetur §. 1. de action emp. but if A. had giuen B. a horse for a horse that had bene an exchaunge b Ar. I. item si pretio §. 1. ff locat Anglonom By our Law there must bee the expresse 2. That by the Common law the word Excambium must be vsed in the exchaunge word of exchaūge mētioned otherwise a thing cā not be said to passe by exchaūge for the word excambiū only maketh an exchaūge as the words liberūmaritagiū onely doe make frankmariage for if I giue to one an acre of land by deed indented and he by the same deed giueth to me an other acre for this acre nothing passeth except liuerie be made and then the
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
a good deuise f 21. R. 2. Deuis 27. but now such a deuise is made voide by the statute of 23. H. 8. cap. 10. but before that statute it appeareth by the booke of 37. H. 6. that vpon a gift made to the parishioners 2 That by the common law and by the statute of 23. H. 8. such a deuise is void of such a parish without naming them the Churchwardens might haue an action g 37. H. 6. 3â— but theÌ„ the gift must haue bin of a personal thing for of inheritance of land they cannot take to the vse of the Church h 12. H. 7. 27. but if a man in auncient time had giuen his landes or his goods deo Ecclesiae sanct ' Petr ' Westimonast ' this had ben a good deuise because the Church is not the house nor the walles but the entier spiritual house that is the Abbot and the Couent and because they may take by such a gift it is good but if the Abbot were dead at the time of the gift it is not good be cause the CoueÌ„t is not persona capax but a church 3 What is meant by a Church parochiall according to Rolfes opinion parochiall by Rolfes opinion as to the endowement of it with lande cannot otherwise be intended but a house made of stones walles and roofe which cannot take by any gift or feoffement and so it is of a Church conuentual which lacketh a soueraigne i 8. H. 5. 4. per Babi Rolfe Nomom Suppose that two testaments be exhibited 11. Diuision to the ordinary which were made in one day conteining seuerall summes to the same deuisees bequethed whether shall they both be approued and the legacies of both stand good Codicgn These legacies onely shal stand good 1 That by the ciuil law where two testameÌ„ts conteigne in them seueral summes that which conteineth the lessee shal staÌ„d but by the coÌ„mon law the later which do conteigne in them a lesser summe k l. Sempronius Procul ff de legat 2. Anglonomoph In our Law we haue a case that if a man make a testament and in it he maketh one onely man his executor and then he maketh an other testament and in it he maketh him and a stranger executors and the first testament is proued that onely shall stande l 2. H. 5. 8. but by other authoritie the later onely shall take place what summes soeuer they conteigne ll 4. H. 7. 13. Nomomat Say that an oxe is deuised to one and 13. Diuision the oxe dyeth without any default in the executor whether is the skinne or hide of the oxe due to the deuisee or no Codicgn By our Lawe it is not due m l. mortuo boue ff de legat 2. for the 1 That by the Ciuil law if an oxe be deuised and he dye the skin is not due to the deuisee thing deuised that is the oxe did perish and was non ens before the skinne were taken off and the skin was not taken from an oxe but from a carcasse Anglonomoph It seemeth in that case that the 2 That by the common law it semeth to be due otherwise it should be if there had bin an exception of the hide deuisee shall haue the hide for it is parcel of the oxe and the oxe was an entier thing but if hee had giuen the oxe excepting the hide that perhaps would amount to a seueraÌ„ce in law so that the oxe liuing should haue belonged to the deuisee but being killed the flesh should belong to the deuisee the hide to the executor of the deuisor and if a man make a lease of land excepting the trees which grow vpon the lande the trees are seuered in Law for hee hath no reuersion of them and if he sell them and after the sale make a feoffement the feoffee shall not haue them because they were seuered by the vendition n 20. H. 6. 22. Nomomat Put case that I. S. doe borow a C. 13. Diuision li. of I. N. and for the sure repayment thereof he bindeth all his landes and goods by recognisans of statute Marchant to the said I. N. after he deuiseth all his landes to the recognisee and dyeth the recognisans is forfaited the recognisee bringeth an action of dette and recouereth against the executors and hath execution of the goods of the testator by Fierifacias and then he claimeth the land by vertue of the deuise whether is his claime good or no 1 That if the recognisor deuise all his goods to the reâ—onusee yet he shall haue execution of the land Codicgn I thinke he may claime the lande also if it may not be prooued by circumstances or directly that the land was deuised vnto him in satisfaction of the debt and vpon condition implyed that he should not alter the propertie of the goods by execution o l. creditoreÌ„ ff de legat 2. Anglonomoph I doe not perceiue any repugnancie in our Lawe to that which you haue saide Nomomath If he had made his creditour his executour in this case what woulde then haue followed Anglonomoph Then the debt had bin extinct p 11. H. 4. pl. 31. 2 That if the obligee make the obligor his executor the det is extinct for if two be bound to one in a certaine summe of money and the obligee maketh one of them his executor this is a release in law of the bond and debt to them both q 21. E. 4. 81. so if one make his dettor and an other his executours and die in this case if the executor who was not indebted suruiue he shall not haue an action of debt against the executour of his coexecutour although the partie indebted did not administer in his life time for the action was once extinguished and determined for no action can be brought but in the name of them both r 20. E. 4. 17. 21. E. 4. 3. 21. H. 7. 31. per Fineux but if one that is indebted make his creditour and an other his executours the creditour may haue an action if he doe not administer Å¿ 8. E. 4. 3. per Brian but when the testator is indebted to me and maketh me his executor I may deteigne the goods for my bebt so that it seemeth that though the action be extinct in regarde of the testatour yet the debt is still in esse in respect of straungers t 7. H. 4. 18. 27 H. 6. en Scire fac ' 7. Eliz. ComÌ„ Greysbrookes case 275. Codicgn When the creditour maketh the debtor his executor by the executorship the debt is confounded and because of impossibilitie in Lawe forsomuch as the executor may not bring an action of debt against himselfe being one and the same person the obligation therefore is by secreate act of Law disanulled u Philip. Deci ad reg iur Nomom Now I will put you a case which is
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
o 37. H. 6. 30. but if a man seise in an other right then as deuisee then he neede not depend vpon the deliuerie of the executors therefore the case was 9. E. 4. that an action of dette was brought against one as executor in London and the defendant said that the testator did giue vnto him certaine goods by his deed he shewed in particular what goods they were the testator being at the time of the gift in the village of B. in the countie of Essex that he suffered the goods to be in the possess of the testator vntill his death at London and after the death of the testator he tooke thē absque hoc that he did administer as executor the whole Court helde that the Iurors ought to find this matter of the gift of the goods vpō paine of attaint p 9. E. 4. 40. but where a man ought to take a thing by the deliuery of an other he taketh it of his owne head he is a trespassor and therefore if a man graūt to an other an estouer of wood to be taken by the view deliuery of his Bailie if hee take it without the deliuerie of the Bailie the grauntor may haue an action of trespasse against him Quare vi armis q 8. E. 3. 422. Nomomathes Suppose that a legacie of monie 18. Diuision is deuised to a man in regard of his wife and the testator dieth whether may the husband in this case demaund the legacie without naming the wife Codicgn By our Lawe the husband may demaund 1. That by the Ciuill law the husbande may demaund a legacy due to the wife without naming the wife it without naming the wife r L. Titio centum §. Titio genero ff de condit demonst Anglonomoph I see little reason but that the husband only may demaūd it in his owne name he being the sole deuisee and the thing deuised being a personall thing but if it had bene a reall thing and the wife had bene interested in it then the law would be otherwise Nomoma I pray you put me some cases touching this difference that I may better vnderstande your meaning Anglonomoph The writ of mesne because it 2. That in the Common law there is a diuersitie as touching bring ing of actions in the wifes name where the matter of the writ is real and where it is personall is in the realty ought alwaies to suppose the husbād and wife to be mesnes ſ 13. R. 2. Briefe 642. but in a writ of trespasse it hath bene helde a good declaration if the plaintife alledge that the defendant entred into his mannor of Dale though he haue nothing in the mannor but in right of his wife for this is a a personall wrong done vnto the husband t 4. E. 4 31. and by Danbyes opinion the husband taketh the profites of the land in his owne right u Ibid. per Danby so that it can not be law which is said 21. R. 2. that an actiō of trespasse for trees cut in the land of the wife must be brought as well in the wifes name as in the husbands w 21. R. 2. Briefe 933. and the contrarie is helde for Law 6. H. 4. and 47. E. 3. because as M. Finchden saith well the husband onely may release the dammages when they are recouered x 6. H. 4. 10. 47. E. 3. 9. per Finch neither may Husseyes opinion 7. H. 7. bee admitted for Lawe where he saith that the writte may be brought in both their names a 7. H. 7. 2. ◠Hussey in an actiō of dett brought by the husband vpon an obligation made to him and to his wife the writte may bee brought in the husbands name onely b 12. R. 2. Br̄e 639. and so where a lease is made for yeares rendring rent by the husband and the wife of the lande of the wife the action of dette must bee brought in the name of the husbande onely c 7. E. 4. 5. howsoeuer 2. R. 2. be to the contrarie that in a writte concerning a chattell reall they may ioyne d 2. R. 2. Brief 37. but where the husband is seised of a Seignorie in the right of his wife a mā may not make conusans as baily to the husband but as baily to them both e 12. R. 2. Auowrie 88. but that is because the conusans and auowrie in such case is en le droit f 48. E. 3. 8. ◠Finch but as to such things which concerne the persō of the wife immediatly there the writte must be brought in both their names and therfore the husband cannot sue a writte of appeale 3. That where the wronge doth immediatly concerne the person of the wife the wise must of necessitie be named for the rape of his wife without naming the wife g 8. H. 4. 21. 1. H. 6. 1. 10. H. 4. Br. Baron fem 34. whereas they brought an action of batterie for the beating of them both the writte was adiudged good for the batterie of the wife but not as to the batterie of the husband h 9. E. 4. 54. and the husbande and the wife shall both bring an action of trespasse for the taking away of the goods of the wife before the marriage i 21. H. 6. 33. but in a writte of detinue of charters against husband and wife the declaration was vpon a trouer and the writte was abated k 13. R. ◠Briefe 644. but a writte of couenant was brought by the husband and the wife because the defendant leased vnto them lande for tearme of yeares by deed afterward outed thē and the writ was awarded to be good for if the husband die the woman shall haue the tearme l 47. E. 3. 12. and in this case they were both parties to the couenant and by the bookes of 6. E. 4. 17. E. 4. an action of dette for the arrerages of a rent reserued vpon a lease for yeares made vnto the husband and the wife shall be brought against them bothe and so shall a writte of waste for the wife cannot waiue the lease during the life of the husband m 6. E. 4. 10. 17. E. 4. 7. and 8. Rich. 2. an action vpon the statute of Labourers was brought against husband and wife supposing that the wife had couenanted with the plaintife to be dāsell or waiting womā to his wife for a yeare that she departed out of seruice within the yeare the writ was awarded to be good being brought against them both n 8. R. 2. Laborers 59. Nomoma No more of this matter let me aske 19. Diuision you farther If the testator do deuise to one within age his maintenance to bee giuen allowed him by his executor vntill he come to ripenes of age how shal these words ripenes of age be vnderstood whether of age of
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.
34. because the profites of land the land it self are one the selfe same thing in substance m 10. H. 7. 9. 6. â— 6. 71. Dy. but he may lease his Parke excepting the wood vnderwood his maÌ„nor reseruing the warren but the soile of the wood and warren shall goe to the lessee n 14. H. 8. 1. 33. H. 8. Br. Reseruat 39. Codicgn By our Lawe a man may grant and 2. That by the Ciuill law a man may graÌ„t and demise the vse of a thing and yet not grant the thing it selfe demise the vse of a thing and yet not graunt the thing it selfe Suppose a man graunt vnto mee his mare for a certaine time I may during the time vse the mare at my pleasure but I may not lend her or set her ouer to some other to vse neither caÌ„ I haue the fole which coÌ„meth of her for by the graunt I may claime vsum onely but not vsumfructum and so hee to whom the vse of a mans ground is granted may take the profites of the ground to his owne vse but may not sell theÌ„ to others o Gâ—â—atup in vocabular verbo vti frui Nomom I would gladly know when a man 6. Diuision 1. When a maÌ„ selleth land in which treasure is hidde and the vendor knoweth not of it whether shall the vendee haue the treasure 2. How this word treasure is taken in the Ciuill lawe selleth his land in which there is treasure hidde whether the vendee shall haue the treasure because the vendor knew not of it at the time of the sale Codign It may bee you take the worde Treasure generally not properly as it is vsed strictly in our Lawe for if a man do hide any thing in the grouÌ„d for gaine or through feare or to keep it more safely within time of memorie this may not properly haue the name of treasure p l. nunquam D. de acquir rer domin for a treasure properly is when money or things of good value haue lyen from time out of minde hidden in the ground so that no man now hath propertie in it q d. l. nunquaÌ„ It hath bene forbidden by many 3. That by the Ciuil law money and other things necessary to the commoÌ„ vse of this life are forbidden to be hidden buried in the ground lawes that money may not be buried r l. 4. D. ad leg Iul pecul and these Lawes haue reason for them for it is against the s Aristot Nicomach 5. nature of monie that it should be buried being inuented for the daily and common vse of men and the same may be affirmed of other thinges which are hidden t L. 5. l. â— D. de vsufr ca. re que vs coâ— and these prohibitory lawes are fortified with this penaltie that things so hidden shall be forfeited to the Treasurie Plato had 4. Plato his superstitious opinion of thinges hidden in the earth such a scrupulous or rather such a superstitious conscience that he made by his lawes treasures to be immobâ—les Dijs inferis sacros and his precept is straunge in this case Quae minime deposuisti ne tollito u Plat. lib. 11. de legi Adrianus Caesar made a law as Spartianus reproteth that if any man had found treasure in his owne ground himselfe should haue it if in an other mans he should giue the halfe to the owner of the soyle if in a publique place he should deuide it equally with the treasurie This law was abrogated by other lawes following and reuiued by Iustinian but nowe 5. How the Ciuil law doth order and dispose of treasure and long time agoe our law hath transferred it to the Prince in whose Realme it is found x L. 3. §. Nerati D. de acquir posses Alberic Gentilis Disputati Decad. 1. c. 10. So that I cannot possibly see how the vendee in your case proposed shall by our law haue it Auglonomoph Nor by our law which saith Quod the saurus competit domino regi non domino libertatis si non sit per verba specialia aut per praescriptionem y Fitz. Coro 281. 436. And in this case though he selle 6. What the Common law doth determine of treasure vnto him the profit de terra yet he doth not sell vnto him the profits in terra which treasures are z Plowd coâ—en le informa pur mines Nomom I will content my selfe with this difference which you haue put and will now proceede according to the platforme of our forementioned order to learne something of seignories and seruices The fourth Dialogue of Seignories and seruices NOmomathes Because things are better 1. Diuision and more certainly knowne by the definition of them therefore I pray you let me first haue of you some definition or description of a seignorie Codicgn A seignorie which we call feudum 1. The description of a seignorie by the Ciuill law may be thus described A bountifull granting of land for doing homage or some other speciall seruice a Glo. in vsi feu tit quib mod feod acquir in princip c. vnico §. in primis tit in quib caus feud amit de feud dat mi. valuas ca. vnico melius tit de feud dat in vicem leg coÌ„missor reprob cap vnic Anglonomoph A seignorie with vs is nothing 2. Likewise by the Common law else but a relation of delitie betwixt the tenant and the Lord. Canonolog In our Canon law it is shortly desined 3. By the Canon law The granting of land for homage b C. ex diligenti de simon Nomomath Shew me I pray you how homage 2. Diuision and other seruices had their first existence and beginning but first shew me what homage is Anglonomoph Homage is thus performed The 1. What homage is and how it is to be performed by the Common law tenant that is to doe homage must haue his head discouered and his Lord sitting he must kneele before him vpon both his knees and shall hold forth both his hands betweene the hands of his Lord and shall say as followeth I become your man from this time forward of life and member and earthly honour and to you shall be faithfull and loyall and shall beare vnto you faith for the tenements which I claime to hold of you sauing the faith which I beare to our Lord the King which being done the Lord sitting shall kisse him c Littlet lib. 2. c. 1. Nomom Hath this ceremonie beene auncient Codicgn The kneeling and giuing of a kisse 2. That Homage hath bene practised in auncient times at the doing of such seruice is very auncient for Tiridates the King of Armenia did kneele down before Nero the Emperor whom Nero lifted vp and gaue him a kisse d Tranquil in Neron And longe before his time Alexander the great did imbrace and