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A55452 Reports and cases collected by the learned, Sir John Popham, knight ... ; written with his own hand in French, and now faithfully translated into English ; to which are added some remarkable cases reported by other learned pens since his death ; with an alphabeticall table, wherein may be found the principall matters contained in this booke. Popham, John, Sir, 1531?-1607.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.; England and Wales. Court of Star Chamber. 1656 (1656) Wing P2942; ESTC R22432 293,829 228

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guided according to that which may be collected to be the purpose and intent of the parties And therefore if a man make an Estate of his Land without limitation of any Vse or confidence the Law shall say that it is to his own use but if it be upon confidence then it shall be to the Vse of the party to whom it is made or according to the confidence which sh●ll be absolute or according to that which is limitted which may alter that which otherwise shall be taken upon the generall confidence as 30 H. 6. Fitz. Devise If a man devise Lands to another in Fee he hath the use and Title of it but if it be limitted to his use for his life only the use of the Fee shall be to the Heir of the Devisor for by the limitation his intent shall be taken to be otherwise then it should be taken if this limitation had not been and in as much as in this case the Earl reserves to himself but the use for years it is evident that his intent never was to have the Fee to surrender this Term which perhaps he intended to be for the benefit of his will which shall be defeated contrary to his purpose if the Fee shall be also in him by the death of the sayd Iohn without Issue Male and therefore the sayd Daughters ought to have the Land And on the other part it was argued by Glanvil Serjeant and Egerton the Attorney Generall that this limitation made to the right Heirs is void in the same manner as if a man give Lands to another for life the Remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor in this case the Heir shall take by descent as a Reversion remaining to the Feoffor and not as a Remainder devested out of him for the ancient right priviledge the Estate which he may take and therfore he shall take it by descent and not by purchase for the name of right Heir is not a name of purchase betwixt the Ancestor and his heir because that doth instance that he happeneth to be heir he takes it by descent and then it comes too late to take by purchase And another reason that the Daughters shall not have it is because that when Sir Iohn Russell dies without Issue Male which Estate might have preserved the Remainder if it shall be a Remainder there was not any right heir of the sayd Francis Earl of Bedford to take this Remainder because that the sayd Earl survived him And therefore it is to bee resembled to this Case Land is given in Tail the Remainder to the right Heirs of I. G. the Donee dyes without Issue in the life of I. G. in this case albeit I. G. dyes afterwards having an heir yet this heir shall never have the Loud because he was not heir in Esse to take it when the Remainder fell and for the mean Estate for years this cannot preserve a Remainder no more then when Land is given for years the Remainder to the right heirs of I. G. this Remainder can never be good if I. G. be then living because such a Remainder cannot depend but upon a Free-hold precedent at least and therefore the Inheritance here shall go to the now Earl of Bedford by the second assurance And upon consideration of the Case and severall Confirmes had upon this amongst the Iudges and Barens it was at last resolved by all but Baron Clarke that the Daughters shall not have the Mannors in the County of Do●set but the now Earl of Bedford and principally upon this reason because there was nor right Heir to take as Purchasor where the mean Estate Taile was determined which was by the Lord Iohn without Issue Male for they agreed that the Remainder to the right Heirs if it be a Remainder cannot be preserved by the mean Estate for years for it ought to be a Free-hold at least which ought to preserve such a Remainder untill there be one to take it by name of Purchasor as right Heir And at this day they did not think there was any diversity between the Case of a Remainder in Possession limitted to the right heir of one and of a Remainder in use so limited over to another Mich. 34. and 35. Eliz In the Kings Bench. 3. IN Ejectione firmae upon speciall verdict the case was thus A man possessed of a Term of years in right of his wife made a Lease for years of the same Land to begin after his death which was the Lessor and afterwards he dyed and his wife survived him and the question was whether the wife shall have the Land after the death of the husband or the Lessee for if the husband had devised the same Land to an estranger yet the Wife shall have it and not the Devisee as it happened in the Case of Matthew Smith who made first such a Devise of a Term of his Wife and yet the Wife had it because that by the death of the husband before which the Devise did not take effect the wife had it in her first Right not altered in the life of her Husband but it was agreed in this case by all the Court that the Lessee shall have it during his Term for as the husband during his life might contract for the Land for the whole term which the wife had in it so might he do for any part of the term at his pleasure for if he may devise the Land for one and twenty years to begin presently he also may make it to begin at any time to come after his Death if the term of the Wife be not expired but for the Remainder of the term of the husband made no disposition during his life the Wife shall have it which by Popham this Case happened upon a specialll Verdict in the County of Somerset about 20 Eli. Where he and Sergeant Baber were Practisers in the Circuit there to wit the Lands were demised to husband and wife for their lives the Remainder to the Survivor of them for years the Husband granted over this term of years and dyed and the question was whether the Wife shall have the term of years or the Grantee and adjudged that the Wife shall have it and it was upon this reason because there was nothing in the one or the other to grant over untill there was a Survivor And the same Law had been if the Wife bad dyed after the Grant and the Husband had survived yet he shall have the term against his own Grant as if a Lease were made for Life the Remainder for years to him which first cometh to Pauls if A. grant this Term for years to another and afterwards A. is the first which commeth to Pauls yet the Grantee shall not have this Term because it was not in A. by any means neither in Interest nor otherwise untill he came to Pauls As if a man make a Lease for life the Remainder to the Right heirs of J. S. J. S. hath
resolved by all the Iustices as he said that it shall passe and he said that himself was of this opinion also And to say that by grant of Land at Common Law the use had been raised out of the possessions of the Land which the Grantor then had and by it passe to the Bargainee and that it shall not be raised and passed to another by grant of Land in consideration of marriage which is a more valuable consideration then money is absurd and against all reason And for the solemnity Vses in such cases in respect of marriage were the cause that they alwaies were left as they were at Common Law and not restrained as the case of bargain and sale is which by Common intendment may be made more easily and secretly then that which is done in consideration of marriage which is alwaies a thing publike and notorious but it is not reasonable that every slight or accidentall speech shall make an alteration of any Vse As if a man ask of any one what he will give or leave to any of his Sons or Daughters for their advancement in marriage or otherwise for their advancement this shall be but as a bare speech or communication which shall not alter or change any Vse But where there is upon the Speech a conclusion of a Marriage between the friends of the parties themselves and that in consideration therof they shall have such Lands and for such an Estate there the Vse shall be raised by it and shall passe accordingly to the parties according to the conclusion which Fennor granted But by Popham If it may be taken upon the words spoken that the purpose was to have the Estate passe by way of making of an Estate as by way of Feoffment c. then notwithstanding the consideration expressed the use shall not change nor no Estate by it but at will untill the Livery made therupon And therfore if a man make a Deed of Feoffment with expresse consideration of marriage although the Deed hath words in it of Dedi Concessi with a Letter of Attorney to make Livery therupon there untill Livery made nothing passe but at will because that by the Warrant of Attorney it appeareth the full intent of the parties was that it shall passe by way of Feoffment and not otherwise if it be of Land in possession And if it be of Land in Lease not untill Attornment of Tenants which was granted by all the Iustices But if a man in consideration of money makes a Deed of Gift Grant Bargain and Sale of his Lands to another and his Heirs by Deed indented with a Letter of Attorny to make Livery if Livery be therupon made before Inrolement there it hath been adjudged to passe by the Livery and not by the Inrolement But by Popham where Land is to passe in possession by Estate executed two things are requisite The one the grant of the said Land the other the Livery to be made therupon for by the bare Grant without Livery it doth not passe as by way of making of an Estate And this is the cause that such solemnity hath been used in Liveries to wit if it were of a Messuage to have the people out of it and then to give Seisin to the party by the Ring of the door of the House and of Land by a Turff and a Twig and the like which may be notorious Yet I agree it shall be a good Livery to say to the party Here is the Land enter into it and take it to you and your Heirs for ever or for life or in tail as the case is And albeit Livery by the View may be made in such manner yet by the sealing of the Deed of Grant upon the Land or by grant of it upon the Land without Livery nothing passe but at will But if therupon one party saith to the other after the Grant or upon it Here is the Land enter upon it and take it according to the Grant this is a good Livery But he ought to say this or somthing which amounts to so much or otherwise it shall not passe by the bare Grant of the Land although it be made upon the Land Clench said That when Thomas said to Eustace Stand forth here I do give to thee and thine Heirs these Lands this amounts to a Grant and a Livery also and by the words of the Reservation of the Estate to himself and his wife for their lives in this the Law shall make an use in the said Thomas and his wife for their lives so that by such means it shal enure as if he had reserved the use therof to him and his wife and so it shall enure to them as it may by the Law according to his intent without doing prejudice to the Estate passed to the said Eustace And afterwards Term Mich. 36 37 Eliz. the Case was again disputed amongst the Iustices and then Popham said That the Case of Ba●gains and Sales of Lands in Cities as London c. as appeareth in Dyer 6. Eliz. are as they were at Common Law To which all the Iustices agreed and therfore shall passe by Bargain by parole without writing And by Bayntons Case in 6 7 Eliz. it is admitted of every side that an Vse was raised out of a Possession at Common Law by Bargain and Sale by parole and otherwise to what purpose was the Statute of Inrolements and by the same case it is also admitted now to passe by parole upon a full agreement by words in consideration of Marriage or the continuance of Name or Blood For it is agreed there that the consideration of nature is the most forceable consideration which can be and agreed also that a bare Covenant by writing without consideration will not change an Vse therfore the force therof is in the consideration of which the Law hath great respect And therfore the Son and Heir apparant ex assensu patris onely may at the door of the Church endow his wife of his Fathers Land which he hath in Fee and this is good by Littleton although the Son hath nothing in it wherby an Estate passe to the wife which is more then an Vse Nature is of so strong consideration in the Law And therupon after advice Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff the Roll of this appeareth in Banco Regis 1 Hill 35. Eliz. Rot. 355. And upon this Iudgment a Writ of Error was brought and the Iudgment aforesaid reversed in the point of Iudgment in the Exchequer by the Statute of 27 Eliz. Kettle versus Mason and Esterby 6. IN a second deliverance between Joh. Kettle Plaintiff and George Mason Vide this case Coke lib. 1. 146 c. and Francis Esterby Avowants the case appeared to be this Thomas May was seised of the Mannor of Sawters and Hawlin in the County of Kent in his Demesne as of Fee and being so therof seised enfeoffed Thomas Scot and John Fremling and their Heirs
35 E. Rot. 258. And Popham said further in this case that to erect an Hospitall by the name of an Hospitall in the County of S. or in the Bishopprick of B. and the like is not good because he is bound to a place too large and incertain But a Colledge erected in Accademia Cantabrig or Oxon. is good and s●me are so founded because it tends but to a particular place as a City Town c. King versus Bery and Palmer 2. IN an Ejectione firmae brought by William King against John Bery and William Palmer Defendants for two Messuages and certain Lands in Halstead in the County of Leicester upon a Demise alledged to be made by Dorothy Pool and Robert Smith the case upon a speciall Verdict was this The said Dorothy was Tenant for life of the said Tenants the Remainder over to the said Robert Smith and his Heirs and they being so seised made the Lease in the Declaration upon which the Action was brought And per curiam the Lease found by the Verdict doth not warrant the Lease alledged in the Declaration for although they joyned in the Demise yet during the life of the said Dorothy it is her Demise and not the Demise of the said Robert Smith but as his confirmation for that time for he hath nothing to do to meddle with the Land during the life of the said Dorothy but after the death of the said Dorothy then it shall be said to be the Domise of the said Robert Smith and not before because untill this time Smith hath nothing to do to meddle with the Land And in a more strong case If Tenant for life and he in the Reversion in Fee make a Gift in tail for the life of Tenant for life it shall be said to be his Gift but after his death it shall be said the Gift of him in the Reversion and if the Estate tail had expired during the life of the said Tenant for life he shall have the Land again in his former Estate and there shal be no forfeiture in the case because he in the Reversion of the immediate Estate of Inheritance had joyned in it and therfore hath dispensed with that which otherwise had been a meer forfeiture of the Estate for life wherby it was awarded by the Court that the Plaintif take nothing by his Bill in 33 34 Eliz. Rot. And the Judgment is entred Hill 34. Eliz. Ret. 72. 3. In this Term I hapned to see a Case agreed by the Iustices in 3. 4. Eliz. which was this If a man make a Lease of two Barns rendring Rent and for default of payment a Re-entry if the Tenant be at one of the Barns to pay the Rent and the Lessor at the other to demand the Rent and none be there to pay it that yet the Lessor cannot enter for the Condition broken because there was no default in the Tenant he being at one for it was not possible for him to be at both places together And upon this Case now remembred to the Iustices Popham Walmesley and Fennor said That perhaps also the Tenant had not money sufficient to have been ready to have paid it at either of the said places but it is sufficient for him to have and provide one Rent which cannot be at two places together And by the Case reported here also If Lands and Woods are demised together the Rent ought to be demanded at the Land and not the Woood because the Land is the more worthy thing and also more open then the Wood And therfore by the three Iustices aforesaid Rent ought not to be demanded in any private place of a Close as amongst Bushes in a Pit or the like nor in the open and most usuall passage therof as at a Stile Gate and the like 4. Vpon a Prohibition sued out of the Kings Bench the Case appeared to be this The late Lord Rich Father to the now Lord Rich devised to his Daughter for her advancement in marriage 1500. upon condition that she marry with the consent of certain friends and deviseth further that if his Goods and Chattels are not sufficient to pay his Debts and Legacies that then there shall be 200 l. a year of his Lands sold to supply it and dies making the now Lord Rich his Executor his Goods and Chattels not being sufficient to pay the Debts of the Testator as was averred the said Daughter married with a Husband against the will of those who were put in trust to give their assents and the Husband and the Wife sued in the Spirituall Court for the Legacy And it was surmised that they would not allow the proofs of the said now Lord Rich exhihited to prove the payment of the Debts of his Testator and further that they would charge him for the sale of the Land upon which matter the Prohibition was granted to the Delegates before whom the matter depended and now consultation was prayed in the case Vpon which it was affirmed by a Doctor of the Civill Law that they will allow the proofs for the payment of the Debts according to our Law and that the Legacy shall not be paid untill the Debs are satisfied But he said that by the Law if the Executor do not exhibit his Inventory but neglect it for a year or more that then if any omission or default be in the true value of the Inventory exhibited that then such on Executor for this default shall pay all the Legacies of his Testator of what value soever they are not respecting the Debts or the value of the Goods or Chattels how small soever the omission or default be in the Inventory And so he said was the case of the now Sir Richard S. who did not bring in the Inventory for four years after the death of the Testator and that in the Inventory exhibited the values of every thing were found to be too small and therfore to be charged by their Law albeit he hath not Goods and Chattels sufficient of the Testators To which it was answered that this was quite without reason for by such means every Subject of the Realm may be utterly defeated if he take upon him the charge of an Executorship And if this shall be admitted no man will take upon him the Execution of the Will of any and by such a means none will have their Wills performed which shall be too inconvenient And they said further that in as much as Debts are to be proved by the Common Law of the Realm those of the Ecclesiasticall Courts ought to admit in the proof therof such proofs as our Law allows and not according to the precisenesse of their Law And although by their Law such a Condition as before being annexed to a Legacy is void because that marriage oughr to be free without Coercion yet where we are to judge upon the point as we are here if the Execution happen to be charged because of the sale of Land and for
doth much concern the Infant in as much as by his false plea he shall be bound to ●nswer of his own Goods if he hath no Goods of his Testator and therfore in a 11 E. 4. 1. he hath remedy against his Guardian for pleading a false P●ea And by Doderidge if he hath no Guardian the Court sh●ll appoint him a Guardian And if an Infant bring an action as Executor by Attorney and hath Iudgment to recover this is not erronious because it is for his benefit so per Curiam the difference is where he is Plaintiff and where he is Defendant And there is another difference where he is Executor and where not for being Executor his Plea might have been more prejudiciall to him and Coke lib 5. Russels case was agreed for good Law for an Infant may be Executor and may take money for a Debt and make a Release and give an Acquittance but not without a true consideration and payment of the money The same Term in the same Court. Thomas Middletons Case THomas Middleton alias Strickland was condemned for a Robbery at the Where a Felon is condemned and elcapeth and is re-taken upon confession that he is the same party execution may be awarded The Sheriff of Middlesex fined for not attending the Court. Assises in Oxford after which he made an escape and being taken again he was brought to the Bar and upon his own confession that he was the same party who did the Robbery and that he was condemned for it the Court awarded execution And Mountague chief Iustice said th●t was no new case for it had been in experience in the time of E. 3. and 9 H. 4. and 5. E. 4. that the Court might so do upon his own confession And because the Sheriff of Middlesex did not give his attendance upon the Court in this case nor came when he was called the Court fined him 10 l And Mountage said that it shall be levied by proces out of the Court and also all other Fines there assessed and not estreated into the Exchequer for then the party might compound for a matter of 20 s. and so the King be deceived The same Term in the same Court. Gouldwells Case IOhn Gouldwell seised of Land in Socage Tenure devised them to his Wife for life the Remainder to John Gouldwell his Son and his Heirs upon Condition that after the death of his Wife he shall grant a Rent-charge to Steven Gouldwell and his Heirs and if John Gouldwell dye with●ut Heirs of his body that the Land shall remain to Steven Gouldwell in Tail the Wife dieth John Gouldwell grants the Rent accordingly Stephen Gouldwell grants the Rent over John Gouldwell dies without Heir of his body and the second Grantee distrains for the Rent arrear and Stephen Gouldwell brings a Replevin And it was urged by the Counsell for the Plaintiff that this Rent shall not have continuance longer then the particular Estate and cited 11 H. 7. 21. Edri●ks case that if Tenant in Tail acknowledge a Statute this shall continue but during his life and Dyer 48. 212. But it was agreed per Curiam that the Grantee was in by the Devisor and not by the Tenant in Tail and therfore the Grant may endure for ever But for the second point this being to him in Remainder the intent of the Demisor is therby explained that he shall have the Rent only untill the Remainder come in possession for now the Rent shall be drowned in the Land by unity of possession 3. It was agreed and resolved that by the granting of the Kent over this was a confirmation And Mountague said that it was a confirmation during the Estate Tail and shall enure as a new grant afterwards And Haughton and Doderidge said that they would not take benefit of the grant over by way of confirmation for as Haughton said this enures only ought of the Devisor and he hath power to charge the Land in what manner he pleaseth and it is like to an usuall case as if a man makes a Feoffment in Fee to the use of one for life the Remainder over with power to make Leases and after he makes a Lease this is good against Tenant for life and him in the Remainder also And I have considered what the intent of the Devisor should be in granting of this Rent and it seems to me that in as much as the Land is limited in Tail and the Rent in Fee that by this the Grantee shall have power to grant or dispose of the Rent in what manner he would but if the Land had been in Fee I should have construed his intent to have been that the Grantee should have the Rent only untill the Remainder fall to which Doderidge agreed who said that we are in the case of a Will and this construction stands with the intent of the Devisor and stands with the Statute which saies Quod voluntas Donatoris est observanda The same Term in the same Court. Baskervill versus Brook A Man became Bail for another upon a Latitat in the Kings Bench and before Iudgment the Bail let his Lands for valuable consideration Difference between baile in the Kings Bench and the Common Pleas. And how a bail shall relate And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff And now it was debated whether the Land Leased shall be liable to the Bailment and it was said by Glanvill of Councell with the Lessee that it ought not to be liable and he put a difference between a Bailment in this Court and a Bailment in the Common Pleas for there the Suit cometh by originall and the certainty of the debt or demand appeareth in the declaration and therfore then it is certainly known from the begining of the Bailement for what the Bail shall be bound But in this Court upon the Latitat there is not any certainty untill Iudgment given before which the Land is not bound and now it is in another mans hands and therfore ●ot liable and he puts Hoes case Co. lib. 5. 70. where i● was resolved that where the Plaintiff releaseth to the Bail o● the Defendant upon a Suit in the Kings Bench before Iudgment all Actions Duties and Demands that this Release shall not bar the Plaintiff for there is not any ce●tain duty by the Bail before Iudgment and therfore it cannot be a Release and he cite● the case of 21 E. 3. 32. upon an account and said that it was like to a second Iudgment in that which reduceth all to a certainty and therfor c. But it was said by Mountague and Crook that the Lessee shall be bound for otherwise many Bailments and Iudgments shall be defeated which will bring a great Inconvenience And Mountague said that it was like to the case of a bargain and sale of Land which after it is Inrolled within six moneths shall relate to the beginning of the Bargain so upon the Iudgment given relation is made from the time
Richard he made assurance by Fine of his Lands being 174 l. a year viz. Of part therof of the value of 123 l. a year of which part was holden of the Queen by Knights Service in Capite to the use of himself for his life and after his decease to the use of the said William and Margaret and the Heirs of the body of the said William begotten on the body of the said Margaret and for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said William And of the residue therof being also holden in Capite of the Queen to the use of himself for his life and after his decease to the use of the first Issue Male of the said Richard and to the Heirs Males of his body and then to other Issues of his body and for default of such Issue to the said William and Margaret and the Heirs of the body of the said William on the body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten and for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said William with this Prouiso That it shall be lawfull for the said Richard to make a Joynture to his wife of the Lands limited to his Issue Males and for making of Leases for 21. years or three lives for any part of the said Land rendring the ancient Rent except of certain parcels and that William died without Issue and that Gilbert Littleton was his Brother and Heir and that the said Margaret married the said George Littleton youngest brother to the said William which are yet living And that the said Richard married Dorothy and made her a Joynture according to the Proviso And that the said Richard had Issue Iohn Smith and died the said Iohn being his Son and Heir and within age After which a Melius inquirendum issued by which it was found that the said Margaret was the Daughter of the said Richard and that the said Land was of the value of 12000 l. at the time of the assurance And how much of the Land shall be in ward and what Land and what the Melius inquirendum makes in the case was the question put to the two chief Iustices Popham and Anderson who agreed that the Queen now shall have the third part as well of that which was assured to William and Margaret immediatly after the death of the said Richard as of that which was limited to Dorothy for the life of the said Margaret for although money were paid yet this was not the only consideration why the Lands were assured but the advancement of the Daughter and now by the surviving of the said Margaret shee shall be said to be in the whole which was assured to her by her Father and for her advancement and the Land as it appears was of greater value then the money given and may as well be thought to be given for the Remainder of the Fee And agreeable to this was the case of Coffin of Devonshire about the beginning of the Raign of the now Queen which was that the said Coffin for moneys paid by one Coffin his Cosin having but D●ughters himself conveyed his Land to the use of himself and his wife and to the Heirs Males of his body and for default of such Issue to the use of his said Cosin and his Heirs for which his said Cosin was to give a certain sum of money to the Daughters for their marriage Coffin dies his said Daughters being his Heirs and within age and were in ward to the Queen the Lands being holden by Knights Service in Capite And the third part of the Land was taken from the wife of Coffin for the life of the said wife if the Heirs continue so long in Ward And it was also agreed by them and the Councell of the Court that the Melius inquirendum was well awarded to certifie that the said Margaret was the Daughter of the said Richard of which the Court could not otherwise well take Conusance for they thought that it was not matter to come in by the averment of the Attorney-generall as Dyer hath reported it But now by the Statute it ought to be found by Inquisition and being a thing which stands with the former Inquisition it ought to be supplied by the Melius inquirendum for the same Statute which gives the Wardship in case where Land is conveyed for the advancement of the Wife or Infants or for the satisfaction of Debts and Legacies of the party by the implication of the same Statute this may be found by Inquisitton and if it be omitted in the Inquisition it ought to be found by a Melius inquirendum but not to come in by a bare surmise And therfore if in the Inquisition it be found that the Ancestor had conveyed his Land by the Melius inquirendum it may be found that it was for the payment of his Debts or Legacies or that the party to whom or to whose use it was made was the Son or Wife of the party that made it and that by the very purport of the Statutes 32. 34 H. 8. as by Fitzherbert if it be surmised that the Land is of greater value then it is found a Melius inquirendum shall issue and so shall it be if it be found that one is Heir of the part of the Mother but they know not who is Heir of the part of the Father so if it be not found what Estate the Tenant had or of whom the Land was holden so upon surmise made that he is seised of some other Estate or that he held it by other Services by Fitzherbert a Melius inquirendum shall Issue and upon this order given it was decreed accordingly this Term. Morgan versus Tedcastle 4. IN the same Term upon matter of Arbitrement between Morgan and Tedcastle touching certain Lands at Welburn in the County of L●ncoln put to Popham Walmesley and Ewens Baron of the Exchequer Wheras Morgan had granted to Tedcastle a 100. acres of Land in such a field and 60 in such a field and 20. acres of Meadow in such a Meadow in Welburn and Hanstead in which the acres are known by estimations or limits there be shall take the acres as they are known in the same places be they more or lesse then the Statute for they passe as they are there known and not according to the measure by the Statute But if I have a great Close containing 20. acres of Land by estimation which is not 18. And I grant 10. acres of the same Close to another there he shall have them according to the measure by the Statute because the acres of such a Close are not known by parcels or by meets and bounds and so it differeth from the first case And upon the case then put to Anderson Brian and Fennor they were of the same opinion Quod nota Humble versus Oliver 5. IN Debt by Richard Humble against William Oliver for a Rent reserved upon a Lease for years the case was
time to come and therfore by this exposition much more to the disinherison of the Heir then it was before the making of this Statute And which is more mischievous if a Feme putein happen to be in such a house who happen to have Children in Adultery these Bastards shall have the Land against the will of the Father to the utter disinherison of the true Heirs and against the intent of him who made the limitation by which we may see the just Judgment of of God upon these who attempt by humane pollicy to circumvent the divine providence of God for the time to come and of this also I have seen an example And now to the mischief that men do not know against whom to bring their Actions to sue for their Rights and it is cleer that now by such an exposition they shall be now in much worse condition then they were before for before the Action was given against him who received the Profits which is now gone by this Statute in the cases of Free-hold and therfore if the other exposition shall hold place it is cleer that untill the Statute of 13 Eliz. men might have been by means of this Statute put out of all remedy to recover their rights by any manner of Action as some put it in practice as to make Feoffments to the use of the Feoffor and his Heirs untill any intend to bring an Action against him for this Land and then over to others upon the like lim●tation with a Proviso to make it void at his pleasure and the like and what mischief shall then be for the time upon such an exposition such that Justice therby cannot be done to the Subject and what an absurdity shall it be to say that such an Exposition can stand with the intent of the Makers of the Law And to that which hath been argued on the other side and first to that which was said by Walmsley That the Right Estate and Possession is wholly out of the Feoffee and vested to the Vses which have their beeing by the Statute and that upon the Contingents hapning their Estates uncouple and give place to the contingent Vse then executed and that the execution therof shall be by a Possession d●awn to it out of the Possession which was before executed by the Statute in another I say that this Statute can by no means have such an exposition for this is as much as to say that an Vse may arise upon an Vse contrary to what is adjudged 36 H. 8. That a Bargain and Sale by a Deed indented and enrolled cannot be at this day of Land to one to the Vse of another And if a man enfeoff another to the use of I. S. and his Heirs and if I. N. pay such a summ that then the said I. S. and his Heirs shall be seised of the same Land to the use of the said I. N. and the Heirs of his body I. ● paies the money yet the Vse doth not rise out of the Possession of the said I. S. But if it had been that upon the payment the first Feoffee and his Heirs shall stand seised to the use of the said I. N. and the Heirs of his body it shall be otherwise therfore somthing remains to the first Feoffee in the Judgment of the Law And I remember that when I was a Counsellor at Law in the time of the Lord Dyer where a Feoffment was made to the Vse of one for life with Remainders over with restraint to alien and with power given to Tenant for life to make Leases for one and twenty years or three lives it was much doubted whether this power so limited to him without words in the Assurance that the Feoffee and his Heirs shall stand seised to these Vses shall be good to make such Leases or not And therfore suppose that a man bargains and sells Land to one for his life by Deed indented and inrolled and make therin a Proviso that the Tenant for life may make such Leases this is to no purpose as to power to make a Lease but the strongest case which he put was that of 30 H. 8. which I agreed to be Law as it is there put whether it were before or after the Statute of 27 H 8. for it is not there put that the Feoffment was made upon any consideration to the stranger in which case although he had no notice of the first Covenant yet in such a case he shall take the Possession subject to the Vse to which it was bound by the present Covenant But if you consider the case well you shall see that it was a case before the Statute for it followeth presently in the same case that it is there said that it is not like the case where the Feoffees in Vse fell the Land to one who hath no notice of the first Vse wherby it appeareth that it was a case before the Statute for otherwise there had been no cause to have spoken then of the Feoffees to an Vse and by the same it appeareth if the Covenantor had bargained and sold the Land to another the same Vse had never risen upon the Covenant and therfore it is cleer against the Law that the Possession shall be bound w●th such an Vse in whosoevers hand it comes And to that which Pe●●am said in the case of these Contingent Vses they shall now by the Statute be in the same degree as if Land it self had been so conveyed and that now the Land shall be in Contingency in stead of the Vse and that by such manner it shall be executed and that by such means all is utterly out of the Feoffees because the Statute was made to determine all ●●●ter of trust to be hereafter reposed in any Feoffee this is well spoken but not well proved for as I have said before it is an exposition quite contrary to the letter and intention of the Law And I agree as hath been said if there be none to take the Use at the time that it falleth to be in possession according to the limitation that he shall never take it afterwards no more of an Use upon the Statute then of ●n Use at Common Law As if an Use be limitted for life the remainder to the right Heirs of I. S. if the Estate for life be determined in the life of I S. the remainder shall never vest afterwards in the right Heirs of I. S. no more then if an Estate had been so made But this makes for me to wit that the Estate upon the Uses executed by the Statute shall be of the same condition as Estates in possession were at Common Law and that they being executed ought also to be such of which the Common Law makes allowance And by way of argument I agree for the time that it is as hath been said by them who maintain that an Use may be in suspence as to that which is an Use in its proper nature for it is
in execution in all Circuits That if a man taken for Felony be examined by a Justice of Peace it appeareth that the Felon is not bailable by the Law and yet the Justices commit him to Goal but as upon suspition of Felony not making mention for any cause for which he is not bailable wherby he is brought before another Justice of Peace not knowing of any matter why he ought not to be bailed wherupon they bail him these Justices ought to be fined by the Statute of 1 2. Phil. Mar. for they offend if they bail him who by the Statute of Westm 1. is not bailable and therfore they at their peril ought so to inform themselves before the bail taken of the matter that they may be well satisfied that such a one is bailable by Law and therfore observe well the Statute of Westm 1. cap. 18. who is bailable and who not by the Law And it seems that no Justice of Peace could have bailed any one for Felony before the Statute of 1 Rich. 3. cap. 3. which is made void by 3 H. 7. cap. 3. for before this he ought to have been bailed by the Sheriff or other Keeper of the Prison where he was in Ward or by the Constable and by no other Officer unlesse Justices of the Kings Bench Justices in Eyre or Justices of Goal-delivery Herbin versus Chard and others 2. IN Trespasse by William Herbin Plaintiff against Chard and others Defendants for a Trespasse made at Pynon Farm in Netherbury and Loder in the County of Dorset the Case upon the Demurrer appeared to be this The Lord Mordant was seised of the Farm in his Demesne as of Fee and so seised demised it to Philip Fernam Elizabeth his wife and Iohn Fernam the eldest Son of the said Philip for term of their lives and of the Survivor of them and the said Eliz. died after which the said Philip his Father demised his part of the Farm by his Deed indented dated 13. Mart. 32. Eliz. to Philip his Son and Toby Fernam his Son for eighty years immediatly after the death of the said Philip the Father if the said Iohn Fernam shal so long live with divers remainders over for years depending upon the life of the said Iohn after which the said Philip the Father died and Iohn survived him and demised the said Farm to the Plaintiff upon whom the Defendants entred in right of the said Philip and Toby and whether their entry were congeable was the question And it was moued by Goodridge of the Middle-Temple that the entry of the Defendant was not lawfull because the said John was now in by the Lessor and not by his joynt Companion And further he had no power to dispose therof beyond his own life for suppose that he makes a Lease therof for years and afterwards grant over his Estate to a stranger and dies the Lease for years is therby determined albeit his joynt Companion be yet living and that his Estate continues And yet he agreed that if had made a Lease for years to begin at a day to come as at Michaelmas following or the like that this had been good for it is an Interest in the Grantee to be granted over for the presumption that it might be executed in his life but in the other case there is not any possibility that he who hath not but for his life can demise it to begin after the Estate made to him is determined But on the other part it was moved that the Demise remains in force for the life of the said John for at the first every one had an interest for the life of the other also and therfore if one Ioynt-tenant for life make a Lease for years in possession and dies the Lease yet continues And Crook the younger alledged that it was adjudged at last Hartf Term If a man possessed of a Term for years in right of his Wife makes a Lease for years of the same Lands to begin after his death dies during the Term without other alteration of it and the Wife survives him that now the Lease made by the Husband is good and that the like case as this by the opinion of Clench and Walmsley was decreed to be good in the Chancery Arton versus Hare 3. IN a second deliverance between Francis Arton Plaintiff and Henry Hare Avowant the case appeared to be this William Cocksey Esquire was seised in his Demesne as of Fee of the Mannor of Wolverton in the County of Worcester and so seised in Octab. Mich. 7 Eliz. levied a Fine of the said Mannor to certain persons to the use of the said William and Alice his Wife and the Heirs of William untill a marriage had between Martin Croft and Anne Wigstone and after this marriage to the use of the said William and Alice his Wife and the Heirs of the body of the said William and for defualt of such Issue to the use of the said Martin Crofts and Anne and the Heirs Males of the body of the said Martin upon the body of the said Anne begotten untill the said Martin should go about to alien sell grant or give the said Mannor or any parcell therof or to suffer any Recovery or levy any Fine therof or make any discontinuance c. And after the Estate of the said Martin and Anne and of the Heirs Males of their bodies to the Premisses by any such attempts determined and finished then to the use of the said Anne for her life and after to the use of the Heirs Males of the body of the said Martin upon the body of the said Anne lawfully begotten and for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the body of the said Martin and for default of such Issue to the use of Giles Croft brother of the said Martin and the Heirs Males of his body untill c. as before and after to the use of the Heirs of the body of the said Giles and for default of such Issue to the use of Edmund Crofts the third brother of the said Martin and of the Heirs Males of his body as is before limited to the said Giles with remainders over afterwards the marriage was had between the said Martin and Alice after which the said Martin and Giles died without Issue without any thing done by the said Martin to determine his Estate or by the said Giles to determine his Estate if any had been And it was agreed by all the Court that as this case is no remainder can enure over to the said Giles without an attempt precedent by the said Martin to determine his Estate because the Estate of Giles is not limited to begin but upon such an attempt precedent And in the same manner Edmund shall have nothing untill the Estate of Giles determine by some attempt made by him if the said Giles had an Estate because the Estate of Edmund depends upon the attempt made by Giles
and not otherwise to wit 100 l. therof in th●se words On that day twelvemonth next after the day of his death and the other 100 l. that day twelvemonth next after c. and made the said John Slaning his Executor and afterwards to wit the 8. day of April 25 Eliz died without Issue Male of his body the said Agnes took to Husband one Edmund Marley and upon the 8. day of April 26 Eliz. the said John Slaning paid the first 100 l. to Agnes then being living and upon the 8. and 9. daies of April 27 Eliz. Nicholas Slaning of Plumpton Son and Heir of the said John Slaning who died in the mean time an hour before the Sun set and untill the S●n was set came to the House where the said Edmund and his Wife inhabited in London and tendred the last 100 l. and that neither the said Edmund nor Agnes his Wife were there to receive it but that the said Edmund voluntarily absented himself because he would not receiv● the 100 l. and that therupon the Wife of the said Edmund died having Issu● two Daughters the Lands being holden by Knights-service in Capite and the said Daughters being yet within age and all this being found by Office by the opinions and resolutions of Popham and Anderson and the rest of th● Councel of the Court of Wards the said Heirs now in Ward shall have nothing but that which doth not passe by the conveyance to John Fits and his joynt Feoffees which was only that which was in the possessions of Peterfield and Atwill and that the Livery was good of the rest albeit the Attorny did nothing of that which was in Lease notwithstanding the words of the Warrant that they should enter into all and then shall make the Livery And they agreed that the Condition doth not ●ind neither the said John Slaning nor Nicholas his Son because they had not all the Land according to the purport of the Condition which was that he who had all therof should pay the 200 l. wheras here that which was in the possession of Peterfeild and Atwill did not passe to them for want of Attornment for a Condition ought to be taken strictly And further the payment was referred by the Indenture to be according to the Will or by the Will and the 200 l. was devised as a Legacy which ought to be paid but upon demand and not at the peril of the Executor and therfore the nature of the payment of it is altered by the intent of the Will and being not demanded there is no default in the said Nicholas Slaning of Plumpton to prejudice him of his Land if it had been a Condition for then it shall be but a Condition to be paid according to the nature of a Legacy upon demand and not at the peril of the party And whether the word twelve-month shall be taken for a year or twelve months according to 28. daies to the month as it shall be of eight or twelve months or the like And they agreed that in this case it shall be taken for the whole year according to the common and usuall speech amongst men in such a case and according to this opinion Wray who is dead Anderson and Gawdy made their Certificate to the late Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton in the same case then being in the Chancery and a Decree was made accordingly And many were of opinion that by his absence by such fraud he shall not take advantage of the Condition being a thing done on purpose if it had been to be performed at his peril Kellies Case WIlliam Kelly and Thomasine his Wife were seised of certain Lands in S. Eth in the County of Cornwall called Karkian to them and to the Heirs of their two bodies between them lawfully begotten by the Gift of one William Dowmand Father of the said Thomasine 11 H. 8. a long time after which Gift to wit 25 H. 8. A Fine Sur conusance de droit come ceo que il ad per was levied by Peter Dowmand Son and Heir of the said William Dowmand to William Kelley of the Mannor of Dowmand and of a 100. acres of Land 300 acres of Meadow 300. acres of Pasture and a 1000. acres of Furzse and Heath in Dowmand S. Eth. Trevile and divers other Towns named in the Fine who rendred the same back again to the said Peter in tail with diverse Remainders over and this Fine was with proclamations according to the Statute after which the possession of Karkian continued with Kelly and his Heirs according to the first Intail and the Mannor of Dowmand and the Remainder of the Lands in these Towns which were to the said Peter Dowmand to him and his Heirs according to the render untill nine years past that by Nisi prius in the Country upon the opinion of Manwood late chief Baron the Land called Karkian was recovered against the Heir of the said William Kelly by virtue of the said Fine and Render because all the Land which the said Peter Dowmand and the said William Kelly also had in all these Towns named in the Fine were not sufficient to supply the Contents of acres comprised in the said Fine And what the Law was in this case was referred to the chief Iustices the Master of the Rolls Egerton and the now chief Baron ●ut of the Chancery who all agreed upon all this matter appearing that nothing shall be said to be rendred but that which indeed was given by the Fine and Karkian does not passe to the said William Kelly by the Fine for as to it the Fine is but as a release of Peter to him and therfore shall not be said to be rendred to the said Peter by the Fine where no matter appeareth wherby it may appear that it was the intent of the parties that this shall be rendred And therfore Popham said that by so many Fines which have been levied in such a manner and to such who have Land in the same Towns where the Conusance hath been considering that alwaies more Land is comprised in Fines by number of acres then men have or is intended to passe by them at some time or in some age it would have come in question if the Law had been taken as Manwood took it but in all such cases the Possession hath alwaies gone otherwise which shews how the Law hath been alwaies taken in such cases And therfore if a man be to passe his Mannor of D. to another by Fine Executory and he levy the Fine to him by the name of the Mannor of D. and of so many acres of Land in D. and S. being the Towns in which the Mannor lies after which the Conuzor purchaseth other Lands in these Towns the Fine before the Statute of Vses shall not be executed of these Lands purchased after the Conusance and the Fine shall work to these which he had power and intent to passe and no further And it seemed to them that an
Cleland brought a Writ of error against Baldock upon a Iudgement given in where the Plaintiff declared that the Intr. Hill 22. Iac Rot. 59● Defendant in consideration that he would do all his commands honestly and truly for the space of a yeare assumed to pay him 10 l. and further declared that he had done all his honest and lawfull commands and this promise being found by verdict Iudgement was given against Doctor Cleland and thereupon he brought this Writ of error and Greene assigned two errors 1. The Assumpsit is that he shall doe all his commands honestly and truly and he hath declared that he hath done all his lawfull and honest commands and he may honest commands and yet not honestly 2. It is said that Jurator Assident dampna and it is not said occasione transgression predict and it is against all Presidents But Nota that there were these words ex hac parte opposita and therefore the exceptions were disallowed by the Court and the first Iudgement affirmed The same Term in the same Court. Secheverel versus Dale THis Case was sent out of Chancery to this Court ●o know the Law therein and in Trespas the case was this Henry Secheverell the Father seised in Fée levied a Fine to A. and B. in Fee to the use of himselfe for life absque impetitione vasti with power to cut and carry away the trees and to make Leases for 21 yeares or three lives the remainder to the use of John Secheverell his eldest Son for life without impeachment of waste with the same powers Henry the Father made a Lease to one under whom the Plaintiff claims for three lives rendring the ancient Rent excepting all the trees unlesse those which shall be for cropping lopping and fewell Henry the Father dyes John the Son in the next remainder cut certain trees Victorin Secheverell who clayms by the lease made by the Father brings trespas and two Questions were moved 1. Whether Lessee for life without impeachment of waste may make a Lease excepting the trees and it was objected by the Councel of the Plaintiff that he could not because this second Lease ariseth out of the first fine and out of the estate of the Conusor But the Court prima facie was of opinion that he might well make such a Lease with such an exception See Co. lib. 11. Lewys Bowls his Case and Doctor and Student lib. 1. cap. 1. and by Doderidge Iustice the Lease ariseth out of both the estates Jones Iustice suppose the Lessee absque impetitione vasti assigne over all his estate might he cut the trees and it was conceived that he might for by Doderidge he hath power to dispose of the trees as it was resolved in Lewys Bowls his case Jones he hath no propriety in the Trees untill they be cut Crew ch Justice Admit a Stranger cut the trees who shall have them By all the Court the Lessee without impeachment of waste shall have them 2. Point Tenant for life without impeachment of waste with power to cut and carry away the trees and make Leases for 21. years or three lives the remainder for life to J. S. without impeachment of waste c. Tenant for life makes a Lease for thrée lives and dyes whether he in remainder for life without impeachment of waste with power to cut the trées may cut the trées and take them during the Lease for thrée lives and the Court séemed to be of opinion that he might And Leving of Councell with the Plaintiff argued that when tenant for life without impeachment of waste with power to cut the trees and to make Leases for 21. years or three lives makes a Lease for thrée lives excepting the trées that this is a voyd exception because he hath no interest but a bare Authority 27. H. 6. Fitz. Wast 8. Statham tit Wast 1. makes this a Quaere which Statham was once the owner of the Land in question A man makes a Lease for life without impeachment of waste a Stranger cuts trées the Lessée brings trespas he shall recover no Damages for the value of the trees because the propriety belongs to him in the reversion he may dispose of them Quaere Dyer 284. Daunsley and Southwels Case Co. lib. 11. Lewys Bowles case that such a Lessee may take trées which are blown down and 3. H. 6. 45. Mich 41. and 42. Eliz. C. B. Leechford against Sanders in an Action of waste upon a Lease made to Sanders for life with a proviso that the Plaintiff might dispose of the trées during the estate and resolved that the Action lies not for notwithstanding this power the trées are demised to the Lessée also so here when the trées are excepted he hath no interest but only an authority 2. The exception is voyd for another reason because when such a Lessée makes such a Lease this is not his Lease but it hath its operation out of the originall fine and he who makes this hath but the nomination and therefore cannot adde a condition or exception to it And if the second Lease shall have its being out of the estate of the Lessee for life then there shall be an use upon an use as appears Co. lib. 1. 134. and that the Law will not allow 15. H. 7. and Co. Lib. 1. Albanyes Case If a man devise that his Executors shall fell his Land they cannot adde a condition or exception to this sale as an attornment upon a condition subsequent is voyd Co. lib. 2. Tookers case 3. This case may be resembled to the case of Copy-holds which is in Co. lib. 8. 63. b. in Swaynes Case If a Lord takes a Wife and afterwards grants Lands by Copy according to the custome and dyes his Wife shall not be endowed of this Land for albeit her title of Dower was before the Grant yet the title of Copi-hold which is the custome is elder then the title of Dower so in our case the title of the second Lessee is derived out of the estate of the Conuzées and therefore shall not be clogg'd with the Exceptions of Lessee for life without impeachment of waste 4. This priviledge to cut the trées is annexed to the estates and goes along with the estate and therefore shall not begin before the Stranger be in possession 3. E. 3. 44. 45. Idles case 28. H. 8. Dyer 10. And it may be resembled to the cases of 16. E. 4. and 27. H. 8. Tenant in taile sold the trées if he dyes before the Party takes them he shall never have them because he hath stayd out his time But it may be objected that upon such a Lease he may reserve a rent as it is in Whitlocks case Co. lib. 8. to which I will offer this difference Lessée for life with power to make Leases for thrée lives reserving rent makes a Lease for thrée lives reserving rent this reservation is good because it is but a Declaration of the Lease and of the rent
shall take effect by Livery where by Jurolist 49 Grants of the King   Where voyd 61 H HEire Where he shall be charged where not 152 153 I JMparlance   Not before a Declaration is entred 150 Imprisonment   Where justifiable 13 Indictments 107 134 210 taken before Coroners Where quashed 202 Upon the Statute of 8. H. 9. of forcible entry of copy-hold Lands 205 Inn-keepers 128 179 may detain a Horse untill he be satisfied for his meat 127 Inquisition   by the Coroner in case of death must bee Super visum corporis per sacramentum proborem legatum hominum where not hood 210 Indiciments   for stopping a Church-way where good 206 For being a Night-walker where good 208 If good in one part shall not be quashed   Joy●ture   where it may be waived 88 Joynt-t●nants ●6 Just●fication 13. 161 Justices of Peace of Gaol delivery and Nisiprius and their power 17 Judgm●nts 211. 212 by Nihil dicit 153 Where a Judgment reversed without Errour brought where no● 181 Entred in the Book as a Memorandum stayed by a subsequent order of Court 181 L. L●ases 99. 106. 57 Void by Acceptance 9 Where in Reversion good 9 By Tenants for life or years to begin after his death 96 By a Copyholder upon a License 105 Where determined without entry 27. 53. 64. Lessce for life without impeachment ●f Wast may make a Lease excepting the Trees 193 What interest he hath in them ib. Lee● 141 Libels   Where a priva●e Letter is punishable a● a Libell 139 Legacies not payable but upon demand 104 Livery of Se●sin 103 Where words sp●ken upon the 〈◊〉 do amount to a Livery 47 49 Li●●se   〈◊〉 cou●termandable 151 〈◊〉 a Cop●holder to make Lea●es 150 〈◊〉   〈…〉 by Bargain and Sale by word 48 Lunatick   The Action must be brought in his name 141 M. MAgis dignum continet in se minus 35 Mayhem 115 Market Overt   Where the Sale shall be good where not 48 In a Scriviners Shop of Plate void 84 What kind of Sale alters the property 84 Monstrans of Deeds 113 Melius Inquirendum   Where it shall issue where not and what to be found upon it 54 55 Misnosme 151 In Grains 57 Of a Corporation 58 N. NOtice 37. 151. Of a condition of payment where to be given 12 Taken strongly against the Party 12 Of one Sheriff to another Sheriff of the persons in Execution 85. 86 Where requisite 136. 164 Nusance 166 Errecting a Dove-coat by a Freeholder no Nusance 141 O. OBligation 165. discharged by the act of God 98 not to be avoided by the act of the Obligor himself 40 To the use of a Feme Covert shall go to her Administrator not to the Husband 106 One forfeited revived and good 16 Office and Officers   Where an Office is void Ipso facto 28 Forfeited and by what act 117 Of his own wrong 149 Office Trove 25 26 Where Lands shall be in the King without Office 19 Relates 20 helps the King to the meane profits 30 Countervailes an Entry And where no entry is requisite in case of a common person There needs no Office found for the King 53 Where an Estate shall be devested out of the King without Office 63 Where not 64. without Returne or Monstrans de droit 64 Oyer   Where of a condition where not 202 P. PAtents 16 Where the Patentee shall take advantage of a condition to avoid a Lease 27 Void for the generality in the Grant 61 Void notwithstanding the words Ex certa sciaentia 61 Perjury where not punishable 144 Pleadings 28. 42. 101. 109. 152. 150. 160. 163. 206. Void because double Plea 113. 114 Nul tiel in rerum natura no Plea in appeal of Mayhem 115 Perpetuities 97. not tollerable 80 Plenarty by Induction of a Lay-man 37. Binds not the King 133 Proviso How to be construed 27 For a Limitation 53. 117. 118 119 Where repugnant and void 87 Possessio fratris 35 Principall Accessare 107 Prisoners Must be delivered over at the Gaol 85. 86 Presentation 132 Proofs What Proofs are to be allowed in the Ecclesiasticall Court 59 Priviledges   Grant by the Pope not allowable 157 Prescription 169 For Common for Vicinage good 101 Difference betwixt it and Custome and how to be taxed 201 ●roperty 38 What kind of Sale alters the property 84 ●rohibition 59. 126. 159. 197 For a Seat in the Church 140 Severall Prohibitions in one Cause 156 Prerogative 26 Q. QVi● juris clamat 63 〈◊〉 warrant● 150. 180 Quare Impedit by an Executor for a disturbance in vite Testator 189. 190 191 R. RAvishment of Ward by an Executor 190. 191 Recovery 6. 5 Relea●es 28. 132 Ex●cuted where avoided by Proviso 16 Of all demands will discha●ge a rest in ●uturo 136 Relation 12 Of a Ba●l 132 Of Entry of Judgement 132 Return of the Sheriff of a Capias upon a day not Dies faci good 205 Request 160. 211. 212 Upon payment upon a Contract is not necessary 211. 212 Remainder 97 in Fee not good upon a Lease for years 4. 82 Must take effect when the particular Estate determines for life wi●hout impeachment of Wast whether he may cut Trees du●ing the life of Tenant for life 196. 74 Rents   Rent and Pension all one in a Demand in a ●ecovery 23 Where the Executor shall have the rent upon a Lease of the W●ves land 145 Restitution   Of an Alderman to his place 134 Of one put out of his Office 176 Reservat●on 145 195. how construed 17 Revivor 167 S. SAving● in an Act of Pa●liament how construed 17 Scire 〈◊〉   L●es ●●t against the Bail till a Capia● be awarded of the Principall 186 Seals 161 Scandalum Magnatum 66 Sheriffs O●e Sheriff must deliver over the Prisoners to the other by Inde●ture 85. 86 Surplusage   shall not abate a Writ 24 Surrender 9. 31. 84. 110. 125 129 Of the Husband of the land of the Wife no discontinuance 38 39 Of an Infant Copyholder void 39 Of an Alderman of his place 134 Of Tenant for life in remainder good without Deed 137 138 T. TAles   where awarded of Aliens 36 Tender   where not good to avoid a condition 20 Title   where must be made 1 2 Trusts not abridged 8 Their difference from Uses 77 Traverse 1. 101. 103. not necessary where there are two Affirmatives but where they do not agree 67 Traverse upon a Traverse 101 Circumstances not traversable 161 Treason 122 Triall   Of the same person upon another Indictment after Attainder upon a former Indictment 107 Transporting Corn 149 Trespasse 161 Where Vi armis e contr 192 Tithes 140 Where discharged by Prescription or Priviledge 156 De animalibus inutilibus animalibus utrilibus and the difference 197 Of Sheep and their pasturing wool c. 157 V. VErdict 19 void 202 Found for th● De●endants because no 〈…〉 ●●tred for one of them 145 Volenti non fit injuria 9 Use and Uses   What a Use is 71 How to be construed 3 Not to be abridged 8 Void up●n a tender 18 Raised by word upon a good consideration where good where not 47 49 Rai●ed upon Contracts 48 Considerations to raise Uses 48 49 A bare Covenant writing without consideration will not raise an Use 50 What persons cannot stand seised to Uses 72 Uses contingent not executed by the Statute of 27. H. 8. 72 U●es contingent destroyed by a Feoffment 72 Uses grounded upon fraud 77 Use cannot r●●e out of a U●e 81 Uses in contingency barred by a Release of the Feoffees 83 Use upon a Bargain and Sale for years passeth without inrolement of the Deed 38 Use amerced upon a Fine upon render without a Deed 105 W. WAger of Law 127 Words   Where the King shall have a third part of the Land of the Ward and of other land setled upon a marriage 54 Wast 24. 25 47 Damages in Wast 24 Warrants   When a Warrant is returned upon Record in case of the King it is as strong as an Office found 20. 28 29 Warranty   doth bind an Infant if his Entry is not lawfull 71 cannot enlarge an Estate 138 Wills 152 Words which make a condition in Wills 8 Writ   of enquiry of damages 24 Where not abated 24 Originall shall be taken as they are written 101 FINIS
Harrison Erringtons case 202p Hebborns case 206p I JEne and Chesters case 151p Jenning● Mayst●●● case 102b Jorden Ayliffs case 168b Jenkin and Vivians case 201p K. Kettle and Masons Case 50p King and Berys Case 57p Kellies Case 104p Kirton and Hoxtons case 115p The King and Brigs case 150p Kebles case 18●b Knights case 187b King Merricks case 2o L Lee and Browns case 128p Lewes and Jeofferies case 153p Lemasons and Dicksons case 189p Laurking and Wylds case 126p Leechford and Saunders case 194b Liverel and Rivets case 206b Lathams case 210b M MIchels case 8b Morgans case 52p Morgan and Tadcastles case 55p Montague and Jeofferies case 108p Mounson and Wests case 110p May and Kets case 129p Middletons case 131p May and Samuels case 134p Mingies case 135p Sir Arthur Mannarings case 145p Morley and Sir Richard Molineuxs case 1●5p Millen and Fandries case 161p March and Fandries case 161p March and Newmans case 163p Mayor of Maidstons case 180p Mills and Parsons case 199b O OAks and the Lord Sturtonrs case 65b Overton and Sydalls case 120p Old and Estgreens case 160b Owen Wards case 187b P PIgots case 94p Porramor and Veralds case 101p Pollard and Lutterells case 108p Sir John Pools case 128p Powels case 139p Pack and Metholds case 160p Probe and Maynes case 192b Petit and Robinsons case 203p Ployden and Symes case 205p R ROper and Ropers case 106b Robinson Walkers case 127p Rawlinson and Greens case 127p Rones case 133p Richardson and Cabells case 142p Sir George Reynalds case 165p Ryman and Bickleys case 129p Reynor and Hallets case 187p Rochester and Rickhouse case 203p Rosse and Harvies case 206b Risley and Hains case 209p S STocks case 37p Smiths case 53p Southwell and Wards case 91p Sawyer and Hardies case 99p Stainings case 102p Scot and Mainys case 109p Strowd and Wyllis case 114p Southern and Howes case 143p Silvesters case 148p Stone and Withipoles case 152p Sary and Pigots case 166p Sharp and Rasts case 181p Snaggs case 187b Sherry and Richardsons case 15p Smithers case 169b Scheverel Dales case 193p Sanders Meritors case 200p Staple Kings case 206b Savile Wortleys case 207p Sparman Sherwoods case 222p T THompson Traffords case 8p Taunton Raries case 106p Tailours case 133p Thurman Coopers case 188p Talbot and Sir Walters Lacens case 146p Turner and Dennis case 169 V VAughans case 134p W WOod and Downings case 10p Webly and Skinners case 85p Wood and Matthews case 102p Westcot and Cottons case 130p Wrenhams case 135p Wootton and Byes case 136p Wards case 144p Webb and Paternosters case 151p Westermans case 151p Wales case 160p Welden and B●sies case   Wicks case 186b Williams and Vaughans case 186b Willers case 197b Whelhorseys case 208p Woodroof and Vaughans case 210q CASES Reported by S R. JOHN POPHAM Knight Lord chief Justice of ENGLAND In the time of Queen ELIZABETH and written with his own hand in French and now faithfully done into English to which are added some remarkable CASES Reported by other Learned and Judicious Pens since his death Fenner versus Fisher Mich. 34. and 35. Eliz. Reginae in the Kings Bench IN Trespasse brought by Iustice Fenner against Andrew Fisher for a Trespasse done in the Parsonage house of Cravfords in the County of Kent 30. Maij 34. of the Queen the Defendant pleaded that one 〈…〉 was seised of the same Messuage in his Demesne as of see and being so seised the 〈…〉 day of in the same year did demise it to the Defendant for two years from such a Feast then last past by virtue of which he entred and was possessed untill the Plaintiff claiming by colour of a Deed made of the sayd Wrigh● where nothing passed by the Deed upon which the Defendant entred c. The Plaintiff replies by protestation that the sayd Wrigh● was not seised as the Defendant hath alledged And for Plea saith that the sayd Wright did not let it to the Defendant as the Defendant hath alledged upon which being at Issue and found for the Plaintif Ackinson moved that Iudgment ought not to be given for the plaintiff because that he hath not made any Title by his Replication for by 9 E. 4. 49. In Trespasse the Defendant pleads in Bar and gives colour to the Plaintiff it is taken for a Rule that the Plaintiff ought to make Title Cook answered that he needs not to make Title in this case but that it sufficeth to traverse the Bar without making a Title and sayd that in 22 E. 4. Fitzh Trespass It is adjudged that in Trespasse the Plaintiff may traverse the Bar without making Title in his Replication and here in as much as it is acknowledged by the Defendant that Wright did demise it to the Plaintiff and that this is a Lease ta will at the least not defeated by his own shewing but by the Lease made to Defendant this being traversed and found against the Defendant The Plaintiff by the acknowledgment of the Defendant himself hath a good Title against him to enter into the Land and by it the Defendant by his Re-entry is become Trespass●● to the Plaintiff and he sayd that in 2 E. 4. fol. In Trespasse where the Defendant pleads that he let the Land to the Plaintiff for another mans life and that he for whose life it was was dead upon which he entred and it is adjudged that it sufficeth for the Plaintiff to maintain that Cestuy vie was yet living without making any other Title And yet these reasons Cleoch and Gawdy held the Replication good to which Popham sayd that we as Iustices ought not to adjudge for the Plaintif where a good formall bar is pleaded as here it is But wherby the Record it self which is before us we cannot see that the Plaintiff hath good cause of Action And therefore I agree that in Trespasse in some cases the Plaintiff may traverse the Bar or part of it without making any other Title then that which is acknowledged to the Plaintiff by the Bar but this alwaies ought to be where a Title is acknowledged to the Plaintiff by the Bar and by another means destroy by the same Bar for there it sufficeth the Plaintiff to traverse that part of the Bar which goeth to the destruction of the Title of the Plaintiff comprised in the Bar without making any other Title but if hee will traverse any other part of the Bar he cannot do it without making an especiall Title to himself in his Replication where by the Bar the first possession appeareth to be in the Defendant because that although the Traverse there be found for the Plaintiff yet notwithstanding by the Record in such a Case the first Possessions will yet appear to be in the Defendant which sufficeth to maintain his Regresse upon the Plaintiff and therefore the Court hath no matter before them in such a Case to adjudge for the Plaintiff unlesse in cases
Issue a Son which selleth this Remainder and afterwards I. S. dyed this Son being his Heir notwithstanding his Sale he shall have this Remainder not his Grantee because it was not in him at the time of his Grant but by a matter which cometh Ex post facto to wit the death of his Father and afterwards Iudgment was given in the first case that the Grantee shal have the term granted to him by the Husband and that the Wife shall not have the term during this Leese Hunt Versus Gateler Mich. 34. and 35 Eliz. in Commun Banco IN a Replevin between Hunt Plaintiff and Gateler Avowant in the Common Pleas which was adjorned for difficulty into the Exchequer Chamber the Case was thus Tenant in tail Remainder in Fee he in Remainder in Vide this case Cook lib. 1. 61. by the name of Cape●s case Fee grants a Rent-charge in Fee out of the same Land to begin after the Estate tail determined Tenant in Tail suffer a common Recovery with a Voucher over to the use of the sayd Hunt in Fee and dyed without Issue inheritable to the intail and whether Hunt shall now hold the Land charged with the Rent was the question and after that it had long depended and was many times argued in the Common Pleas and Exchequer Chamber at Hertford Term it was at last resolved by all the Iustices and Barons unanimously that the sayd Rent charge wss gone by the Recovery although the Estate tail was expired because that he which is in is in under this Intail And therefore Popham sayd suppose th●t the Tenant in tail himself before the Recovery had granted a Rent charge out of the same Land or had made a Lease for yeers or had acknowledged a Statute all those had been good and to be executed against him which cometh in under the Recovery notwithstanding that the Estate tayl had been determined for want of an heir inheritable to the intail for he which recovereth cannot lay that he against whom he recovered had but an Estate in tail and if his Lease remain yet good as all agreed it did how can the Lease a Rent granted by him in the Remainder be good also for the one and the other cannot stand together and therefore all the Leases Charges or Statutes acknowledged or made by him in the Remainder are gon and avoided by the Recovery had against Tenant in tail To which opinion all the other agreed and Popham sayd further That he in the Remainder upon an Estate tail cannot by any means plead to defend his Remainder unless the Tenant will as by vouching of him and therefore shall be bound by the Act of Tenant in Tail where the Estate it self is bound as here it is by the Voucher and then they which come in by him in the Remainder by way of Lease Charge or Statute which are not so much favoured in Law as Tenant in tail himself be in better condition then he in the Remainder himself is for he in the Remainder upon an Estate tail cannot put more into the Mouth of the Lessee or Grantee to defend their Estates then he himself could have to defend his Remainder and this is the reason that such a Termer or Grantee shall never falsifie the Recovery had against Tenant in tail as the Grantee or Termer shall do which cometh in under Tenant in tail against whom the Recovery was had for there as the Tenant in tail may plead to defend his Possession and Estate so may his Termer or Grantee of a Rentcharge do for by the Demise or Grant made the Tenant in tail hath put all the Pleas into their mouthes for their Interests which he himself had to defend his Right and Possession which they may plead for the time to defend their Possessions and Rights as well as the Tenant in tail himself may do and this is the reason that such may falsifie Recoveries against their Lessors or Grantors if they be not had upon the meer right Paramount which he that cometh in by such a Remainder as before cannot do for such a one in Remainder cannot be received to defend his Right but his mouth is meerly foreclosed to do it and by the same reason are all those which come in by such men foreclosed to defend their Interests or Estates and upon this Audgement was given in the same Tearm in the common Pleas. Gibbons versus Maltyard and Martin IN an Ejectione firmae brought in the Kings Bench by John Gibbons Vide this case in Cook lib. 8. 130 Thetford Scholies case Plaintiff upon a Demise made by Edward Peacock the Son of Lands in Croxton in the County of Norfolk against Thomas Maltyard and John Martin upon a speciall verdict the case appeared to be thus to wit that Sir Richard Fulmerston Knight was seised of the sayd Lands amongst others holden in soccage in his Demesne as of Fee and being so seised by his last Will in Writing made 9 Eliz. Ordained that a Devise shall be made by his Executors that a Preacher shall be found for ever to preach the Word of God in the Church of Saint Maries in Thetford four times in the year and to have for his Labour ten shillings for every Sermon And further he devised to his Executors and their heirs certaine Lands and Tenements in Thetford aforesaid to this intent and upon this condition that they or the Survivor of them within seven years after his decease should procure of the Queens Highness to erect a free Grammar School in Thetford for ever to be had and kept in a house by them to be erected upon part of the sayd Land that they shal assure three of the said ienements for the house and Chamber of the Schoolmaster and Vsher and their Successors for ever and for the other tonement that they shall make an assurance of it for the Habitation of font poor people two men and two women for ever And for the better maintenance of the sayd Preacher Schoolmaster Vsher and Poore people he devised amongst others his sayd tenements in Croxton to his Executors for ten years for the performance of his Will and after this he devised them to Sir Edward Cleer and Frances his Wife the Daughter and Heir of the sayd Sir Richard and to the Heirs of the sayd Sir Edward upon Condition that if the sayd Sir Edward his Heires or Assignes before the end of the sayd ten years shall assure Lands or Tenements in possession to the value of five and thirty pounds a year to the sayd Executors or the Survivor of them their Heirs and Assignes or to such persons their heirs or Successors as his sayd Executors or the Survivor of them shall name or assigne for and towards the maintenance of the sayd Preacher Schoolmaster and Vsher in the sayd School house c. and for the releif of the sayd poor people in the one of the sayd houses according to the Ordinance as he
himself in the sayd Will had declared or otherwise as by his Executors or the Survivor of them shall be prescribed And if the sayd Sir Edward and his Heirs shall make default in the assurance of the sayd Land by him to be assured as aforesayd then hee will that immediatly upon such default his Estate and the Estate of the sayd Frances shall cease in the sayd Lands in Croxton c. and then he devise the same Lands to his Executors and their Heirs for ever to the use of them and their heirs upon trust and confidence that they or the Survivor of them and their Heirs shall assure the same or otherwise yearly dispose the profits of them in finding the sayd Preacher and other charitable works as aforesayd and made Edward Peacock Father to the Lessor whose Heir the Lessor is and others his Executors and dyed 9. of the Queen after whose Death all the Executors refuse to be Executors The seven years passe without the establishing of the School and other things according to the Will for the first part of it whereby the Land in Thetford was forfeited to the heir for the Condition broken and within the ten years Sir Edward Cleer made a Feoffment of Land to the value of 35. l. a year to the surviving Executor for the use of the School but with acondition contrary to the Will and no Livery wa● made upon the sayd Feoffment but it was inrolled of Record in the Chancery whereby the sayd Sir Edward had broken the Condition annexed to his Estate and also during all this time neither the Executors nor their Heirs had done any thing in finding the Preacher or the other works of charity with the profits of the sayd Lands in Croxton or in assuring of it according to the Will and yet the sayd Edward Peacock the Son in September 32. Eliz. being Heir to the surviving Executor entred into the Land in Croxton and demised it to the Plaintiff for seven years upon which the Defendant as Servant and by the commandement of Sir Edward Cleer and of Edmund the Son and Heir of the sayd Frances who was then dead entred upon which entry and Efectment the Action was brought and it was mooved by Godfrey and others that the entry of the Defendants was lawfull first in the right of the sayd Sir Edward because that his Estate by the Statute of 23. H. 8. cap. was without condition or determined because that by this Statute all the uses limited in such a manner are made void because they are in the nature of a Mortmain as may appear by a Proviso at the end of the same Statute for a certain person of Norwich who had Devised Lands for the case of the poor Inhabitants of the same Citty in Taxes and Tallages and for cleansing of streets there and for discharge of toll and Custome within the City all which were good uses and not tending to Superstition and yet if it had not been for the Proviso they had been gon by the body of the Statute And the Statute ordained also that every penalty and thing which shall be devised to defraud this Statute shall be void and if this do not help them yet the Entry made in the right of the sayd Heir of Sir Richard Fulmerston is good for the estates of the sayd Executors are also bound as with a tacite condition that these things shall be performed which are not done and therefore the entry in right of the heir is lawfull for the words Ad propositum ea intentione and the like in a Will are good Conditions which Gaudey agreed vouched the case 28. Sess Pl. but it was after often argument agreed by all the Court that the first exception was to no purpose for they conceived that this Statute was to be taken to extend only to the uses which tend to Superstition as might be collected as well by the words of it in the very body of the Act at the beginning as by the time in which it was made for at this time they began to have respect to the ruine of the authority of the Pope and to the dissolution of the Abbies Chantries and the like And by Popham the Proviso was put in the Statute but for satisfaction of the Burgesses of the same City at this time and not for any necessity as oftentimes it happens And for the other point he sayd that it appeareth fully by the Will that it was not the intent of the sayd Sir Richard to have the Land in Croxton bound with any condition in the possession of his Executors or with any other matter which determine their Estate for the Words that they shall have it upon trust and confidence exclude all constraint which is in every condition and the Will is that they shall have it to the use of themselves and their Heirs for ever which c●nnot be if it shall be abridged by any Limitation or Determination And he sayd that the Lord Anderson demanded of him a Case which was adiudged in the Common Pleas 29. Eliz. Rot. 639. which was thus One Michel made a Lease for years rendring Rent and for default of payment a re-entry with Covenants on the part of the Lessee to repair the Messuages c. and the term continuing the sayd Michel by his Will in Writing devised the same Land to the sayd Lessee for more years then hee had to come in it rendring yearly the like Rent and under the same Covenants which he now holds it and dyed and afterwards the first term expired the Lessee does not repaire the Houses and the question was whether by this he hath forfeited his term and adjudged that as to this it was not any condition and a Covenant it could not be for a Covenant ought alwaies to come on the part of the Lessee himself which cannot be this case for he doth not speak any thing in the Will to bind him but they are all the words of the Devisor himself which comprised in a Will and it never was his intent to have it to be a condition and therefore void as to the Lessee to bind him either by way of Covenant or Condition so here c. And for the sayd Feoffment enrolled without Livery it was agreed by all that it was not of any force to make the Land to passe to the Executors but the enrolment conclude him to say not his Deed And also that the Executors refuse to be Executors this shall not hinder them to take by Devise as to the Inheritance whereupon it was adjudged that the Plaintiff shall recover as appears Thomson Versus Trafford Hillary Term 35 of Queen E●izabeth IN an Ejectione firmae between John Thomson Plaintiff and Thoma● Trafford Defendant the case was thus The President and Schollers of Magdelen Colledge in Oxford 20 Decemb. 8. Eliz Did let a Messuage u● the Burrough of Southwark to which no Land appertained to William Sta●dish for twenty years from the Feast of
Saint Michael next ensuing rendring the ancient Rent and 25. Octob. 21. Eliz they did let the same Messuage to the same Standish for twenty years from the Feast of Saint Michae● then next ensuing rendring also the ancient Rent and 31 August 30. Eliz. The President and Schollers made a new Lease of the same Messuage to Sir George Carew Knight for twenty years from making of the Lease rendring the ancient Rent which Lease was conveyed by mean Assignments to the Plaintiff upon which the Action was brought against the sayd Trafford which had the Interest of the sayd Standish by mean Assignments Popham said that Ipso facto upon the last Lease made and annexed by Standish the first Leass was determined and gone for this last contract dissolves the first when the one and the other cannot stand together as they cannot here because the one intermix with the other and so was the opinion in the Common Bench about 1 Eliz. in the case of the Abby of Barking of which I have seen a Report And here Standish before Michaelmas next after the second Lease made to him could not grant over his first term to be good to the Grantee for if this should be the second term shall not be good to Standish but for the remnant of the years after the first term finished which cannot be because it standeth in the power of the Grantor with the assent and acceptance of the Grantee to make the second Grant good for the whole term to wit from Michaelmas and this cannot be but by a determination in Law of the first term immediatly which is made by his own acceptance and therefore a prejudice to none but himself and Volenti non fit injuria and the first Term cannot have his continuance untill Mich. but is gone presently by the acceptance of the second Lease in the whole for the first contract which was entyre cannot be so dissolved in part but in the whole as to that which the party hath and therefore the first Term as the case is here is gone in the whole to which Clench and Gaudy agreed And if so then this last Lease to Standish was but as a Lease made to begin at a time to come which is made good by the Stat. of 14 Eliz. if it do not exceed the time of 40 years from the making of the Lease for the purpose of this Act was that Colledges and the like shall not make Grants in Reversion albeit it be for a year and the reason was because that by such Grants in Reversion they shall be excluded to have their Rent of the particular Tenants for the time And therfore in the case of the Countesse of Sussex who had a Ioynture assured to her for her life by Act of Parliament with a Provise that the Earle her Husband might demise it for one and twenty yeares rendring the usuall Rent where the sayd Earle had made a Lease for one and twentie yeares according to the Statute within a yeare before the end of the same Lease the said Earle made a new Lease of the same Land to Wroth his Servant for one and twentie yeares to begin after the end of the former Lease rendring the usuall Rent and died the said Countesse avoided this last Lease by Iudgement given in this Court because it shall be intended to be a Lease in Possession which he ought to make by the Proviso from the time of the making of it otherwise by such perverse construction the true intent of the Statute shall be utterly defrauded But here to make a Lease for twentie yeares to one in Possession and to make another Lease to another for twentie yeares to begin after the end of the former Lease is good because that the one and the other do not exceed the fortie yeares comprised in the Statute And the Iustices of the Common Bench the same day at Sergeants Inn agreed to the opinion of Popham for the determination of the whole first Term by the taking of the second Term by Standish Ward versus Downing 2. IN an Ejectione firmae brought by Miles Word against Robert Downing the case was thus O●e Robert Brown was seised of certain Lands in in the County of Norfolk in his Demesne as of Fee which were of the nature of Gavelkin● and had Issue George his eldest Son William his middlemost Son and Thomas his youngest Son and being so seised 6 Decem. 1559. made his Testament in writing by which he devised the sayd Tenements in these words Item I give unto Alice my wife the use and occupation of all my Houses and Lands as well free as copy-hold during her naturall life Item I will that George my Son shall have after the decease of his Mother all those my Houses and Lands wherof the use was given to his sayd Mother for the term of her life To have and to hold to him and his Heirs for ever and if the sayd George dye without Issue of his body lawfully begotten then I will my sayd Lands shall in like manner remain unto William my Son and his Heirs for ever And I will that all such money as shall be payd of any Legacy by the sayd George shall be allowed by the sayd William to whom the sayd George shall appoint Item I will that if the sayd George and William depart the world before they have Issue of their bodies lawfully Then I will that all my sayd Houses and Lands shall remain unto Thomas my Son and to his Heirs for ever Item That if the sayd George shall enjoy my sayd Houses and Lands then I will the sayd George shall pay out of the sayd Lands to William and Thomas his Brother 26 l. 13 s. 4 d. that is to say at his first entry into the sayd Lands to pay unto the sayd William his Brother 40 s. and so to pay yearly untill the summ of 13 l 6 s. 8 d. be fully answered and payd and then immediatly to pay unto Thomas his Brother 13 l 6 s. 8 d. to be payd unto the sayd Thomas when the sayd William shall be fully answered by 40 s. a year in like proportion as is aforesayd And if my sayd Son George sh●ll refuse to pay unto William and Thomas his Brother the summs of 26 l 13 s. 4 d in manner and form as is before limitted Then I will that all my Houses Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances remain to Will●am my Son and his Heirs for ever paying therfore 26 l. 13 s. 4 d. viz. 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. to George my Son and 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. to Thomas my Son in such manner and sort as the sayd George shall pay if he should enjoy the sayd Lands And if it fortune the sayd William to enjoy the sayd Lands then the sayd William sh●ll pay unto Thomas his Brother the whole summ of 26 l. 13 s. 4 d. as is ●foresayd After which the sayd Robert dyed seised of the s●yd Tenements in
to the West eighteen foot ten inches which Messuage so newly built stood the day of the Writ purchased and yet stands c. And if upon the whole matter the said Demise of the said John Bradley and Anne be and in Law ought to be adjudged the Demise of the said Messuage newly built upon the said part of land where the Messuage of the said John Bradley and Anne stood then the Iury find that the said John Bradley demised to the said Thomas and Iohn Allen the said house newly erected as aforesaid as the Plaintiff hath alledged and if not then they find that he did not demise And upon this Verdict Iudgment was given there and an especiall Writ of Habere facias seisinam awarded of the said Messuage with the Appurtenances viz. 18 foot of it from the North to the South and 12 foot and an half of it from the East to the West upon which a Writ of Error being brought in the Kings Bench it was alledged for Eror by Coke Sollicitor that upon this Verdict Iudgment ought to have been given for the Tenant and not for the Demandant for what was remaining of that which was of the house is not a house but only a peece of a house and therfore it ought to have been demanded by the name of a peece of Land containing so much one way and so much another for a house wasted and utterly drawn away cannot be demanded by a Messuage but by the name of a Curtilage or so much Land of such contents for a Praecipe lies of a peece of Land containing so many feet in length and so many in breadth And also Land built during the possession of him which hath it by Tort cannot be demanded by the name of Land by him which hath right but by the name of a house nor e contra for every demand of Land ought to be made according to the nature of which it is at the time of the Action brought be it a Messuage Land Meadow Pasture Wood c. And if the Walls of a house be made upon the Land without any covering yet it shall be demanded but by the name of Land for he said that it cannot be a house without its perfection to be habitable which he said is not here because it stands upon the Land of the said Anne which hath not the perfection of a house habitable without the remnant But this notwithstanding the first Iudgment was affirmed for it was said by Popham and other Iustices that that which is erected upon the Land of the said Anne shal be said a house as to the right of the Heir of the said Anne for a house may be such to be demanded by the name of a house albeit it hath not all the perfection of a house as if it hath no doors so if it hath part of the side wals not made drawn away or fallen yet the remainder continues to be demanded by the name of an house so if part of the covering be decayed yet it shall be demanded by the name of an house and the rather here because with that which is upon the other Land it is a perfect house And I may have a perfect house although the side Walls belong to another as in London where a man joynes his house to the side walls of his Neighbours he hath a perfect house and yet the side walls belong to another and this commonly happens in London but it is otherwise if it were never covered or if the covering be utterly fallen or drawn away for without a covering a house cannot be said to be a house for the covering to keep a man from the Storms and Tempests over head is the principall thing belonging to a house And further suppose that a man hath a Kitchin or a Hall upon Land to which another hath right he which hath right ought to demand it by the name of a house suppose then that there is adjoyning to this upon other land a Parlor a Buttery a Shop a Closet and the like with Chambers over them this doth not change the form of the Writ that he is to have which hath right although before it was built by the name of a house and yet as to the rent both the one and the other was but a house but as to the demandant it is otherwise for they are severall so here And the Demise which before was made of the house drawn away shall be now upon the matter a Demise as to this part of it a new Messuage for if a man make a Lease for years of a house and the Tetmor pull it down and erect there a new house or if land be demised and the Lessee build a house upon it in an Action of Wast for Wast done in this new house the Writ shall suppose that he did wast in the Houses c. which were demised to him and yet in the one case it is not the Messuage which was demised to him and in the other the house was not demised but the Land only But he hath no term in the house but by the Demise before made And it seems to Popham that Allen the Defendant cannot pull down this part of the house erect upon his own land to the prejudice of the house which Hayes demands if this which is erected upon the land of Allen be of such a necessity that without it the house of Hayes cannot stand for a house but if he dies after that Hayes hath built it then Hayes shall have an Action upon the case against him for the damages which he sustained by it As if a man agree with me that I shall set the outer wall of my house upon his land and I do it accordingly and afterwards the party which grants me this licence breaketh it down if the Grant were by Deed I shall have an Action of Covenant for it and if but by Paroll yet I shall have an Action upon the case against him And here this being done by him which was then Owner and Possessor of the one and the other land it shall be taken as a licence in Law to the benefit of him which hath right which he cannot pull down after it is once made but he shall be subject to Hayes his Action for it or otherwise Hayes shall be at great mischief and prejudice by the Act of him which did the wrong which the Law will not suffer but rather shall turn this to the prejudice of him which did the wrong then to the prejudice of the other which shall have wrong by the doing of it for Volenti non fit injuria As if I am to inclose between my Neighbour and my self and my Neighbour pull down this inclosure or part of it wherby my Cattell escape into the land adjoyning and depasture there I shall be excused of this Trespasse in the same manner as if he had licenced me to have occupied it and whatsoever hapneth to this Land adjoyning
there which to their Office of Sheriff appertaineth or any waies to intermeddle with it except only for the Sheriff of the County of Glocester to hold their County-Courts as is aforesaid And that the Major Aldermen of the said Town for the time being their Successors having power and authority to enquire here determine all things which Iustices of P. or Iustices assigned to hear determine Trespasses and Misdemeanors within the County of Glocest before this time have made or exercised And that the Iustices of Peace of him his Heirs or Successors within the said County of Glocester should not intermeddle with the things or causes which belong to the Iustices of Peace within the said Town c. And upon this Charter divers things were moved by Sir William Periam Knight now chief Baron of the Exchequer before his going into the Circuit 1. Whether by the saving of the Charter they have sufficient power reserved to them to fit within the Town being now exempted from the said Town of Glocester to enquire there of the Felonies done in the said County of Glocester And so for the Assises and Nisi prius taken there of things made in the County of Glocester Then if the the Sheriffs may execute their Warrants made there at the time of the Assises or Goal-delivery notwithstanding the exemption given to them by the Patent And it was agreed by all the Justices that the saving in the Patent is sufficient for the Iustices of Assise and Goal-delivery to sit there for the things which happen within the County of Glocester for as the King may by his Letters Patents make a County and exempt this from any other County so may he in the making of it save and except to him and his Successors such part of the Iurisdiction or priviledge which the other County from which it is exempted had in it before As in divers places of the Realm the Goal of a Town which is a County of it self or which is a place priviledged from the County is the Goal of the County and the place where the Assises or Goal-delivery is holden is within the County of the Town and yet serve also for the County at large as in the Sessions Hall at Newgate which serves as well for the County of Middlesex as for London and yet it stands in London but by usage it hath alwaies been so and nothing can be well prescribed unto by usage which cannot have a lawfull beginning by Award or Grant and this by the division of London from Middlesex at the beginning might be so And so the Goal of Bury c. And although that the words are saving to him and his Heirs yet by the word Heirs it shall be taken for a perpetual saving which shall go to his Successors which is the Queen and the rather because it is a saving for Iustice to be done to the Subjects which shall be taken as largely as it can be And albeit the expresse saving for the Sheriff is but for to hold his turn yet in as much as the authority of the Iustices of Assise and Goal-delivery in holding their Sessions as before was accustomed is saved it is Included in it that all which appertain to the execution of this Service is also saved or otherwise the saving shall be to little purpose And therfore that the Sheriff or other Minister made by the authority of these Courts is well made there and warranted by the Charter And wee ought the rather to make such exposition of the Charter because it hath been alwaies after the Charter so put in execution by all the Iustices of Assise But it seems that by this Commision for the County a thing which happens in the Town cannot be determined albeit it be Felony commited in the Hall during the Sessions but by a Commission for the Towne it may 7. SIr Francis Englefield Knight being seised in his Demesne as of Fee of Vide this case reported in Coke lib. 7. 12 13. the Mannor of Englefield in the County of Berks and of divers other Lands in the first year of Queen Eliz. departed out of the Realm by licence of the Queen for a time and remained out of the Realm in the parts beyond the Seas above the time of his licence wherby the Queen by her Warrant under her privy Seal required him to return upon which he was warned but did not come wherupon the Queen seised his Land for his contempt After vvhich the Statute of Fugatives was made 13. year of the Queen upon which by Commissions found upon this Statute all his Lands were newly seised and afterwards 17 Eliz. by Indenture made between him and Francis Englefield his Nephew and sealed by the said Sir Francis at Rome the said Sir Francis covenanted with his said Nephew upon consideration of advancement of his Nephew and other good considerations to raise an use that he and his Heirs and all others seised of the said Mannor c. shall hereafter stand seised of them to the use of himself for term of his life without impeachment of Wast and afterwards to the use of his Nephew and of the Heirs Males of his body and for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs and Assigns of the said Francis the Nephew for ever with a Proviso that if the said Sir Francis shall have any Issue Male of his body that then all the said Vses and Limitations shall be void and with a Proviso further that if the said Sir Francis by himself or any other shall at any time during his life deliver or tender to his said Nephew a King of Gold to the intent to make the said Vses and Limitations void that then the said Vses and Limitations shall be void and that therafter the said Mannors c. shall be as before Afterwards the said Francis was attainted of Treason supposed to be committed by him 18 Eliz. A Le umures in partibus transmarinis le attainder fuit primerment utlagary apres per act de Par. 28 Eliz. by which the forfeiture of the Condition was given to the Queen and at the same Parliament it was also enacted that all and every person or persons which had or claimed to have any Estate of Inheritance Lease or Rent then not entred of Record or certified into the Court of Exchequer of in to or out of any Mannors Lands c. by or under any Grant Assurance or Conveyance whatsoever had or made at any time after the beginning of the Raign of her Majesty by any persons attainted of any Treasons mentioned in the said Act after the 8. day of February 18 Eliz. within two years next ensuing the last day of the Session of the said Parliament shall openly shew in the said Court of Exchequer or cause to be openly shewn there the same his or their Grant Conveyance or Assusance and there in the Term time in open Court the same shall offer
remain good and of force against the Patentee and also to say that the Lease might have its continuance after that it is determined by the Limitation comprehended in the Writing by reason of a reservation is also too absurd for so it may be said that if the Queen make a Lease for years if J. S. shall live so long rendring rent that this Lease may have continuance after the death of J. S. which cleerly is not Law And the Patentee here shall take the advantage to avoid the Lease hapned before his Patent made because that no Office need to be found of the not payment before it passed from the Queen to make it voyd and the reason is because this Proviso as it is penned is a meer Limitation of the Estate and not any manner of Condition And therfore if the Queen make a Lease for 100. years if the Lessee shall so long lawfully pay the Rent reserved at the day of payment if he fail of payment of the Rent reserved at the day limited the Lease is ipso facto determined and it need not be found by Office And what diversity is there where the Limitation is conjoyned to the estate it self and where it cometh in by a Proviso afterwards all being in one and the same Deed and therfore spoken at one and the same time for the one and the other case manifesteth that the contract and agreement is that the Lease shall not continue longer then the default of the payment of the Rent And in this case suppose that the Queen had granted over the Land shall not the Patentee have advantage to avoid the Lease because that no Office was found before It is cleer that he shall or otherwise this is now become to be an absolute Lease for a hundred years which is not Law for it is meerly contrary to the Contract and therfore absurd to be maintained I agree with the generall rule that nothing shal passe to or from the Queen but by matter of Record but this makes nothing against me in this case for here the same Record which passeth the Estate to the party to wit the Patent of the Lease contains the time how long it shall endure longer then which it cannot continue And therfore by 9 H. 7. If the King makes a Gift in tail and the Donce dies without Issue the Land is in the King without Office so in every other case where the Estate is determined according to the limitation for he cannot be put out of possession wrongfully and now hath right to hold it against him And I say that no warrant or authority can be found throughout the whole Law where a Lease or Estate made by the King is determined by an expresse limitation comprised in the Patent it self of the Grant that there need not any Office or other thing to determine it for that which is comprised in the same Patent may determine it of it self And further wheras the Proviso is that the re-entry shall be for default of payment of the Rent and the like there the Term continues untill the re-entry be made notwithstanding the Condition be broken as appeareth by all the Iustices 28 H. 8. because it is expresly limited that it shall be defeated by the re-entry there before re-entry be made the Action of Wast shall be quod tenet And by 12 H. 7. where a common person is put to his Entry there the Queen is put to an Office with which agrees Stamford in his Book of Prerogative But in this case if it were between common persons the Lease shall be determined upon default of payment of the Rent and before any re-entry and therfore in the Queens case it shall be determined without Office But if the case had been that if the Rent had been arrear and not paid that then upon re-entry made it ought to cease there an Office had been necessary to countervail the Entry in case of the Queen or otherwise the Lease shall not cease because the Queen cannot make an Entry but by such means and therfore it ought to be by matter comprised in the Patent It hath been said that this shall be a conditionall Limitation and that therfore an Office is necessary but I say that here is not any matter or quality of a Condition but meerly of a Limitation and t is rather a contingent Limitation then any manner of Condition and this is well proued by 11 H. 7. which is that the Grantee of a Reversion shal take advantage of it at common Law the which he cannot do if it savour any way of a Condition and by 27 H. 8. a Proviso in a Deed ought alwaies to be expounded according to the purport because that it is placed in a Deed somtimes for a Condition as where a Proviso is that the Lessee shall not alien somtimes for an exception as where a Proviso is that the Lease shall not extend to such an acre or such a thing somtimes for a Limitation as here and in the like cases And in this case the release of the Rent shall make it that the Lease shall never be determined for the not payment of it because tha●●●terwards there cannot be any such default of payment and therfore in such a case the Limitation remaineth absolute and discharged of the contingent which otherwise had determined it As if a man make a Lease for a 100. years if the Lessee in the mean time do not cut such a Tree a release of all Conditions will not serve yet if the Lessor himself or any other but the Lessee cut it the Lease is become absolute for a 100. years And so upon this point my conceit appeareth But the most colourable thing which hath been alledged on the other side was by my Brother Drew which was that in counting upon an Ejectione firmae and pleading in such a Lease as here it shall be as an absolute Lease for the years comprised in the Habendum without making any mention of the Prouiso upon which he enforced it that it shall be taken to be of more efficacy then if it stood meerly upon the Contingent for he said that upon a Lease made for years if the Lessee shall so long live and the like in the count and also in the pleading mention ought to be made of the life of the Lessee I agree it to be true that the pleading shall be so for in count counting and in plea pleading if the matter of the Contingent procede the Limitation or be anncred to the Limitation there a man ought to speak to the Contingent or otherwise it is not good as by 14 H. 8. it shall be of a Condition where it is precedent But in case of a Condition it is quite otherwise for if ● man make a Lease to another for years Si tamdiu vixerit or Dummodo solverit c. or the like which are annexed to the limitation of the Estate in all these cases in counting
that it shall be then holden as if no Adjournment had been the Ess●ines had been the first day of Tres Trin. and the full Term had not been untill the fourth day which was the last day of the Term quod nota and so it was of the Adjournment which hapned first at Westminster and afterwards at Hertford from Michaelmas Term now last past Michaelmas Term 35 and 36 Eliz. Gravenor versus Brook and others 1. IN an Ejectione firmae by Edward Gravenor Plaintiff against Richard Brook and others Defendants the case appeared to be this Henry Hall was seised in his Demesne as of Fee according to the custom of the Mannor of A. in the County of D. of certain customary Tenements holden of the said Mannor called Fairchildes and Preachers c. In the third year of Henry the 8th before which time the customary Tenements of the said Mannor had alwaies been used to be granted by Copy of Court Roll of the said Mannor in Fee-simple or for life or years but never in Fee-tail but then the said Henry Hall surrendred his said Copy-hold Land to the use of Joane his eldest Daughter for her life the remainder to John Gravenor the eldest Son of the said Joane and to the Heirs of his body the Remainder to Henry Gravenor her other Son and the Heirs of his body the Remainder to the right Heirs of the said Henry Hall for ever wherupon in 3 H. 8. at the Court then there holden a grant was made by Copy of Court Roll accordingly and Seisin given to the said Joane by the Lord accordingly Henry Hall died having Issue the said Joane and one Elizabeth and at the Court holden within the said Mannor 4 H. 8. the death of the said Henry Hall was presented by the Homage and that the said Daughters were his Heirs and that the Surrender made as before was void because it was not used within the said Mannor to make Surrenders of Estates tails and therupon the said Homage made division of the said Land and limited Fairchilds for the purparty of the said Joane and Preachers for the purparty of the said Elizabeth and Seisin was granted to them accordingly Elizabeth died seised of her said part after which 33 H. 8. Margaret her Daughter was found Heir to her and admitted Tenant to this part after which Joane dyed seised of the said Tenements as the Law will And after the said Margaret takes to Husband one John Adye who with his said wife surrendred his said part to the use of the said John Adye and of his said wife and of their Heirs and afterwards the said Margaret died without Issue and the said John Adye held the part of his said wife and surrendred it to the use of the said Richard Brook and of one John North and their Heirs who were admitted accordingly after which the said John Gravenor died without Issue and now the said Henry Gravenor was sole Heirs to him and also to the said Henry Hall who had Issue Edward Gravenor and dyed the said Edward entred into the said Lands called Preachers and did let it to the Plaintiff upon whom the said Richard Brook and the other Defendants did re-enter and eject him And all this appeareth upon a speciall Verdict And by Clench and Gawdy an Estate tail cannot be of Copyhold Land unlesse it be in case where it hath been used for the Statute of Donis conditionalibus shall not enure to such customary Lands but to Lands which are at common Law and therfore an Estate tail cannot be of these customary Lands but in case where it hath been used time out of mind and they said that so it hath been lately taken in the Common Bench But they said that the first remainder limited to the said John Gravenor here upon the death of the said John was a good Fee-simple conditional which is well warrantes by the custom to demise in Fee for that which by custom may be demised of an Estate in Fee absolute may also be demised of a Fee-simple conditionall or upon any other limitation as if I. S. hath so long Issue of his body and the like but in such a case no Remainder can be limited over for one Fee cannot remain over upon another and therfore the Remainder to the said Henry was void But they said that for all the life of the said John Gravenor nothing was in the said Elizabeth which could descend from her to the said Margaret her Daughter or that might be surrendred by the said Margaret and her Husband and therfore the said Margaret dying without Issue in the life time of the said John Gravenor who had the Fee-simple conditionall nothing was done which might hinder the said Edward Son to the said Henry Gravenor of his Entry and therfore the said Plaintiff ought to have his Iudgment to recover for they took no regard to that which the Homage did 4th year of Hen. 8. But Fennor and Popham held that an Estate tail is wrought out of Copy-hold Land by the equity of the Statute of Donis conditionalibus for otherwise it cannot be that there can be any Estate tail of Copyhold Land for by usage it cannot be maintained because that no Estate tail was known in Law before this Statute but all were Fee-simple and after this Statute it cannot be by usage because this is within the time of limitation after which an usage cannot make a prescription as appeareth 22 23 Eliz. in Dyer And by 8 Eliz. a Custom cannot be made after Westm 2. And what Estates are of Copyhold land appeareth expresly by Littleton in his Chapter of Tenant by Copyhold c. And in Brook Title Tenant by Copyhold c. 15 H. 8. In both which it appeareth that a Plaint lyeth in Copyhold Land in the nature of a Formedon in the Descender at common Law and this could not be before the Statute of Donis conditionalibus for such Land because that before that Statute there was not any Formedon in the Descender at common Law and therfore the Statute helps them for their remedy for intailed Land which is customary by equity Add if the Action shall be given by equity for this Land why shall not the Statute by the same equity work to make an Estate intail also of this nature of the Land We see no reason to the contrary and if a man will well mark the words of the Statute of Westm 2. cap. 1. he shall well perceive that the Formedon in Descender was not before this Statute which wills that in a new case a new remedy may be given and therupon sets the form of a Formedon in Descender But as to the Formedon in the Reverter it is then said that it is used enough in Chancery and by Fitzherbert in his Natura brevium the Formedon in the Descender is founded upon this Statute and was not at Common Law before And the reason is because these Copyholds are now become by usage to be
the money coming therof a prohibition shall be granted to the Ecclesiasticall Iudge in such a case wherby the Court granted a speciall consultation in the Case to wit that they proceed for the Legacy provided that they charge the Executor no further then he hath in Goods and Chattels of the Testator after his true and due Debts are satisfied And that in the case of the proof of these Debts they allow such proofs as by the Law of the Land are holden to be sufficient in such a case Quod nota ben● as to the restraining of Ecclesiasticall Courts in their proceedings to bind any subject touching his private temporall Estate against all reason And as to it that they do not intermeddle in any thing belonging to the Common Law of the Realm as Debts and the like against the due course of the Common Law Cawdry versus Atton 5. IN Trespasse brought by Robert Cawdry Clerk against George Atton Vide this Case Coke lib. 5. 1. pa. for breaking his Close at North Luffenham in the County of Rutland upon not guilty and a speciall Verdict the Case appeared to be this to wit that the Plaintiff was Rector Ecclesiae de North Luffenham aforesaid of which the place was parcell and being so seised was deprived of his Rectory by the late Bishop of London and his Colleagues by virtue of the high Commission to them and others diverted because he had pronounced and uttered slanderous and contumelious words against and in depravation of the Book of Common-prayer But the form of the sentence was that the said Bishop by and with the assent and consent of five others of the said Commissioners his Companions and namely which deprived him And further it was not found that the Commissioners named were the naturall Subjects born of the Queen as the Statute enacts that they should be And if the deprivation be void then they find the Defendant guilty and if it were good then they find him not guilty And it was moved that the deprivation was void First Because that wheras the Commission is to them or any three of them of which the said Bishop to be one amongst others it ought to have been the sentence of them all according to the authority given to them which is equall and not that it was done by one with assent of the other Then because it is not found that the Commissioners are the naturall Subjects of the Queen born as by the words of the Statute they should be Another is because the punishment which the Statute provides for those of the Ministry which deprave this Book is to loose the profits of all their Spirituall Promotions but for a year and to be imprisoned by the space of six months and not to be deprived untill the second Offence after that he had been once committed and therfore to deprive him for the first offence was wrongfull and contrary to the Statute But by the whole Court for the form of the deprivation it is that which is used in the Ecclesiasticall Courts which alway names the chief in Commission that are present at the beginning of the Sentence and for the other they mention them only as here but of their assent and consent to it and in such cases we ought to give credit to their form and therfore t is not to be compared to an authority given at Commen Law by Commission And for the matter that is not found that the Commissioners were the naturall Subjects of the Queen born it is to be intended that they were such unlesse the contrary appear But here at the beginning it is found that the Queen secundum tenorem effectum actus predict had granted her Commission to them in causis Ecclesiasticis and therfore it appeareth sufficiently that they were such as the Statute wills them to be And for the deprivation they all agreed that it was good being done by the authority of the Commission for the Statute is to be understood where they prosecute upon the Statute by way of Inditement and not to restrain the Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction being also but in the Affirmative And further by the Act and their Commission they may proceed according to their discretion to punish the offence proved or confessed before them and so are the words of their Commission warranted by the clause of the Act. And further the Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction is saved in the Act. And further all the Bishops and Popish Priests were deprived by virtue of a Commission warranted by this clause in the Act And now lately it was agreed by all the Iustices that a Fine of 200. marks set upon one for a vitious liver by the high commission was warranted by virtue of the Commission and Act And therfore if the Act with the Commission are to be consdered in this case wherupon it was agreed that the Plaintiff should take nothing by his Writ Which you may see Hill 33. Eliz. Rot. 315. Hall versus Peart 6. IN an Ejectione firmae brought by William Hall Plaintiff for Land in D. in the County of Somerset upon a Lease made by William Dodington against John Peart and other Defendants upon a speciall Verdict the case appeared to be this That one Iohn Brown was in possession of certain Lands in D. aforesaid Vide this case in Cook lib. 2 32 33. by the name of Doding●ons case which before were parcel of the possessions of the Hospitall or Priory of S. Iohns in Wells the Inheritance therof then being in the late King H. 8. by the Act of dissolutions And the King being so seised by his Letters Patents dated 26. of March 30 H. 8. ex gratia speciali certa scientia mero motu suo granted to Iohn Ayleworth and Ralph Duckenfield omnia illa Messuagia Ter. Tenemt gardina sua quaecunque tune in separabilibus tenuris diversarum personarum which he named particularly amongst which the said Iohn Brown was one in Civitate Wellen. ac in suburbiis ejusdem Civitat exira eandem civitat within the Jurisdictions and Liberties of the said City late parcell of the possessions of the said Hospitall and that the said Iohn Brown had not then any other Lands late parcel of the possessions of the said Hospitall but this in D. and that this Land was quite out of the said City of Wells and of the Suburbs therof and also out of the Liberties and Jurisdiction of the said City and yet it was found that it was in the particular and parcell of the value and valued in it in the Tenure of the said Iohn Brown at 6 s. 8 d. a year and the grant was to the said Iohn Ayleworth and Ralph Duckenfield and to the Heirs of the said Iohn Ayleworth forever And it was moved that the Grant was good to the said Ayleworth and Duckenfield because of the Statute of non-recitall and mis-recitall because it appeareth by the particular and value that it was intended to be passed
be avoided and in the same manner here But Popham took a diversity where the Possession or the Estate of the Queen is determined and where not for where the Estate is determined there the Subject may enter into the Land without Office or ouster le main But where the Possession continues there the party shall not come to it unlesse by petition Monstrans de droit officio or the like and therfore hee said that if the Queen had an Estate pur auter vie or depending upon any other Limitation if it be determined according to the Limitation the party who hath interest may enter so in the case of the Devise put before And if a Lease be made for life the Remainder in Tail the Reversion in Fee and he in the Remainder in Tail levy a Fine Sur conusance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done to a stranger with proclamations according to the Statute and afterwards the stranger convey the Remainder to the Queen her Heirs and Successors and after the Tenant for life dies and after he in the Remainder in tail dies without Issue now may he in the Remainder in Fee enter because the Estate of the Queen is determined But here the Queen hath a Fee-simple in her self but determinable upon the Estate-tail which yet remaineth which Fee-simple in Reversion cannot be divested out of the possession of the Queen but by matter of Record of so high nature as it is in her to wit by Petition Monstrans de droit or the like As if a Reversson or Remainder be alienated in Mortmain the claim of the Lord sufficeth ther● to vest the Reversion in the Lord for the Alienation but if the Reversion or Remainder of which such a claim was made be conveyed to the King his remedy is now by Office Monstrans de droit or Petition for claim will not now serve him for this shall be to divest the possession out of the Queen which by such means cannot be done no more then where a Reversion or Remainder is granted to the Queen upon Condition but he ought to have an Office to find the performance of it if it be to be performed by matter in pais and without Monstrans de droit or otherwise it shall not be divested out of the Queens possession yet in the case of a common person a claim will divest it out of them but not so of the Queen And these cases Gawdy agreed but he conceived that in the case in question the claim made determines the Estate of the Queen which is made by means of the Fine upon the Statute And Popham denied the case put in 7 H. 6. to be Law as it is put upon the opinion of Strange there for it is cleer that the claim there does not divest any possession which was in the King by means of the Wardship and if this be not therby defeated the claim does not help the Disseisee against the Descent and this appeareth fully by Littleton who saith so of a Claime which avoids a Descent to wit that it ought to be such upon which the Disseisee may upon every such Claim made have an Action of Trespasse or Assise against the Dissessor or him who is in possession if he continue his possession after such Claim made which cannot be in this case where the possession is in the King which cannot be defeated by such a Claim And in the Lord Dyer where the Feoffee or Mortgagee of Lands holden of the Queen in Capite by Knights Service died before the day of Redemption his Heir being within age wherby upon Office found the Queen had the Wardship of the body and land of the Heir after which the Mortgagee at the day of redemption made payment and of this also an Office was found yet he could not enter either before or after Office but upon Monstrans de droit therupon he had his Ouster le main And the reason why a Claim shall serve in this case between common persons is because that by such Claim the thing it self is devested out of him who had it before and therby actually vested in him who made the claim As where a Villain purchase a Reversion by the Claim of the Lord the Reversion is actually in him as it is of a Possession by Entry But where he is put to his Claim to devest any thing out of a common person he is put to his Suit to devest it out of the Queen Aad to say that Bret should not take advantage of this Conveyance made to make it good by the Fine I think the Law to be clear otherwise as to this point for the Statute of Fines was made tor the security of Purchasors and Possessors of Land and therfore taken more strongly against them who pretend Right or Title and for the greatest advantage that may be for the Possessors of Lands and therfore the Possessor by what ever means he can may make his Fine to be forceable And therfore the Fine upon this Statute differeth much from a Fine at Common Law for where at Common Law an Infent being a Disseisor was disseised by one who levies a Fine and the year and the day passe without claim of the first Disseisee now was the first Disseisee barred yet if afterwards the Infant who was not bound by the Fine enter the first Disseisee may enter upon him because that by this entry the Fine at Common Law was utterly defeated But now by the Statute such a Fine being levied with Proclamations the first Disseisee not pursuing according to the Statute is barred for ever And although the Infant enter at full age and undoes the Fine as to himself yet this Fine remains alwaies to bar the first Disseissee and makes that the Infant hath now Right against all the world and so now takes advantage therof And this is the intent of the Statute for the repose of Controversies and Suits and the quiet of the people And if I procure a Fine to be levied on purpose to bar another of his Action which he may have against me for the Land yet I shall take advantage of this Fine and the other shall have no advantage against me because of this Covin for if this should be admitted it will countervail the benefit which is intended to be by means of the Statute of Fines And if a Disseisor enfeoffee another upon Condition to the intent that a Fine with Proclamations shall be levied to the Feoffee to bar the Disseisee and after the Disseisee is barred the Disseisor enter for the Condition he shall yet take advantage of the Fine against the Disseisee And Popham put a case which was in this Court 23 Eliz. upon a speciall Verdict which was between Okes Plaintiff upon the Demise of John late Lord Sturton of Cottington which was this The Lord Sturton was Tenant for life of certain Lands in Lighe in the County of Somerset the remainder in Tail
by reason of the Waiver in the Devisor shall be sole seised ab initio for the said Elizabeth might have had Dower therof if she would as in the like case it is adjudged in 17 E. 3. 6. and therfore a sole Seisin in the Husband and the descent to the Heir in such a case upon the Waiver shall take away the entry of him who hath right to it And therfore the case now for the Mannor of Hinton is within the very letter of the Statute as well for the sole Seisin which was in the Devisor as for the immediate descent which was from the Devisor to his Heir and therfore remains to the Heir for a good third part of the Inheritance of the Devisor by the very letter of the Statute and if the Letter had not helped it yet it shall be helped by the purport and intent of the Statute which ought to be liberally and favourably construed for the benefit of the Subject who before the Statute of Vses might have disposed of his whole Land by reason of Vses by his Will and the Statute of 27 H. 8. excludes him therof and therfore the Statute of 32. 34 H. 8. are to be liberally expounded as to the Subject for the two parts and the rather because it appeareth by the preamble of the Statute of 32 H. 8. that it was made of the liberality of the King and because that by 34 H. 8. it appeareth that it was made to the intent that the Subject shall take the advantage and benefit purposed by the King in the former Statute by all which it appeareth as they said that the said Statutes shall be liberally expounded for the advantage of the Subject and for his benefit and not so strictly upon the letter of the Law as hath been moved and so they concluded that Iudgment ought to be given for the Plaintiff Popham and Anderson the two chief Iustices and all the other Iustices and Barons held the centrary and that Iudgment ought to be given against the Plaintiff and that by the very letter and purport of the Statutes of 32 34 H. 8. for they said they are to consider what Estate the Devisor h●d ●● the Land at the time of his Devise made without regard to that which might happen by matter Ex post facto upon the Deed of another and if it had be●n demanded of any apprised in the Law at the time when the Will w●s made what Estate the Devisor then had in the Mannor of Hinton 〈◊〉 is so unlearned to say that he had other Estate in it then joyntly with his Wife And if so it follows that this Mannor was then out of the letter and intent of the Law for he was not then sole seised therof nor seised in coparcenary nor in common and by the words he should be sole seised in Fee-simple or seised in Fee-simple in coparcenary or in common It appeareth that the intent of the Statute was that he shall have full power of himself without the means or aid of another to dispose of the Land of which he is by the Statute to make disposition or to leave it to his Heir and this he hath not for the Mannor of Hinton here And further the words of 32 H. 8. are That the Devisor hath full power at his Will and pleasure to devise two parts of his Land so holden as here and this is to be intended of such Land of which he then had full power to make disposition ●nd this he could not then do for the Mannor of Hinton And further the words of 34 H. 8. are that the devision for the parts shall be made by the Devisor or Owner of the Land by his last Will in writing or otherwise in writing and in default therof by commission c. And can any say with reason that it was the intent of the Statute that he shall make the Devision of other Lands then of those of which he then had full power to devise or to leave to his heir without any future accident to help him or the mean of Anthony by matter Ex post facto It is cleer that reason cannot maintain it And the words following in the Act which are That the King shall take for his third part the Land which descended to the Heir of the ●state tail or of Fee-simple immediatly after the death of the Devisor much enforce the opinion on this side for it cannot be said upon the death before the Waiver that this Mannor of Hinton was immediatly descended ergo it ought not to be taken for the third part And further the words are If the Lands immediatly descended upon the death of the Devisor c. do not amount to a full third part that then the King make take into his hands so much of the other Lands of the Devisor as may make a full third part c. wherby it is cleer that in this case if the wife had not waived her Estate for ten years after the death of the Devisor that for all this time the Queen could not meddle with the Mannor of Hinton and therfore in the mean while she might well have so much of the Mannor of Thoby which might well have made a full third part to her and for so much which she took the Will was alwaies void which shall never be altered nor made good by any Waiver Ex post facto And although the Waiver of the Fame put the Inheritance entirely in the Devisor and in his Heir in relation to divers respects yet as to other respects he sh●ll not be said in them with such relation and especially upon the Statute in which we now are to respect the power as it was in him at the time of his death before this future Contingent And by Popham If the exposition on the other side shall hold place upon the Statute perhaps a man shall not see by the space of six years or more after the death of a Devisor how his Devise shall work As a Feoffment in Fee is made to I. S. and a Feme Covert and their Heirs of 10 l. Land holden by Knights-service in Capite which I. S. hath 20 l. Land in fee so holden also I. S. makes a Devise of his 20 l. Land the Husband lives 60. years after none will or can deny but that for this time the Devise is not good for two parts now the Husband dies and the Wife waives the Estate made to her this puts the Inheritance therof in the Heir of I. S. with relation to divers respects but not to this respect to make the Will now good for the whole 20 l. Land which therfore was void for the third part therof for the Will which once was void by matter Ex post facto after the death of the Devisor cannot be made good And by him the descent in such a case is not such that it shall take away the entry of him who hath right because
but as referring to the provision subsequent in the Statute in which case this matter shall be used but as the Proviso it self shall be and according to this it hath been commonly put in practise by all the Iustices in all places after the Statute untill now And they agreed also that it need not be shewn whether he were made a Iesuit or Priest c. either beyond Sea or within the Realm because whersoever it was it is within the Law if he were made by the pretended authority of the See of Rome But they agreed that it ought to be comprised in the Indictment that he was born within this Realm or other Dominions of the Queen but need not to shew where but generally Et quod I. S. natus infra hoc Regnum Angliae c. And the Indictment ought to comprise that he was a Iesuite or Priest c. by authority challenged or pretended from to the See of Rome because that this is in the body of the Act without such reference as in the other point and according to this resolution the proceeding was against the said Southwell Easter Term 37 Eliz. Pigots Case 1. AFter the death of Valentine Pigot Esquire a Commission was awarded in nature of a Mandamus and after the death of Thomas Pigot Father of the said Valentine a Commission was awarded in nature of a Diem clausit extremum and the said Commissions were awarded to one and the same Commissioners who by one Inquest took but one Inquisition upon these severall Commissions in this form Inquisitio indentata capt● apud c. virtute Commiss in natura brevis de diem clausit extremum eisdem Commiss direct c. ad inquirendum post mortem Thomae Pigot Ar. nuper defuncti patris predict Valentin per sacramentum c. Qui d●cunt c. After which all the points of the C●mmission after the death of the s●id Valentine are enquired of but for the Commissions after the death of the said Thomas Pigot it is imperfect in some points as who is his Heir c. is not found And by Popham and Anderson this Inquisition is void as to Valentine as well as for Thomas for their authorities which are the Commissions are by severall Warrants which cannot be simul semel by one and the same Inquisition executed and satisfied but ought to be divided and severall as the Warrant is severall and yet the same Inquest which found one Inquisition by one Warrant may also find another Inquisition by the other Warrant but divided and severall and not as one for as it is made it does not appear upon which of the Commissions the Inquisition as to Valentine is taken for as it is made it may be as well upon the one as upon the other for it is said to be by vertue of both the Commissions which cannot be and therfore is not good in any part and severall Warrants ought to be severally execused and therfore although the Escheator as appeareth by 9 H. 7. 8. may take ●● Inquisition Virtue officii and at the same day another Inquisition Virtue brevis by one and the same Inquest yet this cannot be drawn into one Inquisition And that which is found Virtue officii contrary to that which before the same day Virtute libris as that it found more Land is good for the King And this their opinion was certified to the Court of Wards Sir Rowland Haywards Case 2. THis Case was also sent to the same chief Iustices out of the Court of See this case in Coke ● Report 35. Wards Sir Rowland Hayward being seised in his Demesne as of Fee of the Mannors of D. and A. in the County of Salop and of other Lands in the same County part wherof were in Lease for years by severall Indentures rendring certain rent part in the possessions of severall Copyholders and part in Demesne in possession out of Lease by Indenture dated 2. September 34. Eliz. made mention that this was for and in consideration of a certain sum of money to him paid by Richard Warren Esquire and others demised granted bargained and sold to the said Richard Warren and the others the said Mannors Lands and Tenements and the Reversion and Remainder of them and of every part of them and the Rents and Profits reserved upon any Demise therupon for 17. years next ensuing the death of the said Sir Rowland rendring a Rose at the Feast of S. John Baptist yearly if it be demanded which Deed was acknowledged to be enrolled and afterwards by another Indenture covenanted and granted for him and his Heirs hereafter to stand seised of the said Mannors Lands and Tenements to the use of the said Sir Rowland and of the Heirs Males of his body and afterwards and before any Attornment to the said Richard Warren and his Co-lessees or any of them the said Sir Rowland died seised of the said Mannors Lands and Tenements leaving a full third part of other Lands to descend to his Heir And it was moved on the Queens part that for part to wit for that which was in possession it past to the said Richard Warren and the other by way of Demise at Common Law and therfore it doth not passe afterwards by way of Bargain and Sale as to the Remainder and that therfore for the Services of the Mannors and for the Rents reserved upon the Demise these remain to the Heir who was in Ward to the Queen and within age and therfore to the Queen by reason of the Tenure which was in Capite by Knights-service But by Popham and Anderson it is at the Election of the said Richard Warren and his Co-lessees to take it by way of Demise or by way of Bargain and Sale untill that by some act done or other matter it may appear that their intent is to take it another way for the Vse in this case may well passe without the Inrolement of the Deed because the Statute of 27 H. 8. of Inrolements extends but to where a Free-hold is to passe and the Vse so passing this shall be executed by the Statute of 27 H. 8. of Vses and therfore if the said Richard Warren and his Co-lessees after the death of the said Sir Rowland Hayward would elect to take it by way of Bargain and Sale they shall have all the Reversions Remainders Rents and Services as well as the Land in possession executed to them by the Statute of Vses And of the same opinion were all the Iustices in Trinity Term following upon their meeting at Serjeants-Inne for another great cause Trinity Term 37 Eliz. 1. VPon an Assembly of all the Iustices and Barons of the Exchecquer at Where a Just●ce of Peace bails one who is not bailable he shall be sined and albeit he be committed but for suffici●●● of Felony and ha●h no notice of his offence Serjeants-Inne in Fleetstreet this Term it was resolved by them and so agreed to be hereafter put
the said Goodale that this Warrant was made to him After which it was agreed between the said Sir Ioh Packington Drew Woodale that the said Tho. Drew shall have but 32 l. of the said 100. marks wherupon the said Sir Iohn Packington within a year after the death of the said Ralph Woodliff paid to the said Drew Woodliff the 100. marks and presently the said Drew delivered to the said Sir John all the 100. marks but 32 l. And the Verdict stands upon this point whether the 100. marks were well paid or not And by Popham and Gawdy this was meerly a fraud which shall never prejudice a third person for if it be agreed between the Disseisee and I. S. that a stranger shall disseise the Tenant of the Land and enfeoff the said I. S. to the intent that the Disseisee shall recover against him this Recovery shall bind the said I. S. but not him who was disseised and yet he who recovered had a good Title and paramount the other but he shall not come to that to which he had good cause of Action and Title by fraudulent means to the prejudice of a third person not party to this fraud And it was said further that to pay money and take it away again presently before that it is pursed up by re-delivery is not properly a payment but rather a colour of payment And by Fennor and Popham the force of a Deed of Feoffment once effectuall cannot become void or of no effect nor the Livery therupon by such manner of words And it is not like a Bargain of Goods or an Obligation or a Lease for years which by such words may be dissolved and made to be of no force or effect because that as by the sealing a bare Contract it may be made perfect and effectuall without other circumstances so may it be defeated by such bare means without other circumstance But so it is not in case of an Inheritance or Free-hold which cannot be effectual by the bare delivery of a Deed unlesse that Livery be made therupon And all agreed that as this case is notwithstanding the Feoffment made over by the Father the money might have been paid to the Heir to perform the Condition if they had been duly paid and without Covin and that the words had been apt to have defeated the Estate But by Popham and Clench If a Feoffment be made to one upon condition In which case a Condition shall be performed to an Assignee and not to the Heir of payment of money to the Feoffee his Heirs or Assignes and the Feoffee makes a Feoffment over and dies the money ought to be paid to the Feoffee who is the Assignee and not to the Heir for there Heir is not named but in respect of the Inheritance which might be in him but here he is named as a meer stranger to it Bartons Case 3. IN a Writ of Error sued in the Kings Bench by Randall Barton upon a Fine levied at Lancaster 7 Eliz. of Land in Smithall and else where in the County of Lancaster by Robert Barton Esquire to Leven and Browndo where this Writ was brought by the said Randall as Heir in tail to the said Robert to wit Son of Ralph Brother of the said Robert The Defendant plead a Recovery in Bar therof had after the Fine in which the said Robert was vouched who vouched over the common Vouchee And by all the Court this common Recovery with such double Voucher which is the common assurance of Lands is a Bar by reason of the Voucher to every manner of right which the Vouchee or his Heir by means of him is to have to this land which is paramount the Recovery And so it is of every manner of way wherby they are otherwise to come to the Land before the Recovery And if the recovery be erroneous it remains a good Bar untill it be avoided by error But if the Recovery be void or the Voucher not warranted to be pursuing the appearance of the Tenant but precedent to it as was pretended and so no Tenant to warrant the Voucher when the Voucher was made the Recovery shall be no bar in such a case and the case here was informed to be this for the Writ of Entry bears date 1. Mart. 7 Eliz. returnable Die Lunae in 4. septimana quadragessimae propter futur and the Voucher was made in 4. septimana quadragessimae 7 Eliz. the said first day of March being the first week of this Lent 7 Eliz. And upon this it was inferred that the Tenant was not to appear untill Munday in the fourth week of Lent 8 Eliz. which is a long time after that the Voucher appeared and vouched over But by the whole Court the Original Writ shall be taken as it is written to be returnable on Munday in the fourth week of the same Lent 7 Eliz for it shall be taken as it is written shortly most beneficially that it can be to make the Recovery good And if it had been written Prox●me it should refer to the week before and so good And if the word Futur had been written at large Futura it also shall refer to Septimana and therfore being written briefly it shall refer as it may best do to make the Recovery good But if it had been in Quarta septimana proximae quadragessimae at large then the word Proxime shall refer to Quadragessimae because of the case But if it had been Proxima it shall refer to Septimana because also of the case But here as the case is it shall be a good reference to make the words Tunc proxima futur to shew what fourth week of Lent to wit that next ensuing the first day of March. As if a man be bound by Obligation bearing date the first day of March to pay the 10. day of March then next ensuing this shall be taken the 10. day of this March because this is next ensuing the first day Paramor versus Verrald 4. IN Trespasse of Assault and false Imprisonment by Robert Paramor against John Verrold and others supposed to be done at such a Parish and Ward in London the 20. day of May 35 Eliz The Defendants justifie by reason of an Erecution upon a Recovery in the Court of Sandwich within the Cinque-Ports Debt and traverse Absque hoc in that they were guilty in London c. The Plaintiff reply and maintain the Assault and Imprisonment as it is said and traverses Absque hoc quod habetur aliquod tale Recordum loque●ae prout the Defendants have alledged Et hoc paratus est verificare per Recordum illud and upon this the Defendants demurred in Iudgment And per Curiam the Defendants plea Prima f●cie was good because it was a speciall manner of Iustification which cannot be pleaded and alledged to be in any other place then where it was done in the same manner as if they had justified by force of a Capias directed to the
Vse may be averred without Deed upon a Fine sur Render And all agreed that if there had been a Deed to have declared the purport of the Fine that the Fine shall not be taken to extend further then is comprised in the Deed. And what is the cause therof the Deed or the intent of the parties and none can say but that it is the intent of the parties and not the Deed and the intent may as well appear without the Deed as with it albeit it be not so conclusive by Parole as by Deed. And therfore suppose I have 100. acres of Land in a Close in D. and I. S. hath another 100. acres in the same Close and Town and I. S. hath a 100. acres of Land in the same Town out of this Close and my intent is to levy a Fine to I. S. of the whole Close by the name of 200. acres of Land with a Render as before and I levy it accordingly shall the Render enure to the Land which I. S. had in the same Town It is cleer that it shall not although it be without Deed why then shall the Fine here be taken to work rather to the Land called Karkian then to any other Lands which any other had in the same Towns when it appeareth plainly that it never was the intent of the parties that the Fine should extend to these Lands called Karkian and it was decreed in Chancery accordingly Hall versus Arrowsmith 4. IN the case between Hall and Arrowsmith it was agreed by the whole Court in the Kings Bench That if a Copyholder for life hath licence to make a Lease for three years if he shall live so long and he makes a Lease for three years without such a Limitation that yet this is no forfeiture of his Estate because the operation of Law makes such a Limitation to the Estate which he made to wit that it shall not continue but for his life and then such an express Limitation in the case where the Law it self makes it is but a meer trifle and yet if a Lessee for life makes a Lease for years and he in the Reversion confirm it it remains good after the death of the Tenant for life but this then shall be as if it had been made by him in the Reversion himself and shall be his Lease But if the Lease there had been made determin●ble upon the life of Tenant for life the confirmation therof by him in the Reversion will not help him after the death of him who was Tenant for life Causa patet But in the principall case if the Copyholder had had an Estate in Fee by Copy it had been a forfeiture of his Estate to make an absolute Lease because in that case he does more then he was licensed to do And they agreed that such a licence cannot be made to be void by a Condition subsequent to the execution therof to undo that which was once well executed But there may be a Condition precedent united to it because in such a case it is no licence untill the Condition performed but the licence before mentioned is not a condition all Licence but a Licence with a Limitation and therfore hath not been of force if the Limitation which the Law makes in this case had not been and the Limitation in Law shall be preferred before the Limitation in Deed where they work to one and the same effect and not different Arthur Johnsons Case 5. ARthur Johnson was possessed of a Term for years and so possessed assigned this over to Robert Waterhouse and John Waterhouse being Brothers to the Wife of the said Johnson to the use of the said Wife the said Johnson dies and makes his Wife his Executrix after which the said Wife takes Robert Witham to Husband who takes the Profits of the Land during the life of his said Wife the Wife dies Intestate her said Brothers being next of kin to the said Wife took administration as well of the Goods of the said Wife as of her first Husband And whether the said Waterhouses or the said Witham shall have this Lease or the use therof was the question in the Chancery and therupon put to the two chief Iustices upon which they and the chief Baron and all the other Iustices of Serjeants-Inne in Fleetstreet and Beamont also were cleer in opinion that the said Administrators had now as well the Interest as the Vse also of the said Term as well in Conscience as in Law and that they had the use as Administrators to the said Wife and that the said Witham shall not have it because it is as a thing in Action which the Administrators of the Wife alwaies shall have and not the Husband As if an Obligation had been made to the use of the Wife And this opinion was certified accordingly to the Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England and it was so decreed Taunton versus Barrey 6. IN an Ejectione firmae brought by Giles Taunton Plaintiff in the King Bench against Giles Barrey Defendant the Case was thus Iohn Coles Esquire made a Lease of the Lands in question to the Father of the said Barrey for divers years depending upon the life of the Lessee and of the said Defendant and of the Survivor of them upon condition that the said Father should not alien without the consent of the said Coles his heirs after which the said Father devised the Term to the said Defendant and died making his Executor who assented And the question upon this point found upon a speciall Verdict was whether upon the matter the Condition were broken and by the opinion of the whole Court adjudged that it was for in such a case he ought to have left it to his Executor without making any Devise of it for the Devise is an Alienation against him and therfore it was agreed that the Plaintiff shall recover Term 37 Eliz. Rot. between Roper and Roper Michaelmas Term 38 39. Eliz. Everets Case 1. THis Case was moved by the chief Iustice to the other chief Iustices at Serjeants-Inne in Fleetstreet concerning one Everet who before was attaint for stealing of a Horse reprieved after Iudgment and Indited again for stealing another Horse before this Attainder And the Vicar of Pelton in the County of Somerset was Indited as accessary before this Felony for the procurement of it And Everet being again Indited upon this last Inditement did not plead that he was formerly Indited of another Felony c. but acknowledged the Inditement wherby the Accessary was Arrained tried and found guilty and had his Iudgment also as the principall but the Execution of the Accessary was respited And now moved whether upon this matter it shall be fit to execute the Accessary the principall being executed And it seemed convenient to all the Iustices and Barons that he shall be executed and that the matter was cleer in this case because the principall did not take advantage of his
Anglice Copie des except according to any custom of the said Mannor of Yeatminster and that the Obligation was made for the payment of the same Rent reserved by the said Articles and demands Iudgment c. wherupon the Plaintiff demurred in the Common Bench and there Iudgment was given that the Plaintiff should recover his Debt and Damages as appeareth there Mich. 36 37. Eliz. Rot. 312. upon which a Writ of Error was brought in the Kings Bench and there moved that the Iudgment was erroneous in as much as upon the matter he ought to have been barred of his Action for if an Action of Debt had been brought upon the Demise by the Articles the Defendant might have pleaded as here and the Plaintiff should be cleerly barred As if a man be bound to make an Estate or to assure to another all the Lands which he hath by descent from his Father or all the Lands which he hath by purchase from such a one or the like And of this opinion Gawdy was saying in as much as the Obligation is that he shall be paid according to the true intent of the Articles the intent of them is not that the Rent shall be paid if any Land be not passed by them for it should be paid as by 22 H. 6. if a man be bound to pay a Rent which is reserved upon a Lease made to him he ought to pay it at his peril But if it be to pay it accordingly to the Lease there he said it is not payable but upon the Bond and is to be paid as a Rent And if the Land be evicted in the interim before the day of payment the Obligor shall help himself by pleading of it upon such an Obligation to discharge the Bond so here But it seemed to Popham that the Iudgment was well given and yet he agreed the Cases that were put but he said there was a diversity where the Obligation goes in the generality and where it tends to a speciality for as by 2 E. 4. If a man be bound to be Non-suit in all Actions which he hath against such a one or to assure to another all his Lands in Dale he may say that he hath not any Suit or that he hath no Land in Dale But if it be that he shall be Non-suit in a Formedon depending or to enfeoff him of White acre there it is no plea because he refers to a special point And by 18 E. 4. If a man be bound to another to pay him 10 l. for which a stranger is bound to the said Obligee it is no plea for him to say that the stranger is not bound to pay him 10 l. for when the Condition refers to such a speciall matter this cannot be denied of him who is bound And therfore in this case the Defendant cannot say that there were not any such Articles contrary to that which is specially comprised in the Condition as by 28 H. 6. A man was bound to perform the Covenants comprised in a certain Indenture of Covenants he shall not say that there was not any such Indenture because it resorts to a speciall So I think if a man be bound to pay the Rent of 10 l. a year reserved upon an Indenture of Demise made of Lands in D. payable at such a Feast he shall not say against it that there was no such Demise made nor no such Rent reserved upon the Demise but is estopped of the one and the other And in Hill 3. Eliz. A man was bound th●t he shall pay to A. or the Obligee all such summs of mony as T. S. deceased stands bound to pay by his Obligation to the said A. and of one R. P. to the behoof of the Children of such a one according to the Will of the said party and in Debt upon this Obligation he saith that the said T. S. was never bound by any such Writing Obligatory to the said A. and R. P c. to pay c. Pro usu filiorum c. as in the Condition and per Curiam adjudged no good Bar because he is estopped to deny the speciall matter which is matter of Writing and not a bare matter in Deed. Kirton versus Hoxton and others 10. IN an Appeal of Mayhem brought by Kirton Plaintiff against Appeal of Mayhem Rob. Hoxton Esq and divers other Defen the one of the Defen plead Nul tiel in rerum natura as another of the Appellees and if it be not found then as to the Felony and Mayhem not guilty Agreed by the whole Court that such a manner of pleading is not to be suffered in an Appeal of Mayhem because no life is put in danger by the suit And yet it was objected that there are presidents that such form of pleading hath been admitted in Appeals of Mayhem But the Court had respect to it that the reason in all the Books of Law in which it hath been admitted in an Appeal of death and the like is that it stands in Favorem vitae and therfore it is admitted to be good or otherwise by the Books it shall not be admitted to be so for the doublenesse of it But no life is to be put in ●e●pardy in this case and therfore such a plea shall not be admitted but the Not guilty shall stand by which the other plea is waived Hillary Term 38 Eliz. Henry Earl of Pembrook versus Sir Henry Backley IN an Action upon the Case between Henry Earl of Pembrook Plaintiff See this Case Coke lib 5. 76. a. and Sir Henry Backley Knight Defendant the case upon the pleading appeareth to be thus The said Earl was seised in his Demesn as of Fee of the Mannor of Stocktrift in the County of Somerset to which Mannor the Office of the custody of the Forest of Selwood in the same County belongeth and also that there was before time of memory an Office within the same Forest called the Lievtenant-ship or Custody of the said Forest belonging to the said Mannor of which also the said Earl was seised in his Demesn as of Fee And that there was one part of the said Forest called the West part of the said Forest in which there were two Walks or Bayliwicks the one called Staverdale walk and the other Brewick walk And that the said Lievtenant had the charge of the Deer and the disposition and appointment of the Keepers of the said Forest And that the said Earl being so seised by his Writing bearing date 5. Novemb. 12. Eliz. reciting that his Father had granted the Office of Lievtenant-ship and Deputy-ship of the said West part of the said Forest Cum vadiis c. quando acciderit and the Keeper-ship of Brewick-walk aforesaid to the said Sir Maurice Barkley Knight and the Heirs Males of his body and instituted and ordained him and the Heirs Males of his body Lievtenant and Deputy therof to the said Earl and his Heirs confirmed the Grant aforesaid And further by the
voluntary killing of Bucks cutting of Trees Wood or the like but otherwise it is of things done or suffered by his negligence if it be not common or often And albeit the Trees here were not many or that it was not averred that the Game was to be hurt therby yet it cannot be intended but that it is so much impaired by it as it should be by the killing of a Buck in the Forest by which the Office shall be forfeited because the Game is therby the worse and yet there may be Game sufficient without this Buck but he hath voluntarily done a thing contrary to his Office and therfore it is a Forfeiture of his Office and so it shall be in this case And for the other point they said it was a Condition and also a Covenant and it was for good purpose to have it to be so For suppose that the Game had been destroyed by the said Sir Henry shall this he a sufficient recompence or satisfaction to enter for the Condition broken No and therfore the Covenant was made to recompence him for Damages And when u●on the Habendum a Proviso is added for a thing to be done by When a Proviso makes a Condition him to whom the Deed is made or to restrain him to do any thing this is a Condition as well as if it had been a Condition which shall make or shall restrain to do such a thing for they are in this case the words of the Grantor to restrain the Grant in some manner and to shew in what manner he shall have it and it is alwais to him who passeth the Estate and to no other Then suppose here that the Proviso had been Provided alwaies that the Grantee shall not cut any Tree And the Grantee covenant also that he will not cut any Tree this is plainly a Condition and also a Covenant then it is as plain in the case in question which is Provided also and the Grantee covenant c. that he will not cut any manner of Wood distinguish the sentence by his proper distinction and it is cleer that it is a Condition as well as a Covenant And to say that there is a diversity between this case and the case upon Serjeant Bendloes Lease because there it is Provided alwaies and it is covenanted and agreed between the parties In which case it is alledged that the agreement which is the Plaintiffs goes to the Proviso to make it a Condition for him as well as it shall go to the Grantee to make it to be a Covenant from him they understand no difference because the Proviso as it is placed is of it self as spoken by the Plaintiff and the agreement between the parties that such a thing shall be done by the Lessee makes it a Covenant on his part only all being to be performed by him as plainly as in the case in question And to say that the last Proviso shall not be a Condition because the first cannot enure as a Condition because that which is to be done may lawfully be done with it or without it or because that the matter to which the Proviso is annexed is repugnant to the nature of the thing granted yet this is not because of the nature of the word it self but by reason of that to which the Proviso is annexed and therfore the Proviso following hindred in its operation by meanes of the word also And therefore if a man makes a Lease for yeers provided alwayes that the lessor may enjoy and hold the Mannors of D. which is other Land or that the Lessee shall kill I. S. these are void of Conditions But grant then that it is further provided also that he shall not alien his Terme is not this a good Condition although that which was Precedent was no Condition It is cleer that is not And they said for Hamingtons Case that it was but of the nature of a declaration with what wood the Lessee shall meddle because it depends upon the Covenant of the Lessor and it is generall to wit that he may cut any manner of underwood provided that he do not cut any manner of Timber and Popham was of councell with Hamington in this case and the Court at the beginning insisted much that it was a Condition and that for the reason then alledged that it depended upon the Covenant of the Lessor which was general for all manner of under-wood because that Standels growing between great Trees might be taken within the generall words of all manner of underwood for to make it plain it was well put in that he shall not cut any manner of Timber Trees and therfore in this point it was but a Declaration with what wood he should meddle although in truth it was of another thing then was comprised in the Covenant before And then the adding of a Covenant to such a Proviso shall not make the Proviso of another nature then it was before the Covenant made or if no Covenant had been added to it and upon this reason the Court then gave Iudgment for Hamington And by him if I am seised of the Mannor of D. in D. and of Black acre in D. and so seised I covenant with I. S. that he shall enjoy the said Mannor for ten years Provided and the said I. C. covenant that he shall not enjoy Black acre this Covenant is not a Condition but a Declaration deduced out of my Covenant to make a plain Declaration that it is not my intent that Black acre shall passe be it parcel or not parcel of the said Mannor Then the Covenant following will not alter the nature of the exposition of the Proviso which the Law shall make of it self if it had stood of it self without a Covenant following And for the Proviso here he put this case suppose it had been Provided and the Grantee covenants that he shall not cut any Trees None will deny but that this had been a Condition and a Covenant also And what diversity is there where the word is at the conclusion and so couple the Condition and Covenant together And we are not to alter the Law for the ignorance of Scriveners who do they know not what by their ignorance shall be corrected by the Law And they agreed that where a principall Officer is by his Office to make inferior Officers under him and the inferior Officer commits a forfeiture the superior Officer shall take advantage therof and shall place a new Officer as was done in 39 H. 6. for the Office of the Marshall of the Kings Bench put in by the great Marshall of Englang Easter Term 39. Eliz. Overton versus Sydall 1. IN Debt between Valentine Overton Clark Prebendary of the Prebend of Tervin in the County of Chester founded in the Cathedrall Church of Litchfeild in the County of Stafford against Thomas Sydall Executor of William Sydall the case appeared to be this Henry Sydall Clark Prebendary of the Prebend 26 Maij 5.
E. 6. with the assent of the Dean and Chapter and by Writing indented demised the said Prebend to the said William Sydall for 43. years from the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady in the year of our Lord 555. at the yearly rent of 361. William Sydall assigned over his term and died making the said Thomas his Executor Henry Sydall also died and afterwards the Plaintiff was made Prebend and for the rent arrear in his time and after the assignment this Action is brought against the Executors in the Debet and Detinet And it was alledged that in Hillary Term 36 Eliz. Rot. 420. in the case between Glover and Humble it was adjudged in the Kings Bench that the Grantee of the Reversion shall not maintain an Action of Debt upon a Lease for years against the Lessee himself for any arrears of Rent incurred after that he had made an assignment of his Term over to another and alledged also that in Hillary 29 Eliz. in a case between it was adjudged that an Action of Debt lyeth for the Lessor himself against the Lessee for arrearages of Rent reserved upon the Lease and accrued after the Lessee had assigned his Term over and both these cases were adjudged accordingly in the Kings Bench and the reason in the first case was because that by the Grant of the Reversion over the privity of contract which was between the Lessor and the Lessee is dissolved and the Grantee of the Reversion as to it but a stranger But in the last case the privity of contract is not dissolved between the Lessor and the Lessee notwithstanding the Lessee hath passed over his Term neither is the contract therby determined between the parties But Fennor said that in this case the privity in Deed is gone by the death of the Lessee and therfore the Executor who is but privy in Law is not subject to this Action unlesse in case where he hath the Term in which case he shall be charged as he who hath Quid pro quo which is not in the case here And he said further that a Lease made by a Prebend is good no longer then his own life but is meerly void by his death and therfore shall not be said to be a contract to bind further then his life and therfore also he said that the Action will not lye in the said case for the Successor But Gawdy said that here the Lease is confirmed and therfore good during the Term but it seemed to him that the Executor who is but in privy in Law shall not be chargable with this action for the arrearages due after the assignment over and yet he agreed that the Heir the Successor and the Executor of the Lessor shall have debt against the Lessee himself for the arrearages which accrues to be due after the assignment over of the Lease But he said that the Action of Debt against the Executor upon a Lease made to the Testator and for the arrearages due in the time of the Executor ought to be in the Debet and Detinet and that for the occupation of the Term wherby he hath Quid pro quo which is not in this case Popham said that for the time that the contract shall bind in nature of a Contract there is not any difference between th● Heir the Successor and the Executor of the Lessor and the Executor or Administrator of the Lessee for the one and the other are equally privy to the Contract and a Contract or Covenant especially being by writing binds as strongly the Executor or Administrator as the Testator or the I●testate himself who made it For these are privies indeed to the Contract and as to it represent the person of the Testator or Intestate himself And he agreed that the Action of Debt against the Executors for the arrearages of Rent of a Lease which he occupies as Executor and accrued in their own time shall be in the Debet and Detinet The reason is although they have the Land as Executor yet nothin● ther of shall be ●mp●●yed to the Execution of the Will but such Pr●fits as are above that which w●s to make the Rent and therfore so much of the Profits as is to make or answer the Rent they shall take to their own use to answer the Rent and therfore they having Quid pro quo to wit so much of the Profits for the Rent the action ought to be brought against them in such cases where they are to be charged in Debt for Rent upon a Lease made to the Testator and have not the Profits of the Lease it self nor means nor default in them to come to it the action of Debt ought to be against them in the Detinet only and this is the case here and therfore the action being in the Debet and Detmet doth not lye And further he agreed in this case to the opinion of Fennor that the action here doth not lye for the Successor of the Prevend who made the Lease for no more then the Successor in this case sh●ll be bound by the Contract of his Predecessor no more shall he take advantage by this Contract for it is the consideration which makes him to be bound and not only the C●ntract and so the Successor in such cases is but privy in Law and not in D●ed t● the Contract of his Predecessor But otherwise it is ●f the Successor of a Bishop and the like which Leases are not void against the Successor but voidable Case of Armes 2. VPon an assembly of all the Iustices and Barons at Sergeants-Inne this Term on Munday the 15. day of April upon this question m●ved by Anderson chief Iustice of the Common Bench Whether men may arme themselves to suppresse Riots Rebellions or to resist Enemies and to endeavour themselves to suppresse or resist such Disturbers of the Peace or quiet of the Realm and upon good deliberation it was resolved by them all that every Iustice of Peace Sheriff and other Minister or other Subject of the King where such accident happen may do it And to fortifie this their resolution they perused the Statute of 2 E 3. cap. 3. which enacts that none be so hardy as to come with force or bring forc● to any place in affray of the Peace nor to go or ride armed night nor day unlesse h● be Servant to the King in his presence and the Ministers of the King in the execution of his Precepts or of their Office and these who are in their company assisting them or upon cry made for Weapons to keep the Peace and this in such places where accident happen upon the penalty in the same Statute contained wherby it appeareth that upon cry made for Weapons to keep the Peace every man where such accidents happen for breaking the Peace may by the Law arme himself against such evill Doers to keep the Peace But they take it to be the more discreet way for every one in such a case
to attend and be assistant to the Iustices Sheriffs or other Ministers of the King in the doing of it 3. AT the same time it was also resolved by them all except Walmsley Fennor and Owen in the Case of one Richard Bradshaw and Robert Burton who with others lately by word entred themselves into an agreement one with another to rise and put themselves into Armes and so to go from one Gentlemans house to another and so from house to house to pull down Inclosures generally that this so appearing by their own confession or by two Witnesses according to the Statute is high Treason by the Statute of 13 Eliz. cap. 1. The words of which Statute are That if any intend to levy War against the Queen and this maliciously advisedly and expresly declare or utter by any words or sayings that this shall be high Treason For all agreed that Rebellion of Subjects against the Queen hath Rebellion of Subjects high Treason been alwaies high Treason at the Common Law for the Statute of 25 E. 3. cap. 1. is that levying of War within the Realm against the King is Treason and Rebellion is all the War which a Subject can make against the King But Walmsley and the others with him said that the Statute of 1 Mar cap. 12. 10. That if any to the number of twelve or more assemble themselves to the intent to pull down Inclosures Pales and the like with force and continuing together after proclamation according to the Statute to go away by the space of an hour or do any of the Offences mentioned in the Statute that this is Felony So that if these Actions had been Treason at the Common Law it had been to no purpose to have made it Felony And it seemed to them that the resistance ought to be with force to the Queen before that such Acts shall be said Treason But all the other Iustices agreed and so it was put in ure lately in the case of the Prentices of London that if any assemble themselves with force to alter the Laws or to set a price upon Victualls or to lay violent hands upon the Magistrate as upon the Major of London and the like and with force attempt to put it in action that this is Rebellion and Treason at Common Law and yet this Statute of 1 Mariae makes it in such a case but Felony And they put a diversity between the cases of pulling down Inclosures Pales c. comprised in the Statute of 1 Mar. for those are to be understood where diverse to the number of twelve or more pretending any or all of them to be injured in particular as by reason of their common or other Interest in the Land inclosed and the like and assembling to pull it down forcibly and not to the cases where they have a generall dislike to all manner of Inclosures and therfore the assembling in a forcible manner and with Armes to pull them down where they have any Interest wherby they were in any particular to be annoyed or grieved is not Treason but the case here tending to a generality makes the act if it had been executed to be high Treason by the c●u●se of the Common Law And therfore the intention appearing as the case is here it is Treason by the St●tute of 13. aforesaid Periam in some manner doubted of the principall case but to intend to rise with force to alter the Laws to set price upon any Victuals or to use force against a Magistrate for executing his Office of Iustice and the like he said that they were cleerly Treason by the Statute of 13. aforesaid if it may appear by expresse words or otherwise as the said Statute mentions for all these tend against the Queen her Crown and Dignity and therfore shall be as against the Queen her self And if it had been put in practice it had been Treason at the Common Law Here ends the LORD POPHAM'S REPORTS An addition of certain Select CASES in the time of KING JAMES and KING CHARLES Trin. 15. Jac. In the Kings Bench entred Hill Jac. Rot. 194. Brooks Case IN an Ejectione firmae brough by one Brook against Brook the Case was thus Iohn Wright a Copyholder in Fee 10 Eliz. surrendred his Land into the hands of the Lord by the hands of Tenants according to the Custom c. without saying to whose use the Surrender should be And at the next Court the said Iohn Wright was admitted Habendum to him and his Wife in Tail the remainder to the right Heirs of Iohn Wright and the Wife of Iohn Wright now Defendant was seised from the time of Where upon surrender of Copyhold land no use is limited to whole use i● shall be the admittance untill this day And it was objected by the Counsell of the Plaintiff that the surrender was void because no use was limitted and therfore by constitution of Law ought to be to the use of the Surrender as if a Feoffment be made and no Use limited it shall be to the Use of the Feoffor or as it is in Sir Edward Cleers Case Coke lib. 6. 18. If a Feoffment be made by one to the use of his last Will he hath the use in the mean time 2. That the admittance was not available to passe an Estate to the Wife for she was not named in the Premisses but only in the Habendum and the Office of an Habendum is to limit the Estate and not the person and therfore it is said in Throgmorten and Tracies Case in Plowd com That if one be named to take an Estate in the Habendum where he was not named at all in the Premisses this is not good But it was resolved by the whole Court for the first point that the subsequent Act sh●ll explain the Surrender for Quando abest Provisio partis adest provisio legis And when the Copyholder accepts a new admittance the Law intends that the Surrender generally made was to such an Vse as is specified in the admittance and the Lord is only as an Instrument to convey the Estate and as it were put in trust to make such an admittance ●s he who surrenders would h●ve him to make And Crook Iustice said Fides adhibita fidem obligat For the second point it was also agreed by the Court that the Wife shall take by this admittance albeit she were not named in the Premisses but only in the Habendum and they agreed that in Feoffments and Grants the party that is not named in the Premisses shall not take by the Habendum and therfore Throgmorton and Tracies Case as to this point is good Law But this case of a Copyhold is like to the case of a Will or to the case of Frank-marriage in which it is sufficient to passe an Estate albeit the party be only named in the Habendum and if it should be otherwise the Estates of many Copyholders would be subverted And so they resolved that Iudg-should be
thing that is uncertain certain but shall serve as a Predict yet the words import that he had a Master and that his Master had a Cook to which all the Court agreed and Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff And another Action was brought for these words Scil. Thou hast sacrificed Thou hast sacrificed thy child to the Devill thy Child to the Devill and adjudged that the words were actionable Mich. 15. Iac. In the Kings Bench. Lee versus Brown IN an Ejectione firmae brought by Lee against Brown the Case was this Whether copyhold Lands may be intailed Tenant in Tail of Copyh●ld Land surrendred the same into the hands of the Lord to the use of I. S. wherupon two points did arise 1. Whether Copyhold Land be within the Statute of Donis conditionalibus so that i● may be intailed 2. Whether the Intail may be cu● off by the surrender Doderidge Iustice said as to the first point that it hath been a great doubt whether it may be intailed but the common and better opinion was that by the same Statute co-operating with the custom it may be intailed and with this agrees Heydons case in my Lord Cokes 3. Report and so was the opinion An Intail of copyhold l●nd n●t to be cut off by ●urrender unlesse by speciall custom of the Court. And for the second point their opinion also was that it could not be cut off by surrender unlesse it were by speciall custom and they directed the Iury accordingly And it was said to maintain this custom it ought to be shewn that a Formedon had been brought upon such a Surrender and Iudgment given that it doth not lye yet it was agreed that it was a strong proof of the custom that they to whose use such Surrenders had been made had enjoyed the Land against the Issues in Tail And it was said by the Counsell of the Defendant that there was a Verdict for them before in the same case which they could prove by witnesses but the Court would not allow such a proof because it was matter of Record which ought to be shewn forth In the same Term in the Common Pleas. May versus Kett. AN Action upon the Case was brought for these words viz. Thou hast Words Thou hast stoln my Corn out of my Earn stoln my Corn out of my Barn And it was moved in Arrest of Iu●gment because he had not said how much he had stoln and perhaps it was of small value and yet it was adjudged that the Action would lye for it is at least petit Larceny But if he had said that he had stoln his Corn generally it had not been actionable for it might have been growing and then it had been but a Trespasse The same Term in the Star Chamber Riman versus Bickley and others IOhn Riman exhibited a Bill in the Star Chamber against Thomas Bickley and Anne his Wife Dr. Thorn Mr Goulding and others Defendants the said Anne was first married to Devenish Riman the Plaintiffs Son and between them were many ●ars and dis●greem●nts and the said Devenish was much given to drinking and other Vices and divers times did beat and abuse his Wife and was also jealous of the sai● Thomas Bickley and his Wife being at a certain time at Supper with Dr. Thorn Goulding and others spake such words as these having communication th●t her Husband did beat and abuse her to wit That she heard that his Father had that quality and being once whipt for it was the better ever after and that if she thought it would do her Husband any go●d she would willingly bestow 40 s. on some body to give him a whipping wherupon G●ulding said that he would give him a Med●cine for his M●l●dy and within two daies after he came in the night in wom●ns apparrell with a Weapon under his Cloak and with a Rod and wen● into the House and Chamber of the said Devenish and would have whipped him and in striving together there was some hurt done on either side but G●ulding not being able to effect his purpose fled and this was conceived to be by the procurement of Anne his wife And not long after Devenish fell sick and sent to his said wife for certain necessaries which she would not send him and presently after Devenish died and she refused to come to his buriall And although it were much disliked that Devenish should abuse his Wife in such uncivill manner as to strike and beat her and as Coke late chief Iustice said it is not lawfull by the Act Military for one man to strike another in the presence of Ladies yet it was resolved by the whole Court that it was a great misde meanor in the Wife and uncivill and undutifull carriage in her to do so to her Husband as they use to do to Children or fools to wit to give them the Whip and so to disgrace and take away the good name of her Husband which viz. A mans good name and his Childrens are the two things which make a man live to Posterity as was said by Sir Francis Bacon Lord keeper and the Court fi●ed the Wife 500 l. and it was said that Thoma● Bickley her no● Husband well deserved to pay this Fine because he was too familiar with her in the time of his Predecessor and as the Bishop of London said Devenish Rimon lay upon her hands and Thomas Bickley upon ●e● heart And to aggravate this matter a Letter was shown whi●h Devenish Rimon wrote to his Wife in which he called her Whoor and told her somwhat roundly of her faults and she wrote back to him in the Marge●t that he lyed and wished him to get a better Scribe for his next L●●ter for he was a Fool that wrote that wherin she called him Fool by craft And Goldings offence was acc●vnted the greater because he was a Minister so that he was fined 500 l. also And Coke said that the course of this Court was that if any were fined who is not able to pay it Respondeat superior he that is the principall and chief agent therin must answer it for otherwise poor men might be made Instruments of great mischief who are not able to answer and the greater Offenders shall escape which the Lord Keeper confirmed And as to Doctor Thorn he was acquitted by all And the Bishop of London said that they had thought to have troad upon a Thorn and they gat a Thorn in their foot And by Coke if Devenish Rimon had died upon it it had been capitall in the Wife who procured it for it was an unlawfull Act. The same Term in the Kings Bench. Wescot versus Cotton THe case was this An Infant Executor upon an Action brought against Where an Infant Executor may declare by Attorney but not defend by Attorney but by Guardian him appeared by Attorney where he ought to appear by Guardian and it was resolved by the Court that this was Error for this
grants over the Reversion the first Lessee dies and the Grantee of the Reversion brings a Writ of Covenant against his Executors In which case there were two points 1. Whether these words And the said Lessee his Executors Administrators and Assigns shall from time to time c. make a Covenant or Whether Covenant lies against the Executor of a Lessee after assignment no. 2. Whether as this case is it will lye against the Executors of the Lessee As to the first point it was agreed that it is a Covenant for being by Indenture it is the words of both parties and it is more strong being in the case of the Queen Haughton laid that 25 H. 8. Tit. Covenant Covenant will lye against a Lessee after assignment but Debt lyeth not for Rent after the Lessee hath accepted the Assignee for his Tenant and therfore it seems that by the expresse words of the Covenant that the Action lies Doderidge Iustice contra for between the Queen and the Lessee there is privity of Contract and also of Estate so that the Queen her Heirs and Successors might have had an action against the Lessee or his Executors upon the privity of Contract and where the Lessee ●ssigns over the privity of Contract remains but the privity of Estate is gone to the Assignee and now when the Queen grants over the Reversion the privity of Contract is utterly determined wherby the Action of Covenant cannot be maintained against the first Lessee or his Executors who are more remote to which Mountague chief Iustice agreed see 2 H. 4. 6. 6. H. 4. 1. and Co. lib. 3. Walkers case and the Iudgments there cited Et adjournator The same Term in the same Court. Bennet versus Westbeck THe Case was thus Tenant for life Remainder for life Reversion in Fee he in Remainder for life gives his Deed of Demise with the assent of the first Tenant for life upon the Land to a stranger in the absence of the Lessor and said that he surrendred to him in Reversion And it was said that this Surrender being without Deed was not good to him who was absent and to confirm it the case was put out of 27 H. 8. Where Mountague chief Iustice said that if a Feoffment be made to four and Livery is made to one in the absence of the other but in name of all if it be by Deed this shall enure to all but if it be without Deed then only to him to whom the Livery was made So here this Surrender doth not enure to him in the Reversion being absent Whether Tenant for life in Remainder may surrender without Deed. But Non aliocatur for the sole point now in question was whether he in Remainder for life can surrender without Deed and as to it this Rule was taken viz. That that which cannot commence without Deed cannot be granted without Deed as a Rent Reversion common Advowson c. as 19 H. 6. 33. 14 H 7. 3. 1 2. Ph. Mar. 110. 22. Ass Pl. 16. But in this case this took effect by Livery and not by Deed and therfore might be determined without Deed. Mountague and Haughton agreed that it might be surrendred without Deed because it had its beginning without Deed but it could not be granted over without Deed. Doderidge Iustice said that it could not be surrendred without Deed but he said that Tenant in possession may or Tenant for life and he in Remainder together may surrender to him in the Reversion but this shall innure as two severall Surrenders first of him in Remainder to the Tenant for life and then by the Tenant for life to him in the Reversion Crook Iustice agreed with Doderidge for the Estate of him in Possession is an Estoppell to the Surrender so that it could not be surrendred without Deed. The same Term in the same Court. Thurman versus Cooper IN an Ejectione firmae brought by John Thurman against William Cooper upon the whole matter the case was thus Lands were given to a man and woman who afterwards inter-marry and to their Heirs and Assigns Habendum to them and to the Heirs of their two bodies engendered the remainder to them and the Survivor of them with warranty to them and their Heirs and Assigns for ever And the question was what Estate this shall be whether an Estate-tail or Fee-simple or a Fee-tail with a simple Expectant And it was said that this shall be an Estate-tail only for the Habendum qualifies the generall words precedent and with this agrees Perkins 35. b. and Co. lib. 8. 154. b. Althams case But it was answered and resolved by the whole Court that this is a Fee-tail with a Fee-simple expectant and they observed these Rules 1. That every Deed shall be taken most strong against him that made it 2. That every Deed shall be construed according to the intent of the maker so that all the parts may be effectuall if they can stand together with the Rules of Law 40 E. 3. 5 Percy saith that it is a Fee-simple 21 H. 6. 7. that it is an Estate-tail with a Fee-simple expectant Dyer 160. and Plow Paramore and Yardleys case the Law shall make an order of words where there is no order put by the parties and the words after the Remainder limited are Tenendum de Capitalibus Dominis feodi c. and therfore it ought to be a Fee-simple for if it were a Fee-tail he should hold of the Donor as it is in Co. lib. 6. Sir John Molins case and other Books And although the Warranty cannot inlarge an Estate yet this expresses his intent to passe a Fee-simple and the Law shall make a construction that the Fee-tail shall precede upon which the Fee-simple shall be expectant according to that which is before said in Paramore and Yardleys case Doderidge If the Habendum had been to a stranger the Premisses had been but a Tail as 7 H. 4. for otherwise the Habendum shall be void But if Land be given to one and his Heirs viz. In Tail or if the said Donce dye without Issue of his body this had been but an Estate-tail only because it immediatly checks and confirms the Premisses to which Haughton agreed Et adjournator The same Term in the same Court. Powels Case POwel an Vtter-Barister of the Temple and also Town-Clark of Plimoth brought an Action upon the Case against for these Words That he was a Puritan Knave a precise Knave a bribing Knave a corrupted Knave c. words The Defendant supposing that the Plaintiff had wronged him in the Court of Plimoth said that he was a Puritan Knave a precise Knave a bribing Knave a corrupted Knave and that he would make him answer for that which he had done in another place And after Verdict for the Plaintiff it was now moved in Arrest of Iudgment that the words were not actionable because he doth not scandalize him in his Profession by which he acquires his
case who agreed that the wife shall not have it The same Term in the same Court. Dennis versus Sir Arthur Mannaring and others IN the great case between Gabriel Dennis Plaintiff in Trespasse against Sir Arthur Mannaring and Brimblecomb and others the Verdict was found for the Defendants And now it was moved in Arrest of Iudgment for the Plaintiff because no Bail was entred for Brimblecomb one of the Defendants A Verdict is given in B ● before any bail entred not good for every Defendant is supposed in Custodia Marescalli and in this case the Venire facias is awarded to try the Issue between the Plaintiff and Defendants where one of the Defendants is no party in Court And Serjeant More put the case of the Lord Chandoys and Sculler and other Defendants where the Iudgment in such a case was resolved to be erroneous Mountague we ought Discernere per legem quid sit justum and here Brimblecomb being no party in Court no Verdict could be given Doderidge I have seen in this Court where upon a Writ of Error brought in such a case we have compelled him to put in his Bail because he should not take advantage of his own wrong and folly But because that here no fraud appeared to be in the Plaintiff he shall not be bound to stand to the Verdict Haughton agreed but Crook seemed to the contrary But it was agreed that if Brimblecomb had appeared at the Suit of any other the same Term it had been sufficient And these Books were cited to be in the point 32 H. 6. 2. 8 E. 4. 5. 21 H. 6. 10. The same Term in the same Court Hide versus Whistler WIlliam Hide made a Lease for years of certain Lands to Whistler excepting Exception of all Wood under-wood Coppices and Hedgerows to the Lessor all his Wood and under-wood Coppices and Hedgerows and in a Replevin the question was whether the Soil shall passe ther by for the Lessee put his Beasts into a Coppice and the Lessor distrained them wherupon c. And the words of the exception were further standing growing and being in and upon the Premisses And the Lessee covenanted to make Fences but if the Lessor made new Coppices that the Lessee should net make Fences about them And it was said that a Coppice signifies a parcell of Land fenced for the safegard of young Trees And it was said for A Coppice what it is the Plaintiff that Premisses are Pre dimissa and by these words growing and being in the Premisses it shall be intended that the Soil did not passe for it is pre-demised But it was resolved that the Soil it self was excepted by the exception of the Wood and Coppice 14 H. 8. 1. The Bishop of Londons case Co. lib. 5. Ives case and lib. 11. Lyfords case And by the reserving of a Coppice the Soil it self is reserved for by Mountague that which is reserved is not demised and so the Distresse well taken Crook agreed and he said the difference was good between Wood and Trees for by the excepting of Wood the Soil it self is excepted otherwise of Trees Haughton agreed that the Soil it self is excepted in this case and so it was adjudged The same Term in the same Court. Talbot versus Sir Walter Lacen IN a Writ of Covenant brought by Margaret Talbot against Sir Walter Lacen upon a Lease made by the Plaintiff to the Defendant of a Park Covenant to leave the Premistes in repatations at the end of the Term. c. for five years if she should live so long in which the Lessee covenants for him his Executors and Assigns to keep the Premisses in good Reparations and so to leave them at the end of the Term and also to deliver to the Plaintiff upon notice given four Bucks and four Does in season during the life of the Plaintiff in every of the said years And after the expiration of the aforesaid term of five years she brought a Writ of Covenant and assigned the breach because that in the end of the term he committed Wast and because that after the end of the term the Defendant refused to deliver the Deer And albeit the words of the delivery of the Deer are during the life of the Plaintiff yet they are also every of the aforesaid years and therforeit was resolved that she shall not have them during her life in this case And for the other point it was objected that in Fine termini was incertain for it may extend after the term but Ad finem termini had been sufficient Old book of Entries 169. for when he covenants that at the end of the term he would leave the Premisses in reparations and Ad finem termini he did wast this ought of necessity to be intended a breach of the Covenant and therfore it was adjudged that the action of Covenant well lies Mich 16. Jac. In the Kings Bench. Havergall and Hares Case IN this Case which see before fol. 1. b. four points were observed 1. Whether Fisher the Assignee of the Rent were such a person who Before fol. 1. b shall take benefit of the entry 2. When 10 l. is only in arrear whether the Rent of 20 l. shall be said in arrear 3. Whether these advantages which were first granted with the Rent may be granted over 4. When the Vse shall rise whether upon the first Indenture of the grant of the Rent or afterwards For the case was that the Grantee of the Rent of 20 l. covenanted by the same Indenture that if the said rent of 20 l. were in arrear for the space of twenty daies after any day of payment that the Grantee shall distrain and if there be not sufficient distresse upon the Land or if there be a Rescous Replevin or Pound-breach that then it shall be lawfull for the Grantee and his Heirs to enter into the same Land and to retain it untill he be satisfied And the said Rent was granted 9 Jac. it was arrear 11 Jac. the Fine for the better assurance of the Rent was levied 12 Jac. and 13 Jac. the Distresse was taken There were four Causes which give an entry and upon the Distresse and Replevin brought the Assignee enters As to the three first points it was resolved by the whole Court 1. That Fisher was such an Assignee who shall take benefit of the Entry 2. When 10 l. is only arrear the Rent of 20 l. shall be said arrear wherupon there shall be a Title of Entry 3. That these advantages granted with the Rent may be granted over And as to the fourth point it was holden by Mountague and Crook that the Vse riseth upon the first Indenture and not upon the entry after the Replevin brought although the words are that then it shall be lawfull for the Grantee and his Heirs to enter wherby the use is only awaked as it is in the principall point in Shelleys case and although a Fine is afterwards
est rerum omnium vendendarum mensura Bracton 117. 18 E. 3. Hollinghead 109. 50 E. 3. Rot. Pat. Memb. 7. And for transportation 17 E. 3. 19 E. 3. Rot. Pat. 24. De monetis non transportandis 19 R. 2. Rot. Pat. The Dutches of obtained licence to melt Coin to make Plate And divers of the Defendants were within the Kings generall pardon but in as much as they pleaded it in their Rejoynder and not in their answer as it ought to be the Court over-ruled their Plea so that they could have no advantage therby But in as much as they were strangers and not co●usant of our Laws and relyed only upon their Counsell the Court had consideration therof in their censure Hillary 17 Jac. In the Kings Bench. Serle versus Mander SErle brought an action upon the case against Mahder for these words to Words I arrest you upon Felony wit I arrest you upon Felony and after Verdict for the Plaintiff it was moved in Arrest of Iudgment by Richardson that the words were not actionable for he doth not say that the Plaintiff had committed Felony But it was rescived by the Court and so adjudged that the action lieth The same Term in the same Court A Iudgment was obtained against one of the Servants of the Lord Hay Iudgment against a Defendant when beyond Sea with an Ambassador reversed Viscount Doncaster when he was Ambassador in Bohemia and attending upon him there And this matter being disclosed to the Court by the Counsell of the Defendant they would not suffer the Plaintiff to have execution upon the said Iudgment but ordered the Plaintiff to declare De novo to which the Defendant should presently answer Memorand It was said to be against the course of the Court to have an Imparlance Imparlance before the Declaration entred The same Term in the same Court The King against Briggs A Quo warranto was brought by the King against Briggs for exercising A Subject cannot have a Forest of certain Priviledges who justified by virtue of a Forest granted to him And by Bridgeman this is the first Quo warranto which he knew that had been brought against any Subject for a Forest for a Subject cannot have a Forest but he may have a Chase which peradventure may passe under the name of a Forest And there are divers incidents to a Forest which a Subject cannot use nor have there ought to be a Iustice of a Forest which a Subject cannot have and such a Iustice ought to be a man of great Dignity 2. There ought to be Verderors who are Iudges also and by 34 E. 1. Ordinatio Forrestae ought to be by Wait but a Subject cannot award a Writ Also there are three Courts incident to a Forest 1. A Court of Attachments which may be without Verderors 2. The Swanimate Court 3. The Iustice seat and this appeareth in 1. E. 3. cap. 8. 21 E. 4. cap. 8 But by the Statute of 27 H. 8. cap. 7. There are some other incidents to a Forest 2. Admits that a Subject may have a Forest yet it fails in this case because he hath shown the exemplification and not the Letters Patents and see Co. lib. 5. Pains case that neither an exemplification or constat are pleadable at Common Law and Co. lib. 10. Dr. Leyfeilds case The same Term in the same Court Sir William Webb versus Paternoster THe case was this Sir William Plummer licensed Sir William Webb to lay his Hay upon the Land of the said Sir William Plummer untill he could conveniently sell it and then Sir William Plummer did make a Lease of the Land to Paternoster who put in his Cattell and they eat up the Hay And it was two years between the license and the putting in of the Cattell and yet Sir William Webb brought an action of Trespasse against Paternester for this Mountague chief Iustice 1. This is an Interest which chargeth the Land into whosoever hands it comes and Webb shall have a reasonable and convenient time to sell his Hay 2. The Lessee ought to give notice to Notice Sir William Webb of the Lease before he ought to put in his Cattell to which Haughton Iustice agreed in both points But Doderidge Iustice said that Sir William Webb had no certain time by this license yet he conceived that he ought to have notice But it was resolved that the Plaintiff had Convenient time a convenient time to wit two years for the removing of his Hay and therfore Iudgment was given against him But admit that there had not been a convenient time yet the Court was of opinion that the Plaintiff ought to have inclosed the Land at his perill for the preservation of his Hay And it was agreed that a license is countermandable although it be concerning A license whether for profit or pleasure countermandable profit or pleasure unlesse there be a certain time in the license as if I license one to dig Clay in my Land this is evocable and may be countermanded although it be in point of profit which is a stronger case then a license of pleasure see 13 H. 7. The Dutches of Suffolks case for a license The same Term in the same Court SIbill Westerman brought an action upon the case against Eversall and had Error Sibell for Isabell Iudgment and in the entry of the Iudgment she was named Isabell 1 Ass and 3. Ass A Fine was levied by Sibill when her name was Isabell and it was not good for it doth not appear to be the same party so in the case at the Bar And for this the Iudgment was reversed The same Term in the same Court JEne as Executor of brought an action upon the case against Chester An Infant chargable for necessary Apparrell because the Defendant made request to the Testator of the Plaintiff to buy for him certain silk Stuffs for Apparrel and to make him a Cloak the Defendant pleaded that he was within age and George Crook said that the Defendant should not be charged because it is not shewn that the Apparrell was for the Infant himself but he was over-ruled in this for it is sufficiently expressed to be for him And it was agreed by the Court that it ought to be shewn that it was Pro necessario vestitu and it ought to be suitable to his calling and as Doderidge said that there was a case adjudged in this Court between Stone Withipole that where Withipole had taken of Stone certain Stuffs for Apparrel being within age and afterwards he promised payment if he would forbeare him some time and the Assumpsit adjudged not good because he was not liable for the Debt at first for the reason aforesaid Trin. 17. Jac. In the Common Bench. Gilbert de Hoptons Case AN action upon the case was brought for those words viz. Thou art a Words Thou art a Theef and hast stoln my Furze Theef and hast stoln
shall it be in the case Doderidge Justice the Servant may have the Action also If the Servant be robbed of wares the Master or Servant may have an appeale 8. E. 2. Tit. Robbery two joynt Merchants one is Robbed both shall joyne in the Action and may also joyn in the appeal But it may be objected as Whitlock Iustice did that the Master is not Hospitans I say this is to no purpose A man put his Horse in the Stable and before he goes to bed or lodging the Horse is gone he shall have an action although he did not lodge there For the word transeuntes although he be at the end of his Iourney yet it is within the custom and he shall have action And by Crew if I send cloath to a Taylor and it is stoln from him the Taylor shall have an action of trespasse or the Owner Jones the case of Hue and Cry is a more stronger case then this is for there the Servant ought to swear that he is robbed and yet the Master shall have an action And for the word transeuntes all agreed that although he be at the end of his journey or at an Inne in London yet he is within the remedy of this Law And if a man stay in an Inne a moneth or a quarter of a year shall not he have an action if he lose his Goods Doderidge agreed that if a man be boarded in an Inne and his Goods are stoln he shall not have an action upon this Law And notwithstanding this objection judgment was given for the Plaintiff upon the Verdict Trin. Term 2 Car. In the Kings Bench. Sir William Buttons Case SIr William Button a Iustice of Peace brought an action for these words Sir William Buttons men have stoln Sheep and he spake to me that I should not prosecute them and it seems that the action did not lye because Words Sir William Buttons men have stoln Sheep and be spake to me that I should not prosecute them Sir William did not aver that he is a Iustice of Peace and it doth not appear in what County the said Felony was done 36 Eliz. One brought an action for these words A. is a cosening fellow and the greatest Pickpurse in Northamptonshire and there is not a Purse picked within 40. miles of Northampton but he hath a hand in it And the action did not lye because he did not aver that there were Purses cut Jones Iustice put this case One saith that A. is as strong a Thief as any is in Warwick Gaol he ought to aver that there is a Theef in Warwick Gaol or otherwise they are not actionable Doderidge put this case There is a nest of Theeves at Dale and Sir Iohn Bridges is the maintainer of them these are actionable because it implies maintenance Note that it appeared upon a motion which the Attorney-generall made against one Lane who is a Recusant in Northamptonshire that a Lease for years made by a Recusant of his own Lands after conviction if it be Bona fide will bind the King but if it be upon fraud and covin then it will not and Whitlock said that it is a common course for Recusants to make Leases after their Indictment and before conviction The same Term in the same Court The Case of the Major Bayliffs and Jurates of Maidstone IN a Quo warranto depending against the Mayor Bayliffs and Iurates of Maidstone in Kent Serjeant Finch of Counsell with them of Maidstone put the case briefly in effect thus In the Quo warranto against them it was ordered by the Court that they should have day to plead untill afornight after Trinity Term and the truth was that they had not pleaded accordingly wherupon Iudgment was entred in the Roll and the Writ of Seisin awarded and execution therupon and afterwards by a private order in the Vacation by the chief Iustice and Iustice Jones it was ordered that the Iudgment should be staid and the truth was that it was never entred amongst the Rules of the Court and therfore he prayed that the Iudgment might not be filed but that the last order might be observed and that they might amend their Plea Hendon Serjeant on the other side said that it could not be for by the Iudgment given the King was intitled to have the profits of Franchises which he shal not lose he cited the case which is in F. N. B. 21. Error in B. R. cannot be reversed the same Term before the same Iustices without a Writ of Error but otherwise it is in C. B. and he said that the same course was observed in Eyre there can be no pleading in Eyre after the Eyre determined and upon this he cited the case of 15 E. 4. 7. before the Iustices in Eyre if the Defendant does not come the Franchises shall be seised into the Kings hands nomine destinctionis and if the party who ought the Franchise doth not come during the Eyre in the same County he shall forfeit his Franchise for ever so here after Iudgement entred there can be no plea per que c. Finch we have order from the Court for stay of Iudgement here no perfect Iudgement was given and this is not without president and he cited one Chamberlains Case where the Iudgement was nigh to perfection c. but he did not put the Case Creve ch Justice in this case there was the assent of the Attorney generall who prosecuted the Quo Warranto and so the cases put by Hendon to no purpose Jones upon F. N. B. 21. J. took this difference true it is that the Kings Bench cannot reverse a Iudgement although it be in the same term without a Writ of Error but this is where error lies in Where the Kings Bench may reverse its owne judgmēt without Writ of Error and where not the same cause in the same Court as upon outlawry but if no error lies in this Court for the same cause but in Parliament then the Kings Bench may reverse the Iudgement without Writ of Error being the same term And the Iudgement here was ever of Record for the Roll untill it be fixed amongst other Rolls is no Record And for the Case of 15. E. 4. 7. it is not like our case in reason for when When a Roll ●s become a Record the Eyre is determined the power of the Iustices in Eyre is also determined but it is not so here for the Iustices have power from Term to Term But Noy argued further for the King that it is a Iudgement of another Term and Execution awarded upon it and said that it is without president that now it should be avoyded and upon the awarding of execution the King under his seal hath averred that judgement is given which cannot be falsified and for Chamberlains Case he said that there was an assent in it Doderidge the Question which now is moved is but this whether a Iudgement entered in a private Roll
as a memorandum and afterwards there is an order that the Iudgement shall not be filed if the Iudgement upon this shall be stayd and speaks to it and by him the Case of 15. E. 4. 7. is nothing to this purpose for Iustices in Eyre were Iustices by commission and they had not the custody of their Records and so it differs from this case And Jones Justice which was not denyed if a Iudgement be pronounced here and be not entered the Iudges may alter it the next Term. It was said by Noy in this case that all Franchises in England are against common Right and execution of Iustice and for the present purpose he cited one Sir John Wells Case where in a Quo Warranto the Defendant had day to plead or otherwise that judgement should be entered to seise and he failed to plead at the day and the Iudgement was not filed and yet he could not be relieved But it was sayd by some of the Iustices that this was a case of great extremity But by Hendon it was affirmed in the Exchequer in one Sandersons Case and in the principall case the matter was adjourned for a fortnight and ordered that the plea should be accorded Mich. Term 2. Car. in the Kings Bench. Sharp versus Rust IN an Action upon the Case upon an Assumpsit between Sharp Plaintiff and Walter Rust Defendant upon non-Assumpsit pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff and it was moved in arrest of judgement upon these words in the Declaration the Defendant being Father to the Plaintiffs Wife for whom the Apparrel was bought said to the Plaintiff deliver the Apparrel to my Daughter and I will pay for them and saith not to whom the payment shall be made And it was argued by Woobrich of Grayes-Inne that this is no sufficient cause to stay the Iudgement for by necessary implication and reference of the words precedent the certainty of the pers on appeareth to whom the payment ought to be made And he observed that in our Law the time the estate the thing and the person not being sufficiently expressed Where a thing incertain may be made certain both in time estate and person yet by necessary coherence and relation to matter precedent they are sometimes made certain enough 1. For the time Perkins P. 496. puts the Rule if a condition hath relation to an act precedent and no time is limited when it shall be done yet if ought to be done when the act precedent is done and therefore if I. S. be bound to me in 20 l. upon condition that if I enfeoff him of black acre that then he wil pay me 10 l. c. in this case presently when I have enfeoffed the obligor of black acre he ought to pay the 10 l. notwithstanding there be no time limited when it should be payd 2. For the thing being put incertainly yet the communication precedent makes this certain 30. H. 8. Dyer 42. in the Case of the Executors of Greenliffe where it is agreed that albeit it is not shown what thing is granted yet it shall be the Land of which the communication was 3. For the Estate although it be incertain yet sometimes it is made certain by the matter precedent as in the Case Co. lib. 8. A Stewardship was granted for life and afterwards an Annuity was granted for the exercise of that Office without declaring what Estate he should have in that Annuity and resolved that he should have the Annuity for life because he had the Office for life 4. For the person the consideration sometimes ascertains the person and therefore if land he given to one by Deed habendum sibi una cum filia donatoris in frankmariage this shall enure to both because the Feme is Causa donationis and by intendment of law the Land and the feme shal be given together to the man for the advancement of the Feme as it is Mich. 2. 3. Ph. Mary Dyer 126. a 4. E. 3. 4. Plow Com. 158. enfeoff him another and bind him and his heirs to warrant doth not say to whom he shall warrant yet the Feoffee and his heirs shall have advantage of this warranty for it cannot have any other intendment 6. E. 2. Voucher 258. 22. E. 4. 16. Kelleway 108. Co. lib. 8. Whitlocks Case In a Lease for years reserving rent it is the surest way to make the reservation to no person in certain but to leave it to the general intendment of the Law 15. H. 7. A man deviseth that his Land shall be sold for the payment of his debts and doth not say by whom they shall be sold by his Executors because they are lyable for the payment of his debts but if one devise that his land shall be sold saith not for the payment of his debts the devise is void because the Law doth not intend in this case to make the sale 40 E. 3. 5. 4. E. 3. Fitzherbert Obligation 16. Nota if a man be bound in debt or Covenant by writing and puts such a clause in the writing Et ad majorem hujus rei securitatem invenit fidei jussores quorum unusquisque in tot in solido se obligavit that although none speak there but the principall in the writing if the others put to their seals they accept that which the principal spake so become principal 2. E 4. 20. and here in our Case it appeareth that the Deed was so therefore it is reason that the Declaration should be so for there cannot be a material difference between the Declaration the deed especially being upon an agreement which is to be ruled according to the intention of the parties as it is in Plow Com. 140. a. In our Law if any parties be agreed upon a thing and words are expressed or written to make the agreement although they be not apt words yet if they have substance in them tending to the effect intended the Law shall take Intention of parties to be observed them of the same substance as words usuall for the Law regards the intention of the parties and here the intent appeareth that the assumption shall be m●de to the Plaintiff although there want expresse words and therefore he prayed Iudgement for the Plaintiff And afterwards the same Term Iudgement was given for the Plaintiff The same Term in the same Court. Beven versus Cowling IN an Action upon the Case Littleton mooved in arrest of Iudgment for the Defendant wherein the Case was this the Defendant assumed that if the Defendant would defer the payment of a bond in which one A. was bound to him and would not implead him upon it then he promised to pay it and he doth not say that he deferred the payment untill such a day and therefore this is no valuable consideration so that the action doth not lye for notwithstanding Action upon the Case upon a ●romise that if ●e would not sue such a