Commoner shall not use his Common before that the Lord hath put in his Cattel was holden to be a void Custom On the other side It was said That this Custom might have a lawful beginning and that it might be grounded upon the reason of the Common Law That a Remainder should not be without the assent of the particular Tenant and therefore that the Custom might be good And it was said That Wife should not have her Dower unless she claimed it within a year and a day that the same was adjudged to be a good Custom The Court delivered no Opinion in the Case but the Case was adjourned to another time CCCIV. Mich. 31 Eliz. In C. B. THE Case was a Man devised Socage Lands to his Brothers Son in tail to have the same at his age of 25 years and died having Issue a Daughter The Nephew after 21 years entred and levied a Fine and afterwards accomplished his age of twenty five years It was the Opinion of the whole Court That the Issue of the Devisee was barred by this Fine For the Heir in Tail and the Heir in Fee are all one by the Statute of 4 H. 7. And it was holden That this was not a Fine which doth enure by way of Estoppel but that it passeth the very right It was said to be the same Law If one who hath but a condition levyeth a Fine and afterward entreth for the condition broken c. CCCV Palmer and Smalbrook's Case Hill. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case The Plaintiff declared 1 Len. 132. Owen 97. 1 Cro. 178. That the Defendant had recovered a certain Debt against one A. and thereupon took forth a Capias against the said A. to Arrest his Body and delivered the said Capias to the Plaintiff being then Sheriff and prayed a Warrant for the serving of the Capias and that he would name to him one B. for a special Bayliff and promised the Plaintiff That if B. Arrested A. by force of the said Capias and suffered him to escape that he would not sue him for the said escape and further declared That he made a Warrant according to the said Capias and therein named and appointed the said B. his special Bailiff who Arrested A. accordingly and afterwards suffered him to escape and that the Defendant notwithstanding his Promise aforesaid sued the Plaintiff for the said escape and it was found for the Plaintiff And it was moved in stay of Iudgment That that Promise was against the Law to prevent the punishment inflicted by the Statute of 23 H. 8. upon the Sheriff and that it is meerly within the said Statute and so the Promise void Cook This is not any Bond or Promise taken of the Prisoner nor of any for him and therefore it is not within the Statute and it was Davies Case Wray A Promise is within the Statute as well as a Bond. But the Statute doth not extend but where the Bond or Promise is made by the Prisoner or by some for him And afterwards Iudgment was given for the Plaintiff CCCVI Wood and Payn 's Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Ejectione firmae for Entry into a Messuage sive Tenementum and 4 Acres of Lands to the same belonging Vpon not guilty pleaded it was found for the Plaintiff It was moved by Cowper Serjeant That the Declaration is uncertain Messuagium sive Tenementum quod fuit Concessum Cook We will release our damages Kemp Then your Costs are gone also Cowper You cannot have Iudgment of the 4 Acres For the Declaration is 4 Acres to the said Messuage or Tenement belonging and for the incertainty to which thing belonging But to that it was said That as to the 4 Acres it is certain enough For the words To the same belonging are meerly void And afterwards the Plaintiff released damages and had Iudgment CCCVII Bennington and Bennington's Case Trin. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. BEnnington brought an Action of Trespass against Bennington for breaking of his Close c. The Defendant pleaded That long time before the Trespass supposed That it was the Freehold of one Joan Bennington and that he as her servant and by her Commandment entred upon which they were at Issue And it was found That for two parts of the Land where c. in three parts to be divided it was the Freehold of the Plaintiff and for the other part that it was the Freehold of the Defendant and by the clear Opinion of the whole Court The Plaintiff could not have Iudgment for now it appeareth That the Plaintiff and Defendant are Tenants in Common betwixt whom an Action of Trespass doth not lie and although this Tenancy in Common be not pleaded but found by Verdict yet it was the Opinion of the Court That it is all one CCCVIII Brereton and Auser's Case Hill. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. JOhn Brereton of the Inner-Temple brought a Writ of Error against Auser to Reverse an Outlawry And the Case was That the said Auser had caused the said Brereton to be endicted upon the Statute of Magna Charta and divers other Statutes For that Whereas the said Auser had sued the said Brereton in a Bill of Debt in the Court of Request against the said Brereton and by the said Suit procured the said Brereton to be imprisoned Vpon which Endictment Brereton was Outlawed And Error was assigned in the Outlawry because whereas the Endictment was taken in Middlesex the Exigent upon it was in London whereas it ought to issue out of Middlesex but the proclamations issued in the County whereof he was named Nuper and that was peremptory for if he make default upon that Process he shall encur the danger of a Praemunirè And for that cause the Outlawry was reversed Also the party was discharged of the Endictment for this Suit in the Court of Requests as it appeareth upon the Endictment was before Iudgment in the Bill of Debt CCCIX Constable and Farrer's Case Hill. 31 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case upon an Assumpsit the Plaintiff declared That whereas the Defendant had brought an Action against him the Issue in which ought to be tried at the next Assises at N. the Defendant in Consideration that the now Plaintiff should confess the Action aforesaid at the Assises holden the 4th of August promised that he would stand to the Arbitrament of J.S. for the said matter And upon Non Assumpsit the Iury found That the Defendant made such a Promise the 5th of August but not the 4th of August Cook I conceive That upon this Verdict the Plaintiff shall have Iudgment for in truth the Assises began the 4th of August and the Consideration was That the now Plaintiff should confess the Action at the same Assises which although they continue divers days yet in Law all is but one day And all the Assises shall be said to be holden the 4th of August
he might be disseised But because the words of the Indictment were Expulit disseisivit which could not be true if the party expelled and disseised had not Freehold the Exception was disallowed Another Exception was taken to the Indictment For these words In unum tenementum intravit and this word Tenementum is too general and an uncertain word and therefore as to that the party was discharged But the Indictment was further In unum Tenementum decem acras terrae eidem pertinent And therefore as to the 10 Acres the party was enforced to Answer CL. Pasch 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Granted to B. a Rent-charge out of his Lands to begin when J.S. died without Issue of his body J.S. died having Issue which Issue died without Issue Dyer said The Grant shall not take effect For J.S. at the time of his death had Issue and therefore then the Grant shall not begin and if not then then not at all And by Manwood If the words had been To begin when J.S. is dead without Issue of his body then such a Grant should take effect when the Issue of J.S. dieth without Issue c. Dyer If the Donee in tail hath Issue and dieth without Issue The Formedon in Reverter shall suppose that the Donee himself died without Issue For there is an Interest and there is a difference betwixt an Interest and a Limitation For if I give Lands to A. and B. for the Term of their lives if any of them dieth the Survivor shall have the whole But if I give Lands to A. for the life of B. and C. now if B. or C. die all the Estate is determined because but a Limitation and B. and C. had not any Interest See Cook 5 Part Bradnell's Case CLI Pasch 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Enfeoffed B. upon Condition That if he pay 10. l. to the Feoffee his Executors or Assigns 4 Len. 232. 1 Len. 285 286. Hill. 12. Car. 2 B.R. Goodyer and Clarks Case within 3 yeares next ensuing that then it should be lawful for him and his Heirs to re-enter The Feoffee hath Issue two Sons whom he makes his Executors and dieth before the day of payment The Ordinary commits â—etters of Administration to J.S. during the minority of the Executors Manwood conceived That it is a most sure way for A. to pay the Monies to the Executors for they remain Executors notwithstanding the Administration committed to another For the Administrator in such case is but as Bailiff or Receivor to the Executors and shall be accomptable to them Which Harper and Dyer Concesserunt And Manwood said If in this Case the Monies be paid to one of the Executors it is sufficient and the same well paid but that Conditional Feoffments are as a Sum in gross and not in nature of a Debt Which the rest of the Iustices granted CLII. Pasch 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. A. Seised of a Mannor seased the same for years rendring Rent with Clause of re-entry and afterwards levied a Fine Sur Conusans de Droit to the use of himself and his Heirs The Rent being demanded is behind Dyer A. cannot re-enter for although in right the Rent passeth without Attornment yet he is without remedy for it is without Attornment and it would be hard without Attornment to re-enter c. It was moved further If here the Conusor be Assignee within the Statute of 32 H. 8. Manwood The Reversion of a Termor is granted by Fine there wants privity for an Action of Debt Waste and Re-entry But if the Conusee dieth without Heir although that in right it was in the Conusee yet the Lord by Escheat shall make Avowry and yet the Conusee by whom he claimeth could not And in the Case at Bar the Conusee himself could not but the Conusor being Cestuy que use who is in by the Act of Law 1 Inst 309. shall avow and shall re-enter without Attornment For the Conusor is in by the Statute of 27 H. 8. Harper The Heir of the Conusee shall avow and re-enter before Attornment Dyer 13 H. 4. The Father leaseth for years rendring Rent with Clause of re-entry the Father demands the Rent which is not paid the Father dieth the Son cannot re-enter For the Rent doth not belong unto him And therefore in the Case at Bar the Conusee cannot avow for the Rent before Attornment therefore not re-enter CLIII Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IT is Enacted by the Statute of 5 Eliz. Cap. 8. That no person shall cut down any Oak Trees but between the first day of April and the last day of June but Timber imployed and bestowed in or about Buildings or Reparations of Houses c. And upon an Information upon that Statute the Defendant pleaded That he cut down the said Oak Trees and thereof made Laths to be bestowed in building and that he had sold them to J.S. who had imployed part of them in building and is imploying the residue in the same manner Windham The intent of the Defendant in cutting down the Oaks was not to have them imployed in building but to sell them Although it is not necessary for the satisfaction of that Statute that the Oaks presently after the cutting be imployed about building For if the Lessee of a Messuage who is to have House-bote seeing that his Messuage will want reparation cutteth down a Tree for such intent although there be not such urgent occasion at present that it ought to be presently repaired the same shall not be said Trespass for it is good Husbandry to have such Timber to be seasonable which cannot be without some reasonable time between the cutting down and the imployment Periam If at the time of the cutting the Vendor or Vendee had an intent to employ them about building it is good enough And it is a strong Case here because the Defendant imploys the Timber himself in Laths which is not of any use but for building and cannot be made but of Timber CLIV. Eve and Finch's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. PEter Eve and John Finch brought an Action of Trespass against Nathaniel Tracy and Margaret his Wife and upon the pleading the Case was that John Finch Father of J.F. the Plaintiff seised of the Mannor of St. Katherines held the same of the Queen by Knight service in Chief and was also seised of the Land where the Trespass was done being holden in Socage and so seised 6 Junij 20 Eliz. for the preferment of the said Margaret then his Wife enfeoffed of the said Mannor A. and B. unto the use of himself and the said Margaret and their Heirs And that the said John the Father had not any other Land but that before mentioned and that the said Mannor at the time of the said Feoffment and at the death of the said John the Father attingebat ad duas partes of all the Lands and Tenements of the said
Eliz. Leon. 166. Lib. 1. was this Term adjudged upon the Devise That the Survivour shall be each others Heir It was holden That all the surviving Brothers are Ioynt-Tenants and although this word Survivour be in the singular number yet in sense upon the whole matter it shall be taken and construed as for the plural number Survivour shall be each others Heir i. e each Survivour i.e. every Survivour i.e. All the Survivours and then in this case The Plaintiff and the Defendant being Ioynt-Tenants cannot maintain an Action of Trespass one against the other CCCLIII Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. BY the Statute of 32 H. 8. cap. 37. The Executors of a Grantee of a Rent-Charge may distrain for the Arrearages of the said Rent in the life of the Testator so long as the Land charged doth continue in the seisin or possession of the Tenant in Demesne who ought immediately to have paid the said Rent or in the seisin of any other person or persons claiming the said Lands only by and from the said Tenant by purchase gift or descent in like manner as the Testator might or ought to have done in his life-time It was now moved If A. grant a Rent-charge to B. the Rent is behind B. dieth A. enfeoffeth C. in Fee who divers years after enfeoffeth D. who divers years after enfeoffeth E. It was holden in this Case by Walmesley Periam and Windham Iustices That E. should be chargeable with the Arrearages to the Executors Anderson Chief Iustice held the contrary But they all agreed That the Lord by Escheat Tenant in Dower or by the Curtesie should not be chargeable for they did not claim by the Party only but also by the Law. CCCLIV. Leverett and Townsend's Case Trin. 32 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case for disturbing him of hs Common 3 Cro. 198. 2 Len. 184. The Plaintiff declared That he was seised in Fee of a Messuage and certain Lands And that he and all those whose Estate he hath have Common of Pasture in 16 Acres of Lands called D. from the time that the Corn is reaped until it be sowen again And also Common of Pasture in Land called R. omni tempore anni as appendant to the said Messuage and Land and that the Defendant had plowed the said Lands and so disturbed him of his Common It was moved in stay of Iudgment That it appeareth here that the Plaintiff was seised in Fee and so he ought to have an Assise and not an Action upon the Case But the Exception was disallowed by the Court. Vide inde Ante 13. 2 H. 4. 11. 8 Eliz. Dyer 250. 11 R. 2. Tit. Action upon the Case 36. CCCLV. The Chamberlain of London's Case Mich. 33 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THE Chamberlain of London brought an Action of Debt in the Mayors Court in Guild-hall 5 Co. grounded upon an Act of Common Council See C. 5 Part The matter was removed into the Kings Bench by Corpus cum causa Fleetwood Recorder of London prayed a Procedendo It was Objected That they of London could not make Ordinances to bind the Subjects as an Act of Parliament To which It was said by Fleetwood That the Custom of the City is That the Mayor and Aldermen and four persons chosen out of each Ward by the Communalty may make Ordinances which they call Acts of Common Council and they shall bind every Citizen and Free-man and all their Customs are confirmed by Act of Parliament and by Magna Charta which hath been confirmed 52 times and also by the Statute of 7 R. 2. For that King seised their Liberties and drove them to pay for the Redemption of them 100000 Marks and then the said King confirmed them unto them for ever and therefore this Ordinance being made according to our Custom ought not to be impeached As in Case of matters of the Forrest If one be punished for offending against an Ordinance made for the governing of the Affairs of the Forrest you cannot remove the matter before you So is the Law called Lex Idumaea concerning Rivers and Fishing in which are divers Ordinances That none shall kill Salmons at certain Seasons of the year and so of other Fishes If one be punished by force of such Law he shall not be relieved here for the Law of the Land hath always allowed such particular Customs And see F. B. If two Merchants put their Stocks together and so Traffick together and the one dieth The Survivor shall not have the whole Stock as the Common Law is but the Executor of him that dieth shall have an Accompt against the other and that is per Legem mercatoriam Cook to the same intent This Act of Common Council is good and according to the Law that is of Common Right There are divers Statutes made for the true making of Cloth and to take away the abuses and deceit in the making of it and this Act of Common Council is for the well executing of the said Statutes and I conceive there is a difference in making of Laws by a Corporation A Corporation may make an Act for the better executing of any Law established at the Common Law but new Laws they cannot make As those of a Town who have used to have Common in certain Lands they cannot make a By-Law That such a one in such a Town shall not have Common there but that none shall use his Common but at such a time such a By-Law made is good See 15 H. 7. 21 H. 7. 40. See 8 E. 2. tit Assise 413. A Town had Common of Turbary in a Marsh and divers of the Inhabitants of the Town had made Trenches in the said Marsh and some had not a full Foot of Land in the Town and such persons by their Trenches which they had made there used to carry Turffs out of the said Marsh by Boats and sell them unto the value of 20 Marks per annum to their great private profit and to the great grievance of the others For which cause It was provided by common assent of the Freeholders of the Lord of the said Town That all the Trenches in the said Marsh should be stopped so as from thenceforth no Turffs be carried in Boats by the Trenches And there it was holden That if the greater part of the Commoners assent the same shall bind the others who have not assented for ubi major pars ibi totum And then if such Towns may make Laws a fortiori The City of London Secondly This Law is good by Custom for they have used to make such Acts and Ordinances time out of mind c. and these Customs are confirmed by Act of Parliament and also they may appoint a penalty for to what purpose otherwise should they make an Act Oderunt peccare mali formidine poenae Also this Action is maintainable for an Amercement in a Court Baron an Action of Debt lieth Gawdy Iustice 44 E. 3. 19.
the Land descends to her and her Sister as unto one moyety of the Land the Lease is determined but not as to the other moyety Whiddon Iustice Where a Devise is for the benefit of a stranger there the Heir shall take by the Devise and not by descent As if a Lease be made for years the remainder to the Heir there the Heir shall take the Land by the Devise Catline She hath it be Descent and not by the Devise But if he deviseth the Land to the Heir in tail with this That he shall pay a certain sum of Mony unto another there the Heir shall take by the Devise for the benefit which may accrue to the stranger and not by descent for otherwise the Will should not be performed But where the Estate of the Heir is altered by the Will nor any benefit doth accrue unto another after that the Lands come to the hands of the Heir in that case he shall have the Land by descent And so here in this case for as much as the Devise is That the Daughter shall enter they both being but one Heir to their Father shall have the Land by descent and the words of the Will That he shall enter into the moiety shall be void as if the Devise had been to the Heir for life there the same is void because the Fee-simple which descendeth to her doth drown the particular estate for life And therefore in the principal case here the Vncle shall have but the moyety of the moyety which is so devised and the other Sister shall have the other moyety of the Land and as to that moyety which is devised to the Wife for years the same shall enure according to the Common Law that the Vncle shall have the moyety of that and the other Sister the other moyety LIV. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THis Case was moved to the Court by Lovelace Serjeant A Man Covenants with another to make and execute an estate of such Lands as should descend to him from his Father and Grandfather by a certain day the same Lands to be of the clear yearly value of 40 Marks And the Question which he moved to the Iustices was That if the party had more Lands which came to him from his Grandfather and Father than did amount to the yearly value of 40 Marks If he was to make assurance of all the Lands or of so much thereof only as amounted to the value of 40 Marks And Manwood Iustice conceived That he should make assurance of Lands only which were of the value of 40 Marks per annum For the words such which do not go so largely as if he had said All my Lands which shall descend or to me be descended for then the yearly value were but a demonstration and all his Lands ought to be assured But here the Intent of the Indenture cannot be taken otherwise than to have but an Assurance of so much Land as if he had said Of such Lands and Tenements as were my Grandfathers and Fathers amounting to 40 Marks by the year for there by those words he shall have but 40 Marks by the year Lovelace It hath been taken That where the Queen made a Lease of all her Lands in such a Town amounting to the yearly value of 40 l. that that valuation is not a demonstration and shall not abridge the Grant precedent to have all in the Town which should be of the value of 40 l. but her Grant shall be taken and construed according to the words precedent Manwood The Common case of assurance upon a settlement of Marriage is That he shall stand seised of so much of his Land as shall be of the clear yearly value of 40 Marks If the marriage take effect The Question hath been If they to whom the assurance is made may enter into any part of the Land at their election and take that which is the best Land to the value of 40 Marks per annum and hold the same in severalty or if they shall be only Tenants in Common with the other And also it hath been a Question Whether they may choose one Acre in one place and another Acre in another place and so through the whole Land where they please because the Grant shall be taken strong against him that granteth But I conceive that it should be a hard case to make such Election of Acres But it was said by some Serjeant at the Bar That if a Man granteth to another to take 20 Trees in his Lands that the Grantee may cut down one Tree in one place and another in another place Manwood agreed that Case but of the other Case the Court doubted of it The principal case was adjourned LV. Vernon and Vernons Case Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. NOte That in the Case of Dower between Vernon and Vernon and the Argument of it the Plaintiff would have been Nonsuit Dyer Iustice said It should be an ill President if a Nonsuit should be after Demurrer And therefore he said That for his part he would not agree that any Nonsuit should be upon it but he said he would be advised and take better Consideration of it If the Nonsuit should be awarded or not And afterwards at another day Manwood and Dyer took a difference where the Nonsuit is the same Term and where in another Term and said It is like unto the Case where a Man would Wage his Law and is present ready to do it that there the Plaintiff cannot be Nonsuit because it is in the same Term but he shall be barred But in another Term afterwards he might be Nonsuit if the Defendant take day over to wage his Law until another Term and so they said it should be in this case LVI Sir Peter Philpots Case Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THis Case was moved by Meade Serjeant to the Iustices of the Court of Common Pleas viz. That Sir Peter Philpot Knight seised in Fee of divers Mannors and Lands suffered a Recovery and made a Feoffment thereof unto divers persons To the use of himself for life the remainder to his right Heirs And after the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Wills He devised all his said Mannors and Land to his Wife for life and it was expressed in his Will That he could not devise all his Lands by reason of the Statute of 32 H. 8. that his Will was That his Wife should have so much which might be devised by the Laws of the Land And there was another Clause in the said Will That his Feoffees should stand seised of the same Mannors and Lands after the death of his Wife To the use of one Hurlock and others for years for the payment of his Debts and for the raising of Portions for the preferment of his Daughters in Marriage And further by his said Will he willed That if the Law would not bear it That Hurlock and the others should have the Interest Then he
but are moved for the pleasure of the parties What Resolutions shall we make by speaking at random Manwood As to the first Exception I nor my Brother Jeffery do not doubt of it but that the Plaint was good notwithstanding that it is not shewed that he was idonea persona for the Law shall intend him so to be until the contrary he shewed And so it is of a grant of an Annuity as long as he se bene gesserit the Law shall intend that he carrieth himself well until the contrary be shewed But as to the other Point That he doth not shew the death of the first Bishop my Brother Jeffery doubted of it but I make no doubt of it for that is but a Recital and the Plaintiff makes his title but from Bishop Alley and therefore that is not material nor parcel of his Plaint whether the predecessor of Alley be alive or not for he doth not derive any Title from him but from Alley Dyer Can a Bishop grant an Office in Reversion without title of Prescription that they have used so to do time out of mind And here no Prescription is laid that the Bishop might so do And then as I conceive the Reversion of the Office cannot be granted for there is not any Reversion of it and it is not like unto an Advowson which may be granted that the Grantee may present when it shall be next void And as I conceive No Reversion of any Office can be granted if not by the King who hath a special Prerogative For he reciting how that such an one hath such an Office for life he may grant that such a person shall have the same Office after the death of the first Grantee And so the Queen may grant the Reversion of such an Office as if she recite that such an one is Keeper of such a Park there she may grant the Keepership of it after the death of another But if a Common person will grant the Stewardship of his Courts after the death of such a person as is now Steward or the Reversion of it the same is not good For of Offices there is not any Fee or Reversion But a Nomination which the party hath to name what person he pleaseth when the same shall become void Manwood It is the Order in the Arches and in the Prerogative Court and of all the Courts of Pauls to grant the Offices in Reversion as in the Case of Doctor Drury and others who have the Reversion of every Office which doth belong to the Spiritual Courts Dyer I do not care nor regard what they do but what they ought to do and I do not respect the person of any one in relating the Law But it may be that by words of Covenant such a Covenant may be good And of late time here a Case hath been adjudged That where one prescribed that such an one might grant an Office cuicunque personae idoneae voluerit and the Grant was made to two and because the prescription did not warrant this manner of grant it was adjudged void for when the prescription is to grant alicui personae and not quibuscunque personis by that he cannot grant it but to one person and not unto divers because the prescription doth not extend so far Manwood I conceive there is a difference betwixt such persons who have Offices for life as the Admiral of England the Lord Treasurer the Iustices of the two Benches which have Offices incident to their Courts they cannot grant any of those Offices in Reversion But a Bishop hath a Fee and therefore the Cases are not alike Dyer he hath not prescribed in the person of the Bishop here but he hath said That the Custom is That the Bishop may grant the said Office whereas in truth if there were a prescription he ought to prescribe That the Bishop for the time being might grant the said Office in possession or in reversion And so as I conceive here no Office shall be granted in reversion unless by prescription which ought to be alledged And in the time of this Queen an Office of this Court was granted to Fry and his Son by the King and the Patent was shewed here in Court and rejected and it was said there was no place in Court for two to sit there and the Office might be exercised as well by one as by two and therefore the Patent was disallowed And although that Offices are granted to two as now in the Kings Bench of late time there is not any President to warrant the same and therefore as I conceive such a Grant is not good nor warranted by the Law for I do not regard in this Case against what persons I speak Mounson In the Chancery a Patent was granted to Bagot and Swirenden of an Office in the Chancery by King Henry the 6th and in 9 E. 4. it is is disputed Whether the Grant were good or not c. LIX Mich. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was A Man Mortgageth his Lands to pay to the Mortgagee his Heirs Executors or Assigns a certain sum of Mony at a day certain The Mortgagee dieth and maketh his Heir within age his Executor and the Mortgagor pays the Mony at the day to the Heir It was holden The same shall be Assets in the hands of the Heir as Executor and that he hath not the Mony as Heir and he shall be charged with it within age LX. Mich. 15 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. THe Case was this A Man had made a Lease for 40 years to one by Indenture if the Lessee should so long live and afterwards by another Deed he demised the same Lands and Tenements to the same Lessee To have to his Executors and Assigns for 40 years after the expiration of the first Lease And Lovelace Serjeant demanded the Opinion of the Court the Lord Dyer being then in the Star-Chamber Whether in this Case the Lessee should have the Interest in the second Lease or his Executors or whether it was a void Lease Harper Iustice said That in every Lease there are 3 things incident to make it good 1. That there be a Lessor to make the Lease 2. That there be a Lessee to take the Lease And 3. That there be a thing which should be which should be let And then he said That here although that there be a Lessor and a thing which should be leased yet here there was not any Lessee For Executors are not until after the death of the Testator But he said That if a Lease be made for years or for life and that the Executors shall have the same for certain years after his death the same is good for there is an Interest of the Term. And if a Man maketh a Lease to begin at the month of Easter his Executors may have this Term because the same was an Interest of a Term in the Lessee and the Term shall be executed at Easter But here in this
Parliament 35 H. 8. it was Enacted That the said Lady should hold part of her Inheritance and dispose of the same as a Feme sole and that the Marquess should have the Residue and that he might Lease the same by himself without his Wife for 21 years or less rendring the ancient Rent being Land which had been usually demised c. The Marquess Leased for 21 years and afterwards durante Termino praedict Leased the same Land to another for 21 years to begin after the determination of the first Lease It was moved in this Case That this last Lease was void and that for 3 Causes 1. Because the Marquess had but an Estate for life and then it could not be intended that the Statute did enable one who had but such an Estate determinable to make such a Lease which peradventure might not commence in his life-time 2. The Letter of the Statute is 21 years or under and the word Under strongly expounded the meaning of the Statute to be not to extend to such an Estate For here upon the matter is a Lease for 40 years 3. Because the Land demised is the Inheritance of the Wife And in this Case it was said That in the Case of one Heydon such a private Act was strictly construed which was That it was Enacted That all Copies for 3 Lives granted by the Lord Admiral of the Lands of his Wife should be good The Admiral granted Leases in Reversion for 3 Lives And it was holden That that Grant was not warranted by the Statute Dyer said The words are general Omnes dimissiones and therefore not to be restrained unto special Leases scil to Leases in possession Manwood said A Feme Covert by duresse joyns in a Lease with her Husband the same shall bind her CXI The Queen and Sir John Constables Case Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 5 Co. Constables Case A Quo Warranto was brought by the Queen against Sir John Constable who claimed certain Wreck in the County of York The Defendant pleaded That Edward Duke of Buck. was seised of such a Mannor to which he had Wreck appendant and that he was de alta proditione debito modo attinctus and that found before the Escheator And shewed further That the said Mannor descended to Queen Mary who granted the same to the Earl of Westmerland who granted the same to the Defendant Vpon which It was demurred And Exception was taken to the Plea because the Attainder is not fully and certainly pleaded It was argued by Plowden That the Attainder was certainly pleaded scil debito modo attinctus And it is shewed That the Wreck is appendant to the Mannor and then if the Defendant hath the Mannor he hath the Wreck also and if he hath the Mannor it is not material as to the Queen how he hath it for the Queen doth not claim the same but impeacheth the Defendant for using there such a Liberty But if the Heir of the said Duke had demanded the Mannor there against him the Attainder ought to have been pleaded certainly And it was said by him That the Interest of the Queen in the Sea extends unto the midst of the Sea betwixt England and Spain But the Queen hath the whole Iurisdiction of the Sea between England and France because she is Queen of England France c. And so it is of Ireland CXII Hill. 20 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. TEnant for life made a Feoffment of White-Acre of which he was seised for life and made a Letter of Attorny to deliver Livery and Seisin secundum formam Chartae before Livery the Tenant purchased the Fee and afterwards Livery was made It was resolved by the Court in this Case That all passed But if the Feoffment had been of all his Lands in D. and the Letter of Attorny accordingly and before Livery made the Feoffee had many Lands there If he purchased one Acre after the Livery should not extend to that Acre because the Authority was satisfied by the other Acre CXIII Banks and Thwaits Case Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN an Action upon the Case the Case was That A. had pawned an Indenture of Lease for years of a Messuage and Lands to Banks Thwaits intending to purchase the same required Banks to deliver him the said Lease and he would give Banks 10 l. whether he bought it or no at what time he would request the 10 l. Post 200. And Banks delivered the same to Thwaits accordingly Post 200. And afterwards brought an Action upon the Case and declared upon the whole matter and concluded Licet saepius requisitus c. without alledging a request express in certain and the day and place of it It was said by Cook That here the monies did not grow due before Request nor is payable before Request and therefore a Request ought to be made in facto And so he said It was ruled in this Court in an Action upon the Case betwixt Palmer and Burroughs and he said that the Mony was not due by the Promise but by the Request And it was the Opinion of the whole Court That although it be a duty Yet it is not a duty payable before Request And the Request makes a Title to the Action But if A. selleth to B. a Horse for 10 l. there is a Contract and a Request in facto need not be layed And the Opinion of the Court was also That upon this matter the Plaintiff could not have an Action of Debt for there is not any Contract for the thing is not sold but it is a Collateral promise grounded upon the delivery And by Clench Here the Request is traversable And afterwards Iudgment was given against the Plaintiff And it was said It was so ruled in Alderman Pullisons Case in the Exchequer Post 201. CXIV Segar and Boyntons Case Mich. 21 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. 2 Len. 156. IN Trespass the Case was this King Henry the 8th Anno 27 of his Reign gave the Mannor of D. to Sir Edward Boynton Knight and to the Heirs Males of his body Sir Edward Boynton had Issue Andrew his eldest Son and C. the Defendant his younger Son and died Andrew Boynton Covenanted by Indenture with the Lord Seymore that the said Andrew Boynton would assure the said Mannor to the use of himself for life the Remainder to the said Lord and his Heirs The said Lord Seymore in recompence thereof should assure other Lands to the use of himself for life the remainder to the use of the said Andrew Boynton in tail who 37 H. 8. levyed a Fine of the said Mannor without proclamations to two strangers to the uses according to the said Agreement and before any Assurance made by the said Lord The said Lord was Attainted of Treason and all his Lands were forfeited to the King And afterwards the said Andrew Boynton made a Suggestion to Queen Mary of the whole matter and upon his humble Petition the said
devise Lands of which she was seised of an Estate of Inheritance in Fee simple according to the Custom to her Husband And also Surrender the same in the presence of the Steward and 6 other of the Tenants And it was further found That one J.S. was seised of the Copy-hold Lands wherein the Trespass was And that he had Issue 2 Daughters and died seised of the said Lands And that after his Decease his two Daughters entred into the said Lands and afterwards they both took Husbands And that afterwards one of the said Daughters made a Will in writing and by her said Will in the presence of the Steward and six of the Tenants she Devised her part of the said Copy-hold Lands to her Husband and his Heirs and at the next Court surrendred the said Copy-hold Lands in the presence of the Steward and six other of the Tenants to the uses in her Will expressed and shortly after she died and that after her death her Husband was admitted to the said part of her Lands who continued the possession thereof And the Husband of the other Daughter and his Wife entred upon him Vpon whom he re-entred And the Husband brought Trespass This Case was argued at the Bar by Rhodes And he said That the Custom was not good neither for the Devise nor for the Surrender First for the incertainty of the Estate what Estate she might Devise for that is not expressed in the Custom but generally that she might Devise her Copyhold Lands of Inheritance without expressing for what Estate And secondly the Custom is not good for that it is against reason that the Wife should surrender to the use of her Husband And that a Custom to devise is not good where it is incertain he vouched many Cases As 13 E. 3. tit Dum fuit infra aetatem 3. The Tenant said That the Lands lay in the County of Dorset where the Custom is That an Enfant might make a Grant or a Feoffment when he could number 12 d. and because it is incertain when he could do it It was holden to be a void Custom So 19 E. 2. tit Gard. 127. In a Ravishment of Ward It was alledged that the Custom was That when an Enfant could measure an Ell of Cloath or number 12 d. that he should be out of Ward And it was holden to be a void Custom for the incertainty Also he said That in the principal Case the Custom was void for that it was against reason that the Wife should surrender to her Husband for every Surrender is a Gift and a Woman cannot give unto her Husband for the Wife hath not any disposing Will but the Will of her Husband only And therefore the Case is in 21 E. 3. That if the Husband be seised of Lands in the right of his Wife and he maketh a Feoffment in Fee of the Lands and the Wife being upon the Lands doth disagree and saith She will not depart with the Land during her life yet the Feoffment is a good Feoffment and shall bind the Wife during the life of the Husband And see 3 E. 3. Br. tit Devise 43. That a Feme Covert cannot Devise to her Husband for that should be the Act of the Husband to convey the Lands to himself And whereas the Case in 29 E. 3. was Objected against him where the Case was That a Woman being seised of Land deviseable took a Husband and had Issue by him and the Wife Devised her Lands to her Husband for his life and died and a Writ of Waste was afterwards brought against him And it was there holden That the Writ did lie He said That that Case did make rather for him than against him for that Case proves that the Husband did not take the Land by vertue of the Devise in his own right but that he held the Lands having Issue by the Wife as Tenant by the Courtesie and so under another Title and therefore it appeareth that the Writ of Waste was there brought against him as Tenant by the Courtesie Also he said That the Devise was void by the Statute of 34 H. 8. Cap. 5. where it is Enacted That Wills and Testaments made of any Lands Tenements c. by Women Coverts shall not be good or effectual in the Law and he said That that Statute did extend to Copyhold Lands But as to that all the Iustices did agree That Copyhold Lands were not within the words of that Statute But Anderson said That the Equity of that Act did extend to Copyholds And further Anderson said That the Prescription or Custom in the principal Case was not good for it is layed to be That Quaelibet Foemina Viro Co-operta poterit and it ought to be potest and by the Custom have used to Devise to the Husband And a Prescription must be in a thing done and not in posse Also he said That the Custom if it were good is not well pursued For the Custom is that she may Devise and Surrender in the presence of the Steward and six Tenants and that must be intended to be done all at one time for the words of a Custom are to be performed if it may be but in the principal case the Devise is laid to be at one time and the Surrender at another time and so it is not in pursuance of the Custom But to that it was not answered But then it was said Admit that the Custom to devise and the Devise were not good yet the Action did not lie against the Defendant because that the Husband was admitted and his Entry into the Land was countenanced by a lawful Ceremony and also he was Tenant in Common with the other Husband by such Entry It was adjourned CXXIII Rosse's Case Mich. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. IN Trespass brought by Rosse for breaking of his Close and beating of his Servant and carrying away of his Goods Post 94. Vpon Not guilty pleaded the Iury found this special matter scil That Sir Thomas Bromley Chancellor of England was seised of the Land where c. and leased the same to the Plaintiff and one A. which A. assigned his moyety to Cavendish by whose Commandment the Defendant entred It was moved That that Tenancy in Common betwixt the Plaintiff and him in whose right the Defendant justified could not be given in Evidence and so it could not be found by Verdict but it ought to have been pleaded at the beginning But the whole Court were clear of another Opinion and that the same might be given in Evidence well enough It was further moved against the Verdict That the same did not extend to all the points in the Declaration but only to the breaking of the Close without enquiry of the battery c. And for that cause it was clearly holden by the Court That the Verdict was void And a Venire facias de novo was awarded CXXIV Absolon and Andertons Case Mich. 25 26 Eliz. Rot. 479. In the Kings
John the Father in three parts to be divided And afterwards the Father by his Will devised the Lands holden in Socage unto his said Wife for life with divers Remainders over It was the Opinion of the Court in this Case that the Devise was utterly void by the Statute CLV Brett and Peagrims Case Pasch 26 Eliz. IN an Action upon the Case the Plaintiff declared that whereas he himself and the Defendant submitted themselves to the Award of A.B. and C.D. and whereas the said Arbitrators upon the hearing of the Causes between them did intend and were resolved amongst other matters of their Award to award that two Obligations by which the Plaintiff was severally bounden to the Defendant for the payment of certain sums of Mony to the Defendant should be delivered by the Defendant to the Plaintiff to be cancelled The Defendant promised in Consideration that that Article of the delivery of the said two Obligations should be left out of the Award that he himself would gratis deliver them to the Plaintiff without any Coertion or direction of the Award and further declared that the said Article ad specialem instantiam ipsius Querentis was left out by the said Arbitrators out of their Award and notwithstanding that that the Defendant had not redelivered ut supra c. but had put the same in suit against the Plaintiff In this Case upon the matter ut supra c. it was adjudged for the Plaintiff CLVI Nich. Lee's Case Pasch 26. Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Cro. 26. 1 Len. 285. 1 Inst 113. Dyer 177. 219. a. 2 Len. 220. NIch. Lee by his Will devised his Land to W. his second Son And if he do depart this World not having Issue then I Will my Sons-in-Law shall sell my Land. The Devisor at the time of the Devise having six Sons-in-Law died W. had Issue John and died John died without Issue one of the Sons-in-Law of the Devisor died the five surviving Sons-in-Law sold the Land. 1. It was clearly agreed by the whole Court that although the words of the Will be ut supra If W. my Son depart this World not having Issue c. And that W. hath Issue which dieth without Issue there although it cannot be said Literally that William did depart this World not having Issue yet the intent of the Devisor is not to be restrained to the Letter but Construction shall be made that whensoever W. dieth in Law upon the matter without Issue the same Land shall be subject to sale according to the Authority committed by the Devisor to his Sons-in-Law And now upon the matter W. is dead without Issue As in a Formedon in the Reverter or Remainder although the Donee in tail hath Issue yet if afterwards the Estate tail be spent the Writ shall suppose that the Donee died without Issue a fortiori in the case of a Devise such Construction shall be made As to the other point concerning the sale of the Land Wray demanded if the Sons-in-Law were named in the Will The Clerks answered they were not See 30 H. 8. Br. Devise 31 and 39 Ass 17. Fitz. title Executors 117. Such a sale is good in case of Executors See also 23 Eliz. Dyer 371. And see 4 and 5 Mar. Dyer Land devised in tail and if the Devisee shall die without Issue that then the Land shall be sold pro optimo valore by his Executors una cum assensu of A. if A. dieth before sale the power of the Executors is determined And afterwards it was clearly resolved by the whole Court that the sale by the manner aforesaid was good and Iudgment given accordingly CLVII Rag and Bowley's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. ERror was brought upon a Fine and the Error was assigned in the Proclamations Whereupon issued a Certiorari to the Custos Brevium who certified the Proclamations by which Certificate it appeared that two of the said Proclamations were made in one day upon which the Defendant prayed another Scire facias to the Chirographer in whose Office it appeared that all the Proclamations were well and duly made It was the Opinion of Wray Chief Iustice in this Case that the Defendant ought to have his preyer for the Chirographer maketh the Proclamations and he is the principal Officer as to them And the Custos Brevium hath but the abstract of the Proclamations and we may in discretion amend them upon the matter appearing But the other Iustices seemed to be of a contrary Opinion for that the Proclamations being once certified by the Custos Brevium who is the principal Officer we ought not afterwards to resort to the Chirographer who is the inferior Officer And afterwards the Clerks of the Common Pleas were examined of the matter aforesaid by the Iustices of the Kings Bench and they answered according to that which was said by Wray Chief Iustice Wherefore it was awarded by the Court that a new Certiorari be directed to the Chirographer who Certified the Proclamations to be well and duly made And thereupon the Court awarded that the Proclamations in the Office of the Custos Brevium should be amended according to the Proclamations in the Custody and the Office of the Chirographer Note In the same Case before the Writ brought a stranger had brought a Writ of Error against the same Defendant upon the same Fine upon which the transcript of the Fine and Proclamations are removed in Banco and after the Plaintiff is Non-suit Now another who hath Cause may have a Writ of Error quod coram vobis residet CLVIII Taverner and Cromwell's Case Trin. 26 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. UPon an Evidence unto a Iury 3 Cro. 353. containing difficulty and matter in Law it was found viz. that the Bishop of Norwich 10 H. 8. was seised of the Mannor of Northelman in the right of his Bishoprick and at his Court holden within the same Mannor granted parcel of the Demesnes of the said Mannor to one Taverner and his Heirs where of the said Land in truth there was not any Demise by Copy before And so the said Land continued in Copy until 23 H. 8. at which time Taverner committed a forfeiture which being presented the Bishop seised the Land as forfeited and granted the same again by Copy to Taverner in Fee And so from thence it continued in Copy until 8 Eliz. which Interval between 23 H. 8. and 8 Eliz. amounted to 47 years It was the Opinion of the whole Court in this Case that the Continuance for 50 years is requisite to fasten a Customary Condition upon the Land against the Lord. It was also agreed by the Court that although the Original Commencement and that Customary Interest did commence 10 H. 8. ut supra from which time unto 8 Eliz. 60 years passed yet the seisure for a forfeiture which happened 23 H. 8. interrupted utterly the Continuance from the time which might by the Law have perfected the Customary Interest So
Len. 55. 1 Len. 333. The Abbot and Covent of D. 29 H. 8. makes a Lease of certain Lands for 3 Lives to begin after the death of one J.S. if they shall so long live And afterwards 30 H. 8. within a year before the Dissolution they make another Lease to JS If the first Lease in the life of J.S. be such an Estate and Interest which by vertue of the said Statute shall make the second Lease void was the Question For it was not in esse but a future Interest Manwood All the reason which hath been made for the second Lease is because the first Lease is but a possibility for J.S. by possibility may survive all the 3 Lives and so it shall never take effect But notwithstanding be it a possibility c. or otherwise It is such a thing as may be granted or forfeited and that during the life of the said J.S. And Note also the words of the Statute If any Abbot c. within one year next before the first day of the Parliament hath made or hereafter shall make any Lease or Grant for years life or lives of any Mannors c. whereof and in which any Estate or Interest for life or years at the time of the making of any such Lease or Grant then had his being or continuance or hereafter shall have his being or continuance and then was not determined c. shall be void c. And here is an Interest and that not determined at the time of the making of this Lease to J.S. And of that Opinion was the whole Court and all the Barons and divers other of the Iustices And therefore a Decree was made against that Lease c. CCXVII The Master and Chaplains of the Savoy's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Exchequer THe Master and Chaplains of the Savoy aliened a parcel of their possessions unto another in Fee and afterwards surrendred their Patents and a Vacat is made of the Enrollment of them It was now moved How the Alienee should be adjudged to make title to the said Lands claiming the same by the Letters Patents For the Clerks would not make a Constat of it For the Patents were cancelled and a Vacat made of the Enrolment And the Case of Sir Robert Sidney was vouched in which Case the Statute of 3 E. 6. was so expounded upon great advise taken by the Lord Chancellor who thereupon commanded That no Constat be made in such case Manwood If Tenant in tail by Letters Patents of the King surrendreth his Patent and cancelleth it and a Vacat be made of the Enrollment by that the Issue in tail shall be bound For no other person at the time of the cancelling hath Interest But in the Case at Bar a third person scil the Alienee hath an Interest And therefore he was of Opinion That he should have a Constat c. CCXVIII Inchely and Robinson's Case Hill. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN an Ejectione Firmae It was found by Verdict That King E. 6. was seised of the Mannor and Hundred of Fremmington 2 Len. 41. Owen Rep. 88. and granted the same by his Letters Patents to one Barnard in Fee rendring 130 l. per annum and also to be holden by Homage and Fealty And afterwards Queen Mary reciting the said Grant by King Ed. 6. and the Reservation upon it granted unto Gertrude Marchioness of Exeter the Mannor of Fremmington and the said Rent and Services and also the Mannor of Camfield and other Lands and Tenements Tenendum per vicesimam partem unius feodi Militis Gertrude being so seised Devised to the Lord Mountjoy the Mannor of Fremmington the Mannor of Camfield c. And also bequeathed divers sums of Monies to be levied of the premises And further found that the said Rent of 130 l. was the full third part of the yearly value of all the Lands and Tenements of the Devisor The Question was If by these words of the Devise of the Mannor of Fremmington the Rent and the Services pass i.e. the Rent Homage and Fealty reserved upon the Grant made by King Ed. 6. of the Mannor and Hundred of Fremmington And if the said Rent and Services are issuing out of the Mannor For if the Rent doth not pass then the same is descended to the Heir of the Marchioness and then being found the full third part of the value the King is fully answered and satisfied and then the residue of the Inheritance discharged and is settled in the Devisee And if the Rent doth not pass then is the Heir of the Marchioness entituled by the Statute to a third of the whole c. And Shuttleworth conceived That if the Marchioness had Devised by express words the said Rent and Services they could not pass For as to the Services they are things entire as Homage and Fealty they cannot pass by Devise in case where Partition is to follow for such things cannot receive any partition or division therefore not divideable For the Statute enables the Proprietary to give or devise two parts of his Inheritance in three parts to be divided As Catalla Felonum cannot be devised for the reason aforesaid Quod fuit Concessum per totam Curiam But as to the Rent the Court was clear That the same was deviseable by the said Statute and in respect of that the mischief of many distresses which the Common Law abhors is dispensed with and is now become distrainable of common right And as to the Devise he argued much upon the grounds of Devises and put a ground put by Fineux 15 H. 7. 12. Where every Will ought to be construed and taken according as the words purport or as it may be intended or implyed by the words What the intent of the Devisor was so as we ought to enquire the meaning of the Testator out of the words of the Will. And see also a good Case 19 H 8. 8 9. And he much relyed upon the Case of Bret and Rigden Plow Com. 343. See there the Case So in this Case for as much as such Intent of the Devisor doth not appear upon the words of the Will that this Rent shall pass It shall not pass for there is not any mention of any Rent in the whole Will. Fenner argued to the contrary and he argued much upon the favourable Construction which the Law gives to Wills. 14 H. 8. by Reversion for remainder e contra 17 E. 3. 8. A Man may make a Feoffment in Fee of a Mannor by the name of a Knights Fee a multo fortiori in the Cases of Devises And in our Case the Marchioness conceived That the Rent and Services reserved out of the Mannor of Fremmington was the Mannor of Fremmington and that the Law would give strength to that intent Walmesley conceived That the Rent did not pass by the name of the Mannor c. for this Rent noc in veritate nec in reputatione was ever taken for a Mannor
was not so for it became void by matter of later time scil by the descent of the Feesimple For if one of the Daughters had died without Issue before the death of Robert so as the House of such Daughter had come to Robert and the other Sister there had been no Coparcener for the Son had all the Fee and the moyety of it is executed and the moyety expectant and the Sister hath the moyety for life and then the Devise is not good Also here are two survivors so as nothing is to be divided and therefore the Law shall say That the House of Robert is descended scil the Fee of it to the Daughter of Christien and Joan. And so Iudgment was given against the Husband who claimed to be Tenant by the Curtesie of the whole Land and Messuage CCXXXIII Large's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 2 Len. 82. IN an Action upon the Case the Case was this A. seised of Lands in Fee Devised the same to his Wife till William his younger Son should come to the age of 22 years the remainder when the said William should come to such age of his Lands in D. to his two Sons Alexander and John the remainder of his Lands in C. to two other of his Sons upon Condition Quod si aliquis dictorum filiorum suorum circumibit vendere terram suam before his said Son William should attain his said age of 22 years imperpetuum perderet eam And before such age two of his Sons Leased their parts which accrued to them by the Will of their Father for 60 years and so from 60 years to 60 years till 240 years were expired It was Argued by Bois That Alexander and John are Ioynt-Tenants and not Tenants in Common notwithstanding the Opinion of Audley 30 H. 8. Br. Devises 29. And he argued also That the said Leases from 60 years to 60 years is not within the Condition of the Devise for it is not a sale from which they only are restrained and so is it of a Ioynture made by any of the Sons to their Wives On the contrary It was argued because this remainder doth not vest presently for it is incertain if it shall vest or not For if William should die before he came to the age aforesaid it was conceived that the remainder was void 34. E. 3. Fitz. Formedon 68. A Man deviseth Land to his Wife for life so that if the said Wife be disturbed that the Land shall remain over in Fee scil to D. here is not any remainder until the Wife be disturbed So a Devise unto a Woman so long as she shall remain sole and that then it shall remain to B. here this remainder shall not begin till the marriage And this Condition of restraint of Alienation is good for he is not altogether restrained but for a time scil until his Son shall come to the age of 22 years As a Feoffment upon Condition That he shall not alien to J.S. See 29 H. 8. Br. Mortmain 39. A Lease made for 100 years and so from 100 years to 100 years until 800 years be expired is Mortmain And see the Statute de Religiosis The words are emere praesumat vendere A Lease for years is within such words emere vendere Also by this Lease the Will is defrauded and where the Statute of Gloucester Cap. 3. Wills That if a Man aliens Tenements which he holdeth by the Law of England with warranty the Son shall not be barred and yet if Tenant by the Curtesie be disseised to whom he releaseth with warranty the same is within the said Statute and yet a Release and an Alienation are not the same because they are in the like mischief and if the Sons might make a Lease for 240 years they might make a Lease for 2000 years So if the Sons had acknowledged a Statute of such a sum as amounted to the value of the Land it had been within the Condition It was holden That where the words are Circumibit vendere terram imperpetuum perdert this word imperpetuum should be referred to perdere and not to vendere Fenner This Lease is not within the word Sell For if the Custom be That an Enfant of the age of 15 years may sell his Land yet by that he cannot devise it Note That afterwards the words of the Condition set down in the Will in English were read viz. Shall go about to sell his part shall for ever lose the same And then it is clear that this word imperpetuum shall be referred in Construction to perdere and not to vendere for this word Shall is inserted betwixt both CCXXXIV Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. IN a Formedon The Tenant pleaded a Fine with proclamations The Demandant replyed Nul tiel Record And the truth of the Case was That the Record of the Fine which remained with the Chirographer did warrant the Plea but that which remained with the Custos Brevium did not warrant it and both these Records were shewed to the Court. And Rhodes Iustice cited a President 26 Eliz. Where by the advice of all the Iustices of England where such Records differ the Record remaining with the Custos Brevium was amended and made according to the Record remaining with the Chirographer Which Windham concessit And afterwards the said President was shewed in which was set down all the proceedings in the amending of it and the names of all the Iustices by whose direction the Record was amended were set down in it And that the said President was written and the amendment of the said Record recorded by the Commandment and appointment of the said Iustices in perpetuam rei memoriam And the reason which induced the said Iustices to make such Order is here written because they took it That the Note remaining with the Chirographer est principale Recordum CCXXXV Sir Gervase Clifton's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 4 Len. 199. IN a Quo Warranto against Sir Gervase Clifton It was shewed That the said Sir Gervase was seised of a Mannor and of a House in which he claimed to have a Court with View of Frank-Pledge and that he without any Grant or other authority usurpavit Libertates praedictas The Defendant pleaded Quod non usurpavit Libertates praedictas infra Messuagium praedict modo forma And upon that there was a Demurrer in Law For the Defendant ought to have said Non usurpavit Libertates praedictas nec eorum aliquam for he ought to answer singulatim And also he ought to have pleaded as well to the Mannor as to the House For if the Defendant hath holden Court within any place within the Mannor it is sufficient See 33 H. 8. Br. Franc. sans ceo 364. An Information was in the Exchequer That the Defendant had bought Wooll of A.B. contra Statutum The Defendant pleaded That he had not bought of A. and B. The Plea was not allowed but he
shall plead That he had not bought modo forma For if he hath bought of A.B. or J.S. the same is not material nor traversable Which Case Cook denyed to be Law. And he also conceived That the Information upon the Quo Warranto is not sufficient For by the same the Defendant is charged to hold a Court and it is not shewed what Court For it may be a Court of Pipowders Turn c. See 10 E. 4. 15 16. acc Shute Iustice The Quo Warranto contains two things in it self 1. A Claim And 2. An usurpation and here the Defendant hath answered but to the Vsurpation but saith nothing to the Claim And it hath been holden in this Court heretofore That he ought to answer to both And he said That it hath been holden in a Reading upon the Statute of Quo Warranto which is supposed to be the Reading of Iustice Frowick That a Quo Warranto doth not lie upon such Liberties which do not lie in Claim as Felons goods c. which lieth only in point of Charter CCXXXVI Venable's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. THe Case was 1 Inst 351. a. Hughs Queries 13. A Lease was made to A. and B. for their lives the remainder to Tho. Venables in tail who 3 Eliz. was attainted of Felony 23 Eliz. there was a General Pardon Tho. Venables 24 Eliz. levied a Fine and suffered a Recovery to the use of Harris Serjeant Office is found Harris traversed the Office and thereupon was a Demurrer It was argued by Leake That Traverse did not lie in this Case 4 H. 7. 7 Where the King is entituled by double matter of Record the party shall not be admitted to his Traverse nor to his Monstrans de Droit but is put to his Petition Which see 3 E. 4. 23. in the Case of the Earl of Northumberland Where Tenant of the King is Attainted of Treason and the same is found by Office. See also 11 H. 4. in the Case of the Duke of Norfolk And the same is not helped by the Statute of 2 E. 6. Cap. 8. for the words are Untruly found by Office but here the Office is true By this Attainder Tho. Venables is utterly disabled to do any Act For by Bracton a Person attainted forisfacit Patriam Regnum Haereditatem suam 13 E. 4. One was attainted of Felony And before Office found the King granted over his Lands Also he is not helped by the General Pardon For before the General Pardon he had a special Pardon therefore the General Pardon nihil operatur as to him But by the Iustices the forfeiture doth remain until the General Pardon Harris to the contrary And he put the Case of Sir James Ormond 4 H. 7. 7. Where the King is entituled by matter of Record and the subject confesseth the title of the King and avoids it by as high matter as that is for the King Traverse in that case lieth and if the King be entituled by double matter of Record if the party avoids one of the said Records by another Record he shall be admitted to his Traverse And so here we have the Pardon which is a Record and that shall avoid the Record for the King And here the Pardon hath purged the forfeiture in respect of the Offence And he said That Tenant in tail being attainted of Felony shall not lose his Lands but the profits only for he hath his Interest by the Will of the Donor and it is a Confidence reposed in him and as Walsingham's Case is he cannot grant over his Estate And see in Wroth's Case Annuity granted pro Consilio impendendo cannot be granted over or forfeited for there is a Confidence See Empson's Case Dyer 2. and 29 Ass 60. If the Issue in tail be Outlawed of Felony in the life of his Father and gets his Pardon in the life of his Father after the death of his Father he may enter But by Thorp If the Issue in tail gets his Pardon after the death of his Father then the King shall have the profits of the Lands during the life of the Issue And the Case of Cardinal Pool was debated in the Parliament 27 Eliz. That he being Dean of Exeter was seised of Lands in the right of his Church and was attainted of Treason It was holden he should forfeit the profits of such Lands But admit That by this Attainder the Land be forfeited yet the party hath the Freehold until Office found See Nicholls Case Plow Com. And also the Case of the Dutchy in Plow Com. acc And here the Pardon hath dispensed with the forfeiture A Tenant of the King aliens in Mortmain before Office found the King pardons it it is good The Lord Poynings conveyed all his Lands to Sir Adrian Poynings who was an Alien and after made a Denizen and the King pardoned and released to him all his right in the said Lands without any words of grant and adjudged the same did bind the King And he said he had a good president 14 H. 7. Where a General Pardon before seisure into the hands of the King was allowed good contrary after a seisure without words of Grant. See Br. 29 H. 8. Br. Charter of Pardon 52. If a Man be attainted of Felony and the King pardons him all Felonies executiones eorundem and Outlawries c. and releases all forfeitures of Lands and Tenements and of Goods and Chattels the same will not serve but for life of Lands if no Office be found but it will not serve for the goods without words of restitution and grant for the King is entituled to them by the Outlawry without office But the King is not entituled to Land until Office be found See Ibid. 33 H. 8. 71. The Heir intrudes and before Office found the King pardons now the Heir is discharged as well of the Issues and profits as of the Intrusion it self But a Pardon given after the Office found is available for the Offence but not for the Issues and profits And he cited the Case of Cole in Plowden where a Pardon was granted mean between the stroak and the death See 35 H. 6. 1. 16 E. 4. 1. 8 Eliz. Dyer 249. Brereton's Case 11 Eliz. Dyer 284 285. Egerton Sollicitor contrary This Traverse is not good for he who traverseth hath not made title to himself as he ought upon which the Queen may take Issue for it is in the Election of the Queen to maintain her own title or to traverse the title of the party At the Common Law no Traverse lay but where Livery might be sued but that is helped by the Statute of 34 E. 3. but where the King is entituled by double matter of Record as in our Case he is no Traverse was allowed until 2 E. 6. Cap. 8. And in such Case two things are requisite 1. That the Office be untruly found 2. That the party who is to be admitted to his Traverse have just title or Interest
Case 18 Eliz. Plow Com. 485 486. Where it is holden That upon Attainder of Treason by Act of Parliament the Lands were not in the King without Office in the life of the person attainted upon the words of the Act shall forfeit See Stamford 54 55. acc 3. He conceived That this Interest which came to the King by this Attainder was but a Chattel and then it is released by the Pardon And so he conceived If it be a Freehold For the words of the General Pardon are large and liberal Pardon and Release all manner of Treasons c. And all other things causes c. and here forfeitures are pardoned And also this word Things is a transcendent c. And although it be a general word yet by the direction of the General Pardon it ought to be beneficially expounded and extended as if all things had been especially set down Also the words are Pardon them and their Heirs therefore the same extends to Inheritances for any Offence not excepted for there is the word Heirs And the third branch doth concern only Chattels and that is by the word Grant where the former is by the words Release and Acquit See Br. Charter of Pardon 71. 33 H. 8. Tenant of the King dieth seised the Heir intrudes Office is found in that case by Pardons of all Intrusions the Offence is pardoned but not the Issues and Profits But by the Pardon aforesaid all is pardoned And here in our Case the Office is void For the Statute makes all Precepts Conditions void c. being awarded upon such Forfeitures See also in the second Branch Vexed and inquieted in Body Good Lands c. And see also amongst the Exceptions That persons standing endicted of wilful Murder and forfeiture of Goods Lands Tenements grown by any Offence committed by such person By which he conceived That if that Exception had not been the Land of such a person if he had been attainted upon such Indictment should be forfeited As to the Traverse he conceived That in as much as the Office is true our plea is a Monstrans de Droit although it concludes with a Traverse We vary from the Office in number of persons and in the day of the Feoffment and every Circumstance in the Kings Case is to be traversed and our plea in substance doth confess and avoid the Office. Although the King here be entituled by double matter of Record i. e. the Attainder and the Office yet one of the said Records is discharged by another Record i. e. the Pardon and then there is but one Record remaining scil the Office and therefore our Traverse doth lie And he conceived That at the Common Law there was a Traverse as where it was found by Office That the Lessee of the King had done Waste or cessed for two years and there it is said That the Lessee and Tenant in an Action brought against them may traverse the Office Therefore traverse was at the Common Law where the King was entituled by single matter of Record So upon an Office finding an Alienation without Licence Traverse was by the Common Law. See Traverse in such Case in the Case of William de Herlington 43 Ass 28. See Br. Traverse 54. Petition is by the Common Law and Traverse by the Statute Frowick in his Reading See Stamf. Prerogat 60. That Traverse in the Case of Goods was at the Common Law but Traverse for Lands found by Office by 34 E. 3. Cap. 14. therefore the remedy was by Petition See now Cook 4. Part the Sadler's Case 55 56. Traverse was at the Common Law concerning Freehold and Inheritance but that was in special Cases when by the Office the Land is not in the Kings hands nor the King by that is in possession but only by the Office and entituled to the Action and cannot make seisure without suit there in a Scire facias brought by the King in the nature of such an Action to which he is entituled the party may appear unto the Scire facias and traverse the Office by the Common-Law CCXXXVII Mich. 27 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. A Writ was awarded out of the Court of Admiralty against Sir Tho. Bacon and Sir Tho. Heydon to shew cause wherefore Whereas the Earl of Lincoln late High Admiral of England had granted to them by Patent to be Vice Admirals in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk the said Letters Patents ought not to be repealed and annulled And so the said Writ was in the nature of a Scire facias It was moved by Cook That although the Admiral had but an Estate for life yet the Patent did continue in force after his death As the Iustices here of the Common Pleas although they have their places but for life may grant Offices which shall be in force after their death And because the same matter is determinable at the Common Law he prayed a Prohibition For in the Admiralty they would judge according to the Civil Law The Court gave day to the other side to shew cause why the Prohibition should not be awarded CCXXXVIII Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. 1 Len. 302. Ante 150. Post 230. ACcompt was brought by Harris against Baker and damages were given by the Iury It was moved to the Court That damages ought not to be given by way of damages but the damages of the Plaintiff shall be considered of by way of Arrearges But see the Case Hill. 29 Eliz. in C. B. betwixt Collet and Andrews And yet 10 H. 6. 18. in Accompt the Plaintiff Counted to his damage but did not recover damages 2 H. 7. 13. 21 H. 6. 26. The Plaintiff shall not recover damages expresly but the Court shall given Quoddam incrementum to the Arrearages Cook said That it had been adjudged That the Plaintiff should recover Damages in an Accompt ratione Implicationis non Detentionis CCXXXIX Long 's Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Kings Bench. NOte It was holden in this Case If a Feoffment in Fee be made of a Mannor to which an Advowson is appendant and Livery is made in the Demesnes but no Attornment that in such case the Advowson shall pass but none of the Services CCXL Barns Case Mich. 29 Eliz. In the Common Pleas. BArns brought an Action of Trespass for taking of his sack of Corn The Defendants justified in the behalf of the Town of Lawson in the County of Cornwell because That King Phil. and Queen Mary granted to them of the said Town a Market to be holden within the said Town and that the Plaintiff came to the said Town with a sack of Corn and the Vendor would not pay Toll for which cause they took the said sack of Corn. And Iudgment was given for the Defendant Vpon which Error was brought and assigned for Error because that the Defendant pleads the Letters Patents with the date of the place year and day without saying Magno sigillo Angliae sigillat For it was holden that
Regem quando potest intelligi duabus viis As if two be joyntly endebted to the King and the King pardons to one of them Omnia debita the same shall not extend to joynt-Debts but to those Debts of which he is only Debtor 40 E. 3. The King granted to a Subject the Fines and Amercements hominum suorum All which hold of him by Homage may be said homines suos and also his Villeins are homines suos but because the general words may be served the said Grant shall be taken to extend to his Villeins only So in our Case the general words may be served with Lands in possession and shall not extend to Lands in Reversion At another day the Case was argued by Popham Attorny General and he conceived That by the Lease made 2 Mar. both the former Leases as well that which was made by Henry the eighth as that which was made in Reversion by the Bishop of Bath and Wells are gone Lessee form term of years to begin at a day to come accepts a new Lease in possession which is to continue until the future Interest shall commence the future Interest is gone and in Barkings Case 2 Eliz. It was holden by Dyer and Brown that where Lessee for two years accepts a new Lease to begin two years after this new Interest of a term determines the present Interest For as the Lessor cannot contract with a Stranger for the Interest of a Term which is to have continuance during a former Term by the same reason when the first Termor will accept an Interest of a Term from his Lessor to begin at any time during his former Estate this new Interest determines the first So if one hath an Interest of a Term to begin at a day to come and he before the beginning of that Interest accepts a Lease for life his first Interest is gone The words of the Patent are All her Interest Lands and Tenements in the Parish of St. Cutbert in Wells and parcel of the possession of the late Priory of R. and if these general words will carry Lands in Reversion where other Lands in possession pass c. was the Question General words shall have a special understanding if the special Construction may agree with the proper signification and sense of the general words as the Case 2 H. 3 4. before cited and yet in the Case of a common person all manner of Debts were released thereby for that it shall be taken strongest against the party Also he conceived That the Lands in Reversion should pass as well as the Lands in possession And he said All former Leases of Record needed not to be recited c. but such Leases only which are made by the King For Subjects may have Leases of Record as by Fine Deed enrolled c. but such Leases need not to be recited For such Leases may determine without matter of Record as Surrender Re-entry c. and then to compel the King or the party to search for such Leases which might be so determined by any Act in pais should be as absurd as to compel him to search by what means and for what matter in pais such Leases are determined And he conceived That this Lease needed not to be recited which was made by King Henry the 8th For after the said Lease made the King granted the Reversion to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and his Successors and during the time that the said Land was to the Bishop It might be that the Lease was determined by matter in suit in pais by Surrender Forfeiture c. and then notwithstanding that the King obtained the Reversion after and will make a new Lease if he should be driven to recite the former Lease whereas perhaps it is determined by an Act in pais it should be very inconvenient Also here if any recital should be in the Case how might the party interested know such former Leases but by search and how long ought the party search for his search ought to have an end Non excrescere in infinitum tempus And in our Case the most equal time for search is the beginning of the last Title of the King and no further that is from the present time till the time of the Title of the King begins and in this Case the Title of the King doth begin from his repurchase from the Bishop and if the Law be such then here nothing is to be recited for no Lease is mean between the re-purchase and the new Lease For no Lease made before the re-purchase need to be recited For admit That King Henry the 3d had made a Lease of a Mannor for 500 years and afterwards granted the Reversion to an Abbot and afterwards the Mannor by suppression came again to the King and he will Grant a new Lease of the same such Lease shall be good without any recital of the Lease made by King Henry the 3d for such Lease might have been determined in the hands of the Abbot by Surrender or other matter in fact So King Edw. the 2d made a Gift in Tail and afterwards granted the Reversion to another the Grantee disseised the Tenant in Tail One who was Heir to the Grantee was attainted of Treason the Grantee died by which the Land came again to the King who made a new Patent of the same without recital of the Gift in Tail and the Patent holden good for the Cause aforesaid And in some Cases there needs no recital of Leases As if the King makes a Lease for years rendring Rent to his Receivor and for default of payment that his Estate shall cease Now if at the day the Lessee tendreth the Rent and the Receivor will not accept of it and afterwards it is found by Office that the Rent was not paid by which the Lease should be void yet he may traverse the Office and afterwards the King Grants this Rent to a Stranger there he needs not to recite the Lease for it appeareth by the Office That the same is void and yet in truth the Lease was in Esse c. and so a Lease of Record in Esse in some Case needs not to be recited So if the King Lease for years to J.S. and he assigns his Interest over and afterwards Surrenders the same to the King Now if the King will make a new Grant of it he need not recite that Lease for the Surrender of it appeareth of Record and the Assignment of it is but matter in fait which cannot be known by any search So on the other side void Leases which are not in Esse shall be cited until it appear as in the Case of Throgmorton cited before by Egerton And in such Case where the Queen granted the same to Sir T.H. the Grant ought to be in possession and not in Reversion because then void for the King had not a Reversion Also this Lease ought not to be recited for the second Patent is granted to
returned the Court cannot mitigate the damages p. 150 A second Writ of enquiry of damages where not grantable p. 177 The Plaintiff in Replevin is Non-suit the Court may assess damages without a Writ of Enquiry p. 213 Debt Lachess in pleading it where turn to his prejudice p. 63 Against the Heir a general judgment shall be given in it against him by reason of his false Plea p. 70 Lyeth not by an Inn-keeper for Dyet and Lodging in the Inn where there is not a price agreed for it certain p. 161 Where must be in the Debet where in the Detinet and of what p. 206 260 Declaration In Trespass against the Defendant Simul cum J.S. Out-lawed ad Sectam Querentis not good p. 202 Where void for the incertainty of the thing demanded by it p. 228 Deeds Of Assignment made to the King out of Term upon a day in Term which is not dies juridicus if good p. 146 Demurrer Difference between drawing up of a Demurrer upon a Plea and upon a Challenge p. 222 Deprivation Where pleadable specially where generally p. 199 Devastavit Executor of an Enfant not charged with a Devastavit made by the Executor of the first Testator p. 241 Devises Construction of them p. 25 181 Words equally divided in it amount to a Tenancy in Common p. 19 Of Rent of Lands towards education of the Son how to be expounded p. 65 Made good by Averment p. 79 Where void by the Statute of 32 H. 8. p. 105 That his Sons in Law shall sell his Lands how to be construed p. 106 Of a possibility where not good nor shall go to Executors p. 195 Of a Messuage cum pertinentiis the Curtilage and Garden passeth p. 214 Distress Upon the glebe-Glebe-Lands for Tenths and First-Fruits and where the Lessee of the Cattel shall be distrained for the same p. 259 E. EJectione Firmae De uno Cubiculo good p. 210 Election Where not transferrable over p. 211 Where the Party hath election to take by Grant or Confirmation p. 127 Entry Of a Stranger upon the Farmer of the Kings Lessee for years he hath gained the Term p. 206 Error Matter not within the Record not to be assigned for Error p. 96 If it lieth to reverse a Judgment given for the King without a Petition first sued p. 155 Lieth to reverse a Judgmene in Covenant because all the Covenanters joyned not in the Action though the Covenant was in quolibet qualibet p. 161 Where lieth not in C. B. upon a recovery had before Justices of Assise p. 159 Eviction Where a Decree in Chancery shall not be said a lawful Eviction by which a Condition shall be broken p. 71 Evidence In a Writ of Right the Tenant shall begin to give Evidence because he is in the affirmative p. 162 Evidence given where shall conclude the Party but not the Jurors ad dicendam veritatem p. 209 Executors Where their Distress for the Arrearages of a Rent Charge is good by the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Rents p. 263 Where they might satisfie Debts due upon Judgments before Debts due upon Statutes or otherwise p. 271 Executions Sued forth upon a Statute to A. shall be served before a private Statute to B. though the Statute to B. be assigned to the King p. 239 240 By Capias ad Satisfaciendum sued out within the year though not prosecuted for two or three years after together yet the Party may proceed upon it without a Scire Facias p. 259 Debt is recovered by an Administrator durante minore aetate and Execution had and when the Executor comes of age how the Party shall be discharged p. 278 F. FEoffments Livery and Seisin made by Attorny where good to pass the Lands where not p. 37 Of a Mannor An Advowson Appendant shall pass but not the Services if there be no Attornment p. 193 To divers Persons to the use of his Will and afterwards wills the Feoffees shall stand seised till they have levied 100 l. good although in Feoffees at the time of the Devise p. 262 Fines levied Upon a Release not enure to an use p. 36 Where shall make a discontinuance where not p. 74 Where a Bar where not p. 74 Remainder is limited in tail to J. S. and the Heirs of his Body to begin after the death of the Tenant for life If a Fine be levied by him with Proclamation in the life of the Tenant for life shall bar the Issue p. 211 Where a Bar to a Woman in Dower because she pursued not her Claim within five years p. 221 Forfeiture What shall be a forfeiture within the Statute of 11 H. 7. Lessee for years in debt for rent claimed fee by bargain and sale of his Lessor which was traversed by the Lessor yet a forfeiture p. 169 Forprise Where needful to be mentioned where not p. 93 G. GRants of the King p. 10 Void because the King is deceived in them p. 5 119 Not to enure to a double intent p. 75 By the King of Bona Catalla felonum utlagatorum yet the King shall have the Goods of Felo de se p. 113 Where the Church is void by the grant of the King of the Mannor with the Advowson appendant the Advowson shall not pass p. 196 Of Fines pro licentia concordandi doth not extend to Post-Fines p. 234 How to be construed p. 242 to 253 Grants of common persons Where shall enure by way of confirmation Of all Goods and Chattels passeth a Lease for years Restrained and not to extend to things in future p. 29 Of the Office of Register by a Bishop where good where not p. 30 Of a Rent-charge out of his Lands after J. S. dies without issue of his body J.S. dies having issue which issue dies without issue if a good Grant p. 103 Where the mistaking and misrecital in them shall not make void their Grants p. 136 H. HAbeas Corpus Where granted for one committed to the Marshalsey by the Chamberlain of the Houshold one of the Privy Council p. 194 Heir Where he shall be adjudged in by descent notwithstanding a Devise to him p. 118 Of a Copyholder within age not bound to come to any Court during his Non-age to pray admittance or render a Fine p. 221 I. INdictments Upon the Statute of 8 H. 6. Quare Intravit in unum Tenementum not good for the incertainty but if a Tenementum with divers Acres good for the Acres p. 102 Certified and found to be taken before Justices of Assise and Goal-delivery where not good p. 216 Upon the Statute of 5 El. of Perjury question'd because it wanted the word voluntary p. 230 Against three persons for extortion that they colore officiorum suorum had malitiously extorted excessive Fees good though their offences were several p. 268 Informations Upon the Statute of 5 Eliz. cap. for cutting down of Trees being a penal Law how to be expounded p. 104 Of intrusion upon the Possession of the King
Lease cont of Lands proper to the Dean only B. 176. Debt For foreign Mony may be demanded either by Foreign or English Names A. 41. Upon a Recognizance in nature of a Statute A. 52. B. 14. Upon a void Award is good if the Defendant do not shew that part that makes it void A. 72 73. For a nomine poenae A. 110. For a pain set in a Court Leet A. 203 204 217 218. Upon the words Covenant and Grant lieth A. 208. Where it lies before the last day of payment A. 208. For the surplusage of an Account A. 219. Lies by an Administrator against an Executor for Arrearages of an Annuity A. 224 225. Lies upon a Recognizance made before the Mayor of London A. 284. If Debt lies by the Grantee of a Rent reserved by a Lease to which Grant the Lessee attorned A. 315. Under 40 s. in the Kings Bench for Costs in a Hundred Court A. 316. Against an Heir shall be in the Debet Detinet B. 11. Debt lies upon a Judgment or Recognizance although the Plaintiff have Judgment upon a Scire Facias B. 14. For Rent lies although in the Declaration it be alledged that he entred before the commencement of his Lease B. 98. Lies for the Grantee of Post-Fines and for a Nomine poenae by the Heir B. 179. cont A. 249 250. This Action lies not but where a certain sum is agreed on C. 161. Against Baron and Feme for a Debt of the Feme must be in the Debet Detinet C. 206. For Corn in the Detinâ—t and the Plaintiff shall recover the value of the Corn C. 260. Deed. Where the Habend ' may controul the Premisses A. 11 281 318. B. 105. What is a good delivery thereof what not A. 140 152. If a primo deliberat ' or non est factum may be pleaded of a Deed enrolled A. 183 184 C. 175 176. Where in the Premisses of the Deed two things are granted Habend ' the one for years what Estate the Grantee hath A. 281 282. Raisure of a Deed does not avoid it if it be in a part not prejudicial to the party who would avoid it A. 282. Indenture between A. of one part and B. and C. his Wife and their Children A. 287 288. Must be pleaded sealed and delivered or by words tantamount A. 310. In Indentures the intention of the parties may be argued Deeds Poll shall be taken strongest against the Grantor A. 318. B. 47 192. None can take by Indenture but those who are party to it A. 287 288. B. 1. C. 34. The effect and meaning of them regarded where the words are doubtful B. 17 219 151. Where a Deed may have quasi two deliveries B. 192. A Deed once perfectly executed as by enrolment c. cannot pass any thing by Livery C. 16 125. Actual indenting and both parties Seals mentioned to be put makes an Indenture C. 16. Where a Deed in the Premisses leaseth Lands to one Habendum to his Executors and Assigns for 40 years what Estate the Lessee hath C. 32 33 34. The date of a Deed not material C. 100. Demand See Request The King need not demand a Rent to avoid a Lease A. 12. B. 134. C. 125. A Legacy not payable without demand A. 17. Rent payable at Michaelmas or within the space of 12 days prox post aliquod festorum vel dierum when it is demandable A. 142. The difference of demand in a Writ De advocatione duarum partium Ecclesiae duabus partibus Advoc Ecclesiae A. 169. What is demandable in a Writ of Entry A. 169 170. Whether demand at one day for Rent due several days before be good A. 190 191 305. Whether a sum in gross must be demanded as Rent A. 269. The manner to make a demand of a Rent A. 305. He who demands Rent as Attorny need not tell his name nor shew his authority C. 224. Demurrer To Evidence in Ejectione Firme A. 269. All matters well pleaded are confessed by Demurrer C. 200. Upon Demurrer to a Challenge there neeeds no Serjeants hands C. 222. Departure What is what is not A. 32. Count of a Lease without Deed no Departure by Replication to say the Lease was made by Deed A. 156 204. C. 203. Ejec vers 5. One pleads to the Issue the others plead specially no Departure for the Plaintiff to deduce a Title to himself and say that he was seised until by the 4 disseised B. 199. First to make a Title by Common Law and reply a Custom to uphold it is a Departure C. 40. Devastavit What Sheriff may retorn it and what Sheriff is estopped to retorn it B. 67. C. 2. If Executors release a forfeited Bond of 100 l. and receive only 50 l. the whole is Assets C. 53. It is a personal Tort and the Executors of the Executors shall not be chargeable with the first Executors Devastavit C. 241. Devise See Legacy That Executors shall sell Lands who sell by Fine A. 31. C. 119. If such Executors may â—ell by parcels A. 34 60 260. The construction of an Habendum in a Devise A. 57 58. What shall be a Devise in tail for life or in see A. 57 58. B. 69. C. 55. That his Son and an Executor shall take the profits until another comes of Age gives the Son see A. 101. C. 55. To the discretion of the Devisee A. 156 224 283. B. 69. That Executors shall sell a Reversion who sell by Parol yet good and the Devisee is in by the Will A. 148. C. 119. To three Sons and if any die the Survivor to be his Heir how adjudged A. 166 258 259. C. 262. All my Lands and Tenements if it passeth a Reversion after a Lease for life A. 180 181. If by the Stat. of Wills an Estate pur auter vy may be devised A. 252. A Use may be raised by Devise and the Consideration is presumed by Law A. 254 257. If the Devisee die in the life of the Devisor the Heir of the Devisee shall take nothing A. 254. Of Capite Land and Soccage A 267. B. 41 42. C. 267. Vide the Statutes 32 34 H. 8. To A. if she do not Marry Remainder in tail A. 283. That if my Son A. die without Issue that then my Sons in Law shall sell how adj A. having a Son who dies without Issue A. 285 286. Feoffment to the Uses in his Will which deviseth that his Feoffees shall be seised to Uses a good Devise A. 313. That Lessee for years shall hold after the Devisors death for 30 years accounting the Remainder of the first Term how adj B. 33 34. Devise to A. may be helped by Averment B 35. C. 79. To the Father and his eldest Issue Male B. 35. Things individual cannot be devised within the Statute of Wills If part be Soccage and part Capite B. 41 42. That his Lands shall be sold for payment of his Debts the Executor shall sell 43 220. Devise that his
Debt against the Debtors Executor A. 320. They may have Error of an Utlary in Felony against their Testator A. 325. Good resolutions for their pleading of Statutes Judgments c. A. 328. 329. What Debts must be first paid 328 329. Are liable to account to the King. B. 34. The manner of prosecuting a Devastavit in a forein County against an Executor B. 67. If they plead plene administravit specially by paying Debts upon Bonds they must shew how the Bonds are discharged B. 155. What intermeddling with the deceaseds Estate makes one Executor of his own wrong B. 224. Conditional if he pay all Debts owing to the Testator to the other Executor C. 3. If Executors enter or claim generally it shall be taken to be as Executors and not in any other capacity C. 36. It is said that a promise cannot be good to bind an Executor if he hath not Assets C. 67. Sale of Goods by an Infant Executor is good and binds him C. 143. One Obligor makes the Surety his Executor who pays the Mony generally Quaere C. 197. How he must be sued who being Executor of his own wrong takes Administration C. 197 198. One Executor cannot give the Goods of the Testator to the other for nothing passes by such Gift C. 209. Release of one Executor binds both C. 209. Executor of Executor not chargeable with a Devastavit made by the first Testator C. 241. Exemption A Juror sworn at the Bar notwithstanding he produced his Charter A. 207. Ex gravi querela In London in what case A. 267. Ex parte talis In what case it lieth B. 93. Exposition of Words Dedi Concessi in a Deed A. 29. Where the word Or in a Deed shall be copulative e converso A. 74 244. Of the word eundem in a Grant A. 15. Divisus dividend in an original Writ A. 169. Of Adtunc A. 172. I agree to surrender my Lands spoken by Tenant at will A. 178. Of the word Tenement in Grants A. 188. Of the word Covenant in a Bill of Debt A. 208. Uterque in Indictments A. 241. Quousque A. 244. Suus A. 271. Right A. 271. Factum implies sealing and delivering A. 310. Exponere ad culturam gives no Estate in the Land A. 315. In portum ad portum all one A. 335. Covenant with two quo ibet eorum B 47. In manner aforesaid is a Devise B. 69. By the word Licet may be made a good allegation B. 108. C. 67. A mile is accounted in Law 1000 paces and every pace 5 foot B. 113. Assurance to what Conveyances it doth relâ—te B. 130. Selion of Land is uncertain B. 162. Puer if it relates to both Sexes B. 217 218. Firma C. 12 13. Whether the word Mille may be joyned to a Genitive or Accusative Case C. 94. Tenementum is of an incertain signification C. 102. Of the word until as a Lease until Michaelmas includes the Feast day C. 211 Curtillage quid C. 214. Where a word in the singular number includes the plural C. 262. Immediate C. 273 274. Term of years C. 112. Extent If it be well executed though not retorned A. 280. Executed though not retorned in what case it is a good Execution B. 12 13. Lessee for years may pay the Rent to the Extendor C. 113. Scire facias to remove the Conusee C. 155. If the Conusee can in any case be removed without a Scire facias C. 155 to 158. What kâ—nd of Interest is left in the Conusor during the Extent C. 156 157. If an Extent be avoided by a Prior Statute the puisne Conusee may enter when the other is satisfied C. 239. If a Debt be assigned to the King he shall have all the Conusors Land C. 240. By the Statute of Acton Burnel the Extendors are to take the Lands if they appraise too high and must pay the Debt statim But when that statim means vi C. 274. Extinguishment Of Rent by Entry what act amounts thereto A. 110. Estate for life extinct by a Fee coming to the same person A. 174. A Prescription of non decimand in a spiritual Person is not extinguished by the Lands coming to lay hands A. 248. If a Remainder depending upon an Estate for life escheat the Seigniory is extinct presently A. 255. Where an Action once suspended is extinguished A. 172 320 330 331. Of a Use A. 257 259. A Rent granted in Fee and that it shall be suspended during the nonage of every Heir A. 266. Executor of the Debtee takes to Wife the Debtor how adjudged A. 320. Where personal things once suspended shall be revived B. 84. Lessor mortgages his Reversion to the Lessee in Fee the Term is utterly extinct C. 6. Where a Warrant is suspended and may be revived C. 10 11. A Term for years comes to the Lessor as Executor and he dies the Term is revived C. 210 111. If Unity of possession in the King of Abbey Lands extinguish a Common C. 128. If Devisee of a Term remainder over purchase the Fee the Term is not merged C. 92 93. Condition of re-entry is not suspended by assigning part of the Land for part of the Term C. 221. By destroying a Reversion a Rent depending thereon is extinct C. 261. A Mesnalty extinct by the Lords purchasing the Tenancy C. 261. Extortion Against whom it lies and the several Statutes against it A. 295. C. 268. It must be set sorth in the Judgment whether any Fee or no Fee was due C. 268. F. Faux Imprisonment See Iustification FFaux Imprisonment lies if a Capias be made out of the Courts at Westminster to a County Palatine B. 89. Faux Iudgment Lies upon a Justicies not Error B. 34. Upon a Writ of Right Close prosecuted in nature of an Assise C. 63. Fee-simple Where it may be created without the word B. 27. C. 216. Devise that the elder Son shall take the Profits until the younger come of Age is a Fee conditional in the eldest C. 216. Feoffment Vide Vses Good by the words Bargain and Sell with Livery A. 25. Fine and Amerciament Upon alienation without Licence A. 8. B. 55 56. In what case a Vill shall be amerced for the escape of a Felon A. 107. C. 207. If a Pain upon a Presentment must be afferred A. 203 204 217 242. In what case a Steward may Fine in a Court-Leer A. 217 242. Grantee of Post-Fines if he may distrain for them and sell the distress A. 249 250. The manner of pleading in Trespass where the Defendant-justifies for such Fine A. 249 250. By what words such Fines pass A. 249 250. If a Defendant make several defaults in one Suit he shall be several times amerced B. 4 5. Fine set in a Court for a contempt in not retorning of Cattle in a Replevin B. 174. Debt lies for a Post-Fine by the Kings Grantee B. 179. cont C. 56 234. A Defendant may be several times amerced for several defaults in one Suit B.
lies immediately upon a Recognizance in Chancery B. 84 to 89 220. If Debt lies upon it before or after Judgment upon the Scire facias B. 84 to 88 220. Debt brought upon a Recognizance but non constat where it was acknowledged C. 58. Record Of an Assise brought into the Common Bench by Error how to be remanded to the Judges of Assise for Error lies not in C. B. A. 55. Pleading of a Record in the same Court A. 63 65. Where and for whom Averment lieth against a Record A. 183 184. Removed by a vicious Writ of Error or before Judgment given the Record is still in the first Court B. 1 2. A Recordatur made per Car. of a Record mistaken B. 120. Recovery The form thereof where the Vouchee comes in by Attorny A. 86. Against an Infant per Gardianum A. 211. A Recovery by one Joynt-Tenant binds only his own moiety A. 270. The execution thereof necessary in some cases B. 48. By Estoppel B. 57. Recoveror is seised to the use of him who suffers it until other Uses are limited B. 63 64 66. See Stat. 21 H. 8. who may falsify a Recovery For what reasons Recoveries do dock remainders after an Estate tall B. 66. Recovery to the intent that the Recoverors shall make Estates if such Estates be not made in convenient time in whom the Freehold is B. 216 217 218. What issue is bound thereby per Stat. 32 H. 8. B. 224. Recouper If the Lessor covenant to repair the House and do not Lessee may do it and recouper out of his Rent A. 237. Recusant If Copyhold Lands were liable to seisure for Recusancy before the Stat. 35 Eliz. 2. A. 98 99. Within what time Action upon the Stat. 23 El. 1. must be brought A. 239. The Indictment needs not name the offender of a Parish but a Vill B. 167. Redisseisin Whether the Plaintiff may have it after Entry the Judgment therein A. 69. Relation Of a Participle of the present Tense without the word adtunc A. 61 172. Of an Attornment A. 265 266. B. 222. Of words in an Indictment B. 5. Of a Deed enrolled to vest Lands in the King B. 206 207. Of agreement to a Disseisin Feoffment c. B. 223. Release Where a Covenant in the same Deed shall release other part of the same Deed A. 117. C. 113. Of a chose en action nihil operatur A. 167. C. 256. If an Heir release to the Disseisor and after his Ancestor dies it does not bind the Heir B. 47 56 57. A promise may be released by Parol B. 76. See where a release to a Stranger may discharge a Bond C. 45. Release of Covenants before any broken discharges the Bond for performance C. 69. To what Tenant in possession it is available C. 152 153. One Grantee of a prochein avoidance cannot release to his Companion A. 167. C. 256. Relief The Heir of one Coparcener shall pay none because it is an intire thing C. 13. Remainder and Reversion In Fee after a Lease for life where not discontinued by a Fine levied by Tenant for life A. 40. Cannot vest in the right Heirs of one in the Feoffors life unless it begin first in the Feoffor A. 101 102. Where an Estate shall vest as a remainder where as a reversion A. 182. B. 33 34. A Reversion after an Estate for life passeth by Devise of all Lands and Tenements A. 180 181. When a Remainder limited upon an Estate which is void as a Gift to a Monk for life remainder over shall take effect A. 195 196 197. Lease for nine years determinable upon death of the Lessee and if he die within the Term the remainder of the Term to his Wife a void remainder A. 218. The difference between a remainder limited upon a contingency which may never happen and one that must and will happen A. 244. B. 82 83. Devise to J.S. haered to Uses in tail after the Estate tail spent The Devisor shall have the fee A. 254. If one of two Disseisees release to one of two Disseisors and the Tenant who released not do enter the Reversion is revested pro toto A. 264. If a remainder may be limited upon a Condition A. 283. Feoffment to J.S. primogenito filio suo If the Son be born after the Feoffment he shall take by remainder B 15. If the remainder of a Term for years be good B. 69. C. 110 111 197 199. Remainder executed by moieties upon a Gift to a Feme for life remainder to their Heirs C. 4. Grantee of a Reversion shall recover Damages only for breach of Covenant made since the Grant C. 51. What acts as Extents Grants c. do take a Reversion forth of him that had it C. 156. Remitter Where it shall be A. 6 7 37. C. 93 94. Tenant in tail creates a new intail upon condition which his issue breaks yet he is remitted after his Fathers death A. 91. Land given to Husband and Wife in tail before Marriage and the Baron aliens and takes back an Estate to him and his Wife for life both are remitted A. 115. C. 93 94. The Father enfeoffs the Heir who never agrees and dies the Heir is remitted B. 73. Father enfeoffs his younger Son who dies his Wife priviment enseint of a Son the elder Son enters he is remitted Quaere C. 2. If one may be remitted against a Warranty C. 10. Waived by the Wife who was Tenant in tail with her Husband her payment of Rent which was reserved upon a Devise C. 272. Rent What is a Rent what a sum in gross A. 137 138 269 333 334. C. 103. Rent reserved by a Lease for years becomes seck if it be granted over A. 315. Divers ways of suspending Rents and how they are revived 334. To what remainder or reversion it shall be incident B. 33 34. If a Rent may be divided to equal a devise of Soccage and Capite Lands B. 42 43. Shall follow the Reversion although reserved to Executors B. 214. Contrary to a sum reserved to Executors upon a Mortgage of Land C. 103. Rent payable at two Feasts is to be paid by equal portions C. 235. By destroying a Reversion a Rent which followed it is extinguished C. 261. Repleader None after Demurrer A. 79. After an unapt issue A. 90. Replevin and Avowry Avowry for Rent reserved upon a Feoffment in fee and for sult of Court A. 13. Bar by non Cepit and what is good evidence therein A. 42. By property in a Stranger Ibid. Where the Plaintiff or Avowant may vary from the number of the Cattle A. 43. Plaintiff cannot discontinue without leave of the Court A. 105. Avowry for Damage Feasant in Customary Lands leased to the Avowant A. 288. Avowry by the Stat. 21 H. 8. cap. 19. A. 301. Avowry for a Leet Fee B. 74. Bar to an Avowry made by a Bailiff that he took the Cattle de injuria c. and traverse that he took them as Baily B. 215.