goodes Canonolog In this we dissent not from you Nomomath Let me know Anglonomoph what maner of execution ye vse for dette at the common Law Anglonomoph The execution is foure-fold 5. A fourefold execution for dette by the common Law either of goodes onely by Fieri facias or of the moitie of landes by Elegit or vpon all the landes by an Extendi facias vpon the reconusance of a statute or of the bodie by Capias ad satisfaciendum euery of which by your pacience I will explane by cases and examples or by shewing their originall A Fieri facias issued out of the Eschequer for the king against 6. The execution of goodes by Fieri facias is opened a Parson for money due to the king out of an Abbey to which the Church of the Parson was charged in xx markes and for two markes behind a Fieri facias issued to the Shirife in these wordes Fieri fac de bonis et catallis spiritualibus et temporalibus prouenientibus de Rectoria de R. and the Shirife by his bailie tooke two bookes in the Church and sold them for the kings dette l 8. H. 5. 4. And wheras A. did recouer dammages in a speciall assise before speciall Iustices and brought an action of Dette for the dammages it was resolued that the defendant was dettor of recorde and therefore ought to be discharged by matter of recorde and for that cause the Fieri facias is ita quod habeas denarios hic to the intent that the payment of the money to the plaintife may be of recorde and the defendant discharged by recorde m 11. H. 4. 58. Execution by Elegit is warranted by the Statute of Westminster 2. cap. 18. which saith Si quis recuperet debitum aut damna sit in electione querentis an habere velit Fieri facias de terris catallis it should seeme to be meant de bonis catallis vel quòd Vicecomes liberet it seemeth to be better et quòd Vicecomes liberet ei omnia catalla debitoris exceptis bobus et affris carucae suae medietatem it seemeth more agreeable to the purpose vel medietatem terrae suae quousquè debitum fuerit leuatum per rationabile pretium et extentam The execution vpon 8. Execution vpon statute merchant is opened Statute merchant may appeare by this case A man had execution out of statute merchant and the Shirife returned an Extent of the lands of the reconusor in this maner sciz that he had sent to the baylie of the fraunchise c. who had retourne of writs to extende the landes which were within the fraunchise and so he did and that which was within the bayliwicke of the Shirife namelie in guildable himselfe caused to be extended by parcels and at the end he put the summe of the value and after the summe he put the charges as rents and other charges which were due out of the said landes and amongest other charges he retourned that the land was charged to the reconusee with xx li. yearely for euer And the Iustices cast all the charges of the landes and the value and they did perceiue that the charges passed the value by xl s' and after it was shewed that the Shirife had sent to an other Baylife of an other fraunchise in which the partie had lands and of these landes he made the third extent so that by that extent the value passed the charges by tenne shillinges wherefore execution was awarded n 29. E. 3. 1. And 9. E. 3. one sued a writ to take the bodie of him who had made a statute merchant to him and the Shirife retourned that he was dead wherefore he praied a writ to the Shirife to deliuer vnto him all the lands which he had the day of the reconusance or at any time after and he had it o 9. E. 3. 24. Execution by Capias 8. Execution by Capias ad satisfaciendum is shewed and imprisonment is after this manner Dammages were recouered against I. in a writ of Trespas in the kinges bench in the time of king Henry the fourth and after in the time of king Henry the fifth he was condemned in London at the suit of an other and put in Newgate and he at whose suit he was condemned in the kings bench had a Capias ad satisfaciendum to the Shirifes of L. which did send the bodie and did certifie that he was condemned at manie mens suites in London and now he that sued the Capias came into the Court and did acknowledge agreement to be made and the defendant was readie to make a fine to the king and praied to be deliuered But because he was condemned in the time of an other king and the Iustices which be now haue not knowledge of the persons which were parties to the pleas in the time of an other king as the Law doth intende and likewise because if he be acquited heere he must be sent backe into London because hee is condemned there and thirdlie because by couin betwixt him which acknowledgeth agreement and the defendant he may defraud him at whose suit he is condemned of his execution for if he be deliuered the other is without remedie therefore a Scire facias was awarded p 8. H. 5. 7. The like Law is in an execution vpon an Action of Dette and in an acquitall the fine to the king being excepted Nomomath Well I will trouble you no further about questions of Dette Now let vs passe according to the platforme of the conference to examine doubtes touching Accomptes The fourth Dialogue Of Accomptes NOmomath Suppose Codicgnostes 1. Diuision that I deliuer vnto you my horse or hauke to sell him for fyue poundes and to deliuer me either the fiue poundes or redeliuer the thing againe Shall you not be accomptable to me in this regarde Codicgn Yes truelie and that by an action 1. In what case a man is accomptable at the Giuill Law per actionem aestimatoriam which we call Actionem aestimatoriam because it is conceyued vppon the speciall and prescript wordes of the valuation of the thing a ff de aestima ac in rubro et l. 1. et Insti de actio §. actionum Anglonomoph So by our Law we haue a 2. The difference of a speciall bailie and generall bailie at the common Law speciall bailie and a generall bailie A speciall bailie is he which is bailie after a speciall maner and to a speciall purpose For if a man deliuer an Obligation to an other to receiue so much money as he can get of that which is contained in the bond if he receiue no money vpon the bond a writ of Accompt lyeth not but a writ of Detinue for the bond But it seemeth that if hee receiue a lesse summe then a writ of Accompt will lie But if he receiue the verie summe conteined in the bond then a writ of Accompt will
shall hold iurisdiction by the common law plaintife it was held by the better opinion that in this case wherein the close supposed in the writte is admitted by both parties to bee a churcyard the spirituall Court onely should hold iurisdiction a 13. R. 2. iurisdict 19. And an assise likewise was brought of a house against a Parson who pleaded in bar that he was Parson of P. and that the house demanded was parcel of his said church from time out of mind and that there was sepulture of deade persons there wherefore Perseis opinion was that the court temporall ought not to holde plea in this case b 44. Ass pl. 8. but if 3 The right of gleabe land is triable by the common law the Parson of A. and the Parson of B. do contend in suite for a parcell of lande the one claiming it to bee his gleabe the other his it hath beene held in this case that the spirituall court shall not hold iurisdiction c 19. H. 6. 20. And Bracton likewise affirmeth that a thing giuen in frankalmoigne remaineth laye fee d Bract. li. 5. c. 16. and by 4 Lands deuised not subiect to the iurisdiction of the ecclesiasticall court our lawe a prohibition lyeth for chaunteries chappels prebendes and vicarages e Fitzh N. B. 40. G. 35. b. and if a man deuise lands or tenements deuisable the partie to whome the deuise is made shall not sue in court spirituall and if he doe the other shall haue a prohibition and therefore as Bracton saith the deuisee may enter without the 5 Suites for chattels reall must be in the spiritual court licence of the executor f Bracton vbi supr Perk. tit deuis but if a deuise bee made of goods and chattels reall as of a lease for tearme of yeares or of a warde there the suite must be in the spirituall court g Fitzh N. B. 43. G. and if a termor of certaine land doe deuise his croppe and dye the spirituall court shall hold plea for this croppe h 8. H. 3. prohibit 19. and if a man deuise corne or other goods to a man and a straunger will not suffer the executor to performe the testament in this point they may sue the stranger hereupon in the spirituall court but if a man take goods deuised out of the possession of the executors the law is otherwise for then they shal haue an action of trespasse at the common lawe i 4. H. 3. prohibit 28. but if a man sue another in the spirituall court for a rent reserued vpon a lease of tithes or offerings a prohibition wil lie in such case because it is a laye rent k 44. E. 3. 32 Nomomath Let me now know Canonol whē 12. Diuision a man graunteth to one ius patronatus of the church of Dale if this title bee controuersed in question whether shall the ecclesiasticall court or temporall hold iurisdiction Canonolog Surely I thinke it is determinable 1 That ius patronatus by the Canon law is determinable in the ecclesiasticall court and that it passeth by the word ecclesia in the ecclesiastical court because the right of patronage may passe by the word ecclesia as if a man said vnto me dono tibi ecclesiam S. Petri in Dale the aduowson of the church doeth passe l c. quod autem de iur patronat Anglonomop The word ecclesia is otherwise taken in our law for it is most commonly vsed for a place wherein baptisme and the sepulture of mens bodies is celebrated m 34. E. 1. quar impedit 187. And M. Fitzherbert saith that by this word ecclesia is meant onely a parsonage n Fitzh N. B. 32. G. and therefore if a presentment bemade to a chappell as to a church by the name of this word ecclesia this doth change and metamorphize the nature of it and maketh 2 The diuers significations of the word ecclesia at the common law it presently a Church o 17. E. 3. 58. 47. E. 3. 5. 21 13. H. 4. Briefe 870. and because by this word church is meant a church parochial therfore if a man haue an oratory or chappel within his mannor of Dale and he giueth part of the demesnes of the said mannor to a Chapleine for life to sing there yet hee hath not by this made it a Church but it remaineth still an oratorie and his freehold for here was no effectuall operation of lawe to force such a chaunge p 36. E. 3. 13. But if a writte bee brought of a Church in Dale and in Dale there bee both a Church and a Chappell yet the writte shall stand good for the reason aboue shewed q 20. E. 3. Brief 684. 13. H. 6. 4. 9. E. 3. 451. 22. E. 3. 2. 8. H. 6. 33. and sometime it signifieth the Church which consisteth of stones walles and roofe r 8. H. 5. 4. Rolf. and sometimes the demesnes and profits of the benefice ſ 45. E. 3. 4. but verie seldome if at any time it is vsed for ius patronatus But if as you say the patronage shold passe by these words dono ecclesiam in all reasonable vnderstanding the patronage is to be distinguished frō the Church or benefice And therefore Pollard 12. H. 8. t 12. H. 8. 7. Prior. de Hunting c. doth well 3 The interest of the patron parson and ordinarie in the church is shewed distinguish the interest of the parson patron ordinarie as in a seuerall thing the parson saith hee hath a spirituall possession in the church the ordinarie hath charge of the church to see the cure serued the patron ius presentandi to the church which being well weied doth clearely bewray the imbecilitie in consequence of your proposed argument Canonol neither can you by any solide reason of law entitle the spirituall court to iurisdiction in this case as I shall hereafter shewe Nomomath What say you of this matter Codign Codign Wee rely wholy for these matters vpon the Canon law which in these pointes is verie pregnant and copious Canonolog It is so in deed but by that lawe ius patronatus is meerely spirituall and not temporall as Anglonomoph would perswade for it is wholly after a spirituall manner carried ordered for though the patronage do arise of three things the foundation the edifying and 4 What things do make a patron by the Canon lawe the endowment u 26. q. 7. filijs ca. quicunque 18. q. 2. Abbat according to the ancient saying patronum faciunt dos aedificatio fundus yet it is no temporall thing because though a man bee condemned and his goods bee confiscated yet hee shall not lose his right of presenting x Gl. est in ver subiect § rursus in fi c. pastor al. in Cle. de re iudi neyther is this repugnant that to a Church parochiall hee may present to a Church
an elme tree in the place where the waste was assigned and did make a ditch in that place to water cattell which went vpon that ground which was necessary because the water was very lowe and almost dryed vp in that place by that meane he deduced water out of the earth and this was adiudged a good answere r 33. E. 3. Double plea. 9 Codicg That which you haue said is to reason consonant to our law correspondent for as to your first case of the clearing or amending of the conduit-pipes c. Though it be in another mans ground this in our law is not accompted iniurious Å¿ l. 1. c. de quae duc l. 11. l. de cernimus eo ti li. 2. But wee haue a rule in our 4 That the ciuil law agreeth with the common law in suffering and to amend conduit-pipes in another mans ground lawe that if a man ought to conuey water per subterraneos meatus through certain chinkes or crauies of the earth in an other mans ground he must not doe this by a leuill of stones but with pipes of leade because the other mans grounde is by stones more annoyed and empaired t ff de contrah emp. l. si aquae duct But for the improouing of ground from worse to better is clearely permitted by our law As to turne waste grounde into arable or fennish ground into firme ground this we accompt rather a benefite to the owner of the soyle then an iniurie u c. de fund patr l. si li. 11. So it is if a wood become arable x c. quod per noual de verb. signif but to destroy any thing in an other mans ground or to digge a pitte and so to alter the forme and nature of the soyle and by that meane to make it worse is accounted of vs very iniurious but to repaire an olde building or to make some commodious addition is not wrongfull but beneficiall because Non videtur nouum opus facere sed vetus reficere a ff de noua l. 1. §. nouum et §. si quis aedificium Canonol Our lawe doth not withstand any of these assertions Nomomath Well now I pray you proceed 3. Diuision to speake of the penaltie which hee is to suffer by your lawes that committeth waste Codicgn By our Law he that in such case 1. The punishment of wast by the Ciuill Law will denie the wrong done shall be punished with double damages But if he iustifie and it be found against him with single b ff de insti l. 1. §. 1. But he that doth breake the sluces of Nilus so that verie great iniurie is done and to verie manie he is burnt in the same place where the fault was committed in a fire of the height of twelue cubites and his goodes and landes are confiscated because it is crimen quasi laesae Maiestatis c C. de agge Ni non rump l. vâ— â—â— Canonol Our Law in this doth not gainsay you Anglonomoph By an action of Wast at our 2. The punishment of wast by the common Law Law the plaintife if it be found for him shall recouer treble dammages d Fitzh nat bre 58. H. and execution may be had by Elegit of the landes which the defendant had at the time of the inquest taken e 17. E. 3. 5. 18. E. 3. 38. 31. E. 3. Execut 66. and he shall recouer likewise the place wasted f Stat Glouc. cap. 6. Nomomath I will put you to no more paines in this matter but will discend to other things which haue not yet been discussed The sixt Dialogue Of Parceners NOmomath Let me know Codign whether in your Law there be any definition set downe established 1. Diuision touching Parceners as they are tearmed at the common Law and concerning the making of Particion betwixt them agreeable to the common Law Codicgn I would first that Anglonomoph should shew who be Parceners at the common Law and in what sort partition is made otherwise I should but roue at an vncertaine marke Nomomath I pray you do so Anglonomoph for that course is not to be disliked Anglonomoph Mast. Littleton a learned man 1. Two sortes of Parceners Parceners by the common Law and Parceners by custome in our Lawes and a great patriarch of our profession maketh two sortes of Parceners Parceners by the common Law and Parceners by custome Parceners by the common Law are when a man or woman seised of landes or tenements in fee simple or fee taile haue no issue but daughters and die and the tenements discende to the daughters and they enter into the said landes or tenements now they are Parceners and how manie daughters so euer they be they are but one heire to their auncestour And they are called Parceners 2. Who be Parceners by the common Law because by the writ which is called de Particione facienda the Law will compell them to make particion of the land Also if a man seised of tenements in fee simple or in fee taile do die without issue of his bodie ingendred and the tenements discende to his sisters they are Parceners by our Law So if his landes discende to his Auntes a Littlet lib. 3. c. 1. fol. 54. And none bee called Parceners in our Law but women or the heires of women which come to landes and tenements by discent For if two sisters purchase landes or tenements thereof they be called Iointenants and not Parceners b Littlet ibidem fol. 56. But bretherne may be Parceners by the custome as by the custome of Gauelkind in Kent bb Littlet ibid. 59. Codicgn We haue an action in our Law 3. Who be Parceners by the Custome verie like to your aboue mencioned writ of Particione facienda and it is called actio familiae herciscundae and it lieth for them which haue a common inheritance to bee deuided betwixt them As when two sisters brothers or kinsfolkes are instituted heires and by that meane are reputed as seuerall heires to the auncestor or him that instituteth them c ff famil hercis l. 1. et 2. C. de verb. sign l. sin For if the Testatour pointing with his finger at three seuerall persons doe saie vnto them quilibet vestrum haeres mihi esto his 4. That by the Ciuill Law where three heires are instituted they are not reputed as one heire meaning by our Law is taken to be this that euery one of them should be heire in parte non in solidum for maeteria subiecta the thing it selfe doth require it because it is vnpossible by our Law that euery one of them should haue the inheritance in solidum d L. hoc artic ff in fi ff de haere insti But if he doe not speake distributiue but collectiue as if he said Quisquis mihi haeres erit det Titio centum solidos now whether there be one heire or
by the said R. B. lawfully ingendred then liuing and the plaintife said that hee ought not to bee barred from his action for he said that after the making of the said writing before the said feast namely the 12. of Iune anno c. the said plaintife at M. in the countie of Lancaster tooke to wife the said I. and they had issue betwixt them H. Bolde and after before the said feast the said I. and the said B. dyed the said H. being the sonne of them both at the time of the death of the said I. being then full liuing and after and before the said feast namely the twelfth of Iune the saide H. B. at B. aforesaid dyed and the defendant hereupon did demurre in law And the question was whether this word tunc in the condition should be referred to the time of the death of the wife and it seemed to Mountague and Baldwin that it should not but that it ought to bee referred to a time certaine for euerie tunc relateth to his quando but they thought that it should bee referred to the feast which is certaine and not to the death of the woman which is vncertaine but Shelley and Knightley thought otherwise For in diuers cases relation shall not bee made ad proximum antecedens as if a man make a lease for life the remainder in taile the remainder ouer to I. S. in forma praedicta this shall not bee referred to the estate taile which doth next preceed because it wanteth the word heires to make an estate tayle and therefore it shall be referred to the first estate Which later opinion if it bee lawe then by our law si may signifie and may make other wordes to signifie an vncertaine cause of the accomplishment of a condition h 28. H. 8. 14. Dy. Boldes C. And whereas hee hath said that sometimes it signifieth a certaine cause as if the iudge doe giue iudgement for me So likewise it signifieth a certain cause in our law 7. Si signifieth a certaine cause at the common law for 8. E. 4. the case was this An action of debt was brought vpon an obligation by the Dutchesse of Suffolke the defendant said that it was endorsed with this conditiō that if the defendant should stand to the arbiterment of the said Dutchesse touching all maner of suits c. betwixt him one B. that then the obligation should be void c. And this was admitted to be good and thereupon it may be concluded that si sometimes in our lawe importeth a cause certaine as the Dutchesse in this case was a certaine cause of the arbiterment i 8. E. 4. 1. 9 Dutchesse de Suffolke C. So 23. Eliz. the case was that two were bound to stand to the arbiterment of two if they did make their awarde within two daies after the date or making of the said obligation and the obligation bore date die Sabbati ante prandium and the award was made the same day post prādium and this was held to be good because it shall bee intended that it may be made at any time after the date of the obligation vntill two daies immediatly following be past And as in 8. Si by the common law may signifie an vncertaine euent the ciuill law so likewise by our law si whether it be expressed or implyed may signifie an vncertaine euent for if a rent be graunted for life to I. S. the remainder to him that shall first come to Paules the next day in the morning this remainder is good though it be vpon a si implyed if I. S. dye not before the next day and if one come to Paules the next day in the morning and if hee which commeth thither be a person able to take by the graunt k Assis pl. 47. Perk. 13. sect 56. And whereas he saith that by their law it signifieth 9. Si. signifieth a condition by the common law a condition or a conditionall disposition so it doth likewise in our law as it is well recited in my Lord Dyers reports out of Bracton Scito quòd vt modus est si conditio quia causa And as l 4. Mari. 139. Dy. to his conceited case of the puerperie I take his reason to bee verie good that benig na interpretatio facienda est in fauorem libertatis Codicgnost What say you now sir Nomomathes I say that as for such a paradoxical fantasie Non persuadebis etiamsi persuaseris 2 Diuision But I pray you resolue me this If I sel to another certain land for an hundred pound vnlesse another the next moneth following doe giue more for it by fiue pound at the least whether doth this word vnlesse make a condition or it is an idle clause and vneffectuall Codicgn I take it clearely to make a good condition for though the sale be pure and vnconditionall 1 The word nisi or vnlesse doth sometime signifie a condition at the ciuill law yet it is resoluble and defeasible vpon a condition contingent m l. 2. §. si in diem ff pro emp. for the words following may qualifie and gouerne a direct graunt or deuise as if the testator say I deuise vnto A. a C. li. for the making of my tombe n l. quib diebus §. fi ff de condi de mon. or if he said I deuise vnto him a hundred li. pro eura liberorum meorum sustinenda or if he said I deuise vnto him so much to endow certaine poore maydens or to ransome certaine prisoners out of captiuitie here there is no condition implyed but onely a limitation or modification to what intent or purpose the deuise is o l. mille C. de epi. et cle So if the testator say I deuise to Titius C. li. 2 Law is a modification or limitation of a graunt is made which I will shall be paied vnto him out of my money which I haue in such a place as namely in such a closet or such a chest if in the closet or chest there bee no money then there is nothing due but if there be a lesse summe yet all the mony is due by reason of the intent p l. quidam testamento ff de leg 1. l. Lucius ff de ali ciba And if the testator deuise to euerie one of his free men a seuerall certaine yearely maintenance out of his landes in Dale if his landes in Dale be not sufficient for these seuerall maintenances yet they ought to be supplyed of his other landes q l. Paulo Callimacho §. fi de leg because the adiection and mentioning of the place was onely vsed for a certaine demonstration of the lande which should bee charged with payment and not for the taxation or restraint of the legacie for legatum non restringitur But if a man deuise ten pound to his daughter vntil she mary by this is intended a yearely paiment of x. li. r
l. legatum ff de annu lega because the worde vntill doeth signifie in this case a limitation And though there ought to be a multiplcation of paiments yet there is a limitation ad tempus nubēdi that afterward the paiment shall not be due but if a mā deuise to his daughter his lands which he bought of Cornelius vntill she marie this signifieth not a yerely legacie because subiect a materia non patitur vt sit multiplicabile But it onely signifieth an extinction of the legacie whē the mariage is accomplished For if a man deuise his land in Dale to A. vntill he be Shirife of London as soone as he is Shirife of London the legacie is determined and immediatlie reuerteth to the heire ſ L. fi C. de leg For as it is in the power of the Testatour to make the legacie begin at a certaine time so likewise it is in his power to make it end at a certaine time Nomomath You haue put good and perspicuous diuersities betwixt a condition and a limitation I pray you Anglonomoph shew what your Law determineth of this difference Anglonomoph The verie same difference is 3. A difference betwixt a limitation and condition at the common Law in our Law which by cases shall be explaned A man graunteth to an other his manour of B. so that he paie 10. li. yearely to the lessour during the life of the lessour and if the said rent be behind that then it shall be lawfull for the lessour to distraine for it in the lessees manour of S. the lessour hath a franktenement in the rent sub modo depending vpon the will of the lessee and the lessour and there is a limitation implied by Law though not verbally expressed t 3. E. 3. 15. Assise 172. So if a man make a Lease to one for life paying the first six yeares 3. quarters of corne and if he will hold it longer a C. s. the word If in this case maketh but a limitation u 15. E. 3. Execution 63. So if a rent of 5. pound be graunted to I. as long as the grauntour his heires or assignes shall hold the manour of W. this was adiudged to be a freehold in the grauntee but yet with a limitation uu 10. Ass pla 8. Br. Estates 31. as long as the grauntour should hold the manour of W. So if a man graunt a common in his land in Dale when he putteth in his beastes or graunteth an estouer of Wood when he commeth to his manour of D. the grauntee hath a freehold but qualified with certaine limitations a 17. Ass pla 7. So it is if the king graunt an office to I. S. donec bene fideliter se gesserit b 3. Ass pla 9. et 6. So if land be leased to one quamdiu se bene gesserit c 37. H. 6. 29. So if a man deuise his land to his eldest sonne in taile with seuerall remainders in taile and that the partie morgaging incumbring entangling or aliening the land shall be clearelie discharged excluded and dismissed touching the intaile and the conueyance of the intaile shal be of no force vnto him this is not a condition but a limitation for if it were a condition the right heire might enter for the breach and defeat all the meane remainders in taile which is not consonant to the intent of the Deuisour d 13. et 14. Eliz. Com̄ Newyses c. 403. And whereas you haue said that a man by way of limitation may deuise money to be paied out of his chest or coffer and if there be no money in the chest or coffer there is no money due our Law dealeth 4. The common Law is more ample and large then the Ciuil law in matter of limitation more amplie and beneficially in like cases For if a man graunt to me an annuitie of x. li. to receiue out of his coffers if he haue neither coffers nor money in thē yet his person shal be charged with the annuitie e Fitzh Nat. bre 152. A. 9. H. 6. 17. because the graunt it selfe induceth a charge vpon the grauntour Yet an annuitie may be graunted with a limitation as if an annuity be granted to take at euery time as often as the grauntour shall come to his manour of S. or as often as the grauntee shall come to the house of the grauntour f 14. E. 4. 4. So if I graunt an annuitie of x. li. out of my land in Dale and I haue no land in Dale this graunt is not void but my person shall be charged g 9. H. 6. 53. per Newt et Cot. Nomom Pause here Anglonom What is Canonologus drowsie or entred into some dreame Canonolog I was neither drowsie nor dreaming but the eies of my mind were somewhat closed and shut as the hares be when she watcheth for the houndes for if I could haue taken any aduantage of the speeches of my two companions I would not haue been so long silent But in truth our Law in the matters of condition before handled hath no other oracle but the Ciuil Law if hereafter there happen any variance I will not conceal it from you Nomomath Let me then aske you this question 3. Diuision Codicgn A man deuiseth to R. x. li. and if he wast or spend it then he deuiseth vnto him x. li againe Suppose that he do spende twentie pound whether may he afterward demaunde 10. li. because the deuise is indefinite Codicgnost The deuise is not indefinite 1. Rursus or the word againe signifieth once againe by the Ciuill Law for this word againe signifieth as much as once againe according to the rule of our Law Rursus verificari potest in vna vice h l. fidei commiss §. si quis ff de leg 3. Otherwise it might be that the executor should be charged to the full value of all the goodes of the Testatour For if the deuisee were an Acolastus though the executor were by the executorship a Craesus yet all would not serue Anglonomoph Your reason is good but yet I would not be peremptorie in this matter for it is not in our Law so cleere For two Iudges were opposed against other two in the like case There is a Prouiso in a Lease that 2. How farre forth a word of restraint is to be extended at the common Law neither the lessee nor his assignes shall not alien to any without the assent of the lessour but onely to the wife or the children of the lessor and the lessee alieneth to one of the sonnes of the lessour It was left ambiguous whether the restraint were now determined i Mar. 152. Dy. Nomomath Let this be the case I am bound to paie you twentie pound if your ship come 4. Diuision from Russia and after the ensealing and deliuerie of the bond we make this condition that the twentie pound which I did before owe
is not enlarged because the condition was against law the estate should haue beene enlarged by the performance of the condition but notwithstanding such condition yet the lease is good because that did not beginne by the condition But if an obligation be endorsed with a condition directly contrarie to law both the obligation the condition be void a 8. E. 4. 13. 2. E. 4. 3. And if a man be bound that he shall keepe the obligee without damages and doe not shew wherein such condition is voide because hee may suffer damages for committing treason murder or other felonie which thinges are against law and it is also against law to saue him without damages for such thinges so that the cōdition is void but the obligation is not void because such things are not expressely rehearsed within the condition so that the condition is not directly contrarie to law b 9. H. 4. Conditions 6. And conditions which are repugnant in themselues are voide in law as if a feoffement or gift in tayle be made that the feoffee or donee may not take the profits or vpon condition that they shall make no waste or vpon condition that the wife of the feoffee c. shal not be endowed or if a lease for life be made vpon condition that the lessee shall doe no fealtie these estates be good and the conditions voide or if an annuitie be granted prouiso that it shal not charge the person of the grauntor the graunt is good the condition is voide c 21. H. 30. 20. E. 4. 8. But if a man seised of land in fee lease the said land for yeares by indenture rendring rent prouiso that the lessor shall not distrein for the rent this is a good prouiso because the lessor may haue an action of dette d 5. H. 7. 7. but land or rent may be giuen to a man in taile so that he may alien to the profits of his issue and this is a good condition for it is agreeable to law and the donor may as wel giue conditionally as simpliciter in the taile e 46. E. 3. 4. G. garrantie 18. And 7. H. 6. it was held by all the Iustices in the eschequer chamber beside Iune that if a man make a feoffement with warrantie prouiso that the feoffee shall not vouch him and his heires and that if he doe the warrantie shall be voide this is a good prouiso But if the prouiso had beene that he should neyther vouche nor rebutte the prouiso had beene void for that had cut off all the force of the warrantie f 7. H. 6. 44. And if two grant custodiam parci de A. to I. capiendo feoda quae B. nuper parcarius cepit prouiso quòd scriptum non extendat ad onerandum vn des grauntors this prouiso was taken to be void because it restreyneth all the effect of the graunt in regarde of him and if land bee giuen in taile the remainder in fee vpon condition that if the donee or his heires do alien in fee that the donor or his heires may enter the opinion of the court was that this was a good condition for a man may make a condition in the negatiue of any thing which is prohibited by the law as if he make a feoffement prouiso that the feoffee shall not not committe felonie or that hee shall alien within age or in mortmayne and a man may enfeoffe A. and his wife vpon condition that they shall enfeoffe none other for that were a discontinuance otherwise it is that they shall not leuie a fine for that is contrarie to their estate g 10. H. 7. 8. So if a man make two executors prouiso that the one of them shall not administer this is a void prouiso because it restrayneth all the authoritie giuen in the premises as to him and the intent which agreeth not with lawe is to no purpose h 19. H. 8. 4. Dy. p Brud Englef And it hath beene agreede that if a man doe limitte an vse in taile with a prouiso that if cesty que vse doe such an acte his estate shall cease during his naturall life that this prouiso is repugnant and against lawe for the estate can not be determined in part And Iustice Walmsley sayd that when an estate is giuen to one it may bee defeated wholly by condition or limitation but it cannot bee determined in parte to one and giuen in parte to another for that is repugnant to the rules of law as if a man make a lease for life vpon condition that if the lessee pay not twentie pound that a nother shal haue part of the land this future limitation 6 What conditions impossible in fact are at the common law is voide i 41. Eliza. Corbets case 86. b. Com̄ And as to conditions impossible in facte such conditions if they go to the defeasans of an estate the estate notwithstanding remaineth good but estates cannot bee enlarged by such a condition impossible and if an obligation bee endorsed with a condition impossible the obligation is good and the condition is voide Therefore if a man seised of land doe enfeoffe a straunger vpon condition that if the feoffor go on foote from London to Stamford in a day that then it shall bee lawfull for him and his heires to reenter the condition is voide quia impossibile the estate good e 14. H. 8. 32. but if A. bee bound to B. that C. shall appeare in the common place Octab. Trin. in an action of debt brought by the said B. against C. retournable at the same day and C. appeareth the same day and his appearance is not recorded now the obligation is forfeited But if in this case C. had dyed before the day of the returne the obligation had beene saued because the condition became impossible by the acte of God f 9. E. 4. 25. 15. H. 7. 2. 38. H. 6. 19. Nomomath Now I pray you shew vnto me 6. Diuision whether conditions are to bee expounded strictly and according to the rigorous sence of the wordes are according to equitie and the exigence of the case so that the circumstances of a mans speech or actions shal haue the regiment of conditions Codicgn Conditions are in our lawe taken 1. Conditions in the ciuill law are taken according to equitie according to equitie For if I graunt to one an annuitie of ten pound yearely quamdiu res meas gesserit the law maketh this sence of these wordes that he shall haue ten pound yearely si res meas gesserit together with a limitation g l. pater §. fi ff de condi demon So if I buy of one the fishes which are taken by him though he haue not alreadie taken any fishes yet the wordes doe imply a condition that that the buyer shall haue them if any bee taken So if I say Acceptis centum solidis a Titio instituo eum haeredem it is
I substitute the one of them to the other that is if the one die the other shall haue all and the mother nothing at all t Gazalup verb. substitutio brem loqua Anglonomoph I haue noted in your wordes Codign two thinges which haue no small coherence and agreement with matters of our Law First in that by will according to your Law an entrie may be limitted to a straunger 2. In that ye hold that he which defeateth the estate of him that breaketh the condition shall defeat his whole estate and shal entirely claime the possession Which two assertions I shall seuerally prooue by cases of Law beginning with the first A man seised in fee of landes deuisable 3. By Will according to the common Law an entrie may be limitted to a stranger did deuise them to one for terme of his life and that he should be a Chapplein and that he should chaunt for his soule all his life time and that after his decease the tenements should remaine to the Cominaltie of a certaine village to finde a chappleine perpetuall for the same tenements and he died and the deuisee entred and held the landes sixe yeares and was no chappleine and the heire of the deuisour outed him and he brought an Assise And it seemed to the Court that the limitation that he should be a chappleine was no condition and that the heire could not enter for then the remainder should be defeated which may not be because by the intent a perpetuall chappleine ought to found u 29. Ass pla 17. Whereby it appeareth that they in the remainder were to take aduantage in this case of the breach of the thing that was to be done and not the heire So in Fitz Iames his case the clause of entrie was limitted to him in the remainder for breach of the condition by the particular tenant for it was helde that the limitation might determine the estate and that being determined he in the remainder might enter uu 13. et 14. Elizab. Com̄ 403. Newyses case Also 34. E. 3. the case was that a man had issue a sonne and a daughter and deuised land deuisable to one for life vpon condition that if the sonne should disturbe the tenant for life that the land should remaine to the daughter and the heires of her bodie the father dieth the sonne disturbeth the tenant for life who dieth the daughter brought a Formedon and it was allowed a 34. E. 3. Formedon pla vlt. But yet the aduantage of 4. The aduantage of entrie limitted to a stranger is in the late reports doubted of entrie by vertue of the limitation is not in other late reportes so cleare but hath been greatlie doubted of Stubes being Cestuy que vse deuised to his wife certaine land during her life ita quòd non faceret vastum the remainder to his yonger sonne in taile and died after the Statute of 27. of ioyning the possession to the vse is made the woman dieth the question was who should enter for the condition broken the heire the feoffees or he in the remainder b 3. Mar. 117. Dy. And an other case was equally doubtfull Wilford was bound in an Obligation without daie of payment limitted and deuised his land to his executors vppon condition that if they did not paie the said summe according to the obligation that the deuise should be voide and that then A. should haue the land to him and to his heires vppon condition that hee paied the money Wilford died A. died the executors are requested to pay the money and they would not pay it the question of the booke left vndecided is whether the heire of A. may enter into the land and paie the money c 3. Mar. 128. Dy. In like maner land in Gauelkind was deuised to the eldest sonne vpon condition that he should paie 100. li. to the wife of the deuisour he fayled of the payment it was questioned by Manwood whether the yonger sonne might enter into the moitie as by an implied limitation d 15. Eliz. 317. Dy. But touching such entries by force of some speciall limitation or condition Mast. Frowike giueth a good rule 21. H. 7. that an estate of inheritance can not cease by vertue of a condition broken onelie but there ought to be also an entrie But otherwise it is of a particular estate and the reason is because such an estate may be determined by word as by surrender and by the same reason it may cease by the wordes of the condition e 21. H. 7. 12. per Frowike Now that the 5. That the entrie for the condition broken defeateth the whole estate whole estate of the feoffee or donee is defeated by the breach of the condition and the entrie of the partie may be prooued by diuerse authorities in our Law and that there can be no fraction of the condition 14. Elizab. all the Iustices agreed And so was iudgement giuen in Winters case that by the graunt of the reuersion of part of the landes with which a condition runneth the condition is wholie confounded because it is a thing penall and entire and may not be apportioned nor diuided f 14. Elizab. 308. Dy. And 33. of Henrie the eight according to Mast. Brookes report it was helde for Law that if a man giue land in taile or lease it for life rendring rent with a condition for default of payment to reenter now if he lease part of the land to the donour or lessour or if the donour or lessour enter into part of the land he cannot enter for rent behind after but the condition is wholie suspended because a condition cannot be apportioned or diuided Therefore some scruple may with good reason be made of the case 16. Elizab. in my Lord Dyers reportes A man leased land for yeares vppon condition that the lessee should not alien the land to anie person without the assent of the lessour nor any part of the land the lessour giueth licence to alien part and the lessee alieneth the residue without licence it was adiudged that the lessour may enter notwithstanding the dispensation of the condition ex parte g 16. Elizab. 334. Dy. Howsoeuer 5. Edw. 6. be to the same purpose that a man enfeoffed two vppon condition to make backe a lease for life to the feoffour the remainder in fee to a straunger the one of them onelie maketh estate accordingly And by the opinion of manie this is good for a moitie by the dispensation of the partie who might take aduantage of the condition by his acceptance of estate h 5. Ed. 6. 69. Dy. For 23. Elizab. the case was such A man was bound in an hundred pound to giue to the obligee the moitie of all the fishes taken by his water-mille he tooke twentie one fishes and gaue tenne to the obligee and an action of Dette was brought vpon the obligation and the plaintife recouered
support a common weale then societies and fraternities For Numa Pompilius the king of the Romanes did ordeine certaine guildes of workmen and merchants and did binde them by solemne sacrifices and feasts which might be at certaine set daies celebrated to preserue loue and friendship amongest the people that they might with more ioy and comfort proceede in their priuate and publike affaires i Plut. in Num. Dionys Halicar lib. 2. And this he seemeth to haue done by Solons example who made fraternities of all sorts of men and permitted them to make Lawes touching their fraternities so they were not contrarie to the Law publikely receiued k Plut. in Solon But Lycurgus did not prescribe certaine feastes to be obserued but continuall meetings and comessations that friendship might not at any time be intermitted In other cities of Greece societies called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and throughout all Italie sodalitia were obserued To this end and purpose the Cretensians of all ages orders and sexe did banquet together in publike place l Arist in polit And in the famous Citie of London there is annuall and solemne obseruation of their feastes in euery guild which mightilie preserueth the wealth tranquilitie and florishing estate of that citie Neither is this custome dissonant from God his owne ordinance in the Iewish common weale who appointed certaine feastes and sacrifices to be obserued of the Iewes that religion towarde God and friendship amongest men might bee maintained m Numer 1. Leuit. 23. But as to the making of priuate Lawes by such guildes and fraternities Solons Law abouesaid hath been obserued almost of all common weales But the Statute of 15. Henr. 6. giueth somewhat a larger scope to guildes and fraternities in these wordes Guildes and fiaternities and companies incorporate shall not make nor vse any ordinance which may be to the diminution of the Kinges fraunchise or of other fraunchises or against the common profit of the people vnlesse it be first discussed by the Iustices of peace or the chiefe gouernors of the village and before them entred of recorde c. But when I speake of colledges companies meetings feastinges and assemblies I doe with the maine force of my hart exclude vnlawfull societies conuenticles and secreat meetinges of male-contents phantasticall and priuate humored persons But to colledges fraternities and companies erected and created by Law I see no reason but that landes and yearelie maintenance may be giuen and allowed vnto them yet not without the Princes permission who for some speciall causes fore-seene may stoppe and hinder such donations And therefore wiselie by diuers Statutes in this Realme is remedie prouided against this and a writ of Ad quod damnum deuised n Statut. de Religios 18. E. 3. pro clero cap. 3. 15. R. 2. cap. 5. Antonius the Emperour did first of all permit legacies and donations to bee made to colledges and companies excepting the colleges of the Iewes whom notwithstanding hee suffered to meete together and to haue their synagoges for religious vse o L. 1. de Iud. C. Alexander magnus did bestowe vppon his citie Alexandria built at the seauen-folde mouth of Nilus manie great priuiledges fraunchises and immunities p Ioseph lib. 3. bel Iud. So Frauncis the first being the founder of that citie which standeth at the mouth of Sequana gaue great immunitie to such as should inhabite it q Bodin lib. 1. de republ c. 6. And so diuerse of our kinges of England haue bestowed many liberties fraunchises and benefits vpon seuerall citties which M. Camden hath verie profitably very learnedly amongst other things in their due places set downe whome I need not further commende to my country-men of England to whom by his great worth and desert he is more deare and precious Quà m si illum Veneris commendet epistola Marti But I will further proceed in shewing the great prerogatiues graunted by princes and other supreame estates to citties and corporations In all ages and all common weales cities and corporations haue not only had their courts folkemote and the like but euen common councels as they are commonly tearmed and publike meetinges for the generall good of the corporations For as great profite doth arise by such societies and meetinges so nothing doth more debilitate and weaken the state of a common weale then the taking away of such Councels therefore the Romanes when they had ouercome Macedonia because they would make the estate of it weake and impuissant they did vtterly forbidde all common Councels and publike meetinges so they did when they had ouercome the Achaeans Memmius the Consull saith Liuie did dissolue all the common councels of the particular nations of Achaia and of the Phocensians and Baeotians and the other partes of Greece r Liui. lib. 35 But when these regions and prouinces were sufficiently quieted and soundly knit to the bodie of the Romane Empire then as Strabo reporteth their auncient Councels were restored vnto them but the Romanes did neuer alter the liberties of any citie vnlesse they were abused to their hurt as appereth by the words of Florus Critolaus causa belli qui libertate a Romanis data aduersus ipsos vsus est ſ Flor. lib. 2. Neither were the liberties of the Aetolians impeached vntill they reuolted to Antiochus as Iustin sheweth Offensi Aetóli quód non ex arbitrio eorum Macedonia quoque adempta Phillippo data sibi in praemium belli esset Antiochum in Romana bella impellunt t Iustin lib. 3. And such abuses many times happen in cities for as Liuie that excellent writer in wit diligence and history matched by none in wisedome and grauitie by very few in pietie ouercome onely of one of the heathens 1 Varro 2 Cicero and but of one in eloquence well auoucheth Nulla est ciuitas quae non et improbos ciues aliquādo u Liui. lib. 45. imperitam multitudinem semper habeat but as they did fauour lawfull and conuenient councels so vnlawfull and secrete conuenticles they did greatly abhorre wherefore the nocturnall meeting at the sacrifice of Bacchus was iustly abiudicated and disanulled by the whole Senate the conuēticle of the black-religioned Brownists by the L. Archbishop of Canterburie the high Commissioners who though a greater number of them were women pretended themselues to be harmeles vnapt to do hurt yet as Liuie saith A nullo non genere summum periculum est si coetus consilia et secret as consultationes esse sinas x Liui. lib. 34. And this ought especially to be feared and preuented whē contumelious contumacy is vailed with the shadow of religion and reformation for as the same Liuie saith againe very well Nihil in speciem fallacius praua religione vbi deorum numen praetenditur sceleribus subit animum timor y Liui. li 1. 39. O lord how long shall Sathan abuse the soules created by thee with a