Recovery c. by transmutation of the possession out of the estate of the Feoffees conusees c. Coke 6. part fo 27. Twines case fo 83. Lo. Coke 3 pars IF a man make an estate for life Conditions Vide plus fo 17. 6. fo 35. the remainder in taile the remainder over in Fee upon condition that any of them in remainder shall doe a certaine act then if hee doth not do it the Feoffer and his heires may enter without any words of re-entry in the proviso and thereby shall defeate the estate in possession and all the remainders for he that entreth for a condition broken and a condition in Deed is in of such estate he had before the condition made but otherwise it is where an entry is made upon a condition in law Coke 8. pars Whittinghams case Vide. fo 50. b. For if Lessee for life or yeares grant a Rent charge out of the lands or make a Lease of some part of the terme or doth acknowledge a Statute or Recognizance and then afterwards doth make a Feoffment in Fee or commit any acts which are forfeitures in Law or doth surrender his estate to his Lessor yet the Lessor shall hold the Land charged And note that a condition in law which by force of a Statute giveth a recovery is stronger then a condition in Law which giveth an entry without a recovery For if Lessee for life make a Lease for yeares and then entreth into the land and doth Waste and the Lessor recover in an action of Waste against the Lessee for life he shal avoid the Lease made before the Waste committed But if the Lesse for life make a Lease for yeares and then entreth and makes a Feoffement in Fee the Lessor shall not avoide the Lease for yeares So if the Tenant make a Lease for yeares and then is attained of Felony or dieth without heire although the Lord recover by Writ or escheat yet he shall not avoide the tearme 8. pars fo 44. Whittinghams case Remainder If I make a lease for life upon condition that if the Lessee doth such an Act hee shall have Fee and he doth it accordingly there he shall have Fee because he is privy to the condition and therefore shall take the benefit therof Remainder Lessee for 5 yeares upon condition that if he pay me 20 pound within two yeares that then he shall have Fee the Fee passeth out of the lessor forthwith Remainedr So where a Lease is made for life upon condition that if I. S. marry my daughter during the Estate for life that then it shall remaine unto him this is a good remainder and yet it doth commence upon condition for there is an estate whereupon a remainder may bee founded and the condition goeth not to the destruction of the particular estate If I make a Lease for yeares the remainder for life upon condition that if he in remainder doth such an act that the remainder shall be void now before the condition broken the remainder is good and in him to whom it is appointed But if the condition be broken then the remainder is out of him and in the person of the Lessor againe Lessee for life the remainder to A. his wife for her life if she live so long sole and unmarried the remainder to D. their son for his life the remainder to D. is good though it commence upon a conditon because the particular estate continueth and the condition goeth not to the destruction of the particular estate and the first remainder doth vest during the perticular estate which maketh the latter to be good though it doth commence upon the condition but quaere whether the second remainder shall begin either upon her marriage or her death If a man for him and his Heires warrant lands to one and his Heires that is a generall Warranty Warranty and what words make a generall Warranty for that it is not restrained against any person in certaine Coke 1. pars fol. 2. This word give in a Feoffment importeth a generall VVarranty against all men during the life of the Feoffor And this word Grant in a Chattel-real doth import a VVarranty in it selfe alone without any clause of VVarranty so as there be in the Deed no speciall matter to qualifie the VVarranty by some speciall Covenant But this word Concessi or Demisi in case of Frank-tenement or Inheritance doth import not VVarranty Coke 5. pars fol 18. The clause of without impeachment of waste Waste in toto and the full definition of the word without impeachment of Waste and what is Waste giveth power to the lessee which shall produce an interest unto him if he doth execute his power during the privity of his Estate and therefore to examine it in reason these words Absque impetitione vasti are in effect as without demand for waste for Impetitio is derived of In and peto and petere is to demand and petio is a demand and sine impetitione is without any manner of demand or impeachment Then this word Demand is of a large extent for if a man disseise me of my land or take my Goods if I release unto him all Actions yet I may enter into the land or seise my goods for by the release of the Action the right or interest is not released but if in such case I release all Demands that shall exclude me not onely of my Action but also of my entry and sciser and of the right of my land and property in my Chattels But if the words had been Absque impetitione vasti per aliquod breve de vasto then the Action onely shall be discharged and not the property in the Trees but the Lessor after the cutting of them may seise them and the diversity appeareth in 30 E. 3. 44. in Walter Idles case where a Lease was made without being impeached or impleaded for waste whereupon it was gathered that these words Without being impeached for waste were not sufficient to barr the Lessor of his property And that if the Lessor had granted that the Lessee might do waste he by that hath power not onely to do waste but also to convert it to his owne use And the opinion of Wray chiefe Justice and Manhood cited in Herlakendens case was not judiciall but prima facie upon Arbitrement without any argument Coke 11. pars fol. 82. When Tenant in fees granteth all his estate to another the Grantee shall have no Fee-simple for want of these words Heires but estate for life but his estate in such case shall be without impeachment of waste as the estate of the Grantee of Tenant in taile shall be and the Feesimple shall be in Nubibus there as well as it shall be of an estate taile and there if he doth commit Treason and dieth the Fee-simple shall escheat to the Common Lord of whom the land is holden for that the blood is corrupt between him and his
life make a Feoffment that is a forfeiture and yet nothing passeth but his own estate But making a Livery in fee it is a forfeiture though none of the remainders be divested Coke 2. pars fol. 76. b. Bredons case vide plus fol. 50. this is a forfeiture and yet no reversion or remainder is divested out of the King A particular Estate of any thing that lyeth in Grant cannot be forfeited by any grant in Fee by Deed As if Tenant for life or years of an Advowson Rent Common or of a reversion or remainder of Land by Deed grant the same in fee this is no forfeiture But if such a Tenant levy a Fine c then it is a forfeiture Note The diversiâ—y between Livery and Seâ—sin of Land and the delivery of a deed and what is a good delivery of a deed in Law there is a diversity between Livery and Seisin of Land and the delivery of a Deed for if a man deliver a Deed without saying of any thing it is a good delivery but to a Livery of Seisin of Lands words are necessary as taking in his hands the Deed and the ring of the doore if it be of a house or a turff or twig if it be of Land and using the words aforesaid And a Deed may be delivered to the party without words without any act of delivery As if the Writing sealed lyeth upon the Table and the Feoffor or Obligor saith to the Feoffee or Obligee Go and take up the said Writing it is sufficient for you or it will serve the turne or take it as my Deed or the like words it is a sufficient delivery Cokes Littleton title Dower fol. 36. a. 29 H. 8. Dyer fol. 95 43 Eliz. inter Hawsly Lacker in Banco Rs. Hillary 12 Jac. Rs. in Com. Banco The Grant of a Seignory Rent-charge Rent-seck Attornment in toto withall incidents therunto as also the Remainder or reversion of any of these or the remainder or reversion of the Land it self is nothing worth without Attornment viz. the agreement of the Tenant that must be presently charged As Lord Mesne and Tenant the Lord grants his Seignory the Mesne must attorne and not the Tenant prevaile for the Mesne is Tenant to the Lord Lord and Tenant the Tenant letteth the Land for life or giveth in taile saving the reversion to himself Now if the Lord grant his Seignory he in the reversion must attorne to the Grantee and not the Tenant for life or Tenant in taile for he in the reversion is Tenant to the Lord and not the other But if the Tenant had let his Land to one for life the remainder in fee thereupon a grant of the Seignory the Tenant for life must attorne for he is Tenant to the Lord so is not he in the remainder so long as Tenant for life liveth If Lands be let for years or given in taile saving the reversion upon a Grant of the reversion the Tenant of the Land must attorne And an Attornment may either be by word as to say I agree or am content with the Grant Or I attorne to you and become your Tenant by force of the Grant or else by the delivery of a penny and to the Grantee c. in name of Attornment or by any other matter implying an agreement as by a surrender to the Grantee of the reversion praying in aide of him c. and if such an Attornment be not to the Grantee in the life of the Grantor then the Grant is void In the Grant of a Reversion depending on a Freehold the attornment of the Freeholder is sufficient though he be not the Tenant that must presently be charged As if Lands be let to a man for years the remainder to another for life and hee in reversion grant the reversion to another the attornment of him in the remainder is sufficient 1 Littleton fol. 1â—… 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 nly and where not If a man bind himself and his Heires in an Obligation or 〈◊〉 covenant by writing for him and his 〈…〉 or 〈◊〉 grant an Annuity for him and his â—…res in all these cases the Law chargeth the Heire after the death of the Ancestor with this Obligation Covenant Annuity Warranty yet with these three cautions that the party must by speciall name bind himself and his Heires for if the party in the bond Covenant Annuity or Warranty doth not bind himself as well as his Heires in such case the Heire shall never be bound 2. Some Action must be brought against the Heire whilest the Land or other Inheritance resteth in him unalienated away For if the Ancestor dye and the Heire before an Action be brought against him upon those Bonds Covenants or Warranties do alien away the Land then the Heire is cleaned discharged of the burthen 3. No Heire is further to be charged then the value of the Land descendeth to him from that Ancestor that made the charge and that not to be sold outright but to be kept in extent and at a yearly value untill the Debt or damage be run out Neverthelesse if an Heire that is sued upon such a Debt of his Ancestor doth not deale clearly with the Court when he is sued that is if he come not immediatly by way of confession and set down the true quantity of his Inheritance discended and so submit himself as the Law requireth then that Heire shall be charged of his owne other Lands Goods and money for this Deed of his Ancestor As if a man bind himself and his Heirs in an Obligation of a hundred pounds and dieth leaving but ten acres of Lands to his Heire if his Heire be sued upon the Bond and cometh in and denieth that he hath any by discent and it is found against him by verdict that he hath ten acres this Heire shall be now charged by his false plea of his owne Lands Goods and body to pay the hundred pounds though the Land be not worth ten pounds All words which do prove by specialty Words onely which do shew a man to be a Debtor to another is a good Obligation without binding the Executor that the maker of the Writing is a Debtor to another that is a sufficient Obligation and though the Executor or Administrator are not expressed yet the Law will charge them because they represent the Estate of the Testator but the Heire shall never be charged without expresse mention of the Heire Dyer fol 2 3. Acquittance for one Rent is a discharge of all former Rents Those cannot be heirs If a Rent be behind for twenty years and the Lord make an Acquittance for the last that is due all the rest are presumed to be paid and the Law will admit no proofe against this presumption Cokes Littleton fol. 373. A Bastard can be no Heire nor have any unlesse it be his owne Child A man attainted of Treason or Felony can be no Heire nor have an Heir though it be his
covenanteth and granteth to be seised to his use in Fee although no consideration be expresly showne because the Indenture is an Estopell to say it was not a good consideration and it seemeth the Court may not examine the consideration and there is a diversity where the Grant is by Indenture and where by word only Nota. If a man hath power to make Leases for three lives he may not make a Lease for 99. yeares determinable upon three lives But if a man hath power by proviso to make any lease or Grant provided that such lease or Grant exceed not the number of three lives or 21. yeares there he may make a lease for ninety nine yeares if three lives so long live for that doth not exceed the number of three lives but that in truth is lesser for every tearme for yeares which is but a Chattle is lesser in estimation of the law then estate for life which is Frank-tenement If A. be Tenant for life the remainder in taile and A. hath power to make leases for twenty one yeares rendant the ancient rent he may not make a lease by Warrant of Attorney by force of his power because he hath but particular power which is personall unto him Lands may be conveyed 6. manner of wayes First by Feoffment executed from one man to another man and his heires by solemn livery and Seisin By Feoffement By Fine By recovereys Bargain and Sale By use By Covenant By Will if a lesser Estate be given then Fee-simple is it not calâ—ed a Feoffement unless the Fee-simple be conveighed A man in consideration of 100. l and of marriage covenanteth from thenceforth to bee seised of certaine land to the use of himselfe for life and afterwards to the use of his son in taile and the deed is not inrolled according to 27 H. 8. the use and profits is charged because the statute speaketh of bargain and sale only and the use is not because of Bargain and sale only but also for marriage Ploudens case Manxell fo 4. A Fine is a reall agreement made upon record in the Kings Court of Common Pleas at Westminster upon Fines What a Fine is and how lands may be converred therby Tenant for life the remainder to A. in taile the remainder to B. in tail c. with diverse remainders over and tenant for life suffers a common recovery wherein he voucheth A. and he the common vouchee that shall binde all the otheir remainders for no Covin or collusion may be supposed when the next in remainder in taile which hath the immediate inheritance is vouched Coke 10 pars fo 48. a rent may be reserved but no condition or Covenant this fine is a record of great credit and upon this Fine are made foure proclamations made openly in the common Pleas in every Terme and for foure termes together and if any man having right to the same make not his claime within 5. yeares after the proclamations ended hee looseth his right for ever an Infant a Feme covert a Madman or one beyond the Seas only excepted whose rights are saved so that he claime within 5 yeares after full age death of her husband recovery of the Wits or returne beyond the Seas it barreth the heires in taile presently whether the heire doth claime within 5. yeares or not if he claime by him that levied the fine A recovery barreth entailes and all remainders and reversions that should take place after the entailes saving where the King is giver of the entaile and keepeth the reversion to himselfe then neither the heire nor reversion is barred by the recovery And now by use recoveries are become common assurances against entailes remainders and reversions and the greatest security purchasers have for their money for a Fine will barr the heire in taile but not the remainders nor reversions Why recoveries doe barr remainders and reversions but a common recovery will bar them all and the reason why the heires remainders and reversions are thus barred is because in strict law the recompence adjudged against the cryor that was vouchee is to goe in succession of estate as the Land should have done and then it was not reason to allow the heire the liberty to keep the land it selfe and also to have recompence and therefore he loseth the Land and is to trust to the recompence Vpon Feoffements and recoveries the estate doth settle Vpon Fines Feoffements and recoveries the estate doth settle according to the intent of the parties as the use and intent of the parties is declared by word or writing before the act was done as for example if they make a writing that any of them shall levie a Fine make a Feoffement or suffer a common recovery to the other but the use and intent is that one shall have it for his life and after his decease a stranger to have it in taile and then a third in Fee-simple in this case the Law setteth an estate according to the use and intent declared And that by reason of the statute of 27 H. 8. of uses concerning the land in possession to him that hath interest in the use or intent of the fine Feoffement or recovery according to the use and intent of the parties The Statute of 27 H. 8. doth not passe land upon the payment of money without a Deed indented and inrolled Vpon this Statute is likewise grounded the fourth and the fifth of the sixt conveyances viz. Bargaines and Sales and Covenants to stand seised to uses for this statute wheresoever it findeth an use conjoyneth the possession to it and turneth it into like quality of state condition rent and the like as the use hath But the Parliament that made the statute did foresee that it would be mischievous that mens lands should suddenly upon the payment of a little money be taken from them peradventure in an Alehouse or a Tavern upon straineable advantages did therefore gravely provide another Act in the same Parliament that the Land upon payment of this money should not pass away unlesse there were a writing indented made between the said 2. parties and the said wrighting also within six months inrolled at some of the Courts of Westminster or in the Sessions Rolls in the Sheir where the land lieth The first conveyance by covenant is a conveyance to stand seised to uses it is in this sort A Covenant to stand seised to a use needeth no Inrolement as a Bargaine and Sale to an use doth so as it be to the use of Wife Child or Cousin or one he meaneth to marry a man that hath a wife and children brethen and kinsfolke may by writing under his hand and Seale agree that for him they or any of their heirs he wil stand seised of his lands to their uses either for life in taile or in Fee so as he shal see cause upon which agreement in writing there ariseth an equity or honesty that the land should
go according to those agreements nature and reason allowing those provisions which equity and honesty is the use and the use being created in this sort the statute of 27 H. 8. containeth the estates of the Land as the use is appointed and so this covenant to stand seised to uses is at this day a conveyance of land and with this difference from a bargaine and sale in that this needs no inrolement nor needeth not to be a writing indented as a bargain and sale must and if the party to whose use he agreeth to stand seised of the land be not wife or Child Cosin or one that hee meaneth to marry then will no use arise and so no conveyance Vpon a fine Feoffement or recovery a man may limit the use to whom he will without consideration of bloud or money otherwise in a bargaine and sale or Covenant for although the law alloweth such weighty considerations of marriage and bloud to raise uses yet doth it not admit so trifling considerations as of acquaintance Schooling service or the like but where a man maketh an estate of his land to others by Fine Feoffment or Recovery he may then appoint the use to whom he listeth without respect of marriage kindred money or other thing it is not so when he maketh an Estate but agreeth to stand seised nor when he hath taken any thing as in the cases of Bargaine and Sale and Covenant to stand seised to Uses The last of the six conveyances is a Will in writing which course of conveyance was first ordained by the statute of 32 H. 8. before which statute no man might give land by will except it were in a Burrowgh-Towne where there was a speciall custome that men might give their lands by Will as in Lond. and many other places In what manner the statute of 32. H. 8. giveth power to dispose of lands by Wil. By the Statute of 32 H 8. a man may give lands by will in this sort first it must be by Will in writing Secondly he must be seised of an estate in Fee-simple for tenant for another mans life or tenant in taile cannot give lands by Will by that statute If a man be seised of Capite Lands and Socage he cannot devise but two parts of the whole Thirdly he must be solely seised and not jointly with another and then being thus seised for all the Land he holdeth in socage being tenure he may give it by the Will except he holdeth any peece of Land in capite by Knights service of the King and laying all his lands together he can give but two parts by will for the third part of the whole aswell in socage as in capite must discend to the heire to answer Wardship Livery and Primmer seisin to the Crowne And so if he hold Lands by Knights service of a subject he can devise but two parts of his Lands and the Lord by Wardship and the heire by discent is to hold A conveyance by devise of Capite Lands to the wife for her Joyner or to his Children for their good or to pay debt is void for a third part by 32 H. 8. And if a man that hath three Acres of Land holden in capite by Knights service do make a Jointure to his wise of one and convey another to any of his children or to friends to take the profits to pay his debts or Legacies or daughters portions then the third Acre or any part therof he cannot give by Will but must suffer it to descend to the heir and that must satisfie Wardship Yet a man having three acres as before may convey all to his wife and children by conveyance in his life time as by Feoffment Fine Recovery Bargaine and Sale or Covenant to stand seised to Uses and to disinherit the Heire but if the Heire be within age when the Father dieth the King or other Lord shal have that Heire in VVard and shall have one of the three acres during the VVardship to sue Livery and primer Seisin But at full age the Heire shall have no part of it but it shall go according to the conveyance made by the Father It hath been debated how the Thirds shall be set forth for it is the use The King nor Lord can intermeddle if a full third part be left to descend to the heir Entailed lands part of the Thirds that all lands which the Father leaveth to descend to the Heire being Fee-simples or in taile must be part of the Thirds and if it be a full Third then the King nor Heire nor Land can intermeddle with the rest if it be not a full Third yet they must take it so much as it is and have a supply out of the rest This supply is thus to be taken if it be the Kings VVard then by a Commission out of the Court of VVards whereupon a Jury upon Oath may set downe so much as shall make up the Thirds except the Officers of the Court of VVards can otherwise agree with the parties if there be no VVardship due to the King then the other Lord is to have a supply by a Commission out of the Chancery and a Jury thereupon But in all the Cases these Statutes do give power to him that maketh the VVill The Statute giveth power to the Testator to set out the Thirds himselfe and if it be not a third part yet the King or Lord must take that in part and have a supply out of the rest to set forth and appoint of himselfe which lands shall go for the Thirds and neither King nor Lord can refuse it and if it be not enough yet they must take that in part and onely have a supply in manner as before is mentioned out of the rest A Feoffment made to the use of ones VVill if his VVill be declared before or at the time of his Feoffment it cannot be altered because it is executed otherwise it is if his Will be declared afterwards 20 H. 7. 11. vide fol. 27. b. What persons may make Leases at this day There be three kinds of persons at this day which may make Leases for three lives c. in such sort as hereafter is expressed which could not so do when Littleton wrote Any person seised of an Estate in Fee-simple in the right of his Church and any person seised of an Estate in Fee-taile in his owne right Any Husband and VVife seised of any Estate of Inheritance in Fee or in Fee-taile in the right of his wife or joyntly with his wife before the Coverture or after viz. The Tenant in taile by Deed to bind his Issues in taile but not the Reversion or Remainder The Bishop by Deed without the Deane and Chapiter to bind his Successors the husband and wife by Deed to bind the wife and her and their Heires and these are made good by the Statute of 32 H. 8. which enableth them thereunto but to the making
good of such Leases by the said Statute there are nine things necessary to be observed belonging to them all and some other to some of them in particular 1. The Lease must be made by Deed indented 2. He must be made to begin from the day of the making or from the making thereof 3. If there be an old Lease in being it must be surrendred or expired or ended within a year of the making of the Lease and the surrender must be absolute and not conditionall 4. There must not be a double Lease in being at one time As if a Lease for years be made according to the Statute he in the Reversion cannot expulse the Lessee and make a Lease for life or lives according to the Statute nor e converso for the words of the Statute be to make a Lease for three lives or one and twenty yeares so as the one or the other may be made and not both 5. It must not exceed three lives or one and twenty yeares from the making of it but it may be for a Lesser terme or fewer lives 6. It must be of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments maynorable or corporeall which are necessary to be letten and whereunto a Rent by Law may be reserved and not of things that lye in Grant as Advowsons Faires Markets Franchises and the like out whereof a Rent cannot be reserved 7. It must be of Lands or Tenements which have been most commonly letten by the space of twenty years next before the Lease made so as if it be letten for eleven yeares at one or severall times within those twenty yeares it is sufficient A Grant by Copy of Court Roll in fee for life or yeares is a good letting to farme within this Statute for he is but Tenant at will Secund. Cons Manerii And so it is of a Lease at will by the Common Law But those lettings to Farme must be made by some seised of an Estate of inheritance and not by a Guardian in Chivalry Tenant by Gurtesie Tenant in Dower or the like 8. That upon every such Lease there be reserved yearely during the said Lease due and payable to the Lessors their Heirs and Successors c. so much yearly Farme or Rent as hath been most accustomably yeilded and paid for the Land within twenty yeares before such Lease made Hereby first it appeareth that nothing can be demised by authority of this Act but that whereon a Rent may be lawfully reserved Secondly that where not only a yearly Rent was formerly reserved but things not annuall as Herriots or any Fine or other profit at or upon the death of the farmor yet if the yearly rent be reserved upon a Lease made by force of this Statute it sufficeth by the expresse words of the Act And if twenty acres of land have been accustomably letten and a Lease is made of these twenty and one acre which was not accustomably letten reserving the customably yearely rent and so much more as exceeds the value of the other acre this Lease is not warrantably letten and the rent issueth out of the whole If Tenant in taile let part of the land accustomably letten and reserve a rent pro rat or more this is good for that is in substance the accustomable Rent If two Coparceners be Tenant in taile of 20. acres every one of equall value and usually letten and they make partition so as each have ten acres they may make Leases of their severall parts each of them reserving the halfe of the accustomable rent If the usuall Rent had been payable at foure dayes or Feasts of the yeare yet if it be reserved yearly payable at one Feast it is sufficient for the words of the Statute be reserved yearely Ninthly nor to any Lease to be made without impeachment of Waste therefore if a Lease be made for life the Remainder for life c. this is not Warranted by the Statute because it is dispunishable for VVaste but if a Lease be made to one during three lives this is good for the Occupant if any happen shall be punished for VVaste the words of the Statute be seised in the right of his Church yet if a Bishop that is seised in jure Episcopatus A Deane of his sole possessions in jure Decanatus An Arch-deacon in jure Archidiaconatus A Prebendary and the life are within the Statute for every of them is generally seised in jure Ecclesiae All Grants Feoffments Leases and other Conveyances or Estates to any Master or Fellowes of a Colledge Deane and Chapiter Master or Guardian of an Hospitall Parson Vicar c. other then for one and twenty yeares or three lives from the time of such Lease or Grant reserving the accustomable yearely rent yearly payable shall be meerly void 18 Eliz cap. 11. All Leases made by such persons as 13 Eliz. cap. 10. before where another Lease for yeares is in being not to be expired surrendred or ended within three years next after the making of such new Lease shall be void All Bonds and Covenants for renewing or making of any Lease contrary hereunto or to 13 Eliz. cap. 10. before shall be void But a Parson and Vicar are excepted out of the Statute of 32 H. 8. and therefore if either of them make a Lease for three lives c. of lands usually letten reserving the usuall rent it must be also confirmed by the Patron and Ordinary because it is excepted out of 32 H. 8. and not restrained by the Statute of 1. or 13 Eliz. and what hath been said concerning a Lease for three lives doth hold for a Lease of one and twenty yeares Now to speak somewhat of the disabling Statutes of 1. and 13 Eliz. the words of the exception out of the restraint and disability of 1 Eliz. are Notes of things well and duty to be observed other then for the terme of one and twenty years or three lives from such time as any Grant or assurance shall be given whereupon the old and accustomed yearely rent or more shall be reserved And to that effect is the exception in the Statute of 13 Eliz. First it is to be understood that neither of these nor any other do in any sort alter or change the enabling Statute of 32 H. 8â— but leaveth it for a patterne in many things for Lease to be made for others Secondly it is to bee knowne that no lease made according to exceptation of 1 Eliz and 13. Eliz. and not warranted by the Statute of 32 H. 8. if it be made by a Bishop or any sole Corporation but it must be confirmed by the Deanes and Chapiters or others that have interest as hath been said in the case of the Parson and Vicar but examples do illustrate If a Bishop make a Lease for one and twenty yeares and all these yeares being spent saving three or more yet may the Bishop make a new Lease to another for one and twenty yeares to begin from the making
next jure propinquitatis that is by right of representation and by right of propinquity And Littleton meaneth of the right of representation for legally in course of discent he is next of blood inheritable And the issue of C. doth represent the person of C. and if C. had lived he had been legally next of blood And whensoever the Father if he had lived should have inherited his lineall heire by right of representation shall inherit before any other though a Mother be jure propinquitatiâ—… neerer of blood But if there be Father and Son and the Father hath a brother that is Uncle to the Son and the Son purchase lands in fee and die without issue living the Father the Uncle shall have the lands as heire to the Son and not the Father yet the Father is neerer of blood because it is a Maxime in Law that inheritance may lineally descend but not ascend yet if the Son in this case die without issue and the Uncle enter into the land as heire to the Son and after the Uncle dieth without issue living the Father the Father shall have the land as heire to the Uncle and not as heire to his Son for that he cometh to the land by collaterall discent and not by lineall ascent and his Uncle enter into the land for if the Uncle in this case doth not enter into the land then cannot the Father inherit the land for there is another Maxime in Law herein implied That a man that claimeth as heir in Fee-simple to any man by discent must make himself heire to him that was last seised of the actual Freehold and inheritance And if the Uncle in this case doth not enter then had he but a Freehold in Law and no actuall Freehold but the last that was seised of the actuall Freehold was the Son to whom the Father cannot make himself heire And therefore Littleton saith And his Uncle enter into the land as he ought by the Law to make the Father to inherit as heire to the Uncle Note that true it is that the Uncle in this case is heire but not absolutely heire for if after the discent to him the Father hath issue a Son or a Daughter that issue shall enter upon the Uncle And so it is if a man hath issue a Son and a Daughter the Son purchaseth land in fee and dieth without issue the Daughter shall inherit the land but if the Father hath afterward issue a Son this Son shall enter into the land as heire to his brother and if he hath issue a Daughter and no Son she shall be Co-partner with her Sister As he ought by the Law These words as a Key do open the secrets of the Law for hereupon it is concluded that where the Uncle cannot get an actuall possession by entry or otherwise there the Father in this case cannot inherit And therefore if an Advowson be granted to the Son and his Heires and the Son die and this discend to the Uncle and he die before he doth or can present to the Church the Father shall not inherit because he should make himself heire to the Son which he cannot do And so of a rent and the like But if the Uncle had presented to the Church or had Seisin of the rent there the Father should have inherited For Littleton putteth his case of an entry into land But for an example if the Son make a Lease for life and die without issue and the Reversion discend to the Uncle and he die the Reversion shall not discend to the Father because in that case he must make himself heire to the Son If the Father make a Lease for years and the Lessee entreth and the Father dieth the eldest Son dieth before entry or receipt of the rent the younger Son of the half blood shall not inherit but the Sister because the possession of the Lessee for years is the possession of the eldest Son so as he is actually seised of the Frank-tenement and the Inheritance and consequently the Sister of the whole blood is to be heire And so if lands be holden by Knights service and the eldest Son is within age and the Guardian entreth into the lands An so likewise if Guardian in Socage enters But in the case aforesaid if the Father make a lease for life or a gift in tail and dieth and the eldest Son dieth in the life of Tenant for life c. the younger brother of the half blood shall inherit because the Tenant for life or Tenant in tail is seised of the Freehold and the eldest Son had nothing but a Reversion expectant upon the Freehold and therefore the youngest Son shall inherit the land as Heire to his Father who was last seised of the actuall Freehold And albeit a rent had been reserved on the estate for life and the eldest Son had received the rent and died yet it is holden by that the younger brother shall inherit because the seisin of the rent is no actuall seisin of the Freehold of the land but Liber Ass part 2. seemeth to the contrary Ideo quaere He that claimeth Lands Tenements Maxime upon collaterall discent or Hereditaments as collaterall heire to any one must claim from such an one that had an actuall possessession and died actually seised of the Frank-tenement and the inheritance in Fee-simple of those lands which he so claimeth by discent and not from such a one who had but a possession in Law or a reversion in Fees expectant on a Frank-tenement discendible unto him But to the lineall heire it sufficeth that the Ancestor should have been heire if he had lived But if such a collaterall heire claime from a collaterall Ancestor that had a possession in Law by his own purchase or reversion in Fee-simple expectant on a Frank-tenement by his own purchase it is sufficient Actuall possession Note that an actuall possession must be gained either by a mans own act or by the actuall possession of another but if neither by his own act nor by the possession of another he doth gain no more then discendeth unto him then the brother of the half blood shall inherit Possessio quid And this word Possessio is no other but pedis positio and extendeth onely to things whereof a man by his entry or other act may gain an actuall possession for when the eldest Son hath not an actuall possession or if it be such inheritance whereof any possession may not be gained per pedis positionem or by any other act then the inheritance by the Law shall discend to the brother of the half blood As for example The King by his Letters Patents createth a Baron and giveth the Dignity to him and his Heires and he hath issue a Son and a Daughter by one venter and a Son by another venture and dieth the eldest Son dieth without issue To whom shall the dignity discend To the younger Son for it may not be said that the
there he hath but an estate for life for there want words precedent to direct the words in the disjunctive these words Heires are of the essence of the estate and without them no estate of inheritance shall pass And so by the same reason if a reversion upon a Feoffement in Fee be made to one or his heires such reservation is good no longer but during the life of the Feoffor A. covenants to make a lease to B. and his assignes for 21. yeares the sence of these words shall be taken that he shall make the Lease to B. or his Assignes for 21. yeares Plow Com. fo 289. The defendant bound himselfe by Indenture to pay to the Plantiff a certaine sum if so be that the Defendant did not enfeoffee the plantiffe nor his heires of certain Land when he came to his aunt and the Plantiffe declared that the Defendant came to his aunt and the Plantiffe required him to enfeoffee him and he did not enfeoffee him per quod actio accrevit and exception was taken to this declaration because the condition was in a disjunctive that is to say that the Plantiff should have the sum if the Defendant did not enfeoffee him nor his heires and he hath said that he did not enfeoffe him not speaking of the Feoffment to his heires and if he had performed any of the parts ' of the disjunctive the Plantiffe might not have the debt but the Count was holden very good notwithstanding that exception for the plantiff might not have an heir during his life so that although the condition in words be disjunctive yet forasmuch as the Plantiffe was alive in sence it was not disjunctive for he might not have an heir being alive and the sence of the words are to be taken to enfeoffee the Plantiffe if he be alive if he were dead then to enfeoffee his heires and as the Plantiffe may not have an heire during his life so heere in the case above B. may not have an executor during his life and as the condition there in the disjunctive to enfeoffee at a time to come him or his heirs was taken to enfeoffe him at the time limitted if hee were alive and if he were dead at the time then to his heirs so here the Covenant to make a lease at a time to come to him and his assignes copulatively shall be taken disjunctively in sence that is to say to him if he be alive and to his assignes if he be dead Plow com fo 289. Of uses in esse in futuro A. makes a Feoffment in Fee to the use of D. for life and after to the use of him which shall be his first son in taile and for default of such issue to the use of B. in taile and for default of such issue to the use of C. in fee. In this case forthwith by the Feoffment D. hath estate for life the remainder to B. in taile the remainder to C. in Fee and no estate is put in abeyance or left in the Feoffees but if after A. hath issue a son then the possibility which the Feoffee had becomes to an estate in Law and forthwith the statute of 27. H 8. cap. 10. executeth the possession according to the limitation of the use But if Tenant for life be disseised before the birth of the son and after he hath issue a son now nothing vesteth in the son because there ought to be a use in esse before that the Statute can execute the possession But who shall enter to remoove the impediment and to restore the privity of the estates Surely if the tenant for life shall re-enter hee shall revive all the former estates which the statute of 27 H. 8. hath executed to the former uses in taile and for that also the statute transferreth the estate of the Land to the son in taile for that is the privity which the Statute requireth scil privity of estates which the same statute hath executed upon the lymitation of the uses in the same conveyance before and after the death of tenant for life the Feoffees may enter and revive the use and as lessee for yeares or for life upon condition to have fee may not have increase and inlargement of his estate but upon the privity of the estate of the Lessee so no remainder of a future use may be transferred in estate by force of the Act before the particular estates executed by the statue upon lymitation of uses in the same conveyances be recontinued but if Tenant for life make a Feoffment in fee or dy before the birth of the son his remainder is destroyed as if a Lease be made for life the remainder to the right heires of I. S if lessee for life make a Feoffement or die during the life of I. S. the remainder to the right heires is destroyed and that is the best construction of the statute of 27 H. 8. The chief Baron said that Scintilla juris which is mentioned in 17 Eliz. is like to Sir Tho. Mores Eutopia and they said that after this Statute no trust or confidence was reposed in the Feoffees for now as Walinslow said the Feoffees non possunt agere aut permittere aliquid in prejudice of ceste quâ—… use before the Statute the office of the Feoffe was to execute the estate according to the use but now the statute hath taken all Walinslow said even as a fountain giveth to every one that commeth in their time unto it their just measure of water so likewise the first estate and seisin in fee given by the first Feoffment to the feoffees is sufficient to all persons to whom any use present or future is limitted a competent measure of estate in their time proportionable to their estate which they shall have in the use so that the first seisin by force of the Feoffment whereby the fee-simple is given to the Feoffees shall bee sufficient to serve all their particular uses as well future as present in their severall times and nothing shall remaine in the Feoffees but Walinslow said that all the estate shall be first vested in those which are in rerum natura and the possession shall bee vested in him which hath the future use when that commeth in esse by force of the first livery and shall divide the estates which were conjoyned before If a feoffment in fee be made to the use of one for life and after to the use of the right heires of I. S. the fee simple of the land shall be in abeyance and before the Statute if a man had made a feoffment to the use of one for yeares and after to the use of the right heires of I. S. the Fee-simple of the land shall be in abeyance And before the Statute if a man had made a Feoffement to the use of one for yeares and after to the use of the right heires of I. S. this limitation had been good for the Feoffees shall remaine
to the Major to make Certificate notwithstanding the first Certificate and to have out of the Chancery a new Capias or no or whether at the suite of the Executors the Justices of the Bench might have awarded an alias Capias or a Writ of extent upon the first proceeding or not But it was agreed by the Court that no Scire facias did lie in this case but upon oath made by the Executors in the Chancery that the debt is not satisfied they shall have a new Certiorari to the Major c. to make a new Certificate of the Statute and so to begin all anew again Dier 180. Satute Staple THe Statute Staple is of two sorts or in two manners the one by force of the Statute 27 E. 3. cap. 9. the other by force of the Statute 23 H. 8. cap. 6. The first is an obligation of Record acknowledged before the Major of the Staple in presence of one of the Constables of the same Staple and is sealed with the seale of the Staple and Seale of the party but such Statute Staple shall not be taken but onely amongst Merchants of the same Staple and for Marchandizes of the same Staple 23 H. 8. ca. 6. The other is an obligation also of Record and of the same nature and force as the first is as to the execution thereof But it is acknowledged before the one of the chief Justices and in their absence out of Terme before the Major of the Staple at Westminster and the Recorder of London and is sealed with their Seales viz. with the Seale of the Connusor of the King and of one of the said Justices or of the Major and Recorder 23 H. 8. cap. 6. The formes of these Statutes Staple vide West 108. 109. Note that all Statutes Merchant and Staple shall be brought to the Clarke of the Recognizances within 4 Months and inrolled within six months or else such Statute shall be void against Purchasors c. 27. Eliz. cap. 4. A Statute Staple must be certified into the Chancery in the like manner as a Statute Merchant and upon that Certificate a Writ of execution shall go presently forth both against the body si laicus sit and against the lands and goods of the Connusor returneable in the Chancery in the petty-bagg Office there and not into the Court of common Pleas or Kings Bench as the Writs of Execution upon a Statute Merchant shall and upon the Writ of execution the Sheriff shall take the body of the Connusor and shall also per sacramentum proborum legalium hominum juxta verum valorem Fitz. 131 d. presently extend and price and shall seise into the Kings hands his Lands his Goods and Chattels and that extent and prizement or valuation of the Lands and goods shall returne and certifie into the Chancery as aforeraid and therupon the Reconusee shall have another Writ called a liberate to the Sheriff out of the Chancery to deliver to the Conusee those lands and goods to the value of his debt and upon that liberate delivered to the Sheriff then such lands and goods as are taken in execution shall be delivered to the Connusee by the Sheriff and not before And this execution shall be made in manner as is before declared upon a Statute Merchant 27 E 3. cap. 9. Plow 62. b. And so note that upon a statute Merchant the connusor shall bee imprisoned for halfe a yeare and if hee doth not sell his lands within the same time for to pay his debts then his lands shall be delivered to the obligee until his debt be satisfied And upon statute staple the Debitor or connusor after that hee is taken shall not have liberty to sell his lands and goods within the halfe yeare as he shall have upon Statute Merchant But by force of this statute Staple if the money be not paid at the day forthwith after certificate therof in the chancery the creditor may have Execution of the body Lands and goods of the Debitor ss the connusor shall be imprisoned and all his lands and goods shall be extended instantly 27 E. 3 cap. 9 Also note that upon Statute staple the extent shall be first made and returned and aftet a Writ of liberate shall be awarded but delivery shall not be made at the beginning untill the thing appeareth certainly by the return of the Sheriff Plow 62. b. All obligations and specialties made to the King or to his use for any cause shall bee of the same force as Statute Staple is 33 H. 8. cap 59. and so for obligations made by parsons for their first fruits 26 H. 8. cap. 39. The lands of many Accomptants to the King shal be liable and put in execution as if they had been bound in Statute Staple 13. Eliz. Cap. 4. The heir that claimeth by the gift of his Ancestor shall be bound to pay the Kings debt 33 H. 8. cap. 39. The heir in taile by the same Statute shall be liable to pay the Kings debt due by his Ancestor Plow 240. b. 249 b. 554. b. Fitz. 217. c. But if tenant in taile become in debt to the King by receipt of the Kings moneyes or otherwise unlesse that it be by judgement recognisance obligation or other specialty and dieth the land in the seisin of the issue in taile by force of the said act of 33 H. 8. shall not be extended for such debt of the King For the Statute of 33 H. 8. extendeth only to the said 4. cases and all other debts of the King remain at the common law Execution upon Statute IF Tenant in Taile become in debt to the King by one of the said 4. wayes scil by judgment recognisance obligation or other specialty and dieth and before any prosces or extent the issue in taile bona fide alien or Lease the Land intailed now this Land shall not be extended by force of the said Act of 33 H. 8. C. 7. 22. So where debt was originally due to a subject and after comes or accrues to the King by reason of attainder Out-lawry Forfeiture gift of the partie or by any other way or meane such debt is not within the said Statute of 33 H. 8. to charge lands intailed in the possession of the heir in taile Co. 7. 22. But lands in fee-simple were extendable at the common law for debt of the King into whose hands soever they should come and therefore as to them the said Statute of 33 H. 8. was not but a declaration of the ancient law Co. 7. 21. Two Joyntenants in fee the one of them being a debtor of the King dieth the other shall hold discharged Fitz. Execut. 113. The heire shall bee chargeable to pay debt of the King although he bee not named or that this word Heir be not comprised within the recognizance obligation or specialty 33 H. 8. cap 39. The King shall be preferred in his suit and execution before common persons by the Statute 9 H. 3.
cap. 18. and 33. H. 8. cap. 39. Debitor of the King possessed of a Lease selleth it bona fide This bindeth the King for it is but a Chattel Co. 8. 172. Note that the King shall levie the summe for which any is chargeable unto him not only against the party himselfe scil of his body his lands and goods in his own hands but in the hands of his Heires Assignes Executors or Administrators and if he hath no Executors or Administrators then in the hands of the possessors of the goods of the dead What Lands and goods shall be extended or taken by the Sheriff in Execution upon Statute c. in case of a common person NOte that upon Statute Merchant or Staple all the Fee-simple Lands which the said Connusor had at the time of the said Statute acknowledged or at any time after shall be liable to the said Statute into whose hands they shal ever come afterwards by alienation Feoffement or otherwise Stat. de mercator 13 E. 1. 27 E. 3. cap. 9. 23 H. 8. Co. 3. 12. But if the Debitor die the body of his heire shall not be taken but his Fee simple lands which descendeth to him from the Connusor shall be taken in form aforesaid if he be of full age or when he commeth to full age untill the debt be levied Statut. de mercator And so was the common Law before that in debt against the heir the Plaintiff shall have all the Land which discendeth to the heir in execution and yet he shall not have then execution of any part of the land against the father himselfe Note that it hath been holden that the heir shall not be charged where the Executors have assets Fitz. Executors 25. Br. Debt 237. 17 E. 4. 13. Plow 439. 440. But at this day the law seemeth otherwise scil that it is at the election of the Creditor to sue the heir or Executors when both have assets 4 E. 4. 25. 22 H. 6. 4. 10 H. 7. 8. Doct. Stud. 153. Dier 204. Plowden 439. 440. Also it seemeth that if the heire doth not confesse the action and shew the certainty of the assets which he hath by discent but plead nothing by discent or is condemned by default that there the Plaintiff shall have execution of his other lands or of his goods or of his body by cap. ad satisfac Plow 440. Note that Fee-simple lands of the heire which he hath by discent the day of the Writ purchased or after shall be liable but otherwise if he hath aliened before the Writ purchased unlesse it be by covin Co. 5. 60. Possession in law discendeth upon the heir shall charge him So where he enters upon a condition Br. assetts 8. Reversion upon an estate for life discends upon the heire that shall charge him Br. Assets 12. 19. A reversion shall be put in execution and the judgment shall be cum acciderit and in the meane time of the rent Di. 373. Fitz. Assetts 237. Note in debt a man shall have execution of no land but of that which the Defendant hath the day of the judgement given 2. H. 4. Fitz. Executors 24. If a man sue a Statute Merchant of parcell of the Lands in name of all the Lands he shall not have other execution afterwards Fitz. Execution 13. 4. If I have but one Acre by discent I shall be charged with 1000 l. by obligation made by my father by Belk 40 E. 15. Fitz. Execution 32 vide quaere For it seemeth that the heire may confesse what he hath by dscent and demand judgement whether of more then of the value therof he ought to be charged Lands intailed are liable but during the life of the Connusor as if tenant in taile be bound in a Satute or Recognizance the land taile shall be bound during his life but it is not bound against the issue in taile Br. Recog 7. yet if the issue in taile enfeoffe a stranger now execution shall be against the Feoffee 19 E. 3. Fitz receipt 112. But if Tenant in taile acknowledge a Statute or Recognizance and after alien the lands in the hands of the Feoffee or alienee shall be subvert to this Statute or Recognizance Co. 1. 62. and 2. 52. 8 H. 7. 89. Copy hold Lands are not liable nor shall bee extended upon a Statute or Recognizance Lease or Terme for life shall be extended Lease for tearme of yeares and all other goods and Chattels of the Connusor or Debitor are liable and shall be extended ss such which the Connusor c. hath in his owne possession and to his own use at the time of the execution sued or awarded But sale of Chattels bona-fide after judgement and before execution awarded is good but not after execution awarded as appeareth in 2 H. 4. fo 14. per curiam Yet by Babington 7 H. 6. Br. execution 116. if a man be condemned in debt or bound in a Statute the goods which he hath the day of the judgment or knowledge of the Recognisance shall be bound to the execution in whose hands soever they shall come quod non fuit negatum Co. 7. 39. a every execution in judgement of law hath relation and retrospect to the judgment But a fraudulent conveyance or gift of Lands or goods shall not advoid any execution vide le statutes 50 E. 3. ca. 6. 1 R. 2. ca. 9. 2 R. 2. Stat. 2. ca. 3. 3 H. 7. ca. 4. 13 Eliz. ca. 5. 7 les liures 43 E. 3. fol. 3. Dier 295. Co. 3. 81. 82. 83. Lands in ancient demesne are liable to the Statute vide Fitz. Execution 118. and retorne 109. contra Lands or goods holden joyntly by the Connusor with a stranger and the connusor is condemned in damages and dieth before execution those lands or goods comming to the stranger by survivor are not extendable Br. execution 126. 148. 13 H. 7. 22. a. Lands of a wife are extendable during the coverture by debt of the husband 15 H. 7. fo 14. Rent may be delivered in execution Fitz. avowry 237 Exec. 63. Rent extent by release of the party may be extended Co. 7. â—8 39. As if a man hath judgement to recover debt or damages by that the rent which he hath of any estate of Frank-tenement is liable to it and therefore although that after judgment that be released yet that may be extended But a man shall never have a thing extended upon an execution except that he may grant and assigne the same thing by Shelly 28 H. 8. fo 7. So the profits of an Office or other thing which may not be granted or assigned over shall not be extended Dier fo 7. Goods demised pawned or pledged may not be taken in execution for his debt that demised or pawned them during or terme that they are sâ— demised or pawned 22 E. 4. fo 10. 34 H. 8 Br. pledges 28. As as if a man bona fide lease his Sheep or Oxen for years or if he
entry the first livery is made void and there is no perticular estate continuing whereof a remainer may depend If a man devise his Lands to his wife for her life upon condition that if she marrie that then the Land shall remaine to F. M. in taile this is a good remainder for the construction of this demise is to make the same condition to be a limitation and not a condition and upon a limitation or determination of a perticular estate which is taken and not uncertaine a remainder clearely may well depend As if a Lease be made for life upon condition that if the Lessee die the remainder to a stranger that is a good remainder because it commenceth upon the determination of an estate which is certaine and not uncertaine for every man must die and every terme must end and therefore it is no condition but a limitation or appointment when the terme shall commence If I make a Lease for life upon condition that if the Lessee doth such an act he shall have fee and he doth it accordingly there he shall have Fee because he is privie to the condition and therefore shall take the benefit thereof A Lease made for yeares if the Lessee shall so long live which is a word conditionall and doth precede the remainder therefore the remainder which doth commence upon a condition is voide Plowden fo 25. But if I make a Lease for life upon condition that if the Lessee doth such an act that then hee shall have Fee and he doth it accordingly there he shall have fee because he is privie to the condition Lessee for five yeares upon condition that if he pay me twenty pounds within two yeares he shall have fee the Fee passeth forth of the lessor forthwith Lessee for yeares upon condition that if I. S. marry my daughter during the estate for life that then it shall remaine unto him this is a good remainder and yet it doth commence upon condition for there is an estate whereupon a remainder may be founded and the condition doth not trâ—nch to the destruction of the particular estate If I make a lease for yeares the remainder for life upon condition that if he in remainder doth not such an act that the remainder shall be void Now before the condition is broken the remainder is good and in him to whom it is appointed but if the condition be broken then the remainder is out of him and in the person of lessor again Lessee for life the remainder to A his wife for her life if she live so long sole and unmarried the remainder to D. their Son for his life the remainder to D. is good though it commence upon a condition because the particular estate continueth and the condition goeth not to the destruction of the particular estate and the first remainder doth vest during the particular estate which maketh the latter to be good though it commence upon the condition But quaere whether the 2. remainder shall begin upon her marriage or death WHen a particular estate which doth support a remainder may determine before the remainder may commence there the remainder doth not vest forthwith but dependeth in contingency Contingent Remainders Vid. fol. 29. As if one make a Lease to I S. for life and after the death of I D. the remainder to another in Fee this remainder dependeth in contingency for if I S die before I D. the particular estate is determined before the remainder can commence So if a Lease be made to A for life and if B die before A that then it shall remaine to C for life this is a good remainder upon contingent if A survive B A Lease is made to one for life the remainder to the right heires of I S. this remainder is good upon contingent that is if lessee for life survive I. S. or else not A lease to A. for life the remainder to B for life if B. dy before A. the remainder to C for life this is a good remainder on contigent if A survive B Plowden Colethirst and Beiushin H. leased to I. for the life of I. after the death of H. to I and his heires this is a good remainder upon contingent for if H. die living I. then the remainder is good but if H. survive I. then the remainder is voide WHen a remainder is limited to take effect by doing of an act which act shall be the determination of the particular estate yet if the act depend upon a casualty and meere incertainty whether it shall happen or not there the remainder vesteth not forthwith but dependeth in contingency Vide fo 51. a good note if a man make a Feoffment to the use of B until C. shal come from Rome into England after from such coming to remain over in fee this remainder dependeth in contingency for it is uncertain whether I. will ever come into England or not and a remainder ought to commence in possession when the particular estate endeth as well in Wils as in grants for there may not be a mean time between them And every remainder contingent ought to vest either during the particular estate or eo instante Contingent remainder that it determineth for if the particular estate be ended or determined in deed or in Law before the contingency happen then the remainder is void As for example Fr. Archarde was seised of lands in fee holden in Socage and by his will in writing devised the Land to Ro. Archarde the father for his life and after to the next heire male of Robert and to the heires males of the body of such next heir male Ro. hath issue Jo. Fr. dieth Ro. enffeoffeth Ren. with warranty upon whom J. entreth and Ren reenters and then Ro. dyeth the right heir male of Robort may not enter for the forfeiture in the life of Robert for hee may not be heire as long as Robert liveth Note that By the Feoffment of tenent for life the remainder is destroyed for by the Feofment of Ro. his estate for life was determined by condition in law therunto annexed and that may not be revived afterwards by any possibility therfore the contingent remainder destroyed So if Tenant for life the remainder to the right heirs of I S be disseised and the disseisor levies a fine at the common Law the right heir of I S shall be bound But in the former case if the tenant for life had been disseised and died yet the remainder is good for the particular estate remaineth in right and might have been revested but not in this case Archers case prima pars Lo. Coke Remanere definitio Remanere dicitur quasi terra remanens A remainder is that which passeth forth of the Lessor at the time of the perticular estate made Reversionis definitio A reversion is that which is left in him that made the perticular estate reversion is derived of this word revertor so
his wife and to the heires of A. of her body by I. to be begotten * Tail generall in the husband the wife for life only Habendum to I. and A. his wife and to the heires which I. shall beget upon the body of A. his wife both have estate taile because these words heires is not limited more to one then to the other * The wife hath taile generall the husband frank tenement Both have estate taile Taile speciall in both Habendum to I. and A. his wife and to the heires of their two bodies this is taile speciall as well in the husband as in the wife But if I. give Lands to I. A to his heires which he shall beget of A. his wife here A. hath but estate for life and I. hath estate in taile speciall but in this case if he had said to the heires and not to his heires then either of them should have had an estate in taile speciall because these words heirs is referred as well to the one as to the other If Tenant in taile speciall hath issue and die the issue is forthwith remitted to the taile generall and such issue and all his issue shall stand so seised for evermore Vses 27. H. 8. cap. 10. Creation of estates taile raised by way of limitation of uses The expression of divers and sundry uses TO have to the said Feoffees their heirs and assignes for ever by the severall uses intents and purposes and under and upon the conditions provisoes and limitations hereafter in and by these presents limited and declared and to no other use intent or purpose that is to say the aforesaid Mannors of Compton c. withall and singular their and every of their rights members and appurtenances whatsoever to the use and behoofe of the said H. P. for the terme of his life without impeachment of c. For sale of Lands to pay debts and Legacies and after his decease to the use and behoof of the abovenamed Feoffees and their heirs in trust and confidence and to the intent purpose that they the said Feoffees and the survivors or Survivor of them shall and will by sale of such parts and parcels of the Premises as they or the survivors or survivor of them or their heirs shall think fit to bee sold and by the issues and profits of the residue pay and discharge all the Debts Legacies and Funeral expences of the said Sr. H. P. and after payment and discharge of the same debts Legacies and expences shall and will conveigh and assure all the residue of the Premises limited to their use For intailing of Lands to the tenth generation and remaining unsold unto the said H. P. Esq sonne of the said Sir H P. and the heires of his body issuing and for default of such heires to the use of the said La. F. P. La. S. and I. F. and the heires of their severall bodies issuing and for default of such issue to the use of the right heires of the said Sir H. Poole for ever To the use of the first son of the body of the said K. P. lawfully to be begotten and of the heires males of the body of such first son issuing Entaile first to the issue male and then to the issue female when they shall come to the age of 〈◊〉 And the said Mannors of S. P. C. c. and all other the Premises whereof and wherein there is not any use in and by these presents already specially lymited and declared to the use and behoofe of the said Sir H. P. Knight for the terme of his life without impeachment c. And from and after his decease to the use and behoofe of the said H P. son of the said Sir H P. for the tearme of the life of the said H P. the son without impeachment c and from and after his decease to the use of the first son to be begotten of the said H. P. son of the said Sir H. P. and of the heires males of the body of the said first son issuing and so on to the tenth son and for default of such heires to the use of every other the sons to be begotten by the said H. son of the said Sir H P. as they shall be in seniority or age and of the heirs males of the severall bodies issuing that is to say as for and concerning the Mannors of c. with their and every of their severall rights members and appurtenances to the use of him the said H. P. for and during the tearme of his naturall life without c. and from and after his decease to the use of the first son of the body of the said H P lawfully to be begotten A Fine was levied to the A. uses of and the heries males of his body untill hee or the heirs males of his body have done such an act and after such a thing or act done to the use of another in taile died without issue without anything done and it was adjudged that the remainder was in contingency shall never fall Coke 10. a part fo 85. Uses Jointer for the Wife Taile speciall and of the heires males of the body of such first son issuing and so to the tenth son And for default of such issue then to the use of every other the sons c. and for default of such issue to the use of B P. the now first begotten daughter of him the said H P. from and after such time as the shall accomplish the age of sixteen yeares for and during the terme of her life and after her decease to the use of the first Son of her body which shall be begotten by such her husband which shall be of the sirname and blood of the Pooles and of the heires males of the body of such her first son issuing and so to the tenth son Then entaile the lands in forme aforesaid to the first 2. 3. 4. 5. and tenth daughter and this limitation following and to the use of the Executors of him the said H P. for and untill such time as the severall daughters which shall take any benefit by vertue of these presents shall accomplish their severall ages of 16. yeares respectively and after the death of the said H P. without issue male or female qualified as aforesaid Then to the use of Dame F P wife of one Sir N P Knight sister of the said H P for and during the terme of her naturall life and after her decease to the use of H P. Esq the first son of the said sir N. P. and Dame F and of the heires males of the body of the said H issuing and so to the tenth son And for default of such issue then to the use of the right heires of the said H P party to these presents for ever And as for and concerning the Mannors of C and S to the use of the said H P for
8. of Uses the terme of the Feoffee was saved Also in the same Court Anno 28 Eliz. in the case of Ized it was resolved that where the Lord enfeoffed the Copyholder to the use of others that the Copyhold Estate by the saving of the said Act was preserved Devises IT is a principle in Law A Lease to A. for life the remainder to the right heires of B. B. haveing a daughter dieth his wife privily with child of a Son in this case the daughter claimeth by purchase and therefore the son borne after shall never divest it Coke 1. pars fo 95. that in all gifts be they by devise or otherwise it behooveth to have a donee in esse which hath power and capacity to take the thing given at the very time when it ought to vest for if there be not any such in rerum natura when the thing ought to vest then the gift shall be void Plow fo 345. For if a man devise a Lease or goods to I. S. which dieth and then the devisor dieth the Executor of I. S. shall not have them And if a man seised of lands in Fee devisable make his will and thereby devise his lands to I. S. and his heires and then I. S. dieth and afterwards the devisor dieth I. S. and his heires nor any of them shall take nothing by this devise and here the thing ought not to vest in the devisee untill the death of the devisor at which time the devisee was dead and so was not in rerum natura And as to that heires are named in the gift that is to say it is given to the devisee and to his heires for which cause they shall be contemned and concluded in the intent that is not so for heires are not there taken to be immediately takers but onely to expresse the quantity of the estate that the devisee should have for without expressing heires the Devisor might not properly make an estate in Feesimple in the devisee and none other But if a man devise Lands to one and his heires and the devisor dieth in the life of the devisee and then the devisee dieth now the heire shall take by the devise Coke prima pars fo 95 If a man lease lands to a man for life Contingent remainder and if the Lessor die without heire of his body that then the Lessee shall have the land to him and his heires in this case if the Lessee for life dieth and then the lessor dieth without heires of his body the heire of the lessee shall not have the land and so clearely holden Plowden com fo 483. Quere de hoc It was agreed for good law that the occupation of a Chattel may be devised by way of remainder but if the thing it selfe were devised to use the remainder were void for the gift or devise of a Chattel for an howre is pro imperpetuum and the donee or devisee may give it sell it and dispose it and the remainder thereupon is void Brook devise fo 13. The occupation of a Chattel personall may be devised by way of remainder A Lease devised 20. yeares to one for the first ten yeares the remainder to another or devised to one for so many yeares as he shall live the remainder to another a delivery to the first devisee serveth for him in the remainder also So though it be but the occupation of a terme which is so devised for the occupation and profits of the Land is all one with land it selfe but if the occupation of a Booke glasse or other Chattel personall be devised to one for life and after his death to another in like sort there a delivery to the first is no delivery to the other for their occupations are severall and in such Chattles personall the occupation is distinct from the property 7 H. 6. 30. Plowden fo 522. A devise to one and his heires Males is an estate taile but a devise to I. S. in Fee upon condition that if he pay not I. D 10 l. then I. D. to have it in Fee is a void condition and remainder for it is contrary to the law 27 H. 8. 27. 29 H. 8. Dier 33. But a devise of the fee-simple to Alice S. and after her death to B. is onely an estate for life the remainder for life to B. the remainder to Alice in Fee so as the husband of Alice In a devise by what words Fee-simple passeth if she die in the life of B. cannot be Tenant by courtesie 19 Eliz. Dier 357. If a man devise lands to a man for ever or to give and to sell or in fee-simple or to him and his Assignes for ever Fee-simple passeth but if the devise bee to a man and his Assignes without saying for ever the Devisee hath but an estate for life if a man Devise lands to one sanguini suo that is Fee-simple but if it bee semini suo it is estate taile If a man Devise Lands upon condition A devise upon a condition repugnant is voide that the Devisee shall not Alien this condition is void and so it is of a Grant Release Confirmation or other conveyance whereby a Fee-simple doth passe And so it is if a man bee possest of a Lease for yeares or of a Horse or of any other Chattel reall or personall and give it or set it upon any such condition When a man deviseth that the Executors shall set the Land A devise that the Executors shall sell the Land there the Land descendeth in the meane time to the heire and untill the Sale be made the heir may enter and take the profits But when the land is devised to his Executor to be sold there the devise taketh away the discent A device of Land to the Executors to be by them sold and vesteth the state of the land in the Executors and they may enter and take the profits make sale according to the Devise and here it appeareth that when a man deviseth his Tenements to be sold by his Executors is all one as if he had devised his Tenements to his Executors to be sold And the reason is because he deviseth the Tenements whereby he makes the discent Although that the last Will shall avoid the former Will yet if a man be seised of lands in Fee No alteration of such a Will and therof enfeoffe a stranger and declare his Will upon the Livery of Seisin made to the stranger that is that the Feoffee shall bee seised to the use of the Feoffor for terme of his life the remainder to I. S. in Fee now he may not alter this Will by a latter Will in prejudice of ceste que use in remainder because the use is in him in remainder forthwith so that he may set it but if in the same case the remainder of the use had been to the right heires of the Feoffor then the Feoffor might alter
this use by his last Will and if the Feoffor had declared his Will upon the Livery of Seisin that the Feoffee should be seised to the use of I. F. for life the remainder to the use of the Feoffor or in taile the remainder to the use of a stranger in Fee in this case the Feoffor may not alter this Will by his last Will Perkins Testaments fo 93. and 92. Such a Wil may be altered If a man seised of Lands in Fee thereof enfeoffe a stranger to the intent to performe his Will and after the Feoffor maketh his Will and deviseth the same Land to a stranger in Fee in this case the Devisor may alter this Will by a latter Will because in this case the Devisee shall not have this Land but by force of the Testatment and that may not take effect till after the death of the Devisor And the same law it is of Lands Tenements Rents or Common c. devisable by the custome used in any place c. And also the same law is it of all Chattels reall and personall devised Perkins Testaments fo 93. A Feoffment to performe a Will When a Feoffement is made to a future use as to the performance of his last Will the Feoffees shall bee seised to the use of the Feoffor and his heires in the meane time 35 H. 6. 22. 15 H. 7. 12. 37 H 6. 36. 11. H. 4. 52. 7 H. 4. 22. 1 Mariae 111. Dier Of such Will there is no alteration A Feoffment made to the use of ones Will if his Will be declared before or at the time of his Feoffment it cannot bee altered because it is executed otherwise it is if his Will be declared afterwards 20 â— 7. 11. If a man devise his land to W. N. solvendum 10 l. to his Executors and die A man deviseth lands to his wife so long as she should continue sole and if she marry the remainder in taile the remainder to his right heire so that the marriage is the limitation which determineth the estate and so the remainder beginneth upon the estate ended there Coke 10. pars fo 41. the Devisee hath Feesimple by reason of the payment without words to his heires for ever And that shall bee intended the intent of the Devisor so if a man sell land to W. N for 20 l. that shall be intended a Sale in Fee-simple without words heires for conscience c. Brook estates fo 78. Termor deviseth to his wife the Land for so many yeares as she should live and afterward the terme to his son and made his wife Executrix and died the wife prooved the Testament and entred and agreed to the devise and afterwards shee aliened the terme and died the son or his Administrator may enter A man deviseth his Land to I. S. that shall bee taken but for terme for life but if he saith paying 100 l. to W. N. that shall bee intended Fee-simple and if hee doth not pay it in his life time yet if his heire or Executor pay it it sufficeth Quaere of his Assignee Brooke Testament 18. A Devise to a man and his heires hee hath issue a daughter and dieth his wife privily with Child of a Son the daughter entreth she shall retaine the land for ever and yet the son is heire but not to toll the land before vested in the daughter If Lessee for yeares devise his terme or other his goods or Chattels by Testament to one for terme of his life the remainder over to another and dieth and the Devisee entreth and doth not Alien the terme nor give nor sell the Chattel and die there hee in remainder shall have it but if the first devisee had aliened given or sold it he in remainder had beene remedilesse Brook Chattel 23. And so B. thinketh it if it be forfeited in his life he in remainder is without remedie If a terme be devised to one his heirs males of his body his heire shall not have it but his executor for a terme which is but a Chattel may not be entailed and such Devisee may well Alien the terme to whom please him Coke 10. pars fo 22. If a man devise Lands to one to have to him and his heires after the death of the Devisors wife the wife although she were not named before the Habendum shall have an estate for life by this Devise The husband possest of a terme in jure uxoris suae maketh a Lease of parcell rendant rent the wife shall have the residue of the terme but not the rent 9. Eliz. Dier fo 246. If a man devise his land to his wife for her life upon condition that if she marry that then the land shall remaine to I. S. in taile this is a good remainder for the construction of this devise is to make the same condition to be a lymitation and not any condition and upon a lymitation or determination of a particular estate which is certaine and not uncertaine a remainder clearly may well depend A man possessed of a terme of yeares in the right of his wife cannot devise it to another by his Will for she hath an estate in it before and at the time of his death which preventeth the Devisee nor can he grant charge out of it for she surviving is remitted to the terme and therefore shall avoide the charge But by by an expresse Act he might in his life time have given it away but if a woman having Chattels personall take a husband the law devesteth the property out of her and vesteth it in her husband only What Deeds of Gifts shall be counted fraudulent Fraud IF a man make a generall Deed of Gift of all his goods this is suspicious to bee done upon fraud to deceive the Creditors And if a man which is in debt make a Deed of gift of all his goods to protract the taking of them in execution for his debt this deed of gift is void as against those to whom he stood indebted But as against himselfe his owne Executor or Administrator or any man to whom afterwards he shall sell them or convey them it is good What is sale bona fide and what not By sale any man may convey his own goods to another although he may feare Execution for debts he may sell them out-right for money at any time before the Execution served so that there be no reservation of trust between them that providing the money he shall have the goods againe for that trust in such case doth prove plainely a fraud to prevent the Creditors from taking the goods in execution A Deed of gift of goods to defraud Creditors is voide against them but is good against him his Executors or ministrators Where Sale in a Market Overt shall Bar the owner and where not IF a man steale my Goods or Cartel Market Overt or take them from me in jest or borrow them of mee and
of the Indenture or from the day of the date or from the day of the making or from the day of the sealing and delivery such leases are meerly void for the date is excluded and the lessee may not enter untill the morrow for when a man makes a lease for life to commence at a day to come he may not make present livery to a future estate and therfore in such case nothing passeth and Livery or Attornment afterwards will never make a void Grant to be good Coke 5. pars fol. 94. 2. pars fol. 55. If a Lease be made for years or at Will by Deed and Livery and Seisin be made to the Lessee yet he is but Tenant for years or Tenant at Will according to the limitation of the Deed and not Tenant for life by force of the livery But if a lease be made for years the Remainder to a stranger for life and livery is made to the Lessee who enters this livery shall vest the Remainder in the stranger and if the Lessee enter by force of his lease before livery be made unto him then the Remainder is void Condition where an enâ—ry is reserved to a stranger vide casus tertium prox sequent A man enfeoffeth one upon condition that he shall pay ten pounds to B. and upon default that B. shall enter now if the rent be not paid the Feoffee may enter in Law and Conscience and not B. for he is a stranger to the Condition and B. hath no remedy in Conscience to have the land And when the Feoffment is made upon Condition although it doth not speak that for default of payment he may re-enter yet that is implied in the word Condition and as to the words that B. shall enter by default of payment they are void words Doctor Student fol. 93. Condition for non-payment of rent and then an Assise is brought or a Distress taken If a Condition be broken for non-payment of rent yet if the Feoffor bring an Assise for rent due at that time he shall never enter for the Condition broken because he affirmeth the rent to have continuance and whereby waiveth the condition and so it is if the rent had had a clause of Distresse annexed unto it if the Feoffor had distrained for the rent for non-payment whereof the condition was broken he should never enter for the condition broken but he may receive that rent and acquit the same and yet enter for the condition broken Acceptance of rent barreth a re-entry But if he accept a rent due at another day after he shall not enter for the condition broken because he thereby affirmeth the lease to have continuance Coke Lit. fol. 211. b. If a man enfeoff one by Indenture by which it is covenanted and agreed that the Feoffee shall pay to a stranger and his Heires ten pounds per annum at a certaine day and if he faile that the stranger and his Heires may enter in that case if the Feoffee doth not pay it the stranger shall have use of the land in conscience and not by the common law and shall have a Subpaena to constraine the Feoffee to make an estate unto him But in the said case if it had been upon condition that a stranger may enter for non-payment of the rent there the Feoffor himself shall enter and not the stranger for none may enter for a condition annexed to Fee but for lives and when the Feoffor hath entred he is not holden to convey the land to a stranger that ought to have the Rent Doctor Student 100. 101. In Mary Portingtons case Coke 10. pars fol. 39. Incidents to an estate taile It was observed and agreed for Law that to an Estate-taile there are three manner of incidents some by the common Law some by Act of Parliament and some by custome by the common law they are such which are not restrained by the Statute and may not be restrained by any condition 22 E. 3. 17. as Dower and Tenant by the curtesie after issue are incident to an Estate taile and may not be restrained by any condition An Estate taile cannot be restrained by any condition or limitation vide Coke 9. pars fol. 128. 6. pars Sir Anth. Mildmaies case Recovery fraudulent Also the Estate of him and Tenant in taile after possibility are dispunishable for Waste And collaterall Warranty is a bar to the Estate-taile and so is a common recovery also and none of these may be restrained by any condition or limitation by the Statute law as to make leases by the Statute of 32 H. 8. cap. 36. and to levie a Fine by the Statute 4 H. 7 cap. 24. and 33 H. 8. cap. 36. to bar Issues and none of those which are incidents to that Statute by act of Parliament may be restrained by condition for when a man maketh a Gift in taile he tacire doth give these incidents thereunto And therefore to restraine them by condition or limitation shall be repugnant And as to the case upon the Statute of 11 H. 7. it was answered that when the husband for advancement of the wife with competent Joynture and preferment of their Heires of their two bodies engendred hath caused an estate to be made to himself and to his wife in tail and after the deaths of the husband the wives to disinherit the issues of their former husbands suffer recoveries and convey the land to strangers of the bloud of the husband such recovery was worthy by the Parliament to be noted with the marke to be suffered by Covin And the act of the wife either when she is sole or with her and her second husband is so odious that a recovery had upon a good title against them by Covin is made void by the said Act. Fraud So in the said Acts of 32. H 8. and 14. Eliz. when a common recovery was had against Tenant for life to the prejudice of those who had the inheritance that may be well termed covenous and by collusion and yet in the same case when tenant for life the remainder to A. in taile the remainder to B. in taile c. with divers remainders over and Tenant for life suffereth a common recovery wherin he voucheth A. and he the common vouchee that shall bind all the other remainders for no Covin or collusion may bee supposed when the next in remainder in taile which hath the immediate inheritance is vouchee as it was adjudged in Jennings case Fraudulent conveyances to defraud purchasors Vide plus de hoc fo 18. 27 E. cap. 4. every Conveyance Grant Charge Lease Estate incumbrance and limitation of use of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments made since the beginning of her Majesties Raigne or hereafter to be made for the defrauding of Purchasors of the Land it selfe or any part or profit out of it shall be void against the person so purchasing for money or other good consideration and against all
claiming under him with penalty in the Statute of 27. Eliz. Cap. 1. This doth not extend to the avoyding of any grant c. upon good consideration and bona fide if any such conveiance be made with clause of revocation or alteration at his pleasure by writing and after he shall bargaine demise sell grant convey or charge the same Lands c. for money or other good consideration the conveyance not revoked or altered then the conveyance c. shall be void against the Barganees c. and all claiming under them lawfull Mortages only excepted A Lease was made of a Messuage and Lands for yeares A grant of land Habendum the reversion if the Lessee so long should live and afterwards the Lessor by his Deed indented granted the Messuage and Land to another to have and to hold the reversion to the grantee for life cum per mortem sursum redditionem vel forisfacturam of the Lessee aut aliter acciderit reddendo inde annuitie to the Grantor and his heires when the said reversion shall happen nine shillings and foure pence per Annum The Lessee dieth the Grantor of the reversion distraineth for the arrearages of the rent aswell before the death of the Lessee as afterwards whereupon four points were clearely resolved upon by the Court. That by the Demise of a Messuage and Land for life the reversion thereof doth passe but by the Grant of a reversion land in possession doth not passe Lofields case 10. pars fo 107. Plowden 197. A grant of the reversion Habendum the land By the Grant of a Messuage and Land Habendum revertionem c. or life after the death of the Lessee c. that the Habendum is good for in judgement of law nothing but the reversion is granted by the Premises and as in Throchmertons case Plowden Coment fo 147. when the reversion is granted habendum the land the habendum is adjudged good so when the land is granted habendum the reversion and after the death of the Lessee c. is in consideration as much to say as to take effect in possession after the death c. Also the habendum had been good although no mention had been made either of the Land or of the reversion in the habendum for the Office of the habendum is to limit the estate of the land contayned in the Premises It was resolved that by the said reservation the rent shall not commence before the reversion fall in possession and these words cum revertio predict acciderit shall be expounded according to the intention of the parties which was not that the Grantee for life should pay the rent before that he may take the profits to make the rent of them That the distresse was well taken for the Arrerages after the death of the Lessee and not for the arearages incurred before Statute released by matter in Law A statute was acknowledged the 26. of May the Cognusee by his release Dated the 25. May before released to the Cognusor all demands from the beginning of the world untill the making therof and sealed and delivered the release as his Deed the 27. May following the statute is freely discharged for the day of the delivery is dies confectionis but if the words had been untill the date or day of the Date of these presents then otherwise it had been See Dier fo 307. Defeasance of a statute mis-recited the statute becometh single If a Defeasance be made of a statute which is recited to bee made the tenth day of May where indeed it beareth Date the first day of May the Defeasance is void for the Mis-prision of time for the Law saith that in so much as it may be that there were two statutes the one dated the first day and the other the tenth day the time of the date is materiall Plowden fo 393. Attornement needlesse A reversion granted for yeares for consideration of money doth passe without Attornement Coke 8 pars fo 941. for let the case be that there is Lessee for terme of yeares or life rendant-rent Afterwards the lessor by Indenture for the consideration of 50 l. demiseth and granteth the Premises to another for 90. yeares rendant 40 pounds per annum although the first Lessee doth never Attorne yet the second demise shall be good and shall passe as a Bargaine executed by the statute of 27 H. 8. whereunto there needeth no Attornemnt or Inrolement of the Deed because it is not but a terme for yeares and no Frank-tenement And note that if a man for money do enffeoffe Alien and grant Land to one and his heires or in taile or for life by deed indented and inrolled that doth amount to a bargaine and sale and the land shall pass without livery and Seisin Attornement needlesse A grant of a reversion of Land habendum the land from the end and expiration of a former Lease in being is a good lease and needeth no attornement A demise of the reversion of Land Attornement needles habendum the reversion of the land from the end and determination of a former lease in being is a good Lease and needeth no attornement If a man make a gift in taile or a Lease for life Remainder voide the remainder to his owne right heires this remainder is void and he hath the reversion in him for the Ancestor during his life beareth in his body in the judgment of the law all his heires and this appeareth in a common case that if Land be given to a man and his heires all his heires are so totall in him that he may give the land to whom he will So it is if a man be seised of Lands in Fee by Indenture make a Lease for life Remainder voide the remainder to the heirs males of his owne body this is a void remainder for the donor cannot make his owne right heire a purchasor of an estate taile without departing of the whole fee-simple out of him as if a man make a Feoffement in Fee to the use of himselfe for life and then to the use of the heires males of his body this is a good estate taile executed in himselfe and the limitation is good by way of use because it is raised out of the estate of the Feoffees which the Feoffor departed with for a limitation of a use to himselfe had been good without question Cokes Littleton fo 22. b. The King may make a Lease for yeares rendant rent to a stranger and that is a good reservation Conditions Entries and re-entries may not be given or reserved to strangers and the stranger may distraine for it or have an Action of Debt after the lease determined and that is by reason of his prerogative which he hath above all persons for he is not bound so strictly by the lawes as others are but in the case of a common person otherwise it is because that no rent which is properly
during his life If a rent be granted to one for life by deed and willeth that the Grantee and his heires distraine in the Lands charged for the same rent the grantee hath in this case fee-simple in the rent and not estate for life for the distresse is the creation of the rent-charge and therefore the limitation and creation of the rent-charge shall enure according to the effect and limitation of the distresse for therein he retaineth it for a terme which is as long as he hath in the Land and therefore hath not any certainty that terme will ever commence and therefore the grant void And where Lessee for yeares without any habendum granteth to another all his tearme which shall be to come at the time of his death shall be all void A Termor reciting by Indenture his terme and lease granted all his terme estate and interest to another habendum sibi assign suis immediate post mortem ipsius the Grantor and the case was ruled and adjudged that the habendum was void and the premises of the grant good to make the whole terme to passe forthwith Dier fo 272. If I have a rent in Fee if I grant it to another and stay there this is a grant for life but if I goe further and say habendum after the death of I. S. there all shall be void vide fo 2. If tenant for yeares of land grant out of that a rent-charge to another for the life of the Grantee the grantee shall not have a state of Frank-tenement because he cannot have a stare of Frank-tenement derived out of a Chattel reall but he shall have the rent during all the yeares if the Grantee so long shall live Plowden fo 525. If I have a rent in fee and grant it to another post mortem I. S. this grant is void for the nature of a grant is that the thing ought to passe forthwith If a man make a lease for yeares and afterwards the lessor grants a rent charge out of the Land that grant shall charge the reversion And this proveth that the Land and the reversion are nor two distinct things but that in the reversion the Land is contained Plowden fo 173. The Abbot leased land for life and afterward leased the reversion to have the Land from Michaelmas next after the first Lease ended by death surrender or forfeiture for 21. yeares this is a good Lease Plowden fo 146. A grant of a reversion Habendum the said reversion after the end and expiration of the Tenant for life Attornement needdes for sixty yeares this is a good grant without Attornement If I make a Lease to one for life and afterwards I grant the reversion to another habendum from the Feast of St. Michael next ensuing to him and his heires this grant is void because that no franke-tenement be it in possession reversion or remainder may be limited to commence at a day to come If I have a rent in Fee I may not grant it to commence in futuro or at a day to come but if I have land I may grant a new rent out of it to commence at a day to come for there I shall not have any particular estate in the meane for it was not in esse before but doth commence of new and therefore I may appoint it to commence when I will Pertinentiis A man makes a Feoffement of a house cum pertinent nothing passeth by these words cum pertinentiis but the Garden Curtilage and close adjoyning to the house and whereupon the house is built and no other Land though other Lands have been occupied with the house A man leased a house cum pertin no land passeth by these word but otherwise it is where a man leaseth a house cum omnibus terris eidem partin there the lands therewithall used doe passe If a man makes a Feoffement of a house ac omnes terras tenementa heriditamenta eidem messuagio pertin aut cum eodem occupata locata aut dimissa existent hereby the land used with the house doth pass Tenant in taile and the Lessee shall acknowledge the Tenements to be the right of one A stranger Lease by fine to bind Tenant in Taile and his issue and that A. shall grant and render by the same fine to the Lessee for 60. yeares the remainder to the Lessor and his heires and it was with proclamations which shall bind the taile after proclamation made If Tenant in taile make a Feoffement and a common recovery is had against the Feoffee Recovery the best to barr estates taile and remainders who voucheth tenant for taile who voucheth over c. there the tail shall be barred because that he when he commeth in as vouchee shall bee in the degree of tenent in taile and the recompence in value which he hath or may have shall goe in taile and therefore such manner of recovery is best and the surest way to barr the taile and all the remainders and the reversion also If A. be tenant in taile the remainder to B. in taile the remainder to C. in taile the remainder to B. in Fee A makes a Feoffement the Feoffees suffer a common recovery wherein B. is vouched he over the common vouchee In this case A. is not bound but B. and all the remainders over are barred For although that by the Feoffment of A. all the remainders were discontinued and the estates that B.C.D. had converted into meere rights and though the remainders may never be remitted before the estate taile in possession be recontinued yet in case of a common recovery which is the common assurance of the Land he that commeth in as vouchee shall bee in judgement of Law in privity of estate which he over had though the precedent estate wherupon the state of the vouchee dependeth be devested or discontinued Coke 3 pars fo 60. Tenement is a large word Tenement and Hereditament to passe not onely lands and other inheritances which are holden but also Officers Rents Commons Profits apprender our of lands and the like wherein a man hath any Frankenement and whereof he is seised ut de libero tenemento but an Hereditament is the largest word of all in that kind for whatsoever may be inherited is an hereditant be it corporeall or incorporeall reall or personall or mixt Vesturam terrae If a man hath twenty Acres of Lands and by Deed granteth to another and his heires Vesturam terrae and maketh Livery secundum formam chartae the Land it selfe shall not passe because he hath a particular right in the land for thereby he shall not have the houses timber trees and other reall things parcell of the inheritance but he shall have the vesture of the Land that is the Corne Grasse and Vnder-wood Sweepage and the like and shall have trespasse quare clausam fregit Herbagium terrae If a man grant herbagium terrae he hath a
it is if a man make a Feoffment in Fee upon condition that the Feoffee shall not take the profits of the Lands this condition is repugnant and against law and the estate is absolute But a Bond with condition that the Feoffee shall not take the profits is good If a man bee bound with a condition to enfeoffe his wife the condition is repugnant void and against law because it is against a Maxime in Law and yet the Bond is good Deeds suspitions to be forged Yet before anno 13 H. 8. the Deed do stile the King Defender of the Faith or Supream head before the 20. H. 8. such a Deed is a forged Deed. King H. 8. used not the stile of Supreame head in his Charters till 22. of his Raigne nor King of Ireland before 33. of his Raigne New Littleton fo 7. Age to bind man or woman 21. yeares is the full age for man or woman to make good any act they doe 14. their age of discretion and therefore that is the competent age to bind a man in matter of marriage 12. to bind a woman and 9. to deserve her Dower Remainder No remainder may commence upon any repugnancy or impossibility precedent nor upon any condition that goeth to the destruction of the particular estate for conditions alway enure in a privity so that none shall take advantage of conditions but those which are privies for none shall enter for a condition broken but onely the Feoffor Donor Lessor or their heires and as none shall avoid an estate formerly made by the Breach of a condition but onely the privies so none shall take a new estate by performance of a condition but onely the privies Generall Livery and speciall Livery the difference A generall Livery hath two properties first it is full of charge to the heire for he must find an Office in every County where he hath Land or else he cannot sue a generall Livery and he must sue out his Writ of aetate probanda The second property is it is full of danger first it concludeth the heir for ever after to deny any tenure found in the Office Secondly if Livery be not sued of all and of every parcell which the King ought to have whether it be found in the Office or not found the Livery is void and the King may reseise the Land and be answered of the meane profits so it is if the Office be insufficient or the process wherof the Livery was made be insufficient or the like the King shall re-seise Therefore for the ease of the heire and for avoiding such danger the heire for the most part sueth out a speciall Livery which containeth a beneficiall pardon and saveth the said charges and preventeth the said conclusion and other dangers which being of grace and not of right as the generall Livery is the King may justly take more for a speciall Livery then for a generall but ever with such moderation as the heire may ever goe cheerefully through with it 23 Eliz. 77.28 H. 8. One Mr. Shotbolt was bound in an obligation to one Hickman and in the Obligation he was named John Shotbolt which was mistaken but Mr. Shotbolt well perceiving his misnaming sealed and delivered the Obligation as his Deed and in Debt brought upon this Obligation against him by the name of William Shotbolt alias dictus Johannes Shotbolt he pleaded non est factum and this speciall matter was found by verdict at Guild-hall London and whether he should be charged by this Obligation and plea that was the doubt and the Postea was speciall ut supra and by the opinion of the Justices of the Bench the plantiff shall not recover upon this Verdict but it had been better for him to have brought the Action by the name of John Shotbolt as he is named in the Obligation and then if he appeared therunto and pleaded ut supra non est sactum he should have been concluded by the Obligation vâ—… 3 H. 6. 34 H. 6. 5 E. 4. this matter well debated similis casus inter Turpin Jaxon viz Ann for Agraes and she sued by her right name nuper dicta Anna. Hillar 18. Rotulo 738. Dier fo 279. An obligation made beyond the Seas may be sued here in England in what place the party will what if it beare date Bourdeaux in France where shall it be sued and answer was made that it may be alleadged in quodam loco vocat Bourdiaux in France in â—slington in the County of Midd. and there it shall be tryed for whether there be such a place in Islington in the County of Midd. or not is not traversable in that case and so the varieties of opinions in our Bookes well reconciled New Littleton 361. b. 6. pars fo 47. Dondales case 32 H. 6. 25. 48. E. 3. 3. 11 H. 6. 16. Mise Mise is a word of Act appropriated onely to a Writ of right so called because both parties have put themselves upon the meere right to be tried by grand Assize or by Battel so as that which in all other actions are called an issue in a Writ of right in that Case is called a Mise A yeare how into how many parts it is divided A quarter of a yeare is 91 daies halfe a yeare is 182 daies a yeare is 365 daies and to the 6. houres the Law hath no regard Diers Abridgement fo 89. this is according to the computation in the Kalender And when a Patron is to present hee hath six months to present according to the computation of the Kalender which is 182. daies before any Lapse shall accrue But a Month according to the computation of the Law for reservation of rents and re-entries for non payment of Rent c. doth account 28. daies to the Month and no more Kings-Silver Note that the fine pro licencia concordandi is that which is called the Kings-Silver or post fine And if the Fine in the Hamper which is commonly endorsed upon the writ of Covenant be 26. shillings 8. pence then alwayes the Kings-Silver or post-fine is halfe as much more as the Fine in the Hamper Suspension If a Lease be made of 10. Acres of Land for yeares reserving rent and after the Lessor enters in 2. Acres the entire rent is thereby suspended for a contract which is entire may not be apportioned but being suspended in part it is suspended in all being destroyed in part is destroyed in the whole and especially as to the Act of the Lessor which doth suspend or extinguish it Suspension A man gives Land in taile or leaseth it for life or yeares rendant rent with condition for default of payment to re-enter there if the Lessee lease part of the Land to the Donor or Lessor or if the Donor or Lessor enter in part of the land he may not re-enter for rent behind after for the condition is suspended in all and a condition
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A TABLE OF THE Principall matters contained in this BOOKE A. ABeyance Where an estate or Remainder is in Abeyance 14 Ancestors what act is an assurance of rents arrear or a Condition broken 26 Actions on the Case For what words lye 133 For what acts lye 133 Ages The severall ages of Men and Women 116 Administrators To whom Letters of Administration to be granted 86 Who to grant them 87 Where one may do an act without his companion 88 Who shall administer and be an Administrator of an Administrator 88 Alien where may inherit and may have Heirs 42 43 Appurtenants what passe by those words Cum pertinentiis 104 105 Licence to Alien where may be countermanded where not 107 Assignee who properly is sayd an Assignee 14 Where they are bound in Covenant where not 107 108 109 110 Assise what it is to arraign an Assise 130 Attornement where requisite 33 34 37 38 By whom to be done 38 What acts or words a good one 38 Where the Lands passe without attornement 98 99 B. BAile the effect of speciall Baile in the Kings Bench 92 Bargain and Sale what consideration sufficient 58 Where Inrollment is necessary in it 58 63 What words raise it 59 6 What consideration averrable 59 What consideration sufficient to alter an use in it 55 60 C. COmmon Recoveries their force 62 What are fraudulent 68 What best to binde estates taile 105 111 Conditions The manner of an Entry upon a Condition 119 120 What is a Condition without words conditionall 119 Against two where voyd and the Estates or Deeds voyded 114 115 Repugnant where voyd and the estates or Deeds vyod 114 Who may enter and take advantage of them 6 79 95 99 What act is an affirmance of a Condition broken 31 94 Who may enter for them broken 31 48 Words to make it 44 In Deed and in Law and their constitutions 487 Where one is in of his former estate upon their breaking 48 Where estates taile may be restrained by conditions 95 Who may be bound not to alien 110 Where may apportioned 111 By whom the money to be payd by whom not 112 113 Impossibles where voyd and avoyd the estate or Deed 114 Considerations which good 63 Conveyances by how many wayes lands may passe 60 61 Covenant The form of one joynt several 43 44 What words make a Covenant what not 110 Corruption of blood How restored 41 D. DEed The premisses what they are and their office in a Deed 1 Habendum what it is and its office 1 Where a Habendum is repugnant and voyd 1 Its force over the premisses 2 When a Deed shall commence 14 15 Where a Habendum is good 69 Where a Habendum is voyd and the premisses good 103 Deed Where voyd 103 104 Where to be sued if dated in what place 118 Solvendum in a Deed where voyd and the Deed good 119 Voydable where voyd and by what persons 133 134 Deceit where lyes for doing acts out of Ancient demesne 135 Defeasance of a Statute where voyd 98 What may be defeated 130 Demand For what things it must be made and at what time 25 26 29 30 Where to be made 26 27 28 29 30 Who shall take advantage without it who not 27 Dower where lost 72 Distresse what may be distreined without property what not 130 Where a distresse and detention is Tortious 130 E. ENtry To vest what estates entry is lawfull 31 Estates what persons may take them 4 What Estates may depend one upon another 14 What