good against the Heir tho the Executors have Assets he may have his Election 1 Anderson p. 7. Sir Ed. Capels Case Debt lies against the Heir of an Heir upon Obligation of the Ancestor to the 10th degree Noy 56. Dennyes Case The Obligee shall have a joint Action against all the Sons in Gavel-kind 11 H. 7.12 b. Debt against three Heirs in Gavel-kind the Defendant pleads C. one of the Heirs is within Age. The Heir of an Heir shall be chargable with an Obligation simul cum the immediate Heir and such Heir shall have his Age Moor n. 194. Hawtree and Auger 1 Anderson p. 10. n. 22. id Case If a Man bind himself and his Heirs in an Obligation and leaves Land at Common Law and Gavel-kind the Creditors must sue all the Heirs and if there be Land on the part of the Father and on the part of the Mother and both have Land by descent he shall have several Actions and Execution shall cease till he may take it against both so that the Construction of Law is stricter where the Heir is charged with Warranty real than when he is charged with a Chattel Hob. p. 25. Riens per descent pleaded and what shall be Assets J. S. by Will deviseth his Land to his Heir at 24. and if he die without Heir of his Body before 24. the Remainder over he attains 24. a Fee-simple descends for no Tail shall arise before his said Age which Tail shall never take effect 2 Leon. p. 11. Hind and Sir John Lion id Case 3 Leon. p. 70. The Father bound in Obligation and deviseth his Lands to his Wife till his Son comes to 21 years of Age the remainder to his Son in Fee and dies the Son shall be adjudged in by descent 2 Leon. 123. fol. 101. Bashpooles Case 3 Leon. p. 118. The Ancestor was seised in Fee and by his Will deviseth them to the Defendant being his Son and Heir and to his Heirs on Condition to pay his Debts within a year and if he failed his Executors shall sell he entred and paid no Debts the Executors after entred and sold It s not Assets in Heirs hands for though the Heir hath a Fee yet he hath it as a Purchaser being clogg'd with such a Condition Cro. M. 5 Car. p. 161. Gilpins Case Two things requisite to bind an Heir 1. Lien express 2. Lands by descent In Debt against an Heir he is charged as Heir and the Writ is in the debet and detinet and it s not in auter droit but taken as his proper Debt from 18 Ed. 2. till 7 H. 4. If the Executor had Assets the Heir was not chargeable but now the Law is changed in that Point if the Heir sell the Land before the Writ purchased he is discharged of the Debt in regard he is not to wait the Action of the Obligee Trusts descending shall be Assets by the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries so Lands of special Occupancy vid. Stat. The Defendant pleads his Father was seized in Fee and covenanted with J.S. c. to stand seized to the use of himself for Life the Remainder to the Defendant in Tail c. the Father had caused a Deed to be engrossed and delivered the Deed to a Scrivener to the use of J. D. and M. so as J. D. would agree to it J.D. died never having notice of the Deed Per Cur. the Father never covenanted because the Agreement of J. D. was a Condition precedent to the essence of the Deed and so no Deed to raise the Uses contra the Defendant Moor n. 426. Degoâ— and Rowes Case id Case 1 Leon. 152. n. 211. The Heir pleads riens per descent special Verdict find the Father was scised in Fee and enfeoft J. S. of the Mannor of P. excepted and reserved to the Feoffor for life two Acres only the Lands in question and after limited all to the Feoffees to the use of the Defendant in Tail Per Cur. the Lands do descend to the Son the Exception being void 2 Keb. p. 667 â—19 Wilson and Armorer Upon riens per descent pleaded special Verdict find M. seised in Fee de Saliva Anglice a Salt-pan died and his Son entred and was seised and the Defendant entred as Heir per possession fratris this is Assets by descent and such Heir per possession ' is chargable to the Debt of the Ancestor 3 Keb. Tr. 28 Car. 2. f. 659. Clinch and Butler The Heir pleads riens per descent the Defendant had levied a Fine but because no Deed of Uses was produced at Trial the Use was to the Conusor and his Heirs and so the Heir in by descent Mod. Rep. p. 2. Riens per descent pleaded Feoffment pleaded at the Trial it appeared to be fraudulent it need not be pleaded but may well be given in Evidence 5 Rep. 60. Gooches Case Debt vers l'Heir he may plead in Bar a Release made by the Obligee to the Executors and though the Deed belongs to another yet he must shew it forth for both of them are privy to the Testator Co. Lit. 232. a. Upon riens per descent pleaded it was found he had Assets in the Cinque-ports Judgment was general against the Defendants and as to the Moleties of the Lands in the Cinque-Ports the Plaintiff 〈◊〉 have a Certiorari to remove the Records into Chancery and thence by Mittimus to send to the Constable to make Execution 1 Anderson n. 65. p. 28. Hicker and Harrison vers Tirrel 3 Leon. p. 3. The Heir pleads riens per descent the Plaintiff replies he sued a former Writ vers l'heir and the Defendant was outlawed which was reversed and he freshly brought this Writ by journeys accompts and avers he had Assets the day of the first Writ purchased Hob. p. 248. Spray and Sherrat Cro. Jac. 589. id Case cited Debt vers l'heir the Defendant pleads his Ancestor died Intestate and that one J. S. had administred and had given the Plaintiff a Bond in full satisfaction of the former upon Issue joined it was found pro Def. If the Obligor had given this Bond it had not discharged the former but being given by the Administrator so that the Plaintiffs security is bettered and the Administrator chargable de bonis propriis it s a good discharge Mod. Rep. 225. Blith and Hill He pleads riens per descent but 20 Acres in D. in Com. Warwic The Plaintiff replies more by descent in S. viz. so many Acres and found pro Def. and a discontinuance in the Record of the Plea from Term P. to Term M. assigned for Error and per Cur. its Error and not deins Stat. 18 Eliz. because the Judgment was not founded on the Verdict but upon the Confession of the Defendant of Assets Yelv. p. 169. Hill 7 Jac. B. R. Molineux Case The Heir pleads the Obligor died Intestate and J. S. administred and he had given the Plaintiff another Bond in full satisfaction of the former vide Mod. Rep.
by Deed indented leased to the Defendant a Farm called D. except one Close by Name Lessee Defendant was bound in a Bond to perform all the Covenants and Agreements in the said Indenture and pleaded he had performed all the Covenants the Plaintiff assigns for breach that the Defendant entred into the Close excepted the Defendant demurs Per Cur. the Obligation is not forfeited by this disturbance this Exception is not such an Agreement as is within the intent of the Condition it s an Agreement that the Land excepted shall not pass by the Demise but no Agreement that he shall occupy but sometimes an Exception is an Agreement that shall charge the Lessee but this when he agrees on his part that the Lessor shall have a thing dehors which he had not before as except a Way or Common or any other Profit a Prender that is Agreement of the Lessee that he shall have the Profit and if he bound to perform all Covenants and Agreements if he disturb him in this he shall forfeit the Obligation Cro. Eliz. p. 657. Lady Russel versus Gullwell Moor n. 713. id Case In a Lease for years the Defendant Covenants that the Plaintiff should enjoy it during the Term on Demurrer the Case was Tenant pur vie levies a Fine to him in Reversion come ceo c. the uses were to the Conusee and his Heirs on condition to pay to the Tenant pur vic 4 l. per ann during his life and upon default that it should be to the use of the Conusor for his life the Conusee made a Feoffment to the Defendant who leased to the Plaintiff the 4 l. was not paid nor demanded the Tenant pur vie enters on the Plaintiff this is a breach of the Condition without any demand of the Rent for its a Sum in gross and not issuing out of the Land the Covenant is that the Lessee shall absolutely enjoy it and this Condition is properly to be performed by him who hath the Freehold and it was held that this Feoffment had not destroyed the future use which is to arise for non-performance of the Condition Cro. El. 688. Smith and Warren Two make a Lease for years by Indenture and covenants that the Lessee should not be disturbed nor any incumbrance made by them one of the Lessors makes a Lease to a Stranger who disturbs on Bond to perform Covenants it s a breach of the Condition for them shall not be taken jointly Lach. p. 161. Merritons Case Condition of the Obligation was That the Plaintiff should have hold and enjoy Lands acquitted from all Charges and Incumbrances and for breach the Plaintiff shew there was a Rent-charge granted by the Predecessor under whom the Defendant claimed which is yet undischarged the Defendant demurred because the acquittal goes to the having and holding the Land and it s not shewed that the Plaintiff was ever in possession nor that he was charged or endamaged to which Twisden and Keeling agreed but by Windham the Defendant ought to shew how he had discharged and acquitted from the very Rent and not to let it perpetually hang over him but by all the Court if the Acquittal refer to the Land it self or to the Person the Defendant must shew how 1 Keb. fol. 927. King and Standish A Covenant that the Indenture of a Lease at time of the Assignment is a good true and indefeasible Lease and that the Plaintiff shall enjoy c. without the let or interruption of the Defendant or of any claiming by from or under him and shews for breach that before he that made the Lease had any thing one J. S. was seized in Fee and that he which made the Lease entred upon him and disseised and leased prout and that J. S. re-entred upon him upon which Replication the Defendant demurs per Cur. the word indefeasible Lease shall be construed as a distinct Sentence from the last words that he shall enjoy it without the interruption of the Defendant Siderfin p. 328. Gainsford and Griffith 1 Sanders p. 51. Johnson and Vavisor Joyntenants of a Mill by Lease for years Vavisor assigns all his Interest in the Mill to another without Johnsons assent or privity and dies Johnson after recited this Indenture by Lease and that all came to him by Survivorship grants the said Mill and all his Estate Title and Interest to Procter and covenants that he shall quietly enjoy it notwithstanding any Act done by him and Bond of Covenants Act. de Det sur Bond. Johnson pleads that the Plaintiff had enjoyed this notwithstanding any Act done by him Procter replied that Vavisor Joyntenant with Johnson assigned his Estate to J. D. who entred and expelled him The Defendant demurs adjudged against the Defendant for the Grant was never good for he had no power to grant one Moiety and yet he had expresly granted the Mill to Procter And the Condition of the Obligation being to perform all Grants the Grant being defective at the first as to a Moiety which is the Substance of the Agreement of all the Parties this is not qualified by the Covenant ensuing and it is not like to Nokes Cass 4 Rep. for there the Grant was good for the whole and becomes ill by Eviction afterwards and therefore the Covenant ensuing qualified the general Covenant Yelv. p. 175. Johnson and Procter Lit. 206. 1 Bulstr 3 4. A Covenant that the Lessee shall enjoy against the Lessor and all claiming under him The Defendant exhibited a Bill whereby the Lessor appeared to be in Trust and adjudged this was no Breach Selby and Chute cited 2 Keb. 288. 1 Brownl p. 23. The Covenant was if the Defendant sued or troubled charged or vexed the Plaintiff Per Cur. a Suit in Chancery is within the Condition 2 Keb. 288. Ashton and Martin A Condition to surrender a Copyhold and that the Plaintiff shall enjoy this without the let of any claiming under the Defendant and of one Lancelot Simons The Defendant pleaded Surrender and that the Plaintiff had quietly enjoyed this The Plaintiff replies that one Jane Simons claiming under Lanceolet ousts him Demurrer and Judgment pro Quer. The Case was this Copyhold was granted to Patience Hussy for Life the Remainder to Lanceolet S. in Fee and that after and before the Obligation Lancelot surrenders his Remainder to the use of Patience for Life and after to the use of Lancelot and Jane for their Lives and after to Lancelot's Heirs Lancelot and Patience dye and after the Obligation Jane enters The cause of Demurrer was that Jane took nothing by the Surrender for the Surrender to P. H. pur vie was void she having an Estate pur vie before and consequently the Remainders by notice upon this void Estate are void also Dut per Cur. the Estate limited to Jane S. shall be by way of present Estate and mediate Settlement and not by way of Remainder 1 Sanders p. 150. Wade and Balch 2 Keb. 341. Id. Case
THE LAW OF Obligations and Conditions OR An Accurate TREATISE wherein is contained the whole Learning of the LAW concerning Bills Bonds Conditions Statutes Recognizâ—nces and Defeasances as also Declarations on Special Conditions and the Pleadings thereon Issues Judgments and Executions with many other useful Matters relating thereunto digested under their proper Titles To which is added A TABLE of References to all the Declarations and Pleadings upon Bonds c. now extant ALSO Another TABLE to the Forms of special Conditions which lie scattered in our President BOOKS Being a Work necessary for all that Study the Law or follow the Practick Part thereof With an INDEX of the Principal Matters therein contained By T. A. of Grays-Inn Esq LONDON Printed for I. Walthoe at his Shop in Vine-Court Middle-Temple 1693. TO THE STUDETNS OF THE Common Law GENTLEMEN I Have often admired as well at the Confidence as the scribling Fatigues of any particular Persons who pretend to write Abridgments of the whole Common Law of England Non est res unius aetatis such Persons by an impertinent Citation of a Multitude of Cases not duly examined either raise a Confusion in the Minds of Students or else soften them into a careless Humour it being more easie to turn to Hughes or Shepherd than to search into the true Reasons of the Judgment in Cases maturely reported besides these Persons are seldom curious about Declarations and Pleadings their essential Forms and apt Notions which is the very Soul of the Law that plastica vis without which all their Volumes are void of Life and regular Motion a meer rudis indigestaque moles Some indeed have merited well by their particular Treatises and for that they have kept themselves to one Subject have proved very useful This particular Title which I here present to you hath not been hitherto fully and designedly handled and yet there is no Title more frequent in our Books than that of Obligations and Conditions The Method I have used is as exact as a Treatise of this Nature is capable of yet in this I have not been over-curious and systematical I have not treated at large on Arbitration Bonds the Learning of Arbitraments being a large Title of it self and Mr. March hath been very exact therein and for the same Reason I have been very sparing about Bonds sued by or against Executors or Administrators that being a peculiar Learning of it self though hitherto I confess but lamely handled I have added a Reference-Table of Declarations and Pleadings both Ancient and Modern a thing useful for entring Clarks who may at any time compare their own Manuscripts with these I have also added a Table of special Conditions such as are extant though that must generally be left to the Students own Improvement as the nature of the Case will be and it s very easie to change any Covenant into a Condition Some Cases I have cited more largely for the benefit of such who may not have the Books at hand but especially where the Reasons of the Resolutions are Learned and Curious and I have corrected some Cases which have been mistaken in some Reports as Croke Eliz. and others I have ventured to insert many of the Cases reported by Mr. Keble though in some of them I confess I am a little confounded but they are set down in his own Words Gent. If this Piece prove useful to you either in it self or in instructing you in the Method of your Studies as to other Titles of Law I have my Design And if you please to pardon my Mistakes it will lay a farther Obligation on your Humble Servant J. A. The Names of the Books made use of in the Table of Pleadings A Stons Book of Entries in Quarto Printed 1673 Brownlows Declarations and Pleadings in English 2 parts 4to 1653 Brownlows Declarations and Pleadings in Latin fol. 1693 Browns Entries in 2 parts fol. 1675 Modus Intrandi 8 vo 1687 Cokes Entries fol. 1671 Clarks Manual 8 vo 1678 Hernes Pleader Eng. fol. 1685 The Book of Entries fol. 1685 Robinsons Entries fol. 1685 Rastals Entries fol. 1670 Placita Generalia Specialia 8 vo 1674 Tompsons Entries fol. 1674 Vidians Entries fol. 1684 Winches Entries fol. 1680 THE INDEX A. PLEAS in Abatement and where the Court shall abate the Writ 34 35 36 37 359 360 361 362 365 366 402 Acquittance pleaded to a single Bill 31 Acquittance pleaded in discharge of Covenants for Reparations 198 Acceptance Concord pleaded in Bar 406 Condition to accept a Lease 232 Condition to give an Account 237 Of Acts to be performed by a Stranger 188 Action on Bonds 353 By a Corporation 355 By joint Obligee 356 By Baron and Feme 357 By Alien ibid. By Executors and Administrators 358 Action brought on Bond against Administrators and Executors 358 Against Baron and Feme 363 Against Body Politick 364 Against Joynt Obligors ibid. Against a Servant or Receiver 367 Action brought before Cause of Action ibid. Who to do the first Act 352 Conditions on special Agreements Contracts c. 134 Bonds made to Aliens 19 Leases made to Alien Artificers 50 Condition not to alien 234 Conditions for Appearance at a place Vid. Title Sheriffs Bonds 232 Appearance to a Sheriffs Bond how to be pleaded 85 86 87 Apprentices Bonds 305 Condition for Appearance for Felony 314 Inter alia a Bond may be put in Arbitrament yet in such Case the Arbitrament cannot be pleaded in Bar of the Obligation 400 Of Bonds of Arbitrament 301 Assignee who are Assignees of the Obligee when a thing is to be paid or performed to him or his Assigns 110 111 Assignee to perform Covenants 190 Assignee of Estate and Assignee of Contract 172 Assignment of Obligations to the King 317 Assignment by Commissioners of Bankrupts 343 Assets in the Hands of the Heir 293 300 Condition to make Assurance or farther Assurance 157 c. At whose â—â—…sts 161 Condition to assure Land on Marriage 235 Foreign Attachment pleaded 445 Averment 10 35 Audita Querela where lies and where not 257 272 281 B. BOnd 's Vid. tit Obligations Action brought by Baron and Feme on Obligation 357 Against Baron and Feme 363 Obligations assigned by Commissioners of Bankrupts 343 Conditions concerning Bastard Children 132 Bail Bonds Vid. Sheriffs Bonds Bail Recognizance 267 The Nature of it ibid. Process and Scire Fac. thereon 269 How and when the Bail is discharged 272 Pleadings thereon and Execution 277 Removal Error Hab. Corp. 282 The Form of a Recognisance of Bail 313 Bond for the Good Behaviour 309 What amounts to a Breach of the Behavior 309 316 Condition to procure a Benefice 225 Of Bills Obligatory 8 27 Two several Bills in one 11 Assignment of a Breach on Bonds of Covenants 149 C. OBligations made by a Corporation16 Obligations made to a Body Corporate19 Conditions The Nature of a Condition 38 The several sorts of Conditions 39 Of Conditions precedent and their Operation 40 What words make a Condition 41 What
shall be said parcel of the Condition and what not 43 Conditions against Common Law 45 46 Against Statute Law as Against Stat. 32 H. 8. Of Leases made to Alien Artificers 50 Against Stat. 5 E. 6. c. 16. Of buying Offices 51 Against Stat. 16 Car. 2. Of Gaming 53 Against Stat. 31 Eliz. cap. 6. Of Simony 54 Against Stat. 13 Eliz. c. 20. 14 Eliz. c. 11. Of Non-Residence 58 Against Statutes of Usury 59 60 61 62 Against Stat. 23 H. 6. cap. 10. Of Sheriffs Bonds Vid. tit Statutes 67 Of Conditions Repugnant 90 Of Conditions impossible 92 93 Of Conditions insensible and uncertain 100 Conditions copulative ibid. Conditions disjunctive105 Exposition of Conditions About payment of Mony 110 Persons to whom payment to be made or performance done ibid. What persons are to pay or do a thing by the Condition 112 Of payment of Mony by the Condition of a Bond in general ibid. In what Cases a collateral thing may be given in satisfaction of a Condition or payment of other things in lieu of Mony 113 Time of payment or performance where time is limited 116 Where no time is limited 124 During the Lives of the Parties 125 On Request ibid. Place of payment or performance where a place is limited 127 Where no place is limited 128 Particular Conditions and their Expositions Of Conditions to pay Mony on Marriage 131 Of Conditions to pay Mony concerning Children and Bastards 132 Conditions to pay Mony upon Proof 133 Special Conditions to pay Mony on Contracts Agreements c. and of Pleadings thereon 133 Conditions to pay Mony on Warning 137 To pay Mony at several days 138 To pay Mony on a Voyage and Pleadings thereon 139 To pay Mony yearly during Life 140 To perform Covenants generally 141 To perform Covenants where some are void and some are good 45 A Condition to do a thing which is malum in se 46 Of Breaches of Covenant Bonds and Pleadings 149 Disability of the Obligor to perform the Condition 155 Conditions to perform particular Covenants To make Assurance 159 At whose Cost 161 For quiet Enjoyment 169 To acknowledge a Fine 184 To pay Rent 115 189 On Covenants on a void Lease or void Covenants 175 195 On Covenants in a Mortgage 196 On Covenants for Reparations 197 Pleadings on Covenant Bonds 199 Variance ibid. Release pleaded to Bonds of Covenants 202 Issue Tryal on Bonds of Covenants 205 Conditons to save harmless 207 Of Counterbonds 215 Condition to permit an act or thing suffer 175 221 Conditions to surrender Copyhold 223 To satisfie embezilled Goods 224 To enjoy Offices ibid. To procure Office Place or Benefice 225 To procure deliver and execute Writings 226 To deliver Possession 228 Conditions concerning Wives 229 Condition to accept a Lease 232 To appear at a place ibid. Not to alien 234 Not to continue a Suit ibid. To convey Lands upon Marriage235 To perform a Promise ibid. To do things belonging to a Trade 236 To deliver Goods or pay the value ibid. To reap and carry Corn over the usual way 237 To give an Account ibid. Conditions concerning Wills and Legacies 238 General Rules of Expositions and Constructions of Conditions and what shall be said a good performance 240 According to the very Words and Circumstances 241 Of being performed in substance ibid. And that exactly and not in shew 242 Improper Words shall not vitiate a Condition242 No intention of the Parties to be construed against the express words 243 Conditions construed according to the intent 243 253 If it may constare 236 When a Man is bound to do or permit a thing he ought to do and permit all which depends upon this in the performance of the thing 246 A Condition to be performed as near as may be 247 In many Cases endeavour shall excuse ibid. If there be an indifferent construction which may be taken two ways that way shall be taken to make the Obligation stand 248 A Man shall be supposed by the Condition to do what properly belongs to him ibid. One may be said to forfeit a Bond if he do what in him lies to break the Condition ibid. Where a Condion of an Obligation shall be expounded by a matter dehors 249 Expositions of Words Sentences and References in Conditions 259 As During the Time ibid. As Debito modo 173 As Being reasonably required 251 As Then living ibid. As At all times 125 As Payments ibid. As Acres 168 As Either 252 As Until he be advanced 120 As Bearing date ibid. As Defend 170 As Miles 252 As Assigns 110 As Them 181 As And also 186 As Then to be void 245 Condition void and the Obligation single 90 91 92 93 Conditions Copulative 100 If it be not set down in the Condition who shall do a thing if the Obligee have more skill he shall do it if the Obligor he shall do it 112 136 To do a thing as Counsel shall advise 126 c. 157 158 167 To pay Mony concerning Children 132 Difference between Conditions affirmative and negative as to Pleading 142 143 147 Bonds of Covenants Vid. supra At whose Costs Assurances to be made 161 Covenants special specially to be answered to 200 What things will excuse the performance of a Condition 353 Actions on Bond brought by a Corporation 355 Where a Recital in a Condition shall be an Estoppel 384 Difference where the Condition is to pay a Sum of Mony and where to do a Collateral Act 6 Concord pleaded in Bar 406 Costs upon Verdict 465 In what cases discharge of part of the Condition shall be a discharge of the whole 479 Conditions to convey Lands Vid. tit Assurance D. COsts and damages on a Verdict 465 Damnification Vid. Pleadings on Bonds to save harmless 216 Date of Obligations 20 Of Declarations on Bonds In respect of place 369 In respect of time 370 Form of the Declaration ibid. Declarations for outlandish Mony 375 Variance between the Original and the Declaration 376 Variance in the Sum ibid. Variance in the Names and Additions 378 Variance in time of Payment and Entry 380 Declarations against the Heir 297 Declarations on Statutes Recognisances 262 Of Defeasances 28 The Notion of a Defeasance 287 Difference between a Condition precedent and a Defeasance 136 What amounts to a Defeasance and what not 289 Demand actual where necessary or not 29 30 Delivering of Obligations 22 Detinue of Obligations 346 Conditions to deliver Writings 226 To deliver Possession 288 To deliver Goods or pay the Value 236 Disability of the Obligor to perform the Condition 155 Of disjunctive Conditions 101 Obligations void per Duress 107 E. EXception in a Conveyance where void 295 Where the Obligor hath Election and where the Obligee in disjunctive Conditions 103 115 Condition for quiet Enjoyment 169 Deed delivered as an Escrow 24 439 Error 272 282 What things will excuse the performance of a Condition 353 Estoppel and Pleadings Recital in Conditions 201 441 Exposition des parols 110 250
of the Sea excepted that the Defendant pay in 12 Calendar Months or if the the Ship be lost before the return or payment to be void the Defendant pleads navis amissa fuit the Plaintiff demurs for the meaning of this Bill of Adventure is a loss by dangers of the Sea Per Hales its sufficient for the Defendant to pursue the words of the Bond and the Plaintiff should have replied the Ship was lost by the Defendants default 2 Keble 768. Boddington and Wotton A Condition to pay Mony yearly during Life A Condition to pay yearly 40 l. to S. during his Life at the Feasts of St. Michael and the Annuntiation or within 30 days after every of the said Feasts S. dies within the 30 days this shall discharge the payment due at the Feast before his death Cro El. p. 380. Prices Case A Condition to pay yearly and every year to Thomas and Dorothy his Wife during their two Lives then c. the Husband dies the payment ceaseth the Interest is not in the cesty que vies the Husband and Wife are Strangers and the Interest of the Bond is in the Obligee Mod. Rep. p. 187. Slater and Carew In respect of the thing it self to be done A Condition to perform Covenants generally IF a Man Lease a Mannor by Indenture except such a parcel of Land and in the Indenture there are divers Covenants to be performed on the part of the Lessee and the Lessee binds himself in an Obligation to perform all Covenants and Agreements contained in one pair of Indentures and names the said Indentures and after the Lessee enters into the Land excepted this is no breach of the Condition for the Land excepted is not leased and it is so as if it had been named Dame Russel and Gulwel 1 Rolls Abr. Tit. Condition f. 431. If one makes a Lease for years of a Mannor excepting a Close rendring Rent and the Lessee is bound to perform all Grants Covenants and Agreements contenta expressa aut recitata in the Indenture if he disturb the Lessor in the occupation of the Close excepted he has forfeited the Obligation for when he excepts the Close the other is content with this and that the Lessor shall occupy this and then this is the Agreement and the said word contenta expressa recitata every of them go to the exception as well as to the residue Plow fol. 67. in Dive and Manninghams Case If a Man let for years rendring Rent payable payable at Michaelmas and Lady-day on Condition that if he does not pay at the said Feast or within 14 days after then to re-enter and the Lessee binds himself in an Obligation with Condition to perform the Covenants and Agreements of the said Lease the Lessee pays not the Rent at the Feast but within the 14. days yet the Condition is forfeited for that the Condition in the Lease is not parcel of the Reservation 1 Rolls Abr. Tit. Cond fol. 431. Middleton and Ratcliff The Condition of a Bond for performance of Covenants in an Indenture doth estop to say there is no such Indenture but it doth not estop to say there are no Covenants Mod. Rep. 15. Holloways Case Where an Action of Debt is brought upon a Bond to perform Covenants in a Deed and the Defendant cannot plead Covenants performed without the Deed because the Plaintiff hath the original Deed and perhaps the Defendant took not a counter-part of it the Court useth to grant Imparlances till the Plaintiff bring in the Deed and upon Evidence if it be proved that the other Party hath the Deed we admit Copies to be given in Evidence but in Qu. Imp. the Grant of the Advowson must be shewed Mod. Rep. p. 266. If I am bound to perform Covenants and the Covenants are in the affirmative if the performance of them be by Matter of Fact I may recite the Condition and plead generally that I have performed all the Covenants and shall not shew especially the performance of them as if I am bound to enfeoff the Obligee of c. and also that I shall give to him an Horse in Debt brought upon the Obligation I shall shew the Condition and shall say perimplevi omnes Conventiones and shall not shew the special matter of the performance as that I gave him an Horse at such a place c. but if the Condition be in the affirmative and the performance of this may be tryed by Matter of Record as if I am bound that I shall be non-suit in such an Action there I shall shew the performance of this especially but if the Condition be in the negative as that I shall not go to London before such a day I must answer to this in the negative 13 H. 7.19 b. 10 H. 7.12 b. vide plus A Condition to perform all Covenants comprised in such Indenture the Defendant pleads he had performed all the Covenants without shewing how per Cur. as to all the Covenants which are to be performed in the affirmative the Plea is good but where the Plaintiff is to be a Party to the performance as if I am bound to enfeoff you of two Acres in D. which you shall assign here I must shew how also where words are in the disjunctive it ought to be shewed specially and a Clause in the negative must be answered in the negative 16 H. 7.11 a. vide 26 H. 8.5 cont as to general performance pleaded Upon Oyer of the Condition the Defendant pleads Covenants performed and doth not set forth the Indenture which per Cur. upon Demurrer he ought and if he have it not he may move the Court and have a Copy thereof Per Twisden it hath been vexata quaestio heretofore who should set it forth 1 Keble 127. Walker versus Gibson 2 Keble 80. Anonymus The Court on an Affidavit by the Attorny that the Bonds are for performance of Covenants will order the Defendant to deliver a Copy of the Covenants to the Plaintiff that he may reply there are none broken but not else but by consent 1 Keble 653. Paschal and Jekel In Action of Debt the Defendant pleaded it was for performance of Covenants and that he hath performed all not shewing forth the Indenture to which the Plaintiff demurred the Court agreed he must set it forth 1 Keble p. 415. Lewis and Bull. Det sur Bond the Defendant pleads the Condition is to perform Covenants contained in a Pair of Indentures in which are contained divers Covenants and recites them which he had performed the Plaintiff demurs because he said not when he pleaded the Indenture hic in Curia prolat ' and Judgment pro Quer. and per Coke he might take advantage of this upon the general Demurrer without shewing cause for it is matter of substance 1 Rolls Rep. Duport and Wildgoose mesme Case 2 Bulstr 259. If in Debt sur Obligation with Condition for performance of Covenants in an Indenture the Defendant pleads performance generally this
his Election to accept the Estate tendred or the Mony and there cannot be an acceptance but where there is a tender on the other part Therefore the Conisor ought to have devised the Estate and procured the Conisee to accept thereof otherwise he ought to pay the Mony Crook Eliz. p. 718. Mills and Wood. A Covenant to make a Lease on such Covenants as the Plaintiff or his Counsel shall advise the Plaintiff must tender the Lease 3 Keble 183. Twiford and Buckly The Covenant is to make a Lease for three Lives before Michaelmas the Defendant pleads that none of the Lives were named by the Plaintiff The Plaintiff demurs Judgment was for the Defendant the Plaintiff must name them 3 Keble 183 203. Twiford and Buckly The Defendant pleads the Condition was if the Defendant make an Estate to the Plaintiff of certain Land before such a day in Fee by Feoffment Fine or otherwise as his Counsel learned in the Law shall advise The Plea was Concilium non dedit advisamentum The Defendant is not bound to request his Counsel to make advice and the advisement doth not come on the part of the Plaintiff but on the part of the Defendant This is not like the Case of Obligors being bound to pay to the Obligee 10 l. or enfeoff him of the Mannor of S. he ought to make tender of the Monies and in the other Case he oughâ— to tender that he will make a Feoffment because all comes from the Defendant 6 H. 7.4 as in this Case The Plaintiff replies J. S. was of his Counsel and no more and he made such advice which advisement the Plaintiff notified to the Defendant so it is good ibid. If I am bound to make you such an assurance as J. S. shall devise I am bound at my peril to procure notice but if I am bounden to make such assurance as your Counsel shall advise there notice ought to be given to me 1 Leon. p. 105. Case 141. in Atkinsons Case A Condition to perform Covenants Breach assigned whereas the Covenantor covenanted with the Covenantee that he at the costs of the Covenantee would assure such Lands unto him before such a day that the day was past and no assurance tendred by the Covenantor not costs by the Covenantee Per Cur. the Covenantor is to make the assurance and to give notice what assurance he will make and his readiness that the other may know what Costs to tender Crook Eliz. 517. Hallings and Connard The Covenantor ought to do the first act viz. notifie the Covenantee what manner of Estate he will make so that the Covenantee may know what Sum of Mony to tender and it is all one whether the Covenant be general or particular as to make a Feoffment c. and so if nothing were done before the day the Obligation is forfeited 5 Rep. mesme Case 22. b. The Obligor having election what manner of assurance he will make ought first to give notice to the Obligee that he will make such assurance More n. 595. mesme Case W. covenants for himself his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns within seven years upon Request to convey to the Plaintiff a Copyhold Estate for life W. dies a Request must be made to his Executors though W. was seised in Fee the Executors are bound to see it done 2 Bulstr 158. Thursdens Case A Condition to perform Articles one was the Defendant covenanted before such a Feast to make to the Plaintiff and his Wife a Demise of c. Hebendum immediately after the death of E. F. for 30 years if E. W. to this assent then Habend after the death of E. F. for 21 years The Defendant pleads E. W. denied his assent and farther that the Plaintiff did not require the Defendant to make him the Lease for 21 years Demurrer and Judgment pro Quer. For the Plaintiff need not make Request but the Defendant at his peril ought to have made the Lease for 21 years before the Feast 1 Anders n. 124. f. 49. Henry Cage versus Tho. Furtho The Condition is if the Obligor make all reasonable Acts c. which shall be for assurance c. to be required by the Obligee before such a day c. a general Request is sufficient Aliter if the assurance were to be advised by the Obligee or his Counsel there he must shew he had required such a particular assurance as Fine c. and as to this the Case was thus The Condition was if the Defendant before M. do make acknowledg and suffer c. all and every such reasonable Acts and things whatsoever they be for the good and lawful assuring and sure making of the Mannor of D. to J. S. and his Heirs that then c. The Defendant pleads that before M. the Plaintiff rationabiliter non requisivit le def ad faciend c. aliqua rationabilia actum acta quae forent pro bona legitima assurantia del mannor de D. c. The Plaintiff replies that such a day before M. he requested the Defendant quod ipse conveiret assuraret manerium de D. al J. S. c. secundum tenorem conditionis And Issue found pro Quer. Moved in arrest of Judgment that there was no sufficient Breach for that the Plaintiff ought to have required an assurance in certain viz. Fine or Feoffment but per Cur. the Condition is broken for by the Condition the Defendant is to do all and every act whatsoever c. so that if the Plaintiff request a Fine Recovery Feoffment Bargain and Sale the Defendant ought to do all but not to make any Obligation or Recognisance for the enjoying the Mannor for that is but collateral Security and not any Assurance Then when the Plaintiff requests the Defendant to convey the Mannor in the generality the Defendant ought at his peril to do this by some kind of Assurance and if upon this Request the Defendant makes a Feoffment of the Mannor yet if after this the Plaintiff request a Fine he ought to acknowledge a Fine also and so upon every several Request Yelv. p. 44. 1 Brownl p. 84. More n. 889. Pudsey and Newsam The Condition was to make an Estate of Inheritance to the Obligee at such a day and place The Defendant pleads he was ready at the day and place to make it c. The Plaintiff demurs Per Cur. ill Plea he ought to have shewed that he gave notice what Estate of Inheritance he would make him Stiles p. 61. Allen p. 24. Brook and Brook 5 Rep. 22. If a Man be bound to make a Conveyance of certain Lands if a Warranty or Covenant be put into the Deed he is not bound to seal it 1 Rolls Abr. p. 424. sect 13. The Condition is to make such Assurance to the Obligee as the Obligee shall devise and after the Obligee deviseth an Indenture and tenders this to him and he requires time to shew it to his Counsel he must seal
had satisfied so much or that was not molested Crook Eliz. p. 393. Hutchinson and Leâ—son The Condition is if R. C. acquit R. F. and J. B. of such Sureties they have made to N. that then c. pleaded that R. F. and J. B. were bound to N. in 15 l. and R. C. did procure Acquittances of N. to R. F. and J. B. for the same See the form of pleading Quaere if good Plea 1 H. 7.30 a. The Condition was to secure him harmless against J. S. in an Action for 53 l. for which he was Bail for him The Defendant pleads he had paid to J. S. 20 l. in satisfaction of the 53 l. and so kept him harmless but for that the Plaintiff might be damnified before the payment to which he doth not answer the Plea is ill Crook Eliz. p. 136. Davies and Thomas In Debt on a Counter-bond for Security of Bail given for appearance of the Defendant The Defendant pleads non damnificatus The Plaintiff replied Non comparuit The Defendant rejoyns that the first Bond given was void per 23 H. 6. and that there was no Latitat issued forth per Cur. this is a departure But notwithstanding the Bond the party is not estopt to say there was no Latitat but the Non-appearance is a damnification be the Bond void or not 1 Keb. 59 98. Cook and Morgan Condition to permit WHere no Act is to be done but only a Permittance he need not plead it specially and non permifit or permisit is a good Plea A Covenant that the Plaintiff to such of the said Lands as by the Custom of the Country tunc jacebant frisca should have free ingress c. The Defendant pleads quod perâ—nisit Querentem intrare c. in tales terras quales tunc jacebant frisco secundum consuetud patriae he need not shew what Lands did he fresh 1 Leon. p. 136. Littleton and Perne L. covenants with S. that he would suffer him and his Assigns to have free ingress c. into his House and Shop without let or interruption of the said L. and that S. appunctuavit one T. ut servientem suum in Messuag c. intrare in usum de S. super quo praedict T. intravit praedictas L. expulit Moved in Arrest 1. It is alledged L. expels the Servant and this was the expulsion of the Master 2. Appunctuavit intrare and doth not say what time for perhaps his Licence to enter might be determined 3. It is not said at what time he entred but super quo intravit all these Exceptions were over-ruled 2 Rolls Rep. 78. Snelling and Lowe The Condition was if A. a Stranger would render himself to an Arrest in such a place The Defendant pleads A. was a Servant to a Parliament-Man and pleads Priviledge The Plaintiff demurs Pro Quer. for A. might render himself and let it be at their peril if they will arrest him 1 Brownl Rep. 91. Jackson and Kirton A Condition to perform all Covenants in a Lease made by her Husband of a Warren one whereof was to do no Act to disturb the Lessee she after marries another Husband who entred on the Plaintiff and cut his Nets no Title being shewed by which he entred The Plaintiff demurred and Judgment pro Quer. It is not requisite that the Husband be Assignce of the Estate but her Assignce of Contract which she might have avoided the Husband acts in her Right 1 Keb. 348 512. Hall versus Creswel Uxor One is bound to permit his Tenants to use the Common and that he shall not alter the Course of the Common quod permisit and that he shall not alter c. is a good Plea generally 11 Eliz. Dyer 279. Condition to surrender Copyhold Lands THE Condition was that the Obligor should surrender his Copyhold Land to the use of the Obligee he pleaded he had surrendred it ill Plea because he had not shewed when the Court of the Lord was holden Winch p. 11. Llewellins Case The Condition reciting whereas such Copyhold Lands were to be surrendred by A. S. at her full age to the use of the said Hammond and Guy and their Heirs and that Gay should pay to Hammond 33 l. at such a day and if he failed it should be to the use of Hammond and his Heirs It was conditioned that if the Obligor procured the said A. S. at her full age to surrender to the use of Hammond and his Heirs and if Hammond and his Heirs might have and enjoy the said Lands to him and his Heirs then the Obligation c. The Defendant pleads Gay paid not the 33 l. and that A. S. came of full age such a day and afterwards at such a Court in full Court did surrender release and quit claim to the Plaintiff being in possession all her Estate Right and Interest in the same Tenements and that the Plaintiff always after might have enjoyed the same Tenements The Plaintiff replies quod bene verans est that the said A. S. did surrender prout c. but that afterwards such a day the said Gay entred and expelled him The Defendant demurs per Cur. the Replication is not good because he hath not shewed he was evicted by lawful Title for otherwise this Bond doth not extend to it and per Cur. the Bar that shall be surrendred and released in Court is good and certain enough according to common intendment And although it be not said she surrendred to the use of the Plaintiff yet it being alledged it was surrendred in Court and accepted by the Plaintiff and confessed by the Replication it is good Crook Car. first Case Hammond and Dod. The Condition whereas F. held Copyhold Land of Sir J. K. if he within six Months after the death of F. granted the Land to the Plaintiff and two others whom the Plaintiff should name for three Lives according to the Custom of the Mannor that then c. The Defendant pleaded the Plaintiff nominated no Lives The Plaintiff replies Sir J. K. within the sixth Months granted it to J. S. and two others for their Lives who are yet alive the Defendant pleads non conâ—ossit and found against him It is not Error that the Plaintiff in his Replication shows not that the lands are Copyhold for the Condition reciting it is Copyhold Land he is estopt Crook Jaâ— p. 275. Sir J. Kernes Case To satisfie Imbeziled Goods ONe was bound to satisfie for Goods he had imbeziled he pleads that upon suit for those Goods he was taken in Execution for the damage No Plea 33 H. b 47. Hillaries Case Hob. p. 59. The Condition if A. turned over Apprentice should waste the Goods of his Master to pay what the Master was damnified no damage pleaded Plaintiff sets forth goods wasted but it s forth no notice given to the Defendant no notice is necessary when any one undertakes for a third person he must answer for him at his peril because the imdesilment is
Executors of G. naming them were dead not saying intestate and if any Executor made his Executor the Plaintiff is not sufficiently intituled Non allocatur per Cur. the Defendant ought to shew there were Executors Judgment pro Quer. 1 Keb. 480. Burgess versus Clayton Against Executor or Administrator DEbt on Bond against B. Executor Defendant acknowledgeth the Bond but saith he gave another Bond in satisfaction of that Bond unto the Testator which the Testator did accept in satisfaction Ill Plea one chose in Action cannot be in satisfaction of another Stiles p. 339. Crook and Vernon Debt against J. B. and M. his Wife Executrix of her first Husband upon Bondâ— Defendant Pleads thus praed J. and M. per Atternat say that they were divorced before the Writ purchased On Demurrer adjugded that the Writ shall abate Crook Eliz. 352. Underhil's Case The Plaintiff brings two Obligations of 20 l. a piece against the Executor whereas one was not due and Damages were given for both entirely but it s no Error for it was only an allegation of the Defendant and it did not appear and the Defendant rested not upon it but pleaded another Plea viz. a request to make a Release and Issue upon that If the Plaintiff Sue one as Executor joyntly with the true Executor who is not Executor this is not in Abatement of the Bill or Writ but only that he shall be barred against him and so not Error Crook Eliz. p. 110. Thiâ—kettle against Reve. The constant difference is where Executors bring the Action all must be named but an Action brought against them may be against such only who do Administer and unless it be averred that he did Administer the Defendant cannot plead this Plea in Abatement and therefore in 1 Keb. p. 865. Swallow against Emerson In Debt upon a Bond the Defendant pleaded that there was another Executor not named and yet living and doth not say that he did Administer The Plaintiff Demurred and Judgment for the Plaintiff Debt against the Defendant Executor of one joynt Obligor Defendant pleaded in Abatement that it appears the Obligation was joynt sed non allocatur for it appears not that the other Sealed nor that the other Survived in which case the Executor would be discharged the Plea was concluded quod billa cassetur and it begins with Judgment de billa but the body of the Plea is a general Demurrer which per Cur. is a plain bar to the Declaration here being no Plea in Abatement only the form begins and ends in Abatement but there is no other form to a Demurrer to a Declaration In Abatement it should be si ad billam prad respondere debet for praecludi non is replication to a Plea 3 Keb. 672. Bager and Ash Against Baron and Feme ON Obligation made by a Feme Covert she shall plead she was Feme Covert â—nd conclude Issint non est factum because it was void 14 H. 4.30 Debt port against J. S. and Elianor his Wife upon Bond made by the Wife Defendants plead quod tempora confectionis and â—ew the day she was Feme Covert Plaintiff confesseth this but saith she Sealed the â—ame Deed the same day of her Marriage before her Espousals in the Morning Defendant Demurs Plaintiff had Judgment 2 Rolls Rep. 431. Jacksons Case Feme Obligor of full Age takes Baron within Age In Debt on Obligation they pray his Age but denied Noy p. 96. On Obligation made by the Wife dum sola Issue is found against them per Popham the Capias shall only be against the Wife Noy 13. Amson and Stockburne on non est factum Judgment must be quod capiantur More n. 93â— Bardolph and Perry Plaintiff declares of Obligation made by the Wife dum sola fuit the Writ must be in the debet detinet for the Baron hath the Goods of the Wife in his own right 5 Rep. 136. 3 Leon. p. 206. Walcotts Case Against an Infant Vid. supra titulo What Persons may 〈◊〉 may not make Obligations Against a Body politique IF one will charge Mayor and Comminalty they must both be bound If one oblige himself by the name of Major and Comminalty the Comminalty is not bound and no Goods of the Comminalty shall be put in Execution So it is of Dean and Chapter aliter of Abbot and Prior for they are bound tho' the Covent be not bound 3 H. 7.11 Prior Obligor is made Abbot Action of Debt is maintainable against him 9 H. 7.16 b. Prior of Baths Case Against two or three Obligors IF three are bound and the Action is brought against two the Plaintiff ought to shew that the third is dead If two or three are bound Joyntly and one dies the Executor of him that is dead is altogether discharged Siderfin p. 238. Ofborn's Case Debt on Obligation against one and upon Oyer he and two others were Joyntly bound Demurrer and Judgment pro Querente that the Declaration is good and it shall come on the other part to swear that there is another named in the Lien who is not named in the Writ Siderfin p. 420. Chappel and Uaughan Though two others are named yet it appears not that they put their Seals to it and so the Obligation is single but if the truth were that the other two had Sealed as well as the Defendant then the Defendant if he would take advantage of this ought not to have Demurred upon the Oyer but he ought to have pleaded in Abatement that the two other Persons Sealed the Obligation who are yet in full Life and so pray Judgment of the Bill 1 Sanders Trin. 21 Car. 2. f. 291. the same Case 3 Crook 494. 5 Rep. 119. Three are bound joyntly and severally upon Action brought against two the Defendants ought to shew that it was made by them and others in full life not named in the Writ because the Court shall not intend the Bond was sealed and delivered by all that are named in it therefore the Defendants cannot demur upon it though it be entred in haec verba So it is if an Action be brought upon a Recognizance taken before the Mayor and Recorder c. by Stat. 23 H. 8. because there the parties must seal But in Scire facias against three Ballees upon a Recognizance acknowledged by them and the Principal joyntly and severally Upon Demurrer the Writ abated because this being founded upon a Record the Plaintiff ought to shew forth the cause of the Variance from the Record as that one was dead Allen p. 21. Blackwell and Ashton Four are bound by these words Utrumque nostrum the Obligee may charge any of these severally but if he will have a Joynt Action against two of the four the Writ shall abate Three are bound joyntly and severally Obligee cannot bring Debt against two 10 H. 7.16.27 H. 8.6 Debt on joynt Bond against the Survivor The Defendant pleads one of the Obligors died and the Plaintiff afterwards released to the