satisfied but with the death of the enemy such is that amongst the people in Scotland and in the Northern parts of England which is a Combination of all the Kindred to revenge the death of any of the Blood upon the Slayer and all his race And this word is mentioned in the Stat. of 43 Eliz. c. 13. Fieri facias FIeri facias is a Writ judicial and lies where a â—â— an recovers Debt or Da â—â— nages in the Kings Court 〈◊〉 a he shall have this Writ to the Sheriff commanding him that he levy the Debt and Dammages of the goods of him against whom the Recovery is had and it lies only within a year and a day and after the year he must sue a Scire facias and if the party be warned and doth not come at the day c. or if he come and can say nothing then he who recovers shall have a Writ of Fieri facias directed to the Sheriff that he make Execution of Iudgment But if a man recover against a woman and she takes a husband within the year and the day then he that recovers must have a Scire facias against the husband So it is if an Abbot or Prior recover and die his Successor within the year shall have a Scire facias See thereof more in the Title Scire facias and Title Execution There is also another manner of Fieri facias against a Rector where upon a general Fieri facias the Sheriff returns quod nulla habet bona seu catalla and thereupon a Writ is directed to the Bishop of the Diocess where he is Rector and thereupon the Bishop levies the Debt of the Profits of the Gleab Tithes of the Rectory Fifteenth FIfteent â— See Quinzisme F â— lazer FIlazer of the French word Filace id est a Thread is the name of an Officer in the Common Pleas of which there are 14. They make dut all the Original Process there and the Distress infinite upon Summons returned in personal Actions and the Capias upon the return of Nihil and all Writs of View in cases where the View is prayed And where the Appearance is with them they enter the Impariance and the general Issue in common Actions and Iudgments by Confession before Issue joyned and make out Writs of Execution upon them And they make Writs of Supersedeas after a Capias awarded when the Defendant appears in their Office And this Officer is mentioned in the Statutes of 10 H 6. c. 4. 18 H. 6. c. 9. File FIle Filacium is a Thread or Wire upon which Writs and other Exhibits in Courts are put for the safer keeping of them together Finders FInders is a word used in many Statutes as in 14 R. 2. c. 10. 17 R. 2. c. 5. 1 H. 4 c. 13. and 31 H. 6. c. 5. and seems to be all one with those Officers which we now call Searchers imployed for the discovery of Goods which are imported or exported without paying Custom Fine FIne sometimes is taken for a Sum of money which one is to pay to the King for any Contempt or Offence which Fine every one that commits any Trespass or is convict that he falsly denies his own Deed or did any thing in contempt of Law shall pay to the King which is called Fine to the King Sometime a Fine is taken for a Final Agreement which is had between any persons concerning any Land or Rent or other thing whereof any Suit or Writ is between them hanging in any Court which may be divers ways One is when any party acknowledges that to be the right of the other as that he hath of the Gift of him that made the Recognizance which always supposes a Feoffment going before and is called a Fine executed Or if he acknowledged that to be the right of another omitting these words coÌ„e ceo que il eit de son Done this being a Fine upon acknowledging of â— ight only if it be levied to him which hath the Freehold of the Land is a Fine upon a Release If he that acknowledged it is seised and he to whom it is levied hath not the Free-hold of the Land then it is called a Fine executory which he to whom the Land is acknowledged may execute by Entry or Scire facias Sometime such a Fine Sur conusance de droit only is to make a Surrender wherein is rehearsed that the Reconusor hath an Estate for life and the other a Reversion Sometime it is taken to pass a Reversion where a particular Estate is recited to be in another and that the Reconusor will that the other shall have the Reversion or that the Land shall remain to another after the particular Estate spent And sometime he to whom the right is acknowledged as that which he hath of the Gift of the Reconusor shall yield the Land or a Rent out thereof to the Conusor And that sometime for the whole Fee sometime for one particular Estate with Remainder or Remainders over and sometime with Reversion of Rents with Distress and Grant thereof over by the said Fine It is called a Fine because thereby the Suit is ended and if it be recorded with Proclamation according to the Statute 4 H. 7. it bars Strangers Fine force FIne force signifies an absolute Necessity as when a man is compelled to do that which he can no way avoid we say he doth it de Fine force So this word is used in Perk. sect 321. in Mantel and Woodlands Case in Plowden f. 94. b. and in Eatons Case cited in Foxly's Case in the 6 Rep. f. 111. a. Finors FInors are those that purifie Gold and Silver and part them by fire and water from courser Metals and therefore in the Statute of 4 H. 7. c. 2. they are also called Parters Fire-bote FIre-bote is necessary Wood to burn which by the Common Law Lessee for years or for life may take in his Ground although it be not expressed in his Lease and although it be a Lease by Word only without Writing But if he take more then is needful he shall be punished in Waste First-fruits FIrst-fruits Primitiae are the Profits of every Spiritual Living for a year which were anciently given to the Pope but by the Statute of 26 H. 8. â— 3. are now transferred to the King Fledwite FLedwite is to be quit from Amerciaments when an outlawed Fugitive comes to the Kings Peace of his own will or being licensed Flemeswite FLemeswite is that you may have the Cattel or Amerciaments of your Fugitive man Fletwit FLetwit or Flitwit is to be quit from Contention and Convicts and that you may have a Plea thereof in your Court and the Amerciaments for Flit in English is Treason in French Floatsam FLoatsam or Flotson is when a Ship is sunk or otherwise perished and the Goods float upon the Sea and they are given to the Lord Admiral by his Letters Patents See Cok. lib. 5. fol. 106. Fold Fould-course FOld Fould-course
King certain Land by the Service of carrying his Banner or Launce or to lead his Host or to be his Carver or Butler at his Coronation or the like and that is the most Honorable Service that a Tenant may do and for that it is called Grand Serjeanty But Petit Serjeanty is when one holds of the King paying him yearly a Bow a Sword a Spear or such like and that is but Socage in effect but a man cannot hold in Grand Serjeanty or Petit Serjeanty but of the King Also if a Tenant by Grand Serjeanty dies his Heir being of full age shall pay to the King for Relief the value of the Lands besides the charges that he pays to the King by Grand Serjeanty but he that holds by Escuage shall pay for his Relief but C. 5. Those that are in the Marches of Scotland who hold of the King by Cornage that is to blow an Horn when the Scots enter England are Tenants in Grand Serjeanty Also where a man holds of the King to find a man in his Wars within the Realm that is called Grand Serjeanty because it is done by a mans Body And if the Tenant cannot find a man to do it he is bound to do it himself But see the Stat. 12 Car. 2. c. 24. whereby all Tenures are now turned into Free and Common Socage Gree. GRee comes of the French word Gre good liking and it signifies in our Law Contentment or Satisfaction as in the Statute of 1 R. 2. c. 15. to make Gree to the parties is to give them Contentment or Satisfaction for an Offence done unto them Green hew GReen hew is all one with Vert as appears by Manwood in his Forest Laws cap. 6. sect 5. And for it see Vert. Green Wax GReen Wax is a word used in the Statutes of 42 E. 3. c. 9. and 7 H. 4. c. 3. and signifies the Estreats of Issues Fines and Amerciaments in the Exchequer and delivered out to the Sheriffs under the Seal of the Court to be levied by them in their several Counties Grithbreach GRithbreach that is the Kings Peace broken because Grith in English is Pax in Latine Gule of August GUle of August is the first day or the Calends of August which in the time of E. 1. and E. 3. was called ordinarily the Gule of August as appears by F. N. B. f. 62. l. and Plowdens Com. f. 316. b. It is the very day of S. Peter ad vincula and the reason why it was called the Gule of August is conceived upon a Story recorded by Durandus in his Rationale Divinorum l. 7. c. 19. of a Miracle wrought by S. Peter's Chain upon the daughter of one Quirinus a Tribune of Rome who by the kissing of that Chain was healed of the Kings Evil in her Throat gula And see Hospinian de origine festornm f. 85. b. Gultwit GUltwit is an Amends for Trespass according to Saxton in his Description of England c. 11. H. Habeas Corpus HAbeas Corpus is a writ which a man indited of any Trespass before Iustices of the Peace or in a Court of any Franchise and upon his Apprehenston being laid in Prisost for the same may have out of the Kings Bench thereby to remove himself hither at his own Costs and to answer the Cause there F. N. B. f. 250. h. And the order in this case is first to procure a Certiorari out of the Chancery directed to the said Iustices for the removing of the Indictment into the Kings Bench and upon that to procure this writ to the Sheriff to cause his Body to be brought at a day Reg. Judic f. 81. where you may find many cases wherein this writ shall be used Habeas Corpora HAbeas Corpora is a writ which lies against a Iury or any of them that refuse to come upon the Venire facias for the Trial of a Cause brought to issue Habendum HAbendum is a word of form in a Conveyance to the true understanding whereof it is to be observed That in every Deed or Conveyance there are two principal parts the Premisse and the Habendum The Office of the Premisses is to express the Name of the Grantor the Grantee and the thing to be granted The Office of the Habendum is to limit the Estate so that the general Implication of the Estate which by construction of Law passes in the Premisses is by the Habendum controlled and qualified as in a Lease to two men Habendum to the one for life the Remainder to the other for life alters the general Implication of the Joynt-tenancy in the Free-hold which passes by the Premisses if the Habendum were not See Coke l. 2. c. 55. HAbere facias Seisinam Habere facias Seisinam is a Writ Iudicial that lies where one hath recovered certain Lands in the Kings Court then he shall have this writ directed to the Sheriff commanding him to give him Seisin of that Land and it shall not be retornable Habere facias Visum HAbere facias Visum is a writ that lies in divers Cases where view is to be taken of the Lands or Tenements in question See F. N. B. In Indice verbo View Bract. l. 5. tract 3. c. 8. Half-blood HAlf blood See Demysank Half Seal HAlf Seal is a Seal used in Chancery for the Sealing of Commissions to Delegates upon an Appeal in a Cause civil or marine as it appears by the Statute made in 8 Eliz. c. 3. Halymote HAlymote is a Court-Baron as appears by Manwood in his Forest Laws c. 23. f. 217. a. And it is called Halymote that is the Meeting of the Tenants of one Hall or Mannor Hambling or Hoxing of Dogs HAmbling or Hoxing or Hock-sinewing of Dogs are old Forrest terms for the Lawing of Dogs when the Custom was as appears in Manwood's Forrest Laws c. 16. sect 12. to cut or gash Dogs in the Hamms but now they use to do it in their Feet Of which see Expeditate Hand-gun HAnd-gun is an Engine which is prohibited to be used and carryed about by the Statute of 33 H. 8. c. 6. And though a Dag was invented of late time and after the making of the said Act and is not known by the name of Hand-gun but a special name yet the carrying of a Dag is within the said Act and comprehended within the word Hand-gun So whereas Cross-bows are forbidden by the said Act thereby Stone-bows are also forbidden See Coke l. 5. f. 71 72. Hangwit HAngwit is to be quit of a Thief or Felon hanged without Iudgment or escaped out of your custody Hanper HAnper of the Chancery Anno 10 R. 2. c. 1. seems to signifie as Fiscus originally does in Latine Haque HAque is a little Hand-gun of three quarters of a yard long and it is mentioned in the Statutes of 33 H. 8. c. 6. and 2 3 E. 6. c. 14. There is also mention made of an half Haque Haquebut HAquebut is a Gun mentioned in the
Registry of Proceedings are not properly called Records But Courts of Law held by the Kings Grant are Courts of Record Recovery REcovery is commonly intended a common recovery by assent of parties to dock an Intail and is founded upon a Writ of Entry Also every Iudgment is a Recovery by the words Ideo consideratum est quod recuperet Recusants REcusants are all those who separate from the Church and Congregation by the Laws and Statutes established in this Realm of what opinion or Sect they are of As all the Iudges have expounded the Statute 35 Eliz. cap. 1. and divers other Stat. Redisseisin REdisseisin Look of that before in the Title Assise Reextent REextent is a second Extent made upon Lands or Tenements open complaint made that the Former Extent was partially performed Broke tit Extent fol. 313. Regarder REgarder comes of the French Regardeur id est Spectator and signifies an Officer of the Kings Forest sworn to take care of the Verr and Venison and to view and inquire of all the Offences committed within the Forrest and of all the concealments of them and if all the Officers of the Forrest do well execute their Offices or no. See Manwood's Forrest Laws cap. 21. fol. 191. b. Regrator REgrator is he that hath Corn Victuals or other things sufficient for his own necessary use or spending and doth nevertheless ingross and buy up into his hands more Corn Victuals or other such things to the intent to sell the same again at a higher and dearer price in Fairs Markets or other such like places whereof see the Statute 5 E. 6. cap. 14. He shall be punished as a Forestaller Rejoynder REjoynder is when the Desendant makes answer to the Replication of the Plaintiff And every Rejoynder ought to have these two properties specially that is it ought to be a sufficient Answer to the Replication and to follow and enforce the matter of the Barre Relation RElation is where in consideration of Law two times or other things are considered so as if they were all one and by this the thing subsequent is said to take his effect by relation at the time preceding As if one deliver a writing to another to be delivered to a third person as the Deed of him who delivered it when the other to whom it should be delivered hath paid a summ of mony now when the money is paid and the Writing delivered this shall be taken as the Deed of him who delivered it at the time when it was first delivered So Petitions of Parliament to which the King assents on the last day of Parliament shall relate and be of force from the first day of the beginning of the Parliament And so it is of divers other like things Release RElease is the Giving or Discharging of the Right or Action which any hath or claims against another or his Land And a Release of Right is commonly made when one makes a Deed to another by these or the like words Remised released and utterly for me and my Heirs quite claimed to A. B. all my right that I had have or by any means may have hereafter in one Messuage c. But these words whatsoever I may have hereafter are void For if the Father be disseised and the Son release by his Deed without Warranty all his right by those words whatsoever I may have hereafter c. and the Father dies the Son may lawfully enter in the possession of the Disseisor Also in a Release of Right it is needful that he to whom the Release is made have a Freehold or a Possession in the Lands in Deed or in a Law or a reverston at the time of the release made for if he have nothing in the Land at the time of the release made the Release shall not be to him available See more hereof in Littl. lib. 3. cap. 8. Relicta verificatione RElicta Verificatione is when a Defendant hath pleaded and the issue is entred of Record And after that the Defendant relicta verificatione que est son Plea acknowledges the Action and thereupon Iudgment is entred for the Plaintiff Relief RElief is sometimes a certain summ of mony that the Heir shall pay to the Lord of whom his Lands are holden which after the decease of his Ancestor are to him descended as next Heir Sometimes it is the Payment of another thing and not mony And therefore Relief is not certain and alike for all Tenures but every several Tenure hath for the most part his special Relief certain in it self Neither is it to be paid always at a certain age but varies according to the Tenure As if the Tenant have Lands holden by Knights Service except grand Serjeanty and dies his Heir being at full age and holding his Lands by the Service of a whole Knights Fee the Lord of whom these Lands are so holden shall have of the Heir an hundred shillings in the name of the Relief and if he held by less than a Knights Fee he shall pay less and if more then more having respect always to the rate for every Knights Fee Cs. And if he held by grand Serjeanty which is always of the King and is also Knights Service then the Relief shall be the value of the Land by the year besides all charges issuing out of the same And if the Land be holden in Petit Serjeantie or in Socage then for the Relief the Heir shall pay at one time as much as he ought to pay yearly for his Service which is commonly called the Doubling of the Rent And if a man hold of the King in chief and of other Lords the King shall have the Ward of all the Lands and the Heir shall pay Relief to all the Lords at his full age but the Lords shall sue to the King by petition and shall have the Rent for the time that the Infant was in Ward But see now that by the Statute of 2 E. 6. cap. 8. the mesne Lords are not put unto their Petition but shall have all the Rents paid them by the Kings Officers upon request yearly during the Kings possession And note that always when the Relief is due it must be paid at one whole payment and not by parts although the Rent be to be paid at several Feasts See the Statute 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. Remainder REmainder of Land is the Land that shall remain after the particular Estate determined As if one grant Land for term of years or for life the Reinainder to J. S. that is to say when the Lease for years is determined or the Lessee for life is dead then the Land shall remain or abide with to or in J. S. See Reversion Remembrancer del Eschequer REmembrancer del Eschequer there are three Officers or Clerks there called by that name one is called the Remembrancer of the King the other of the Lord Treasurer and the third of the First fruits The Kings Remembrancer enters in his Office all Recognisances for
the Kings Debts Apparances and for observing of Orders also he takes all Obligations for any of the Kings Debts for Apparances and observing of Orders and makes out Process upon them for the breaking of them The Lord Treasurers Remembrancer makes out Process against all Sheriffs Escheators receivers and Bailiffs for their Accounts he makes the Process of Fieri sacias and Exteut for any Debts due to the King either in the Pipe or with the Auditors and he makes Process for all such revenue as is due to the King by reason of his Tenures The Remembrancer of the First Fruits takes all Compositions for First fruits and Tenths and makes Process against such as pay not the same Of these Officers see more in Dalton's Book of the Office and Authority of Sheriffs f. 186. Remitter REmitter is when a man hath two Titles to any Land and he comes to the Land by the tast Title yet he shall be judged in by force of his elder Title and that shall be said to him a Remitter As if Tenant in tail discontinue the Tail and after disseises his discontinuee and dies thereof seised and the Lands discend to his issue or Cousin inheritable by force of the Tail in that case he is in his Remitter that is to say seised by force of the Tail and the Title of the Discontinuee is utterly adnulled and defeated And the reason and cause of such Remitter is for that such an Heir is Tenant of the Land and there is no person Tenant against whom he may sue his Writ of Formedon to recover the Estate tail for he may not have an Action against himself Also if Tenant in tail infeoff his Son or Heir apparent who is within age and after dies that is a Remitter to the Heir but if he were full of age at the time of such Feoffment it is no Remitter because it was his folly that he being of full age would take such a Feoffment If the Husband alien Lands that he hath in right of his wife and after take an Estate again to him and to his Wife for term of their lives that is a Remitter to the Woman because this Alienation is the act of the Husband and not of the Woman for no folly may be adjudged in the Woman during the life of her Husband But if such Alienation be by Fine in Court of Record such a taking again afterward to the Husband and Wife for term of their lives shall not make the Woman to be in her Remitter for that in such a Fine the Woman shall be examined by the Iudge and such Examination in Fines shall exclude such women for ever Also when the Entry of any man is lawful and he takes an Estate to him when he is of full age if it be not by Deed indented or matter of Record which shall estop him that shall be to him a good Remitter Rents REnts are of divers kinds that is Rent-service Rent-charge and Rent-secke Rent-service is where the Tenant in Fee-simple holds his Land of his Lord by Fealty and certain Rent or by other service and rent and theu if the rent be behind the Lord may distrain but shall not have an Action of Debt for it Also if I give Land in tail to a man paying to me certain Rent that is Rent-service But in such case it behoves that the reversion be in the Donor For if a man make a Feoffment in fee or a Gift in tail the remainder over in Fee without Deed reserving to him a certain rent such reservation is void and that is by the Statute Quia emprores terrarum and then he shall hold of the Lord of whom his Donour held But if a man by Deed indented at this day make such Gift in tail the remainder over in fee or lease for term of life the remainder over or a Feoffment and by the same Indenture reserve to him rent and that if the rent be behind it shall be lawful for him to distrain that is Rent-chage But in such case if there be no clause of Distress in the Deed then such a rent is called Rent-seck for which he shall never distrain but if he were once seised he shall have Assise and if he were not seised he is without remedy And if one grant a rent going out of his Land with clause of Distress that is a Rēt-charge and if the rent be behind the Grantee may chuse to distrain or sue a Writ of Annuity but he cannot have both for if he bring a Writ of Annuity then the Land is discharged And if he destrain and avow the taking in Court of Record then the Land is charged and the person of the Grantor discharged Also if one grant a Rent charge and the Grantee-purchases half or any other part or parcel of the Land all the Rent is extinct But in Rent service if the Lord purchase parcel of the Land the Rent shall be apportioned If one hath a Rent charge and his Father purchase parcel of the Land and that parcel discends to the Son who hath the Rent charge then the Rent shall be apportioned according to the value of the Land as it is said of Rent-service because the Son comes to that not by his own act but by discent Also if I make a Lease for term of years reserving to me a certain Rent that is called a Rent service for which it is at my liberty to distrain or to have an Action of Debt but if the Lease be determined and the Rent behind I cannot distrain but shall be put to my Action of Debt And note well that if the Lord be seised of the Service and Rent aforesaid and they be behind and he distrain and the Tenant rescues the Distress he may have Assise or a Writ of Rescous but it is not more necessary for him to have Assise then a Writ of Rescous for that by Assise he shall recover his Rent and his Dammages but by a Writ of Rescous he shall recover only Dammages and the thing distrained shall be reprised If the Lord be not seised of the Rent and Service and they be behind and he distrain for them and the Tenant take again the Distress he shall not have Assise but a Writ of Rescous and the Lord shall not need to shew his right If the Lord cannot find a Distress in two years he shall have against the Tenant a Writ of Cessavit per biennium as it appears by the Statute of Westm 2. cap. 21. And if the Tenant die in the mean time and his Issue enter the Lord shall have against the Issue a Writ of Entry upon Cessavit or if the Tenant alien the Lord shall have against the Alienee the foresaid Writ But if the Lord have Issue and die and the Tenant be in arrearages of the said Rent and Service in the time of the Father and not in the time of the Issue he may not distrain for the Arrearages in the time of
Woods turned up and all their Lands and Tenements forfeited to the King But if it pass against him that brought that Attaint he shall be Imprisoned and grievously ransomed at the Kings will See the Statute 23 Hen. â— cap. 3. Attaint also is when Iudgment is given in Treason or Felony Attendant ATtendant is where one ows a duty or service to another or as it were depends upon another As if there be Lord Mesne and Tenant the Tenant holds of the Mesne by a peny the Mesne holds over by two pence the Mesne releases to the Tenant all the right which he hath in the Land the Tenant dies his wife shall be endowed of the land and she shall be Attendant to the Heir of the third part of one peny and not of the third part of two pence for she shall be endowed of the best possession of her husband Also where the wife is endowed by the Gardian she shall be attendant to the Gardian and to the Heir at his full age Attournment ATtournment is when one is Tenant for term of Life and he in Reversion or Remainder grants his right or estate to another then it behoves the Tenant for life to agree thereto and this agreement is called an Attournment For if he in the Reversion grant his estate and right to another if the Tenant for life attourn not nothing passes by the grant But if it be granted by Fine in Court of Record he shall be compelled to attourn And see thereof after Title Quid juris c â— mat and in Littl. lib. 3. cap. 10. Atturney ATturney is one appointed by another man to do something in his stead whom West hath defined thus Attorneys are such persons as by consent commandment or request take care of see to and undertake the Charge of other mens Business in their absence And where in ancient time those of authority in Courts have had it in their dispose when they would permit men to appear or sue by any other than themselves as appears by F. N. B. 25. in the Writ of Dedimus potestatem Ä‘ Attornato faciendo where it is shewed that men were driven to procure the Writs or Letters Patents of the King to appoint Atturneys for them it is now provided by divers Stat. that it shall be lawful so to do without any such circuity And there is great diversity of Writs in the table of the Register by which the King commands his Iudges to admit of Atturneys By which means at last there were so many unskilful Atturneys and so many mischiefs by them that an Act was 4 H. 4 c. 18. ordained for their restraint that the Iustices should examine them and put out the unskilful and An. 33 H. 6. c. 7. that there should be but a certain number of them in Norfolk and Suffolk In what cases a man at this day may have an Atturney and in what not see F. N. B. in the place before cited Atturney is either general or special Atturney general is he that is appointed to all our Affairs or Suits as the Atturney general of the King Atturney general of the Duke Cromp. 105. Atturney special or particular is he that is imploi â— d in one or more things particularly specifyed Atturneys general are made two ways either by the Kings Letters Patents or by our own appointment before Iustices in Eyre in open Court See Glan lib. 11. cap. 1. Brit. 126. Audience Court AUdience Court Curia audientiae Canturiensis is a Court belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury of equal Authority with the Arches Court though inferior both in dignity and antiquity Of which you may read more in a Book entituled De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britannicae historia Audita Querela AUdita Querela is a Writ that lies where one is bound in a Statute-Merchant Statute-Staple or Recognisance or where Iudgment is given against him for Debt and his body in Execution thereupon then if he have a Release or other matter sufficient to be discharged of Execution but hath no day in Court there to plead it then he shall have this writ against him which hath recovered or against his Executors Auditor AUditor is an Officer of the King or some other great person who by yearly examining the Accounts of all under-Officers accountable makes up a general Book that shews the difference between their Receipts or Charge and their Payments or Allowances See the Statute 33 H. 8. c. 33. There is also another sort of Auditor assigned by any Court wherein a Defendant is adjudged to Account who take the Account and put it in form into Writing and then it is inrolled and the Plaintiff pleads to it and the Defendant replies if occasion be and so go to issue upon divers points and particulars of the Account Average AVerage is that Service which the Tenant owes his Lord to be done by the Beasts of the Tenant and it seems to be deriv'd from the word Averia because it is the Service which the Tenants Beasts perform for the Lord by carriage or otherwise This word also hath another signification and is much used in the Statute 32 H. 8. c. 14. for a certain Contribution which Merchants and others pay proportionably towards their losses that have their goods cast out in a tempest for the saving of the Ship or of the goods or lives of them that are therein Averment AVerment is where a man pleads a Plea in Abatement of the Writ or Bar of the Action which he saith he is ready to prove as the Court will award This offer to prove the Plea is called an Averment Also there is a Writ called a Writ of Averment which is made out of any of the Law Courts of Westminster-Hall when the Action is depending when the Sheriff upon a Distringas returns small issues then the Iudges of Assise may cause it to be enquired by a Iury if the Sheriff could return more issues of the Lands of the Defendant and if it be found he may then he must return more issues to force the Defendant to appear to the Plaintiffs suite or to do what the Distringas required him to do Averpeny AVerpeny is to be quit of divers sums of money for the Kings arrerages Augmentation AUgmentation was the name of a Court erected in the 27 year of King Henry the eighth And the cause thereof was that the King might be iustly used touching the profits of such Religious Houses and their Lands as were given him by Act of Parliament the same year not printed For dissolving which Court there was an Act made in the Parliament held in the first year of the Reign of Queen Mary Sess 2. cap. 10. which she afterward put in execution by her Letters Patents The name of the Court arises from this That the Revenues of the Crown were so much augmented by the Suppression of the said Houses as the King reserved to the Crown and neither gave nor sold to others But the Office of
and the issue is â—â— pt forth of her belly alive there he shall not be Tenant by the Curtesie for this ought to begin by the issue and consummate by the death of the woman and the Estate of the Tenant by the Curtesie ought to avoid the immediate discent But if the husband hath issue by his wife and after Land discends to the woman be the issue then dead or alive he shall be Tenant by the Curtesie for the time of the birth of the issue is not material if it be in the life of the woman If Lands be given to a woman and the heirs males of her body and she takes an hu â— band and hath issue a daughter and dies the husband shall not be Tenant by the Curtesie for the issue cannot by any possibility inherit the same Tenements Also as a woman alien marrying one of the Kings subjects shall not be endowed in the same manner a man alien shall not be Tenant by the Curtesie Also if a man seised of Land in right of his wife be attainted of Felony having issue and then purchases the Kings Pardon and after his wife dies there he shall not be Tenant by the Curtesie But if he hath issue by his wife born after the Pardon in such case he shall Curtilage CUrtilage is a Garden Yard Field or piece of void ground lying near and belonging to the Messuage West part 2. sect 26. And so it is used 35 H. 8. c. 4. 39 Eliz. 2 Coke l. 6. fol. 64. Customary Tenants CUstomary Tenants are such Tenants as hold by the Custome of the Mannor as their special Evidence Custome CUstome may be defined to be a Law or Right not written which being established by long use and consent of our Ancestors hath been and dayly is put in practice Custome is either general or particular General is that which is current through England whereof you may read in Doctor and Student l. 1. c. 7. many very worthy to be known Particular is that which belongs to this or that County as Gavelkind to Kent or to this or that Lordship City or Town Custome differs from Prescription because Custome is common to many and Prescription by the opinion of some is particular to this or that man Again Prescription may be for a shorter time than Custome sc for five years or less As if a Fine be duly levied of Lands or Tenements and be not gainsaid within five years this is a Bar to all Claim for ever If a man omits his Continual Claim for a year and a day then the Tenant in possession prescribes an Immunity against the Entry of the Demandant and his Heir Fitzh Nat. Brev. 79. Out of our Statutes you may have greater diversity so that this seems to be a true saying That Prescription is an Exception founded upon so long time gone and past as the Law limits for the pursuit of any Action An example may be taken out of the Statute of 1 H. 8. c. 4. which enacts That in all Actions popular information shall be made within three years after the offence committed otherwise to be of no force Custome is also used for the Tribute or Toll that Merchants pay to the King to carry in and out Merchandizes 14 E. 3. Stat. 1. c. 21. In which signification it is called Custuma in Latine Reg. Orig. 129. a. 138. a. And lastly for such Services as Tenants of a Manor owe unto their Lord. Old Book of Entries word Custome See Consuetud Servitiis Custos Brevium CUstos Brevium is the chief Clerk belonging to the Court of Common Pleas or Kings Bench whose office is to receive and keep all the Writs and to put them upon Files every Return by it self and at the end of every Term to receive of the Prothonotaries all the Records of Nisi prius called the Postea The Custos Brevium also makes entry of Writs of Covenant and the Concord upon every Fine and makes out Exemplifications and Copies of all the Writs and Records in his Office and of all the Fines levied The parts of the Fines after they are ingrossed are divided between the Custos Brevium and the Chirographer whereof the Chirographer keeps always the Writ of Covenant and the Note the Custos Brevium keeps the Concord and the Foot of the Fine upon which Foot the Chirographer causes the Proclamations to be indorsed when they are all proclaimed Custos Rotulorum CUstos Rotulorum is he that hath the keeping of the Rolls or Records of the Sessions of the Peace and as some think of the Commission of the Peace it self Lam. l. 4. c. 3. p. 373. He is always Iustice of the Peace and Quorum in the County where he hath his Office and by his Office he is rather termed an Officer or Minister then a Iudge because the Commission of the Peace lays this special Charge by express words upon him That he should cause the Writs Precepts Process and Indictments aforesaid to come and be before him and his fellow-Justices at the days and places aforesaid Gardian of the Spiritualties GArdian of the Spiritualties is he that exercises the spiritual and Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction of any Diocess during the Vacancy of the See the appointment of whom by the Canon Law pertains to the Dean and Chapter lest in the Vacancie of the See some Innovation should be introduced But in Engl. the Archbishop of the Province hath it by Prescription Howbeit many Deans and Chapters a â— M. Gwyn saith in his Preface to his Readings challenge this by ancient Charters from the Kings of this Land Cuynage CUynage is a word used in the Statute of 11 H. 7. c. 4. for the making up of Tinne into that fashion as it is used to be framed for the better carriage of it into other parts D. Dammage DAmmage is part of that which the Iurors are to enquire of in giving their Verdict for the Complainant or Demandant in an Action real or personal For after the Verdict given upon the principal matter they are also asked their Consciences touching Costs which are the Expences of the Suit and Dammages which contain the prejudice which the Plaintiff or Demandant hath suffered by means of the wrong doue him by the Defendant or Tenant And forasmuch as Iustice and Reason require that when the life credit lands goods corruption of bloud and all that a man hath to forfeit in this world are put in peril without just cause but only upon the malicious Accusation of another by Appeal that the Appellee should have satisfaction therefore against his false Accuser and if he hath not sufficient then against him or them that abbetted or procured him to pursue the Appeal Therefore the Common Law gave Dammages to the Defendant in an Appeal and assigned him a means for the recovery thereof when he was acquitted of the Felony as it is 48 E. 3. 22. But forasmuch as the Dammages against the Procurors and Abbettors were to be recovered
both are Records yet the Iudgment in the Kings Court upon judicial and ordinary proceeding is more notorious and conspicuous and of a more high and eminent degree then a Statute or Recognisance taken in private and by consent of parties and is therefore preferred in judgment of the Law before Recognisance or Statute and if the Executors do not satisfie this first then if they have no goods of the dead in their hands they shall pay it of their own So the Ordinary having goods of one that dies intestate in his hands by Sequestration and an Action of Debt upon an Obligation to the value of the said goods is brought against him as Ordinary he shall not dispose or administer any parcell of the said Goods to the other Creditors at his pleasure but is bound to satisfie the Debt first for which an Action is brought against him Dyer fol. 232. placit 5. If a Sheriff retorne ex officio without inquest that the Executor hath wasted goods the Execution goes de bonis propriis of the Executor and if the retorn be false then the Executor may have an Action upon the Case against the Sheriff for his false retorn because the Executor hath no day to plead But if the Sheriff retorn a devastavit upon an Inquiry by a Iury the Executor may appear and traverse quod non devastavit and try it 1 Cro. Mounson and Bourn Proctor versus Chamberlain Devenerunt DEvenerunt is a Writ directed to the Escheator when any of the Kings Tenants holding in Capite dies and when his son and heir within age and in the Kings custody dies then shall this Writ go forth commanding the Escheator that he by the oath of good and lawful men enquire what Lands or Tenements by the death of the Tenant come to the King c. See Dyer f. 360. pla 4. But see the Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 24. Devest DEvest is a word contrary to Invest for as Invest signifies to deliver the possession of a thing so Devest signifies the taking it away Devise DEvise is where a man in his Testament gives or bequeaths his Goods or Lands to another after his decease And where such Devise is made of Goods if the Executors will nor deliver them to the Devisee he hath no remedy by the Common Law but it behoves him to have a Citation against the Executors of the Testator to appear before the Ordinary to shew why he performs not the Will of the Testator for the Devisee may not take the Legacy and serve himself but it must be delivered to him by the Executors See the Stat. 32 H. 8. ca. 1. 34 H. 8. ca. 5. 29 Car. 2. ca. 3. By which last Statute the Law of Testameuts is altered But by the Common Law if a man be sole seised of Lands in fee and devises them by Testament this Devise was void unless the Lands were in City or Borough where Lands are devisable by Custome But if any man were infeoffed to the use of another and his heirs and he to whose use he was so seised did make Devise of his Lands this Devise was good though it were not in a Town where Lands are devisable Also if any man devise Lands in City Town or Borough devisable and the Devisor dies if his Heir or any other abate in the Lands then the Devisee shall have a Writ of Ex gravi querela But this Writ shall never be pleaded before the Kings Iustice but always before the Maior or Bailiffs in the same Town And here to the end to shew how much the Laws of this Realm and the discreet Iudges of the same who are the Interpreters of it do favour Wills and Testaments and Devises in yielding to them such a reasonable construction as they think might best agree with the minds of the dead considering that Wills and Testaments are for the most part and by common intendment made when the Testatour is very sick weak and past all hope of recovery for it is a received opinion in the Countrey amongst most that if a man should chance to be so wise as to make his Will in his good health when he is strong of good memory and hath time and leisure to ask counsell if any doubt were of the Learned that then he should not live long after and therefore they deferre it to such time when it were more convenient to apply themselves to the dispositions of their Souls than of their Lands or Goods except it were that by the fresh memory and recital of them at that time it might be a cause to put them in mind of some of their goods or lands falsly gotten and so move them to restitution c. And at that time the penning of such Wills is commonly committed to the Minister of the Parish or to some other more ignorant who knows not what words are necessary to make an Estate in Fee-simple Fee-tail for term of life or such like besides many other mischiefs I will therefore here set down some of those Cases that are most common in ignorant mens mouths and carry by the wise interpretations of the Judges a larger and more favourable sense in Wills than in Deeds First therefore if one devise to J. S. by his Will all his Lands and Tenements here not only all those Lands that he hath in possession do pass but all those that he hath in Reversion by virtue of those words Tenements And if Lands be devised to a man to have to him for ever or to have to him and his Assigns in these two cases the Devisee shall have a Fee-simple But if it be given by Feoffment in such manner he hath but an Estate for term of life And if a man devise his Land to another to give sell or do therewith at his pleasure or will this is Fee-simple A Devise made to one and to his Heirs males doth make an Estate-tail But if such words be put in a Deed of Feoffment it shall be taken for Fee-simple because it doth not appear of what body the Heirs males shall be begotten If Lands be given by Deed to J. S. and to the Heirs males of his body c. who hath issue a daughter who hath issue a son and dies there the Land shall return to the Donor and the son of the Daughter shall nor have it because he cannot convey himself by Heirs males for his mother is a let thereto But otherwise it is of such a Devise for there the son of the daughter shall have it rather then the Will shall be void If one devise to an Infant in his mothers belly it is a good Devise but otherwise by Feoffment Grant or Gift for in those cases there ought to be one of ability to take presently or otherwise it is void See 14. El. Dy. 304. A Devise made in Fee-simple without expresse words of Heirs is good in Fee-simple But if a Devise be made to J. N. he
shall have the Land but for term of life for those words will carry no greater Estate If one will that his son J. shall have his Land after the death of his wife here the wife of the Devisor shall have the Land first for term of life So likewise if a man devise his goods to his wife and that after the decease of his wife his son and heir shall have the House where the goods are there the son shall not have the House during the life of the wife For it doth appear that his intent was that his wife should have the House also for her life notwithstanding it were not devised to her by express words If a Devise be to J. N. and to the Heirs females of his body begotten after the Devisee hath issue a son and daughter and dies here the daughter shall have the Land and not the son and yet he is the most worthy person and Heir to his father but because the Will of the dead is that the daughter should have it Law and Conscience will so also And herein the very Heathens were precise as appears by those Verses of Octavius Augustus which Donatus reports he made after Virgil at his death gave commandment that his Books should be burnt because they were imperfect and yet some perswaded that they should be saved as indeed they happily were to whom he answered thus Let Faith and Law be kept and what last Will Commandeth to be done we must fulfill Devoire DEvoire is as much as to say a Duty It is used in the Statute of 2 R. 2. ca. 3. where it is provided That all the Western Merchants being of the Kings amity shall pay all manner Customs and Subsidies and other Devoires of Caleis See the Stat. 5 Ejusdē Regis cap. 2. Devorce DEvorce or Divorce Divortium dictum est Diversitate mentium quia in diversas partes eunt qui distrahunt Matrimonium or else from the verb Diverto which signifies to return back because after the Devorce between the husband and wife he returns her again to her father or other friends or to the place from whence he had her And though Devorce was never approved of by the Divine Law but contrariwise prohibited as appears by this precept Let no man separate that which God hath joyned together yet in all ages and well-governed Common-wealths it hath been used and permitted As at this day with us there are divers causes for which the husband and wife may be devorced as first causa Praecontractus Therefore if a man marry with a woman precontracted and hath issue by her this issue in Law and in truth bears the surname of his father but if after the husband and wife be devorced for the Precontract there the issue hath lost his surname and is become a Bastard and nullius filius Cok. lib. 6. fol. 66. Devorce may be causa Frigiditatis and therefore if a man be married to a woman and after they are devorced causa Frigiditatis and then the man takes another wife and hath issue by her yet this issue is lawfull because that a man may be habilis inhabilis diversis temporibus and by the Devorce causa Frigiditatis the Marriage was dissolved a vinculo Matrimonii and by consequence either of them might marry again Cok. lib. 5. fol. 98. b. Also a man may be devorced causa Impubertatis or Minoris aetatis and in this case if two are married infra annos nubiles and after full age Devorce is had between them this dissolves the Marriage and the woman may arraign an Assise against the Husband for the Lands or Tenements given with her in Frank-marriage 19 lib. Assise Pla. 2. So Devorce may be had causa Professionis causa consanguinitatis causa Fornicationis and for many other causes too long to be now recited It is requisite that in the sentence of Devorce the Cause thereof be shewed because some Devorce dissolves the Matrimony that is to say a vinculo Matrimonii bastards the issue and barrs the wife of Dower and some a mensa thoro the which dissolves not the Matrimony nor barrs the Woman of Dower nor bastards the issue Devorce is a Iudgement spiritual and therefore if there be cause ought to be reversed in the Spiritual Court See Cok. lib. 7. Kenns Case If a Woman Copiholder of certain Land durante viduitate sua according to the Custome of the Mannor sows the Land and before the severance of the Corn takes a husband the Lord shall have the Emblements and not the husband But if a Lease be made to the husband and wife during the Coverture and the husband sows the Land and afterward they are devorced causa Praecontractus the husband shall have the Emblements and not the Lessor Dicker DIcker is a word used in the Statute of 1 Jacobi cap. 22. and it signifies the quantity of Ten Hides of Leather And it seems to come from the Greek word Decas which signifies Ten. Diem clausit extremum DIem clausit extremum is a Writ that lies where the Kings Tenant that hold in Chief dies then this Writ shall be directed to the Escheator to enquire of what Estate he was seised who is next Heir and his age and of the certainty and value of the Land and of whom it is holden and the Inquisition shall be returned into the Chancery which is commonly called The Office after the death of that persō And there is another Writ of Diem clausit extremum awarded out of the Exchequer after the death of an Accountant or Debtor of his Majestie to levy the Debt of his Heir Executor Administrators lands or goods Dietus datus DIes datus is a Respite given to the Tenant or Defendant before the Court Brook Tit. Continuance Dieta rationabilis DIeta rationabilis is sometimes used for a Reasonable Days journey as Bract. l. 3. patt 2. cap. 16. It hath in the Civil Law other significations which need not be here mentioned See Vocabul utriusque Juris Dieu son act DIeu son act these are words oftentimes used in our Law and it is a Maxime That the Act of God shall prejudice no man And therefore if a House fall down by Tempest or other Act of God the lessee for life or years shall not only be quit in an Action of Waste brought against him but hath by the Law a special interest to take timber to build the House again if he will for his habitation Cok. lib. 4. 63. lib. 11. 82. a. In like manner when the Condition of an Obligation consists of two parts in the disjunctive and both are possible at the time of the Obligation made and afterwards one of them becomes impossible by the Act of God the Obligor is not bound to perform the other part for the Condition shall be taken beneficially for him Coke lib. 5. 22. Dignitie Ecclesiastical DIgnitie Ecclesiastical is a phrase of speech used in the Statute of 26 Hen. 8.
of Imprisonment But if a man be arrested upon an Action at the Suit of another though the cause of Action be not good nor true if he make an Obligation to a Stranger being in prison by such Arrest yet it shall not be said by Duresse But if he make an Obligation to him at whose Suit he was arrested to be discharged of such Imprisenment then it shall be said Duresse Duchy IS a Court in the Duchy Chamber of Lancaster at West before the Chancellor del Duchy de Lanc̄ for matters concerning the lands and Franchises of the Duchy and their proceedings are by English bill as in Chancery Co. 4. Inst 204. E. Earlderman EAlderman among the Saxons was as much as Earl among the Danes Camb. Brit. 107. And at this day we call them Aldermen who are Associates to the chief Officer in the Common Council of the Town 34 H. 8. c. 13. And in some places the chief Officer himself is called Alderman Earle EArle See Countee Easement EAsement is a Priviledge that one Neighbour hath of another by Writing or Prescription without profit as a Way or a Sink through his Land or such like Kitch f. 105. Egiptians EGiptians commonly called Gipsies are counterfeit Rogues Welsh or English that disguise themselves in speech and apparel and wander up and down the Country pretending to have skill in telling Fortunes and to deceive the common people but live chiefly by filching and stealing and therefore the Statutes of 1 2 Mar. c. 4. 5 Eliz. c. 20. were made to punish such as Felons if they departed not the Realm or continued so a mouth Ejectione firmae EJectione Firmae Look for that in the Title Quare ejecit infra terminum Ejectment de Gard. Ejectment de Gard. See that in the Title Gards Eigne EIgne is a French word and signifies the Eldest or First-born See Enitia pars Einecia EInecia signifies Eldership Stat. of Ireland Anno 14 H. 3. See Enitia pars Eire Justices EIre Justices or Itinerant as we call them were Iustices that used to ride from place to place throughout the Realm to administer Iustice And these Iustices had authority in ancient times to grant Land that was seised for the King for Alienation without licence for then Iustices in Eire might have granted such Land in fee rendring Rent as Iustices of the Forrest who in effect as to this purpose are Iustices in Eire at this day may of Lands iuclosed within a Forrest without the Kings licence Coke l. 2. fol. 80. Election ELection is when a man is left to his own Free will to take or do one thing or another which he pleases As if A covenants to pay B a pound of Pepper or Saffron before Whitsontide it is at the Election of A at all times before Whitsontide which of them he will pay but if he pays it not before the said Feast then afterward it is at the Election of B of have his Action for which he pleases Dyer f. 18. pl. 104. So if a man gives to another his Horse or Cow the Donee may take the one or the other at his Election But if it be that he will give in the future tense then the Donee cannot take the one nor other for then the Election is in the Donor 21 H. 7. 19. Also if a Iustice of Peace direct his Warrant to a Constable to bring the party apprehended before him or another Iustice it is in the Election of the Constable to go to what Iustice he pleases Coke lib. 5. fol. 59. And so in many other cases Elegit TO hold by Elegit is where a man hath recovered Debt or Dammage by a Writ against another by confession or in other manner he shall have within the year against him a Writ judicial called Elegit to have execution of the half of all his Lands and Chattels except Oxen and Beasts of the plow till the Debt and Dammages be wholly levied and paid him and during this term he is Tenant by Elegit If he be put out within the term he shall have Assise of Novel Disseisin and after a Redisselsin if need be and this is given by the Statute of Wes ◠m. 2. c. 18. And by the equity of the said Statute he that hath this Estate if he be put out shall have Assise and Redisseisin if need be And also if he make his Executors and die and his Executors enter and after are put out they shall have such Action as he himself And if he be put out and after make his Executors and die his Executors may enter and if they be stopped of their Entry they shall have a Writ of Trespasse upon their Case If he do Waste in all the Land or parcel the other shall have against him immediately a Writ judicial out of the first Record called Venire facias ad computandum by which it shall be enquired if he have levied all the money or parcel and if he have not levied the money then it shall be enquired to how much the Waste amounts and if the Waste amount but to parcel then as much of the money as the Waste amounts unto shall be abridged of the aforesaid money which was to be levied But if he have done more Waste then the aforesaid summ of money which was to be levied amounts to the other shall be discharged forthwith of all the said money and shall recover the Land And for the superfluity of the Waste made above the said summ he shall recover his dammages single The same Law is of his Executors and of him that hath his Estate Or if the Debtor be satisfied by digging Coals Load Tyn or oeher casual profits See the Stat. 32 H. 8. c. 5. If all the Lands extended be evicted from the Debtor by a better title he may take a new Execution Co. 4. Rep. 66. If he alien in fee for term of life or in tail all or parcel of the Land which he holds by Elegit if the Alienation be made within the term or after he who hath right shall have against him an Assise of Novel Disseisin And they both must be put in the Assise the Alienor and the Alience and though the Alienor d ◠e presently yet he who hath right shall have Assise against the Alienee alone as if the Alienee had been a plain Tenant for term of years And that is by the equity of the Statute of Westm 2. cap. 25. for that he hath but a Chattel in effect And the same Law is of his Executors and of him who hath his Estate as is aforesaid In Elegit if the Sherif return that the party hath nothing the day of the Recognizance made but that he purchased Lands after the time then the Plaintiff shall have a new Writ to have Execution thereof The same Law is of a Statute-Merchant After a Fieri facias a man may have the Elegit but not contrariwise for that the Elegit is of a higher nature then the
to say the truth And of Estoppels there are divers One for example is when J. S. is bound in Obligation by the name of T. S. or any other name and is sued afterward according to the name in the Obligation now he shall not be received to say that he is misnamed but shall be driven to answer according to the name put in the Obligation that is T. S for peradventure the Obligee did not know his name but by the report of the Obligor himself and inasmuch as he is the same man that was bound he shall be estopped and forbidden in Law to say contrary to his own deed for otherwise he might take advantage of his own wrong which the Law will not suffer a man to do If the daughter who is Heir to her father will sue Livery with her Sister who is a Bastard she shall not afterward be received to say that her Sister is a Bastard insomuch as if her Bastard-sister take half the Land there is no remedy by the Law Also if a man seised of Lands in Fee-simple will take a Lease for years of the same Land of a stranger by Deed indented this is an Estoppel during the term of years and the Lessee is thereby barred to say the truth which is That he that Leased the Land had nothing in it at the time of the Lease made and that the Fee-simple was in the Lessee But this he shall not be received to say till after the years are determined because it appears that he hath an Estate of years and it was his folly to take a Lease of his own Lands and therefore shal thus be punished for his folly Estovers Estovers are Nourishment or Maintenance And Bract. l. 3. tract 2. c. 18. num 1. uses it for such Sustenance as a man taken for Felony is to have out of his Lands or Goods for himself and his Family during his Imprisonment And the Statute of 6 E 1. c. 3. uses it for an allowance in Meat or Cloth It is also used for certain Allowances of wood to be taken out of another Mans wood Westm 2. c. 15. Anno 13. 1. West part 2. tit Fines sect 26. saith That the name Estovers comprehends House-boot Hedge-boot and Plow-boot as if one hath in his Grant these general words Reasonable Estovers in the Woods c. he may thereby claim those three Estrangers EStrangers are sometimes taken for those that are not Parties or Privies to the levying of a Fine or making of a Deed sometimes those that are born beyond Sea Estray EStray is where any Beast or Cattel is in any Lordship and none knows its Owner then it shall be seised to the use of the King or of the Lord that hath such Estray by the Kings Grant or by Prescription and if the Owner make claim thereto within a year and a day he shall have it again otherwise after the year the property thereof shall be to the Lord provided he make Proclamation of it according to Law Estreat EStreat is a Figure or Resemblance and is commonly used for the Copy or true Note of an Original writing as Estreats of Amerciaments imposed in the Rolls of a Court to be levied by the Balliff or some other Officer of every man that hath offended See F. N. B. 75 76. And so it is used in Westm 2. c. 2. Estrepment EStrepment is a Writ that lies where one is impleaded by a Praecipe quod reddat for certain Land if the Demandant suppose that the Tenant will do Waste depending the Plea he shall have against him this Writ which is a Prohibition commanding him to do no waste depending the Plea And this Writ lies properly where a man demands Lands by Formedon or writ of Right or such writs where he shall not recover Dammages for in such writs where he shall recover Dammages he shall have his Dammages with regard to the waste done Etate probanda ETate probanda is a Writ of Office and it lies for the Heir of the Tenant that held of the King in chief to prove he is of full age directed to the Sheriff to enquire of his age and then he shall become Tenant to the King by the same Services that his Ancestors made to the King But it is said that every one that shall pass in this Enquest shall be of the age of xlii years at least But see the Stat. 12 Car. c. 2. for abolishing the Court of Wards and Liveries c. Evesdroppers EVesdroppers are such as stand under Walls or Windows by night or day to hear news and to carry them to others to make strife and debate amongst their Neighbors those are evil Members in the Common-wealth and therefore by the Stat. of Westm 1. c. 33. are to be punished And this Misdemeanor is presentable and punishable in the Court-Leet Kitch f. 11. Evidence EVidence is generally used for any Proof be it by the Testimony of men or by Writing Sir Tho. Smith l. 2. c. 17. uses it in both senses in these words Evidence is authentical Writings of Contracts according to the manner of England that is written sealed and delivered And l. 2. c. 23. speaking of the Prisoner that stands at the Bar to plead for his life and of those that charge him with Felony thus Then he tells what he can say after him also all those who were at the Apprehension of the Prisoner or who can give any Signs or Tokens which we call in our Language Evidence against the Malefactor Exaction EXaction is a wrong done by an Officer or by one pretending to have authority in demanding or taking any reward or Fee for that matter cause or thing which the Law allows not The difference between Exaction and Extortion is this Extortion is where an Officer demands and extorts a greater Sum or Reward then his just Fee And Exaction is where an Officer or other man demands and wrests a Fee or Reward where no Fee or Reward is due at all See Extortion Exception EXception is a Bar or Stay to an Action and is divided into Exception dilatory and peremptory Of these two see Bracton l. 5. tract 5. and Britton c. 91 92. Exchange EXchange is where a man is seised of certain Land and another is seised of other Land if they by a Deed indented or without Deed if the Lands be in one County exchange their Lands so that each of them shall have other Lands to him so exchanged in fee fee-tail or for term of Life that is called an Exchange and is good without Livery and Seisin In Exchange the Estates to them limited must be egal for if one should have an Estate in fee in his Land and the other an Estate in the other Land but for term of Life or in tail such Exchange is void but if the Estates be egal though the Lands be not of egal value yet the exchange is good Also an exchange of Rent for Land is good And an exchange
one of the Articles to be enquired touching the Forrest is If all great Dogs or Mastives in the Forest are Expeditated according to the Laws of the Forrest and if any be not the Owner of every such Dog shall forfeit to the King three shillings and four pence Cromp. Jurisd fol. 152. Manwood uses the same word and part 1. of his Forrest Law fol. 212. sets down the manner of expeditating Dogs heretofore which was that the three Claws of the Fore-foot on the right side shall be cut off by the skin whereunto he also adds out of the Ordinance called the Assise of the Forrest that the same manner of expeditating Dogs shall be still used and kept and none other Quaere whence it arises that Crompton and he differ the one saying the Ball of the foot is cut out the other that the three Fore-claws are cut off by the skin Expensis Militum levandis EXpensis Militum levandis is a Writ directed to the Sheriff for levying the Allowance for the Knights of the Parliament Regist orig fol. 191. b. And Expensis Militum non levandis de hominibus de Antiquo Dominico nec a Nativis is a Writ to prohibit the Sheriff to levy any Allowance for the Knights of the County upon such as hold in Ancient Demesne c. Ibidem fol. 261. b. Extend EXtend is to value the Lands or Tenements of one bound by Statute c. that hath forfeited it and to deliver them to the Conusee at such indifferent rates as that by the yearly Profits the Conusee in time may be satisfied his Debt See Fitz. Nat. B. fol. 131. and Coke lib. 4. fol. 67. Fulwoods Case Extent EXtent has two significations The one is a Writ or Commission to the Sheriff for the valuing of Lands or Tenements the other the act of the Sheriff or other Commissioner upon that Writ Broke tit Extent fol. 313. Extinguishment EXtinguishment is where a Lord or any other hath any Rent or Service going out of any Land and he purchases the same Land so that he hath such Estate in the Land as he hath in the Rent then the Rent is extinct for that one may not have Rent going out of his own Land Also when any Rent shall be extinct the Land and the Rent must be in one hand the Estate indefesible and he have as good Estate in the Land as in the Rent for if he have Estate in the Land but for Life or Years and hath Fee-simple in the Rent then the Rent is not extinct but in suspence for that time and after the term the Rent is revided If there be Lord Mesne and Tenant and the Lord purchase the Tenancy the Mesnalty is extinct but the Mesne shall have the surplusage of the Rent if there be any as Rent-seck Also if a man have a High-way appendant and after purchase the Land wherein the High-way is then the Way is extinct and so it is of a Common appendant Extortion EXtortion is wrong done by any Officer Ordinary Archdeacon Official Major Bailiff Sheriff Escheator Coroner Under-Sheriff Goaler or other Officer by colour of his Office by taking excessive Reward or Fee for execution of his Office or otherwise and is no other thing indeed then plain Robbery or rather more odious then Robbery for Robbery is apparent and always hath with it the countenance of Vice but Extortion being as great a Vice as Robbery is carries with it a countenance of Vertue by means whereof it is the more hard to be tried or discerned and therefore the more odious And yet some there are that will not stick to stretch their Office Credit and Conscience to purchase Mony as well by Extortion as otherwise according to the saying of the Poet Virgil What is it that the greedy thirst of Gol ◠doth not constrain mortals to attempt F. Faculty FAculty is a word often used in the Statute of 25 Hen. 8. cap. 21. and it signifies a Priviledge or special Dispensation granted unto a man by favour and indulgence to do that which by the Law he cannot do as to eat Flesh upon days forbidden or to hold two or more Ecclesiastical Livings and the like And for the granting of these Faculties there is a special Officer under the Arch-bishop of Canterbury called The Master of the Faculties Failing of Record FAiling of Record is when an Action is brought against one who pleads any matter of Record and avers to prove it by Record and the Plaintiff saith there is no such Record whereupon the Defendant hath day given him to bring in the Record at which day he fails or brings in such a one as is no Bar to this Action then he is said to fail of his Record and thereupon the Plaintiff shall have Iudgment to recover c. Faint Action Faint Pleading FAint Action as Littleton fol. 154. saith is as much as to say in English a Fained Action that is such Action as though the words of the Writ be true yet for certain causes he hath no title by the Law to recover by the same Action And a false Action is where the words of the Writ are false So Faint Pleading is a covinous false and collusory manner of Pleading to the deceit of a third party And against such Faint Pleading amongst other things the old Statute in 3 E. 1. cap. 29. seems to be made Deed. DEed is a Writing sealed and delivered to prove and testifie the agreement of the party whose Deed it is to the thing contained in the Deed as a Deed of Feoffment is a Proof of the Livery of Seisin for the Land passes by the Livery of Seisin but when the Deed and the Delivery are joyned together that is a proof of the Livery and that the Feoffor is contented that the Feoffee shall have the Land All Deeds are either Indented whereof there are two three or more parts as the ease requires of which the Feoffor Grantor or Lessor hath one the Feoffee Grantee or Lessee another and peradventure some other body a third c. Or else they are Poll Deeđs single and but one which the Feoffee Grantee or Lessee hath c. And every Deed consists of three principal Points without which it is no perfect Deed to bind the parties namely Writing Sealing and Delivery 1. By Writing is shewed the parties Names to the Deed their Dwelling-places their Degrees the Thing granted upon what Considerations the Estate limited the Time when it was granted and whether simply or upon Condition with other such like Circumstances But whether the parties to the Deed write in the end their Names or set to their Marks as it is commonly used it matters not at all as I think for that is not meant where it is said that every Deed ought to have Writing 2. Sealing is a farther Testimony of their Consents to what is contained in the Deed as it appears in these words In Witness whereof c. or to such effect
time their Reservations were as well in Victuals as Money until at the last and that chiefly in the time of King Henry the First by agreement the reservation of Victuals was turned into ready Money and so hitherto hath continued amongst most men Fate or Fatt FAte or Fatt is a Measure mentioned in the Statutes of 1 H. 5. cap. 10. and 11 H. 6. cap. 8. to contain eight Bushels but the Citzens and Merchants of London as it appears by those Statutes and the Kings Purveyors would have that measure and a Bushel over for one Quarter and so they had nine Bushels for one Quarter of Corn. Faux Imprisonment FAux Imprisonment is a Writ that lies where a man is arrested and restrained from his Liberty by another against the order of the Law then he shall have against him this Writ whereby he shall recover Dammages See more thereof before tit Arrest Faux Judgment FAux Judgment See thereof before tit Error Fealty FEalty is a Service called in Latine Fidelitas and shall be done in this manner viz. The Tenant shall hold his right hand upon a Book and shall say to his Lord I shall be to you faithful and true and shall bear to you Faith for the Lands and Tenements which I claim to hold of you and truly shall do you the Customs and Services that I ought to do to you at the terms assigned So help me God and shall kiss the Book but he shall not kneel as in doing Homage And thereof see after in the Title Homage Also Fealty is incident to all manner of Tenures Fee FEE Feodum is in our Law an equivocal word of divers significations for it is most usually taken for an Estate of Inheritance in Lands and Tenements to one and his Heirs or to one and the Heirs of his Body But it is used also for the Compass Circuit or Extent of a Lordship or Mannor And from thence comes the ordinary Plea in Bar to an Avowry That the Land upon which he avows is out of his Fee And thirdly it is taken for a Reward or Wages given to one for the execu ◠〈◊〉 of his Office as the Fee of a Forrester or the Keeper of a Park or a Sheriffs Fee sor â— erving an Execution lim â—â— s by the Statute of 29 Eliz. cap 4. And it is also taken for that Consideration which is given a Sergeant at Law or a Councellor or a Physitian for their Counsel or Advice in their profession which as it is well observed by Sir Jo. Davies in his Preface to his Reports is not properly Merces but Honorarium Yet in our Law-language it is called his Fee Fee expectant FEE expectant Where Lands are given to a man and his wife in Frank-marriage to have and to hold to them and their heirs in this case they have Fee-simple but if they are given to them and the heirs of their body c. They have Tail and Fee-expectant Kitch fol. 153. Fee Farm FEE Farm is when a Tenant holds of his Lord in Fee-simple paying to him the value of half or of the third fourth or other part of the Land by the year And he that holds by Fee-Farm ought not to pay Relief or do any other thing that is not contained in the Feoffment but Fealty for that belongs to all kind of Tanures Fee-simple FEe-simple is when any person holds Lands or Rent or other thing inheritable to him and his Heirs for evermore and these words His Heirs make the Estate of Inheritance for if the Land be given to a man for ever yet he hath but an Estate for life Also if Tenant in Fee-simple die his first son shall be his Heir but if he have no Son then all his Daughters shall be his Heirs and every one shall have her part by partition but if he have no Son nor Daughter then his next Coufin collateral of the whole Blood shall be his Heir Fel de se FElo de se is he that commits Felony by murthering himself See Crompt Justice of Peace fol. 28. Felony FElony is a general term which comprehends divers hainous Offences for which the Offenders ought to suffer death and lose their Lands And it seems that they are called Felonies of the Latine word Fel which is in English Gall in French Fiel or of the ancient English word Fell or Fierce because they are intended to be done with a fell fierce or mischievous mind When a man without any colour of Law steals the Goods of another amounting to the value of Twelve pence or more that is Larceny but if he approaches the Person of another in the High-way and robs him of his Goods although it be but to the value of one peny it is Felony and that is called Robbery and therefore he shall be hanged Fence-moneth FEnce-moneth is a Forrest word and signifies the time of 31 days in the year that is to say 15 days before Midsummer and 15 days after in which time it is forbidden for any man to hunt in the Forrest or to go into it to disturb the wild Beasts The reason of which is because the Female Deer do then Fawn And therefore this Moneth is called the Fence-moneth or Defence-moneth for that the Deer are then to be defended from scare or fear See Manwood Forrest Laws cap. 13. fol. 90. b. Feodarie FEodarie was an Officer in the Court of Wards appointed by the Master of that Court by virtue of the Statute 32 H. 8. c. 46. to be present with the Escheator in every County at the finding of Offices and to give in evidence for the King as well for the Value as the Tenure And his Office was also to survey the Lands of the Ward after the Office found to return the true value thereof into the Court to assign Dower unto the Kings Widows to receive all the Rents of the Wards Lands within his Circuit and to answer them to the Receiver of the Court But see the Stat. 12 C â— r. 2. c. 24. for Abolishing the said Court Feoffment FEoffment is where a man gives Lands Houses or other Corporal things which are Heritable to another in Fee-simple and thereof delivers Seisin and Possession Also if one make a gift in tail or a lease for life Livery and Seisin must be given or else nothing shall pass by the Grant Feoffor and Feoffee FEoffor is he that infeoffs or makes a Feoffment to another of Lands or Tenements in Fee-simple And Feoffee is he who is infeoffed or to whom the Feoffment is so made Ferdfare FErdfare is to be quit from going to War Flet. lib. 1. c. 47. Ferdwit FErdwit is to be quit of Murther committed in the Army Flet. l. 1. c. 47. Ferry IS a liberty by prescription or the Kings Grant to have a Boat for passage upon a great Stream for Cariage of horses and men for reasonable toll Feude FEude or Deadly Feude is a German word and signifies implacable Hatred not to be
Forestall FOrestall is to be quit of Amerciaments and Cattels arrested within your Land and the Amerciaments thereof coming Founder FOunder is he that uses the Art of Melting or Dissolving Metals and making any thing thereof by casting in Molds He seems to have his name from the Latine word Fundere and is mentioned in the Statute of 17 R. 2. cap. 1. Fourcher FOurcher is a device used to delay the Plaintiff or Demandant in a Suit against two who thereto are not to answer till they both appear and the Appearance or Essoin of one will excuse the others Default at that day and they agree that the one shall be essoined or appear one day and for lack of the Appearance of the other have day over to appear and the other party shall have the same day and at that day the other will appear or be essoined and he that appeared or was essoined before will not then appear because he hoped to have another day by the Adjournment of the party who then appeared or was essoined This is called Fourcher and in some cases the mischief thereby is remedied by the Statute of Gloucest cap. 10. and Westm̄ 1. cap. 42. Franchise FRanchise is a French word and signifies in our Law an Immunity or Exemption from ordinary Iurisdiction as for a Corporation to hold Pleas within themselves to such a value and the like See of this in the Old Nat. Brev. fol. 4. a b. Franchise Royal. FRanchise Royal is where the King grants to one and his Heirs that they shall be quit of Toll or such like Free Almes FRee Almes is where in ancient times Lands were given to an Abbot and his Covent or to a Dean and his Chapter and to their Successors in pure and perpetual Almes without expressing any Service certain this is Frank-almoigne and such are bound before God to make Oraisons and Prayers for the Donor and his Heirs and therefore they do no Fealty and if such as have Lands in Frank-almoigne perform no Prayers nor Divine Service for the Souls of the Donors they shall not be compelled by the Donors to do it but the Donors may complain to the Ordinary praying him that such negligence be no more and the Ordinary of right ought to redress it But if an Abbot c. holds Lands of his Lord for certain Divine Service to be done as to sing every Friday a Mass or do some other thing if such Divine Service be not done the Lord may distrain and in such case the Abbot ought to do Fealty to the Lord and therefore it is not said Tenure in Frank-almoign but Tenure by Divine-Service for none can hold by Frank-almoign if any certain Service be expressed Frank Bank FRank Bank or Free Bench are Copihold-Lands which the Wife being married a Virgin hath after the decease of her husband for her Dower Kitch f. 102. Bract lib. 4. tract 6. cap. 13. num 2. hath these words There is a custom in those parts that the Wives their Husbands being dead should have Frank Bank of Lands of Sockmans and hold it in name of Dower Fitzh calls this a Custome by which in some Cities the Wife shall have all the Lands of her Husband for Dower N. B. fol. 150. See Plow fol. 411. Frank Chase FRank Chase is a Liberty by which all men having Land within this compass are prohibited to cut down the Wood or discover c. without the view of the Forrester although it be his own Crom. Jur. f. 187. Frank Fee TO hold in Frank Fee is to hold in Fee-simple Lands pleadable at the Common Law and not in ancient Demesne Frank Law FRank Law See Crom. Just of Peace f. 151. where you may find what this is by the contrary for he that for an Offence as Conspiracy loses his Frank Law is said to fall into these Mischiefs First that he shall never be Impanelled upon any Iury or Assize or otherwise used in saying any Truth Also if he have any thing to do in the Kings Court he shall not approach thither in person but must appoint his Attourney 3 His Lands Goods and Chattels are to be seised into the Kings hands and his Lands must be estrepped his Trees rooted up and his Body committed to prison Free Marriage FRee Marriage is when a man seised of Land in Fee-simple gives it to another man and his wife who is the daughter sister or otherwise of kin to the Donor in Free Marriage by virtue of which wards they have an Estate in special tail and shall hold the Land of the Donor quit of all manner of Services until the fourth degree be past accounting themselves in the first degree except Fealty which they shall do because it is incident to all Tenures saving Free alms And such Gift may be made as well after Marriage solemnized as before And a man may give Lands to his Soir in Free Marriage as well as to his Daughter by the opinion of Fitzh in his Writ of Champertie H. But it appears otherwise in Littleton and in Broke tit Frank-marriage pla 10. And so it was holden clear in Grays-Inne in Lent an 1576. 18 Eliz. by M. Rhodes then Reader there Frank-plege FRank-plege signifies a Pledge or Surety for Free-men according to the ancient Custom of England for preservation of the publick Peace See the Statute for View of Frank-pledge Anno 18 Ed. 2. and see View of Frank-pledge Free-hold FRee-hold is an Estate that a man hath in Lands or Tenements or Profit to be taken in Fee-simple Tail for term of his own or anothers life in Dower or by the Courtesse of England and under that there is no Free-hold for he that hath Estate for years or holds at will hath no Free-hōld but they are called Chatels And of Free-holds there are two sorts viz. Free-hold in Deed and Free-hold in Law Free-hold in Deed is when a man hath entred into Lands or Tenements and is seised thereof really and actually As if the Father seised of Lands or Teuements in Fee-simple dies and his son enters into the same as heir to his Father then he hath a Free-hold in Deed by his Entry Free-hold in Law is when Lands or Tenements are discended to a man and he may enter into them when he will but hath not yet made his Entry in Deed As in the case aforesaid if the Father being seised of Lands in Fee die seised and they discend to his Son but the Son hath not entred into them in Deed now befo rt his Entry he hath a Free-hold in Law French-man FRench-man was wont to be used for every Outlandish-man Bracton Lib. 3. Tract 2. cap. 15. See Engleshery Frendless man FRendless man was the old Saxon word for him we call an Outlaw nam forisfecit Amcos suos Bracton Lib. 3. Tract 2. cap. 12. Fresh Force FResh Force Frisca Forcia is a force committed in any City or Borough as by Disseisin Abatement Intrusion or Deforcement of any Lands or
commonly of One hundred pounds more or less according to the Vsage of sundry Nations Mr. Plowden in the Case of Reniger and Fogassa makes mention of this word Knights Service KNights Service was a Tenure by which several Lands in this Nation were held of the King But it is abolished by Statute 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. L. Laches LAches or Lasches is an old French word signifying Slacknesse or Negligence as it appears in Lit. sect 403. 726. where Laches of Entry is nothing else but a Neglect in the Infant to enter So that I think it may be an old English word And when we say There is Laches of Entry it is as much as to say There L â— ok is of Entry or there is Lack of Entry Yet I find that Lascher in French is to Loyter and Lasche signifies one that is idle or lazy and therefore it may also come from the French For Etymoligies are divers and many times ad placitum Lagan LAgan is such a parcel of Goods as the Mariners in a danger of Shipwreck cast out of the Ship and because they know they are heavy and will sink they fasten to them a Boigh or Cork that so they may find them and have them again If the ship be drowned or otherwise perish these Goods are called Lagan or Ligan a ligando and so long as they continue upon the Sea they belong to the Admiral but if they are cast upon the Land they are then called a Wreck and belong to him that hath the Wreck as it appears in Coke l. 5. f. 106. Lageman LAgeman est Homo Legalis seu legitimus such as we call Good men of the Jury The word is found in Dooms-day-Book Land-cheap LAnd-cheap is a payment of 10 d. in the Purchase-mony for every Mark thereof for all the Lands within the Borough of Maldon in Essex by prescription which see H. 25 26. Car. 2. Roll 706. in B. R. Lapse LApse Lapsus is the Omission of a Patron to present to a Church of his Patronage within six months after an Avoidance by death or taking of another Benefice without qualification or notice to him given of the Resignation or Deprivation of the present Incumbent by which neglect Title is given to the Ordinary to collate to the said Church Larcenie LArceny is a wrongful taking away another mans Goods but not from his person with a mind to steal them And Theft is in two sorts the one so called simply and the other Petit or Little Theft The first is where the thing stolen exceeds the value of 12 d. and this is Felony The other called Little or Petit Theft is where the thing stolen doth not exceed the value of 12 d. and that is not Felony Last LAst signifies a certain Wright or Burthen as a Last of Herring is ten thousand Anno 31 E. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 2. a Last of Hides is twelve dozen Anno 1 Jae c. 33. Lastage LAstage is to be quit of a certain Custom exacted in Fairs and Markets for carrying of things where a Man will Latitat LAtitat is a Writ by which all Men in Personal Actions are originally called in the Kings Bench to answer And it is called Latitat because it is supposed by the Writ that the Defendant cannot be found in the County of Middlesex as it appears by the Return of the Sheriff of that County but that he lurks in another County and therefore to the Sheriff of that County is this Writ directed to apprehend him Law LAw See Ley. Law-day LAw-day signifies a Leet or Sheriffs Tourn as it appears by the Statute of 1 E. 4. c. 2. where the Sheriffs Tourn is so called and 9 H. 7. f. 21. b. and many other Books where a Leet is so called See Smiths Commonwealth l. 2. c. 21. Lawing of Dogs LAwing of Dogs See Expeditate Lawless man LAwless man is the who is extra Legem an Outlaw Bract. l. 3. tract 2. c. 11. num 1. Leases LEases are Grants or Demises by one that hath any Estate in any Hereditaments of those Hereditaments to another for the lesser time And they are in divers manners viz. for term of Life for Years for anothers Life and at Will Also a Lease of Land is as good without Deed as with Deed. But in a Lease for term of Life it behoves to give Livery and Seisin upon the Land or else nothing shall pass by the Grant because they are called Free-holds Also a Lease of a Common or Rent may not be good without Deed. But of a Parsonage that hath Glebe it is good without Deed for that the Glebe of the Church which is the principal may well enough pass without Deed and so the Dismes and Offerings which are as accessary to the Church But Dismes and Offerings by themselves may not be let without Deed as it is said Leet LEet is a Court derived out of the Sheriffs Tourne and inquires of all Offences under the degree of High Treason that are committed against the Crown and Dignity of the King But those Offences which are to be punished with loss of life or member are only inquirable there and to be certified over to the Iustices of Assise See Stat. 1. E. 3. c. 16. Legacy LEgacy Legatum is a term of the Civil Law and it is that which we in our Law call a Devise viz. Lands or Goods given unto any man by the Will or Testament of another See more Tit. Devise before Lessor and Lessee LEssor is he that leases Lands or Tenements to another for term of life years or at will And he to whom the Lease is made is called Lessee Levant and Couchant LEvant and Couchant is said when the Beasts or Cattel of a Stranger are come into another mans Ground and there have remained a certain good space of time Levari facias LEvari facias is a Writ directed to the Sheriff for the Levying of a sum of mony upon the Lands Tenements and Chattels of him that hath forfeited a Recognizance See F. N. B. fol. 265. D. Law LAw is when an Action of Debt is brought against one upon some secret agreement or Contract had between the parties without especialty shewed or other matter of Records as in an Action of Detinue for some Goods or Chattels lent or left with the Defendant then the Defendant may wage his Law if he will that is swear upon a Book and certain persons with him that he detains not the Goods or ows nothing to the Plaintiff in manner and form as he hath declared And it is allowed only in cases of Secrecy where the Plaintiff cannot prove the surmise of his Suit by any Deed or Open act for the Defendant might discharge it privily between them without any Acquittance or Publick act And therefore in an Action of Debt upon a Lease for years or upon Arrearages of accompt before Auditors assigned a man shall not wage his Law But when one shall wage his Law he
is a Writ that lies where the Tenant holds of the King in chief as of his Crown and he is deforced that is put out of his Land then he shall have this Writ and it shall be Close and shall be pleaded in the Common Pleas. Also if any Tenant that holds of any Lord be deforced it behoves him to sue a Writ of Right Patent which shall be determined in the Lords Court But if the Land be holden of the King the Writ of Right Patent shall be brought to the Kings Court and the Writ may be removed from the Lords Court unto the County by a To â— t and from the County into the Common Place by a Pone Look therefore before in the Title Drolt Praecipe PRaecipe are of divers sorts Quod reddat terras as dower formedon c. debitum bona catalla Quod teneat conventionem Quod faciat sectam ad molendinum Quod permittat c. Preignotary PReignotary is compounded of two Latine words prae and Notarius and is used in our Law for the chief Clerks of the Kings Courts whereof there is one in the Kings Bench and three in the Common Pleas. He in the Kings Bench records all Actions Civil sued in that Court and they of the Common Pleas inrol all Declarations Pleadings and Iudgments and make out all Iudicial Writs they Inroll all Fines and Recognisances and exemplifie all Records the same Term before the Rolls are delivered out of their hands In 15 E. 4. 26 b. This Officer is called Praesignator And one of the three in the Common Bench Praesignator pauperum Premisses PRemisses See Habendum Praemunire PRaemunire is a Writ that lies where any man sues another in the Spiritual Court for any thing that is determinable in the Kings Court for which great punishment is ordained by divers Statutes viz. that he shall be out of the Kings protection and put in Prison without Bail or Mainprise till he have made Fine at the Kings Will and that his Lands and Goods shall be forfeited if he come not within two months And his Provisors Procurators Atturneys Executors Notaries and Maintainers shall be punished in the same manner Therefore look the Statute Also some say if a Clerk sue another man in the Court of Rome for a thing Spiritual where he may have remedy within the Realm in the Court of his Ordinary that he shall be within the case of the Statute And upon divers other offences is imposed by Statutes lately made the Penalty that they incur who are attainted in Praemunire As by 13 Eliz. cap 8. they who are aiding to make a corrupt Bargain whereupon Vsury is reserved above x. l. in the hundred for a year c. Prender PRender is the power or right of Taking a thing before it be offered from the French prendre i. accipere Prescription PRescription is when a Man claims any thing because he his Ancestors or Predecessors or they whose Estate he hath have had or used it all the time whereof no memory is to the contrary But one may not prescribe against a Statute except he have another Statute that serves for him Presentment PResentment is of two significations One is to a Church as when a man hath right to give any Benefice Spiritual and names the person to the Bishop to whom he will give it and makes a Writing to the Bishop for him that is a Presentation or Presentment If divers Coheirs cannot agree in Presentment the Presentee of the eldest shall be admitted But if Ioyntenants and Tenants in common agree not within six moneths the Bishop shall present by lapse The other is a Presentment or Information by a Iury in a Court before any Officer who hath Authority to punish any offence done contrary to the Law Pretensed Right or Title PRetensed Right or Title is where one is in possession of Lands or Tenements and another who is out claims it and sues for it now the pretensed Right or Title is said in him who so doth sue claim And if he afterward come to the possession his Right or Title is annexed to the Land and possession and not then called Right Primer Seisin PRimer Seisin is used in the Common Law for a branch of the Kings Prerogative by which he hath the first possession that is the intire Profits for a year of all the Lands and Tenements whereof his Tenant that held of him in capite died seised in his Demesne as of Fee his Heir then being at full age and thus the King takes in lieu of the intire Profits which he may take if he will until Livery be sued or at the least tendered Prerog Reg. c. 3. Stamf. f. 11. B. See the Stat. 12 Car. 2. c. 24. Prisage PRisage is that part or portion that belongs to the King of such Merchandizes as are taken at Sea by way of lawful Prise And this word you shall find in the Statute of 31 Ell â— cap. 5. Prisage of Wines PRisage of Wines mentioned in the Stat. 1 H. 8. c. 5. is a custom by which the King out of every Bark laden with Wine under 40 Tun claims to have two Tun at his own price Privie or Privities PRivie or Privities is where a Lease is made to hold at will for years for life or a Feoffment in fee and in divers other cases now because of this that hath passed between these parties they are called Privies in respect of strangers between whom no such Conveyantes have been Also if there be Lord and Tenant and the Tenant holds of the Lord by certain Service there is a Privity between them because of the Tenure and if the Tenant be disseised by a stranger there is no Privity between the Disseisor and the Lord but the Privity still remains between the Lord and the Tenant that is disseised and the Lord shall avow upon him for that he is his Tenant in right and in Iudgment of the Law Privies are in divers sorts as namely Privies in Estate Privies in Deed Privies in Law Privies in Right and Privies in Blood Privies in Estate is where a Lease is made of the Mannor of Dale to A for life the Remainder to B in fee there both A and B are Privies in Estate for their Estates were both made at one time And so it is in the first case here where a Lease is made at will for life or years or a Feoffment in fee the Lessees or Feoffees are called Privies in Estate and so are their Hairs c. Privies in Deed is where a Lease is made for life and afterward by another Deed the Reversion is granted to a stranger in fee this Grantee of the Reversion is called Privy in Deed because he hath the Reversion by Deed. Privy in Law is where there is Lord and Tenant the Tenant leases the Tenancy for life and dies without Heir and the Reversion escheats to the Lord he is said Privy in Law because he hath his Estate
to work fell and cut down Trees to repair the Buildings and Inclosures with divers such like for his Lords commodity so also he had Authority to govern and keep the Tenants in peace and if need required to lead them forth to war Reversion REversion of a Land is a certain Estate remaining in the Lessor or Donor after the particular Estate and Possession conveyed to another by Lease for Life or years or Gift in tail And it is called a Reversion in respect of the possession separated from it so that he that hath the one hath not the other at the same time for in one body at the same time there cannot be said a Reversion because by the uniting the one of them is drowned in the other And so the Reversion of Land is the Land it self when it falls Ribaud RIbaud seem to be sturdy Vagabonds Rot. Par. 50 E. 3. 61. Right Right of Entrie RIght and Right of Entry See in Droit Riot RIot is when three at the least or more do some unlawful act as to beat a man enter upon the possession of another or such like Robbery RObbery is when a Man takes any thing from the person of another Feloniously although the thing so taken be to the value but of a penny yet it is Felony for which the Offendor shall suffer death Rood of Land ROod of Land is a certain quantity of Land containing the fourth part of an Aere Anno 5 Eliz. c. 5. Rout. ROut is when people assemble themselves together and after proceed or ride or go forth or move by the instigation of one or more who is their Leader This is called a Rout because they move and proceed in routs and numbers Also where many assemble themselves together upon their own quarrels and brawls as if the Inhabitants of a Town will gather themselves together to break Hedges Walls Ditches Pales or such like to have Common there or to beat another that hath done them a common displeasure or such like that is a Rout and against the Law although they have not done or put in execution their mischievous intent See the Stat. 1 Mar. c. 12. S. Sac or Sake SAke is a Plea and Correction of Trespass in your Court because Sake in English is Encheson in French and sake is put for sick See Keloway in his Cases incerti temporis f. 145. a. that the privilege called Sake is for a man to have the Amerciaments of his Tenants in his own Court Sacrilege SAcrilege is when one steals any Vessels Ornaments or Goods of Holy Church which is Felony 2 Cro. 153 154. Salary SAlary is a word often used in our Books and it signifies a Recompence or Consideration given a man for his pains bestowed upon another mans business And it is so called as Pliny says in the 31 Book of his Nat. Hist cap. 7. because it is as necessary for a man as Salt and makes his labor relish as Salt doth his meat Sanctuary SAnctuary is a Priviledged place by the Prince for the safeguard of mens lives who are Offendors being founded upon the Law of Mercy and upon the great Reverence Honor and Devotion which the Prince bears to the place whereunto he grants such a Privilege which was heretofore so great that the Princes have granted the same in cases of Treason committed against themselves Murder Rape or other Crime whatsoever Hereof see Stamf. Pl. of the Crown l. 2. c. 38. Satisfaction SAtisfaction is when a Defendant hath paid a Debt or Dammages recovered against him it behoveth him to have satisfaction to be entred upon the Record of the Iudgment Sarpler SArpler is a quantity of Wool which in Scotland is called Serplath and contains 80 stone and with us in England a Load of Wool contains by the opinion of some fourscore Tod and every Tod two Stone and every Stone fourteen Pounds and that a Sack of Wool is in common account equal with a Load and a Sarpler the one half of a Sack Scandalum magnatum SCandalum magnatum is an Evil report invented or dispersed to the prejudice or slander of any great personage or Officer of the realm The punishment of which is enacted by divers Statutes viz Westm 1. c. 33. 2 R. 2. c. 5. 12 R. 2. c. 11. Scavage SCavage or Shewage is a Toll exacted by the Mayors Sheriffs and Bayliffs of Cities and Towns Corporate for wares or merchandise shewed to be sold within their precincts or jurisdiction which Exaction being against the priviledge of the Kings subjects was prohibited by a Statute made in 19 H. 7. c. 8. See 21 H. 7. f. 14. a. and see the Statute of 22 H. 8. c. 8 in the end thereof The Mayor c. of London brought debt for this duty by these words Pro supervisu a ê‘cionis H. 18 19 C. 2. B. R. roll 625. Scire facias SCire facias is a Writ judicial going out of the record and lies where one hath recovered Debt or Dammages in the Kings Court and sues not to have Execution within the year and the day then after the year and the day he shall have the said Writ to warn the party and if the party come not or if he come and say nothing to discharge or stay the Execution then he shall have a Writ of Fieri facias directed to the Sheriff commanding him to levy the Debt or Dammages of the goods of him that hath lost The Writ of Fieri facias lies within the year without any Scire facias sued Also if the summ of the same Debt or Dammages may not be levied of the Goods of him that hath lost them he may have a Writ of Elegit commanding the Sheriff to deliver him the one half of his Lands and Goods except his Oxen and implements of Plow When one hath recovered Debt or Dammages in an Action personal where the Preces is a Capias he may have another Writ of Execution called a Capias ad satisfaciendum to take the Body of him that is so condemned which shall be committed to prison there to abide without Bail or mainprise till he hath satisfied the party And when one hath Iudgment to recover any Lands or Tenements he shall have a Writ called Habere facias seisinam directed to the Sheriff commanding him to deliver to him Seisin of the same Land so recovered See more of that in the Titles Fieri facias and Execution The Writ abovesaid is given by the Statute of Westm 2. cap. 45. But there are also other manner of Scire facias Scil. upon Audita Querela Writs of Error as well to hear errors as wherefore the Plaintiff ought to have Execution against terrtenants upon Iudgments and the like Scot. SCot is to be quit of a certain Custom as of common Tallage made to the use of the Sheriff or Bayliff Scotale SCotale is an Extortion prohibited by the Statute of Charta de Forresta cap. 7. and it is where any Officer of the Forrest
the Book of Entries fo 63 c. 205. d. 519. c. where this word Abatement is called in Latin Intrusio And I think it better to call it in Latin Interpositio ot Intratio per interpos â— ionem make a difference between this word and Intrusio after the death of the Tenant for life Abbot ABbot was the sovereign head or Chief of those Houses which when they stood were called Abbies and this Abbot with the Monks of the same House who were called the Covent made a Corporation Such a Sovereign of any such House shall not be charged by the Act of his Predecessor if it be not by common Seal nor for such things which come to the use of his House Also an Abbot shall not be charged for the debt of his Monk before his entry in Religion though the Creditor have an especialty thereof except it have come to the use of his House but the Executors of the Monk shall be charged therewith Look for this in the Abridgements the same Title under which you shall see that some of them were elective some presentative and how they were made Governours and their Authority And in this Title are also comprehended all other Corporations Spiritual as Prior and his Covent Friers and Canons Dean and Chapter Abettors ABettors are in divers Cases diversly taken One Kind of Abettors are they that maliciously without just cause or desert do procure others to sue false Appeals of Murther or Felony against men to the intent to trouble and grieve them and to bring them to infamy and slander Abettors in Murthers are those that command or procure counsel or comfort others to Murther And in some case Abettors shall be taken as Principals and in some case but as Accessories So in other Felonies And their presence at the deed doing and their absence makes a difference in the case There are Abettors also in Treason but they are as Principals for in Treason there are no Accessories See more in the Book called Pleas of the Crown made by the Reverend Judge Sir W. Stamford in the Titles of Accessories and Dammages in Appeal Abeyance ABeyance is when a Lease is made for term of life the Remainder to the right Heirs of J. S. who is living at the time of the Grant now by this Grant the Remainder passes from the Grantor presently yet it vests not presently nor takes hold in the Grantee that is the right Heir of J. S. but is said to be in Abeyance or as the Logicians term it in posle or in understanding and as we say in the Clouds that is in the Consideration of the Law That if J. S. die having a right Heir and living the Lessee for life then this is a good Remainder and now vests and comes to the right Heir in such sort as that he may grant forfeit or otherwise dispose the same and ceases to be any more in Abeyance for that there is one now of ability to take it because J. S. is dead and hath left a right Heir in life which could not be living J. S. for that during his life none could properly be said to be his Heir Also if a man be Patron of a Church and presents one to the same now the Fee of the Lands and Tenements pertaining to the Rectory is in the Parson But if the Parson die and the Church become void then is the Fee in Abeyance until there be a new Parson presented admitted and inducted for the Patron hath not the Fee but only the right to present and the Fee is in the Incumbent that is presented and after his death it is in no body but in Abeyance till there be a new Incumbent as is aforesaid See Litt. Lib. 3 cap. 11. fo 145. and Perkins fol. 12. Abishersing ABishersing and in some Copies Mishersing is to be quit of Amerciaments before whomsoever of Transgression proved Abjuration ABjuration is an Oath that a Man or Woman shall take when they have committed Felony and fly to the Church or Church-yard or to any other place priviledged for safeguard or their lives chusing rather perpetual Banishment out of the Realm than to stand to the Law and be tryed for the Felony In which Case before the Coroner he shall make such Confession which may make a sufficient Indictment of Felony Then the Coroner at the Common Law shall make him forswear the Realm and assign to him what Port he shall go and shall swear him that he go not out of the High way and that he abide not at the Port if he may have good passage above one flood and one ebb and if he cannot have Passage then he shall go every day during xl days in the Sea to the knees But if such a Felon as abjures goes out of the High way and flies to another place if he be taken he shall be brought before the Iudge and there shall have Iudgment to be hanged And if he who so prays the privilege will not abjure then he shall have the priviledge for xl days and every man may give him meat and drink And if any give him sustenance after xl days although it be his Wife such giving is Felony Also he that doth abjure shall be delivered from one Constable to another and from one Franchise to another till he come to his Port and if the Constable will not receive him he shall be grievously amerced See the Oath in the Treatise De abjuratione Latronum This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confessor a King of this Realm before the Conquest and was grounded upon the Law of mercy and for the Love and Reverence he and others his Successors did bear unto the House of God or place of Prayer and Administration of his Word and Sacraments which we call the Church Note this Law is now changed by the Statutes 21 H 8. cap. 2. 22 H. 8. cap. 14. and 32 H. 8. cap. 12. by which it appears that he at this day shall not abjure the Realm but all his Liberty of this Realm and all his liberal and free habitations resorts and passages from all places of this Realm to one certain place in this Realm thereto limited by 32 H. 8. cap. 13. and 33 H. 8. c. 15. See more in Stamf. li. 2. c. 10. and see the Statutes 1 Jac. c. 25. and 21 Jac. c. 28. for the repeal of all Statutes concerning Abjured persons and the taking away of all Sanctuaries See the Statutes of 35 El. chap. 12. for the Abjuration of Recusants and Stat. 1 Jac. c. 25. Abridgement of a Plaint or Demand ABridgement of a Plaint or Demand is where one brings an Assise Writ of Dower Writ of ward or such like in which cases for that the Writ of Assise is de libero tenemento as in a Writ of Dower the Writ is Rationabilem dotem quae contingit de libero tenemento W. her husband and in a Writ of ward the Writ is Custo â— terrarum
therefore those Officers in the Forest that thus take in Cattel and gather the money for the Feed of them are called Agistors and the feed or herbage of the Cattel is called Agistment which in a large signification extends to all manner of Common of Herbage of any kind of ground or land or woods or the money that is due or received for the same as well out of Forests as within them See Manwood's Forest Laws c. 11. fol. 80. Agreement AGreement is thus defined or expounded in Plowdens's Commentaries Aggreamentum is compounded of two words namely Aggregatio and Mentium that is Agreement of minds So that Agreement is a consent of minds in some things done or to be done and by drawing together the two words Aggregatio and Mentium and by the hasty and short pronouncing of them they are made one word to wit Aggreamentum which is no other than a joyning coupling and knitting together of two or more minds in any thing done or to be done See after in Testament And this Agreement is in three manners The first is an Agreement executed already at the beginning The second is an Agreement after an act done by another and is an Agreement executed also The third is an Agreement executory or to be done in time yet to come The first which is an Agreement executed already at the beginning is such whereof mention is made in the Stat. of 25 E. 3. c 3. of Clothes in the 4 th Sat. which saith That the goods and things bought by forestallers being thereof attainted shall be forfeit to the King if the buyer have made gree with the seller In which case the word gree which is otherwise called Agreement shall be extended to Agreement executed that is payment for the things The second manner of Agreement is where one doth a thing or act and another agrees or assents thereunto afterwards as if one make a Disseisin to my use afterwards I agree to it now I shall be a Disseisor from the beginning And such Agreement is an Agreement after an act done The third agreement is when both parties at one time are agreed that such a thing shall be done in time to come and this agreement is executory in as much as the thing shall be done after and yet there their minds agreed at one time But because the performance shall be afterward and the thing upon which the Agreement was made remains to be done that Agreement shall be called Executory And that the Stat. of 26 H. 8. c. 3. doth prove which saith That every Vicar Parson and such liks c. before their actual possession or medling with the profits of their Benefices shall satisfie content c. or agree to pay the King the First-fruits c. if any such Parson or Vicar c. enter in actual possession c. this Agreement is to be understood executory as common usage proves for it is used that he with one or two with him do make two or three Obligations for it is to be paid at certain days after And this Agreement executory is divideded into two points One is an Agreement executory which is certain at the beginning as is said last before of the First-fruits The other is when the certainty doth not appear at the first and the parties are agreed that the thing shall be performed or payed upon the certainty known as if one sell to another all his Wheat in such a bay of his Barn unthres ed and it is agreed between them that he shall pay for every bushel 3s when it is threshed clean and measured Aid AID is when a Tenant for term of Life Tenant in dower Tenant by courtesie or Tenant in Tail after possibility of issue extinct is impleaded then for that they have no estate but for term of life they shall pray in aid of them in the Reversion and process shall be made by Writ against him to come and plead with the tenant in the defence of the land if he will But it behoves that they agree in the Plea for if they vary the plea of the Tenant shall be taken and then the aid-prayer is void but if he come not at the second Writ then the tenant shall answer sole Also Tenant for years Tenant at will Tenant by Elegit and Tenant by Statute-Merchant shall have aid of him in the Reversion and the Servant and Bailiff of their Master when they have done any thing lawfully in the right of their Master shall have aid This word is sometimes applied to Subsidies as in 14 E. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 1. Other times to a Prestation due from the Tenants to their Lords as for relief due to the Lord paramount or for the making of his Son a Knight or for marrying of his Daughter Glan lib. 9. c. 8. This aid the K. or other Lord by the ancient Law of England may lay upon their Tenants to make his son Knight at the age of 15 years and to marry his daughter at the age of 7 years Regist orig fol. 87. a. and that at what rate they please But the Stat. of West 1. made An. 3. Ed. 1. ordained a restraint for any great or large demand made by common persons being Lords in this case and hath tied them to a certain rate and the Stat. of 25 Ed. 3. Stat. 5. c. 11. provides that the rate which is appointed by the former Stat. shall be held in the King as well as in other Lords Aid of the King AID of the King is in like case as it is said before of a common person also in many other cases where the King may have loss although the Tenant be Tenant in fee-simple he shall have aid as if a Rent be demanded against the Kings Tenant who holds in chief he shall have aid so he shall nor of a common person And where a City or Borough hath a Fee-farm of the King and any thing is demanded against them which belongs to the Fee-farm they shall have aid for it of the King Also a man shall have aid of the King in the stead of Voucher And the Kings Baliff the Collector and the Purveyor shall have aid of the King as well as the Officers of other persons Aile AILE is a Writ which lies where Land descends from the grandfather to his nephews sc the son or daughter of the son of the grandfather the father being dead before the entry by him and one abates the heir shall have against the Abator this Writ Aler sans jour ALer sans jour is word for word to go without day that is to be dismist the Court because there is no day of farther Appearance assigned Ale-Taster ALe-taster is an Officer appointed and sworn in every Leet to look that the due Assise be kept of all the Bread Ale and Beer sold within the Iurisdiction of the Leet Alien ALien is a Subject born out of the liegeance of our King and he cannot
Alfred after he had divided the whole Realm into certain parts or sections which of the Saxon word Scyran signifying to cut he termed Shires or as we yet spake Shares and Portious These Shires be also dividid into smaller Parts whereof some were called Lathes of the word Gelathian which is to assemble together others Tithings because there were in each of them to the number of Ten persons whereof each one was Surety and Pledge for others good abearing others Hundreds because they contained Iurisdiction over one Hundred Men or Pledges dwelling peradventure in two or three or more Parishes Boroughs or Towns lying and adjoyning nevertheless somewhat near together in which he appointed Administration of Iustice to be exercised severally among them of the same Hundred and not that one should run out disorderly into anothers Hundred Lathe or Tithing wherein he dwells not These Hundreds continue to this day in force although not altogether to the same purpose whereunto at first they were appointed yet still to very needful both in time of Peace for good order of Government divers ways and in War for certainty of levying men as also for the more ready Collection of Payments granted in Parliament to the Kings of this Realm Hundred-Lagh HUndred-Lagh signifies the Hundred-Court from which all the Officers of the Kings Forrest were freed by the Charter of Canutus cap. 9. Hundredum HUndredum is to be quit of Money or Customs to be paid to Governors and Hundredors Husfastene HUsfastene quasi Domi fixus is he that holds House and Land Bract. lib. 3. tract 2. c. 10. Hustings HUstings Hustingum is a Court of Common-Pleas held before the Major and Aldermen of London and it is the highest Court they have for Error or Attaint lies there of a Iudgment or saise Verdict in the Sheriffs Court as it appears by Fitzh N. B. 22 H. c. and the Statute of 11 H. 7. cap. 21. And other Cities and Towns have had a Court of the same name as Winchester Lincoln York and Sheppy So called from the Saxon Hus Domus and Thing Causa quasi Domus Causarum I. Idemptitate or Identitate nominis IDemptiatis nominis is a Writ that lies where a Writ of Debt Covenant or Account or such other Writ is brought against a Man and another that hath the same name with the Defendant is taken for him then he shall have this Writ by which the Sheriff shall make Inquiry before the Iustice assigned in the same County if he be the same person or not and if he be not sound to be the party then he shall go without day in peace Ideot IDeot is he that is a Natural Fool from his Birth and knows not how to count Twenty pence or name his Father or Mother nor tell his own age or such like easie and common matters so that it appears he hath no manner of Vnderstanding Reason or Government of himself But if he can read or learn to read by instruction and information of others or can measure an Ell of Cloth or name the Days of the Week or beget a Child or such like whereby it may appear he hath some light of Reason such a one is no Ideot naturally Jeofaile JEofaile is when the parties to any Suit in Pleading have proceeded so far that they have joyned Issue which shall be tried or is tried by a Iury or Enquest and this Pleading or Issue is so badly pleaded or joyned that it will be Error if they proceed then some of the said parties may by their Councel shew it to the Court as well after Verdict given and before Iudgment as before the Iury is charged And the Councel shall say This Enquest ye ought not to take And if it be after Verdict then he may say To judgment you ought not to go And because such niceties occassioned many delays in Suits divers Statutes are made to redress them as well in the time of King H. 8. an 32. c. 30. as of Queen Eliz. whereof we may say as the Civilians That although Constantine the Emperor commāded the forms of the Law to be cut off yet the daily use of Pleading doth seem again to recal them or rather some of them increase as the heads of Hydra See also now a new Statute of Jeofailes made in 21 Jac. c. 13. Jetsam JEtsam is when a Ship is in danger to be cast away and to disburthen the Ship the Mariners cast the Goods into the Sea and although afterward the Ship perish none of those goods called Jetsam Floatsam or Lagan are called Wreck as long as they remain in or upon the Sea but if any of them are driven to Land by the Sea there they shall be reputed Wreck and pass by the grant of Wreck Coke l. 5. f. 106. Jettezoons JEttezoons This is mentioned in Policies of Insurance and signifies Goods thrown into the Sea in a great Storm Unlawful Assembly UNlawful Assembly is where people assemble themselves together to do some unlawful thing against the Peace although they execute not their purpose in deed Imparlance IMparlance See Emparlance Impeachment of Waste IMpeachment of Waste Impetitio Vasti is as much as to say as a Demand made or to be made of Recompence for Waste done by a Tenant that hath but a particular Estate for Life or Years And therefore he that hath such a Lease without Impeachment of Waste hath by that a property or interest given him in the Houses and Trees and may make waste in them without being impeached for it that is without being questioned or demanded any recompence for the Waste done See Coke l. 11. Bowles Case f. 82. b. Implements IMplements comes either from the French word Employer to imploy or from the Latine Implere to fill up and is used for things of necessary use in any Trade or Mystery which are imployed in the practice of the said Trade or without which the work cannot be accomplished Also for Furniture with which the House is filled And in that sense you shall find the word often in Wills and Conveyances of Moveables Impost IMpost is a French word that signifies Tribute but with us it is taken for the Tax that is paid the King for any Merchandise brought into any Haven from Places beyond the Seas And it is used in the Statute of 31 Eliz. c. 5. as a word of the same signification with Custom which Merchants pay Imprisonment IMprisonment is the Restraint of a mans Liberty whether it be in the open Field or in the Steeks or Cage in the Streets or in a Man 's own House as well as in the common Geal And in all these places the party so restrained is said to be a Prisoner so long as he hath not his Liberty freely to go at all times to all places whether he will without Bail or Mainprise Incumbent INcumbent comes of the Latine Incumbere and signifies him that is presented admitted and instituted to any Church or Benefice with Cure
who is therefore called the Incumbent of that Church because he doth bend all his study to the discharge of the Cure there Indicavit INdicavit is a Writ or Prohibition that lies for the Patron of a Church whose Clerk is Defendant in Court-Christian in an Action for Tithes commenced by another Clerk and extending to the fourth part of the Church or of its Tithes in which case the Suit belongs to the Kings Court by Westm 1. c. 5. Wherefore the Defendants Patron being like to be prejudiced in his Church and Advowson if the Plaintiff obtain in the Court-Christian has this means to remove it to the Kings Court Reg. orig fol. 35. and Britton c. 109. This Writ is not returnable but if they cease not their Suit he shall have an Attachment Inditement INditement See Enditement Indorsement INdorsement is that which is written upon the Back of a Deed as the Condition of an Obligation is said to be indorsed because it is commonly written on the Back of the Obligation Induction INduction is a lay act made by prescept of the Ordinary by which actual possession of the Church is given to the Rector or Vicar after his Presentation and Institution to it Infangtheef INfangtheef is a Priviledge or Liberty granted to Lords of certain Mannors to judge any Thief taken within their Fee Information INformation for the King is that which for a common person is called a Declaration and is not always done directly by the King or his Attorney but rather by some other man who sues as well for the King as for himself upon the breach of some penal Law or Statute wherein a Penalty is given to the party that will sue for the same but no Action of Debt to recover it therefore it must be had by Information Ingrosser INgrosser comes of the French word Grosier that is one that sells by Whole-sale But in our Law an Ingrosser is one that buys Corn Grain Butter Cheese Fish or other dead Victuals with an intent to sell the same again And so he is defined in the Stat. of 5 E. 6. c. 14. made against such Ingrossing Inheritance INheritance See Enheritance Inhibition INhibition is a Writ to inhibit a Iudge to proceed farther in the Cause depending before him And there is another Writ where after the Kings Presentment to a Benefice he presents another and inhibiteth the Bishop to give Induction to the first Presentee Plo. Com. 528. See F. N. B. f. 39. where he puts Prohibition and Inhibition together Inhibition is most commonly a Writ issuing forth of an higher Court-Cheistian to a lower and inferiour upon an Appeal Anno 24 H. 8. c. 12. and Prohibition out of the Kings Court of Record at Westminster to a Court-Christian or to an inferiour Temporal Court Injunction INjunction is an interlocutory Decree out of the Chancery sometimes to give Possession to the Plaintiff for defect of Apparance in the Defendant sometimes to the ordinary Courts of the King and sometimes to the Court-Christian to stay Proceeding in a Cause upon suggestiou made that if the rigor of the Law take place it is against Equity and Conscience in that Case See West part 2. tit Proceedings in Chancery sect 25. Inlagary INlagary or Inlagation is a Restitution of one outlawed to the Kings Protection or to the benefit condition of a Subject Inlaugh INlaugh signifies him that is sub Lege in some Frank-pledge not out-lawed of whom see Bract. l. 3. tract 2. c. 11. Inmates INmates are those persons of one Family that are suffered to come and dwell in one Cottage together with another Family by which the poor of the Parish will be increased And therefore by the Statute of 31 Eliz. c. 7. there is a Penalty of ten shillings a Month set upon every one that shall receive or continue such an Iumate Inquisition INquisition See Enquest Inrolment INrolment is the Registring Recording or Entring of any Act or Deed in the Chancery or elsewhere as of a Recognizance Fine Statute or Deed indented by the Statute of 27 H. 8. c. 16. by which a Freehold shall pass Instant INstant in Latine Instans is defined by the Logicians A thing not dividable in Time which is not any Time nor part of Time to which yet the parts of time are conjoyned and much considered in the Law and though it cannot be actually divided yet in consideration and conceit it may be divided and applied to several purposes as if they were several times whereof see in Plowdens Commentaries in the Case between Fulmerston and Stuard where the Statute of 31 H. 8. which Enacted That if an Abbot within a year before the Statute had letten Lands to one who at the time of making that Lease had the same Land to farm for a term of years then not expired that the Lessee should have that Land only for twenty one years is expounded And there it is debated That when the Termor takes the second Lease he surrenders his former term and so at the same instant of taking the second Lease the former term is expired And in the Case between Petit and Hales he who kills himself commits not Felony till he be dead and when dead he is not in being so as to be termed a Felon but at the instant is in the Law so adjudged And there are many other Cases in Law where the instant time that is not dividable in nature in the consideration of the mind and understanding of the Sages of the Law is divided upon which arise many arguments of great use and profound learning Institution INstitution is a Faculty made by the Ordinary by which a Vicar or Rector is approved to be Inducted to a Rectory or Vicarage Interdiction INterdiction has the same signification in the Common as in the Canon Law where it is thus defined Interdictio est Censura Ecclesiastica prohibens administrationem Divinorum And so it is used 22 H. 8. cap. 12. Intrusion INtrusion is a Writ that lies against him that enters after the death of Tenant in Dower or other Tenant for Life and holds out him in the Reversion or Remainder for which see Fitz. N. B. fol. 203. E. And every entry upon the possession of the King is called an Intrusion as where the Heir of the Kings Tenant enters after Office and before Livery this is called an Intrusion upon the King as appears in Stanf. Prerog fol. 40. and many other Books Intrusion INtrusion See Entrusion Inventary AN Inventary is a Catalogue or Recital in Writing of all the Goods and Chattels of one that is dead with the Valuation of them by four several persons which every Executor and Administrator ought to exhibit to the Ordinary at the time appointed Jointenans JOintenants are where two men come to any Lands and Tenements by one joynt Title as if a man give Lands to two men and to their Heirs Tenants in common are where two have Lands by several Titles or by Feoffment to two
to have and tohold the one half to one and his Heirs aud the other half to another and his Heirs in all these cases none of them knows his several If there be two or three Ioyntenants and one hath Issue and dies then he or those Ioyntenants that overlive shall have the whole by Survivorship If two Iointenants by agreement make Partition between them by Deed then they are several Tenants But if one Ioyntenant grant that which belongs to him to a Strang â—â— then the other Ioyntenantand the Stranger are Tenants in common And though two Tenants in common be seised throughly and of the whole and none knows his several yet if one die the other shall not make the whole by Survivorship but the Heir of him that dies shall have the half And so if there be three Ioyntenants and one of them makes a Feoffment of his part to another and the Feoffee dies then his Heir shall have the third part and the other two are Ioyntenants as they were because they two are seised by one joynt Title Also if Lands be given to the baron and his wife and the husband aliens and dies the wife shall recover the whole But if they were Ioyntenants before the Coverture then he shall recover but the half If Land be given to the husband and his wife and a third person if the third person grant that which belongs to him the one half passes by this Grant for that the baron and his wife are but one person in Law and in this case they have right but to half Also if two Ioyntenants are of Lands in a Town that is Borough-English where Land is devisable and one by his Testament devises that which belongs to him to a Stranger and dies this Devise is void and the other shall have the whole by Sutviver for that the Devise may not take effect till after the death of the Devisor and immediately after the death of the Devisor the right comes to the other Ioyntenant by Surviver who claims nothing by the Devisor but in his own right by Surviver But otherwise it is of Parceners seised of Lands devisable causa qua supra Journies accounts JOurnies accounts Dietae computatae is a term in the Law which is understood thus If a Writ be abated without the default of the Plaintiff or Demandant he may purchase a new Writ which if it be purchased by Journies accounts that is within as little time as he possibly can after the Abatement of the first Writ then this second Writ shall be as a Continuance of the first and so shall ouste the Tenant or Defendant of his Voucher Plea of Non-tenure Ioyntenancy fully administred c. or any other Plea which arises upon matter hapning after the date of the first Writ And fifteen days have been held a convenient time for the purchase of the new Writ See for this Writ by Journies accounts Spencers Case Coke lib. 6. fol. 9. b. Joynture JOynture is an Estate and Assurance made to a Woman in consideration of Marriage for term of her life or otherwise as is mentioned in the Statute of 27 H. 8. cap. 10. whether it be before or after Marriage And if it be after then she may at her liberty after the death of her husband refuse to take or have the Lands so assured for her Ioynture and demand her Dower at the Common Law But if it be made before Marriage then she may not refuse such Ioynture nor have Dower according to the Common Law unless that when she brings her Writ of Dower the Defendant pleads such a Plea as will not bar her of her Dower as if he say in Bar that her husband was not seised of such Estate whereof she might be endowed or any such Plea and doth not shew that she hath a Ioynture made c. and therefore demands Iudgment of that Action or any such like Plea c. And this was the opinion of Master Brograve at his Reading in Grays-Inn in Summer An. 1567. 18 Eliz. upon a Branch of the Statute made 27 H. 8. cap. 10. concerning Joyntures and Dowers And of those things whereof a Woman may be endowed she may have Ioynture as of Mines Vesturam terrae Woods Towns Is â— es Meadows and such like Also of an Advowson Reversion depending upon an Estate for Life Wind-mill high Chamber Rectory and such other and they are called Tenements Also of a Villain for he is an Hereditament And of all these profit may come to the woman But of those things whereof no profit will come but rather a charge a Ioynture cannot be made See Coke lib. 4. fol. 1. Vernons Case Jurisdiction JUrisdiction is a Dignity which a Man hath by a power to do Iustice in Causes of complaint made before him Juris utrum JUris utrum is a Writ that lies for the succeeding Incumbent of a Benefice to recover the Lands or Tenements belonging to the Church which were aliened by his Predecessor And see of this Fitz. N. B. fol. 48. R. and see after in the Title Utrum Juror JUror is one of those 24 or 12 men which are sworn to deliver a truth upon such Evidence as shall be given them touching the matter in question of which see Fitz. Nat. B. fol. 165. D. and the Statute 16 and 17 Car. 2. cap. for returning able and sufficient Jurors Justice seat JUstice seat is the highest Court that is held in a Forrest and it is always held before the Lord Chief Iustice â—â— Eyre of the Forrest upon mâ—â—ning 40 â— ays before And 〈◊〉 the Iudgments are always given and the Fines see for Offences that were presented at the Courts of Attachments and the Offenders indicted at the Swainmotes See concerning this Court Manwoods Forrest Laws cap 2 â— fol. 238. b. Justices in Eire JUstices in Eire See Eire Justicies JUsticies is a Writ directed to the Sheriff for the dispatch of Justice in some special Cases in his County-Court of which he cannot by his ordinary power hold Plea there And of this you may see Precedents in Fitzh N. B. fol. 117. C. in Account and fol. 152. B. in Annuity and fol. 119. G. in Debt and many others And it is called a Justicies because it is a Commission to the Sheriff to do a man right and it requires no Return or Certificate of what he hath done K. Keelage KEelage in Latine Killagium is a Custom paid at Hartlepool in Durham for every Ship coming into that Port. R of Parl. 21 E. 1. Kiddle KIddle or Kidel is a Dam or Wear in a River All Kidels shall from henceforth be utterly put down in the Thames and Medway and throughout all England except upon the Sea-coast Mag. Char. cap. 24. KIngs silver Kings silver is the Money which is due to the King in the Court of Common Pleas for a License there granted to any man to pass a Fine Coke lib. 6. fol. 39 43. Kintal KIntal is a Weight