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life_n	fee_n	heir_n	remainder_n	4,383	5	10.8794	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26015	The law of obligations and conditions, or, An accurate treatise, wherein is contained the whole learning of the law concerning bills, bonds, conditions, statutes, recognizances, and defeasances ... : to which is added a table of references to all the declarations and pleadings upon bonds, &c. now extant : also another table to the forms of special conditions which lie scattered in our president [sic] books ... : with an index of the principal matters therein contained / by T.A. of Grays-Inn, Esq.	Ashe, Thomas, fl. 1600-1618.	1693 (1693)	Wing A3972; ESTC R9431	276,581	591

by Deed indented leased to the Defendant a Farm called D. except one Close by Name Lessee Defendant was bound in a Bond to perform all the Covenants and Agreements in the said Indenture and pleaded he had performed all the Covenants the Plaintiff assigns for breach that the Defendant entred into the Close excepted the Defendant demurs Per Cur. the Obligation is not forfeited by this disturbance this Exception is not such an Agreement as is within the intent of the Condition it s an Agreement that the Land excepted shall not pass by the Demise but no Agreement that he shall occupy but sometimes an Exception is an Agreement that shall charge the Lessee but this when he agrees on his part that the Lessor shall have a thing dehors which he had not before as except a Way or Common or any other Profit a Prender that is Agreement of the Lessee that he shall have the Profit and if he bound to perform all Covenants and Agreements if he disturb him in this he shall forfeit the Obligation Cro. Eliz. p. 657. Lady Russel versus Gullwell Moor n. 713. id Case In a Lease for years the Defendant Covenants that the Plaintiff should enjoy it during the Term on Demurrer the Case was Tenant pur vie levies a Fine to him in Reversion come ceo c. the uses were to the Conusee and his Heirs on condition to pay to the Tenant pur vic 4 l. per ann during his life and upon default that it should be to the use of the Conusor for his life the Conusee made a Feoffment to the Defendant who leased to the Plaintiff the 4 l. was not paid nor demanded the Tenant pur vie enters on the Plaintiff this is a breach of the Condition without any demand of the Rent for its a Sum in gross and not issuing out of the Land the Covenant is that the Lessee shall absolutely enjoy it and this Condition is properly to be performed by him who hath the Freehold and it was held that this Feoffment had not destroyed the future use which is to arise for non-performance of the Condition Cro. El. 688. Smith and Warren Two make a Lease for years by Indenture and covenants that the Lessee should not be disturbed nor any incumbrance made by them one of the Lessors makes a Lease to a Stranger who disturbs on Bond to perform Covenants it s a breach of the Condition for them shall not be taken jointly Lach. p. 161. Merritons Case Condition of the Obligation was That the Plaintiff should have hold and enjoy Lands acquitted from all Charges and Incumbrances and for breach the Plaintiff shew there was a Rent-charge granted by the Predecessor under whom the Defendant claimed which is yet undischarged the Defendant demurred because the acquittal goes to the having and holding the Land and it s not shewed that the Plaintiff was ever in possession nor that he was charged or endamaged to which Twisden and Keeling agreed but by Windham the Defendant ought to shew how he had discharged and acquitted from the very Rent and not to let it perpetually hang over him but by all the Court if the Acquittal refer to the Land it self or to the Person the Defendant must shew how 1 Keb. fol. 927. King and Standish A Covenant that the Indenture of a Lease at time of the Assignment is a good true and indefeasible Lease and that the Plaintiff shall enjoy c. without the let or interruption of the Defendant or of any claiming by from or under him and shews for breach that before he that made the Lease had any thing one J. S. was seized in Fee and that he which made the Lease entred upon him and disseised and leased prout and that J. S. re-entred upon him upon which Replication the Defendant demurs per Cur. the word indefeasible Lease shall be construed as a distinct Sentence from the last words that he shall enjoy it without the interruption of the Defendant Siderfin p. 328. Gainsford and Griffith 1 Sanders p. 51. Johnson and Vavisor Joyntenants of a Mill by Lease for years Vavisor assigns all his Interest in the Mill to another without Johnsons assent or privity and dies Johnson after recited this Indenture by Lease and that all came to him by Survivorship grants the said Mill and all his Estate Title and Interest to Procter and covenants that he shall quietly enjoy it notwithstanding any Act done by him and Bond of Covenants Act. de Det sur Bond. Johnson pleads that the Plaintiff had enjoyed this notwithstanding any Act done by him Procter replied that Vavisor Joyntenant with Johnson assigned his Estate to J. D. who entred and expelled him The Defendant demurs adjudged against the Defendant for the Grant was never good for he had no power to grant one Moiety and yet he had expresly granted the Mill to Procter And the Condition of the Obligation being to perform all Grants the Grant being defective at the first as to a Moiety which is the Substance of the Agreement of all the Parties this is not qualified by the Covenant ensuing and it is not like to Nokes Cass 4 Rep. for there the Grant was good for the whole and becomes ill by Eviction afterwards and therefore the Covenant ensuing qualified the general Covenant Yelv. p. 175. Johnson and Procter Lit. 206. 1 Bulstr 3 4. A Covenant that the Lessee shall enjoy against the Lessor and all claiming under him The Defendant exhibited a Bill whereby the Lessor appeared to be in Trust and adjudged this was no Breach Selby and Chute cited 2 Keb. 288. 1 Brownl p. 23. The Covenant was if the Defendant sued or troubled charged or vexed the Plaintiff Per Cur. a Suit in Chancery is within the Condition 2 Keb. 288. Ashton and Martin A Condition to surrender a Copyhold and that the Plaintiff shall enjoy this without the let of any claiming under the Defendant and of one Lancelot Simons The Defendant pleaded Surrender and that the Plaintiff had quietly enjoyed this The Plaintiff replies that one Jane Simons claiming under Lanceolet ousts him Demurrer and Judgment pro Quer. The Case was this Copyhold was granted to Patience Hussy for Life the Remainder to Lanceolet S. in Fee and that after and before the Obligation Lancelot surrenders his Remainder to the use of Patience for Life and after to the use of Lancelot and Jane for their Lives and after to Lancelot's Heirs Lancelot and Patience dye and after the Obligation Jane enters The cause of Demurrer was that Jane took nothing by the Surrender for the Surrender to P. H. pur vie was void she having an Estate pur vie before and consequently the Remainders by notice upon this void Estate are void also Dut per Cur. the Estate limited to Jane S. shall be by way of present Estate and mediate Settlement and not by way of Remainder 1 Sanders p. 150. Wade and Balch 2 Keb. 341. Id. Case

good against the Heir tho the Executors have Assets he may have his Election 1 Anderson p. 7. Sir Ed. Capels Case Debt lies against the Heir of an Heir upon Obligation of the Ancestor to the 10th degree Noy 56. Dennyes Case The Obligee shall have a joint Action against all the Sons in Gavel-kind 11 H. 7.12 b. Debt against three Heirs in Gavel-kind the Defendant pleads C. one of the Heirs is within Age. The Heir of an Heir shall be chargable with an Obligation simul cum the immediate Heir and such Heir shall have his Age Moor n. 194. Hawtree and Auger 1 Anderson p. 10. n. 22. id Case If a Man bind himself and his Heirs in an Obligation and leaves Land at Common Law and Gavel-kind the Creditors must sue all the Heirs and if there be Land on the part of the Father and on the part of the Mother and both have Land by descent he shall have several Actions and Execution shall cease till he may take it against both so that the Construction of Law is stricter where the Heir is charged with Warranty real than when he is charged with a Chattel Hob. p. 25. Riens per descent pleaded and what shall be Assets J. S. by Will deviseth his Land to his Heir at 24. and if he die without Heir of his Body before 24. the Remainder over he attains 24. a Fee-simple descends for no Tail shall arise before his said Age which Tail shall never take effect 2 Leon. p. 11. Hind and Sir John Lion id Case 3 Leon. p. 70. The Father bound in Obligation and deviseth his Lands to his Wife till his Son comes to 21 years of Age the remainder to his Son in Fee and dies the Son shall be adjudged in by descent 2 Leon. 123. fol. 101. Bashpooles Case 3 Leon. p. 118. The Ancestor was seised in Fee and by his Will deviseth them to the Defendant being his Son and Heir and to his Heirs on Condition to pay his Debts within a year and if he failed his Executors shall sell he entred and paid no Debts the Executors after entred and sold It s not Assets in Heirs hands for though the Heir hath a Fee yet he hath it as a Purchaser being clogg'd with such a Condition Cro. M. 5 Car. p. 161. Gilpins Case Two things requisite to bind an Heir 1. Lien express 2. Lands by descent In Debt against an Heir he is charged as Heir and the Writ is in the debet and detinet and it s not in auter droit but taken as his proper Debt from 18 Ed. 2. till 7 H. 4. If the Executor had Assets the Heir was not chargeable but now the Law is changed in that Point if the Heir sell the Land before the Writ purchased he is discharged of the Debt in regard he is not to wait the Action of the Obligee Trusts descending shall be Assets by the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries so Lands of special Occupancy vid. Stat. The Defendant pleads his Father was seized in Fee and covenanted with J.S. c. to stand seized to the use of himself for Life the Remainder to the Defendant in Tail c. the Father had caused a Deed to be engrossed and delivered the Deed to a Scrivener to the use of J. D. and M. so as J. D. would agree to it J.D. died never having notice of the Deed Per Cur. the Father never covenanted because the Agreement of J. D. was a Condition precedent to the essence of the Deed and so no Deed to raise the Uses contra the Defendant Moor n. 426. Dego● and Rowes Case id Case 1 Leon. 152. n. 211. The Heir pleads riens per descent special Verdict find the Father was scised in Fee and enfeoft J. S. of the Mannor of P. excepted and reserved to the Feoffor for life two Acres only the Lands in question and after limited all to the Feoffees to the use of the Defendant in Tail Per Cur. the Lands do descend to the Son the Exception being void 2 Keb. p. 667 ●19 Wilson and Armorer Upon riens per descent pleaded special Verdict find M. seised in Fee de Saliva Anglice a Salt-pan died and his Son entred and was seised and the Defendant entred as Heir per possession fratris this is Assets by descent and such Heir per possession ' is chargable to the Debt of the Ancestor 3 Keb. Tr. 28 Car. 2. f. 659. Clinch and Butler The Heir pleads riens per descent the Defendant had levied a Fine but because no Deed of Uses was produced at Trial the Use was to the Conusor and his Heirs and so the Heir in by descent Mod. Rep. p. 2. Riens per descent pleaded Feoffment pleaded at the Trial it appeared to be fraudulent it need not be pleaded but may well be given in Evidence 5 Rep. 60. Gooches Case Debt vers l'Heir he may plead in Bar a Release made by the Obligee to the Executors and though the Deed belongs to another yet he must shew it forth for both of them are privy to the Testator Co. Lit. 232. a. Upon riens per descent pleaded it was found he had Assets in the Cinque-ports Judgment was general against the Defendants and as to the Moleties of the Lands in the Cinque-Ports the Plaintiff 〈◊〉 have a Certiorari to remove the Records into Chancery and thence by Mittimus to send to the Constable to make Execution 1 Anderson n. 65. p. 28. Hicker and Harrison vers Tirrel 3 Leon. p. 3. The Heir pleads riens per descent the Plaintiff replies he sued a former Writ vers l'heir and the Defendant was outlawed which was reversed and he freshly brought this Writ by journeys accompts and avers he had Assets the day of the first Writ purchased Hob. p. 248. Spray and Sherrat Cro. Jac. 589. id Case cited Debt vers l'heir the Defendant pleads his Ancestor died Intestate and that one J. S. had administred and had given the Plaintiff a Bond in full satisfaction of the former upon Issue joined it was found pro Def. If the Obligor had given this Bond it had not discharged the former but being given by the Administrator so that the Plaintiffs security is bettered and the Administrator chargable de bonis propriis it s a good discharge Mod. Rep. 225. Blith and Hill He pleads riens per descent but 20 Acres in D. in Com. Warwic The Plaintiff replies more by descent in S. viz. so many Acres and found pro Def. and a discontinuance in the Record of the Plea from Term P. to Term M. assigned for Error and per Cur. its Error and not deins Stat. 18 Eliz. because the Judgment was not founded on the Verdict but upon the Confession of the Defendant of Assets Yelv. p. 169. Hill 7 Jac. B. R. Molineux Case The Heir pleads the Obligor died Intestate and J. S. administred and he had given the Plaintiff another Bond in full satisfaction of the former vide Mod. Rep.

construe ●e contrary to the express w●ds Vid. a●a 9 H. 7.20.17.22 Conditions ought to be construed according to the intent of the parties if it may constare and Conditions of Obligations are not broken unless the intent be broken A Condition to appear such a day in such a Term and the Obligo● appears at a day in the same Term before the day mentioned in the Condition at the Suit of another Man which is 〈◊〉 appearance in Law for all Suits which shall be commenced against him the same Term yet because this is but an appearance by fiction in Law and not an actual appearance at this day the Condition is broken for peradventure had he appeared actually special Bail might have been required 1 Ro● Abr. 426. Sir Richard Bullers Case If the Lessee of an House covenant not to lease the Shop Yard or other things pertaining to the House to one that sells Coals and after he lets all the House to one that sells Coals he had broken the Condition for he had broken the intent 1 Rolls Abridg. 427. Bonner and Langley A Condition that the Lessee shall not do any wast and the Lesse suffers the House to fall for want of covering and repairing though this is not a Feasance but only a permission yet the Condition is broken 1 Rolls Abr. 428. Qu. The Condition of the Obligation was if the said R. ● shall not at any time or times be aiding or assisting to T. E in any Actions Suits Vexations c. The Plaintiff assigns a Breach that before the Obligation he brought Trespass against the said T. E. and R. T. and that he had Judgment against both and that after the making the Obligation T. E. and R. T. brought Error Per Cur. it is no Breach for it is not the intent no● reason he should be barred to defend himself by joyning with T. E. against the unjust proceedings of the Plaintiff And so if after Verdict the Plaintiff had released and yet took Judgment by Execution they two might have joyned in Audits Que●el Hobart p. 30● 1 Rolls Abr. 429. Lamb and Tompson This is not properly 〈◊〉 Action but a Suit to discharge him of a ●o●tio Action wherein they must joy A Condition if the Plaintiff might quietly take and enjoy Woods sold and if the ground where upon it groweth be four Miles distant from Rye c. then c. The Defendant pleads the Plaintiff had quietly c. and that the said Land by the next high and usual way for Carriages is 4000 Paces from the Town of Rye Per Cur. the intent was that the Plaintiff by selling that Wood should not inour the danger of the Statute of 23 Eliz. c. 4. And it ought to be pleaded that it is every way distant four Miles from Rye and not not by usual ways and the four Miles by 4000 Paces is well 2 Leon. p. 113. Ming● and Barl. The Condition was that if the within bounden J. L. shall happen to dye without Issue of his Body lawfully to be begotten that then if the said J. L. by his last Will or otherwise in Writing shall in his Life time lawfully assure c. The Condition being made in benefit of the Obligor shall have Construction according to the intendment of the parties to be collected out of the words of the Condition and the intention of the parties was that a Conveyance should be made by the Obligor in his Life time by his Will or otherwise of the Lands Jones Rep. p. 180. Eaton and Laughter The Condition if the Obligor pay so much then the Obligation to be void or otherwise it shall be lawful for the Obligee quietly to enjoy such Lands The Defendant pleads quiet enjoyment The Plaintiff demurs for that the Condition depends on the Payment or Non-payment and that concerning the Land is idle Per Cur. Conditions are to be taken according to the intent of the parties if it may constare but as these words then to be void are placed here it cannot refer but to that which precedes and not to the Land which ensues Regula Words in the beginning or end of things refer to all but those in the middle refer ad media tantum as Lease for Life Remainder for Life rendring Rent this goes to both Estates but Lease for Life rendring Rent Remainder for Life aliter Siderfin p. 312. Ferres and Newton In the Condition it was recited that the Sheriff had constituted the Defendant Bailiff of an Hundred within the County If therefore the Defendant shall duly execute all Warrants to him directed then c. Warrants shall only be intended Warrants directed to him as Bayliff o● the Hundred Horton and Day cited 2 Sanders 414. And such only as are to be executed within the Hundred And the Plaintiff must shew the thing to be done was within the Hundred Allen p. 10. S●ang●on and Day mesme Case A Condition that his eldest Son shall marry the Daughter of the Obligee and the Son lye the second Son shall not marry her that was not the intent 27 H. 4.14 When a Man is bound to do or permit a thing he ought to do or permit all which depends upon this in the performance of the thing 11 H. 4. 25. b. 1 Rolls Abr. 422. Collateral things must be done or permitted a Covenant to levy a Fine it shall be at his Costs who levies it A Man is bound to carry my Corn it is no Plea for him to say he had no Cart for he is bound by implication to provide a Cart and all other necessaries for the Carriage So to mow my Grass he must find Instruments to cover my Hall he is bound to find necessary Stuff 16 H. 7.9 A Condition that J. S. shall have ingress into his House he ought to have a common entrance at the usual Door and shall not be put to enter in by a hole backward or by the Chimny nor may the other make a Ditch before the Door If a Man hath Right to a Chamber he must not be barred of his ingress and yet the Doors ought not to stand open at Midnight If I am bound to suffer J. S. to have a Way over my Land if I lock the Gates I have broken the Condition Latch p. 47. Climson and Pool A Condition is to be performed as near as may be The Condition is that J. S. and R. G. shall come in their proper persons before such a Feast to London and to bring two Sureties to be bound with them to the Plaintiff in the Suit contained in the Obligation then c. J. S. dyes yet R. G. must do this and although 〈◊〉 Condition be not performed in the whole yet 〈◊〉 he may perform this by any possibility he must do it 15 H. 7.2 4 H. 7.3 A Condition that he or his Heir shall surrender c. before such a day to the use of the Plaintiffs Executors his Heirs and Assigns c. The Defendant pleads the