that is naught for it is a several Lease of their Moities and you must declare Quod cum one of them demised one moity and the other the other moity and good If a Tenant in Socage hath Issue and die his Issue being under the age of 14. years the next Freind of the Heir to whom the Inheritance cannot descend shall have the Guard of the Land untill the Heir come to the age of 14. years and he is called Guardion in Socage and in pleading a Lease for Life you are never to alleadge the place where the Lease was made because it passeth by Livery which was executed upon the Land He that pleads a Demise ought to shew that the Lessee entred and he that pleads a Descent ought to shew that he entred and an Exchange is a good Plea in Bar but it shall never be adjudged a good Exchange except this word Escambium be used in the Charter of Exchange HOpkins versus Radford A Defendant shall take no benefit of his own wrong In Sir James Harringtons case the Original was returned Quinque Pasch and the issue joyned that day and the Venire facias returned that day and held naught by the Court upon the first motion A future Lease cannot be surrendred but drowned For things in Action a Deed of Gift is void as Debts without Specialty although he say Goods Chattels and Specialties but for other Debts by Specialty and Goods it is good and for the Debts in Action after the Death of the Party Administration is to be granted and the Administrator is to have the Goods RAiner versus Mortimer One had Judgement upon a Scire facias to have Execution and a Capias ad satisfaciendum returnable 15. Martini and that Writ was returned Album Breve and a Testatum thereupon and the Defendant taken and this matter was moved to the Court and a Supersedeas prayed that the Testatum issued out erroneously because the Capias was not returned and it was granted by the whole Court because the Capias was not returned One seised in Fee may bargain and sell grant and demise Land to others and their Heirs to the use of one for years because he hath a Fee-simple but Lessee for years cannot bargain and sell his Lease to the use of one for years If a Marriage is intended between two men and one of them in consideration that the other hath upon the Marriage assured Land to his Son he doth assume to pay to my Son such a Summ immediately after the Marriage if the Money be not paid the Son must have the Action and not the Father MIch 5. Jacobi 61. One Jury-man appear in Court and when he came to the Barr to be sworn he informed the Court that he was eighty years old and prayed to be dischargâ—d and the Court could not grant it nor pass him by and swear others without committing Error except the Parties would consent for it is Error to skip a Juror who is returned if he appear and therefore the Juror was drawn by the consent of the Parties TRin. 6. Jacobi Upon a Levari facias out of a Court Baron Goods cannot be sold without a Custome to sell the Goods and if Goods be attached by Pone out of a Court Baron the Defendant shall not lose his Cattle otherwise it is if it be a Process out of the Common Pleas then the Defendant loseth his Cattle for not appearing if you lay that you have a Court time out of minde to be held before a Steward you must shew what Pleas you have used to have Conusance of A Sheriff returned but 21. onely upon a Venire facias and at the Triall ten onely appeared and a Decem tales was awarded and tried and Verdict for the Plaintiff and this matter was moved in Arrest of Judgement for that the Sheriff had returned but 21. and the Court were of opinion that if 12. of them had appeared that it had been good notwithstanding but because 10. onely appeared of the principal therefore it was naught and Judgement arrested for that cause If a Juror be sworn of the principal and the Jury remain when the Jury comes again he shall be sworn again TRin. 6. Jac. rotulo 251. Dunnall versus Giles A special Verdict and the Question was a man being possessed of a terme devises the whole terme to A. for Life and if he dies within the terme to B. during the minority of C. and that C. when he comes to full age shall have the Remainder of the terme and held a good Devise To devise Land or Terme or Lease all one it is an Executory Devise If one surrender Land to the use of an Estranger that is to resty the use in Reversion for the Land is in him immediately If a man hath a Rent in esse you cannot grant that in Reversion after your Death but if I surrender to the use of one after my Decease is not good by his opinion of Warburton and Daniel If the Sheriff shall by vertue of a Fieri facias levy the Debt and Damages of a man and make a Return that the said Goods remain in his hands for want of Buyers the Property remains still in the Defendant although the Sheriff hath Possession of the Goods A Sheriff may sell Goods levied upon a Fieri facias out of his County In Watermans case the Issue was whether a Copy-holder in one Town had Common in Land lying in another Town and the Plaintiff shews that he is Lord of the Hundred of C. within which Hundred one of the Villages lie and prayes a Venire facias of the Town next adjoyning to the said Hundred and it was granted and tried and Exception to the Triall for that the Venire was not of both Villages An Alien born being no free Denizen may defend and bring a Writ of Error and it is no Plea to say that he is an Alien born Note by the Common Law the Lord of the Mannour may come and take away a Tree cut down upon the Copy-hold Land by his Copy-holder without laying a special Custome for it If there be an unlawfull Marriage as the Brother doth marry his Sister and they have Issue and one of them dieth before any Divorce had between them now after the Death of one of them the Issue cannot be bastarded as in Cordies case 39 E. 43. 22 E. 4. After a general Imparlance one cannot plead an Outlary in Barr to an Action of Trespass or Case but it must be pleaded in abatement except he be outlawed after the last Continuance for you shall plead nothing in Barr but what goeth to the pit of the Action now the Damages in Trespass or Case are not forfeited by Outlary as Debt because of the incertainty To the Owner of the Soil on both sides of the way of common right belong the Trees that grow in the Lane whether
only the Tenant of the Freehold but by the Statute Tenant by Statute Merchant or Elegit may have an Assise if the Incumbent hanging the writ die and the disturber present again that writ lyes by Journes account upon the first disturbance and alwayes in a Declaration in a Quare impedit you must lay a Presentation in him from whom you first derive your Title or under some from whom he claimeth otherwise it is not good The Bishop cannot grant a Sequestration in no Case but where the Church is void but if the Clerk be instituted and inducted no Sequestration lieth CVppel versus Tansie Trin. 16 Jac. rot 3210. Quare impedit brought for the Church of Bleby the Issue was that there was no such Church and the Venire was de visu de Bleby and the Exception was because it was not of the Body of the County but the Exception was salved because in the Declaration it was alledged that one died at Bleby aforesaid and it was held that every place alledged shall be intended to be a Town and by the user of the writ it is presumed in Law to be a Parish and then if there be a Parish and a Town if the Venire facias be either of the Parish or Town it is good and it is a good Writ to demand Manerium de D. with the appurtenances Severall Quare impedits may be brought against severall Defendants as one against the Bishop and another against the Patron and Incumbent but if J. S. brings a Quare impedit against A. B. that A. B. cannot have a writ against the said J. S. if a Quare impedit abates within the six moneths the Plaintiff may bring another writ but if the Plaintiff be non-suit within the six moneths he cannot have a new writ because the Defendant upon Title made hath a writ to the Bishop and for that cause a new writ will not lie COmber versus Episcopum Cicester al. Trin. 6 Jacobi rotulo 1629. The issue in a Quare impedit was if S. Rose by covin between him and Comber and Rivers did resign into the hands of the said Bishop if the King hath Title of lapse and a resignation be made by fraud and one admitted this shall not take away the Kings Title for if the Kings Title appear upon Record then shall go out a writ for the King but otherwise it is upon matter of Evidence the King shall loose his presentation as well by resignation as by Death where he hath Title to present by lapse and doth not except the resignation be by fraud and where an avoidance is by Statute there needeth not notice to be given to the Bishop LOrd Say versus Episcopum de Peterborrow Mich. 30 Jacobi rotulo 2601. The Imparlance and the demurrer entred Hill 7. Jacobi rotulo 3458. The Case was Tenant in Tail grants the Advowson to others to the use of himself and his wife and the Heirs males of the Husband and the Husband dies and the wife survives and the Lord Say marries the woman and brought the Quare impedit the estate is determined by the death of Tenant in Tail and Judgement was given for the Bishop upon a Demurrer in a Quare impedit if any of the Defendants do barr the Plaintiff the Action is gone WAllop versus Murrey Trin. 8. Jacobi rotulo 3905. The Church became void by resignation and a presentation upon the proviso in the Statute of 21 H. 8. for the Kings Chaplains The Kings Chaplains might have three Benefices with license nay he may give to them as many as he will being of his own gift Judgement for the Plaintiff if the Incumbents Plea be found for him he shall never be removed although other Pleas be found for the Plaintiff by the whole Court Pasch 9. Jacobi If the writ abate for Form you shall never have a writ to the Bishop nor where it appears that you have one Title DOminus Rex versus Emerson Trin. 8. Jac. rot 1811. The question was where the King had Title to present to a Church by reason of ward-ship and after livery and before the King doth present under the Seal of the Court of Wards the King doth present by his Letters patents under the great Seal of England and the Clerk is admitted instituted and inducted whether the Clerk shall be removed or no and the Court held that he should not and Judgment that the Plaintiff nihil capias per breve he that getteth it first by the Court of Wards or great Seal shall have it there needeth no recitall in the grant A common person by his letter or his word may make a presentation to a Benefice to the Bishop the King may present by word if the Ordinary be present for a presentment is but a commandement if the King under any Seal present it is good It is best to plead the King presented generally and not to plead it by Letters Patents for it is the worst way and judgment was given for the Defendant and Mich. 10. Jacobi it was held by the whole Court that a presentment under the great Seal to a Church parcell of the Dutchy of Lancaster is good and needeth not to be under the Dutchy Seal CRanwell versus Lister The Defendant had been Parson for three years and pleaded plenarty generally by six moneths of the presentation of one Stiles a stranger to the Writ And the Court held the Plea to be nought because the Defendant shewed no Title in Stiles NEedler versus Winton and Needham Hill 12. Jacoci rotulo 1845. In a Quare Impedit the Case was Husband and Wife bargain and sell Land to the King this is as good as a Fine being found if it was delivered to the King but not entred of Record if it was made and delivered it was good but if the King should before it be delivered grant it out it had been void being not enrolled of record for the King in consideration of the bargain and sale of the Husband and Wife before the Deed inrolled did grant to them the Parsonage of Horsham in this case the Wife is bound as strong as by Fine and the King made the grant between the date of the deed and before inrolment If the Kings Clerk be once inducted the K. cannot remove his Clerk at the common Law before the Statute of 34. H. 8. If a Quare Impedit were brought against the Patron and Clerk the Patron might confess the Action and so prejudice the Clerk therefore by the Statute the Clerk being inducted he may plead that he is Parson impersoned and so defend himself GLaswick versus Williams Hill 9. Jacobi rotulo 854. A Quare Impedit brought of the Rectory of I. Stoneley one of the Tellers in the Exchequer was indebted to Queen Eliz. And it was found that he was seised of a Mannor ad quod c. in fee and sold it to the Plaintiff who brought a writ to
Disseisin and Doddridge sayd It would be mischeivous if it should Hill 6. Iac. In the Common Pleas that if in the Common Barre in Trespass the place in the Common Barre is alledged to be Blackacre the Plaintiff may plead that it is his Free-hold and then it was held by the whole Court that an abuttall of one side is sufficient without alledging it of every side SWaine against Becket An Action of Trespass brought for cutting down of Trees And upon a speciall verdict the question was that whereas there is a Mannor wherein are Copi-holders for life which have used to lopp Trees growing upon the Copy-holds for their necessary fire and repairing of their customary Tenements the Lord of the Mannor maketh a Lease of the Mannor for yeares excepting the Trees the Lessee of the Mannor granteth a copy for life the Copy-holder loppeth the Trees growing on his Copy-hold whether by law he might do it or no was the doubt of the Jury And it was held by all the Court that the Copy-holder might lopp the Trees because he is in by the custome which is above the Lords Estate after he is admitted and that the copy-hold doth not depend upon the Lords interest And that the Trees excepted and the Soil remained parcell of the Mannor because the Lease was but for years but if the Lease had been for life it had been otherwise because it had been severed from the Mannor And whereas it was objected that the Tenant should not be in a better condition then his Author it was answered that a Lord of a Mannor at will may grant a copy for life or in fee and it is good If the Lord cut down all the Trees so that the Copy-holder can have no lopping he may have his Action upon the Case against the Lord as it was adjudged in Gosnolds case If the Lord sell away his waste and the Copy-holder dye and the Lord grant a new copy he shall have his Common If the Lord sell away the Trees so that the Copy-holder cannot have Estovers because the Bargainee felleth down the Trees the Copy-holder shall have his Action against the Bargainee Common and lopping are incident to the copy-hold Judgment for the Defendant HArris against Ap-John An Action of Trespasse brought the Defendant pleads not guilty and verdict found for the Plaintif And in Arrest of Judgment it was alledged that the venire facias was de placito debiti and so also was the habeas corpus and it should have been de placito transgressionis And it was amended by the whole Court MYnwinnock against Bligh Trin. 16. Jacob. rotulo 1697. An action of Trespasse brought for breaking the Plaintiffs Close done Septemb. in the 13. year of King James The Defendant pleads as to part of the Trespasse in award and that the Defendant submits himself to the award the 15. yeare and that the Arbitrators in the 13. yeare which was before the submission made the Award and traverses that he was guilty of the Trespasse after the award made And the Plaintiff replies that the Arbitrators the said day in the 13. year made not any award c. And after Tryall exception was taken that the issue was ill joyned being of a thing that was void yet notwithstanding Judgment was given for the Plaintiff and they resembled to a payment upon a single Bond and conditions performed at a Feast not contained in an Obligation Trin. 15. Jac. rotulo 3044. An Action of Trespass brought wherfore by force and armes his Goods and Chattels to wit a thousand posts and forty railes took and caryed away and damages given intire and after a verdict exception taken because Rales was pretended to be no Latine word nor to have any exception but Judgment was given for the Plaintiff DVncomb against Randoll Hil. 9. Jac. rotulo 2267. Three issues in Trespasse One issue was upon a prescription to wit that they had accustomed to have for himselfe his Farme and Tenants of the same Mannor common of pasture in the said c. for all his Sheep which are levant and couchant in and upon the Demesne Lands of W. which lye and are in A. aforesaid every yeare And exception was taken for the uncertainty because it did not appear that those were demesne Lands which lye in A. for it was ill pleaded and ought to be averred but notwithstanding it was held good after a tryal and Judgment was given for the Plaintiff and in this case an exception was taken to the venire facias because it was of A. and of the Mannor of C. and because it was made in this manner to wit de visu de A. and de visu manerij de C. but it was disallowed because against the form used in the Common Pleas. DOwnes against Skrymsher Trin. 9. Iac. rotulo 334. An Action of Assault and Battery brought and there was a Demurrer upon the Evidence And the case was that the Defendant the day specified in the Declaration said that the Plaintiff assaulted the Defenant and in defence of himselfe justifies the beating the Plaintiff replies that he did it of his own wrong without any such cause and in the Evidence the Defendant maintained that the Plaintiff beate him the day mentioned in the Declaration and in the same place And the Plaintiff perceiving that gave in evidence that the Battery was made another day and place to wit c. which was the cause of the speciall verdict for if there be two Batteries made between the Plaintiff and Defendant at divers times the Plaintiff is bound to prove the Battery made the same day in his Declaration and shall not be admitted to give another day in evidence by the opinion of the whole Court HEydon against Mich. 8. Jac. rotulo 839. An Action of Battery brought against three two of them pleaded not guilty and Judgment by non sum informat against the third and the two were found guilty for all And the Jury gave damages severally against one a 100 l. and against the other a 100 s. and what Judgement should be given was the question and at first the Court was of opinion that the Plaintiff should not have Judgment at all for where the Defendants are found guilty of all the Trespass in this case the damages shall be intire but if one shall be found guilty of part or at another time in this case the damages shall be severall otherwise not And they thought a Venire de novo ought to issue out because the Jury had mis-behaved themselves in severing the damages but afterwards it was resolved that the damages that were given by the first Jury to wit one 100 l. should be recovered against all the Defendants in that Writ named and that in Trespass the first Jury taxes the damages for the whole Trespass and that shall bind all the Defendants and therefore execution was given against all the Defendants for the hundred pounds Trin. 9. Jam. rotulo 1835.
BAnks against Barker Hill 12. Jac. rotulo 1979. In an Action of Trespass the venire facias was well awarded upon the case of the venu in Westown and of the Mannor of D. and the Writ of Venire was mistaken to wit of the venu of Westown and exception being taken after tryall the Court was moved for the amending of the venire facias by the roll and it was denyed because the Jury did come of another venu then they ought by the Law of the Land to come and therefore could not be amended but afterwards the Court seemed to be of an opinion that the awarding of the venu in the roll was mistaken because it was of the venu of the Villiage and Mannor and it should have been of the Mannor only being to try a custome of the Mannor FOrrest against Headle Hill 13. Jac rot 1123. An Action of Trespass brought and a continuando of the Trespass unto the day of the shewing forth the Plaintifs Originall to wit the 20. day of November which day was after the shewing forth of the Originall and because the Jury gave damages for the whole time which ought not to be it was proved that the Judgment upon the verdict might stay but by the whole Court the videlicet was held idle and Judgment given for the Plaintiff COcks against Barnsley Hill 10. Iac. rotulo 2541. An Action of Trespass brought and a speciall verdict found and the question was whether Land held in ancient Demesne was extendable for debt and an action of Trespass brought for that cause And Justice Nichols held it was extendable for otherwise if it should not be extendable there would be a fayler of Justice for if a Judgment should be had against a man that had no other Land but what was in ancient Demesne and that it could not be extendable there would be a fayler of Justice which the Law doth not allow of but an Assize or a re-disseisin doth not lye of Land in ancient Demesne because of the Seisin that must be given by the Common Law and it would be prejudicial to the Lord which the Law allows not and Wynch and Hubbard were of the same opinion For ancient demesne is a good plea where the Free-hold is to be recovered or brought in question but in an action of Trespass it is no plea. And note that by this execution neither the Free-hold nor Possession is removed but only the Sheriffe enters to make execution upon a Judgment had in the Common bench in debt which is a proper Action to be brought there WRight and his Wife against Mouncton Hill 12. Iac. rotulo 43. An Action of Trespass brought to which the Defend pleaded not guilty And the Husband only made a challenge that he was servant to one of the Sheriffs and prayes a processe to the Coroners and the Defendant denies the challenge and therefore notwithstanding the challenge the Venire issued to the Sheriffs and after a tryall exception was taken because the woman did not joyne in the challenge and it was held that the Husband and Wife should joyn in the challenge although the cause of challenge proceded from the Husband only but after tryall it was helped by the Statute of Ieofailes and judgment given for the Plaintiff BIde against Snelling Hill 16. Iac. rotulo 1819. An Action of Ejectment brought and also a Battery in one and the Writ and after a verdict it was moved in Arrest of Judgment because the Battery was joyned with the Ejectment The damages were found severally and the Plaintiff had released the damages for the Battery and prayed Judgment for the Ejectment Winch held the Writ naught but Judgment was given for the Plaintiff notwithstanding STeward and his Wife against Sulbury An Action of Trespass brought wherefore by Force and Armes the Close of the Wife while she was sole at D. hath broken and the wood of the said D. to the value of 1005. there lately growing hath cut down and carried away and in his Count shews that he hath cut downe two acres of wood and exception was taken because he declared of so many acres of wood and not of so many loads of wood to wit twenty c. loads and held by the Court to be a good exception BLackeford against Althin Trin. 14. Jac. rotulo 3376. An action of Trespass brought wherefore by Force and Armes a certain Horse of the said Plaintiffs took away c. The Defendant conveys to himselfe a certain annuity granted to him by one John Hott The Plaintiff shews that one William Hott Father of the said Iohn Hott the Grantor was seised of Land in Fee which Land was Gavel-kind Land and devised it to his Wife for life the remainder to Iohn Hott the Elder and Iohn Hott the Younger his Sonne and the Heirs of their bodies And afterwards William dyed and the Woman entred and was seised for life and the two sonnes entred and were seised in tayl and being so seised Iohn Hott the younger had issue Iohn Hott c. and traverses without this that Iohn Hott the Father at the time of granting the annuity was seised of the Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances in his Demesne as of fee as c. And the Defendant as before saith that the said J. H. the Father at the time of the granting the annuity aforesaid was seised and after the tryall it was moved in Arrest of Judgment supposing it was mistried because the issue was that the said J. H. the Father at the time of the grant c. And it doth not appear that the said J. H. was nominated Father neither could it appear that the said J. H. was the Father and so the word Father was idle and the Court were of opinion that it was helped by the Statute of Ieofailes and the word Father was idle and judgment was given for the Plaintiff A. brought an Action of Battery against the Husband and Wife and two others the Wife and one of the others without the Husband pleads not guilty and the Husband and the other pleaded seu assault demesne and tryed and alledged in arrest of Judgment because the Woman pleaded without her Husband and Judgment was stayed and a Repleader alledged and this case was confirmed by a case which was between Yonges and Bartram HArvy against Blacklole Trin. 8. Jacobi rotulo 1749. An Action of Trespass brought wherefore by force and Armes his Mare so strictly to a Gelding did fetter that by that fettring the Mare aforesaid did dye If a stranger take a Horse that cometh and strayeth into a Mannor the Lord may have his action of Trespass If my stray doth stray out of my Mannor and goeth into another Mannor the day before the yeare be ended I cannot enter into the other Mannor to fetch out the stray If I take an Horse as a stray and onother taketh him from me the Action lyeth not by the Owner against the second taker
elect him See the Statute of 25 H. 8. That a Canon against Common Law confounds the Roiall Prerogative of the King or Law of God is void and Custome of the Realme cannot be taken away but by act of Parliament See 21 Ed. 4. 44. the Abbot of Saint Albones hath a Charter of the King to be discharged of Collection of tenthes granted by Parliament or Convocation The Clergy grants tythes in Convocation there is a clause in the grant that no one of them who shal be chosen to be collector shal be discharged of collection by colour or force of any Letters Patents and after they return the Abbot of St. Albones Collector who pleads his Letters Patents in discharge of Collector and resolved by the Court that the clause in the grant of tenthes doth not take away the exemption of discharge by the Letters Patents granted And it was resolved that if the Parish clark misdemene himselfe in his office or in the Church he may be sentenced for that in the Ecclesiasticall court to Excommunication but not to Deprivation And after Prohibition was granted by all the court and held also that a Prohibition lyeth as well after sentence as before Trinity 8. Jacobi Common Bench. ON was cited to appear in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury which was out of the Diocesse of Canterbury and upon that he praied Prohibition upon the Statute of 32. H. 8. Which willeth that none shall be cited to appeare out of his Diocesse without assent of the Bishop and Prohibition was granted And yet it was said that in the time of H. 8 and Reigne of Mary that the Arch Bishops of Canterbury had used to cite any man dwelling out of his Diocesse and within any Diocesse within his Province to appeare before him in the Prerogative Court and this without the assent of the Ordinary of the Diocesse But it was resolved by the Court that this was by force of the power Legantine of the Arch-Bishop that as Lynwood saith ought to be expressed in the Prohibition for the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury York Pisa and Reymes were Legati nati and others but Legates a Latere Hillary 1610. 8. Jacobi in the Common Bench. Beareblock against Reade IN an Action of Debt brought by Beareblocke against Reade Administratrix to her Husband upon a Judgement given in this Court The case was this the Plaintiffe had Judgment against the Husband and after sued him to an Vtlagary and upon that he brought a Writ of Errous and removed the Record into the Kings Bench and reversed the Judgement for the Vtlagary But the first Judgment was affirmed and then the Husband acknowledged a Statute and dyed And the Wife took out Letters of Administration and then the Statute is extended against the Wife and all the goods which shee had of the Intestates taken in execution After which Beareblock in the Kings Bench sueth a Scirefacias upon the said Judgment against the said Administratrix to have execution and shee pleads upon that the said Statute in Barre and the extent of that and that more then that shee hath nothing to satisfie and this was adjudged a good plea. And then the Plaintiffe being not satisfied he hrought an action of debt upon the said Judgment in this Court and in Barr of that the Wife pleaded all this matter in Barr as aforesaid upon which the Plaintiffe demurred in Law and the Judges seemed to incline that this was no Barr for though that the Wife hath not any means to aide her selfe or to prevent the extent of the Statute yet it seemed to them that this should not prevent the execution upon the Judgement and that the Wife might have Audita quaerela against the Connusee of the Statute and so to make the extent void It was not argued at this day but the point only opened see 3. Eliz. Dyer 7. H. 6. See Pasche 9. Jacobi the Residue Petty against Evans IN an Ejectione firme brought by the Lessee of a Copy-holder it is sufficient that the count be generall without any mention of the License if the Defendant plead not guilty then the Plaintiff ought to shew the Lycense in Evidence But if the Defendant plead specially then the Plaintiff ought to plead the License certainly in his replication and the time and place when it was made and in this case the Plaintiff replied that the copy-holder by License first then had of the Lord did demise and did not shew what estate the Lord had nor the place nor time when it was made and all the Justices agreed that it is not good For the License is traversable for if a copy-holder without License of the Lord make a Lease for yeares The lessee which enters by calour of that is a Disseisor and a Disseisor cannot maintain an Ejectione Firme and the Defendant cannot plead that the Plaintiff by license did not demise for this is a pregnant negative also it ought to appeare what estate the Lord had for he cannot give license to make a lease of longer time in the Tenancy then he hath in the signiory And for that if he be Lessee for life of a Mannor and he licenses a copi-holder to make a Lease for 21. yeares of a copy-hold and then the Lessee for life dies the license is for that determined though that the copy-holder be of Inheritance for the Inheritance of the Lord is bound by that And for that the Plaintiff replies that the copy-holder by license of the Lord first therefore had made the Lease that is not good by Coke and Walmesley expresly and though that the Defendant confesse the Replication by Implication by pleading Yet this shall not ayd the Plaintiff for that it is insufficiently pleaded which note Hillary 8. Jacobi 1610. in the Common Bench. IN action upon the case upon an Assumpsit the Plaintiff counts that when he such a day at the speciall instance and request of the Defendant lent to the Defendant the same day ten pound And that the Defendant the same day in consideration thereof assumed and promised to the Plaintiff to pay the same summ of ten pound at an other day to come And it was moved in arrest of Judgement that the consideration was too generall and for that the action not maintainable and all the Justices but Foster seemed the consideration was good but Foster it seems was in some doubt of that but Judgement was entred for the Plaintiff according to the verdict And Coke cheife Justice said that such a like action was maintained against Kercher his Chaplain as Executor of his Father and it seems for good Law Legates Case ONe Legate was committed to Newgate Prison for Arrianisme for denying of the Trinity by the high Commissioners and it was moved on the behalfe of Legate to have a habeas Corpus and it was granted and it was said by Coke cheife Justice that the Statute of 5. H. 4. Chapter 10. Inhibits Justices of peace to commit any man to
a possibility only which cannot be granted surrendred or released and yet he agreed that if Lessee for life grant or demise the land all his Estate passeth without making of any particuler mention of it as it is agreed in 10. Eliz. Dyer And for that when the Lessee hath devised the Lands to his Father for his life that which remaines is only a possibility for it doth not appeare for what yeares the Sister shall have it and for that meerely uncertaine 7. Eliz. Dyer 244. The King Ed. 6. appropriated a Church to the Bishop to take effect after the death of the present Incumbent the Bishop after that makes a Lease for yeares to begin after the death of the Incumbent and void for the uncertainty for the Bishop hath no perfit Estate but future Interest which is meerely impossibility and with that agreed Locrofts Case in the Rector of Cheddingtons Case 1. Coke where Lessee for yeares makes assignement of so many of the yeares as shall be to come at the time of his death and void for the uncertainty insomuch that it is meerely possibility for that which may be granted or surrendred ought to be Interesse Termini at least And he supposed it could not be released insomuch that he to whom the release is made hath all the Tearme if he lived so long and so he concluded and praied Judgement for the Plaintiff Harris Serjeant for the Defendant argued that the first devisee had two Titles one as Executor and another as a Legatee and before entry and after that he had entred also the Law doth adjudge him in as a Legatee and before that he enter he may that grant over notwithstanding that he hath not determined his Election for the Law vests the property and possession of that in him before any entry but to make an election there ought to be some open Act done as it is agreed in Welden Eltingtons Case where that the first devisee which was Executor also made expresse claime to have the Tearm as Legatee and not as Executor and so vested the remainder also see Com. 519. b. And so in Paramore and Yardlies Case Lessee for years devises his Tearme to his Executor during his life to educate his Issues the which the Executor doth accordingly and this open act was resolved to be a good election and in Mannings case 8 Coke 94. b. The Executor which hath the 1. Estate devised to him saith that he to whom the Remainder was limited shall have it after his Death and this resolved to be a good Execution and election and it is there resolved that such Election made by the particular Devisee is a good Execution for him in remainder but here is not this Election to have this as Legatee nor Executor for there is not any overt Act made by which this may be done Secondly he conceived that this is no remainder but Executory devise as it is agreed in Mannings Case and that this may be done by Devise which cannot be done by the party by act Executed and for that he conceived that there is no possibility but an Estate Executed and vested in him which is Executor though there be no election made nor Execution of the Legacy and admitting that it is but a possibility yet he conceived that it is Propinqua possibilitas insomuch that the Tearme is longer then it may be intended that any man might live insomuch that Adam lived but 950. yeares and this is five thousand yeares which is longer then any man in the world ever lived and he said that it is agreed in Fullwoods Case that possibility may be released to a possession and with this agreed the opinion of Strange in the 9 H. 6. 64. And so warranty may be released which is meerly in contingency as it is agreed in Littleton and power of revocation may be extinct by release of him that hath the possession of the Land and so he concluded and prayed Judgment for the Defendant Nicholls Serjeant for the Plaintiff conceived that the Remainder is in Esse and not determined by the Release And first he conceived that the Remainder was executed insomuch that the Release was made at the Request of the Father which was the first Devisee for this shewes his assent and implies that he took notice of his Remainder and assented to it and he sayd it was adjudged in Doctor Lawrences Case that the speaking of these words by the Executors that is that they were glad of the Devise was a good Execution and assent of the Legacy Secondly He conceived that it is only possibility and for that cannot be released or granted and he saith that the Law hath great respect of possibilities that Estates may revert and for that it is adjudged in the 13 of Richard 2. Dower 55. If Tenant for life grants his Estate to him in remainder in tayl for his owne life the Tenant enters takes a Wife and dies she shall not be Indowed but the Tenant for life shall have it againe and it shall be as it had been let to a stranger and to this purpose also he cited 18. Ed. 3. 8. Counter-Plea of voucher 8. And it was adjudged in Middletons Case 5. Coke 28. a. that an Executor before probate of the Will may release a Debt but not an Administrator before Administration granted see Com. 277 278. Fox and Greisbrookes Case and in 6. Ed. 3. Lessee for anothers life rendring Rent the Rent was behind and the Lessor releases to the Lessee all Debts he For whose life dies and there the Release determines and discharges the arrerages for it is a duty and Debitum is Latine as well for Debt as for duty also release bars the Lord and Writ of deceit for reverser of a Fine levied of land in ancient Demesne as it is 7. H. 4 and yet Littleton saith that release of a futrue thing shall not be a barr and for that if Conusee of Statute Merchant release all his Right in the land yet he may extend the Statute 15. assis And so if a mad man release and after come to his wits and dies Quere if the Heire may have a Writ of non compos mentis And he said that it was adjudged in the 25. of Eliz. If an Infant levie a Fine and after he levies another Fine this shall be a Barr in a Writ of error for the reversing of the first otherwise of a release And here to the principall case to a release made by the Son in the life time of his Father without warranty And so upon all these cases he concluded and prayed Judgment for the Plaintiff Shirley Serjeant for the Defendant argued that the acceptance of Release by the first Devisee shall not be execution of the Devise as it was adjudged in Barramores and Yardleys case by the Education of the Issue or a Devise upon condition to pay money and the Executor pays it this is a good execution
was a good Custome insomuch that this was annexed to an Estate created by custome and for that he cited one Skeggs case to be adjudged in 24 yeare of Eliz. and was thus that is The custome of a Mannor was that a marryed wife Copy-holder might surrender to the use of her last will and after might devise to her Husband and it was adjudged insomuch that this was annexed to her Estate which begun by custome this was a good custome and the 3 of Ed. 3. At the common Law such custome is voyd and after he cited a Judgment in the point given in this Court 23. of Eliz. Rot. 5014. or 504 or 5004. that the same custome was adjudged a good Custome after he answered some objections which might be made against this custome that is First for the uncertainty of the time when the presentment shall be by the Homage and to that he sayd that the Lord may make that when he will and the time doth not take away the offence and no prejudice upon that discends to the Heir but is to his advantage Secondly Because no number certaine of the Homage and that every tryall must be by twelve and to that he answered that we are not now in point of Tryall but only for the information of the Lord. Thirdly this is against the nature of a Court-Baron to inquire of Felonies and to that he said there is not any inquiry made here but only to inform the Lord and such a thing is not against the nature of the Court which inlargeth this Fourthly The offence is against the King and a common person shall not have the punishment of that to that he sayd the King shall not have any benefit of it for he shall not have any Escheat of Copy-hold lands for Treason or Felony Fiftly This is against the Kings Prerogative to that he sayd that Custome may be against the Prerogative of the King as if a man claim Waife or stray by prescription these are things given to the King by his Prerogative and yet Prescription for them is good and so he concluded this first point that the custome was good To the second point he conceived that this verdict and acquittall shall not conclude the Lord and for that he sayd that at the Common Law if a Verdict had been given and no Judgment upon it the party was not concluded to bring the same Action 18 Ed. 3. 35. Then comes the Statute of 2 H. 4. And this outs non-suit after verdict and yet if verdict be imperfect or finds a thing not in Issue there non-suit may be after verdict as it is sayd in 22 Ed. 4. 10. And if verdict be given in the point and Judgment upon that doth not conclude the party to have action of more high nature as it is sayd in 3 Ed. 3. and 3 Assise 1. and Hudsons ease in the 4 Coke and as it is in Tryalls of Land so it is in tryalls of life as 2 R. 3. 14. 7 H. 4. 34. Then if the party himself shall not be bound by verdict A fortiori a stranger shall not be also every Estoppell there ought to be a matter of estoppell for the Jury is not sworn to give their verdict according to the truth in Deed but according to the evidence to them given and then if faint evidence or no evidence be given it shall be hard that this shall conclude any of his right also there is no party to be estopped because a stranger as is aforesayd also the acquittall is in such manner that is that he hath not committed the Felony in manner and form as in the Indictment is alledged and this doth not answer the Custome because generall so it seems to him that this shall not be any conclusion to the Lord and so for both points the entry not congeable And Stevens to the contrary and it seems to him breifly that the custome was not good and he denyed the Rule that is that this might have reasonable beginning by agreement of parties shall make a custome good and for this Littleton saith in his chapter of villainage that if the Lord of one Mannor will prescribe to have Fine if any of his Tenants marry their Daughters without his license this is a void custome and yet it may be such agreement between the parties at the first and it seems the custome not reasonable for it is too generall that is if any Tenant and this doth not exclude Infants Secondly if any Felony be committed and this includes petty Larceny and Maime by involuntary means for these are Felonies and for that see 13 H. 7. 19. 6 H. 7. That in Appeal of Mayme a man shall count Felony and yet it shall be hard that a man shall loose his Land for these Felonies Secondly Homage cannot inquire of the fact of Felony but of the conviction of Felony and so it seems to him the custome ill and to the other point it seems that the Lord shall be concluded and to that that hath been objected that the Lord is a stranger to the verdict and for that cause shall not be estopped he said that the Lord is no stranger for in this case every man is party and every man may give Evidence for the King and he cited the case in the time and title of Mortdancester where the case was where a man was as principall for the Death of J. S. and another as accessary in receiving the Principall after the principall was out-Lawed and the Accessary hanged and the Lord seised the Land of the Accessary for Escheat after came the principall and reversed the Out-Lawry and was found not guilty and the Heir of him which was hang'd entred upon the Lord and adjudged insomuch that there cannot be an Accessary unless there be a principall that the entry of the Heir was lawfull in this case so he sayd in this case insomuch that the Copy-holder is acquitted by verdict and found not guilty and seems to him that the entry of the Lord should not be lawfull and by the whole Court the custome was good but they did not deliver any opinion upon the second point for they moved the parties to Composition Hillary 7. Jacobi 1609. In the Kings Bench. Barwick and Fosters Case A Man made a Lease for two years at Michaelmas rendring two shillings yearly during the Tearm at the Feast of the annunciation of our Lady and Michaelmas or ten dayes after at the Feast of Saint Michaell in the last year the Rent is not paid the question was what remedy the Lessor hath for his Rent of this halfe yeare and the opinion of Flemming cheife Justice and Williams was that he hath no remedy And first they sayd as this case is the Lessee hath election to pay either upon the Feast or upon the tenth day after and that is for the benefit of the Lessee then he hath made his Election not to pay that at the Feast of Saint
of the Lessor But he agreed the case of Littleton that an Assignee of an Estate may perform a condition in preservation of an Estate otherwise of an Assignee of a Reversion in destruction of an Estate so at the Common Law it is clear that the Feoffee cannot perform the condition and by him it is cleerly out of the Statute of 32 H. 8. for this Statute doth not extend to a collaterall condition as it appears by Spencers case 5. Coke and so hath been many times after this adjudged and this is a collaterall condition Ergo c. And so concluded and prayed Judgment for the Defendant Nicholls Serjeant to the contrary and that this Disseisin hath not suspended the condition but that he may pay the Money and make the Estate to cease notwithstanding the Disseisin for-that that the condition is collaterall like to the 20 of Ed. 4. and 20 H. 7. That where a Feoffee upon a collaterall condition takes back an Estate for years yet this shall not suspend the condition but it may be performed or broken notwithstanding the Lease for that that it is collaterall so in our case for suppose that the condition had been if he marry Mistris Holbeam that then his Estate shall cease and as well it shall be upon the Tender of the Money here and he said that this case was late in the Common Bench. This feoffment was made to the use of the Feoffor for life Remainder to another for life the Remainder to the third in tayl the Remainder to the right Heirs of the Feoffor in fee with power of Revocation and after the Feoffor lets for years and during the Tearm he revokes the mesne Remainders and it seems to the Justices that well he may for that that the Lease for years goes only out of the Estate for life as he sayd and for that the power of Revocation as to the Mesne Remainders was not suspended Quere of the truth of this case in the common Bench for perchance it is not truly collected but so entred and so he prayed Judgment for the Plaintiff Flemming cheife Justice sayd that the point of the principall case would be if by the wrong of the Lessor the Estate of the Lessee shall be prevented to accrue then he might perform the condition to determine the ancient Estate that is the Lease for years and it is adjourned Pasch 8. Jacobi 1610. In the Kings Bench. Earle of Shrewsbury against the Earle of Rutland IN a Writ of Errour the Earle of Rutland brought an Assise of Novel Disseisin against the Earle of Shrewsbury and four others and the Plaint was of the office of the keeping of the Park of Clepson and of the vailes and fees of the sayd Parke and of the Herbage and Paunage of the same and the Demandant made his title and alledged that the Queen Eliz. was seised of Clepsam Park in fee in right of her Crown and that she being so seised by her Letters Patents under the great Seal granted unto one Markham the keeping of the Park of Clepson with the vailes and fees and the Herbage and Paunage of the same Park for his life after the Queen Eliz. reciting the Grant made to Markham and that Markham was alive gave and granted by her Letters Patents to the Earl of Rutland the Office of the keeping of the sayd Clepson Parke with the Fees and Wages to that appertaining to have and to hold to him for his life after the death of Markham or after the surrender or forfeiture of his Letters Patents and further granted the Herbage and Paunage to the sayd Earle of Rutland for his life and doth not say when this shall begin after which the Queen Eliz. died and the Eee-simple discended to our Lord the King which-now is as lawfull Heir to the Crown of England which granted that to the Earle of Shrewsbury after which Markham dyed and the Earle of Rutland entered and was seised till the Earle of Shewsbury with four others entered upon him and dissersed him and to that the Tenants alledged no wrong no disseisin and when the Assise was to be taken in the Country the Array was challenged by the Tenants for that that one of the Tenants in the Assise had an Action of Trespasse hanging against the Sheriff and this challenge was not allowed and the Assise being perused at large for the Herbage and Paunage they found that the said Queen Eliz. was seised of Clepson Park as aforesaid and by her Letters Patents as afore is rehearsed granted the Keeping of this to Markham for his life and further by the same Letters Patents granted to him the Fees and Wages to that belonging and further granted by Letters Patents and doth not say Easdem to him the Herbage and Paunage of the sayd Park and that the Queen after the reciting the Grant made to Markham and that Markham was alive granted to the Earle of Rutland the keeping of the sayd Park and vailes and fees to have and to hold after the death surrender or forfeiture of the Letters Patents of Markham for his life And further by the sayd Letters Patents shee granted the Herbage and Paunage of the same Park to him for his life as more fully appears by the Letters Patents and it was not expressed as to the Herbage and Paunage when that began and they found the death of Markham and that the Earle of Rutland put two Horses into the sayd Park to take seisin of the sayd Herbage and Paunage and they found further the grant of the King to the Earle of Shrewsbury of the fee-simple and of that prayed the advise of the Court and to the keeping of the Park they found the seisin and disseisin of that and of the fees and wages to the Dammages c. And this being adjourned into the Common Bench was remanded into the Country and there Judgment was given for all for the Demandant and after this it came into the Kings Bench by Writ of errour and the Errours assigned by the councell of the Tenants and argued at the Barr were foure The first was that the Earle of Rutland himself between the verdict and the Judgment hunted in the Park and kild a Buck and took a shoulder of that for his fee and so he hath abated his Assise and so the Judgment was given upon a Writ abated and therefore they cannot plead that in abatement insomuch that it was mesne betwixt the Judgment and the verdict they assigned that for errour The second was because the principall challenge was not allowed where that ought to have beene allowed and the challenge was that one of the Tenants had an Action or Trespasse hanging against the Sheriff before the Assise The third was Because the Jury have found the Letters Patents made to Markham and that the Queen granted to him by her Letters Patents the custody of the Parke of Clepson in Clepson And further by the same Letters Patents granted the vailes
the foundation is of Saint Paul and where it is a person certain but all the name is not so precisely recyted and to that which is sayd by my Brother Williams that no difference between conveiance made to them and by them I agree to him with this difference that is if conveyance be made to them of what by presumption in Law they are knowing and are parties as a Fine levied to them and such like but of a Devise it is not presumed that they have knowledge of that till the Death of the Devisor and he conceived that the Lease is voyd and this Decree shewed hath not changed his opinion but he moved the parties again to an agreement and would not as yet give Judgment Hitcham the Queens Attorney moved the Court for a Prohibition and the case was this two Merchants covenanted by Deed with their Factor to allow him ten pound a Moneth for his Wages and one Merchant sealed the Deed in England and the other sealed that upon the Sea and the Factor came and sued the Merchants in the Admiralty for his wages and by the Court insomuch that one of them sealed it upon the Land this is not any thing done upon the Deepe Sea and for that Prohibition was granted to him Upon a Motion made by Wincolt of the Middle Temple to dissolve a Prohibition granted to the spirituall Court upon a Libel for Tithes there the Court took this rule that when a Consultation is lawfully granted there a new Prohibition shall not be granted upon the same Lâ—bell and yet they qualified that with this difference that is when a Consultation is granted upon any fault of the Prohibition in form by the Mâ—sprision of the Clark or by mis-pleading of any Statute in that or such like there a new Prohibition may be granted upon the same Libell but if Consultation be granted upon the right of the thing in question there a new Prohibition shall not be granted upon the same Libell see the Statute of 5 Ed. 3. Pasch 9. Jacobi 1609. In the Kings Bench. BRomehead and Spencer Plaintiffs Rogers Defendant where an Action of Debt was brought by the Plaintiffs against the Defendant as Administrator during the minority of one J. S. and the Plaintiffs shew in their count that the said J. S. at the time of the Writ brought was and yet is within age of one and twenty years and verdict passeth against the Defendant and Crewe moved in arrest of Judgment that the Declaration was insufficient for they have declared that the Executor was within the Age of one and twenty years and the Administration during the nonage shall cease when the Infant comes to the Age of seventeen years so that he may be of the age of 17. 18. 19. or 20. years and yet the Administration ceaseth and so of Action against Administrator and so was the Opinion of all the Justices and the Judgment was stayed upon that according to the resolution of Piggotts Case 15. Coke 29. a. PLomer against Hockhead the Plaintiff declares in Ejectione firme upon a Lease made to him by three Husbands and their wives and that the Defendant ejected him and at the Issue upon not guilty and in evidence to prove this Lease and the delivery of that was shewed a Letter of Attorney made by the Husbands and their wives and the councel of the Defendant takes exception to the Declaration for they have declared upon a Lease by three Husbands and their Wives with a Letter of Attourney to make delivery and a married Wife cannot make a Letter of Attorney And so this is not a Lease of the Wives and so the Plaintiff had declared upon no Lease And the opinion of all the Court was that a married Wife could not make a Letter of Attorney And Williams Justice compared this to the case of an Infant as if an Infant makes a Feoffment or a lease and delivers that with his hand this is not but voidable But if it be executed by Letter of Attorney that is a disseisin to him but by Flimming and Williams if the Plaintiffs had declared upon a Lease made by the Husbands only this had been very good Thomas Malin Plaintiff in Replevin against Thomas Tully the case was The Queen Mary was seised of a Park called Eestwood Park in her Demesne as of Fee as in Right of her Crown and so being seised by her Letters Patent's let the said Park to two for their lives and after died And the Queen Elizabeth by her Letters Patents recyting the said Lease for lives and that the said Lessees were alive granted the said Park to Humphrey Lord Stafford and his Wife and to the Heires of the said Lord Stafford of the Body of the said Wife lawfully begotten And by the said Patent the same Queen by these words Ac de Ampliori et Vberiori Gracia Nostris Volumus et Declaramus quod si Predictus Dominus Stafford Solvat seu Solvi faciat prefacto Dominae Reginae 20 s. ad talâ—m Diem Tunc Concedimus quod predictus Dominus Stafford habebit revertionem predictam sibi et Heredibus suis And the Lord Stafford paid the said sum of twenty shillings according to the said Letters Patents and if he shall have Fee-simple or not was the question And it was objected that he shall not have it for the words of the Patent are that if the Lord Stafford paies the money Tunc concedimus the which words seeme that the Grant shall take effect in futuro and it was not a present Grant but when the money shall be paid then shee granted but it seemes to the Justice that it was a good Grant immediatly to take effect upon the payment of the money and the condition was precedent till that be performed the reversion remaines in the Queen Eliz. And the Queen might grant by one selfe same Patent as by diverse See 10. Assise 13. 7. Ed. 3. 8. Ed. 2. Feoffments and that the reversion shall not extinguish the Estate Tayl but they may well be together but otherwise it is of an Estate for yeares or for life Warburton Justice that the King is specially favoured in the Law and for that he shall not be inforced to attend in case as other persons ought to make attendance And for that in case where a common person may make a good Grant the King also may make a good Grant and in the case at the Barr if the Grant had been made by a common Person it had been good without question But the first objection that hath been made was that where a man hath made a Lease for life or for years upon condition to have Fee there the particuler Estate shall be drowned upon the increasiing of the Estate but the Statute of Westminster 2. preserves the Estate tayl that it shall not be drowned and that the Fee in this case doth not vest till the condition be performed for if the
then it shall never vest and if it do not vest without Office in this case it shal never vest at all but it is for the Honour of the King that his grant shall have his effect and 49 Ed. 3. 16. Isabell Goodcheaps case she devised her Lands to her Executors to be sold and dyes without Heir the King hath that by Escheat yet the Executors may sell it and for that divest the Estate out of the King and so was the Lord Lâ—vells Case and the reason is for the necessity for the Prerogative of the King shall do no wrong and there need no continuance of the Estate of the part of the Lessor but of the part of the Lessee and for that if the Feoffor make a Feoffment or grant his Estate this shall not make prejudice or alteration of the Estate and for that if the King refuse to receive the Money yet if it be tendered the Fee-simple shall vest in the Patentee and the simple upon that shall shall increase see 31 Ed. 1. Feoffments and Deeds B. 32. Quid Iuris Clamat be And to the fourth it seems also that both the Estates ought to be created and granted by one self same Deed or by divers delivered at one time Quia quae in continenti fiunt pro uno habeantur reputentur as if a man makes a Lease for years upon Condition to have in tayl upon condition to have in Fee this second condition is void for it ought to be all one Crant and cannot be intire upon the privity of the first grant and it is not material though that the first Estate be drowned upon the performance of the condition as if the King makes a Lease for life the Remainder in tayl upon condition that if the Tenant for life pay twenty shillings that he shall have Fee this shall be a good Grant and the Fee well vested by the performance of the condition though that the particular Estate for life shall not be drowned And to the second point that is that the Grant of the King shall not be good for that that it is by the words Reversion aforesaid he agreed that if the King makes a Grant to one intent that shall not enure to another intent But this shall enure to the intent for which it is made Vt res magis vale et quam periat and it is for the dishonor of the King to make an unconscionable Grant And to the Objection which is made that the King is not understanding of Law to that he answered that the King is Caput Legis and for that shall not be intended to be ignorant of it and for that if a grant may have two intendments one to make the Grant good the other to make the Grant voyd it shall be intended and expounded in the better sense that is to make the Grant Good and not to make the Grant voyd for this was Iniquae expositio and also he sayd that the Grant shall be good for the first word Concedo though it had not been subsequent also as if a man grant a Rent charge and if it be behinde that the Grantee may distrain for the first Grant and the Grant is not of a Reversion In futuro but grant that if the condition be performed that then the Fee doth pass In futuro and it seemed to him that it was a good devise to prevent that the Estate tayl should not be discontinued by Fine nor otherwise untill the Condition were performed and so of recovery also for if the King grant an Estate tayl and after grants the Reversion in tayl this second intayl is within the intent of the Statute and when the Issue of the first Tenant in tayl shall not be barred the Estate of the Tenant in tayl in Remainder shall not be barred see the Lord Barkleys case in the Com. fol and 7 Ed. 4. and as to the pleading he sayd that when the Issue is offered which depends upon matter in Law there is no necessity to take travers upon the matter in Law for it doth not belong to lay men to decide the matter in Law and for that he concludes that the Grant in substance is good and in form exquesite and that the Issue in tayl in Reversion shall not be barred for Quod non in principio valet non valebit in accessario and that Judgment ought to be for the Plaintiff which was done accordingly IN Ejectione firme against Gallop after Verdict and Judgment for the Plaintiff a Writ of Habere facias Possessionem was awarded and executed and returned and fyled and after the same Defendant re-entred and outed the Plaintiff and Attachment was awarded and it seems that if the Writ had not been returned that then a new Writ shall be awarded and the Attachment was awarded upon Affidavit IN Action upon the case against Trotman the words were Thou sayest thou art an Attorney but I think thou art no Attorney but an Attorneys Clark in some Office but if thou be an Attorney I will have thee pickt over the Barr the next Tearme and thy Eares nailed to the Pillory and it seems that these words are not Actionable IN waging of Law of Summons in Dower In petit Cape there ought to be two summons only and if it be Grand Cape then there ought to be two Summoners and two Veiwers and Summons upon the Land is sufficient to give notice of the Demandant of the thing demanded and the day in Court That in Waging Law the Lord Coke sayd that the Defendant himself ought to swear De fidelitate and elevâ—n others which are named in the Statute of Magna Charta chapter Testes fideles ought to swear De credulitate IF Tenant for life be the Remainder in tayl to another the Remainder in Fee to the Tenant for life and the Tenant for life releases to the Tenant in Tayl the Release is good to passe the Remainder in Fee to the Tenant in Tayl for to this purpose the Tenant in tayl hath sufficient possession upon which the Release may enure but it shall not be good to pass the Estate for life and 19 H. 6. and 9 H. 7. If Tenant in Tayl in Remainder Disseise Tenant for life he doth not gain Fee-simple by Fulthorp but if there be Grand-Father Father and Sonn and the Father makes a Feoffment the Grand-Father dies the Father dies the Sonn is barred so if the Sonn had levied a Fine being Tenant in tayl 33 and 39 H. 6. 43. a. 21 Ed. 4. Discontinuance Pasch 7 Jacobi 1609. In the Common Bench. Warbrooke and Griffin BEtween Warbrooke and Griffin a Guest brought a Horse into an Inne in London to be kept the which stayed there so long till he had eaten out his Worth and then the Inn-Keeper caused the said Horse to be prysed and then sold him according to the custome of London and it seems well he might do it and that the Sale was
Tenement and also prescribed for House-boot Plow-boot and Cart-boote and averred that he had nourished the growing of the Trees upon his sayd Copy-hold and that the sayd Messuage and buildings upon that were ruinous and the Trees growing upon that twenty Acres of Land were not sufficient for the repairing of it and so demanded Judgment if he should be debarred of his Action upon which these Defendants demurred in Law and it was adjudged by Coke Warburton and Foster Daniel being absent that the Action was wel maintainable against Walmesley who objected that if a Copy-holder may cut Trees as it was here pleaded at his pleasure without pleading first that his House was in decay and ruinous and that then he cut trees for the repaire of that that then he hath an Estate at wil according to the Custome and not at the Wil of the Lord and he sayd that he could not cut a tree and imploy that for Reparations twenty years But the cause of this cutting which is the Ruines ought to precede the cutting and he sayd that such Copy-holder hath no property in the Trees by such prescription no more then he which hath Common of Estovers or tenant at wil and if he cut a tree without special custome he shal be punished in trespasse as Littleton saith of Tenant at Wil and also he ought to plead how the House was ruinous and what place and what part of that was in decay and then that this so being in decay that he cut trees for the repaires of that and also that the Prescription to cut off the boughs Pro ligno combustibili is not wel pleaded for by that he may cut all the timber and others also and he who prescribes to hate Estovers ought to prescribe to have reasonable Estovers for Fuell and the averment that all the trees are not sufficient for reparations is surplusage and so hee conceived that the Action for these causes is not maintainable that is that it is not maintainable without speciall custome and that the custome as it is pleaded here is voyd but it was answered and resolved by Coke and the other Justices before cited that the Action was wel maintainable at the Common Law without such Custome and that the pleading of the custome was surplusage for it was agreed that the Copy-holder hath special property and the Lord a general property and it was sayd by Coke and Foster that the Lord may as wel subvert the Houses as cut down the Trees for without them the Copy-holder hath no means to repaire that and for that if the Lord cut the Trees the Copy-holder may take them for repaire of his house for the Copy-holder hath as large an Estate in the trees as in his Copy-hold Land and it was resolved that the Prescription was very wel pleaded insomuch that the Copy-holder pleads that as a custome and also that prescription Pro ligno combustibili is Good and this is an apt word by which he may claim it and that boote in any sense is maintainable and in some sense is Recompence or Reparation and it is House-boote Hedge-boote Fire-boote Plow-Boote c. Is in it self a Saxon word and the Lord Coke sayd that it was adjudged Michaelmas 25. and 26. Eliz. in Doylyes Case Where it was a custome that the Copy-holder might cut Merisme for to repaire that if the Lord carry it away that an Action of Trespass lies for the Tenant and Pasch 36. Eliz. Taylers Case A man was Tenant by copy of Court Role of wood and the soyle was excepted to the Lord and yet the Copy-holder maintained an Action of trespass against his Lord for cutting of wood And Trinity 4. Eliz. Stebbings Case Copy-holder prescribes to have the Loppings of all the trees growing upon the Copy-hold and the Lord cut a tree himselfe and the Copy-holder brought an action upon his case and adjudged that it lyeth wel and 9 H 4. Fitz. Waste 59. by Hull that Tenant by copy of Court Roll cannot make waste nor cut woods to fel but for his Benefit in repairing of his House and 2 Henr. 4. 12. a. It seemes that if a stranger cut a Tree the Lord may have an Action of trespass and the Copy-holder another and every one of these shal recover Damages according to his interest that is the Lord by his general property and the Copy-holder for his special property it appears by Clark and Pennyfathers case 4 Coke 23. b. That the Heir of the Copy-holder may have an Action of Trespass before admission by which it appears that the heir doth not take his Estate of the Lord but of his Father and also agree that if such an Heire dye before Admission the Heir may enter and take the profits and so it was adjudged that the Action of Trespass brought by the Copy-holder against his Lord was well maintainable Pasche 1610. 8. Jacobi In the Common Bench. Earle of Rutlands Case EARLE of Rutland Plaintiff in an Action of trespasse upon the Case against Spencer and Woodward Defendants the case was The last Queen Elizabeth Anno 42. Eliz. by her Letters Patents under the great seale of England granted to the Earle of Rutland the Office of the custody of the Porter-ship of the Castle of Nottingham Habendum to the sayd Earl to be executed by him or his Deputy during his natural Life and further the same Queen by the same Letters Patents granted to the sayd Earl the Office of Stewardship of diverse Mannors Habendum exercendum cum omnibus feodis vadis proficuijs eidem Officio pertinentibus to the sayd Earl from the time that he should be of ful age during his Life and further the sayd Queen granted to the sayd Earle the Office of Keeper-ship of divers Parks and forrests Habendum exercendum Officium predictum cum omnibus singulis suis proficuijs vadis feodis emolumentis quibuscunque eidem Officio pertinentibus aut ratione ejusdem percipiendis per se vel sufficiendem deputatum sunm c. And after in the sayd Patent it is recyted that the sayd Earl was of ful age An 40 Eliz. Vt informamu r mandamus quod omnes singuli Officiarij alij quicunque sint intendentes obedientes dicto Commiti deputatis suis in exerendo officium predictum and if this patent were good or not was the question And Hutton serjeant conceived that the Patent was good and that the sayd Earl may exercise the sayd Office of Stewardship for which this Action was brought by Deputy by force of the sayd Grant The first question which hee moved was if Steward of a Court may execise his Office by Deputy without speciall Grant of that Secondly if there be words within the Patent to enable him to execute that by Deputy Thirdly if upon this disturbance action upon the case Quare vi armis lies And to the first he conceived that the Patentee may exercise the