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A01292 A parallele or conference of the ciuill law, the canon law, and the common law of this realme of England VVherein the agreement and disagreement of these three lawes, and the causes and reasons of the said agreement and disagreement, are opened and discussed. Digested in sundry dialogues by William Fulbecke. At the end of these dialogues is annexed a table of the sections ...; Parallele or conference of the civill law, the canon law, and the common law of this realme of England. Part 1 Fulbeck, William, 1560-1603? 1601 (1601) STC 11415; ESTC S102689 180,892 262

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case of felonie for in case of treason the King shall bee presently after the attainder in actuall possession without office founde by the statute of 33. H. 8. cap. 20. and if a man bee executed for felonie or die after Iudgement before he be put in execution yet the writ shall say pro quo suspensus fuit and if he be put to death by some other punishement then hanging though the writte say pro quo suspensus fuit that is not materiall k Fitz. nat bre 144. H. and if the father purchase lande and his eldest sonne is attainted of felonie and dieth hauing issue a sonne and the father dieth the next in degree of discent and worthines of bloud vnto the sonne attainted shall not haue the lande but it shall escheate to the immediate Lord of whom the Land is held for the bloud is corrupted otherwise it had b in if he had died in the life of his father hauing no issue l 32. H. 8. 48. Dyer Nomom Though I must needes confesse that it is verie good reason that the sonnes of thē which are dissoyall subiectes and traitors to their Prince shoulde be barred from the enheritance of their auncestours that their fathers infamy should alwaies accompanie them and that they shoulde liue in perpetuall memorie indignitie and disgrace that their life should be a punishment vnto them and their fathers fault a continual corrisiue for that is done because their fathers vices are feared in them it may be wel thought that being bredde and brought vp of naughtie parents they will be prone to doe the like and punishment in that case is vsed in the nature of a medicine and not in fourme of a penaltie and as it hath the effect of a punishment euerie one is punished for his owne fault onely but as it hath the effect of a medicine so one man is punished for an others fault that by suffering shame hee may be deterred from crime yet here it may be said what place is there left for innocencie if the most guiltles may be punished for the misdemeanor of the most guiltie for as it is not the fault of the corne that it groweth in a badde soile so it is not the fault of the sonnes that they are begotten of lewde fathers therfore it may seeme meet and expedient that there should be ibi paena vbi culpa and that offences should rest vpon the authors and that the falle shoulde goe no further then the fault and there is a Law in Deutronom Non interficiantur patres pro filijs nec filij pro patribus sed quisque pro peccato suo interficiatur m Deut. c. 24. and in an other place vnusquisque in iniquitate sua morietur quicunque comederit vuam acerbam illius dentes obstupescent n Ierem. 31. and againe anima que peccauit ipsa morietur filius non portauit iniquitatē patris nn Ezechi 18. Codicgn But Saule did not obserue that rule in Deutronom when he did put to the sword the citizens of Nobe where he did slay men women children oxe asse and sheepe ore gladij o 1. Reg. 22. Canonol But Dauid did keepe it who woulde 4 The aforesaid determinations conclusions of ciuil and common law touching the forfaiture of the offendor are examined by the Law of God not haue had reuenge taken vpon Isboseth the son of Saul p 2. Reg. 4. and caused them to bee slaine who wrought his death Codicgn Yet God did otherwise who in the diluge did destroy the parentes with their children who spared neither sexe nor age in Sodom who destroied together all the whole nation of the Amalekites who would needs haue Achan destroied with the children who did roote out al the inhabitants of Ierusalem Cononol We must otherwise conceiue of God his iudgements then of mens proceedinges hee hath said viae meae non sunt viae vestrae all perfection goodnes and iustice beginneth at him who doth not any thing because it is iust but it is therefore iust because hee doth it or woulde haue it done and if Achan had bin arrained before an Ordinary tribunall he onely had perished and not his children but God his iudgement is extraordinarie and his will is therefore a Lawe because he is God he is not bound to render accompt to any neither is he guided by any Lawe but by the Lawe of his owne will and though one man know not what an other doth purpose and imagin yet God knoweth the hart and searcheth the reines and might see somewhat condemnable in Achans children which man could not discouer yet in some cases he doth obserue an ordinarie course of punishment for q Numb 26. Core perished onely but not his sonnes but they were kept safe for the Lords seruice and of their posteritie came Samuel Codicg That which I spake before Canono out of the scripture was but by way of obiection for our law punisheth not the Sons with death but only with losse of inheritance in case of treason r ff C. ad l. Iul. mai Anglonomoph The same Lawe doe we obserue both in felonie and treason together with the forfaiture of the goods Codicgn The losse of inheritance in our Lawe doth comprehend the forfaiture of the goods Nomom Ye haue dwelt a long time in this discourse of tenures and seruices now therefore I would haue ye to speake somwhat of Iointenancie and tenancie in common The fifth Dialogue of Jointenancie and tenancy in comon NOmom Let me aske you this question 1. Diuision Codign when two be iointenants or tenants in common as we tearme them whether by rigor of law the profits ought to go to them all in common or no. Codicgn By common right they ought to haue 1 That Iointenants and tenants in cōmon ought to haue equall profit equall profit whether it be of money marchandise or other matter of negociation for if one shold haue more profit thē an other the gaine should not bee alike the societie or as it pleaseth you to tearme it Iointenancy or tenancy in common should be Leonina that is rather the deuouring of Lyons a ff Pro socio l. si non fuerint §. vlti then the deuiding of men or according to the common prouerbe a man should deuide honie with a Beare yet in this equal diuision which the law requireth recompense must be had of thinges persons and the industrie of the parties b l. omnes l. si socij l. l. si non fuerint ff cod Anglonomoph By our law if two bring a writ of warde of the body of the heire being within age and the one of them is summoned and seuered and the other recouereth he which was seuered may haue a writte of accompt against the other for the profites c 45. E. 3. 10. and a writ of accompt lieth if one iointenant take all the profites d 39.
tenancie of whom fealtie is demaunded and he refuseth to perfourme it ſ C. vnico que fuit prima causa §. sed non est alia so that the Lorde doe demaunde fealtie at due times and allowed by Lawe because if he should demaund it euerie yere the vassalle should not loose his tenancie t §. si vastallus si de feud de funct ' §. licet vastallus c. domino guerrā in tit hic finit lex c. also the vassall looseth his tenancie if 2 Many causes of the tenants forfaiture in the ciuil Law being at full age he be not in expedition with his Lord or if he doe not depute some able person for the discharge of the duetie or if he doe not pay to his Lord stipendia militiae pro quantitate feodi when he is lawfully demaunded u de pace iuram firm §. fin and that is said to be a due quantitie of a knights see whē the vassall which goeth not in war nor sendeth a sufficient man doth yeelde the halfe part of the yerely value of his tenancy to the Lord. x C. Imperialem § firmiter de prohi feud alien p Freder Angonomo There be many conclusions in our 3 Some cause of forfaiture at the common Law Lawe aunswerable to that which you haue said for it hath bin affirmed that if a man holde his land of his Lord by homage and fealtie and he hath done homage and fealtie to his Lorde and the Lorde hath issue a sonne and dyeth and the seignorie discendeth to the sonne in this case the tenaunt which hath done homage to the father shal not do homage to the sonne because when a tenaunt hath once done homage to his Lorde hee is excused for tearme of lyfe to doe homage to any other heire of the Lord a Litt ' lib. 2. c. 7. sect 13. But if a man bee seised of a Mannour and an other man holdeth lande of him as of the foresayde Mannour by homage and hath done his homage vnto him and a straunger bringeth a Precipe quod reddat against the owner of the Mannour and recouereth the Mannour against him and sueth execution in this case the tenaunt shall agayne doe homage to him that recouered the Mannour though he haue done homage before because the estate of him who receiued the first homage is defeated by the recouerie and it lyeth not in the mouthe of the tenaunt to falsifye or defeate the recouerie which was against his Lorde b Litt ' ibid ' sect ' 17. And if if a tenaunt which ought by his tenure to doe homage to his Lorde come to his Lorde and say vnto him that hee is readie to doe him homage for the tenements which hee holdeth of him and the Lorde doth then refuse to receiue it after such refusall the Lord cannot distreigne the tenaunt for the homage before the Lorde require him to doe homage vnto him and he refuseth c Litt ' lib. 2. c. 7. sect ' 19. 20. and he that holdeth by Knights seruice of the King neede not goe to warre with him if hee will finde a sufficient person conueniently armed and fitte to goe with the King and this seemeth good reason For it may bee that hee that holdeth by such seruices doth languishe in sickenesse so that he cannot goe nor ryde And a Feme sole which holdeth by such seruices may not in such case goe in proper person and it hath beene said that Escuage shall not bee graunted vnlesse the King goe to warre himselfe in proper person and after such a voyage royall it hath beene likewise affirmed that by authoritie of Parliament Escuage shall be assessed and put in certaine how much euery one that holdeth by an entier fee of Knightes seruice which was not with the King by himselfe or by an other for him shall pay to his Lord of whom he holdeth by Escuage as if it be ordeigned by authoritie of Parliament that euery one which holdeth by an entier fee of Knights seruice that was not with the King nor any other c. for him shall pay to his Lord fortie shillinges then euery one that holdeth of his Lord by the moitie of a Knights fee shall pay to his Lorde fortie shillinges and he that holdeth by a fourth parte tenne shillinges and soe pro rata d Litt ' lib. 2. e. 3. sect ' 5. 6. 8. 7. E. 3. 29. Nomom Resolue me I pray you whether when 9. Diuision the tenant hath committed treason or felonie and thereof is conuicted and attainted he shal as to his tenancie incurre any preiudice Codicgn In such case either the offence is 1 Whether when the tenant hath cōmitted felony or treason and is attainted he shall suffer any preiudice in his tenancie 2 A diuersitie in the Ciuil law where the offence is committed against the person of the Lord and where against the person of a straunger committed against the person of his Lord and so he doth preiudice all these that are to succeede him in the land by order and course of Law depriuing them of the aduantage of inheritance e Cap. vnico §. denique in si in illis verbis si tamen fuerit paternumt it que fuit prima causa ben amitt or he hath offended against some other person and not against the person of the Lord then the children onely and such as were to take benefit by the person of the father as issuing from his bodie are repulsed from the inheritance f §. Si vassallus culpam si de feud● defunct ' and then it goeth to them of the kinred which are nearer in degree g Gloss super verbo reuocabuntur in d. si vassallus culpam Anglonomoph By our Lawe where the tenant is outlawed of felonie it is in the Lords election to haue a writ of Escheate supposing that his tenant was outlawed of felony or that he dyed without heire for by the attainder the bloud is corrupted h 48 E. 3. 2. But it seemeth by Nicholses case 3 That by the common law by attainder of felonie or treason the bloud is corrupted and in the one case the land shall eschete to the king and in the other to the immediate Lord. that the partie attainted ought to bee dead before the lande can escheate for according to the opinion of Dyer and Barham in the Kinges case after the attainder and till Office be found the see simple shall bee in facto in the person attainted so long as he shall liue for as he hath a capacitie to take land of a new purchase so he hath power to hold his auncient possessions and he shall be tenant to euery Precipe and if he died before office found and the land be held of the King the lande shall goe to the King in nature of a common eschete i 18. Eliz. Com̄ 477. Nichols case but this is to be intended in
religious man ought to doe fealtie tenāt ought to do such seruice yea though he be a religious man and professed vnder rule p ca. vnico tit de natura feudi Et tit qualiter vassall iur deb sideli domi Et in ca. vnico tit quib mod feud amittatur Et in quib causis feudum amitt tit quae ●uit pri causa benef amit Canonolog But such a religious man may not say Ego deuenio homo vester nor humiliate himself to execute the rite of homage q C. veniēs C. ex diligenti de Simon grauem de excess praelat cap. fin de re Iud Anglonomo By our Law he may do homage but may not say to his Lord ego deuenio homo vester because he hath professed himself to be onely God his man but he may say I doe vnto you homage and to you shal be faithfull and loyall r Littlet lib. 2. c. 1. Sect. 2. Nonoma Shewe me I pray you some speciall 6. Diuision kinds of these seruices that I may know them morefully and more distinctly Codicgn Seruices are diuersified according 1. The diuerse kindes of seruices in the ciuill Law and their definitions to the qualities of the persons to whom they are to be done if it be to bee done to an Emperour it is to be tearmed an Imperiall seruice if to a King a regall seruice ſ Cap. 1. de feud march ducat● in ca. 1. quis dicat dux comes marchio if to Religious persons Ecclesiasticall if to Lay men secular t Tit. de his qui feud dar pos tit Episcop vel Abbat but when it is to bee done to a lesser estate then to an Emperour or King as to a Duke Marquesse or Earle then it is called feudum honoratum sometime land is giuen by inferior persons meaner men without expressing any seruice and thē the Law intendeth that fealty onely is to be done this is called Francū or Liberū u Ca. 1. de no. form fidel sometime it is giuen with reseruation of speciall seruice that is feudum non nobile a Ca. f● de capilan qui cur vendid somtime it is giuē in perpetuū sometime but for tearme of life and then it is called Perpetuum vel temporale b De feud march in prin de alien feud in fine de feud guard castald But though by the oath of fealtie the vassalle be bound to serue his Lord in warre yet this is limited to such case where the warre is not notoriously vniust or vnlawfull for if it be otherwise though hee doe him no seruice in warre yet he shall not forfeite his tenement c In cap Domino guerram in prin in tit hic sini lex deinde c. neither is he bound to do his seruice to his Lord if his Lorde bee excommunicate or bannished vntill he haue obteined absolution or a recalling from bannishment but d D. cap. Domino guerrā in sin in a iust warre the vassalle is bound to helpe his Lorde against euery other person who is not the Lorde of the vassalle yea euen against his father brother or sonne Anglonomoph Seruices in our Law are of diuerse 2. The diuerse kindes of seruices in the Common law and their definitions sorts some being more noble and some lesse noble of these which are more noble some belong to the king and some both to the king to subiects of these that belong to the king some be domestical only as Petite Sergeancie some bellicall onely as Knights seruice in Capite some both domesticall bellicall as grand sergeancie some of the more noble seruices belong vnto subiects as well as to the king as knights seruice and homage these which be lesse noble may be diuided into two brāches for either they are ingenuous or seruile the ingenuous are of two sorts either performable by particular men or a certaine people as fealtie rent seruice the like which make socage tenure or els performable by a certaine people onely as burgage the seruile or base seruice is villenage Of all these seruices saue such only as haue bin before described I will speake somewhat seuerally briefly and in order Petite Sergeancie is where a man holdeth his land of the King paying yerely vnto him a Bow or a speare or a dagger or a launce or a spurre of golde c. e Littlet lib. 2. ca. 9. sect ' 1. Knights seruice in Capite is where a man holdeth his landes or tenements of the king as of his crowne immediatly ab antiquo by doing some warlike seruice Graund sergeancie is where a man holdeth his lands or tenements of the king as of his Crowne immediatly by doing some speciall seruice to the King in person as by carying his banner or launce or by being his marshall or sewer or caruer or butler c. f Litt ' li. 2. ca. 8. sect ' 1. 23. H. 3. Gard 148 of homage and fealtie hath beene spoken before Rent seruice is where the tenant holdeth his lande of his Lorde by a certaine rent for which if it be behinde at the day wherein it ought to be paied the Lord may distreigne for it of common right Burgage is where the tenants of an auncient borough doe holde landes within the Borough of the King or some other person as of his borough by a certaine rent g Litt ' lib. 2. c. 10. sect ' 1. 2. Villenage is where a man holdeth of his Lorde either by doing vnto him some partiticuler base seruice and such a one is called a tenant by villenage or by doing generally whatsoeuer base seruice his Lorde will commaund and impose vpon him such a tenant he is tearmed in our Law a villaine h Litt. lib. 2. c 11. sect ' 1. 2 This miserable estate of villenage had his beginning soone after the diluge and now by the consent of all nations it is ratified for the West Indians though they haue 3 The original of villenage and the nature thereof no knowledge of diuine or humane Lawes yet bondmen they haue and the Mahometistes make Christians their bondeslaues the Portugallians make villaines of the Mahometistes which they sell by companies as flockes of sheepe in the market i Bodin lib. 1. de repub c. 5. The Romains had power by their law to sel or kil their villains k Tacit. li. 14. but for mittigation of cruelty the Law Petronia was made whereby it was forbidden that none should put his villaine to death without cause which law was executed by Nero l Senec. lib. 3. de benefic after by Adrianus m Sparcian in Adrian but our law a more concionable fauorer of life hath restrained the hands of the Lord from the bloudshed of his villaine and from the mayming of him n Lit● ' lib. 2. c. 11. sect ' 32. hauing regard to
helde by before of the Manor for the Queenes acte may not preiudice her tenant f 29. H. 8. Br. Ca. 113. but where a man holdeth of the Q. by reason of an other thing as namely by reason of a Manour this is no tenure in Capite g 3. Eliz. Com̄ 241. Wilgous case but if the King be seised of a Manour and giueth to a straunger an acre of the Manour to haue and to hold to him and to his heires of his body engendred without expressing any seruice the donee shall hold of the king by knights seruice in Capite h Ibid 240. per Car. and tenures likewise may be to hold of one as of his person or of his Manor by diuerse other seruices as if a man had made a feoffement of land before the statute or a gift in taile sithence the statute to holde of him by the making of a bridge ouer certaine land or by making a beacon in the lande giuen this is a good tenure for a man may holde of an other by doing seruice for a common good as well as for the priuate profit of the Lord as to repaire a bridge or a high way or by keeping such a Castle for the Lorde himselfe in this hath profit with others i 11. H. 7. 12. 12. H. 7. 18. p Finch 24. H. 8. Br. Cas 51. Nomom You haue taken some paines Anglonomoph 7. Diuision 1 Whether one within age be compellable by law to do all maner of seruice either by himselfe or some other in discribing the particuler kindes of tenures now I would here somewhat of Codicgn whether one within age be excused from personal seruice because his age is not fit to serue so that the seruiceage is suspēded vntil the maturity of his age or whether he shal be compelled to do his seruice by a substitute Codicgn To dissolue that question a difference is to be taken for either the Father of the heire which is within age died in the warlike seruice 2 A diuersitie in the Ciuill law whether the father of such an infant dyed in a iust warre or at home in his bedde vndertaken for the defence of his Lorde in a iust warre I meane that which is waged for the safetie of the common weale or els he dyed in his house by humane infirmitie without any bearing of armes in the first case he is not bound to doe any seruice either in his owne person or by any other person interposed during his minoritie because his father who died in the field is supposed in Lawe still to serue by the glorie of his valor k Instit de Excus tutor §. sed si in bello ff ad leg Aqu. l. qua actione §. si quis in colluctatione which the best and most learned of all Poets did well imagine who when he had placed Caesar in the middest of extreme troubles to comforte and encourage him representeth vnto him the ghost of Scaeua one that dyed a good while before but yet after many assaults and many woūds stoode out as a Conqueror l Lucan li. 10. which conceite of Lucan Tasso a moderne Italian writer a man of an excellent poeticall witte in the discriptyon of Guidoes funerall doth passionatelye though Popishely glaunce at m S. Torquat Tasso Canto 4. Gierusal liberat but if the father died not in warre nor in the expedition but by naturall death in his owne house then if the heire at the death of his Father bee in his pupillage he must perfourme that seruice by a substitute Anglonomoph But by our Lawe he shall be in 3 That by the common law the infant shal be in warde if his father died seised of land helde by knights seruice without any such diuersitie warde to the Lorde during his minoritie if hee holde his landes by Knightes seruice and the Lorde shall haue the profits of his lande that he may maintaine a sufficient man to doe him seruice in the warre whereas the heire by reason of his tender age cannot personally performe the seruice nor by the want of discretion prouide a conuenient person to accomplishe it n Litt ' lib. 2. c. c 4. sect ' 3. but if he be made a Knight within age then because the Lawe intendeth that he is fit to doe his seruice because knighthoode is bestowed in regarde of precedent merite or of some eminent prowesse and towardnes as may appeare by that saying of Scipio in the Senate ab annis septemdecim ad senectutem semper vos aetatem meam honoribus vestris anteistis ego vestros honores rebus gerendis precessi o Liuius li. 38. the Law is otherwise But 2. Ed. 6. in the case of Sir Anthony Browne of Surrey vicount Mountegue a difference was taken where the tenant by 4 A diuersitie in the commō law where the heire of the tenāt by knights seruice is within age and a knight at the time of his fathers death where not Knights seruice dieth seised his heire being within age and a Knight at the time of his death and when after his death he is made Knight during his minoritie for in the former case it was helde that he should be in warde notwithstanding his knighthoode p 2. E. 6. Br. Gard 42. 72. For otherwise the auncestor may procure his sonne within age to be made knight by collusion to the intent to defraude the Lord of his warde but this seemeth to be but a weake reason because knighthood is not by intendement of the law graunted vpon so sleight a cause but it seemeth to Master Brooke where the heire is in ward and is made knight being in warde this shall free him from wardship for the statute of Magna Chartaca 3. Postquam heres fuerit in custodia cum ad aetatem peruenerit scil 21. annorum habeat heredit atem suam sine releuio sine fine ita tamen quod si ipse dum infra aetatem fuerit fiat miles nihilominus terra sua remaneat in custodia dominorum vsque ad terminum supradictum this saieth q Br. ibid. Master Brooke verie probaly guyding his opinion by the premisses is onely to be intended where the heire is made Knight within age being in warde after the death of his auncestour and not where he is made knight in the life of the auncestour but admitte this to be meant of such an heire onely yet by no consequence can a man inferre hereof that if an heire within age bee made knight in his fathers life time he shal be in warde after the death of his father nay there is good authoritie for the contrarie r 6. Elizab. Comm̄ 268. Nomomat Let mee knowe I pray you what 8. Diuision penalties lye vpon the tenant if hee doe not his seruice Codicgn By our Lawe the vassalle is depriued 1 What penalties lye vpnon the tenant if he do not his seruice of his