the Lord and a stranger the Lord disagrees the stranger shall have all 20 E. 4. Fitz. Nuper obiit 14. If the Defendant in a Nuper obiit disclaim in the Blood the other Coparcener shall have all by descent and a Mordancester of all 22 H. 6.44 A Precipe against two if one disclaim all vests in the other So here in as much as the use passed by the contract if one of them will waive that contract and take himself to another bargain then the first contract will stand good for all to the other and the Inrollment for all shall relate to the use of the other and shall be paramount to the fine and destroy the Conveyance by the fine as it is in Pophams Case 5 Eliz. 2. But then comes in the next question this fine was but of part of the thing bargained and sold and therefore it will not destroy the contract for all but only for part that is for a Moiety of the services I take it that this contract being entire being destroyed in part is void for all Qui partem individui facit nihil facit I will example it with other Cases 34 H. 6.21 It is a good plea in an action of debt for rent that the Lessor entered before the day of payment for the contract was entire and therefore the rent not apportionable 22 Ass 53. Lease for life rendring rent for Land part in Franchises and part in Guildable in an Assise brought at Common Law for the rent Conizance shall not be granted for the rent is entire and the Kings Court shall be preferred contrary to Thorp as it is in 46 E. 3.8 But if the Land is in question conizance shall be granted for so much as lies in Franchises 9 E. 4.1 One is to lease a Chamber and find the Lessee his board for 6 s. a Week in an Action of Debt for the Money non demisit cameram is a good Plea for destroy the contract in part it is destroyed in all for it is entire 30 H. 8 Litle Broke I sell my Horse and another man 's for 20 l. to be paid at a day to come and before the day the other man recovers his Horse against the Vendee yet the Vendor shall have an action for all the money So here the Consideration of the money raises the use that 's an entire Sum and if you will have that the Demeasnes shall pass by the contract for the use and the services or part of the services shall pass by the grant what a confusion would that be and how much of the Consideration went for the one and what for the other I might that way maintain my conclusion that the whole Mannor passes to D. 9 E. 4. Choke A Mannor consists of Demeasnes and Services sever them and the Mannor is destroyed and in Sr. Rol. Heiwards Case none shall take by fraction of Estates 3. The third question being that the Husband purchases Lands by Bargain and Sale to him and his Wife and before the Deed is inrolled the Husband takes a Fine or a Feoffment of the Land to him and his heirs and then the Deed is inrolled what shall the Wife have and I say as I said she shall have nothing 3 H. 7.9 It is plain that if Lands be conveyed to a Feme Covert if her Husband disagree the Feofment made to her is made void and it shall return to the Feoffer But if a Feofment be made to I. S. and a Feme Covert and her Husband disagrees all vests in I. S. Rutland's Case li. 5. Cook is that the Husband by Indenture limits Lands to the use of his Wife but before the fine levyed by other Indentures he limited the same to other uses so in that case before the assurance is perfected the Husband by whose means and bargain making this use was to rise to the Wife before this Assurance finished makes a new bargain for himself and the Wife if he disagree can take nothing Kenn's C. Cook lib. 7. It is the Husband hath the power to contract for the use although it be of the Wives Lands 4. The next matter that I intend a question upon the Statute of Inrollments is supposing this Land is held in Capite Lands held in Capite are bargained and sold to a man and before the deed is inrolled the Bargainee dies his heir within age whether here be such a dying seised and a descent as his Son shall be in ward and I think it is There be divers Cases where the heir shall be in ward and yet the Ancestour dyed not seised 48 E. 3.8 If there be Lord and Tenant and the Tenant is disseised and dies his heirs within age the Lord may seise c. 20 H. 6. Tenant in tail aliens and dies his heir within age his heir shall be in Ward to the Donor 33 H. 6.5 Tenant for life the remainder in fee he in remainder dies his heir shall not be in ward for the remainder but if the Tenant for life die then by matter ex post facto he shall be 11 H. 4.61 By Hank and Norton If the heir recover in a writ of ayel on Cocinage he shall be in Ward If the Father lose by error or false verdict If the Son reverse the Judgment by error or attaint he shall be in ward If the Father recover and dies before entry or execution and the Son sue execution he shall be in guard Points upon the Statute Swinburn Fol. 175. I will that my villain be manumitted when my Son comes to age my Son dies before the age the villain shall be at Liberty when the Son would have been of age D. Enters and manumits a villain The Question is a man hath a Mannor to which be villains regardant he becomes a Bankrupt manumits the the villain Commission is agarded if the Commissioners may sell the villain and I have concluded they cannot For the villain being once at liberty in this case is infranchised for ever I grant that in divers cases a villain may be infranchised pro tempore and yet be a villain again 13 E. 4.2 As if Tenant in tail will enfeof his villain of the Mannor the issue shall have a Formedon and reduce both the Mannor and the villain 33 H. 6.13 Enfranchment by Tenant for years or for life is good but for their time And it is much controverted whether if a nieff marry a Freeman she be not for ever enfranchised Old Nat. Brevi fol. 6. If her Husband die she shall be a nieff again 33 E. 3. Statham Vil. She shall be neiff again even to her own Son when her Lord and Husband dies But as the Law saith there is nothing more respected than life and liberty So I am of opinion and I have authority for it that if she be once married either to her Lord or another Freeman she is at liberty for ever 31 E. 1. Fitz. vill 46. It is first questioned and some there are of
opinion that after the death of her Husband she shall be in bondage again quod Burton negavit but if she marry the Lord then by all she is infranchised for ever Britton fol. 78. She is infranchised for ever Natura brevi B. 78. G. I will conclude with the first authority by Fitzherbert Brittons opinion seems reasonable if she divorce not her self or acknowledge not her self in Court of Record in favour of Liberty and because she and her Husband are but one person in Law and of the same condition with him There be divers things favoured in Law as Womens dowers the King Lords Holy Church ancient Records Devises Infants Purchasors and possessions But next life Liberty of all things is most favoured 18 E. 4.6 No amercement lies against the Sheriffs return yet in a writ of Libertate probanda if the Sheriff returns that he hath no wrît of nativo habendo depending before him one may offer the contrary in favorem libertatis Quia propensiores esse debemus ad liberandum quam ad obligandum It hath been made a Question upon the Statute 39 Eliz. that appoints the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of Accomptants to be sold which they had at the time when they fell into Arearages whether if the Accomptant shall manumit a villain he shall be nevertheless sold and the best opinion of him that read upon the Statute in this place was that his liberty could not be revoked for here were neither Lands Tenements nor Hereditaments and so here 27 Assizar Enfranchisement for a time by act in Law but if the Lord will manumit his villain for a day by his voluntary grant he is at liberty for ever The Tenant dies without heir the Question is this A Lord is a Bankrupt and dies a Tenancy escheats if the Seigniory or the Tenancy shall be sold I take it as I have concluded the Tenancy that is the Land shall be sold first see the words of the statute Primo Jacobi The Commissioners may proceed in the execution of the Commission in such sort as they might have done if the party Offender were alive this makes an end of the question for if he were alive and the Tenancy escheated the Land should be sold And therefore I shall not need to put you Cases at Common Law where the Tenancy escheating shall be bound to that where the Land was tyed 6 H. 4.1 Tenant in tail discontinues and dies and leaves a Seigniory to descend to the issue in tail a Tenancy escheats in a Formedon by the issue the Tenancy shall he Assets 14 H. 8 4. Fitzherbert cestui que use of a Seigniory a Tenancy escheats the Feoffee shall hold the Land to the use of the Feoffer 46 E. 3.4 Tenant in tail of a Seigniorty a Tenancy escheats Tenant in tail discontinues and dies without issue the Donor shall have a Formedon of the Land 3. A Commission is awarded D. is felo de se the Question a Commission is awarded and the Bankrupt becomes felo de se Office is found if the Almoner shall have his goods or the Commissioners may sell them for the Lord Almoner hath all the goods and chattels of Felons of themselves and all Deodands as appears by our Books and his Charter which I have seen 6 E. 6. Dier fol. 77. The King leases Richmond fee with all Deodands and after grants to the Almoner the term expires the grant to the Almoner void because the other lease was not recited 2. Mar. Dier fol. 107. The King grants to the Archbishop of Canter Deodands in D. and to the Almoner all in general Hales is felo de se Plow Dame Hales the Bishop is attainted the King shall have the Lease It is true as it appears in Dame Hales case That when two titles come together that is the Kings and a subjects the Kings shall be preferrd As if a villain be a fool natural the King not the Lord shall have him If a villain be felo de se the King not the Lord shall have his goods Then a Bankrupt is felo de se shall the King or the Creditors have his goods I think the Creditors For if the Bankrupt in life had no authority to dispose them as it is in Tibnabams Ca. much less shall he dispose of them by his death And admit the Almoners Patent were before the Statute of primo of the King yet both the King and the Almoner by Act of Parliament have given away their title to the Creditors 4. I have already argued that the heir of the Bankrupt is in by descent now the Case is he is within age and an office is found and that the Land is held of the King in capite the Question and the hardest question in my Case is whether after an office of all this matter found the Commissioners may sell And I think they may For this office finding the whole matter notwithstanding a tenure in capite a dying seised of the Tenant and the minority of an heir is found yet nothing vests in the King For when an Act of Parliament shall appoint the Land to go another way and the course taken according to the Statute is found in the Office the King his Officers in the Law shall consider of all the whole matter in Concreto and not in abstracto and shall challenge nothing for the King which belongs not to him as is seen by a Devise made by Tenant in capite according to the Statute of 32 H. 8. of Wills 5. The Commissioners imprison the Bankrupt in his own House Two questions first whether the Commissioners may imprison him by the Statute of 13. which gives them authority to dispose of his body as they shall see good in their discretions when as the Statute of primo appoints an imprisonment upon a special cause of refusal as if there were no Law general to imprison him in divers cases expressa nocent Vide my Moote Book I think they may It is true that Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant but this is not a contrary Law but a strengthning and a confirmation of the former Law in a particular nor doth it revoke the former no otherwise than that where by the Statute of 27 H. 8. Leases shall be under the Dutchy Seal This doth not take away the Authority of the Great Seal but that Grants may pass under the Great Seal since the Statute And for sureness now a days they put many times both Seals to them 2. Question is whether this Imprisonment in his own House be such a Dealing in the Commission by the Commissioners as is intended by the Statute of primo That his dying afterwards shall not alter the Case For if it be a lawful Imprisonment then here is a Dealing if not contrary for Ea possimus quae jure possimus for as it is said by Herle for a Maxime that all Leets Hundreds and in 2 E. 3. all Ports and Cities are the Kings and the Lords
have but the use and profits of them under the King so it is said all Gaoles are the Kings Prisons and none others of the Land for life and member belongs to him only and the Lords have only the regard and that is the reason that in all Corporations in their Charters they always have a Grant and liberty to have a Prison Auditors by the Statute of W. 2. cap. 11. may send the Baily found in Arrearages to Prison by the Book it must be to the next Gaol though it be in another County otherwise an Action of false Imprisonment lies So our Commissioners must be careful to pursue their Commission but because the Statute saith they may dispose of his body at their discretions therefore to stay him in his own House or in one of theirs till he be further examined I think it not amiss although I have heard that some Commissioners have been blamed for not sending him to the Gaol 1. A. makes a Feoffment in Fee to B. by livery within the view B. Covenants with C. to stand seised to the use of D. his Son A. enters and makes a Feoffment to B. D. enters and makes a Lease for years to E. a Merchant upon condition to have in Fee E. is a Bankrupt C. disagrees to the Contract E. becomes a Recusant Convict and hath not Lands sufficient to pay 20 l. a Month the Commissioners sell the Land the King seizes the Term the condition is performed The Vendee shall have the fee-simple Points 1. IF livery within the view may be countermanded by livery in fact 2. If the Feoffee to whom livery is made within view before entry Covenants to stand seized to another use and after enters if the Covenant good that is if by his entry he by relation is in from the time of the Livery 3. If a covenants with B. to stand seised to the use of C. and C. enters and B. disagrees to the Covenant if the Land shall revert to A. 4. If a Bankrupt hath a Lease for years upon condition to have fee if the Commissioners may sell the Land with the possibility 5. A Bankrupt hath a Term and is a Recusant convict if the King or the Creditors shall have the Term 2. The King Lord Mesn and Tenant of Borough English Land the Tenant by License of the King to create Tenures devises the Land to A. in fee to hold of his Heirs by Knights service A. is attainted of Felony and devises the Land to his eldest Son a Merchant Bankrupt the Mesn enters the younger Son reverses the Attainder the eldest waives the Devise The Commissioners may sell all the Land Points 1. IF the King may grant to the Tenant of another to create new Tenures in prejudice of the Mesn as to Escheats 2. If Tenure in Borough English which is always Soccage may be altered into Tenure in Knights service 3. If it may be altered as to the Custom to descend to the youngest 4. If it may be altered as to the Tenure but not as to the Custom if the youngest Son shall be in Ward 5. Upon the Statute of Wills 32 H. 8. Lord and Tenant the Tenant is attainted and Devises his Land and dies the Heir reverses the Attainder before entry of the Lord if the Devise is good 6. One Devises Land to a Merchant and he becomes a Bankrupt and waives the Devise if the Commissioners may sell the Land 3. A Merchant makes a Lease for Life to an Infant the remainder to the King for Life of A. B. enters and dies seised the Deed is Inrolled A. dies the Infant enters the Lessor in consideration of marriage covenants to stand seised to the use of himself and his Wife and their Heirs the Infant at full age makes a Feoffment the Heir of the Disseisor enters the Lessor is a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell Lessor dies the Feme waives This is a good Sale of all the Land in Possession and Reversion Points 1. WHether the Inrollment doth not relate to avoid the descent 2. Whether the Entry of the Infant reduce the reversion 3. Whether the Sale not being good against the Wife is made good by her waiver Vide ante the Principal Case 5. One grants a Rent Charge to a Physician and his Heirs pro Consilio impenso impendendo the Physician is his own Apothecary and becomes non solvent for Drugs and Simples which he used in his Art a Commission is awarded the Physician keeps his House for fear of Arrests the Physician brings a Writ of Annuity and recovers by erroneous Judgement the Commissioners sell the Rent the Recoveree reverseth the Judgment the Physician dies This Sale of the Commissioners was good for this Rent but not to take effect during the Life of the Physician Points 1. IF an Annuity in Fee be granted pro Consilio may be sold 2. Whether he have any Election after he is Bankrupt 3. Whether the bringing of this Annuity which is reversed be an Election 6. One makes a Gift in Tail rendring Rent and dies the Rent is arrear a Disseisor enters and levies a Fine five years past the Heir of the Donor is a Bankrupt The Commissioners shall sell the Rent and the Arrearages Three Points upon the Statute 1. UPon the Statute of Fines the Second and Third upon the Statutes of Limitations and Bankrupts 1. Upon the Statute of Fines that is if Fines of the Land shall be a Bar for the Rent 2. And 3. Upon the Statute of Limitations If Commissioners may sell when the Party was concluded by the Statute of Limitations 6 Jacobi Banco Regis Executors notwithstanding no Seisin in their Testator by fifty years shall destrain by the the Statute of 32 H. 8. 7. A. and B. Tenants in Common of the Mannor of D. and Jointenants of the Mannor of S. They by Deed Poll bargain and sell Common of Pasture within the Mannors for a Cow to C. and his Wife and to the Heirs of their two bodies begotten C. the Husband grants the Common to E. in Fee the Wife dies without issue E. is a Bankrupt E. had Common for a Cow but it is neither Land Tenement nor Hereditament which may be sold by the Commissioners 8. The King grants to I. S. that he only for his life shall have the Importation of Steel he assigns his Patent to I. N. a Merchant I. N. becomes non solvent and after acknowledges himself to be a Villain regardent to the Honour of Hampton-Court a Commission is awarded I. N. Is a Bankrupt and the Commissioners may sell all his Lands and Goods but not the Monopoly 9. A. and B. Jointenants Covenant for natural affection to stand seised to the use of C. for life C. enters and B. dies C. dies the Heir of B. makes a Gift in Mortmain the Lord before entry bargains and sells the Seigniory to I. S. who enters and makes a Gift in Tail the remainder to I. N. a Merchant Tenant in Tail is
Commissioners may sell then there is their Authority the Vendee shall compound that is a second action which must be done if it may be done Hillary 38 Eliz. A Grant was made to the Mayor and Commonalty of London that the Mayor should have the search c. of all Handicrafts and should punish them but granted no Court where the same should be punished this was good for to search and to discover but void for him to punish but it must be punished as it may be otherwise The Statute of 5 Eliz. cap. 13. of Highways saith Who comes not at the common days shall forfeit and orders that the offence shall be presented at the next Sessions c. Upon pain of Forty Shillings no Certificate is made yet the offence shall be punished 3. But now we are upon the point of Fines a question rises in this Case whether two Fines or but one or no Fine be due to the Lord and I think a Fine is due Plainly two Fines should have been paid one to the Lord of the Mannor upon the surrender of A. to C. and another upon the sale by the Commissioners as it is in the 4th Report fo 22. the heir surrenders before admittance the Lord shall have two Fines But in Hubbard and Hammond's Case it is said no Fine is due to the Lord before admittance for the admittance is the cause of the Fine and if after admittance it be denied it is a forfeiture But I take it in this case the Lord shall have no Fines for the Statute must have a reasonable construction and indeed for all parties according to equity and in all Statutes where the ordering of things is referred to mens discretions equity and good Conscience ought to respected and therefore it is said 3 E. 3. An accompt ought to be amended by the Auditors according to equity and good faith But what remedy hath the Lord for it 4. But here a Fine is tendered and refused now the question is double 1. What remedy generally 2. Whether it be lost for ever or not For the first if it had been in a case that the Lord could have admitted him he should have had the ordinary remedy as all Lords have for their Fines that is upon presentment of a Surrender or of the death of a Tenant or of sale by Commissioners the order is to call the Party that should be admitted and if he come not in time to seize his Land But here can be no Calling for here 's no Court Surely I think as the Vendee may enter without admittance so the Lord may enter again upon him and seize the Land till his Fines be paid but these Fines have been tendred and refused We see that tender and refusal in many cases is peremptory as Littleton in case of Mortgage 27 E. 3.88 Un distr pur dam. fesant si avoyde the Tenant pleaded that before the taking at the taking and after the taking he tendered sufficient amends and the Avowant refused he hath lost his damages and shall pay damages c. 22 Hen. 6.44 A Man is bound in an Obligation to stand to the award of J. S. he awards that the one shall release the other who tenders a release the other refuses in Action of Debt sur le ob tender and refusal is a good plea sans dira uncor Prist But yet in the same case it is put That if Money had been awarded and tendered and refused the Bond had been saved but the duty had remained 45 E. 3.9 The Lord destrains the Tenant tenders the Lord refuses yet the Rent is not lost but at another time the Lord may distrain Brian If the Tenant tender his homage and the Lord refuse he cannot destrain but upon a request if the Tenant refuse he may destrain So here the Tenant tenders his Fine the Lord refuses I take it the Fine is not lost but after a new request the Lord may seize 5. The last point upon my Statute is a Bankrupt purchases a Copyhold and the Tenant surrenders into two Tenants hands to the use of the Bankrupt and now he will not be admitted whether the Commissioners shall sell the Copyhold And I think they shall by the very words of the Statute which are That the Commissioners shall sell all Lands which the Bankrupt shall purchase with any other Persons of trust or to his secret use If then they may sell Lands wherein he hath secret use much more Lands wherein he hath an express use And in this Case if his negligence to pray to be admitted or his absence beyond Sea shall hinder the present Sale and he die his heir may be admitted after his decease And then a greater Question will rise Whether the Land may be sold or not 2. A Copyholder of Inheritance where the Custom is that the Wife shall be indowed surrenders into the hands of two Tenants to the use of the Mayor and Commonalty of D. in Fee and dies the Wife marries with I. S. a Merchant the Mayor and Commonalty are admitted the Heir of the Copyholder enters I. S. and his Wife affirm a Plaint in the Lords Court in nature of a Writ of Dower and recover against the Heir the Mayor and Commonalty enter I. S. and his Wife sue a Precept in nature of a Scire facias against the Mayor and Commonalty for to have a a Writ De Dote assignanda and damages I. S. becomes a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell the Copyhold and assign the damages which shall be recovered the Vendee compounds with the Lord. This is a good sale for a third part of the Copy-hold during the Coverture and a good Composition but the Assignment of the Damages is void 3. A. Is Tenant in Tail of a Mannor where the Custom is that the Wife of a Copyholder shall have a Widow's Estate A. grants white Acre to B. by Copy for life and after he makes a Lease of white Acre for life to F. the Wife of B. dies A. makes a Feoffment of the Mannor to G. and all the Tenants attorn A. dies B. takes a second Wife and dies the Issue in Tail enters into the Mannor the second Wife takes M. to Husband who becomes a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell white Acre the Vendee compounds with the Issue in Tail and enters F. dies The Sale is good during Coverture and the Composition is good 4. Baron and Feme have issue A. a Daughter the Baron dies the Mannor of Sale is given to the Feme for life the remainder to the Heirs of the Baron and Feme A Copyholder surrenders to the use of himself in Tail the remainder to A. in Fee the Feme takes a second Husband and hath issue B. another Daughter and dies A. enters the Copyholder suffers a customary recovery and dies without issue his Heir being a Merchant and Bankrupt B. enters the Commissioners sell the Copyhold the Vendee compounds with B. The Sale is good but the Composition
is good but for a fourth part 1. A. Shall have a Moiety as Heir of the Husband and the Moiety of the other Moiety as Heir of the Feme and B. the residue 2. If Tenant by Copy by Recovery may bar the Remainder 3. If when the Lord is in Remainder it be not so annexed to the Fee that it cannot be pulled out by a Recovery 5. The Mannor of D. is holden of the Mannor of S. by Copy and I. S. holds a House and Land Common for ten Cows of the Mannor of D. by Copy in Fee The Lord of D. surrenders his Mannor to the use of I. S. for life who is admitted accordingly I. S. grants the Common by Copy to A. a Merchant A. is admitted and is a Bankrupt I. S. dies the Lord of D. enters the Commissioners sell the Common the Vendee compounds with the Executors of I. S. The Common cannot be sold and if it might the Composition shall be with the Lord of D. 6. Tenant by Copy is disseised and the Disseisor is admitted Tenant by the Lord the Lord bargains and sells the Mannor to I. S. in Fee by Deed inroll'd the Disseisee becomes a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell the Copyhold the Vendee compounds with the Bargainer This is a good Sale and a good Composition 1. If Tenant by Copy may be disseised or ousted and this shall be no disseisin to the Lord 2. If the Lord by the admittance of the Disseisor hath dispensed with the disseisin in part and so he may apportion his own wrong 7. A. disseises B. of the Mannor of S. and dies seized C. the Son of A. enters a Copyhold escheats D. enters and disseises C. and Leases the Mannor for years to E. who grants the Copy to F. in Fee F. dies his Heir is sworn of the Homage and becomes a Bankrupt D. dies B. enters the Commissioners sell the Copyhold the Vendee compounds with B. and is admitted the Heir of D. recovers in a Mortdauncester C. recovers in Entry sur disseisin and B. recovers against him in a Writ of Right The Sale is good and the Composition good 8. A. and B. joynt-Tenants in Fee of a Mannor they grant white Acre to I. S. for life by Copy A. enters into Religion at Roan B. makes a Lease for years of the Acre to C. to whom I. S. surrenders B. dies A. is deraigned C. surrenders to A. I. S. becomes a Bankrupt the Commissioners sell the Copyhold the Vendee compounds with A. the Heir of B. enters This is a good Sale and a good Composition for a Moiety 9. Six Copyholds escheat the Lord grants them to A. a Merchant indebted and after the Lord makes a Feoffment of the Freehold of the Copy-hold to B. C. and D. the Merchant gives over Trading B. disseises C. and D. the Merchant continues his debt by Interest seven years pass C. and D. recover against B. and have judgment to hold in severalty C. and D. make partition the Merchant renues his Bonds with the Creditors and keeps his House the Commissioners sell the Copy-holds the Vendee compounds with B. C. and D. severally admitted The Sale is not good because the Merchant is no Bankrupt but if it were good the Composition was good and B. C. and D. have three Customary Mannors The Sixth Division What Fees Annuities Officers Goods Chattels Wares Merchandizes and Debts of a Bankrupt may be sold by the Commissioners 1. BEfore Quia Emptores one makes a Feoffment in Fee rendring Rent to be holden by Foreign service and a Tenant dies and his Heir dies before entry and a Stranger abates the Lord becomes a Bankrupt the Heir recovers in Mortdauncester the Commissioners sell all the Debts of the Lord. The Vendee shall have two actions of Debt for two several Reliefs 1. If the Heir shall pay Relief when his Ancestor had but a Possession in Law he shall Kelloway 173 6 H. 8. 2. If Debt lies against the Heir for relief due after the death of his Grandfather 13 E. 3. Relief 6. A distress lies 3. If Fee-farm made before Quia Emptores shall pay Relief 45 E. 3. fol. 15. now it shall not 4. If Tenant in Knights Service shall pay Relief Kelloway 5. If the Heir shall pay relief for Land which he had by recovery 6. Debt lies for relief by the Lord himself 23 H. 8. Brook It lies for his Executors 7. If relief is such a debt or duty which the Commissioners may sell 2. A. Tenant of two Acres herriotable covenants to stand seized to the use of himself for life the remainder to his Son in Fee with clause of revocation and for money paid he bargains one Acre to B. B. dies the Lord seizes a Herriot the Heir of B. re-enfeoffs A. A. revokes the first Deed the Lord is a Bankrupt A. dies the Commissioners sell all the Lords Goods to C. C. takes relief of the Heir of A. C. Shall have detinue for two Herriots against the Executors of A. 1. If two Herriots or but one are due notwithstanding the repurchase 34 E. 3. Herriot 1.2 They are due 2. If the power of revocation be not gone notwithstanding the repurchase 3. If acceptance of relief of the heir may be pleaded by the Executors in an action against them for the Herriot 26 E. 1. H. 6. Quaere 4. If detinue lies for a Herriot-Custom 6 E. 3.29 R. 2. Herriot 4. and 5. the Lord may seize it in all the goods 5. If the property of the Herriot is so vested in the Lord before seizure that the Commissioners may sell it 3. The King grants the Office of Aulnage of London to a Merchant stranger for years with a Fee of 20. l. per annum who assigns it to a Merchant Denizen indebted who discontinues his Trade of Merchandize and lives by his Office and enters into Recognizances for his debts and makes I. S. dis deputy and is made Steward of the Tower of London the Recognizances are forfeited and he keeps himself in the Tower Office is found The Commissioners shall neither sell the Office nor the Fee 1. If the Lease be good because no Office of trust or confidence 2. If discontinuance of Merchandize is an exemption from the Statute when the Creditors have taken new assurances 3. If the Steward of the Tower is not sole Judge there by Prescription 4. A Feme sole Alien grants to A. a Scottish Merchant the Office to be the master of her horse with a Fee of 20. l. per annum for his life she takes a Husband who is made King of England who by his Letters Patents grants the Mastership of the Queens Horse to I. S. with a Pension out of the Exchequer the Scot becomes a Bankrupt The Commissioners shall not sell his Office but they may sell his Fee and the Vendee shall have an Annuity for it against the Queen 5. A Resiant is injoyned in the Leet to reform a publique nusans by him made before such
Bankrupt becomes Lunatique and Office is found yet the Land shall be sold 12. A Bankrupt is Tenant in Tail the remainder in the King of the Provision of the King sale by the Commissioners shall not be good against the issue in Tail for the Bankrupt neither by Fine nor Recovery could lawfully part with it but for his life 13. A Bankrupt hath a Seigniory the Commissioners seize before assignment a Tenancy escheats the Tenancy shall be sold but if after seisure of the Seigniory and before the Escheat the Bankrupt dies the Commissioners shall not sell by this Statute but by the Statute of primo Jac. the Tenancy shall be sold 14. Two Joyntenants one is a Bankrupt the Commissioners seize a Moiety the Bankrupt dies no part shall be sold by this Statute but by primo Jacobi a moiety shall be sold for that Statute is that the Commissioners shall proceed as if he were living 15. A Merchant takes a Wife after he is a Bankrupt she shall not have Dower against the Vendee 16. A Feme Covert sole Merchant inheritrix in London is a Bankrupt her land shall be sold and her Husband shall not be Tenant by the courtesie 17. A Bankrupt commits Felony the Land shall not escheat but the Commissioners may sell it The fifth Division What Copy-hold Lands shall be sold and in what case Composition shall be made with the Lord and in what not 1. THe Lord sells the Freehold of one sole Copy-holder to A. the Copy-holder is a Bankrupt the Commissioners shall sell 2. The Lord is to be compounded with for the Admission by the Statute and in this Case here can be neither Surrender nor Admission yet by the equity of the Statute the Lord must be compounded with 3. Commissioners sell a Copy-hold the Vendee tenders to the Lord a competent Fine which the Lord refuses and will not admit the Vendee the Vendee may enter 4. If a Copy-hold be intailed to a Bankrupt in a Mannor where Recoveries are used to cut off intails Commissioners may sell but if no Custom be for Recoveries contray 5. A Copy hold is surrendered to the use of a Bankrupt who will not take it up or sue to be admitted because it shall not be liable to his Creditors the Commissioners shall sell it 6. A Copy-hold is surrendred to the use of a Bankrupt who will not be admitted the Commissioners shall sell but the Vendee shall pay two Fines 7. A Copy-holder where the Feme by Custom shall have Dower surrenders into the hands of two Tenants and dies the Feme marries a Bankrupt the surrendree is admitted the third part of the Feme shall be sold but no remedy for the damage betwixt the death of the Husband and the admittance 8. One surrenders Copy-hold to the use of a Bankrupt the Lord dissolves his Court yet the Commissioners shall sell The sixth Division What Annuities Fees Goods Chattels Debts c. Commissioners may sell 1. B. Hath a Lease for years made unto him upon condition that he shall not alien yet the Commissioners may sell and this is no forfeiture 2. B. hath the next advowson the Church is void the Commissioners sell the Presentation the Vendee shall present and no Symony 3. A Bankrupt purchases Land with warranty the Vendee of the Commissioners shall not vouch but he shall rebut 4. Commissioners sell a rent or reversion this is good without Attornment 5. A Bankrupt becomes Lunatique his goods shall be sold as before of Lands c. 6. Lord and Tenant the Lord is a Bankrupt the Tenant dies the Commissioners shall sell the money or debt due for relief 7. The same of a Herriot 8. The Lord is a Bankrupt the Tenant dies the Commissioners sell the Relief-money and the Herriot the Executors pay the Relief the heir shall not pay a Herriot 9. The King Leases the Aulnage of London for years the Lessee is a Bankrupt the Lease shall be sold 10. Lord of a Leet is a Bankrupt the Commissioners shall sell the Amercements past and the Vendee shall have an action of debt 11. A Lease for years is devised to A. if he live so long the remainder to one B. the Commissioners shall not sell the possibility 12. Land is extended and delivered to the Extenders because too high another defeats this Execution by extending of a former Statute the first is a Bankrupt the Commissioners shall sell the possibility 13. A Rent charge shall be sold yet it is not within the words 14. The same Law of a Common in gross 15. It is the Custom in Surrey that certain Heir-Looms shall go with the Land and not to the Executors the Land is intailed Tenent in Tail is a Bankrupt the Heir-Looms may be sold from the Land and the issue hath no remedy 16. Two Tenants in Common recover damages in trespass the one dies the other is a Bankrupt all the damages shall be sold 17. A Bankrupt recovers damages by an erroneous judgement the Commissioners assign them to the Creditors who recover them in execution the Judgement is reversed the sale was good but the Assignees or Vendees shall make restitution 18. A villain is a Merchant the Lord seizes all his goods and imprisons his person for six months he is a Bankrupt the Lord shall have his goods but his debts shall be sold 19. A Villain Merchant is a Bankrupt the Lord seizes his goods yet the Commissioners may sell 20. A Merchant by Outlary becomes a Bankrupt the Creditors shall have his goods and not the King 21. A Merchant Bankrupt commits Felony his Creditors and not the King shall have his goods 22 A Bankrupt is felo de se the Almoner shall have his goods notwithstanding this Statute but by primo Jacobi the Commissioners shall have them The seventh Division Who shall be said a Creditor that shall be relieved and and who not and what shall be said to be a just debt intended 1. ONe sole Creditor shall not by this Statute sue the Commission for it ought to be at the Sute of his Creditors 2. Merchant Mortgages his Lands the Mortgagee may choose to come in as a Creditor 3. A Merchant enters into a Statute or Recognizance the Conizee is a Creditor else he shall have neither Land nor money if he come not and contributes 4. A Merchant pledges goods and becomes Bankrupt the party need not come in 5. The plaintiff that hath the defendants body in execution shall not come in to be relieved 6. But he that hath a judgement for a debt may come in before execution 7. One that hath the Bankrupts body in execution upon a Statute Merchant may come in 8. One that recovers damages in Waste or Assise or trespass shall not be relieved 9. An Informer recovers money forfeited by a special Statute he shall not be relieved 10. A Bankrupt is indebted to the King Commissioners seize the Bankrupts goods process comes to the Sheriff he shall leavy the
Escheated shall be sold but Quere if it Escheat after the Commission and Death of the Bankrupt One bargains and sells a Seigniory to a Bankrupt and after Commission the Bankrupt dies and the Deed is Inrolled after the Commission The Bankrupt having Land holden in Capite dies his Heir within Age and Office is found if they can sell The same if his Heir be an Ideot or a Lunatick A Bankrupt becomes Lunatick an Office is found A Bankrupt is Tenant in Tail the remainder in the King if it can be sold but for the Life of the Tenant in Tail Tenant in Tail grants all his Estate and becomes a Bankrupt the Land shall not be sold Tenant in Tail of a Rent is disseised thereof and dies his Issue is a Bankrupt and brings a Formedon yet the Rent shall be sold Two joynt Tenants the one is a Bankrupt and dies if his part shall be sold not because the Survivor is not in by him Tenant in Tail the remainder to an Alien Tenant in Tail is a Bankrupt and suffers a Recovery the Land is sold Tenant in Tail dies without Issue an Office is found if the Land shall be sold for the King 8. What Copyholds they may sell and what agreement made with the Lord is good The Lord sells the Freehold of one sole Copyholder to A. the Copyholder becomes a Bankrupt if the Commissioners can sell Copyholder in Tail with a remainder where no Recoveries or where Recoveries are remedied against the Lord who will not compound A Copyholder by License of the Lord makes a Lease for One and Twenty Years the Copyhold Escheats Quere if the Lease is good against the Lord. A Feme by Custom is to have a Widows Estate the Bankrupt makes such a Lease if the Feme shall avoid it A Bankrupt Copyholder makes a Feoffment the Lord enters the Commissioners sell the Vendee tenders a competent Fine the Lord refuseth to admit him the Vendee enters the Lord brings Trespass it lieth not A Bankrupt makes waste the Commissioners sell the Lord enters for a Forfeiture A Copyholder surrenders into the hands of two Tenants he to whose use is a Bankrupt the Lord dissolves the Mannor 9. What Fees Annuities Offices Goods Chattels and Debts the Commissioners may sell A Merchant acknowledgeth himself to be the Villane of I. S. the Commissioners may Assign his Debts Quere of his Goods A Lease for Years provided that he shall not alien the Commissioners sell if it be a Forfeiture 10. What Uses Interests Rights or Titles of a Bankrupt the Commissioners may sell A Bankrupt hath an Advowson the Church becomes void the Commissioners sell the Vendee presents if this be Symony A Bankrupt prefents one who is privy to his Bankrouting who is Indicted the Commissioners sell their Vendee brings a Quare impedit within six Months A Bankrupt hath a Warranty what use the Vendee shall have of it A Bankrupt hath the next avoidans the Commissioners present one for Money paid to the Creditors The Disseisor dies seized after five Years the Disseisee becomes a Bankrupt A Woman hath a Rent charge she takes a Husband a Bankrupt who Distrains and Rescous is made if the Commissioners can sell all the Rent which shall be due during the Coverture 1 E. 3. fol. 5. Pl. 23. The Commissioners sell a Rent or Reversion if good without Attornment A Bankrupt loses by erroneous Judgment if this right to bring a Writ of Errour may be transferred by the Commissioners The same of an Entry for condition broken or performance of a condition A Bankrupt becomes Lunatick the Commissioners sell an Office is found 11. What Deed Inrolled in one of Her Majesties Courts of Record shall be good The Deed is not acknowledged before any of the Masters of the Chancery by the Commissioners The Deed is not Inrolled within six Months the Statute of Inrolements saith by Bargain and Sale only I. S. By prescription holdeth Plea in his Mannor above Forty Shillings the Deed is there Inrolled after Sale and before Inrolment the Bankrupt takes a Wife and die if she shall be endowed the Deed is inrolled in the Mayors Court in London no question of the Hustings 12. What shall be said a just Debt and how the Statute shall make an apportionment between the Creditors what is their duty to do and what remedy they have for their Portions and who shall be said a Creditor and who shall be relieved A Merchant indebted as Surety or Bail for a Gentleman but not for himself If one may Sue for a Legacy before the Commissioners How a Debt doubtful shall be tried before the Commissioners For Money decreed to him in the Chancery or Star-Chamber One Creditor sole Sues a Commission and keeps it with him secretly until the last day within four Months and then the Commissioners sell the Land and pay all to this Creditor the others never having notice thereof what remedy for them The Commissioners sell all the Land and distribute all but this is not full satisfaction after other Land descends to the Bankrupt if they can make another sale and new distribution The four Months are past and part of the Estate distributed new Creditors come in if they shall be admitted to have contribution of the rest which is not yet distributed and if such new Creditors shall have allowance ratably with the other Creditors according to the Remnant of their Debts or according to all paid or not paid A Bankrupt becomes indebted to one who had notice that he is a Bankrupt if he shall be admitted a Creditor One hath a Debt which is not yet due yet he shall be relieved with rateable respect of abatement for the time 13. What Act or Conveyance made by a Bankrupt before or after he is a Bankrupt shall be good He takes a Wife after he is a Bankrupt if she shall be indowed of Land which he had before He takes a Wife after he is a Bankrupt and Land descends to him if she shall be indowed A Bankrupt Disseisor the Commissioners sell and before the Deed is inrolled the Disseisor releases to the Bankrupt A Bankrupt presents one who is private to his intent who is indicted the Commissioners sell the Vendee brings a Quare impedit A Bankrupt becomes a Clerk-Convict and hath Goods within a Liberty A Bankrupt after Commission awarded becomes felo de se A Conveyance to the use of a Daughter a Widow formerly advanced A Merchant Tenant in Knight-service his Heir within Age makes a Feoffment by collusion the Lord after becomes a Bankrupt this is no fraud against the Creditors but yet the Land shall be sold for though it be fraud between the Lord and the Tenant yet there is a Trust between the Feoffor and Feoffee 14. What Declaration or Account the Commissioners shall make to the Bankrupt and whether the Proviso be a Condition and what remedy the Bankrupt hath for to cause them to account The Commissioners all
married B. being a poor Maid releases to A. and his Heirs to the use of B. and his Heirs Females of his Body they have Issue a Son and a Daughter B. dies the Daughter makes a Lease to C. for one and twenty years rendring the ancient Rent and dies having Issue E. a sole Merchant born upon the Coast of Flanders and is married to F. a Citizen of London born in the Port of Deep A. makes a Feoffment to F. who is outlawed for Debt The Feme is a Bankrupt within this Division and the Land shall be sold but subject to the Lease made to C. 2. One hath a House of Gavelkind and purchases Estovers to this House out of Land in Borough English and dies having two Elder Brothers they make partition of the House the Younger is Executed for Felony the Lord enters into a Moiety the Elder Brother born in Virginia and using to give Gold for Silver contrary to the Statute and for that is condemned in 100 l. in an Action upon the Statute at the sute of the Informer and the King and remains in Execution at the King's sute for six Months the Informer and I. S. a Creditor sue forth a Commission The Elder Brother is a Bankrupt within this Division but no part of the Land shall be sold by this Commission 3. The Lessor when the King was absent in Scotland enters upon the Lessee for life and die seised his Heir for Money paid by a Merchant Naturalized makes a Feoffment to him and to a Feme sole an Alien the Merchant and the Feme inter marry the Lessee and the Stranger make Livery by Letter of Attorney the Baron is made Church-warden and being non-solvent keeps the Church Office is found The Baron is a Bankrupt within this Division and all the Land shall be sold 4. White-Acre is given to A. and B. Baron and Feme and to the Heirs of the Baron for the Joynture of the Feme a Disseisor enters and levies a Fine to C. who marries D. an Alien A. dies five years pass D. is sole Merchant and made Denizen upon condition that she shall not depart the Realm without her Husband's leave B. brings Dower of Black-Acre the Heir of A. enters into White-Acre D. being non-solvent Elopes into Scotland C. enters The Feme is a Bankrupt within the Statute and White-Acre shall be sold 5. A Tenant for life and B. an Infant in reversion born in Greenland they levie a fine to C. B. uses his stock in the Muscovia Company and reverses the fine A. surrenders to the King by Deed B. being of full age and indebted to the Company procures himself to be arrested and after he grants the reversion to the King by Deed inrolled and after the first Deed is inrolled the Company sues a Commission B. is a Bankrupt within the Statute and the Commission is well awarded and the Land shall be sold 6. A. and B. a Merchant-Stranger enter upon C. the Heir of a Disseisor B. is made Denizen for seven years the Disseisee releases to A. who makes a Lease for years rendring Rent upon condition to re-enter for non-payment the Heir releases to B. the Land is extended for the Debt of A. B. is non solvent the extender enters for non-payment B. keeps his House seven years pass Office is found A. dies B. is a Bankrupt within this Division and the Land shall be sold subject to the Lease but not to the Extent 7. A Lord hath the Goods of Outlaws within his Mannor and M. his Tenant who was born in Gernsey is a Meal-man and outlawed and for redemption of his Goods enters into an Obligation to the Lord to pay 100 li. B. recovers 10 li. against him for Battery the Lord leases to him a Wind-mill M. reverses the Outlawry and being in Debt to a Scotch-man an Irish man and a Dutch man for Corn before his day of payment ceases to be a Meal-man and becomes a Miller and being non-solvent keeps himself in the Mill. He is a Bankrupt within the Statute but the Debts are not remedied by this Statute 8. An Accountant to the King hath a Seigniory and dies his Son being a Merchant and born upon the River of Canada releases to the Tenant all the services for the life of the Tenant who dies without Heir a Stranger abates the Son being non solvent goes to Barmudas a Commission is awarded for the King upon the Statute of 39 Eliz. cap. 7. and another Commission is upon the Statute of Bankrupts the Commissioners for the King sell the Tenancy to A. the Commissioners of Bankrupts sell the Seigniory to B. The Son is a Bankrupt within this Statute and B. shall recover the Land against the abator by Writ of Escheat 9. A. makes a Lease of years to B. a Merchant-Stranger Denizen of Ireland upon condition to have for life if he pay 10 li. at M. and to have in fee if he repair a High-way before Christmas rendring Rent upon condition to re-enter for non-payment the first condition is performed B. being non-solvent returns to Ireland and there stays in his House the Rent is due at the Feast of All Saints and is demanded and Arrear B. performs the second condition B. is a Denizen within the intent of this Statute but the King shall have the Land during his life Vpon the Second Division The Points of the First Case 1. IF one may release to one to the use of another 2. Two Disseisors are and they intermarry and the Disseisee releases to the Husband to the use of the Wife in tail where the Fee-simple is 3. If Marriage of a poor Maid be a good consideration to raise an use to the Maid or to A. 4. Lands are given to a Feme Covert and to her Heirs Females in tail she takes Husband hath Issue a Son and a Daughter if the Husband shall be Tenant by the Courtesie 5. If the Issue in tail in the life of Tenant by the Courtesie makes a present Lease if this shall be good against the Issue of the Issue after the death of Tenant by the Courtesie Points upon the Statute 1. IF a Feme Covert sole Merchant be within the Statute 2. If the Husband of such a Feme by her Bankrupting shall be also a Bankrupt 3. If the Outlawry of the Husband for the Wives debt shall make the one or the other or both Bankrupts 4. If the Lands or Goods of the Husband shall be sold for the Debts of the Wife 5. If the inheritance of the Wife shall be sold 6. If one born upon the Coast of Flanders is born out or within the King's Dominions 7. If one born in the Port of Diep is born within the King's Dominions 8. If the Wife of an Alien sole Merchant be within the Statute 9. If a Wife Alien and the Husband English be within the Statute 10. If the Estate of Tenant in tail a Bankrupt shall be sold 11. If by Entry of the
not properly upon this Statute for the death of a Bankrupt is not provided for by this Statute but plainly by the Statute of primo Ja. the last Clause and I think that even for the debt of such a Wife it shall be sold after his death and although I put it that a Feoffment is made to him by the Son which cannot work by way of Livery because he was Tenant in tail yet if the Donor will enfeoffe the Donee by Deed this will work to the increasing of his Estate by way of confirmation 7 H. 6. 5. If the Inheritance of the Feme shall be sold She hath power to forfeit it by Attainder or by Cessavit and by this Statute they may sell all the Bankrupts Lands lawfully that is by any lawful course of Conveyance depart with all 6. The Commission shall be in force against her after the death of her Husband for if her Husbands death shall not help his Heir a Fortiori it shall not help her that lives Also as the credit of the one was the credit of the other for who would trust a Woman whose Husband was known to be of no credit so the offence of the one is the offence of the other and the gains of the one the gains of the other 7. But if this Man and Woman be both Aliens then neither of them are within this Statute but another course must be taken with them by the Statute of H. 8. cap. The Woman was born upon the Coasts of Flanders and the Man in the Port of Diep and I hold them both born in the Kings Dominions for him that was born in the Port I mean in a Ship lying at that Port Town there is small question but it is within the Kings Dominions It is said of King H. 2. That he was the greatest King that ever was in England for he had all the Land and Sea under his Dominion from the Orcades to the Pireneian Mountains which sever France and Spain England and Scotland he had by the Norman Conquest they and Normandy were laid together by Hen. 1 Anjou Tourain and Main were the Inheritance of his Father the first Plantagenet Poytiers and Aquitaine he had by his Wife Britainy held of him as of his Dukedom of Britainy so as all the Sea Coast even from Calis to St. Sebastians in Spain was his so that the French King had no way nor passage to the Sea nor Jurisdiction in the Sea It is true that by the Attainder of King John for the murthering of Prince Arthur a great part of all this was seized by the King of France and in the end by R. 2. H. 6. and Queen Mary all the Land was lost but the Sea was never lost witness the Isles of Alderney which stand within three Miles of France and Gersey and Garnsey which the French to this day could never conquer and yet they speak French and indeed are all that is left to the King of England that was any part of the Dakedom of Normandy But the Coasts of Flanders is more doubtful for Flanders was never in the Jurisdiction of the King of England but yet they were never Masters of the Sea The Lord Admirals Jurisdiction that he claims is at this day as well of the German Ocean as in the Straights and we say the Dutchmen do us wrong to Fish in these Seas 8. But admit the Woman is an Alien yet I take it if her Husband be an Englishman they shall be both Bankrupts within the Statute he as I said by the Law and she by Law and Custom for as the Custom will allow her to be a sole Merchant if her Husband he a Citizen altho' she be an Alien so likewise shall her Estate be subject 9. But if he be an Alien yet all will be one for his Goods but his I ands are the Kings for if he will Trade and Traffiâ—ue by his Wife and her Credit being English and having Land and so have and enjoy the Priviledges and Benefits of a Subject by his Wives legitimation her Land and the Custom of the City there it is no reason but that he should be subject to such Laws as other Subjects are So as if the Wife be an Alien and the Husband a Subject or the Husband an Alien and the Wife a Subject they are clearly in both cases within the Statute for Goods but my Case is for Lands and in my Case I hold them both born within the Kings Dominions 10. But the greatest Question in my Case and a thing never yet put in uâ—e or questioned is if a Bankrupt is Tenant in tail if by the sale of the Commissioners the issue in tail shall be barred they shall for the words of this Statute and of the Statute of 26 H. 8. are all one The words of 26. are If any parsons shall be attainted of any High Treason by course of the Common Laws they shall forfeit to the Kings Majesty their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments wherein they have any Estate of Inheritance Our Statute is That the Commissioners by Deed enrolled may sell the offenders Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as well Free as Copy c. in neither of these Statutes are intailed Lands mentioned But we see in Walsingham's Case Plowd and in Dowghties Case and in common experience that an Estate tail is forfeited by 26 H. 8.13 But you will say in 26 H. 8. there be words more to carry it than in your Statute for that saith any Estate of Inheritance and an Estate tail is an Estate of Inheritance but our Statute hath words which tant amount for ours is of all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which he or she may lawfully depart withal and Tenant in tail may lawfully by fine cut off his issue And it is set down for Law that a gift in tail with condition that the Donee shall not levy a Fine is unlawful a void and repugnant condition for it is said in Mary Portington's Case there be three incidents to Estate tails at the Common Law by Statutes and by Custom By the Statute of 32 H. 8. cap. 28. to levy fines and no condition can take away that from an Estate that is incident to the Estate as it is put of Dower Tenant by the courtesie 11. The last is upon my conclusion admit that the issue in tail could avoid the Lease whether the Vendee hath the same priviledge If Tenant in tail make a Lease not warranted and dies and the issue levy a fine before entry 33 H. 8. Dier The Conizee shall not avoid the Lease 8 E. 3. p. 22. The same is if he accept the Rent or confirm the Lease before entry The Lord Bedford's Case Cook lib. 7. The Kings Gardian shall avoid The King hath the Temporalities of a Bishop he shall avoid and all this is for the benefit of the Heir or Successor and so in our case it is for the benefit of the Bankrupt for in the end they must
some say it is not for Bona Ecclesiae sunt partimonia pauperum the Apostles distributed communes distributiones quotidianas distributiones at Lincoln to this day Linwood Sacriledge But I hold it is for as in our Case if he pay it before hand it goes out of his own Purse if afterwards though it go out of his Benefice yet it is to be intended this is benefit to the Patron for since the Statute of 39 Eliz. cap. 3. made for the relief of the Poor the more the Parson gives the less the Patron needs give and Charity ought to be voluntary and not for hope of a Benefice or a Reward But I will agree that if it had been in consideration that he shall maintain the Patron if he be at any time in want during his life this is no Simony Patronum faciunt dos edificatio fundus Patrono debentur honos onus emolumentum Linwood fol. 157. De beneficiis est onus alendi Patron Ecclesiae ubi ad summam pervenit paupertatem Ergo c. But this is likewise given to the poor to the end that he may be made Minister Whether this be Simony I think this is Simony in the highest degree and the very same which Simon Magus would have committed for he offered the Apostles money to be admitted into the Ministery he knew and saw that they received nothing to their own private use all things were common with them and as I said they distributed to every man as he had need yet you all know how he was answered and what became on him even eo quod voluit and yet non potuit quod voluit facere malum But the Statute for gift reward or benefit to the Ordinary or any Friend of his and so thought to be Simony in Spiritual Law yet it is not within the Statute yes indeed it is for even as they say Si quis aliquid dederit alio quam praesentandi aut ordinatori si alias beneficium non esset habiturus est Simonia But then saith the Statute if such a Minister be to be presented instituted and inducted into any Benefice for seven years after that immediately after the induction the Benefice shall be void and it shall be lawful to the Patron to present another But here is the Question upon this Statute by the first branch the King is intituled by the second the Patron but the Kings interest makes it no induction at all A. dies and B. is instituted and inducted 4. But admit here is no Simony in the Case then riseth another Question Whether here be any good presentation or not Where the Case is no more but this one presents and his Clerk is instituted one other presents the first Clerk after institution and before induction dies whether this presentation when another was instituted be good at all Or whether his death before induction have made it good whereby the second may be instituted and inducted It is plain if one present in the life time of the incumbent the presentment is void 22 H. 6.27 By admission and institution one is Parson before induction and Linwood saith he hath jus ad rem in re But 5 Eliz. Dyer he hath jus ad rem but not in re and Hare and Buckley's Case he is like a Tenant in Dower that hath Judgment but no Execution Or like a Copy-holder after a Surrender and before admittance but neither to charge nor bring action But as in my Lord Digbies Case in Coke l. 4. A Parson having one Benefice is instituted into another and then gets a dispensation and then is inducted the induction shall so relate that the dispensation is of no force So his death shall make that he had by the institution no interest at all but that the second presentation is good and consequently the induction But if in the life time of A. B. had been both presented and instituted the institution had been meerly void and then the induction could never be good 13 Ja. B. R. if it be not in the Kings Case 5. Afterwards B. being inducted into the Benefice of 5 l. value is inducted into another and then recovers Lands of 20 l. value to the first whether this first be void by the Statute 21 H. 8. and I take it it is not The Statute is That having a Benefice of 8 l. accepts of another and is inducted into the same then the former Benefice shall immediately be adjudged to be void And altho' I am of opinion that this Law shall be taken strict and even extended by equity because it is to repress a great inconvenience in the Church and Common-wealth That yet nevertheless this word having shall be construed as it is in the Statute of 32. of Wills in Buttler and Bakers Case pro ut the Case so here And here is also this word immediately which is much inforced there because the Land could not descend immediately till disagreement A man infeofts a Feme Covert and then grants rent charge the Husband dies she waves if she had agreed it would have avoided the charge and yet the disagreement shall not make it good But I cannot compare it to a better Case than the Case of a Ward the Rule is If Tenant in Knights service die seised his Heir within Age shall be in Ward with this addition to the Rule that if he were disseised and might enter or if he had made a Feoffment upon Condition and the Condition were broken if the Lord or the Heir enter he shall be in Ward or if the Tenant for Term of Life of a Ward make a Feoffment and the Heir enter the Land shall be in Ward So be the Books of 17 ass 18 ass 18. 19 E. 3. Gard 114 and 48 E. 3. fo 8. But 12 H. 7.20 Frowick if the Heir recover by action Auncestrell he shall not be in Ward 15 E. 4.13 Urfwick chief Baron the same or if he pay money to redeem Land and enter for the Condition performed he shall not be in Ward so here I hold the same Rule if B. had been disseised of parcel of his Glebe or that it had been forfeited for a Condition broken the first Benefice would have been void but not in this Case I hold that if his Rectory were a Signiory and but of 5 l. value and then he accept a second Benefice and afterwards by the Escheat of a Tenancy it had come to be of 8 l. or 10 l. value it shall not in this Case be void 6. But this Clerk was a Marchant and turns Priest and now leaves his old debts unpaid whether he can be a Bankrupt because of the words using the Trade c. He is ruled in John Quarles Case my Lord Chief Justice being Recorder was a Commissioner for he left his Marchandizing and was turned Gentleman 7. Whether yielding of himself to Prison in the Admirals Court in an action whereof their Court hath no Jurisdiction be a yielding himself
attainted of Treason and suffers a common Recovery Office is found I. N. becomes a Bankrupt Tenant in tail dies without issue I. N. waives the remainder The Commissioners may sell the Moiety of this remainder 10. One grants an Advowson to a Feme Covert sole Merchant the Church becomes void the Husband in consideration that I. S. doth enter into Bond to preach twice a Week presents him to the Benefice the Feme becomes a Bankrupt the Husband dies the Feme waives the Grant the Commissioners within the six months sell the Presentation and the Advowson This is a good Sale of the Advowson but the King shall present 5. Division What Copyhold Lands of a Bankrupt the Commissioners may sell and in what case Composition shall be made with the Lord and in what not 1. A Tenant by Copy of Wh. Acre surrenders to the use of B. for years upon condition that he will not do waste and after he surrenders the reversion into the hands of two Tenants to the use of C. a Merchant in Fee the Lord makes a Feoffment of the Acre to D. C. departs the Realm and after is non solvent a Privy-Seal is awarded against him the Tenants present the surrender to the Court of the Lord C. will not return the Commissioners sell the Reversion to E. B. makes waste E. tenders Composition to D. who refuseth it and E. enters for the Condition broken The Sale is good and the entry of E. congeable but no Composition is due Points in the Case at Common Law 1. TEnant by Copy surrenders into the hands of two Tenants and the Lord separates the Freehold from the Mannor if the surrender is void 2. Tenant by Copy surrenders to one for years and after to the use of another in Fee if good without Attornement 3. If the Tenants are bound to Present the surrender at the Lords Court after he had separated the free hold from the Mannor That is whether the Presentment shall not interest the party to whose use c. by relation from the surrender 4. If Tenant by Copy surrender to the use of one for years upon condition and after he surrenders the reversion to the use of another in fee and after the condition is broken if the Grantee in reversion shall enter for the forfeiture by the Statute of 32 H. 8. Cap. 34. 5. If a Copy-holder Lessee for years by surrender commits waste if this is a forfeiture to the Lord or onely to him in reversion or of the reversion Points upon the Statute 1. IF a Merchant who departs by license and upon a privy Seal will not return but is non solvent shall be a Bankrupt 2. One had onely the free-hold of a sole Copy-holder if such Copy-hold may be transferred by sale of the Commissioners 3. A Copy-hold is surrendred to the use of a Husband who will not be admitted if the Commissioners can sell 4. Whether one fine 2. fines or no fine be due to the Lord 5. Admitting a fine were due and the Lord after tender refuseth it what remedy the Vendee hath for the Land or the Lord for the fine 1. When there is a Lord of a Mannor and Copy-holder of Inheritance surrenders into two Tenants hands and then the Lord makes a Feofment of the Copy-hold I take it that this severance of the Free hold and of the Copy-hold from the Mannor shall not destroy the surrender For when the Copy-holder hath once surrendred he hath dismissed himself of all his interest and the right is in the party to whose use the surrender was made Bunting Ca. Coke li. 4. The death of the surrenderer the death of the Tenants nor the death of the party to whose use the surrender was made shall not alter the Case But the party to whose use such a surrender is made hath such an interest as shall descend to his heir for his heir shall be admitted and by the same reason his interest shall remain notwithstanding the Lord sell the Free hold as it is said in Morrels case the custom hath so established and fixt the estate of the Copy-holders that the Lords severing it from the Mannor cannot alter it It was adjudged that the custome of a Mannor being that if Tenant for life by Copy die his Wife shall have her Widdowes estate the Lord dissolved his Mannor the Copy holders Wife died he took a new Wife and then he died the Second Wife had her Widdowes estate and yet there was no Court whether she could come to have the death of her Husband found and presented and where she might be admitted c. But admit that the Surrender had been made into the Lords hands out of the Court as by Melwich his Case it may or admit it had been made in Court and the party to whose use it was made had tendered the Lord his due fine and the Lord would demand more and so defer the admittance In these Cases the Law is plain that the party may enter and no Action lies by the Lord against him And what if the Lord dissolve the Mannor shall that alter the case No no more than if a Copy-holder of inheritance die and the Lord severs the Freehold from the Copy before the Heir be admitted this shall not destroy the Heirs estate but he may lawfully enter and hold it for ever without admittance 2. But here notwithstanding this severance of the Free hold from the Mannor the two Tenants present the Surrender the next Court held by the Lord for the Mannor The Question is first whether the Tenants were bound to do it or no And the next what is wrought by it And I take it they ought to present it For notwithstanding the Copy-hold be severed from the Mannor yet they are not severed they be Tenants still and they must do their duties and the rather because it is not altogether severed for Tenant for years of the Copy-hold remaines still Tenant to the Lord and his rents and duties are to be done to the first Lord and not to the Copy-holder in reversion But to what use is this presentment of theirs I take it to this use It shall have relation to the Surrender and interest of the party to whose use it was made from the time of the Surrender Like as an Office found 10. years after an escheat will intitle the King to all the mean profits from the death of the party Or as a Deed acknowledged to be Inrolled shall be Inrolled notwithstanding the death of any of the parties and shall have relation from the date of the Deed to intitle the Bargainee to the profits Or as a Legacy is given by Will cannot be sued for till the Will be proved and then the Probate makes the Legacy due by relation ever since the death of the Testator Even so the Presentment hath relation to intitle the party to whose use the Surrender was made from the time of the Surrender And this appears plainly by Rowswels Case
in Chancery Feme Tenant for life of a Copy-hold the Lord grants the Reversion to three the Baron Surrenders to one of them who first dies there the Lord would have kept the Land as occupant during the Husbands life 9 Eliz. Dyer 267. But it was decreed that if the Husband and Wife would surrender to the Surviving Lessees in reversion the Lord must admit them or else avoid the possession So if the Lord will not admit the party to whose use the party shall have the Lands if a man surrender to the use of his last Will and Testament the Lord shall not have the Land but the Tenant during his life 3. But before I go any further let us consider of this Lease it is by a Surrender upon Condition and he in reversion surrenders to anothers use and the Condition is broken My Question is whether he in reversion shall enter for the Condition by the Common Law he cannot then may he enter by the Statute of 32 H. 8. Cap. 34. of Conditions there be divers Statutes which reach Copy-holds though they be not named Heydons Case lib. 3. Copy-holders are Lessees within the Statute 32 H. 8. of Monasteries The Statute of Cui in vita Receipt quod ei defortiat Coke li. 4. Kite per Wray Copy-hold estate is within the Statute of Champertie and Maintenance 32 H. 8. Cap. 9. Dean and Chapter of Worcesters Case Coke li. 6. Copy hold is within the Statute of 13. Eli of Leases by spiritual persons Lands usually let c. Lillingstones Case adjudged 27. Eliz. That if the Lord infeoff the Copy-holder to anothers use that the Copy-hold is saved by the Proviso in the Statute of 27. H. 8. Margaret Podgers Case A Copy-holder is bound by Fine and 5. years The general rule is layed down in Heydons Case That all Statutes that may be for the good of the Copy-holder shall extend to them therefore I am of opinion that such a Grantee shall enter for non-payment of rent or for doing of waste as the words of the Statute are For it is for the good of the Copy-holders that their Farmers be bound to pay their Rents keep their Tenements in repair I should make small question of this if the Lease were made by license for then it is a plain lease at Common Law and an Ejectione firme will lie But here the Lessee comes in by the Lords admittance but that is answered by my Lord Cook when he is once admitted he is in immediately from the Surrender and in the Per. 4. But this Condition is for waste and it is broken whether is there a forfeiture to him in reversion or a forfeiture to the Lord of the estate in fee simple It is to the Lessor not to the Lord wherein I fall again upon the difference when it is by License and when by Surrender for I take him to be as if he had a particular estate with a remainder over In Podgers Case fo 107. Si cop pour vie sit semble al case del Duke of Norff. Points upon the Statute A Merchant being a sufficient man departs the Realm and beyond the Seas becomes non solvent and so refuses to return although he be served with a privy Seal to return Here be two Questions First whether he be a Bankrupt for not returning For he is not within the Compass of the Statute of departing the Realm The next Question is admitting him to be a Bankrupt Whether the King shall have his Goods as the goods of a Fugitive or else whether they shall go to satisfy the Creditors For the first I think he is a Bankrupt and although he be not within the compass of these words depart the Realm yet it is plain he is within these words absents himself for although his departure was no offence either to the King or his Creditors For Merchants both by the Common Law and notwithstanding the Statutes of 5 R. 2. Cap. 2. or the Statutes of 13 Eliz. might depart the Realm without license except the King as it is in Natura Brevium fol. 85. had made proclamation to the Contrary Yet the King not only by the Statute but by the Common Law as he may forbid a man to depart so he may send for him at his pleasure to return And that is proved by the express Book of 2 3 Phil. and Mary Dyer fol. 128. Where it is said That if he be commanded to return either by the privy Seal or the great Seal and refuse his Lands and his Chattels shall be siesed into the Kings hands and for that a President was found in the Exchequer where in Anno 19 E. 2. It was William de Brittains case although it is true as I said the first departure is no offence according to the Book of 13 Eliz. D. fol. 296. But then admitting he is a Bankrupt and admitting that by his refusal to return he hath forfeited all his Goods and Lands to the King The Question is whether the King or the Creditors shall be preferred And I take it the Creditors shall be preferred Yet He agree the rule is that when a title falls to the King and a Common person both at once the King shall be preferred Dame Hales Villain and Ideot Priority and Posteriority 5 E. 3. But I rely upon a Case which was ruled upon a Trial by my Lord Cok. 12. Jac. in t Newman and Martin ou Martin fuit adjudge Bankrupt because he was beyond the Seas c. 2. Points upon the Statute One hath the freehold and another hath the Copy-hold of one onely acre severed from the Mannor this is plain as it is in my Lord Cokes 4. reports in Case This Copy-hold by no means can be transferred from one to another But now our question is Whether this Copy may be sold by Commissioners I say Parliamentum potest omnia By Act of Parliament it may be sold And here the very words of the Parliament are That the Commissioners may sell his Copy-hold estate The Law was taken before Corbets case was first argued That it was impossible to cut off perpetuities yet there were divers before that were cut off by Act of Parliament and they all that argued for the perpetuites agreed that by Act of Parliament it might be done By the Common Law a thing in action cannot be transferred as a debt upon an Obligation Yet by the Statute of Bankrupt Jacobi primo we see it is done every day But it will be objected that the Statute goes on and saith That the Vendee shall compound with the Lord for the Fine and be admitted Now if there can be no admittance then no sale and it shall be intended such Copy-hold whereof admittance may be And in Dr. Bonhams case divers cases are put where divers Acts of Parliament are void and divers others construed directly contrary to the words But out of that Case I will prove this to be good for first this Act saith The
or Coroner be granted to one it cannot be granted over for such an Officer ought immediately to attend on the King without any mean for the office of a Sheriff as Sir John Davies saith well c. for life and I am of opinion that if this grant had been made before primo of E. 3. it had been a Tenure by grand Serjanty for then the Tenant could not alien without license upon pain of forfeiture But now it is otherwise so as I am of opinion that this grant being now made and in fee it was a tenure by grand Serjeancy for life in the first Patentee and his Patent was his Commission But when he doth alien or die it will be a soccage in Capite And yet if it should turn to be a Tenure by Knights service in Capite yet I shall maintain the case at latter end that the Commissioners may sell the land notwithstanding that the heir of the Bankrupt is within age and in Ward 2. A Bargain and Sale to Baron and Feme and a stranger and before inrollment they are divorced the Question is how they shall take as three several Jointenants or each shall have a third part or whether the husband and wife shall be jointenants for either of them a quarter part and the stranger a jointenant with them for a half part 35 Ass 15. It is plain that if one make a feofment to the husband and wife and a third person the Husband and Wife as one person take the one Moiety and th' other person the other Moiety vide Librum 7 H. 4. fol. 17. That they that be divorced the divorce will change and alter their estates as if Lands be given in tayl speciall to an Husband and Wife and then they are divorced the estate tayl is turned to a freehold and they are made jointenants by dividable Moieties whereas before they held by intireties and yet if they marry afterwards again they are Tenants in tayl again 3. 39 H. 6.43 The difference is taken between a feoffment before coverture and after for if it be before and then they intermarry if the Husband alien all and die the Feme shall have a Cui in vita but for a Moiety contrary if it be after marriage Copledikes Case 3. rep Baron and Feme jointenants the Baron suffers a recovery of all and dies it shall be good for nothing against the Wife But there have been many Questions raised how they shall take when a Conveyance is commenced before coverture and finished after or as our Case is when the Conveyance is commenced during coverture and finished after Divorce as if a reversion be granted to a man and Feme sole and they intermarry and the tenant attorns they shall take by entireties because by the Book of 48 E. 3. The Attornment shall not relate and yet if a Feoffment of a Mannor be made to a man Feme sole and they intermarry and then the Tenants attorn they shall be in of the whole Mannor by Moieties because in that case the Attornment will relate as it is proved by Longes Case which was Pa. 31 Eliz. Rot. 20 24. One made a Feoffment of a Mannor to which an Advowson was appendent the Church became void and the Tenants attorned it was adjudged that in this case the Attornment should relate and that the Feoffee not the Feoffer should present But in our Case here be two relations together the Relation of the Divorce and Relation of the Inrollment I have shewed that the Relation of the Divorce shall change their Estates and the Relation of the Inrollment will give it them as they were to take at the time of the ensealing of the Indent 6 E. 6. Bro. 6 E. 6. two Jointenants and one Bargains and sells all the Land and before Inrollment the other dies yet no more shall pass than the Party had at the time of the ensealing of the Deed. Surely the Deed relates to make them in by Intireties and the Divorce to make them Jointenants but shall this Relation of the Divorce change or alter the Estate of the third person And I take it this nothing at all concerns the Stranger nor shall it alter his Estate but it shall be as a matter of estopel binding the Baron and Feme but not to be respected of estrangers and this is proved by the writ of Cui ante divorcium for there the Feoffment of the Husband stood as a discontinuance till it was defeated Lex non oberit tertio extraneo prodesse alteri nemo tenetur sed obesse vetatur 48 E. 3.38 Tenant for Life the remainder for Life the remainder in Fee the first Tenant for life makes waste he in remainder in fee releases to him in remainder for life this shall not make him who was the first Tenant for life to be punishable in waste 43 E. 3.17 An appeal is brought against two as Principals and an exigent is awarded now the King is interested in their Goods they appear the Plantiff declares against one of them as principal and against the other as accessary the second desires to have restitution of his Goods he shall not for alteration of the plaint by and between the Plantiff and Defendant shall not by relation of any matter ex post facto prejudice the King or a third parties interest But before this Divorce A. grants the services to I. S. a Tenant to B. the Husband here ariseth three Questions at once 1. If one bargain to two and afterwards levies a Fine or Feoffment to one of them whether it be not such a disagreement to the former Contract as by that bargain the other shall have all and the Feoffee nothing and I think the other shall have all and the Feoffee or Conizee nothing 2. Whether if one bargain for a Mannor and before Inrollment the Bargainor grants by Fine or Feoffment parcel of the Mannor to the Vendee whether this destroys not the bargain for all It doth 3. There is Husband and wife and the Husband purchases by bargain and sale to him and his Wife and their Heirs and before Inrollment the Husband takes a Fine or a Feoffment of all and then the Deed is inrolled what shall the Wife have I think she shall have nothing For the first and for all these questions we must agree upon this ground which is set down in Hinds Ca. Coke li. 4. That if a man buy Lands by bargain and sale and before Inrollment he accepts of a Fine or a Feoffment he is in by the fine and the Inrollment is of no force The next rule is That if Lands be conveyed to two and the one will disagree in Court of Record or disclaim in the tenancy all vests in the other 17 E. 3. fo 6. a Placito 18. A gift in tail was made to the Husband and Wife and they had issue and the Baron died the Wife disagreed all descended to the issue 10 E. 4. fol. 13. The Tenant infeoffs