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A63787 Jus filizarii, or, The filacer's office in the Court of King's-Bench setting forth the practice by original writ, with several precedents and other matters relating thereunto : and also a presentment of the fees of all the officers in the said court : very usefull for the filacers and all other practicers in that court / by John Trye ... Trye, John. 1684 (1684) Wing T3173; ESTC R21039 115,595 300

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Measure the Secondly delay of Execution after Judgment had and obtained IT is very well known to all Practicers I presume in this Court that in all actions brought by Bill in this Court in which after the Plaintiffs have recovered and are ready to take out Execution that a Writ of Errour may be brought thereupon by the Defendant returnable in the Court of Exchequer-Chamber and very easie at all times to be purchased but in all actions brought by original Writ and Judgments thereupon had and obtained no Writ of Errour lieth thereupon but must be returnable in the high Court of Parliament and that not so easie to be purchased the charges thereof being very great the Fees being most or all of them double over and above what those are of Writs of Errour returnable in the said Court of Exchequer-Chamber and upon the affirmation of such Judgment in Parliament there is always very great costs awarded and taxed to the Defendant in the Writ of Errour who is Plaintiff in the action for delay of his Execution occasioned by such Writ of Errour besides no Writ of Errour can be obtained in such case but when there is a Parliament in being for no Writ of Errour can or ought to be returnable ad proximum Parliamentum in regard it would be so great a prejudice and delay to the Subjects Plaintiffs in such actions the times of convening of Parliaments being so uncertain and onely lying in the King's power as Supreme it being his Royal Prerogative to Call Prorogue Adjourn and Dissolve them when he pleaseth So that for the reasons aforesaid Writs of Errour are seldom brought upon such Judgments as are recovered upon actions brought by original Writ Nay yet farther also after all this when such Judgments before obtained by Bill are affirmed upon the Writ of Errour in the Exchequer-Chamber yet may a Writ of Errour per Stat. de Anno. 27. Eliz. Cap. 8. be brought returnable as aforesaid in the said high Court of Parliament to the intollerable delay and vexation of the Plaintiffs in such actions a thing which the common Law of England in its own nature abhors and detests it being Festinum Remedium and its property such as in some reasonable time suum cuique dare and therefore it is certainly the best way so to bring actions and after such a manner especially where Titles of Land are concerned or great damages likely to be recovered that so after Judgment had Execution may not long be delayed which is for the good and interest of the Subjects who are Plaintiffs in such actions That against some sort of Persons and in Thirdly some sort of Actions there is no other way to proceed in the said Court but by Original Writ BY the Law of this Land no Peer First as to Persons thereof ought by his Body to be taken or arrested by virtue of any Writ or Process in any Civil Cause whatsoeever But although he may not be arrested yet may an Original Writ of Pone in the nature of a Summons as the Case requires issue out of the High-court of Chancery to cause him to appear at the return of such Writ in this Court there to answer the Plaintiff in such Writ named to his Complaint therein mentioned and if the Sheriff to whom such Writ is directed do thereupon return that he hath taken Pledges of such Peer to appear in this Court according as by the said Writ he was commanded and he do not appear accordingly Then upon such return there may be had from the Filizer of the said County a Writ of Distring directed to the said Sheriff commanding him that he distrain such Peer by all his Lands and Chattels c. in order to cause him to appear and if he do not thereupon appear and such Sheriff return issues thereupon ad valentiam c. Then the said Filizer may make forth an Alias distring and also upon return thereof a Plur. distring ad infinitum untill such Peer do appear and it is the usual course for such Sheriff to increase or double the issues upon every return but if he return but small issues the Plaintiff if he pleases may move this Court that such Sheriff may return better Issues that is to say greater Issues all which Issues must be by the Plaintiff's Attorney brought into the Filizer's Office who made out such Distring and from thence estreated into the Court of Exchequer there to be levied upon such Peer's Lands and Chattels by way of forfeiture to the King for his not appearing as aforesaid And upon a nichil habet returned by the Sheriff upon such Distring there may go out a Testat distring into another County where such Peer hath Lands or Chattels and be proceeded upon as aforesaid But if in case that such Sheriff do return likewise a nichil habet upon such Writ of Pone before-mentioned then the Attorney for the Plaintiff may have an alias or rather a Testat Pone from the said Filizer directed unto the Sheriff of that County where such Peer liveth and hath sufficient and upon a return of Pledges taken as aforesaid the said Attorney may proceed thereupon by Distring ad infinitum in form aforesaid And besides such honourable Persons as Peers who for their honour are said to be à Latere Regis and are protected by Law from attaching or arresting by their Bodies in all Civil Causes as is before said There are other Persons that in their politick capacity cannot be arrested or attached such are all Corporations and Societies of men that act all under one Common Seal of their Corporation as the Mayor Aldermen c. of any City The Dean and Chapter of W. The Master Wardens and Fellows of a College and the like and any Company incorporated in the City of London or elsewhere And likewise all Hundreders in any County which are liable to be sued upon the Statute of Huy and Cry where Robberies are committed and Felons escape such Bodies of Men being very numerous and no single Person in his natural capacity bound to answer in any Action whatsoever but yet they may be proceeded against to be made appear and answer in the same manner and way as the Peers of this Realm may by Distring ad infinitum and after Judgment had any of their Goods and Chattels may be taken in Execution and if it be in the Case of Corporations they must by their bye Laws apportion the Levari upon the rest and thereby ease him or them whose Goods are taken and if it be in the case of Hundreders then any Person or Persons grieved may complain to two of the Justices of the Peace of the County wherein such Robbery was committed whereof one to be of the Quorum who have full power by the Statute of 27 of Eliz. cap. 13. to tax and rate the said Hundred for and towards an equal contribution of the damages recovered that so the burthen of the Execution may
Judgment of the Court but of the Coroners of the County against the Defendant for his contempt in not appearing upon the Exigent that he be outlawed there this Court hath a power to reverse that Judgment within themselves by a Writ of Errour which may be called a Writ of Errour coram nob residen and this appears by the Register of Writs folio 133. Title-errour in these words Rex c. Dilect fidelib suis F. P. Milit. Capital Justic nostro Sociis suis Justiciariis nostris ad placita in Cur. nostra coram nob tenend assign Salutem Quia in recordo processu ac etiam in promulgatione utlagariae in T. S. nuper de K. in Com. H. Yeoman in London nuper promulgat coram nobis ut dicitur retornat Error intervenit manifestus ad grave dampnum ipsius T. sicut ex querela sua accepimus Nos error si quis fuerit modo debito corrigi eidem T. plenam celerem Justitiam fieri volentes in hac parte vobis mandamus Quod si utlagaria praedicta coram nobis retornat existit tunc visis recordo processu utlagariae praed vocat coram vobis quos in hac parte fore videritis evocand ulterius pro adnullatione utlagariae praedictae fieri facias quod de jure secundum legem consuetud Regni nostri Angliae fuerit faciend T. c. But this Writ of Errour is not to be made by the Filizer although inserted here but as all others doth belong to the Cursitor to make the which together with the Return thereof and all the Process of Outlawry thereupon must be entred on the Filizer's Rolls of that County where the Action lies and Bail must also be given as in other cases of reversal And indeed were it that such Writ of Errour could not be brought returnable in this Court but in Parliament considering their intervals what great prejudice would arise thereby to such Defendants against whom all Writs and Process are duly returned and filed which the Attorney for the Plaintiff may doe if he think it fit though it is usual to forbear filing of the Proclamation thereby to let the Defendant come in if he will to reverse the Outlawry for want of a Proclamation by motion in Court as before is set forth and so may appear to the Action And this short account may suffice as to this matter it being but very seldom used to file all the Process whereby to put the Defendant to bring a Writ of Errour to reverse such Outlawry How to proceed to the Outlawry after Judgment IT hath been made a Question whether such Process could lie in this Court or not and the reason alledged hath been for that after a Recovery of a Judgment had and obtained although upon an Action brought by Original Writ such recovery is a Debt and no Action will lie for this it being grounded upon matter of Record but an Action of Debt in which Action this Court hath not used to proceed by Original Writ But in answer thereunto in this Case the Plaintiff doth not bring his Action but onely as it were pursues the having of his Execution to which end the Attorney for the Plaintiff is to take out from the Filizer a Capias ad satisfaciendum directed to the Sheriff of that County where the Action is laid and upon a non est inventus returned and filed the Filizer of that County will make out an Exigent post Capias and as is said before in the said Statute of the thirteenth year of his now Majesty's Reign which hath made a provision there for the proceedings in such Cases that there must be fifteen days between the Teste and Return of such Cap. So that if there were nothing else to prove it but the words of that Statute that were sufficient in it self But it may easily be farther proved that several Filizers of this Court have made out the same for several Attorneys It appears by the late Filizer of London's Books that in 9 Car. primi he made out one for one Barnard an Attorney and the like in the same year for one Woodward an Attorney and in the year 1651. the like for one Walpole an Attorney and in the year 1662. the like for one Marshall an Attorney all Attornies of this Court and the now Filizer of Yorkshire hath done the like and also the now Filizer of London hath done the like and that not onely upon Judgments recovered upon Actions brought by Original Writ but also upon Judgments affirmed upon Writs of Errour brought upon Judgments given in inferiour Courts in Actions of the Case and the like Actions that are usually brought in this Court by Original Writ And this Proceeding being very rare and seldom that it runs to so far a Line a few Precedents in this nature must serve the turn and may be sufficient to prove that it is at the Election of the Plaintiff if he pleaseth to proceed as well to the Outlawry after Judgment whereby the Defendant is again warned as it were to come in and pay the Plaintiff his damages recovered as to bring any action of Debt upon the said Judgment Somewhat concerning Imparlances upon Suits brought by Original Writ IT is to be presumed the course of this Court in this particular is not altered since the year of our Lord 1654. wherein in Michaelmas Term in that year this Court made several Orders and Rules and published them in Print under the hands of the then Judges to wit Henry Rolls Richard Aske and Richard Newdigate and among them these following For asmuch as some inconveniences do some times happen to the Plaintiffs by entring their Declarations in special Actions It is therefore ordered that the Plaintiff in such special actions shall have liberty to enter Imparlances the next Term following entring the same of the first Term with an Incipitur as it hath been usual and that all other Imparlances be duely entred before any Issues Demurrers or Judgments thereupon be entred That if a Defendant appear the first Term and give no rules to declare the Defendants Attorney may the second Term be compelled to accept a Declaration with an Imparlance and the Declaration may be entred as of that Term with an Imparlance over to the next Term or in the first Term with an Incipitur as before as the case shall require That if the Plaintiff declare not the second Term though the Defendant give no Rules yet a Non-suit may be entred at the end of the second Term upon a continuance over by him by dies datus but not the third Term or after Upon a mere real action an Imparlance to be of course That in Ejectment or any personal Action if the appearance be the first return of Hilary or Trinity-Term no Imparlance without consent or special rule In causes other than London or Middlesex if the appearance be before Crastin Martini or Mensem Paschae no