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A68633 An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set foorth and augmented, both in french and English, for the helpe of such younge students as are desirous to attaine the knowledge of ye same. Whereunto are also added the olde Tenures; Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum. English and Law French Rastell, John, d. 1536.; Rastell, William, 1508?-1565. 1579 (1579) STC 20706.5; ESTC S115758 196,680 894

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great discretiō take the helpe and opinion of some skilful Surgeon to consider thereof before they determine vpon the case Mainprise MAinprise is when a mā is arrested by capi as then the Judges may deliuer his bodie to certeine menne for to keepe and to bringe him before them at a certaine daye and these be called mainpernours and if the partye appeare not at the daye assigned the mainpernoures shal be amerced Mannour MAnnour is a thinge compounde of diuers thinges as of a house lande arrable pasture meadowe woode rent auowson court baron and such like make a manor this ought to be by longe contynuaunce of time to the contrary● whereof mans memory cannot tel for at this day a manor cānot be made because a court baron cānot nowe be made and a manour cannot be w tout a court baron suters or fréeholders two at the least for if all the fréeholdes except one escheate to the lord or if he purchase al except one there his manor is gone for that it cannot bée a mannor without a court Baron as is aforesaid and a court baron cannot bée holden but before suters not before one suter therfore where but one fréehold or fréeholder is there cannot bée a mannour Manumission MAnumission is in ii sortes the one is a manumission expressed the other a manumissiō implyed or secreat Manumission expressed is when the Lord maketh a déed to his villen to enfraunches hym by this word Manumittere which is as much to say as to let one goe out of an other mans hands or power The manner of manumittinge or infraunchising in old time most vsually was thus The Lorde in presence of hys neyghbours toke the bonde manne by the heade saying I wil that this manne be frée and therewyth shewed him forwarde out of hys handes and by this hée was frée without anye more a doe Manumissyon implyed wythout this woode Manumittere is when the lorde maketh an obligation to his villē to pay him money at a certein daye or suith him wher he might enter without sute or graunteth vnto his vyllen an annitie or lesseth lande to him by déede for yeres or for life in dyuers such like cases y e villen thereby is made frée Maximes MAximes be the foundations of the lawe the conclusions of reason and are causes efficient certein vniuersall propositions soe sure and perfect that they may not bée at any time impeached or impugned but ought alwaies to bée obserued and holden as strong principalles and aucthorities of thēselues although they cannot be proued by force of argument or demonstratiōs logicall but are knowen by enduction by y e way of sence memory As for example it is a maxime that if a man haue issue 2. sonnes by diuers women and the one of them purchase landes in fée and dieth wythout issue the other brother shall neuer be hys heyre c. Also it is an othermaxime that lāds shal discēd frō the father to y e sōne ▪ but not frō the sōne to y e father for that is an ascention c. diuers such like there be Maynour MAynour is when a théefe hath stolne and is followed with hue and cry and taken hauing y t founde about him which he stole that is called the maynour And so we cōmonly vse to saye when we finde one doing of an vnlawfull act that wée tooke him with the maynour or maner Misprision MIsprision is when on knoweth that an other hath committed treason or felony and will not discouer him to the Q. or to her councell or to any magistrat but doth conceale the same A chapleine had fixed an olde seale of a patent to a newe patent of non residence and this was holden to bée misprision of treason onely and noe counterfeiting of the Q. seale Also if a man knowe mony to be counterfet bringe the same out of Irelād hither into England and vtter it in payment this is but mysprision of treason and no treason soe it is in diuers such like cases And in al cases of misprision of treason y e partie offendor shall forfayt his goods for euer and y ● profets of his landes for terme of his life and his body to prison at the Q. pleasure And for misprision of felonie or trespas y e offēdour shalbée committed to prison vntill hée haue founde suerties or pledges for his fine which shal be assessed by y e ducretion of y t Justices before whom he was conuict And note that in euerie treason or felonye is included misprision and where any hath cōmitted treason or felony the Q. may cause y e sāe to be indited and arramed but of misprision onely if she will Shewinge of deedes or Recordes SHewinge of déedes or Recordes is as if for example an actyon of dette be brought against one vppon an obligation or by Executors c. there after that the pleyntife hath declared he ought to shewe his obligatiō or y ● executour the testamēt to the court and soe it is of Recordes And the diuersitye béetwene shewing of deeds or Recordes hering of déeds or records is thus he y ● pleades the deede or record or declares vppon it to him it doth appertaine to shewe the same And the other agaynst whom such déede or record is pleaded or declared and is thereby to bée charged may demaunde hearing of the same déed or record which his aduersarie brigeth or pleadeth against him Mortgage or Morgage MOrtgage or Morgage is whē a mā maketh a feoffement to another on such condition that if the feoffour pay to the feoffée at a certaine day xl li. of money that then the feoffour may reenter c. In thys case the feffée is called tenaunt in morgage And as a mā may make a feoffement in fée in morgage so hée may make a gift in tayle or a lease for terme of life or for term of yeares in morgage And it seemeth that the cause why it is called morgage is for that it standeth in doubt whether the feoffor will pay the money at the day appointed or not and if hée fayle to pay then y ● land which hée layed in gage vppon condition of paymēt of y e money is gone from him for euer so dead to him vpō cōditiō But if he pay y ● money then is the gage dead as to y ● tenāt y t is to say the feoffée for this cause it is called in latin mortuum vadium as master Littleton sayth or rather mortuum vas as I thinke Mortmaine MOrtmaine was whē lands were geuen to a house of religion or to a cōpany which be corporat by y e kings graūt then the land is cōe into mortmain that is to say in English a dead hand and the kynge or the lord of whō y e lād to holden may enter into thē Mulier MUlier is a word vsed in our lawe but howe aptly I cannot tell nor doe wel knowe howe
will serue in that case to say that hymselfe was borne in Kent it is for good reason to be doubted ● And y t they ought not y e Eschetor of the kynge to choose nor euer in any time did they But the kinge shall take or cause to bée taken suche a one as it shal please hym to serue him in that whych shal be néedeful 3 And that they may their lands their tenemēts giue and sel without licence asked of their lords Sauing vnto the Lordes the rents and y e seruices due out of the same tenements 4 And that al and euery of them may by writ of the king or by playnt plede for y e obtaininge of their right as wel of their Lordes as of other men 5 And they claime also y t the cōminaltie of Gauelkind men which hold none other then tenemēts of Gauelkind nature ought not to cōe to y e cōmon summons of y e Eire but onely by the Borsholder fower mē of the Borowe Except the townes which ought to aunswere by twelue men in the Eire The like to this priuiledge is enioyed at thys day in y ● sherifes Lathe where many whole borowes be excused by the onely apparaunce of a Borsholder two foure or sixe other of y ● inhabitants Borsholder is so named of y e sa●ō wordes Borber caldor y t is to say the most auncient or elder of the pledges 6 And they claime also that if any tenant in gauelkynd bée attainted of selony for the which hée suffereth Judgement of death the kyng shal haue al hys goodes and hys heire sorthw t after hys death shal be inheritable to al his lands and tenemēts which held in Gauelkind in fée and inheritance And he shal hold them by the same seruices customes as hys auncestors helde them whereuppon it is said in Kentish The father to the bough And the son to the plough But this rule holdeth in case of felony and of murder onely and not in case of Treason at al● And it holdeth also in case where y e offendor is iustised by order of lawe and not where he withdraweth himselfe after the fault committed will not abyde his lawfull tryall And because that thys custome shal not be cōstrued by equity but by a straight and literal interpretation it hath therefore bin doubted whether the brother or vncle shall haue y ● aduauntage therof because the woordes extend to y ● sonne onely See 22. E. 3. abridged by master Brooke tit Custome 54. 7 And if he haue a wife forthwith be shée endowed by the heire if hee be of age of the one halfe of al the landes and tenements which her husband held of Gauelkynd nature in fée to haue to hold accordyng to the forme hereafter declared And of such lands y ● kinge shall not haue the yere nor wast but onely the goodes as is béefore said The wife shall not lose her dower for the default of her husbande but in such case where the heire shal lose his inheritance for the offence of his father 8. Henry 3. 8 And if any manne of Gauelkinde eyther for felonie or for suspicion of felonie withdrawe him out of the countrey and bee demaunded in the countie as he ought be afterwarde vtlawed or put himselfe into the holy church and abiure the lande and the Realme the kinge shall haue the yeare and the wast of his landes and of al his tenementes together with al his goodes and chattels Soe that after the yeare and the day the next Lord or lordes shal haue their Eschetes of those landes and tenements euery lorde that which is immediatly holden of him So is it holden in the bookes 8. E. 2. abridged by master Fitz. ti Prescriptiō 50. 22. E. 3. abridged by master Brooke ti Custome 54. 9 And they claime also that if any tenaunt in Gauelkinde and bée an inheritor of lands tenemēts in Gauelkind y ● al his sonnes shal part y ● inheritāce by equal portiōs 10 And if there bee noe heire male let y e partitiō be made betwene the females euen as betwene bro. But y ● statut of Praerog regis cap. 16. sayeth That the females shall not deuide wyth the males which is to bée vnderstode of such as bée in equall degrée of kynred as Brothers and sisters as in this ix and. x. deuision For if a man haue issue iij. sonnes the eldest haue issue a daughter and die in the life of his father and the father dieth In this case the daughter shalioyne with the two other brethren her vncles for that shée is not in equal degrée w t them as her father was whose heire neuerthelesse she must of necessity be 11 And let the messuage also be departed betwene them but the Astre shall remayne to the yongest sonne or daughter and be the value thereof deliuered to each of the parceners of y ● heritage frō xl féete from y t Astre if y ● tenement wil soe suffer By this worde Astre is ment as is cōiectured either the hall or chéefe roome of the house ▪ eyther else the well for water or the south side of the buildinge for Astre beeinge sounded without s may come of the latin worde Atrium which signifieth a Hall or of Haustrum whichbe tokeneth the bucket of a wel or of Austrum the south side euery of which haue their particular cōmodities aboue the rest of y ● house or tenement Or otherwise being soūded with s it may be deduced from y e frēch word Asistre by contraction Astre which is as much as a site or situation and with the article le before it Lester a churchyarde or Court about a house But at this daye there is no such regarde made ī y ● particiō but ōly consideration had that the parts them selues be equal indifferent 12 And then let the eldest brother haue y ● first thoyse and the others afterwarde accordinge to their degrée 13 Likewise of houses which shal bee founde in such messuages let them be departed amongst the heires by equall portyons that is to wéete by foote if néede be Sauinge the Couert of the Astre which shal remain to the yongest sonne or daughter as is beforesaid Soe neuerthelesse that y ● yongest make reasonable amends to his parceners for the part which to them belongeth by the awarde of good men 14 And of the aforesayd tenements whereof one onely suit mas wont to be made before time be there not by reason of y ● particion but one sole suit made as it was before accustomed but yet let all the parceners make contribution to y ● parcener which maketh y ● sint for them 15 In like sortlet y ● goods of Gauelkind persons be parted into thrée partes after the funerals and y ● debts payed if there bée lawful issu on liue so y t y e dead haue one part his lawfull sonnes doughters an other part
holdeth ouer of y ● lorde aboue him As if y ● tenāt hold of y ● mesne by homage fealty xx s. of rēt yerely y e mesne holdeth ouer of y e lord aboue by homage fealty xx s. rent also this is called owelty of seruices Hearing of Recordes and deedes c. HEaringe of Records déeds is if for example an actiō of det be brought against a man vppon an obligation and the defendant appéeres to the action and then praieth y t he may heare the obligatiō where with the plaintife chargeth him Soe it is when as executors bringe an action ofdet and the defendant demaundeth to heare the testament vpon this demaund it shal be read vnto the desendaunt But if it be in an other ●erme or after y ● the defendant hath imparled then hée shal not heare it And soe as is sayed of déedes is to be vnderstoode of recordes that are alleged against him Pape PApe is an auncyent name falsely arrogated or proudly vsurped by y e Bishop of the only Citye of Roome in Italie and is commonlye englished the Pope a name truely much frequented in our auncyent yere bookes specially in the times of those kings who to much abādoning their emperiall aucthoritie and abasinge themselues far beneath their estate were not a shamed to suffer an alyen outlandish Bishop that dwelt aboue fiftéene hūdred miles from them to bee soueraigne ouer them in their owne dominions and to take frō them not onely the disposition of certen small trisles of none accompt but also the nomination of Archbishoppes Bishops Abbots Deanes prouosts appropriations of benefices presēta● ' to personages vicarages generally of al spirituall persons to their preferments sometymes by lapse and sometimes otherwise whereby the kings princely prerogatiue was very much abridged w tin their owne Realmes Partition PArtityon is à deuyding of lāds discēded by the cōmon law or by custome amōg coheires or parceners wher there be ii at y ● least whether they bée sonnes daughters sisters aūtes or otherwyse of hyn to the auncestour from whom the lād discended to thē And this particion is made iiij wayes for the most part wherof thrée are at pleasure and by agreement among them the fourth is by compulsion One particyon by agréement is when they them selues deuide the lande equally into so many partes as there bée of them coparceners each to choose one share or part the eldest first so y ● one after other as they bée of age except y ● the eldest by consent make the particion then the choise belongeth to y ● next and soe to the eldest last accordynge as it is saied Whoe so maketh the partition the other must haue the choyse An other partition by agreement is whē they choose certen of their frends to make diuision for them The third partition by agréement is by drawing of lots thus first to deuide the land into so many parts as there bée parceners then to writ euery part seuerally in a little scrolle or peece of paper or parchment and to put the same scrolles vp close into a hat cap or other such like thing and then each parcener one after an other as they bée of age to drawe out thereof one peece or scrolle wherein is written a part of the land whych by thys drawinge is nowe seuerally allotted vnto them in fée simple The fowerth partition which is by compulsion is when one or some of the coparceners would haue partition and other some wil not agrée there to Thē they y ● so would haue partitiō may bring a writ de partitione facicienda against y ● others that would not make partition by vertue whereof they shalbée compelled to depart c. Wée in Kent Brother Nicholas where the landes are of Gauelkynd nature cal at this day our partition Shiftinge euen y ● very same woord that the Saxons vsed namely Scystan which signifieth to make partitiō betweene coheires and to assigne to each of them their portion in latyn it is called Herciscere Parties PArties to a fine or déede are those that leuie the same fine and also they to whom the fine is leuied And they that make a déede of feoffement and they to whō it is made are called parties to the déede and so in any other like cases Patron PAtron is hée that hath a parsonage vicarage frée chappel or such like spiritual promotion béelongynge to his maner and may or ought to gyue the same beneūce when and as often as it falleth voyd And thys beynge patron or patronage had beginninge for the most part by one of these three wayes namely either by reason of the foundation for that the patron or hys auncestours or those frō whom he claimes were sounders o● builders of the Church or by reason of Dotation for y ● they did endowe or giue iāds to the same for mayntenaunce thereof or els by reason of the ground because the Church was set or builded vpon their soyle or ground many times by reason of them al three Perquisites PErquisites are aduātages and profits that cōe to a manner by casualtie and not yearely as Escheates Heriots Reliefes waifes straies forfaytures amercementes in Courtes wardes mariages goods and landes purchased by villaines of y e same manor and diuers such like thinges that are not certen but happē by chāce sometimes more often then at other times Plaintife PLayntife is hée that sueth or complaineth in an ass or in an action personal as in an action of det trespas disceit detinue and such other Pledinge PLeding is y ● which cōmeth after y ● coūt namely y ● which is contayned in the barre replication and reioynder and not that contayned in the count it selfe and therefore defauts in the matter of the Count are not comprised within mispleading or insufficient pleading nor are remedied by y t statute of Jeofailes But onely that mispleading or insufficient pleading committed in the barre replication and reioynder are there prouided for Pound POundes are in two sortes the one pounds open the other poundes close Pounde open is euery place wherein a dystresse is put whether it bée cōmon pound such as are in euery Towne or lordship or whether it be backside Court yard pasture or els whatsoeuer where the owner of the distresse may come to geue them meat and drinke without offence for their beinge there or his comming thither Pounde Close is such a place where the owner of the distresse may not come to giue them meat and drinke wythout offence as in a close house or whatsoeuer els place Possession POssession is saied two wayes eyther actuall possession or possession in lawe Actual possessiō is whē a manne entreth in déed into lands or tenements to him discēded or otherwise Possession in lawe is whē lāds or tenemēts are discended to a man and hee hath not as yet really actually and in déede entred into them And it is called possession in