the Realm or Lord of Parliament Scil. Baron Viscount Earl Marquiss and Duke propter honoris respectum are not to be sworn on Juries and if neither Party will challenge him he may challenge himself for 't is provided by Magna Charta Quod nec super cum ibimus nec super eum mittimus nisi per legal◠judicium parium suorum aut per legem terrae Co. 6. 52 53. But note If a Peer is to be tried by his Peers he cannot challenge any of ' em 1 Inst 156. b. Where an Infant shall not reverse his Fine IF an Infant being a Feme covert or other Infant levy a Fine by grant and render to her or him in tail or for Life and the Husband die the Wife shall not have a Writ of Error because she is Tenant of the Land and she cannot have a Writ of error against herself so that she is without remedy So in the case of the other Infant per Catlyn Owen 33. Where one shall have a Formedon of Land that was never given 'T IS holden in 42 Edw. III. 53. cited in Mary Pottington's Case Co. 10. 37. b. that in some case a Man shall have a Writ of Formedon of Land that was never given as if Lands in tail are lost and the Tenant in tail recovers other Land in value the Issue in tail shall have a Formedon of the Lands recovered in value and yet those Lands were not given Livery and Seisin over a Wall IF one that is seised in Fee of an Orchard makes a Feoffment of it to I. S. and goes into the Orchard and cuts a Turf or a Twigg and delivers it in the name of Seisin to the Feoffee over a Wall of the same Orchard the Feoffee then being in other Land not mentioned in the Feoffment this is a void Livery 2 Roll. 6. numb 5. Note If it appears that the Feoffor intends to make an actual Livery it shall never amount to a Livery in Law 2 Roll. 7. n. 40. Where a Man shall give and take by his own Livery IF there be Dean and Chapter and one of the Chapter is sole seised of Land in Fee in his own right and thereof enfeoffs the Dean and Chapter by Deed and makes Livery and Seisin according to the Deed here the Feoffor gives and takes by the same Livery Perk. Sect. 205. So of a Mayor and Commonalty c. William the Conqueror 's Charter to Norman Hunter I WILLIAM the Third Year of my Reign Give to thee Norman Hunter To Me that art both Leef and Dear The Hop and the Hopton And all the Bounds up and down Under the Earth to Hell Above the Earth to Heaven From Me and Mine To Thee and Thine As good and as fair As ever they were To witness that this is Sooth I bite the White Wax with my Touth Before Jug Maud and Margerie And my youngest Son Henry For a Bow and a broad Arrow When I come to hunt upon Yarrow Vide Speed 424. b. 2 Roll. 181. Meriton's Anglorum Gesta in Vita W. I. Whether one can take and loose a Fee by the same Livery TENANT in Tail makes a Lease for his own Life the Remainder to the Donor in Fee this gift of the Fee is void because the Donor had it before But if Tenant in Taile make a Lease pur auter vie the Remainder to the Donor this vests a new Fee in him because that by the discontinuance he devested the ancient Fee out of him and gave him a new Fee-Simple by Marvine But Knightly denied this to be Law and that there should not be a new Fee-Simple in the Donor because then he should take a Fee and loose a Fee by the same Livery at an instant which cannot be ideo quaere Dyer 8. a. 9. a. Slander A. THE Attorney of B. brought an Action against C. for saying to B. Your Attorney is a bribing Knave and hath taken Twenty Pound of you to cozen me Judge Warburton held the Words not Actionable for an Attorney cannot take a Bribe of his own Client But Hobart said he might when the reward exceeds measure and the end against Justice as to raze a Record c. and Hob. says after he had spoken Justice Warburton began to stagger in his opinion and so the Plaintiff had Judgment Hob. 8 9. and 1 Roll. 53. Infant AN Infant brought an Action of Trespass by her Guardian the Defendant pleads that the Plaintiff was above Sixteen Years old and agreed for 6 d. in Hand paid that the Defendant have licence to take two Ounces of her Hair to which the Plaintiff demurred and adjudged for her for an Infant cannot licence tho' she may agree with the Barber to be trimmed 3 Keb. 369. Scroggam against Stewardson Trespass for shaking a Sword at him A WOMAN shook a Sword in a Cutler's Shop against the Plaintiff being on the other side of the Street and in Trespass of Assault and Battery there was a Verdict of the Assault and not guilty of the Battery 'T was prayed to give no more Costs than Damages and so granted which was a Noble 3 Keb. 283. Smith and Newsam Where a Man shall be forced to spend his Money against himself I. S. PRAYED a Prohibition to the Ecclesiastical Court at Salisbury because his Wife Sued him there to be separated propter saevitiam and Sentence was given for him and he enforced to pay all the Costs for his Wife afterwards she appealed and because he would not answer the Appeal against himself and pay for the transmitting of the Record he was excommunicated and now prayed a Prohibition it was thought by the Court a very hard case that he should be obliged to spend his Money against himself but because it was alledged that the Course was so in the Spiritual Court they would advise c. and proceedings stayed in the mean time Cro. Car. 16. Green's Case One Indicted for taking away a young Woman and Marrying her ONE Brown was Indicted on Stat. 3 H. VII cap. 2. for forcibly taking away and marrying the Daughter of one Sommers a City Orphan in the Custody of the Chamberlain Note The Child herself being about Fourteen Years old was held a good Witness to prove the Fact and the evidence was that she was worth 5000 l. that she was menaced by the Defendant in a Vizard and carried away in a Coach to Westminster and the next day with her own consent but caused by the precedent menace she married him but was not defiled having been surprised that day he was found guilty and had judgment to die and was accordingly executed 3 Keb. 193. See the Lady Fullwood's Case Cro. Car. 482 484 488 492. and Halès Pla. Cor. tit Felonies by Stat. that the taking a Woman against her Will and marrying her is Felony by the said Statute But such Maid Widow or Wife must have Lands Tenements or Goods or be Heir Apparent so that the Motive of taking away is Lucre and
assign a Shop or sell braided Wares to B. there in respect of the apparent prejudice which may accrue to B. if A. should continue the Trade such a Bond or Promise is good adjudged so in Froward's Case upon a Writ of Error But note although there be such a consideration yet if the restraint be general throughout England it is void Vide 1 Roll. 16 17. and Moor 115. and 242. Cunning Practice A MAN was Arrested in an Action of Debt and presently made a Warrant to an Attorney to acknowledge a Judgment for him upon which he was discharged but afterwards he revoked the Warrant of Attorney before the Judgment was confessed the Court observing this cunning practice commanded the Attorney to plead Non sum informatus that Judgment might be entred and said they would defend him against the Party if he brought an Action against him Latch 8. Trick in the business THE Court was moved that there might be a Rule of Court for I. S. upon satisfaction made of a Judgment obtained by him to acknowledge Satisfaction but the Court denied it and said there was some Trick in the business for no doubt but the Party upon receipt of what is due to him will acknowledge Satisfaction without a Rule to compell him Stiles 164. The River of Thames a High-Way MR. Attorney General prayed Judgment in an Information against Smith for laying Logs which is a Nuisance on the River Thames The Defendant pleaded the general Pardon but Nuisances on the High-Way being excepted therein and this being as much a High-Way as the Road and the Hundred answerable for Robbery thereon Judgment was given for the King 3 Keeble 759. Intention of the Parties A. CONTRACTS with B. for 18 Barrels of Ale paying a certain summ of Money and A. would have kept the Barrels after the Ale was spent but adjudged he should not for the intent of the Parties never was that the Vendee should have them but only the Ale and the common usage is that the Vendor shall have the Barrels again 27. H. VIII 27. b. cited 1 Bulls 175. So if one covenant with another that if he come to his House he will give him a Cup of Wine and he comes he shall not have the Cup also because it was never the intent of the Party ibid. Countermand of Arrest A. DELIVERS a Writ to the Sheriff to arrest I S. and after forbids him and desires the Writ again the Sheriff refuses and arrests I. S. Quaere if I. S. may have faux Imprisonment against the Sheriff It seems he may not Whether shall A. have an Action upon the Case against the Sheriff it seems he shall for it may be he is prejudiced Whether the Sheriff shall have an Action against A. for his Fee Latch Rep. 19. Slander by an Infant and against an Infant AN Action upon the case for Words lies against an Infant of Seventeen Years of Age for Malitia supplet aetatem Noy 129. An Infant brought an Action against one Child for these words I charge thee with Felony and had a Verdict and Judgment tho' moved in arrest c. because not averred the Plaintiff was of an Age to commit Felony for the Defendant must plead that and shall not be averred by the plaintiff to avoid his own Action Noy 124. Baily against Child Grant of the next avoidance by Letter I. S. BROUGHT a Quare impedit declaring upon a grant of the next Avoidance the Defendant demanded Oyer of the Deed and the Plaintiff shewed a Letter which was written to his Father by the Patron wherein he tells the Father that he had given to his Son the Plaintiff the next avoidance Whereupon the Defendant demurred and adjudged for him for the Letter was a meer banter and the grant not good without Deed. Owen 47. and Cro. Eliz. 163 164. A. granted the next Avoidance to B. and C. and was bound to B. in an obligation that he should enjoy the said Presentment without any disturbance or claim of the said A. C. released to A. his interest in the said Advowson the Church became void A. offered to joyn with B. in the presentation It was holden the obligation was forfeited notwithstanding that A. had a puisne Title after the Bond entred into 4 Leon. 18. Bluet's Case Legacy of Books A TESTATOR saith I give my Physick Books to my Son if hereafter he shall study Physick but if he make the Law his Profession then let him have my Law Books the Son after studies Law and Physick both he shall have the Testator's Books of both Professions Orphan's Legacy 472 89. If the Testator saith I bequeath or commit my Estate as well as my Soul to God whoever hath his Soul his parish Church shall have his Estate Orphan's Legacy 471 81. Bequest of Horses IF a Man bequeath all his Horses his Mares shall go too but not è contra nor by a bequest of Geldings ibid. 467 53 56. and fol. 441 12. Devise A. DEVISES that B. shall be his Heir and C. devises Lands to A. and his Heirs B. shall have those Lands as Heir to A. for a Devise shall not be construed void when it possibly by any probable construction can be made good So note a Man may be Heir ex vi Testamenti before he is Heir ex vi Doni 2 Siderf 27. Heir by descent of an Estate that by possibility could not be in his Ancestor LAND is given to A. and B. so long as they jointly together live the Remainder to the right Heirs of him that dies first A. dies the Remainder vested not during the Life of A. his Death must precede the Remainder and yet his Heir shall have the Land by descent 1 Inst 378. b. Note whensoever the Ancestor takes a Freehold and after a limitation is made to his right Heirs they shall not be Purchasers tho' in Words it be limited by way of Remainder But if a Lease for Years be made to A. Remainder to B. in tail Remainder to the right Heirs of A. there the Remainder vests not in A. but the right Heirs shall take by Purchase if A. die during the Estate tail 1 Inst 22. b. 376. b. 319. b. 2 Roll. 417. Where a Prisoner shall not be judged in Execution tho' he yield himself unto it A PRISONER having been in execution was suffered by the Gaoler to go out and then came into the Gaol again and remained there till the time of another Sheriff and then escaped the new Sheriff is not answerable for it by Hobart For when he was let to go abroad voluntarily by the Gaoler the Execution was utterly discharged so as he could not be taken again legally nor so judged in Execution tho' he would yield himself unto it or the Creditor so allow him Neither can two Sheriffs be chargable Simul Semel for two escapes out of one and the same Execution at the same time Hob. 202. Sheriff of Essex his Case Note it was agreed by
Ship-board at Lisbon in great heat of Speech with one Captain Bask and added Because he is an Heretick and because his Traiterous Intent and the Imagination of his Heart is declared by these Words it was held High Treason by the Common Law and within the express Words of 25 Edw. III. and he being arrested by Warrant for this cause most insolently put his Finger into his Mouth and scornfully pulling it out said I care not this for your King c. He was found guilty and had Judgment accordingly He confessed he was a Dominican Frier and made Priest in Spain and altho' this and his returning into England to seduce the Liege People be Treason by Stat. 23 Eliz. yet the King's Attorney said he would not proceed against him for that but upon 25 Edw. 3. of Treason Cro Car. 332 333. See Cro. Car. 125. that no Words are Treasonable unless made so by some Statute and 3 Inst 14. Whether 't is a Nuisance for a Rope-dancer to erect a Stage c. JACOB Hall the famous Rope-dancer had erected a Stage in Lincoln's Inn-Fields but upon a Petition of the Inhabitants there was an Inhibition from Whitehal Now upon complaint to the Judges that he had erected one at Charing-Cross he was sent for into Court and the Chief Justice told him he understood it was a Nuisance to the Parish and some of the Inhabitants being in Court said it occasioned Broils and Fightings and drew so many Rogues to that Place that they lost Things out of their Shops every Afternoon Hales said that in 8 Car. I. Noy prayed a Writ to prohibit a Bowling-Ally erected near St. Dunstan's Church and had it Modern Rep. 76. Post Information for keeping a Cock-pit ONE Howel being Convicted of keeping a common Cock-pit six Days was fined 12 l. the Court conceiving it an unlawful Game and took their Measures by 33 H. VIII c. 9. of 40 s. a Day tho' the Information were at Common Law 3 Keb. 465. and 510. Forfeiture of a Copyhold A. LORD of a Mannor holding of his Court and B. a Tenant being in the Court there arising a Question whether the Court were then legally held B. was asked if he appeared or not he answered If it be a legal Court I do appear but if it is not a legal Court I do not appear Quaere if this be an appearance or such a refusal to appear whereby the Copy-holder shall forfeit his Copy-hold or not Roll Chief Justice said if there was a real Controversie whether the Court was well held or not it would be hard to make it a Forfeiture but if not and that the Words were used only as a Shift to avoid his Suit and service it is a Forfeiture for the Words are like Jack in a Box and no body knows what to make of 'em the other Three Judges inclined it was no forfeiture Stiles 241. Parker and Cook Rope-dancing Ante. THE Court being informed that Jacob Hall was building a Booth for dancing on the Ropes at C. sent for him and the Workmen by a Tipstaff and because he would not enter into a Recognizance not to build on they committed him and then he ceased 2 Keb. 846. Replevin of Goods not destreined REPLEVIN is the bringing of the Writ De Replegiari facias by one whose Cattle or Goods are distreined c. and putting in Surety to the Sheriff that upon delivery of the Distress he will prosecute the Action against the Distreinor Yet Note In a special Case a Man may have a Replevin of Goods not destreined as if there be Lord Mesne and Tenant and the Mesne put in his Cattle in lieu of the Cattle of the Tenant paravaile whom he is bound to acquit he shall have a Replevin of those Cattle yet they never were distreined 1 Inst 145. b. Replevin lies notwithstanding a grant to keep the Distress against Gages and Pledges IF a Rent be granted with clause of Distress and further that the Grantee shall keep the Goods distreined against Gages and Pledges 'till the Rent be paid yet shall the Sheriff replevy the Goods for 't is against the nature of such a Distress to be irreplevisable and by such an intention the Currant of Replevins should be overthrown to the hinderance of the Commonwealth and so 't was dissallowed by the whole Court and awarded that the Defendant should gage deliverance or else go to Prison which the Lord Coke saies in his opinion is an excellent point of learning 1 Inst 145. b. Witches THE Law against Witches does not prove there be any but it punishes the Malice of those People that use such means to take away Mens Lives If one should profess that by turning his Hat thrice and crying Buz he could take away a Man's Life tho' in truth he could do no such thing yet this were a just Law made that whosoever should turn his Hat thrice and cry Buz with an intention to take away a Man's Life shall be put to death Selden Note To say of one Thou art a Witch is not Actionable because he may bewitch you with his fair Countenance or fine Discourse 2 Cro. 150. and 306. contra because it brings him within danger of the Stat. 1 Jac. which makes every witchcraft Felony but to say Thou art a Witch and deservest to be hanged will bear Action because the last Words explain what manner of Witch he intends So to say Thou art a Witch and hast bewitched my Mother's Milk Drink Hogs c. So it seems of Children But to say and hast bewitched I. S. Quaere because I. S. may be captivated with the amiableness of the Plaintiff's Person So Note the difference between saying he has bewitched a thing which has sense and a thing which has not 1 Siderfin 52. 53. Trespassor ab initio A MAN comes into a Tavern and will needs stay up all Night the Vintner is not bound in such Case to watch with him nor attend upon him all the Night and therefore if he prays him to be gone and he will not but remains there all Night he is a Trespassor ab initio 11 H. IV. 75. b. Note He that misuses an Authority which the Law gives him as in that Case so if one distrein for Rent and kill the Distress shall be a Wrong-doer ab initio Otherwise if he abuse an Authority that another gives him as if I lend my Horse to I. S to ride to York and he ride farther yet the riding to York shall not be unlawful Vid. Co. 8. 146. Perk. fo 39. 40. 2 Roll. 561 c. in Abridgement Quaere if a Distress be taken for a Rent-charge and is misused whether the Destrainor shall be a Trespassor ab initio because the Authority to distrain comes from the Party Justice Hutton's Case MR. Justice Hutton having argued in the Exchequer Chamber in a Case adjourned thither upon a Scire facias by the King against Hampden for Ship-money wherein he was of opinion That as well
for the Matter as Form upon divers exceptions to the pleading Judgment should be given against the King After this one Thomas Harrison Batchelor of Divinity came to the Court of Common Pleas Hutton and Crawley being then upon the Bench and said I accuse Mr. Justice Hutton of High Treason for which he was committed to the Fleet by Justice Crawley and after by the King's direction indited in B. R. and Convicted and Fined 5000 l. to the King And the Judge preferring his Bill against him there recovered 10000 l. damages Hut Rep. 131. Cro. Car. 503. Trades IN the time of H. IV. when Sir William Gascoine was Lord Chief Justice a certain Vintner was indicted for selling of Wine and also for selling of Victuals to such as would resort to Dine and Sup at his House and being thereof Convicted he was Fined whereupon he consulted with some of his Fraternity and told 'em If they would give five Pounds to Gascoine all would be well and so they collected 5 l. between 'em to present him which Gascoine understanding he caused the Vintner to be Indicted for this also who was after Fined for it Palmer 396. 397. Note A Man could not by the Common Law use as many and what Trades he would before the Stat. 5. Eliz. Memorandum John Walter Knight Lord Chief Baron a profound learned Man and of great Integrity and Courage being Lord Chief Baron by Patent primo Caroli quamdiù se benè gesserit fell into the King's displeasure and being commanded to forbear the exercising of his Judicial place in Court never did exercise it from the beginning of Mich. Term quinto Caroli untill he died viz. the Eighteenth of November 1630. But because he had that Office quam diù se benè gesserit he would not leave his place nor surrender his Patent without a scire facias to shew what Cause there was to determine or forfeit it so that he continued Chief Baron until the Day of his Death Cro. Car. 203. One Indicted for behaving himself immodestly and Irreverently at Church A CERTIORARI was prayed to remove an Indictment at the Sessions at Hartford against I. S. quod non reverentèr modestè se gessit during Divine Service but the Court refused to grant it for altho' it is punishable by Ecclesiastick censures yet they conceived it a proper cause within the cognizance of the Justices of Peace 1 Keb. 491. Slander ACTION upon the Case for Words against a Feme on a question asked her per quendam ignotum Did I. S. the Plaintiff Ravish you She answered Yes Had he the use of your Body She answered Yes Whereupon he brought his Action against Baron and Feme Foster conceived that in regard the Person is found to have done it falsò malitiosè without legal authority 't is a Scandal contrà by Twisden in one Emme's Case one that had a Child at Nurse came to a Surgeon with whom she was reported to be in cure for the Pox who on enquiry told the Father she had the foul Disease which was held no Scandal not being spoken malitiosè with intent to Scandal her 1 Keble 542. Host and Oakeman Thou art a Thief and hast stollen my Maiden Head no Action lies 1 Brownlow 2. Justa occasio Loquendi IN Fox's Book of Martyrs there is a story of one Greenwood who lived in Suffolk that he had perjured himself before the Bishop of Norwich in testifying against a Martyr that was burnt in Queen Mary's time and had therefore afterwards by the just Judgment of God his Bowels rotted in him and so died But it seems this story was utterly false of Greenwood who after the Printing of the Book of Martyrs was living in the same Parish It happened after that one Prick a Parson was presented to the Living of that Parish where this Greenwood dwelt and some time after in one of his Sermons happened to inveigh much against the Sin of Perjury to which his Text led him and the better to deterr the People from it he told them this passage out of Fox That one Greenwood being a Perjured Person and a great Persecutor had great Plagues inflicted upon him and was killed by the Hand of God whereas in truth he never was so Plagued and was himself present at that Sermon and thereupon brought his Action upon the Case for calling him a Perjured Person and the Defendant pleaded Not Guilty And this matter being disclosed upon the Evidence Wray Chief Justice delivered the Law to the Jury That this being delivered but as a Story and not with any Malice or Intention to slander any he was not guilty of the Words maliciously and so was found Not Guilty This Case is cited by Coke 2 Cro. 91. and affirmed to be good Law by Popham when one delivers ought after his occasion as matter of Story and not with intent to Slander any See the Case 1 Roll. 87. 'T is cited too by Sir Robert Atkins in his Treatise of the Jurisdiction and Privelege of Parliament c. fol. 11. If a Man says he be in discharge of his Function and lawful Calling and discoursing of a subject proper for it in pursuit thereof tells a Story which he takes up upon Trust not knowing it to be false and it prove at last to be utterly untrue and an innocent Person is highly Slandered by it yet he shall not be subject to an Action of Slander for it the occasion of speaking shall clear him from the Malice without which the Action will not lie One calling himself by a wrong Name is arrested the Arrest is naught IN an Action of False Imprisonment by Coot against Lighworth the Defendant justified because he had a Warrant to Arrest I. D. and he demanded of Coot what his Name was who answered that his Name was I. D. and therefore he arrested him to which the Plaintiff demurred and had Judgment for the Defendant at his peril must take notice of the Party Moor fol. 457. Agreeable hereunto see Doctor and Stud 311. That if a Sheriff upon a Replevin deliver other Beasts than were destrained tho' by information of the Party that destrained yet Trespass lies for he shall be compelled by the Law to execute the King 's Writ at his peril according to the Tenor thereof and to see that the Act which he doth be lawfully done Note Grome's Case in Palmer's Rep. 395. I. S. knowing that Execution would be made upon his Goods procured I. D. by Covin to bring his Cart into his Yard to the intent that the Baily might take it in Execution and so to have Trespass against him the Bailiff did take the Cart but afterwards having knowledge of the matter sent the Cart back and I. D. brought Trespass but Lea Chief Justice held that the Bayliff might plead the fraud in excuse Bond in a Book good A MAN writes an Obligation in a Book and in the same Leaf he puts his Seal to it and then delivers the Book to
the very Day of the date which the Lord Hobart says is by reason of the intent of the Law and not by the Letter Hob. 139. Moor 40. and 42. acc ' tho' it is there said that such an Enrolment had been adjudged void See Latch 14. Tender of 50 l. in Stone IN the Case of Hooks and Swain 1 Siderfin 151. Twisden says he remembred this nice Case Sir William Fish was bound by Obligation to pay such a Day in Gray's Inn Hall fifty Pounds generally without saying of Money and therefore upon the Day when the Gentlemen were at Supper Sir William came in and tendered fifty pound weight of Stone and adjudged no tender See Owen 64. where Plowden says Libra in Latin signifies a Weight yet if one is bound in Vigint Libris and forfeits his Bond he must pay Money and not Lead or the like Witnesses ONE burned in the Hand for a Felony may be a Witness in a Cause by Rolls Chief Justice for he may purchase Land and his fault is purged by his punishment Stiles Rep. 388. and Pract. Reg. 571. If an Action be brought against two and at the Assizes the Plaintiff proceeds only against one of them the other may be allowed a Witnes in the Cause Godb. Case 418. The Sheriff arrests a Man looking out of his Window c. WHEN an Execution is lawfully begun or hath a legal Commencement the Sheriff may justifie the breaking of the Parties House to take him otherwise if there be no legal Commencement This diversity was taken and agreed for Law in Sir William Fish his Case Sir William was looking out of his Window and the Sheriff per fenestram delivered to him a Capias ad Satisfac to take the said Fish and apprehend him and Fish escaped from him and the Sheriff broke the door of his House maintenant and retook him and adjudged lawful because there was a lawful beginning of the Execution before which was presently pursued Palmer's Rep. 53. Vide Hobart fol. 62. That a Sheriff cannot upon private process rush into a House which by craft as knocking at the Door c. he procured to be opened unto him and there the first entry was held unlawful for the opening of the Door was occasioned by craft and then used to the Violence intended Sanlder IF a Man say to another Thou art a Rogue and a Pocky Rogue and the Pox haunts thee twice a Year an Action lies for hereby 't is apparent he intended the great Pox because these are wont to grieve those that have them bis per annum viz in the Spring and Autumn Prekington's Case 1 Roll. 66 67. Where Circumstances shew the apparent intention of Words doubtful in themselves that they are slanderous an Action lies for them as where one said of a Woman That she did lie with a Weaver of Colchester in a Dutch and the Weaver's Breeches were down and they were at it an Action lies for altho' the Weaver might lie with her in a Ditch without harm yet the latter Words shew he intended that the Weaver had carnal Knowledge of her Roll. 1 Rep. 420. Root and Molyne's Case I know what I am and I know what the Plaintiff is I never Buggered a Mare Per. Cur ' tho' no grammatical affirmation is a sufficient scandal yet being found with such intention and so imagined by the Hearers the Ironical speaking will not excuse Jud. pro Quaer ' 3 Keb. 546. Slander A. SAYS to B. One of Us two is Perjured B. says to A. It is not I and A. says again I am sure it is not I B. shall have an Action for these words for the subsequent Words shew apparently that he intends Him 1 Roll. 75. Coe and Chambers Justice Twisden said he remembred a Shooe-maker brought an Action for saying He was a Cobler and tho' a Cobler be a Trade of it self yet 't was held the Action lay in Chief Justice Glyn's time Mod. Rep. fol. 19. Margaret Commings brought an Action for these Words viz. Thou art a Whore and a base burnt Arse Whore and adjudged Actionable 2 Siderf fol. 5. the French Pox usually comes of burning Cro. Eliz. 2. but 't is left a Quaere there whether the Words Thou art a burnt Whore will bear an Action Not Guilty A MAN may plead Not Guilty yet tell no lye for by the Law no Man is bound to accuse himself so that when I say Not Guilty the meaning is as if I should say by way of Paraphrase I am not so guilty as to tell you if you will bring me to a Tryal and have me punished for what you lay to my charge prove it against me Selden Presentation IF I am seized of an Advowson and I present to it as Procurator to a Stranger this shall be an Usurpation upon my self for the Stranger So if I present to an Advowson whereof I my self am seized as Attorney to a Stranger this is an Usurpation for him 17 E. 3. 60. Where a Child may choose his Father IF a Man has a Wife and dies and within a very short time after the Wife marries again and within nine Months hath a Child so as it may be the Child of the one or the other some have said that in this Case the Child may choose his Father Quia in hoc casu Filiatio non potest probari for avoiding of which question and other inconveniences the Law before the Conquest was Sit omnis Vidua sine Marito duodecim mensibus si maritaverit perdat dotem 1 Inst 8. a. See Finch his Law 117. that if one die his Wife priviment enseint i. e. so with Child as it is not discerned and she take another Husband the Issue born within a Month or such a time as it is impossible he should beget it shall be accounted the Son of her first Husband and cites 21 E. 3. 29. 'T is said the Law now is That if a Wife bring forth a Child begotten by a former Husband or any other before marriage but born after marriage with another Man this latter must own the Child who shall be his Heir at Law Assault IF a Man assault me I am not bound to attend untill he strikes but I may lay him on before in my own defence for it may be I shall come too late afterwards 2 H. IV. 8. per Curiam Wearing a Sword no breach of the Good Behaviour THE Wearing of a Sword after one is bound to his Good Behaviour is no breach of the Good Behaviour now as perhaps it was heretofore see Cromp. Justice of Peace 119. 126. when Swords were not usually worn but by Soldiers for then they struck as great a Terror in People as a Blunderbuss does now But since at this Day Swords are usually worn by all sorts of People this cannot now be construed a breach of the Good Behaviour So that which heretofore was a Crime is now by Custom become none Hawles Remarks c. 81. Slander ACTION will
being Enemy and sometime after an English Merchant with a Ship named Little Richard retakes it from the Spaniard and the owner of the Ship sues for it in the Admiralty Court but a Prohibition was granted for that the Ship was gained by Battle of an Enemy and neither the King nor Admiral nor the Parties to whom the Property was before shall have it 2 Brownl 11. Weston's Case Master and Servant A SURGEON in consideration of a Summ of Money assumed to cure the Servant of I. S. of a hurt which he had in his Leg and afterwards applied unwholsome Medicines to it on purpose to make the cure the greater whereby I S. lost the Service of his Servant for a long time wherefore he brought an Action upon the Case against the Surgeon and recovered 1 Roll. 98. Everard and Hopkins If a Drawer in a Tavern sell Wine that is corrupt an Action upon the Case lies for this against the Master tho' he did not command his Servant to sell it to any Person in particular And no Action lies against the Drawer tho' he knew the Wine to be corrupt because he sells it only as Servant to another 1 Roll. 95. Vide Dr. and Stud. 285. that if one send his Servant to Market with a thing which he knows is defective to be sold to a certain Person and the Servant sells it to him an Action lies against the Master But if he send it to be sold generally to whom he can no Action of Deceit lies against the Master 1 Roll. 95. Accord ' If my Servant be cozened of my Money I may have an Action upon the Case for the deceit against the Cozener 1 Roll. 98. Paul Tracie's Case So I may justifie the beating of another in defence of my Servant for he is in a manner my Chattel 2 Roll. 546. the end The contrary admitted Palmer 54. See Owen 150. A Servant shall justifie the Battery of another in defence of his Master 2 Roll. 546. Quaere 14 H. VI. 24. b. Note Tho' in the Case of Felony if the Principal die or be pardoned before Attainder the Proceedings against the Accessary fail Co. 4. 43. b. yet in a Trespass if one command his Man to beat you and the Servant after he has beaten you dies yet your Action of Trespass stands good against the Master 17 H. IV. 19 Bac. Elem. 32. I. S. suffered a Soldier to get a Child upon the Body of his Maid-Servant and the Order of Sessions was that I. S. should contribute to half the charge of keeping it Curia 'T is not within the Stat. of 18 Eliz. and the Order was quashed Possession how to be Defended IN Trespass of Assault and Battery the Defendant pleaded De son Assault demesne the Plaintiff replied the Defendant would have forced his Horse from him wherefore he did Molliter insultum facere upon the Defendant in defence of his Possession to which the Defendant demurred Morton Justice Molliter insultum facere is a contradiction suppose you had said that Mollitèr you knocked him down Twisden you cannot justifie the heating a Man in defence of your Possession but you may say that you did molliter manus imponere c. Keeling You ought to have replied that you did Molliter manus imponere quae est eadem transgressio Curia Quer ' nil cap. per bill Mod. Rep. 36. and 1 Siderf 441. Jones and Tresilian Slander of a Counsellor at Law PETER Palmer of Lincoln's-Inn brought an Action upon the Case against Boyer and declared that he was an Utter-Barrester of the Law and got his living by practising the Law and was Steward of divers Courts and namely of one I. P. Esq and the Defendant praemissorum non ignarus to the intent to prejudice the Plaintiff in his good Name and Practice said of the Plaintiff these English Words viz. Peter Palmer is a paltry Lawyer and hath as much Law as a Jackanapes 't was moved in arrest that the Words would not maintain an Action because not slanderous for 't is not said He hath no more Law than hath a Jackanapes that had been Actionable for thereby he had abated the Opinion of his Learning but it is not so in this Case the Words being he hath as much Law as hath a Jackanapes which is no impeachment of his Learning for every Man that hath more Law than a Jackanapes hath as much Sed non allocatur for the Comparison is to be taken in the worst Sence and tantamounts that he hath no more Law than a Jackanapes which is a slander in his Profession whereby he acquires his Living Owen 17. Cro. Eliz. 342. Goldsb 126. Winch 40. Vide March fol. 60. where Judge Berkley saies it had been adjudged where one said of a Lawyer That he had as much Law as a Monkey that the Words were not Actionable because he hath as much Law and more also but if he had said He hath no more Law than a Monkey these Words were Actionable See Hetley 71. Words against an Attorney ACTION for these Words Is Martyn the Plaintiff your Attorney He is the Foolishest and Simplest Attorney towards the Law and if he doth not overthrow your Cause I will give you my Ears He is a Fooll and an Ass and adjudged for the Plaintiff for these Words touch him in his Place Cro. Eliz. 589. Slander against a Parson SUIT in the Spiritual Court by a Parson for saying of him That he was a Fool an Ass and a Goose for which upon Motion a Prohibition was granted for they are only Words of Choler as Pocky Faced Knave Jade and Quean and relate not to his Profession 3 Keb. 28. Newcombin and Kingerby Where Things shall not pass tho' granted by express Words A MAN by Deed indented bargains and sells gives and grants his Mannor of Dale and all his Trees growing upon it but the Deed is not enrolled according to the Statute here inasmuch as the Mannor passes not for want of Inrolment the Trees shall not go to the Bargainee altho ' they are granted by express Words and that the Grant of every Man shall be taken most strongly against himself for the Law does not favour Fractions and Severances of Trees from the Freehold and Inheritance of the Land because by such means very often Trees shall be wasted and destroyed Co. 11. 48. a. in Liford's Case 1 Roll. Rep. 100. Besides it was not the intent of the Parties that the Trees should pass as Chattels without the Mannor and as one shall not frustrate or defeat his own Grant by his own Act so the Words of a Grant shall be construed according to a reasonable and easie Sence with regard to the meaning of the Parties by them and therefore 14 H. VIII 1. if a Man grant all his Woods and Trees Apple-Trees will not pass Note that tho' by a grant of all my Trees Fruit-Trees will not pass yet if I except all my Apple-Trees all other Fruit-Trees pass as
Assault and Battery quod cumulum pecuniae containing Five Marks cepit and the whole Court was of opinion in regard the Plaintiff's own Money cannot be known and this his intermedling is his own Act and his own wrong that by the Law he shall lose all for if it were otherwise a Man might be made to be a Trespasser against his Will by the taking of his own Goods to avoid which inconvenience the Law will justifie the Defendant's detaining all Querens nihil capiat per Billam 2 Cro. 366. Ward and Ayres and 2 Roll. 566. So if I voluntarily intermingle my Corn with another Man's he may take all ibid. and 1 Siderf 38. the end accord ' by the Chief Justice Action for playing with false Dice A. ENTICED B. to play with him at Dice at a Game called Passage whereupon he played with him and when it came to B's turn to throw A. delivered in true and fair Dice with which he play'd but when it fell to his own turn he threw with false Dice such as he knew would run Five or Six upon every Die and so B. lost 10 l. whereupon he brought an Acton upon the Case for this Deceipt and recovered 1 Roll. 100. Hartwell and Oak's Case Note It was resolved in Martin Leeser's Case That if common Players with false Dice to couzen the People at Play do enter into the House of another Man and desiire him to play at Dice and with their false Dice couzen him of his Money by Play altho' this be not Felony nor an Offence for which he shall lose Life or Member yet he shall be set upon the Pillory where the Offence was committed 2 Cro. 497 498. Motion to quash an Indictment against two for being Common Players at Cards and defrauding the Plaintiff of 40. s. not saying Vi Armis but per Curiam it 's needless 2. to say Angl. a Trick at Cards without a Latin Word there being none for it is good 1 Keb. 652. Where the Owner may retake his Goods tho' altered in Form A WRONG-Doer cuts down Trees and carries them away and makes Timber or Boards of 'em yet may the owner retake 'em in the Land of the Tort-feasor For in all Cases where a thing is taken wrongfully and altered in Form yet if that which is the principal part of the substance remains the notice of the thing is not lost as if a Man should tortiously take away my Cloak and make himself a Duoblet of it yet I may retake it from him So if one take from me a Piece of Cloth and after sow Silver or Gold into it yet I may take it from him Quia major pars substantiae remanet Moor. pla 67. Note If I. S. bequeaths a Pack of Wool to I. D. and after the Testator converts it into Cloth and dies possessed of it I. D. shall not have the Cloth Doderidge English Lawyer 132. Where Property shall not be altered by a Sale in Market Overt 'T IS the opinion of some that the Goods of a Bankrupt tho' he has sold them in Market Overt are notwithstanding that liable to the sale of Commissioners by Twisden And 't is clear they are liable if sold out of Market Overt 1 Siderf 272. initio See Dyer fol. 99. placito 68. A Man bought stoln Beasts out of Market and gave Five Shillings to have election to refuse in the Market to be holden the next Day and then in the Market he agreed to have the Beasts and payed Toll It was held in this Case that the property was not altered for that the Agreement relates to the Contract out of the Market quod nota In Trover by Gibbs against Basil for a Gelding the Case was one Porter stole this Gelding from the Plaintiff and sold him to the Defendant in open Market by the name of Lister and 't was entred so in the Toll Book that Lister sold him This is no good sale to bar the Plaintiff for the Stat. 2 and 3 Philip and Mary cap. 7. provides that no property of stollen Goods shall be altered that are sold unless the Name and Sirname of the Parties to the sale be entred in the Toll Book Owen 27. Justification IF a Man hath a heap of Corn by my heap of Corn and he takes a handful out of my heap I may take a handful out of his and justifie for he shall not take advantage of his own wrong 2 Roll. 566. n. 10. To justifie the taking anothers Goods without being a Trespasser IF one Saddles my Horse and then puts him into his own Ground I may well come and take my Horse out and keep the Saddle and not be liable to Trespass for so doing and because he puts his Saddle upon my Horse I may justifie keeping it 'till he brings Action to recover it So if one load my Cart with his Corn or my Boat with his Coals or the like I may well take my Cart and Boat away and keep and detain the Goods without being a Trespasser 'till he bring a Detinue to recover 'em fron me 1 Buls 96. Demurr to a Demurrer NOTE One may demur to a Demurrer for the doubleness of it for a Demurrer should be formal and certain to avoid Barbarism and inveigling the Court but if he demurs not to it when he may but joyns in the Demurrer he hath now slipped the advantage and he cannot demurr afterwards A Demurrer is double when he that demurrs assigns therein for cause of it one Error in Fact and another in Law which he ought not to do for if either of the Causes be true it is sufficient to overthrow the Plea and it is at his liberty to insist upon that which is best for his own advantage but not upon both for this were to puzzle the Proceedings See Stiles Pract. Reg. 133. Accessary to an Accessary IF one feloniously receive another that is an Accessary to a Felony the Receiver is an Accessary Stamf. lib. 1. One of ill fame demands the Rent without Authority c. LEASE for Years rendring Rent with re entry for Non-payment at the day a Stranger came to demand the Rent the Lessee asked him by what Authority and because he was a couzening Fellow and notoriously infamous and would not shew any Authority from the Lessor the Lessee would not pay the Rent and so the Lessor entred and adjudged lawful for that a command to receive Rent may be by Parole Cro. Eliz. 22. Sir John Souch's Case Serjeant Moor reports a Case without Name in the same Year with this but another Term A Lease for Years upon condition to re-enter for not-payment of the Rent at the last day there came upon the Land a Man of an ill fame who was Out-lawed in Forty Actions and conversed all the day with the Lessee but said not a Word for what cause he came and at the last instant of the day he demanded the Rent the Lessee asked him what authority he had to receive
I suppose Vide Hob. 304. Again The Law construes things with equity and moderation and therefore restrains a general Grant if there be any mischief or inconvenience in it and therefore if a Corody be granted to one and his Servant to sit at his Mess he cannot bring a Servant that hath some filthy or noisome Disease So if a Common be granted to one for all his Beasts yet he shall not have Common for Goats nor Geese nor other Beasts not commonable Finch his Law 56. So if a Man grant Common in all his Lands the Grantee shall not have Common in his Orchards Gardens or Meadows 3 Leon. 250. Where one may have an Estate Tail yet all the Issues barred to inherit BARON and Feme Tenants in special Tail with Remainder to the Barons right Heirs they have Issue A. the Baron dies A. in the Life of his Mother levies a Fine with Proclamations to I. S. and resolved it should barr the Estate Tail tho' 't was clearly admitted that the Feme remained Tenant in Tail Co. 3. 50. If the Son of Tenant in Tail levy such a Fine in his Fathers Life it barrs the Tail from descending yet the Father remains Tenant in Tail Co. 9. 141. for the Son is concluded and cannot enter against his own Fine See Stat. 32. H. VIII Name DEBT upon Bond was brought against one Jaacob Aboab by the Name of Jacob he pleaded that he was called and known by the Name of Jaacob and not Jacob but it was over-ruled Mod. Rep. 107. 3 Keb. 284. See a notable Case in Stiles Rep. 389. 390 c. the Report of it is very long but this is the short on 't One Mills seised of Lands in Fee devised them to Elizabeth his Daughter in Tail with a provisoe that if she Married one of his own Sirname that then she should have the Lands in Fee-Simple She Married one Mill but commonly called and known by the Name of Mills also In this Case the Court held that Mills and Mill are not one and the same Sirname for the Testator had a particular Eye to his own true Sirname and the common reputation of Mill and Mills to be the same Name shall not make Mill to be the Testator's true Sirname Note This is a special Case and goes not according to the ordinary Rules of Names that sound alike Hence I shall take occasion to treat of Names what Names are the same in Law and what are not It is held that Sain John and Saint John are several Names So are Elizabeth and Isabel so Margaret Marget and Margerie so Gillian and Julian so Agneis and Anne so Cozen and Cousin so Edmund and Edward so Randulphus and Randal and so Randulphus and Randolphus so Randolph and Ranulph so Isabel and Sibil for all which see 1 Anderson 211. 212. 2 Cro. 425. 558. 640. 2 Roll. 135. But Piers and Peter are one Name 2 Cro. 425. so Saunders and Alexander so Garret Gerrard and Gerald. 2 Roll. 135. so Joan and Jane 2 Cro. 425. Note Tho' James and Jacob are several Names yet Jacobus is Latin for both and will serve for either of ' em 2 Roll. 136. Sir John Hathwaie was bound in a Bond thus Noverint Universi me Jean Hathwaie teneri c. this was a good Obligation for Jean shall be taken for an abbreviation of Johannem and so the same Name Cro. Car. 416. 418. 2 Roll. 136. Note If the Name of the Obligor be subscribed it is sufficient tho' there be a blank or blot for his Christian Name in the Bond. 2 Cro. 261. Dobson and Key 's See more of Names 1 Keb. 427. What one cannot do by another THERE are some things personal and so inseparably annexed to a Man's Person that he cannot do them by another as the doing of Homage and Fealty So it is holden that a Lord may beat his Villain for cause or without cause and the Villain is without remedy but if the Lord command another to beat him without cause who does accordingly the Villain shall have an Action of Battery against him So if the Lord destrain his Tenant's Cattle when nothing is behind yet the Tenant for the Reverence and Duty that appertains to the Lord shall not have Trespass vi armis against him but if the Lord command his Bailiff or Servant to destrain in such case where nothing is behind the Tenant shall have an Action of Trespass vi armis against them Co. 9. 76. a. in Comb's Case Where a Commoner shall have an Action upon the Case against the Lord. If the Lord surcharge the Soil with Conies the Commoner upon this particular loss may have an Action upon the Case against him Yelverton 104. 105. See Cro. Car. 387. 388. Words ending in Ment. JUSTICE Doderidge saies It has been wittily observed that all Words which end in Ment shall be taken and expounded according to the Intent as Parliament Testament Arbitrament c. Latch 41. 42. Where one shall be remitted against his own Discontinuance and Reprisal BARON and Feme Tenants in special Tail He aliens in Fee and takes back an Estate to them for their Lives this is a Remitter to both maugre the Husband for it cannot be so to the Wife without also to him because they are but one Person in Law tho' he be estopped to claim and so it is a remitter in him against his own alienation and reprisal Lit. Sect. 672. Note if he had taken the Estate to him alone he could not have been remitted against his own alienation but when the Estate is made to Husband and Wife tho' they are but one Person in Law and no Moieties between 'em yet because she can't be remitted unless he be remitted also and because remitters are favoured in Law the more ancient and better rights being thereby restored therefore in Judgment of Law both are remitted quod nota 1 Inst 354. Where a Wife may convert Goods to her own use THE common Doctrine is That a Wife cannot convert Goods to her own use because she has no property during the Husband's Life yet note In some Case there may be a Conversion of Goods by the Wife to her own use as if she find or take Barley from another as the Case was and bake it into Bread and eat it herself March fol. 60. and Jones 443. per Jones Justice Note When the Baron and Feme joyn it is the Act of the Baron only and the Feme in such Case cannot convert to her own use But an Action of Trover well lies for conversion by the Feme before Marriage or by the Feme only during the Coverture for she may do a Tort solely and the Husband shall he sued with her but not where she joyns with the Husband Cro. Car. 254. Rhemes and Humphreys and fol. 494. Perry and Diggs acc ' See 2 Cro. 5. Where a Wife may give Evidence against her Husband THE Lord Coke in his 1 Inst fo 6. b.
lie for these Words This is the Whore that my Man Thomas begat a Bastard on and spent all my Money upon and the Quean hath been too long in Town to my ease Stiles 274 277. â— Roll. 38. So for this He hath got Mary Nab with Child and the Child is his and I have tried it with a Sieve and a pair of Sheers Stiles 379. So for this Thou art an Whoremaster for thou hast lain with Brown 's Wife and hadst to do with her against a Chair whereby he lost his Marriage tho' 't was objected This was the first President where loss of Marriage was ever â—aid for Words spoken of a Man 2 Cro. 323. Vide 3. Buls 48. It will not lie for this A. is an errant Whore and would have lain with me Seven Years since and I would not unless she would go to the Hedge for this is a Spiritual Slander only Wife a Chattel A MAN may justifie the Battery of another in defence of his Wife for she is his Chattel 2 Roll. 546. the end Prohibition A. WAS sued in the Ecclesiastical Court for beating his Wife and calling her Whore and sentenced to pay her three Shillings a Week for Alimony and divers Fines were imposed upon him for non-performance and provided he should enter into a Recognizance a Prohibition was granted 2 Brownl 36. Agar's Case Complaint in the Spiritual Court by the Wife against her Husband CLOBORN'S Wife complained against him in the Spiritual Court causâ saevitiae for that he gave her a Box on the Ear and spate in her Face and whitled her about and called her Damn'd Whore This was not by Libel but verbal Accusation reduced after to writing The Husband denied it but the Court ordered him to give her four Pound every Week pro Expensis Litis and Alimony whereupon he moved for a Prohibition suggesting that he chastized his Wife for a reasonable cause as by the Law of the Land he well might after which she went from him and that they were reconciled again which took away the former saevitia as reconciliation after Elopement Richardson Chief Justice said The Suit being held without Libel is no ground for a Prohibition if they proceed according to their Form which we are not Judges of but if they deny a Copy of the Libel a Prohibition lies by the Statute For the matter The Sentence in causâ saevitiae is à Mensâ Thoro and we cannot examine what is cruelty and what not But without doubt the matter alledged is cruelty for spitting in the Face was punishable by the Star-Chamber But if Cloborn had justified and set forth a Provocation by the Wife to give her reasonable castigation there would be some colour for a Prohibition and they advised him to tender a Justification and if refused then to move for a Prohibition Hetley 149. 150. 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